Newspaper Manager Refuses to Pay Overtime, Reporter Maliciously Complies and Abandons Murder Scene

Some bosses will literally hurt their own business before paying their employees what they're owed, and this redditor's story is a perfect example. When u/Longjumping_Bad9555 requested compensation for working sixty hours of overtime, their manager refused, arguing that the hours hadn't been authorized prior to the request. The thing is, OP was a reporter for a newspaper—the sort of high-paced job that doesn't often come with enough downtime to put in an OT request while chasing a news story. So instead, OP decided to work exactly 40 hours per week. The boss didn't like that one bit.

Posted by Mel Dawn

“Left murder scene because my manager complained about overtime” Posted by u/Longjumping_Bad9555

The comment section

“This was several years ago, that newspaper no longer exists.” OP clarified, “And while I know that law exists, it's a dirty little secret in that industry. Everyone works unpaid overtime. The same thing that would be a huge story if we broke it about other businesses, is something we all did nearly every day ourselves. I moved on to corporate communications, not nearly as exciting, but the pay is much more, and it's steady hours.”

“They saw how nice a regular work schedule can be and didn't want to go back when they saw the difference.” said u/twinkiehouse11.

“By several orders of magnitude” said u/PolarPlesiosaur.

“Sorry I can't hear you over the press releases of record profits.” said u/PrionBacon.

“Sorry what? That doesn't sound right. As you were. Don't forget about our team-building event this Sunday” said u/lechechico.

Read the original thread here.