My Dad worked for 31 years at a railroad company. When he retired, the plaque he was given to commemorate his years of employment had the wrong name on it.
The RR was all I could think about this whole vid. Unfortunately they would've known his employee id number. Even on a local level no one knows who you are unless you have almost 10years of service...unless your known for screwing up lol. Sorry about you father. Godbless
happened to me with Allied Universal, I recruited (unfortunately and may they forgive me) 15 people 5 of which had security clearances. the company did these things to me.. 1: they never paid out on the promotion for a $2000 bonus for referring a clearance holder. so $10,000 for the 5 heads I gave them. (there was also a long dispute with the office in regards to this) 2: I was given a plaque with the wrong name on it..the plaque said Daniel...my name is Tom 3: the Allied President of National accounts kept calling me Timothy or Tim...which I guess is closer to Tom... 4:I was given a $100 starbucks gift card but no money loaded onto it... glad I left that hell hole but now I deal with them as a contracted service for my new company and its so weird that they get my name correct now. (since i'm a paying client)
@@chris_the_5th lol had a friend that did transport for the RR and some of the stories about driving 12 hours somewhere to be told to drive 12 hours home so you can pick someone else up with no real rest in between is crazy.
@@zancrus9629 I hear ya man...PTI/Halcon and other "drivers" get shafted hard as well. Hopefully your buddy has found other employment. The RR doesn't care about us...only warm bodies to move freight and keep shareholders fed. "Labor does not correlate with profit"...or however they worded their statement LOL. Godbless
We only work the OT to provide better for our family. They may know we worked alot but they never went without. It's either me and noodles every night, or healthy nutritious dinners every night and me sometimes.
I thought I was doing something wrong when I got a job where my boss actually gave a shit about me. I kept thinking he was checking in on me cause he thought I was fucking up or something and he was lying when he told me I was doing a good job lol. That’s how much a bad boss can fuck you up.
It’s a truly unique situation when you find one. I found mine when I wasn’t looking. I was just having a conversation with some folks, and one of them took an interest in me. Turned out he was a manager in a field I never tried before. Asked me if I would take a risk and try something new. He’s done everything within his power to help me transition to the new role smoothly, helped me move across the country, and even refunded any costs we had with moving. Has an open door policy, and let me take as much time as I needed when having a family emergency. Then after that let me work from home for a few weeks to get back in the rhythm. They exist, but often times you find them when you don’t need them. The boss I worked for previously was nothing but a screaming match, where nothing was ever good enough. So to switch from that to this new job, was some serious whiplash.
Never kill yourself for a job that will replace you and move on in a week. I worked with a guy that had never missed a shift, well one night he didn't show up or call so they marked him absent. After the third missed shift and not answering calls the manager was just going to terminate his employment under grounds of "abandonment of employment." Thankfully someone suggested doing a wellness check and actually going around to check on him. They found the guy dead in his apartment sitting slumped in his chair, we were told he had suffered a stroke. The way the manager was bad-mouthing an employee, who was an amazing worker, and the callous way he was so quick to fire the guy without a single concern for his well-being became a core memory for me and a definite life lesson on how much I was willing to sacrifice for a job. That's why I feel sorry for those shortsighted worker drones that make the same hack joke "Oh you work 40 hours a week? I remember my first part-time job." Yeah because when I'm on my deathbed, surrounded by family and friends, I'm going to think to myself "Gee I wish I spent more time at work to make the company's shareholders a larger profit."
Man I know a guy so dedicated he didn't want to take off when his dad died. Give back vacation hr every year for just not taking them. He is nothing more than a low level boss with a city public works job. There not as easily replaced than a city worker. He really thinks everything would stop if he wasn't there.
Yep when I first started at my job I was working 15 hour shifts everyday, 6 days a week. And sometimes working those shifts made it difficult for me to get up at the time they wanted me to (they wanted me to get up at 3am or 6am after working from that time to 9 or 10pm at night) so one day one of my coworkers told me they were badmouthing me saying I was "unreliable" because I'd be 2 minutes late or so because I was so tired from the amount of work they had me doing. I said "ok" and I stopped accepting extra work and since then I've been on time. Now they need to beg people to come in on their days off to help them out. But if they'd appreciate the employees who work hard they wouldn't have to.
I never understood why people say you should spend more time at work. Why? If you're spending all your time at work what is the point? You have no time to actually enjoy the fruits of your labor. You're just a worker bee. People say "oh it'll go to your retirement" all those people are supposed to be retired. By the time I'm ready to retire prices would've gone up so high everything I've worked for would be useless. And that's assuming that you don't die before you come to retirement age. So all that time you miss out on rest, relaxation and life experiences (starting a family, vacation time, seeing the world, etc.) Just so you can make the CEO and your managers more money so they can do all those things. I mean, the CEO has enough time to start 3 families with women who don't know each other and I have no time to start one?
Of course they will, these people ain’t shit….I used too do above and beyond trying too impress people but now I just go in, I simply do what I need too and then go home. Basically I came up with this from a friend of mine show up, shut up and leave it’s called SSAL for short.
Boss man can only think of so many things at one time. It'll settle in about a week later. Then he'll figure out a way to make the rest of the employees to pay for it even though they guy is dead.
Well I mean, to be fair, John *was* making 42.50/hr working on the dock for 29 hours a day, 7 days a week which would be 203 hours a week so that's 163 hours of OT per week at 63.75, and that's not even *beginning* to get into all the shift differential he's be getting for 3rd shift, weekends, holiday pay... The man was making at least $12,000 every week before taxes. Edit right after posting: I am aware I'm reading way too far into a joke skit, just want to clarify that. Just had flashbacks from looking back at my math to the guy saying he could drive thousands of miles in a day...
I had a coworker who was not happy with our employer. She had a heart attack in the parking lot and died. The whole thing was treated like yep that stuff just happens. I was just 20. She was in her fifties. Her mobile home had burned down a year before. I felt so bad for her and family.
Had a nice boss 5 years ago, pre covid, die from the Flu because she refused to stay home. She was a hard worder and never took sick days. Literally saw her at work the day before she died. She was only in her 50s. After she got off work, she passed out in her bathroom and died of dehydration. She worked at that exact grocery store for over 10 years.
@@t.h.8475 No job is worth your life ever in my opinion. Life is to be enjoyed, we must struggle of course but you will get nothing if you put others over yourself especially companies. They aren't your friends or families, you make the obligation to work there for the given amount of pay and that's it at the end of the day. Company doesn't really care if you're there for 1 month or 30 years.
Shit, maybe. My lead passed away last year. Worked for the company for 26 years, and died before he could retire. They sent out an email, because ever since Covid, the company kitchen has been closed and we are still on staggered lunches so only half the shift gets lunch at any one time.
Every time I see a video where he has to say, "My name's Marshall, by the way," I'm consumed with incoherent rage that covers up the heartbreak. Fucking brutal.
@@Thalanox Oh, sweetie, I know how youtube works, and I know how shitty bosses like this work. I've lived it multiple times, military and civilian. Go back to your basement. And I'm not a guy. 🙄
You know the worst part? He's going to spend the rest of his life lamenting "kids not wanting to work" for expecting $42.50 performance from $12.50 pay.
Don't listen to this guy overtime Is where the money is at. If ur single and straight out of high-school work some overtime and listen to audio books during that time.
@MichaelPinkerton ur laughing, but I'm 28. I started reading about investing and real-estate and all sort of nonfiction, I began investing in the stock market in 2014 at 20 and dumped 25 percent of my paycheck into stocks. Read Elon musks book and bought a shit Ton of Tesla that was my biggest win. Rent was only 500 dollars a month at the time and I was making 25 bucks an hour with many 70 hour weeks, I worked and tried to be the best and got many promotions and job bumps. Ended up at an easy ass job that paid well just was alot of overtime. I made a killing and now I'm 28 and retired. Just still reading and trying to learn obout other ways to invest my money. If I didn't work all that overtime I wouldn't be where I'm at today.
Worked with a guy who new the building inside and out. Was one of the first hires when it was built. Hired and fired so many supervisors in the 3 years I was there. Finally promoted him after the last supe quit and was fired 6 months later. Bill never stood a chance.
