Whenever some employer says we're a family, I tell my coworkers about how much I hated my parents but I always look out for my siblings. I don't tell the job shit. Screw around, I'll vouch for you, I'll cover your shifts. That's what a good union rep does. Yeah it's a family, an abusive one.
Last time a manager tried the whole "we're a family" line on me, he stopped after I made it very awkward. My exact words were "Yes Daddy!" We're both guys and he was very homophobic.
Worked for several LE departments and agencies. The Chief, Sheriff, district Chief, or whoever always trotted out that "we are family" line when it was convenient for them. Interestingly, when they noted shifts spending time together off-duty; whether fishing, cooking out, bowling, shooting, or whatever, they started moving people around in order to break up those friendships and alliances. The hierarchy was suddenly "threatened" by that showing of family that they previously endorsed. 😂
Twice I have gotten reprimanded at work for not being able to physically get to my place of work after hurricane flooding. 1st time I was 18/19yo and the road to get out of my apartment complex was 6ft deep, my manager threatened to fire me if I didnt come in (management was having to do all the work at that location), I was walking distance from another retail location so out of spite I put my uniform on and walked over there and clocked in, the manager there was super excited to see me lol. Technically according to HR I didnt miss my shift. The second time a few years ago, (Im 38 now), the creek I have to cross to get to the highway to get to town flooded about 10ft over the road, manager flipped out and wanted to know why I didnt own a boat knowing the area around me flooded every storm season. He sent the service manager to pick me up in the highest truck they could find between the company and owners' personal fleet. He couldnt even get within 2 miles of me lol.
@@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam I worked for them for 7 years almost. I was the only one willing to get on a commercial roof as a storm approached lol. I have some cool photos of bands and storm eyes.
The least you can do is buy a boat, a hovercraft, a small airplane and maybe a tank to ensure you can get to work in all weather conditions (or in case of war)
@@Jaminn724 No foolin, we got an email before a forecasted winter storm advising us to leave early for work, carpool with someone with 4 wheel drive, or stay at a local motel so that we could make it in to work. Sent from a manager working from home who had taken the storm day off. We're a doctors office, not an ER or even a hospital, just a plain old annual physical, I've got a cold dostors office.
@@paulfox3532"I regret to inform you that my vehicle is incapable of transportation in such conditions. I have also exhausted my resources of finding a college with 4wd to no avail. I have looked at motels local to the office and have found myself unable to readily afford the cost on such short notice. Is there anything else I can do to beat the storm?" Now enjoy your vacation, or enjoy the bonus youll get for the motel rooms you may or may not be sleeping in. If it goes that far and they want to compensate for a room, negotiate per diem for food, too. No way your budget counts for take out every day..
@@paulfox3532 State of emergencies don't mean anything to my work. Wanted us there during the worst winter storms we've had and even ran with a tornado on the ground, none of the workers knew until afterwards
At my job is DeLeon springs the Strom wasn't close to use but people kept bitching so some got to leave home to prepare more. I left at 8 and by 9 it was over lol I missed 6 hours of pay... But yes this was us last year. Three trees was down on my road blocking me in for 6 days but work covered one day at least lmao
The hope I keep hanging onto is that thanks to Brandon’s NLRB director, this is the best labor environment we’ve had in this country since before Reagan. I hope to see the union participation rate go up a lot! People deserve solidarity against their bosses
I'm actually required to come in to work during a hurricane, but it's because I work for the county and am part of the evacuation plan for disabled/mobility impaired residents.
Makes sense for you as you are an essential worker - but for people like me, working in those conditions is pointless: no one is going to brave slick roads and high winds just to get some common pharmacy goods…
Yup, worked there for 1 month in the distribution center. The only day you get off is Christmas day. Other than that you're working your shift mon-thurs or fri-sun.
I work at Sam’s club and it is true. Management was very upset when I missed one day of work during the Texas ice storm in 2021 that took down the electrical grid for most of the state. The days I did show up they made me work in the bakery making dinner rolls and French breads for the 2 customers that came by that week.
Yup! Remember that year Florida got hit repeatedly then double tapped by 1 of the hurricanes? Was working at Walmart. Got "fired" 3 different times during all that due to not going in. Decided to and was able to paddle a CANOE through their parking lot after the last one. Got a respectable raise in the end because they had technically fired over half the crew for no call no show and were desperate to get people back in.
In Florida right now working retail, during a tropical storm warning, management made the call at 9pm last night that since it was only a tropical storm and the predicted hurricane force winds had moved a little bit (20 miles) further away, we needed to be open. Full staff, 12 hours, and zero customers. This incompetent management team has done the same thing, with the same results, every time we've been threatened with a tropical storm, costing the company lots of money, and have never been called on it by higher management or owners, yet we in the trenches, coming in at the potential risk of our own safety, leaving our families to deal with things without us, are threatened with termination of employment for not coming to work.
I told my boss to fire me, so I can be rich off wrongful termination law suit. Shut him up real quick. Now I do trade work, and my boss had to physically pull me off the jobsite to get me to stop working. I die my family gets paid, I get hurt I get paid, nothing happens I get paid
They never would. Morons like that are tickling the upper intestines of their bosses with their lips. No job is EVER worth the danger of such hazardous conditions. Idk if in florida they have the vaguest laws about wrongful termination that even the most ass backwards shit states do but anywhere vaguely humane would easily see that fo what it was. Then again if they really get that head up their ass they can always be reminded that there's a lot of dark areas between here and their home that unfortunate shit can happen to people. Got to be careful and remember that people that work somewhere can help keep things safe.
I live in erie Pennsylvania and feel this on a totally different level. We got almost 6 feet of snow in less than 24 hours one year, cars were stuck everywhere and the employer told us all to come in, sent us home an hour later because it was to bad out... Stay safe sunshine state.
Floridian here. Literally feeling this as I sit and wait in my office. All the managers are working from home but I had to drive through the storm to go to work.
