'I'm not working overtime unless I get paid': Employee stops taking off-duty work calls, forcing boss to pay overtime

Life is all good and dandy when you aren't going through micromanagement at work, but the second bosses decide that they want to become more stringent, you can kiss that dandiness goodbye. OP was working in a field where the urgent response was basically the purpose of said field. One day, OP's employer became super budget-conscious, and no longer allowed overtime unless it was approved. The problem with that wasn't the scheduled overtime, but the unscheduled overtime. Most of the employees were only working after hours because problems arose after they had finished work, and the issues in question needed to be fixed more or less immediately.

After the boss put in the new rule, any scheduled overtime would be reviewed after the fact. Thanks to that, OP and the rest of the employees soon realized that they were working for free, as OP's boss made sure not to pay anyone what they were owed, as they didn't approve the overtime after it was already done.

OP knew that the only way to counter this would be to maliciously comply. Scroll down to read what happened next. Then, check out these customers who made it their mission to get their waiter fired. People suck.

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