Similar to story 1B: My son worked for a fast food place (doesn't matter which one), and was one of their most reliable employees. There was a small grease fire in the kitchen, as happens sometimes in those places, especially when you have layabouts half-assing their cleaning because they'd rather be on their phones. Anyway, most of these people had no clue how to respond to an emergency situation. My son calmly grabbed the extinguisher, put out the fire, and went back to work. Did the management thank him? Give him a bonus? No, they gave him a damned write-up for leaving his station during peak hours. He doesn't work for those clowns anymore. Edit: Thanks for the supportive comments! Yes, he does work at a much better place now. Family-owned by friends of ours. They treat him very well.
We don't eat fast food, the employees all hate their jobs because they are treated like crap by management and we would much rather have good food where people care about the customers. My daughter worked at a fast food place and got fired for leaving her station to help someone who was choking, she pointed to a co-worker and told them to call 9-1-1 but the manager told them not to because it would make the restaurant look bad, being that we are in a small town the story spread like a wild fire and no one ever eats there.
Training story: So was Karen the BIG boss or just a middlin' boss? If she wasn't the big boss, I'd have gone over her head and embarrassed her with the truth. Big boss or not, I might also have contacted the state's health department over her plans to ignore quarantine on return and for ignoring the remote training.
Story 5 was beautiful. $6,000 all because he wanted to stand in front of others and say "i am so cool" Didn't we learn in grade school, that the ones who habe to tell you how awesome they are, truly aren't
And because he was a shiny new manager, he was probably still in his working test period. When you're still in your working test period, you can be fired without cause. This would get him undoubtedly fired.
You got to admit that it takes a certain kind of talent to be able to take an entire day talking about themselves. Even comedians limit their story telling to around 2 hrs.
With the training issue, I bet that Karen got a kickback for face to face training especially if it was done outside at a facility she had a relationship with.
Yeah when DarkFluff said that if they didn't use the fire extinguisher then the building could've burned down, and it would've been a lot more expensive, I was just like "aaaaaactually there are people that do this, committing insurance fraud, to make more money, and the fact that they said never to use the fire extinguisher really makes me wonder..." 😅 Not that I know how profitable this is in the long run, considering the amount of time it takes to renovate the place, taking lost daily revenue into account...
My oldest son had a pay differential problem with the green mermaid coffee place. They hired new people on a new pay schedule but would only raise older staff to that level once they reached time in service. This would cause a double pay bump for him, so they let him go. One of the numerous illegal acts by that company.
I've heard it's one of the worst places to work at . Especially earlier, but now that they're going to union, maybe it'll be better? I hope so.. I hope your son got a better job,and is happy!
I used to get the "Green Mermaid coffee a lot but switched to other sources after the multiple reports of how employees are treated. D Bros. is available in our area and it's even better coffee, smoother and no bitter taste ever.
Sharing someone's personal medical information is indeed HIGHLY illegal. There are several ways to punish her for it as well which could easily result in her losing everything she owns ontop of sitting in a 6x6 concrete room for a very long time.
My dad used to work for a place that sold out to another company. Their job was to scan paper documents and put the information on a computer. When the company sold, they were in the process of going digital, so workflow was dwindling to an end. The company laid off half the staff and then slowly let the other half off over time. The company did contract work for the government, and since they were going digital, the contracts were harder to get over time. There was one particular contract the company was hoping to get and the bosses kept saying that they might still get it. My dad eventually realized he could just look up information about the contract and see what the deal was. Turns out, the higher-ups in the company had known for a while that the contract had already went to a different company and were lying to everyone in order to keep the remaining employees, well, employed until there was no work left at all. Even the bosses at this department were being lied to about the situation! There’s more to the story, but that’s the only relevant part lol
Sadly it didn’t surprise me the guy got in trouble for using the fire extinguisher. I work in the fire protection industry, so I hear a lot of stories and have several of my own. One such is about a Panda Express near our mall that tells their employees that they will be terminated if they activate their legally required kitchen system. Keep in mind this system is what puts out kitchen fires before it grows out of hand. So they would literally be terminated for not letting the place burn down.
