It's still ironic that they picked and shifted all the blame on the one guy that made everything work because their egos were too massive to fit their britches. And again, the ones that win in the end is the little guy, while the big fish drown with their collective prides.
They literally do that all the time in any business. They do it cause the guy generally does not do anything wrong therefore it seems suspicious and easy for a company to say "he never takes responsibility for his actions and always thinks he is right" leading management to basically go along with the schtick thinking he's just blaming it on other people. People should get rewarded for being a worker without a record not punished.
Unfortunately this is the opposite of how these situations usually end up. Normally the little honest guy gets fucked over and the suits come off shiny and avoid all blame.
Worked on overnight cap 3 at walmart. The day shift managers used to blame me for when the zamboni floor scrubber got broken. So my supervisor of my maintenance team, who knew it wasn't me btw breaking this thing, had me keep off of it and only had three people he had authorized for it to be used during the overnight shift. Him, and two other older employees. Turned out it was one of the day shift managers who kept taking it outside to scrub the front sidewalk area and that was what caused it to keep breaking (cues johnny cab eye roll).
I worked for Walmart for one week on some shelving unit called the mod squad. They withheld health benefit info for that week. When they disclosed it I quit. The guy who trained us, nice, competent, died of a heart attack a week later.
Yeah, walmart actually takes pride in how much they can get away with paying their employees less to make more money for themselves and a lot of their PR is a pack of lies so they can get a tax cut, like how they "recycle" plastic bags but actually throw it in the trash. They're among the worst of the worst. I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than work for walmart for even a single day.
its really often. look up pareto principle. 80% of work is done by 20% The smaller the population of people, the higher that gets. a job I walked out on due to management, I was the only one who knew to put in orders for most profitable area of store. And only one who knew who to handle the dot matrix printers orders were printed out on. They abused me for thinking my excessive sales were someone stealing from other salespersons. Confined me to one area where I just read books for a month, complained above them, then they wanted me to train 2 others to do what I do. Walked out. Funny thing is next job, one of the 2 books I read on sales, that guy had retired and was in seminar how to be good salesperson. I wished I had book for him to sign.
I've worked a medical office for 16 years. I've gone through multiple managers. No one besides me any longer comprehends half the things I do, or why. I've trained a couple of assistants, but I've outlasted three of them; the fourth is getting as much training as I can give and is competent. And I've worked directly for a co-owner for 14 years, so they at least know that when I say 'this is what I need,' I'm not BS'ing anyone.
Healthcare seems to be notorius for that scenerio, especially in Clinical Engineering Specialties. We are supposed to look at back up 3 deep but no one seems to get that far because the main either leaves or the back up does (more than once ive seen both leave).
I ran CMM inspection machines for almost ten years where I worked. Once you got the part (aircraft engine rotating parts) loaded onto the machine and the program set up and started, you could sit down and do whatever until the program was done. Then you checked the printout, highlighted any problems if any and sent the part to whichever waiting area it needed to go, either ‘rework’ or the next operation.
I already figured that. Gives a new perspective on some aircraft disasters! Skimp on these kind of machine parts is a guaranteed way of becoming a mass-murderer!
@@fabimre heard a somewhat similar story of how one Soviet worker caused a crash of two planes with just a knife (An-22 crashes in 1970s). Long story short: he was working at an aircraft plant and was responsible for making the final touches on the propeller blades before it were to be installed. He needed to remove the residue material at the base of the blade with a special plastic knife. But the worker was physically weak to effectively wield this tool, so he started using a steel shoemaking knife that caused almost invisible micro-scratches (0,3 mm deep) that quickly developed into cracks and made the blade to snap mid-flight, causing two crashes in the same year. Further investigation found similar flaws on the other propellers that were made in this factory.
Fun little mini story. I had a similar job at one point in time. I worked for a food manufacturing plant at one point in time. I also work in IT. Well we had a Zebra printer near the end of one of our production lines. For those who do not know, those are printers that print out labels to be be attached to things like pallets of completed and boxed up product to go to store A, store B, etc. But that was all this printer did. Pallet of product gets ready to be shipped, click button on the computer, print label, attach label to pallet, scan label into system. Put pallet on truck until truck is full. Rinse, lather, repeat. Well, this one printer was an older model. It still worked, but it had a bit of glitch. If the printer is turned off and then immediately turned back on, sometimes (not every time, but sometimes) it would reset the printer to factory defaults. I'm not sure why, but it was something that they had to deal with. We even put up a sign that said, "If you have to turn the printer off, wait 30 seconds before you turn it back on." But when the printer went to factory defaults, the printer wouldn't work with our program and had to be configured. This happened often enough that I had setup a procedure for this. Which was the config was backed up on my work laptop. So I would go out, plug in a console cable from the laptop to the printer. Load up the printer's configuration program. Click restore. And boom done. It took longer to hook up the console cable then it did to fix the printer. But unlike the OP in this story. My company understood and appreciated when I needed to get called in. They had a policy that if I was called while on call, even if it was a five second fix, that was guaranteed to be a minimum of two hours of OT. If I had to go on site, it was guaranteed to be a minimum of 4 hours of OT. The pay was a bit below industry standard, but it was still good pay. And 4 hours at time and a half for 10 minute commute and 5 minutes of work wasn't a bad deal. My coworker hated being on call, so I usually was always on call. My thought on that was, "You don't want free money. That's fine by me." The company didn't mind paying that OT, because every hour that a line couldn't run would result in $10,000 - $50,000 of lost revenue depending on the product. So my 4 hours of OT more then paid for itself. Anyways, sorry if I rambled a bit long there. Just thought I'd share my similiar story, albeit without Igor and a company that actually valued my employment.
I know the feeling. My friend worked for a couple of years at a Smith and Nephew facility, they make all sorts of implants, and the benefits were really good for the US even tho the supervisors (from his POV) were kinda shitty. Management didn't care what their co-pay for your medical bills were, they wanted you on the floor making them money. Mind you he worked on the CNC machines that made the implants, so loosing a worker meant that a line wasn't producing nearly as much due to the shifts being 12 hrs. So when he got T-boned at an intersection and landed himself in the ER, they had someone there at the ER 2 hrs later ready to give the go ahead on whatever treatment he needed, no matter the cost. As long as he could get back on his feet as soon as possible and to prescribe him whatever meds he wanted. They did not care because he made them hundreds of thousands of dollars per shift. 20k in medical expense was nothing compared to what he made the company. When you make enough money for the company or the employer, they will bail you out of jail so you can show up for work, hire lawyers on your behalf so you don't have to show up for court, rent vehicles for you to use if yours breaks down, pay whatever co-pay on your medical bill that isn't covered by insurance, etc so that you can show up to work with no issues, mentally and physically.
Sounds like a situation where setting up a spare label printer in case the first glitched out again or fully failed would have been well worth the investment...
@@Steamrick Why not replace it with the same Zebra model printer? you might ask. To many companies, when there is something that works and mgmt is competent, you try not to mess with it because of the potential knock on effects. Ie when you're switching over to the new one, you can encounter issues during setup. To the companies its not worth the risk of a line being down and backing up production as in a factory, time = Big Money. Production being impacted can cost the company a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollar per hr its not in use/making them products. Granted this seems like a simple swap but its cheaper to just pay the guy times and a half or OT as the increase in payroll is just a rounding error to a large company. The cost is easily absorbed, negligible to the company bottom line, and frankly not a priority that they want to focus on(yea it has its quirks that requires a tech to come look at it every now and then but its an easy fix and it'll work for another month or 2 without issue)
@@BenderRodríguez-p3e The problem is that they already are encountering problems and holdups that are costing the company money. Hence also why I suggested adding a backup printer, not replacing the main printer outright.
Not gonna lie. If I was the company, I would of offered OP five or maybe ten times the salary to train four new people for a year with a 10 percent bonus if OP would of been able to catch everything up within the year. That would of probably still been cheaper then getting the measuremen company to train new people.
not hating, but im curious why people so often mistake "of" and "have"? they dont sound the same, have very different meaning and dont have one letter in common. are you native speaker or is it maybe some sort of foreign speaker mistake?
