Cheap Boss Has Employee Shovel Snow, Ends Up Paying Overtime

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Eric Lund
Jun 4, 2020 5:00 PM EDT

It's all too common to see an unhinged boss push their employees to their limits. This guy thought he'd save himself some money, but what he didn't know came around and ended up costing more than he expected. It's not uncommon that employees can enrage their bad bosses by following the actual rules.

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    Text - Posted by u/SparkleFritz 1 day ago "You can't leave until you shovel ALL of the snow!" oc M This wasn't me doing the malicious compliance, nor the request, but the middle man who witnessed this gloriousness. I worked for a movie theatre company in a state that snows every winter. We had a contract with a snow shoveling company but my boss refused to use it because the costs of each removal had a possiblity of hurting his yearly bonus by a couple percent points (like $300 max out of $20,00
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    Text - Unfortunately this meant that one of the ushers would have to shovel snow on the sidewalk. Since it's a safety hazard to block the emergency exit doors of a theatre it meant you had to shovel a path around the entire building and for each exit door. Ultimately due to the size it's about a quarter mile around the building. No one likes doing it because it's cold and shoveling a simple one shovel-length path can take two hours. During a snowy Christmas week (the busiest week for movie theat
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    Text - out instead of us doing it we were told no, to which one of my co-workers (we'll call him Dan) said he would do it. An hour later after he had gone outside one by one my boss pulled each usher in and wrote them up for "refusing to shovel snow". When Dan came back in the other ushers complained to him about it. Dan asked our boss why and our boss said that it was because no one wanted to shovel all of the snow, and if Dan didn't shovel all of the snow he would get written up as well. This
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    Text - Cue the malicious compliance. What my boss didn't realize was that it was the last day of the payroll period. Being Christmas week Dan had already accumulated 40 hours of work earlier in the day. My boss left right after telling Dan to make sure ALL of the snow was removed. We worked the rest of the shift and everyone assumed Dan had finished and left. It's 3am now and we go to punch out for the week but can't because there is a shift that hasn't been approved yet. Someone is still workin
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    Text - We didn't hear anything until later that week when I was called into the office and had to write out a statement to why I let Dan work twelve hours of overtime. He had this smug look on his face like he had "beaten" us. He was not too pleased when he found out that all of our statements included him saying the phrase "remove all the snow" and that he refused to call the snow plow company. My boss was transferred to another theatre soon after.
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