What Did Your BOSS Do To INSANTLY KILL Employee MORALE?
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We used to have bonuses at work that were given out at the end of the year based on how far above and beyond you went. Each manager was given a bonus budget, and it was up to them to dole it out to their top performers. But one year we had a new manager who absolutely despised conflict of any sort, and simply divided the bonuses up equally among everyone. Top performers got paid bonuses just the same as bottom performers who had just gotten off a corrective action plan. It sent the message "do the bare minimum." And so the next year, performance absolutely tanked. Metrics dropped something like 50%.
>Remove incentive to work hard
>People don't work hard anymore
>surprisedpikachuface
Ahh socialism at its finest
Sounds like a very logical and intelligent individual...not.
@@erikjohnson7008 You're thinking communism where everyone is treated the same. Socialism is more like sales where everyone has the same base pay, and everything extra is commission.
@@adamb89Socialism is just diet communism
Worked at a nursing home during the pandemic. They kept telling us how great we were, how essential workers were heroes, they put up signs that say "heroes work here." Well, those heroes didn't get their yearly pay raises that year for reasons that were never quite explained.
yup. my friend works for a large manufacturing company that got a ppp loan and had "essential employees." the employees got meals from the employer who made jt sound like it was out of pocket, meanwhile all the meals were donated by local resturaunts. made record profits during the pandemic and employees never saw a raise frim that either.
Worked at a Kmart about ten years ago when the chain was still alive but sort of on life support. They put all the pressure to save the store on their loyalty rewards program. For whatever reason, our store was one of the worst in the country. I can't tell you how fantastic it felt to have my manager sit me down and tell me "we have the worst store in the country. You are the worst one in the store. Therefore, you're the worst in the country."
I quit not even a week later.
Asked for a pay raise for the first time in the 4+ years I had been there. My boss’s direct words were “this company doesn’t give raises.”
Killed any and all desire to go above and beyond at my job.
That would have been my signal to look for employment elsewhere.
That's unreal here in australia the government reviews wages annually for all jobs and decide if they should raise the minimum wage for the award reading these comments it's made me realise america isn't such a great place for the working man it's very backwards
@@gregynutbutter Unfortunately you are not wrong so in as far as most US corporations are but in some of the smaller businesses they still treat employees well.
@@autobotjazz1972 small businesses are almost always run by petty tyrants who expect a salaried kind of performance out of minimum wage employees. Small businesses are the worst places you could choose to work at.
@@TheodoreChin-ih7xz
Perhaps in your experience but in mine small business owners I have worked for treated there employees fairly, if there was any mistreatment it was by the managers hired by the owners and they were sent packing as sooner as they were exposed.
They hired a shit supervisor for our department. He knew absolutely nothing about our department, he micro managed everything, he interrupted people while they tried to explain things to him, and he had a short temper. A LOT of people jumped ship (including me).
He eventually got moved to another department in a lower position when it was reviled someone in HR was deleting complaints about him. (The HR person got fired)
Example #45,267 of HR Protects the Company, Not the Employees (and Don't Get Caught Doing It).
I'll say what most people already know about the one story. Denying bathroom breaks and not paying overtime is illegal.
As is retaliation for speaking to HR or the labor board.
@@s.h.6858 Absolutely! Also, I think for an 8 hour shift, you legally have to give a longer break than 15 minutes. Not sure of the details or if that varies from state to state.
@@weirdredpanda Generally breaks are 15 minutes every 2 hours and 30 minutes every 8. You can negotiate doing a working lunch and such though.
11:46 Banning coffee? They might as well ban apples on desks!
So I actually have a story for this one. I work in repairs for a luxury handbag company where our hourly pay is around 100th of the cost of the cheapest item that’s sold. We’re making $10 less an hour than the store front people selling the items. On the 1st of the month when rent was due work did a 1 hour presentation about how we put over $1 million back on the shelves of repaired products and look how amazing we all are with highlights of 10+ clients that had spent over ½ million dollars in the last 6 months. We get no bonuses and a 5% raise every year no matter how much money the company makes. I don’t think I’ve ever felt that disrespected in my entire life.
