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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