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Imagine being hired to work part time, but your boss gives you so much work to do that you can’t get it all done while working part time hours. Would you leave when your hours were up for the week, or would you work overtime?

In this story, one woman wasn’t sure what to do, so she asked her boss who told her to indicate the hours she worked on her timesheet. When he saw her timesheet, he quickly backtracked and told her not to work overtime.

Keep reading to find out what happened when she complied.

I Can Only Work 29 Hours A Week But Have Full-Time Responsibilities? Ok Boss!

I (23F) started a new job last summer as a part-time fellow with the possibility of going full-time.

I was hired to replace someone who was full-time, so my responsibilities were much greater than the time that I was allotted to work, which was 29 hours a week.

Basically, my bosses kept piling work on me and since this was my first job out of college, I finished it but was basically working full-time for about a week and a half.

I had flagged the issue with them and they told me to reflect the time on my timesheet.

The bosses didn’t want her working overtime.

Fast forward to pay-day, my bosses are livid that I worked too much, saying that I had to stay at exactly 29 hours to be a part-time employee.

Cue the malicious compliance.

I started vehemently tracking my hours.

I would plan my weeks in advance so I knew the maximum amount of hours I could work each day to stay at 29 hours.

She refused to work overtime.

I basically worked from 9:30 to 3:30, but obviously there were days that I had to work longer.

When my bosses would give me tasks on Thursday and Fridays, I would say to them, well I have to leave at 2 pm today so I’m under 29 hours this week and go home and relax.

This obviously made my bosses frustrated since they needed to offload work, but I was just following exactly what they had told me to do.

After about 3 weeks of this, and multiple tasks not being able to get done because of my strict 29 hour work week, they finally offered me a full-time job.

That worked out well for her!

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

This person loved the end of the story.

Another person thinks she handled the situation well.

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Here’s some more praise.

The last comment seems to suggest that she should look for another job. I think she’s probably pretty happy with where she is considering her bosses gave her what she wanted and deserved, a full time job.

Instead of being overwhelmed at work, she did the right thing by insisting on only working the hours her bosses wanted her to work.

You can’t replace a full time employee with a part time employee and expect the same amount of work to get done!