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'You have no power over me': Retail employee dupes a 'time-thief' manager operating according to a watch set 10 minutes ahead

Time may be a construct, but it's the same for everybody. We're all bound by the 60 minutes every hour and the 24 hours in a day–and when you're paid by the hour and working on a strict schedule, time becomes law. For the retail employee in our next story, time became more than just a means to collect their paycheck, it became a great way to get payback on a salty micromanager.

Gold standards for being on time is showing up within a 10-minute window of your shift. Since life is unpredictable, being 10 minutes late or early is widely accepted by most managers, but when your manager isn't operating on the same clocks as the rest of the world, what's to stop them from gaslighting everyone into feeling like they're late? Well, the guy in our next story found that the best way to fight a nitpicking manager's 'tardiness' policy is to close up shop according to their watch–which was consequently running 10 minutes fast. 

Scroll for the entire story of satisfyingly malicious compliance that'll make any snarky employee synch their watch to the world clock standard. 

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer
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