I also like rslash who covered the story. It is nice to see how it ended. R slash’s suggestion was to not change the route until the one $5 was reimbursed. More satisfying
That’s my take too. Oh, he took a special interest in a 23-year-old woman? I’m sure he did! That Karen gives legitimately hard-working women a bad name.
they don't hear that as "I want evidence that you're an idiot." They hear it as "I'm too stupid to remember basic instructions." Arrogance hurts the wielder far more than others.
If a budget monitoring officer costs the company $40,000/year plus benefits and she was only able to save the company $3,500 regardless of the road tolls, the company is losing money by having her on payroll. That company spent whatever her salary/wages per month just to save a few thousand dollars? It would cost less to just have HR/payroll dept. reimburse the employees the expense reports every two weeks instead of having an employee who audits the expenses.
S2 has a lesson that should be part of management training. If an employee asks for instructions in writing, they’re protecting themselves. You screwed up and need to figure out how, immediately.
Story 2. It's more of allow the employee defend their choice. If it was "Why are you taking this longer route, costing us an extra x?" The answer of "Because the shorter route has a toll." Should have been followed up with adding in the additional toll costs to the travel, then on the approving of the longer route, as it was actually the cheaper route. Most employees don't try to pad their expenses; it's the managers and higher who don't have the scrutiny of their expenses who do it.
S2 is, in essence, Chesterton's Fence. This is a principle applicable to management which states that you do not introduce a change in a system before understanding the reasons _why_ the system works the way it does or why old decisions were made in the first place. The entitled manager wanted to reduce costs, at _any_ cost, but did not consider why those costs were being made in the first place. As a result of frikking around and finding out, costs were increased by an unacceptable amount.
@@wmdkitty In my IT career, I learned this lesson early on, after I got screwed over by the Data Center Director, having done something he had told me to do, then later denied telling me to do it. I always got it in writing after that. 😮
Story 1: Shirley definitely sounds like she needs anger management. She seems unhinged to just fly into a screaming fit. Story 2: I would have loved to see Karen’s face when she was fired. 😂
Story 2 - I love it when arrogant people like Karen boast about what a great job they’ve done with the ‘look how much money we saved because of me’ only to have it all blow up in their face because of one employee keeping records of everything, including emails.
reference for shirley to future employers: "Does not play nice with others. Does not take criticism. Does not listen to genuinely intelligent ideas from those in her management."
You really dug deep in the archive for these stories. I recognized Story 3 immediately since I heard it years ago when I listened to stories while driving a truck.
@ Honestly, a lot of the Reddit story tellers are reusing old stories. My best guess is that the stories they might be finding are AI-generated. I really liked listening to the Pro- and Nuclear-Revenge stories, but lately all they’ve been posting are EntitledPeople and Malicious Compliance, maybe the occasional AITA. It’s true those threads might see more activity, but even those old stories get used more than any Revenge stories. Another thing is labeling the video as Pro-Revenge but most, if not all, of the stories are actually PettyRevenge. It just makes a slight hindrance to the receiver, but it doesn’t make a difference in their life.
@@Mocita I think you are right, AI or just fiction written by humans. But at least I prefer when a real human reads them, instead of an artificial voice.
Story 1 - I wouldn’t be surprised if Shirley develops an aneurysm with all the screaming she does whenever she loses her temper over the smallest things
My dad has never, in the nearly 40 years of working, has ever been yelled or screamed at by other staff or customers, and the ones that did were physically removed from wherever he worked att
I laud your optimism. Unfortunately, the office drama just shifts to "In the video meeting, I saw that Jane Doe has a nicer house than me, she has to be sleeping with an executive for that extra pay. That's the only way that she could have that and I can't." and "I didn't hear any background noise in John Doe's mic, why does he want it to be so quiet? Is he actually a serial killer? It has to be, nobody would willingly live in the countryside unless they're hiding from the law." Small-minded people will do everything in their power to make as much drama as they can without catching a beat down for it. Even when large chunks of my plant were laid off during covid with no direct contact between anyone, there was still some _serious_ interpersonal drama. Because we've got >60 year old employees that never matured past middle school.
Only job I ever resigned from without having a new one lined up to walk into, was at a trucking company. Interdepartmental meetings, with department heads having screaming matches across the table, in front of their underlings, helped to confirm this was not the company for me.
Story 4: All of this was because of other coworkers being jealous of OP using a parking space. Jealousy isn't a reason to cause drama against a coworker and tattling on HR
It is when you work for the government and have no real power to speak of, thus tattling to HR about very petty issues is often the only way to feel important.
