'I got paid an extra $30 for literally doing nothing': Retail worker maliciously complies with manager's rules about clocking out

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    "You need to wait for a manager to let you go home"..........ok S So I work at a store that sells kitchen appliances and other kitchen related stuff, normally when we're supposed to leave or go on break we're supposed to tell our manager, I was helping a long line at cash and had already been there for 8 hours and assumed they had someone to
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    cover me, I wasn't allowed to use the walkies to ask to be covered to go home, so I quickly found my manager and told her my shift was done. She got really pissy at me and said "could you really not stay a few more minutes" I tried to tell her "I thought you had someone to cover me I can stay if you want" she then replied "no no just go, but next time you need to wait for a manager to let you go home"
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    record scratch This was never a rule, I asked other people who've worked there for years and they agreed that it wasn't a rule. I worked again a few days later and the store was empty, my shift was over and was about to ask to go home then I remember what my manager told me. Cue malicious compliance.
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    I continued to wander the store and slightly fix shelves, making sure I was near my manager. After about 2 and a half hours she said "you're still here, why haven't you gone home?" I replied "you said I need to wait to be told to go home." My manager looked at me as though she was mentally kicking herself "just go" she said. I clocked out and that's how I got paid an extra 30$ for doing literally nothing.
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    Edit: Holy this post blew up, I wanna answer a few questions and comments I see y'all have been making. 1."are you only making like 12$/hour" Nah I did some rounding I acc make 15$/hour but rounded it down for simplicity's sake prolly should've elaborated on that
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    2."didn't you just waste ur time" Nah, this company is very stingy with hours for everyone and the way I see it I got paid while barely helping the company so I don't care 3."you should definitely be making more" Yea I should, but this is only a temporary job to make extra money until school starts in September so don't worry bout my financial well- being
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    gvillager She still hasn't specifically told you that you don't have to follow this rule. Malicious Compliance is still in effect. :)
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    Elegant_Habit_92... Our retail store had a rule that employees could not leave the store until their bag was checked by a manager. This could take a very long time, particularly at the holidays. You'd clock out and then wait 20 minutes for your bag check. So I stopped clocking out until after the bag check and pocketed some extra holiday pay.
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    rumdumpstr When I worked midnight shift, day shift took SOOO long to get out of their morning meetings, sometimes well over the 30 minute overlap that was scheduled. Many of us. would wait near the office where we could overhear their meeting, and knew it was just them talking about random, non work related
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    stuff. So, I started going home at my scheduled time, even though the rule was that we had to be relieved from post. I got chewed out for that, so I started putting in for overtime when I had to stay. I got chewed out for that. Luckily, they realized the problem was day shift about, and the problem got resolved.
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    [deleted] I'm not sure what makes me angrier, that your boss has the audacity to think that she has to grant you permission to leave when your scheduled shift has ended, or how little money you got working that overtime.
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    [deleted] Awwww this reminds me of when I was a kid first striking out on my own, but due to my hours I didn't have time to make it home for Christmas. I showed up at 4am on Christmas eve to stock. My shift should have ended at noon but there was still stuff to put away so I kept doing it. At about 2 my
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    manager was like "go home why tf are you still here??" And I said "well there was still more to do and I have nothing to go home to.." Wasn't my favorite Christmas.
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    stillnotelf Don't undersell yourself. Fixing shelves while shadowing the manager is valid labor, not nothing! They're probably not paying. you what you are worth anyway.
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    dyltheflash Nothing better than seeing a manager come unstuck from their own stupid rules. Good stuff OP.

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