Workers Who Got REVENGE On Their Bosses
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Hey ya'll! Today on my channel we are reacting to some workers that got revenge on their bad bosses. Have you become antiwork? There's definitely a movement happening, where employees are finally starting to realize that they have the power. Enjoy ;)
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As someone who once worked at Starbucks the “I quit” song is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard
Same here, I wish I could have gone out like that!
"...venti butthole" was the best line EVER!
I had a great manager when I worked for Starbucks.
In Montana.
18 years ago.🤪
I remember having a job interview there like 10 years ago, the manager was just “so excited” that went to music festivals and “SO EXCITED” over my “image”, she said I was exactly the kind of person they want to hire for Starbucks brand! It was really off putting.. it was just a weird corporate sponging vibe..
Saammmeeee and just like him I left with 2 weeks scheduled out🤣
I was in the ER with internal bleeding and my boss phoned me to see if I could 'wrap it up' and get to work. I passed the phone to the nurse. She was all kinds of professional 'got no time for your shit'. Love her. If I was capable of laughing I would have.
How were you supposed to wrap things up? Swallow a band aid or a sewing kit?
Last time I checked internal bleeding is a wee bit out of the "just wrap it up".
Same thing. I was in a motorcycle accident & cant barely walk. My Boss suddenly call me asking why a contract My Receptionist sent to another City has t reach a client. I didnt even know how to reapond
Oh I would have loved to have seen that! Tell me more, I have an image of the nurse in my head and now I’m invested. 😊
As a nurse myself I applaud her and would have done the exact same thing.
I know you posted this awhile ago, but I really hope you're doing better. I had an internal bleed last July to the point I started passing out from blood loss. I know how hard it is to recover after that and hope things went smoothly on your recovery!
The “stop being a victim” comment made to the employee mourning the death of their parent was what upset me the most. It is human to have feelings and to mourn.
whoever said that has never experienced the loss of a loved one. And thats good for them, but they shouldnt lack empathy. idk how ANYONE could be comfortable being flippant about that
I could not have navigated that situation properly. I would have went face to face with that douchebag and probably had the cops called on me.
Stop being a victim? That comment infuriated me.
Not only that, but could very well lead to extremely hazardous work environment. Not being able to focus on the job at hand, and put coworkers at risk. Not to mention equipment / customers.
@@jessicadavenport2808 his uncle and grandmother dying is most probably not true. they're just lying so they could say "we have the same situation so you don't have any excuses"
There is a time to say stop being a victim but this was not it.
When people say, “no one wants to work anymore”, that’s not true. People no longer want to deal with BS and crap pay. We all want a better work-home balance.
Forreal I'm sick of how hustle Culture ignores balance and tranquility and just burdens us with debt and stress
When my mum was dying my boss let me leave in the middle of the day for 2-3 hours to see her (she was more awake at lunchtimes), never questioned if I just didn’t come back some afternoons, then gave me 2 weeks off and split some of my work load between my colleagues for a few months until I was okay.
We’re still friends 6 years and a new job later. You don’t quit jobs, you quit bosses.
Sorry for your loss.
The fact that this story is apparently considered unusual and heart-warming is just a huge red flag for the conditions in the US as a whole. In virtually all other western democracies you get time off to care for dying family members by law. You also get paid sick leave, paid leave when your kids are sick, paid days off when you're attending important family functions or when you're moving. You know, like humans as opposed to animals...
May your Mum RIP 💜🙏🏻🌷
Your boss 🤗
@@youknowwho9247 to clarify, this happened in England where I’m from but I think your sentiment still makes sense. Workers in the US seem to have it really rough.
@@bettyveronica460 thank you 🙏🏻 Derek, an absolute angel of a boss
I went to the doctor because the heel on my right foot was swelling a little. I was given some gel for the pain and I was advised to wear comfortable footwear (slippers). My team leader knew about my foot because I called her before seeing a doctor. I went to work the next day and immediately my team leader called on me. She said I'm not supposed to wear slippers in the office. I explained how painful it was to wear shoes with a painful heel but apparently, she wasn't complaining about my right foot wearing slippers. She said I should be wearing shoes on my left foot 😑
I said that it was ridiculous to wear unmatching footwear. She said I should have asked for a note from my doctor and insisted I go home to get a shoe for my left foot 😑
Thankfully, I have my doctors phone number in my phone and I told her she could call him. She agreed then called him and placed him on speaker. After she explained why she called him, she asked if he REALLY advised me to wear slippers. He replied with: "are you stupid? Why would you insist on making your team mate wear mismatched shoes? She's already in pain and you want to make her look ridiculous with mismatched shoes? Grow a heart!
I couldn't hide my smile during the phone conversation.
What did she said to you after that? WITH WHAT FACE 😈😈😈
That is an amazing doctor! 💗
What a nice doctor 🥰
A friend worked for a place called LaSussan & the boss had the employee's on incredibly low rates.
Many employees quit or refused to do work.
Alot of them sourced Union's in order to get all their money back for the hour's worked at the award rate.
The manager refused to put them on rates, she was from a different country & trying to introduce a poverty wage system to exploit.
Needless to say, she no longer owns that shop.
Just imagine how these doctors feel having to be called or having to write letters to explain why things have to be done a certain way. They literally spend double-digit years JUST TRAINING AND WASTING MONEY before they can actually practice, then they have to deal with stupid people like this questioning them 😒
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That boss who wanted their employee to cancel their brain surgery for, not a first and not a second time, but for the THIRD time is a special kind of a** wipe. The fact that the employee already did it twice is selflessly amazing.
the fact that the employee canceled brain surgery once is 100% the employees fault how dumb is person to cancel brain surgery no sympathy
@@swolfe9668 touché…but perhaps the brain surgery was to correct that?
Doctor should have mentioned that they'd testify on behalf of their patient when they sue their ass for endangered the patient's life
There are some people who believe that they are not replaceable or fear losing their job. Everyone is replaceable. Life is too short to work with people like this.
okay, gotta say it... the fact that the person canceled a *_BRAIN_* surgery even Once is Not "selflessly amazing"... it is a symptom for why they Need the operation so much. because only somebody with diminished mental capacity would have done that.
and i was the legal guardian of somebody with severe brain trauma for thirteen years, i Know what i'm talking about.
I once had our store alarm company call me on my cell phone, in the hospital, the night I had part of my foot amputated. They said the alarm was going off and they needed me to go shut it off.
I said call my boss. I just had surgery and am in the hospital. They said they called the boss. He told them to call me and I'd sign out of the hospital, take a cab to fix the alarm. Then take another cab to go to the ER to get readmitted.
I told them delete my number. I quit and if the boss wouldn't go, call his boss.
What kind of awful person asks an employee to cancel BRAIN SURGERY for work?!? TWICE!!!
Some one in a position of power that shouldn' t be in that position.
Jeff Bezos?
What kind of a person tells someone they are playing 'victim' because they need a day off after their father died 😳 Unbelievable! Some people. SMH 🤦♀️
do yall watch charlotte dobre??
I had a friend get written up, 'cause he hurt his eye & it resulted in a trip to the e.r.
When I got married and was going on my honeymoon, my boss told me to give him a number in case of an emergency at work. So I wrote 911 on the card folded it in half and put it on his desk.
Well played sir, well played.
Nicely done
.... NICE!!!!
👏👏👏 Bravo, sir. BRAVO!
Did you get fired?
