From story 2: That CEO reminds me of someone I know. He worked at a grocery store as a assistant store manager. He was being promoted to Store manager at a different location. I told him he wouldn't last because he is a horrible person. Sure enough he didn't last 6 months. To this day I tell him "You had a 7 figure a year job and you blew it". He then says "It wasn't a 7 figure a year job". I tell him "one of the perks of that position is getting a 7 figure a year pay check, along with million dollar bonuses after every inventory taken".
My father retired and decided to sell real estate in Florida and when he relocated he got rid of his ties. One day, after several years, the owner decided to have a dress code where men would wear neckties. My children had gotten him the gaudiest tie for his birthday. At the next staff meeting he wore it. The policy was recinded immediately.
Reminds me of when my husband wears his very loud, monochromatic, hurt my eyes with the pattern, protest shirt when his old workplace were trying to change policies to make them more stupid and which would have made work life a lot harder for those boots on the ground. The changes didn't last and my husband's suggestions were put into effect so it worked. Recently he suggested throwing it out cos he doesn't work there anymore but I told him to keep it, who knows when he'll need it again haha
Reminds me of a roommate issue. They bitched that i ate too much community food, dirty dishes, trash full ect, none of which i was guilty of.. Being the only man in the house the estrogen army was drawing battle lines. So i bought my own food and put it in a mini fridge in my room, used paper plates, and had my own trash can just outside my window (which sat in the bed of my pickup truck, quite convenient). I took my trash to work and dumped it every day. We lived on a few acres in the country. So after a few weeks they decided to have a "sit down" about the same stuff. At which time i showed them the mini fridge, trash can, paper and plastic dishes. It was a friend of one of the roomies that came over while we were gone eating the food and leaving dishes in the sink. Any apologies? nope. So i moved out shortly there after. I fixed the house, their cars, stuff around the house when i lived there. I got calls asking for help. Nope, hire a landscaper, nope, take it to a mechanic but not my shop, nope hire an electrician, nope, hire a plumber nope take it to geek squad.
The clothesline complainer wanted OP to fold her clothes, is what she wanted! I can't believe she had the brass to berate OP for following her orders not to touch her laundry. And then to complain to the building manager is hilarious.
2nd story. I absolutely adore Louise, she's perfect at taking the piss. The co-worker who submitted the schedule in excruciating detail is a legend. That CEO should be able to see where this will end up, clearly not a particularly bright light bulb. Someone rings me at 2am , they'd better be dying or they will be.
@@stoopingfalcon891 unless you're dying or someone else is, the only acceptable reasons for 2am phone calls. The ongoing heinous crime of continuing to call...kind of guarantees a new self-fertilizing 6 by 4 flower bed
i used to work as an instrument technician, a highly technical field. in one of my jobs i had an idiot supervisor ordered me to give him more details about what I was doing at work. He only asked once, took me nearly half my day to comply and was around 120 pages lol
Pretty sure the complaining lady in the clothesline story either wanted OP to magically bring her laundry in without touching it, bring it in and magically make it not have creases, or to bring it in and just deal with the complaining. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't type. She just wants an excuse to complain
If she were really that concerned with her laundry, she should have motivated herself to take care of it. Totally agree she was an asshole looking for a place to shit.
I've done that before. One time I was busting my ass as a dishwasher at a busy restaurant in Vegas and the boss had too much to drink and talked some shit to me. I just walked out right in the middle of my shift.
When I was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, we had two places to buy uniform parts. The Base Exchange carried more than just uniform parts, Think Wegman's or Target. The other place sold only uniform parts at cost, no profit. They could do this because no civilian worked there. I was there one day when a Senior Master Sargent [E-8] was talking with the Clothing Store Manager. He was smoking a cigar right under a "No Smoking" sign. (The manager was a Staff Sargent [E-4]. This E-8 kept using the cigar to point with. I noticed that the burning end had fallen off and landed on a pile of Camo-Pants. I tried to interrupt the conversation to tell them the pants were smoldering. The E-8 insisted that I come to attention, shut up and be dressed down Royally. By the time the E-8 took notice of the smoke, flames were visible. The E-8 grabs the Soda-Acid Fire Extinguisher off it's rack, inverts it and starts spraying the pants. There were 3 mistakes here. First, you should not use a soda-acid type in a clothing store. Second, the Sargent could have pulled the pants to the floor and stomped out the fire. Third, once he had the fire out, he set the unit upright. The mixture did not stop coming out of the hose. They call it Soda-Acid because the water has Bicarbonate of Soda in it. Inverting the device causes the lead ball that covers the acid inside the acid filled lead bottle to release the acid. You only get to use these once before you need them completely cleaned out and refilled. To stop the mixture from getting everywhere, the E-8 put his thumb over the hose nozzle and ran outside. The pressure by this time pushed his thumb of the nozzle and the mixture shot 30 FT into the air. The wind picked it up when the spray got higher than the buildings roof. The wind forced this mixture to arc over to the parking area. The liquid then hits a parked F-150 belonging to that stupid E-8. We all came to the door. After I saw the paint start to blister off the F-150, I told the E-8 to aim it into the gravel. The E-4 came out while the E-8 was trying to try to stop his paint job from being ruined. The E-4 had estimated the damage to merchandise and fixtures at about $250. He filled out a "Statement of Charges" for this amount for the E-8 to sign. Since one of the other patrons that day was an Air Policeman, the E-8 was forced to sign this S of C and the money would be taken from his paycheck. While this happened in the mid '60s, This might have been the E-8s months pay.