Story 3... Non-compete should only be allowed WHILE they are employed, none of this "can't work in similar for x months after leaving". As long as they didn't take customer lists with them, they should be in the clear to set up their own company, leave before that business starts, then when the customers of the old company when they call are directly told they no longer work for that company... if they ask if they are still doing the same work... them moving who they use to get service from shouldn't be any sort of issue (unless they have a service contract with the previous company... but if they are not holding up their side, I can see why they would leave).
Story 4... that HR person needed the issue to be brought up to management... as they were opening the company up to harassment liability... if the parking spot owner gave permission, it should have ended there. The ones jealous should have been told to be nice and make friends with some others, then they could get the spots too.
My old job had a terrific HR rep. She once told a class of new managers, “the labor pool is not a dating pool.” Apparently Bob thought he was too high up for that kind of advice.
Story 4: If the spaces are designated for use by the specific individual, why CAN'T they decide who can park there?? I could understand if HR mandated that the space had to be available to all employees under that manager, to avoid some kind of conflict in compensation or perceived favoritism/discrimination, but to just disallow the manager to use the space they're allowed to use... I'm with the Fluff, manager should have taken a ruler to HR's knuckles.
Second story: one wonders also if OP was the *only* one who had to take that shorter toll route, and if not how many other people were multiplying that toll at company expense also.
In the case of Story 2, I can honestly say "Oh, it's a WHOLE lot more than her not noticing that she was reimbursing the guy a couple hundred extra bucks per month that got her canned!" The story makes it pretty clear that she was practically universally disliked in the company, but the only reason they kept her there was because they *thought* she was saving them money, meaning they were willing to put up with her......Wicked Witch of the Office tactics. The moment they received proof that her cost-cutting initiatives had amounted to a big, fat zero, they likely thought "FINALLY! Something we can use to get rid of her!"
That first story, I was in a similar situation... at the "how dare you" comment I said, "If that's going to be your attitude for asking a question, then THIS is how I dare." and walked out of the room, never to return. Heard later that she'd been fired for inappropriate behavior and costing the company a reliable employee.
What's amazing is that so many of the one-liners were taken from serious dialogue the comedians would watch, before thinking of a punch line to add to make it funny. In that case, Leslie Nielsen had seen a drama where someone did say, "surely you can't be serious", and heard the reply "I am serious." Then they stopped the tape, and he thought, what could he say to make it funny, before coming up with "don't call me Shirley."
The penny pincher probably missed the toll fees because she went through the expense reports one employee at the time. After she had the meeting with the OP, she was done with him and never looked back.
Story 3 - Not even halfway through this story and I already got a bad feeling about what was going to happen and I already don’t like Karen (no surprise there). Also Karen practically orders OP and Jim to not get in her way and yet She’s the one pestering them with problems?
Story #2: This woman is going to save the company by reducing reimbursement on *office pens* by a couple bucks? Maybe her master plan is simply beyond my comprehension.
To the last OP: How dare you use a resource that is already paid for and preventing it from otherwise going to waste!!! [if you can't see the sarcasm in the above, you may need professional help]
Story #4, I would have said that this was merely using resources that the company had already paid for more efficiently. If they have paid for a vacant space, then this is wasted money.
So I used to have really bad anger problems in my mid to late teens. I was always just on the edge of absolutely losing my mind. The smallest things used to send me flying into a rage. Slamming things, breaking stuff, yelling, the works. I hated who I was when I was angry, but the anger honestly FELT good when I'd let it out. One day I had decided that I needed to change. It took a lot of work over a few years, but I eventually got it under control. That was 20 years ago. Now I'm a very relaxed person. As I type this out I'm realizing that the anger felt like an addiction.
So, to be fair to Bob, bringing a protegee on board to help them get a foot in the door as part of your program isn't necessarily a bad idea if handled right. Though you would have to to be careful about accusations of nepotism. But putting them in a major position when they are just out of business school with no real world experience? No. Doing so without informing the board of your company, and in fact misleading them on her new position? Hell no.
NO-compete is a issue with big holes in it as this story shows, when ya can do the job better and the company doesn't give a shit and the customers are complaining... then YES you should be able to step up to the plate with your bat, why should you and the customers suffer while a bad boss runs a business in the ground ???
Just came in from shoveling snow. We got over a foot. Your video was waiting for me to start watching it. Enjoying the video while drinking my hot tea. Always enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
I'm not familiar with that word. What does "snow" mean? (Don't mind me, just making a dumb joke. Where I live we got last time we got snow it was a few inches in 2002 and before that it was 1976).
Whoever said the ridiculous statement about non-competes, two things. 1) They have to be agreed on in writing, and they are not automatic, and 2) If OP has signed one, the story would have said how much of his profits he had to pay, because you can bet they would have gone after him.