When I was in college my boss tried to mandate me on days I requested off and approved MONTHS ago for finals. Three other college co workers were threatened to be fired as well for the same reason. She scheduled us 16 double shifts in a row one time! Crazy! She was rude and belittled us all the time or blamed her own mistakes on us causing us to be written up multiple times. The four of us all quit on the same day which was a week before finals (when we’d get “fired”) called her bluff lol She PANICKED and frantically called all of us to come back 😂 it felt SOO good to say NO. even better we found out she was fired for causing a whole shift of workers to quit. The company even called us to come back!
HAH! This reminds me of Band of Brothers episode 1, Currahee (it's the greatest WW2 series ever made)
Lmao I think I got my old sonic boss fired she was evil
When I was in my early 20s I worked at Subway for 6yrs. When I was 7 months pregnant I had a medical issue where my doctor didn't want me lifting heavy things. My general manager continued to schedule me alone in the morning when shipment came in which made me have to carry heavy boxes into the freezer and fridge or the food would go bad. I had my doctor write him a note about it and my he promised to stop scheduling me alone on those mornings. A few days later he left for a week vacation and put up the schedule late the night so I would see it when I got there in the morning and he was already gone, he had scheduled me alone again on both shipment days that week. So I locked up the store before it even opened and left for good.
That's when you send the letter from your doctor and a letter from a lawyer spelling out their responsibilities if anything should happen to you or your baby and that they would be sued and send it to corporate or the franchise owner. Oh and for an added bonus you'll also go to the local news outlet for a story on what happened to you.
@@PiscesMoon2You I wish I would of been smart enough to do that back then, that's advice I will definitely give to someone in a similar situation. 2 weeks after I walked out of that job, at 7 months pregnant, I got an interview at a nursing home and the lady hired me on the spot. She then walked me to the general managers office to ask when I could do my orientation and he looked at my stomach and rudely said "you can't f*cking hire her, she's pregnant". When got to my car I called the human rights department and the nursing home offered me the job which I said no to so they had to pay me 6 months with of wages I would of had. That one I was a little smarter about lol.
The “I quit” song was hilarious. I know where he’s coming from as I once had a boss who was a complete cow and knocked me down constantly! Great voice too x
He did have a great voice 🙂
The guy singing had a beautiful voice!! All the best to him!!
It was ok, but his gusto and heartfelted-ness make the whole thing sublime (and kinda sexy).
I love that the customers applauded, too! 😄
Maybe he does performances regularly, and that's why nobody questioned the appearance of a guitar?
Lol. Somebody needs pb for their jelly…
His voice WAS beautiful and got even stronger by the end. More impressive imho knowing he was going rogue and was likely nervous about what might happen @ any moment.
Why thank u 🥰
When I was pregnant, I was having fainting spells. I work in a very physical job where I lift heavy things and stand on my feet for 12 hours. I was given a doctors note for modified duty and my manager told me to retract the doctors note so I could get back to work.....The note was given to keep me and my unborn child safe. Thankfully that manager was demoted to be a worker bee like the rest of us and finally retired from actually working. :D Karma may take a while but it happens eventually :)
Back in the 80’s, I worked for a local piano and organ store. The owner’s son was a pig and a womanizer. He expected us to cover for him in both work and “play”. We had had enough so on Mother’s Day ( a huge day at our mall) the manager called him in before opening and handled him all of our letters of resignation plus his own and said,”Call your dad and spin this story.”
It was glorious!
Oh my, i loved your manager's witty comment! Good on all of you to walk out from that store.
Did you ever find out if the son was reprimanded by the owner or?
@@golden_leader9227
Thanks for the question. Short answer is I believe so but it was slow coming out. The son was put in charge of the mall store and it stayed open anther two years. However, something went down in or around 1988 because the dad owned four stores and within a year of our store closing, the other three were gone. The original store had been an institution in our area for 30 years. Dad retired and son didn’t get the business. I have to assume something big went down.
Epic!
It took me way to long to realise you meant organ, the instrument.
A pig?
15 years ago my husband passed ( a hospital ) that I worked for I’m an ER charge nurse. Told me I was only allowed 2 days for the loss of my husband who I was married to for 20;years. Well let’s just say I got a lawyer sued the hell out of them and won. Now they still call me to come and work for them. Hell no I will never go back there ever.
I once quit so dramatically that the shockwaves lasted for months. Luckily, I had many friends in the organization who kept me abreast of developments. My favorite story was that, because I walked out with only a few minutes warning, I forgot that I left a bottled fruit smoothie in the "executive" refrigerator. Two weeks later, the smoothie bloated and exploded, covering the inside of the fridge with foul-smelling purple gunk. Professionals had to be called to clean it up. Horrible Boss declared that I had done it on purpose and she would sue (she didn't). I remember saying, "Today I became an Evil Genius."
This comment deserves a million likes. I laughed so hard. Thank u for sharing
🤣 😂 🤣 Love this!!!
🤣🤣🤣🫐💦
Love this
Question: What smoothie was in the bottle and what type of bottle was it? 🤔🤫
WOW 😳 This makes me appreciate my boss so much. When my grandpa passed away she gave me an entire week of paid leave, sent me a really nice letter, and a $50 gas card to help pay for all the driving I had to do while planning the funeral. She will regularly pull me into her office to encourage me and mentor me on how to start my own business. Anytime I’m not feeling well or struggling with home life, she tells me to go home because life is more important and she’ll pay me for a full day regardless of what time I had to leave. She also bought me Rich Dad Poor Dad the other day, “just because” 🥺 And those are just the things I can think of off the top of my head haha. Best boss ever. I hope all of these people find a boss like mine. It makes all the difference in the world.
I was a manager like that. Little things like when an employee fainted I found out she hadn't been able to afford her iron pills so I gave her money for them. One girl had to leave ten minutes early on Sundays or else she had to wait another hour for a bus- I was glad to let her go early. I always had a tea party and cake for birthdays. To this day I run into former workers, and kids who did work experience, and they loved their time there. My actual boss/the owner was a different story though, sadly.
I've also been self employed and I have paid casual labour very well and always bought them lunch as you can't just assume that people can afford to eat properly, especially when they are casual.
I recently started my own business and when I get to the point that I hire employees, I strive to be a leader (rather than a boss) like that. She sounds like a wonderful person!
Is she hiring? 😊
See, this is what management SHOULD be like. Remember your employees are human beings and foster their talent, make them feel like they matter cuz they DO matter. Company doesn't function without employees.
Your lucky!!
Amd remember, keep meticulous records, so you can take the business down with you. I did…it felt amazing to watch then lose all their contracts and then lose the ability to enter into new contracts. Big thanks to my helpers at the Chicago Tribune and OSHA, as without them, my former employer would still be knee deep in deaths, broken bones, and injured employees. May the business never recover.
I nearly lost it at the "venti butthole" bit. As a former starbucks employee that hit me somewhere painful lmao
Also that doctor's note was disgusting. He shouldn't even have to ask, the note should be demanding time off, and stating that if time off isn't given he'd back the employee in a lawsuit against the company or something. Honestly, thats why doctors are starting to rebel against doctors notes lol Its a gigantic waste of everyones time and fills up waiting rooms. Especially now when filling up waiting rooms is a worse idea.
