My brother had cancer. Doctor told him he only had about six weeks. I requested a leave of absence, so I could spend some time with him. Employer told me they couldn't give it to me because I had only been there 9 months and didn't qualify for FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act). Gave notice on the spot. Bye, Felicia!!
My boss tried to tell me that same shit. He said “well I only have my husband so I don’t really care when people try to get of for family emergencies.” I told him if his husband was given 6 weeks to live, he’d say fuck this job and go to Jamaica.
I’ve walked out of a call centre because I honestly was having a mental breakdown. If a job is making you physically sick and having you cry in the toilets every single day then something ain’t right. Very lucky to have had my parents to fall back on because I was in a terrible place.... I had started self harming which I had never done in my life up until that point. Got a part time job at a cafe while I got back on my feet and it was such a relief.
When I worked at Golden Corral, after a new supervisor came in, he was so horrible that almost every night I went home crying. Granted I was going through something else too that was private but it was horrible there.
A friend of mine took his granddaughter to a fast food restaurant for chicken nuggets . When ordering he told the cashier he wanted a half dozen . The cashier said "I'm sorry , we only sell them either 4 piece or 6 piece ". He said "I know , I'll take the half dozen " . The cashier leaves and gets the manager and when the manager gets there tells my friend " I'm sorry sir , we only sell them either 4 or 6 piece only " . His granddaughter says "Nevermind Grandpa , I'm not hungry anymore " .
@@eatamyassa4305 Well you don't automatically know everything as soon as you hit 18, everything isn't sent into your brain XD There's things you don't know that everybody else seems to, more than likely. We're always learning. My 70+ parents are still learning. And apparently the boss didn't know either as there was no clarification of him knowing and just going "Oh OK the 6" and sorting out the order. Your intelligence doesn't dictate where you work. If Trump is any example.
I had a run of the mill job years ago where the administrator and her crony thought they were such badasses. They called me into the main office one day and I was nervous but, like, whatever. They began to berate me saying that for a couple of months I didn't pay my insurance premiums and I should have noticed from my check. I told them I didn't notice and that I would pay it back but they weren't having it. They called me a thief and went on and on about my character. I listened quietly and when they were done I stood up and said something like "how dare you treat people like this." I told them they should be ashamed of themselves because they were no better and their company was BS. I then proceeded to walk out but heard them calling my name asking me to come back. I flipped the bird and never went back. Karma P.S. The company had a class action lawsuit a few years later and I got a check in the mail for $300. Spending that was sweet pleasure.
TLDR: OP had a job, their administrator and her minion were on a power trip. Essentially insulted OP for something he can easily fix but they doubled down on the insults. OP eventually told them that they were essentially abusive to others and walked out, karma soon slams them hard and he got a check afterward.
Quit a job because once a week we had to "boil out" the fryers, always after we closed because the chemicals going into the air was too dangerous for customers (We weren't actually told this) and I had an asthma attack that needed my emergency inhaler three times to fix. I put the incident in my daily employee review, told my bosses, and requested not to do that particular job again. Next week they scheduled me to do it alone. Quit as soon as I saw.
Did something similar. I was working at a supermarket that had a video rental place at the time and that was where I mostly worked for a year. I got friendly with the floral manager and next thing I knew I was on the floral schedule. Problem is my allergies are really bad (2 daily medications but still get symptoms). I told management I couldn’t do that job. I was the only video employee other than the manager that could work a day shift and I thought that was leverage enough to get out of floral. I kept getting floral shifts and I kept complaining so I finally quit and management was pissed at ME! I told them how many times. The video manager wouldn’t talk to me those last days because that meant she would have to work all the day shifts herself.
I didn't quit, but the plant was gearing down to close permanently. I started as an Admin Assistant and then they added Parts Analyst and Payables Analyst to the job. The problem was management changed so often, the replacements never bothered to ask what I did. I have an ability to make a job more efficient. If a process takes 20 steps to complete, I can get it down to 10 or less. The job ran so well, management only knew a small part of what I did - scheduled a supplier's production lines, ensured parts were shipped to schedule, troubleshoot payables issues, ordered office supplies, submitted maintenance requests, kept the schedule for those working during shutdown periods and more. They called me a few days after I was let go and wanted me to go through everything I handled. I told them only if they paid me.
I'm a "for my mental health" case as of tomorrow. I picked a strange time to quit, and who knows how it'll go. But it'll be nice to not have to constantly expose myself to the public during this time of panic.
Did that a couple years ago. Just walked out. Job was so stressful I'd have panic attacks and developed stress-induced IBS. My job today still sucks, but it pays better and stress levels aren't even comparable.
@@morticiaaddams7866 I'm doing pretty great! Quitting that job was a butterfly effect trigger that changed my whole life. Quitting meant more time and mental energy to write while I helped care for my grandfather. More time to write got me matched up with a writing partner online. That writing partner and I got real close and started dating. And I moved across the USA to live with him, a year to the day after we met. Things are great now.
If a job requires I have a facebook to work for them and it is not a social media job, then I want nothing to do with said company. I dont have a facebook or twitter.I prefer to keep my work life and personal life separate.
tinylilmatt Why would they care that I'm a creative person and gamer as my hobbies?? I'll tell them if they ask but??? Does it affect my actual work at all if it's nothing to do with any of my hobbies?
wanted to delete my fb but had to keep it because the company i started at used it to communicate(moving company). But they did not see a problem of just creating a new account.
There was a lady who worked at my office, left the company to work at a competitor, then came back. Management loved her from the first time around and immediately put her on our biggest account. Then a couple of weeks in, heard she was pregnant, so the office gave her a baby shower. Since everyone loved her, she got some really nice gifts. One day soon after that, I came in and the office was in a tizzy. Turns out, the woman emailed her immediate resignation to management the night before and even called the account that she was no longer their account rep without giving management warning. We heard she went back to the competitor. My theory was she wanted to get as many baby gifts as possible. After that my company had a strict no rehiring rule.
Union labor is so fuckin awesome. Threaten me because of my social media? Union. Have me work schedules I told you I can’t? Union. Cut my hours? Union. Unions are literally designed to help workers band together and help themselves against the giant corporations that would enslave them if it were legal.
Could not agree more. Better pay across the board because there is no hidden favourtism. We have clearly defined pay bands, and it's very easy to see a path if you want to earn more. Then great overtime, sick leave, holiday pay, medical coverage and so on. I know why they were deamonised for so long because companies could get away with a lot without them but really they help all the way round if run right.
@@Davtwan People always say that but those people dont really exist. Of course there are lazy people but in corporate jobs without any unions there are much more of them! It has nothing to do with unions. Its just something the media is trying to spread so dumb people go „uh im not lazy im anti union im not paying for lazy people“ which is the same nonsense argument that is being made agaisnt social programs
@@Davtwan This right here is why I'll never join a union. I was raised in the suburbs of Detroit and saw what happened to the auto industry. At one time I didn't have an adult relative that didn't work in some capacity with cars/tires/manufacturing. So, so many horror stories. Yes, unions can be good if you are good; but unions can be good if you are bad.
More than 15 years ago, I was an assistant manager at a movie theater. Transferred from a 5-screen house to a 25-screen house when Large Tele-communications Company M downsized 6,000 jobs so I could get the full time hours the 5-screen house just didn't have to give me. Couple of years there, my direct boss over me in the projection department goes on vacation for a month that ended up being 2 months when he had a health issue pop up. We split the slide program down the middle; I took the side with 13 theaters, and a coworker who had a full-time gig outside of our company took responsibility for the 12 theater side. After 3 weeks, I noticed that my side no longer received calls about slides being upside down/backwards/dirty, while the other side did. I suggested to the other fellow taking over the downstairs trailer projector every Thursday (or any other night) when I needed to update the slides, and he was good with that. Well he didn't work every Thursday, but every other manager was equally as willing to make this deal, which took far, far less of their time than doing their own slides would. Before my direct manager returned from "vacation," I'd found a better way of ensuring I knew where each slide was to go, and what was coming in/going out. On the computer, the incoming slides were green text on a white field. Cool. Printed that out, and... it looked all the same. (frowns) Didn't work for me, but we only had a B/W printer. Easiest solution: select every field for incoming slides, make the background black, and the text white. BAM! Print that off, and it was very, very easy to see which ones were switching. Before switching slides, I'd sit with good light, and check the first slide out well, ensuring which side was up/forwards, then could rapidly ensure with a glance at each remaining of that group that it was right side up/forward. Would mark the upper/outside edge with colored Sharpies, differing patterns/colors for each new slide. This is during "dead" time, and something that could be done a few minutes here and there easily. When it was late enough that I could do my switches, they were ready. One bundle of each new slide, set up in order that they would drop in. Switching out could take up to 1.5 hours, for all 25 screens, but that was a rare high end, and only when the set of 12 unique Pepsi slides were being changed out as well. Started sending out company-wide emails to the other projection teams when Pepsi question/answer slides were out of order, so it could be caught (hopefully) before noticed by customers, as I'd send it out the night they went in. Now, random managers emailing the whole company was usually frowned on, but I never heard a harsh word on this topic. I'd send to corporate if I didn't receive a slide that should have gone up. The gentleman at corporate in charge of the slide program asked me questions about this and that concerning our slides, and to do an inventory of "house slides" used as filler when we didn't have enough paid advertisement slides. I would be called at home and asked if a given slide went up. I'd tell them, "If it was to go up, it did. What was it about?" When they told me, I'd be able to tell them yes or no. Now this is all on a small disc they drop in, which makes all those managers very lucky!
I don't think people should be fired for what they post on social media when they're on vacation or at home not working. The teacher who got fired for touring a brewery is the reason why I don't think bosses should be allowed to judge a person's life by their social media.
When I was in high school, I worked at a grocery store. I was fired for a joke that I posted on social media. When they brought me in for the firing - they had printed out pages of my facebook, slammed them down on the desk, and said "this look familiar?" There were 3 or 4 of them, I don't remember. They took it to the point where it looked like a scene from the godfather, or something. I couldn't help but laugh.
TharzZzDunN or people could have the right to post what they want that is perfectly fine and legal? Bosses shouldn’t have any right to fire people for doing stuff that has nothing to do with their company and isn’t going to mess up their reputation in the slightest.
