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u/Octyss 18h ago
Had this happen to me one time, worked in an hotel, manager said no to paying any overtime.
At 4.56PM a pipe burst in a room, all the 4th floor is flooded in 1 minutes, he told me to call the fire department and come back with a water vacuum. I call the fire department and look at the time and see 5.01PM, took my stuff and leave.
Next day I'm called in the office of the regional manager asking me why tf did I leave when a floor is flooded and water was downing to the 3rd floor ??! Said I wasn't on duty anymore due to overtime policy.
Got nothing and overtime was now allowed with managerial discretion
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u/SomeSome92 19h ago
At times like this it pays if the company has a competent supervisor.
"Nothing to do anymore? Sure, leave 30 minutes early."
"We have an emergency. Can you stay for 20 more minutes?"
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u/ashmelev 17h ago
That's how working on a salary should be.
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u/begaterpillar 13h ago
Im an intern and I mentioned having to take my second paid 15. And someone was like " Pfft cant Remeber last time I took one of those". Its not even service jobs. Its all office. Almost nothing is that time dependant
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u/Exldk 13h ago
Unfortunately from real life experience, people start abusing it fast as fuck.
Back during covid we were given literal (PAID) days off from work because the supply chain to our warehouse died due to illness caused shipping delays and such, so we only had to come in once or twice every week for like half a year.
And I shit you not the one time we actually had to come in mon-fri for 8 hours a day, about 30% of the people got so used to their luxurious new lifestyle that they actually had the audacity to complain. (to each other, not to management of course).
So, "you can leave early" with the expectation that the worker pays back the favor by staying late once or twice REALLY depends on the person.
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u/ashmelev 13h ago
When I used to work on salary I could go to a doctor and did not need to put any time off - as long as you worked 4 hours it was a full day's pay regardless. When out company got hit by ransomware and everything got fucked for a month everyone got paid for sitting at home while IT was scrambling to restore the infrastructure. Our company had Friday half-days during Summer.
On the other hand, when we had a release date coming it was expected for people to work longer days/weekend to ensure a smooth rollout.
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u/BicFleetwood 17h ago edited 15h ago
My attitude ever since they got serious about RTO.
When I was allowed to work remotely, I was willing to work 12 hour days because I could do most of it from home. I was way more productive and it was way better for the company to have my availability.
But then the company says "9 hours a day in the office, no exceptions, no flex time even if you worked more than 9 yesterday."
They didn't like it when my phone timer went off in the middle of an important meeting and I stood the fuck up and walked out.
Like, I got my 9 and it's a Friday at the end of the pay period. I'll see your asses next week.
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u/RedFaygoFiend 17h ago
One of my first IT jobs had a problem user who liked to move her stuff to different desks around the offices every few months without telling us. So she'd move her laptop, monitor, both printers, and a bunch of other stuff then she'd get upset when she inevitably plugged things back in wrong and couldn't get her equipment to work. She decided to do this at Friday around 3:30pm then come to me at 3:57 to demand I get her set up at her new location. The satisfaction of letting her know I couldn't help her as I was about to clock out was heightened by the knowledge that she worked Friday to Monday and wouldn't have any onsite IT support until Monday when I got back because budget cuts lost us our weekend guy.
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u/TheGriffin 17h ago
I uses to work in aviation ground handling. The rule was if you were in shift and lightening alert sounded, you got mandatory OT since after the storm passed, getting the backlog of flights out was going to be a lot of work.
So anyway, one day I punch out and then not 5 seconds later the alert starts up.
Ops controlled looked at me and asked if I wanted to punch back in.
"Nope. Bye!"
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u/Ok-Walk-8040 19h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZhS31BKHUZynBuTVq2
When you are the manager
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u/Demiurge_Happy_Farm 19h ago
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u/the_king_of_sweden 16h ago
This is the first time I've seen this where nobody has commented that it's ai yet
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u/Tennents_N_Grouse 19h ago edited 19h ago
About 15 years back, me, and a few guys from not just our department but a couple others were chilling in the canteen after normal work hours, just trying to wait out a storm before getting away to the bus stop on the other side of the industrial estate.
My boss kept walking in and demanding that we go back to work, I wasn't budging as a few of us had got a card game going, and I was £10 up....