I absolutely agree with this comment. Not to mention, damed near everyone know someone who's company demands sick notes, and then some random member of middle management says "if you're not too sick to go to the doctor, you're not too sick to go to work" 🙄
@@victoriashevlin8587 the irony is if I'm fine enough to slug it out on public transit to get to the doctor I may as well go to work. I mean what if I'm contagious with a virus or something, way to make me spread contagious illness to fellow transit riders just cause bossman suffers from crippling paranoia hahahaha they should get therapy instead of making me and the rest of the world deal with it
@@victoriashevlin8587 Where i'm from all companies demand "sick notes" and that's totally normal. It's a standardized form. You get one copy for your employer and one for your health insurance to make sure you get paid. But if "sick notes" in the US are just letters from your doctor, than I find that weird.
@@SD-ed8is Same in Germany. And the employer doesn’t get to know what you‘ve got.
@@JustKelso1993 If they are absent that often fire them. Its still not the doctors problem. Employers should have to pay for them out of their own pocket if they require one. $100 for the doctors time. And an additional $50 fee for being a strain on the healthcare system by encouraging disease spread. Society shouldn't have to pay for it.
My husband was working for Office Depot during the first year of our marriage. He was offered a position that would have had hours completely opposite of mine. Basically we would never see each other. He turned it down because we wanted to, oh you know see each other. His supervisor was offended that he would prioritize his wife over his job. So, she scheduled him for the same hours as the position he turned down out of spite. We typically had lunch together because our jobs were within a mile. So that day he had me pick him up for lunch and drive him home instead of going back in to work. When his supervisor called him after two hours to ask if he was coming back in he told her exactly why he left. She tried to use the threat of never being able to work for the company again due to no notice but he obviously doesn't care. He still loves the fact that he can't work there 20 years later. Lol
Many years ago I had a boss who was so utterly lacking in compassion I wanted to slap him. My sister’s long term partner passed away over a weekend from cancer when she was only 39. First thing Monday I went to see my boss to tell him I’d need 2 days off for the funeral (I lived a few hundred miles away from my sister so it wasn’t like I could get there & back in a day) - I explained the situation to him & the very first thing he said was “well they weren’t married so you don’t qualify for compassionate leave”. I hadn’t actually asked for compassionate leave but the fact he said that made me so angry. They weren’t married because civil partnerships or marriage for same sex couples still weren’t legal. So, I took a step back from his desk & in as loud a voice as possible (without shouting) said “ok, so you’re saying that if my sister & her partner had been straight & therefore allowed to marry I would qualify for compassionate leave but because they were a gay couple you’re denying it? Fine, just put all that into an email for me so I have a written record of what you’ve said”. My boss worked in an open plan office so ALL the other senior managers & directors heard our exchange. I’ve never had a manager backpedal what they’ve said so damn fast.
HELL YEAH! GET HIS ASS
I used to work at a mall doing janitorial duties. The main part of the job was to mind the area of the food court. Make sure the tables were wiped, food swept up off the floor and trash bins emptied as needed. The boss lady was this twitchy thing who wouldn't even look at you when she spoke. Henceforth known as "Twitchy". I have a very hard time with eye contact and I feel super wierd doing it like staring someone down. But Twitchy would literally look up in the air or talk while looking to the side. She would even turn her back to you and talk. If you walked up to her, she would turn aside. This was odd enough, but she had a very odd demand. The little brooms we had were these short flimsy things that paired with a little rolling dustpan (Janitors, you know the ones. Brown plastic bins with wheels, a flat edge for sweeping stuff into. On a little black handle. They flip up when you pick them up.) If you worked there, you HAD to have your broom/dustpan kit with you AT ALL TIMES! I was wiping tables and leaned mine against the wall nearby. Here comes Twitchy huffing over. She snatches up the broom and dustpan and thrusts it at me. "You can never set this down! Someone may trip on it!!" and walks off. I look around at ALL the people there after closing time.. Yep.
One day I'm told to go empty trash. I didn't even take the broom & dustpan with me. I took the bin and began to collect the trash. About 3 trash cans in, I see her furiously marching toward me, carrying that damn broom and dustpan. "YOU CAN NOT JUST LEAVE THIS SITTING!" The jans it into my chest, literally hitting me with it. "HOLD ONTO IT!" I Got loud myself and asked "How the hell do I wipe tables and change trashbags with these stupid things in my hands?!" Her response was "I don't care! YOU figure it out!" And stormed off.
The mall was a two level place. Again, you know how these places are. the lower level is solid floor, while the upper level has openings with railing around them. Well this mall had thick tempered glass panels about 4 feet high, below a metal railing. OH you already know the nightmare that was with all the little brats smushing their funky, sticky hands and faces all over them..
The final straw came the night Twitchy told me to go clean the OUTSIDES of those glass barriers. I told her that I can't reach all the way down. She said "Just lean over! Hop up on them and hang if you have to. Just DO IT!" Yeah, Just lean over a rail with a 20 foot drop on the other side.. SURE! I went back to the supply room, made a phone call, picked up my broom and dustpan. Went back into her office and dropped them on her desk, spilling her cup of venty grandy foo-foo-frappi what the fucko (Large coffee with creamer. It was Large. Coffee. With creamer.) all over her desk. This was the first time the bitch looked at me. I looked her in the eye and said "Do it yourself. I quit. Good luck explaining to OSHA the demands you just made. I just called them." I walked out.
I heard from other employees that she was fired a month later.
Wow we live in a society 🤦♀️
Hope you have a better job
@@WildArtistsl Yep. Now I drive a van for special needs kids.
I still sweep floors and clean glass though but instead of a mall, it's a Dodge Caravan.
@@Cammi_Rosalie i am so glad you do better have a great life my dear
I refuse places I know don't treat their employees well. We should definitely make it more known.
This comment needs more likes, customers and clients have the power to change corporate culture!
@@djshockafrica4330 I hear yeah.... hopefully people realize that amazon is one of these horrible companies!
Then the employees won’t get their money sadly
@@springlocks9067 This is something people tell themselves to feel good about themselves when they support abusive companies.
Let's say a small town has 1k people drinking coffee every morning and all you have is 2 coffee shops and bunch of Starbucks. If noone goes to Starbucks, guess what happens to them? They close.
Guess what happens to small shops that have people lining up in front? They open another shop because they have a place and revenue because Starbucks isn't there anymore.
As long as there is demand for service, jobs will inevitably be generated. The job markets crashing is when the demand for service goes down, not when large companies do.
@@valesth4903 exactly! When people are mindful of their dollar (or what have you) then we get to set the game up in our favour. Not these companies!
When I was a manager my motto was always "Family comes before work". Sadly, I have worked for crap bosses like this too, notice I used the past tense form of work. No job is worth putting your family on hold. There is a saying too that you don't look for a new job, you look for a new boss. A bad boss can kill a company.
My husband is an IT guy, this year he said "enough is enough" and quitted his job (he already had a new nicer one when he quitted) but he felt bad about quitting a job he's had for the last 6 years, in all those years he hasn't had a holiday, had to work crazy hours, no overtime pay, the boss actually expected my husband to work during our honeymoon... And here, this guy actually felt guilty for wanting a better job. He's never been happier and less stressed out than since he quitted and when they gave him a bonus for fixing a problem during a crisis in his new job he cried. That's what companies do to their workers, they break really gifted people
You are so right....they break the good and talented ones. It is just unimaginable on why they do this!!
The past tense of quit is still quit. Weird, I know.
