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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Alarmed-Grass569 on 2025-07-03 01:59:46+00:00.

I work at a call center and my manager Brenda is obsessed with our “time theft.” She monitors everything and questions any time we’re not at our desks. Last month she started making people clock out for bathroom breaks longer than 5 minutes.

This policy is ridiculous because sometimes you can’t control how long bathroom breaks take. Plus it’s degrading to have to explain why you were in the bathroom for 7 minutes instead of 5. But Brenda insisted it was company policy.

I decided to follow her logic to its natural conclusion. If we’re being that precise about time tracking, then I should document every single minute I’m working. So I started keeping detailed logs of everything.

I log when I arrive (usually 5 minutes early), when I take my mandated 15 minute breaks (I take exactly 15 minutes now), when I help coworkers with questions, when I stay late to finish calls, everything.

Last week I presented Brenda with my time logs showing I worked 2.3 hours of unpaid overtime in the past month. I explained that since we’re tracking time so precisely for bathroom breaks, I wanted to make sure the company was also tracking all the extra time I work.

She tried to dismiss it but I had everything documented. Dates, times, what I was doing, witnesses for when I helped coworkers. I told her that if bathroom breaks are time theft, then unpaid overtime should be compensation theft.

Now she’s backtracking on the bathroom break policy because she doesn’t want to deal with everyone documenting their unpaid overtime. Sometimes you have to follow stupid policies to their logical extreme.