@@ReformedSooner24 That's why I love where I work. The owner is an authentically nice guy that knows everyone. Stuff like that goes farther than people realize.
@@leifanderson3487same here. Found a good place run by family. Runs tight as a watch, but all the employees are loose and relaxed as can be. You find a place that understands the value of its laborers (and especially its tradesmen) and you’ve truly made it.
When I was an apprentice we had a guy like this in our yard. His face was literally the company logo. When he passed away the company found out he had no family. Company paid for a funeral and cremation. His urn still sits on the wall at the yard office.
Fighting for wars and going to the military is the same as dying or putting your life endanger for corporations being they are the one's who benefit... USA is a corporation too but that a completely different story for another day
@@BigBearBloo Exactly! I'm 44 years-old and have a wife and two children aged 17 and 15 and I work 60-70 hours a week to pay the bills and yeah, my wife bitches about it and so do my kids but I don't care because I have to put food on the table. And yes this has led to many problems such as my wife cheating on me a few times and my children getting into trouble at school but I do what I have to do because my wife only works 40 hours a week so I have to pull the weight. Honestly, I love working though and would rather be at work than be at home. The first thing I do when I get home after work is grab a few beers and then I go watch tv after eating dinner and go to sleep. Yes, my wife and I only have sex maybe once a month or two as well which sucks but I've been dating one of my female co-workers on the side and she puts out so I'm not getting blue balls or anything. My female co-worker kind of sleeps around with most of the guys at work because she likes to see everyone happy and it helps with morale. Men have always been the providers and women have always been there to satisfy men's sexual needs so it's a fair trade. Sometimes I think about just divorcing my wife and letting her have the kids because I don't know them anyways and they are almost on their own anyways. She likes her male friend who she sleeps with behind my back anyways and even though she tells me she would be faithful if I would spend more time around her and our kids I honestly don't care at this point. I have a nice truck to pay off and we could always sell the house and split the money and both of us could get a small place and move on with our lives. Women just don't understand that work is life and without work you are homeless then they bitch about you not being there.
My grandpa worked for a trucking company for almost twenty years. Had gotten really sick half way through his route and said he couldn’t drive the way back. Company said it was unacceptable and forced him to drive. He made it 1/2 way back and rolled the semi. Found out in the hospital he had a infection from an earlier work accident that worked it way into the brain giving him a tumor. It took him three weeks of recovery and went back to work. Past his physical and fired anyways. Took them to court and won. After three years since, he found out from a co-worker that they were told he had a heart attack. So they were surprised he was still working. The company hasn’t been able to replace him because he did more work than his colleagues. New hires quit after their first few weeks. Sorry for the long story, tried to shorten it.
jeez louise. so glad he won. i hope the pay was incredible and i hope the company went under for severe malpractice. unacceptable to treat a dedicated employee like that.
I have a coworker who was this guy at a different company. Basically the warehouse manager, kept downtimes to a minimum, loved by employees and customers alike, and still canned a few months before retirement by the new management, also botching his pay as well. The shop has practically fallen apart since then, and the place I am working at scooped him up almost as soon as he was fired. Still crushing the inventory, and we are doing good
@geddon436 Realestate, worked construction for years broke my leg on a job, and the boss didn't care. Went to work as paralegal boss didn't care. Now I'm a broker in charge we help people buy/sell and property management.
I worked for Ashley Furniture for 7 years and three people died in the plant over that time. Every time it was surreal that all they did was have 1 minute of "silence" for the person. Then it was business as usual
There’s 1 million stories like this. My mother retired after 29 years of teaching. I got her a job at my company. They moved everybody out of that office except for her. She would call corporate weekly, asking them to give her more stuff to do because she was bored. One day a manager shows up and fires her because she went to the bathroom without any floor coverage. ((AGAIN ONLY PERSON IN THE WHOLE BUILDING.)) she died a couple of years later, and they had me working the day after her death. They had me working the day of her funeral. Thank God I made it in time that afternoon. They didn’t even send any fucking flowers.!!!!! Was back at work the next day like nothing happened. And I had to fight with them to get her last paycheck.
@@morzinbo in Europe, they work to live.. in America we live to work,,, you’re not wrong,,, it’s a stupid American thing that we’ve got to change as a society!!!! That and it kept me from drinking that morning 🤣 HAHAHA!!!!
I worked for a food service company for almost six years, until a guy who had been working for them for almost thirty dies, they did not even send flowers to his funeral. I left that job that week and never worked for others again.
Just asked the boss for a raise considering I've been there 4 years and run circles around everyone. I got a long speech about how the company needs to pinch pennies because of inflation. Then they hire 2 more employees so terrible that it's costing more money to fix their mistakes. Absolute scum
Most companies make excuses, I’ve seen places use the excuse of other companies cutting benefits and pay so they have to too. The thing is they were profitable in the billions and they were just looking for any excuse to rip off employees.
My advice: start looking around for another option. That place will rake you over the coals until you’ve nothing left to give, all while not giving you another rusty cent. Good jobs still exist. You just gotta find ‘em.
Fun fact, the first time the US ever used aircraft delivered bombs was on striking miners on behalf of the factory owners. Your boss is not your friend, and that is especially important to remember in Labor
I had co-workers wonder why they kept getting turned down for promotions while being too important to production . You would think working hard for a company while 80% of the staff slacking is a sure thing for moving up, but noticed how incompetent your manger is? You know how he got there.
@@destroya3303 "Every man for himself" mentality is exactly what creates emoloyers like this. Profits over community, and the result is destruction of the middle class. And elites wonder why birth rates are plummeting.
When you find a employer that actually cares and knows the time and effort you put in and just shows genuine appreciation. Stay there. Don’t ever leave the place.
I'm so glad I work for a locally owned HVAC company with an awesome owner. We have a team of about 30 people and the owner takes care of us all. I worked for a publicly traded company in the past and it was horrible.
@@nealcassady1189 I have a 6% company match on 401k. A great relationship with the owner and more pay than I could get from any other HVAC company in 75 miles. Bonuses, commission, etc.
I've been at the C-level for nearly a decade and at the VP level for more than 15 years... if many of you knew the proportion of sociopathy in corporations today - yeah, I know you THINK you know it, but you don't - it would blow your mind. Funniest part, its the guys or gals that you like, who are almost undoubtedly screwing you and your peers the most when you're not in the room. Long story short, most of my peers and horrific people, yet the workers don't seem to mind as long as they say nice things to their face.
Sounds like my workplace. I don't trust or like anyone. Once I hear you talk mess about someone else behind their back in my presence I know you'll do the same to me
This is why I do not, and never will work corporate. Trade life all the way, making stuff for good folks who are more interested in taking care of the shop instead of their profit margins.
@deeohen8344 I can confirm everything that you said. I was one of just 2 System Admin/Engineers for my company's headquarters and got to interact with C-level and VP level Execs intimately since we built all their corporate systems and would often be invited to internal meetings. The Execs that were the friendliest, most outgoing, and just fun to be around in general to your face would stab you in the back the literal second they thought it would benefit them or you were no longer useful. The people that had to work overtime during the pandemic were given 5$ gift cards while they all stayed home and collected large bonuses for a profitable year. They fired a guy for having a part time job after refusing to give him a raise. Just crazy stuff.
My mom put 20 years into running a grocery store where they wouldn'y give her the title of manager and had some guy come in from another store to "check" on her work twice a week. For her 20 years they gave her 2 PLASTIC wine cups from the store shelves. That thought me a lesson about company loyalty. What a joke. My Dad threw a celebration the day my mom retired and didn't invite a single person from management. If any of them showed up I'm sure my Dad would have punched them in the face.
Dude work for Exxon for 40-plus years. He was proud he worked for Exxon. Never missed a day of work. He was buried in his Exxon uniform. He wanted his funeral procession to go through the Exxon plant.... They said fuck no.