@@JRotten "No upper Management showed up." So you're saying that working in a hurricane has it's perks huh? I'm in tornado alley and haven't ever experienced a hurricane. Tornadoes are a whole other ball game though. Management lives in denial that it can possibly happen, so they're never really prepared for the possibility. When you're in a factory, there's no TVs or local radio station or anything on, and the noise of the factory completely masks the noise of the warning sirens. You're completely at the mercy of management to give you a heads up that there's a tornado warning and you're all supposed to get to 'shelter'. Often, they just don't tell you. Whether you're gonna live or die in that situation boils down to just straight up luck.
That tells you right there that your company doesn’t care find you one that cares we don’t get hurricanes up here but we get a lot of snow and if it’s over a foot we’re told it’s not worth our lives and will be compensated
This recently happened in Kentucky at a candle factory but with a tornado. Plant was running 24/7 work was still going. Then, a tornado collapsed the building killing 8 workers. Sad stuff.
Because all the "good" homes built 50 years ago, when insurance and flood plain warnings meant something to homebuilders, and those $15k to $25k pre-Carter homes are worth $900k to $4.2m now.
Yeah this hits hard. Worked for an engineering firm years ago (first major job I had as a kid). I commuted everyday about 2 hrs to 2 hrs and 30 mins everyday to get there. One winter there was an snow and ice storm that came through that the roads impossible to get on. After spending an extra two hours in the morning to try to get my car out it wasn't going to happen and my wife (at the time gf) made me realize just because I dug it out here doesn't mean the rest of the roads aren't going to be shit so I called out there morning. Next working day I came in he called me in his office to lecture me about the importance of being on time and making arrangements. Most everyone had called out that day and even the day I returned hardly anyone came in because roads were still kind of shit, but he was there and told me that he made it just fine (even though he only lives like 10 minutes from the office). Tried to tell me I did make every effort I could to be in that day, but after two hours of digging my POS car out even if I had managed it the highways were going to be treacherous and I had learned my lesson from a previous time I made a trip in a snow storm when I didn't have to. He suggested next time I find lodging in the city someplace next time and I said I would be open to that as long as it's something I could expense since it's an unneeded expense on my end. He flat out told me that it wouldn't happen and I needed to decide how dedicated I was to the team (the same team that had also called out and most lived locally. This was also after I had worked a Saturday or two editing some plans). I quit two months later.
Just a reminder that one of the first things they did during the pandemic was make it so that Employers couldn't be sued if you caught covid while they made you work through a pandemic
How TF is that the employer’s fault? Plenty of other stuff that is their fault to criticize. Like providing an abusive work environment and slowly chipping away benefits and layoffs at the drop of a hat and “raises” that don’t keep up with inflation. But we’re going to sue the company instead because some employee happened to sneeze at work? Ridiculous.
@@James-dq3jo Didnt want to assume Imagine risking your neck doing some of the most dangerous work we know. Risking your neck and health with heights, concrete dust, and electrical wiring. Then all of a sudden a outbreak happens, a new disease that has caused some fatalities so a lock down is now in effect, however YOU still have to go out there risking your neck in a already dangerous job, because you are deemed "essential" while your employer gets to "Work from home" Now imagine someone that was infected with this disease sneezes infecting other people on his floor. The company knew about these initial infections but didnt think it neccesary to warn the rest of the workers. Over the course of a week 60 guys are hospitalized or dont show up for work, only then does the company say there was a reported case on this floor please get tested then come straight back to work. Now imagine a person you had been working with for a while know, gotten to know and befriended turns up dead one monday due to said diseases. Meanwhile the company man who gets to Work from Home and and forced the people under him to work in those conditions is completely absolved of responsibility for the whole thing even though it was his idea to keep it quiet. Now imagine some white collar jobber on youtube is telling you the company that put you through those conditions isn't at fault and berates you for pointing that they should be more responsible for their workers safety I know empathy is hard for you white collar types but just try for a moment to see it from my point of view. Thank you
I used to work for our local water system and had to sit outside our pump house at one of our wells in the truck babysitting the backup pump to keep it running as long as possible.
The cops kicked me out of town because of flooding and wouldn't let me back in. Boss called and asked why i wasn't there i handed the phone to the cop and had jim explain it to them lol one of the best days of my life.
This one hits close to me. One time where I live we had a BAD ice storm and I mean it was BAD. People fell on their porches/decks, the roads were incredibly slick, the ice in the air made the defrost in your car practically useless, it was bad. Well the company I worked for said “we did some research and you can all come into work tomorrow morning” (the morning of the storm). In response none of us showed up. The only ones that did was my boss, his ass kissing partner, and one more worker. All of us just said “fuck that” and stayed home where it was nice and quiet and warm and safe.
I worked construction for about 6 months while changing jobs for fire companies I worked for and it was the worst job I've ever had. I have nothing but respect for the men and women who build things! Especially dealing with BS like this.
@@JohnnyShagbot truth. the reverse is true. But the fact that the foreman hasn't straight-up fired this guy yet, without taking "no" for an answer is amazing.
Firing that guy would not be an option for a company as corrupt as that one! Remember, that “loud mouth” employee has threatened to sue the crap out of them for violating multiple OSHA, state and federal employee safety laws and other general employee protection ordinances and protocols! He has stated many times that he wishes they would fire him so he would never have to work again!
That was hilarious! I actually worked outside when Hurricane Hugo passed over Charlotte in ‘89. When the trailers started blowing over I took the crew inside for lunch and stayed in 👍👍
I still remember at one location I worked at. They threatened to hit folks with 3x the penalty for calling out. The mayor had stated stay off the streets as the wind was hitting 45+ mph. There was one employee who got into an accident as a tree hit his car. They wound up suing the building manager, as it was his idea, and the center and won.
Cat 5 you say? I guess we should take all the work trucks and trailers a state or two inland, and then load up at the big box stores. If we weren't roofers before, we're roofers now!
