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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’

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’

Boss cuts back on granting overtime, worker complies and refuses to jump on urgent project after hours: 'All scheduled overtime had to be approved…cool!'

Boss cuts back on granting overtime, worker complies and refuses to jump on urgent project after hours: 'All scheduled overtime had to be approved…cool!'

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'Work smarter, not harder': New boss gets rid of overtime policy despite team's concerns, employees maliciously comply and boss ends up scrambling

'Work smarter, not harder': New boss gets rid of overtime policy despite team's concerns, employees maliciously comply and boss ends up scrambling

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‘30 minutes or 2+ hours, your call’: Paramedic drivers score 2 months of overtime pay when a nitpicky manager's decision to disband their workforce's ‘gentleman’s agreement' costs the company $1000s in overtime pay

Jesse Kessenheimer

Company changes overtime policy to avoid paying extra to employees, one team uses new rules to get $6000 more while working the same as before: ‘We were suddenly entitled to loads of overtime’

Company changes overtime policy to avoid paying extra to employees, one team uses new rules to get $6000 more while working the same as before: ‘We were suddenly entitled to loads of overtime’

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Boss schedules daily end-of-day meetings, new hire discovers they're unpaid and quietly leads office-wide rebellion just by leaving at 5 p.m.: 'All it took was one person'

'If you're on time, you are late': Employee starts showing up 30 minutes before shift to be paid overtime after boss claims being on time is not good enough

'If you're on time, you are late': Employee starts showing up 30 minutes before shift to be paid overtime after boss claims being on time is not good enough

Manager approves employees' unlimited overtime for Mother's Day week, only to take it back halfway through: ‘You are doing too much overtime’

Manager approves employees' unlimited overtime for Mother's Day week, only to take it back halfway through: ‘You are doing too much overtime’

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'I can make it work': Employee finds a loophole in strict new clocking system, forcing management to pay him 3x overtime than any other employee

'I can make it work': Employee finds a loophole in strict new clocking system, forcing management to pay him 3x overtime than any other employee

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Maintenance technician warns boss about faulty pipe, boss refuses to pay him overtime to fix it, resulting in a flooded office: ‘Pipe didn’t want to wait till Monday’

Employee forced to stay late for optics, puts in hours of OT for doing nothing: 'Well, you asked me to stay late!'

Employee forced to stay late for optics, puts in hours of OT for doing nothing: 'Well, you asked me to stay late!'

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'That was blatantly a work-related activity': PT assistant bills his boss double-overtime after he instructs hourly employees to wash work towels on their own time at home, gets the policy revoked overnight

Jesse Kessenheimer

Boss forces new employee to clock out and continue working for 30 more minutes without pay, employee decides to confront boss's boss about it: ‘I'm so infuriated’

Boss forces new employee to clock out and continue working for 30 more minutes without pay, employee decides to confront boss's boss about it: ‘I'm so infuriated’

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‘I literally laughed’: Job seeker storms out of interview after their interviewer asks them how they ‘handle’ unpaid overtime, sparks debate about salaried vs hourly employees

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'We are still waiting’: Manager demands employees wait for her approval to start closing restaurant, leading manager to pay them overtime when she forgets to follow through

'We are still waiting’: Manager demands employees wait for her approval to start closing restaurant, leading manager to pay them overtime when she forgets to follow through

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‘I cut into their profit’: Advising contractor punishes a big company's project foreman with copious overtime hours after managers mandate attendance to trivial daily 'stand-up' meetings

Jesse Kessenheimer

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UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

'Everything will be late': Boss denies a salaried employee's work-from-home request, so they refuses to work after hours or answer any work-related calls after 5:00 PM; derails operations

'Everything will be late': Boss denies a salaried employee's work-from-home request, so they refuses to work after hours or answer any work-related calls after 5:00 PM; derails operations

Flummoxed neighbor demands to swap sides of shared garden when she sees that couple's plants are growing better than hers: '[We] spent a lot of money on new fresh soil, plant food, everything. Spent countless hours tilling and making it great for growing'

Flummoxed neighbor demands to swap sides of shared garden when she sees that couple's plants are growing better than hers: '[We] spent a lot of money on new fresh soil, plant food, everything. Spent countless hours tilling and making it great for growing'

Grocery store employee fired after one trial shift, then reprimanded for not showing up to their next shift: 'I didn't know I was scheduled!'

Grocery store employee fired after one trial shift, then reprimanded for not showing up to their next shift: 'I didn't know I was scheduled!'

Entitled mother-in-law throws tantrum after learning that her granddaughter isn't named after her: 'After all I have done for this family, you couldn’t even name one child after me?'

Entitled mother-in-law throws tantrum after learning that her granddaughter isn't named after her: 'After all I have done for this family, you couldn’t even name one child after me?'

'Waive the fines and leave us alone!': Entitled neighbor gets new residents fined with a slew of violations, refusing to accept that their house is not part of the HOA

'Waive the fines and leave us alone!': Entitled neighbor gets new residents fined with a slew of violations, refusing to accept that their house is not part of the HOA

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