'I'm cracking up at the audacity': Workers collaborate to humiliate boss in front of CEO after he takes away their lunch break

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 8, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

This boss was left with an embarrassing predicament, but he has no one to blame but himself.

Employees who aren't hungry are better workers, that's just a fact. You probably know the feeling of skipping breakfast and feeling groggy all morning, only to wake up after your lunch break and power through the rest of your day. When you're hungry, you can get headaches or wooziness, which isn't going to help you focus on your work. If all you can do is daydream about hamburgers, you're not going to be giving 110% at your job. 

So why do so many bosses and companies throw mealtimes to the wayside? Instead of letting their employees have a half hour or so to eat a meal, chat with their coworkers, or just enjoy some down time, they insist on working their poor employees to the bone. They treat them like they aren't humans who need to eat three times per day! Then they wonder why their workers aren't loyal to them… Check out this delicious tale of malicious compliance down below to read the story for yourself. 

Up next, have a laugh at the really ridiculous reasons people gave for calling out of work, like one worker who was "in the middle of a miniseries and just could not stop watching."

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    meeting counts as lunch break? Alrighty then. So we have this big company wide meeting every year where the ceo comes in and discusses profit margins, raises, plans for the future, etc. It lasts about an hour, sometimes more.
    via u/zorggalacticus
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    Meanwhile, our work gets backed up while we are stuck sitting in this meeting and we always end up working overtime. Well this year the boss in our department says that the meeting counts as our lunch break. I give my coworker the look, we glance around. Seems everyone is in
    via u/zorggalacticus
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    silent agreement. We all show up to the meeting with our lunch boxes and proceed to casually eat lunch at the corporate meeting. All 60 of us from our department. The ceo stops his spiel after a few minutes, our supervisor claims ignorance. I speak up and say boss said this counts as our lunch, and I'm not
    via u/zorggalacticus
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    skipping my lunch. Boss tries to deny having said that. Ceo asks who can verify this and everyone raises their hand. Guess who got an official reprimand from the ceo himself? One more of those and boss is out the door.
    via u/zorggalacticus
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    Dropdeadfredb I'm cracking up at the audacity of someone who would try to lie in front of 60 people who can call him out on it.
    via u/Dropdeadfredb
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    MrPicklePop My old boss used to buy us lunch during the all hands meeting
    via u/MrPicklePop
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    Stabbmaster Did he honestly think all 60 people would simply take that lying down? That no one would say or do anything?
    via u/Stabbmaster
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    throwaway47138 I kinda understand why the boss thought he could get away with the initial statement about the meeting being lunch. But when all 60 people showed up with their lunch and started eating it, I don't get how he could possibly thing that these people who were already calling him on his BS
    via u/throwaway47138
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    wouldn't call him out for lying about it in front of the CEO. Does he think that if he just keeps shoveling the BS over and over they're eventually going to accept it?
    via u/throwaway47138
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    EchoGecko795 One more of those and boss is out the door. Something tells me that this is not his first
    via u/EchoGecko795
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    gsxreatr02 Dang, I'm union and boss came into break room while I was eating lunch trying to talk work, i explained that I'm contractually required to take a 30 minute uninterrupted break and if she wants to discuss work it will reset my break. She said it would only take a minute. I sat there on my phone for 30 more minutes.
    via u/gsxreatr02
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    grauenwolf If I was the CEO, I would have fired the boss. Once your employees start lying. to you, there's no going back.
    via u/grauenwolf
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    AnotherHuman23 Wait, so you are forced to attend the meeting? That sounds like paid time, not lunch- unless lunch is to be provided at said meeting. Any manager foolish enough to cross the lines this far really needs to be dressed down in epic style.
    via u/AnotherHuman23

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