Worst I had was a situation where I was working at a hardware place and found myself unable to breathe at weird times. I worked there for a week and a half and had a situation while I was driving home where I felt like my throat was closing. Turns out I was seriously allergic to the stuff growing outside. I didn’t know what to say since they were nice and the workplace was good but I got the feeling this was going to be my last day working there. I called in and told them I was leaving for a new work opportunity and I was sorry. Amid a crisis about what I was going to say to my family, I got a call from some place I didn’t remember applying for, and they asked me if I could schedule this interview. I jumped on it in a heart beat and now I’m working with a research company as a scheduling clerk and it’s the best job I’ve ever had.
Mental health and a lack of professionalism prompted me to quit one of my part time jobs and just keep the second. I don't regret it and it was such a freeing feeling to know that I never had to go back to that store unless I wanted to be there, not because I had to be there. My current job is much more fulfilling on a mental level and I no longer feel degraded for just doing my job.
My best I quit story was when I quit USPS. I was literally berated by a manager and then a coworker also berated me claiming I was doing it wrong and of course I was mad and she said if you hate it here you can leave. I was so mad that I went to the bathroom and she FOLLOWED ME and started questioning me. She better be lucky she was old because I wanted to slap the shit out of her. I decided to finish my shift which fortunately was almost over when that happened because I didn’t want my coworkers to be stuck with the work I left but I did NOT come back even though I was scheduled for the rest of the week.
The person who’s partner died unexpectedly, I’m right there with you. My husband died of covid and I cry everywhere and and scared of everything and everybody. I got laid off though because I was taking care of my husband his grandma(who was also sick with covid) and baby. They said “I quit due to covid concerns”. I’m getting there but I just cant, as much as I want to, function like I used to. I worked there for years
And make sure not to try to insult others, point out certain names, or make it seem you’re mocking coworkers or customers or even the business. You have to become really good at twisting your words so you can talk about your feelings without getting fired or arrested for it.
@@notsure7874 yes get a burner with no obvious relation to you but can still post how you feel. Keep a handful of friends on it who knows you and make sure they know not to snitch. If someone finds out, you have a smaller list of "friends" to co front
I was fired for furry porn. I got let go from a job at a local grocery store for posting my commission sheet for furry/monster porn on my personal twitter instead of my art twitter. Some (all) of my examples were very NSFW. My boss fired me because he was following me and saw my twitter post consisting of snake dong and wolf boobs. They aren’t kidding about things being “Not Safe For Work” that’s for sure. Boss chalked it up to “end of season” but it was two months early. BUT THE JOKE IS ON YOU, SCOTT, I MAKE THREE TIMES AS MUCH DRAWING BOOBS AS I DID STOCKING SHELVES! Shoutout to my ex-coworker/friend for commissioning a piece after she heard I was fired.
i mean during quarantine it's partially normal to spend your life making comments based on video titles but you could've done something with your life before quarantine using that time
Never left a job but have gotten fired from multiple jobs because my depression was so horrid. Im still trying to claw my way out of the pit i dug for 7 years. But i always lost my job when my seasonal depression was the worst. Managed to keep one job, tho it was retail and it did a ton of mental and emotional struggle to me, i had a boss who understood and would quickly send me home if i suddenly came to him trying not to cry or not feeling well. He knew i have depression. But ive gotten fired for calling intoo many times due to the stupid point system at walmart and a call center job. I worked food and retail for years and noticed it only made my mental health worse. It would take me 3 months to find a new job because i was so bad. When i got fired from my call center job, i immediately went running back to my old job with the great boss. Worked there for several months for 20 hours a week. Parents got angry at me because i wasnt trying to improve my life or anything. They thought it was ridiculous that i wasnt motivated or cared about anything when really i was struggling everyday not to run away and wither away until i was dead. I hated life and myself. Thankfully my now boss lives in the same community as me so i got a job driving. When i had no car he gave me rides since he lived a few houses from me. When i became so depressed that i came in crying after finishing my route for the day he made me go home and stay. Called 2 days later when i noticed i wasnt on the schedule and he questioned me to make sure i was doing better. That was 4 months ago. Im still here.
I'm glad you are still here, just keep trying your best one day at a time. Or one hour at a time even if that helps. Hope your parents got off your back, they should want you happy & healthy above anything else. Although if they were just worried & want the best for you I guess I kind of understand but still. They should understand people need support during hard times.
that’s so great you have a boss who understands. when things get as dark as they can get, always remember that there’s people like him/her fighting for you just as much if not more than you are for yourself!
Not answering calls when you are off duty.... Try this one, this job relied on text messaging... We got yelled at for not replying back immediately on or off the clock... Not a big deal, however for those of us that worked graveyard (the busiest shift, and very few people for the work load) while we are sleeping to come in that night, we were expected to answer the text, and if we don't we get lectured on being a team and how a text could just be a yes or no question... We basically had to explain EVERY TIME what time we went to bed and what time did we wake up.... mainly to see if we were awake when they sent the text... After that I took my phone number off of all the HR files (all computer based) and NEVER answered any phone calls or text messages. They hated that.... Fuck em.... They didn't give a damn about me (disability, I screwed my back up, both knees and right hip) why should I give a damn about them? Learn from my mistake YOUR JOB is NOT worth your health!
i worked a construction job for a year or so. It was completely draining and the lack of purpose i felt was palpable. Shit eventually wore me down mentally to where i was getting pretty depressed on top of already bad anxiety. Covid came along and i got hours cut and time off. after a week I didnt call back. im living on savings right now and biding my time until i have to get my shit together again but i dont regret it at all
@@dwaynenolan4941 I don't have Facebook much less any other media. I think I'm just slow because I don't care . People take advantage of ignorant people. I am the ignorant racist according to msm
That's worrisome because I don't have a FB account. Or Twitter. Or Gab. Or LinkedIn. Or any of that crap. My private life is private, not for the world to see. Plus social media makes you stupid.
@@RedneckSith Don't worry about THAT... If them not being able to find online profiles with personal shit posted - and only personal shit posted that they approve of ... you probably don't want to work there anyway.
@@RedneckSith if I found out one of my employees had zero social media presence, I would definitely not promote him. In fact, id try and let them go asap
Former mortgage loan officer & worked in underwriting. I quit when I saw the loans getting approved. This was before the bubble. We would practically giving away ARMs. I knew that a bubble was coming (MA in Econ ) and that people would end up with no home. Lasted only 4 months.
I once got doxxed by someone I had an internet argument with. A complete stranger on a group. My account was private, and I didn’t even have my employer on my page at all. Nor had I ever told anyone on there where I worked. We literally got in a fight over me using the term “adult briefs” on a post of a new mom asking how to deal with bathroom irregularities. She somehow got my information, and actually called my boss to tell them I was an abl*ist. All because I used the word “adult briefs”. I didn’t get in trouble because thankfully my boss wasn’t an a-hole, but still. People are insane. Oh btw I worked as a caregiver so that kinda accusation could’ve gotten me in major trouble. So I posted what she did and name dropped her and a bunch of people on my page doxxed her, and called her employer to tell them what she did. I didn’t tell them to do that, but I don’t feel bad that they did. Not at all.
With the "lazy person" collection of stories, it reminded me of something back in college (1999, so figure the dawn of the internet as a popular tool). In one of my classes, we were assigned to collect the answers to a sheet of about ten questions about the college itself. My classmates all wandered off to go across the campus and find the answers. I walked two doors down the hall, signed into the computer lab, and pulled up the school website. Everything was on the website. I was the first one back and the teacher was completely baffled.
Worked at a pot store, before I was hired I got ripped off by a pot doctor, so I made a negative google review for the doctor to warn others. Months into my new job, the doctor contacted the pot store company and complained about the review. The pot company had a partnership to get patient referrals from the doc. So the PR manager for pot company emailed me and offered me hundreds worth in free product to delete the review. I refused to delete it allow more people to get ripped off. So I was fired for BS reasons days later.
I got myself fired because they treated me badly after I suffered a TBI, after covid hit and they sent us all hime to work I got them to pay me as I sat there and made sure I was on the phone (hanging up on the customers so it would go to my coworkers who bullied me because of the TBI). I am a small meek woman so I can be walked over quite easily, but I also know how to take revenge. My manager was pissed but he was a bastard so I got a lot of joy out of that after a year of mental torture while I struggled to get over my brain injury. I'm studying a Batchelor at Uni now and changing my vocation, frick the IT Industry
30:26 company "reward" was a trip to the Golden Corral. Ouch. I knew a tabletop game company who used to reward workers after a particularly successful sales season with a pizza party. Not even at a restaurant. Like ... he'd order pizza in for them, and then feel he'd been a great boss.
Kroger does that. Orders pizza and thinks they're doing us a big favor. It's not even expensive pizza, it's Little Caesar's. Don't get me wrong it's not bad for $5, but for a 'pizza party'? Come on! At least splurge on Jet's or something. Billion dollar company and they can't even pay for decent pizza... or extra aprons. Or maintain equipment. Or air condition the loading dock. Or hire enough people. Or stop b*tching about overtime (which we wouldn't need if we had enough people). It's not the worst company I've worked for by a long shot, but once I can begin working in my field of study I'll be very, very happy to bid them adieu.
I had an interview with a company that required that I provide them with my usernames and passwords for all of my social media accounts. I left the interview at that point. No one gets my passwords.
Got fired for writing fun facts on paper, after one of my managers put one in someone's food on accident. Guy got offended, it wasn't even bad, but manager got written up, I got fired without warning for writing it. Three days later, my gm called. No one went through her when firing me, uppers where scared and didn't tell her. She wasn't happy, and I still work their, for now
i quit my job on the spot with no backup, no notice. i was assistant manager. they lied on their job advertisement they were paying $15 a hour but on my first day was told corporate made the ad and i would be starting at $11hr. i had just moved everything to that city & was paying for an apartment for the first time in my life. a few months in they offer me $13 to be assistant manager so i agreed. i became on call all the time and working 60-70 hour weeks. eventually one day at 9am i broke down, quit on the spot and they told me i’d never find anything better around here. i had a new job by the end of the day. paying $15 a hour that got bumped to $18 because of covid pay. there’s always something better
I didn't lose a job I already had but I screwed myself out of a job. Went for a job interview on a military base, it went relatively well. How did I screw myself out of the job you might ask? Well one of the six interviewers was my old boss. Although he never said it to me I knew he wasn't my biggest fan. After the interview I posted this on my Facebook. 2 days later I get multiple texts from former co-workers asking me what I posted on social media...I never got a call back.