#3 Yeah, that last question is bothering me. How OP can sweep old company's client? Won't they sue him for that stunt? Good to know the company was dumb enough to not have no compete when they hire OP.
Story number one: I've known people like Shirley. There was one lady I used to know who, much like Shirley, overvalued her own opinion and believed whatever fell out of her mouth to be total irrefutable facts. In addition to having a very volatile temper, she always had to be in the spotlight, have all eyes on her, get the last word and pull focus, no matter how inappropriate the situation or occasion may have been, all due to her gigantic ego. Also like Shirley, given her predisposition to fly off the handle over the most trivial or mundane things, she self-centered toxic attitude failed to ingratiate herself to others. She had a very poor reputation and it preceded her. Because of her propensity to let the tiniest bit of authority go to her head, she eventually began crossing every boundary (ethical, moral, legal, etc.) placed in front of her. It wasn't until she set her sights on me that I did a deep dive into her resume and what do you know? it was highly embellished but mostly fabricated. So I may or may not have blown the whistle on how she was in a position that she had not earned and was deeply unqualified for. Word spread like wildfire and a lot of doors were closed to her. She, at least, had enough sense to quit and disappear before the crap could start rolling downhill and bury her. Unsurprisingly, she took no accountability for how her multi-level deception con game had left her totally disgraced and unemployed. I still work in the same industry, so in exchanging horror stories about nightmare experiences, this lady's name came up. Apparently she never learned her lesson and just kept running her small-time hustles and cons until she ended up getting slapped in the face with the legal consequences of her actions. I also heard, allegedly, she stutters and sputters at the mere mention of my name. I guess, she never lived it down that she had messed with someone who knew their rights and would fight back. Oh well. She should have stayed in her lane. Sorry, not sorry. She can stay mad.
One of my Secretaries literally screamed at me over the phone one day last year because I had accidentally uploaded the wrong version of a document. I uploaded it, was going to run to the bathroom, then double check it when I got back. Well, before I had a chance, she called me to scream at me. I was going to let it go because we were friends and I knew she was going through a hard time. I was headed to the bathroom right after to have a quick cry when I ran into someone who sat next to her. She saw me and immediately said, “That was so not ok!! I’m on my way to talk to your boss about what happened.” I told her no, it’s ok, and that my boss wasn’t even there. She ended up sending him an email, detailing what happened, and she got in a bit of trouble. I still can’t believe she yelled at me like that, especially over something so minor, that I would have fixed myself anyway. She did apologize (like 6 months later) and we’re still good and still friends.
The only way Shirley will ever last in a Job is if she's either PERMANENTLY at the bottom of the Totem Pole (AKA EVERYONE has Seniority over her even if she's been there for 10 years and they got hired yesterday) OR she's the only Employee in her Office and she NEVER AGAIN rises to Manglement... No Seniority over anyone and is never the Boss/Supervisor/Mangler of anyone...THAT is how she might last more than a month or so in a job... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Penny smart but pound stupid. A classic and oft repeated consequence of "austerity" budgeting. A similar result whether a private corporation tries "trimming the fat" or a gov't tries cutting so called "entitlements" (employment insurance, subsidized health care, pension programs, "welfare" poverty reduction programs, etc). Almost universally, these types of expenditure reductions end up having the opposite of the desired effect, i.e. expenditures will go down, but income goes down even more. In the case of gov't's it's because the cuts cause the economy to contract thus reducing tax revenues precipitously while corporations lose customers and sales because of reduced services. A prime example is employment insurance - it seems obvious that if you cut benefits not only do your expenses go down but it "encourages" the temporarily unemployed to energetically pursue employment. This is a common policy of conservative parties (like the Republicans in the US). What politicians often forget - or dismiss, as it seems many "conservative" parties legislate according to ideology rather than reality - is that every dollar an unemployed person spends creates $2.50 in economic benefit. The loss of that $2.50 economic activity causes demand to go down, meaning lay-offs and down-sizing, meaning increased unemployment and reduced spending by the unemployed and around and around we go. Thus was the Great Depression conjured up by an initial crisis which they could have recovered from, except the first step of most gov't's around the world was budget cuts. Anyone see a pattern yet?
Story #2: if you thought that private companies were "bad" about expense reimbursements, your local government is even more brutal, or rather very permissive. The government will reimburse for every conceivable expense you can think of. The lowest I've seen was 25¢ for a parking meter. In short and my opinion, expense reimbursement is just legalized double income at the taxpayers expense.
Consulting Company Story: Even IF OP's old Company had a Non-Compete Agreement in place, depending on how Broad and/or Restrictive it is, many Courts have Ruled overly Broad and/or Restrictive Non-Compete Agreements are Unenforceable...
