‘I spent all Christmas on it’: Junior lawyer spends holidays working for incompetent boss, leading to 100s of hours of overtime

One boss was under the impression he ruined his junior worker's holidays by giving him an unjustifiable amount of work, right before Christmas.

The result of this type of tedious task usually results in a nosedive in team morale, but of course, that has never stopped a micromanaging boss, has it? Let's start at the beginning. The events that unfolded that led to hundreds of hours of overtime on OP's part are comical. u/Calledinthe90s, the OP in question, explained how he was working as a junior lawyer at a firm, where his boss plagiarized his work, and docked his billable hours. At one point, OP got pretty fed up, and knew he had to come up with a plan to get back at his sniveling boss.

He knew he had to catch management's attention… in order to put his boss in his place and teach him a lesson. So OP used his boss's tactics against him. How exactly did he do that? Well, scroll down to find out. All I can say is that the boss in question stopped taking credit for OP's work, and also stopped deleting his dockets for research.

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