Would You Survive Working for the WORLD'S Most Toxic Bosses?
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2024
- Do you hate your job? Do you cringe every time you have to work with your boss? In this video, we're exploring the world of the world's most toxic bosses.
From corporate douchebags to tyrannical dictators, these are the worst of the worst. In this video, we're asking the question: would you survive working for these world-class toxic bosses? Watch to find out!
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what Im hearing of most of these companies is a motto I heard somewhere else.
Employess don't quit bad jobs, they quit bad employers/managers
There's a hell of a lot of sociopaths in business.
Everywhere now
@@RS-vy9qv dude reddit exists and is free xD it's not all stories specifically sent to him, there is a lot online already
@@RS-vy9qvI mean I’d like some evidence. But the fact is, there are multiple very active subreddits just for this kind of content so it’s likely he uses a lot of that. He’d have more than enough from there and it’s a lot more likely than him writing these stories himself.
@@RS-vy9qv haven't worked a day in your life? This shit happens all the time. Obviously people who see these videos send him similar stories.
But obviously you're too busy licking boots to actually *think* for a second.
@@terryrueckert9540 It's always weird when people say "now", as if this hasn't been part of the human condition forever.
Once I received flash flood alerts on my phone. My neighborhood has a creek that floods readily. My daughter had just gotten home from school and was there alone. I emailed the boss asking to get off 15 minutes early so I could catch an earlier bus home.
The manager responded telling me I should already know that I need to request time off 2 weeks in advance. He scheduled a meeting with me for 1st thing next morning to formally counsel me on the leave policy. I came into office before he did and went to his boss. His boss was LIVID and chewed this guy out.
To make things worse, this lower manager STILL WANTED to counsel me on leave policies.
If you have to ask for permission to leave 15 minutes early for a reason like that, you need to change jobs.
Good thing you reported that jerk. HE might need some counseling about work. These stories are nuts.
i would say the only leave policies you can teach me is, the day you actually leave.
I had a manager who tried to write me up because I called off work to take my father to the emergency room. She was on my case about "You did not give two weeks notice for wanting the day off" and had the write-up filled out. I said "Well I'm sorry but medical emergencies do not give two weeks written notice ahead of time! I would love it if I got a letter in the mail telling me that in 2 weeks at 2pm on thursay the 25th my father will need the emergency room. Having that much warning ahead of time would make it MUCh easier but this is not how medical emergencies work" and that was when the real boss walked in. He didn't even look at the write up as he grabbed it, tore it up, and threw it away. He told me I did nothing wrong, that life and emergencies happen, and to take that day and the next 2 days off, then fired up the computer, helped me put in for Sick Pay, and approved it. Then he turned to teh manager and told her "That is how we handle emergencies here" Boss even let me go sometimes to get dad home from appointments, and would authorize me 4 hourrs of sick pay. We didn't have any vacation or pto accrual, so letting us take sick pay for the days was how he gave us paid days off.
If it was her child, she wouldn't be there. Emergencies happen throughout one's lifetime. Family first.
Regarding the the boss who was trying to ream the guy who had a broken foot and was sitting down. After he discovered that said employee was the most productive it DID NOT occur to him that maybe, just maybe, if everyone was sitting the warehouse would be more productive? Bloody clueless..
I don't understand why sitting is a problem if the work gets done.
In the last few years I have some issues that make it very painful to stand long periods. My work required me to walk long distances and then spend about 15" with each patient for 1 1/2 hours. There were four of these treatment cycles in 12 hour tours.There wasn't a lot for me to do during most of that time. I would sit and chat or ask/answer questions about their concerns.
Once after I had finished and was in the office documenting, etc. a supervisor said "You shouldn't do that, it's disrespectful. Stay on your feet like you're paid to do!"
Yeah, the manager had to explain how nothing in my contract required me to stand. And that there had been no patient complaints.
@@bcayethe USA seem to really hate anyone being sitting down whilst doing low level work. It’s fucking weird.
I had something similar happen to me at a former employer. I had to do a quick component test, so instead of taking 30 minutes to program the controller, I grabbed two manual controllers, pulled up a chair, and ran the test manually. While I was sitting there, doing my job, one of the higher-ups came down to the shop floor (almost never happens) and demanded I explain what I was doing. I told him, showed him the test control sheet, and pointed out where I was in the execution of the test. He still wanted an explanation of why I didn't use the PLC controller, and by the time I finished explaining myself, I completed the test and started wrapping up. Overnight, all the stools and chairs disappeared from the shop floor.
3:18 There is a reason that person messaged the boss to tell him he was at his desk in the first place. Guarantee that wasn't the first time he was accused of being late when he wasn't.
Question is, whose time is right?
Or maybe his boss makes everybody check in that way?
I wonder how many situations like that are on here and the "employee" has been causing issues and that part is never shared. There are as many bad bosses as there are bad employees and the employees are looking for sympathy or affirmation to justify or make themselves feel better.
@@canespugnaces2126 what you are saying is absolutely possible, but then I ask you: is that a good way to manage the issue the emloyee is causing? By causing another issue over nothing while also being completely wrong and a dick at that?
@@ThePrestigeBoost The sender has the time he/she sent the Email. The recipient has the time they received the Email - which is the time at which his/her computer downloaded it. Besides: Emails are not delivered instantly. Depending on how busy the servers are, they can be delivered a couple of minutes - on rare occassions even hours! - after they were sent.
When I worked in a small law firm in NYC as a litigator, I wrote a feature film that got sold to a studio, although never filmed. Talking about fee of about $35k. My boss said, that since the film was about law/legal practice, I owed the fee to the firm. I am still chuckling 35 years later.
I worked for a company who didn’t give us specific times to start and finish e.g. 9am-5pm. Just as long as I did 8 hours and finished my assigned tasks. So I came in earlier in the mourning so I would finish earlier in the afternoon and get home before the mad rush hour traffic. Only when the boss found out he started telling me to stay and "help the other teams". I expected that he would pay me overtime but he didn’t. When I refused he threatened he with disciplinary's, sacking and when that didn’t work he played the guilt game... "we're a team here, we all help each other, you're selfish and your attitude is becoming a serious problem." It was obvious he just wanted free labour. Iv never felt so elated when I finally left that company.
You do not owe your manager anything when leaving. A two week notice is a courtesy, do not say anything about what your new job is/entails.