I'm about to quit my job to start my own candle business. It's gonna be tough starting on my own but I feel free knowing that I don't have to deal with my anxiety attacks caused by my underpaid job.
I quit a job back in October for mental health. I was getting crushed under so much shit, so much responsibility... like, it was fucking insane the amount of crap they dumped on me, and I was all by myself. I was not only having thoughts of suicide, I had plans, and I had means to execute those plans. I almost did. I literally almost killed myself because I hated my job so fucking much. Im still unemployed right now, but jesus christ I do not regret quitting. I would do it a thousand times over. That job was horrible.
I don’t get why people seem to think that teachers have to be these 100% pure and innocent saints who aren’t allowed to do anything fun or have a personal life, ever. Like unless a teacher is posting pics of them doing drugs, having sex, etc on social media who cares??? God forbid teachers have a personal life like everyone else! The horror!
Ruby Atneta There is something absolutely creepy about how you wrote that. Like, I imagine you with stringy unkempt thin hair, beady eyes that are a little to close together, 300lbs on a medium-short frame and a grease-stained black-metal shirt. Also, you’re a guy, when it appears that, based on your name, your a girl. Oh well :/
Most people do not know , but Sears went bankrupt because the great sales employees quit as they based jobs in extended warranty not the products you sell. It is the most worthless product (warrenties) as the loopholes to deny service is massive. Thus is why many states have banned them.
That first story is exactly why I left the games industry. At its core, it is predatory, and treats its employees like cattle to be used up and spit out. To anyone who wants to pursue a career in video games: Don't.
Can you imagine working with someone for a certain amount of months so the whole thought of you being “new“ is over and Someone is still checking out your Facebook even though you’re not friends with them I saw on another Reddit reading UA-cam that someone explain this perfectly where they basically said “social media has made stalkers out of normal people”
Never used Facebook. I live in small town England, went on it couple weeks ago as looking for job, virus updates. It is worse than I imagined, really vicious. Reminded me I’m happy to have grown up pre internet, what people will say on a keyboard that they never say face to face, and how many times a day people will write long messages.
Fastest I noped out of a “job” When I was in orientation, an all day thing, and as soon as I heard “first you pay for this, then you can sell them at a higher rate.” (paraphrased) That happened right before lunch. Took off with everyone else, grabbed some Wendy’s, and never went back. Blocked the number they’d called me with before.
Change in management: My managers changed twice so I wrote up a resignation letter in July, I didn't have the "Oh, Shit!" money saved up to leave and I wanted to have a job first. Well. When I found out one my "new" manager started taking my tips, I dated the letter two weeks out and left it on the desk without a word. I had no plan or new job, but I told a friend at what happened. I was offered a job in the same hour 😀 I felt like I won. And now that I'm leaving, my new, final manager wants me to stay, tells me I don't need to do dishes, and tries to pay me extra for errands. It's too late.
The once related to call centers have my deepest condolences, was working in one myself for about 15 month and couldn't take it anymore, funny thing about that: Today I'm a long distance transport dispatcher in a big european logistics company, in general, one of the most stressful jobs (as you pretty much got to do 10 different things at the same time) if you google comparisons and ... I'm having a god damn blast with it, not have been as close to being exhausted by it then I was in the call center
Well your first mistake was working for a startup... always avoided them like the plague it sounded like a sweat shop for intellectuals to me. Go for the less flash jobs it may be lower paying but you get to stay sane long enough to enjoy some of the benefits. I may enjoy a challenge but I certainly wouldn't make it a regular day job.
15:30 My grandfather is always complaining about immigrants coming and stealing jobs. He is an immigrant and by his logic him and his parents came and stole jobs. But they are white and from an English speaking country, so immigration might not actually be the issue here.
Used to work retail as cart collection and carry outs. Once had a customer ask me, after finally getting a big TV into their car (it took a while) “why ya’ll sell TVs too big to fit in people’s cars.” I chose to now believe he was trolling, but he was straight faced as they come and it about caused an aneurism
I work in a tourist town, which has been ravaged with coronavirus since last May when we reopened with little restrictions. Inevitably, two of my coworkers caught Covid-19. These two coworkers happened to be married to each other as well as renting a trailer to live in from the owner of the store (many conflicts of interest I know). They concealed their symptoms for over a week while still coming to work and denied coronavirus testing at the urgent care, but were prescribed antibiotics (that did nothing for coronavirus). Finally, after over a week of symptoms specific to Covid-19 (no sense of taste or smell, congestion, etc) one of them called out for a fever. Because they had been prescribed antibiotics, i naively assumed that they had been tested for Covid-19 and tested negative, and instead had something that required antibiotics. I assumed wrong. The owner told them they both had to get tested before coming back to work, to which they were angry about. Of course they both tested positive. After this, the owner decided not to close the store for cleaning or employee testing. Two of my coworkers and I went to get rapid tested the morning we found out and demanded the company pay for it. The owner caved and payed for ours, but told us to be quiet about it so that he wouldn’t have to pay for everyone else’s. The whole ordeal did it for me, I put in my 2 weeks after that.
So many of these stories make me sad & realize I do have good instincts of how HS ‘sh and immature ppl can be in jobs I would expect better form everyone. .
Cosplaybaby29 had every right to be bothered by the job title thing; a housekeeper is not a maid, there's a difference in both hierarchical power-grade and in what your job duties/description should be. I think that in the States they're considered interchangeable job titles bs you do all of the same work, but in the UK the housekeeper is the one doing all of the on-site management for all of the cleaning staff. You might as well call the head of your company's accounting department a cashier; just bc they both handle the money and keep track of the books doesn't make them the same thing.
she hates being a programmer because it's not a very fulfilling job. So she decides to become a substitute teacher in a public school. yeah, that's a job that should help your mood lol.
@@e.e9596 Go ask the average public school teacher if they love their job hahaha. Spoiler alert, they usually don't. Teachers have no rights in the average public school so it's not something most could stand for 30+ years. This isn't really me laughing at them for wanting to teach children life skills, but more so that they would ever truly think they could enjoy life as a public school teacher in this day in age. They get taught nonsense in college and then get hired into a job only to be disrespected and treated as replaceable xd. They're not allowed to think outside the box which makes makes for a very linear education and this causes 1/4 or more of all US students to drop out among other reasons. Sorry for the long paragraph but being a teacher is far from a fun job.
I’m late but I worked at McDonald’s for a while. I just remember waking up one day and noticing that I hated everything. I hated waking up, I hated every second of being at work. I hated the weekends because I knew I had to go back there. I was never happy about anything. I hadn’t smiled in weeks. Barely spoke, wasn’t eating etc. One day when I walked into work my manager stopped me at the door and said she had to tell me something. Turns out a former manager (who tried hard to get promoted to GM, didn’t and got transferred) had been found dead. He missed 3 days of work something he never did. They contacted his brother to try to get ahold of him. His brother went to go look for him at his apartment and he had killed himself. It dawned on me in that moment that I had to leave that place. I finished my shift oddly calm for the first time in months and I didn’t go back. I couldn’t. Rip Devon.
Working harder not smarter. How do you run a company without innovation or optimization? Having employees see what might work better would be way more efficient than sticking to only calculators and paper.
I quit a call center job as a technical support rep with no notice because I had just been put into my 9th support queue and was expected to learn another new product and get put into a 10th. I had no downtime, no ability to research properly. I was also one of the more senior reps after 4 years because of high turnover and they wouldn't let me transfer to a new department even though I kept requesting. I was severely burned out and was crying in my wrapup time between calls. It wasn't the kind of place where we had a script and a check list. I eventually found a new job and quit when I got my offer letter.
I'm going to add more because fuck them. They were constantly restructuring. We had less and less competent "directors" put over our department, meaning less was done to assist us. They hired less and less and we were constantly understaffed. They placed us into a pod structure in my 4th year, which made no sense because I was cross trained in multiple products and my pod was all newer team members who only knew like 1 or 2 things within the same suite of product and they wanted to put me on the same training structure as them so I'd be learning more and more on top of what I already knew and supported.
"Are you guys open today?" "No. I just decided to break in and answer the phones for laughs." Our hours were online. Our hours were on our automated phone greeting. Our phones had to be logged in every day and when they were logged out, the message said "We are currently closed, here are our hours. Please try your call again during regular business hours."
This may be the most stupid question/calls I get at work. The other stupid ones are asking if this is "Business name"? When I just answered the phone saying "Business name" how can I help you. People don't listen to anything. And it just seems like if they had to look up the number to call they should have seen the hours posted right there beside it.
@@quicksilverlacey yeah, I'd get those too. But probably hands down the stupidest phone call I've ever gotten involved a guy calling asking about ordering shirts and asking about sizes, colors, and styles. I worked for a car dealership, which I named in my opening spiel. We did not sell shirts or any kind of clothing. The dude adamantly refused to believe me and flipped out when I told him he had the wrong number.
I used to get this dumb nonsense a lot at work: (Pre-covid) Me; *passes by the salad bar* Customer: "Miss? What size is the medium for soup cups?" Me: *points to the medium cup* Customer: *ponders it for a long while* Customer: *picks up the large cup* "And this is the large?" Me: "Yes." Customer: "Okay, I guess I'll take whichever holds more." This is just one example of this, but I used to get that with the ice bags, soup, hot chicken... whatever seemed to have a size choice. It's remarkable.
The daycare one shook me. I used to work at a couple daycares and have toured at a few different ones in my area. Out of all of the ones I’ve ever been to, only one followed state law to a T. One of the ones I worked for (for only a couple days), the teachers were abusive and would curse at the kids so loud you could hear it from the other rooms (I was in the infant room and the teachers in the toddler and older children rooms would just be screaming). I left and never answered any of their calls. The only good one I’ve ever seen and would trust my child with was a childcare center on a huge cleaning company’s hr\factory sight that had a fuck ton of corporate funding with no state funding but 5 star state and national ratings.
Not me and not fired but just not hired. I walked into my convenience store around the corner from my house before going to work. It was ~6AM. There was a new guy as the cashier. He asked me "Are you a manager where you work?" I said "No, why?" He said "I just moved from Colorado (to Tennessee). How do you get a better job in TN if you smoke Pot?" I laughed and said "Welcome to TN. CO might be a better place".
2:02:02 I'm Honestly surprised when I come across the Cutco stories, When I was interview for the position I didn't have to buy any knives, I was even reward with free knives as I made sales. I honestly wonder if I had one of the rare few Good Bosses that worked for Vector Marketing, or if it's that there's not enough oversight to stop some bosses from taking advantage from their employees.