The only reason I ever left a job was to get better pay. Mind you I've been sacked once* and, another time, I was made redundant. * On the day I started. I had been told at the interview I'd get a one hour lunch break but on the first day they told me it would be only half an hour, and that I was expected to take it at my desk. I complained, loudly, and was sacked on the spot.
@@annalieff-saxby568 I was fired once years ago - it was emotional but made me realize what I want in life and it's not working for nitwits. The good news is all the people in that division got the axe 6 months later and if they stayed had to work in tech support. Sweet justice. The creep that fired me was let go also since he was such a loser. In some ways I felt sorry for him, short, going bald, not to bright, etc. and you could see it made him overcompensate. after there were 2 managers that were monsters and I left after a year working for them. Both got fired and one cried like a baby. I'm lucky now I have a great job.
Formal wear is aways wrongly used in place of professional wear. Great that someone did that. Lol I need to get top hat and tails for formal wear in England.
Christmas rush at the restaurant, and I. was. done. I threw down my apron and started out the door. I heard a noise and looked behind me. Every staff member except the so-called chef was quitting too. We were high-fiving each other in the parking lot. The manager left me terrible voicemail messages for WEEKS. After that, the restaurant closed permanently.
After hearing a lot of stories like this I will admit to think: "It can't be true, no way a person acts like that." But then I saw videos, and I just got tired.
Oh yeah there’s a butt ton of people that can act like this just because they think they can get away with something. they literally are pathetic little pissant children that never grew out of the “if I whine I’ll get everything I want” stage of maturity I mean honestly they’re better off being reversed back to infants than being adults in the real world that way when they’re infants someone can potentially start over and make them an actual productive member of society instead of a whiny little 🐩, either that or we leave the ones that can’t behave out on the street to die One of the two (yeah I’m not sure if it’s obvious but I hate A rather large portion of humanity)
Some people are not happy unless they are complaining about other people. This covers both story 1 & 2. Story 2 = sometimes best way to deal with a demeaning boss is with malicious compliance.
Story 2: judging by OP’s description it sounds like the CEO was the One who orchestrated Louise leaving the Company, all in all sounds like a horrible boss to work for and I’m glad that OP locked all the Doors on the Way out and if the CEO ever tries to slander OP they Can always sue (at least I Think, OP did do what they were told and doing their job right is not something you Can be reprimanded for)
It was the ONLY place where there was fire allowed in the whole ship (if we ignore the inside of the engines). I understand there was a single lighter controlled by the steward. The room could only be accessed through an airlock. The slightly elevated air pressure therein meant gasses (like hydrogen) could not leak in. Part of the airlock was a small bar and IIRC the bartender’s main job was making sure no fire or embers or lit tobacco etc was getting out, be it from absent-mindedness or on purpose. So no, smoking could be done quite safely on a Zeppelin, even with the passengers being inside the hull instead in an underslung gondola. (The Hindenburg was meant to use the much safer - and vastly more expensive - helium, but the USA, the only place that could supply significant amounts of helium, did not exactly want to put that strategic material into the hands of a potential enemy n a potential war.
Just goes to show you, when you are an employee, you are a replaceable cog in the machine. If work for a company that values workers as human, this might be different, but these are few and far between. You either need to be the boss/owner or someone with very valuable and rare skills to be treated any differently. When you are hired you are accepting a certain amount of money and benefits for certain tasks or skills. If you don't like something, the only real power you have is to leave.
Story 1: When you can't win, the only thing to do is not play with the idiot at all. Story 2: So boss is a jerk and all the people who could get jobs elsewhere did. Great job on the management. It's like they forget management is nothing without competent staff or something. Oh, what, they can't forget that because they somehow never knew it in the first place.
First story: Obviously she wanted the guy to go to a professional cleaners and have them teach him how to properly fold clothes, and perhaps purchase one of those laundry baskets found inside laundromats with a hanging bar, so he can hang the shirts and dresses.
When I was in Navy "A" school I was late a LOT. Like almost every day. I had 2 kids and I lived in base housing. I didn't have a car so I had to take a cab to school everyday. They called them "jam vans" and usually sailors would car pool in them. Anyway, they didn't always show up on time, plus I had to get my kids to daycare up the street on my way to school. My timing was always off and I was always late. So my chief, who also ended up being my chief on my first ship, had me doing that daily activity diary for 10 days. By the 8th day I was sick of it and started marking my toilet breaks, too. I don't even think that he was reading them at that point anyway.
It would be interesting to hear if there was an update on the concrete post, and if the guy who demanded the cleaning solution reacted, and how he reacted.
