My boss gathered us all outside and said if we weren’t happy we should look for another job. They were only talking to two specific employees, but decided to avoid direct confrontation and lecture all of us. However, that ‘pep talk’ made me, (I was always referred to as their BEST and FAVORITE employee) realize I WASNT happy there. I quit the next week and they were shocked and tried to explain that they were only talking about employees x and y, and begged me to stay. I straight up told them they probably should have dealt with them privately instead of making all their good employees feel threatened. It was good though, that job was really toxic
This is how MP platoons worked in the 1990s era military. I said; nope! And refused to re-enlist. Not going to deal with the scams, double standards & nitwits...
@@DavidLLambertmobile It was still like that in the early to mid 2000s. I hated being a 95B (now designated 31B). Always administering mass punishment. Stupid mandatory fun days. Jacked up leadership that was always pushing us to write 1805s for only lower enlisted. Was so done after my first contract. I should've signed up to be a mechanic or combat engineer.
I had a similar thing. I was working for an Electrical Contractor and every single morning we had "meetings". They were supposed to be about safety and today's plan of action, but our superintendent would always just explain that our "production was not as good as it needed to be" and that if anyone wanted to leave, they could walk away then and there. They never said good job, or that work was going smoothly; despite the general contractors being MORE than happy and thankful with the amount of work we did on a daily basis. Needless to say a lot of our guys got into contact with me after I walked out and said I inspired them to do what they had wanted to do for years.
@@nGEnigma I knew a jag-off federal VA bureaucrat who told me how the local VA clinic office was having a meeting about scheduled meetings 🤔. I dont even know what %$=÷ means... I worked briefly as a temp employee at a VA clinic near Orlando.gov . We had a VA supervisor mad at us for working on a project & not attending her "mandatory" staff meeting. I was like WTF???... 😠
I worked at Pizza Inn back in the 80's as a teenager. They would dock us $1.50 for each shift to pay for our meals whether we ate or not. The manager only wanted us to eat one plate off the buffet but I said screw that and would bake up a large pizza or a huge double helping of spaghetti, maybe a big sandwich. He kept getting up my ass about how much I food I was taking but I'd just ignore him. They had lots of silly rules like we had to wear black running shoes (paid for by us), no talking in the kitchen, don't toss the dough like "some kind of Italian place." They also shorted the customers on ingredients as a matter of policy. The manager would literally check our scales every hour or so to make sure they were dialed back to save an ounce or two in order to save money. To top it off he would change the schedules almost daily so nobody knew for sure if they were working that day or not. We had to call in and have someone look at the schedule for us every day which tied up the phones a bit. One day I came into work and he starts yelling at me in front of customers and everyone about why I was late. "Uh, I just got out of school and came straight over. You know this. (It's almost a thirty minute drive)" He says that's not an excuse and that I should have phoned ahead to let him know. Honestly, this guy just wasn't playing with a full deck. A few customers who witnessed this walked back out rather than eat there. I didn't need the job, it was just nice for a bit of pocket money, so I politely handed over my apron, took off my shirt and gave it back and told him I quit. After that I told everyone I could about how they were shorting the customers on ingredients. Being a small town word got around quick and they were out of business in a year.
I had a pizza place that started sprinkling minced ingredients on their pizza. Must have been putting them in a food processor. Less toppings, higher prices. They're closed now.
What managers frequently fail to understand is that "We can replace all of you" translates to "We don't respect the years of expertise you've learned in your field" and/or "We're willing to pay lesser qualified people to do your jobs".
if your job require low qualifications (no grad school degree,-6years of experience in the field) ,chances are,you are not that unique of an employee,if your boss can aford to say that,chances are you are ,the fact your SO, go another job,doesnt mean his boss was wrong. If we talk about working on mcdonalds,and your manager tells you to work harder or get fired..hes in the right place,veryone can work at mc. If you are for example an engineer with an mba....
@@freesandals29 why would someone hire people who are all replaceable? sounds like started off not knowing what they were doing. Or they are a piece of sh!t manager. why would the least possible outcome be likely and it be a decent company? game theory dictates that to be very unlikely.
@@freesandals29 Most employees have more education than their bosses. I was a graduate of management studies and my boss just learned from the job and had been there for years. In realitiy, most bosses really have little or no skill or even understanding of what the people they manage, do. In other words the company would come to a grinding haly if the staff were not there but could probably survive for quite some time without the manager. I worked in a department for 6 months with no department manager. It went just fine. They hired a jerk and people have been quitting ever since. and profits have sunk. How is really the replaceable one?
Mr Dixon I learned that years ago in a managers training seminar: “When people quit, they are essentially firing their bosses”. I have carried that with me ever since.
they are legally allowed to do this. ANY company WILL implement this when they need time to catch up. Don't talk when you dont understand how BIG money can work
A company is legally allowed to write you a check and tell you to wait a week to cash it because they lack funds? I hope you don't run a business and do that,most states have labor laws, which basically say employees must be paid in a manner that can be turned into cash on demand, ex a check needs to have funds present to be turned into cash. Following your example then an employee should be able to say pay me this week and I will work next week once I have energy for it!
Last year I asked for a pay rise. Didn't get one due to the "Budget wouldn't stretch" 3 months after they refused, all the managers in the region went on a weekend cruise!
Happens at every,. Damned. Job. Corporate is a pain every time I ask for a 20 cent raise. While supervisors get a month off every other month. Not kidding. I work a government job too.
I had a mgr act like that. He said; "oh you do good job, very good." I then said; "I've been here 90 days, can I get a raise?" He says: oh no, no raise, you don't do this this this.... 😡...
Of course the budget wont stretch, they gotta pay for the caviar and French champagne on the cruise somehow, why give the peons 50c an hour extra when we can get the top level caviar instead of the mid level...
“I could fire you all and replace you with anyone off the street and they would do a better job.” Yeah, he’s not a manager anymore. After about two years worth of turning our branch into a dumpster fire he was demoted and after about six months was sent back to his old branch. He came in the day after he was supposed to be gone and was surprised that the new manager had taken over his office
“There was never any promotion or raise requests while (ex-manager) was in charge.” - head office afterward. Oh really? Because people asked for them and he told us you denied them. Of course he also told everyone that they shouldn’t be struggling with their work load no one else had a problem as people quit right and left. And he tried to ban “gossip” as in we weren’t allowed to talk to each other about problems we were having with our work load
I worked for a small business where the owner liked to tell me this pretty much anytime I did something wrong. He basically forced me into quitting (threatening to dock hours and pay) after working there for over a year, but unfortunately it seems he was right in his particular case.
@@olymolly3637 Basically. This was close to a decade ago in the Midwest. Largish town, good location. He did at least $350k in revenue in the year before I left, according to the POS logs that I could look at. For reference, I was in my early 20s and the only other employee that worked there. I got about 16k in pre-tax hourly earnings with no benefits, bonuses or holiday pay. Only reason I was eligible for OT the one week I got it was because it was legally mandated and he couldn't *quite* manage the Christmas rush himself. Additionally, I was always kept under 40hrs/wk so that I would be classified as part-time and would therefore not qualify for any full-time employment protections. An even more infuriating part of it was my hourly pay was 35% above the minimum wage for the area at the time, but due to the hourly restrictions he put me under, I was getting the yearly equivalent of a minimum wage job, just with slightly less hours worked. He treated his customers very well, but I found out from several of them that he had a hard time keeping employees around for more than a few months at a time. Didn't take long to find out why. I worked for a few other small business before and after that job, and none of them were any better - just bad in different ways. Anytime I hear someone say "small business is the lifeblood of America" I want to spit in their face. Besides being patently false when it comes to actual GDP contribution, it's also misleading. People imagine small businesses as these Mom-and-Pop stores with kind families running them, when more often than not they're just as cutthroat if not more so than a large business, but with an order of magnitude less oversight and regulation. Unless you are working for yourself, or you get really lucky with the people running one, you are almost always better off working for a large company.
They fired me, headstocker at the time, 1 guy quit the next night after realizing they had done it and he didnt want to put up with the crap. My replacement didn't want the position at all. One of the other stockers messaged me for the next 2 weeks of work wondering if they could get me back somehow, even though he had no authority in the matter. and Finally the Store manager called me during my first week on a new job wanting me to come back and work for them because they really needed help, told em' to kiss my ass.
@@31minutesago Long Story, lots of management not caring. For tossing an empty can at a wall. Months of stress buildup, the one bad stocker i had would fall asleep on the job but i had no authority to do write ups and had to pass it up to grocery manager to do it (she never would, even with vid proof) Then she wanted us out one night before management arrived in the morning, we finished up, i even did half of her job for her and we got out 5:55, management arrives at 6. She checked clock time and wrote me up for it, i showed my dissaproval, by tossing an empty can and telling her if she thinks she can do better then prove it. I left and came back the next morning to talk to store manager, stock crew was still there working, but she was nowhere to be found.
I joined a company in 2005 prior to the recession. It had been losing money for years and I was tasked with turning that around. And so I got to work on that. I learned fairly quickly that the biggest problem was the boss himself. All their methods were archaic. Everything was written down on paper, then shoved somewhere without being properly filed, rather than using computer programs to properly organize that stuff, and provide additional utility. They still hadn't adopted email, and were using exclusively phones and fax. The boss had a tendency of using valuable company resources to do favors for his friends or for himself. Managers didn't have the proper tools to schedule the employees or track inventories, so there were always conflicts and shortages, which caused huge disruptions to sales. By 2007 I had gotten everyone using email, trained the office staff on using Microsoft Office, implemented a new inventory and scheduling system, and partially curtailed some of my then boss's bad behaviors. And we were once again showing a (small) profit. All the employees seemed to be happy with these new methods and things were running smoother. But once we were back in the black, the boss I guess thought he was okay to revert to bad practices. Not only that, but he took full credit for the turnaround I had almost single-handedly given him. I did get a small raise in 2007, but that was literally my only thanks for saving the business. Anyway, I quit soon after because it was clear the boss was going to have the company back in the red in short order, beginning with several asset purchases that did not make any sense for the company. My departure wasn't the only one. Much of the office staff also left (I still work with a couple today), and in the next two years, plenty of the floor staff also walked. It's like they were shown what the company could be under competent management, only to have the boss throw a dark curtain on it all. Company filed for bankruptcy in November 2009. I was told their margin for their final full fiscal year was in the realm of -60%. After 2007 I joined another company that was also struggling. With some smart changes, we managed to weather the recession and the company now has grown 11x what it was in 2008. For my efforts, I was actually properly rewarded this time, both in salary and position.
My dad wanted a day off each week to take me to my Dr appointments. His boss said no. My dad tried again, this time saying, if not, I quit. My dad was the manager of a Midas. Midas corporate loved him, but not his boss. My dad walked out and the next day all of his customers quit coming. The shop only had 1 oil change in the following 30 days, then the shop closed its doors. ( She won it on Facebook, it was free ) Midas made them reopen cuz the shop owed a LOT of money to Midas. Midas was going to forgive the money owed as long as my dad was there. My dad knew that and I heard him tell his ex boss this - Ex's are Ex's for a reason, good luck paying that $175,000 since your doors are now closed. 😙💨 Don't crap on people making you $70,000 a week, cuz once they go, the money goes with them.
First step of being a good manager: Find what works, and what doesn't. Fix what doesn't work, keep what does. Never make a decision solely calculated by profits, without looking into the effects.
When cutting costs one should always think about what makes people buy. Maybe that nice employee or that extra fancy paper, whatever, it's what's bringing people in. In other words, don't count on sales you haven't made. If you drop quality to maximize profits but your sales drop you're not gaining anything.
or on fancy computer generated simulations new gm did that and almost cut our production in half then we were all called into a meeting and told that the changes were here to stay and we just needed to work harder. last i heard they have gone through 6 different gms and lost half of there business. they made the windows for the window nation sales you hear about on the radio constantly.
I’ve got a decent one: I worked in a loss prevention department for a department store. Our manager (who we all liked) finished his criminal justice degree and went to work for the state. It made sense that the most senior detective (who everyone also liked) should be promoted to the position, right? She’d been there for 5 years, she was the obvious choice. Nah, the regional manager brought his buddy in from a store about 45 minutes away to fill the slot instead. The old manager got her a job in his office and the rest of us handed in our resignations on her last day. Fuck ‘em.
Jesse Avila 5 of us. They eventually got up and running again, but the dude had to work open to close for 8 weeks or so. I didn’t lose any sleep over it.🤷🏻♂️
My dad is like the 1st one. He worked at Wells Fargo for 20+ years but when management realised they could hire a new guy for half as much they fired him
Always remember , your boss is not your friend. They can be chummy and you both may even have common interests, but when push comes to shove: Your boss will always choose the extra dollar or you everytime.
It's his job to maintain the fiscal viability of the company. A boss has to weigh a lot of factors in determining a correct course of action, and most people are never in the position to understand that. Don't get me wrong, there are absolutely crappy bosses out there, but let's not make out like they're all evil incarnate.
Mine was pretty alright. The only time he fired anybody was when the company weasel dug up enough dirt or manufactured enough problems for someone he didn't like that the boss would be outvoted by management to let the poor guy go.
Agree, but a smart boss knows a less dollar now can mean extra 5 tomorrow. An employee who had a pass on leaving early for their daughter's recital is more likely to push harder for the company. A loyal employee is more valuable than a missing working hour or day.
I was being offered a promotion. I got 2 herniated disks from my job. Had to go on physical therapy for 5 months. Company cancelled my disability, so I couldn't get the surgery I needed. I come back to work, and they penalize me on my annual raise. I get 7¢ raise, because I have an attendance problem from being on disability for 5 months, not smiling enough, and not helping customers; I worked night shift, and we have no customers. They started pretending that the promotion offer never happened. I disputed, but they threatened to fire me. Can't afford a lawyer, and needed to pay medical bills. Since then, I found a different job, but the pay isn't great so I work the bad job too, but now only part time. Most recently, they've increased our minimum wage, but too away my 10 years of raises, calling the minimum increase a raise. Now I make the same as a new employee, after being there 10 years, and outlasting every boss I had. No Promotions. I Hate Target.
Heard a story from a friend who worked there about a guy who was a model employee: no attendance issues, great with customers, absolute work beast. During his review he was given an 8 cent raise. Without saying a single word, he got up from his seat, walked out of the office, then out of the building, and never came back.
