r/MaliciousCompliance • u/snickerdoodlesrule • 5d ago
S Malicious compliance in response to weaponized incompetence
Okay, I’m new to the page! I want to hear all of your stories or moments of malicious compliance in marriage.
Mine is when I asked my husband to move money from another shared bank account to our checking for bills. You guessed it, he didn’t move the money. This was the 3rd time that he “forgot about it” and I was tired of asking. I watched our checking account go into the negatives/ with overdraft fees. I confronted him and he said that I didn’t tell him which account, but we only have one main account for both of us to pay bills from. The account is connected to our debit cards!
The next day he went for lunch at chipotle. As he was checking out he realized that he didn’t have cash or money on his debit card. He called me at least 5 times asking me to transfer money, since I was near the bank that day. I did transfer money, but not to the account with the debit card, because he didn’t say which account 😉
We haven’t had any problems with him transferring money, since.
Edit: We share all of our bank accounts. I crunch the numbers and can’t always be responsible for budgeting and going to the bank/ doing transfers!
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u/JBrewd 5d ago
Man, I haven't been inside a bank in like 10 years! Not even when we bought a home lol, anyways...
Our work schedules were shuffled so I was working mornings and she was working evenings without many days off together (kinda sucked). So in the mornings if I'd just read a book or if I was watching something or gaming I'd just put headphones on. Just the polite thing to do since she was still trying to sleep right? However, she'd just be out there while I was trying to sleep fuggin blasting some cop drama or something with plenty of gunfire and sirens. After repeated asks to turn it down (over time) she got frustrated and pretty much just said "this volume level is fine". Ooookay honey.
Couple days later I'm up at like 630-7 with some time to kill before work, she'd worked late the night before, and so I got out of bed and went and just turned on the TV and put on a cop show. Not 2 minutes later she's out there like 'wtf dude turn this shit down I'm trying to sleep'. Well sorry honey, but I know this volume level is fine because that's what you had it on last night.
I slept much better after that.