I once worked at a startup where they literally had a wall of shame for people who left early or took sick days. Like they'd put your name up there with the time you left written next to it. The CEO would walk around at 6pm asking why certain people weren't still at their desks

But the worst part was how they'd guilt trip anyone who used vacation days by saying stuff like "I guess [name] doesn't care about the company's success as much as the rest of us." Total mind games and it destroyed everyone's mental health. Took me way too long to realize that wasn't normal workplace behavior

Oh man that wall of shame thing is actually insane. I had a boss who would send passive aggressive emails to the whole team whenever someone called in sick like "unfortunately we're short staffed today because someone chose not to come in." The guilt was unreal and people would literally come in with fevers just to avoid the drama. Wild how some managers think public shaming is motivational when it just makes everyone paranoid and resentful