'The most expensive phone calls on the planet': Hourly contractor makes thousands of extra dollars after bosses force them to answer the phones

You can ignore a contract all you want, but that doesn't stop the contract from existing. It's a pitfall that many a worker has fallen into… and a few bosses have had this problem too, especially u/Altrissa's boss at an oil and gas automation company. 

At this job, many of the coworkers had one shared responsibility. They had to take turns working a 24/7 phone line. This usually wasn't an issue, because as the original poster shared, there were so many people that they only had to answer the phone every once in a blue moon. Easy! Well, almost easy… This person usually wasn't put on phone-answering duty, but in a tale as old as time, their reliable boss left and a new manager appeared in the role. From there, things went downhill. 

A new manager who won't listen to the current employees can be such a pain. They want to prove that they're the smartest person in the room, but by refusing to listen to those with experience, they're proving the exact opposite. 

Up next, this construction worker tried to warn his boss that a rain storm was brewing, but his boss wouldn't let him move anything, and the result was… "The concrete bags… began to harden into just big rocks."