Some managers and bosses just don’t realize it when they have a good thing going.

And the really incompetent ones like to throw their weight around in ways that usually come back to bite them in the you-know-what.

That’s what happened in this story from Reddit, and the guy who wrote it definitely got the last laugh.

Check out what went down!

1 min ended up costing them.

“Around 20 years ago I got a job at a local factory which manufactured aluminum windows and doors for some very large new builds, huge skyscraper types.

I started out as a general laborer but within 3 years had worked my way up to fitter/manufacturer.

Then the firm invested a huge amount of money in a new CNC machine, I was selected to be one of the programmer/ operators.

I was sent to Germany from the UK to be taught how to run it, it was a real head scrambler to start with but eventually I figured it out and loved the job.

Once it was installed and running smoothly the company was able to deal with much bigger contracts so naturally took them on.

He had a routine.

In order to fulfill all the work, I had to ensure the machine worked every minute of the working day possible.

My hours were 8-5. I would arrive at work at 7.30 and spend the next 30 minutes firing up all the computers, turning on the machine and running it through all the set up procedures and making sure it was ready to go.

Then I would walk across to the main factory at 8 o’clock to clock in.

However one day I had a small issue with the machine which took a few minutes to fix, so by the time I got to the clock in machine it was 8.04.

I really didn’t think anything of it until I got my pay slip that week. It was 15 minutes short.

So I went to see my manager, he looked at the pay slip and said company policy was, 3 minutes late clock in allowed only, over that time is an automatic 15 minute deduction, but he knew it was a genuine reason for the late clock in so would speak to the payroll department and get it sorted.

They however said tough! Rules are rules.

Just take your time…

So no prizes for guessing what I did next, from then on I arrived at 7.30, and sat and drank coffee until 7.55, walked over to clock in, and only then started my set up.

That 2.5 hours a week amounted to a large amount of lost production, teams of fitters began to run out of product after about a week.

At that point the big boss got involved, he realized immediately that he could not ask me to go back to doing what I did before so he offered me 30 mins a day at overtime rate.

Well why not, I was there anyway.

That 1 minute extra on the clock cost them 2.5hrs a week at time and a half for the next 2 years, when I finally left the company.’

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This person weighed in.

Another reader didn’t hold back.

This individual shared their thoughts.

Another person spoke up.

And this reader nailed it.

Well, that sure backfired on the company!

But he never should have been doing it in the first place.

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