For real man… I went around to all the grocery stores in retail outlet locations in my metro area and I asked all the employees do you get overtime? And without fail 10 out of 10 times they all say no. When we were in an inflationary And the company they’re working for is making record profits for that inflationary period Somehow.. then without fail there is only five cashiers to one bagger ratio every time the baggers have to be on Adderall just to keep up and again without fail. In every instance like this, you can just turn your head 45° and see the manager with his hands in his pockets, not doing anything or helping bag with or help beleaguered crew by authorizing more overtime from the employees. He clearly cut way too early because corporate demands he run a skeleton crew. Just because it’s feasible doesn’t mean that it’s efficient. Not only that the government was already subsidizing. Most of these grocery store employees grocers every month already before inflation. Now, during inflation, they won’t give any overtime and entitlement programs are getting cut. Grocery store employees are literally having to ask the government to pay for their groceries that is so asinine to me. And every time they always tell me “oh we have a union” but what the fuck does it do then?.. clearly it’s easier to pay off a couple mfers at the top of the union than it is to adequately just pay your workforce enough to buy their own grocers… AT THEIR GROCER STORE LIKE WTF LOL
For real man… I went around to all the grocery stores in retail outlet locations in my metro area and I asked all the employees do you get overtime? And without fail 10 out of 10 times they all say no. When we were in an inflationary And the company they’re working for is making record profits for that inflationary period Somehow.. then without fail there is only five cashiers to one bagger ratio every time the baggers have to be on Adderall just to keep up and again without fail. In every instance like this, you can just turn your head 45° and see the manager with his hands in his pockets, not doing anything or helping bag with or help beleaguered crew by authorizing more overtime from the employees. He clearly cut way too early because corporate demands he run a skeleton crew. Just because it’s feasible doesn’t mean that it’s efficient. Not only that the government was already subsidizing. Most of these grocery store employees grocers every month already before inflation. Now, during inflation, they won’t give any overtime and entitlement programs are getting cut. Grocery store employees are literally having to ask the government to pay for their groceries that is so asinine to me. And every time they always tell me “oh we have a union” but what the fuck does it do then?.. clearly it’s easier to pay off a couple mfers at the top of the union than it is to adequately just pay your workforce enough to buy their own grocers… AT THEIR GROCER STORE LIKE WTF LOL
Employers have been complaining about "nobody wanting to work anymore" forever. There are news articles from the 1800's saying this. People want to work they just want to be paid properly and treated like a human being.
That's the sad reality. Friends and family will remember you when you die. But if you die on the job, they'd have a job listing for your replacement within the week.
I know this is meant to be satire but this is the sad truth. At my previous employer we had ab employee who worked for the company for 52 years & was retiring. Did the company throw a celebration & give him a big check in front of everyone? No. They literally threw him a pizza party & let him go first in line. It's one of the reasons I quit. Why would anyone work for an employer that doesn't give a sh*t about you?
I loved and surprised that the first thing he noticed in that conversation was that it was a lot of overtime, but not knowing who it was. They're usually on point with that.
This actually happened with my former asst manager during Covid I guess it aggravated some he ask for time off they said no home boy never asked for time off because he started coughing up blood he said fine he left his keys and quit on the spot passed away a week or so later and we got word he was fired a month after he passed for no call no show yeah then they wouldn’t give any time off to those of us who worked under him for 3+ years for his funeral or wake or just to gather ourselves he was my friend the one who got me the job I knew his family his daughter before I worked there I wasn’t happy
@@OneBiasedOpinion Take me about 2 seconds to read what he wrote, just because there aint no commas or punctuations does not make it hard to read. Sorry to hear about your friend, its a shame when people get neglected in any shape or form for their duty.
Worked a industrial manufacturing job for over 21+ years was good at what I did. Gave my 2 week notice when they were going to force me to work 4th of July, which was clearly stated in writing in the contract that was a paid holiday! Leaving the job was top 5 best decision of my life. # I'll never go back
After working blue collar for years, finally getting a degree in something useful and making good money, hearing the boss lower the pay from ~$40 an hour all the way to $12 is absolute rage fuel.
all that money with nothing to do with it. I understand working 50+ hours for finances or temporary unexpected bills, but you're whole life? You might as well have been working for food, water, and shelter at your job.
My dad worked for the company that I’m also apart of, for 42 years. When he retired 2 years ago, he didn’t even get so much as a “thank you”. It still pisses him off to this day.
had a guy die on the job back in january during my shift...He was in maintenance and the machine crushed him while he was working on it. I was there doing chest compressions and getting the AED until the para medics arrived but not much could be done, he was gone instantly. My job canceled work for the next 2 weeks, we all attended his wake. Rest in peace Andy. It makes me sad knowing that there are people like that in management that have essentially given up their humanity for the company. I recently won a bid for the next shift supervisor position, I pray I never become like that.
at least your company treated you like people and didn't force you to work. i read on this comments where somebodys mom died during the shift and company didn't let him to go to her funeral or wake...
Never! I do not and will not live to work!! I work to live and make memories with the kids. I used to skip breaks and lunch for years to make sure I was far and away the most productive worker in the place! But all that got me was let go after a week of only 90+% productivity instead of my usual 135 to 140% from a slipped disc in my lower back. "If you can't be the worker we know you are, we don't have any use for you"
This struck a chord with me. I am retired now, but I worked with a guy - ironically, named John, who also worked on the dock at our manufacturing plant. He also worked well over thirty years at the company, and he ALSO worked a TON of overtime. Literally twelve hours, Monday through Friday, and minimum six or seven on Saturdays. He was a wonderful, wonderful man and he was well liked and loved. He had his entire retirement planned out, as he and I would talk all the time about it, and he was going to retire at sixty three and live in happiness, and with a VERY, VERY impressive retirement account(s). Then one Tuesday morning three years ago, right after break time he went outside to water some flowers that he always planted each spring in the area where the picnic tables were. No one noticed that he hadn't come back to his desk because the others in the area were busy and had their own duties to perform. A half hour later a truck driver came in and said someone is lying in the grass outside. It was too late. At sixty one, and two years before retirement, John dropped dead at work. Moral of the story is you never know what the future holds, so don't go crazy chasing that dollar. We were all devastated and the company let everyone go home about an hour later because it was very traumatizing for everyone. John had a very full and happy life and had his toys, took his vacations and lived life to the fullest, so at least he genuinely loved his time off. The anniversary of his passing is only a few days away, and to this day, it breaks my heart.
I currently work with a co worker who works harder than anyone in the company, 3 years, makes 16.65 who is mad that us new hires started at 22.50. He complains about us and too us but we always tell him you're angry at yourself and the wrong people. Mind you, he is a really great worker from what I have seen. Don't be a slave or skip life events thinking the company will notice
This shows that the best worker, the hardest worker, isn’t the one that gets noticed or promoted. It’s all about who know and who you are friends with, that’s really all that matters today. I’ve seen the laziest people move up and I’ve seen that happen more times than the person that actually works the hardest or was the “best”.
I knew an employee who died in the line of duty as a security guard. His coworker didn't even know and there wasn't even a condolence email sent to the coworker or anything even though it made national news. The company didn't even help with funeral costs or arrangements.
This video definitely hits home. I had been at a company over 10 years, and was in a meeting that included the owner/CEO of the company. At one point, I mentioned another employee who had been there the same length of time as me. The owner/CEO asked who I was talking about, and I had to describe the other guy, and it still didn't ring a bell. The CEO was always in the office, in a company with around 30 full time employees, and had spoken face-to-face to this other guy multiple times, and still couldn't remember his name.
I keep preaching this to my coworkers. The company does not care about us at all. At all. At all. We are nothing more than a number to them. It's all about who likes you and whose ass you kiss. They expect us to work six days a week and get salty when we want to go home on time. They refuse to grasp that production workers have families as well. I've never regretted a single minute spent with my wife and kids. Family first.
I work for a small shop. At this point in time. The boss man literally has left from his home from Florida to go to Iowa just to wake up an employee, so he gets to work. So I don't work for companies like this.
My old man passed away in September of 2019. The company he worked for, his health insurance company, his 401K company, and his life insurance company all sent him Christmas Cards in the mail. I’m not even kidding.
