‘You can’t claim overtime when you're not doing your job': VP fires new boss when he forbids employee from using competitors' phone during power outage, leading to 9 hours overtime

Eleonora Bader

Jan 11, 2024 7:00 PM EST

Whenever new management enters the equation, there are bound to be a few issues that pop up, that can affect the entire company… but mostly the employees working under them. This boss joined a small cell phone company in a rural area, and coming from New York, he had no idea what kind of environment he was getting himself into. One of his employees, OP, worked on cell phone towers and used the company's competitors' phones sometimes when he had no service.

The former boss had no issue with this, but this new boss definitely did, and forbade OP from using their phones, no matter what. He even told OP that if he dared using the competitors phone again, he would fire him. So, to put it simply, OP decided that malicious compliance was the only way this boss would be taught a lesson.

OP got stuck in a freak snowstorm with no service, and instead of using the competitors' payphones, he drove around for 9 hours, leading to a bunch of overtime. What ensued after this act of petty revenge was a chaotic phone call with the VP of the company and his boss. Shortly thereafter, OP's boss was fired. Scroll down to read the full, detailed account of events. For more stories like this, here is a resident whose vendetta against his neighbor ended in his own motorhome getting towed.