I remember back when I worked in this produce market. That place was so run down it had that had no ac, had barely any items to buy, and only like 2 lanes to check out and it was in an area close to restaurants and other stores so we get real busy during times of the day. However, what really sucked about it was the break room and breaks in general. In the breakroom, we had a really small fridge (like one of those small cube ones), like a small table with only 2 chairs, and a vending machine that only depense offbrand water that was cheap for only 50 cents a bottle while that same brand sells on the shelves for $1.50 (and they're not even refrigerated). The manager was a huge jerk and she was a neatfreak who didn't like us messing up the breakroom whenever we eat (even though it was a really small area). The vending machine in particular was the only saving grace at the time because what we'll do is buy like two bottles of water that could hold us (yes water holding us for food...) until we could leave for the day and go to those restaurants to eat. However, she got upset when the trashcan (smaller than most bathroom ones) kept getting filled up with water bottles and that we're buying more from the vending machine than the $1.50 hot-as-hell ones from the floor that she actually had the vending machine taken down. So, of course we then started to bring our own water bottles from home (making sure we only drink one) only for her to say unless they were bought from the store, no outside drinks at all. So, we then started to take our breaks outside so we can drink our water in peace (I even sat in my car for extra caution) and she was upset when one of us wasn't inside so she could "monitor our breaks" (forgot to mention she was VERY strict about how long we took our breaks) so she banned us from eating outside and shortened the breaks from 15 minutes to, guess it, 5 (which I'm sure is illegal of course). After having our cool water taken away, our eating actual food privilages, and even a break as long as the trip there, 98% quit all at once (well me and two people quit on the spot while the ones who were off caught wind of that stupid change and didnt' come in either). Now, I heard that market closed down like a couple of months later because when she tried to hire more people, she mentioned the new break rules and they were like "Nope".
This is the same type of bosses who hire live-in housemaid-slaves from another country. The bosses would literally make the maids' lives in their homes hell, like not permitting the maids to sit on their common area anywhere or eat with them even though the maids' cook, clean, babysit, maintain & guard the house like a loyal house spirit, & their provided personal room? The smallest back-closet behind the kitchen or basement corner, with a shoddy piece of a mattress and a battered pillow. Their passport & personal documents were always held hostage so the maids can't simply run away or go back to their home country. Salary? Minimum wage, & only eat what's not the family's food & can only get out of the house if the families need them to babysit the children/babies. Current/modern day slavery made possible by human-trafficking agencies disguised as international work agencies.
Back in 2017 I used to work at Goodwill and one of the manager's suffered from a heart murmur. She went to her cardiologist on Wednesday I believe and was told she had to have open-heart surgery otherwise it could be fatal because of how bad the leakage looked in the hospital tests. Upon hearing this news, she spoke with the store manager and requested time off for this procedure and even showed the medical information to prove it was legit. The store manager reluctantly accepted the request but then proceeded to demand with an attitude, " I need you here on Monday, can you be here Monday!?" The manager said, "I don't know. The doctor wants the surgery done asap because it could be fatal and bed rest is mandatory for the recovery period until it heals." Well on Monday the manager didn't show up for work and the store manger called her and asked, "Are you coming in today?" and the manager (barely able to speak and answer the phone because of all the medications) answered saying, "I can't. They had to do a triple by-pass surgery because it was more severe than they had previously thought." Well the store manager told her on the phone, "Okay. Well don't bother anymore." Right after the store manager hung up her cellphone, she fired the manager for 'Job Abandonment' or something very close to that. Once that happened all the workers there began hating the store manager even more than before to the point where shortly after, I was fired for calling in sick because I had a fever, several other workers began seeking other places of employment. About a month after all this, I heard from a former co-worker that supposedly several other employees quit and found jobs elsewhere because of all that.
One thing I've learned is to not expect a company to really give a crap about you no matter how long you've been working there or the work you've put it. It's always best to keep that resume polished up and have a good amount of saving to be able to painlessly transition to another job if needed.
After about a dozen years at my job my manager told me I should be grateful to have my job. It would have taken very little effort to get a job that paid just the same if not more.
I've got one for this. Last summer at the factory I was working at, some asshole called OSHA and reported that they tripped on one of the fan cords (large stand-up fans) and that they felt like they were a hazard and that they didn't feel safe. So when OSHA contacted the company about it, what did the company do? Cut the cords on every fan, disassembled them, and placed them on the far back walls, which were so far away, we only got the smallest hint of a breeze. To add insult to injury, they placed fans directly at the parts we were making because "they needed to cool or they would warp". The fans were locked in place so we couldn't turn them towards us. It was pretty obvious that it was just to rub it in our faces. Mind you, it gets so hot in there that we would be sweating even with the stand-up fans. Without them, it was like an oven. Easily over 100 degrees. A lot of people quit after that, myself included.
My customer service department once had a meeting with the company VP. This was the only VP of the company, before this person came on, the company bragged they had no VPs. Guess who was family of the owner? Anyway during this meeting with the VP, they "coached" us on several Customer Service methods that sounded dangerously like "The Customer is Alway Right," junk. Until this point, our customer service department was focused on being fair both to the customer and the company and was well thought out. My concerns were confirmed when the VP told us, "don't stand on policy based on principals!" I almost walked out the door right there, wanting so badly to ask them, "if we don't stand on policy based on principals...When do we stand on policy? Why have a policy in the first place?" The next three years, morale continue to drop because of exceedingly bad customer service decisions from corporate, (we would tell someone no, corporate would turn around and tell them yes and vice versa, and our inability to get corporate to actually give us anything about how we were supposed to deal with customer complaints, in writing. The company very swiftly became a "customer is always right," company, in deed if not in word. Do you know what "The Customer is Always Right" means? It means, "The Employee is Always Wrong."
So when I was still in the army I was in Charlie Platoon and we had a Sgt die in a motorcycle accident in Bravo Platoon. This was a week before we were supposed to deploy. Our LT Coronal had rushed our deployment, we were supposed to get a month off before we deployed and after we came home but since he rushed it we were going to get a week. Well this SGT died and he hadn't done the base's motorcycle course. So in formation he called him a SHITBAG. I was facing all of Bravo platoon and the moment he said that they all instantly got enraged. They all kept their cools but I could see it in their eyes. He then proceeded to have everyone who owned a motorcycle take the course and had everyone who didn't stand in formation for hours instead of being with out families. Dozens of wives and kids would watch us just stand there in full battle rattle. They all hated our leadership. During deployment I heard that my company would steal his personal belongings, they would cut his personal internet cable and flat out made his life hell. He deserved it for calling one of his soldiers a shitbag.
The second one is really dumb. I'll talk to my coworkers... but in the end that's all they are. I've worked places where people will be your buddy one moment, then backstab you the next.
When i was at mid school, our math teacher often smoked near the open window in the corner of classroom while we were studying. He was such a tough, well-respected teacher that no student dared to skip his class.
Got rid of all the managers the employees actually liked they listened to us and had our backs, replacing them with new outside hires who had no idea how to run our store and we had to manage them until they settled into their role. Also, he cut everyone's hours and started understaffing us to the point where we couldn't live up the store's reputation of having plenty of employees on hand to help customers. He also implemented countless new policies that actually make it harder to do our jobs and even outsourced a couple of responsibilities to outside people, ensuring nobody would have too many hours dealing with everything the store requires. He also mistreats the demo ladies to the point where I have to stop myself from punching him in the face every time I see him interacting with them.
Exact same thing happened at my previous workplace, with the addition of literally impossible new tasks/requirements/standards (that you would get screamed at if you did not do), and many departments that should've had a team of 2-3 people being assigned solely to 1 person, with no one even covering for them on their days off. Employee morale dropped like a rock, lots of people no-call-no-showing or quitting. I was already in a horrific state with my mental illness at the time, and the stress/atmosphere definitely contributed to me ending up hospitalized. They fired me while I was gone and have made it their mission to convince every place I apply to not to hire me. Fuck that place and even if the company is still highly regarded I hope that at least that store tanks and all the good employees get out of there
@@sinceritynature202 I am so sorry. A bad workplace sucks. I'll bet they also did the classic "Let's assign one person to a normally 2-3 person task and then get mad when they're unable to do it in the same time it'd take 2-3 people."
@@ElvenRaptor Yep, they sure did! They did it to other people too, and that was almost my entire experience there; I single-handedly did everything for our second biggest department for over half a year. I had the most truck to unload and put out on the shelves, the most backstock to register and organize, the second-most displays to build and set up, the second-most amount of people to help....... on top of being one of the only people assigned to answering the phones, putting items on hold, cleaning the dressing rooms, gathering returns from the front........ and i KNOW I'm forgetting things. Looking back I don't know how I juggled all that for so long,,, And yes, they absolutely got mad that i couldn't do it as fast as groups of people working together. And that was Before management and corporate went off the wall nuts and started demanding literally impossible feats out of us. Retail is hell, even with the more well-regarded companies. Screw T****t.
@@sinceritynature202 Hear hear! And you don't just LOVE getting caught by a customer with questions about a department other than your own, but you kind of have to be the one to help them because of how under-staffed you are, and you flail about trying to get them the thing they want.
The thing where vacation and sick days getting rolled together and just called Paid Time Off ( with less overall time than previous ) is becoming more and more common. Only people that's ever a win for is the company
Yep that happened at my job the year before I got there. Well. My OLD job. Thing's kept getting worse and they laid off like 40% of their employees and I heard they might close that branch all together soon.
Imforming us at our mandatory unpaid staff meeting that the reason we don't receive our electronic tips is because the business doesn't make enough money to pay us without including the tips in our direct deposits. Spoken by the owner wearing all brand new Gucci attire after he rolled up in a brand new Jaguar.
Told my boss I had a funeral to go to, and his response was oh well I have a job you need to do that day... then tells me he would help so it would be quick and stood there watching me work, then when I should have been leaving to go to the funeral he said he was leaving because he had somewhere important to be... so I quit that following tuesday when we had another job exactly like the one we did the day I had the funeral
Bumbleness Supreme Brady in the us military, service dogs are actually one rank higher than their handler, so that if the dog is abused the officer can be charged with disrespecting a senior officer.
HCA company bought out my hospital I worked at and pulled similar BS on me. Was great employee, call rating we’re excellent on review, got along with fellow employees. Only issue I had was with management due to me disagreeing with all the petty crap they kept trying to make us do that didn’t have anything to do with our job. They did there pay evaluation finally after a year and a half of promises and behold the score I received was just below what was needed to get a raise. While a few others did get a raise. And was told that due to my disagreement with management I would never get a raise or promotion with this company. I handed my resignation in that day and found me an even better job a few days later in my field. Last laugh was on them as i wipes my computer of all my knowledge I had stored over the years that only I had and created myself. So when I received a call about it I laughed at then and said best of luck A-holes.
@@hellshakeyano2327 I believe the quote was "everybody's Give-a-Shitter broke that day", referencing the phrase "to give a shit" meaning "to care about something". If everyone has an imaginary emotional device that helps you "Give-a-Shit", an atmosphere of poor morale can cause those devices to malfunction.
Nick Pevey Not surprised. Some people who work and eat at places like Burger King, mcdonalds and other similar fast food places can be time to time crazy. Usually this is dependent on which location but if there are good ones then there will always be bad ones
Here, I'd like to reiterate an adage/motivational poster I came up with myself one day: We Workers only need THREE things from Management: Tell us what to do. Give us what we need. And stay out of the way! Stories like this are the result when Management either fails to give the Workers what they need (in the forms of personal freedom and friendly atmosphere) and/or staying out of the way (in the forms of setting (unreasonable) restrictions and making (again, unreasonable) demands. There's a really thick (not fine) line between informing your Workers about how to accomplish the tasks of operating the business and trying to manipulate every aspect of an employee's workday.
It was even worse at the group-home agency I worked for. They sucked at everything. 1. Tell us what to do. Well, they were telling us what to do all the time but not necessarily clearly and sometimes with contradictory instructions. I can't let Freddy choose whether or not he takes a shower AND force Freddy to take a shower. So which do you want? 2. Give us what we need. Hell no! We had a Type 1 diabetic move in and they wouldn't let us use the internet to google carb counts for foods. We were supposed to use a little booklet they gave us that didn't have fiber counts (endocrinologist wanted us to subtract fiber from carb count) and was missing a lot of perfectly ordinary foods like green beans. The supposedly set up access online to a carb count web site but they had so many firewalls up on the computer that it couldn't run. We'd sneak into the bathroom and look things up on our cell phones in spite of the no-cell-phones policy. Which, of course, proved that we didn't need access to tools to get accurate carb counts, right? 3. Stay out of the way. Hell, no! Micromanagement all the way! I even got scolded when I tried some new recipes and got a client with a notoriously poor diet (causing him severe health problems) to request fresh vegetables when we went shopping. This was "forcing" him to eat what I wanted. Um, no. It was offering "Raymond" foods he wasn't familiar with and him discovering that he really liked them. Imagine getting chewed out because a resident wanted to eat lots of fresh vegetables instead of minute rice smothered in butter and cheese!
Sounds like a lot of these issues could be helped by a union. It's us versus them, even if they are all nice to you at the end of the day their job is to drive you to do more for less.
Not necessarily. Some of the worst jobs I,ve ever had were union jobs. They would do something small for us, like negotiate a small pay raise and then demand we pay higher dues. And there's something to be said if there's such thing as a Union Workers Union. However, I'm talking about Unions. What you're talking about is the right to unionize. That's something completely different. Unions do jack shit. They never have. The right to unionize does everything. If a group of waiters all decide to collectively quit, that's not a union. That is the right unionize. You don't need any stupid middleman who never had a real job push your boss around to do that.
@@TheRisky9 They aren't an instant cureall, & unions can get oversized, old, & lose purpose... But they are an effective & truly democratic process for employees to improve working conditions. One solution doesn't work across all industries, but a union is not monolithic & unchangeable. The solution requires the employees to participate for their own well being.
@@twig8523 How is a group demanding I join them to even work and then taking my money and supporting political groups I don't believe in democratic? What is democratic about that?
@@TheRisky9 I don't know what it's like where you are, but here union dues are based on how much you get paid, and the reps are all elected and if they tried to pull a stunt like just increasing our dues they wont be getting elected again. Sure there are corrupt unions and union bosses but joining a union is still the best way to ensure you are treated better at work, in terms of pay and rights.
The one about "shaking stuff up" and "leaving your mark" hit home for me. Many years ago I was in the Army in a relatively small communications unit. We got a new 1SG who used to be 1st Cav. I guess he assumed all commo units were lazy and less hardcore than a "real" unit so he decided to make PT worse, to the point people would get hurt. We also went home much later after most units were already off. This wouldn't be a big deal if we actually had work to do but we were basically kept there with nothing to do but wait for end of day formation. Way more room inspections and even made soldiers who lived off base stay until they were finished. Instead of toughening up the unit, all he did was kill morale and a lot of people did whatever they could to get a PCS to a different unit.
Looking to retire in 3-4 years; Hold a meeting after asking everyone what their ideas were for the company in the long term; Tell everyone he's the only one who basically does all the work and should sell the company to fund his retirement? I mean, I'd not even walk out the door without quitting right then and there. Half a dozen employees? Have fun selling it when everybody quits, projects to be finished and deadline fines accumulating. See how that goes. It would be the perfect chance to turn the tables and leave him with a blazing, scorching fire to put out with his retirement funds. You don't do that to your employees.