HR... it's there supposedly to make sure the human resources the execs have are managed... just as IT manages the computer resources... Some times they have power come to their heads...
Her being an accountant wasn't the issue. Normally accountants do a great job of helping you make financial decisions. Her problem was her ego and need for authority, which was likely born of a direct desire to prove herself to the company. Overambition and a lack of attention to detail was her downfall.
I worked for a non profit that dealt in supplying medical cadavers for medical schools. It was run by a board of directors made up of the Heads of Anatomy of all the schools we supplied. They hired an accountant to be the Vice-Director, he worked in medical offices but had never worked with mortuary or cadavers or medical schools before. Things went to Hell in a handbasket really fast, for a variety of reasons, but primarily bc I literally had to defend every necessary expense to him, like embalming machine repair & maintenance, fluid mix creation, & embalming instruments, while he swanned about yelling about bloodstains on the floor & the smell. Same guy refused to fix my air exchange system, during the summer, bc it was 'unnecessary', until his office started to smell like chemicals & decomp. Then it was suddenly very necessary & my fault for not telling him sooner. I pointed out the 2 1/2 months of emails I'd been sending him about the issue as it progressively got worse & got yelled at for not 'making him understand'. He was a nasty little man who hated women, especially women who were taller than him. Like me.
2nd story Karen trying to minimize business expense reimbursements. Interesting facts: "knit picking" is incorrect. It is "nit picking" why? Long ago when folks had bouts of hair lice, they'd use fine tooth combs for intense searches for the eggs. They looked for nits. So "nit picking" was what Karen was doing. Looking close up trying to find something.
2nd story - you see, for the $5 OP had no justification, and for the $130 he had. So when you look at it from the myopic view of the money-pinching perspective, in the first case you were wasting money, and in the second one you were not. And this is why money-pinching is so utterly stupid. It's just not seeing the forest for the trees.
Story 2 is def fake, since she saved exactly as much as she lost in tolls. She didn’t lose the company any money so she wouldn’t be fired And what are the chances that she saved exactly the same amount that the tolls cost. Story 2 is def fake, stuff like it happens but this one in particular has way to many odd details
@ I swear like the last 5 or so videos are reused videos. I’ve been listening to a lot of videos during the holiday break while cooking and cleaning and such and I’ve heard them all before.
For story 2: if someone tells you they want an agreement in writing, you shpuld really stop and get ALL the info. Thats too much work for a karen tho
And when they ask for something in writing, stop and think about what you are doing.
I also like rslash who covered the story. It is nice to see how it ended. R slash’s suggestion was to not change the route until the one $5 was reimbursed. More satisfying
@@philopharynx7910 thank you for barely rewording my comment. Lol
Story 3: Sounds to me like Bob got his sugar baby a job and then completely effed everything up by doing so. Funny how that works
That’s my take too. Oh, he took a special interest in a 23-year-old woman? I’m sure he did! That Karen gives legitimately hard-working women a bad name.
That's what I was thinking as soon as I heard her age
This is what happens when you make business decisions with the wrong "head".
Story 2: you'd think employees asking "can I get an email?" or "can I get that in writing?" would set alarm bells for the boss
That's what the boss said to Karen before fired her. 🤣
they don't hear that as "I want evidence that you're an idiot."
They hear it as "I'm too stupid to remember basic instructions."
Arrogance hurts the wielder far more than others.
If a budget monitoring officer costs the company $40,000/year plus benefits and she was only able to save the company $3,500 regardless of the road tolls, the company is losing money by having her on payroll. That company spent whatever her salary/wages per month just to save a few thousand dollars? It would cost less to just have HR/payroll dept. reimburse the employees the expense reports every two weeks instead of having an employee who audits the expenses.
S2 has a lesson that should be part of management training. If an employee asks for instructions in writing, they’re protecting themselves. You screwed up and need to figure out how, immediately.
Story 2. It's more of allow the employee defend their choice. If it was "Why are you taking this longer route, costing us an extra x?" The answer of "Because the shorter route has a toll." Should have been followed up with adding in the additional toll costs to the travel, then on the approving of the longer route, as it was actually the cheaper route.
Most employees don't try to pad their expenses; it's the managers and higher who don't have the scrutiny of their expenses who do it.
Getting everything in writing is a good idea anyway, it covers everybody's asses and keeps everybody honest.
"I need that in writing." "Why, cause you're too stupid to remember?" "No, as evidence that you said it."
S2 is, in essence, Chesterton's Fence. This is a principle applicable to management which states that you do not introduce a change in a system before understanding the reasons _why_ the system works the way it does or why old decisions were made in the first place. The entitled manager wanted to reduce costs, at _any_ cost, but did not consider why those costs were being made in the first place. As a result of frikking around and finding out, costs were increased by an unacceptable amount.
