Power-tripping boss forces employees to wait up to 20 minutes after their shift to get their bags checked

Certain companies have a knack for treating their employees in embarrassing and dehumanizing ways—toxic policies ensuring that you hate every second you spend on their premises. Checking bags and searching for personal belongings is one of these policies. There's no reason for it unless you're dealing with high-security clearance. Why are you so worried that an employee is going to steal a pair of sneakers that were produced at literal slave wages?

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Posted by Brad Dickson

There's nothing worse than constant insinuation and accusations that you and your peers are stealing from the business. Even if one of two hundred employees are stealing, from a purely logical standpoint, why jeopardize the morale, happiness, and well-being of the remaining 199?

How could you possibly make a policy like a bag search worse? How about having your employees wait around for twenty minutes after their search (unpaid) to have the search completed as part of some weird power trip?

That was what this user alleges was taking place in a story that they shared to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, sparking discussion about unpaid time at work along with bag searches as a whole.

It's safe to say that a community like r/antiwork wasn't stoked about the practice. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.