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If a manager ever wants you to stay after your office hours, make sure to get it documented.
Never work overtime without getting it documented. And if you are working overtime, make sure, you get paid for it. A Reddit user shared his story that his manager called a meeting at 4:15 pm on Friday. The meeting went for about 45 minutes and was still continued. OP told his manager that he has other plans and that we can continue the meeting on Monday. She told OP that employees should stay an hour after the working hours in case they need them for any work. OP told her that he has to go now and they would talk about it on Monday. There was a meeting on Monday and the director was also present there. OP brought up the time issue in the meeting and asked if she can get it documented. OP’s manager said that she will talk about it. She was mad at OP and called him to ask why he brought it in front of the director. Scroll down to read what happened next and why OP’s manager apologized to him.
1. OP’s director manager called a meeting on Friday at 4:15 pm. After 45 minutes OP told her that he has to go because he has other plans.
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2. OP’s director manager told him that they should stay an extra hour in the office in case they need them.
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3. OP told his director manager that he can do whatever he wants in his free time.
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4. OP further told the director manager that she can continue the meeting on Monday morning.
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5. OP thought to make an edit.
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6. Both the director and director manager were present in the meeting.
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7. OP brought the extra hour thing in the meeting and the director was shook. The director manager told him that we will discuss it later.
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8. The director manager asked OP to have a phone call with her in an hour.
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9. The director manager told OP that he should have talked to her first before bringing it in the meeting.
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10. OP found his manager’s response hilarious.
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11. OP’s manager kept asking OP why did he feel the need to bring it up in front of the director.
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12. OP told her that he wants everything to be documented in the presence of the director.
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13. OP told his director manager that he still wants everything to be documented and she agreed to it.
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14. OP’s director manager set up a meeting with her and her director.
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15. The director agreed with OP and specified that he should work 9-5. OP’s manager apologized to him for her behavior and expectations.
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16. OP’s manager told him that if she will ever need him to work extra, she will make sure it is documented.
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17. The meeting was actually about the manager’s bad time management.
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Have you ever been asked to stay extra hours in the office? What do you do in such a situation?