'My job took away our chairs': New manager reprimands employees, makes them stand for full eight hour shifts

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Aug 13, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

It should be required to permit sitting down when needed for any and all jobs. Let's just get that out of the way first. Most corporate employees do not understand the concept of what it means to be on your feet for eight hours at a time with minimal to no breaks. In this case, we have employees at a gift-wrapping store who only really needed to be standing when they were actively working with customers. That requirement is understandable. However, requiring employees to stand the entire time, especially when there are no customers in sight, is ridiculous and borderline unsafe. How do you expect employees to interact well with customers when they're physically exhausted from having to stand for no good reason?

This Redditor explained that a former coworker with serious back problems was able to negotiate chairs for everyone once upon a time. However, after that coworker left, management at the store changed and the new boss felt that employees were abusing this privilege and should be using downtime between customers to reorganize and restock. OP made it clear that employees were already doing those things; there is only so much to reorganize and restock in a gift-wrapping store. Still, the manager would not budge and moved forward with his plan to remove any and all chairs.

Keep scrolling below to see how the Redditor and folks in the comments section responded to this ruthless act. When you're finished, here is another story about the downfall of a manager who did not allow employees to discuss wages.

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