@@Thalaranthey Native speaker and most people don’t actually talk in proper grammar. I know I definitely don’t. With that said, unless I’m writing a book, documentary, or some sort of literary that will be producing money, I don’t fret if I accidentally have grammatical errors.
@@nathlech919 i am not native speaker and i heard "would of" so often i genuinely thought its proper alternative way to speak like that. got few % less on a test during my studies bcs of it xd english is weird, people in this language seem to be making much more mistakes than in my native language - which is really difficult grammar and spelling wise. Maybe bcs usa is just such a clusterfuck of cultures that most of them apply their own twist on a language and it gets all mixed up ;p
@@Thalaranthey Accents also play a major role, just like with most languages, in how things are pronounced. Example: where I live “Ope” is a perfectly reasonable response for a small mistake happening. But if I were to say something like that in the southern states and I asked them what “ope” means, they would have absolutely no idea.
@@nathlech919 Good point about accents having a big role in the way we spell things, at least growing up (or even as adults). It's easier to write something the way it sounds I guess lol
2nd story: I know that company. I worked even a couple of years for a subsidiary of them (in Europe). I am not surprised. That's how US companies work and worse, that's how their corporate culture is (especially UK situated plants). Don't fix a problem; find a scapegoat (indifferent if he's a manager or lowly worker). Good for OP to work that system for his own benefits.
I worked in a retail bank for 2 years. It was more than enough to convince me never ever ever work for a corporation again. I was just at the turning point where I had enough reputation and experience to move up to management, but the shallow personalities were disgusting. I don't know why others can deal with it. Rarely seem to hear anything genuinly good about giving yourself to such a massive commerciap entity like that, even if it pays a crapload. Feels so damn fake
I simply couldn't believe that people like Igor could exist in actual real life... that is until I had to deal with one myself. Yeah, this story is believable, and I would assert that the redditor in question is telling the truth!
In the various jobs I have I have seen this time and time again. One time this Bosses brother actually damaged the foundation of their building. They both lasted until the owner found out.
Dream worthy (or nightmare if you're on the wrong side) Pro Revenge. Good job OP. Thanks for sharing. Thanks to Rob for Reading. Have a Happy Hump Day! (Oh... and what do you call a Camel with no humps? HUMPHREY!)
24:36, Likely Freddy was Sued for the losses of the Company since it was not through neglegance, but Choice that he cost the company trillions. (for those who dont know, thats 3 Zero's above a BILLION dollars)
This story was so damn statisfying. In my previous job, I was the victim of an old boys club. I was actively seeking tasks to do, and since the others were working at a snail's pace, they for some reason felt emasculated by a young woman suddenly actively working. They could have just decided to work in an actual reasonable pace, if they felt so damn emasculated. But no, instead, they bullied me so subtly, that I looked like the aggressor when I defended myself. I wasn't so lucky with the revenge though, because I wasn't really a vital person there. I was a beginner there. But I'm still glad I left the toxicity.
This story reminds me of some of the chaos that had happened at my dad’s workplace. He works for Siemens energy and is a manager for the gas turbine sector. He told me about how a team of people were supposed to inspect a turbine before it’s departure the next morning. Apparently, while putting the components together, somebody put a very expensive piece on backwards and the entire turbine had to be taken apart again. Also, since the piece was on backwards, it didn’t fit right and got damaged while being removed, so they had to order a replacement part. Yeah the customer was not happy about that one. Idk how nobody noticed the piece was on backwards tho lmao
Back many decades ago when I was in the Navy, some parts were made 'Sailor Proof' = it's only gonna fit one way. So 'backwards' is not an issue.......atleast in theory. Or as I say: Keep it stupid, simple. Might be surprised how many times some Sailor/Marine tried their dayummedest to force it on backwards. Some good Sea Stories there. Probably not just 'one' thing, but a combination of little things that caused it. Would think the supervisor or safety inspector got careless and screwed-the-pooch, since it is their job to make sure things aren't put on backwards and such. But that may just be me.
I have a good story for that, i work in the cooling tower field, and there was one day my boss and i were on a site and i noticed one of the tower fans was running backwards (it was correct to the stickers, but the blade pitch had it backwards). We fixed that by swapping two wires. Client was like "oh so that explains the water all over the place".
Ohh yeah Siemens. That Chaos you described is even worse than you think. The Company i work for is contracted by Siemens. Everything we built has to be exact to their Plans. And i dont just mean measurements. There are 2 Big Parts where i need to use Duct Tape to strap a Piece of Wood under. That Piece of Wood needs to have certain Dimensions. And even the Duct tape has a whole 4 Page Report on Strength etc. The Supplier for said Duct Tape changed the Colors .. .we got an Email and the threat of get send everything back (our costs ofc) because of the Color Change. I once put a tiny piece of tape on an "special" Piece. Different length than normal. Which ofc means a different Mass Middle (important for forklift pickup). That tiny piece of tape was there to show where the Middle is. Again, emails, Pictures and Meetings of why that Tape is there. And just 2 Weeks ago Siemens send back the prepackaged Bolts, Nuts and Washers. Why? Well the normal supplier couldnt send stuff because of Material Shortages. So we went with a different one. Same Nuts and Bolts, also certified, exact same Technical Data Sheet. Just a Different Brand. Siemens wasnt happy. So we are now waiting 2 Weeks till we get the Stuff from the original supplier to repack those bags and send them of to Siemens again. Oh and last Month i got shown Pictures send by Siemens. For 25 Years we now built the X1 for them. For 25 Years we put the Label Sticker at the exact same Spot (yep there is a measurement for it on the Plans). Now Siemens doesnt want it there, its somehow our Fault, it needs to be 15cm lower. Why? Well the current Placement means it cant be seen (QR Code therefore not be scanned) after they put whatever Parts on it. Since the Clamp of said unknown part is covering the Label. And for those out there who know about Welding and what you can and cant achieve with it. Imagine a welded Cube. 4x4 Ground Plate, 6 Rods coming up (4 i nthe corner 2 in the middle) and on top of these Rods smaller Sheet Metal Pieces. Siemens ordered those and told us we didnt meet the Measurements. Measurements in mm. How didnt we meet those? By 0.001mm. The fucking 3rd digit in the decimals. On a Welded Object. An Object that got ALOT of Heat.If you want it that precise than take a Block of Metal and get it to a CNC shop, not a Industrial Welding Company.
@@kaitan4160 Sounds like procurement with a company with the empire state building up their ass. I honestly don't know how they come to be so weirded out by such minute issues. I did a short stint at a contracting company for Texas Instruments and we were having issues sourcing components for a module to go into a weapons system. Why were we having issues? Well the part we were sourcing was a part from the mid 80s. The company was able to secure a large bulk stock from the original US manufacturer before they switch over production, they kept the line running for as long as possible while they retooled all their other machines to make newer, more profitable components. The line was the last one to be switched over and the company still has the parts in the original boxes in a climate controlled room. Well that stock was stating to run dangerously low and it was for a high expenditure 1 time use item. Que a 5 month binge of looking across every other website trying to find a reliable source of ancient components. Well we find one but its in China for a really niche hobby. We order a batch of 100 with specific demands and they pass with flying colors. Then we break the "good news" to TI, who then relay it to the DOD. And shit just goes wild from there. Apparently this was during when anything Made in China for the military was under scrutiny. A blank circuit board for the F-35 that was Made in China needed 3 senate hearings before it got an exemption!! Over fears of Chinese espionage and secret well hidden backdoors... its a blank circuit board with nothing on it... what back doors could possibly exist? Our component was to doing 2 functions, if A do B but if condition A isn't met do C. Very simple and we got shit for it because we were sourcing Chinese components and not Made in USA. The last US manufacturer that made such a component stopped in 1997, this is 2019. Who on earth are you going to convince to switch a profitable production line to now make a niche component that has since stopped production on US soil for 20+ yrs? for only 1 customer? Without shelling out tens of millions in inconvenience fees? Que meetings spanning 2 months of us trying to explain to both TI and the DOD of how unreasonable their request is and if that they don't like it, they can kiss good bye to the [x] weapons system because there was no we could source for components nor would there be any other suppliers of such a component. They said to fix it/ie find a solution to it and the solution was to do a complete redesign of the component to newer 90s components because there were still existing stock and US manufacturers making it. But that in it of itself was a shit show. They rejected more efficient designs using newer & more powerful components because it now left a 1.5" x .55" void that didn't know what to do with!!! FFS
Very good example of a corporation trying to shoot down the line but forgetting to make sure it's feet are out of the way. That CEO was Swift and deadly, just as the situation called for. Managers who think it's more important to cover up for incompetent employees should understand that that makes them incompetent managers. And the truth will out! Well played,OP.🌟
I can definitely identify with your story. I too had a similar problem but on a much, much smaller scale. It did cause the company to close and several good friends who'd worked there for years lost pensions and such. Which caused them to file a class action suit and they got back about 50% of what they were due. The boss lost almost everything including his trophy bride, a.k.a. 'gold digger'. Sucks to be greedy and stupid.
