in People, Stories

Cheap Boss Has Employee Shovel Snow, Ends Up Paying Overtime

3 minutes read

It’s all too common to see an unhinged boss push their employees to their limits. This man believed he was saving himself some money, but what he didn’t know turned out to be more expensive than he had anticipated. It’s not unusual for workers to infuriate their abusive managers by abiding by the law.

Advertisement

This is what exactly happened here so keep on scrolling down below and make sure you watch it till the end otherwise, you are not going to get the whole point here.

1. What a complete A-hole

Text - Posted by u/SparkleFritz 1 day ago "You can't leave until you shovel ALL of the snow!" oc M This wasn't me doing the malicious compliance, nor the request, but the middle man who witnessed this gloriousness. I worked for a movie theatre company in a state that snows every winter. We had a contract with a snow shoveling company but my boss refused to use it because the costs of each removal had a possiblity of hurting his yearly bonus by a couple percent points (like $300 max out of $20,00

Via SparkleFritz

2. This seems like a quite rough job

Text - Unfortunately this meant that one of the ushers would have to shovel snow on the sidewalk. Since it's a safety hazard to block the emergency exit doors of a theatre it meant you had to shovel a path around the entire building and for each exit door. Ultimately due to the size it's about a quarter mile around the building. No one likes doing it because it's cold and shoveling a simple one shovel-length path can take two hours. During a snowy Christmas week (the busiest week for movie theat

Advertisement

Via SparkleFritz

3. This is completely absurd, boss must be retard

Text - out instead of us doing it we were told no, to which one of my co-workers (we'll call him Dan) said he would do it. An hour later after he had gone outside one by one my boss pulled each usher in and wrote them up for "refusing to shovel snow". When Dan came back in the other ushers complained to him about it. Dan asked our boss why and our boss said that it was because no one wanted to shovel all of the snow, and if Dan didn't shovel all of the snow he would get written up as well. This

Advertisement

Via SparkleFritz

4. Dan is a hard-working man, let’s see what happened next.

Text - Cue the malicious compliance. What my boss didn't realize was that it was the last day of the payroll period. Being Christmas week Dan had already accumulated 40 hours of work earlier in the day. My boss left right after telling Dan to make sure ALL of the snow was removed. We worked the rest of the shift and everyone assumed Dan had finished and left. It's 3am now and we go to punch out for the week but can't because there is a shift that hasn't been approved yet. Someone is still workin

Advertisement

Via SparkleFritz

5. He got what he deserved

Text - We didn't hear anything until later that week when I was called into the office and had to write out a statement to why I let Dan work twelve hours of overtime. He had this smug look on his face like he had "beaten" us. He was not too pleased when he found out that all of our statements included him saying the phrase "remove all the snow" and that he refused to call the snow plow company. My boss was transferred to another theatre soon after.

Advertisement

Via SparkleFritz

6. What you sow so shall you reap

Advertisement

7. All of these movie theaters managers seem to be retarded now

Advertisement

8. What is going on here exactly?

Advertisement

10. This is too hilarious, these people are savage.

Advertisement

11. Saying it from the experience

Advertisement

People need to know their value always. You don’t let anyone exploit you ever, bosses like these are weird. They want things to be done their way and if things don’t work out as they want they get irritated. The world doesn’t like this business needs to know that their employees are their most valuable assets. If you aren’t treating them right you are hurting your own business.

This boss completely lost it and he was being too stingy and he got what he deserved. People out there are working hard to sustain a suitable lifestyle and some people don’t understand this they think they have bought these people to complete the chores that they don’t have to. The boss clearly got what he deserved we hope he might have learned a lesson through this and next time we hope he doesn’t become too cheap. On the other hand, Dan is the real OG. He just killed it!

Let us know what you think about this in the comment section below. Don’t forget, never let anyone exploit you. Share it with your friends and family. Stay tuned with Defused for more content. Thank You.

Advertisement

bossbossesdramaemployeejobjob storiesjob storykarmaMaliciousmalicious complianceovertimesnowwork stories

What do you think?

0 Points