I know the feeling all to well, except NEVER making that much income, or anywhere near that much. Busting ass at shitty jobs to hopefully climb that ladder to success in life and have a comfortable retirement. Never happened, always treated like shit and a slave. Seems like all these companies motto was "if you don't like it, there's the door", I took that door many times after recognizing that job was already a dead end. Always Low pay at minimum wage or barely above that, worthless benefits IF any at all. Barely making ends meet my entire life because of corporate GREED and too many inconsiderate assholes that only think of you as a number. Now going on 70, I had to stop working a few years ago due to back problems, collecting my SS and living 50% BELOW the poverty line in a 30 year old RV because I can't afford anything else. They say "life is what you make it". That's Total bullshit! Being the nice guy and going out of your way for everyone else for decades on end, hoping for a chance to succeed, hoping someone will see your potential and reward you for doing a great job, JUST ONCE! Never happened and I started working at 14 years old for 85 cents an hour. With our current economy and ALL the CORRUPT ASSHOLES causing it, It still feels like i'm making .85 cents an hour. LIFE SUCKS. IF I WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CROSSING THE BOARDER, I WOULD BE FINANCIALLY BETTER OFF THAN BUSTING MY ASS HERE FOR DECADES.
I seen something like this happen at a trucking company. Local driver died in the seat. Less than a hour later hoa dispatcher walked in the recurting office to just say post his job.
"Personal life's more important than job life. There's always another job around the corner, how you decide to utilize your own time is far more important that giving up your time for individuals/ people who don't care about your dedication, hard work/ work ethic, if they don't respect your time given to them, then move on."
I've always found it to be asinine that companies expect you to give a two weeks notice before you quit, & yet they can fire you on the spot. The economy is designed to create just smart enough work slaves who are Disciplined enough to be soldiers to defend the system.
@@BackyardClunkers77 I find that most the managers where I work want people who are either in debt or on a work visa. They are more willing to eat shit than those of us with no pressing financial obligations
The guy that's been working at a job for 35 years is also doing 75% of the work. Guaranteed he's got a lot of coattail riders collecting a free paycheck. Ask me how I know.
This video reminds us of the commitment and sacrifices made by employees like John Sanders. It's sad to see how a company can overlook the significant contributions of their own employees, even when they dedicate their entire lives to their work. John's story shows us how important it is to recognize and appreciate the hard work and dedication of individuals, even if they don't have high-profile positions. Let this video inspire us to change and acknowledge the names, stories, and impact of every employee. Rest in peace, John Sanders. Your memory will always be remembered.
My Dad worked for 31 years at a railroad company. When he retired, the plaque he was given to commemorate his years of employment had the wrong name on it.
The RR was all I could think about this whole vid. Unfortunately they would've known his employee id number. Even on a local level no one knows who you are unless you have almost 10years of service...unless your known for screwing up lol.
Sorry about you father.
Godbless
happened to me with Allied Universal, I recruited (unfortunately and may they forgive me) 15 people
5 of which had security clearances.
the company did these things to me..
1: they never paid out on the promotion for a $2000 bonus for referring a clearance holder. so $10,000 for the 5 heads I gave them. (there was also a long dispute with the office in regards to this)
2: I was given a plaque with the wrong name on it..the plaque said Daniel...my name is Tom
3: the Allied President of National accounts kept calling me Timothy or Tim...which I guess is closer to Tom...
4:I was given a $100 starbucks gift card but no money loaded onto it...
glad I left that hell hole but now I deal with them as a contracted service for my new company and its so weird that they get my name correct now. (since i'm a paying client)
Lol feels. Know that industry well
@@chris_the_5th lol had a friend that did transport for the RR and some of the stories about driving 12 hours somewhere to be told to drive 12 hours home so you can pick someone else up with no real rest in between is crazy.
@@zancrus9629 I hear ya man...PTI/Halcon and other "drivers" get shafted hard as well. Hopefully your buddy has found other employment. The RR doesn't care about us...only warm bodies to move freight and keep shareholders fed. "Labor does not correlate with profit"...or however they worded their statement LOL.
Godbless
I love how his reaction to John working 29 hours a day is, "Shit, that's alot of over time" LOL
$540,345 a year in overtime pay
@@jonathanmarois9009 thanks, accounting department
@@jonathanmarois9009 What was your math on this?
@@jonathanmarois9009 39 years too. what the heck was he using for? Did he have 400 kids' worth of child support?
@@galenjones9529 guy became the coke like jim lahey became the liquor. Ironically he only used to keep up with work.
*John Sanders* made _$628,745_ a year.
_$88,400_ in base salary + _$540,345_ in overtime wages...
Working 7 days a week 29 hours a day...
Take home 2k a week after tax.
All the money he saved by sleeping at work and not commuting or paying for a house
@@Null4eva He even put the company as his primary beneficiary!
@@jonathanmarois9009 "$42.50 a hr, he did us a favor! ".... I would have given him the pee hard hat for that 😅
This one hits hard... 36 years down the road, the only people that will remember all your overtime is your kids. Family first, folks ✌️❤️
That’s what it’s all about❤
Man. Thats the truth
We only work the OT to provide better for our family. They may know we worked alot but they never went without. It's either me and noodles every night, or healthy nutritious dinners every night and me sometimes.
Realest shit I’ve ever read online! Didn’t realize that until I had a family. Much respect
No one says on their death bed, "I wish I worked more" or I wish I had given more to the company".
I’ve worked for companies like this. It almost feels like you’re in the matrix when you find a job where they actually care about you.
I thought I was doing something wrong when I got a job where my boss actually gave a shit about me. I kept thinking he was checking in on me cause he thought I was fucking up or something and he was lying when he told me I was doing a good job lol. That’s how much a bad boss can fuck you up.
No job actually cares, just some bosses are better at faking it.
@@MacMashPotato sounds like you’ve never had a real leader in your life
one day i'll find that promised land
It’s a truly unique situation when you find one. I found mine when I wasn’t looking. I was just having a conversation with some folks, and one of them took an interest in me. Turned out he was a manager in a field I never tried before. Asked me if I would take a risk and try something new. He’s done everything within his power to help me transition to the new role smoothly, helped me move across the country, and even refunded any costs we had with moving. Has an open door policy, and let me take as much time as I needed when having a family emergency. Then after that let me work from home for a few weeks to get back in the rhythm. They exist, but often times you find them when you don’t need them. The boss I worked for previously was nothing but a screaming match, where nothing was ever good enough. So to switch from that to this new job, was some serious whiplash.
Never kill yourself for a job that will replace you and move on in a week. I worked with a guy that had never missed a shift, well one night he didn't show up or call so they marked him absent. After the third missed shift and not answering calls the manager was just going to terminate his employment under grounds of "abandonment of employment." Thankfully someone suggested doing a wellness check and actually going around to check on him. They found the guy dead in his apartment sitting slumped in his chair, we were told he had suffered a stroke.
The way the manager was bad-mouthing an employee, who was an amazing worker, and the callous way he was so quick to fire the guy without a single concern for his well-being became a core memory for me and a definite life lesson on how much I was willing to sacrifice for a job.
That's why I feel sorry for those shortsighted worker drones that make the same hack joke "Oh you work 40 hours a week? I remember my first part-time job." Yeah because when I'm on my deathbed, surrounded by family and friends, I'm going to think to myself "Gee I wish I spent more time at work to make the company's shareholders a larger profit."
Man I know a guy so dedicated he didn't want to take off when his dad died. Give back vacation hr every year for just not taking them.
He is nothing more than a low level boss with a city public works job.
There not as easily replaced than a city worker. He really thinks everything would stop if he wasn't there.
The ONLY way that is an acceptable response is if you are building your own company and your own wealth.
Yep when I first started at my job I was working 15 hour shifts everyday, 6 days a week. And sometimes working those shifts made it difficult for me to get up at the time they wanted me to (they wanted me to get up at 3am or 6am after working from that time to 9 or 10pm at night) so one day one of my coworkers told me they were badmouthing me saying I was "unreliable" because I'd be 2 minutes late or so because I was so tired from the amount of work they had me doing. I said "ok" and I stopped accepting extra work and since then I've been on time. Now they need to beg people to come in on their days off to help them out. But if they'd appreciate the employees who work hard they wouldn't have to.