It's "quit" his job, not quitted. Sorry, I don't pretend to be great with grammar. I make mistakes all the time. Probably made some in this lol. I just wanted to let you know. ;)
@@tyffaneelavely8087 as I stated above, both are correct, I just prefer quitted better (you can look it up, it's fine)
I worked at a surf shop for a few months. I quit when the AC went out and the owner refused to fix it. It was August. In Florida. We were required to wear masks and every day included several trips up and down the stairs while carrying large boxes of merchandise. It got to the point that it was cooler outside than inside. IN FLORIDA. A few months later, the owner fired the rockstar of a manager (who was the only reason I considered staying) and the entire staff walked out. You can’t expect people to be loyal to you when you treat them like animals.
You'll be pleased to know that Mr Cake is still going although due to the pandemic he's had to offer brownies by mail...and he's sold out of them right now!!
I'm so glad to hear that ☺
His social media hasn't been updated since 2019 (Twitter) or 2020 (FB and IG), so it appears he is now out of business :( But well done him for a successful 7 years up until the pandemic hit. I wish him well and hope he can come back fighting!
It's an employees market right now, everywhere. Don't keep putting up with abusive crap! And we definitely cannot let it go back to how it has been
100%
Ending the pre-boomers and boomers crap 👏
I can’t agree more!!!
So many of us waisted way too much time working for toxic employers
My boss brought me to tears several times
I never called in sick or came late but he blamed me for everything and often streamed in my face
One time saying if you call in sick tomorrow your going to regret it
I once worked as a part of a maintenance team in a hotel.
Our department was sorely understaffed. There were supposed to be 7 of us, but there was only 3.
The management decided to cut costs, by reducing our department down to just 1 of us.
We were told that whoever could prove themselves the most loyal, would keep their job.
We had a month to do it in.
Within a couple of weeks, we all found new jobs, and quite on the same day.
There was a lot of information needed for any new crew maintenance employee. Which we never left.
We also restricted a few water valves, so the rooms would keep running out of water.
Apparently it took them a long time to get any permanent replacement staff.
The water issues took more than two years before it was fixed.
They ended up having to keep getting in external contractors.
It cost them a lot more money, than if they had continued to employ us, or even employ a full crew.
They ended up selling up in the end.
I left a job I loved because we were understaffed to the point where we were working 50+ hour weeks. My boss and his boss thought it was fine that no one in my department could go on vacation or be sick without the rest of us working overtime. We were "optimally staffed" and "whining" about six day work weeks, while being told to "avoid overtime." My coworker gave them five months notice that she was going on maternity leave, and in those five months, all they did was fire our department head and not replace him. Instead, we suddenly had to cross train a different department to use a program we took college courses to learn, and then babysit them while trying to make deadlines. All while being told we were "negative" and "not team players" and "it's not so bad" and "why did you miss deadline by three minutes, this is unacceptable." We never could take breaks, we ate at our desks while working.
The final straw for me was putting in all those hours just for my boss to give my coworker with the least seniority the day off for Christmas, but I was expected to be there. I gave him my two weeks, and our third coworker refused to work, so my boss had to come in, on Christmas Day, and do my job with a program he didn't know. I hear it's still just as bad for that department, so I guess he didn't learn a damn thing.
So I got Covid a few months back. The day after I sent my boss my paper from the doctor. Every single day he called and texted me asking if I was coming back. He had to cover the main store since I wasn't there and all maintenance had to stop. On my first day back, he started yelling at me. I turned around and left. When I got home I emailed him, all the co-workers, and all the businesses we do maintenance for. I called him out for every single thing he did when I worked there and how I was harassed when I was on a regimen of meds for covid when I was supposed to be resting. All the places except for two canceled their maintenance contracts.
Another great video to start my day.
Edited for spelling issues
I worked with a toxic manager before, she had to have everything her way, she put us down and bullied us. I remember calling the district manager and letting them know how horrible she was. She left the company a month later. I found out that the DM gave her two choices, either quit or he was going to fire her. She still doesn't know it was me that complained about her. There were other co workers that felt the same way, but were too afraid to say anything.
Wow, you must have clout!
@Elizabeth, good for you! I had to do the same thing and I am not worried about standing up for myself too. You can only take so much and then it's time to let them know you don't go to work to put up with their bullshit. Kudos!
I once had a boss who said that I wasn't allowed to go out of town . . . on my days off. This was a retail job where I was the assistant manager and she was the store manager. But the honest truth was that she was too lazy to do her job properly. Instead of trying to work out schedules that would help the workers get more hours, she just hired more people. She talked about people behind their backs, tried to start drama between the workers, and even doctored the hours she worked. I tried to keep things as above board as I could, but eventually I had too much and quit. I found out about two months later that she was telling all the customers who asked where I was that I had died. Thankfully now I work for a small company that cares about their employees and have an awesome boss who truly cares about her staff, so much so that she actually tells me to work LESS when she thinks I am overwhelming myself.
kudos!
I'm so glad I have a good boss. He's always treated me so well. When I had to fly back to the UK at the last minute (around New Year's) to see my dad in the hospital because he was dying, he let me take 3 weeks off just like that. There was also one time a while ago where we had a storm that knocked out electricity in my complex for several days, forcing us to throw out all of our food. He gave me $100 to get new groceries when we got power restored. That was so sweet of him, I didn't expect that at all.
I’ve been a leader in several environments (retail, warehouse, banking, military) and never in my life would I behave like some of these “managers”! That is what happens when you promote someone beyond their abilities. A leader is there to make the employees job easier not harder.
I got fired once for not firing an employee my boss wanted gone and instead firing the employee that was a cancer to the team. He fired her after firing me which resulted in a mass exodus of employees AND customers just like I tried to explain to him. His boss fired him two months later due to the underperforming branch. Smh
Oh I have so many of these stories..
One of my bosses didn't understand why I needed time off because my mother died, and was even angrier that I needed time off to attend her out of state funeral. He kept saying he didn't understand why I was so upset, because when his brother died he wasn't "emotional over it". He was an asshole, and was eventually fired.
Sounds like karma answered the question for him. So sorry you had to deal with that guy at such a hard time.
As a member of the military, I definitely lived vicariously through this video. Lol. The ability to quit instead of waiting for a contract to end would have been absolutely amazing in quite a few positions I've had.
I felt the same when I was in. Now I look at my DD214 with an evil grin every day. F*** staff duty 😂😂😂😂
@@itsgabbieagain I had to look that up to see what it meant, then I laughed pretty hard. Thanks.
The brain surgery / death in the family stories aside (absolutely inexcusable), I have witnessed, first hand, as many "bad employee" or "bad co-worker" stories as "bad manager" stories. Over the years I have worked all ends of the spectrum. I once had to fire a frazzled young man for closing the hospital snack shop early, with a long line of people telling them "My finals are more important than your cancer issues".
This young man had many redeeming qualities, but customer service wasn't one of them. When I met with him to let him go. He said "Oh thank God; I really hate people!" and then he hugged me.
So yes, there are bad managers, but there are also bad employees and toxic co-workers. But mostly, not every job is a good fit for a workers skill set or their personality...people often miss their calling for the sake of a paycheck which makes for miserable people at jobs they hate.
STORY TIME
I worked for a small company (literally 2 older women) doing legal transcription for about 8 months before it went to hell. At first they were so impressed with my MAD SKILLS that they paid to have me certified within 2 months so I could do the more discretionary cases that were not accessible by the public.
I still miss the work. It was SO BADASS.
