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Rūta Zumbrickaitė

Person Realizes Company’s Strict Work-From-Office Rules Might Actually Come In Handy

If you’re told to work overtime for no extra pay, you should either run for the hills or use your big brain to teach your toxic company a lesson. You can learn a lot about a company’s values, brand priorities, and management’s view of staff by looking at its overtime culture and WFH/WFO policy.

One brilliant employee went viral online by sharing how he used a toxic company’s extremely strict work from office rules to protect himself from unpaid overtime and burnout. Keep scrolling to find out how he did it, how management reacted to his move, and what the internet had to say about it.

Being stuck in a toxic workplace is something we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemies. However, you are not powerless

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