I never understood why people say you should spend more time at work. Why? If you're spending all your time at work what is the point? You have no time to actually enjoy the fruits of your labor. You're just a worker bee. People say "oh it'll go to your retirement" all those people are supposed to be retired. By the time I'm ready to retire prices would've gone up so high everything I've worked for would be useless. And that's assuming that you don't die before you come to retirement age. So all that time you miss out on rest, relaxation and life experiences (starting a family, vacation time, seeing the world, etc.) Just so you can make the CEO and your managers more money so they can do all those things. I mean, the CEO has enough time to start 3 families with women who don't know each other and I have no time to start one?
Of course they will, these people ain’t shit….I used too do above and beyond trying too impress people but now I just go in, I simply do what I need too and then go home.
Basically I came up with this from a friend of mine show up, shut up and leave it’s called SSAL for short.
Im surprised he wasnt upset about not getting rent on him living in the companys closet
I'm surprised he didn't cheer when the company could finally collect on that Life Insurance policy the company took out on every employee.
😂😂😂
This is the comment I was looking for! 🤣
Boss man can only think of so many things at one time. It'll settle in about a week later. Then he'll figure out a way to make the rest of the employees to pay for it even though they guy is dead.
@@cujoedaman Or he’ll send the dead guy’s family a bill for back rent 🤣
This is why you don't stay at a place and work there and die. You move on and get raises. Take your time off. Enjoy your life.
Well I mean, to be fair, John *was* making 42.50/hr working on the dock for 29 hours a day, 7 days a week which would be 203 hours a week so that's 163 hours of OT per week at 63.75, and that's not even *beginning* to get into all the shift differential he's be getting for 3rd shift, weekends, holiday pay... The man was making at least $12,000 every week before taxes.
Edit right after posting: I am aware I'm reading way too far into a joke skit, just want to clarify that.
Just had flashbacks from looking back at my math to the guy saying he could drive thousands of miles in a day...
@Griffin A if this was real he'd be 2 dollars over that states minimum wage no matter how many years he worked there.
John was making 42.50 an hour because he didn't follow your example.
@@Lunageldia 😂😂😂
@@TheOuskie Worth dying from overwork then. What good is that money when you don't have the time or health to enjoy it ?
Honestly, I don’t know what’s worse a company not knowing the best employees name or a guy willing to DIE for company who doesn’t know his name
Many such cases
Definitely the guy killing himself for the company
Don’t blame the poor bastard for his indoctrination. That’s like blaming an abused woman because she terrified of the uncertainty of leaving his ass.
@@remhawk73 Makes sense to blame in both cases
More common than I'd like to acknowledge
I was hoping his employee number was gonna be something rediculous like #3
That’s what I was expecting
I thought the same thing like #2 or something lol
I thought it would be #1 because of the thumbnail.
Right
Same. Missed opportunity for a joke. I was disappointed.
I had a coworker who was not happy with our employer. She had a heart attack in the parking lot and died. The whole thing was treated like yep that stuff just happens. I was just 20. She was in her fifties. Her mobile home had burned down a year before. I felt so bad for her and family.
That sucks
Had a nice boss 5 years ago, pre covid, die from the Flu because she refused to stay home.
She was a hard worder and never took sick days. Literally saw her at work the day before she died. She was only in her 50s. After she got off work, she passed out in her bathroom and died of dehydration. She worked at that exact grocery store for over 10 years.
@@leifanderson3487 that job was not worth her life.
@@t.h.8475 No job is worth your life ever in my opinion. Life is to be enjoyed, we must struggle of course but you will get nothing if you put others over yourself especially companies. They aren't your friends or families, you make the obligation to work there for the given amount of pay and that's it at the end of the day. Company doesn't really care if you're there for 1 month or 30 years.
@@leifanderson3487 If someone comes into work with the flu, I'm going to be frickin pissed and they'll get a good pep talk.
Brutal reminder that no matter how good you are at your job, you will be replaced and life will go on.
At any job. Sad but true
Management bout to order a Pizza Party for John's Funeral
😂😂🤣😭
"Steve, let me answer your question with a question. When somebody tries to rob you, what are they looking to get from you? "
Shit, maybe. My lead passed away last year. Worked for the company for 26 years, and died before he could retire.
They sent out an email, because ever since Covid, the company kitchen has been closed and we are still on staggered lunches so only half the shift gets lunch at any one time.
And STILL announce his name wrong
everyone gets two slices and two 8 oz cups of coca cola. got to break out the name brand for John
Every time I see a video where he has to say, "My name's Marshall, by the way," I'm consumed with incoherent rage that covers up the heartbreak.
Fucking brutal.
even the sparky one?
These aren't real people big guy relax
@@dungeonmaster6292 The people in the skits aren't real, but there are still too many bosses like that in the real world
@@greed94 I think he's a legitimate sociopath, based on his literal inability to understand how emotions and stories work.
@@Thalanox
Oh, sweetie, I know how youtube works, and I know how shitty bosses like this work. I've lived it multiple times, military and civilian.
Go back to your basement.
And I'm not a guy. 🙄
It’s sad but true. Company loyalty doesn’t mean shit today folks. Get in, get out and get PAID!!
1 million percent agree
👍
You know the worst part?
He's going to spend the rest of his life lamenting "kids not wanting to work" for expecting $42.50 performance from $12.50 pay.
The problem is kids don’t want to earn 12.50 so they earn nothing and live at home with their parents and do nothing.
@gj1234567899999
It's a character flaw now that people want "Enough Money to Live beyond paycheck to paycheck" somehow?
@@gj1234567899999 Sounds like they have good parents take care of there kids so they don't get taken advantage of.
@@gj1234567899999 your right, kids dont want to earn 12.50 an hour because the cost of living demands they make triple that to get by.
@@gj1234567899999 you're just absolutely dumb
Don’t ever let your boss act like they are doing you a favor by giving you overtime.
Especially when its total 29 hours each day!
Don't listen to this guy overtime Is where the money is at. If ur single and straight out of high-school work some overtime and listen to audio books during that time.
@@ToxiicZombee 😂
@MichaelPinkerton ur laughing, but I'm 28. I started reading about investing and real-estate and all sort of nonfiction, I began investing in the stock market in 2014 at 20 and dumped 25 percent of my paycheck into stocks. Read Elon musks book and bought a shit Ton of Tesla that was my biggest win. Rent was only 500 dollars a month at the time and I was making 25 bucks an hour with many 70 hour weeks, I worked and tried to be the best and got many promotions and job bumps. Ended up at an easy ass job that paid well just was alot of overtime. I made a killing and now I'm 28 and retired. Just still reading and trying to learn obout other ways to invest my money. If I didn't work all that overtime I wouldn't be where I'm at today.
@@ToxiicZombee stonks. Lol
Worked with a guy who new the building inside and out. Was one of the first hires when it was built. Hired and fired so many supervisors in the 3 years I was there. Finally promoted him after the last supe quit and was fired 6 months later. Bill never stood a chance.
They don’t respect labor in this country.
@@gabrielchovan-spence4215 In any country.
I think specifically corporations don’t. Smaller businesses do. especially when they’re run by someone who knows the industry.
@@ReformedSooner24 That's why I love where I work. The owner is an authentically nice guy that knows everyone. Stuff like that goes farther than people realize.
@@leifanderson3487same here. Found a good place run by family. Runs tight as a watch, but all the employees are loose and relaxed as can be. You find a place that understands the value of its laborers (and especially its tradesmen) and you’ve truly made it.
A manager asked me if I cared about the company. I told him I cared at least as much as the company thinks about me.
/queues "Shia Labeouf Clapping" 👏😎
When I was an apprentice we had a guy like this in our yard. His face was literally the company logo. When he passed away the company found out he had no family. Company paid for a funeral and cremation. His urn still sits on the wall at the yard office.
That's cool!
