Staying Ahead Of The Game
I used to work for a company that had flex hours. You could work all you want, but no overtime. So I would work four 10-hour days and then take three-day weekends.
That lasted for about two months before my employer made a rule that we had to be there five days a week, for stupid reasons I didn’t like. I still figured out a way to game his system. Then I used to come in at 4 am to avoid traffic, skip lunch, and leave at noon.
Nobody noticed for about six months but they figured out I was not coming back after lunch and changed the policy so I could not come to work until 8 am. I still found out how to defy them. I started working lots of extra time, banked up my flex time, and saved up about 430 hours by October.
I was informed by HR that I could not roll it over in the new year, so I scheduled a 12-week vacation. They made a new rule over that too. When we all had to work from home, I figured out I could do a side gig, so I got a second work-from-home job and worked both until I got caught, and they laid me off.
After that there was a new rule. I just like hacking the systems they set up. They were so difficult to work for that I wanted to figure out a way to make it work for me. Story credit: Reddit / Phat3lvis