Boss Sharon insists that employee Ryan make up 3 minutes of work: 'This would legit be enough of a reason for me to quit'

How dare this employee leave at 4:57 PM, leaving his workplace short 3 minutes of work?

Micromanaging bosses are a dime a dozen. They sure love to worry about how employees are spending their time!

Although the remote-work lifestyle was popular for a while, bosses now are demanding that employees return to the office.

They seem to think that employees who wake up early, do a grueling commute, eat leftovers for lunch, and sit in the office until the sun goes down, are somehow more productive than employees who work remote, doing everything on their own terms. Remote workers are more productive, and they're a lot happier, but bosses feel a lack of control over these employees.

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Watching the clock

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Thanks for this helpful notice, Sharon! I'm sure those 15 minutes you spent writing out this email were totally productive. You could've been doing anything else in the entire world. But instead, you're targeting an employee who's taken a measly 3 minutes from the company.
Sharon's a real gem, isn't she? No focus on workplace performance, or what Ryan brings to the office each day, or how he's been interacting with his team. Only the type of strictness usually reserved for minimum wage jobs that require you to clock in with precision.
This is an interesting look at workplace culture, too. I genuinely think that with this level of smarmy scrutiny that Ryan could bring some kind of HR case for himself. Is she acting like this for every employee, or is she singling him out? He could insist that every employee get the same treatment, and see how things shake out from there. I just can't imagine she's clock-watching this hard for every employee.
It would also be very funny if Ryan replied all to her email with a public apology for those 3 minutes wasted. There are a lot of possibilities here, and most of them result in Sharon's humiliation.
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Time to get strict

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Fair is fair!

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Let's hope Ryan decides to go with this method!

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Sharon will have to eat her words… especially if Ryan lets other workers know about this. He should send the screenshot in a Slack groupchat and let the roasting session begin.
Everyone knows that once like 3 or 4 PM hits, productivity hits a slump

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People get tired! After doing most of their work already, they're sleepy by the mid-afternoon. Even with a strong coffee as a pick-me-up, a lot of folks just spend their late afternoon hours scrolling mindlessly through their inboxes or pretending to work on their projects.
10 years of remote work would do a soul good!

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