I was the guy that used to maintain and clean the ice cream machine at my McDonald's. When I was off and the program was set to clean, chaos. The store manager didn't want to train someone else to do it. Because.. I knew how. 😅
Wow. Just wow. Those cockwombles planted a C4 charge on their backs, and all Warrior had to do was flick the detonators on the way out. You don't mess with the guys that make your food...
I am surprised that they never considered that kind of consistent bad behavior was too risky, with so few people with that guys skill set still employed there. also, I thank you sincerely because you gave me the opportunity to add "cockwombles" to my vocabulary.
Loved this story n also that he willingly went into interview to set stuff straight. Love he got a job in a couple days too. And he got the good end of the end of it all.
A similar thing happened to me but on a much much smaller scale. The winders I fixed and maintained were made in the 1940's, 50's and 60's. I trained under a man that had been there since the late 50's. They tried to replace me with some one who flat out lied about their skills. Two weeks after I was gone he left. They could not find any who knew how to properly work on such old and outdated machines. That was the begining of the end for that mill. This was back in 1995.
There's a saying that 10% of the workforce is responsible for 80% of the output. Successful companies find that 10%, reward them financially and treat them with deep respect. Companies that go under drive them out and treat them like s***.
I was in this position - the old boss retired and they brought in this feminist man-hater who immediately promoted all the women (don't get me wrong, they deserved it) and instantly began writing up the men to get rid of them (3rd write-up and you're fired with cause) - nice things like, she asked me how long it would take to do a job, I said 2 weeks, she said "you have until Friday"... Worked late every night, Friday at 5pm I walk into her office saying it's done (rushed and barely), and she says "I needed it by 4, you're written up". Needless to say I'd already seen the writing on the wall, but I started using vacation days to start interviewing... The 3rd time was coming into my office at 2pm on a Monday, "buy a plane ticket, you're going to California (another division) for 2 weeks"... Umm, I live alone, I have pets, I need to stop the mail, buy pet food, try to get someone to watch/feed my pets, kinda hard to do that in a day? Yeah, I know, too bad... I typed up a resignation letter that night - the next morning she asked if I had my ticket, I said no, and she launched into a tirade about how she was going to fire me... And I handed her my resignation - she didn't want to accept it, "I should fire you anyways" and I just said "let's see what HR says about that" (firing opens them to a lawsuit, taking my resignation doesn't). I had the offer letter from the job I had lined up 2days later. 😁. Told them I was gonna give 2 weeks notice Friday, got paid out for my unused vacation, and basically had 3 weeks off in July and only lost a week of pay. Two years later I'm getting messages on my machine daily - one of the things I supported that nobody else really had expertise in had broken, they desperately wanted my help - even saying they had budget to pay... I laughed and erased every message. Sorry, but this "dead wood" (heard she called us that after all the firings) would rather LMAO for a week+ of panic messages than help her.
This happened to me- boss made up stuff against me, they said they didn't need me, I gave my notice and they let me go the next day- my boss had to do my job too and stayed at work till like 8 every night. Then they hired two people to do the work I used to do. Still makes me laugh a decade later.
On much smaller scales I've seen that type of thing several times in my career. The good old boys never want to admit they made a mistake and always try to sweep it under the rug. Pay someone 3x their salary to fix a problem? Nope. First, they're usually too arrogant to accept that someone else is that important, second they'll worry that the money will get noticed. The one thing corporations are good at is tracking money. But sometimes something too big to sweep under the rug happens and those tricks don't work - and then it all comes crashing down.
First real day of summer vacation. Rob asking me to have a wonderful day. BBQ fired up. A cold one in my hand and some PR in my buds (wife playing with the kids). Its not a wonderful day, its an awesome day.
Wow! Supernova revenge. And even at the end their massive ego didn't allow them to bring back OP at three times his old rate. They would rather lose millions in claims!
Fun things about the story from the build up part: Turbine engine work in EU but big company from US: sounds like a repair station/manufacturer for jet engine small/private aircraft. Those stuff are calculated to the nearest .001 of cm or inch with less than .005 deviation (sorry if I'm wrong here, I'm currently still in school for AnP in US and 6 months away from finishing so I don't have actual field experience yet) You do not want to mess with those equipments as shrug your shoulders off if things go wrong horribly or not logging everything down as detailed as you can. Because anything that go wrong in aviation field from the smallest thing can cause catastrophic accident in a long way. Specially aircrafts that used for commercial or transportation purposes. I have no idea why would a company that OP worked with treat those issues like nothing, judging from work process go thru multiple stages of extreme measurement. This is why you avoid hiring someone as your family members without work ethic, doesn't care about a thing, unprofessionalism.
This isn't surprising. A lo of companies operate on cliques and it almost never ends well in the long term. Th problem is the highest bosses are either in on it or don't have the time to manage it beyond periodically purging the cliques when they get caught.
At the end of "Don't Fire The Only Guy Who Can Do The Job" you repeated a partial quote, 'crap rolls downhill' the proper end to that is "AND PICKS UP SPEED". It was a fine story too, Nicely Done.
For someone like me who knows to separate business from friends, and to hold people accountable for their actions as well as not punish the people who do their job, I can say with certainty the boss screwed up when he chose to do what he did.
I would not have even made the offer of returning for triple pay. You just know that gives them three times the incentive to F you over a second time once you train someone. I have seen similar happen.
My record is the the branch I worked at closing one month after the boss ( owners daughter whom I pretty much did every damn job in the store and ninety percent of the sales for) firing me so she could give her new coke-head husband my manager job. He was also hitting on everyone with a pulse who worked there including the underage employees. I saw the writing on the wall as soon as she got married to the scumbag and was already an assistant manager at the second job I got as soon they announced their marriage. Shame really it was a great store.
I built a special kind of conveyor for a company that closed our plant and I was in the first round of layoffs. I was the only one on first shift who did them. I bloody loved them. So, they laid me off and started calling my lead from a plant in Mexico asking for guidance on these things. The terribly ironic thing is that I was not only their builder I was also their translator. Half of my time was spent translating Spanish or French to English.. and I had moved from Mexico back to this country only a year earlier. They wanted to send the lead to Mexico to train these guys, I could have done that.
The US justice system is ridiculous. But it would be crazy if someone went to prison for losing a company money, no matter how atupid he is. But that sounds like the US justice system.
I worked in Germany in a similar job in quality control. As a mechanic with experience on modern mashines you can choose your employer. I´m retired due to health issues but every company I worked for is searching and most of them are calling every job applicant and hiring nearly everyone immediately. One mechanic I trained is now also a master mechanic and he told me that his company is hiring everyone with a pulse. There´s this meme for a job interview in construction. The only thing the interviewer has on the table is a blood presure device and when he comfirmed that the applicant has a pulse they are neotigating the salary and benefits.
@@tsuki_moon.1 maybe a little bit exaggerated but not much. Jobs like mechanics, electric, construction or elder care are the worst. My Cousins husband works in road construction in a small company with 20-30 workers. They are not taking new contracts because they have just enough people to fulfill their gouvernement contracts. They have mashines and trucks for 3-5 more crews that means 15-25 people. These storys are everywhere. I needed a new Propan bottle and wanted to replace it on saturday. The store was closed because they didn't have enough people for the shifts on the Weekend.
