Hot take: my manager's "flexible Fridays" were just unpaid overtime with a nicer name
For 8 months I stayed late every Friday because my manager at the Denver office said we had to "wrap the week right." Nobody ever wrote it down. Then I added up my extra hours and it came to 96 hours, around $2,400 if they had paid me. The thing that tipped me off was a new hire who left at 4pm sharp and got a great review anyway. So was I the idiot for staying, and how do I bring this up without sounding like I'm keeping score?