@@wmdkitty In my IT career, I learned this lesson early on, after I got screwed over by the Data Center Director, having done something he had told me to do, then later denied telling me to do it. I always got it in writing after that. 😮
It would be kinda awesome if all meetings could be wrapped up in 20 seconds. Maybe Shirley'll start a trend. 😂
Story 1: Shirley definitely sounds like she needs anger management. She seems unhinged to just fly into a screaming fit.
Story 2: I would have loved to see Karen’s face when she was fired. 😂
S2 Karen: Saves company $3,500/year
S2 OP: Saves company $35,000+/year
Story 2 - I love it when arrogant people like Karen boast about what a great job they’ve done with the ‘look how much money we saved because of me’ only to have it all blow up in their face because of one employee keeping records of everything, including emails.
Story 1: Surely Shirley is very surly 😄
Oh, that was HORRIBLE!!!
Well done...
Though I'm not happy that you beat me to it!
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Definitely a good start on a decent tongue twister.
reference for shirley to future employers: "Does not play nice with others. Does not take criticism. Does not listen to genuinely intelligent ideas from those in her management."
You really dug deep in the archive for these stories. I recognized Story 3 immediately since I heard it years ago when I listened to stories while driving a truck.
I remember that story to ! Maybe Dark Fluff is running out of material...
@ Honestly, a lot of the Reddit story tellers are reusing old stories. My best guess is that the stories they might be finding are AI-generated. I really liked listening to the Pro- and Nuclear-Revenge stories, but lately all they’ve been posting are EntitledPeople and Malicious Compliance, maybe the occasional AITA. It’s true those threads might see more activity, but even those old stories get used more than any Revenge stories. Another thing is labeling the video as Pro-Revenge but most, if not all, of the stories are actually PettyRevenge. It just makes a slight hindrance to the receiver, but it doesn’t make a difference in their life.
@@Mocita I think you are right, AI or just fiction written by humans. But at least I prefer when a real human reads them, instead of an artificial voice.
Story 2: All that inconvenience and over-budgeting for $5.85, not really worth it, eh Karen?
No it was all for -130 dollars lol
Story 1 - I wouldn’t be surprised if Shirley develops an aneurysm with all the screaming she does whenever she loses her temper over the smallest things
My dad has never, in the nearly 40 years of working, has ever been yelled or screamed at by other staff or customers, and the ones that did were physically removed from wherever he worked att
Story 4: Another reason WFH is so good: the amount of petty office drama like this drops dramatically!
I laud your optimism.
Unfortunately, the office drama just shifts to "In the video meeting, I saw that Jane Doe has a nicer house than me, she has to be sleeping with an executive for that extra pay. That's the only way that she could have that and I can't." and "I didn't hear any background noise in John Doe's mic, why does he want it to be so quiet? Is he actually a serial killer? It has to be, nobody would willingly live in the countryside unless they're hiding from the law."
Small-minded people will do everything in their power to make as much drama as they can without catching a beat down for it. Even when large chunks of my plant were laid off during covid with no direct contact between anyone, there was still some _serious_ interpersonal drama. Because we've got >60 year old employees that never matured past middle school.
Only job I ever resigned from without having a new one lined up to walk into, was at a trucking company. Interdepartmental meetings, with department heads having screaming matches across the table, in front of their underlings, helped to confirm this was not the company for me.
Story 4: All of this was because of other coworkers being jealous of OP using a parking space. Jealousy isn't a reason to cause drama against a coworker and tattling on HR
It is when you work for the government and have no real power to speak of, thus tattling to HR about very petty issues is often the only way to feel important.
In the first story, I love how people stop talking to someone thinking they are punishing that person!
Penny wise, pound foolish. I love stories with that motto.
Story 3... Non-compete should only be allowed WHILE they are employed, none of this "can't work in similar for x months after leaving". As long as they didn't take customer lists with them, they should be in the clear to set up their own company, leave before that business starts, then when the customers of the old company when they call are directly told they no longer work for that company... if they ask if they are still doing the same work... them moving who they use to get service from shouldn't be any sort of issue (unless they have a service contract with the previous company... but if they are not holding up their side, I can see why they would leave).
Story 4... that HR person needed the issue to be brought up to management... as they were opening the company up to harassment liability... if the parking spot owner gave permission, it should have ended there. The ones jealous should have been told to be nice and make friends with some others, then they could get the spots too.
Story 4: If the others are jealous over the parking spaces, maybe try to get one then? Don't raise HR complains of your own Envy, that's stupid
... Bob was sleeping with Karen...
