‘You can't sit down’: Owner throws out all chairs in store so employees can't sit down during break time, owner keeps one chair for himself, refuses to let employees sit on it

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the owner of this store decided that his situation was deserving of frantic action. OP explained how he walked into work one day, only to find all the chairs were missing. Apparently, the owner had decided to throw them all out in order to make sure that employees were standing during break time. Yes, during their break. OP found one available chair at the back of the store with a sign stuck on it, 'not for employee use'. OP was astounded, as the owner had not communicated that he had any issues with the employees up until that point, and OP found it an incredibly passive-aggressive way to deal with conflict.

When OP asked the owner why he had decided to remove all the chairs, the owner explained that he had done so in order to 'increase productivity during break time', which is absolutely absurd, because the whole point of recess is so you can rest. The owner had an old school attitude but was too afraid to bring it up with the employees.

Redditors were more livid than OP himself, and began to give advice that OP may or may not take to heart. Scroll down to read what happened next. For more, here is an employee who found out they were getting fired after stumbling upon a job listing with their exact role, then realized that they were getting fired.

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