Manager Implements A New Policy That Slows Down The Whole Company, Employees Maliciously Comply

It can be incredibly aggravating when a co-worker who lacks the understanding of your job, has the right to rearrange your job without consultation.

This becomes even more frustrating when they disregard any worries you may have about their proposed changes. In any workplace, there are times when policies and procedures need to be implemented or changed. However, when a manager makes a decision that negatively impacts the entire company, it can lead to employee dissatisfaction, reduced productivity, and even job loss. A Reddit user and manager of a software development team, faced a similar situation when their security manager insisted on revoking administrator rights for the entire team’s computers. Despite their efforts to prevent it, the security manager refused to reconsider his decision. So, the only option the team was left with was malicious compliance. Scroll down for the complete story.

It can be incredibly aggravating when a co-worker who lacks the understanding of your job, has the right to rearrange your job without consultation.

OP is not a native speaker so he already apologized before starting his story.

OP is a manager of a dev team with seven remote and highly skilled team members who work for a subsidiary of a Fortune 500.

The new security manager implemented a policy forbidding developers from being administrators of their laptops, causing problems for the team as they were unable to work on certain applications that require administrative rights.

OP raised concern about the policy’s impact on their service level agreements, security manager refused to listen to him and sent him emails with “NO”.

OP’s team needed someone with admin rights to unlock applications so they started creating a ticket every time they needed the support center’s help. This created a lot of tickets.

If OP’s team cannot stay happy, he will not let other teams be happy too.

The support center manager was not happy to see the increasing number of tickets. He talked to OP’s boss.

The support center manager wanted OP to be reasonable about it:

OP asked for 20 hours per week from a guy to unlock installations as needed. The admin was happy about it as this reduces the number of tickets submitted.

One application had a critical bug outside of the support center guy, so OP told them that his team cannot work on the product and will wait the next day.

OP and the support center manager found a solution to the critical bug issue by locating someone with admin rights.

During the postmortem, it was discovered that the new security policy was the main cause of the delay. OP and their team informed the postmortem woman that they warned the security manager but he ignored their concerns.

Three months later, the security manager no longer works for OP and his team. The support center manager complained about the security manager, which eventually led to the security manager’s termination.

The support center manager had a lot of connections within the company, and along with the postmortem woman, convinced the VP to fire the security manager.

TLDR:

People are sharing their stories and issues in the comment section:

If your team is not supporting you, it will be hard to find a solution:

One piece of advice for the new folks to the industry:

Developers are facing problems everywhere and someone has come up with an actual solution to this problem:

They terminated the problem:

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