Probably, I've been in a similar situation. Closers had to wait til the manger unlocked the front door to let you out at the end of the night. I wouldn't clock out, and others started to also. Wed sit there on the clock waiting for the managers then go punch out.

Also, they got pissed we were working an extra half hour or so to cleanup or sit at the gate, so when my shift was over, I clocked out and stopped working, even if I wasn't done. You don't schedule me til 9pm, then bitch I needed half an hour to cleanup and finish since the fucking door was open with customers til 9pm.

Fucking hated retail. Everyone after high school should work mandatory 1 year of retail or 2 years of military. Would curb a lot of this holier than thou narcissism bullshit really quick and have people treating each other with more respect.

i was still happy to hear about it

Erm ackshually that's not really a valid application of hanlon's razor because the entities being referred to as stupid or malicious are two separate beings

If the boss wanted everyone lunching at once, I assume that's probably when they would take their own lunch, so they would have just closed the office for that hour.

OP sees the malicious compliance as a "chad" move, hence the use of Giga Chad meme.

That's the Chad meme guy.

jesse what the fuck are you on about

Sorry but giga chad doesnt come with noodle arms and a pouch :/

Edit:
Just for you I created this:

This should reflect the avergae idea of your office worker way better.

Ok Karen.

Eh... I'm of a "that happened" mindset. Maybe it's just me, but I have a hard time believing even a moronic manager couldn't have foreseen the problem with this edict.

Engagement bait.

Might not be, could just be an accidental markup that they didn't notice. I've definitely made little stray marks like while editing a picture.

To trigger people like you?

Honestly, depending on what it is, if the rules suck then it’s the rules’ problem.

At my last job I was told that they didn’t do overtime but I could bank hours. At some point they said that the spirit of it was that I could use those hours on the same project, not really to make up for missed time during the whole month. But see, overtime hours are always loaded towards the end of a project which would just mean I’d be giving them free labour when I was already not paid that well. I kept track of my extra hours and used them all the time to make up for missing whatever and while I don’t feel at all bad I’m sure their thought is that I was cheating their stupid, shitty system.

If managers and executives want to get paid so much money for being so smart then you’d think they’d be intelligent enough to do create decent rules. But we all know that they’re not so here we are.

I would say that is not a decent boss then. At least, not for that employee.

If a worker is making their colleagues unhappy by being an ass, management should be willing to take appropriate action.

I inherited some workers with bad attitudes when a company I was at merged two teams. On paper it was impossible to fire them, so I wasted so much time trying to get them to fit in. After a year I gave up and went to HR who was like, "oh yeah no problem we'll let them go". I didn't even think that was possible, based on our management training, but it turns out that since their shit attitudes and associated shit performance were well documented it wasn't a problem. We just paid them severance and off they went.

I was worried about the impact on the other employees, but everyone was happy to see them go.

I talked to one of them months later and he actually thanked me. It turned out that he was unhappy with the job but unable to get motivation to move on. He ended up at Greenpeace for a while; I don't know how long he stayed there... we were not friends. 😅

This is a good example of what kind of person wants to become a manager, but actually makes the worst manager.

Somebody who believes that their ideas are always right, but never actually thinks them through. Somebody who believes that their position as a manager is proof that they are better than their subordinates.

Damn, I haven't thought about Wayside School in years. Those books were my jam!

I often feel bosses do not think a lot about what improvement any decision of theirs would create