Employer laid off 300 employees during pandemic without prior notification. Told us we'd get a letter if we were laid off. Got a letter saying I wasn't laid off. I went back to work but now I just do enough to fill my quota. After the layoff became public knowledge employee retention went down the window . Causing increased weekend overtime.
Oh boy i actually got something for this. Im a manager for a well known restaurant, ill keep it unknown but we sll went there as kids. Last year me snd the entire team kicked ass for the entire year, beating record after record. We stomped the sales record for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly sales. For daily and weekly we broke it twice at least. The general manager constantly praised us for it, so didnt the owners of the buisness. So early this year in a meeting with all in store managers which was just "you guys did so well last year!" I asked about people getting a raise. Her response is a quick "Nope" before moving on to another topic
Story 10: -Too happy, so no talking/laughing or jokes. - No bathroom breaks - No speaking to management -No OT pay
Sorry, did you work for a Disney Villain, OP?
We had a new manager, recently retired military, and they were used to the "I say, you do." mentality. Our office was a good working group and just needed someone to oversee the work and they we not a good fit. We lost one worker, and then the manager, the military person. That was rough, but we got a much better manager; who knows what they don't know and let us do our jobs.
Might not be a company, but it certainly killed my morale.
Used to do landscaping for the county; had worked under this boss seasonally for two years before signing on full time.
I was given a five minute verbal rundown on a task (something related to prepping trees) at the end of a workday. Okay, good to know.
End if the next workday, I'm dropped off at a site, alone, and told to do the task he'd (verbally only) explained to me yesterday, which I had never done before. Never even practiced.
I was about 80% done by the time he got back; keep in mind, first time doing this task.
He helps round out the last few trees, then tears into me, claiming I was sandbagging to waste time and round out the day, and states that if this had been a private job instead of a county job, I'd have been fired for slowness.
This job had already mentally drained me, and I was the 2nd best worker he had. The crew was small, but basically everyone else aside from me, the 2nd in command, and the boss would quit within 2 months.
Hearing him say those things after everything else was the straw that broke the camel's back, and I left shortly afterward.
I go to the gym before work. Its on route to where i work. Like a 200m detour .
They fitted vehicle trackers and proceeded to tell me off for this.
Within the week i had a new job.
Why would they even care about that if you get to work on time?
My guess is that the company was comping gas costs for travel. @@KnakuanaRka
Holdup, company vehicle or your own vehicle? Still messed up, but I want to know how messed up
Unfulfillable targets that are basically an unrealistic wish list pulled out of someone’s @rse.
I'm not even going to hide their name. I worked for Direct Hit Logistics, an independent contractor with DHL Express. I was told a few times that raises would not be given to drivers (I was a driver). An opening for a managemebt position opened up. I applied. I was told by HR that I couldn't qualify unless I had management experience.
I was working 70-80 hours a week, staying late and helping. So where the hell am I going to get management experience at?
Also, eventually another contractor came to replace them. Before they left, every driver noticed a few hours missing from their paychecks.
A few months later the owner went to prison for IRS troubles.
We use to be told “Happiness is a choice” when people were upset/low morale after worker injuries and pay cuts.
The company I work at wanted to implement an in house system for administration, finance, and HR, but they initiated it well before it was even close to complete. It caused a litany of problems from unreconcilable books to botched PTO hours to customer account errors that they so appreciated and who knows what else. Safe to say those who weren’t driven mad were driven away.
Goodwill cut hours because the district was getting “too much overtime” then didn’t give out the bonuses that were earned on a store by store basis because we didn’t earn back the overtime even though our store had more than earned back any overtime.
So last June I quit, but my sister still works there. Most recently they removed the Dr. Pepper vending machine from the break room that was 75¢ per can to force the employees to buy the sodas being sold to the customers, which those coolers are currently empty because the person in charge of ordering more new goods for our store, which is the sodas, candy, and basic dollar tree cr-p that you can literally get next door for cheaper, can’t order it in a timely manner. Also the sodas are about $3 a bottle for the same size at Walmart.
We had been working 6 day weeks, 10 hours a day for multiple months due to it being the busy season. Boss put out a notice that he had good news... for the next month, we would no longer be working 6 days a week.