With the hurricane happening right now, I can't believe my boss made me come to work. I don't wanna hear none of that "we're in the Midwest, we're nowhere near the ocean." It's still happening, and affecting alot of people and I'd like a day off
My wife worked at the post office for 7 years. She literally never got a day off due to weather. She ran in blizzards, tornado weather, and flooding. Her boss even picked people up a couple times in his vehicle bc their personal vehicles wouldn't make it to work bc of flooding or snow.
That happened to me during wildfire season in 2020. Some idiot opened up the vents and introduced the smoke outside to inside the warehouse. 2million sq feet. I was pissed. I was doing order picking at 25feet up.. i couldnt see more than 100 meters. it was like a bad fog. i looked at the manager and said NO. They offered masks, still said no. I saved sick hours for a rainy day and cashed in. I ended up going to ihop with a coworker, cause we just got paid for the day.
I'm in Florida. Work in distribution. Loading several trucks just for them to come back because customers closed. Have to be unloaded and reloaded the next day for same thing. They don't care what cat the hurricane is, you coming into work. Crazy
How do you tap into the mindset of a middle management toadie of a big faceless corporation so well? The number of times I've had similar experiences like this could fill a book I'll giv e you one of the big ones; about ten years back we had the coldest day on record so bad it was declared a state of emergency like negative thirty with the wind and these clowns at my store had the cart guy bringing in carts.........bringing in carts in minus thirty degree weather.....
I've only had to work in -22 outside gathering up trash bins at a truck stop. So cold the bags would break if you pulled on them at all. Ended up dragging each and every trashcan to the compactor to dump the trash out. Meanwhile my radio is going off every 15 minutes, the manager asking me where the hell I was, stuff inside needed to get done too.
Its never been this bad for me but you can really feel the pressure to come into work no matter how bad the weather is. And its a fun game to play as they want you there but they also know if they try to FORCE you to be there, thats gonna have some legal repercussions if you get hurt. But they make sure you know that subtle "disapproval" will be there when you call to say "Hey, there is like, 5 inches of snow on the roads and the plows havent been by, so im not going to make it to work today" Its like 3x as much fun when they play the wait till the last second game before admitting they cant be open in this weather. "We gonna play it by EAR. If its bad enough then we will shut down, but we will wait to see what happens before we decide."
I was a snack route deliver a few years ago and ran my route in the middle of a hurricane. The people would ask me what are you doing here? When you are 100 percent commission. You do what you have to do.
The last time we had a hurricane, it did 70 billion dollars, killed 230 people, and shut down the biggest city in North America for a week. Not only am i not working during a hurricane, the minute i hear ine is coming, i aint coming in, because ive got other shit to deal with, like keeping my house from being destroyed.
Been several times I went to work with the power out. Company usually told us to wait around to see if it came back on "just in case". Once they even wanted us to clean while the power was out. Because nothing is safer than mopping the bathroom floor with a flash light. Luckily it was with pay... but still pretty stupid.
I worked for a company once, and something happened on the only highway that I could use to get to the job, from where I was living at. I think it was some kind of hazardous material truck crashing and spilling its contents all over that section of the highway, but anyway, the state shut down the entire highway for like miles. So obviously, I had no way to get to work. They tried to fire everyone who was affected by the highway closure. Then to add insult to injury, when they could’ve fire everyone for fear of a lawsuit. They tried to lecture us on being better prepared to come to work, even during emergencies such as what happened on the highway. Lmfao!!!😭🤣😂
This sounds like my work. Power goes out 30 minutes into shift and is off for 3 hours and they made us sit in the dark lunchroom (backup lights went out) rather than send us home, so that they could salvage the last 4 hours of the shift.
I literally would have left and told them to f themselves. I take Breadstick Ricky's stance when it comes to severe weather - not a job I don't need. Employers will literally kill their employees and say "Whoops!" and get away with it. I'd rather be unemployed than unalive.
See im that guy that always hassles the boss in meetings and challenging him. He makes the big bucks, he deserves it. But i always show up the next day even when i say no way.
@smartawesome376 lol. Was guessing around the hurricane. Stay safe. When I was in TN, we'd get them every spring. Had an EF-4 come within a mile of my apartment my last year there.
Tyson in Vienna ga laid us off for renovations in February back in 2014? Had us come in for a meeting on the day we had the biggest ice over that entire winter... roads were full of black ice which is rare here in mid/south Georgia, snow flurries in Macon ,everything shutdown, it was crazy.. the company was trying to get us killed!!! Then when we got there it was a SAFETY MEETING!!!!! LIKE WTF!!!!
Had a foreman like this once. We waited till he was in the porta john on a 90+ degree day. Screwed that door shut and tipped him over. We let him out eventually. Good times.
One of the benefits I had working as a researcher at a University. Whenever a hurricane came in they just said "yea nah we got too many non-floridians here we ain't working/teaching until we tell you" Loved my hurricane days
Too funny! I was waiting for the "so, you want us to work here for free and pay you $50 a night for utilities? where is that money supposed to come from?
Hurricane Beryl just made landfall. I just called and yes we have to come in to work. We work outside. The administrative people who work in the office up front do not have to come in and they are still getting paid.
It's so on point, and it's sad because there are bosses like this, and middle management wonders why no one wants to deal with the b.s. they spew at any/every meeting
This is my reality from working in louisiana. Contractors wanted me to drive through a 100 miles of hurricane damage and flooded streets to complete a job that wasn't even paying a living wage. It's what pushed me into joining a union.
This makes me very glad to: A) Work from home B) Work for a company that would rather us be safe and take care of our families than take that sort of risk.
"Police state they are currently accepting any and all information which may lead to an attempted murder suspect after a shift supervisor found partially dismembered and duct taped to the front his own boat. Officers ate saying things are particularly difficult with this investigation after hurricane, with their workload greatly increased and working conditions drastically worse than usual."
Texan here; Last time we got hit w/ a hurricane, I called my boss and asked if I had to use Paid Leave or Sick Leave. He said, "This counts as an 'Act of God', so your covered for the day". I fucking love my boss.
