Breakfasting workers get back at their authoritative boss by working scheduled hours: ' You have to be here at your desks at that time'

Managing is something that is best done in a careful and calculated manner with lots of planning and moving pieces over a measured period of time; not with emotionally fueled outbursts and snap decisions intended to assert your authority or to beat your subordinates into submission. Yet, still, there are plenty of people (and plenty of managers) out there who have something to prove, a chip on their shoulder, or just lack emotional maturity. This creates even more situations where workers are the targets of their superior's emotional decision-making.

In this case, this manager blew his top after he was embarrassed to find that his team wasn't present in the office when he went to pull someone into a morning meeting. The thing is, if he had planned ahead or paid attention he would have known that his team frequently took more relaxed morning meetings at the cafe down the street, giving the overworked team time to decompress from their busy roles and plan the next necessary steps in a more casual environment. 

The boss's outburst led to a confrontation with the team which, in turn, led to him making a dramatic decree that workers were to spend their contracted hours at their desks. The noticeably upset team complied, giving up on the hours of unpaid overtime that they had been working and crashing productivity, leading to their boss silently backing down.