Also, dont be the only guy who can do the job. Thats ok for the short term, but long term, you will seal your fate as "the guy" and you will never be allowed to be promoted to do other things. From there onwards, your options are just stay where youre at for the rest of your life, or go find another job
No one is irreplaceable. It's just that some are way harder and far more expensive to replace when the time comes that you have to do it. The problem with the near irreplaceable employee is more often than not they are treated poorly or overlooked entirely or screwed over by favoritism to another employee. This continues until it is far far too late for the higher up to save even their own asses when the crap hits the fan.
would have been cheaper for freddy to fire igor paying 3x salary for OP and hired 2 new ppl for OP to train, but as it goes middle management are full of idiots who know less than a gnat and a tick combined and can in most cases be automated by a computer script
Ego issues aside, most managers-nearly all-have no idea about systems or system thinking-the complex interplay between tasks and other systems. They all think, if at all, in a linear fashion. Most are also unable to plan and anticipate problems. But they know when their bonus is coming.
So there was a sapphic relationship between at least four guys and to save their group, the straight guy, OP, was fired? Tsk tsk I loved the allusion to "soap and prison showers" at the end of the story
that happened to me where I was the only one with a certificate. during training they tried to get my boss the certificate but I argued and said if I have to go through the training I should get the certificate. and then well the company downsized and me and one other person was let go. they paid for retraining and ive never looked back.
I've said it before, I'll say it again; 90% of what management does can be replaced with an Alexa box and a couple spreadsheets. Management is a leech on the system and provides no production to a company. Edit; the remaining 10% of what management does only creates a hostile work environment for the actual producers of the company.
Depends. Good management can turn a competent operation into a great operation. Management exists because it had a benefit. Bad management however can turn a great operation into a shitshow, and no one can save a shitshow.
@@Stethacanthus management does not provide technical support. IT or engineering does that. No need to alter that. Just remove the leaches from the system.
@@Stethacanthus I don't know, I'm sure there might be some industries where management might actually benefit the company. But so far, the industries that I've worked in (engineering, IT, automotive service) they only create more problems than they're worth.
@@schrodingerscat4737 my wife is a supervisor and she dies more technician work than the techs do and she developed a method that reduced mistakes from about 10% to none at all. Management absolutely can be vital to technical support. That's one key difference between good and bad management. Organizing work is a real skill, and 10/10 times an unmanaged operation will lose to a managed one.
Entertaining story, op got fired and got a better job/life balance out of it, and Frankenstein's assistant got fired and a few others, company should avoid family ties in the work force where possible.
Yeah, there's not many American Gas Turbine companies... And having worked closely alongside one in the past, I have a strong suspicion of which it is. OP, in that company, being cold & compliant was the best way to destroy all involved 🤣
Allowing clicks and clans in your team as a team leader, manager or even the boss is unfortunately just showcasing the ignorance. Those people shouldn't be in charge
When you said to not unsubscribe or your wife would beat you I got a pic in my head of Jen chasing you around, smacking you with a pool noodle. 🤔Ya know, I'd pay good money to watch That video...... 🤣🤣🤣
Reguardless of the size of any company, we have all seen this , the cool people who cannot be taken into HR, I have quit many jobs and been fired from one after 16 years because I would not play childish games these kids ass people wanted. There is always work for people who want to work
I was in a similar situation only I did get the 3x pay rate. Actually I got 5x the pay rate but it was part time work. My management was smart enough to know not to F with me and even at 5x the rate at part time, I was much cheaper than replacing me. That arrangement went on from 1997 to 2014 when they finally shut down the facility. I was able to pay for both my kids colleges without loans, and two additions to my home with that moonlighting extra money of 5 hours a week.
I am guessing this company was Siemens, my last employer. Did not interface with Germany, as I worked for Westinghouse just after Siemens bought it out. Heard a few stories similar to this one. When you draw the attention of the big shots, and they are forced to leave the ivory tower to address the problem, you are in big trouble.
Now OP could have cut the line going way over his bosses heads and saved the day. The real package for saving the day would include a relocation package and more than a damn salary. He would still be the one guy who knew the key machine. If he trained anyone, they would be seen as his replacement, since " He got a bunch of guys fired. " Now the new guys start green but without a toxic company history. If the company can fire the irreplaceable Man Once, they can do it again. The bad guys got nuc'd and he aready had a nicer job. All is right with his world.
It baffles me that the ego is still more important than mitigation of imminent doom. "Triple my pay and i come back!" Even as the biggest asshole i would have accepted. But no. They were still cheap and sassy. Its like being told that you can still save your car if you put petrol instead of diesel in it. But i would have to be flushed out, costing a few hundred bucks. And those idiots just shruged it off and hit the road.
I have been with my company for almost 30 years. Almost half of my life. I have done every job at the local level. Including running two branches at one point. I have now taken a position to train employees as well as perform other duties. I have never lost sight of the simple fact I am expendable. Just like everyone else. No one person is greater than the entire sum. Not to mention all it takes to get sent packing Is one pimple face nephew with a attitude.
It's still ironic that they picked and shifted all the blame on the one guy that made everything work because their egos were too massive to fit their britches. And again, the ones that win in the end is the little guy, while the big fish drown with their collective prides.
We all win when a cause of aircraft engine failures is eliminated!
They literally do that all the time in any business. They do it cause the guy generally does not do anything wrong therefore it seems suspicious and easy for a company to say "he never takes responsibility for his actions and always thinks he is right" leading management to basically go along with the schtick thinking he's just blaming it on other people. People should get rewarded for being a worker without a record not punished.
Not ironic. Normal for BS management.
Unfortunately this is the opposite of how these situations usually end up. Normally the little honest guy gets fucked over and the suits come off shiny and avoid all blame.
I'd call this story BS if I had not seen stupid crap like this at almost every job I've worked at.
Riiiiight. Fire the dude that is raising the red flags. Your products will be sent back by your clients.
Sounds like what happened at Boeing. Whistleblowers getting fired and ignored.
@@climber950 And "found dead."
"How dare you expect my brother's deadbeat friend to work?!"
It's a fake story bro 🤡
@@bytemeah Americans and their gun violence
Thank some measure of goodness that UA-cam didn't demonetize this channel
Well... they did... but only for 4 days!
@@KarmaStoriesPodcast you should start a channel on Rumble. Upload the same video on both.
What the heck happened with that? One day you're reading reddit stories and the next it's some humanoid resources junk.
@@WilliamLynds the wonderful thing about UA-cam is if you don't want to watch something, you don't have to! Excellent!
@@WilliamLynds it's the same thing. Chill out. This probably came from Reddit.
Worked on overnight cap 3 at walmart. The day shift managers used to blame me for when the zamboni floor scrubber got broken. So my supervisor of my maintenance team, who knew it wasn't me btw breaking this thing, had me keep off of it and only had three people he had authorized for it to be used during the overnight shift. Him, and two other older employees. Turned out it was one of the day shift managers who kept taking it outside to scrub the front sidewalk area and that was what caused it to keep breaking (cues johnny cab eye roll).
Johnny Cab lmao
@@Thor_Odinsonman I got 5 kids to feed
I worked for Walmart for one week on some shelving unit called the mod squad. They withheld health benefit info for that week. When they disclosed it I quit. The guy who trained us, nice, competent, died of a heart attack a week later.
Yeah, walmart actually takes pride in how much they can get away with paying their employees less to make more money for themselves and a lot of their PR is a pack of lies so they can get a tax cut, like how they "recycle" plastic bags but actually throw it in the trash. They're among the worst of the worst. I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than work for walmart for even a single day.