We would instead be working 7 days a week. He ended off with "The work will pass, but the rewards last forever"
Literally over half our already diminished staff quit or transferred that Sunday. Literally the next day, we had a new boss... the old one had been transferred to a different shift. We went back to the normal schedule straight away.
Previous job: Had a good boss. Owner of a successful family company that his grandfather started, but he was a humble guy, not too proud or too incapable of doing grunt work to help out with the grunt work. I was injured on the job once, and the boss cut through a bunch of red tape to make sure I got worker's comp. But the boss was nearing retirement. Unfortunately, his wife was a Karen, and she'd raised their young adult daughters to be Karens, and the daughters were too busy spending daddy's money to care about continuing the family business that daddy's money came from. The boss took on a business partner who had a degree from some shmancy business school. Dude didn't know squat about running a business, he would just walk around wearing a suit in a workplace where nobody else wore suits, watching us like a hawk and trying to micromanage us. But when things got busy and it was all hands on deck for the grunt work, Mr. Suit had no clue how to actually do the grunt work. Also, he was always coming up with these harebrained schemes to get more customers, but none of those plans ever involved anything that could be considered advertising. Mr. Suit didn't last; I don't know if he left voluntarily or if the boss decided to dissolve their partnership. I don't know about any of the other employees, but my morale improved when Mr. Suit left.
Current job: I work at a job where the employees are encouraged to use our creativity, which I like. However, corporate is corporate, and several years ago it was announced that one of the employees' main avenues of using our creativity was going to be taken away in the name of "professionalism" -- read: making everything cookie-cutter uniform in a company that prides itself on claiming it treats its clients with a personal touch. Employee morale tanked. Managers practically had a mutiny on their hands, with almost all of us employees threatening to mass quit if the corporate bigwigs followed through with their plans. After a couple weeks, the managers were able to convince their bosses to backtrack.
Lashed out on one of the best employees over a minimal mistake, treating to fire him in front of everyone. I dont care if you are having a bad day, you just dont do that.
It was the best company I had ever worked for. Good bonuses (15% of yearly pay), good pay, all the overtime you wanted, always people first, paid for a hotel room in a different state when our child had to get airlifted, fantastic benefits, our boss used to always say “i work for you guys. you tell me what you need, and my job is to make it happen” and meant every word. Only downside was being on the road 5 days a week. Then we had a few rough months. They cut per-diem in half, raised insurance costs, capped our hours, and cut our hotel budget in half. Now instead of three people having three rooms, it was often three people in one or two rooms. In hindsight, I appreciate they did that instead of laying people off, but moral went way down. I left very shortly after, but from what I hear, they have bounced back and are back to normal. Wishing them nothing but the best
Management declared we were distribution center of the year (Walmart) then in the same meeting announced increases in production requirements as we were not working hard enough
that first guy wasn't just a 'former amazon employee', dude was a plant sent to destroy the place
This is currently happening in real time, so I might be looking for new work soon, but we used to have an easy system to change shifts.
Contact the person we want to switch shifts with, if they are fine with the shift change tell the manager and the shift will be changed. Going forward, that'll no longer be the case, cause apparently we needed to also provide a valid/ good reason for the shift change. This was news to me, so I was getting flak and sudden pushback for handling this the way I've always handled it for the past almost 2 years.
Story 10 started out dumb (the no talking/laughing, and staff not being able to communicate with management...that's what they're there for!), then escalated to straight up illegal real fast. For one, firing someone for bringing a complaint to HR or the labor board is what's known as retaliation, which is super illegal. So are banning bathroom breaks and expecting you to work off the clock.
A lot, but mainly the fact that they play favorites and there's no opportunity for advancement. There's one coworker who's a nightmare to work with, but they never punish her for doing wrong (even when she was caught making racist comments) and she's free to stomp all over everyone, including assistant managers(she's an associate) while slacking off herself. This company was once ranked as the worst major retailer to work for, ranking even below WALMART on a site named Glassdoor, mainly due to issues with management being jerks, low pay, and being overworked.
