January 22, 2026 at 3:35 am

Employee’s Boss Woke Him Up At 6 A.M. Every Day For Shift Coverage, So They Called The Boss Back At 3:30 A.M. To Make The Calls Stop For Good

by Benjamin Cottrell

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There’s nothing worse than a boss who thinks your sleep schedule is optional.

When one employee’s manager kept calling at dawn asking him to cover shifts, he realized the only way to stop it was to flip the script.

One 3:30 a.m. call ended up being all it took to make his point.

Read on for the full story!

My boss LOVES to call me at 6:15 A.M. to ask me if I would LIKE to fill the shifts of the people who just called in sick.

This is an everyday thing.

So one day, he decided to get back at his boss.

I was bored and frustrated, so I decided to volunteer at 3:30 a.m. to call this same manager to ask if they needed extra help.

The boss tried to punish him, but that ended up backfiring too.

He got super ticked and tried to write me up for it.

I showed the GM the time stamps of the calls I had received.

I don’t get calls anymore.

Payback, baby!

Redditors are sure to get a kick out of this one.

If employees don’t respect their own work-life balance, then no one else is going to either.

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Working for a living is filled with small injustices that just make the job even more miserable.

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Being lazy can pay off in certain areas of life.

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Some jobs make it painfully obvious that they don’t care about you as a human being.

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His boss tried to get him in trouble, but the timestamps told the whole story.

The write-up vanished, and so did the unwanted morning wake-up calls!

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