‘Does he just want us all to quit?’: Boss enforces mandatory two-hour stand-up meeting at 8:00 am every day, worker rebels

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    Boss wants us to have an everyday, mandatory morning. Does he just want us all to quit? I simply cannot think of a faster way to make everyone quit. He wants us to meet TWO HOURS EARLY at 8am and make us stand (no chairs to sit because that's for 'lazy' workers!) through a meeting about how our sales are. We had the first one today.
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    It was just him saying how the store hit the twenty million dollar goal this year. That's cool, but we're still being paid 17 an hour. Glad the CEO is doing well.
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    My coworkers and I were just expressionless and exhausted by the whole thing. Tell me, what's an even faster way to make us to quit? I'll give him some recommendations!
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    EDIT: Yes, he's paying. This was the first day he did this. I am almost certain this idea of his will fall through, but fun to complain about. Yes, I am finding a new job, there were other things leading up to my departure but this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm overwhelmed by comments on here so I'm going to mute this, but thank you for the mutual hatred of this idea! My coworkers were not hating it as much as me and I felt insane.
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    Temporary-Earth9110 8 hr. ago You had to be there two hours early to stand and listen to how well the CEO is doing? Holy Does that two hours count as over time? Because if you work 8 hour shifts 5 days a week that's 10 hours of overtime every week or are they letting you off work 2 hours earlier? Either way I bet once they pay everyone there the overtime or let them leave two hours early those meetings will shut their selves down. 1.0k Reply Share
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    TShara_Q. 6 hr. ago Somehow the people who do this don't like to make it paid. Gee, I wonder why. But if it's not paid, OP has no need to show up. Everyone should clock in when they get there for the meeting. 485 Reply Share
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    FactualStatue. 8 hr. ago (edit this) "If the company's making sooooo much money, shouldn't we reinvest into the company by increasing the pay for all employees?" 545 ↓ Reply Share
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    soundofthecolorblue. 7 hr. ago shouldn't we reinvest into the company by Buying chairs? 260 Reply Share
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    froman321 Bruh they took away our chairs too ea 6 hr. ago
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    g skillz 7930 7 hr. ago "Stand-up meetings" is one of the recent buzz words that make my eyeballs itch. Dumb to begin with but I think the general principle is everyone is supposed to stay standing to keep them short and limited to important info. TWO HOURS definitely would not qualify. 213 Reply Share
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    fighttodie 8 hr. ago Holy this is every morning? Sounds like he's trying to make a name for himself and can't think of a good way how 207 Reply Share
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    PokingCactus. 7 hr. ago Well he sure is making a name for himself, that part has worked Imao
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    Difficulty Plane - 7 hr. ago As long as you're getting paid for the extra time, just grin and bear it. He'll eventually realize they're not worth the extra time and money.
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    Tom-o-matic. 6 hr. ago Ooooor he will be confused as how they are now making less of a return on the dollar and go on a witch hunt to catch lazy employees. Effectively punishing them for his time waste. If that doesnt work out he can always claim that young people and their morale is making it impossible to run a business
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    EatLard 7 hr. ago Someone read a business book last week that suggested this and had the bright idea to try it.
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    Particular_Ad_4927. 8 hr. ago Worked for a company (IT) that wanted morning stand ups to plan everyone's daily workload and tasks. It worked for a while but became a nuisance as the day never went as planned.
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    Jicand 6 hr. ago That but I'd take the 10 hours of overtime every week. If you're not clocking in that is wage theft

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