Hey, whatever it takes to stack that cash, right?

You’re darn right!

This Reddit user knows all about it and they were nice enough to let all of us know what happened.

Read on and see what you think!

Won’t give me a raise? I will claim all the overtime I can then.

“Many years ago I worked in the control room of a private ambulance company.

I was working overnight which meant I never really saw a manager and had to do everything on my own. Literally I would be the only one in the office. Then the company won some new contracts and all of a sudden I had actual co-workers.

They learned some interesting news…

But very quickly I found out they were earning more than me, about £1000 per year difference. And there were two of them doing about two thirds of the work I was doing alone.

So I did what anyone would do and asked if I could get a pay bump to match my new colleagues, only to be told no.

So instead I went and looked closely at my contract. Which stated I was only paid for 11 hours a night, with the expectation of an unpaid hour for the overnight approximation of lunch.

A ha!

But you see dear reader, I had been working for a full 12 hours, because I had no one to cover me, and technically I still didn’t because different contracts and areas of operation. So I looked up the overtime policy, and the forms.

I printed off a stack and filled them in to cover my entire shift pattern, and claim for my hours lunch that I couldn’t take. Then I made sure they were submitted every week to get my extra pay.

It worked!

Eventually they gave me my raise but I carried on claiming until they hired someone to work with me and I couldn’t claim anymore. But the damage was done and the bad manager that couldn’t understand why I wanted equal pay for an equal job “moved on”.

It still makes me smile to think how much money I must have cost them for trying to screw me over.”

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Another individual had a lot to say.

This Reddit user spoke up.

Another person shared a story.

This worker had to get pretty tricky to get their extra money.

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