Just had my first shift at co-op in Canada I was filling pump with my co worker and last pulls up to the pump already pissed off I say “Hi ma’am what can I get cha today?” She says in a hurry “fill it regular please” I as I’m supposed to do confirms “Fill regular?” She says with a huff “yes!” My co worker/supervisor (supervising me after training to make sure I’m doing a good job) doesn’t hear the lady so just to double check she says “sorry ma”Am you said fill regular?” And again but more rudely she says “YES!” So I do what I do take the gas cap out put the nozzle in and let it fill and go off to check other cars, there a car waiting behind her other ones are completely full. The lady is in the store for a while then comes out yelling at me saying “what did you put in my car?” I go “regular, why? Is everything okay?” She screams “NO HOW MUCH!!” So I go “oh filled it like you asked.” She pauses for a second looks at the pump and continues yelling “I SAID $50!!” (It came out to $138 cause of how expensive gas is right now. She storms back in giving my co workers a hard times then yells at me again slams her door and drives away. Now this wouldn’t be the biggest deal if she made a mistake my manger would’ve figured out a solution for her he’s a good guy. But since she harassed me and my co workers my manager wasn’t having it. Also the customer behind her confirmed that she said fill regular. So anyways she drives off mad we finish up the rush go in and explain it to the manager and even the customer behind her went and talked to him for us. After everything was settled I heart kept pounding, we had a good laugh, and was making sure to confirm a 2nd or even a 3rd time to make sure we heated correctly.
If someone bitch at me for helping then bitch because I don't I'll gladly tell them exactly where they can stick it and might even start feeding birds in the area so they add their own "gifts". :p
Ironically, the Hindenburg DID in fact have a smoking lounge. It used some kind of positive air pressure system to guarantee no hydrogen could get in, and had an airlock door to enter and exit.
There actually was a smoking lounge on the Hindenburg, it was carefully set up as to make it safe, pressurized so any stray bits of hydrogen could not get into the smoking area, it was also the only place aboard the zeppelin smoking was allowed.
Regarding the first story, because the lady was a Karen, she had probably expected that as OP had already taken down the clothes from the line, it shouldn’t hurt OP to fold the clothes (thus avoid wrinkling them), and taking them to Karen’s home (and not putting them down in a dusty place). 😅
Me internally rolling my eyes, gagging and my rear end clinching at the mere mention of Olestra.... And the knowledge there's at least 2 generations now, that wasn't around and have never " had the pleasure of experiencing" that " wonder" ingredient 😂😢
#1 - JC himself couldn't please some people and that includes OP's neighbor here. Unless OP is supposed to be a mind reader to know what she wants in each scenario...
1:30 No no. If one person comp[lains, _no-one_ is getting a free lunch. If you tolerate that sort of whining, you get to suffer the consequences of her actions too. 1:50 Oh please. She'd have _sued you._ You'd be out TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in lawyers fees. Compassion toward people who get snitty about property _costs big bucks._ Money better spent on life-saving surgery for a pet. Yes, I'm saying: Every time someone is nice to a Karen, there's a chance a dog dies. Follow the logic.
Never...ever...fuck with the IT dept. I was working for a mid sized company and the CEO was like the one in the story...a screamer who knew no boundaries and had zero self awareness. One day, she decides the IT dept was "nothing but an unneeded expense and the IT infrastructure was also a waste. After all, what did she need servers, routers, and switches for? So she gives the CIO the order to remove ALL the servers. She would not listen to any warnings. So we all found new jobs and on our last day we physically removed all the servers and had a company come and get them. That company lasted another 4 days...LOL...don't eff with IT.
The last one... the hot-shot with a piece of paper that basically said he paid money to a place to sit and learn some theory... decided to try to put utopian theory into practice... and caused most of the staff to leave... On the third one, I would have turfed the manager. But upper management don't see the actual front line staff... they just see an expense of their pay.
Most apartments where I used to live had a washer but the only dryers we had were in this small building. There was a dryer for every 2 tenants (so a dryer for upstairs and downstairs to use) and we would usually converse with our neighbors when we were washing clothes so we were not fighting over it. However I had a tenant move below me and she did not care. She would also wash several loads at a time and take up multiple dryers. If one was not open she would dump out the clothes dry or not to use for herself. Now everyone had enough after about a month. We (several tenants and myself) lodged a complaint to the owner. He then decided that he would make it more difficult to use the dryers unless we had clothes to dry. He also limited people to one load at a time. He locked the small building and gave everyone a notice. Basically when you need a dryer you had to ask him or his assistant to unlock the building. This meant while you were drying clothes if the opposite tenant wanted the dryer they would be told to wait until their tenant counterpart was done. She did not like this. She would constantly try and sneak in when others were being let in but was always stopped. She ended up breaking her lease agreement and moved out. After she left the dryer building was unlocked and the peaceful harmony returned.
I left my bad boss in a different way, I stayed for 2 years until he said to me "I can only pay you two months before I go bankrupt". That's when I left saying "Don't bother paying me the next month, I'll just finish this month, then I'll be gone here."
Story 1: I've used drying lines. Imo, the best is hanging clothes just before it rains, and leaving them until they dry later. This wouldn't work for a shared line, but it makes them SOOOO soft.
9:39 "She sounds like a terrible person to work for....... concrete mixers are big..." zoned out and came back to hear those thoughts back to back... just thought it was funny.
14:25 “it’s like watching an orphan unwittingly skin his favorite puppy” That doesn’t make it any better Black sheep that doesn’t make it better! If anything that gives me an even more disturbing visual😖
If the first apartment has washing machines, why don't they have driers??? We still used a line in the 70s,but just for sheets because there were a LOT of us and we lived in the country.
