‘Chairs Quietly Came Back Monday’ — Manager Bans Cashier Stools, Employees Maliciously Comply With ‘Fatigue Breaks’
I have never understood the argument that cashiers should have to stand the whole shift. It has always seemed like one of those rules that exists purely to look a certain way rather than actually accomplish anything. The chairs were not there by accident. They were there because standing on a hard floor for eight hours is brutal on your body and a cashier who is not in pain is a cashier who can actually do their job. But sure. Professional appearance.
Anyway. A Reddit user shared this malicious compliance story about a new manager who decided the stools had to go because cashiers sitting down looked lazy. What happened next was two weeks of pure beautiful disaster, a corporate visit, and four empty registers during peak hours.
These things have a way of working themselves out. Sometimes the hard way.
1. “Manager banned chairs during shifts so everyone started taking ‘fatigue breaks'”
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Sometimes the best response to a bad rule is not to break it but to follow it so enthusiastically that everyone involved regrets it ever existed. That is exactly what happened here.
5. The Internet Has Thoughts On Managers Who Make Their Cashiers Stand All Day
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