Employee Gets Overworked, Demands To Be Fired, Watches Business Implode

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Eric Lund
Nov 4, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

After seeing a company think it's reasonable to put someone through a 22 hour workday and offer them 2 hours to go home and sleep, it's understandable why this person would want to leave. And seeing how things go downhill right as they go? That there is some delicious revenge. For another unreasonable boss, here's the manager who reprimanded a broken-footed employee for sitting at work.

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    Font - Posted by u/TalesofPhantasia 18 hours ago Extreme Overtime and just a copywriter? Fine. Watch me do only my job. oc XL] Supervisor as (S), Boss as (B), Me/OP as Me/OP So, I used to work as a copywriter in one of those companies that crunch out annual reports for publicly listed companies. When I went for the interview, I was told that overtime was not a common thing and that employee welfare was a thing here.
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  • 02
    Font - Pay was average, paid leaves? Average. Great location though. But you know, a job is a job. Took it and came in to this horrible s! ..show. 1. The company had a severe shortage of both copywriters and graphic designers. So, everyone was practically working overtime everyday. 2. The company had to throw me into a meeting with the Chairman of a large conglomerate here and I had to totally pretend I knew what the f:k I was supposed to do there. Thankfully, it turned out alright.
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    Font - I was given a crash course by a colleague (who was too busy to teach me much as well) and the supervisor often came over to make idle chat and was offended when you did not reply her. I managed to clear my work in the first two weeks being there, coming to work on time and leaving work on time (8am-6pm). However, one day, my colleague messaged me and told me that the supervisor was unhappy that I was leaving work on time and it reflected badly on me. So, silly old me made it a show to sta
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    Font - Then, comes the crunch - All the companies are giving us the statements from their board of directors, chairman, CEOS as well as financial numbers while we're supervising our graphic designers to push out the designs for those reports. Here comes the tricky part. I was hired as a copywriter but over time, my job scope included managing clients as well as an Accounts Manager though it was never stated (just expected) and I was the only person in the office to take this on despite having mo
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    Font - The people I spoke to at the clients' side (usually in the Finance offices) liked me and often texted me occasionally to ask how I was doing (aside from how the work went as well, of course). On one of the days, a graphic designer had stayed for 22 hours. Yes, 22. We weren't expecting overtime pay because that is not covered by the law - We were paid over a certain amount and therefore, overtime was not part of the package. However, according to the law, As an employee, you are not allowe
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    Font - However, your employer can ask you to work more than 12 hours a day in the following circumstances: • An accident or threat of accident. • Work that is essential to the life of the community, national defence or security. Urgent work to be done to machinery or plant. • An interruption of work that was impossible to foresee. I apologize but I simply could not see how the f..k that was humanely possible. I had returned to office the next day to discover MY designer hunched over the computer
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    Font - I approached the supervisor and asked her why the fi k she was still here. Me: Excuse me, why is the designer still here? I already included in my timeline plenty of time to work on this. We are WAY ahead of schedule, why did she need to OT for 22 hours? When can she go home to sleep? (S): Well... She can go home and take a shower and come back. She has 2 hours, ask her to leave now. Me: I'm sorry, did I hear you right? She's been here, for 22 hours, and she has been working from 8-8 for
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    Font - Okay, so - I know for a fact that she had broken the law. I have finished enough work in advance to be free for approximately one week. So what do I need to do? Fk the overtime pay. F. k this place. I quietly went back to my desk and started sending job applications with my resume, started keeping copies of work that I have done and started keeping email and WhatsApp archives of conversations with my supervisor - Something I started insisting on, for things to be in black and white.
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    Font - Over the course of the day, several conglomerates' finance officers text me to ask how the annual report is going. I told them that I was told that I'm only a copywriter and they should therefore speak to my supervisor on how the project is going. Corporations: Huh? But we want you in charge. Me: Sorry, talk to my supervisor. Lunch time comes and goes, Supervisor asks to see me for a 1-1 meeting regarding my performance. I head in with a stack of things that I have done and sit down. She
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    Font - Supervisor: I wanted to talk to you about your professionalism. You told your clients that you were no longer an accounts manager and only a copywriter - And you referred them to me? Me: Yes, I'm only a copywriter, right? Supervisor: You know, we are lean on manpower so everyone wears different hats. Me: That is not true - No one else in the office is wearing a different hat except me. Supervisor: That is because you are paid higher! Me: I'm sorry, Supervisor. You know that is not true. E
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    Font - So the thing is, we have a very loose lipped HR accountant who, over lunch, often talks about people's salaries to us - Not that any of us minded (as unprofessional as it was). Supervisor: Then, we need to talk to you about your performance. You have been underperforming and many of our clients are unhappy with you. I know that these are untrue on both accounts. Me: I see, okay. So... I'm sorry, what is the point of this conversation? Supervisor: I want you to resign, so at least on your
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    Font - Here, when I am fired, I am entitled to an entire additional month's salary. This woman was trying to save money on getting me to resign. She leaves and at the end of the day, I was told that I was fired via an email from her. I went to HR and spoke to them, confirming that I was now able to clear my annual leaves, a grand total of 21 days (brought forward from the previous year). Additionally, I asked HR via email as well, whether I am able to delete anything that I am no longer working
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    Font - Therefore, I trash the entire draft of all the corporations that I have been working on (that one week surplus), graphic concepts, drafts of messages from the Chairman of various companies and I even shred the notes that I took. I head home, tell my parents that I got fired and the next day onwards, I was on leave. However, there was now one big problem. Supervisor was replacing me to go for the meetings with these bigwigs in the corporations and apparently, they hated her style of asking
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    Font - Me: Good, thank you. I hope you are well. Boss: Yes, I just want to ask if you're still interested in working in this industry... So to sum it up, she came back to offer me a higher salary. F. k no. Told her that I wasn't interested - Coincidentally, within that week, I got a job offer for a job that I'm still in right now. On the last week of my notice, I return to the office to give back the properties that belonged to the company and supervisor wasn't pleased to see me and didn't want
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    Font - I get home, open up my email and contact the Ministry as promised, complete with emails, screenshots and more. They get back to me in a few days and tell me that I was right that there were too many hours involved and they would investigate accordingly. Fast forward - 6 months later. I text an ex-colleague who is still there to ask how things are holding up and he told me things were bad. The moment I had left, apparently one of the accounts manager had so badly offended some of my ex-cli
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    Font - The Ministry of Manpower apparently dug out a lot of dirt as well and fined the company. The Supervisor? She became hot-tempered and paranoid. A lot of the existing staff are planning to resign as well - Supervisor and Boss, both of them don't know any better.
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