If your boss won’t respect your time or pay you for it, they shouldn’t be shocked when you stop picking up the slack.

So, what would you do if your employer kept pushing you to work overtime but refused to pay for it, then punished you for tracking your hours too well?

Would you keep going above and beyond?

Or would you stick to your schedule and see what happens?

In the following story, one healthcare worker faces this exact predicament and has had enough.

Here’s what’s going on.

Wants me to work overtime but won’t pay for it

I am in the midst of leaving a truly terrible job.

I have only been there for a year, but began noticing issues after the first month.

Now, this is in healthcare, and we work with very vulnerable people.

I have seen some horrendous ethical issues and a lack of competency among employees and my employer (e.g., permitting clinicians to perform tasks they are not trained in, recommending treatments that are basically pseudoscience).

Not to mention my employer has no respect for boundaries or work-life balance (which are essential in this field if you want to avoid burnout), and has horrible work-life balance, time management, and organizational skills themselves, leading them to be behind on all work constantly with over 2000 emails sitting in their inbox.

The incompetence started to affect daily operations.

This also resulted in much of my work being delayed, and clients getting upset that they are waiting for things that the employer needs to do.

Because of this incompetence, I get constant emails and texts asking me to work on off days, or my employer texting at 8pm or 7am and expecting a reply.

I have set very clear boundaries from the start that I don’t work outside my hours, and have also raised concerns about the ethics/competency issues, which resulted in my employer becoming defensive and emotional, and changing nothing.

Now, she’s no longer allowed overtime.

Since giving my notice, the employer has been pushing boundaries even more.

So, being the compliant human that I am and because I do need to wrap up things that I have been waiting for my employer to get to for months, I began responding and including every single work-related communication outside of my hours or requests for a “small task” that I need to complete on an off day as hours worked, and I have banked up some nice overtime.

Last week, the employer sent an email saying that I am no longer allowed to work overtime, and every hour worked OT will be banked as vacation time instead.

The employer is making things even worse.

I don’t want that, because if I am working OT, I deserve to be paid for it.

So I immediately stopped responding to anything after hours or on off days, and have been working only 8 hours on my scheduled days.

The frustration and passive aggression coming from my employer since I did that is unmatched.

Truly, they should get an award for the snarky and condescending emails and texts they have sent me.

I only have a few days left and will be filing an ethics complaint for the many egregious things I have seen once I am out of there.

It’s what they deserve, and I can’t wait.

Wow! Workplaces like this are the absolute worst.

Let’s see what Reddit readers have to say about it.

This person thinks they know where she works.

Here’s someone who suggests she turn the place into the appropriate agency.

That about sums it up.

According to this person, it’s more than just wage theft.

She should turn them in.

It sounds like this place does everything it can to cut corners and save costs.

Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were traveling for business.