They held a meeting where they told us that they were getting rid of performance appraisals, getting rid of merit pay, and after certification they would be paying everyone the same, whether they had been there for one year or twenty. They then adjusted the pay grades of all the employees on the floor, and after they rolled all this out, productivity across the plant dropped by around 30 per cent. They also ground employees into the ground, and when we went to management with our concerns they told us, "If you don't like it, quit. There are 200 people lined up outside of here to take your jobs. . That place started going downhill fast. Employees stopped caring about their work, some employees quit, and now they are scrambling because they no longer have people lined up outside of there to work, so they advertise on the local radio and in the papers, and they hadn't had to do that ever before, from what I was told, and that facility was there since the 70's or so. One of the last meetings I went to before I tended my resignation, they were telling us to tell our friends and family that there were jobs open there for the taking. We laughed at them. I even went as far to tell them that not only do I like my friends and family too much to ask them to go through the same crap that I do, but they've seen what this facility has done to me over the years, and they want no part of you.
It's pretty funny when I hear bosses say the "you're replaceable, I can get someone else to do that job easily." It's obviously a lie and everyone knows it, but our eyes kinda gloss over and we nod our heads because we don't want to get into an actual conversation with someone this obviously dishonest.
my boss likes to use very personal insults and jabs on her employees and I found that out from day one when she told my coworker that her laziness (she works two jobs and very honestly works harder than any other employee) is the reason she's working two jobs, never has free time, and has a son but no husband (she got a divorce a while back.) So now when my boss tries to pry details about my life out of me I give her as little to work with as possible. She found out I'm going to college, high school, and work all at the same time. Rather than having a bit of sympathy for my situation, she now breaks out the "Aren't you supposed to be smart?" insults as much as possible. "I need three tomatoes. One plus one plus one equals three. Got that, schoolgirl?" So I'm going to make sure she finds nothing else out at all about me. She accused me of stealing. Turns out she miscounted the money in the register. She did not apologize after threatening to call the police/fire me. She constantly walks by me and knocks shit out of my hands. Does not apologize for that, either- just looks at me and keeps walking. We're severely understaffed. I was hired only about two weeks ago and I often have to run the store completely by myself. I'm almost working full-time with no benefits to go with it. Now I can see why we're understaffed- nobody wants to work here. My coworkers are both planning on quitting in July and that's around the time I'll have to quit because I'm going away to college. Lmao.
I don’t understand these people. They seem to roll over and take it when most of these issues are blatantly illegal. Grab your nuts and sue, you’ll win so long as you document stuff.
Most of these stories are from the us, where there are few unions, and many, many states are "right to work." What sounds illegal or scummy is generally perfectly legal, courtesy of state and federal government.
Yeah suing sounds great but a lot of these jobs like wall mart will destroy you in a courtroom on top of it if you work for a company like wal-mart you don’t have the luxury of affording a lawyer.
When they instituted rules specific to me... Like I wasn't a bad employee just two old hags hated me. Owner told me to ignore them. More BS about how it was a formality to appease the senior staff. Everyone but Phil can listen to music on the job. We where a landscaping company. Most of my time was spent watering plants.
Years ago I worked for a fair sized company with about 50 people on payroll. We constantly got told that our company was not profitable and that we had to do long hours due to limited cash flow to keep the head company from shutting us down and us all losing our jobs. We even got shown supposed operating costs numbers off the company books during company meetings to prove it. Come the first week of January we get hit with the local news paper running a front page color ad proclaiming our branch of the copertion cleared $10 Million and change profit (most profitable branch by a insane margin) for that year (sponsored by the head company itself)! That was over $200K profit made off every single persons work that year when the average base pay was maybe $35 - $40K per person at best. Turns out the branch management were running fake books with fake numbers at meetings to help get the branch profits up as high as possible without drawing suspicions because they got a big percentage cut off said profit. Second week of january almost nobody showed up for work and local management got bulldozed by corporate head for that stunt.
I got hired for a tech support position and the first day of training they told I'd be making outbound sales calls for Nestlé water cooler cleaning service. I quit without even a word.
Told me you better not get hurt at work because if you do, you're better off dragging yourself out to the street and saying it happened off the clock. Allowed employees to threaten and physically grab other employees and turned a blind eye to it because they were chums. Allow the old guys to get away with refusing to do their job because "they're so close to retirement, they'll be gone soon" (they may retire in a year or three)
This was more like management had seen an issue of "Forbes" in a waiting room, read an article on "The Top Things Managers Do to Kill Morale" and treated it like a to-do list. It was an agency that ran a bunch of group homes for developmentally disabled adults. Employees in that setting tend to be either there because they love the residents and will do everything in their power to give them the best lives possible or just there to get a ton of overtime pay and do as little actual work as possible. And most of the stupid that the managers did rewarded the slackers and punished everybody else. At one house, the employees got into a pissing match about dishes. One shift would leave dishes in the drainboard to dry. No big deal, right? At most homes you'd just put the dishes away and leave a clean load for the next shift, right? Each shift puts away the previous shift's dishes when they get dry. But in this house the next shift wasn't about to do the previous shift's work, so they just left the clean dishes in the drainboard and the dirty dishes in the sink. More and more dirty dishes accumulated and eventually they just started buying paper plates so that they wouldn't have to wash dishes at all. So management responded by a "Nobody is ever allowed to leave dishes to dry in the drainboard" policy. Not even if you put them away later in your own shift. We complained that this was unsanitary and too time-consuming and would be told, "Stop making such a fuss about such a little thing." Management would even check the camera feed from the houses (Don't even get me started on the cameras!) if they got up to pee at night to make sure that overnight staff weren't letting dishes air dry. If they saw dishes in a drainboard they'd call some poor first-tier supervisor who was working an overnight and tell her to call the staff at that house and tell them to dry the dishes and put them away. They NEVER directly dealt with the staff that were causing the problem, and of course they never corrected the bad behavior. But everybody else got to be miserable. And they were like this with EVERY. SINGLE. PROBLEM. They would never address it directly with the employees that were causing the problem but would instead crack down on everybody else. One of the final morale killers was to deal with staff that would just sleep during overnight shifts. (Dangerous -- you were there to make sure that vulnerable disabled people were safe.) Instead of dealing with those specific employees, they set up our task-tracking system so that you needed to go into the computer every fifteen minutes and click that you were awake. That meant that if you were busy -- meal prep for the next day, sweeping and mopping, cleaning the fridge, etc. -- you had to set a timer to stop what you were doing and run to the computer to click the button. If you were just chilling -- reading or watching TV -- you had to set a timer and run in and hit the damned button. At one house, there was a client who would have emotional meltdowns in the night and need for a staff to stay right in her bedroom with her, next to her bed, while she fell back asleep. This might take three, four, five hours and was emotionally draining. And in the middle of it the phone would ring -- you'd be in trouble for both not being where they could see you on the camera but for not clicking the thing every fifteen minutes. And the phone call would set "Mary" off and you'd be back to square one. Sometimes they didn't call you but would send you an email asking why you weren't clicking the button on time. I wanted to shout at them, "Surely you saw me on your fucking camera mopping the goddam floors, you micromanaging jackass!" Assholes. I could go on for a month about how horrible they were.
i work in the field too, and I would have ripped someone a new one at corporate for this crap. My place of business of helping developmental disabilities too, and we're broken up into a two county set up: a northern and southern, generally the north tries there best to make things work and do well ( where I work.) South has major staffing issues, The moral killer in a way was they would post boards for shifts to pick up with the differentials to everyone... up here it would be pulling teeth to get even 2 dollar differential on busy weeks ( county fair week, holidays, you name it.) But the south? They got 15,30, sometimes 50 dollar differential because no one showed up for shifts. This whole thing came to a head when people in the north started asking corporate? " How come we don't get these differentials?" And corporate had to figure out what the hell to do to get people to come into work without giving them so much money, it was so bad they had to bring our director ( tough but fair, kinda salt of the earth lady, who i like because she helped me get bereavement leave when my wife passed away.) To clean up their mess. At my house specifically, we had a guy who did not fit in the house and the people there, who was constantly attention seeking, and had issues with drugs and just being a jerk. He left for a medical reason, was pulled from agency care from the guardian (which was a nightmare in itself, and the logs I wrote saved me and my supervisor's skin. remember to CYA and write EVERYTHING down for people.) A few months after he was out of care, we get wind he was coming back to the agency. Me, an Awake Over Night, and a couple of other workers at the time basically told the northern Director " If he comes back to this house after everything that family put us through, we'll walk." We got a new person in and she is fitting right in with everyone, and that guy is in a nursing home somewhere near my states capital. But all in all, this place is pretty good and I love working with the people and coworkers, as other houses in the agency are catty as hell.
Here's a story my sister told me at a place she used to work at: One time, the manager called each of them individually for a meeting, discussed payment, and gave them a raise based on inflation. And he told them not to talk about how much they got with their colleagues. It turns out everyone had been given a different number for what should have been the same, and none of them had any idea why. there was also a time where he said that he's going to fire *someone* in a week, without specifying who. there were other problems that I don't remember, but it was this that caused my sister to put in her notice. I don't know if he followed through with firing someone.
it's illegal to prevent your workers from discussing wages with one another lol...my coworkers and i all know each other's payment. It's not rude to talk about, companies want you to think that. It's a way to look out for one another.
The moment you see the boss or CEO or whoever in charge buy some super, unnecessary, expensive thing and announced a "record year but no bonus" that is the moment you should look for another place to work
one of the largest retail supermarkets in Australia (you could commend them for how "fresh" they are)... union worked with the company on a new EBA, it sucked, i knew it sucked, but the union pushed the yes vote... immediately after the yes vote the supermarket giant starts planning an entire restructure to the company which involved getting rid of half of the managers and forcing them to reapply for their jobs or take a payout and leave. Among further staff and budget cuts even though customers complain there's not enough people serving most of the time... soon after the changes took effect, government pushes a bill to make wage theft illegal, so low and behold the very next day a press release comes out and we find out the company has underpaid all of their salaried staff a figure of at least $300million over the past 10 years that was "an error" and totally not wage theft... good times
I worked for that very same company, amazes me that they are able to make a profit the way that joint is run. Seriously I've never seen a company with so many levels of management that have no idea what they're doing and so few workers. The "union" is a joke and a half.
People forget that any position where they are in charge of people is a leadership position. Doesn’t matter if you are a team leader in charge of 2 people or a CEO in charge of millions; you set the standard. Really disappointing how many people do not understand this simple concept.
The mistake the guy who stood up in the meeting made was referencing his individual situation. The company claimed they had an unusual/unexpected/whatever deadline to meet, but after everyone stepped up their production and helped meet the deadline, a new deadline was announced and extra effort was required again. And then AGAIN. In the wake of these moving goalposts, the better response to "We're disappointed in you for not being able to function at 150% AT ALL TIMES; where is your professionalism?" should have been: "Where is YOUR professionalism, [Middle] Management? Your job is to manage people. YOUR people busted their humps and put in astounding amounts of overtime because YOU made promises beyond the production team's normal capacity. And we came through for you. However, the unspoken agreement was that once the crisis was over, we'd go back to normal production, but that didn't happen. If the production schedule continues to remain accelerated, it's because YOU FAILED to present reasonable timetables to Upper Management. THAT is what is truly unacceptable. We are human; there are limits; and if what I've said makes you angry, remember that anyone you might consider replacing us with will also be human. This is not a stone from which you can wring any more blood."
Sounds good in theory but in reality its much worse. Here's why: in both statements you win and the boss looks bad but while the original statement set a trap for the boss to walk right into and make an ass of himself, yours is a direct attack. While the former makes your boss vulnurable it doesn't leave any openings from your side like yours does. Yours is a direct challenge to your boss that forces him to respond even more aggressively than in the former statement because it directly questions his competence AND his authority which he'll be forced to reestablish while dealing with his anger. It's fine if your goal is to tear him down and get him out of his position but you'll risk your own in the process. In essence you traded tangible security and control for percieved dominance. Unless you're a qualified and recognized option to snatch his job or you're about to snatch his wife, it's not a good trade. Second is the way it affects the coworkers response. While the former addresses their concerns directly and puts you and them on the same page, yours addresses your bosses conduct. You essentially turned an "us vs you" into a "you vs me". The things discussed aren't easy to say from an employers position so your coworkers are already unlikely to chime in but you went ahead and turned it into an all out battle between you and him and left everyone else sit back and watch the whole thing unfold. His responses also won't be concerning anyone else but you. Meanwhile if you left the former as is he can't respond in any way that wouldn't address everyone in the room because the topic of conversation is a collective concern.
@@limazulu6192 I wouldn't recommend saying those exact words. My hyperbole was worded to get this complex idea (that management has a role and responsibilities in this area) across to those reading the comments section in as few words as possible since not everyone is good at reading nuance on UA-cam. So, you are correct. That level of blunt challenge would not be the way to approach that exact situation in reality.
Used to work at a service department at a dealership. One day out of the blue, our scheduling system got completely bulldozed without warning. They switched our system from one to another overnight with no warning, and neither system communicated with eachother so we were getting double booked, and they added a new feature which allowed our call center to add appointments inbetween other appointment slots. Nobody had any idea why we were so busy and everyone was panicking. Then later that day corporate visited us to find out why our service department was such a shitshow. General manager pulled us into the office to explain everything and said our admins (who sit at computers all day as part of their job) need to get up and move cars around when we’re busy. Service manager wasn’t even aware until it happened, saw it was a disaster and told them to can it before we get flooded with bad surveys. As a point of reference our dealership was #1 in service, #1 in used sales, and #3 in new sales for that manufacturer in the region before they did this. Our service department closed out 200-250 work orders a day.
The story about CSC really hit home; I worked for that company for 16 years, and left when they eliminated my position after I'd come out as gay. Looking back on it, being not-technically-fired was a blessing; I realized that I actually hated that company every single day I worked for them from start to finish. I never met a single person who genuinely liked their job in all my time there; no one ever had 'good' days, only ones where they were slightly more or slightly less pissed-off and exhausted than the day before.
Promoted me to manager but still didnt bump me to the pay that a basic employee was making 3 years prior when they had opened up. Also denied me a raise when they promised me one so I just decided to not do work for an entire year and no one noticed.
I'm working as a trainee accountant. It was going fine for the first few weeks as I was picking things up fairly quickly. But one day my manager took my into his office for a performance review and brought out a list he was keeping. He'd been adding to that list every time I made a mistake and never corrected me there or taught me the correct way to begin with. Some of those things on the list I wasn't ever informed of. He ranted at me for a good 10 mins about how I'm "Not dedicated to the job" despite the fact I was the only person to stay behind for a while on some days to finish off whatever task I was doing. Plus I was always willing to help somebody with their task, or answer a customer's query if I had free time. He expects me to find better ways of doing things, despite the fact I'm new and trying to learn how things work in accounting. Every time I come up with a new idea to reduce mistakes or save time, he disregards it, or add his own spin to it to make it sound like it was his idea and I just helped. He doesn't let anybody talk in the office either. he keeps to himself in his office and never interacts with people. He tends to talk down to others like a teacher talking down to a naughty student. He finished by telling me if I don't improve I'll be fired at the end of the month. I've now been here for 4 months (before the corona virus closed all businesses in the UK) and I've not been fired yet... I am however, looking for a new job. I also no longer go the extra mile for this company, I don't stay behind or help with extra stuff anymore. That's all it takes to destroy somebody's loyalty. Treat them like shit, not train them properly and accuse them of "not being good / dedicated enough" when they only just started.
