Boss insists employee stay late for no reason, employee gets paid overtime to do nothing: 'There was literally nothing left for me to do'

It should not be revelatory that the number of hours one spends at the office is completely separate from the amount of work one completes. Productivity and efficiency are relative to the individual worker, and there is something to be said for leaving employees alone when it comes to how they get their work done, provided that no other team members are negatively impacted by their process.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/Fun-Pin9061, whose boss insisted that he stay late despite the fact that the employee already completed all of his tasks and responsibilities. However, instead of arguing with his boss, the employee decided to mess with this rule a little. After all, if he was staying after hours, he was going to get paid overtime. And if he had to stay late for "optics" rather than due to an actual work issue, he might as well get paid overtime to do absolutely nothing. So, he took out the book he had been meaning to read, stocked up on the office free snacks, and got paid extra to barely pretend he was working at all. 

Keep scrolling below to see what happened when his boss found out. For more stories like this, here is another one about three overworked employees who all quit and left their company in shambles.