Imagine working from home but having your boss look at you the entire time. It kind of beats the purpose of remote work, doesn't it? Those days offer employees some freedom to fulfill their responsibilities at their own pace and under their own preferred conditions. Having your manager on Zoom monitoring your progress during your entire work day is no different than having them breathe down your neck in the office.
This employee worked for a startup and helped build it from the ground up. Things were going swimmingly until the new manager started scheduling unnecessary meetings and progress began to slow. Instead of recognizing that these meetings were part of the problem, the new manager decided to combat this issue by enforcing 14-hour Zoom calls. Yes, 14 hours. What kind of policy is that and how on earth is that allowed?
Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the subsequent consequences as this Redditor and his fellow coworkers prepared to jump ship. For more content like this, check out this post about a warehouse employee's petty revenge.
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