I briefly worked in a factory in the UK. One day a huge snowstorm blows in. The UK does not cope with snow very well. The roads just clog as a lot of people cannot drive on snow. We asked if we could leave before it got worse. The owners refused. We all left anyway. The peeons all got home The owners had to spend the night there as they got snowed in.
Employer : if you get caught in the Hurricane and not show up to work, your getting written up and possibly fired for getting in that unsafe hurricane space!!!….. 🤨🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤨
Hey I enjoyed watching the hurricanes I lived through in Florida from the safety of my Waffle House bunker. Buildings around us lost some pieces a few times but that store never even got a scratch
Im a nurse, they dont even let us call in dead lol. Feel your pain. Imagine sleeping in a hospital bed that numerous people have died in cause you still gotta work during the snowpocalypse in Texas lol
For the global viewers the comedy comes from the fact this man is 100% serious and probably is just quoting what employers and bosses have actually said…
How dare you appropriate the disaster affecting FeloniousFalafels city. Now instead of watching him I read the jolly ranchers story. Thanks a lot bud 😂
We were told in case of snow you must be at work. A few weeks later it snowed heavily and all the workers showed up ,but no management did. So we sat around and did nothing all day because the power went out
I remember a couple years back when the boses moved to other location but the workers had to go in no excuses. In the middle of a hurricane get to work while the boses left. At my station the electric outlet had water coming out. Expendable we are.
Lol I quit a job when a cat3 hurricane was in our way and they wanted us to work just before it hit, then I got a text after it passed to help clean the lot for no pay. I read that text and laughed so hard before I blocked the number
“We’re a family” is the most psychotic thing for an employer to say
Whenever some employer says we're a family, I tell my coworkers about how much I hated my parents but I always look out for my siblings. I don't tell the job shit. Screw around, I'll vouch for you, I'll cover your shifts. That's what a good union rep does. Yeah it's a family, an abusive one.
I remember once telling my old boss how I thought the company was a family and he flat out told me “this is a job, not a family” 😂
Last time a manager tried the whole "we're a family" line on me, he stopped after I made it very awkward.
My exact words were "Yes Daddy!"
We're both guys and he was very homophobic.
Worked for several LE departments and agencies. The Chief, Sheriff, district Chief, or whoever always trotted out that "we are family" line when it was convenient for them. Interestingly, when they noted shifts spending time together off-duty; whether fishing, cooking out, bowling, shooting, or whatever, they started moving people around in order to break up those friendships and alliances. The hierarchy was suddenly "threatened" by that showing of family that they previously endorsed.
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@@hookah6579lol when you are broke and work in broke industries that’s what happens 😅
Twice I have gotten reprimanded at work for not being able to physically get to my place of work after hurricane flooding.
1st time I was 18/19yo and the road to get out of my apartment complex was 6ft deep, my manager threatened to fire me if I didnt come in (management was having to do all the work at that location), I was walking distance from another retail location so out of spite I put my uniform on and walked over there and clocked in, the manager there was super excited to see me lol. Technically according to HR I didnt miss my shift.
The second time a few years ago, (Im 38 now), the creek I have to cross to get to the highway to get to town flooded about 10ft over the road, manager flipped out and wanted to know why I didnt own a boat knowing the area around me flooded every storm season. He sent the service manager to pick me up in the highest truck they could find between the company and owners' personal fleet. He couldnt even get within 2 miles of me lol.
At least the second time, the boss tried to meet you half way.
God damn man that's fucked up
@@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam I worked for them for 7 years almost. I was the only one willing to get on a commercial roof as a storm approached lol. I have some cool photos of bands and storm eyes.
your boss sounds like he should have come out to drive a truck into the river himself 🙄
The least you can do is buy a boat, a hovercraft, a small airplane and maybe a tank to ensure you can get to work in all weather conditions (or in case of war)
This man is just dead on with the reality of blue collar jobs. This is funny because it's true.
Not just blue collar I'm a pharmacist and same thing. Come in we are OPEN but one thing he forgot to add is management won't be coming in.
@@Jaminn724 No foolin, we got an email before a forecasted winter storm advising us to leave early for work, carpool with someone with 4 wheel drive, or stay at a local motel so that we could make it in to work. Sent from a manager working from home who had taken the storm day off. We're a doctors office, not an ER or even a hospital, just a plain old annual physical, I've got a cold dostors office.
@@paulfox3532"I regret to inform you that my vehicle is incapable of transportation in such conditions. I have also exhausted my resources of finding a college with 4wd to no avail. I have looked at motels local to the office and have found myself unable to readily afford the cost on such short notice. Is there anything else I can do to beat the storm?"
Now enjoy your vacation, or enjoy the bonus youll get for the motel rooms you may or may not be sleeping in. If it goes that far and they want to compensate for a room, negotiate per diem for food, too. No way your budget counts for take out every day..
@@paulfox3532 State of emergencies don't mean anything to my work. Wanted us there during the worst winter storms we've had and even ran with a tornado on the ground, none of the workers knew until afterwards
This guy has a firm grip on corporate (and government) attitude towards their employees!
As someone who lives in Florida, I feel this. I feel this on a very personal level.
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As a person who lives in Florida, I think you’re going to feel this below sea level.
Pretty much the exact speach I heard Tuesday
love making the call to the boss that i cant ride my motorcycle through flood water
At my job is DeLeon springs the Strom wasn't close to use but people kept bitching so some got to leave home to prepare more. I left at 8 and by 9 it was over lol I missed 6 hours of pay... But yes this was us last year. Three trees was down on my road blocking me in for 6 days but work covered one day at least lmao
This guy does an unbelievable job of characterizing someone who I'd collect an aggravated assault charge on...
Lmao
The worst part about all of this is that people that aren’t American or working in America don’t realize how true to form this is.
The hope I keep hanging onto is that thanks to Brandon’s NLRB director, this is the best labor environment we’ve had in this country since before Reagan. I hope to see the union participation rate go up a lot! People deserve solidarity against their bosses
I'm Canadian, and all I still can't understand how something as basic as maternity leave isn't mandatory.
