When your work shift is done for the day, what do you do? Do you clock out, leave or tell your manager you’re going home?

Apparently, there’s another option.

In this story, one employee is told to wait for a manager to say it’s time to go home, so that’s exactly what the employee does.

Let’s read the whole story.

“You need to wait for a manager to let you go home”……….ok

So I work at a store that sells kitchen appliances and other kitchen related stuff.

Normally when we’re supposed to leave or go on break we’re supposed to tell our manager.

I was helping a long line at cash and had already been there for 8 hours and assumed they had someone to cover me.

I wasn’t allowed to use the walkies to ask to be covered to go home, so I quickly found my manager and told her my shift was done.

Apparently, it wasn’t okay to go home.

She got really mad at me and said “could you really not stay a few more minutes”

I tried to tell her “I thought you had someone to cover me I can stay if you want”

She then replied “no no just go, but next time you need to wait for a manager to let you go home”

record scratch

Nothing like making up the rules as you go.

This was never a rule, I asked other people who’ve worked there for years and they agreed that it wasn’t a rule.

I worked again a few days later and the store was empty, my shift was over and was about to ask to go home then I remember what my manager told me.

Cue malicious compliance.

I continued to wander the store and slightly fix shelves, making sure I was near my manager.

It took her long enough to notice!

After about 2 and a half hours she said “you’re still here, why haven’t you gone home?”

I replied “you said I need to wait to be told to go home.”

My manager looked at me as though she was mentally kicking herself.

“Just go” she said.

I clocked out and that’s how I got paid an extra 30$ for doing literally nothing.

That manager really needs to make up her mind. Is it wait to be told to go home or go home when your shift is over? It can’t be both.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This is a good point.

This person had a smart idea.

Another person shares what they are supposed to do before leaving work.

This person is angry about two things.

The manager’s demand really backfired!

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