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I made the mistake of davening for the amud at a minyan that prided itself on never ending after 6:25 (I didn’t know this tidbit when I agreed to daven for the amud). I got many “hurry ups” and “nus” during pesukei dizimra, and the volume and intensity of the comments really picked up after barchu. I walked away from the amud in the middle of birchas krias shma. Nobody wanted to go to the amud. They asked, and practically pleaded but I refused unless they wouldnt try and hurry me along. One guy literally jumped out of his seat and ran to the amud yelling “no, let me, we have to be outta here by 6:25”.

In this same shul (at a later minyan) I once witnessed someone pull $50 from his wallet and offer it to the shliach tzibbur if he would repeat uva litzion as fast as he did the first time, but out loud for everyone to hear. The rav of this shul once made someone who got an aliya repeat the bracha at least 5 times, until he said it slowly and said every word (I was embarressed for the oleh who couldn’t figure out the rav wanted him to say every word – I heard such a chumra exists 🙂 – until the rav spelled it out for him). In short, if you are not comfortable davening for the amud, for whatever reason,don’t. The minyan will do just fine without you.