When you work at a job where it is sometimes possible to leave early, there has to be a system in place to determine who can go first.

What would you do if a co-worker tried to game the system so she could leave early even though it was your turn?

That is what happened to the casino dealer in this story, so he played her own game and made it so she couldn’t leave early for months.

Check it out.

Make me stay late for not being 15 minutes early? I’ll show you how early I can be.

I work at a casino as a dealer.

We have a first-in-first-out way of scheduling dealers.

So if you start at 7pm, you get to leave before people that started at 8pm when they are able to close tables down and send you home.

Pretty normal and straightforward.

This seems pretty reasonable.

If more than one person starts at the same time, then who gets the option to leave first is assigned on a rotating basis.

So if you have the first option one week, you will be second the following, the third after that, then back to one.

So one afternoon, I was reporting to work with 2 other dealers, all set to start at the same time.

I was looking forward to a short evening, as I was the first option and I had plans after work.

I arrived 10 minutes before my shift, and noticed one of the dealers who was starting at my start time was already dealing.

They (the dealer) must have been in the EDR and the pencil needed a dealer to start right away.

I confirmed that they had started 15 min before their scheduled time, and they were the 3rd option.

She is trying to play the system.

Fast forward 6 hours, and we had tables we could start closing.

I’m stoked to get out of there, when I look over and see the dealer that started early leaving before me.

I pointed out that I was supposed to be leaving before her, and she gave me a rude grin and said “Well I started before you, so I have the first option.”

And then she just walked off all smug.

I was super upset and said something to the supervisor.

He shrugged me off and said “It’s policy.”

First to start leaves first? Ok, game on.

She shouldn’t have started this game.

I knew this coworker had kids, and had to wait for her mom to come over to babysit before she could leave for work, so she wasn’t always early for her shift.

I have no kids or obligations, so I started showing up 2 hours before my shift and just chilling in the EDR.

I would let the supervisor know I was there in case they needed me to start early (which they always did, because they would not refuse to open a table for lack of staff knowing I was on property and available to work).

Three weeks of this, and I had held the first option on every shift I worked.

Hey, she started it.

The dealer who was all smug about starting early was getting frustrated and angry at me.

Having to stay super late every night was wearing her down.

“It would be nice to get off before close just once!” she said to me once as I was leaving early yet again.

I told her I was just following policy, and she was welcome to show up early to make sure she was always first out.

2 more weeks and many complaints to the boss later, the policy was changed.

Now, in order to jump option numbers, you have to be called in over an hour before your scheduled time.

15 minutes wasn’t gonna cut it anymore if you wanted to leave early.

I hope that it was worth it for her staying until near close for over a month over that 15 minutes.

I am petty and I have a lot of free time.

Some people just hate it when their own tricks are played against them.

Read on to see what the people in the comments think about this story.

Yup, she should have seen it coming.

This person had a similar situation.

This does seem like a bad policy.

This is what makes creating policy so hard.

Yup, turnabout is fair play.

Don’t take advantage of a policy if you aren’t ready for others to do the same.

This coworker could have likely just asked him to trade if she needed to, but instead she ruined it for everyone.

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