Any workplace that fires employees gor doing the *RIGHT THING* in an emergency should be shut down ASAP and the boss(es) who created that ridiculous policy should be fired and/or banned from opening any future business if they own that company
@@nancyomalley6286 oh I 100% agree, and I’m just waiting for the day the place burns down. Unfortunately that’s what it would take stir anything to change since having that kind of rule isn’t illegal in itself, just enacting it.
On the story with Karen boss not letting pregnant OP do remote training: Another way OP could have crushed Karen (and potentially her company) would be to wait until after the training and everyone comes straight back to work. At that point, OP could report to the Health Department that the company (and Karen in particular) was not following the two week out-of-office rule whenever people travelled.
Story 4 : In my country, sharing medical stuff to others with no consent is Highly illegal. And she would have been fired and most likely charged for that, and harrasment, causing a toxic workplace being a bully, etc......
Same in the US. You can get fired from your job and be blacklisted from that particular field for violating privacy/confidentiality laws. HIPAA was drilled into us until we screamed in agony at my old job (HR/Payroll).
@@GeorgieB1965 Yeah, HIPAA carries a $250,000 fine and jail time for each violation, so it's not something that your screw around with. That boss should have been reported for the violation.
Yup best way for HYPAA to be down your throat and up your crack is to share another employee's personal medical information, and Jebus protect you if you happen to be in a union
I suspect it was something to do with the pregnancy, people feel entitled to that info. 'It's good news, what's the problem?' Irk, and you know HR would gasslight about that
@hannahcallow6374 HR will 100% gaslight you when I comes to pregnancy, "why are you making such a big deal out of this?" Maybe because it isn't any of your damn business, and the reason women keep their pregnancy hush hush, isn't they don't want the gossip to spread like a virus
Story 3: OP missed an opportunity...should have told the manager "And since I am an experienced cashier and training the others I think I should be getting an even $12/hr."
Story 1: Sue knew the lights were on and didn't say anything either. Now I wonder why she would have done that. Could not be that the boss is a total jack a** could it?
The fire extinguisher story reminded me of a time I got in trouble for using the wrong fire extinguisher for putting out a fire. I used one that worked but cost my boss to replace it. He told me I should have used a water can one because it wouldn't have cost him to refill it.
@suzannepottsshorts no it was a fire from a cigarette someone had put out in one of those cigarette tree ashtray type things. None of us that worked there would have used a water can on a grease fire. It was a security job but we were also required by the site we did security for to be certified in first aid, CPR, and AED use as well as some basic fire fighting skills like what type of fire extinguisher to use for different types of fires and how to properly use a fire hose and how to put out a fire using a fire extinguisher
@@suzannepottsshorts Or had high voltage electricity involved (like the machine still had power)? Then your Next of Kin would be filing a Lawsuit while you were in the hospital or the morgue!
Twice I have put out grease/oil fires with a water spray. I had expended the proper fire extinguisher without effect. Yes, if properly done, water does work! I even confirmed this with the state firemarshall during fire training at work.
I once worked for a bad boss. She would do really stupid things like require meeting notes to be proofread for grammar before distributing them. I was stuck with awful systems to work with, and then she would implement new ones without proper notifications and exepct us to follow them with no procedures or guidance. I would be given vague projects with few guidelines, try to do them, told to "figure it out" if I tried to ask questions, and then was told I was doing them wrong when I finally presented something. I actually left that permanent job for a temporary one, it got so bad, and in my new company I was converted to permanent within a year, and quickly rose to a supervisor position and a six figure salary within 5 years. I found out later that within a year of resigning, my old boss was not able to meet her goals and everyone in my old department was either fired or found other positions.