Do not add co-workers to your social media and keep it private. I was actually told by a boss that since my social media was Private they wanted to fire me.
Quit a couple of jobs. I had just recently moved and was leaving my job to get another closer to where I live. My job was a good 45 minutes away. Anyway, all my coworkers knew that I lived pretty far, so I was spending a lot of money on gas to get to work. Queue one night when I'm supposed to be at work just for a short shift to unload a delivery truck. I get to work to find out that the truck wasn't going to be coming tonight, and my coworker found out about it when he got to work. He got to work at 3:30pm. I didn't get to work until 7. He waited to tell me so that he could complain about not feeling well so he could go home. I actually got pissed at him, told him it was pretty inconsiderate to not bother telling me before my shift, and if he would've told me I wouldn't have had a problem coming in still and letting him go home. The next day I had a shift, and I didn't show up. I never returned my key but I got my last check so I still have it. It probably doesn't work anymore, but I don't plan on going back to that location to give it back. Another job I left because the GM was a cunt and made me feel like shit everyday. She would yell at me for stupid crap and if I ever asked for help with customers (I usually asked when there was more that 4 people) she would bitch at me for not being able to handle it alone. (Also, this was Five Guys so she expected me to ring people out, dress the burgers, cook the burgers, and make the fries all at the same time for 4+ people. She often also expected me to act like a manager even though she said to my face that I was too emotional to be a manager.) She got fired but the DM did what she did aside from yelling at me, and he would change my schedule without asking me. It turns out the DM and I both decided to quit our job simultaneously on the same day. The only regret I have was that I didn't get my coworkers number before I left. She was my favorite, and I found out a couple weeks ago that she overdosed and died about a week before I took my brothers there for dinner. I was pretty devastated and that was the only regret I had from leaving that job. But I got a much better job right after leaving FG abruptly. So there's that I guess..
Didn't quit over it, but there's a section in here over dumb questions asked. When BlueRays first came out, I didn't have a head's up on them. I picked up the blue case and paused. Studied the front. Studied the back. Looked at the front one more time, saw "BlueRay" on it. Turned to the customer. "Do you have a BlueRay player?" [blank look] "No, I have a DVD player." "This won't work on a DVD player, you shouldn't buy it." "It's a DVD, sell it to me!" "No... it's a BlueRay, and it won't play on a DVD, and once you open it, we won't accept it back or refund it." This was my actual first time seeing a BlueRay disc. First time holding it. Had never even heard a whisper about them before. And got to argue with people for weeks over how a DVD player would not read them. I'm not a techie, but I do use it. When they give something a brand new name, there's usually a reason for it. When it's a form of playable media... that means that any other sort of player won't read it, as a rule. Not rocket science, guys...
i wrote on a coworkers page on facebook when one of her friends asked if the store i closing be we had mark down sales, i said no we are getting rid of all the old shit, without thinking when i should have said stalk , weeks later i had a meeting with management in why i said it and the regional manager , i explained i meant stuff not shit, auto correct i am sorry next time i will look before enter, didnt get fired but gotten written up
1:21:37... call center. they had all sorts of ways to give you 'penalties' and the only way to clear them was to come in Saturday to work and work them off (anything at all from logging in five seconds late on up was a mandatory 15 minutes penalty) I worked a part week and was very sick so skipped that Saturday legally with a medical slip. Next week I thought I had 5 demerits. I came in and had been trained on so little that I got to sit there all day. Logged out after 12 hours. Made up my infractions with 15 minutes extra. Yeah, 47 infractions. They had a promo, work 40 hours in a week and you would be paid (2x plus what minimum wage was). I managed this, and pulled my premium pay. Next Monday, I walk in and there are several pink slips at the head of the row including one with my name on it. I walked straight into HR and quit. They are nice, processing the paperwork and people are running around all over out on the floor. They're looking for me, they seen me walk in. Finally one comes to HR after 45 min and I'm almost through with quitting. They can't fire me, I had quit. If they could fire me, they could rehire me at minimum wage only. This is what they desired, demoralized minimum wage peons. Instead I did also get to go through an arbitration where they had five of us, and agreed to hire us back at less than that premium but a lot more than minimum. I didn't go back.
17:42 I finally have an explanation as to why those stories even exist... Where I am most of these people could be sued for firing and quitting so instantly.
Work in banking- a lot of ppl are shocked that they can't spend money they don't have. Had one guy write a check for $1200 and a bunch of other charges on his account that only had about $800. He isnt employed and expects no additional money. Blamed the bank, every charge was his. I asked him if he can do math.
I recently quit my job of 6 and a half years because they'd yell (not exaggerating) at everyone during our preshift meeting on a nightly basis that if we didn't follow covid guidelines and wear a mask at all times we'd be fired on the spot. People ignored it and they did nothing. I got tired of dealing with the verbal abuse so I quit. It's demoralizing to work in a place where you could be fired at a moment's notice for something that's permitted, but get yelled at the whole time that it isn't permitted. Fyi, I didn't have a problem wearing the mask. It actually made it easier on me, being able to hide my "poor attitude".
This is why I don’t really add my boss(es) on social media. Not that I’m doing anything bad or anything. I just lurk but I don’t need my higher ups on social media much
So I had worked at a local car wash for about a year and a half. One day one of my coworkers who I would consider a friend brought a slushee drink from a fast food restaurant. She had offered me a drink since we were friends and it was not out of the ordinary for us to go to that restarsunt so I thought nothing of it. 4 hours later the friend was absolutely blackout drunk and that’s when I found out she had mixed vodka in the slushy. I didn’t know that and couldn’t tell after I drank it since she had only put a small amount in that slushy but kept going to her car to just drink out of the bottle. I explained to the manager immediately that I took a sip and she never told me. 2 weeks later me and 10 others were fired for “drinking on the job” even though we didn’t know anything was in it and only took a sip. Terrible job the hours were long and the work was hard and even though I did so much more work than expected the management still treated me like shit.
That would be a lawsuit against the company, potentially for wrongful dismissal but definitely for tampering with your drinks since that's the employer's responsibility. I'm not sure about the USA, but in Australia that employer would be fined tens of thousands for that if it was reported, and potentially be liable for civil damages on top.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 in the U.S. you can sue for wrongful termination and if you win the company at minimum looses money from legal fees and whatever compensation the court ordered the company to give and possibly fined if that's even a thing, and if they don't comply there's a good chance they get screwed even further.
“Wifey I got to spend all my time looking for a job, I cannot watch the kids. U need to Hire a nanny.” If my husband asked me this I would just laugh. It has to be a joke ur @ home.
Former workplace used form letters made in a well known word processor program. Each form letter ran a macro which asked you to enter details which were used to customise the letter. These had to be entered by hand every time one of those letters was created. It didn't take me long to realise that a small modification to the macro would allow some of that information (such as your name and your position in the organisation) to be stored and brought back as the default each time, so you only needed to check it was correct and hit Enter. Started using it myself. Long before I left, my method had been adopted as the official way to do it. They even added a new network drive path to make it easier to implement.
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My brother had cancer. Doctor told him he only had about six weeks. I requested a leave of absence, so I could spend some time with him. Employer told me they couldn't give it to me because I had only been there 9 months and didn't qualify for FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act). Gave notice on the spot. Bye, Felicia!!
I would have done the same thing your families health is more important than the job you can always get another job but you can't replace anyone
They don't deserve notice. Walk away without saying a word grab your shit punch out and never look back
My boss tried to tell me that same shit. He said “well I only have my husband so I don’t really care when people try to get of for family emergencies.”
I told him if his husband was given 6 weeks to live, he’d say fuck this job and go to Jamaica.
Shoulda said “Feli-ciao!”… lol
Wow, no sympathy. Hope that company went under
I’ve walked out of a call centre because I honestly was having a mental breakdown. If a job is making you physically sick and having you cry in the toilets every single day then something ain’t right. Very lucky to have had my parents to fall back on because I was in a terrible place.... I had started self harming which I had never done in my life up until that point. Got a part time job at a cafe while I got back on my feet and it was such a relief.
When I worked at Golden Corral, after a new supervisor came in, he was so horrible that almost every night I went home crying. Granted I was going through something else too that was private but it was horrible there.
A friend of mine took his granddaughter to a fast food restaurant for chicken nuggets . When ordering he told the cashier he wanted a half dozen . The cashier said "I'm sorry , we only sell them either 4 piece or 6 piece ". He said "I know , I'll take the half dozen " . The cashier leaves and gets the manager and when the manager gets there tells my friend " I'm sorry sir , we only sell them either 4 or 6 piece only " . His granddaughter says "Nevermind Grandpa , I'm not hungry anymore " .
Why not just say '6' once the cashier said 'We only do 4 or 6'? Not everybody knows what a dozen is and therefore can't logic that half a dozen = 6.
@@Roadent1241 really ? A supposed adult not knowing what a dozen is ? Maybe that's why they working in a fast food restaurant .
@@eatamyassa4305 Well you don't automatically know everything as soon as you hit 18, everything isn't sent into your brain XD There's things you don't know that everybody else seems to, more than likely. We're always learning. My 70+ parents are still learning.
And apparently the boss didn't know either as there was no clarification of him knowing and just going "Oh OK the 6" and sorting out the order.
Your intelligence doesn't dictate where you work. If Trump is any example.
Imagine being a supposed adult that doesn’t know a lot of words get omitted and aren’t used as generations go on
I would have embarrassed the shit out of them at that point and not buy anything.
I had a run of the mill job years ago where the administrator and her crony thought they were such badasses. They called me into the main office one day and I was nervous but, like, whatever. They began to berate me saying that for a couple of months I didn't pay my insurance premiums and I should have noticed from my check. I told them I didn't notice and that I would pay it back but they weren't having it. They called me a thief and went on and on about my character. I listened quietly and when they were done I stood up and said something like "how dare you treat people like this." I told them they should be ashamed of themselves because they were no better and their company was BS. I then proceeded to walk out but heard them calling my name asking me to come back. I flipped the bird and never went back.
Karma P.S. The company had a class action lawsuit a few years later and I got a check in the mail for $300. Spending that was sweet pleasure.
TLDR: OP had a job, their administrator and her minion were on a power trip. Essentially insulted OP for something he can easily fix but they doubled down on the insults. OP eventually told them that they were essentially abusive to others and walked out, karma soon slams them hard and he got a check afterward.