@@ColdRunnerGWN Well when part of your healthcare system decides it's better to have assisted suicide. I can see why they'd also do that.
A lot of people in other countries wish they had it as easy as us.
It is
"You were just stupid when you bought your house where you did..." that got me lol
"We want you to stay safe."
"Cool, then I'm staying home."
I'm literally working in a hurricane.
Be safe !!!!!
Did you leave a few hours early, to be safe?
I am a hurricane
Congratulations ❤😊great job, TJ
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I'm actually required to come in to work during a hurricane, but it's because I work for the county and am part of the evacuation plan for disabled/mobility impaired residents.
God bless you.
Basically the only people that should be working.
Makes sense for you as you are an essential worker - but for people like me, working in those conditions is pointless: no one is going to brave slick roads and high winds just to get some common pharmacy goods…
my dude that's essential work and hopefully you get paid to match it.
I was required to work during a hurricane too. I worked at an auto parts store that had a completely glass front.
This guy must have worked for Walmart at some point in his life. Because his videos are exactly what happens when you work for Walmart.
Yup, worked there for 1 month in the distribution center. The only day you get off is Christmas day. Other than that you're working your shift mon-thurs or fri-sun.
Just what I was thinking. 😅
I work at Sam’s club and it is true. Management was very upset when I missed one day of work during the Texas ice storm in 2021 that took down the electrical grid for most of the state. The days I did show up they made me work in the bakery making dinner rolls and French breads for the 2 customers that came by that week.
Yup! Remember that year Florida got hit repeatedly then double tapped by 1 of the hurricanes? Was working at Walmart. Got "fired" 3 different times during all that due to not going in. Decided to and was able to paddle a CANOE through their parking lot after the last one. Got a respectable raise in the end because they had technically fired over half the crew for no call no show and were desperate to get people back in.
@@KratosMafiaworked in distribution for 3.5 years in orderfilling. Their point system is so fucked man
In Florida right now working retail, during a tropical storm warning, management made the call at 9pm last night that since it was only a tropical storm and the predicted hurricane force winds had moved a little bit (20 miles) further away, we needed to be open. Full staff, 12 hours, and zero customers. This incompetent management team has done the same thing, with the same results, every time we've been threatened with a tropical storm, costing the company lots of money, and have never been called on it by higher management or owners, yet we in the trenches, coming in at the potential risk of our own safety, leaving our families to deal with things without us, are threatened with termination of employment for not coming to work.
Wait wait wait. So basically you got paid to do nothing? No customers, no work, but still paid?
Sounds like an easy day to me.
I told my boss to fire me, so I can be rich off wrongful termination law suit.
Shut him up real quick.
Now I do trade work, and my boss had to physically pull me off the jobsite to get me to stop working.
I die my family gets paid, I get hurt I get paid, nothing happens I get paid
@@TheSpicyLeg Being bored out of my mind isn't easy at all.
They never would. Morons like that are tickling the upper intestines of their bosses with their lips.
No job is EVER worth the danger of such hazardous conditions. Idk if in florida they have the vaguest laws about wrongful termination that even the most ass backwards shit states do but anywhere vaguely humane would easily see that fo what it was.
Then again if they really get that head up their ass they can always be reminded that there's a lot of dark areas between here and their home that unfortunate shit can happen to people. Got to be careful and remember that people that work somewhere can help keep things safe.
Its wags isnt it 😂
I live in erie Pennsylvania and feel this on a totally different level. We got almost 6 feet of snow in less than 24 hours one year, cars were stuck everywhere and the employer told us all to come in, sent us home an hour later because it was to bad out...
Stay safe sunshine state.
Same thing happened at an aluminum factory I worked for in north eastern Ohio. The factory was five minutes away from lake Erie!!
I was in Erie that year visiting family, and had to get out of the city the day after to get back home to work. That was wild.
Floridian here. Literally feeling this as I sit and wait in my office. All the managers are working from home but I had to drive through the storm to go to work.
My wife did too.
60+ mph wind, blinding rain.
No upper Management showed up.
@@JRotten "No upper Management showed up."
So you're saying that working in a hurricane has it's perks huh?
I'm in tornado alley and haven't ever experienced a hurricane. Tornadoes are a whole other ball game though. Management lives in denial that it can possibly happen, so they're never really prepared for the possibility. When you're in a factory, there's no TVs or local radio station or anything on, and the noise of the factory completely masks the noise of the warning sirens. You're completely at the mercy of management to give you a heads up that there's a tornado warning and you're all supposed to get to 'shelter'. Often, they just don't tell you. Whether you're gonna live or die in that situation boils down to just straight up luck.
F management they get to stay home and yet the hard working people only show up
That tells you right there that your company doesn’t care find you one that cares we don’t get hurricanes up here but we get a lot of snow and if it’s over a foot we’re told it’s not worth our lives and will be compensated
@@jamesaldrich9238 that's awesome. I'm glad you're with a company that appreciates how much a life is worth
This recently happened in Kentucky at a candle factory but with a tornado. Plant was running 24/7 work was still going. Then, a tornado collapsed the building killing 8 workers. Sad stuff.
"At least they were with their family. Their work family, which is the most important family." 😅
I only joke but that really sucks.
Because decorative scented candles are “life critical”. Sad
@@benbohannonthere’s a tornado coming that will leave thousands without power. They’re gonna need candles. Better make it mandatory overtime.
i bet the manager was just stricken with grief after such an unavoidable tragedy.
Yep he was saddened that his production was just reduced by 8 people. How are they gonna make that production up??
As a supervisor this shit is funny 😂😂😂
I was about to say the same thing 😂
As a worker it's sad.
Fudge you. Yall the problem
Nice of them to let them stay there in the warehouse and work when it’s hot, dark, powerless. What could possibly go wrong?
For free.
@@chrishubbard64 Not for free he said he would take 50 dollars from their paychecks to stay there.
