"Will I be rewarded if I save the company 28 trillion a year, cure cancer and do the work of 82 people? - Not even a thank you card. - I'll just do bare minimum then. - Omg! *Why* do people lack motivation?!"
I got one of those promotions with no extra pay once. It was an actual promotion since it physically involved working in a different area of the store. Unfortunately after a year of not being paid enough for it I quit and found a job that pays almost twice as much.
21:20 This is intentional, it's done to fire an employee. The company my mom worked at my entire childhood told her to organize the next year's financial reports. This was not asking her to figure out how much money they needed for operations next year, this was the report comparing their expectations vs actual spending. Something which is impossible to do an entire YEAR in advance. They used this as justification to fire her. and no, they weren't asking her to guess how much it would be, her boss wanted the actual numbers.
If this was a simple employee firing trap however, why was the boss in turn stuck in hot water that threatened to fire him? Not disagreeing bosses will do that, but for this case it doesn't feel like it matches
I am kind to the staff where I get my meds. I also give them holiday cards with my thanks. It's very nice to see a person's face light up when he sees that you're the next patient.
Regardless of what Job you have, if a Boss makes a Promise, GET IT IN WRITING because a Promise is only worth the Paper it's printed on... If it's not in Writing, then you can't force them to give you what they say they will...
There's a secret to dealing with bad management, unethical management, or just plain crappy coworkers. It's the 3 D's, document, document, document! Get everything they're telling you in writing or a recording. This becomes your ticket to ride the bus instead of being thrown under it.
OP should have told HR what the Bossman was doing...I strongly suspect they would have Nuked him because of the Legal Liability he's creating for the Company... If OP had filed Complaints with the Ministry/Department of Labor (depending on what Country OP is in), Labor would have Nuked the entire Company after their Investigation...
7:28 Re: Pharmacists/pharmacies. That most pharmacies today actually close down 1/2 hour for lunch should have been long in coming. Because otherwise, pharmacy staff would NEVER get a real break for lunch. 8:17 Oh, yeah, the phantom raise just down the pike a few months. 21:23 Reminds me of the time I worked in DP (now IT) for a bank, still in the mainframe days. Management came down with a 9-month project that I showed was clearly optimistic. So they said, okay, we'll split this into three projects and schedule each project for three months. NOT joking. I left shortly thereafter, but for a different reason: The United Gouger's Fund extortion. Don't get me started.
A promotion is a promotion some promotions come with raises, even though all should. Some promotions open up better opportunities and raises down the line. and sometimes that down the line can include a new job, One that was opened up by that promotion.
In the last one, the manager didn't know HOW to do the work, I suspect, and WAY over-promised, because she knew that she couldn't be fired (probably blowing the boss, even if she IS married), and with everyone in power at the company being her friends, she can throw anyone they want under the bus.
"Will I be rewarded if I save the company 28 trillion a year, cure cancer and do the work of 82 people? - Not even a thank you card. - I'll just do bare minimum then. - Omg! *Why* do people lack motivation?!"
"NoOnE wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE!" - same bosses that pull this crap
He might get a pizza party if he's lucky.
I got one of those promotions with no extra pay once. It was an actual promotion since it physically involved working in a different area of the store. Unfortunately after a year of not being paid enough for it I quit and found a job that pays almost twice as much.
No wonder the pharmacists at my local grocery store don't last more than about a year.
21:20 This is intentional, it's done to fire an employee. The company my mom worked at my entire childhood told her to organize the next year's financial reports. This was not asking her to figure out how much money they needed for operations next year, this was the report comparing their expectations vs actual spending. Something which is impossible to do an entire YEAR in advance. They used this as justification to fire her.
and no, they weren't asking her to guess how much it would be, her boss wanted the actual numbers.
If this was a simple employee firing trap however, why was the boss in turn stuck in hot water that threatened to fire him? Not disagreeing bosses will do that, but for this case it doesn't feel like it matches
I am kind to the staff where I get my meds. I also give them holiday cards with my thanks. It's very nice to see a person's face light up when he sees that you're the next patient.
I'm a former librarian. Organization is VERY important.
Regardless of what Job you have, if a Boss makes a Promise, GET IT IN WRITING because a Promise is only worth the Paper it's printed on...
If it's not in Writing, then you can't force them to give you what they say they will...
There's a secret to dealing with bad management, unethical management, or just plain crappy coworkers. It's the 3 D's, document, document, document! Get everything they're telling you in writing or a recording. This becomes your ticket to ride the bus instead of being thrown under it.
OP should have told HR what the Bossman was doing...I strongly suspect they would have Nuked him because of the Legal Liability he's creating for the Company...
If OP had filed Complaints with the Ministry/Department of Labor (depending on what Country OP is in), Labor would have Nuked the entire Company after their Investigation...
Bossman belongs in PRISON.
7:28 Re: Pharmacists/pharmacies. That most pharmacies today actually close down 1/2 hour for lunch should have been long in coming. Because otherwise, pharmacy staff would NEVER get a real break for lunch.
8:17 Oh, yeah, the phantom raise just down the pike a few months.
21:23 Reminds me of the time I worked in DP (now IT) for a bank, still in the mainframe days. Management came down with a 9-month project that I showed was clearly optimistic. So they said, okay, we'll split this into three projects and schedule each project for three months. NOT joking. I left shortly thereafter, but for a different reason: The United Gouger's Fund extortion. Don't get me started.
Always love these stories
Well, he didn't make money unless the person mileage was more then your cost between gas and maintenance.
You call her a “mentor”?
A promotion is a promotion some promotions come with raises, even though all should. Some promotions open up better opportunities and raises down the line. and sometimes that down the line can include a new job, One that was opened up by that promotion.
True crime? Like the Honey scandal. Hachacha
OP 1 sounds like a bit of a wishywashy pushover.
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In the last one, the manager didn't know HOW to do the work, I suspect, and WAY over-promised, because she knew that she couldn't be fired (probably blowing the boss, even if she IS married), and with everyone in power at the company being her friends, she can throw anyone they want under the bus.
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The last story sounds like Big Blue