Incredible inefficiency that only one employee knows anything that could halt production.
its really often. look up pareto principle. 80% of work is done by 20% The smaller the population of people, the higher that gets. a job I walked out on due to management, I was the only one who knew to put in orders for most profitable area of store. And only one who knew who to handle the dot matrix printers orders were printed out on. They abused me for thinking my excessive sales were someone stealing from other salespersons. Confined me to one area where I just read books for a month, complained above them, then they wanted me to train 2 others to do what I do. Walked out. Funny thing is next job, one of the 2 books I read on sales, that guy had retired and was in seminar how to be good salesperson. I wished I had book for him to sign.
What happens when a bunch of royal ragdolls is in charge
I've worked a medical office for 16 years. I've gone through multiple managers. No one besides me any longer comprehends half the things I do, or why. I've trained a couple of assistants, but I've outlasted three of them; the fourth is getting as much training as I can give and is competent. And I've worked directly for a co-owner for 14 years, so they at least know that when I say 'this is what I need,' I'm not BS'ing anyone.
@@Reepicheep-1 very much most most 80% as i said economic principle.
Healthcare seems to be notorius for that scenerio, especially in Clinical Engineering Specialties. We are supposed to look at back up 3 deep but no one seems to get that far because the main either leaves or the back up does (more than once ive seen both leave).
I ran CMM inspection machines for almost ten years where I worked. Once you got the part (aircraft engine rotating parts) loaded onto the machine and the program set up and started, you could sit down and do whatever until the program was done. Then you checked the printout, highlighted any problems if any and sent the part to whichever waiting area it needed to go, either ‘rework’ or the next operation.
I already figured that.
Gives a new perspective on some aircraft disasters!
Skimp on these kind of machine parts is a guaranteed way of becoming a mass-murderer!
@@fabimre heard a somewhat similar story of how one Soviet worker caused a crash of two planes with just a knife (An-22 crashes in 1970s).
Long story short: he was working at an aircraft plant and was responsible for making the final touches on the propeller blades before it were to be installed. He needed to remove the residue material at the base of the blade with a special plastic knife. But the worker was physically weak to effectively wield this tool, so he started using a steel shoemaking knife that caused almost invisible micro-scratches (0,3 mm deep) that quickly developed into cracks and made the blade to snap mid-flight, causing two crashes in the same year. Further investigation found similar flaws on the other propellers that were made in this factory.
Fun little mini story. I had a similar job at one point in time. I worked for a food manufacturing plant at one point in time. I also work in IT. Well we had a Zebra printer near the end of one of our production lines. For those who do not know, those are printers that print out labels to be be attached to things like pallets of completed and boxed up product to go to store A, store B, etc. But that was all this printer did. Pallet of product gets ready to be shipped, click button on the computer, print label, attach label to pallet, scan label into system. Put pallet on truck until truck is full. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Well, this one printer was an older model. It still worked, but it had a bit of glitch. If the printer is turned off and then immediately turned back on, sometimes (not every time, but sometimes) it would reset the printer to factory defaults. I'm not sure why, but it was something that they had to deal with. We even put up a sign that said, "If you have to turn the printer off, wait 30 seconds before you turn it back on." But when the printer went to factory defaults, the printer wouldn't work with our program and had to be configured. This happened often enough that I had setup a procedure for this. Which was the config was backed up on my work laptop. So I would go out, plug in a console cable from the laptop to the printer. Load up the printer's configuration program. Click restore. And boom done. It took longer to hook up the console cable then it did to fix the printer.
But unlike the OP in this story. My company understood and appreciated when I needed to get called in. They had a policy that if I was called while on call, even if it was a five second fix, that was guaranteed to be a minimum of two hours of OT. If I had to go on site, it was guaranteed to be a minimum of 4 hours of OT. The pay was a bit below industry standard, but it was still good pay. And 4 hours at time and a half for 10 minute commute and 5 minutes of work wasn't a bad deal. My coworker hated being on call, so I usually was always on call. My thought on that was, "You don't want free money. That's fine by me." The company didn't mind paying that OT, because every hour that a line couldn't run would result in $10,000 - $50,000 of lost revenue depending on the product. So my 4 hours of OT more then paid for itself.
Anyways, sorry if I rambled a bit long there. Just thought I'd share my similiar story, albeit without Igor and a company that actually valued my employment.
I know the feeling. My friend worked for a couple of years at a Smith and Nephew facility, they make all sorts of implants, and the benefits were really good for the US even tho the supervisors (from his POV) were kinda shitty. Management didn't care what their co-pay for your medical bills were, they wanted you on the floor making them money. Mind you he worked on the CNC machines that made the implants, so loosing a worker meant that a line wasn't producing nearly as much due to the shifts being 12 hrs. So when he got T-boned at an intersection and landed himself in the ER, they had someone there at the ER 2 hrs later ready to give the go ahead on whatever treatment he needed, no matter the cost. As long as he could get back on his feet as soon as possible and to prescribe him whatever meds he wanted. They did not care because he made them hundreds of thousands of dollars per shift. 20k in medical expense was nothing compared to what he made the company. When you make enough money for the company or the employer, they will bail you out of jail so you can show up for work, hire lawyers on your behalf so you don't have to show up for court, rent vehicles for you to use if yours breaks down, pay whatever co-pay on your medical bill that isn't covered by insurance, etc so that you can show up to work with no issues, mentally and physically.
Sounds like a situation where setting up a spare label printer in case the first glitched out again or fully failed would have been well worth the investment...
@@Steamrick Why not replace it with the same Zebra model printer? you might ask. To many companies, when there is something that works and mgmt is competent, you try not to mess with it because of the potential knock on effects. Ie when you're switching over to the new one, you can encounter issues during setup. To the companies its not worth the risk of a line being down and backing up production as in a factory, time = Big Money. Production being impacted can cost the company a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollar per hr its not in use/making them products. Granted this seems like a simple swap but its cheaper to just pay the guy times and a half or OT as the increase in payroll is just a rounding error to a large company. The cost is easily absorbed, negligible to the company bottom line, and frankly not a priority that they want to focus on(yea it has its quirks that requires a tech to come look at it every now and then but its an easy fix and it'll work for another month or 2 without issue)
@@BenderRodríguez-p3e The problem is that they already are encountering problems and holdups that are costing the company money.
Hence also why I suggested adding a backup printer, not replacing the main printer outright.
You were golden and valued as such !
Not gonna lie. If I was the company, I would of offered OP five or maybe ten times the salary to train four new people for a year with a 10 percent bonus if OP would of been able to catch everything up within the year. That would of probably still been cheaper then getting the measuremen company to train new people.
not hating, but im curious why people so often mistake "of" and "have"?
they dont sound the same, have very different meaning and dont have one letter in common. are you native speaker or is it maybe some sort of foreign speaker mistake?
@@Thalaranthey Native speaker and most people don’t actually talk in proper grammar. I know I definitely don’t. With that said, unless I’m writing a book, documentary, or some sort of literary that will be producing money, I don’t fret if I accidentally have grammatical errors.
@@nathlech919 i am not native speaker and i heard "would of" so often i genuinely thought its proper alternative way to speak like that. got few % less on a test during my studies bcs of it xd
english is weird, people in this language seem to be making much more mistakes than in my native language - which is really difficult grammar and spelling wise.
Maybe bcs usa is just such a clusterfuck of cultures that most of them apply their own twist on a language and it gets all mixed up ;p
@@Thalaranthey Accents also play a major role, just like with most languages, in how things are pronounced.
Example: where I live “Ope” is a perfectly reasonable response for a small mistake happening. But if I were to say something like that in the southern states and I asked them what “ope” means, they would have absolutely no idea.
@@nathlech919 Good point about accents having a big role in the way we spell things, at least growing up (or even as adults). It's easier to write something the way it sounds I guess lol
2nd story:
I know that company. I worked even a couple of years for a subsidiary of them (in Europe).
I am not surprised. That's how US companies work and worse, that's how their corporate culture is (especially UK situated plants).
Don't fix a problem; find a scapegoat (indifferent if he's a manager or lowly worker).
Good for OP to work that system for his own benefits.
I'm in the US and you're completely right
I worked in a retail bank for 2 years. It was more than enough to convince me never ever ever work for a corporation again. I was just at the turning point where I had enough reputation and experience to move up to management, but the shallow personalities were disgusting.
