'We played chicken and won': Startup employees rise up against CEO's new office hours

The new CEO of a startup had a brilliant idea: why not make every employee work from 9 AM to 6 PM with no exceptions? 

There are benefits to working hourly and for working salaried. With hourly jobs, you better make sure you're on time, down to the second. Lots of retail or restaurant jobs depend on their workers being there on the dot, and there are consequences for clocking in too late or too early. But the good side to that is that when you clock out, you're done. Many places literally won't let you do a single thing while clocked out. 

Salaried positions on the other hand have their benefits and their drawbacks, and your happiness as an employee will depend on how cool your boss is. Maybe you have the type of boss who doesn't mind how long you work, so long as all your emails get sent and all your clients are smiling. Others take advantage of it: they'll want you to work late all the time or start early a few days per week, and you can't really say no. 

This boss doesn't seem to have much appreciation for the hard work his employees do. Instead of having pride in their jobs and solving problems as they came up, the employees were pushed to work a solid 9 hour day, no exceptions. Well, they found a way to push back! Check out u/deqb's story below. Then, sneak a peek at some perilous pickup trucks and messed up Mustangs that probably shouldn't be driving anywhere.