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

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 11, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

(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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  • 01
    Monday came and I reported the company to Labour claims and the company was forced to pay me that 120 hours overtime Checkmate! D
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    r/r/MaliciousCompliance. pimilpimil Manager threatens to write me up with salary deduction if I won't give a doctor's note, for asking my excess hours just because I am sick S
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    So I (30F) has been working with this company for 3 years already. I work on retail and our managers are always micro managing and will write us up each time even just by breathing (jk) but
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    you can tell that's how they are up our nose all the time especially I was once written up for eating during my lunch break in our shop (that's for another story)
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    Now on to the original story. My day offs are scheduled every Thursdays and I was already feeling ill days before my day off, I had waited until my day off to rest and hope I
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    could feel better but when the end of my day off comes, I still feel sick so I informed my boss if I can use my excess hours and not come to work the next day since | am so sick. Just for context,
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    our company never pays for our overtime but expects us to work 12 hours of everyday and per day they will give us 2 hours excess and since I never requested until that
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    particular day, I had racked up 120 excess hours overtime which can be used for dayoffs etc. I had only requested a 1 day extra off which would amount to 10 hours to be
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    deducted from my long extra hours accumulated but my boss threatens to write me up if I don't provide a doctor's note and she informed me that even if I will provide one, she won't deduct it to my hours.
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    So I comply and went to doctor and take a medical note and was given a 3 day recommended rest and sent it to my manager. Now she has no choice but to let me have additional 3 more days
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    paid sick leave and I won't be back to shop until Monday instead of just giving me a day to rest Now Saturday comes and the shop has a lot of issues without me and my reliever is
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    having hard time coping from work so my manager calls me and I didn't respond to any of her messages nor calls and just rested well.
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    Monday came and I reported the company to Labour claims and the company was forced to pay me that 120 hours overtime Checkmate!
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    Certain-Raise-2929 6 hr. ago Clear case of FAFO, well done OP on getting the 120hrs back too
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    pimilpimil OP. 6 hr. ago I had a lot of fun getting their reported to Labour each time since then, they never learned the first time they paid a lot more fines the second time. They tried to fire me as
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    well the last time I complained I told them I will sue them for wrongful termination and I will be granted to be paid 3 times my salary so they instead promoted me and gave me better hours and better pay but I left the company eventually because of toxicity.
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    Kempeth 3 hr. ago First day doctor's notes are such a stupid policy if you prioritise having people in the workplace. No doc will write you sick for just one day unless it's something absolutely minor.
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    XF939495xj6 3 hr. ago It is my fantasy to become some sort of investigative officer for labor and spend my days busting businesses for violating rules about pay and termination.
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    tomecho6 4 hr. ago What dystopian hellscape do you live in where taking what you're entitled to counts as malicious compliance? Holy that's bleak. Good on you for standing up for yourself
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    Supermathie 51 min. ago Monday came and I reported the company to Labour claims A++++++ move
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    redditavenger2019 18 min. ago When they demand a Dr's note, ask if they are paying for the office call(if you had not plan to visit but only rest).
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    JustGingy95 2 hr. ago You had me at retail. God what a _nightmare. Vote Reply Share EQ_Moreno_1775 . 1 hr. ago Excellent
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