Everything went great until it slipped in casual chit-chat that I had started taking antidepressants and that they were making me feel better. They immediately started treating me differently and started telling me that they'd noticed in the past month or two that my work had been of poor quality... I hadn't even been taking them for that long.
One morning I was about 5 minutes late to the office. They knew I had issues with nausea in the morning, and they had never had a problem with me being late before (I would just end my lunch 10 minutes early and get back to work, which never bothered me as I owed them 5-10 min and I loved my work). But this morning was different. First thing the owner said to me was that this was unacceptable and that I wasn't going to be working that day. I turned to leave without a word and she screeched that she wasn't done. I said "well I am" and left.
I got some nasty texts from my coworker who ended up COMING TO MY HOUSE to collect my key. She stood outside my door, arms crossed with an angry stare that I can only compare to a livid grandmother ready to scold. Handed her the key without a word and shut the door behind me before she could say anything.
Never went back, but did get a voicemail AND email (several months apart) within the next 6-8 months BEGGING ME TO COME BACK. Lol, fuck no
That's disgusting! It's also the reason I would still make up a physical illness to excuse time off needed for mental health issues and appointments rather than be honest. It's getting better, more people are becoming better educated but it's still pot luck as to whether it will be considered "acceptable". Only if the management has had personal experience with mental illnesses is it usually treated with care and understanding. People can be moronically judgemental twats. As someone whose had cancer and clinical depression I can say unequivocally I'd rather deal with cancer than severe depression! Antidepressants are no different to someone taking epileptic or heart medication! You wouldn't j7dge someone for taking those, it wouldn't even be a consideration 🙄
I hope you are in better employment and a better head space now. From so one who gets it all too well... zero judgement, just hugs and complete understanding 🤗
When your bosses are Karens 🤦🏻♀️ This raised my blood pressure. So glad you’re out of there!
I’m sorry that happened to you. Ignorant People are ridiculous.
@@SquirrelThis oh man, I'm on epileptic meds and have been unable to work because of some of the side effects. We have as much judgment here as I had for the antidepressants. The ignorance flows far and wide
@@kp-fc4yr Damn, I can't believe there is still a stigma around epilepsy! People have quickly forgotten that saying... do not judge, lest you be judged.
I truly love it when employers think they can dictate your life, yes they pay you but that's it.
none of them are paying these people enough, life is a cost benefit situation and employers are losing
Yes there are some employers who think they own you.
I hate the saying "You can do that on your own time" that I've found common throughout my decades. M$%$%$F$^$^$^, every second of my life is "MY OWN TIME"!!!! my instance is looking at my cellphone .... one single time .... in 2 years of employment. Id never do it but it had been vibrating like crazy for 10 minutes in my pocket over and over ...obviously an emergency, though I understand the boss didn't know, but I grabbed it out of pocket saying "WTf is going on?" ... as soon as I started reading boss chimes "you can do that on your own time". First message "Babe I'm pregnant and freaking out". Yeah .... so I read the texts out in a BOOMING (like on a stage doing a play) voice the messages about abortion, adoption , keep baby ... etc for all employees and customers to enjoy. Then turned and said ...maybe .... just maybe ... I should cut out early.
The money doesn't come out of their pockets
Yeahh and even then they're paying for a sliver of your time and life, not your person🤣 that 'loyaltyculture' is veeery toxic
I just LOVE the ones where the whole staff quits, locks the store and takes the keys. The (ex)bosses should be grateful they didn't just walk out and leave the place wide open.
The sheer audacity of the boss asking for a doctor's note for a brain surgery is unbelievable. I worked at two extremely toxic workplaces and it almost ruined my mental health. No job in the world is worth it. The first horrible job was at a lawyers office. She did not want to give me a day off to attend the funeral of my grandmother stating, that mourning is the most selfish of all feelings, because it is only self-pity! That shocked me so much! I called in sick the next morning and quit a few weeks later after I found another job.
when I was a single mom working at a brewery in the middle of my shift, my mom and my infant daughter were in a car accident and had the EMTs call me from my mom's phone to get my permission to transfer my daughter to the ER to check if she was ok. I told my boss this and she told me I couldn't leave until my replacement for the night shift got there. that was 2 hours away while trying to serve people and not lose my mind stressing about my daughter.
I worked at a wonderful place for 8 years, but I changed departments and got a new boss. I was out of there within 9 months because he was so terrible. After I’d been there for maybe a month, he told me he was shocked I made so much money considering I “didn’t have a technical background” (like my 10 years of IT experience didn’t outweigh my four year psychology degree). I was an incredible employee and put a lot of my life into that place, but it was clear that he didn’t care about any of that and just wanted me fall in line with all his other panderers. No thanks, I’ll go somewhere I’m appreciated.
There's so many things I could say about one of my first jobs, but I'll mention this one thing. I use to work at a factory with a day and afternoon shift. The day shift were a bunch of stuck up snobs. We're talking a low paying factory, so for anybody to be stuck up shows you how pathetic things were there. Why were they snobby to us lowly afternoon shift? Well it's because they were on the same shift as the office people and people in charge. The day shift acted as if they were rich money and we were the maids. About 6 months before I started there, the company bought these expensive chairs that could contoured to the way we liked them. The day shift though, acted as if they owned the chairs. Most put their names on the chairs in marker and about 50% of the set the chair to the position they liked and proceeded to steal to parts needed to changed how the chair was set. We lowly people working the afternoon shift were a smart bunch of people. We use tools to reset the chairs to how we liked them and most of the time the day shift no longer had the pieces the fix the chair so they would have to resort to doing what we did. The last straw was when we started coming into work and finding rude notes, telling us to stop screwing with the chairs. I, being the biggest guy there proceeded to help people on the afternoon shift fix the chairs to how they liked them, but I set them so tightly it was impossible to reset them. We also took a chemical we used on an everyday basis to remove magic marker and removed the names on the chairs and moved the chairs to different places. Suck it, day shift!
I work in a low paying factory now, and the day shift also does things like that. I wonder if that's just a dayshift thing. My factory doesn't even have a supervisor on my shift, so they get to run to the supervisor, HR, AND the plant manager with their complaints. While we run a skeleton crew with none of that.
Hey! Thanks for featuring me 🙂 I’ve visited Canada and absolutely loved it! Hope to be back there soon. All the best, Mr Cake 😁
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In my early twenties I was a single mom of one little boy. I worked at a factory which paid decent. I was able to take care of us alone with no financial help from anyone else. It was hard work and hot as hell. I worked there for 9 yrs. they had a crazy policy about being late & missing days. They had a point system when you get so many like 7 you’re fired. Twenty years later and I still have nightmares that I’m a minute late for work & get fired because yes you clock in 1 minute late you get a point.
They started this policy where I work. No exceptions for excessive traffic, stopped by train, or anything else. How are you suppose to do the job (customer service) when you are so stressed and aggravated about things you can't control? Late days (even 1 minute), sick days, emergency surgery....all get you points. 7 and you are fired! Supervisors just say their "following orders." No one cares about mental health....though they talk a good game. PS...in US study found people take average of 14 sick says a year. ?!?!
when i quit my last job I only held out because of my boss and co-workers, the customers are what pushed me to leave, especially during the pandemic I couldn't take getting yelled at for things I couldn't control anymore
YES!!!! I still work in an environment where the customers are the most toxic part of my job. Why i am getting yelled at! We are all overworked and tired- to the point of crying at the end of every shift-, and people think its ok to take their anger out on us!
