‘No more overtime; Ok, boss': Machines overheat and shut down after demanding supervisor instructs delivery driver to ‘stop taking overtime’, leading to over $10,000 in damages

When complying with your boss's request ends up costing the company tens of thousands of dollars, be ready to get fired… unless you have receipts.

Oftentimes, your boss has their head up in the clouds and doesn't know how things work down on the ground. There is only so much you can tolerate before you begin to maliciously comply with their recurring, ridiculous demands. This being said, you don't always know what your boss is going to stipulate, so at times, you will have to be flexible with said malicious compliance.

In this case, u/GravityzCatz was working as a delivery driver for a plastic injection company in their hometown, moving finished products to a warehouse near the plant where the machines were running. OP worked long hours, also bringing raw materials and packaging supplies back to the plant. Now, because OP actually cared about his job and his coworkers, he asked people working at the warehouse if they needed anything at the end of the day, well aware that sometimes they forgot to give him certain supplies, which would lead to chaos throughout the night and well into the morning.

This led to some overtime, which was completely fine with OP's boss until it wasn't. One day, OP's supervisor called him aside and told him he was no longer allowed to take any overtime. OP attempted to explain why he needed to take overtime, but his explanations fell on deaf ears. Unfortunately, this boss had no idea what he was in for…

The next day, warehouse workers asked OP to pick up some more material and deliver it to the plant, but OP said, 'No can do.' The workers advised him to take overtime, per usual, as three machines would shut down overnight if the materials wouldn't get to the plant. What did this mean? Well, the machines would get so hot that they would melt the plastic being injected… if they had no material flowing in them, they would have to shut down, or they would overheat. The workers knew it would take forever for the machines to cool down, meaning that it would cost the company a whole lot of money to fix.

OP was adamant, clocked out, and went home. To find out what happened next, scroll down. For more like this, here is a head mechanic who removed all his tools from the store to send his employees a message about being grateful for the 'privileges' he gave them.

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