‘From now on, you punch in your work hours!’ : New manager attempts to deduce hardworking employee's salary, employee maliciously complies, leading to 30% raise due to overtime pay

New management always finds a way to demotivate workers, usually via micromanagement, but in this case, the opposite is true. There are countries where labor laws are a dime a dozen, and in this specific one, employees have a certain amount of hours required to work each month; every hour short of that is deducted from monthly payment, and every hour beyond is paid as overtime. This employee used that to his advantage when his new boss decided to mess with him, attempting to deduce his salary because 'he didn't like his attitude'. Mr. Micromanager told OP that he must 'punch in his hours', expecting a decrease in his monthly salary.

OP realized that the law was an asset in this case, as again, in this specific country, the rate of overtime pay increases the more overtime is done in a month. Basically, despite his best efforts, his boss failed miserably at his terrible mission, and the employee actually got a %30 increase in pay. His manager was absolutely livid, but he couldn't take back his word, as upper management had initially agreed to the new method.

For more stories like this, here is another micromanager who ignored his employee's (good) advice, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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