She Noticed One Worker Kept Racking Up Overtime — A Simple Scheduling Fix Put A Stop To It
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Overtime feels a lot less rewarding when management starts paying attention to the clock.
At one late-night customer service job, an employee keeps stretching her shifts with coffee, conversation, and regular overtime claims.
Instead of arguing over every extra half hour, her manager quietly rewrites the schedule to absorb that time completely.
Check out how it played out below.
Employee kept claiming an extra 15 – 30 minutes of overtime so I adjusted her schedule.
I worked as a manager of a customer service place that stayed open until after midnight.
Occasionally, a shipment was late, so the night person had to work later and claimed overtime.
But this one employee decided to have a coffee, visit, and then clock out and claimed 30 minutes of overtime almost every night shift.
This shift had a half-hour lunch break at supper time, which most people preferred.
Knowing she was caught, she tried to make a deal.
So I changed this one person’s shift to a one-hour lunch break and moved the end of the shift 30 minutes later.
When everyone else got to go home at 12:30 a.m., she had to stay until 1 a.m. every shift without any overtime.
She said that was against the collective agreement, but she’d never actually read it, so I had to show her where I had the right to make the change.
After a few weeks, she promised to stop claiming overtime if she could switch back to a 30-minute lunch break.
Wow! Some people are so shady.
Let’s see how the folks over at Reddit relate to this story.
Here’s someone who likes the way it was handled.
For this reader, the story is more revenge than malicious compliance.
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According to this comment, the other employees are owed overtime.
This is an interesting point.
The manager extended her lunch and moved the end of her shift later, eliminating the overtime while staying within the union agreement.
After a few weeks of watching everyone else leave first, she agreed to stop padding the clock if her old schedule came back.
She wanted thirty extra minutes and got them permanently.
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