I don't know why others can deal with it. Rarely seem to hear anything genuinly good about giving yourself to such a massive commerciap entity like that, even if it pays a crapload. Feels so damn fake
I also know that company
I simply couldn't believe that people like Igor could exist in actual real life... that is until I had to deal with one myself.
Yeah, this story is believable, and I would assert that the redditor in question is telling the truth!
They do exist.
In the various jobs I have I have seen this time and time again. One time this Bosses brother actually damaged the foundation of their building. They both lasted until the owner found out.
Dream worthy (or nightmare if you're on the wrong side) Pro Revenge. Good job OP. Thanks for sharing. Thanks to Rob for Reading. Have a Happy Hump Day!
(Oh... and what do you call a Camel with no humps? HUMPHREY!)
Oh, Dear GOD that's a HORRIBLE Joke...
I'm definitely stealing that one for my Jokes file...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
When you get the attention of the CEO of a multinational company you know you screw up big time.
24:36, Likely Freddy was Sued for the losses of the Company since it was not through neglegance, but Choice that he cost the company trillions. (for those who dont know, thats 3 Zero's above a BILLION dollars)
This story was so damn statisfying. In my previous job, I was the victim of an old boys club. I was actively seeking tasks to do, and since the others were working at a snail's pace, they for some reason felt emasculated by a young woman suddenly actively working. They could have just decided to work in an actual reasonable pace, if they felt so damn emasculated. But no, instead, they bullied me so subtly, that I looked like the aggressor when I defended myself.
I wasn't so lucky with the revenge though, because I wasn't really a vital person there. I was a beginner there. But I'm still glad I left the toxicity.
This story reminds me of some of the chaos that had happened at my dad’s workplace. He works for Siemens energy and is a manager for the gas turbine sector. He told me about how a team of people were supposed to inspect a turbine before it’s departure the next morning. Apparently, while putting the components together, somebody put a very expensive piece on backwards and the entire turbine had to be taken apart again. Also, since the piece was on backwards, it didn’t fit right and got damaged while being removed, so they had to order a replacement part. Yeah the customer was not happy about that one. Idk how nobody noticed the piece was on backwards tho lmao
Back many decades ago when I was in the Navy, some parts were made 'Sailor Proof' = it's only gonna fit one way. So 'backwards' is not an issue.......atleast in theory. Or as I say: Keep it stupid, simple. Might be surprised how many times some Sailor/Marine tried their dayummedest to force it on backwards. Some good Sea Stories there.
Probably not just 'one' thing, but a combination of little things that caused it. Would think the supervisor or safety inspector got careless and screwed-the-pooch, since it is their job to make sure things aren't put on backwards and such. But that may just be me.
I have a good story for that, i work in the cooling tower field, and there was one day my boss and i were on a site and i noticed one of the tower fans was running backwards (it was correct to the stickers, but the blade pitch had it backwards). We fixed that by swapping two wires. Client was like "oh so that explains the water all over the place".
Ohh yeah Siemens. That Chaos you described is even worse than you think.
The Company i work for is contracted by Siemens. Everything we built has to be exact to their Plans. And i dont just mean measurements.
There are 2 Big Parts where i need to use Duct Tape to strap a Piece of Wood under. That Piece of Wood needs to have certain Dimensions. And even the Duct tape has a whole 4 Page Report on Strength etc.
The Supplier for said Duct Tape changed the Colors .. .we got an Email and the threat of get send everything back (our costs ofc) because of the Color Change.
I once put a tiny piece of tape on an "special" Piece. Different length than normal. Which ofc means a different Mass Middle (important for forklift pickup). That tiny piece of tape was there to show where the Middle is. Again, emails, Pictures and Meetings of why that Tape is there.
And just 2 Weeks ago Siemens send back the prepackaged Bolts, Nuts and Washers. Why? Well the normal supplier couldnt send stuff because of Material Shortages. So we went with a different one. Same Nuts and Bolts, also certified, exact same Technical Data Sheet. Just a Different Brand. Siemens wasnt happy. So we are now waiting 2 Weeks till we get the Stuff from the original supplier to repack those bags and send them of to Siemens again.
Oh and last Month i got shown Pictures send by Siemens. For 25 Years we now built the X1 for them. For 25 Years we put the Label Sticker at the exact same Spot (yep there is a measurement for it on the Plans). Now Siemens doesnt want it there, its somehow our Fault, it needs to be 15cm lower.
Why? Well the current Placement means it cant be seen (QR Code therefore not be scanned) after they put whatever Parts on it. Since the Clamp of said unknown part is covering the Label.
And for those out there who know about Welding and what you can and cant achieve with it. Imagine a welded Cube. 4x4 Ground Plate, 6 Rods coming up (4 i nthe corner 2 in the middle) and on top of these Rods smaller Sheet Metal Pieces.
Siemens ordered those and told us we didnt meet the Measurements. Measurements in mm. How didnt we meet those? By 0.001mm. The fucking 3rd digit in the decimals. On a Welded Object. An Object that got ALOT of Heat.If you want it that precise than take a Block of Metal and get it to a CNC shop, not a Industrial Welding Company.
The problem with making anything idiot proof, is that the next batch of idiots are even less competent.
@@kaitan4160 Sounds like procurement with a company with the empire state building up their ass. I honestly don't know how they come to be so weirded out by such minute issues. I did a short stint at a contracting company for Texas Instruments and we were having issues sourcing components for a module to go into a weapons system. Why were we having issues? Well the part we were sourcing was a part from the mid 80s. The company was able to secure a large bulk stock from the original US manufacturer before they switch over production, they kept the line running for as long as possible while they retooled all their other machines to make newer, more profitable components. The line was the last one to be switched over and the company still has the parts in the original boxes in a climate controlled room. Well that stock was stating to run dangerously low and it was for a high expenditure 1 time use item. Que a 5 month binge of looking across every other website trying to find a reliable source of ancient components. Well we find one but its in China for a really niche hobby. We order a batch of 100 with specific demands and they pass with flying colors. Then we break the "good news" to TI, who then relay it to the DOD. And shit just goes wild from there. Apparently this was during when anything Made in China for the military was under scrutiny. A blank circuit board for the F-35 that was Made in China needed 3 senate hearings before it got an exemption!! Over fears of Chinese espionage and secret well hidden backdoors... its a blank circuit board with nothing on it... what back doors could possibly exist? Our component was to doing 2 functions, if A do B but if condition A isn't met do C. Very simple and we got shit for it because we were sourcing Chinese components and not Made in USA. The last US manufacturer that made such a component stopped in 1997, this is 2019. Who on earth are you going to convince to switch a profitable production line to now make a niche component that has since stopped production on US soil for 20+ yrs? for only 1 customer? Without shelling out tens of millions in inconvenience fees? Que meetings spanning 2 months of us trying to explain to both TI and the DOD of how unreasonable their request is and if that they don't like it, they can kiss good bye to the [x] weapons system because there was no we could source for components nor would there be any other suppliers of such a component. They said to fix it/ie find a solution to it and the solution was to do a complete redesign of the component to newer 90s components because there were still existing stock and US manufacturers making it. But that in it of itself was a shit show. They rejected more efficient designs using newer & more powerful components because it now left a 1.5" x .55" void that didn't know what to do with!!! FFS
Paying triple his normal contract would have been soooo much cheaper in the long run 😂
You do realize that a company would rather pay 30x than admit they were wrong...
Seen it 3 times at least.
So glad I found this channel. I watch other channels but they don't upload the content I want often enough. Thanks for filling that void!
Very good example of a corporation trying to shoot down the line but forgetting to make sure it's feet are out of the way. That CEO was Swift and deadly, just as the situation called for. Managers who think it's more important to cover up for incompetent employees should understand that that makes them incompetent managers. And the truth will out! Well played,OP.🌟
Good morning Rob. Thanks for the stories. Have a great day. Said before, but it's great to have you back.
