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'Well, 9:00am - 5:00pm it is!': Lawyer refuses to come in early for big meeting after getting reprimanded by partner for leaving early

Welcome to the workforce, where managers never pick and choose their battles carefully. This one decided to scold her employee, a lawyer at a firm, for leaving the office early one day because he had to start a few hours earlier for a deposition. The meaning behind her frustrated lecture was that she did not want other lawyers to get the wrong idea that they can leave the office at any time. 

Let us be clear if we haven't been already on this site: if you are an employee and you have to come in early for work, you should be entitled to leave early too. Office hours should be malleable for situations like those, and if anyone notices this lawyer leaving early, they can simply inquire about it and learn what happened. 

So after his boss's intense speech, the lawyer decided to take the opportunity to enact some well-deserved malicious compliance. He stuck to those 9:00am - 5:00pm hours in that he never showed up early and never left late. You can imagine what that meant when there was an important meeting scheduled before 9:00am one day where the boss heavily relied on her employee's presence. I guess she should have been more careful about who she decided to lecture.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more stories like this, here is one about a boss who tried to take her employee's first class seat on a flight.

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