Kroger's "Que-Vision" system. It is conceptually a good idea. It uses heat sensors to determine how many customers are in line and how many registers should be open. Unfortunately, it is poorly executed. It cut people's hours, and it kept relying on other departments to come down and run registers just because "the computer says so." Even if it was hardly busy. Not a half-hour goes by without someone shouting on the intercom "X to the front for cashier help please." If scores were bad, employees were disciplined. It was very common. Employee morale tanked. Departments hated each other. Every department hated the front end department. It was a crapshow. I'm glad I don't work there anymore. It got more and more toxic every day.
Nocturnal X well no wonder it’s fucked. Mine is unionized and takes 10% of paycheck at $8.25 hourly for benefits that start two years in, on top of that bullshit.
I cannot begin to count how many times I get interrupted from my work just to go man a register every day. The problem was that we really lacked cashiers so not even 10 minutes go by after I leave a register do I get called right back in. I worked in a small department(only 3 people), so typically its 1 person running the place at a time. Some days there are 2, but rarely 3. It was a miracle I even get all my work done.
I work at a place where they calculate labour value based on sales. The store is making a steadily-increasing profit and is raking in dough. They still budget labour and goods, even non-perishables, so harshly that we have staff turnover you wouldn't believe. I have considered quitting so often but the manager is a great person who truly needs the help to stay and I'm stubborn. It's not the manager's fault at all. I've seen what corporate does to her. Imagine having a place where the only limiting factor for profits about 1/3rd of the time is how fast you can serve customers, and budgeting the labour so weakly that you can't even serve customers to any reasonable standards. We're talking two customers coming in at the same time and the entire store falls apart because sometimes you legit only have one person there, and that person can't make clones of itself and do it all in a timely fashion. For you to understand how pathetic it is, they sell chocolate ice cream where I work. It sells extremely easily. They sell it at a rate of a tub per day at a massive markup. In spite of this, they usually only give enough budget to stock two tubs per week to... cut down costs, I guess? So for something like 5 days of a 7 day week we just throw away about a dozen customers a day. The corporate office is straight-up mentally disabled. Imagine having a manager running two stores because you can't even keep managers, that manager ending up in hospital and being told by doctors that if she leaves she could die. They won't let her leave unless she signs a waiver. She can't work. Not imagine the corporate office threatening to withhold the manager's pay if she calls in sick. I was disgusted to come to work finding her in tears and pain on a cocktail of drugs just to do paperwork. I'll never forget what they did. I've got the memory in my back pocket and I have a few things I'm going to do about it.
The PTO one hits pretty hard. I work at a company where we get 10 PTO days per year. Some of us don't go anywhere, and instead actually sell the PTO days back for extra money on a paycheck. But my folks live in Germany and I'm in the States. I've wanted to go visit them for three years now, but because I wouldn't just want to pop in for two days and pop right back, I never could, because I'd always get sick in February that would keep me out of the office for a week, and just like that, now I only have 5 days of PTO left. We have the ability to work from home, and we have been because of this Coronavirus outbreak, but we're only allowed to do that if sick, and last year I got pretty pissed because despite working from home, I still had my PTO time docked. Was pretty angry at my boss for a while despite showing him the logs of what I did.
Changed the break policy , went from 2 ,15 minutes breaks to 1,15 and 1,30 but have to stay an extra 30 min at end of day . Basically equaling over 100 extra hours a year spent at work .
I used to work the checkout area at Walmart. They recently started these core hours things that, in theory, give you a fixed schedule and you'll always have the same hours per week. But every quarter they would pull you into the office for a new core plan and they'd cut you down by a few hours and then give you weird shift start and end times like 11:45am to 8:15pm. Which everyone knew was to save on hours. Then the next quarter people got cut even more, including myself. After that a good number of people found them selves only working 4 to 8 hours a week. So they quit. People who had been there for years were getting shafted for hours, even full timers got cut down to the minimum 34 hours too. Then they stopped scheduling mid shifts for better coverage at self checkout so theft went up and we got told to do better on our own. And there is this thing they do now called "code spark" where floor associates come up to run register because we don't have enough cashiers since they all either quit or aren't scheduled. But there's only one associate scheduled per area anyway so this means there's no floor coverage then to help customers. Then, this Christmas was a slap in the face after it was leaked that management get fixed bonuses of like $2000 and $5000 for the store manager and the employee bonus is based off store performance and personal attendance. Called off more than 4 days in the last 6 months? No bonus for you. Even someone with perfect attendance didn't even get a $100 bonus. The only consolation is that for those of us that remain we are slowly getting to $15 an hour as base pay. That is until cashiers are made obsolete to self checkout.
We weren't allowed to talk to each other unless it was about work. We weren't allowed to play jokes or laugh. We weren't allowed to be in groups larger than two people.
A new manager came in during the closing rush, pulled us each to the back individually and told us how disappointed she was that we turned the machines off too early. She made us each say why what we did was bad. (She does this all while there is a huge line up). We were confused because we followed protocol and did everything we usually do, we just didn’t feel like arguing because we had already had difficulties with this lady. I speak to her privately and let her know that whether or not we made a mistake, her method of addressing it was terrible. She then comes back and does some have ass admission that HER WATCH WAS SET INCORRECTLY and that’s why she thought we turned stuff off too early. She does half assed apologies to everyone. I quit 3 days later.
Worked at a greenhouse, we had to clean buckets. Probably 50-100 people working. The small group sitting with me started flipping the buckets onto a stack in our middle (my idea). We had fun and worked faster than all the others combined. Supervisor came and told us to cut it out. We all worked twice as slow after that. Apparently not having fun at work is more important than getting work done...
My employer took me and a colleague (there were only 4 people in the company) to dinner at a fancy restaurant. He gave us a spiel about how he'd had some inquiries from other companies wanting to buy him out. He said it hadn't happened, but he was interested & it might come to pass if he was offered enough. I knew immediately that the sale had already happened, & told my colleague (who really trusted the boss) so after that dinner. He kept saying, "no, ***y wouldn't do that to us." A couple of months later boss came clean & told us that we were now part of a large international company that had given him the right amount of money & a sweet contract to boot.
I worked for a small painting company of 15-20 employees and management always found a way to nickel and dime us to death (“you needed to buy a specific tool to do this job we sent you on but we’ll only reimburse you 60%”), but the real kick in the teeth came one year when the owner announced we’d be taking pay cuts for the good of the company... and then in the next 12 months bought a house, two ATV’s, a boat, a truck to tow the boat, and took his family on a 3 week vacation to the Caribbean. And then somehow he was surprised and confused when roughly 80% of the staff quit. Oh, he also knowingly exposed some of us to lead paint and when we complained he said to “stop being pussies,” which is funny, because he didn’t have the same attitude when OSHA showed up.
The importance of coffee for the teachers CANNOT be underestimated. When I was in highschool we had 3 week "introduction to worklife" where we would basically get a job for that time we did. I went as an assistant for my old primary school, helping the teachers during class, carrying stuff, etc handywork. Surprisingly major part of my work was to be in the teachers office making copious amounts of coffee.
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[This poster] is like vomiting. [Management] feels better but everyone around feels sick.
I got an easy one for you. A certain fortune 500 company from A to Z gave everyone freshly employed a $3.25 raise while at the same time giving those that were there 3+ years a $.25 raise (oh yeah and took their stock shares away from them). So now a fresh employee and someone been there for 3+ years now are within $.50 of each other. Everyone that use to bust their butts cause they were making $3+ more an hour stopped giving a crap and did the bare minimum. As on 'trainer' put it, "If someone comes and asks me for help now, Ill tell them to figure it out on their own. I mean I'm only making 50 cents more than you." tldr: no cost of living for 3+ years then gave nothing to senior employees but a $3+ per hour to 1st day ones.
Honestly thats a dick move cause they were hired on they didn't have control of how much they made and just taking it out on them for your shitty boss stunt
Wolf Titan Reading then maybe they should hire someone who gets paid enough to do their job and train the new people. Doesn’t sound like it’s worth 50c
@@ThunderStruck15 Still think its a dick move to trat a coworker like that for something they can't control beside they need to work together all its doing is making a us vs them relationship and can give the boss an excuse to fire people when they don't need to
I had my interview with my boss at his house. I met his wife and daughter that night. He told me I'd get a $3 raise after my 3 month probation period. When the probation period was up, I brought up the raise, he said he didn't remember telling me that. Told me, I'll talk it over with the wife when he got home. Next day he tells me that I didn't deserve it, but he was willing to compromise for a $1 raise. Instantly lost respect for they guy. I was the only employee working there.
first story is exactly why if you are a worker you should never be loyal to any company. You are nothing but another number to the higher ups and they will fire you if it benefits them
I worked for a man who put scripture, aimed at women, up over the time clock.(We were a mostly female staff) He had just joined a new church and thought he was "guiding the women."He quickly removed it when we threatened a walkout and calls to the ACLU, labor board and anyone else we could think of contacting. I'm a church goer myself and got very angry about it. He later tried to tell us that we needed to work to serve him and not for money in some twisted version of "You can't serve God and Mammon." Newbie Christians are the worst. No one from the original staff works for him anymore. He definitely ruined our morale.
My boss recently cancelled all annual leave till the end of the tax year while he was on annual leave and gave all other management annual leave at the same time the reason he gave for cancelling annual leave the company being in crisis best part the crisis report lists lack of management as the reason for being in crisis... He also underpaid everyone over christmas and did a surprise reversal of bonus' and over time rate over new year and didnt tell staff just let them figure it out when they got their wage slips
And companies wonder why their employees leave or why there's no employee loyalty anymore. Because as soon as something cheaper comes along for the company, management sees it, likes it, and will screw over the lower tier or non-management employees to better them selves
Told us we’d be doing another $65k worth of work ontop of our own job for the same salary and same performance expectations. One year later half the department left. Gfg.
This makes me so thankful for the job I have now. Get to sit at a desk and list stuff on ebay, check stock in a warehouse, record sales, and just generally sit around for most of the day. Only downside is it's 6 days a week and i really miss my free time at home
I worked at a Sears when a new manager was transferred in. He was one of those guys who was short-sighted, but thought himself brilliant. Worse, he somehow got the idea that acting like a fulminating butt-cheese made him a powerful man. We had a monthly program that rewarded the top sales associate. On the first month that the new manager was in, he decided to make the top prize to dine out with him, the manager himself, at a place of the employee's choosing. How that turned out: sales numbers were at the lowest point in the history of the program, and the decision was made not to award the "prize". I suppose that there are worse ways to find out that no one wants to date you, but this was something special.
The guy that said "There's always an excuse" got me so pissed, if I worked under him, right after I get the Christmas bonus check I'd just walk into his office and give him a coffee to celebrate the holidays, then leave and just say "By the way I quit, enjoy the piss mocha late" then flip him off.
I work in IT. My manager held a meeting complaining about how we messed up 40 tickets in one month. He blamed our use of phones. Guess how many tickets we completed in that month? 2500...
Had a boss once who paid dirt for really hazardous work. Way below competitive pay rates. He threw a party at his giant river house once a year, took everyone for rides on his boat, showed off his expensive toys.
former employer decided to give everyone $1 more an hour instead of offering a monthly sales performance bonus........the bonus could earn you another grand a month. I have mentioned this former employer before, guy that let his son take over the business "because he has a degree"
My boss gathered us all outside and said if we weren’t happy we should look for another job. They were only talking to two specific employees, but decided to avoid direct confrontation and lecture all of us. However, that ‘pep talk’ made me, (I was always referred to as their BEST and FAVORITE employee) realize I WASNT happy there. I quit the next week and they were shocked and tried to explain that they were only talking about employees x and y, and begged me to stay. I straight up told them they probably should have dealt with them privately instead of making all their good employees feel threatened. It was good though, that job was really toxic
This is how MP platoons worked in the 1990s era military. I said; nope! And refused to re-enlist. Not going to deal with the scams, double standards & nitwits...
@@DavidLLambertmobile It was still like that in the early to mid 2000s. I hated being a 95B (now designated 31B). Always administering mass punishment. Stupid mandatory fun days. Jacked up leadership that was always pushing us to write 1805s for only lower enlisted. Was so done after my first contract. I should've signed up to be a mechanic or combat engineer.
Restaurant?
I had a similar thing.
I was working for an Electrical Contractor and every single morning we had "meetings". They were supposed to be about safety and today's plan of action, but our superintendent would always just explain that our "production was not as good as it needed to be" and that if anyone wanted to leave, they could walk away then and there.
They never said good job, or that work was going smoothly; despite the general contractors being MORE than happy and thankful with the amount of work we did on a daily basis.
Needless to say a lot of our guys got into contact with me after I walked out and said I inspired them to do what they had wanted to do for years.
@@nGEnigma I knew a jag-off federal VA bureaucrat who told me how the local VA clinic office was having a meeting about scheduled meetings 🤔. I dont even know what %$=÷ means... I worked briefly as a temp employee at a VA clinic near Orlando.gov . We had a VA supervisor mad at us for working on a project & not attending her "mandatory" staff meeting. I was like WTF???... 😠
I worked at Pizza Inn back in the 80's as a teenager. They would dock us $1.50 for each shift to pay for our meals whether we ate or not. The manager only wanted us to eat one plate off the buffet but I said screw that and would bake up a large pizza or a huge double helping of spaghetti, maybe a big sandwich. He kept getting up my ass about how much I food I was taking but I'd just ignore him. They had lots of silly rules like we had to wear black running shoes (paid for by us), no talking in the kitchen, don't toss the dough like "some kind of Italian place." They also shorted the customers on ingredients as a matter of policy. The manager would literally check our scales every hour or so to make sure they were dialed back to save an ounce or two in order to save money. To top it off he would change the schedules almost daily so nobody knew for sure if they were working that day or not. We had to call in and have someone look at the schedule for us every day which tied up the phones a bit. One day I came into work and he starts yelling at me in front of customers and everyone about why I was late. "Uh, I just got out of school and came straight over. You know this. (It's almost a thirty minute drive)" He says that's not an excuse and that I should have phoned ahead to let him know. Honestly, this guy just wasn't playing with a full deck. A few customers who witnessed this walked back out rather than eat there. I didn't need the job, it was just nice for a bit of pocket money, so I politely handed over my apron, took off my shirt and gave it back and told him I quit. After that I told everyone I could about how they were shorting the customers on ingredients. Being a small town word got around quick and they were out of business in a year.
Thank you, you're a hero!!!
Awesome! 👍
I had a pizza place that started sprinkling minced ingredients on their pizza. Must have been putting them in a food processor. Less toppings, higher prices. They're closed now.
@@Warvvolf By "had" you mean "worked at", correct??? Or are you saying you actually ran the business and did THAT lol?
@@HeroSword_P Meaning "I had a pizza place I use to go to." Weird part of the story to focus on.
Where my husband worked the boss said "we can replace all of you!" My husband started looking for a new job that day, has a much better job now.
I don't blame him. Any boss who would say something like that isn't worth the effort of trying to work for.