My old job had a terrific HR rep. She once told a class of new managers, “the labor pool is not a dating pool.” Apparently Bob thought he was too high up for that kind of advice.
Most likely. People who behave badly with little remorse for what they do rarely have just a single skeleton in their closet.
Story 4: If the spaces are designated for use by the specific individual, why CAN'T they decide who can park there?? I could understand if HR mandated that the space had to be available to all employees under that manager, to avoid some kind of conflict in compensation or perceived favoritism/discrimination, but to just disallow the manager to use the space they're allowed to use... I'm with the Fluff, manager should have taken a ruler to HR's knuckles.
S2: Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
Second story: one wonders also if OP was the *only* one who had to take that shorter toll route, and if not how many other people were multiplying that toll at company expense also.
In the case of Story 2, I can honestly say "Oh, it's a WHOLE lot more than her not noticing that she was reimbursing the guy a couple hundred extra bucks per month that got her canned!" The story makes it pretty clear that she was practically universally disliked in the company, but the only reason they kept her there was because they *thought* she was saving them money, meaning they were willing to put up with her......Wicked Witch of the Office tactics. The moment they received proof that her cost-cutting initiatives had amounted to a big, fat zero, they likely thought "FINALLY! Something we can use to get rid of her!"
Cash savings 0
Employee good-will towards the company: -10
Manager good will towards that person: -10
Reason to turf: OP gave them a very good one.
That first story, I was in a similar situation... at the "how dare you" comment I said, "If that's going to be your attitude for asking a question, then THIS is how I dare." and walked out of the room, never to return. Heard later that she'd been fired for inappropriate behavior and costing the company a reliable employee.
But Shirley, you can't be serious?
I once worked with a woman named Shirley, and she once hit me with the “Don’t call me Shirley” line. It caught me off guard and I had no response. 😆
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley!"
What's amazing is that so many of the one-liners were taken from serious dialogue the comedians would watch, before thinking of a punch line to add to make it funny. In that case, Leslie Nielsen had seen a drama where someone did say, "surely you can't be serious", and heard the reply "I am serious." Then they stopped the tape, and he thought, what could he say to make it funny, before coming up with "don't call me Shirley."
Stop calling me, surely?!
She's being shirlious.
The penny pincher probably missed the toll fees because she went through the expense reports one employee at the time. After she had the meeting with the OP, she was done with him and never looked back.
Non competes were basically found to be illegal by the Supreme Court in most cases in the US a couple years ago.
Non-Compete clauses are entirely illegal. I'm aware that doesn't stop shady corporations from using them, but they're breaking the law by doing so.
Malicious compliance is *delicious* compliance!
Story 3 - Not even halfway through this story and I already got a bad feeling about what was going to happen and I already don’t like Karen (no surprise there). Also Karen practically orders OP and Jim to not get in her way and yet She’s the one pestering them with problems?
Story #2: This woman is going to save the company by reducing reimbursement on *office pens* by a couple bucks? Maybe her master plan is simply beyond my comprehension.
Yup, it was beyond everyone's comprehension. That's why she was fired.
To the last OP: How dare you use a resource that is already paid for and preventing it from otherwise going to waste!!!
[if you can't see the sarcasm in the above, you may need professional help]
Story #4, I would have said that this was merely using resources that the company had already paid for more efficiently. If they have paid for a vacant space, then this is wasted money.
Always entertaining, particularly liked the "I'd give them a puzzle..." Hahah
So I used to have really bad anger problems in my mid to late teens. I was always just on the edge of absolutely losing my mind. The smallest things used to send me flying into a rage. Slamming things, breaking stuff, yelling, the works. I hated who I was when I was angry, but the anger honestly FELT good when I'd let it out. One day I had decided that I needed to change. It took a lot of work over a few years, but I eventually got it under control. That was 20 years ago. Now I'm a very relaxed person. As I type this out I'm realizing that the anger felt like an addiction.
So, to be fair to Bob, bringing a protegee on board to help them get a foot in the door as part of your program isn't necessarily a bad idea if handled right.
Though you would have to to be careful about accusations of nepotism. But putting them in a major position when they are just out of business school with no real world experience? No. Doing so without informing the board of your company, and in fact misleading them on her new position? Hell no.
NO-compete is a issue with big holes in it as this story shows, when ya can do the job better and the company doesn't give a shit and the customers are complaining... then YES you should be able to step up to the plate with your bat, why should you and the customers suffer while a bad boss runs a business in the ground ???
AMEN!
13:13 Ahhh... The Fresh out of College kid who has NO idea how the Real World works and always have LOADS of ideas to make things better. LOL!
