‘”No OT! No exceptions!”. Sure thing boss man’: New manager bans all overtime, leading to understaffed production lines, losing $120,000 in a day, and gets fired only three months into job – FAIL Blog

The fantasy that planning replaces people is why plants stall, why teams burn out, and why bosses with slogans last a quarter, not a year. Good leadership prices risk, buys slack, and understands that overtime is not indulgence but insurance. It is cheaper to pay time and a half than to pay for nothing, and cheaper to build a bench than to outsource blame. Policies should survive contact with Mondays. If they can’t, they’re not policies, they’re press releases. In the end the line restarts, the calls go out, the OT flows, and the lesson arrives in the only language budget respects: don’t right a ship by drilling holes in the hull.