'Do nothing all night for a ton of OT? Why not?': Guy cashes in on 22 hours of overtime when his hot-headed boss ignores his advice

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 10, 2023 12:00 PM EST

Employees do the work, while bosses do… what exactly? When it comes to daily operations in your workplace, there's nobody who knows stuff quite like you do. After countless hours watching the time click by on the dated analog clock in the corner, employees are specifically trained to know every detail about their office space and mechanics are no exception. While we sometimes harsh on our managers, sometimes the store manager really is the go-to person for their expertise on their trade. After all, they're the ones spending 60 hours a week on the company dime…

Which is why managers in an oil change shop are usually paid salary. Well, in our next story, one manager had recently been switched to hourly pay– a business move that his bosses would later regret. Scroll for the entire story of malicious compliance, overnight meme scrolling, and a hefty, undeniable paycheck. 

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    r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/originaldeadlysin 12 hours ago Do nothing all night for a ton of OT? Yep, why not? M OC Little bit of backstory, I worked at the time in an oil change place.
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    They had recently moved managers from salaried to hourly (because some managers in different cities were just lying and not going to work while getting the same cheque every payday), and I warned them that if anything, my pay was gonna go way up because I'm here a lot more than 40 hours a week. They were good with that, they said.
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    Well one night I get a call at 7 pm (2 hrs after close) from one of my guys who was in the shop after hours without permission, and crashed into a bay door (like a garage door, all auto shops have at least a few). He got fired, that's not the MC at all, just setup.
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    So I came in and investigated. The most relevant fact here was that he bent the door so there was a maybe 4 inch by 4 inch gap. A housecat could have squeezed through. I called our door repair guys immediately, they said their folks were on an emergency after hours call already, to somewhere 5 hours away, they could be there in the morning. I said ok, since this
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    wasn't a danger. The door was in a place not visible from the street, you'd have to be behind our building looking for this kind of this to find it. Alarn still sets, motion detectors still work. Anyone that broke in through this metal door with a 4" gap would have needed tools, and was gonna get in even without the gap. We
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    don't even keep more than a hundred bucks cash around, and anything expensive to steal was equipment bolted to the floor.Deal with it tomorrow, right? Obviously, no. Called my boss to fill him in and he said to call the door guys. I told him I did already and tried to explain their situation.
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    He interrupted and told me in super rude and loud words (this I DID NOT like being called after work or having to do any work ever) just to call them and not bother him again about it. Then texted me to rudely say that I better damned well stay there until they arrive and finish the repair.
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    So, since I was single, had no plans, and was now paid hourly, (I clocked in the instant I arrived initially), I decided this sounded like easy money. Pulled up two comfy office chairs to make a bed/couch, watched youtube and did assorted internet scrolling, slept at normal times pretty comfortably all the way to 8 AM.
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    They showed up around 9 and fixed the problem pretty quickly. I was already on my regularly scheduled 8-5 shift that day, which I finished. So now let's do the math. That overnight waiting? 7pm-8am, 13 hours. All OT at time and a half. Then my normal shift. 9 hours, all at time and a half. So 22 hours * 1.5= 33 hours of pay for doing my normal shift + internet scrolling and napping that was barely even an inconvenience.
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    My boss sees it come payday and tries to give me a yelling over email for trying to rip off the company, cc-ing all the big bosses, HR, Payroll, etc. I reply to all, explain the situation, include the text screenshot. Suddenly I'm not the one getting yelled at anymore and I got every bit of that OT pay :)
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    Somber_Shark. 5 hr. ago Almost 3 shifts worth of pay for 1 shift's worth of work? I hope you got yourself a nice dinner for that.
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    YOLOSwag42069Nice · 9 hr. ago Amazing how fast they start lying when they learn how stupid they are. Vote Reply Share Cfwydirk 12 hr. ago There is no other way to look at it. Bravo!
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    Riuk811 2 hr. ago Did you thank him for texting you? That really saved your bacon!
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    Smoke Water 59 min. ago this doesn't surprise me. Some of the worst managers I have known where from Quicklube shops.
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    fizzlefist 13 hr. ago And this is why you always get it in writing Vote Reply Share EchoGecko795 - 8 hr. ago The CYA (Cover Your :) principle.
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    Devrol 9 hr. ago Should be getting at least double time for that Vote Reply Share SeanBZA 9 hr. ago At least double time after the first 8 hours of OT at one and a half, as that is considered to be working on a Sunday or public holiday. But not in the USA though......
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    canadianstringer. 7 hr. ago Well done OP! Vote Reply Noortman 4 hr. ago ;) awesome
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    "This sounded like easy money"
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