Kind of cool but sad
@@Ink30 Mostly sad
Sad, but good on that company for taking care of him. That’s some character they showed.
What an unnecessary expense, but at least they saved on burial costs.
Never, under any circumstances, sacrifice your life for a corporation.
Sometimes life doesn’t give you those choices. Bill gotta get paid.
Fighting for wars and going to the military is the same as dying or putting your life endanger for corporations being they are the one's who benefit... USA is a corporation too but that a completely different story for another day
@@BigBearBloothere’s so many other places besides corporate. Big companies aren’t the only ones that pay.
@@BigBearBloo Exactly! I'm 44 years-old and have a wife and two children aged 17 and 15 and I work 60-70 hours a week to pay the bills and yeah, my wife bitches about it and so do my kids but I don't care because I have to put food on the table. And yes this has led to many problems such as my wife cheating on me a few times and my children getting into trouble at school but I do what I have to do because my wife only works 40 hours a week so I have to pull the weight.
Honestly, I love working though and would rather be at work than be at home. The first thing I do when I get home after work is grab a few beers and then I go watch tv after eating dinner and go to sleep. Yes, my wife and I only have sex maybe once a month or two as well which sucks but I've been dating one of my female co-workers on the side and she puts out so I'm not getting blue balls or anything. My female co-worker kind of sleeps around with most of the guys at work because she likes to see everyone happy and it helps with morale.
Men have always been the providers and women have always been there to satisfy men's sexual needs so it's a fair trade.
Sometimes I think about just divorcing my wife and letting her have the kids because I don't know them anyways and they are almost on their own anyways. She likes her male friend who she sleeps with behind my back anyways and even though she tells me she would be faithful if I would spend more time around her and our kids I honestly don't care at this point. I have a nice truck to pay off and we could always sell the house and split the money and both of us could get a small place and move on with our lives.
Women just don't understand that work is life and without work you are homeless then they bitch about you not being there.
@@TommyTomTompkins I was gonna say something like this lol
My grandpa worked for a trucking company for almost twenty years. Had gotten really sick half way through his route and said he couldn’t drive the way back. Company said it was unacceptable and forced him to drive. He made it 1/2 way back and rolled the semi. Found out in the hospital he had a infection from an earlier work accident that worked it way into the brain giving him a tumor. It took him three weeks of recovery and went back to work. Past his physical and fired anyways. Took them to court and won. After three years since, he found out from a co-worker that they were told he had a heart attack. So they were surprised he was still working. The company hasn’t been able to replace him because he did more work than his colleagues. New hires quit after their first few weeks. Sorry for the long story, tried to shorten it.
jeez louise. so glad he won. i hope the pay was incredible and i hope the company went under for severe malpractice. unacceptable to treat a dedicated employee like that.
I have a coworker who was this guy at a different company. Basically the warehouse manager, kept downtimes to a minimum, loved by employees and customers alike, and still canned a few months before retirement by the new management, also botching his pay as well.
The shop has practically fallen apart since then, and the place I am working at scooped him up almost as soon as he was fired. Still crushing the inventory, and we are doing good
Your workplace knew a good employee when they saw him. That says a lot about who you work for.
Why I started my own tired of working myself to death for companies that don't care.
what type of business did you start?
@geddon436
Realestate, worked construction for years broke my leg on a job, and the boss didn't care. Went to work as paralegal boss didn't care. Now I'm a broker in charge we help people buy/sell and property management.
I worked for Ashley Furniture for 7 years and three people died in the plant over that time. Every time it was surreal that all they did was have 1 minute of "silence" for the person. Then it was business as usual
Dystopian
There’s 1 million stories like this. My mother retired after 29 years of teaching. I got her a job at my company. They moved everybody out of that office except for her. She would call corporate weekly, asking them to give her more stuff to do because she was bored. One day a manager shows up and fires her because she went to the bathroom without any floor coverage. ((AGAIN ONLY PERSON IN THE WHOLE BUILDING.)) she died a couple of years later, and they had me working the day after her death. They had me working the day of her funeral. Thank God I made it in time that afternoon. They didn’t even send any fucking flowers.!!!!! Was back at work the next day like nothing happened. And I had to fight with them to get her last paycheck.
Dam pal I would have quit by now.
Why tf would you work on the day of your mom's funeral
@@712unwantedcomment I did
@@morzinbo in Europe, they work to live.. in America we live to work,,, you’re not wrong,,, it’s a stupid American thing that we’ve got to change as a society!!!! That and it kept me from drinking that morning 🤣 HAHAHA!!!!
@@prestonstephens7719 good for u brother hopefully u found a job that you are appreciated at.
I remember how much I cared about a company when I first started working. What a mistake that was.
Same
I remember when companies had me whipped
I worked for a food service company for almost six years, until a guy who had been working for them for almost thirty dies, they did not even send flowers to his funeral.
I left that job that week and never worked for others again.
Just asked the boss for a raise considering I've been there 4 years and run circles around everyone. I got a long speech about how the company needs to pinch pennies because of inflation. Then they hire 2 more employees so terrible that it's costing more money to fix their mistakes. Absolute scum
Did you look for a new job?
Leave asap brother, its not going to get any better and they'll work you till you drop.
Most companies make excuses, I’ve seen places use the excuse of other companies cutting benefits and pay so they have to too. The thing is they were profitable in the billions and they were just looking for any excuse to rip off employees.
Companies have larger new hire budgets than they have retention budgets. Find a new job if possible.
My advice: start looking around for another option. That place will rake you over the coals until you’ve nothing left to give, all while not giving you another rusty cent.
Good jobs still exist. You just gotta find ‘em.
If you want a boss who cares about you, you are going to have to be your own boss.
And if you are, you're going to have to start remembering employee numbers.
Hahahaha😂
Fun fact, the first time the US ever used aircraft delivered bombs was on striking miners on behalf of the factory owners.
Your boss is not your friend, and that is especially important to remember in Labor
That was the Battle of Blair Mountain right?
There's a reason they don't teach that in schools lol.
holy crap I thought you were joking until I looked it up.
That makes sense since I work for myself...I'm a bastard.
@@41tl In all fairness, not everything can be taught in schools with the limited allotted time.
Commies gonna commie
62243 is going to be missed, so accurate
62243 was a legend, he will always be remembered! Thank you so much for the tip!!!
"42.50 an hour, he did us a favor." That is the definition of a POS.
I had co-workers wonder why they kept getting turned down for promotions while being too important to production .
You would think working hard for a company while 80% of the staff slacking is a sure thing for moving up, but noticed how incompetent your manger is?
You know how he got there.
I am almost 50 and seen this at every job I had along with nepotism
When you die, your job will be posted before your obituary is even written.
*When companies claim that they are family, you need to remind them that YOU ARE THERE FOR A PAYCHECK, NOTHING MORE!*
When people die they hang a card on the bulletin board, next to a job bid.
Welcome to life at the USPS.
This is why workers need to support each other and unionize. The company will never have your best interest in mind
You can support yourself by saving money wisely and investing.
@@destroya3303 "Every man for himself" mentality is exactly what creates emoloyers like this. Profits over community, and the result is destruction of the middle class. And elites wonder why birth rates are plummeting.
Unionized companies have their issues too. Ideally find a cool boss
That is why as a tradesman I’m loyal to only a paycheck.
I sell myself to the highest bidder….
Most companies could care less…
Facts I'm like this also as a plumber
@@Ink30Ummm, plumbing is a trade, turd wrangler.
When you find a employer that actually cares and knows the time and effort you put in and just shows genuine appreciation. Stay there. Don’t ever leave the place.
I'm so glad I work for a locally owned HVAC company with an awesome owner. We have a team of about 30 people and the owner takes care of us all. I worked for a publicly traded company in the past and it was horrible.
@@nealcassady1189 I have a 6% company match on 401k. A great relationship with the owner and more pay than I could get from any other HVAC company in 75 miles. Bonuses, commission, etc.
I've been at the C-level for nearly a decade and at the VP level for more than 15 years... if many of you knew the proportion of sociopathy in corporations today - yeah, I know you THINK you know it, but you don't - it would blow your mind. Funniest part, its the guys or gals that you like, who are almost undoubtedly screwing you and your peers the most when you're not in the room. Long story short, most of my peers and horrific people, yet the workers don't seem to mind as long as they say nice things to their face.