If you really want to play by the books,the 2 weeks notice are to transfer your current tasks to the person that will replace you not to work as you previously did. HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Always have 2 weeks of leave in the book, you drop the 2 weeks leave on the table and the moment they've signed off on it you drop your 2 weeks notice.
I've hired dozens of staff. All those contracts had a stipulation of how long they would work after any termination (by either party). It's standard in the UK.
When my mother was dying and it was only a matter of days (at the most), I was going to make funeral arrangements. My boss had a coworker call to tell me
I couldn’t have the day off, but they would let me leave early. I ignored that directive. Then, less than a week later after my mom passed, the boss’s wife called me at home on a Sunday evening to find out if I would be in the next day! When I told her no, she said, “It’s been a week.” Oh and, “We got you a fruit basket.” Yeah, I quit that job without ever going back.
I guess the boss knew it wasn't appropriate, since he forced his wife to do it. Nice boss, nice husband.
The time stamp is the correct time. Email isn't instantaneous, it does sometimes take a few minutes to deliver. Boss is clueless.
Most phone plan and e-mail services have a "messages will arive within 24 hours" clause, I once send a message to someone and it only arived 23 hours and 55 minutes later, but was still within 24 hours so I could not complain to the provider.
IIRC the underlying technology specification for email delivery is up to 72 hours
Non-compete clauses really need to be outlawed. Why should a company have anything to say about what you do when you are no longer paid by them.
At most levels within a UK company, they are generally unenforceable. Preventing a person from working within their industry is restraint of trade. If you're a director then they may be deemed reasonable in court but at lower levels a company would have a hard time enforcing one at lower levels.
A rival can steal your employees, run you out of business, then downsize once you’re gone.
For both the company's sake, and yours. One, you're leaving the company with extensive knowledge of the in and outs of said company. Knowledge that is highly valuable to its direct competitors. That's the company's side. What's yours? Well, I believe you wouldn't like being employed by a rivaling company only to be let go the moment you told them about all of the company secrets you've brought with you.
Non-compete clauses are absolutely necessary to have a functioning market.
@@Navajonkee If your knowledge of innermost secrets of your employer's company is so vital to its existence, it's on them to protect it by treating you well. Furthermore, if you decide to jump ship and chose a competitor who only wants to suck you dry and spit you out, that's on you. You should be able to spot this strategy; if your only value to them is what you have learned about their competition, then that should be pretty obvious.
I suggest that there are very few people who have the depth of knowledge to significantly distort the market.
Because chaos
Hell is an ocean of middle managers....
And upper management and owners go out of their way to hire these real AHs.
I had two jobs in a row where I was treated like absolute trash, and I only lasted one year in each of them. I decided going into my next job that I would change something:
I would stop being nice.
Seriously, I played so nice at the previous jobs, always took responsibility even if something wasn't entirely my fault, was a team player, tried very hard to communicate, etc. Now, at this new job, I'm a total asshole. I nitpick my boss's instructions, argue on the regular when I get conflicting information, and probably the most common thing I say is "Just so you know, you have told me to do this x way, and I have told you y would happen, but you insisted that I do it x way. So I'm going to do it x way and will refuse all responsibility when y happens." And of course, this happens all the time. I'm not totally unwilling to stay late to help get things done when they need to be done, but when the boss asks me to stay late to fix a problem that was CREATED BECAUSE HE DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME, then I refuse and clock out at 5:00. Not 5:05. Not even 5:01. 5:00.
And overall it has worked. I'm not super liked here, but my boundaries are respected, and my boss knows better than to push me on certain issues. He's not happy about it, but at least he knows he can't do anything about it.
I think that's good. I think I found a balance, I'm really nice to everyone (at least I try to), but if people try to blame me for something that was their fault, I do get really mad.
Works really good!
Good for you and see myself in you a bit but I kinda hate it. Yes, it is crucial for my general well being to not overinvest myself but I am the extra mile kinda guy and I want to be in the job that appreciates that.
The most important thing to remember is you're there to do a job, that's all. You're not there to win a popularity contest. My bosses dislike me, they find me difficult and I argue whenever I think they're wrong. On the plus side I do my job better than well. I can spot problems coming before they become problems I have to sort out and I just work my hours, not a minute more.
It took a long time for me to learn work boundaries like that. Good for you! I have a new manager who like. Basically doesn't know anything about the department. But she plays at being friendly, and I've noticed any time I'm having a "good" day (which is only so good, being at work. It's more I feel like I can get all my work done for once), she comes up with BS tasks that eat into my time and make the day harder.
Idk the sass comes out now, people who pretend to be nice just to get under your skin and use you are my personal "worst people."
Yesterday she wandered up all smiles, and I smiled back "so how are you planning to ruin my morning today? :)" Heard later she went and asked someone else for once lmao.
I'm fine being nice to my coworkers (most of them), they're just also a bit jaded. Management is trash, we gotta make it a bit easier on each other when we can
@@thalapeng Every job appreciates the extra-mile guy. They appreciate it so much...that they give that guy more work and not an ounce of increased pay.
As long as you make sure that your clients are happy, it's best not to do an iota more than you absolutely have to. The company will not care for you; don't give a flip about them.
The cemetery story took the cake for me. If I was the grieving employee, that evil boss would find cemetery dirt on his doorstep the following day.
Just throw it out and say "it must've been taken by the wind"
I just started laughing at that one.
That was So f’d up. For this boss to intrude into the family cemetery with a note for some stupid nonsense. Unbelievable.
I've been in the corporate world almost my whole career, which started in 1996. I was fortunate enough to have a pretty cool boss when I first started, who told me that if you allow if, you will be walked all over by most people in this environment. She said being friendly at work should never be construed as friendship. Call people out professionally, and do it in writing. If i was asked to do something that is shady or weird, always ask for clarification from the person having you do said shade. She had been around forever at that time, she liked me, she knew my dad.
Today, with texts & stuff, its so easy to screen shot stuff. HR is way bigger these days. Its a professional environment, so people should act like professionals. Theres no harm or shame making people answer to their own abhorrent behavior.
And this dude is right. When some nobody gets a tiny slice of "power", if they are thin-skulled enough they will wield this power. Don't let 'em get away with any dipshittery on the job.
It's even worse for those of us who are disabled. My partner has suffered immense discrimination at each job and he works in health care.
I’ve worked in healthcare for many years and have come to believe that management has very little compassion or empathy.
@@Ozziecatsmom they care, just only about themselves.
"That sort of attitude is not going to get you anywhere here."
"Evidently. So, consider this my notice of resignation."
