My job has this really funny rule when it comes to overtime. I work at a hospital and at times we are all too busy to be able to take a break. Our job mandatorily takes said break from our shift regardless. When I asked my boss about this his response was “Ask my boss.” So I did and he told me that missed breaks would be handled by taking either an “hour lunch” the next day or leaving 30 minutes early.
My boss has made a whole shift leave 15 minutes early one day and then 30 minutes the next on the dot because we stayed for a combative patient who was actively trying to assault nurses.
The kicker was having my buddy show up to a shift a couple hours early promising him OT and after he worked the shift was told he needed to leave an hour early every other day of the week to compensate for the hours he came in because they didn’t want to pay OT for new workers.
It must be said that unless you’re actively sucking the boss’s dick or have your nose shoved so far up his ass you’re tickling his intestines you aren’t allowed OT even when threatened to “come in or face consequences”