@@jingnan4826 Love it!
@@jingnan4826 well if that isn’t a nice story. Flip the bird!!!
awesome made my morning
Who do these people think they are?
Quit a job because once a week we had to "boil out" the fryers, always after we closed because the chemicals going into the air was too dangerous for customers (We weren't actually told this) and I had an asthma attack that needed my emergency inhaler three times to fix. I put the incident in my daily employee review, told my bosses, and requested not to do that particular job again. Next week they scheduled me to do it alone. Quit as soon as I saw.
That actually sounds like a case of disability discrimination. I don't know how long ago that happened, but you could take legal action.
Good on you. Never EVER let an employer take liberties with your health.
You could have probably sued for a good bit of cayshh
Did something similar. I was working at a supermarket that had a video rental place at the time and that was where I mostly worked for a year. I got friendly with the floral manager and next thing I knew I was on the floral schedule. Problem is my allergies are really bad (2 daily medications but still get symptoms). I told management I couldn’t do that job. I was the only video employee other than the manager that could work a day shift and I thought that was leverage enough to get out of floral. I kept getting floral shifts and I kept complaining so I finally quit and management was pissed at ME! I told them how many times. The video manager wouldn’t talk to me those last days because that meant she would have to work all the day shifts herself.
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I didn't quit, but the plant was gearing down to close permanently. I started as an Admin Assistant and then they added Parts Analyst and Payables Analyst to the job. The problem was management changed so often, the replacements never bothered to ask what I did. I have an ability to make a job more efficient. If a process takes 20 steps to complete, I can get it down to 10 or less. The job ran so well, management only knew a small part of what I did - scheduled a supplier's production lines, ensured parts were shipped to schedule, troubleshoot payables issues, ordered office supplies, submitted maintenance requests, kept the schedule for those working during shutdown periods and more. They called me a few days after I was let go and wanted me to go through everything I handled. I told them only if they paid me.
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I'm a "for my mental health" case as of tomorrow. I picked a strange time to quit, and who knows how it'll go. But it'll be nice to not have to constantly expose myself to the public during this time of panic.
I am almost following your path
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Give us updates, good luck out there.
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Did that a couple years ago. Just walked out. Job was so stressful I'd have panic attacks and developed stress-induced IBS. My job today still sucks, but it pays better and stress levels aren't even comparable.
How you doing?
@@morticiaaddams7866 I'm doing pretty great! Quitting that job was a butterfly effect trigger that changed my whole life. Quitting meant more time and mental energy to write while I helped care for my grandfather. More time to write got me matched up with a writing partner online. That writing partner and I got real close and started dating. And I moved across the USA to live with him, a year to the day after we met. Things are great now.
If a job requires I have a facebook to work for them and it is not a social media job, then I want nothing to do with said company. I dont have a facebook or twitter.I prefer to keep my work life and personal life separate.
tinylilmatt Why would they care that I'm a creative person and gamer as my hobbies?? I'll tell them if they ask but??? Does it affect my actual work at all if it's nothing to do with any of my hobbies?
wanted to delete my fb but had to keep it because the company i started at used it to communicate(moving company). But they did not see a problem of just creating a new account.
@@raila952 Did they ever hear about this handy thing called a cellphone? Handles group texts pretty easy.
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Expensive to send photos and videos. Also can't send excel tables.
There was a lady who worked at my office, left the company to work at a competitor, then came back. Management loved her from the first time around and immediately put her on our biggest account. Then a couple of weeks in, heard she was pregnant, so the office gave her a baby shower. Since everyone loved her, she got some really nice gifts. One day soon after that, I came in and the office was in a tizzy. Turns out, the woman emailed her immediate resignation to management the night before and even called the account that she was no longer their account rep without giving management warning. We heard she went back to the competitor. My theory was she wanted to get as many baby gifts as possible. After that my company had a strict no rehiring rule.
Union labor is so fuckin awesome. Threaten me because of my social media? Union. Have me work schedules I told you I can’t? Union. Cut my hours? Union. Unions are literally designed to help workers band together and help themselves against the giant corporations that would enslave them if it were legal.
Could not agree more. Better pay across the board because there is no hidden favourtism. We have clearly defined pay bands, and it's very easy to see a path if you want to earn more. Then great overtime, sick leave, holiday pay, medical coverage and so on. I know why they were deamonised for so long because companies could get away with a lot without them but really they help all the way round if run right.
I just wish lazy workers didn’t take advantage of unions to be invincible from being fired. They’re going to ruin it for the rest of us.
@@Davtwan People always say that but those people dont really exist. Of course there are lazy people but in corporate jobs without any unions there are much more of them! It has nothing to do with unions. Its just something the media is trying to spread so dumb people go „uh im not lazy im anti union im not paying for lazy people“ which is the same nonsense argument that is being made agaisnt social programs
Unions are just as susceptible to corruption as the corporations. Don't kid yourself.
@@Davtwan This right here is why I'll never join a union. I was raised in the suburbs of Detroit and saw what happened to the auto industry. At one time I didn't have an adult relative that didn't work in some capacity with cars/tires/manufacturing. So, so many horror stories. Yes, unions can be good if you are good; but unions can be good if you are bad.
More than 15 years ago, I was an assistant manager at a movie theater. Transferred from a 5-screen house to a 25-screen house when Large Tele-communications Company M downsized 6,000 jobs so I could get the full time hours the 5-screen house just didn't have to give me.
Couple of years there, my direct boss over me in the projection department goes on vacation for a month that ended up being 2 months when he had a health issue pop up. We split the slide program down the middle; I took the side with 13 theaters, and a coworker who had a full-time gig outside of our company took responsibility for the 12 theater side.
After 3 weeks, I noticed that my side no longer received calls about slides being upside down/backwards/dirty, while the other side did. I suggested to the other fellow taking over the downstairs trailer projector every Thursday (or any other night) when I needed to update the slides, and he was good with that. Well he didn't work every Thursday, but every other manager was equally as willing to make this deal, which took far, far less of their time than doing their own slides would.
Before my direct manager returned from "vacation," I'd found a better way of ensuring I knew where each slide was to go, and what was coming in/going out. On the computer, the incoming slides were green text on a white field. Cool. Printed that out, and... it looked all the same. (frowns) Didn't work for me, but we only had a B/W printer. Easiest solution: select every field for incoming slides, make the background black, and the text white. BAM! Print that off, and it was very, very easy to see which ones were switching.
Before switching slides, I'd sit with good light, and check the first slide out well, ensuring which side was up/forwards, then could rapidly ensure with a glance at each remaining of that group that it was right side up/forward. Would mark the upper/outside edge with colored Sharpies, differing patterns/colors for each new slide. This is during "dead" time, and something that could be done a few minutes here and there easily. When it was late enough that I could do my switches, they were ready. One bundle of each new slide, set up in order that they would drop in. Switching out could take up to 1.5 hours, for all 25 screens, but that was a rare high end, and only when the set of 12 unique Pepsi slides were being changed out as well.
Started sending out company-wide emails to the other projection teams when Pepsi question/answer slides were out of order, so it could be caught (hopefully) before noticed by customers, as I'd send it out the night they went in. Now, random managers emailing the whole company was usually frowned on, but I never heard a harsh word on this topic. I'd send to corporate if I didn't receive a slide that should have gone up. The gentleman at corporate in charge of the slide program asked me questions about this and that concerning our slides, and to do an inventory of "house slides" used as filler when we didn't have enough paid advertisement slides. I would be called at home and asked if a given slide went up. I'd tell them, "If it was to go up, it did. What was it about?" When they told me, I'd be able to tell them yes or no.
Now this is all on a small disc they drop in, which makes all those managers very lucky!
I don't think people should be fired for what they post on social media when they're on vacation or at home not working.
The teacher who got fired for touring a brewery is the reason why I don't think bosses should be allowed to judge a person's life by their social media.
When I was in high school, I worked at a grocery store.
I was fired for a joke that I posted on social media.
When they brought me in for the firing - they had printed out pages of my facebook, slammed them down on the desk, and said "this look familiar?"
There were 3 or 4 of them, I don't remember. They took it to the point where it looked like a scene from the godfather, or something.
I couldn't help but laugh.
That's america for you. No employee rights whatsoever.
Or people could try not posting about their activities (legal or not) on a public forum?
TharzZzDunN or people could have the right to post what they want that is perfectly fine and legal?
Bosses shouldn’t have any right to fire people for doing stuff that has nothing to do with their company and isn’t going to mess up their reputation in the slightest.
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Worst I had was a situation where I was working at a hardware place and found myself unable to breathe at weird times. I worked there for a week and a half and had a situation while I was driving home where I felt like my throat was closing.
Turns out I was seriously allergic to the stuff growing outside.
I didn’t know what to say since they were nice and the workplace was good but I got the feeling this was going to be my last day working there. I called in and told them I was leaving for a new work opportunity and I was sorry.
Amid a crisis about what I was going to say to my family, I got a call from some place I didn’t remember applying for, and they asked me if I could schedule this interview. I jumped on it in a heart beat and now I’m working with a research company as a scheduling clerk and it’s the best job I’ve ever had.
Mental health and a lack of professionalism prompted me to quit one of my part time jobs and just keep the second. I don't regret it and it was such a freeing feeling to know that I never had to go back to that store unless I wanted to be there, not because I had to be there. My current job is much more fulfilling on a mental level and I no longer feel degraded for just doing my job.
My best I quit story was when I quit USPS. I was literally berated by a manager and then a coworker also berated me claiming I was doing it wrong and of course I was mad and she said if you hate it here you can leave. I was so mad that I went to the bathroom and she FOLLOWED ME and started questioning me. She better be lucky she was old because I wanted to slap the shit out of her. I decided to finish my shift which fortunately was almost over when that happened because I didn’t want my coworkers to be stuck with the work I left but I did NOT come back even though I was scheduled for the rest of the week.
ahh thats why my delivery is late
This sounds like a 7 year old describing their day at school.
anytime they say "if you don't like it, leave", then for God's sake LEAVE. You did it right Leah.
The person who’s partner died unexpectedly, I’m right there with you. My husband died of covid and I cry everywhere and and scared of everything and everybody. I got laid off though because I was taking care of my husband his grandma(who was also sick with covid) and baby. They said “I quit due to covid concerns”. I’m getting there but I just cant, as much as I want to, function like I used to.