@@teamofone1219 Yeah but they sure ain't getting paid
Unfortunately it will have power. I'm a commercial electrician and they all want generators now. So it will have power until they run out of fuel
I-n-v-e-s-t-m-i-n-t 🤣🤣
For when you need a nice breath mint after investing.
Did he tell them they were "stupid" when they purchased their house? OMG LOL😂
Because all the "good" homes built 50 years ago, when insurance and flood plain warnings meant something to homebuilders, and those $15k to $25k pre-Carter homes are worth $900k to $4.2m now.
These just keep getting better and better! Hahaha
Yeah this hits hard. Worked for an engineering firm years ago (first major job I had as a kid). I commuted everyday about 2 hrs to 2 hrs and 30 mins everyday to get there. One winter there was an snow and ice storm that came through that the roads impossible to get on. After spending an extra two hours in the morning to try to get my car out it wasn't going to happen and my wife (at the time gf) made me realize just because I dug it out here doesn't mean the rest of the roads aren't going to be shit so I called out there morning. Next working day I came in he called me in his office to lecture me about the importance of being on time and making arrangements. Most everyone had called out that day and even the day I returned hardly anyone came in because roads were still kind of shit, but he was there and told me that he made it just fine (even though he only lives like 10 minutes from the office). Tried to tell me I did make every effort I could to be in that day, but after two hours of digging my POS car out even if I had managed it the highways were going to be treacherous and I had learned my lesson from a previous time I made a trip in a snow storm when I didn't have to. He suggested next time I find lodging in the city someplace next time and I said I would be open to that as long as it's something I could expense since it's an unneeded expense on my end. He flat out told me that it wouldn't happen and I needed to decide how dedicated I was to the team (the same team that had also called out and most lived locally. This was also after I had worked a Saturday or two editing some plans).
I quit two months later.
Should have asked if you could crash at his place; see how committed he was to the premise.
@@Drew-bc7zj Bruh I didn't even want to give him that option.
@@eightball6219 LOL Understandable.
Boss at retail, get to work I don't care.
Boss now, get off the clock I don't care where you go but I am not paying for you dying here.
quitter
Just a reminder that one of the first things they did during the pandemic was make it so that Employers couldn't be sued if you caught covid while they made you work through a pandemic
Yea and that was actually a smart thing
How TF is that the employer’s fault?
Plenty of other stuff that is their fault to criticize. Like providing an abusive work environment and slowly chipping away benefits and layoffs at the drop of a hat and “raises” that don’t keep up with inflation.
But we’re going to sue the company instead because some employee happened to sneeze at work?
Ridiculous.
@@James-dq3jo You work construction?
@@MrTwistedLizard Not even close.
@@James-dq3jo Didnt want to assume
Imagine risking your neck doing some of the most dangerous work we know. Risking your neck and health with heights, concrete dust, and electrical wiring. Then all of a sudden a outbreak happens, a new disease that has caused some fatalities so a lock down is now in effect, however YOU still have to go out there risking your neck in a already dangerous job, because you are deemed "essential" while your employer gets to "Work from home"
Now imagine someone that was infected with this disease sneezes infecting other people on his floor. The company knew about these initial infections but didnt think it neccesary to warn the rest of the workers. Over the course of a week 60 guys are hospitalized or dont show up for work, only then does the company say there was a reported case on this floor please get tested then come straight back to work.
Now imagine a person you had been working with for a while know, gotten to know and befriended turns up dead one monday due to said diseases. Meanwhile the company man who gets to Work from Home and and forced the people under him to work in those conditions is completely absolved of responsibility for the whole thing even though it was his idea to keep it quiet.
Now imagine some white collar jobber on youtube is telling you the company that put you through those conditions isn't at fault and berates you for pointing that they should be more responsible for their workers safety
I know empathy is hard for you white collar types but just try for a moment to see it from my point of view. Thank you
I used to work for our local water system and had to sit outside our pump house at one of our wells in the truck babysitting the backup pump to keep it running as long as possible.
The cops kicked me out of town because of flooding and wouldn't let me back in. Boss called and asked why i wasn't there i handed the phone to the cop and had jim explain it to them lol one of the best days of my life.
W cop
Staying over night at my job. As a Florida worker, this would be crazy. The warehouse is open to the elements.
I had a warehouse job and they stayed open during a blizzard even though barely anyone could make it in, much less the trucks.
It wasn’t until a few hours ago that the plant I work at decided that the liability outweighs the profit😂
This one hits close to me. One time where I live we had a BAD ice storm and I mean it was BAD. People fell on their porches/decks, the roads were incredibly slick, the ice in the air made the defrost in your car practically useless, it was bad. Well the company I worked for said “we did some research and you can all come into work tomorrow morning” (the morning of the storm). In response none of us showed up. The only ones that did was my boss, his ass kissing partner, and one more worker. All of us just said “fuck that” and stayed home where it was nice and quiet and warm and safe.
A lot of these videos sound like direct transcripts from our stand up meetings at the Post Office.
Man, I need to stop watching these on my break, I get vicariously annoyed at management and my boss didn't even do anything wrong...yet lol
That's gold
I worked construction for about 6 months while changing jobs for fire companies I worked for and it was the worst job I've ever had. I have nothing but respect for the men and women who build things! Especially dealing with BS like this.
This foreman has the patience of a saint, to be putting up with this employee for so long.
He should be nailed up on some wood like many early saints and heretical filth.
I think you've got the roles reversed.
@@JohnnyShagbot truth. the reverse is true. But the fact that the foreman hasn't straight-up fired this guy yet, without taking "no" for an answer is amazing.
He puts up with him because he allready got his ass beat when he showed up to the funeral
Firing that guy would not be an option for a company as corrupt as that one!
Remember, that “loud mouth” employee has threatened to sue the crap out of them for violating multiple OSHA, state and federal employee safety laws and other general employee protection ordinances and protocols! He has stated many times that he wishes they would fire him so he would never have to work again!