Yeah that was a bad move from management.
“You cannot progress here regardless of how well you perform”
The only logical option is to leave at that point.
I used to work in mining here in Western Australian. By law, everyone should attend a pre-shift information ( PSI ) meeting each day. to ensure everyone knows what has gone on in the previous shift and any changes made to normal operations. I had been off work with a workplace injury and when I returned to work, I had to get the all-clear to do so. So, I missed the first PSI. The next day, I missed the PSI because I had to fill in some paperwork at the mine medical centre.
On the third day, I made it to the PSI and was sitting in a chair waiting for the meeting to start. Suddenly, my boss was standing beside me, asking me to stand up. I thought he wanted my chair, so, me being me, I told him to get his own f*cking chair. Then he came out with the most stupid thing I had ever heard. He told me that the company wanted us all to be standing during meetings because research had shown that "people are more invested in the process when they are standing!" I still refused to stand in a room full of bench seats and plastic chairs.
After the PSI meeting, I was called into the office to fill in an incident report over the "incident!" I refused, of course, because there was no incident. Then I had to go to a meeting with the mine manager and a woman from HR, who looked and acted younger than both of my own kids. They tried to coerce me into doing the incident report - again I refused. So I was stood down, on full pay!
I was driven back to the camp and left to my own devices. I don't watch TV, so I drove into the nearby country town and bought some books, went to the pub and had lunch there and got some beer as I left. I spent the next three days reading, sleeping, eating, drinking beer and going for long walks. On the fourth day, I filled in the incident report, but it was all gibberish and made no sense to anyone living - or dead! And was thanked profusely for doing that!
Then they held an investigation into the "incident", involving me, the mine manager and one of his flunkies, all of which resolved nothing. I think they knew that might have shot themselves in the foot by paying me for all this time off and even more so when they said that I could go home for rest of the week, again on full pay.
As soon as I got home, I went on line and in no time flat, I found out that this nonsense came from the HR department of the Riverside Campus of UCLA in California and had nothing to do with people being more "invested in the process" at all. They had simply found that if you make people stand during meetings, the meetings are considerably shorter! So, cost cutting!
I continued bringing a chair into the PSI meetings. And in case you missed the true import of this story, I was on full pay for 7 days after being stood down for not standing up! 🤣🤣🤣
Being a foreman in a mine or roading crew over there is an absolute shitshow. One of our carpenters went back over to WA as a road crew foreman. I think he got probably 2 or 3 swings in before pulling the pin because the H&S, legal, cultural and liability bullshit wasn't worth even the eye watering paycheck he was getting. I've always been told, the grass might be greener over the fence but its because its fertilised with bullshit
The "standing during meetings" to make them shorter is an old idea, Aglie scrums and all that. If you don't know what an "agile scrum" is, you're better off not knowing.
When I was a mgr, I told my EEs they could come in up to 1 hour early or 15 minutes late without notice. Outside of that, just let me know. People have lives outside of work, things happen. Not accommodating that is counterproductive. I feel like it made my EEs more focused and ready to work when they had time to deal with their personal lives.
I also wouldn't let anyone work over 10 hrs (2 hrs) OT. Many wanted to work 12 or more. I felt that those hours past 10 were unproductive because they were tired, unfocused and often led to mistakes and burnout. Plus, it gave me leverage to ask for additional staff to manage the workload since excessive OT is a financial burden on the company.
Bosses are so angry, that we’ve decided we'd rather be homeless then deal with them.
My best friend would rather live with his mom than deal with employment. I wonder which of us is wiser half of the time. We are both in Texas and 50.
I mean there are plenty of places hiring. I guess the abusers hate it when their victims have options.
I had a boss who was the clock watcher guy.. our workday started at 7:30 am. I literally had my computer up and running and I was working at. 7:30 and seven seconds. and then he got upset and hauled me off into a conference room and lectured me for a solid 20 minute for "stealing working time from the state". all for seven seconds.
The ceo of my company told me 3 WEEKS after my dad died to cheer up or get the fuck out…my sadness was a bummer
Which company is that?
One of my old bosses only gave me 1 day off when my dad passed away.
That is insane. 😢
Healthcare bosses are the worst. When my mother died I took 3 days off to register her death and make funeral arrangements, my line manager said I should do all of that in my own time
@@mypointofview1111I believe in karma and what those horrible bosses dished out to us they will get back 10x. My mom died 5 months after my dad, I miss her every single day. I’m sorry for your loss. I miss my dad, but mom is just different. I mean we know what their heartbeat sounds like from inside…
I once had a job I didn't like. But the job market at the time was tough so I made the decision that when my contract was due I'd negotiate for a healthy pay rise and if I wouldn't get it I'd not stay at the company. I went to the meeting, made my case and my boss agreed to my expectations and we shook hands on it. The day after he comes and hands me the paperwork in front of customers. I look and it says a 100€ less than agreed.
I quit then and there. Still in front of the customers.
I'd leave that envelope in a garbage can and tell the boss it was windy and blew away and I couldn't catch or find it.
I feel that I’d be saying “that’s not part of my job description. I’m not going to do it. Do your own dirty work “
@@afpwebworksEXACTLY!
I'd take the envelope to HR. I know, HR isn't on the employee's side, but since they're in charge of her bereavement leave.....
This boss sends other employees to harass this person. My answer would be: I am not wasting my personal time on business letters, send it by mail.
@@afpwebworks Also add, "If you get sued for this disgusting and sociopathic behavior, I will testify against you."
When I interviewed for a job 50+ mi. from home, I computed the pay/gas cost first. It was within comfortable range. Over the 13 years I worked there, gas cost doubled. At first, I changed from 8 hr shifts to 16 hr shifts, sleeping in my vehicle (restricted parking garage) during the 8 hrs between. When the location was shifted an additional 5 miles away from my home, the new manager (post-derivatives crash type) changed the schedule to 12.5 on, 11.5 off. Parking was now an open lot, so no longer safe for 'car-camping'. Additional changes (I was now alone on site overnight) and passkey only access to toilets(frequency monitored). I found a new employer closer to home, at higher rate. (2/3 of us resigned within the same 6 months.)
The most common sign of a very poor manager is one who measures performance based on timekeeping. Good managers don't care when people arrive or leave or take lunch. Instead, good managers monitor productivity and results.
Most of the managers who advocate people returning to the office post-pandemic are clock-watchers who don't really know how to manage staff any other way.