OK I gotta know where to tell these stories are because I have quite a few doozies that people will be shocked to hear I swear I attract the Karen’s LMAO
people don't leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers. How true. Some years ago I worked at a big steel mill, as they were laying some staff off they asked for people who would accent voluntary redundancy, with a payout. Everybody in my unit, me included decided to apply.. that was around 1700 people.. of course they weren't all accepted lol. nice one mr Archie Murphy.. (real name)
This comment is for the first story. That guy did nothing wrong and he did the right thing, and that woman was totally wrong. And I have to say that if this crazy woman went around telling people "he stole my underwear or I told him not to touch my clothing but he still did it anyway." And she sounds like the kind person that would do that to try and make op look like a creeper. All I can say is try to stay away from that kind of woman because she will say one thing one day and then say something else another. And op was just doing what he was asked to do.
About story #2, it reminds me of the episode of The Brady Bunch where Greg was adamant about using "Exact Words" when they all spoke to each other. That episode made using the "exact words" not a really good idea, though. But, in the case of the story here, exact words are quite necessary for the operation of the company. Good for those employees !!!
I had a female supervisor who had her first taste of power, she was unbearable, how she attained the position was anyone's guess, not one decision was based in logic, she was hot and cold, a complete lunatic who would patronise the staff by giving them lollies if she thought they deserved a treat.
Managers that have a problem with ONE employee, should deal with that employee and only that employee one on one. Calling a ataff meeting to berate that person in front of others is petty and small minded. It starts resentment that spreads throughout the staff and hampers work productivity. People of that type should never be put into management positions. They cause more troubles than needed by employees. If people aren't properly compensated for the work they do, then they'll look to other jobs. When management complains about the loss of employees, they're unable to see the sole cause of the employee flight. Management.
Fisrt story - she wants royal treatment from you, for free of course. Second story - you can be surprised how many small businesses have people should not be less than 200m from a managerial job, at C-level jobs just because they are family ot friends to the owners.
From story 2: That CEO reminds me of someone I know. He worked at a grocery store as a assistant store manager. He was being promoted to Store manager at a different location. I told him he wouldn't last because he is a horrible person. Sure enough he didn't last 6 months. To this day I tell him "You had a 7 figure a year job and you blew it". He then says "It wasn't a 7 figure a year job". I tell him "one of the perks of that position is getting a 7 figure a year pay check, along with million dollar bonuses after every inventory taken".
The second story. That CEO is screaming bloody murder to be fired. That kind of harassment at work is insane.
I love the millennials they don't take this and these kind of managers are getting pushed out.
My father retired and decided to sell real estate in Florida and when he relocated he got rid of his ties. One day, after several years, the owner decided to have a dress code where men would wear neckties. My children had gotten him the gaudiest tie for his birthday. At the next staff meeting he wore it. The policy was recinded immediately.
My uncle got me the creepiest clown tie
Reindeer win again.
Every man needs to own at least one obnoxiously loud/gaudy tie for the correct occasion (like that).
@@Heegaherger Absolutely. The more garish and possibly offensive, the better. 😉
Reminds me of when my husband wears his very loud, monochromatic, hurt my eyes with the pattern, protest shirt when his old workplace were trying to change policies to make them more stupid and which would have made work life a lot harder for those boots on the ground. The changes didn't last and my husband's suggestions were put into effect so it worked. Recently he suggested throwing it out cos he doesn't work there anymore but I told him to keep it, who knows when he'll need it again haha
I like that the emails and passwords had to be changed when one person quit. So, if timed right, the whole system had to reset eleven times.
Reminds me of a roommate issue. They bitched that i ate too much community food, dirty dishes, trash full ect, none of which i was guilty of.. Being the only man in the house the estrogen army was drawing battle lines. So i bought my own food and put it in a mini fridge in my room, used paper plates, and had my own trash can just outside my window (which sat in the bed of my pickup truck, quite convenient). I took my trash to work and dumped it every day. We lived on a few acres in the country. So after a few weeks they decided to have a "sit down" about the same stuff. At which time i showed them the mini fridge, trash can, paper and plastic dishes. It was a friend of one of the roomies that came over while we were gone eating the food and leaving dishes in the sink. Any apologies? nope. So i moved out shortly there after. I fixed the house, their cars, stuff around the house when i lived there. I got calls asking for help. Nope, hire a landscaper, nope, take it to a mechanic but not my shop, nope hire an electrician, nope, hire a plumber nope take it to geek squad.
yep they gossiped over a pile of dishes instead of doing something about it. sounds right
The clothesline complainer wanted OP to fold her clothes, is what she wanted! I can't believe she had the brass to berate OP for following her orders not to touch her laundry. And then to complain to the building manager is hilarious.
5:16 "6:45 am, awoken by husband's flatulence"....and so then the day goes downhill...funny, very funny!
That fart must have been *THUNDEROUSLY LOUD!!!* ROFLMAO!!
That whole part made me laugh, just hilarious 😄
@@christophersmith9237 Pretty sure it was the smell that woke her. Probably stunk to high heaven. Lol!
2nd story. I absolutely adore Louise, she's perfect at taking the piss. The co-worker who submitted the schedule in excruciating detail is a legend. That CEO should be able to see where this will end up, clearly not a particularly bright light bulb. Someone rings me at 2am , they'd better be dying or they will be.
Yeah why would you phone someone at 2am? Makes no sense whatsoever.
