Duh, they’re butthurt they fucked up, but also who cares if they’re sympathetic?

If you want to keep the job, you should.

Look, if this works for OP and others, great. More power to them. But the reality is that, in most situations this isn’t going to end up with the whole office applauding you for gaming the system and ‘sticking it to the man’ all whilst your manager looks on dispondantly from the background. It’s going to result in a lot of uncomfortable discussions with HR and you potentially losing your job, or at the very least be given a writen warning. If that’s not a problem then great.