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Strict and micromanaging policies are not what makes people loyal and proud to be working at a company.
Its looking at the employees as the humans they are, instead of cogs in the companys machine.
Apparently, the company in todays story is not aware of this message.
They were working for a company that had an insufferable habit of hiring underqualified employees and expecting top results.
And the company used to implement many micromanaging policies.
One of these micromanaging policies was that an employee needed to work a full 40 hours a week.
And if they missed any work, they had to work on Saturday to make up for it.
If they didnt make up for missed hours, theyd get a strike and 3 strikes equal firing.
One day, the OP needed to get off work 30 minutes early.
They cleared it with their on-site boss.
On Saturday, the OP got to work at 7 am.
After all, the 30 minutes that they had to make up for would be done by then.
Luckily, the OP didnt face any serious consequences for their trick.
They only got lectured over not staying overtime to help their coworkers at the start of next week.
The funny thing is that a few weeks later, the policy was scrapped.
He agreed to share his insight about this topic.
He said that a persons obligation to work overtime might vary depending on the particular jurisdiction.
Any time that exceeds agreed working hours counts as overtime.
And an employee must be paid an overtime rate for it.
For example, in Lithuania, overtime must be paid at least 1.5 times of the employees remuneration.
The 40-hour work week requirement is not exactly a new concept.
It waspopularizedback in 1926 by Henry Ford.
Ford said that he would pay each worker $5 per eight-hour day.
That was nearly double what the average auto worker was making at the time.
This jot down of pay and work hour distribution boosted productivity among workers.
People online cheered the OP on for such a bold move, which abolished such an absurd policy.
A lot of them questioned the logic behind the people who came up with it.
Nice one, OP: folks online were positively surprised by the OPs boldness