@@stoopingfalcon891 unless you're dying or someone else is, the only acceptable reasons for 2am phone calls. The ongoing heinous crime of continuing to call...kind of guarantees a new self-fertilizing 6 by 4 flower bed
i used to work as an instrument technician, a highly technical field. in one of my jobs i had an idiot supervisor ordered me to give him more details about what I was doing at work. He only asked once, took me nearly half my day to comply and was around 120 pages lol
@@ericalawson631 did you have an entry next to every task for updating the list too? That would make it even funnier
Mmmm hm, amen to that my dude
Pretty sure the complaining lady in the clothesline story either wanted OP to magically bring her laundry in without touching it, bring it in and magically make it not have creases, or to bring it in and just deal with the complaining. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't type. She just wants an excuse to complain
If she were really that concerned with her laundry, she should have motivated herself to take care of it. Totally agree she was an asshole looking for a place to shit.
Maybe she was expecting OP to iron, fold, and deliver them in a sanitized hamper
@@molliannstocks1709 with a bow on top..
If she didn't want the creases, she probably wanted OP to iron the clothes for her.
EDIT : (I wrote this before reading the other responses.)
Nah, op should have known she meant don't bring them in unless there's a good reason
/S
Story 3: Jerk; Oh I’m sorry we’re Blocking your Way, can’t you just work around us?
OP: ok then, *proceeds to build a Wall around the guy*
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
I've done that before. One time I was busting my ass as a dishwasher at a busy restaurant in Vegas and the boss had too much to drink and talked some shit to me. I just walked out right in the middle of my shift.
When a high school mean girl becomes a CEO.
When I was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, we had two places to buy uniform parts. The Base Exchange carried more than just uniform parts, Think Wegman's or Target. The other place sold only uniform parts at cost, no profit. They could do this because no civilian worked there. I was there one day when a Senior Master Sargent [E-8] was talking with the Clothing Store Manager. He was smoking a cigar right under a "No Smoking" sign. (The manager was a Staff Sargent [E-4]. This E-8 kept using the cigar to point with. I noticed that the burning end had fallen off and landed on a pile of Camo-Pants. I tried to interrupt the conversation to tell them the pants were smoldering. The E-8 insisted that I come to attention, shut up and be dressed down Royally. By the time the E-8 took notice of the smoke, flames were visible. The E-8 grabs the Soda-Acid Fire Extinguisher off it's rack, inverts it and starts spraying the pants. There were 3 mistakes here. First, you should not use a soda-acid type in a clothing store. Second, the Sargent could have pulled the pants to the floor and stomped out the fire. Third, once he had the fire out, he set the unit upright. The mixture did not stop coming out of the hose. They call it Soda-Acid because the water has Bicarbonate of Soda in it. Inverting the device causes the lead ball that covers the acid inside the acid filled lead bottle to release the acid. You only get to use these once before you need them completely cleaned out and refilled. To stop the mixture from getting everywhere, the E-8 put his thumb over the hose nozzle and ran outside. The pressure by this time pushed his thumb of the nozzle and the mixture shot 30 FT into the air. The wind picked it up when the spray got higher than the buildings roof. The wind forced this mixture to arc over to the parking area. The liquid then hits a parked F-150 belonging to that stupid E-8. We all came to the door. After I saw the paint start to blister off the F-150, I told the E-8 to aim it into the gravel. The E-4 came out while the E-8 was trying to try to stop his paint job from being ruined. The E-4 had estimated the damage to merchandise and fixtures at about $250. He filled out a "Statement of Charges" for this amount for the E-8 to sign. Since one of the other patrons that day was an Air Policeman, the E-8 was forced to sign this S of C and the money would be taken from his paycheck. While this happened in the mid '60s, This might have been the E-8s months pay.
Heard that second story before, but it's definitely one of my favourites. That CEO is a peice of work.
People don’t quit jobs, they quit the managers/ higher ups. (For the most part) Remember this if you are in those positions.
"Middle" managers/higher ups are just uneeded bloat
The only reason I ever left a job was to get better pay. Mind you I've been sacked once* and, another time, I was made redundant.
* On the day I started. I had been told at the interview I'd get a one hour lunch break but on the first day they told me it would be only half an hour, and that I was expected to take it at my desk. I complained, loudly, and was sacked on the spot.
@@annalieff-saxby568 I was fired once years ago - it was emotional but made me realize what I want in life and it's not working for nitwits. The good news is all the people in that division got the axe 6 months later and if they stayed had to work in tech support. Sweet justice. The creep that fired me was let go also since he was such a loser. In some ways I felt sorry for him, short, going bald, not to bright, etc. and you could see it made him overcompensate. after there were 2 managers that were monsters and I left after a year working for them. Both got fired and one cried like a baby. I'm lucky now I have a great job.
Riley,.. Absolutely true
I quit a job where i was putting air filters in boxs 12hrs a day, my supervisor was cool my crew was hilarious, sometimes its just the job
First story: some people are simply not used to niceties among neighbors. Stay away from such toxicity.
I will admit that the malicious compliance videos are my most favourite. Love the pettiness. Thanks for another great video Fluff!
Chad: "If you don't like it, just leave"
OP: *leaves and starts a chain reaction of everyone leaving
Chad: *surprised Pikachu face
Formal wear is aways wrongly used in place of professional wear. Great that someone did that. Lol I need to get top hat and tails for formal wear in England.