American watcher : Grab popcorn
French watcher : Open a bottle of wine
I can definitely identify with your story. I too had a similar problem but on a much, much smaller scale. It did cause the company to close and several good friends who'd worked there for years lost pensions and such. Which caused them to file a class action suit and they got back about 50% of what they were due. The boss lost almost everything including his trophy bride, a.k.a. 'gold digger'. Sucks to be greedy and stupid.
Great to have you back, rob!
I was the guy that used to maintain and clean the ice cream machine at my McDonald's. When I was off and the program was set to clean, chaos. The store manager didn't want to train someone else to do it. Because.. I knew how. 😅
It’s always satisfying to see stupid prizes, being awarded to people who play stupid games
Wow. Just wow. Those cockwombles planted a C4 charge on their backs, and all Warrior had to do was flick the detonators on the way out.
You don't mess with the guys that make your food...
They didn't put c-4 on there back but tsar Bomba on there backs!
I am surprised that they never considered that kind of consistent bad behavior was too risky, with so few people with that guys skill set still employed there. also, I thank you sincerely because you gave me the opportunity to add "cockwombles" to my vocabulary.
@@nobanfu
Mission accomplished 😸
Loved this story n also that he willingly went into interview to set stuff straight. Love he got a job in a couple days too. And he got the good end of the end of it all.
Amazing how some people don't understand what a Machinist actually does.
If anyone wants to know, the company is Solar Turbines based in San Diego, this happened in their remanufacturing facility in Zatec, Czech Republic.
The secret to successful manufacturing is make every task so simple, anyone can do it, or so procedural, no one can avoid being seen.
A similar thing happened to me but on a much much smaller scale. The winders I fixed and maintained were made in the 1940's, 50's and 60's. I trained under a man that had been there since the late 50's. They tried to replace me with some one who flat out lied about their skills. Two weeks after I was gone he left. They could not find any who knew how to properly work on such old and outdated machines. That was the begining of the end for that mill. This was back in 1995.
*TL/DW. If they paid any money for business management training they should ask for a refund.*
There's a saying that 10% of the workforce is responsible for 80% of the output. Successful companies find that 10%, reward them financially and treat them with deep respect.
Companies that go under drive them out and treat them like s***.
This is not pro revenge. It's almost Nuclear.
Sounds like Generous Eclectic. Complete mismanagement of one of the world's biggest companies is why Nike and Starbucks now have higher market caps.
Excellent story! As a fellow metrology and (retired) QA professional, I salute the story and each of the outcomes!❤
Always enjoy your stories.
Glad you’re still here.
Great to hear your voice again 🤩 thanks for breaking the monotony of everyday bs, you make it so much more bearable!!! 😀
Pro and Nuclear revenge are my absolute favorites. I don't even care if the stories are true or not 🤣
I was in this position - the old boss retired and they brought in this feminist man-hater who immediately promoted all the women (don't get me wrong, they deserved it) and instantly began writing up the men to get rid of them (3rd write-up and you're fired with cause) - nice things like, she asked me how long it would take to do a job, I said 2 weeks, she said "you have until Friday"... Worked late every night, Friday at 5pm I walk into her office saying it's done (rushed and barely), and she says "I needed it by 4, you're written up". Needless to say I'd already seen the writing on the wall, but I started using vacation days to start interviewing... The 3rd time was coming into my office at 2pm on a Monday, "buy a plane ticket, you're going to California (another division) for 2 weeks"... Umm, I live alone, I have pets, I need to stop the mail, buy pet food, try to get someone to watch/feed my pets, kinda hard to do that in a day? Yeah, I know, too bad... I typed up a resignation letter that night - the next morning she asked if I had my ticket, I said no, and she launched into a tirade about how she was going to fire me... And I handed her my resignation - she didn't want to accept it, "I should fire you anyways" and I just said "let's see what HR says about that" (firing opens them to a lawsuit, taking my resignation doesn't).
I had the offer letter from the job I had lined up 2days later. 😁. Told them I was gonna give 2 weeks notice Friday, got paid out for my unused vacation, and basically had 3 weeks off in July and only lost a week of pay.
Two years later I'm getting messages on my machine daily - one of the things I supported that nobody else really had expertise in had broken, they desperately wanted my help - even saying they had budget to pay... I laughed and erased every message. Sorry, but this "dead wood" (heard she called us that after all the firings) would rather LMAO for a week+ of panic messages than help her.
I don't see how a resignation would not result in a lawsuit per constructive dismissal given the conditions you were working under.
I loved this story. This mismanagement problem is so common in both the private sector and government.
It's crazy how much chaos it causes companies when they just can't be decent people and treat others fairly.
This happened to me- boss made up stuff against me, they said they didn't need me, I gave my notice and they let me go the next day- my boss had to do my job too and stayed at work till like 8 every night. Then they hired two people to do the work I used to do. Still makes me laugh a decade later.
May the algorithm be ever in your favour, Rob
Hmmm ive had this problem for 3 years, and these employees for 3 years. We got a new worker whos been here for 1 - 3 months. It must be all his fault.
On much smaller scales I've seen that type of thing several times in my career. The good old boys never want to admit they made a mistake and always try to sweep it under the rug. Pay someone 3x their salary to fix a problem? Nope. First, they're usually too arrogant to accept that someone else is that important, second they'll worry that the money will get noticed. The one thing corporations are good at is tracking money. But sometimes something too big to sweep under the rug happens and those tricks don't work - and then it all comes crashing down.
First real day of summer vacation. Rob asking me to have a wonderful day. BBQ fired up. A cold one in my hand and some PR in my buds (wife playing with the kids). Its not a wonderful day, its an awesome day.
Man what a dumpster fire. Thank goodness the jerks got dunked on.
"Turbing" I give up!!
Do you? Obviously not considering you commented 3 more times 🤣
Wow! Supernova revenge.
And even at the end their massive ego didn't allow them to bring back OP at three times his old rate. They would rather lose millions in claims!
Fun things about the story from the build up part:
Turbine engine work in EU but big company from US: sounds like a repair station/manufacturer for jet engine small/private aircraft. Those stuff are calculated to the nearest .001 of cm or inch with less than .005 deviation (sorry if I'm wrong here, I'm currently still in school for AnP in US and 6 months away from finishing so I don't have actual field experience yet) You do not want to mess with those equipments as shrug your shoulders off if things go wrong horribly or not logging everything down as detailed as you can. Because anything that go wrong in aviation field from the smallest thing can cause catastrophic accident in a long way. Specially aircrafts that used for commercial or transportation purposes. I have no idea why would a company that OP worked with treat those issues like nothing, judging from work process go thru multiple stages of extreme measurement. This is why you avoid hiring someone as your family members without work ethic, doesn't care about a thing, unprofessionalism.
This isn't surprising. A lo of companies operate on cliques and it almost never ends well in the long term. Th problem is the highest bosses are either in on it or don't have the time to manage it beyond periodically purging the cliques when they get caught.
At the end of "Don't Fire The Only Guy Who Can Do The Job" you repeated a partial quote, 'crap rolls downhill' the proper end to that is "AND PICKS UP SPEED". It was a fine story too, Nicely Done.
Just remember, nepotism is never a good thing
Hells bells, RESTORATION, SEVERAL, TURBINE!
You're getting angry over words on the internet. Let that sink in.
I love reddit pro revenge. I watched r slash . Didn't knew about this chanel. I'm glad I found it.
For someone like me who knows to separate business from friends, and to hold people accountable for their actions as well as not punish the people who do their job, I can say with certainty the boss screwed up when he chose to do what he did.
It's a great story, made so much better with such a cheery delivery! Always makes my day!
Thank you Rob, I am having a wonderful day today! I hope you have a wonderful day❤️😎
If you only have one person who knows how to do the job, you've majorly screwed up as a company.
I would not have even made the offer of returning for triple pay. You just know that gives them three times the incentive to F you over a second time once you train someone. I have seen similar happen.
Yup. Has a contract, but will take years to get a court to enforce it if they renege.
My record is the the branch I worked at closing one month after the boss ( owners daughter whom I pretty much did every damn job in the store and ninety percent of the sales for) firing me so she could give her new coke-head husband my manager job. He was also hitting on everyone with a pulse who worked there including the underage employees. I saw the writing on the wall as soon as she got married to the scumbag and was already an assistant manager at the second job I got as soon they announced their marriage. Shame really it was a great store.
