'Stay until it's done? Ok': Overworked employee wins a huge paycheck while his domineering manager pays for transgressions in the workplace

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 26, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

What was this manager thinking? Working for a union, you'd think you'd know your way around labor laws–especially when it comes to your own team of hardworking employees and their overtime shifts.

When this overworked employee was faced with a last-minute project after a long double shift, they were shocked when their manager pulled out an out-of-pocket request. They were working in a union center where they processed employee paperwork for other companies, but each project could plausibly take the duration of an entire shift to complete. So when this guy was only minutes away from clocking out after a long day, he was floored when his militant manager said he had to stay in the office until the job was done. 

Overworked, exhausted, and ready to maliciously comply, this hardworking employee did what any petty worker would do and he worked through the night to complete the job, despite his 7 AM shift the next day. Scroll onward to read the entire story of how this employee's diligence resulted in some major fallout the next day when his manager's OSHA-violating request reached the HR office.

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    "Oh you're in early!" "I never left"
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    "Stay until it's done?" Ok, I'm doing it by the book then and getting an extra day off.
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    I used to work as a supervisor in my last job and was directly working with a union. Some of my managers really didn't want to deal with things when it came to workplace injuries so I had to deal with most of them. If you have
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    worked with a union before this is a very long and time consuming process, while important, very tedious. So that brings us to that one evening, I was on my 2nd double in a row of 3 and very much ready
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    to go home. As I wrapped up my area my evening manager texted me to assist another supervisor with an Injury. The supervisor was newer and needed to be taught, I informed them I was already there on a double and needed to come
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    back on the morning and was there anyone else or could they help them? This manager who was notorious for passing their work on others, he texted me no and I "had to stay until it was done". Ok I have written documentation of a directive? Who am I to say no.
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    Alright well then since I'm teaching I'm going by the book. I opened up the union and company policy on workplace incidents and followed it set by step. By the time we got to the drug test portion the local clinic we use was closed and we
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    needed to call it in. This is important because if you don't use the local clinic the out of area one takes 4+ hours to come out. While that was processing I did a lengthy investigation with the
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    dropped because they have a rule that while management (including supervisor) can work more than 16 hours if they work more than 20hrs they need a 24hr reset. (I wasn't in the union but still "hourly salaried" and got OT over 8 hours in a day).
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    So not only was I going to not be able to make my morning shift I couldn't make my evening shift either. I was still gonna be paid for both while being sent home. She asked me who told me to do this and I showed her the message from the evening manager telling me to "stay until it is finished"
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    I went home and enjoyed my extra day off into weekend. When I came back I had an interview about the incident with the senior manager. After showing my messages, which the manager tried to delete but
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    only did on his side, I was dismissed without any issues. The manager was written up by the senior manager, and they had to pay me my two regular shifts plus 24hours of overtime. Needless to say I stopped picking up after that no matter how much they begged.
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    LucasPisaCielo • 13h ago Manager trying to hide his mistake was a double whammy by itself.
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    Ha-Funny-Boy • 3h ago One job asked me to work OT on a project saying I would get paid overtime. I agreed to it. I put in 24 straight hours and went home. When I got my next check I noticed the overtime was not correct. The company
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    said I had taken a day off so that dropped my hours below the overtime threshold. My MC was to automate the process | did manually and that cost the company money because they could not bill the customer for it.
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    Ready_Competition_... • 4h ago Not only lazy but stupid as a manager. I hope he was demoted.
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    Farlaign 12h ago Why weren't you part of the union? It looks like they were doing a good job getting their workers better working conditions and pay.
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    Baby8227 10 hr. ago I was once asked if I had actually completed the 10hrs overtime I had worked at home. Then of course they justified it by "just checking". I stopped doing anymore that day forward, no matter how they asked. Question me, fine. Question my integrity; we're done!
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    algy888 4 hr. ago Definitely! That's a "Pardon? Oh don't worry, you'll never have to question ME again." I let them know that I only did overtime before to help THEM out.
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