That was hilarious! I actually worked outside when Hurricane Hugo passed over Charlotte in ‘89. When the trailers started blowing over I took the crew inside for lunch and stayed in 👍👍
I still remember at one location I worked at. They threatened to hit folks with 3x the penalty for calling out. The mayor had stated stay off the streets as the wind was hitting 45+ mph. There was one employee who got into an accident as a tree hit his car. They wound up suing the building manager, as it was his idea, and the center and won.
45 MPH, that is a normal day here in Oklahoma. We dont get alarmed until they say 80 90 mph sustained.
Cat 5 you say? I guess we should take all the work trucks and trailers a state or two inland, and then load up at the big box stores. If we weren't roofers before, we're roofers now!
I came, I saw, I laughed.
I came, she saw, she laughed...
this is why we need more unions!! its management with thinking like this.
Sounds like Amazon and Walmart
Walmart distribution tried making me come in the middle of a blizzard, I told them to eat me.
Worse at Fingerhut.
With the hurricane happening right now, I can't believe my boss made me come to work. I don't wanna hear none of that "we're in the Midwest, we're nowhere near the ocean." It's still happening, and affecting alot of people and I'd like a day off
The "alot" is my favorite animal
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Lol
My wife worked at the post office for 7 years. She literally never got a day off due to weather. She ran in blizzards, tornado weather, and flooding. Her boss even picked people up a couple times in his vehicle bc their personal vehicles wouldn't make it to work bc of flooding or snow.
Sounds like my place, they let us go 1/2 hour early yesterday, to prepare. And we had to show up today. Oh we work outside.
That happened to me during wildfire season in 2020. Some idiot opened up the vents and introduced the smoke outside to inside the warehouse. 2million sq feet. I was pissed. I was doing order picking at 25feet up.. i couldnt see more than 100 meters. it was like a bad fog. i looked at the manager and said NO. They offered masks, still said no. I saved sick hours for a rainy day and cashed in. I ended up going to ihop with a coworker, cause we just got paid for the day.
Doesn't smoke inhalation lead to long-term medical problems and in the short-term, death?
@@jeremypace249yes
I'm in Florida. Work in distribution. Loading several trucks just for them to come back because customers closed. Have to be unloaded and reloaded the next day for same thing. They don't care what cat the hurricane is, you coming into work. Crazy
That line about the work family made by blood boil because of how true it is 😒🤣😅
I told them but my family is fucked up.
How do you tap into the mindset of a middle management toadie of a big faceless corporation so well? The number of times I've had similar experiences like this could fill a book I'll giv e you one of the big ones; about ten years back we had the coldest day on record so bad it was declared a state of emergency like negative thirty with the wind and these clowns at my store had the cart guy bringing in carts.........bringing in carts in minus thirty degree weather.....
I've only had to work in -22 outside gathering up trash bins at a truck stop. So cold the bags would break if you pulled on them at all. Ended up dragging each and every trashcan to the compactor to dump the trash out. Meanwhile my radio is going off every 15 minutes, the manager asking me where the hell I was, stuff inside needed to get done too.
Its never been this bad for me but you can really feel the pressure to come into work no matter how bad the weather is. And its a fun game to play as they want you there but they also know if they try to FORCE you to be there, thats gonna have some legal repercussions if you get hurt. But they make sure you know that subtle "disapproval" will be there when you call to say "Hey, there is like, 5 inches of snow on the roads and the plows havent been by, so im not going to make it to work today" Its like 3x as much fun when they play the wait till the last second game before admitting they cant be open in this weather. "We gonna play it by EAR. If its bad enough then we will shut down, but we will wait to see what happens before we decide."
I was a snack route deliver a few years ago and ran my route in the middle of a hurricane. The people would ask me what are you doing here? When you are 100 percent commission. You do what you have to do.
I actually worked for a guy who said we were working during Hurricane Isabelle.. I stress the word WORKED.
The last time we had a hurricane, it did 70 billion dollars, killed 230 people, and shut down the biggest city in North America for a week.
Not only am i not working during a hurricane, the minute i hear ine is coming, i aint coming in, because ive got other shit to deal with, like keeping my house from being destroyed.
For years in the coast guard i worked in hurricanes 😂
National Guard Army Reserve too. And it's worse after the hurricane, when all that water has to go somewhere...
Thank you both for your service.
if you are a coasty that is in your job description. if you aren't there, people are dying. thank you for your service.
@@TiocfaidhArLa34 yep lol it was some great years
@@jeremypace249 I remember the dang little red flood punt boats we had . I would be up in the helos spotting
You see us more than your family is 100% truth.
Been several times I went to work with the power out. Company usually told us to wait around to see if it came back on "just in case". Once they even wanted us to clean while the power was out. Because nothing is safer than mopping the bathroom floor with a flash light. Luckily it was with pay... but still pretty stupid.
Working whilst a hurricane is tearing apart your home is a sound investmint.
I worked for a company once, and something happened on the only highway that I could use to get to the job, from where I was living at. I think it was some kind of hazardous material truck crashing and spilling its contents all over that section of the highway, but anyway, the state shut down the entire highway for like miles. So obviously, I had no way to get to work. They tried to fire everyone who was affected by the highway closure. Then to add insult to injury, when they could’ve fire everyone for fear of a lawsuit. They tried to lecture us on being better prepared to come to work, even during emergencies such as what happened on the highway. Lmfao!!!😭🤣😂
This sounds like my work. Power goes out 30 minutes into shift and is off for 3 hours and they made us sit in the dark lunchroom (backup lights went out) rather than send us home, so that they could salvage the last 4 hours of the shift.
I literally would have left and told them to f themselves. I take Breadstick Ricky's stance when it comes to severe weather - not a job I don't need. Employers will literally kill their employees and say "Whoops!" and get away with it. I'd rather be unemployed than unalive.
Were you paid 4 hours to sit? Seems like easy money to me
See im that guy that always hassles the boss in meetings and challenging him. He makes the big bucks, he deserves it. But i always show up the next day even when i say no way.
Mother Nature's throwing a tantrum, but work says it's just a breeze! 🌪️
The tornado sirens came on as I was watching this and it freaked me out
Where you at?
