The managers would regularly make people clock out (or "helpfully" do it for them) at the store closing time, and then make everyone stick around for another half-hour or more cleaning up. When I told the manager that I was leaving at 9, or staying on the clock, I got a lot of pressure and talk about teamwork and the unfairness of making other employees work even longer. Being a bit naive, and liking my coworkers, this even worked a few times, but I got fed up and went back to my earlier request. I thought they'd just fire me, but I think they decided that since I wasn't actually dependent on the job, and was a fairly dependable employee (and since having a smart teenager aggrieved at you when you're skirting labor laws was asking for trouble) they started letting me go at closing, which of course made it look like I was getting some sort of special treatment to everyone else.
One of the women that worked there was really nice, really talented, and so good with the customers that she drove a ton of repeat business into the store (customers would specifically ask for her, and if she wasn't available, they would find out when she would be back to get their work done.) Any sensible manager would have bent over backwards to keep an employee like that happy, but our jackass manager had her so keyed up with stress that she might lose her job that she worked dozens of unpaid hours every month. And then when she finally had enough, and found a better job, he tried going through her friends to guilt her into coming back. That place was goddamn infuriating, but it was good motivation for getting a good education.
I have a friend who had a job once where his employer was constantly trying to pay him in barter. As in "Say, thanks for repairing those accordions, how about I give you this pallet of blue jeans as payment?"
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