Boss schedules daily end-of-day meetings, new hire discovers they're unpaid and quietly leads office-wide rebellion just by leaving at 5 p.m.: 'All it took was one person'

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  • "My manager always called for a 20-minute team meeting after work. Unpaid. So, I finally had enough"

    BTW, this is not in America, so US labor laws. don't apply here. This was a small team of 10 people that the manager was assigned to. Myself included. I was the
  • last person to be hired on the team. Everybody was my "senpai". And on the first day I worked there, they called a team meeting after work. We log off our computers at 4:55 PM, go to the
  • meeting room, and we clocked out at 5:15 PM. Every day like clock work. I said, "no problem. That's an extra 2 and half hours on the biweekly paycheck. And we didn't have to do any actual work except listen?"
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  • When my first pay day came, I saw my full 80 hours, but the extra 2.5 hours were nowhere to be found. So I asked a couple of the guys if they only got paid 80 hours. too. They all confirmed it.
  • We were not getting paid for these meetings. The shift ends and once again the manager called for the daily team meeting and to log off at 4:55 PM then head to the meeting room. I do so.
  • And so I sit there for 5 minutes. As soon as it hit 5:00 PM. I get up and say, I need to be somewhere important (with everyone's eyes on me), the manager says "OK", I leave the room, clock out and go home.
  • The next day, I do the same. And again and again. The manager never stops me. Then the manager pulls me to the side one day and asks what's this "important thing" that I need to get
  • to after work every day. And I tell him it's a personal matter and he leaves it at that. Pretty soon. It catches on. The other guys start leaving right after me.
  • And eventually, within a matter of days of me starting to leave at 5, everyone else started doing it too. The manager started scheduling the meetings for 4:40 PM. All it took was one person to not take this sh anymore.
  • Tremenda-Carucha I'm going to h_l for this, but those unpaid meetings somehow gave me an excuse to justify ditching work early and beating traffic.
  • CoderJoe1 Sounds like it turned into a successful meeting.
  • Sooowasthinking I once had a job that needed overtime.Never been a fan of OT whatsoever.I put a very high value on my personal free time.
  • So I got sick of it and decided that I would no longer participate.So every day 5:30 I start clocking out
  • Boss pulls me to the side 1 day and asks me why I'm leaving "early". I respond with I have other things to do after work.He wanted to know what these things were.
  • I told him it's really none of your business but it's called NOT BEING AT WORK and I don't want or need OT.
  • Tilda Tinker Manager: Lunch and learn meeting! Me: Are you providing lunch?
  • Manager: Ah, no. Me: Then I ain't learning.
  • HeydrichSS3 You did the right thing. That cr p would not fly here. I had a manager once who used to think it
  • was acceptable to hold meetings during lunch where you are allowed to eat while attending. He could not get it through his head that his lunch
  • meeting and an actual lunch break were not the same thing and that I would still be taking my 30 minutes when the meeting was over.
  • delulu4drama Mess with my $$$?? I'll mess with your meeting $ $
  • Bunny_Bixler99 I have to preface with / had already secured another job and given notice
  • "Emergency" meeting announced as we clocked out and we're heading to the exits. I kept going. 15 minutes later my supervisor sends me a text asking where I was. Sent her a selfie from the bus taking me home

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