My former colleague was laid off and came up with a set of legal but infuriating tricks that make HR tremble.

On the day he was laid off, HR asked him to sign a resignation agreement, he glanced at the terms and said, "I'll think about it."
After returning home, he printed out all his overtime records, leave requests, and group messages tagged with @ over the past three years, bound them into a thick volume, comparable to a master's thesis.
The next day, he went to the company, didn’t cause a scene or argue, placed the bound overtime records on HR’s desk, and said something that silenced the entire office: I don’t want compensation, I want to take leave.
HR was stunned and said, you’re already resigned, you can’t take leave.
He pulled out Article 44 of the Labor Law, pointed to a section, and said: If an employee works on rest days and cannot be given compensatory leave, they shall be paid no less than 200% of their wages.
He said this law means that taking leave is the first choice, overtime pay is secondary.
You never asked me if I wanted leave, you just paid me overtime.
Now I want leave.
I’ve calculated that over three years, I’ve accumulated 1,200 hours of overtime, equivalent to 150 workdays.
From now until this time next year, I won’t resign, I will take leave.
My salary will continue to be paid, and social insurance contributions will be maintained.
HR’s face turned pale.
The legal department spent three days reviewing the labor law and found that what he said was actually valid.
In the end, the company paid him a sum of money and signed a confidentiality agreement.
He used this money to open a studio that specializes in helping laid-off employees calculate their overtime.
At the studio entrance, there’s a sign: You’re not laid off, you just haven’t finished your leave yet.
Last month, a young person who was laid off asked him, saying the company threatened him, saying if he dared to file for arbitration, they would make it impossible for him to stay in this industry.
He told him to let them threaten, then handed over a copy of his bound overtime records, saying: What you hold now isn’t just a record of overtime, it’s a leave application form.
You’re not fighting them — you’re telling them that the law has given you a path they never told you about.
Later, he closed the studio, not because he had no business, but because too many people came to find him, and he started to suffer from insomnia.
He said that the last page of every overtime record was always replied to at 3 a.m. with the word “Received” from the same person.
He said he knew who that person was — he used to be that person too.
When he stabbed that knife in, he realized his own artery was also cut.