@@eliz_pharmfraz4486 right?? honestly my anxiety was through the roof because of how toxic some customers would be, and unfortunately the amount of good customers we did have never could out-weigh the bad ones :(
Why do you take the yelling and not react as a normal person would and demand respect? Like you would with anyone else (neighbours, friends, children). Is it because the company policy is to pamper the paying customer so not to loose business?
@@neliaferreira9983 ding ding ding!!!! “Customer is always right”….🙄… they even give gift cards to the toxic customers when an employee stands up for themselves
@@neliaferreira9983 cause yelling back doesn't solve anything, also just because I didn't stoop to their level of degradement doesn't mean I didn't stand my ground. I would rebuttal and tell them facts they didnt want to hear in a respectable manner. i was lucky enough to have a boss that had my back. however despite all that, the constant bickering, yelling, and finger pointing just all got to be too much.
Thank God I left Amazon. Working as a Technical Support Representative was okay, at some points, I rank top 1 in Amazon global service, but no thank yous were ever given, no financial incentives. We should work like "slaves" as what one director told us. My manager was such an evil, fake, manipulative person. Amazon hates managers who were pro-employees. And when I had Covid, I was left in the dust.
That was my last straw.
So I left, quit, and collected the rest of my salary.
I used up my savings to continue my studies, and now I'm a Registered Chemist.
I'm now studying my way up on becoming a Registered Chemical Engineer, then a Licensed Teacher. God help me..
All I can say to those people who hate their jobs, who hate their bosses - quit and take a leap of faith.
Goodluck! I was also a former Amazon Customer Service Representative. The pay wasn't worth it and I quit effective immediately. Found a new Customer Service Representative work from another company that is less stressful and pays almost double than what I had with Amazon 😅.
I got a question as someone who is autistic Amazon would be a terrible place to work right?
This was so satisfying to watch. It's okay to stand up to your employers. They're just a company and there are many more out there that treat their employees like humans. I found one recently and I love my job. I have stood up to managers before and it further proved how powerless and immature they really are. Put yourself first.
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As soon as that image came on screen, I was thinking "Damm, hopefully that cake decorator is appreciated by their employer!" That's absolutely insane, the precision. I can't even write that evenly on lined paper! Good for him, I hope his cake business continues to flourish! Absolutely love the self promo in there, too! You go mr.cake!
I worked at a store called Lerner back in the late 80s. It was in a mall and there was a sidewalk sale going on. Our district mgr had come in "to help" and had piled a ton of purses on a table outside and I was the one who had to attempt to keep them straightened up. Purses do not stay straightened up on a table during a sidewalk sale on a holiday weekend, no matter how much you try to keep at it. I finally just gave up trying if people were looking and pawing through them and would fix it after they left. This wasn't good enough for the DM...after she came out and looked at it twice she told me I needed to keep it straight, to which I said it was impossible when people were constantly looking through them. She said I could "stay and conform or get my purse and leave" I hope she had fun keeping that table straight!
I used to be a DVM in a low-cost clinic. I was constantly wrangling with the practice management, who were pretty much clueless on how people were to be led and how a practice had to be run. Eventually they stopped listening to me, decided to change from walk-ins to appointments without telling anyone, including me. My resignation letter went out that evening. I should add that during my time there we had not one but two other DVMs walk off the job, which is practically unheard of my profession. After I left they couldn't keep any DVMs for more than a few months but they STILL didn't figure out why!
I love how in a lot of these videos, people are advocating for their mental and physical health!
8:05 Earlier this month, Portugal banned employers from contacting their employees after working hours... so there...!
I'm moving to Portugal
I love it when everyone decides to quit together 😂
Charlotte, this is one of the most emotionally satisfying videos you have ever made - and one that should be used for mental health maintenance. I WISH you could make it into a recurring series! If you only knew the horrors that employers visit upon their employees - in our 'polite' and 'civilized' Canada just as much as in the US...
BTW, it is not by accident that e.g. in Ontario, something like 89% of all legal complaints against employers are filed with the Ontario Ministry of Labour only AFTER the employee has quit. Most people are so afraid of their managers - and the Ministry is so lacking in enforcing even the most basic laws - that people are absolutely terrified of raising their voice. Of course, the fact that the Ministry's standard process is to respond to every complaint (I am not making this up!) by automatically contacting the employer and asking them to resolve the problem in an extrajudicial manner doesn't help either...
Love this. Great to hear the Starbucks crowd clap after the song. PS my dr has been pushing me to deal with a mass in my pituatary. Yikes didn't realize it was so serious. Just scheduled my MRI that I have been avoiding. Thanks for the warning and all the laughs
are you ok now?
I'm sad. Mr. Cake seems to have been affected by the pandemmy. I went to the website, and everything was Out of Stock. Then, a pop-up showed up that had the title New in 2020. Bless him. I hope he's doing well in spite of what seems to be a setback.
Maybe he works on commission only? Apparently a lot of small cake companies do that and it would make sense. Or maybe he just does in person sales. I hope that's the case.
Same
Wasn't the cake dated 2013? 7 or 8 years is pretty good for a new business. Let's hope he's still doing what he loves.
Damn some of the brownies looked amazing.
Yeah, good luck to Mr Cake - he seems talented and witty!
The amount of bosses out here trying to work their workers to literal death is sickening and not in the cute way.
I hope a lot of rich people lose their money to real hard working americans
I really love when people collectively quit and stand up for their selves. "Work sucks" but it doesn't have to be miserable. I remember being spoken to and treated like a dog. (Head cashier would snap her fingers at me and point to direct me to do things). I quit that job as soon as I found another one.
I used to work security for a large company that would send you to different sites. I spent about a year at one, then a year at another. I learned the difference between a good boss and a bad boss.
Good boss: wouldn't call to see if we could cover call offs, but had a system in place. If a person called off, there was a person written on the schedule ahead of time whose day it was to stay 4 hours late to cover with an extra break added in. There would be another person who would be on call to come in 4 hours early. Each person only had one of these a week, and it was scheduled in advance so you could plan to either be up early or have to stay late. If the person who was on call to come in early was also sick (happened once) the boss would come in and cover those 4 hours himself. Great guy.
Bad boss: would just go down the phone tree calling everyone to come in. Refused to cover anyone else's shift (especially if it was 3rd shift). When I suggested the good boss's tactic, he laughed and said it would never work. He frequently left other shifts short handed because he'd refuse to cover them, but would expect us to drop everything or pick up in the middle of our sleep schedule to come in and cover. If no one could cover, the previous shift had to stay the for the next shift (working a 16) or be written up for abandoning their post (that can get you fired)
I worked 23 years at a local factory as an engineer. New management came in. Was working 60 hours a week salaried. 90 percent of time was wasted on useless red tape. Was told my workload would be doubled because my partner was being assigned to another team. Came in 5:00am on a Monday, left a note saying I quit - do not contact me. Walked out with my stuff. Boss was fired two weeks later.
I am so lucky to have the best employers. I got laid off during covid and then officially let go a few months later and I sort of accidentally stumbled into the job posting for my current job and it was a match made in heaven. I was/am the perfect candidate for the role and my bosses are freaking incredible. So kind and understanding and generous with pay and time off. I'm making the most money I've ever made in a non managerial role and I like the work that I do. Even today I am watching this early because one of my bosses likes to have the day after Thanksgiving off (which is not traditional in our business generally) so she made a holiday for just her and me. I get the day before Thanksgiving off paid and she gets the day after off. It's freaking amazing. I could tell stories of toxic bosses/workplaces all day but I like the positive tone this comment ended up taking. Happy American Thanksgiving to all and have a great day.