@@Molon_Labe1776 Ohio, of all places
@smartawesome376 lol. Was guessing around the hurricane.
Stay safe.
When I was in TN, we'd get them every spring. Had an EF-4 come within a mile of my apartment my last year there.
@@Molon_Labe1776 no, I was just sitting outside and they tested the sirens. Not a real tornado
@@smartawesome376 oh, gotcha.
Still though, they are eerie af.
Tyson in Vienna ga laid us off for renovations in February back in 2014? Had us come in for a meeting on the day we had the biggest ice over that entire winter... roads were full of black ice which is rare here in mid/south Georgia, snow flurries in Macon ,everything shutdown, it was crazy.. the company was trying to get us killed!!! Then when we got there it was a SAFETY MEETING!!!!! LIKE WTF!!!!
100% had to drive through a hurricane two years ago in Florida to make it to work and had to pick up people on the way 😂
This sounds just like the place I work at when theres a huge winter storm comming.
Had a foreman like this once. We waited till he was in the porta john on a 90+ degree day. Screwed that door shut and tipped him over. We let him out eventually. Good times.
One of the benefits I had working as a researcher at a University. Whenever a hurricane came in they just said "yea nah we got too many non-floridians here we ain't working/teaching until we tell you"
Loved my hurricane days
Too funny!
I was waiting for the "so, you want us to work here for free and pay you $50 a night for utilities? where is that money supposed to come from?
Hurricane Beryl just made landfall. I just called and yes we have to come in to work.
We work outside. The administrative people who work in the office up front do not have to come in and they are still getting paid.
It's so on point, and it's sad because there are bosses like this, and middle management wonders why no one wants to deal with the b.s. they spew at any/every meeting
Boss man would see them next week. He's not coming in
This is my reality from working in louisiana. Contractors wanted me to drive through a 100 miles of hurricane damage and flooded streets to complete a job that wasn't even paying a living wage. It's what pushed me into joining a union.
They used to just make us sleep over at the plant so we wouldn't miss work.
This makes me very glad to:
A) Work from home
B) Work for a company that would rather us be safe and take care of our families than take that sort of risk.
5:24 Is my favorite part.
Wait. Was the boss coming in too?
Lol...sounds like time to call in missing work
"Police state they are currently accepting any and all information which may lead to an attempted murder suspect after a shift supervisor found partially dismembered and duct taped to the front his own boat. Officers ate saying things are particularly difficult with this investigation after hurricane, with their workload greatly increased and working conditions drastically worse than usual."
“From the peons” 😂😂😂 damn!
Worked at a paper mill near Savannah GA. When Matthew came they said work was the safest place to be
Texan here; Last time we got hit w/ a hurricane, I called my boss and asked if I had to use Paid Leave or Sick Leave. He said, "This counts as an 'Act of God', so your covered for the day".
I fucking love my boss.
I briefly worked in a factory in the UK. One day a huge snowstorm blows in. The UK does not cope with snow very well. The roads just clog as a lot of people cannot drive on snow.
We asked if we could leave before it got worse. The owners refused. We all left anyway. The peeons all got home
The owners had to spend the night there as they got snowed in.
“What are you going to do at home?” Literally heard this from construction workers… I don’t know maybe live my life and not work! 😂
Omg my wife's job in a hospital did this to her they told her no room will be provided for the medical staff to sleep she laughed and went home
When I saw the title I knew “now you’re gonna have to leave a couple hours early to get here on time”
Was coming.
In 10yrs the world is gonna be a wild place when noone is working and the ones who are really dont give a shit anymore. Gonna enjoy the ride.
Mike from Felonious Falafel said Marshall lives in Tennessee. He was in no danger from the hurricane. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Lmao! Steve made the hurricane. It’s all his fault!!!
@@MarshallPatrick True, very true. 🤣😂🤣😂
Employer : if you get caught in the Hurricane and not show up to work, your getting written up and possibly fired for getting in that unsafe hurricane space!!!….. 🤨🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤨
Im currently on my companies hurricane ride out crew. This video hits hard.....
This is every single business in Kansas.
I was waiting for him to say "Now y'all get back to work. I've got to get outta here before the hurricane hits."
This one goes out to the good folks of Waffle House lol
Hey I enjoyed watching the hurricanes I lived through in Florida from the safety of my Waffle House bunker. Buildings around us lost some pieces a few times but that store never even got a scratch
If I ever had a boss like that he would be gumming his food till he got his dentures.
Im a nurse, they dont even let us call in dead lol. Feel your pain. Imagine sleeping in a hospital bed that numerous people have died in cause you still gotta work during the snowpocalypse in Texas lol
For the global viewers the comedy comes from the fact this man is 100% serious and probably is just quoting what employers and bosses have actually said…
How dare you appropriate the disaster affecting FeloniousFalafels city. Now instead of watching him I read the jolly ranchers story. Thanks a lot bud 😂
Hahaha I blame Carl or Steve for the Jolly Rancher story! I read it too, I’m not happy about it 😂😂😂😂
We were told in case of snow you must be at work. A few weeks later it snowed heavily and all the workers showed up ,but no management did. So we sat around and did nothing all day because the power went out
I remember a couple years back when the boses moved to other location but the workers had to go in no excuses. In the middle of a hurricane get to work while the boses left. At my station the electric outlet had water coming out. Expendable we are.
Ive worked for management like this and your other videos i love th but i want to scream watching them lol
Where I live it's blizzards & the companys attitude was the exact same!
In the U.P. of Michigan, we go to work in blizzards. You'll see 32 inches of snow coming in, and 50 inches on your way out. No snow days up here.
Lol I quit a job when a cat3 hurricane was in our way and they wanted us to work just before it hit, then I got a text after it passed to help clean the lot for no pay. I read that text and laughed so hard before I blocked the number
I've been self-employed my entire life and I wouldn't dream of working for somebody like that
Never missed 1 hour of work. Great thing about being in Central Florida.