I had a boss that made me choose between mandatory overtime or my grandmother's funeral. I had to have the income so I went to work. Cried all day and was very unproductive. Same woman years later tried to get me to work for her again and I told her "My children would have to be starving to work for you again. Lose my phone number and never contact me again"
I thought it was bad when the office manager held a special meeting for all staff and the only item on the agenda was to tell me not to put my banana peel into my office waste basket and instead I had to put it into the kitchen bin which is 3 ft away from my desk and the same type of open bin because of a mouse problem!! Apparently the mice only go to my bin and completely ignore the kitchen bin. What is even more stupid is all their food scrapes go into the kitchen bin and stay there for a week. This all came about because one of the admin staff said I'm not allowed to put the skins in my bin and I said "what's the difference?" and so she complained to the boss who had to be linked in on a conference call for the meeting.
Some people don't have enough work to do
Your mistake was expecting them to use logic.
That last story, Have you ever seen one of those god complex people when they are dealing with people outside the company that don't give a Feck who they are. They absolutely melt down like they are having a existential crisis.
Scarily, each time a new story is read, I picture these people in managers I have encountered over the years.
About 10 years ago, we had an office manager who would yell at people in the office, right at their desk; and everyone got to hear it. He only did it to the weaker guys, those with mortgages and bills and kids etc, who were afraid of losing their jobs. One day he tried it with me; no debt, no mortgage and no kids. I told him loudly to fuck off out of my office before he’d barely opened his big mouth, and asked him who the fuck he thought he was. He never bothered me again, and I got lots of positive comments from staff afterwards
A year or two ago we had a power outage overnight and I managed to be the only person in my office who didn't wake up on time the next morning. When I rolled into work almost two hours late, my boss rolled his eyes, made a joke about my having bedhead and then went back to work. He knew what had happened and that it was very out of character for me not to show up, so he didn't really even mention it. I've been with his company for almost a decade and have no intention of going anywhere anytime soon.
Weird how when you treat your employees like people, they stick around and work hard, huh?
Ok, so turnover costs are somewhere between .7 and 5X someones annual salary. Add in happy people are about 15% more productive. Why does upper leadership put up with these toxic bosses? Being a decent person is both good for the employee AND good business.
because the short term result of high profits and hence high bonuses outweigh the long term company success.
The executive who wrote the email about taking advantage of gas prices by paying people less was fired after all the staff at one of the restaurants controlled by his franchise quit, which was precipitated by the store manager printing out a couple dozen copies and leaving them around the restaurant.
Who even was it?
The fact that the boss knows the cemetery and the grave… stalking and harassment 😮
These are the reasons why when I retire I’m going to get a job a couple times a year and see how long it takes me to get fired. I’m going to respond to bosses the way I’ve always wanted and respond to customers like I’ve always wanted. It’s going to be so much fun.
One thing to bear in mind for the second part involving "too much sitting down" as well. It is ILLEGAL to use CCTV cameras for anything other than their intended use, which is NEVER to spy on your employees. Too many people are unaware of this and could do with it being pointed out, therefore any circumstance whereby you are dismissed for anything where the only evidence is the CCTV footage, lands you a good chance of being able to sue at the very least. The other thing to note with CCTV footage, are only authorised personnel are allowed to view it. In most instances this means the owner and any security personnel as well as the person actually in the video at the time, no one else!
Well that's certainly not true in China, or North Korea, or a legion of other places around the world. Not everyone lives where you do. And some laws differ state to state.
Does the law specify that spying on your employees may net be the intended use? What if the company explicitly states that such surveilance IS their primary intended use? Also, when citing this alleged illegality, which country’s or state’s laws are you referencing?
@@fordhouse8b All good questions, so I am referencing UK law as that is the context of the video. There are some exceptions whereby that is the intended use (can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find some). But these are very few and far between and for the most part you would not get the licence to be able to do that. In that instance as well, you would have to have a reason to spy on your employees and whether or not they're sitting down wouldn't really come in to it... So although it wouldn't then be illegal for your boss to have used the CCTV to see if that was the case, for them to cite it as a reason to dismiss you still isn't really acceptable. Hope that helps.
@@sirbickey It does. Here in the US, for example, many restaurants will have cameras pointed directly at wall-in refrigerator doors, and in the hotel where I work, any manager can pull up every security camera in the building on the computer screens. It isn’t at all unusual for me t walk into our banquet managers office, to see his screen filled with a dozen little live images of what is happening in and around the building.
I once showed up to wrk at 15:00 - shift starts at 15:00. Got berated for not being in uniform yet. Uniform is a t-shirt found 40m away in the locker. Goodness gracious.
There's only three explanations for these people:
1) It's all about control. You aren't doing as they want, so they'll lord their position over you.
2) It's all about the rules. You aren't doing as "the rules" say, so they'll chastise yo.
3) It's all about misplaced blame. They're having a bad day and you are a (supposedly) easy target.
The only even remotely acceptable reason for the bereavement one is if she's on a critical project that could cost the company millions or even sink the company entirely, and even then, try and hire an outside consultant first, and then a professional courier second. Sending an employee to her relative's grave should not even be on the list.
As for the last one, it's easy to lose grip on reality when you don't talk to the people who would be directly affected. On the one hand, offering more hours and even overtime _could_ be a solution, but it should be run past both the employees affected _AND_ Accounting. I'm sure the bean counters would probably tell you that bumping the pay would be better in the long run, both for morale and for taxes.
