Five whole hours of unpaid time, in the morning no less.
Why not make it twenty, thirty or even more.
Without some pushback, those five hours a month can multiply quite quickly.
Since we all live in an imperfect world, this worker did the next best thing, protest.
If every employee refuses to back down, managers become a lot less able to push folks around.
They were on time and the manager seems to have had no other complaints.
Similarly, they themselves stated that they didnt actually need to be there to set up in any way.
This would mean that, inevitably, they show up late.
If this worker was actually causing issues, this request would be in order.
However, its simply not the case.
The results, unfortunately, tend to be the same, unproductive, scared and burnt out employees.
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