My boss started tracking our bathroom breaks with a spreadsheet last quarter

Morale has completely tanked since then, and three people on my team have already quit. Has anyone else's manager tried this kind of micromanaging?

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lilyb271mo ago

My last boss timed our coffee runs. He'd stand by the Keurig with a stopwatch app and make notes if you took longer than two minutes. It created such a weird, tense vibe that our best salesperson left for a less insane competitor. Tracking bathroom breaks is a whole new level of awful.

adam_butler381mo ago

That "weird, tense vibe" is how so many places kill morale.

the_faith5d ago

Three weeks in at my old call center job, the manager put a sign-in sheet next to the restroom with a column for "reason for visit." I had a kidney infection and had to go like every 45 minutes. He pulled me into his office and said I was costing the company $3.47 an hour in lost productivity. I quit the next day and found out later that three other people from my team did the same thing within a month.