That first one is almost exactly what's happening at my job, except they built an addition to the building for a future product that hasn't even gone anywhere
Just retired. I've been in the Printing trade for over 40 years. My boss expected me to train a guy all I know in 5 days before I left. He used to say anyone can do my job. So I stood back, pointed to the machine, and said Go right ahead!
my good friend workd in printing john, and management is like that where hework. all are replacable, any mook off the street can do your job better, faster and for lower pay. theres so much more, but i cant spam the post
My boss yelled at one of my drivers (I'm middle management) about something the driver had no control over. The supplier didn't give the proper loading numbers and the driver got yelled at. That was dispatches job to get the info..
The same upper management expects me to boost morale but it's extremely difficult when I have upper management undermining me like that
I'm working on gaining a new skill set and changing careers..
I feel like Story 10 was some wackjob trying to fit as many workplace rights violations into 1 lawsuit.
Here to stop people from saying first.
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Managers and Christmas bonuses. Managers got a whole ass 40 hour paycheck on top of their normal pay. Us plebs many single parents, got a stick of sausage and it came out of our pay.
I've heard of one place gave a $50 Walmart gift card which was subtracted from their next paycheck. I also hope you are looking for or have found a better job.
First year of working for a government contractor - $100 Amazon gift card.
Second year - $50 Amazon gift card.
Third year - $50 VISA gift card ($6 taken out of it for "taxes.") Should have quit that year, but needed the money.
Have a few stories about that one.
@@weirdredpanda I moved across the country. That job wasn't the only factor but it certainly didn't help.
@@daynechastant unfortunately that's how it goes. To eat and provide you can find yourself putting up with a lot
jelly of the month club?
I was a manager at a take 5 oil change and they instantly demanded I rip people off. And when I said no they pressured me to do it and bragged about how they’d rip off women and old people “because they’re stupid” after a couple of months of me standing my ground and having a minor heart attack they fired me and all my employees left as well.
Hey... as long as they give you a pizza party 'All is Well'...
I learned from seeing management fumble don't fix what isn't broken.. because it will become beyond broken
Stopped us listening to the radio 📻 I seriously thought there was gonna be a riot 🍺
We hit a record high in profits and they cut all overtime hours to make their quarterly reviews look better
I suggest that you put the names of the games that you play in the description.
Seconded. This game looks interesting.
It’s Red Dead Redemption II
DMS East. Miss work, they take your PTO and vacation time, yet still penalize you with the times missed. Rack enough, you get fired. Oh, and we now have mandatory OT, totalling 220 hours a month, because fack you, that's why.
Story 10: Thats so many illegal work practices. Was he trying to get sued?
I always pictur picture teachers with a cup of coffee on their desks
My boss was born. That’s what killed morale
We were told the bonus structure was $0.50 per hour per metric by the time we finish training they cut it to 15 cents no discussion no notice no nothing just you're not making any money now so you can either keep the job or quit and walk out. You're forced every single day to work overtime but at the end of the week if you have overtime you'll get written up
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So does america not have workers rights or anything because all of these would end up with the companies owing big in australia for wrongful dismissal and not following the laws to protect workers because if not thats crazy!
We do, but most states are right to work hell holes when it comes to employers can fire you at any time for whatever they want and nothing really gets done about it unless there is paper trail. It is getting better with people learning their rights in a work place, it is just taking time.
@@notright7 yeah that's unreal I can't get my head around the working standards their it seems they are slim to none
Sure the US has those rights. . . On paper. Now while you barely earn minimum wage and need a roommate or two to pay rent, go find a lawyer to go against a corporation with lawyers on payroll.
@danamoore1788 we do here and you win often because those rights protect us shit half the time you won't need to do anything it'll be taken care of for you
What possible justification is there to ban drinking coffee in front of students. That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
My jerk boss so I cried during my review.
Made us do a 20 mile hike
I have a story or 6 for this, but I don't have time to type it all out.
That story at 14:00 would be illegal as al getup in the US
are these all in european asian or south american or canadian countries? as in US we have department of labor to deal with human rights violations and the like.
Walked in the room
First
Nope. Sorry saddo, not today.
Stop being lame
@@boardmike82 ...first.
Your mom.
enjoying the stories but get rid of the video game in the background. Its annoying and I wont be reading anymore of your stories until you do