This is such a sad comment to read. So unfortunate.
Sounds like my workplace. I don't trust or like anyone. Once I hear you talk mess about someone else behind their back in my presence I know you'll do the same to me
@@PaladinThizzFunny, the same advice applies to relationships!
This is why I do not, and never will work corporate. Trade life all the way, making stuff for good folks who are more interested in taking care of the shop instead of their profit margins.
@deeohen8344 I can confirm everything that you said. I was one of just 2 System Admin/Engineers for my company's headquarters and got to interact with C-level and VP level Execs intimately since we built all their corporate systems and would often be invited to internal meetings.
The Execs that were the friendliest, most outgoing, and just fun to be around in general to your face would stab you in the back the literal second they thought it would benefit them or you were no longer useful. The people that had to work overtime during the pandemic were given 5$ gift cards while they all stayed home and collected large bonuses for a profitable year. They fired a guy for having a part time job after refusing to give him a raise. Just crazy stuff.
My mom put 20 years into running a grocery store where they wouldn'y give her the title of manager and had some guy come in from another store to "check" on her work twice a week. For her 20 years they gave her 2 PLASTIC wine cups from the store shelves. That thought me a lesson about company loyalty. What a joke. My Dad threw a celebration the day my mom retired and didn't invite a single person from management. If any of them showed up I'm sure my Dad would have punched them in the face.
Dude work for Exxon for 40-plus years. He was proud he worked for Exxon. Never missed a day of work. He was buried in his Exxon uniform.
He wanted his funeral procession to go through the Exxon plant.... They said fuck no.
Yeah thats an odd request in itself.
Yeah wtf ever been to an exxon plant? 😅
And companies wonder why no one e wants to work anymore
For real man… I went around to all the grocery stores in retail outlet locations in my metro area and I asked all the employees do you get overtime? And without fail 10 out of 10 times they all say no. When we were in an inflationary And the company they’re working for is making record profits for that inflationary period Somehow.. then without fail there is only five cashiers to one bagger ratio every time the baggers have to be on Adderall just to keep up and again without fail. In every instance like this, you can just turn your head 45° and see the manager with his hands in his pockets, not doing anything or helping bag with or help beleaguered crew by authorizing more overtime from the employees. He clearly cut way too early because corporate demands he run a skeleton crew. Just because it’s feasible doesn’t mean that it’s efficient.
Not only that the government was already subsidizing. Most of these grocery store employees grocers every month already before inflation. Now, during inflation, they won’t give any overtime and entitlement programs are getting cut. Grocery store employees are literally having to ask the government to pay for their groceries that is so asinine to me. And every time they always tell me “oh we have a union” but what the fuck does it do then?.. clearly it’s easier to pay off a couple mfers at the top of the union than it is to adequately just pay your workforce enough to buy their own grocers… AT THEIR GROCER STORE LIKE WTF LOL
For real man… I went around to all the grocery stores in retail outlet locations in my metro area and I asked all the employees do you get overtime? And without fail 10 out of 10 times they all say no. When we were in an inflationary And the company they’re working for is making record profits for that inflationary period Somehow.. then without fail there is only five cashiers to one bagger ratio every time the baggers have to be on Adderall just to keep up and again without fail. In every instance like this, you can just turn your head 45° and see the manager with his hands in his pockets, not doing anything or helping bag with or help beleaguered crew by authorizing more overtime from the employees. He clearly cut way too early because corporate demands he run a skeleton crew. Just because it’s feasible doesn’t mean that it’s efficient.
Not only that the government was already subsidizing. Most of these grocery store employees grocers every month already before inflation. Now, during inflation, they won’t give any overtime and entitlement programs are getting cut. Grocery store employees are literally having to ask the government to pay for their groceries that is so asinine to me. And every time they always tell me “oh we have a union” but what the fuck does it do then?.. clearly it’s easier to pay off a couple mfers at the top of the union than it is to adequately just pay your workforce enough to buy their own grocers… AT THEIR GROCER STORE LIKE WTF LOL
Employers have been complaining about "nobody wanting to work anymore" forever. There are news articles from the 1800's saying this.
People want to work they just want to be paid properly and treated like a human being.
Nahh yall lazy dont lie to the rest of us ....
@@yourdadsotherfamily3530 Guessing you're an AI
That's the sad reality. Friends and family will remember you when you die. But if you die on the job, they'd have a job listing for your replacement within the week.
Smithers! Who is that rotting corpse in Sector 7G?!
I know this is meant to be satire but this is the sad truth. At my previous employer we had ab employee who worked for the company for 52 years & was retiring. Did the company throw a celebration & give him a big check in front of everyone? No. They literally threw him a pizza party & let him go first in line. It's one of the reasons I quit. Why would anyone work for an employer that doesn't give a sh*t about you?
I loved and surprised that the first thing he noticed in that conversation was that it was a lot of overtime, but not knowing who it was. They're usually on point with that.
This actually happened with my former asst manager during Covid I guess it aggravated some he ask for time off they said no home boy never asked for time off because he started coughing up blood he said fine he left his keys and quit on the spot passed away a week or so later and we got word he was fired a month after he passed for no call no show yeah then they wouldn’t give any time off to those of us who worked under him for 3+ years for his funeral or wake or just to gather ourselves he was my friend the one who got me the job I knew his family his daughter before I worked there I wasn’t happy
If you use periods and commas your sentence will be easier to read
I legit got halfway through this and stopped reading because of the complete lack of punctuation.
@@OneBiasedOpinion Take me about 2 seconds to read what he wrote, just because there aint no commas or punctuations does not make it hard to read. Sorry to hear about your friend, its a shame when people get neglected in any shape or form for their duty.
Worked a industrial manufacturing job for over 21+ years was good at what I did. Gave my 2 week notice when they were going to force me to work 4th of July, which was clearly stated in writing in the contract that was a paid holiday!
Leaving the job was top 5 best decision of my life. # I'll never go back
They would of had to pay you double time and a half for working a stat
After working blue collar for years, finally getting a degree in something useful and making good money, hearing the boss lower the pay from ~$40 an hour all the way to $12 is absolute rage fuel.
shit $42.50 no wonder he never stopped working. Sign me up.
Sure, that's gonna be $12.50 an hour.
all that money with nothing to do with it. I understand working 50+ hours for finances or temporary unexpected bills, but you're whole life? You might as well have been working for food, water, and shelter at your job.
@@m16dude967 thats what work is though
@@sunnyztmoney it shouldn’t be.
$88,400 a year
A company pizza service for John passing
They buy the pizza the from the gas station.
@@1eyedwilli3I wouldn't be surprised if the gas station pizza was expired
One eight inch pie sliced into 400 slices
OH snap!! just when I was having a shitty afternoon I take break and BOOM!!! Marshall drops ANOTHE BOMB!💥💥💥💥💥
My dad worked for the company that I’m also apart of, for 42 years. When he retired 2 years ago, he didn’t even get so much as a “thank you”. It still pisses him off to this day.
A lifetime given and not even a tip of the cap.
If he got a pension then who cares
When I retire I want to sneak out the back door. No party or cheezy gold watches for me.
As a fellow John I felt this 🤣 it's why I build alone these days!
You almost had me fool for a second
"JOE"
Joe Z????lol
@@adampindell it's an alias boys 🤣
@@awakenotwoke2643 lmao your handle name is on point!
Yeah, id tell him im quitting after this and then tell everybody else they should do the same.
"You dont remember anything about john at all, except for his employee numbers"
I laugh and cry inside
after "he had a heart attack" I fully expected the supervisor to ask "did he have it HERE? oh shit..."
This is me. They always forget to tell me about mandatory meetings and company lunches and even uniform changes. Lol.
