Company demands employees come on a weekend to pack and move the entire office instead of hiring movers: ‘No overtime, just pizza afterwards’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 8, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

What more can they take?

This company is moving offices, and management decided they don't want to "waste" money on movers when they have perfectly capable employees who can do the job for them. Which is why they asked everyone to come to the office during the weekend and get to work. Now, the first question anyone who hears of this would ask is, are they going to pay anyone for the weekend overtime or the manual labor? And the unfortunely obvious answer is, only if you consider pizza at the end of the day "payment". Even though the company wanted everyone to know that no one is forced to help, they made it clear that management is definitely going to keep track of who is going to be there on the weekend and thus remember those who helped during performance reviews.

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  • My company is asking us to come in on a weekend to move the entire office instead of hiring movers

    Our office is moving two floors down in the same building next month. Management sent an email saying they want
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  • everyone to come in during the weekend and help move monitors, chairs, boxes and small furniture so the company can "keep relocation costs reasonable."
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  • People moving boxes out of an office.
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    People moving boxes out of an office.

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  • They're calling it a team effort. No overtime, no extra day off. Just pizza afterward.
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  • Manager said that nobody is being "forced" but they'll remember who helped when performance reviews come around.
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  • Funnily enough, here at Cheezburger, our company is also moving offices next week. We've been working from the same office for the past three years, and it's time for a physical change. But if you think anyone has been asked to come to the office over the weekend to help with the move, you could not be more wrong.

    On the contrary, all the employees have actually been told to work from home on the day of the move, so that the movers can actually do their jobs without us getting in the way. So, this Tuesday, we are all going to pack our personal belongings in a box, leave it in the office, and work from home on Wednesday. By Thursday, we are expected to arrive at the new offices, and all the office supplies will be waiting for us there. 

    No one is expected to help the company “keep relocation costs reasonable,” it's truly none of our business. And to do so on our free, personal time? That is the point where employees should stand up for themselves and simply refuse to cooperate with these demands.

  • I'm already giving them five days of my week. I'm not donating the rest because they don't want to pay movers.
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  • The funniest part is we're a company that constantly talks about respecting people's personal time.
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    Carton Boxes In Empty Office.

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  • SumgaisPens If you are not on the clock that's a workman's comp nightmare for the company
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  • Krynn71 I wouldn't go. They'll remember it during performance reviews, but only as an excuse to give you
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  • a bad review and low/no pay bump. If you do go, they will simply have to come up with another excuse to give you a low/no pay bump.
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  • The fun thing about performance reviews is that it rarely ever actually matters what your performance was like, and it all comes down to how much they like you.
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  • And when it comes to pay it matters even less, since they're going to use every excuse in the book to keep you as low as they possibly can.
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  • Super_Drewper If all the employees agree with each other not to show up, what are they gonna do?
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  • VinylHighway How does liability work? "Sorry I have a wedding that day" or "Sorry no"
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  • Dinos67 Have them put it in writing that not working unpaid will have ramifications against your employment.
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  • As chronically online as we are, when reading this tale, we can't help but feel like this is a classic episode of The Office. Although that show was hilarious, we all know that Michael Scott was a toxic boss who ran an office none of us would have wanted to work at. That place was an HR nightmare, with so many workplace violations in each new episode. Sure, it was a funny sitcom, but as an actual office? Hard pass.

    Michael Scott is definitely the kind of person who would come up with the brilliant idea of saving money on movers by forcing employees to come to the office on a weekend and do the job themselves. Hopefully, for the employees in this very real scenario, they will not stay employed by a boss like that for long, will do the smart thing, and look for another job.

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