Christmas rush at the restaurant, and I. was. done. I threw down my apron and started out the door. I heard a noise and looked behind me. Every staff member except the so-called chef was quitting too. We were high-fiving each other in the parking lot. The manager left me terrible voicemail messages for WEEKS. After that, the restaurant closed permanently.
I'm surprised you didn't sue for harassment
@@strudel_reviews Best way to make an ex-boss pay! Just print and send
to the Labor Board!
After hearing a lot of stories like this I will admit to think: "It can't be true, no way a person acts like that." But then I saw videos, and I just got tired.
Oh yeah there’s a butt ton of people that can act like this just because they think they can get away with something. they literally are pathetic little pissant children that never grew out of the “if I whine I’ll get everything I want” stage of maturity I mean honestly they’re better off being reversed back to infants than being adults in the real world that way when they’re infants someone can potentially start over and make them an actual productive member of society instead of a whiny little 🐩, either that or we leave the ones that can’t behave out on the street to die One of the two (yeah I’m not sure if it’s obvious but I hate A rather large portion of humanity)
OP 3 should have gotten the jackass to sign a release stating that OP had warned him not to use the contents of his bucket...
Or at least got it on video stating he shouldn't use it on his car
I swear, these stories remind me of that classic movie line: "what we have here, is a failure to communicate."
The Captain's speech right out of *Cool Hand Luke.*
I heard it from Major Payne lol
@@heathermiller5765 I heard it from guns and roses lmao
“Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it."
Some people are not happy unless they are complaining about other people. This covers both story 1 & 2.
Story 2 = sometimes best way to deal with a demeaning boss is with malicious compliance.
Story 2: judging by OP’s description it sounds like the CEO was the One who orchestrated Louise leaving the Company, all in all sounds like a horrible boss to work for and I’m glad that OP locked all the Doors on the Way out and if the CEO ever tries to slander OP they Can always sue (at least I Think, OP did do what they were told and doing their job right is not something you Can be reprimanded for)
Malicious compliance at its finest 😄
Tasking someone who volunteers their help is disgraceful.
Story 2: OP loves Bob's Burgers-I love the story just for that. The CEO is a loon and micro-manager, that company will fail very soon.
I love the cement story.
And my type of Joe. Using gasoline as a cleaner.
Priceless
As to the second story, did you know there actually WAS a smoking room on the Hindenburg? It had it's own air system and was sealed against flame.
A lot of good that did…
@@heathermiller5765 Well the fire didn't start in the smoking room...
It was the ONLY place where there was fire allowed in the whole ship (if we ignore the inside of the engines). I understand there was a single lighter controlled by the steward.
The room could only be accessed through an airlock. The slightly elevated air pressure therein meant gasses (like hydrogen) could not leak in.
Part of the airlock was a small bar and IIRC the bartender’s main job was making sure no fire or embers or lit tobacco etc was getting out, be it from absent-mindedness or on purpose.
So no, smoking could be done quite safely on a Zeppelin, even with the passengers being inside the hull instead in an underslung gondola. (The Hindenburg was meant to use the much safer - and vastly more expensive - helium, but the USA, the only place that could supply significant amounts of helium, did not exactly want to put that strategic material into the hands of a potential enemy n a potential war.
I would have given the witch in the first story a choice. Leave them there, or if you wanted them folded perfectly, the charge will be $10.
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Good one here.
Likewise!
@@dayfin1843 Thank you! ☺
Just goes to show you, when you are an employee, you are a replaceable cog in the machine. If work for a company that values workers as human, this might be different, but these are few and far between. You either need to be the boss/owner or someone with very valuable and rare skills to be treated any differently. When you are hired you are accepting a certain amount of money and benefits for certain tasks or skills. If you don't like something, the only real power you have is to leave.
Story 1: When you can't win, the only thing to do is not play with the idiot at all.
Story 2: So boss is a jerk and all the people who could get jobs elsewhere did. Great job on the management. It's like they forget management is nothing without competent staff or something. Oh, what, they can't forget that because they somehow never knew it in the first place.
First story: Obviously she wanted the guy to go to a professional cleaners and have them teach him how to properly fold clothes, and perhaps purchase one of those laundry baskets found inside laundromats with a hanging bar, so he can hang the shirts and dresses.
When I was in Navy "A" school I was late a LOT. Like almost every day. I had 2 kids and I lived in base housing. I didn't have a car so I had to take a cab to school everyday. They called them "jam vans" and usually sailors would car pool in them. Anyway, they didn't always show up on time, plus I had to get my kids to daycare up the street on my way to school. My timing was always off and I was always late. So my chief, who also ended up being my chief on my first ship, had me doing that daily activity diary for 10 days. By the 8th day I was sick of it and started marking my toilet breaks, too. I don't even think that he was reading them at that point anyway.
It would be interesting to hear if there was an update on the concrete post, and if the guy who demanded the cleaning solution reacted, and how he reacted.