I worked there for years
the first 20 minutes is why you keep your social media locked down so no one that isn't a friend can view it.
And make sure not to try to insult others, point out certain names, or make it seem you’re mocking coworkers or customers or even the business. You have to become really good at twisting your words so you can talk about your feelings without getting fired or arrested for it.
Because there will always be that one mutual who rats people out for their vent posts
Better yet - delete it. Keep a burner, and use it for entertainment only if you really want.
@@notsure7874 yes get a burner with no obvious relation to you but can still post how you feel. Keep a handful of friends on it who knows you and make sure they know not to snitch. If someone finds out, you have a smaller list of "friends" to co front
Yeah I was wondering like why do they not have theirs as private, like friends only?
I love these long videos. Great to fall asleep to.
I was fired for furry porn. I got let go from a job at a local grocery store for posting my commission sheet for furry/monster porn on my personal twitter instead of my art twitter. Some (all) of my examples were very NSFW. My boss fired me because he was following me and saw my twitter post consisting of snake dong and wolf boobs. They aren’t kidding about things being “Not Safe For Work” that’s for sure. Boss chalked it up to “end of season” but it was two months early. BUT THE JOKE IS ON YOU, SCOTT, I MAKE THREE TIMES AS MUCH DRAWING BOOBS AS I DID STOCKING SHELVES! Shoutout to my ex-coworker/friend for commissioning a piece after she heard I was fired.
Luckily we bigfoots don't have jobs cause I've got like a ton of comments posted all over this platform lol
Hey do you hunt your food or is there like a food store dumpster or like cryptid food store with raw animal and human meat you go to?
Keep practicing social distancing!
i mean during quarantine it's partially normal to spend your life making comments based on video titles but you could've done something with your life before quarantine using that time
Never left a job but have gotten fired from multiple jobs because my depression was so horrid. Im still trying to claw my way out of the pit i dug for 7 years. But i always lost my job when my seasonal depression was the worst. Managed to keep one job, tho it was retail and it did a ton of mental and emotional struggle to me, i had a boss who understood and would quickly send me home if i suddenly came to him trying not to cry or not feeling well. He knew i have depression. But ive gotten fired for calling intoo many times due to the stupid point system at walmart and a call center job. I worked food and retail for years and noticed it only made my mental health worse. It would take me 3 months to find a new job because i was so bad. When i got fired from my call center job, i immediately went running back to my old job with the great boss. Worked there for several months for 20 hours a week. Parents got angry at me because i wasnt trying to improve my life or anything. They thought it was ridiculous that i wasnt motivated or cared about anything when really i was struggling everyday not to run away and wither away until i was dead. I hated life and myself. Thankfully my now boss lives in the same community as me so i got a job driving. When i had no car he gave me rides since he lived a few houses from me. When i became so depressed that i came in crying after finishing my route for the day he made me go home and stay. Called 2 days later when i noticed i wasnt on the schedule and he questioned me to make sure i was doing better. That was 4 months ago. Im still here.
I suffered the same way. Even worked at walmart and multiple call centers lol. Keep going babe! We will get through this ❤❤❤❤🙂
I'm glad you are still here, just keep trying your best one day at a time. Or one hour at a time even if that helps. Hope your parents got off your back, they should want you happy & healthy above anything else. Although if they were just worried & want the best for you I guess I kind of understand but still. They should understand people need support during hard times.
that’s so great you have a boss who understands. when things get as dark as they can get, always remember that there’s people like him/her fighting for you just as much if not more than you are for yourself!
Not answering calls when you are off duty.... Try this one, this job relied on text messaging... We got yelled at for not replying back immediately on or off the clock... Not a big deal, however for those of us that worked graveyard (the busiest shift, and very few people for the work load) while we are sleeping to come in that night, we were expected to answer the text, and if we don't we get lectured on being a team and how a text could just be a yes or no question... We basically had to explain EVERY TIME what time we went to bed and what time did we wake up.... mainly to see if we were awake when they sent the text... After that I took my phone number off of all the HR files (all computer based) and NEVER answered any phone calls or text messages. They hated that.... Fuck em.... They didn't give a damn about me (disability, I screwed my back up, both knees and right hip) why should I give a damn about them? Learn from my mistake YOUR JOB is NOT worth your health!
i worked a construction job for a year or so. It was completely draining and the lack of purpose i felt was palpable. Shit eventually wore me down mentally to where i was getting pretty depressed on top of already bad anxiety. Covid came along and i got hours cut and time off. after a week I didnt call back. im living on savings right now and biding my time until i have to get my shit together again but i dont regret it at all
Considering three years have passed since this comment was made. I hope all is well 💪🙏
I am so grateful for your videos during quarantine. Idk what I would do without them. Just a few videos left!
Never use real name on social media.
@@dwaynenolan4941 I don't have Facebook much less any other media. I think I'm just slow because I don't care . People take advantage of ignorant people. I am the ignorant racist according to msm
I love the idea of longer videos but I dont have the attention span for them
background noise.
I use them for background noise too while playing games
Background noise and falling asleep
Listen at work when tired of music.
@@jcmat043 yup, I do manual labour and listening to long videos like this makes the day go by quicker!
"Got any uh....real cold water?"
I--i cant XD
you could lose a job over NOT posting incriminating crap on fb? WTH?
asari shepard I think their problem is that he didn’t have ANYthing personal on his page, so they didn’t really know anything about him. Still dumb.
That's worrisome because I don't have a FB account. Or Twitter. Or Gab. Or LinkedIn. Or any of that crap. My private life is private, not for the world to see. Plus social media makes you stupid.
@@RedneckSith Don't worry about THAT... If them not being able to find online profiles with personal shit posted - and only personal shit posted that they approve of ... you probably don't want to work there anyway.
@@RedneckSith if I found out one of my employees had zero social media presence, I would definitely not promote him. In fact, id try and let them go asap
maddogkilla1 Why though?
Former mortgage loan officer & worked in underwriting. I quit when I saw the loans getting approved. This was before the bubble. We would practically giving away ARMs. I knew that a bubble was coming (MA in Econ ) and that people would end up with no home. Lasted only 4 months.
"A man in his 50s wearing a bright magenta suit"
Me: ...Steve Harvey 🤣
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Should I Google this person to understand why he didn't understand what a 'combo' is?
I fell asleep to another video. Woke up and this says it's in my watch history, I'm here to actually enjoy it
That's what I want to do. Take it to where the boss says he's going to track me down and kill me. Challenge accepted.
I once got doxxed by someone I had an internet argument with. A complete stranger on a group. My account was private, and I didn’t even have my employer on my page at all. Nor had I ever told anyone on there where I worked. We literally got in a fight over me using the term “adult briefs” on a post of a new mom asking how to deal with bathroom irregularities. She somehow got my information, and actually called my boss to tell them I was an abl*ist. All because I used the word “adult briefs”. I didn’t get in trouble because thankfully my boss wasn’t an a-hole, but still. People are insane. Oh btw I worked as a caregiver so that kinda accusation could’ve gotten me in major trouble.
So I posted what she did and name dropped her and a bunch of people on my page doxxed her, and called her employer to tell them what she did. I didn’t tell them to do that, but I don’t feel bad that they did. Not at all.
With the "lazy person" collection of stories, it reminded me of something back in college (1999, so figure the dawn of the internet as a popular tool). In one of my classes, we were assigned to collect the answers to a sheet of about ten questions about the college itself. My classmates all wandered off to go across the campus and find the answers. I walked two doors down the hall, signed into the computer lab, and pulled up the school website. Everything was on the website. I was the first one back and the teacher was completely baffled.
Worked at a pot store, before I was hired I got ripped off by a pot doctor, so I made a negative google review for the doctor to warn others. Months into my new job, the doctor contacted the pot store company and complained about the review. The pot company had a partnership to get patient referrals from the doc. So the PR manager for pot company emailed me and offered me hundreds worth in free product to delete the review. I refused to delete it allow more people to get ripped off. So I was fired for BS reasons days later.
I got myself fired because they treated me badly after I suffered a TBI, after covid hit and they sent us all hime to work I got them to pay me as I sat there and made sure I was on the phone (hanging up on the customers so it would go to my coworkers who bullied me because of the TBI). I am a small meek woman so I can be walked over quite easily, but I also know how to take revenge. My manager was pissed but he was a bastard so I got a lot of joy out of that after a year of mental torture while I struggled to get over my brain injury.
I'm studying a Batchelor at Uni now and changing my vocation, frick the IT Industry
As a future teacher I definitely can confirm we aren’t real people
30:26 company "reward" was a trip to the Golden Corral. Ouch. I knew a tabletop game company who used to reward workers after a particularly successful sales season with a pizza party. Not even at a restaurant. Like ... he'd order pizza in for them, and then feel he'd been a great boss.
Sandy of Cthulhu I enjoy pizza, but yeah, that’s pathetic.
@@KnakuanaRka Rick Loomis - a famous cheapskate.
Kroger does that. Orders pizza and thinks they're doing us a big favor. It's not even expensive pizza, it's Little Caesar's. Don't get me wrong it's not bad for $5, but for a 'pizza party'? Come on! At least splurge on Jet's or something. Billion dollar company and they can't even pay for decent pizza... or extra aprons. Or maintain equipment. Or air condition the loading dock. Or hire enough people. Or stop b*tching about overtime (which we wouldn't need if we had enough people).
It's not the worst company I've worked for by a long shot, but once I can begin working in my field of study I'll be very, very happy to bid them adieu.
@@RedneckSith wow had no idea Kroger did that. I shop there pretty often.
@@RedneckSith Damn. I was thinking of applying at Kroger because I thought it would be better than my current job. Still might be though.
Does OP realize that quitting and being fired are pretty much antonyms?
no, OP does not. Having experienced both, I know this first hand.
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@@nikro8275 nerd alert
I had an interview with a company that required that I provide them with my usernames and passwords for all of my social media accounts. I left the interview at that point. No one gets my passwords.
Was that a major company?!
Yes. Multinational bank.
is that even legal??
@styrofoamdoritos
No. In addition, it violates the terms of service.
Got fired for writing fun facts on paper, after one of my managers put one in someone's food on accident. Guy got offended, it wasn't even bad, but manager got written up, I got fired without warning for writing it.
Three days later, my gm called. No one went through her when firing me, uppers where scared and didn't tell her. She wasn't happy, and I still work their, for now
Love these because theres no sponsors and, consequently, no sponsorblock fiddling! Only an ad blocker.
