Manager said "Get creative with automating with AI"
Not my story, a friend of mine's. He works in IT and has a manager that has fully drank the AI Kool-Aid. He's been a pain forcing the staff to use AI wherever possible, even when it doesn't make sense. The mandate is "Even if it's faster to do it manually than with Claude, get Claude to do it". The staff is demoralized and quiet quitting, and the manager is oblivious to why.
The malicious compliance comes in when the manager told the IT staff "Get creative with using AI for other tasks! It doesn't just have to be with coding!". The company writes HIPAA compliant software, so the staff has to take those dumb online courses that force you to watch videos and do quizzes that are super boring, so my friend had an idea.
He pointed Claude at the site, logged in for it, and got the AI to do the course for him. It used Puppeteer (a framework for pressing buttons and navigating web pages in code like a human would) to go through the test, watch all the videos, and take the test at the end, all while my friend sat back and watched.
During the biweekly scrum, the manager asked the staff how they were able to creatively use AI outside of their coding tasks, and my friend proudly announced it got it to do his HIPAA compliance test for him. The rest of the team laughed and the manager ate his own words having to admit that there are some things he doesn't want AI doing for the team.
Best part: the online course provider charges by the number of students who take the course, so the manager would have to lose face by buying another seat, so my friend is free and clear and doesn't have to take the certification again till next year (which he's hoping, by then, to find a better place to work).