Story 2: ingenious details of the day "...bowel movement..." 🤣
Just had my first shift at co-op in Canada I was filling pump with my co worker and last pulls up to the pump already pissed off I say “Hi ma’am what can I get cha today?” She says in a hurry “fill it regular please” I as I’m supposed to do confirms “Fill regular?” She says with a huff “yes!” My co worker/supervisor (supervising me after training to make sure I’m doing a good job) doesn’t hear the lady so just to double check she says “sorry ma”Am you said fill regular?” And again but more rudely she says “YES!” So I do what I do take the gas cap out put the nozzle in and let it fill and go off to check other cars, there a car waiting behind her other ones are completely full. The lady is in the store for a while then comes out yelling at me saying “what did you put in my car?” I go “regular, why? Is everything okay?” She screams “NO HOW MUCH!!” So I go “oh filled it like you asked.” She pauses for a second looks at the pump and continues yelling “I SAID $50!!” (It came out to $138 cause of how expensive gas is right now. She storms back in giving my co workers a hard times then yells at me again slams her door and drives away. Now this wouldn’t be the biggest deal if she made a mistake my manger would’ve figured out a solution for her he’s a good guy. But since she harassed me and my co workers my manager wasn’t having it. Also the customer behind her confirmed that she said fill regular. So anyways she drives off mad we finish up the rush go in and explain it to the manager and even the customer behind her went and talked to him for us. After everything was settled I heart kept pounding, we had a good laugh, and was making sure to confirm a 2nd or even a 3rd time to make sure we heated correctly.
The didn't quit their job, they quit their boss. A Karen of a boss.
If they ain't making money then they ain't staying
Like it's common sense people won't work for you if they get abused or don't make enough money
Well she said don't touch her clothes.
"What part of 'DON'T TOUCH MY CLOTHES' should I have ignored?"
#1 story: Fellow tenant wants OP to iron all her clothes and fold all the rest very nicely of course.
Story 2 : I would have replied : I don't work anymore for you, and if you do that i'll sue you for harrasment and slander.
"I let him keep the bucket" ...🤣🤣🤣
My weekend can start, Fluff, play me out of the office! Thanks for the great stories!
If someone bitch at me for helping then bitch because I don't I'll gladly tell them exactly where they can stick it and might even start feeding birds in the area so they add their own "gifts". :p
Then they could poop on everyone's clothes
I've heard the second story before but it's definitely good enough for repeat listening!!!
Ironically, the Hindenburg DID in fact have a smoking lounge. It used some kind of positive air pressure system to guarantee no hydrogen could get in, and had an airlock door to enter and exit.
There actually was a smoking lounge on the Hindenburg, it was carefully set up as to make it safe, pressurized so any stray bits of hydrogen could not get into the smoking area, it was also the only place aboard the zeppelin smoking was allowed.
First story “What do you want, lady?”
“Something to complain about!!”
That reminds me of an episode of _Reba_ where she tells her ex, “Would you quit agreeing with me? I wanna argue!”
lol 😄
Regarding the first story, because the lady was a Karen, she had probably expected that as OP had already taken down the clothes from the line, it shouldn’t hurt OP to fold the clothes (thus avoid wrinkling them), and taking them to Karen’s home (and not putting them down in a dusty place). 😅
Me internally rolling my eyes, gagging and my rear end clinching at the mere mention of Olestra.... And the knowledge there's at least 2 generations now, that wasn't around and have never " had the pleasure of experiencing" that " wonder" ingredient 😂😢
I’m not entirely buying the hydrochloric acid story. The dude’s hand would have melted
It would depend on how much hydrochloric acid is in the mixture.
It’s officially unwind time with the fluff after work
Daily dose of Fluff. Really should quit this drug and rescue Steve-o from the clutches of a crazy black sheep.
#1 - JC himself couldn't please some people and that includes OP's neighbor here. Unless OP is supposed to be a mind reader to know what she wants in each scenario...
The detailed time sheet was a hoot.
1:30 No no. If one person comp[lains, _no-one_ is getting a free lunch.
If you tolerate that sort of whining, you get to suffer the consequences of her actions too.
1:50 Oh please. She'd have _sued you._ You'd be out TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in lawyers fees.
Compassion toward people who get snitty about property _costs big bucks._ Money better spent on life-saving surgery for a pet.
Yes, I'm saying: Every time someone is nice to a Karen, there's a chance a dog dies. Follow the logic.
12:33 FYI, there actually WAS a smoking lounge on the Hindenburg.
Complete with a lighter literally chained to the wall
Never...ever...fuck with the IT dept. I was working for a mid sized company and the CEO was like the one in the story...a screamer who knew no boundaries and had zero self awareness. One day, she decides the IT dept was "nothing but an unneeded expense and the IT infrastructure was also a waste. After all, what did she need servers, routers, and switches for? So she gives the CIO the order to remove ALL the servers. She would not listen to any warnings. So we all found new jobs and on our last day we physically removed all the servers and had a company come and get them.
That company lasted another 4 days...LOL...don't eff with IT.
The last one... the hot-shot with a piece of paper that basically said he paid money to a place to sit and learn some theory... decided to try to put utopian theory into practice... and caused most of the staff to leave... On the third one, I would have turfed the manager. But upper management don't see the actual front line staff... they just see an expense of their pay.
Know-it-alls always know what they are doing regardless of what they are told.
Why not just leave the clothes to get an extra rinse?
What harm would be done?
Rain collects dirt in the air as it falls, then gets on clean clothes left to dry on the clothesline.
Fun fact there was a smoking lounge on the Hindenburg
Louise is my spirit animal. I want to be friends with her.