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i quit my job on the spot with no backup, no notice. i was assistant manager. they lied on their job advertisement they were paying $15 a hour but on my first day was told corporate made the ad and i would be starting at $11hr. i had just moved everything to that city & was paying for an apartment for the first time in my life. a few months in they offer me $13 to be assistant manager so i agreed. i became on call all the time and working 60-70 hour weeks. eventually one day at 9am i broke down, quit on the spot and they told me i’d never find anything better around here. i had a new job by the end of the day. paying $15 a hour that got bumped to $18 because of covid pay. there’s always something better
When I quit it ended with my manager and I throwing sauce on each others cars. We also were dumping water and soap on eachother.
Care to elaborate? That sounds like it'd be quite the story
I didn't lose a job I already had but I screwed myself out of a job. Went for a job interview on a military base, it went relatively well. How did I screw myself out of the job you might ask? Well one of the six interviewers was my old boss. Although he never said it to me I knew he wasn't my biggest fan. After the interview I posted this on my Facebook. 2 days later I get multiple texts from former co-workers asking me what I posted on social media...I never got a call back.
I'm about to quit my job to start my own candle business. It's gonna be tough starting on my own but I feel free knowing that I don't have to deal with my anxiety attacks caused by my underpaid job.
How’s your business coming along?
38:18 "physical, mental and physical abuse"
He went through so much physical abuse that saying it once wasn't enough.
I quit a job back in October for mental health. I was getting crushed under so much shit, so much responsibility... like, it was fucking insane the amount of crap they dumped on me, and I was all by myself. I was not only having thoughts of suicide, I had plans, and I had means to execute those plans. I almost did. I literally almost killed myself because I hated my job so fucking much. Im still unemployed right now, but jesus christ I do not regret quitting. I would do it a thousand times over. That job was horrible.
I don’t get why people seem to think that teachers have to be these 100% pure and innocent saints who aren’t allowed to do anything fun or have a personal life, ever. Like unless a teacher is posting pics of them doing drugs, having sex, etc on social media who cares??? God forbid teachers have a personal life like everyone else! The horror!
Two hour long AskReddit video? Delicious.
Ruby Atneta
There is something absolutely creepy about how you wrote that. Like, I imagine you with stringy unkempt thin hair, beady eyes that are a little to close together, 300lbs on a medium-short frame and a grease-stained black-metal shirt.
Also, you’re a guy, when it appears that, based on your name, your a girl. Oh well :/
Most people do not know , but Sears went bankrupt because the great sales employees quit as they based jobs in extended warranty not the products you sell. It is the most worthless product (warrenties) as the loopholes to deny service is massive. Thus is why many states have banned them.
Interesting. So they played themselves, lol. I will not be shopping there.
That first story is exactly why I left the games industry. At its core, it is predatory, and treats its employees like cattle to be used up and spit out. To anyone who wants to pursue a career in video games: Don't.
Can you imagine working with someone for a certain amount of months so the whole thought of you being “new“ is over and Someone is still checking out your Facebook even though you’re not friends with them I saw on another Reddit reading UA-cam that someone explain this perfectly where they basically said “social media has made stalkers out of normal people”
Never used Facebook. I live in small town England, went on it couple weeks ago as looking for job, virus updates.
It is worse than I imagined, really vicious. Reminded me I’m happy to have grown up pre internet, what people will say on a keyboard that they never say face to face, and how many times a day people will write long messages.
tinylilmatt You can on FB too though?
Fastest I noped out of a “job”
When I was in orientation, an all day thing, and as soon as I heard “first you pay for this, then you can sell them at a higher rate.” (paraphrased)
That happened right before lunch. Took off with everyone else, grabbed some Wendy’s, and never went back. Blocked the number they’d called me with before.
Change in management:
My managers changed twice so I wrote up a resignation letter in July, I didn't have the "Oh, Shit!" money saved up to leave and I wanted to have a job first. Well. When I found out one my "new" manager started taking my tips, I dated the letter two weeks out and left it on the desk without a word. I had no plan or new job, but I told a friend at what happened. I was offered a job in the same hour 😀 I felt like I won. And now that I'm leaving, my new, final manager wants me to stay, tells me I don't need to do dishes, and tries to pay me extra for errands. It's too late.
The once related to call centers have my deepest condolences, was working in one myself for about 15 month and couldn't take it anymore, funny thing about that: Today I'm a long distance transport dispatcher in a big european logistics company, in general, one of the most stressful jobs (as you pretty much got to do 10 different things at the same time) if you google comparisons and ... I'm having a god damn blast with it, not have been as close to being exhausted by it then I was in the call center
That toilet fixer one made me laugh.. Im working on a diamond painting and it almost blew all the stones out of the tray
Well your first mistake was working for a startup... always avoided them like the plague it sounded like a sweat shop for intellectuals to me.
Go for the less flash jobs it may be lower paying but you get to stay sane long enough to enjoy some of the benefits.
I may enjoy a challenge but I certainly wouldn't make it a regular day job.
15:30 My grandfather is always complaining about immigrants coming and stealing jobs. He is an immigrant and by his logic him and his parents came and stole jobs. But they are white and from an English speaking country, so immigration might not actually be the issue here.
24:48 had a really wholesome ending
Used to work retail as cart collection and carry outs. Once had a customer ask me, after finally getting a big TV into their car (it took a while) “why ya’ll sell TVs too big to fit in people’s cars.”
I chose to now believe he was trolling, but he was straight faced as they come and it about caused an aneurism
I thought that this was a 15 minute video . Ill have to watch it in parts
I work in a tourist town, which has been ravaged with coronavirus since last May when we reopened with little restrictions. Inevitably, two of my coworkers caught Covid-19. These two coworkers happened to be married to each other as well as renting a trailer to live in from the owner of the store (many conflicts of interest I know). They concealed their symptoms for over a week while still coming to work and denied coronavirus testing at the urgent care, but were prescribed antibiotics (that did nothing for coronavirus). Finally, after over a week of symptoms specific to Covid-19 (no sense of taste or smell, congestion, etc) one of them called out for a fever. Because they had been prescribed antibiotics, i naively assumed that they had been tested for Covid-19 and tested negative, and instead had something that required antibiotics. I assumed wrong. The owner told them they both had to get tested before coming back to work, to which they were angry about. Of course they both tested positive. After this, the owner decided not to close the store for cleaning or employee testing. Two of my coworkers and I went to get rapid tested the morning we found out and demanded the company pay for it. The owner caved and payed for ours, but told us to be quiet about it so that he wouldn’t have to pay for everyone else’s. The whole ordeal did it for me, I put in my 2 weeks after that.
How do you forget when your new worker is supposed to come in on their first day?
So many of these stories make me sad & realize I do have good instincts of how HS ‘sh and immature ppl can be in jobs I would expect better form everyone. .
Cosplaybaby29 had every right to be bothered by the job title thing; a housekeeper is not a maid, there's a difference in both hierarchical power-grade and in what your job duties/description should be. I think that in the States they're considered interchangeable job titles bs you do all of the same work, but in the UK the housekeeper is the one doing all of the on-site management for all of the cleaning staff. You might as well call the head of your company's accounting department a cashier; just bc they both handle the money and keep track of the books doesn't make them the same thing.
she hates being a programmer because it's not a very fulfilling job. So she decides to become a substitute teacher in a public school. yeah, that's a job that should help your mood lol.
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@@e.e9596 Go ask the average public school teacher if they love their job hahaha. Spoiler alert, they usually don't. Teachers have no rights in the average public school so it's not something most could stand for 30+ years. This isn't really me laughing at them for wanting to teach children life skills, but more so that they would ever truly think they could enjoy life as a public school teacher in this day in age. They get taught nonsense in college and then get hired into a job only to be disrespected and treated as replaceable xd. They're not allowed to think outside the box which makes makes for a very linear education and this causes 1/4 or more of all US students to drop out among other reasons. Sorry for the long paragraph but being a teacher is far from a fun job.
hoping for people to be mentally ok is just a waste of breath cause no one is ever mentally ok no matter how they act
When it's two hours long, you know there's gonna be some f___ing good sh__ to see.
I’m late but I worked at McDonald’s for a while. I just remember waking up one day and noticing that I hated everything. I hated waking up, I hated every second of being at work. I hated the weekends because I knew I had to go back there. I was never happy about anything. I hadn’t smiled in weeks. Barely spoke, wasn’t eating etc. One day when I walked into work my manager stopped me at the door and said she had to tell me something. Turns out a former manager (who tried hard to get promoted to GM, didn’t and got transferred) had been found dead. He missed 3 days of work something he never did. They contacted his brother to try to get ahold of him. His brother went to go look for him at his apartment and he had killed himself. It dawned on me in that moment that I had to leave that place. I finished my shift oddly calm for the first time in months and I didn’t go back. I couldn’t.
Rip Devon.
Working harder not smarter. How do you run a company without innovation or optimization? Having employees see what might work better would be way more efficient than sticking to only calculators and paper.
I quit a call center job as a technical support rep with no notice because I had just been put into my 9th support queue and was expected to learn another new product and get put into a 10th. I had no downtime, no ability to research properly. I was also one of the more senior reps after 4 years because of high turnover and they wouldn't let me transfer to a new department even though I kept requesting. I was severely burned out and was crying in my wrapup time between calls. It wasn't the kind of place where we had a script and a check list. I eventually found a new job and quit when I got my offer letter.
I'm going to add more because fuck them. They were constantly restructuring. We had less and less competent "directors" put over our department, meaning less was done to assist us. They hired less and less and we were constantly understaffed. They placed us into a pod structure in my 4th year, which made no sense because I was cross trained in multiple products and my pod was all newer team members who only knew like 1 or 2 things within the same suite of product and they wanted to put me on the same training structure as them so I'd be learning more and more on top of what I already knew and supported.
"Are you guys open today?"
"No. I just decided to break in and answer the phones for laughs."
Our hours were online. Our hours were on our automated phone greeting. Our phones had to be logged in every day and when they were logged out, the message said "We are currently closed, here are our hours. Please try your call again during regular business hours."
This may be the most stupid question/calls I get at work. The other stupid ones are asking if this is "Business name"? When I just answered the phone saying "Business name" how can I help you. People don't listen to anything. And it just seems like if they had to look up the number to call they should have seen the hours posted right there beside it.
