What would you do if your workplace took away your chairs?

If you’ve ever worked retail or in the service industry, you know how exhausting it is to work on your feet all day. You know just how tired you get after a day of working non-stop on your feet. You wish you could just sit down for a time, and you wonder why you can’t. Especially as a cashier. Nobody loses out if you’re sitting down, plus you’ll have more energy to bring to your shift. Good managers realize this, and prioritize their employees’ happiness over something as trivial as «appearances.» Not this manager, though, in a story that was shared to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. Appearances aren’t everything. They’re just ways for people to control what’s happening while making the lives of their employees worse. So often, managers make decisions that affect their employees negatively without thinking of the consequences. They’re thinking about the bottom line and how things look to their boss, and not considering the real-life consequences of their policies and regulations. Employees have to let them know what it’s really like for the feedback to truly go the other way. But there’s a power imbalance here that shouldn’t go unnoticed. It’s hard for employees to truly speak their minds, for fear of retaliation. You don’t want to go off too hard and end up in a situation that you didn’t want to be in. That’s why these employees took matters into their own hands.