Employee is forced by management to clock out earlier than she should, as she’s not doing anything, when she complained: ‘They respond with “No, I’ll fire you.” I ended up clocking out early because I didn’t want to take the risk.’ – FAIL Blog

If you HAVE to be there, then you NEED to get paid

I hate when managers threaten employees with getting fired after every little issue. I don’t think that should be allowed at all. It’s disrespectful, and it creates a toxic workspace environment where the employee complies with ANYTHING because they are afraid of being unemployed. If the only way you can say an order as a manager and make sure it’s complied with by an employee is by threatening to fire them, maybe you aren’t a good enough leader to be a boss.

I always have a lot of bad things to say about bosses. I hate when they micromanage, when they mistreat the employees, and especially when they threaten to fire them all the time. Here we have those three in just the story below. The boss was micromanaging to see if this employee was working till the last second of her shift. It was a couple of minutes before closing. She was allowed to have been finished for the day. Then it was the mistreatment and the threat of firing. These two appeared together when the manager decided that a great response to the employee saying that if she has to stay for a little more, she will just clock out as soon as she needs to go was to say: “No, I’ll fire you”.

I think a good leader wouldn’t do things like this. And I also think the employee should do something about it. Whether it is talking to human resources or to a higher authority of the company. But this kind of behavior shouldn’t be tolerable for anybody, and acting like this makes you an incapable boss. What would you do if you were in this situation? I would definitely reach out to somebody, and if nothing changed, I would consider resigning. There’s probably a better job where employees don’t have to put up with incapable managers like this.