What managers frequently fail to understand is that "We can replace all of you" translates to "We don't respect the years of expertise you've learned in your field" and/or "We're willing to pay lesser qualified people to do your jobs".
if your job require low qualifications (no grad school degree,-6years of experience in the field) ,chances are,you are not that unique of an employee,if your boss can aford to say that,chances are you are ,the fact your SO, go another job,doesnt mean his boss was wrong.
If we talk about working on mcdonalds,and your manager tells you to work harder or get fired..hes in the right place,veryone can work at mc.
If you are for example an engineer with an mba....
@@freesandals29 why would someone hire people who are all replaceable? sounds like started off not knowing what they were doing. Or they are a piece of sh!t manager. why would the least possible outcome be likely and it be a decent company? game theory dictates that to be very unlikely.
@@freesandals29 Most employees have more education than their bosses. I was a graduate of management studies and my boss just learned from the job and had been there for years. In realitiy, most bosses really have little or no skill or even understanding of what the people they manage, do. In other words the company would come to a grinding haly if the staff were not there but could probably survive for quite some time without the manager. I worked in a department for 6 months with no department manager. It went just fine. They hired a jerk and people have been quitting ever since. and profits have sunk. How is really the replaceable one?
People dont leave their company they leave their boss
Mr Dixon I learned that years ago in a managers training seminar: “When people quit, they are essentially firing their bosses”. I have carried that with me ever since.
Tell that to amazon
Unless you work at hobby lobby, I left both.
Exactly right.
It's hard to find a good boss.
“We need everyone to wait until next week to deposit their paychecks.”
Gotcha, I’ll start looking for a new job.
Isn't it illegal to instruct employees that?
Moon Moon Not sure, but you’re probably right. I was paycheck to paycheck at that point in my life and needed the money.
@@ethanor well I know it's illegal to write bad cheques
they are legally allowed to do this. ANY company WILL implement this when they need time to catch up. Don't talk when you dont understand how BIG money can work
A company is legally allowed to write you a check and tell you to wait a week to cash it because they lack funds? I hope you don't run a business and do that,most states have labor laws, which basically say employees must be paid in a manner that can be turned into cash on demand, ex a check needs to have funds present to be turned into cash.
Following your example then an employee should be able to say pay me this week and I will work next week once I have energy for it!
Last year I asked for a pay rise. Didn't get one due to the "Budget wouldn't stretch"
3 months after they refused, all the managers in the region went on a weekend cruise!
Yep. "Fuck the workers, we got ours." -Everyone in management/administration
@@alicebrown6215 Sad, and unfortunately TRUE 😔
Happens at every,. Damned. Job.
Corporate is a pain every time I ask for a 20 cent raise. While supervisors get a month off every other month. Not kidding.
I work a government job too.
I had a mgr act like that. He said; "oh you do good job, very good." I then said; "I've been here 90 days, can I get a raise?" He says: oh no, no raise, you don't do this this this.... 😡...
Of course the budget wont stretch, they gotta pay for the caviar and French champagne on the cruise somehow, why give the peons 50c an hour extra when we can get the top level caviar instead of the mid level...
Had a manager who’s favorite quote was “less chit chat more break-back”, yeah no one like him at all.
My boss says "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean"
wtf? that would piss me off.
People who say that are often lazy themselves
i had a boss that always said "dont try, succeed!" and while yea we are friends and love the guy i always hated that saying
First guy should have sued for being fired unfairly/illegally.
He dead
MRbeasto123
Sadly that wouldn't have done much if he lived in an "at-will" area or if he didn't have money to afford legal action.
Bitch damn that sucks
Bitch but couldn’t he have cited the rest of the employees as witnesses? Also it sounds like ur talking from experience.
“I could fire you all and replace you with anyone off the street and they would do a better job.” Yeah, he’s not a manager anymore. After about two years worth of turning our branch into a dumpster fire he was demoted and after about six months was sent back to his old branch. He came in the day after he was supposed to be gone and was surprised that the new manager had taken over his office
“There was never any promotion or raise requests while (ex-manager) was in charge.” - head office afterward. Oh really? Because people asked for them and he told us you denied them. Of course he also told everyone that they shouldn’t be struggling with their work load no one else had a problem as people quit right and left. And he tried to ban “gossip” as in we weren’t allowed to talk to each other about problems we were having with our work load
I worked for a small business where the owner liked to tell me this pretty much anytime I did something wrong. He basically forced me into quitting (threatening to dock hours and pay) after working there for over a year, but unfortunately it seems he was right in his particular case.
@@Thuazabi Ah, just because his is a small business right down the street aye?
@@olymolly3637 Basically.
This was close to a decade ago in the Midwest. Largish town, good location. He did at least $350k in revenue in the year before I left, according to the POS logs that I could look at.
For reference, I was in my early 20s and the only other employee that worked there. I got about 16k in pre-tax hourly earnings with no benefits, bonuses or holiday pay. Only reason I was eligible for OT the one week I got it was because it was legally mandated and he couldn't *quite* manage the Christmas rush himself.
Additionally, I was always kept under 40hrs/wk so that I would be classified as part-time and would therefore not qualify for any full-time employment protections.
An even more infuriating part of it was my hourly pay was 35% above the minimum wage for the area at the time, but due to the hourly restrictions he put me under, I was getting the yearly equivalent of a minimum wage job, just with slightly less hours worked.
He treated his customers very well, but I found out from several of them that he had a hard time keeping employees around for more than a few months at a time. Didn't take long to find out why.
I worked for a few other small business before and after that job, and none of them were any better - just bad in different ways. Anytime I hear someone say "small business is the lifeblood of America" I want to spit in their face. Besides being patently false when it comes to actual GDP contribution, it's also misleading.
People imagine small businesses as these Mom-and-Pop stores with kind families running them, when more often than not they're just as cutthroat if not more so than a large business, but with an order of magnitude less oversight and regulation.
Unless you are working for yourself, or you get really lucky with the people running one, you are almost always better off working for a large company.
They fired me, headstocker at the time, 1 guy quit the next night after realizing they had done it and he didnt want to put up with the crap. My replacement didn't want the position at all. One of the other stockers messaged me for the next 2 weeks of work wondering if they could get me back somehow, even though he had no authority in the matter. and Finally the Store manager called me during my first week on a new job wanting me to come back and work for them because they really needed help, told em' to kiss my ass.
boss move. i wish you could have seen their faces.
Why were you fired?
@@31minutesago
Long Story, lots of management not caring.
For tossing an empty can at a wall. Months of stress buildup, the one bad stocker i had would fall asleep on the job but i had no authority to do write ups and had to pass it up to grocery manager to do it (she never would, even with vid proof)
Then she wanted us out one night before management arrived in the morning, we finished up, i even did half of her job for her and we got out 5:55, management arrives at 6. She checked clock time and wrote me up for it, i showed my dissaproval, by tossing an empty can and telling her if she thinks she can do better then prove it.
I left and came back the next morning to talk to store manager, stock crew was still there working, but she was nowhere to be found.
I joined a company in 2005 prior to the recession. It had been losing money for years and I was tasked with turning that around. And so I got to work on that. I learned fairly quickly that the biggest problem was the boss himself. All their methods were archaic. Everything was written down on paper, then shoved somewhere without being properly filed, rather than using computer programs to properly organize that stuff, and provide additional utility. They still hadn't adopted email, and were using exclusively phones and fax. The boss had a tendency of using valuable company resources to do favors for his friends or for himself. Managers didn't have the proper tools to schedule the employees or track inventories, so there were always conflicts and shortages, which caused huge disruptions to sales.
By 2007 I had gotten everyone using email, trained the office staff on using Microsoft Office, implemented a new inventory and scheduling system, and partially curtailed some of my then boss's bad behaviors. And we were once again showing a (small) profit. All the employees seemed to be happy with these new methods and things were running smoother. But once we were back in the black, the boss I guess thought he was okay to revert to bad practices. Not only that, but he took full credit for the turnaround I had almost single-handedly given him. I did get a small raise in 2007, but that was literally my only thanks for saving the business. Anyway, I quit soon after because it was clear the boss was going to have the company back in the red in short order, beginning with several asset purchases that did not make any sense for the company. My departure wasn't the only one. Much of the office staff also left (I still work with a couple today), and in the next two years, plenty of the floor staff also walked. It's like they were shown what the company could be under competent management, only to have the boss throw a dark curtain on it all.
Company filed for bankruptcy in November 2009. I was told their margin for their final full fiscal year was in the realm of -60%.
After 2007 I joined another company that was also struggling. With some smart changes, we managed to weather the recession and the company now has grown 11x what it was in 2008. For my efforts, I was actually properly rewarded this time, both in salary and position.
Derek A I’m glad you saw your worth and left! Glad that you found a much better job too
You are a good man
My dad wanted a day off each week to take me to my Dr appointments.
His boss said no.
My dad tried again, this time saying, if not, I quit.
My dad was the manager of a Midas. Midas corporate loved him, but not his boss.
My dad walked out and the next day all of his customers quit coming.
The shop only had 1 oil change in the following 30 days, then the shop closed its doors. ( She won it on Facebook, it was free )
Midas made them reopen cuz the shop owed a LOT of money to Midas.
Midas was going to forgive the money owed as long as my dad was there.
My dad knew that and I heard him tell his ex boss this - Ex's are Ex's for a reason, good luck paying that $175,000 since your doors are now closed.
😙💨
Don't crap on people making you $70,000 a week, cuz once they go, the money goes with them.
Corporate Darwin Award?
I’d’ve loved to have met your Dad. I’ll bet he was an endless fountain of wisdom when it came to cars.
Now that’s a good one.
What is Midas?
@@alventuradelacruz522 Midas dealer is the place to go for brakes, oil change, tires and all your auto repair needs.
First step of being a good manager: Find what works, and what doesn't. Fix what doesn't work, keep what does. Never make a decision solely calculated by profits, without looking into the effects.
Some people are managers and some become leaders...
When cutting costs one should always think about what makes people buy. Maybe that nice employee or that extra fancy paper, whatever, it's what's bringing people in.
In other words, don't count on sales you haven't made. If you drop quality to maximize profits but your sales drop you're not gaining anything.
or on fancy computer generated simulations new gm did that and almost cut our production in half then we were all called into a meeting and told that the changes were here to stay and we just needed to work harder. last i heard they have gone through 6 different gms and lost half of there business. they made the windows for the window nation sales you hear about on the radio constantly.
I’ve got a decent one:
I worked in a loss prevention department for a department store. Our manager (who we all liked) finished his criminal justice degree and went to work for the state. It made sense that the most senior detective (who everyone also liked) should be promoted to the position, right? She’d been there for 5 years, she was the obvious choice.
Nah, the regional manager brought his buddy in from a store about 45 minutes away to fill the slot instead. The old manager got her a job in his office and the rest of us handed in our resignations on her last day. Fuck ‘em.
Wonder how many of them resigned
Jesse Avila 5 of us. They eventually got up and running again, but the dude had to work open to close for 8 weeks or so.
I didn’t lose any sleep over it.🤷🏻♂️
@@Handsomeanthony68 hahaha
0:25 The company is pretty much responsible for that man's death. Should be held liable.
Ok communist. NO they shouldn't, capitalism means you can do whatever you want, you don't like it go and live in Korea!
@@gothicfan51 you have *got* to be memeing.
@@gothicfan51 /whoosh
Gothicfan51 this dude is either really good at sarcasm, or really dumb. I can’t tell!
Gothicfan51 your comment literally makes 0 sense
My dad is like the 1st one. He worked at Wells Fargo for 20+ years but when management realised they could hire a new guy for half as much they fired him
Always remember , your boss is not your friend.
They can be chummy and you both may even have common interests, but when push comes to shove:
Your boss will always choose the extra dollar or you everytime.
It's his job to maintain the fiscal viability of the company. A boss has to weigh a lot of factors in determining a correct course of action, and most people are never in the position to understand that. Don't get me wrong, there are absolutely crappy bosses out there, but let's not make out like they're all evil incarnate.
Mine was pretty alright. The only time he fired anybody was when the company weasel dug up enough dirt or manufactured enough problems for someone he didn't like that the boss would be outvoted by management to let the poor guy go.
Derek A sure. But don’t expect my loyalty. You won’t give me any.
I don't. If you take care of your employees, they'll take care of you... however, if you don't take care of your employees, they'll take care of you.
Agree, but a smart boss knows a less dollar now can mean extra 5 tomorrow. An employee who had a pass on leaving early for their daughter's recital is more likely to push harder for the company. A loyal employee is more valuable than a missing working hour or day.
I was being offered a promotion. I got 2 herniated disks from my job. Had to go on physical therapy for 5 months. Company cancelled my disability, so I couldn't get the surgery I needed. I come back to work, and they penalize me on my annual raise. I get 7¢ raise, because I have an attendance problem from being on disability for 5 months, not smiling enough, and not helping customers; I worked night shift, and we have no customers. They started pretending that the promotion offer never happened. I disputed, but they threatened to fire me. Can't afford a lawyer, and needed to pay medical bills. Since then, I found a different job, but the pay isn't great so I work the bad job too, but now only part time.
Most recently, they've increased our minimum wage, but too away my 10 years of raises, calling the minimum increase a raise. Now I make the same as a new employee, after being there 10 years, and outlasting every boss I had. No Promotions.
I Hate Target.
Holy crap that's awful.
Heard a story from a friend who worked there about a guy who was a model employee: no attendance issues, great with customers, absolute work beast. During his review he was given an 8 cent raise. Without saying a single word, he got up from his seat, walked out of the office, then out of the building, and never came back.
Changed from merit based raises to market based raises.
Guess who did the bare minimum?
Everyone.
I remember back when I worked in this produce market. That place was so run down it had that had no ac, had barely any items to buy, and only like 2 lanes to check out and it was in an area close to restaurants and other stores so we get real busy during times of the day. However, what really sucked about it was the break room and breaks in general. In the breakroom, we had a really small fridge (like one of those small cube ones), like a small table with only 2 chairs, and a vending machine that only depense offbrand water that was cheap for only 50 cents a bottle while that same brand sells on the shelves for $1.50 (and they're not even refrigerated). The manager was a huge jerk and she was a neatfreak who didn't like us messing up the breakroom whenever we eat (even though it was a really small area). The vending machine in particular was the only saving grace at the time because what we'll do is buy like two bottles of water that could hold us (yes water holding us for food...) until we could leave for the day and go to those restaurants to eat.
However, she got upset when the trashcan (smaller than most bathroom ones) kept getting filled up with water bottles and that we're buying more from the vending machine than the $1.50 hot-as-hell ones from the floor that she actually had the vending machine taken down. So, of course we then started to bring our own water bottles from home (making sure we only drink one) only for her to say unless they were bought from the store, no outside drinks at all. So, we then started to take our breaks outside so we can drink our water in peace (I even sat in my car for extra caution) and she was upset when one of us wasn't inside so she could "monitor our breaks" (forgot to mention she was VERY strict about how long we took our breaks) so she banned us from eating outside and shortened the breaks from 15 minutes to, guess it, 5 (which I'm sure is illegal of course). After having our cool water taken away, our eating actual food privilages, and even a break as long as the trip there, 98% quit all at once (well me and two people quit on the spot while the ones who were off caught wind of that stupid change and didnt' come in either). Now, I heard that market closed down like a couple of months later because when she tried to hire more people, she mentioned the new break rules and they were like "Nope".