I built a special kind of conveyor for a company that closed our plant and I was in the first round of layoffs. I was the only one on first shift who did them. I bloody loved them. So, they laid me off and started calling my lead from a plant in Mexico asking for guidance on these things. The terribly ironic thing is that I was not only their builder I was also their translator. Half of my time was spent translating Spanish or French to English.. and I had moved from Mexico back to this country only a year earlier. They wanted to send the lead to Mexico to train these guys, I could have done that.
This was the best 25m I've had in a while. Very satisfying story
The US justice system is ridiculous. But it would be crazy if someone went to prison for losing a company money, no matter how atupid he is. But that sounds like the US justice system.
It's a US company in europe.
I wish them luck
Glad OP made out much better, the idiots got what they were due -- just hope Antonio got his full retirement after his much-deserved vacation!
Your reads are the best! That was a great story Rob.
I know that company, worked for a different section of it - I was so glad to get out of it.... It was a horrible work environment,
I worked in Germany in a similar job in quality control. As a mechanic with experience on modern mashines you can choose your employer. I´m retired due to health issues but every company I worked for is searching and most of them are calling every job applicant and hiring nearly everyone immediately. One mechanic I trained is now also a master mechanic and he told me that his company is hiring everyone with a pulse. There´s this meme for a job interview in construction. The only thing the interviewer has on the table is a blood presure device and when he comfirmed that the applicant has a pulse they are neotigating the salary and benefits.
Is it so easy like that?
@@tsuki_moon.1 maybe a little bit exaggerated but not much. Jobs like mechanics, electric, construction or elder care are the worst. My Cousins husband works in road construction in a small company with 20-30 workers. They are not taking new contracts because they have just enough people to fulfill their gouvernement contracts. They have mashines and trucks for 3-5 more crews that means 15-25 people. These storys are everywhere. I needed a new Propan bottle and wanted to replace it on saturday. The store was closed because they didn't have enough people for the shifts on the Weekend.
Also, dont be the only guy who can do the job. Thats ok for the short term, but long term, you will seal your fate as "the guy" and you will never be allowed to be promoted to do other things. From there onwards, your options are just stay where youre at for the rest of your life, or go find another job
This is honestly more like malicious compliance.
Is just me or is Chris Griffin reading this story?
Love the little chameleon!👍😊
Second time hearing this story...I love it. You can't fix stupid.
Ikm gonna guess the company is GE.
No one is irreplaceable. It's just that some are way harder and far more expensive to replace when the time comes that you have to do it. The problem with the near irreplaceable employee is more often than not they are treated poorly or overlooked entirely or screwed over by favoritism to another employee. This continues until it is far far too late for the higher up to save even their own asses when the crap hits the fan.
would have been cheaper for freddy to fire igor paying 3x salary for OP and hired 2 new ppl for OP to train, but as it goes middle management are full of idiots who know less than a gnat and a tick combined and can in most cases be automated by a computer script
My late mother called MBA _Moron_ of Business Administration.
Ego issues aside, most managers-nearly all-have no idea about systems or system thinking-the complex interplay between tasks and other systems. They all think, if at all, in a linear fashion.
Most are also unable to plan and anticipate problems. But they know when their bonus is coming.
Always nice to see an upload from the channel.
So there was a sapphic relationship between at least four guys and to save their group, the straight guy, OP, was fired? Tsk tsk
I loved the allusion to "soap and prison showers" at the end of the story
Time for Antonio to retire after a few centuries at work...
that happened to me where I was the only one with a certificate. during training they tried to get my boss the certificate but I argued and said if I have to go through the training I should get the certificate. and then well the company downsized and me and one other person was let go. they paid for retraining and ive never looked back.
I’m in NZ and this is how 95% of companies are run.
I've said it before, I'll say it again; 90% of what management does can be replaced with an Alexa box and a couple spreadsheets. Management is a leech on the system and provides no production to a company.
Edit; the remaining 10% of what management does only creates a hostile work environment for the actual producers of the company.
Depends. Good management can turn a competent operation into a great operation. Management exists because it had a benefit. Bad management however can turn a great operation into a shitshow, and no one can save a shitshow.
Regarding Alexa, try reading some technical papers written by AI. As it exists today, it would burn the company down.
@@Stethacanthus management does not provide technical support. IT or engineering does that. No need to alter that. Just remove the leaches from the system.
@@Stethacanthus I don't know, I'm sure there might be some industries where management might actually benefit the company. But so far, the industries that I've worked in (engineering, IT, automotive service) they only create more problems than they're worth.
@@schrodingerscat4737 my wife is a supervisor and she dies more technician work than the techs do and she developed a method that reduced mistakes from about 10% to none at all. Management absolutely can be vital to technical support. That's one key difference between good and bad management. Organizing work is a real skill, and 10/10 times an unmanaged operation will lose to a managed one.
Revenge is a dish best served with a slice of humble pie.
I use to work on gas turbines lol. Very relatable. And YES gas turbines are STUPID expensive.
Entertaining story, op got fired and got a better job/life balance out of it, and Frankenstein's assistant got fired and a few others, company should avoid family ties in the work force where possible.
An hour and 45 minutes is a horrible commute?
Yeah, there's not many American Gas Turbine companies... And having worked closely alongside one in the past, I have a strong suspicion of which it is. OP, in that company, being cold & compliant was the best way to destroy all involved 🤣
Allowing clicks and clans in your team as a team leader, manager or even the boss is unfortunately just showcasing the ignorance. Those people shouldn't be in charge
It calls into question legitimacy of the story when the author says he doesn’t remember the name of the person who made his life such a living hell
When you said to not unsubscribe or your wife would beat you I got a pic in my head of Jen chasing you around, smacking you with a pool noodle. 🤔Ya know, I'd pay good money to watch That video...... 🤣🤣🤣
Reguardless of the size of any company, we have all seen this , the cool people who cannot be taken into HR, I have quit many jobs and been fired from one after 16 years because I would not play childish games these kids ass people wanted. There is always work for people who want to work
These kind of stories are just **chef kiss.**
"MANAGEMENT"
Sorry Karen, did you want to speak to my Manager?
Hell yeah good on you bro and im happy how the outcome turned out for you!
I was in a similar situation only I did get the 3x pay rate. Actually I got 5x the pay rate but it was part time work. My management was smart enough to know not to F with me and even at 5x the rate at part time, I was much cheaper than replacing me. That arrangement went on from 1997 to 2014 when they finally shut down the facility. I was able to pay for both my kids colleges without loans, and two additions to my home with that moonlighting extra money of 5 hours a week.
I am guessing this company was Siemens, my last employer. Did not interface with Germany, as I worked for Westinghouse just after Siemens bought it out. Heard a few stories similar to this one. When you draw the attention of the big shots, and they are forced to leave the ivory tower to address the problem, you are in big trouble.
Now OP could have cut the line going way over his bosses heads and saved the day. The real package for saving the day would include a relocation package and more than a damn salary. He would still be the one guy who knew the key machine. If he trained anyone, they would be seen as his replacement, since " He got a bunch of guys fired. " Now the new guys start green but without a toxic company history. If the company can fire the irreplaceable Man Once, they can do it again. The bad guys got nuc'd and he aready had a nicer job. All is right with his world.
It baffles me that the ego is still more important than mitigation of imminent doom.
"Triple my pay and i come back!"
Even as the biggest asshole i would have accepted.
But no.
They were still cheap and sassy.
Its like being told that you can still save your car if you put petrol instead of diesel in it.
But i would have to be flushed out, costing a few hundred bucks.
And those idiots just shruged it off and hit the road.
I have been with my company for almost 30 years. Almost half of my life. I have done every job at the local level. Including running two branches at one point. I have now taken a position to train employees as well as perform other duties. I have never lost sight of the simple fact I am expendable. Just like everyone else. No one person is greater than the entire sum. Not to mention all it takes to get sent packing Is one pimple face nephew with a attitude.