Piano technician maliciously complies with overbearing boss's demand for punctuality: 'If you can't be on time, then don't!'

Let this serve as our weekly reminder that bosses should be careful with their choice of words.

Here, we have an employer who got increasingly frustrated with a piano technician for being under five minutes late on more than one occasion. Under five minutes should be considered negligible, but if an employer really feels that a conversation is necessary, there is a much better way of having it than what this dude ended up doing. He used vaguely threatening phrasing that almost begged to be challenged, and at this point, the piano technician was already planning on getting a better job elsewhere. 

Being difficult about punctuality is not a one-way street. You have to be able to hold up your end of the bargain when it comes to timeliness, which is something this Redditor put to the test after his tense confrontation with his boss. Keep scrolling below for this tale of workplace malicious compliance. For more stories like this, take a look at this one about a job applicant who was rejected after four rounds of interviews and a ton of free work.