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05/22/2026

So this is a funny story where I know I wasn't exactly in the right but it was still Malicious Compliance.
So I'm a software engineer. And I'm a gal. So as you can imagine, I'm always either the only, or one of very very few non-males in the team.
This MC is from a previous job of mine. I was the primary SWE (Software Engineer) on a project. One random Wednesday (yes I remember the day of the week) we had a meeting scheduled with the client. This was a large company and the client was in a different country, so the meeting was scheduled virtually.
Now if you know anything about me, I'm a bit of a promiscuous gal and I guess this day I was being a bit silly and wore a dress that was a teeny tiny but too short. At lunch I was told by my manager that someone had complained and I needed to go home and change. I knew I was wrong and immediately apologized but I brought up the meeting I had coming up.
Now as per company policy, we could not take any company equipment home unless we were the scheduled on call, or unless we had permission. I could not take this call from home without the company laptop I needed to demo something, and I knew none of the other engineers on my team could manage the demo (yes they knew how it worked, but no one knew it as well as me and they had to refer to manuals to do the demo and answer questions which is not a great presentation for the client).
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05/20/2026

05/19/2026

Me (32M) and my wife “Andy”(34F) have been together for about 3 years now, we are married for one of those years. We get along really well, only problem is her daughter “Carrie”(16F). She is a daughter from my wifes previous marriage. Her father (my wifes ex-husband) died in a car accident about 5 years ago. When me and Andy started dating we took things really slow, she didn’t introduce me to Carrie until she knew things were serious between us. When I met Carrie she was acting really distant and overall she was mean to me. But I understood that, of course. I tried to bond with her and spend some time together, but I never forced her to do anything she didn’t want to do. I told her to address me with my first name and had no intention to “replace” her father, I just wanted us to get along. Things got better, but sometimes she was rude to me and had some inappropriate comments. I never said anything to her, because my wife told me to just give her some time. Things really escalated after our marriage. I offered my wife and her daughter to live in my house. Andy immediately agreed, her daughter not so much, but since she was 15 at the time my wife gave her no choice. That’s when the problems started. Carrie would intentionally make mess in the kitchen (like destroying glasses and plates) and leave the sharp glass on the ground.
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