S3: “The CEO had taken special interest in”
Which one? Her supposedly ‘good work and her team building’. Or how amazing she is in bed?
Just came in from shoveling snow. We got over a foot. Your video was waiting for me to start watching it. Enjoying the video while drinking my hot tea. Always enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
I'm not familiar with that word. What does "snow" mean?
(Don't mind me, just making a dumb joke. Where I live we got last time we got snow it was a few inches in 2002 and before that it was 1976).
@@jonmendelson1104 lol
Last story. No puzzle. More like blocks.
Whoever said the ridiculous statement about non-competes, two things. 1) They have to be agreed on in writing, and they are not automatic, and 2) If OP has signed one, the story would have said how much of his profits he had to pay, because you can bet they would have gone after him.
#3 Yeah, that last question is bothering me. How OP can sweep old company's client? Won't they sue him for that stunt? Good to know the company was dumb enough to not have no compete when they hire OP.
Story 1: Sounds like OP worked well with Donald Duck's early years
Story number one: I've known people like Shirley. There was one lady I used to know who, much like Shirley, overvalued her own opinion and believed whatever fell out of her mouth to be total irrefutable facts. In addition to having a very volatile temper, she always had to be in the spotlight, have all eyes on her, get the last word and pull focus, no matter how inappropriate the situation or occasion may have been, all due to her gigantic ego. Also like Shirley, given her predisposition to fly off the handle over the most trivial or mundane things, she self-centered toxic attitude failed to ingratiate herself to others. She had a very poor reputation and it preceded her. Because of her propensity to let the tiniest bit of authority go to her head, she eventually began crossing every boundary (ethical, moral, legal, etc.) placed in front of her. It wasn't until she set her sights on me that I did a deep dive into her resume and what do you know? it was highly embellished but mostly fabricated. So I may or may not have blown the whistle on how she was in a position that she had not earned and was deeply unqualified for. Word spread like wildfire and a lot of doors were closed to her. She, at least, had enough sense to quit and disappear before the crap could start rolling downhill and bury her. Unsurprisingly, she took no accountability for how her multi-level deception con game had left her totally disgraced and unemployed.
I still work in the same industry, so in exchanging horror stories about nightmare experiences, this lady's name came up. Apparently she never learned her lesson and just kept running her small-time hustles and cons until she ended up getting slapped in the face with the legal consequences of her actions. I also heard, allegedly, she stutters and sputters at the mere mention of my name. I guess, she never lived it down that she had messed with someone who knew their rights and would fight back. Oh well. She should have stayed in her lane. Sorry, not sorry. She can stay mad.
HR, as usual being committed to being their useless selves again.
One of my Secretaries literally screamed at me over the phone one day last year because I had accidentally uploaded the wrong version of a document. I uploaded it, was going to run to the bathroom, then double check it when I got back. Well, before I had a chance, she called me to scream at me. I was going to let it go because we were friends and I knew she was going through a hard time. I was headed to the bathroom right after to have a quick cry when I ran into someone who sat next to her. She saw me and immediately said, “That was so not ok!! I’m on my way to talk to your boss about what happened.” I told her no, it’s ok, and that my boss wasn’t even there. She ended up sending him an email, detailing what happened, and she got in a bit of trouble.
I still can’t believe she yelled at me like that, especially over something so minor, that I would have fixed myself anyway. She did apologize (like 6 months later) and we’re still good and still friends.
Leave it to a Canadian to act ruthless while also being polite.
Thank you! Fighting sleep at work…
The only way Shirley will ever last in a Job is if she's either PERMANENTLY at the bottom of the Totem Pole (AKA EVERYONE has Seniority over her even if she's been there for 10 years and they got hired yesterday) OR she's the only Employee in her Office and she NEVER AGAIN rises to Manglement...
No Seniority over anyone and is never the Boss/Supervisor/Mangler of anyone...THAT is how she might last more than a month or so in a job...
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Fun fact, non-compete clauses were just made illegal in the US. Idk if its the same in Canada
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Shirley went on to be a. COP. … YIKES. LOL
Penny smart but pound stupid. A classic and oft repeated consequence of "austerity" budgeting. A similar result whether a private corporation tries "trimming the fat" or a gov't tries cutting so called "entitlements" (employment insurance, subsidized health care, pension programs, "welfare" poverty reduction programs, etc). Almost universally, these types of expenditure reductions end up having the opposite of the desired effect, i.e. expenditures will go down, but income goes down even more. In the case of gov't's it's because the cuts cause the economy to contract thus reducing tax revenues precipitously while corporations lose customers and sales because of reduced services. A prime example is employment insurance - it seems obvious that if you cut benefits not only do your expenses go down but it "encourages" the temporarily unemployed to energetically pursue employment. This is a common policy of conservative parties (like the Republicans in the US). What politicians often forget - or dismiss, as it seems many "conservative" parties legislate according to ideology rather than reality - is that every dollar an unemployed person spends creates $2.50 in economic benefit. The loss of that $2.50 economic activity causes demand to go down, meaning lay-offs and down-sizing, meaning increased unemployment and reduced spending by the unemployed and around and around we go. Thus was the Great Depression conjured up by an initial crisis which they could have recovered from, except the first step of most gov't's around the world was budget cuts. Anyone see a pattern yet?