I don't even know your boss and i already love her.
I stumbled into a similar situation after years of terrible jobs/bosses/etc. It is so amazing to me that being happy at a job, making enough money to survive, AND being able to take time off as needed is such a rare thing. But it is incredibly wonderful when it happens!
These make me so grateful for my job and my current supervisor. I've been with the company almost 14 year, and it wasn't great the first few years, but I stuck with it, and upper management listened to the employees, and things have improved in the last seven or so years, particularly after some toxic coworkers and a really bad supervisor left the company. I'm so glad I endured and stayed for the great benefits and stability because things are great now, and I am finally getting the recognition and promotion I have worked so hard for.
The doctors note! Story time: I worked at a BK when pregnant with my first baby. At 36 weeks, I was still working 40 hours (this was right before minimum wage jobs cut employees just below full time to squeeze through the Obamacare loophole). After 6 straight hours without so much as a bathroom break, I began going into preterm labor. LABOR. Thankfully when I left for my “break” and went to the hospital, my labor was able to be stopped. I STILL had to bring in my discharge papers to avoid a write up for not returning to work….while in fucking labor.
That cake resignation was flawless. The writing was perfect. For sure
I'm 35 yrs old and I have had literally ONE good boss! Mark I miss you dude! 🥺 I also had a boss try to fight me in front of my nursing home patients while I was pregnant. The administration could not seem to figure out the high turn over rate! 🤦♀️ I had several other bosses either fire me or treat me like shit till I quit bc I wouldn't sleep with them!
I tried to give my two weeks notice at a QuickChek (gas station chain that has a huge store) because I was graduating from college and needed to study for my board exams (I'm in the medical field). The manager told me to my face that I wouldn't be able to find a job, and told me to stop being unrealistic.
This was after putting up with him for months changing my shifts - making me work nights instead of days, and I wouldn't find out until I showed up for my original shift. Working 60 hours a week and being underpaid.
Needless to say I walked out and never answered his phone calls when I didn't show up for my shift the next day.
I found out later that he ended up being demoted and sent back to his original branch. Karma is a bitch.
Oh America. The fact that you think that this bullshit is normal breaks my heart. This is disgusting, I'm British and while not perfect our NHS healthcare system is fantastic. You should NOT have to pay/go into debt/lose your job just because you become unwell.
I'm so sorry that you live in a country like this.
She is in Canada....
There is a saying that says people do not quit jobs they quit managers. Every time I have ever left the position it’s because the management above me were abusive incompetent insulting and powermad.
I quit because of coworkers, not my manager.
I walked out of my job as my boss would not let me have two days off to travel 340 miles round trip to my grandads funeral. (When HR had already signed off my holiday. He told me no the day before the funeral). He wanted me to just have a day and go there and back which would have meant spent spending no time with my grieving Nan and me arriving home in the middle of the night and then working next day. I walked out, when he said he could find more like me. I told him to do it then. FYI, he didn’t and asked me back with a pay rise. I did a couple of months and then left for a better job anyway so everything was on my terms
1:37 ☕ "sorry...VENTI bumhole..." 🤣 ☠ ⚰
I have been put in that position of being texted or emailed outside of work hours way too often, especially late at night. I can see the need in certain emergency situations, but it should never be a regular thing. Thankfully my the labour board in my province just recently made it illegal for employers to do so. I almost cried tears of joy.
The job I'm retired from, in 2005, had us working 12 to 14+ hours for eight months straight with no days off approved. Due to the nature of the job no labor laws applied and were fully embraced by management. We averaged two ambulances a day from physically and mentally exhausted coworkers being hauled away. For a place that management bragged, "This ain't our first rodeo." was always disorganized and shortsighted... And the employees took what management dealt. Curious, they never once felt that they were being insane. I had dreams of quitting, like the amazing singer at the beginning. That was just beautiful!
Oh my, I was at a hotel where an average of one housekeeper a month had a nervous breakdown. I worked another 7 hours on the day I tore the cartilage off my ribs, then they kept calling me in to work for 2 hours a day until I couldn't take the pain anymore- they pulled the 'letting the team down' thing. Honestly
@@Chahlie - Yeah... That sounds about right. Human Resources until the resources are used up.
People who are anti union hate me, but THIS IS WHY we need unions. Some people have had bad experiences with their union and then believe they are all the same. They aren't. And if you do feel you aren't being represented, how many union meetings did you attend? How many union elections did you vote in? Sometimes you have to insist your steward/union rep listen to you and advocate for you.
I agree, just to bad that union members let the power go to their head when they move up and this bad boss cycle continues.
Exactly. I could have used a union at some of my jobs. The one job I did have with a union was a govt job that you practically would have had to run down your manager in the parking lot to get fired. Go figure. 😂
Unions are only good if they have performance standards, like skilled crafts and trades. If you screw up as an electrician, for instance, you're OUT! Teachers unions don't have that. I've had classes where they show movies all year and just phone it in, waiting to run out the clock for retirement and pension. They're basically useless.
Watch the bit about Unions from Last Week Tonight 👍
I live in Sweden and I don’t understand how people in the US can just get fired like that *snaps fingers*, it’s so not okey! We got unions for all types of jobs here and if you are in one, you boss CAN NOT just fire you. You have it kinda as a safety net and I think that should be something everyone, no matter what country, should have. I can only imagine how much it would suck to having to go to work everyday, your boss threats you like shit and you can’t do anything about it cuz you might get fired for it. It’s insanity!
11:02 the fact that they wrote their resignation letter on cake is truly astonishing
Not a revenge story, but one thing I was happy to do to my last boss before retiring. She had a tendency to call people in to work overtime...after shift was over, on holidays, etc. Thing was, we used to get stand-by pay, but it was discontinued for our group years before.
After a couple of times, I just stopped answering my phone...ESPECIALLY when I was off. But before retiring, I stopped answering my phone even while I was still on-duty. The best part was I wouldn't even respond to her the next time I saw her in person about why I didn't answer. She eventually got the hint.....
Meanwhile every news outlet in America - "Shocking to see that graphs show an all time high in employee's quitting, but no one knows why"
Yeah I don’t know how the boss could get away with denying sick leave requests especially when it comes from a professional Dr. The employee should’ve reported it or sued. 2 + requests denied is outrageous and could’ve caused this individual permanent damage that I highly doubt the boss or management would want to reimburse back lifelong!
The fact that co workers of the last one went with whoever was told that "cancer isn't an excuse" and went with them. They stood by each other which I found amazing
Seeing all of these makes me SO grateful I work for an amazing boss and an incredible company who treats their employees amazingly!
My sister and I worked at different bookstores owned by the same parent company. My manager had wildly conflicting "rules" to the point that no matter what I did I got threatened with firing daily. Part of her rules required us to complete tasks after clocking out (I never did them because I refuse to work for free). I walked out on day when she threatened to fire me for an absurd reason.
She was later transferred to my sister's store. My sister was a key holder and had been there for two years. A month of working with this lady and my sister walked out too.
Oh God, I had a job where I was specifically asked to do something while on my way out the door at night. I put in for the extra half hour of overtime. The next day the manager and the assistant manager stood over me while I changed my time card. Where is the hidden camera when you need it? Honestly, doing that to a full grown person....
