An office manager was criticized for punishing late employees.

While punctuality is important in the workplace, the one-minute delay penalty seems rather extreme.

The offending poster reads: “New office rule: for every minute you are late for work, you will have to work for 10 minutes after 6pm.

“For example, if you arrive at 10:02, you will have to stay another 20 minutes until 18:20. Thank you.”

On Reddit, a poster showing the “new office rule” went viral and garnered a lot of criticism.

One employee captioned the picture: “Scream the worst place I’ve ever worked (minimum wage of course).”



The boss was criticized for the extreme office rule that punishes staff who are 1 minute late

The post garnered over 70,300 likes and thousands of comments, many of them critical of the boss.

One interviewee wrote: “This looks really silly and highly illegal.”

Another commented: “I would tell them to go fuck themselves.”

A third said: “Do you want to lose employees? Because that’s how employees get lost ”.

A quarter asked brazenly, “If you arrive at 9:58, can you leave at 5:40?”

And another advised: “Be an hour late and make him follow this rule, then take advantage of overtime.”

However, a minority supported the leader and accepted the harsh punishment.

A Reddit user noted: “Honestly, it’s so easy to be on time … like. I get to work 10 minutes early.”

And another agreed: “What if I’m on time? Stop whining. “

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