Cute avatar c:
@@lol70721 lol she types out this foot long blob of text and all you say is cute avatar! That's hilarious!
I guess she didn't *actually* want anyone to work for her. "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Some people need to learn that when you're in a hole it's time to quit digging.
This is the same type of bosses who hire live-in housemaid-slaves from another country. The bosses would literally make the maids' lives in their homes hell, like not permitting the maids to sit on their common area anywhere or eat with them even though the maids' cook, clean, babysit, maintain & guard the house like a loyal house spirit, & their provided personal room? The smallest back-closet behind the kitchen or basement corner, with a shoddy piece of a mattress and a battered pillow. Their passport & personal documents were always held hostage so the maids can't simply run away or go back to their home country. Salary? Minimum wage, & only eat what's not the family's food & can only get out of the house if the families need them to babysit the children/babies. Current/modern day slavery made possible by human-trafficking agencies disguised as international work agencies.
Back in 2017 I used to work at Goodwill and one of the manager's suffered from a heart murmur. She went to her cardiologist on Wednesday I believe and was told she had to have open-heart surgery otherwise it could be fatal because of how bad the leakage looked in the hospital tests. Upon hearing this news, she spoke with the store manager and requested time off for this procedure and even showed the medical information to prove it was legit. The store manager reluctantly accepted the request but then proceeded to demand with an attitude, " I need you here on Monday, can you be here Monday!?" The manager said, "I don't know. The doctor wants the surgery done asap because it could be fatal and bed rest is mandatory for the recovery period until it heals." Well on Monday the manager didn't show up for work and the store manger called her and asked, "Are you coming in today?" and the manager (barely able to speak and answer the phone because of all the medications) answered saying, "I can't. They had to do a triple by-pass surgery because it was more severe than they had previously thought." Well the store manager told her on the phone, "Okay. Well don't bother anymore." Right after the store manager hung up her cellphone, she fired the manager for 'Job Abandonment' or something very close to that. Once that happened all the workers there began hating the store manager even more than before to the point where shortly after, I was fired for calling in sick because I had a fever, several other workers began seeking other places of employment. About a month after all this, I heard from a former co-worker that supposedly several other employees quit and found jobs elsewhere because of all that.
Silent 07 could your staff report this? That’s a really horrible situation on the co worker going to surgery.
and this is when the person files a lawsuit for wrongful termination once she recovers enough to deal with the stress of doing so.
She should've sued that store manager.
That sounds like the easiest lawsuit I have ever heard
USA?
One thing I've learned is to not expect a company to really give a crap about you no matter how long you've been working there or the work you've put it. It's always best to keep that resume polished up and have a good amount of saving to be able to painlessly transition to another job if needed.
After about a dozen years at my job my manager told me I should be grateful to have my job. It would have taken very little effort to get a job that paid just the same if not more.
Especially if it is a "big business" company
Amen!
@@brandonlink6568 I said " you should be grateful to have me here"
I've got one for this. Last summer at the factory I was working at, some asshole called OSHA and reported that they tripped on one of the fan cords (large stand-up fans) and that they felt like they were a hazard and that they didn't feel safe. So when OSHA contacted the company about it, what did the company do? Cut the cords on every fan, disassembled them, and placed them on the far back walls, which were so far away, we only got the smallest hint of a breeze. To add insult to injury, they placed fans directly at the parts we were making because "they needed to cool or they would warp". The fans were locked in place so we couldn't turn them towards us. It was pretty obvious that it was just to rub it in our faces. Mind you, it gets so hot in there that we would be sweating even with the stand-up fans. Without them, it was like an oven. Easily over 100 degrees. A lot of people quit after that, myself included.
My customer service department once had a meeting with the company VP. This was the only VP of the company, before this person came on, the company bragged they had no VPs. Guess who was family of the owner? Anyway during this meeting with the VP, they "coached" us on several Customer Service methods that sounded dangerously like "The Customer is Alway Right," junk. Until this point, our customer service department was focused on being fair both to the customer and the company and was well thought out. My concerns were confirmed when the VP told us, "don't stand on policy based on principals!" I almost walked out the door right there, wanting so badly to ask them, "if we don't stand on policy based on principals...When do we stand on policy? Why have a policy in the first place?" The next three years, morale continue to drop because of exceedingly bad customer service decisions from corporate, (we would tell someone no, corporate would turn around and tell them yes and vice versa, and our inability to get corporate to actually give us anything about how we were supposed to deal with customer complaints, in writing. The company very swiftly became a "customer is always right," company, in deed if not in word. Do you know what "The Customer is Always Right" means? It means, "The Employee is Always Wrong."
So when I was still in the army I was in Charlie Platoon and we had a Sgt die in a motorcycle accident in Bravo Platoon. This was a week before we were supposed to deploy. Our LT Coronal had rushed our deployment, we were supposed to get a month off before we deployed and after we came home but since he rushed it we were going to get a week. Well this SGT died and he hadn't done the base's motorcycle course. So in formation he called him a SHITBAG. I was facing all of Bravo platoon and the moment he said that they all instantly got enraged. They all kept their cools but I could see it in their eyes. He then proceeded to have everyone who owned a motorcycle take the course and had everyone who didn't stand in formation for hours instead of being with out families. Dozens of wives and kids would watch us just stand there in full battle rattle. They all hated our leadership. During deployment I heard that my company would steal his personal belongings, they would cut his personal internet cable and flat out made his life hell. He deserved it for calling one of his soldiers a shitbag.
At least he got some pain for it. That dude sou is downright despicable.
And using it as a poor excuse to be one himself.
Oh yeah, a soldier with a weeb avatar, fuck off you liar.
A lot of military “leaders” aren’t leaders at all. Just a bunch of douchebags in a position of power
Gothicfan51 it’s the army they’ll take anyone lol
The second one is really dumb. I'll talk to my coworkers... but in the end that's all they are. I've worked places where people will be your buddy one moment, then backstab you the next.
Never part a teacher from their coffee.
As a former classroom teacher. I agree 100%
Were the administrators drinking Hennessy by the keg?
When i was at mid school, our math teacher often smoked near the open window in the corner of classroom while we were studying.
He was such a tough, well-respected teacher that no student dared to skip his class.
forming an union because you cant drink cofee 24/7 ...really?you have breaks,drink it then,i dont see the big problem
pablo olivera talk non-stop for 45 minutes and we’ll see how well you do without drinking.
Got rid of all the managers the employees actually liked they listened to us and had our backs, replacing them with new outside hires who had no idea how to run our store and we had to manage them until they settled into their role. Also, he cut everyone's hours and started understaffing us to the point where we couldn't live up the store's reputation of having plenty of employees on hand to help customers. He also implemented countless new policies that actually make it harder to do our jobs and even outsourced a couple of responsibilities to outside people, ensuring nobody would have too many hours dealing with everything the store requires.
He also mistreats the demo ladies to the point where I have to stop myself from punching him in the face every time I see him interacting with them.
@THAT GuyI think I'll try that. Thank you.
Exact same thing happened at my previous workplace, with the addition of literally impossible new tasks/requirements/standards (that you would get screamed at if you did not do), and many departments that should've had a team of 2-3 people being assigned solely to 1 person, with no one even covering for them on their days off. Employee morale dropped like a rock, lots of people no-call-no-showing or quitting.
I was already in a horrific state with my mental illness at the time, and the stress/atmosphere definitely contributed to me ending up hospitalized. They fired me while I was gone and have made it their mission to convince every place I apply to not to hire me. Fuck that place and even if the company is still highly regarded I hope that at least that store tanks and all the good employees get out of there
@@sinceritynature202 I am so sorry. A bad workplace sucks.
I'll bet they also did the classic "Let's assign one person to a normally 2-3 person task and then get mad when they're unable to do it in the same time it'd take 2-3 people."
@@ElvenRaptor Yep, they sure did! They did it to other people too, and that was almost my entire experience there; I single-handedly did everything for our second biggest department for over half a year. I had the most truck to unload and put out on the shelves, the most backstock to register and organize, the second-most displays to build and set up, the second-most amount of people to help....... on top of being one of the only people assigned to answering the phones, putting items on hold, cleaning the dressing rooms, gathering returns from the front........ and i KNOW I'm forgetting things. Looking back I don't know how I juggled all that for so long,,, And yes, they absolutely got mad that i couldn't do it as fast as groups of people working together.
And that was Before management and corporate went off the wall nuts and started demanding literally impossible feats out of us. Retail is hell, even with the more well-regarded companies. Screw T****t.
@@sinceritynature202 Hear hear! And you don't just LOVE getting caught by a customer with questions about a department other than your own, but you kind of have to be the one to help them because of how under-staffed you are, and you flail about trying to get them the thing they want.
The thing where vacation and sick days getting rolled together and just called Paid Time Off ( with less overall time than previous ) is becoming more and more common. Only people that's ever a win for is the company
Yep that happened at my job the year before I got there.
Well. My OLD job. Thing's kept getting worse and they laid off like 40% of their employees and I heard they might close that branch all together soon.
Imforming us at our mandatory unpaid staff meeting that the reason we don't receive our electronic tips is because the business doesn't make enough money to pay us without including the tips in our direct deposits. Spoken by the owner wearing all brand new Gucci attire after he rolled up in a brand new Jaguar.
Told my boss I had a funeral to go to, and his response was oh well I have a job you need to do that day... then tells me he would help so it would be quick and stood there watching me work, then when I should have been leaving to go to the funeral he said he was leaving because he had somewhere important to be... so I quit that following tuesday when we had another job exactly like the one we did the day I had the funeral
Tyler Tilghman What a shitty thing to do!
Pieces of shit like that are the ones who deserve to get hit by cars.
Personally would have responded with "Not anymore I don't" and walked out.
Tyler Tilghman i don’t get why managers become such terrible people. Who the hell does something like that?
@@mrtappyasmr7702 a narcissist
When our benefits got reduced, he tried to tell us working for them is a benefit enough.
Run.
Promoted their pet to ASM.
Caused a mass quitting.
Bumbleness Supreme Brady in the us military, service dogs are actually one rank higher than their handler, so that if the dog is abused the officer can be charged with disrespecting a senior officer.
Tonatsi thats pretty cool
HCA company bought out my hospital I worked at and pulled similar BS on me. Was great employee, call rating we’re excellent on review, got along with fellow employees. Only issue I had was with management due to me disagreeing with all the petty crap they kept trying to make us do that didn’t have anything to do with our job.
They did there pay evaluation finally after a year and a half of promises and behold the score I received was just below what was needed to get a raise. While a few others did get a raise. And was told that due to my disagreement with management I would never get a raise or promotion with this company. I handed my resignation in that day and found me an even better job a few days later in my field.
Last laugh was on them as i wipes my computer of all my knowledge I had stored over the years that only I had and created myself. So when I received a call about it I laughed at then and said best of luck A-holes.
When he said Shiter broke at once I felt that.
@@hellshakeyano2327 I believe the quote was "everybody's Give-a-Shitter broke that day", referencing the phrase "to give a shit" meaning "to care about something". If everyone has an imaginary emotional device that helps you "Give-a-Shit", an atmosphere of poor morale can cause those devices to malfunction.
Threaten to kill me over a pair of 2 dollar tongs this was at Burger King
Nick Pevey Not surprised. Some people who work and eat at places like Burger King, mcdonalds and other similar fast food places can be time to time crazy. Usually this is dependent on which location but if there are good ones then there will always be bad ones
Please tell the story
@@novice1070 not much to tell I just raised my eyebrow and said with the I'm calling the police look "oh really?!"
Here, I'd like to reiterate an adage/motivational poster I came up with myself one day:
We Workers only need THREE things from Management:
Tell us what to do. Give us what we need. And stay out of the way!
Stories like this are the result when Management either fails to give the Workers what they need (in the forms of personal freedom and friendly atmosphere) and/or staying out of the way (in the forms of setting (unreasonable) restrictions and making (again, unreasonable) demands. There's a really thick (not fine) line between informing your Workers about how to accomplish the tasks of operating the business and trying to manipulate every aspect of an employee's workday.
It was even worse at the group-home agency I worked for. They sucked at everything.
1. Tell us what to do. Well, they were telling us what to do all the time but not necessarily clearly and sometimes with contradictory instructions. I can't let Freddy choose whether or not he takes a shower AND force Freddy to take a shower. So which do you want?
2. Give us what we need. Hell no! We had a Type 1 diabetic move in and they wouldn't let us use the internet to google carb counts for foods. We were supposed to use a little booklet they gave us that didn't have fiber counts (endocrinologist wanted us to subtract fiber from carb count) and was missing a lot of perfectly ordinary foods like green beans. The supposedly set up access online to a carb count web site but they had so many firewalls up on the computer that it couldn't run. We'd sneak into the bathroom and look things up on our cell phones in spite of the no-cell-phones policy. Which, of course, proved that we didn't need access to tools to get accurate carb counts, right?
3. Stay out of the way. Hell, no! Micromanagement all the way! I even got scolded when I tried some new recipes and got a client with a notoriously poor diet (causing him severe health problems) to request fresh vegetables when we went shopping. This was "forcing" him to eat what I wanted. Um, no. It was offering "Raymond" foods he wasn't familiar with and him discovering that he really liked them. Imagine getting chewed out because a resident wanted to eat lots of fresh vegetables instead of minute rice smothered in butter and cheese!
Sounds like a lot of these issues could be helped by a union. It's us versus them, even if they are all nice to you at the end of the day their job is to drive you to do more for less.
Not necessarily. Some of the worst jobs I,ve ever had were union jobs. They would do something small for us, like negotiate a small pay raise and then demand we pay higher dues.
And there's something to be said if there's such thing as a Union Workers Union.
However, I'm talking about Unions. What you're talking about is the right to unionize. That's something completely different.
Unions do jack shit. They never have. The right to unionize does everything. If a group of waiters all decide to collectively quit, that's not a union. That is the right unionize. You don't need any stupid middleman who never had a real job push your boss around to do that.
@@TheRisky9 They aren't an instant cureall, & unions can get oversized, old, & lose purpose... But they are an effective & truly democratic process for employees to improve working conditions.
One solution doesn't work across all industries, but a union is not monolithic & unchangeable. The solution requires the employees to participate for their own well being.
@@twig8523 How is a group demanding I join them to even work and then taking my money and supporting political groups I don't believe in democratic? What is democratic about that?
@@TheRisky9 not all Unions work that way, funny enough the worst unions are ones derectly set up by company heads
@@TheRisky9 I don't know what it's like where you are, but here union dues are based on how much you get paid, and the reps are all elected and if they tried to pull a stunt like just increasing our dues they wont be getting elected again. Sure there are corrupt unions and union bosses but joining a union is still the best way to ensure you are treated better at work, in terms of pay and rights.
