Some bosses will literally hurt their own business before paying their employees what they’re owed, and this redditor’s story is a perfect example. When u/Longjumping_Bad9555 requested compensation for working sixty hours of overtime, their manager refused, arguing that the hours hadn’t been authorized prior to the request. The thing is, OP was a reporter for a newspaper—the sort of high-paced job that doesn’t often come with enough downtime to put in an OT request while chasing a news story. So instead, OP decided to work exactly 40 hours per week. The boss didn’t like that one bit.