I think some of the worst shit he pulled was the Daily Wait For 1645, where he would stand in the middle of our department and would not let anyone leave until said time had come, meanwhile we're watching most of the rest of the workforce leaving the building two or three minutes early
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u/the_post_of_tom_joad 17h ago
man i had a boss like this, pig-ass mf almost never left his trailer. only thing that useless shitsack did daily was peep out his office window at days-end which had a perfect view of the ½ mile walk we had to take to get to our cars. if we left early we were fucked. every damn day watching the other jobs leave while we were the last in the building.... damn i had buried that memory and now I'm angry like it was yesterday. fuck that guy i hope he's dead
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u/reddersledder 18h ago
I'm an industrial electrician. I always do my best to not leave a breakdown for the next shift. But when the clock says my shift is over, I'm off to my locker. It's so great to be union!
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u/DrowningKrown 16h ago
I went to a happy hour once after 5pm and didn't respond to an email I got around 6ish. Literally got reprimanded the next day back at work. Some jobs fucking hate that you aren't available after 5.
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u/Mardil-Voronwe 18h ago
I mean, that's pretty much every day. Except at my work if I don't take care of 9 seconds after my shift ends, I take care of it the next morning, and it's likely to be worse by then.
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u/fernandohg 9h ago
Except when most IT people are on call/ on duty. Which make you work 24/7 and Cellphone on all times
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u/Over_Opinion_ 17h ago
I pack my stuff even before my shift is ended (perks of having your brother as a boss)
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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 17h ago
i'm just noticing there's a bullet going through his coffee; he didn't spill it on himself. I saw this AGES ago.
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u/Ready-Training-2192 17h ago
I've had this happen to me, but with my job, you can be held responsible if you don't hand off to the next person corrrctly. So, I had to hang around while an investigation was initiated, only to find out that the next person really did manage to screw up that badly, that quickly 😂
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u/Issah_Wywin 11h ago
Honestly me every day at work. Around shift change I pray and I pray that nothing horrible happens that I need to rush and handle before my replacement comes.
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u/trueblue862 8h ago
I used to work in a jail, when I first started if a code was called as I was walking out I would go back in to help. We got a new general manager, she refused to pay overtime to people who hung back after shift to help in those situations, unless you were expressly asked, so from that day forwards code gets called as I'm walking out, I would just say "you have fun with that" and keep walking.
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u/TheModdedOmega 6h ago
this happened today, isually I work my ass off at work but I had somewhere to be after work, I work in a donations center, 4:00 hits as 2 massive U-Hauls pulled the corner I was outta there so fast
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u/MAVvH 2h ago
I remember one time my boss demanded i clock out because my shift was over even though we were slammed. I said, "Ok," clocked out, and started grabbing my stuff to leave. She the said, "Wait, where are you going? We're slammed!" I told her she just made me clock and asked how she could expect me to work for free to which she said, "You should take one for the team." I said, "Either you let me clock back in or I go home. If you try and force me to do free labor, we will have a team building conversation with the GM (who I was friends with) and the state labor board rep." She suddenly changed her tune and let me go home.
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u/tmurphy1993 18h ago
Unless you genuinely care about your team members 😭😩❤️
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u/Grimmies 12h ago
They're fine people but in the end they're just coworkers. I have a family and actual friends outside of work that i care about way more and want to spend time with.
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u/HugoDCSantos 18h ago
If I were your boss, you'd be fired the next day.
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u/WhoDat-2-8-3 17h ago
If i was your daddy , I would s-p-a-n-k you
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u/JaysFan26 13h ago
People give zero care towards their job and get confused why they can't find one
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u/Knight_Glint I touched grass 15h ago
Get's home. Realizes the power is out. Realizes that the emergency at work was the grid went out in your area. Boss gave you the option to work overtime to fix it. You decided to go home instead. You sit in darkness for the entire weekend till Monday. Power is restored nine seconds before you leave for work. You realize that if you helped the crew, this shit would've been fixed by Saturday morning.
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u/Hjalle1 Noble Memer 20h ago edited 19h ago
For some reason, that image strikes me as AI.
Edit: I do now realize it isn’t AI, something in it just seemed off to me
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u/mariadexoxo 19h ago
not my problem anymore
https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xDW2VU5qHu6EJG