The one about "shaking stuff up" and "leaving your mark" hit home for me. Many years ago I was in the Army in a relatively small communications unit. We got a new 1SG who used to be 1st Cav. I guess he assumed all commo units were lazy and less hardcore than a "real" unit so he decided to make PT worse, to the point people would get hurt. We also went home much later after most units were already off. This wouldn't be a big deal if we actually had work to do but we were basically kept there with nothing to do but wait for end of day formation. Way more room inspections and even made soldiers who lived off base stay until they were finished. Instead of toughening up the unit, all he did was kill morale and a lot of people did whatever they could to get a PCS to a different unit.
Looking to retire in 3-4 years;
Hold a meeting after asking everyone what their ideas were for the company in the long term;
Tell everyone he's the only one who basically does all the work and should sell the company to fund his retirement?
I mean, I'd not even walk out the door without quitting right then and there. Half a dozen employees? Have fun selling it when everybody quits, projects to be finished and deadline fines accumulating. See how that goes.
It would be the perfect chance to turn the tables and leave him with a blazing, scorching fire to put out with his retirement funds. You don't do that to your employees.
They held a meeting where they told us that they were getting rid of performance appraisals, getting rid of merit pay, and after certification they would be paying everyone the same, whether they had been there for one year or twenty. They then adjusted the pay grades of all the employees on the floor, and after they rolled all this out, productivity across the plant dropped by around 30 per cent.
They also ground employees into the ground, and when we went to management with our concerns they told us, "If you don't like it, quit. There are 200 people lined up outside of here to take your jobs.
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That place started going downhill fast. Employees stopped caring about their work, some employees quit, and now they are scrambling because they no longer have people lined up outside of there to work, so they advertise on the local radio and in the papers, and they hadn't had to do that ever before, from what I was told, and that facility was there since the 70's or so. One of the last meetings I went to before I tended my resignation, they were telling us to tell our friends and family that there were jobs open there for the taking. We laughed at them. I even went as far to tell them that not only do I like my friends and family too much to ask them to go through the same crap that I do, but they've seen what this facility has done to me over the years, and they want no part of you.
It's pretty funny when I hear bosses say the "you're replaceable, I can get someone else to do that job easily." It's obviously a lie and everyone knows it, but our eyes kinda gloss over and we nod our heads because we don't want to get into an actual conversation with someone this obviously dishonest.
He said, "Why do we need to care about employee morale? If one leaves, another will take his place."
Its almost like itll give you a bad rep and noone will want to work for you
my boss likes to use very personal insults and jabs on her employees and I found that out from day one when she told my coworker that her laziness (she works two jobs and very honestly works harder than any other employee) is the reason she's working two jobs, never has free time, and has a son but no husband (she got a divorce a while back.) So now when my boss tries to pry details about my life out of me I give her as little to work with as possible. She found out I'm going to college, high school, and work all at the same time. Rather than having a bit of sympathy for my situation, she now breaks out the "Aren't you supposed to be smart?" insults as much as possible. "I need three tomatoes. One plus one plus one equals three. Got that, schoolgirl?" So I'm going to make sure she finds nothing else out at all about me.
She accused me of stealing. Turns out she miscounted the money in the register. She did not apologize after threatening to call the police/fire me. She constantly walks by me and knocks shit out of my hands. Does not apologize for that, either- just looks at me and keeps walking.
We're severely understaffed. I was hired only about two weeks ago and I often have to run the store completely by myself. I'm almost working full-time with no benefits to go with it. Now I can see why we're understaffed- nobody wants to work here.
My coworkers are both planning on quitting in July and that's around the time I'll have to quit because I'm going away to college. Lmao.
I don’t understand these people. They seem to roll over and take it when most of these issues are blatantly illegal. Grab your nuts and sue, you’ll win so long as you document stuff.
Most of these stories are from the us, where there are few unions, and many, many states are "right to work." What sounds illegal or scummy is generally perfectly legal, courtesy of state and federal government.
Yeah suing sounds great but a lot of these jobs like wall mart will destroy you in a courtroom on top of it if you work for a company like wal-mart you don’t have the luxury of affording a lawyer.
When they instituted rules specific to me... Like I wasn't a bad employee just two old hags hated me. Owner told me to ignore them. More BS about how it was a formality to appease the senior staff.
Everyone but Phil can listen to music on the job. We where a landscaping company. Most of my time was spent watering plants.
I'm pretty sure you can sue for rules specifically for one person.
That's discrimination.
Years ago I worked for a fair sized company with about 50 people on payroll. We constantly got told that our company was not profitable and that we had to do long hours due to limited cash flow to keep the head company from shutting us down and us all losing our jobs. We even got shown supposed operating costs numbers off the company books during company meetings to prove it.
Come the first week of January we get hit with the local news paper running a front page color ad proclaiming our branch of the copertion cleared $10 Million and change profit (most profitable branch by a insane margin) for that year (sponsored by the head company itself)! That was over $200K profit made off every single persons work that year when the average base pay was maybe $35 - $40K per person at best.
Turns out the branch management were running fake books with fake numbers at meetings to help get the branch profits up as high as possible without drawing suspicions because they got a big percentage cut off said profit.
Second week of january almost nobody showed up for work and local management got bulldozed by corporate head for that stunt.
The banning coffee one, I'm a student, and I KNOW HOW NECESSARY COFFEE IS FOR TEACHERS.
I got hired for a tech support position and the first day of training they told I'd be making outbound sales calls for Nestlé water cooler cleaning service. I quit without even a word.
A few of my managers try to ban people from laughing in the workplace! I of course never listen. Ain't nobody gonna stifle MY freedom to giggle! ;)
Told me you better not get hurt at work because if you do, you're better off dragging yourself out to the street and saying it happened off the clock. Allowed employees to threaten and physically grab other employees and turned a blind eye to it because they were chums. Allow the old guys to get away with refusing to do their job because "they're so close to retirement, they'll be gone soon" (they may retire in a year or three)
Job Axiom: _"Your current job supports your current job search."_
This was more like management had seen an issue of "Forbes" in a waiting room, read an article on "The Top Things Managers Do to Kill Morale" and treated it like a to-do list.
It was an agency that ran a bunch of group homes for developmentally disabled adults. Employees in that setting tend to be either there because they love the residents and will do everything in their power to give them the best lives possible or just there to get a ton of overtime pay and do as little actual work as possible. And most of the stupid that the managers did rewarded the slackers and punished everybody else.
At one house, the employees got into a pissing match about dishes. One shift would leave dishes in the drainboard to dry. No big deal, right? At most homes you'd just put the dishes away and leave a clean load for the next shift, right? Each shift puts away the previous shift's dishes when they get dry. But in this house the next shift wasn't about to do the previous shift's work, so they just left the clean dishes in the drainboard and the dirty dishes in the sink. More and more dirty dishes accumulated and eventually they just started buying paper plates so that they wouldn't have to wash dishes at all. So management responded by a "Nobody is ever allowed to leave dishes to dry in the drainboard" policy. Not even if you put them away later in your own shift. We complained that this was unsanitary and too time-consuming and would be told, "Stop making such a fuss about such a little thing." Management would even check the camera feed from the houses (Don't even get me started on the cameras!) if they got up to pee at night to make sure that overnight staff weren't letting dishes air dry. If they saw dishes in a drainboard they'd call some poor first-tier supervisor who was working an overnight and tell her to call the staff at that house and tell them to dry the dishes and put them away.
They NEVER directly dealt with the staff that were causing the problem, and of course they never corrected the bad behavior. But everybody else got to be miserable.
And they were like this with EVERY. SINGLE. PROBLEM. They would never address it directly with the employees that were causing the problem but would instead crack down on everybody else. One of the final morale killers was to deal with staff that would just sleep during overnight shifts. (Dangerous -- you were there to make sure that vulnerable disabled people were safe.) Instead of dealing with those specific employees, they set up our task-tracking system so that you needed to go into the computer every fifteen minutes and click that you were awake. That meant that if you were busy -- meal prep for the next day, sweeping and mopping, cleaning the fridge, etc. -- you had to set a timer to stop what you were doing and run to the computer to click the button. If you were just chilling -- reading or watching TV -- you had to set a timer and run in and hit the damned button. At one house, there was a client who would have emotional meltdowns in the night and need for a staff to stay right in her bedroom with her, next to her bed, while she fell back asleep. This might take three, four, five hours and was emotionally draining. And in the middle of it the phone would ring -- you'd be in trouble for both not being where they could see you on the camera but for not clicking the thing every fifteen minutes. And the phone call would set "Mary" off and you'd be back to square one. Sometimes they didn't call you but would send you an email asking why you weren't clicking the button on time. I wanted to shout at them, "Surely you saw me on your fucking camera mopping the goddam floors, you micromanaging jackass!"
Assholes. I could go on for a month about how horrible they were.
i work in the field too, and I would have ripped someone a new one at corporate for this crap.
My place of business of helping developmental disabilities too, and we're broken up into a two county set up: a northern and southern, generally the north tries there best to make things work and do well ( where I work.) South has major staffing issues, The moral killer in a way was they would post boards for shifts to pick up with the differentials to everyone... up here it would be pulling teeth to get even 2 dollar differential on busy weeks ( county fair week, holidays, you name it.) But the south? They got 15,30, sometimes 50 dollar differential because no one showed up for shifts.
This whole thing came to a head when people in the north started asking corporate? " How come we don't get these differentials?" And corporate had to figure out what the hell to do to get people to come into work without giving them so much money, it was so bad they had to bring our director ( tough but fair, kinda salt of the earth lady, who i like because she helped me get bereavement leave when my wife passed away.) To clean up their mess.
At my house specifically, we had a guy who did not fit in the house and the people there, who was constantly attention seeking, and had issues with drugs and just being a jerk. He left for a medical reason, was pulled from agency care from the guardian (which was a nightmare in itself, and the logs I wrote saved me and my supervisor's skin. remember to CYA and write EVERYTHING down for people.) A few months after he was out of care, we get wind he was coming back to the agency. Me, an Awake Over Night, and a couple of other workers at the time basically told the northern Director " If he comes back to this house after everything that family put us through, we'll walk." We got a new person in and she is fitting right in with everyone, and that guy is in a nursing home somewhere near my states capital.
But all in all, this place is pretty good and I love working with the people and coworkers, as other houses in the agency are catty as hell.
Here's a story my sister told me at a place she used to work at:
One time, the manager called each of them individually for a meeting, discussed payment, and gave them a raise based on inflation. And he told them not to talk about how much they got with their colleagues. It turns out everyone had been given a different number for what should have been the same, and none of them had any idea why.
there was also a time where he said that he's going to fire *someone* in a week, without specifying who. there were other problems that I don't remember, but it was this that caused my sister to put in her notice. I don't know if he followed through with firing someone.
it's illegal to prevent your workers from discussing wages with one another lol...my coworkers and i all know each other's payment. It's not rude to talk about, companies want you to think that. It's a way to look out for one another.
Had an employer tell workers he laid off for a month that all their hours for vacation were reset back to zero in a meeting
The moment you see the boss or CEO or whoever in charge buy some super, unnecessary, expensive thing and announced a "record year but no bonus" that is the moment you should look for another place to work
one of the largest retail supermarkets in Australia (you could commend them for how "fresh" they are)... union worked with the company on a new EBA, it sucked, i knew it sucked, but the union pushed the yes vote... immediately after the yes vote the supermarket giant starts planning an entire restructure to the company which involved getting rid of half of the managers and forcing them to reapply for their jobs or take a payout and leave. Among further staff and budget cuts even though customers complain there's not enough people serving most of the time... soon after the changes took effect, government pushes a bill to make wage theft illegal, so low and behold the very next day a press release comes out and we find out the company has underpaid all of their salaried staff a figure of at least $300million over the past 10 years that was "an error" and totally not wage theft... good times
Sounds like woolworths
I worked for that very same company, amazes me that they are able to make a profit the way that joint is run. Seriously I've never seen a company with so many levels of management that have no idea what they're doing and so few workers.
The "union" is a joke and a half.
People forget that any position where they are in charge of people is a leadership position. Doesn’t matter if you are a team leader in charge of 2 people or a CEO in charge of millions; you set the standard. Really disappointing how many people do not understand this simple concept.
The mistake the guy who stood up in the meeting made was referencing his individual situation. The company claimed they had an unusual/unexpected/whatever deadline to meet, but after everyone stepped up their production and helped meet the deadline, a new deadline was announced and extra effort was required again. And then AGAIN.
In the wake of these moving goalposts, the better response to "We're disappointed in you for not being able to function at 150% AT ALL TIMES; where is your professionalism?" should have been:
"Where is YOUR professionalism, [Middle] Management? Your job is to manage people. YOUR people busted their humps and put in astounding amounts of overtime because YOU made promises beyond the production team's normal capacity. And we came through for you. However, the unspoken agreement was that once the crisis was over, we'd go back to normal production, but that didn't happen. If the production schedule continues to remain accelerated, it's because YOU FAILED to present reasonable timetables to Upper Management. THAT is what is truly unacceptable. We are human; there are limits; and if what I've said makes you angry, remember that anyone you might consider replacing us with will also be human. This is not a stone from which you can wring any more blood."
Sounds good in theory but in reality its much worse. Here's why: in both statements you win and the boss looks bad but while the original statement set a trap for the boss to walk right into and make an ass of himself, yours is a direct attack. While the former makes your boss vulnurable it doesn't leave any openings from your side like yours does. Yours is a direct challenge to your boss that forces him to respond even more aggressively than in the former statement because it directly questions his competence AND his authority which he'll be forced to reestablish while dealing with his anger. It's fine if your goal is to tear him down and get him out of his position but you'll risk your own in the process. In essence you traded tangible security and control for percieved dominance. Unless you're a qualified and recognized option to snatch his job or you're about to snatch his wife, it's not a good trade.
Second is the way it affects the coworkers response. While the former addresses their concerns directly and puts you and them on the same page, yours addresses your bosses conduct. You essentially turned an "us vs you" into a "you vs me".
The things discussed aren't easy to say from an employers position so your coworkers are already unlikely to chime in but you went ahead and turned it into an all out battle between you and him and left everyone else sit back and watch the whole thing unfold. His responses also won't be concerning anyone else but you. Meanwhile if you left the former as is he can't respond in any way that wouldn't address everyone in the room because the topic of conversation is a collective concern.
@@limazulu6192 I wouldn't recommend saying those exact words. My hyperbole was worded to get this complex idea (that management has a role and responsibilities in this area) across to those reading the comments section in as few words as possible since not everyone is good at reading nuance on UA-cam. So, you are correct. That level of blunt challenge would not be the way to approach that exact situation in reality.
Used to work at a service department at a dealership. One day out of the blue, our scheduling system got completely bulldozed without warning. They switched our system from one to another overnight with no warning, and neither system communicated with eachother so we were getting double booked, and they added a new feature which allowed our call center to add appointments inbetween other appointment slots. Nobody had any idea why we were so busy and everyone was panicking. Then later that day corporate visited us to find out why our service department was such a shitshow. General manager pulled us into the office to explain everything and said our admins (who sit at computers all day as part of their job) need to get up and move cars around when we’re busy. Service manager wasn’t even aware until it happened, saw it was a disaster and told them to can it before we get flooded with bad surveys.
