My entitled boss demands that I no longer be allowed to get any overtime hours, despite the fact that I use my time wisely, and my involvement is crucial for our company staying afloat.

So, I decided to get revenge by maliciously complying, resulting in our business nearly falling apart at the seams, with me proving to everybody, including our corporate representatives, that my boss

is the reason that all of this fell apart. And I've honestly never felt better about getting back

at somebody in my life. Here's what happened. So I work as a manager in a call center. I am nowhere

near the phones and generally do not interact with customers. Rather, I am a knowledge repository

for my staff and handle communication

between our team and the client company which we provide support for. We are a technical

support team, not a sales or order support, and the devices which we support are very complex

consumer electronics. Most of our support time goes to professional installers, and we rarely speak to customers firsthand.

In short, my job is to know our policies like the back of my hand, and to know the products that we support better than anyone, except for maybe the designers that engineered them.

A secondary part of my job is to coordinate our online chat team, which is generally pretty hands-off other than right as the shift ends

when I generally jump in to monitor any active chats and make sure they close up quickly.

I don't want to keep my guys here any longer than necessary. They like it better, and it cuts down on

overtime hours for the entire line of business by a lot. This means I generally rack up about 15 to 20 minutes of overtime a day, and some days it can be as little as zero, and others as much as an hour.

My direct boss knows about all of this and is generally all for it.

One day, however, the guy who was in charge of all of the support teams sent out a memo saying that management should never be getting overtime.

I brought this up with my boss as this would seriously impact my team and they ended up

arranging a meeting with the big boss. Well, the big boss proceeds to tell my boss that no,

I cannot rack up any overtime hours. So I think to myself, fine, I'm going to get out at a

reasonable time every day and I have absolutely zero issue with this. So the, fine, I'm going to get out at a reasonable time every day, and I have

absolutely zero issue with this. So the next Monday, I log out right when my shift ends, and it turns

out three of my guys were there for an extra hour with last minute chats. Tuesday rolls around,

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