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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Cool-Ad-2564 on 2023-07-06 07:50:10+00:00.

For some context, I work in an hotel. For those who have worked in this field or are currently in it, you know what I mean when I say we don’t exactly have schedules. For those who haven’t, stick with me and you’ll know what I mean.

So, I’ve always been the helpful kind of employee. You need a new menu done? Canva and go. Someone to welcome the guests and take them to their rooms? Sure. I only don’t drive, and only because I didn’t take my permit yet. Different country, different laws, etcetera. So, even though I am a receptionist, I do pretty much anything that needs to be done.

Even though it’s a small hotel (not even 30 rooms), helping with everything AND still caring for you position do take a lot of time, which means I usually stay overtime. And also, if a coworker feels sick, they also know I’m the one to call (happened before).

So, the day before yesterday, our chef suggested me and my morning coworker leave, because the afternoon receptionists had arrived already, so we could keep social distancing and limit the amount of people doing nothing. She said she had already talked to the boss and he had allowed it, so we left. The next morning (yesterday), we started reading the previous messages to catch up, and caught this exact chef telling our boss that she had released us early so we would owe them hour credit.

The thing is, there has NEVER been such a thing in there, since the afternoon coworker and I usually stay past our time or come up early because some other employees do not respect THEIR schedule. Also, I always show up when needed and am always available through text messages to clarify and help with whatever situations happen.

So yesterday afternoon she started the same conversation, texting us and suggesting we left early so there wouldn’t be too many people in there. My colleague agreed. I simply didn’t. I said I was saving my hour credits for when I actually needed them, and, since she is not the boss, she can’t actually force me to leave – so she didn’t. But she also hates when people “disobey” her, and my coworker said (I was taking my break when it happened) she was screeching, madder than he’s ever seen her. And I still stayed until 3:30pm (I usually leave at 4pm) and only left half an hour early because I was bored and my boyfriend suggested we meet and, since his schedule is also chaos, I wouldn’t let that chance slip.

And I’ll keep doing that. You want me to leave early so I owe hour credit? No, thank you, I’d rather stay and find something useful to do, because, you know, I looove being here (it contains sarcasm).

TLDR: The kitchen chef went behind me and my coworker’s back to screw our already screwed schedule, I refused to bow before her…