Welcome to our slash malicious compliance where OP gets his stupid controlling boss fired.

Our next credit post is from irritating Farquhar. I worked for a water company for 25 years,

and I was on one of their most productive repair crews. That is, until the new manager, Mr. NUMNUT started.

We had a monthly rotation where you're on call for one week and four,

for emergency repairs that were out of hours. On the day in question,

I started work at 7.30am on Friday, and finished work at 3.15am Saturday, so it was a pretty long shift.

I get to work Tuesday morning and get called into the office by Mr. NUMNUT and informed that

according to my vehicle's tracker, I left the yard at 3.12am, not 3.15am, which, according to him,

was my attempt to defraud the company. As you can imagine, I was absolutely fuming at this level of BS.

I told him that, at the time, I was covered in mud and sweat and just wanted to get home after

completing a monster shift for the company. And was he genuinely causing a fuss over three minutes?

He said that he was making me aware that I could be fired for it.

Cumelicious compliance. I said, if we're going to be this petty, then you can take me off the

emergency contact list for extra coverage, and I won't be starting 20 minutes early each day either.

I'll now be clocking in at exactly 7.30am, and I'll be hitting out at exactly 5.30pm.

No deviation whatsoever, and you can explain to your bosses why productivity is down and you're

struggling to get coverage for emergencies. Then we'll see how important your three minutes are

when they're costing the company money. I didn't realize it at the time, but this guy's job was

bonus-related, and it was linked to our productivity, which tanked after that because all the other

people on my team followed my lead, except for the brown nosers obviously. Three weeks go by,

with an absolute mess in customer service complaints about their work not being carried out in

a timely manner, my productivity dropped from seven jobs per day down to four. Mr. Numb Nuts gets

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