@@quicksilverlacey yeah, I'd get those too. But probably hands down the stupidest phone call I've ever gotten involved a guy calling asking about ordering shirts and asking about sizes, colors, and styles. I worked for a car dealership, which I named in my opening spiel. We did not sell shirts or any kind of clothing. The dude adamantly refused to believe me and flipped out when I told him he had the wrong number.
I used to get this dumb nonsense a lot at work:
(Pre-covid)
Me; *passes by the salad bar*
Customer: "Miss? What size is the medium for soup cups?"
Me: *points to the medium cup*
Customer: *ponders it for a long while*
Customer: *picks up the large cup* "And this is the large?"
Me: "Yes."
Customer: "Okay, I guess I'll take whichever holds more."
This is just one example of this, but I used to get that with the ice bags, soup, hot chicken... whatever seemed to have a size choice. It's remarkable.
And this is why I don't use Social Media.
The daycare one shook me. I used to work at a couple daycares and have toured at a few different ones in my area. Out of all of the ones I’ve ever been to, only one followed state law to a T. One of the ones I worked for (for only a couple days), the teachers were abusive and would curse at the kids so loud you could hear it from the other rooms (I was in the infant room and the teachers in the toddler and older children rooms would just be screaming). I left and never answered any of their calls. The only good one I’ve ever seen and would trust my child with was a childcare center on a huge cleaning company’s hr\factory sight that had a fuck ton of corporate funding with no state funding but 5 star state and national ratings.
Not me and not fired but just not hired. I walked into my convenience store around the corner from my house before going to work. It was ~6AM. There was a new guy as the cashier. He asked me "Are you a manager where you work?" I said "No, why?" He said "I just moved from Colorado (to Tennessee). How do you get a better job in TN if you smoke Pot?" I laughed and said "Welcome to TN. CO might be a better place".
2:02:02 I'm Honestly surprised when I come across the Cutco stories, When I was interview for the position I didn't have to buy any knives, I was even reward with free knives as I made sales. I honestly wonder if I had one of the rare few Good Bosses that worked for Vector Marketing, or if it's that there's not enough oversight to stop some bosses from taking advantage from their employees.
Do not add co-workers to your social media and keep it private. I was actually told by a boss that since my social media was Private they wanted to fire me.
"Horses can't tell time" they might not know time in the same way we do but they understand it in their own way.
As do a lot of “animals” if they are in a setting that has a consistent schedule. It is uncanny.
that first one sounds like EA
Quit a couple of jobs.
I had just recently moved and was leaving my job to get another closer to where I live. My job was a good 45 minutes away. Anyway, all my coworkers knew that I lived pretty far, so I was spending a lot of money on gas to get to work. Queue one night when I'm supposed to be at work just for a short shift to unload a delivery truck. I get to work to find out that the truck wasn't going to be coming tonight, and my coworker found out about it when he got to work. He got to work at 3:30pm. I didn't get to work until 7. He waited to tell me so that he could complain about not feeling well so he could go home. I actually got pissed at him, told him it was pretty inconsiderate to not bother telling me before my shift, and if he would've told me I wouldn't have had a problem coming in still and letting him go home. The next day I had a shift, and I didn't show up. I never returned my key but I got my last check so I still have it. It probably doesn't work anymore, but I don't plan on going back to that location to give it back.
Another job I left because the GM was a cunt and made me feel like shit everyday. She would yell at me for stupid crap and if I ever asked for help with customers (I usually asked when there was more that 4 people) she would bitch at me for not being able to handle it alone. (Also, this was Five Guys so she expected me to ring people out, dress the burgers, cook the burgers, and make the fries all at the same time for 4+ people. She often also expected me to act like a manager even though she said to my face that I was too emotional to be a manager.) She got fired but the DM did what she did aside from yelling at me, and he would change my schedule without asking me. It turns out the DM and I both decided to quit our job simultaneously on the same day. The only regret I have was that I didn't get my coworkers number before I left. She was my favorite, and I found out a couple weeks ago that she overdosed and died about a week before I took my brothers there for dinner. I was pretty devastated and that was the only regret I had from leaving that job. But I got a much better job right after leaving FG abruptly. So there's that I guess..
Working in retail will ruin your soul.
Didn't quit over it, but there's a section in here over dumb questions asked.
When BlueRays first came out, I didn't have a head's up on them. I picked up the blue case and paused. Studied the front. Studied the back. Looked at the front one more time, saw "BlueRay" on it. Turned to the customer. "Do you have a BlueRay player?"
[blank look] "No, I have a DVD player."
"This won't work on a DVD player, you shouldn't buy it."
"It's a DVD, sell it to me!"
"No... it's a BlueRay, and it won't play on a DVD, and once you open it, we won't accept it back or refund it."
This was my actual first time seeing a BlueRay disc. First time holding it. Had never even heard a whisper about them before. And got to argue with people for weeks over how a DVD player would not read them. I'm not a techie, but I do use it. When they give something a brand new name, there's usually a reason for it. When it's a form of playable media... that means that any other sort of player won't read it, as a rule. Not rocket science, guys...
i wrote on a coworkers page on facebook when one of her friends asked if the store i closing be we had mark down sales, i said no we are getting rid of all the old shit, without thinking when i should have said stalk , weeks later i had a meeting with management in why i said it and the regional manager , i explained i meant stuff not shit, auto correct i am sorry next time i will look before enter, didnt get fired but gotten written up
That's some grade a horseshit I mean even if it goes viral people know shot is a word
1:21:37... call center. they had all sorts of ways to give you 'penalties' and the only way to clear them was to come in Saturday to work and work them off (anything at all from logging in five seconds late on up was a mandatory 15 minutes penalty) I worked a part week and was very sick so skipped that Saturday legally with a medical slip. Next week I thought I had 5 demerits. I came in and had been trained on so little that I got to sit there all day. Logged out after 12 hours. Made up my infractions with 15 minutes extra. Yeah, 47 infractions. They had a promo, work 40 hours in a week and you would be paid (2x plus what minimum wage was). I managed this, and pulled my premium pay. Next Monday, I walk in and there are several pink slips at the head of the row including one with my name on it. I walked straight into HR and quit. They are nice, processing the paperwork and people are running around all over out on the floor. They're looking for me, they seen me walk in. Finally one comes to HR after 45 min and I'm almost through with quitting. They can't fire me, I had quit. If they could fire me, they could rehire me at minimum wage only. This is what they desired, demoralized minimum wage peons. Instead I did also get to go through an arbitration where they had five of us, and agreed to hire us back at less than that premium but a lot more than minimum. I didn't go back.
17:42 I finally have an explanation as to why those stories even exist... Where I am most of these people could be sued for firing and quitting so instantly.
Work in banking- a lot of ppl are shocked that they can't spend money they don't have.
Had one guy write a check for $1200 and a bunch of other charges on his account that only had about $800. He isnt employed and expects no additional money. Blamed the bank, every charge was his. I asked him if he can do math.
it makes me wonder how any companies actually function. I've yet to find a workplace that didn't have issues similar to those posted here.
A supercut of stuff that will get me grumpy over similar stories from my own work past? Hell yeah, bring on the stress and cringe!
Same, lol.
Well work present but yeah. At least I know I'm not alone I guess.
Us garbage guys WILL dispose of a body for $50 each, but we aren't stupid enough to drink and drive while being watched on our truck cams.
Couldn't they just hide the beer til after their shift though?
@@quicksilverlacey All it takes is one stop from DOT and your career is over. Not worth it.
@@SuperDantedmc Ah interesting, idk what that is but I assume it wouldn't be good for them to catch you with something like that.
I recently quit my job of 6 and a half years because they'd yell (not exaggerating) at everyone during our preshift meeting on a nightly basis that if we didn't follow covid guidelines and wear a mask at all times we'd be fired on the spot. People ignored it and they did nothing. I got tired of dealing with the verbal abuse so I quit. It's demoralizing to work in a place where you could be fired at a moment's notice for something that's permitted, but get yelled at the whole time that it isn't permitted. Fyi, I didn't have a problem wearing the mask. It actually made it easier on me, being able to hide my "poor attitude".
This is why I don’t really add my boss(es) on social media. Not that I’m doing anything bad or anything. I just lurk but I don’t need my higher ups on social media much
POV your last name is Zellers and you realize that 19:09 isn't about your family it's about a Canadian store chain
So I had worked at a local car wash for about a year and a half. One day one of my coworkers who I would consider a friend brought a slushee drink from a fast food restaurant. She had offered me a drink since we were friends and it was not out of the ordinary for us to go to that restarsunt so I thought nothing of it. 4 hours later the friend was absolutely blackout drunk and that’s when I found out she had mixed vodka in the slushy. I didn’t know that and couldn’t tell after I drank it since she had only put a small amount in that slushy but kept going to her car to just drink out of the bottle. I explained to the manager immediately that I took a sip and she never told me. 2 weeks later me and 10 others were fired for “drinking on the job” even though we didn’t know anything was in it and only took a sip. Terrible job the hours were long and the work was hard and even though I did so much more work than expected the management still treated me like shit.
That would be a lawsuit against the company, potentially for wrongful dismissal but definitely for tampering with your drinks since that's the employer's responsibility. I'm not sure about the USA, but in Australia that employer would be fined tens of thousands for that if it was reported, and potentially be liable for civil damages on top.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 in the U.S. you can sue for wrongful termination and if you win the company at minimum looses money from legal fees and whatever compensation the court ordered the company to give and possibly fined if that's even a thing, and if they don't comply there's a good chance they get screwed even further.
“Wifey I got to spend all my time looking for a job, I cannot watch the kids. U need to
Hire a nanny.” If my husband asked me this I would just laugh. It has to be a joke ur @ home.
Former workplace used form letters made in a well known word processor program. Each form letter ran a macro which asked you to enter details which were used to customise the letter. These had to be entered by hand every time one of those letters was created. It didn't take me long to realise that a small modification to the macro would allow some of that information (such as your name and your position in the organisation) to be stored and brought back as the default each time, so you only needed to check it was correct and hit Enter. Started using it myself. Long before I left, my method had been adopted as the official way to do it. They even added a new network drive path to make it easier to implement.
Will the background music ever change? after watching like 20 of these videos, it starts to drive me nuts... but i still love the content, keep it up!
I know, it's like sure public domain but there's thousands of songs to rotate through, make a playlist!
Sounds like a saloon.