Most apartments where I used to live had a washer but the only dryers we had were in this small building. There was a dryer for every 2 tenants (so a dryer for upstairs and downstairs to use) and we would usually converse with our neighbors when we were washing clothes so we were not fighting over it. However I had a tenant move below me and she did not care. She would also wash several loads at a time and take up multiple dryers. If one was not open she would dump out the clothes dry or not to use for herself. Now everyone had enough after about a month. We (several tenants and myself) lodged a complaint to the owner. He then decided that he would make it more difficult to use the dryers unless we had clothes to dry. He also limited people to one load at a time. He locked the small building and gave everyone a notice. Basically when you need a dryer you had to ask him or his assistant to unlock the building. This meant while you were drying clothes if the opposite tenant wanted the dryer they would be told to wait until their tenant counterpart was done. She did not like this. She would constantly try and sneak in when others were being let in but was always stopped.
She ended up breaking her lease agreement and moved out. After she left the dryer building was unlocked and the peaceful harmony returned.
Boss taking the credit lmao that is manager one o one
I remember that IT complaince. It always cracks me up.
I left my bad boss in a different way, I stayed for 2 years until he said to me "I can only pay you two months before I go bankrupt". That's when I left saying "Don't bother paying me the next month, I'll just finish this month, then I'll be gone here."
"Childish Freaker"
*smirk* I know you are, but what am I?
🤪🤣
Story 1: I've used drying lines. Imo, the best is hanging clothes just before it rains, and leaving them until they dry later. This wouldn't work for a shared line, but it makes them SOOOO soft.
I love you reading storys for us
Second story: That "CEO" is fit only to rule a sandbox. She's a good example of why so many American businesses are in trouble.
9:39 "She sounds like a terrible person to work for....... concrete mixers are big..." zoned out and came back to hear those thoughts back to back... just thought it was funny.
Story 2: People don't leave crappy jobs. They leave crappy bosses.
Story 3: Ditto.
Hypocrisy is how Karen's/bullies maintain their hubris.
Yay! It’s fluff time! Right as i start eating too 🥰
Ah, Company Policy.
It can be an ally as much as an enemy..
@12:00- (Eight seconds later) - *Cleveland Brown:* That's nasty.
14:25 “it’s like watching an orphan unwittingly skin his favorite puppy” That doesn’t make it any better Black sheep that doesn’t make it better! If anything that gives me an even more disturbing visual😖
If the first apartment has washing machines, why don't they have driers??? We still used a line in the 70s,but just for sheets because there were a LOT of us and we lived in the country.
OK I gotta know where to tell these stories are because I have quite a few doozies that people will be shocked to hear I swear I attract the Karen’s LMAO
If I were Louise from the second story, I would have gone with a burka since the CEO wanted everything covered up.
i love your stories fluff they are so relaxing to listen to and Stevo i hope you got your raise 💙
The concrete OP really should be a writer and not a construction worker.
people don't leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers. How true. Some years ago I worked at a big steel mill, as they were laying some staff off they asked for people who would accent voluntary redundancy, with a payout. Everybody in my unit, me included decided to apply.. that was around 1700 people.. of course they weren't all accepted lol. nice one mr Archie Murphy.. (real name)
This comment is for the first story. That guy did nothing wrong and he did the right thing, and that woman was totally wrong. And I have to say that if this crazy woman went around telling people "he stole my underwear or I told him not to touch my clothing but he still did it anyway." And she sounds like the kind person that would do that to try and make op look like a creeper. All I can say is try to stay away from that kind of woman because she will say one thing one day and then say something else another. And op was just doing what he was asked to do.
That's why someone made electric irons to iron the rinkles from the clothes.
I use hydrochloric acid at my lab job and oh my god???
If you work for a "Karen" who is obviously treats you badly, then what would you call a black or Hispanic boss who does the same thing?
Horrible management ruins all
About story #2, it reminds me of the episode of The Brady Bunch where Greg was adamant about using "Exact Words" when they all spoke to each other. That episode made using the "exact words" not a really good idea, though. But, in the case of the story here, exact words are quite necessary for the operation of the company. Good for those employees !!!
I needed Fluff and he came through! Thank you!!
Story 2: Either the Karen CEO is let go or the company goes under
I had a female supervisor who had her first taste of power, she was unbearable, how she attained the position was anyone's guess, not one decision was based in logic, she was hot and cold, a complete lunatic who would patronise the staff by giving them lollies if she thought they deserved a treat.
Managers that have a problem with ONE employee, should deal with that employee and only that employee one on one. Calling a ataff meeting to berate that person in front of others is petty and small minded. It starts resentment that spreads throughout the staff and hampers work productivity. People of that type should never be put into management positions. They cause more troubles than needed by employees.
If people aren't properly compensated for the work they do, then they'll look to other jobs. When management complains about the loss of employees, they're unable to see the sole cause of the employee flight. Management.
Obliviously Karen didn't mean for op to leave them in the rain, just not touch the clothes. Tongs exist op, tongs exist.
Op: "like watching an orphan unwittingly skin his puppy"
Me: hol' up, what?
Had to rewind to be sure I heard correctly
Fisrt story - she wants royal treatment from you, for free of course.
Second story - you can be surprised how many small businesses have people should not be less than 200m from a managerial job, at C-level jobs just because they are family ot friends to the owners.
Malicious Compliance plus my package is coming in? Awesome