Surely certainly does not have the temperament to be a supervisor of any kind that's for sure
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Story #2: if you thought that private companies were "bad" about expense reimbursements, your local government is even more brutal, or rather very permissive.
The government will reimburse for every conceivable expense you can think of. The lowest I've seen was 25¢ for a parking meter. In short and my opinion, expense reimbursement is just legalized double income at the taxpayers expense.
Consulting Company Story: Even IF OP's old Company had a Non-Compete Agreement in place, depending on how Broad and/or Restrictive it is, many Courts have Ruled overly Broad and/or Restrictive Non-Compete Agreements are Unenforceable...
Thank you!
oh yea bob really wanted to give her first hand experience all right all across the work place
More Malicious Compliance!
Story 4: Yet more proof that HR does NOT work for the Humans it is supposed to Resource.
HR... it's there supposedly to make sure the human resources the execs have are managed... just as IT manages the computer resources... Some times they have power come to their heads...
Of course not. The very name of it is de-humanizing. It's just seeing people as assets
Want to ruin your company? Let an accountant run your finances.
That's what they are good at. What you don't want them to do is run your company with only the finances in mind.
Her being an accountant wasn't the issue. Normally accountants do a great job of helping you make financial decisions. Her problem was her ego and need for authority, which was likely born of a direct desire to prove herself to the company. Overambition and a lack of attention to detail was her downfall.
I worked for a non profit that dealt in supplying medical cadavers for medical schools. It was run by a board of directors made up of the Heads of Anatomy of all the schools we supplied. They hired an accountant to be the Vice-Director, he worked in medical offices but had never worked with mortuary or cadavers or medical schools before.
Things went to Hell in a handbasket really fast, for a variety of reasons, but primarily bc I literally had to defend every necessary expense to him, like embalming machine repair & maintenance, fluid mix creation, & embalming instruments, while he swanned about yelling about bloodstains on the floor & the smell. Same guy refused to fix my air exchange system, during the summer, bc it was 'unnecessary', until his office started to smell like chemicals & decomp. Then it was suddenly very necessary & my fault for not telling him sooner. I pointed out the 2 1/2 months of emails I'd been sending him about the issue as it progressively got worse & got yelled at for not 'making him understand'.
He was a nasty little man who hated women, especially women who were taller than him. Like me.
Who should run company finances if not the accountant?
Thanks.
Hello, Friends! This has been quite helpful lately. I'm going THRU it, a certain BUCKO done messed up lol. These videos hello me not focus.
Story 1: I was disappointed in the lack of 'Surely you jest'/ Don't call me Shirley' jokes.
2nd story Karen trying to minimize business expense reimbursements. Interesting facts: "knit picking" is incorrect. It is "nit picking" why? Long ago when folks had bouts of hair lice, they'd use fine tooth combs for intense searches for the eggs. They looked for nits. So "nit picking" was what Karen was doing. Looking close up trying to find something.
Hi everyone
2nd story - you see, for the $5 OP had no justification, and for the $130 he had. So when you look at it from the myopic view of the money-pinching perspective, in the first case you were wasting money, and in the second one you were not.
And this is why money-pinching is so utterly stupid. It's just not seeing the forest for the trees.
Hi all again 👋👋
Yes, my favorite types of stories. AND I caught it at 3 minutes after upload!!! HYPE
bro why the snowy background? Christmas is over 😂
Bad morale is not worth $3500
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Story 2 is def fake, since she saved exactly as much as she lost in tolls.
She didn’t lose the company any money so she wouldn’t be fired
And what are the chances that she saved exactly the same amount that the tolls cost.
Story 2 is def fake, stuff like it happens but this one in particular has way to many odd details
EARLY AGAIN!!! WOOHOO!!!
Yet another repeat post. Why!?!?!.
Has anyone else noticed lately that uploads are repeats?
If you mean that "new kid ordered CEO's sister" I think that was a third time
@ I swear like the last 5 or so videos are reused videos. I’ve been listening to a lot of videos during the holiday break while cooking and cleaning and such and I’ve heard them all before.