As we’ve seen during the pandemic, retail workers are essential. According to NCSL, 1 out of 10 domestic workers in the US works in the retail industry. So it should be a given that retail employees get adequate pay and have generally decent working conditions. A schedule that makes sense can be one example of those conditions.
The OP of this story came into a job in which the situation was the opposite. The management wanted their bookkeepers to be unhappy and overworked for some reason. Well aware of their rights, the user Honest_Star7348 took this as an opportunity to teach the entitled management a lesson. They shared their malicious compliance story with the Internet in an attempt to encourage other retail workers to stand up for their rights.