'Checkmate!': Employee gets paid for 120 hours of overtime and earns 3 days of sick leave after their micromanaging boss tries to play hardball

(Sometimes) Managers know best, but a micromanager never knows what's good for the company. In their attempt to get a grip on every facet of their workforce, micromanagers inadvertently strangle their best employees, forcing even good workers to maliciously comply. In our next story, a retail worker working in a terribly micromanaged department decided to let their boss's bad decisions blow up right in their face. 

After feeling a scratchy throat coming on just before their day off, the original poster of this story thought it was best to rest up as much as possible to avoid an all-out illness. However, even after her restful day off, she was still feeling under the weather. Luckily, company policy stated that she could use any amount of her overtime hours (which had been previously unpaid), to cover an extra day off–like PTO! So with 120 hours in her overtime bank, she asked for one more day off. 

But her micromanaging boss wasn't having it…

Scroll for the entire story of how this retail employee got 3 days of paid leave and 120 hours of overtime paid out in full simply because her boss wouldn't let her stay home sick. 

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