The author of the post once worked at a company where they had hourly work before they got salaried
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One of the problems the employee also faced was that they had to work odd hours but the HR system documented almost every action
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So there always were lots of senseless HR reports on the author, which their supervisor also got sick and tired of
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One day the boss just threw it out to the author that they didn’t want to see these anymore
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So the employee pretended they took it literally, went to the HR and told them the boss had ordered verbatim to stop sending reports on them
The whole problem was that the author of the post was hourly but should have been salary, and moreover, the specifics of their work implied having to work odd hours. However, the employee, like all their colleagues, was expected to clock in at 8am, leave at no less than 5pm, and have their lunch at a pre-defined time, despite the very nature of their work meaning that the schedule should definitely be flexible.
The supervisor was pleased with the results of the OP’s work, but what annoyed the boss were the regular reports from HR that the subordinate had once again allegedly “violated the working regime.” The reports were as regular as they were absolutely useless at the same time. In general, one fine day, the supervisor, deleting the next report, angrily told the author: “I don’t want to see these anymore!”
And that’s where the original poster came into play. Obviously, a clever plan came into their head, so they swore to the boss that they would not see any more reports starting from that moment. Next, the employee went straight to the HR department and bluntly stated that their supervisor had ordered verbatim for HR to no longer send them any reports. No sooner said than done, the HR guys turned off the option to send reports on the OP – after all, they themselves were tired of this completely senseless exercise.
What follows is one solid happy ending. The higher-ups, as promised, never again received HR reports on the original poster’s work schedule, regularly praised them for good results, and in one of their personal conversations with a colleague many months later, that guy suggested that the boss did not mean exactly what the author did. To this, however, the OP had their own answer – wide-open surprised eyes and demonstrative confidence that they had done everything right. Well, this kind of policy has brought success to many people long before the original poster, and will bring it to many more people long after them…
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“Such situations often happen when two mutually exclusive things collide – corporate rules and work necessity,” says Nick Pruchkovsky, aQA engineer at SeaRates.com, with whomBored Pandagot in touch for a comment on this particular case. “Ideally, of course, it would be to change the rules to suit the changed reality, but often corporate processes are so bureaucratic that it is incredibly difficult and takes a lot of time.”
“Most likely, the hero of this story nevertheless violated several points of corporate rules, but technically it was done almost flawlessly. After all, I have not yet seen a job description item that would regulate the order: ‘I don’t want to see this again!’ All in all, it’s a little trick that didn’t really hurt anyone, but brought a lot more benefits, both for individual employees and for the company as a whole,” Nick reasons.
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