As a point of reference our dealership was #1 in service, #1 in used sales, and #3 in new sales for that manufacturer in the region before they did this. Our service department closed out 200-250 work orders a day.
My employer told us (25 people) that just 3 of us are actually able to meet the deadlines, the other 22 are lazy.
We didn't try to prove him wrong.
The story about CSC really hit home; I worked for that company for 16 years, and left when they eliminated my position after I'd come out as gay. Looking back on it, being not-technically-fired was a blessing; I realized that I actually hated that company every single day I worked for them from start to finish. I never met a single person who genuinely liked their job in all my time there; no one ever had 'good' days, only ones where they were slightly more or slightly less pissed-off and exhausted than the day before.
Promoted me to manager but still didnt bump me to the pay that a basic employee was making 3 years prior when they had opened up. Also denied me a raise when they promised me one so I just decided to not do work for an entire year and no one noticed.
I'm working as a trainee accountant. It was going fine for the first few weeks as I was picking things up fairly quickly. But one day my manager took my into his office for a performance review and brought out a list he was keeping. He'd been adding to that list every time I made a mistake and never corrected me there or taught me the correct way to begin with. Some of those things on the list I wasn't ever informed of.
He ranted at me for a good 10 mins about how I'm "Not dedicated to the job" despite the fact I was the only person to stay behind for a while on some days to finish off whatever task I was doing. Plus I was always willing to help somebody with their task, or answer a customer's query if I had free time.
He expects me to find better ways of doing things, despite the fact I'm new and trying to learn how things work in accounting. Every time I come up with a new idea to reduce mistakes or save time, he disregards it, or add his own spin to it to make it sound like it was his idea and I just helped.
He doesn't let anybody talk in the office either. he keeps to himself in his office and never interacts with people. He tends to talk down to others like a teacher talking down to a naughty student.
He finished by telling me if I don't improve I'll be fired at the end of the month. I've now been here for 4 months (before the corona virus closed all businesses in the UK) and I've not been fired yet...
I am however, looking for a new job. I also no longer go the extra mile for this company, I don't stay behind or help with extra stuff anymore. That's all it takes to destroy somebody's loyalty. Treat them like shit, not train them properly and accuse them of "not being good / dedicated enough" when they only just started.
Kroger's "Que-Vision" system. It is conceptually a good idea. It uses heat sensors to determine how many customers are in line and how many registers should be open.
Unfortunately, it is poorly executed. It cut people's hours, and it kept relying on other departments to come down and run registers just because "the computer says so." Even if it was hardly busy.
Not a half-hour goes by without someone shouting on the intercom "X to the front for cashier help please."
If scores were bad, employees were disciplined. It was very common. Employee morale tanked. Departments hated each other. Every department hated the front end department. It was a crapshow. I'm glad I don't work there anymore. It got more and more toxic every day.
I imagine this system would rapidly fall apart in more meteorologically diverse states. Was this in Cali or something?
@@dashieldmasta177 Every Kroger in the US.
Nocturnal X well no wonder it’s fucked. Mine is unionized and takes 10% of paycheck at $8.25 hourly for benefits that start two years in, on top of that bullshit.
I cannot begin to count how many times I get interrupted from my work just to go man a register every day. The problem was that we really lacked cashiers so not even 10 minutes go by after I leave a register do I get called right back in. I worked in a small department(only 3 people), so typically its 1 person running the place at a time. Some days there are 2, but rarely 3. It was a miracle I even get all my work done.
I work at a place where they calculate labour value based on sales. The store is making a steadily-increasing profit and is raking in dough. They still budget labour and goods, even non-perishables, so harshly that we have staff turnover you wouldn't believe. I have considered quitting so often but the manager is a great person who truly needs the help to stay and I'm stubborn. It's not the manager's fault at all. I've seen what corporate does to her.
Imagine having a place where the only limiting factor for profits about 1/3rd of the time is how fast you can serve customers, and budgeting the labour so weakly that you can't even serve customers to any reasonable standards. We're talking two customers coming in at the same time and the entire store falls apart because sometimes you legit only have one person there, and that person can't make clones of itself and do it all in a timely fashion.
For you to understand how pathetic it is, they sell chocolate ice cream where I work. It sells extremely easily. They sell it at a rate of a tub per day at a massive markup. In spite of this, they usually only give enough budget to stock two tubs per week to... cut down costs, I guess? So for something like 5 days of a 7 day week we just throw away about a dozen customers a day. The corporate office is straight-up mentally disabled.
Imagine having a manager running two stores because you can't even keep managers, that manager ending up in hospital and being told by doctors that if she leaves she could die. They won't let her leave unless she signs a waiver. She can't work. Not imagine the corporate office threatening to withhold the manager's pay if she calls in sick. I was disgusted to come to work finding her in tears and pain on a cocktail of drugs just to do paperwork. I'll never forget what they did. I've got the memory in my back pocket and I have a few things I'm going to do about it.
"Reusable coffee mug" I'm sorry, Isn't that just a coffee mug?
just saying, all these things can be prevented by physically harming the people that do this sort of thing. but you dont
Like most of all the world's problems..
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Mostly because you'd get in more trouble for punching someone or whatever.
Hammertime
The PTO one hits pretty hard. I work at a company where we get 10 PTO days per year. Some of us don't go anywhere, and instead actually sell the PTO days back for extra money on a paycheck.
But my folks live in Germany and I'm in the States. I've wanted to go visit them for three years now, but because I wouldn't just want to pop in for two days and pop right back, I never could, because I'd always get sick in February that would keep me out of the office for a week, and just like that, now I only have 5 days of PTO left.
We have the ability to work from home, and we have been because of this Coronavirus outbreak, but we're only allowed to do that if sick, and last year I got pretty pissed because despite working from home, I still had my PTO time docked. Was pretty angry at my boss for a while despite showing him the logs of what I did.
Changed the break policy , went from 2 ,15 minutes breaks to 1,15 and 1,30 but have to stay an extra 30 min at end of day . Basically equaling over 100 extra hours a year spent at work .
1. Lay off 950 people (maximum allowed by law) with immediate effect.
2. Start referring to that as "phase 1".
7:31 Bet they’d rather have kept her on than have to deal with legal and the bill.
That first guy, damn, how is that fair...
Because he was weak
#ThisWorldHasNoPlaceForWeaklings
Mr Durva how fucking old are you 😂
I used to work the checkout area at Walmart. They recently started these core hours things that, in theory, give you a fixed schedule and you'll always have the same hours per week. But every quarter they would pull you into the office for a new core plan and they'd cut you down by a few hours and then give you weird shift start and end times like 11:45am to 8:15pm. Which everyone knew was to save on hours. Then the next quarter people got cut even more, including myself. After that a good number of people found them selves only working 4 to 8 hours a week. So they quit. People who had been there for years were getting shafted for hours, even full timers got cut down to the minimum 34 hours too. Then they stopped scheduling mid shifts for better coverage at self checkout so theft went up and we got told to do better on our own. And there is this thing they do now called "code spark" where floor associates come up to run register because we don't have enough cashiers since they all either quit or aren't scheduled. But there's only one associate scheduled per area anyway so this means there's no floor coverage then to help customers.
Then, this Christmas was a slap in the face after it was leaked that management get fixed bonuses of like $2000 and $5000 for the store manager and the employee bonus is based off store performance and personal attendance. Called off more than 4 days in the last 6 months? No bonus for you. Even someone with perfect attendance didn't even get a $100 bonus. The only consolation is that for those of us that remain we are slowly getting to $15 an hour as base pay. That is until cashiers are made obsolete to self checkout.
We weren't allowed to talk to each other unless it was about work. We weren't allowed to play jokes or laugh. We weren't allowed to be in groups larger than two people.
A new manager came in during the closing rush, pulled us each to the back individually and told us how disappointed she was that we turned the machines off too early. She made us each say why what we did was bad. (She does this all while there is a huge line up).
We were confused because we followed protocol and did everything we usually do, we just didn’t feel like arguing because we had already had difficulties with this lady.
I speak to her privately and let her know that whether or not we made a mistake, her method of addressing it was terrible.
She then comes back and does some have ass admission that HER WATCH WAS SET INCORRECTLY and that’s why she thought we turned stuff off too early.
She does half assed apologies to everyone.
I quit 3 days later.
I'm going to guess most of these were unionless work places
Worked at a greenhouse, we had to clean buckets. Probably 50-100 people working. The small group sitting with me started flipping the buckets onto a stack in our middle (my idea). We had fun and worked faster than all the others combined. Supervisor came and told us to cut it out. We all worked twice as slow after that. Apparently not having fun at work is more important than getting work done...
Does the Google voice have a lisp when saying “S”?
I quit listening to it and muted the voice as it mispronounces many words. I can read faster anyway
Hyperion for F**k sake man leave google alone, he/she trying her best ok.
@@Shack-lion more like "It"
My employer took me and a colleague (there were only 4 people in the company) to dinner at a fancy restaurant. He gave us a spiel about how he'd had some inquiries from other companies wanting to buy him out. He said it hadn't happened, but he was interested & it might come to pass if he was offered enough. I knew immediately that the sale had already happened, & told my colleague (who really trusted the boss) so after that dinner. He kept saying, "no, ***y wouldn't do that to us." A couple of months later boss came clean & told us that we were now part of a large international company that had given him the right amount of money & a sweet contract to boot.
I worked for a small painting company of 15-20 employees and management always found a way to nickel and dime us to death (“you needed to buy a specific tool to do this job we sent you on but we’ll only reimburse you 60%”), but the real kick in the teeth came one year when the owner announced we’d be taking pay cuts for the good of the company... and then in the next 12 months bought a house, two ATV’s, a boat, a truck to tow the boat, and took his family on a 3 week vacation to the Caribbean. And then somehow he was surprised and confused when roughly 80% of the staff quit. Oh, he also knowingly exposed some of us to lead paint and when we complained he said to “stop being pussies,” which is funny, because he didn’t have the same attitude when OSHA showed up.
The importance of coffee for the teachers CANNOT be underestimated. When I was in highschool we had 3 week "introduction to worklife" where we would basically get a job for that time we did. I went as an assistant for my old primary school, helping the teachers during class, carrying stuff, etc handywork. Surprisingly major part of my work was to be in the teachers office making copious amounts of coffee.
[This poster] is like vomiting. [Management] feels better but everyone around feels sick.
I got an easy one for you. A certain fortune 500 company from A to Z gave everyone freshly employed a $3.25 raise while at the same time giving those that were there 3+ years a $.25 raise (oh yeah and took their stock shares away from them). So now a fresh employee and someone been there for 3+ years now are within $.50 of each other. Everyone that use to bust their butts cause they were making $3+ more an hour stopped giving a crap and did the bare minimum. As on 'trainer' put it, "If someone comes and asks me for help now, Ill tell them to figure it out on their own. I mean I'm only making 50 cents more than you."
tldr: no cost of living for 3+ years then gave nothing to senior employees but a $3+ per hour to 1st day ones.
Honestly thats a dick move cause they were hired on they didn't have control of how much they made and just taking it out on them for your shitty boss stunt
Wolf Titan Reading then maybe they should hire someone who gets paid enough to do their job and train the new people. Doesn’t sound like it’s worth 50c
@@ThunderStruck15 Still think its a dick move to trat a coworker like that for something they can't control beside they need to work together all its doing is making a us vs them relationship and can give the boss an excuse to fire people when they don't need to
I had my interview with my boss at his house. I met his wife and daughter that night. He told me I'd get a $3 raise after my 3 month probation period. When the probation period was up, I brought up the raise, he said he didn't remember telling me that. Told me, I'll talk it over with the wife when he got home. Next day he tells me that I didn't deserve it, but he was willing to compromise for a $1 raise. Instantly lost respect for they guy. I was the only employee working there.
first story is exactly why if you are a worker you should never be loyal to any company. You are nothing but another number to the higher ups and they will fire you if it benefits them
Worked for a guy that said nobody had any reason to talk about anything but work while on the clock
Welcome to the railroad
Easy solution to this one while on the clock talk about forming a union since that's work related ;)
I worked for a man who put scripture, aimed at women, up over the time clock.(We were a mostly female staff) He had just joined a new church and thought he was "guiding the women."He quickly removed it when we threatened a walkout and calls to the ACLU, labor board and anyone else we could think of contacting. I'm a church goer myself and got very angry about it. He later tried to tell us that we needed to work to serve him and not for money in some twisted version of "You can't serve God and Mammon." Newbie Christians are the worst. No one from the original staff works for him anymore. He definitely ruined our morale.
My boss recently cancelled all annual leave till the end of the tax year while he was on annual leave and gave all other management annual leave at the same time the reason he gave for cancelling annual leave the company being in crisis best part the crisis report lists lack of management as the reason for being in crisis... He also underpaid everyone over christmas and did a surprise reversal of bonus' and over time rate over new year and didnt tell staff just let them figure it out when they got their wage slips
And companies wonder why their employees leave or why there's no employee loyalty anymore. Because as soon as something cheaper comes along for the company, management sees it, likes it, and will screw over the lower tier or non-management employees to better them selves
Told us we’d be doing another $65k worth of work ontop of our own job for the same salary and same performance expectations.
One year later half the department left. Gfg.
That programming one is shockingly really common. It's very sad
This makes me so thankful for the job I have now. Get to sit at a desk and list stuff on ebay, check stock in a warehouse, record sales, and just generally sit around for most of the day. Only downside is it's 6 days a week and i really miss my free time at home
I have to wonder if actual employers read these types of conversations and take them into account with their own businesses.
I worked at a Sears when a new manager was transferred in. He was one of those guys who was short-sighted, but thought himself brilliant. Worse, he somehow got the idea that acting like a fulminating butt-cheese made him a powerful man. We had a monthly program that rewarded the top sales associate. On the first month that the new manager was in, he decided to make the top prize to dine out with him, the manager himself, at a place of the employee's choosing.
How that turned out: sales numbers were at the lowest point in the history of the program, and the decision was made not to award the "prize". I suppose that there are worse ways to find out that no one wants to date you, but this was something special.
LMAO 😂😂
The guy that said "There's always an excuse" got me so pissed, if I worked under him, right after I get the Christmas bonus check I'd just walk into his office and give him a coffee to celebrate the holidays, then leave and just say "By the way I quit, enjoy the piss mocha late" then flip him off.
I work in IT. My manager held a meeting complaining about how we messed up 40 tickets in one month. He blamed our use of phones.
Guess how many tickets we completed in that month? 2500...
Banning smart phones while on your break? Try me with that shit
Had a boss once who paid dirt for really hazardous work. Way below competitive pay rates. He threw a party at his giant river house once a year, took everyone for rides on his boat, showed off his expensive toys.
What is a river house
former employer decided to give everyone $1 more an hour instead of offering a monthly sales performance bonus........the bonus could earn you another grand a month.
I have mentioned this former employer before, guy that let his son take over the business "because he has a degree"
The story of the teachers and coffee left me thinking "what makes you believe that *that* was *not* an issue??"