I LOVE IT!!! worked at WM and just got back from my LOA and was on my first break and said to myself wtf are you doing? I went to the manager and said I quit. He said I had to write a letter of resignation. So I wrote on a piece of paper. I'm writing my letter of resignation. Yep thats it, thats all she wrote, I was out of there. I inspired serval of my co-workers to quite in the next week. Its been 3 years and I'm poor but so very happy. No one really understands the mental abuse that goes on in these places. When your a dime a dozen i guess it doesn't matter you treat your employees as door mats a scapegoats. You know theres a problem when your store manager and HR have been friends for over 20 years. Yeah theres no conflict of interest there.
Oh, God....that is exactly the problem I have. HR and boss are buddies. OMG.
@@user-jy3zl2vp4b RRRUUUUUUUUN if HR has a problem with you they wil do everything they can to get you gone and the boss won't do s**t or automatically take HR side. If its a big company call corp.
I don't make much at my current job, but wow! Our store owner is extremely kind, allows us to work the floor unimpeded, and trusts our decision making. Really a great guy. Also have nice coworkers! Really feel fortunate after watching some of these! ❤
Almost every time my supervisor or manager approved my sick time it requires calling them multiple times over an hour or two to get ahold of them and then they don't alert anyone on my team that I'm sick resulting in multiple missed text messages and calls while I'm sleeping asking where I'm at from various coworkers. Even if I call the team directly they still don't communicate it that I'm sick to each other. I've recently started ignoring them until I feel well enough to manage the inevitable cluster fuck from the phone later that day.
The after work hours calls are so obnoxious, that's the reason I'm thinking about moving to Portugal, they just recently passed a law making it illegal for employers to call their employees after work hours, we need something like this in the US too, it's been over 12 years since my last retail service job and I'm definitely not in a hurry to go back
I am Portuguese and honestly I have never received calls/texts after work about work (maybe a few ones but only sporadically and urgent). Or heard of anyone here having that problem. I heard of this law probably the same way you did, thru facebook news and following comments.
Some other Portuguese people in the comments though said they did have invasive calls from work. I suppose that if you continuously allow that, it becomes the norm for that boss...
@@neliaferreira9983 it's because here most people are conditioned to believe that it's a virtue to "go the extra mile" or to "pick up the slack" or show how dedicated you are to the company based on a promise of higher wages and more benefits. They use euphemisms such as "team player" and "company pride' to convince their workers that somehow the success of the company would benefit them. Most people are so broke they're willing to put up with it because they got bills to pay and families to support, if even one thing in life goes wrong them it gets twice as bad, I heard about this law from an online sources but for me it wasn't so much about the legitimacy of the story but the need for this conversation to happen
Please move to Portugal. From the amount of crying and complaing you do in your comments, I want to know you're far away from me.
You're a cry baby victim. Get over yourself.
You should really reread the comments you've posted. Pitiful.
@@marieknight9385 "I heard it from an online source" BAHAHAHAAA
@@squizzyicetea I'm not going anywhere, it's my home and I will complain as much as i damn well please because this country is a shit show and it's my right to say so, funny how you're on another page condemning Home owner's Associations yet here you're acting like someone who runs and HOA. Must be nice to be so naïve to your own flaws
Story time! I used to work for a BANK and you'd think "oh that sounds professional" but nope. First week I can't find my boss anywhere, turns out she's been stealing money from this bank and signing forged documents for loans that were never meant to be approved but she forced approval (got caught, fled the country, is now on a wanted list) all this before I even started working there. Then my second boss comes along and he's sexually harassed most my coworkers! Like we had to band together with all our experiences and HR took weeks to get proper evidence (explicit snaps sent to some of the women, they had to review some footage from his office, etc) to fire him since he was all buddy buddy with an executive higher up somewhere. Anyways 3rd boss comes along and we all hate her. She's intolerant and did not believe any sickness or mental health issues which led to all my coworkers leaving. In the end I was the main one left on my team and we were so short staffed that branch got closed. Needless to say, I immediately quit and I'm just doing better. But what a year! Yes this all happened in one year, and I need a vacation
Wow you had all experiences of a life time compiled into 1 year and 1 job! What an opportunity for personal growth! 😂
And you deserve a vacation after all that.
Fucking banks… I worked at one too. For a year and 8 months. A year and 5 months were during the pandemic… so only three normal months. Shit was insane. The institution was a hot mess. Aged me considerably.
This is the best!!! I can not tell you the joy I find in telling off horrible bosses as I walk out their door!!! Rock on my comrades!!! ❤️👊👊👊👊❤️
First guy has a really good voice and a knack for writing catchy songs. My doctor had to write my husband a note saying my surgery required me to be sitting on my butt for a long time as I had reconstructed surgery on each foot at different times. I was unable to get around well and needed help. He is active duty Army and for the most part they’re good at letting soldiers have time off for themselves or family members for medical purposes. Unfortunately he was working under a civilian who is retired military but loved to throw it around and refused to let him have his time off that was schedule and approved ahead of time. So I had gotten the ok and had a friend drive me to his building and I set up in the hallway (with permission of course) and made sure she saw me.
Yas 👏 loved this, people need to band together more like this to teach people (bosses, supervisors, and others) to value good workers, but also get rid of lazy ones especially those who hand over work to others that was meant for them.
My former employer fired my girlfriend not knowing we were dating. So three days later I quit. I was the company's key employee.
That cake was from a guy who started baking as a stress relief, word of mouth got him a lot of customers and finally he just quit his job in-IIRC-security. His baking really took off after that and he was much happier being self-employed.
I’m a manager and the only time I ever ask for proof of them being absent (doctors note, or whatever it may be) is if they already have an attendance issue, like calling off day of at least once a week or something along those lines. I think that’s fair. 🤷🏻♀️
Excited to watch this after work! I hope everybody has a great Wednesday!!!!
You too, David!!!
It was, hope you have a good one too
Employees need to demand better treatment! I’m 32 and I work in a demand field that has high “unliving yourself” rates in the veterinary field. I finally left a public review on a place and a person that bullied me. DEMAND BETTER! We won’t get treated better until we demand it!
Was showing your page to my sister and we both love you and all the great stuff you talk about. She told me my shoes story I should tell you.
This was in 2006 and I works for Travel Centers of America at the time, my mom only had a couple of weeks to live so I informed my boss and he was glad I told him so he could let a couple others on call for when she died. Well she died on a Tuesday and her funeral was on Friday at 1:00pm. At about 11 am Friday my boss calls to ask if I can come in after the funeral because his wife said he couldn't cover my shift cause she had plans for them to get away for the weekend and he lead me to believe I would be fired if I didn't come in. Well I was in tears and my uncle had just got to our house and was bugging me and when I told him what my boss said he starts to laugh as he worked for 31 years in ND department of and said that it was illegal since my company has a 3 day mourning policy. He told me to call HE and explain. So I did, the person I talked to was livid she was so mad, told me not to worry and that even if I was to work both Saturday n Sunday to take them both off with pay. So Monday comes and when I get to work I should have relieved my boss, but instead it was the assistant and she told me that he had bullied others and they had complain about it and so he got fired. The best part was that she was made manager and I got a raise and was the new assistant manager now. I had been planning to quit because of him, but ended up staying 3 more years.
These warm my heart. I’ve had many horrible bosses in my lifetime and I’m so happy now that Covid has created a situation where people can find a better job and they can leave these abusive managers to fend for themselves. Power to the workers.