I worked for so many toxic management over my 40+ years in IT. Nice to know the a$$-holery hasn't changed
My blood started to boil while I was listening to these boss stories 😤
I have to agree and to pick up on the sycophantic point that Ben made, I had a couple of bosses that I worked in the same department as that were team managers, totally narcissistic, ignorant, arrogant and just plain evil too. I did on occasion have to deal with them as my manager was off or out the office. This was a total nightmare as they would belittle you at every opportunity but they didn’t realise that I was taking every time they dealt with me and recorded it in writing “just confirming what they were wanting me to do. This was thankfully not often and was made up by the fact I was not in their team and a lot of the things they were trying to get me to do was shady and could get you fired & prosecuted. I managed to hang off and give them replies once my manager was back, there to back me up and I luckily got the good one, she soon put them in their place. Loved this and was so happy that she was brilliant and a great boss and now a friend too since I left there over 12 years ago now. It was a bank btw so legislative process rules and laws had to be very strictly enforced or you could be fired or at least disciplined……. There was one particular occasion back in 2009/2010 when we had the severe snow and ice with the snow being at least 1.5m to 2 metres deep and living on a farm meant that I had to dig the snow from the yard, out to the access road then down to the main road in the town where the farm was next to. This was in Scotland, so the snow was falling deep and fast too !!!! I got up at 5AM & by 8AM I had only done about half of the complete trail and the snow was falling fast as I said do that every 20-25 minutes I had to redo the entire thing to keep on top of it all too. I called in to the department and got the more difficult and nasty one of the two Gremlins and he said that since he managed to get in he couldn’t see why it was a problem for me to get in ?? Bearing in mind that he lived in the West End of the city where the office was only a 20 minute train ride direct to the edge of the Business Park that we worked at. I told him that it would take at least another 5-6 hours to get there and I’d be soaking wet and my legs would be in a very bad state as I have ulcers on them and no skin, this was relayed to him and he said to get in and stop making excuses. I said to him that I would carry on and get there when I could. I also sent him photos of the current state of my legs and those photos were very very graphic and I knew he had a very weak stomach for gore and blood etc. I eventually got to the building at 15:30 just 2 hours before the end of my day. I immediately called 999 to get an emergency ambulance to come and take me to hospital to get my legs seem to as they were bleeding profusely. I said to reception who my “department manager” was and got him down. He started to berate me and talk nastily and said I’d be put through the discipline procedures when I got out of hospital…… oh how wrong he was !!! I was kept in for 4 weeks and had another 14 weeks of therapy recovery and relaxation at home to get to a point where I was able to get back to work on a stepped and regulated basis. When I was back full time I was taken through the disciplinary process but little did that smug manager know that it was going to be him going through the procedure. i had all the letters from hospital and the recording of thr call between him and me, he forgot that the call was recorded as every call should be…….. He was given a final written warning and would remain pn his file with HR until he left the bank. He's still there but being so very careful now !!!
That last boss really went: "This crisis is a great opportunity to turn our workforce into wage slaves."
How evil do you have to be to even think like that?
Disney level evil.
I am so glad that I’m retired now…
I've decided... I'd buy camping gear and living in the wild, then work for bad bosses.
As a business owner who is very new to business ownership (7 months - small business) I love these - they are my 'lesson in how to not appear in one of these' although 99% are how to be a decent human! - Keep these coming though! I often show my team and tell them stuff like 'unless you're dead I expect you in!' - thankfully they know I'm joking.
I even let them take time off and so long as they don't expect extra holiday pay we're good - if they're unavailable they're unavailable simple! They don't take the piss and I don't either - if it's becoming regular then we'll have a chat and maybe move hours around - I have a great team most I've worked with for years now. I took on the business as a failure - I didn't want it to close down. I do not want to lose my team!
first of congrats for you business! May I ask what kind of business you own? Also the last example in te video i thought wasnt that bad. I live in europe and we had the gas spike in the winter of 2022. I work at a wholesaler and at the time we had it really busy and some people had some unfortunate accidents so they couldnt work (think of broken ankle etc). I suggested that we would be open to let people who want to work on saturday (since it was so busy there was always work left) and that way they could also earn some extra money. I know a lot of people wont go to hr for a raise, even if they need it. I thought this was a way for them to help the company and themselves. Not a bad thought behind it.
@@MarkudenTheir employer knew that they lived paycheck to paycheck, he knew that many would struggle with the raising cost of living and instead of thinking, mmm lets be a decent boss and give the people who works for us a LIVABLE WAGE, they instead choose to just exploit them further in a time of need. Their employees are what is bringing in the profits and keeps the company afloat and all they can think is, "ho our employees are in a bad spot, lets squeeze them for all the labor we can."
The example you gave was saying, hey I've noticed that we have work that needs to be done on Saturday, lets draw from our current employee pool to fix it.
What really would have helped all employees though would be a pay-raise so they could still make it with the rising costs of living. Not everyone can work extra due to their circumstances. If you know your employees are struggling with just surviving on the pay you are offering them and then not adjusting it, then sorry to say, you are the asshole.
@@Markuden Important difference between European and American workplaces - Americans are absolutely forced to drive to work and back. It literally costs them more to go to work due to the increasing gas prices, which they have to offset by working longer for the same wage. It's not an opportunity for some extra money, they pretty much *have to* work more to not earn less.
@@Navajonkee and how does that not apply in europe? for office jobs working from home 1 or 2 days a week is getting more normal but gas prices? Come on, I pay 2 euros a liter for gas. thats like 8+ dollars a gallon.
@@antonscott1585 you talk like a victim. You accept the wage, there are lines of companies here in every job waiting for you to pay you more. Welcome to the real world, raises cant just be handed out. And should workers also lower their pay when the energy prices go down? So were should a small to medium company (lets say 50 employees) get the money from? You make a budget for the year and adjust it to how many people work there etc. if you would give every one 500 dollar raise, were are you getting that 25k a month from? You magically make 300k a year appear? Also energy prices will also raise the cost for the company itself so were does all this money come from?
The last one sounds positively feudal…. “Let the peasants work more! More! More!” The kind of thing that spawned the French Revolution!
Worst part about the person who sent the text at 8:29 to say "I'm here", is they clearly sent it because they have been burnt by how petty the boss is about time. I am so grateful that my company doesn't care about time (within reason), as long as I get my work done. Businesses should realise they are paying people to get a job done, not to meaninglessly abide by arbitrary timings.
I had a company make me do an online 'Ethic's course' - I wasted 40 minutes of my life getting lectured on ethics by a company that has been busted for attempting to strong arm a government. At the end of the course you have to choose whether you agree or not... Just for the shit of it, I chose 'No'. I got a shit ton of e-mails from increasingly senior management (Irish, European, Global) that were sounding increasingly like e-mails from a desperate dumped girlfriend, until I arrived at 'Senior Vice president of Legal affairs and compliance'. I basically laid out my stand by arguing 'Whose ethics are we agreeing to exactly? Since a corporation isn't sentient and therefore subject to the whims of the board and shareholders, any CEO that stood up at the AGM and said he was pursuing an ethical course instead of the more profitable one would be unemployed before he got off stage. Also the board are hardly representative of the population of it's home country (the US) as being based in Connecticut you have one of the lowest ethnic diversity of any of the US states. Board members of any large corporation in the US are in all likelihood WASP (White Anglo-Saxon & Protestant), third level educated, highly paid and by dint of their position possess adequate health insurance, which puts them at a distinct advantage over the vast majority of the population of the US. So their ethical stance will be different from the majority of citizens of their own country, let alone a country that may have differing sociological values." I then went on to mention that there are medicines available in the EU that it's illegal to export to the US as they are used by the US as part of the execution process - so who's ethically right there?
