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Employee's Horrible Boss Denies Request to Switch Shift, Gets Revenge By Working OT Against Company Policy

This supervisor got a rude awakening. His employee, who shared this story via this thread on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, was promoted to a new job within the company and was required to communicate with HR to facilitate the transition. The employee requested for his supervisor to switch him to a day shift so he could also handle the HR business by the required date. His supervisor denied the request and said the Redditor could answer those emails from home, implying that this work should be completed outside of office hours. 

 

This was a big mistake considering the company had a new policy encouraging employees against working overtime. Well, the Redditor was not going to work for free, so he logged all of his hours when working on those transition emails from home. When his supervisor's boss saw the 20 hours of OT logged, the Redditor explained the whole story and ultimately got those OT hours approved. On top of that, he made his boss look like an idiot. What a dream scenario! For more tales of malicious compliance, take a look at this post about a delivery service worker who refused to be cheated out of the agreed-upon rate.

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