It didn’t take long to convince the higher-ups to backtrack on their decision and do what they always did—”buy” the vacation time from the employee and everyone winsReddit user u/PandorasPenguin recently shared a bit of malicious compliance on their part. A long story made short is that OP wanted to trade in their abundance of vacation days for an appropriately extra salary.
All fine and dandy, except this also meant that the company would no longer be able to bill one of their clients, with whom OP worked, 100% of the work they did, as they would now do 80% as one of five work days would be gone. And that meant 20% income. When the simple solution would be to just pay OP their vacation days and have them continue working 100% with loads of vacation time left over from the next year’s reservoir.
Whatever the case, 7,900 upvotes later, the story started making rounds in the Reddit community. Speaking of which, you can read it all in context