Company Tries To Skip Out On Paying Employees OT, Completely Backfires

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mattstaff
Sep 24, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

Man oh man, this company sounds like they're all kinds of shady. What kind of company has the audacity to openly, aggressively try to get their employees to work through their legally provided lunch breaks, and then not pay them their deserved OT? Probably not the kind of place that you ever want to catch yourself working at. Well, thanks to a particular employee putting up a fight, this company's whole shady game plan caved in on itself. Love to see it. Keep riding the malicious compliance wave with this malicious compliance story about an aggressive customer who demanded extra cheese on an Alfredo pizza, and then got served up some righteous pizza soup.

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    Font - u/dodohead974 • 17h 5 The provided lunch is for those who work through lunch only!!! you got it! M posted another story recently and there was another story i mentioned that people seems to want to hear so let's go on another journey together! the company i work for, and specifically the team i used to belong to was one team of a department of like 60 Operations people and twice a month we had peak days; which were just high volume and crazy. to help on these days, one day the management
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    Font - now please keep in the back of your mind that this is enough food for the 60 staffers and the 20 or so managers and supervisors. now this goes on for about three months and we work through our lunch and always finish the work and put in our OT; no issues. But now it's my managers turn to set up the food order. but she can't just do that, no, she needs to project her "skills" so she makes an announcement to the whole department: "it's been br ght to my attention that some of you have been
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    Font - now if she had ended it there, that would have been one thing...but she didn't. she adds, "and for the record, OT will not be approved if you take the food. we are providing you lunch in exchange for your time." barring how illegal this is, we are all pissed and start checking our paystubs; and sure enough, we were not paid for OT on the last few peak days. lunch shows up about an hour later, and not a single.fi and took the food. not only that, none of us put any OT that day. at the end
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    Font - three weeks later on the next peak day...the same thing happens again. and then again on the peak day after that. the next time, the MD (managing director) comes on the floor in the morning and announces that there will be a change in the policy: "team we are tired of ordering food and throwing it away! we are also not keeping up with the volume of work on peak days, food is anyone who wants to work through their lunch...and of course you will be paid for your OT. in fact, we will be retr
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    Font - turns out one of the older ladies who had been with the company for like 40 years put in a call about what was said and happening to HR...and a lawyer; she wanted her OT paid. it got so ugly that HR ended up pulling badge swipes to see what time everyone left for a 90 day period and paid us for any missed OT to the minute past our scheduled time. for some people it ended up being several hundred dollars.
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