Lazy college professors should not be allowed to be strict. Like any social contract, everything should be a two-way street: if you're expected to deliver quality, they need to do the same. Otherwise, as far as we're concerned, the social contract is null and void. I remember when my high school teacher tried to solicit her students to contribute paragraphs that she would then compile into a research essay she was required to submit. We made sure that nonsense was shut down as soon as we could.
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This Redditor shared their tale of malicious compliance from back in their college days when they were studying under a professor who had an aura of high expectations. 10% of their grade was made up of short essays to be submitted weekly over the course of the ten-week semester (this meant each essay was worth 1% of the total semester grade). Week after week, OP was receiving 0.9%, which is a pretty infuriating number. When a family emergency came up, OP requested a ONE-DAY extension, which was ruthlessly denied. That's when OP decided to put their suspicions to the test, submitting a largely incoherent essay that week and receiving the exact same grade. Sounds like the professor wasn't exactly putting in the work either.
Keep scrolling below for the full story in OP's words. For more tales of malicious compliance, feel free to take a look at this story in which a sick employee was forced to provide a doctor's note to her boss in order to work from home.
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