Imagine working with a manager who never wants to go home and sticks around at work for hours after her shift is over. Would you let her work as much overtime as she wants since she is, after all, off the clock, or would you tell her to go home?

In this story, one floor manager at a pharmacy is in that exact situation when it comes to an assistant manager who never seems to want to go home.

Keep reading to find out how a little revenge changed all that.

You want to work off hours? Go ahead, but my crew won’t help!

I used to work at a big US chain pharmacy in the front.

We had an assistant manager who was generally miserable with her own life.

She would clock out after 8 hrs each day and then continue to work usually until she decided to go home. Sometimes she would be there from 7 am – 10 pm because she really had no life.

This was all of course known but not discussed by the store manager, of course he’ll take free labor.

OP found the assistant manager’s behavior really frustrating.

I was a floor manager at the time and it ticked me off that she did this.

She would start doing things that I had already started, distract my crew, walk behind me and nit pick me, while also complaining about anything and everything, including the customers standing right behind her.

Finally I had enough.

Once again, the assistant manager didn’t leave.

I was working my usual closing shift (2 -10 pm) and she was supposed to clock out and go home at 4, but of course she clocked out and stayed.

We usually started taking trash out from the pile in the back to the dumpster around 5 when things up front started to slow down. Everyone except one cashier would just start to gravitate to the back.

I was the first one to walk back, and saw her doing the trash. It was an especially huge pile that day because it was our delivery day.

It was revenge via trash.

I stood on the other side of the door and told everyone they are NOT to go back and help her. If she wants to throw trash away on her own time, that’s her decision but we will not help.

It took her until about 8 pm.

She had asked me before she left why no one helped.

I told her the above.

My next shift the store manager let me know that all of my closing shifts from now on she needs to clock out and go home at 4, and if she doesn’t to call him and he’ll shoo her away.

If that lady really has no life and doesn’t want to go home, she should get a second job somewhere instead of sticking around off the clock and working for free.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Working overtime without pay might be illegal.

This is sad to think about.

Another person found the story sad.

Here’s another opinion.

Some people can’t wait to leave work, but others never want to go home.

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