Surprised he didn't want to know if he paid rent for supply closet...
had a guy die on the job back in january during my shift...He was in maintenance and the machine crushed him while he was working on it. I was there doing chest compressions and getting the AED until the para medics arrived but not much could be done, he was gone instantly. My job canceled work for the next 2 weeks, we all attended his wake. Rest in peace Andy. It makes me sad knowing that there are people like that in management that have essentially given up their humanity for the company. I recently won a bid for the next shift supervisor position, I pray I never become like that.
at least your company treated you like people and didn't force you to work. i read on this comments where somebodys mom died during the shift and company didn't let him to go to her funeral or wake...
Never! I do not and will not live to work!! I work to live and make memories with the kids. I used to skip breaks and lunch for years to make sure I was far and away the most productive worker in the place! But all that got me was let go after a week of only 90+% productivity instead of my usual 135 to 140% from a slipped disc in my lower back. "If you can't be the worker we know you are, we don't have any use for you"
thats some cold shit
Sir your quite consistent with the content keep up the good work!
This struck a chord with me. I am retired now, but I worked with a guy - ironically, named John, who also worked on the dock at our manufacturing plant. He also worked well over thirty years at the company, and he ALSO worked a TON of overtime. Literally twelve hours, Monday through Friday, and minimum six or seven on Saturdays. He was a wonderful, wonderful man and he was well liked and loved. He had his entire retirement planned out, as he and I would talk all the time about it, and he was going to retire at sixty three and live in happiness, and with a VERY, VERY impressive retirement account(s). Then one Tuesday morning three years ago, right after break time he went outside to water some flowers that he always planted each spring in the area where the picnic tables were. No one noticed that he hadn't come back to his desk because the others in the area were busy and had their own duties to perform. A half hour later a truck driver came in and said someone is lying in the grass outside. It was too late. At sixty one, and two years before retirement, John dropped dead at work. Moral of the story is you never know what the future holds, so don't go crazy chasing that dollar. We were all devastated and the company let everyone go home about an hour later because it was very traumatizing for everyone. John had a very full and happy life and had his toys, took his vacations and lived life to the fullest, so at least he genuinely loved his time off. The anniversary of his passing is only a few days away, and to this day, it breaks my heart.
I currently work with a co worker who works harder than anyone in the company, 3 years, makes 16.65 who is mad that us new hires started at 22.50. He complains about us and too us but we always tell him you're angry at yourself and the wrong people. Mind you, he is a really great worker from what I have seen. Don't be a slave or skip life events thinking the company will notice
Glad I work for a small company and know the owners personally and have a relationship with them.
These videos are so real life. So sad, but so fucking true.
The script is what everybody should read and comprehend when speaking. Great video.
RIP 62243
Please keep preaching this message
This shows that the best worker, the hardest worker, isn’t the one that gets noticed or promoted. It’s all about who know and who you are friends with, that’s really all that matters today. I’ve seen the laziest people move up and I’ve seen that happen more times than the person that actually works the hardest or was the “best”.
I knew an employee who died in the line of duty as a security guard. His coworker didn't even know and there wasn't even a condolence email sent to the coworker or anything even though it made national news. The company didn't even help with funeral costs or arrangements.
And all that for 18 bucks and hour.
That's how I felt being a state employee. I was a CO for 12 years. F them.
This video definitely hits home. I had been at a company over 10 years, and was in a meeting that included the owner/CEO of the company. At one point, I mentioned another employee who had been there the same length of time as me. The owner/CEO asked who I was talking about, and I had to describe the other guy, and it still didn't ring a bell. The CEO was always in the office, in a company with around 30 full time employees, and had spoken face-to-face to this other guy multiple times, and still couldn't remember his name.
Your skits are so good, relevant and important while also laugh out loud funny
May God touch the hearts of men who act like this
he remembered that employee number since he been looking for a reason to fire him but he always fulfills and exceeds those (un)reasonable quotas.
Usually I'm laughing, but now I'm crying.
I keep preaching this to my coworkers. The company does not care about us at all. At all. At all. We are nothing more than a number to them. It's all about who likes you and whose ass you kiss. They expect us to work six days a week and get salty when we want to go home on time. They refuse to grasp that production workers have families as well. I've never regretted a single minute spent with my wife and kids. Family first.
Don’t tell the sheep this their blinders are still on and will look at you crazy
I work for a small shop. At this point in time. The boss man literally has left from his home from Florida to go to Iowa just to wake up an employee, so he gets to work. So I don't work for companies like this.
Don’t give your all to a corporation, give it to the people who love you
Companies out here hiring clone troopers.
My old man passed away in September of 2019. The company he worked for, his health insurance company, his 401K company, and his life insurance company all sent him Christmas Cards in the mail. I’m not even kidding.
“62243” moment kills me lmfao. I get both sides
Great vid. Work needs to be done in life but shouldn’t be your life. There’s work to be done in your life. 62243!!!😢
I appreciate how tragic it is that nobody remembers this man and he doesnt exist, and yet we all feel terrible
I know the feeling all to well, except NEVER making that much income, or anywhere near that much. Busting ass at shitty jobs to hopefully climb that ladder to success in life and have a comfortable retirement. Never happened, always treated like shit and a slave. Seems like all these companies motto was "if you don't like it, there's the door", I took that door many times after recognizing that job was already a dead end. Always Low pay at minimum wage or barely above that, worthless benefits IF any at all. Barely making ends meet my entire life because of corporate GREED and too many inconsiderate assholes that only think of you as a number. Now going on 70, I had to stop working a few years ago due to back problems, collecting my SS and living 50% BELOW the poverty line in a 30 year old RV because I can't afford anything else.
They say "life is what you make it". That's Total bullshit! Being the nice guy and going out of your way for everyone else for decades on end, hoping for a chance to succeed, hoping someone will see your potential and reward you for doing a great job, JUST ONCE! Never happened and I started working at 14 years old for 85 cents an hour. With our current economy and ALL the CORRUPT ASSHOLES causing it, It still feels like i'm making .85 cents an hour. LIFE SUCKS. IF I WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CROSSING THE BOARDER, I WOULD BE FINANCIALLY BETTER OFF THAN BUSTING MY ASS HERE FOR DECADES.
I didn't realize this was a documentary channel. . .
I seen something like this happen at a trucking company. Local driver died in the seat. Less than a hour later hoa dispatcher walked in the recurting office to just say post his job.
This is why a job is just a job, nothing else. Place could burn down soon as I leave I could care less.
"Personal life's more important than job life. There's always another job around the corner, how you decide to utilize your own time is far more important that giving up your time for individuals/ people who don't care about your dedication, hard work/ work ethic, if they don't respect your time given to them, then move on."
I've always found it to be asinine that companies expect you to give a two weeks notice before you quit, & yet they can fire you on the spot.
The economy is designed to create just smart enough work slaves who are Disciplined enough to be soldiers to defend the system.
@@BackyardClunkers77 I find that most the managers where I work want people who are either in debt or on a work visa. They are more willing to eat shit than those of us with no pressing financial obligations
Do not forget my name, do not forget me, 24601.
Next video should just be you in a hard hat reading 1984...
That's good acting when you personally get upset while watching 😂 Sadly this is someone's real life experience.
The guy that's been working at a job for 35 years is also doing 75% of the work. Guaranteed he's got a lot of coattail riders collecting a free paycheck. Ask me how I know.
I'm only at 1/3 that time in and I am being pressured to teach and help those I am competing against. Wtf.
Don’t have to. I’ve seen and been that guy.
At $42.50 an hour, 29 hours a day, 7 days a week our boy John Sanders was pulling $542,045 a year
This video reminds us of the commitment and sacrifices made by employees like John Sanders. It's sad to see how a company can overlook the significant contributions of their own employees, even when they dedicate their entire lives to their work. John's story shows us how important it is to recognize and appreciate the hard work and dedication of individuals, even if they don't have high-profile positions. Let this video inspire us to change and acknowledge the names, stories, and impact of every employee. Rest in peace, John Sanders. Your memory will always be remembered.
Why do you think we have unions. If you think a company cares about you then you are naive.
That monolog reminds me of Fight Club haha. My name is John Sanders..
You know it’s a skit, right?
I’ve worked sales, construction, and manufacturing. These videos hit way to close home.