'Not allowed to go home early? Ok!': Manager defies boss by adjusting schedule so employees can still leave at a decent hour

Shoutout to all the good managers out there! It's far too common these days to hear about toxic management and the enforcement of bogus new policies that actively hurt employees while benefiting companies at large. So when we do come across a story where a decent manager defies these types of unnecessary rules and regulations in the name of protecting their more or less powerless employees, we have to be grateful for the few nice authority figures that are still out there.

Here, we have a manager who often allowed employees to leave early if all their work was complete… that is, until upper management insisted that this was no longer doable. So that's when the Redditor's direct supervisor decided to enact some malicious compliance so that they were still following the rules while allowing employees to benefit at the same time. Essentially, the manager would adjust their team members' scheduled hours in real-time based on their need for hands, switching eight-hour shifts to five-hour ones in order to let some overworked employees off the hook. Upper management may not have been happy with this, but there was no way for them to complain.

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