I got an e-mail back thanking me for my input and 'giving food for thought on ethics' and most importantly it concluded with 'So take it as read that there is no need to sign the ethics declaration. (I honestly didn't expect that.)
On the 'too much sitting down' - the answer to that would be 'Under the data protection act, CCTV is for safety and security purposes only, it is not for time keeping, attendance or discipline.' I've had a manager try to fuck me over using CCTV claiming he'd been watching as I was constantly on my I'phone (when he said this at the disciplinary meeting, our senior manager raised his eyebrows, as he knew I've never processed a smart 'phone). So I challenged the junior manager - 'show me the footage'.
To which his reply was "I don't have to"
'You're making an accusation, so yes you do.'
"Errr. oh um... it's been deleted since I checked"
'No biggie, you said I'm 'always on my I'phone'. So there must be other examples, as 'always' means 'continuously'. So, any other example in the last 28 days will do.'
"Er. Well it's complicated. There's other people in the footage and it may violate their privacy... under the data protection act."
'Ok if you'd like, I'll make a formal request. That'll legally compel you to produce the footage within 28 days.... would you like me to put that in writing?'
"Are you calling me a liar?"
'No, I'm merely stating fact. I can legally make a request for any footage containing myself from the 28 days preceding receipt of the request. A lie is statement willfully made with the intent to deceive... if such a statement has been made with the intent to damage my reputation in the presence of a third person that is slander.'
At this point the senior manager decided to put an end to his juniors misery and turned to me and said "For fuck's sakes, just show him your fucking 'phone." before turning to his subordinate and saying "As for you, you're in enough shit as it is. Apologize, then shut the fuck up. Consider this matter closed." He turned back to me "Still want that footage?"
I glance at the cowed junior manager...looked back at the senior manager. 'I think that should be ok.'
The 20% conversion fee thing is essentially extortion. He figured he could make that a condition of waiving the non-compete clause, making it a decision of "pay me 20% or you can't take the job." I'd be willing to bet he came back with this after he replaced this employee and closed off the option of staying at the job.
That last one is some "A Modest Proposal" shit except without the satire.
I worked at a place where if you clocked in a minute late or clocked out a minute early the manager would circle the time on the clocking in card. I decided to hit back at this by circling all the times I clocked in early and out late.
I like these long form videos better than the shorts.
Watching this guy makes me thankful for my managers, they are all cool.
I used to work for a organisation with some unusual procedures. If you required to use the bathroom, you could not leave your desk. You had to put your hand up and wait for approval. So everyone knew.
I worked as a cashier in a grocery store while in high school and college. I had recently graduated and started my new job in healthcare but would come back home to visit about once a month. I told the front end manager she could put me on the schedule because I knew how short handed they were. The company had recently changed the policy on footwear - you could now wear sneakers, which is a lifesaver when you stand in the same spot for 6-8 hours. The store manager saw my feet when I was walking to my register and in a condescending tone asked what was on my feet. I said I thought company policy had changed. He replied it did but- “I didn’t, so no sneakers in this store.” That was the last weekend I ever worked there. Called the front end manager and said I could no longer commit. I heard from a coworker that she practically cried. I was a good and reliable worker and btw- the sneakers were brand new (not dirty) and no one can see your feet behind the register anyway.
Worked at a supermarket for about half a year. 7.5 hours paid each day, half an hour unpaid lunch/break.
Trouble is, the moment a colleague needs your help with something, you HAVE to help. That half hour of unpaid break? You can forget about it. No sitting and doing nothing, relaxing and having a meal for 30 minutes.
Stamped in 3 minutes too late? Get paid for 5 minutes less that day.
Overtime? No, sir. Not getting any of that.
But the moment I decide to take things easy and relax, grab a newspaper to read some articles and do some sudokus (after a whole day of just brainlessly scanning items), I get the "you want to get paid overtime? I'm not paying you overtime for doing sudokus". Yeah, I was doing those because I wasn't getting overtime in the first place.
In the U.S. the Federal Trade Commission just made non-compete clauses in employment contracts illegal for nearly all professions. It is goes into effect in a few months, and will apply to current contracts as well as new contracts. Of course, corporate types have already filed suit, but will likely lose.
Thank god for that
One thing about the sitting down. the manager missed a key point that this worker was more productive while sitting down. Maybe he should learn from that and give workers the option to sit?
I'd like to know who the gas bill guy is.
5:51 Even if what the boss claims is true, his letter left on a grave can be opened by anyone. If it did contain inside company information, the boss might as well pasted the letter up on the tube platform. How does any of his actions make sense?
What's crazy to me is . . . who the heck thinks the employee is going to the gravesite every day? It's just ridiculous.
#3 is quite common. These lower tier management types are put in that position as a way to move them out of way essentially.
I seen it a lot during my time in retail. It's madness.
I had a job in a manufacturing facility once where they made and machined various car parts like clutch plates. I left after three weeks for a host of reasons, including lack of training, training I got was inconsistent, moved from job to job every few days, expected to do the work of 3-4 people every day, and the kicker is that I had hired in just before holidays and when we went off shift for NYE, was told by supervisor, "Oh, reminder, when we come back next week, it will be 7 days a week and if your relief doesn't show up, you have to work their shift too until someone can take it over. That also goes for if nobody takes over and the next person doesn't show up, either. You stay until you are relieved."
I just walked out, took my badge to HR come early the following Monday (I was on 2nd shift), and happily quit. Shift started at 3pm. Got a text from my supervisor at 3:01pm, asking if I was there at work. She knew full well that I left my phone in my locker while on the production floor. I replied, "Didn't anyone tell you? I quit earlier today." Why didn't you tell me? "Because I figured HR would trickle it down to you like Reagan's trickle-down economy." She kept it up for a few more minutes, and I told her the reasons I left. "Well," says she, "Honestly, I think I'm a pretty good boss." I stared at my phone because I couldn't believe she just said that....I tried to tell my fingers not to, but my fingers went all digital diarrhea on me and replied, "I've had worse bosses, but I can't remember when." Not a peep out of her afterwards.
Lousy managers illustrate the Peter Principle: "Cream rises until it sours."
