Retail manager demands employees wait until closing time to start cleaning up, leading employees to rack up overtime pay every shift: ‘He wanted us working until the very end’

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    "Enjoy the overtime bill"
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    Can’t leave until closing time, even if everything’s done? Enjoy the overtime bill.

    I used to work at a luxury watch store in mall. We closed at 9 PM, but most nights we'd be done with all the cleaning and
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    closing tasks by 8:40. With no customers around, we'd just quietly wait out the last 15-20 minutes.
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    One day, our regional manager walked in unannounced around 8:45, saw us sitting and talking, and got mad. Next
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    morning, we got a new rule: "No closing tasks can begin until after 9 PM". He wanted us "working until the very end".
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    Fine. We stopped doing anything before 9. Every display, register, cleaning
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    task all of it waited until the clock struck 9:00. Which meant we didn't finish until 9:30 every night. And since our
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    contracts gave us paid overtime if we stayed late, we started racking up extra pay every shift.
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    After two weeks, corporate started asking why labor costs had spiked. But we kept following their instructions
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    exactly. It wasn't until senior exec watched us standing around doing nothing for 20 minutes before madly closing up
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    after hours that they finally dropped the rule. New policy: "Use your judgment just make sure
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    the store looks good until closing". Amazing how fast common sense returns when budget take a hit.
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    Brobdingnag Lilliput Use your judgment just make sure the store looks good until closing". PRO TIP: Don't let them unring that bell. Let them know that, in your judgement,
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    the new way is better. Maybe don't say out loud that half an hour of overtime pay improves your quality of life more than getting back that half hour of free time. They'll
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    eventually explicitly direct you back to the old way of doing things, but make them do that work don't do that work for them! -
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    Aurzyerne Well.. yeah. Money is the only language corporations understand.
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    Geminii27 New policy: "Use your judgment Ah, the standard "Read our minds to find out when you should do what we say and when you shouldn't, and we'll blame you either way" tactic.
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    vacuousintent Well done. You really watched the clock for this malicious compliance.
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