'The majority of the staff quit within months': Boss tries to make employees start work 20 minutes early, workers retaliate and make a pact to arrive early every shift and hang out together in their cars

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Isabella Penn
Nov 13, 2023 10:00 AM EST

Don't you just love a good coworker bond over a common hatred that you can just spend all shift gossiping with and feeling validated for it? Me too. Whether it's a boss, a coworker, sports, anything. Nothing beats those special bonds that make work a little less miserable. Well, in this story, these coworkers became besties over their shared hatred of their new boss. They used to always show up early for work, but then, their boss started forcing them to work the second they stepped foot in the door. Didn't matter if they weren't on the clock yet--they were there, so that meant they had to work.

This group of employees decided to create a Resistance against their demanding boss, as the OP puts it. A Resistance that even carried on for years after the OP stopped working there. Keep reading to find out about their evil devise. 

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    Posted by u/DragonFireKitten 11 hours ago 2 Tell me to work when I'm not on the clock, and just happen to be in the building? How about instead I organize the staff into a low-key Resistance that last years after I left.
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    This will be a rather basic one, but it still warms my heart. I use to work in a trade shop run by a great Boss everyone got along great, except for one of the department heads. Let's call them "Bee".
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    For reasons unrelated to this story, the Boss decided to sell the shop to Bee, and in the wake, the majority of the staff quits within months leaving us under staffed. I naïvely decided to "stick it out" and assumed that Bee would hire people to fill the empty positions, they don't. We go from a 15-
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    person trade shop down a 5 person within a year, and that includes the 6 people who turned over. One of the many issues that developed (and there were many) was Bee's inability to schedule, or think through
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    actions to the end, and plan ahead. While I worked there (the 2 years with Boss) I often came in 10-15 mins early due to the nature of my commute. I'd come in, unload my stuff, make some coffee, small talk with my co-workers,
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    shoot the s with my Boss, but we never really started "work" until everyone's scheduled start time. When Bee took over, the moment you stepped into the stop, Bee immediately started to bark orders at you regardless if
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    you where in the building 15 - 20 mins early. (Mostly it's because Bee was in a rush to get something done they just remembered) When I (the now most senior, person left at the shop from the old regime) would point out we
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    technically weren't on the clock yet for another 15-20mins and I want to make coffee, Bee would just snap at you, telling to do it now because "so and so" is coming right at opening. So I started to wait in my car
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    (bring in my coffee from home), and would only walk in the door as the last minute was changing. I was technically never late to work, and was ready to work the moment I stepped through the door. I don't know if Bee caught
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    on, but the rest of my staff did and followed suit (since I told them too). For the remaining months I lasted there, all my co- workers would still often show up early to work, but all wait in the vehicles (at some point one of them had a mini van and we
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    all party in there) and go in as a group. Anytime a new person joined (because someone walked off) we would also warn them of what would happen. It's been several years since I worked there, I do not know any of the current staff beside Bee. I
    via u/DragonFireKitten
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    happened to be doing an on-site install near by at the time that shop would open in the and looked over into the parking lot in front of the shop. Like clockwork, a minute before the shop was scheduled to open, about 6 people got out of their vehicles and headed in.
    via u/DragonFireKitten
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    I may not work there, but it's nice to see my Resistance still exists.
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    HMS_Slartibartfast 10 hr. ago When you get a chance, stop by about 10 minutes before the place opens. Bring snacks and introduce yourself! Share your experience with B. Bonus points if you can hire any of them away!
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    TheGingerAbides 8 hr. ago That's so petty...and I love it
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    chaingun_samurai · 9 hr. ago Yeah. There's no way. The minute I got told to do stuff like that, I'd go out to my car and made sure he saw
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    Lay-ZFair 11 hr. ago Viva la résistance!
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    HouseNumb3rs 9 hr. ago The Force is with you, Luke.
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