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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/cynical-mage on 2025-06-27 13:34:39+00:00.
This was back about 8yrs ago when I worked for the big green store in the UK. We were going through a belt tightening period; sales were down, no recruitment to replace leavers, ie circling the drain right before we parted ways with shmallshmart ahem. I'd been sent onto nights to evaluate and fix them. Came in for 10pm for shift start, and immediately got collared by my line manager who I had a mutual loathing going on with. He rants at me that I have to cut hours, pick a colleague, he doesn't care who, and send them home.
I have a little think about it, and pull in my three little minions. I explain the demands, but I also tell them that I think this is massively unfair, expecting one person to lose an entire shift. So I said that we'd all go home 2hrs early; that'd give them the 'saved' 8hrs, we'd still manage to get most tasks done, and who wouldn't be happy finishing early, right? So that's what we did.
Next evening, store manager pulls me in, asks me wtf happened? Morning crew turned up and we were all gone, and had to pull the AM delivery into the chiller by themselves. So I told him, told him my reasoning.
Turns out that the night team wasn't meant to be part of where the hours were cut. Seems Mr line manager was trying to hit two birds with one stone; free up hours for his shift, and also get me in trouble for failing my tasks. What actually happened was that my minions pulled together in solidarity, we nailed our shit, and by all being gone the following morning, we drew full attention to the shenanigans. We got apologies, and he got in trouble.