That last one. That is every employer. That is why everyone is encouraged to take on debt. Car loans, credit cards, even loans against 401k's. It turns a job into enslavement. Toxic behavior can be used as a mgmt tool because folks just can't leave without financial consequence.
"If your a little bit late its fine" .... can i work for you? I have had two official disciplinaries for being 2 minutes late.
If your employer is that petty, I'd be exactly that petty back. The second the shift ends I'd drop everything.
5:26... My wife had to go to the wake of her mother, getting calls on her personal phone all day with the boss asking questions about work. In the past she has told him she was uncomfortable being the only person in the company to handle international salaries, and has asked for a backup for years. All that time the boss denied, and that meant she could never take a holiday for more than 5 days.
Now she was in church during the funeral, and while her sister was doing the eulogy, she was in a car outside of the church on her laptop working because the boss needed some info NOW.
I was in a job where the Executive Director told me I could be a few (5) minutes late since I was a single parent. I was not asked to, but always stayed at least 5 minutes later if I were late that morning. The vast majority of days I was on time or early. As the first to arrive, I was expected to start the coffee, which was out of sight of the main office. The OM's brother worked in the building next door and could see our main office from his. He would report to our OM if he felt I was late, not knowing I was around the corner putting on a pot of coffee. Got accused of being late many times.
I laugh about it now.
I know this vid was months ago, but #3 reminded me of a place I quit in January. I do apartment maintenance, and the main office of this company checked everyone's time 2-3 times a week, and if you clocked in even 1 minute late, they would send the report down to the property manager and have them "have a talk with you" and warn you you will be written up. Even worse, you had to log in on a special app and take a selfie to prove it is you, and half the time the app wouldn't accept the picture, sometimes up to 10 minutes.
Then there was the working supervisor who did little work. Sit in his office for 2 hours, then go drive around in his truck taking pictures and sending them to us for us to do. My last straw was when he took a picture of a full trash can, sending it to me and the other guy. Instead of just taking the bag to the dumpster 40 feet away, just took and sent a pic and left. I turned my crap in, clocked out(with a selfie of course), told the manager I quit, and I went home.
I definitely have a terrible boss, i found out my mom AND step mom both have cancer, the AC at my house went out, and my kid was getting trouble at school. So needless to say I was having a terrible few weeks and wasn’t getting any sleep at night due to stress and no air conditioning. Because of all of that my production at work may have dipped a bit, I have been here 7 years and worked my butt of for them doing anything and everything. My boss is 100% aware of everything I was dealing with at the time but instead of cutting me some slack I got called into the office and he said “if there is not an IMMEDIATE increase in productivity then we will have to let you go.” But the part that really got under my skin was when he said “you know how hard it is with everything you are going through right now, well imagine how much harder it would be if you don’t have a job” took everything I had not to jump out of my chair and smack him. The fact he knew everything and knew exactly why I haven’t been running at 100% and still said that on top of talking down to me in there was my final straw. I have been looking for a new job since.
I was in a UK fast food restaurant, sitting eating. It was quiet, and on the next table, the manager was sitting loudly interviewing a young person for a job there, and asking personal questions. I so wanted to call this Manager out for lack of respect for the candidate, but did not want to throw the poor soul. I was fuming.
Toxic bosses need to be introduced to people like me. Someone who has nothing to lose and will call them out in front of everyone
Calm down, Rambo.
@@bolsa3136sounds like you are one of them
@@bolsa3136pointless comment!
Sounds like a business …let me call your toxic boss!
Its a shame that assault is a crime because some of these "managers" need a fucking good Archie Rock n Rolla backhand
That last one is exactly why i quit working. Every "raise" is nothing but an adjustment for inflation. Didn't want people to grow or move up just wanted you exactly where you were. It was infuriating
My husband works construction and in a recent move, the site manager in charge on the site decided smoke breaks on breaks or not, are on your own time. If you need to leave for a smoke break then you have to add that time to the work day. So my husband the smartarse went out to the smoke break area to find the manager smoking with the boss, who (i s*** you not) told hub to get back to work, smoking isnt allowed. He ignored the manager and lit up and said im following your example. Either we both quit or we both get back to work. Boss laughed and said hub had a point n walked off. Smoking rule has now been scrapped, haha.
2:00 is exactly how all warehouse order picking works in my experience. Every single team lead has been beasted getting to where they are, and they think that they need to then beast everyone below them to even more harsh standards as a means of further impressing the management above with getting a few extra boxes out of the door. Management meanwhile is looking an entirely different set of metrics.
My dad used to watch cameras the entire day in his small business. He was sick with paranoia that if he stops watching everyone starts stealing and leisuring. The truth is they were all good and decent people, minding their work, I was working there with them long enough...
I had a situation like #2 story once. It was my 3rd day working for the company, assembling PCs, and was told I should be standing all day (on concrete) instead of using the provided chairs. I never went back. No call in, no show, only time ever in my life I've done that. When they called me 2 weeks later to ask if I'd be in, I told them no, told them why, and told them to mail my check. I'm nobody's slave, and anyone okay with being that petty deserves to go out of business forever.
When the boss said “I need you to go to a grave, now.” I would’ve said “only if it’s yours. If not, it can be.”
I was on vacation and my boss called me during it asking how soon I could I mobilize myself to go out of town to replace other person out in the field? I obviously wasn’t pleased with this. I was later told his boss was also on that call but never announced he was there. I went on the assignment but prior to going, I told my boss; “Don’t you ever do that to me again.” He never did and I never suffered any consequences for saying that.
What's left out of the note at the grave site one is that they actually left the note.
Your Rimmer impression is spot on ❤
The reply should always be
“Thank you for corresponding by text/email. I will be bringing this evidence with me to an employment lawyer. I have cc’d HR and your boss.”
I genuinely don't get why so many people are having text conversations with their bosses.
Don't give your phone number to your boss.
Problem solved.
I have a hard time believing these are real, not because they’re outrageous, but because it all feels like it was written by the same person. It’s so weird.
Presumably they can get your number from HR. Or on your personal profile.
Not in the UK, HR can't give out that info as it would fall foul of data protection laws.
If you don't want your boss to have 24/7 access then don't give them your number, they're colleagues not friends.
End of.
Depending on the company you are required to use certain apps for communication, some of which can be used on both phone and computer, and employees are “encouraged” to have these apps on personal devices “just in case”.
I never gave my boss my number. Im too busy putting virtue-signalling ukraine avatars in my profiles.
The grave one can’t be real. Managers have home addresses of their employees. They don’t have the cemetery and plot details of their family members!!
These things make me more appreciative of my working situation...it could always be worse!
Years ago, a manager reviewed the call stats for the sales office. He dragged a guy into his office and hailed him over the rocks for not taking any calls on a certain day. Yes he was on leave that day!
Maybe the response should’ve been “ only if it’s yours “. Lol.
Some of these are hilarious. Waiting for a boss to leave a note on Nanas forehead at the open casket funeral. 😂
About 15 years ago I was on a relief panel in care work. I was on holiday in Amsterdam and a manager rang me saying
You're needed in work tonight
Nope
You need to be here
Nope. That's not how relief work works
I'm telling you you're needed. You don't have a choice
Yes I do. That's literally the only benefit of relief work. I'm on holiday and I'm hanging up.
He tried to 'report' me and got chewed out by the Director of Service. He was demoted for this sort of attitude about 6 months later. All this for a drop of power.
Here in NL we have had flexible work hours for decades. There's generally a frame set start between 7am-10am but even if you come at 10:30 and you have your team informed and they are fine, it's fine. Just be a honest and fill out the actual worked hours that's the least that an employee can do. It is so useless to argue over 4 minutes when no customer was waiting -- if you have an appointment with a customer being late is unforgivable imo (but that's my Dutch and German genes). But when you even lie about it is really sickening! Pure power abuse!
Once right before a meeting with my boss my father called to tell me that my grandpa had just had a stroke and was being taken to the hospital. I arrived at my meeting crying and explained what happened, my boss then asked if I was fine and continued "so anyway..." and procceeded to give me a bunch of directions and feedbacks. Honestly, it wouldn't hurt adjourn the meeting a few hours, it was NOT urgent.
Ah the second story reminds me of this one manager I use to work with. I made an agreement with one manager I worked with to have A Sunday off (as having a Sunday off is equivalent to having a million dollars). I was wanting to go to this meditation class to help with my stress and anxiety (That I have gotten from this job.) These classes were being hosted at this one Buddhist temple but only were hosted on Sunday mornings. So the manager agreed IF I worked the next two Sundays. I agreed and we shook on it.
That Sunday came and I was woken up to my phone going off I saw a whole host of text and missed calls from another manager asking where I was and how I was scheduled. I texted back and politely said I had a deal with the other manager that I would have that day off since I worked the other Sundays. In turn she blew up my phone and started to harass me to force me to come in. Well I grew tired of the toxic attitude and held my ground for once and said no and that I had made a deal and that I wasn’t coming in. She then basically cursed at me and fired me. Not to long later my GM called and wanted me to come in to talk it out with her. To say the least I was fired for fifteen minutes and the other manager had a slap on the wrist. Thankfully I had left that hell hole but that story still sticks with me to this day. 😂
That last one really got to me. I don't think there is any hope for the cancer that is humanity 😭
There is a good saying:
Those who can do, those who cannot manage!
Absolutely the worst manager I worked under would request a meeting at 9:30. As you walked in at 9:29, she would press send on a pre-written e-mail, reminding you that you were supposed to be in a meeting with her. She literally kept an individual notebook for each person in her department, in which she would note all our professional "crimes". The entire department (nine people) resigned at the end of her first year as department head. She was fired. Before she left she deleted the department's entire section of the server.
2:56 100%. Petty people with a tiny bit of power. Hit the nail on the head.
This is part of the reason people have the, "Do the minimum to get by on", attitude toward their jobs.
I too aspire to be a james bond style villain like that last email.
I'm so glad listenting too these stories there the employees sayimg: "I'm done. And the chefs are starting too regret the behaviour."
Some people shouldn't be a chef/boss.
I have one too at my work. Everyone hate her. I have only heard about 1 person who can handle her and there are like 50-75 people, but everyone else hates her.
Last thing i heard she was doing is that she was showing one of our employees the middle finger for no reason! And the employee who was given the middle finger too hate her really bad from earlier so we were talking about it in the break and four of us was agreed that none of us do like her at all for several other reasons. I could be doing that for my bestfriend for fun, but there is no way i could be doing on the work towards any employees. Unless they knew me very well and understood that i was joking, but i would never be doing that at the working place in case some of the customers would see that. That kinda behaviour shouldn't be at any working place. I get that she is getting feeling that he don't like her, but there is alot more events then just this one that has happend because of her.
She is so disrespectful, have no patience, and alot of times she seems too be angry for no reason. I get that her job could be stressful, but late other people have her job if she can't handle the stress. Several times she is stressing up the other employees that is out of their control. It takes some time too making the food ready. Getting it ready. But still she will asking about several times. And i know in fact that she was given me a complain about i'm beeing too slow and got the same reacton from that are now currently favourite shiftleader too, but he figured it out why. When i'm doing a job i'm not lazy, but a perfectionist. When i'm doing anything. I'm doing it very well. And they can trust me about it beeing done probably. So yeah it takes me few more seconds, but they seeing the results. The customers are very happy how the restaurant are looking. No complaining from over 2000 guests after one night.
Everyone else that are shiftleader are smiling, having good times, joking around with their employees.
If i had too be working with her everyday i would quit the job, but luckely i'm working every second saturday with two of my favoruite shiftleaders.
Both of them has asked me every time about can i be working more since they both like me and i'm doing a great job when i'm there so. It's painfull too say no, because i see that they have really missed me each time, but i'm gently refuses it because there are limit how much time i can be working under NAV. And it's a safe income for me, so i don't wan't too disturb it somehow or working too much there i'm risking too lose it all, and then again not having full time job.
I could most likely get a full time job, but my health ain't there. So i could do a combo, but don't know.
I like it how my life are right now with having a young disability salary plus this sidejob with these guys every second saturday night too sunday. Love it!
I'm making more then enough for my self and i don't need too be so stressful about it.
Story number three reminds me of a story my co-workers tell of the Manager on Duty at my plant pulling everyone in the section into the office for a write up because they left the floor 57 seconds early. This was everyone including the section leader who just so happens to be one of the shop stewards for the tour. They called in another shop steward, read her the riot act and took the write ups and tore them up in front of her face.
I have managed people for nearly 20 years now.
There are 2 simple rules for everyone - myself included.
1. Family comes first
2. When you are working work hard but when you are on holiday that’s your time.
This nonsense of asking for 15mins, or contacting employees on holiday just shows how pathetically and egotistical people can be.