I have a couple bad boss stories. 1) when I worked at Banfield Pet Hospital, I worked my butt off, not only did I do all of my job requirements, but I helped the vet techs with their job requirements too . Well there was a vet tech opening coming up and they knew i wanted it. I was told by one of my co-workers that the manager refused to give me the spot because she didn't like me, even though I had busted my butt and did all of my job as well as half of everyone else's job. I to this day still don't know why she didn't like me because I was nice to everyone. Needless to say I quit, and she had the nerve to say "well if you leave us without notice you can't come back", I just told her I don't want to come back LOL 🤦♀️🤣🤣🤣 2) I used to work at Hobby Lobby as a cashier and my job was going great until I got pregnant. After I told my boss that I was pregnant, they started trying to do things to make me quit and when I wouldn't quit they set me up and fired me. I had a lot of evidence, but unfortunately I couldn't find a lawyer to help me because they said they wouldn't make enough money off the case. But apparently they didn't like the fact that I was pregnant so they wrote up all these write-ups that never happened (and obviously were never signed because they never happened) and fired me. For example on the "write ups": one of the write-ups they wrote up was that I told someone to buy something else because I didn't like what they were buying. Not only did I not do that, but that made no sense because we didn't get paid on commission
Strange. There are laws against firing a woman for being pregnant - and if you had all that evidence to prove they were gunning for you, you should have sued them into the ground. Sounds like you had a poor choice of lawyers.
Just discharged from the hospital after major surgery. I'm in pain, but then Dark Fluff pops up in my notifications and now I'm not hurting as much. ❤❤❤
Narcissistic Lead... never EVER screw over payroll! They're the ones that make sure everybody gets paid! If you foul that up, YOU are directly marked with a bullseye as to WHY nobody is getting paid. Demotion isn't the only punishment you get. Torches and pitchforks are handed out for a discount, tar is free and feathers are handed out by the pillow-full.
Basically Alex Baldwin's character from Glengarry Ross, except we spend more than 15 minutes with him and can see his character flaws and inflated ego.
Also, it's exactly why the signature American allergy to unions should be taken out back behind the shed. If those people didn't that that bargaining power, they would be stuck with that dude.
@@MernomI can't necessarily disagree, however I can say that for every good union story you hear/see, there's 100 cases of people who shouldn't have jobs but the union keeps them employed (see police officer unions for example)
Story 4: Is there not an HR at the company, or a State Labor Board? Karen should be reported, immediately, to HR, the Labor Board, and to the State Health Board, especially because she blatantly disregarded the mandatory health law about the 2 week isolation.
I remember when they increased minimum wage in my state and I was making less than the new hires while I was in school. I asked my GM at the time could I get the increase added to mine and gave all the reasons why as I was a star employee. He agreed, fought for and won my wage increase for me. Sometimes bosses can be awesome!
New Baby Story: If I were OP, I'd have gone to HR about Karen's constant Abuse and Belittlement and when she revealed my Private Medical Information, I'd have called HR again and then called a Lawyer and Sued Karen for her Abuse and violating my Privacy Rights and then called the Department of Labour to make a complaint against Karen for her Workplace Harassment, creating a Toxic Work Environment and Violating HIPPA Laws... Karen I suspect would not be employed there for long and she should be owing me a rather hefty chunk of change too...
13:41 There are lot of things Karen could gain: 1. Enjoyment from pushing people around and feeling she's "in control. 2. Work trips are ripe for embezzlement, writing off expenses that never happened and pocketing them. 3. She could just loiter around with everyone else not in the office, if her "work" was making herself look busy by micromanaging and harassing everyone around her.
The power-tripping boss of the new mom...got tripped! HR should have been involved as the idiot was also refusing to comply with mandated health compliance AND violating FEDERAL HIPAA laws.
Story 4: My guess is that she just wanted to show her employees that she was the boss, and she didn't care about the money spent as it wasn't coming out of her pocket.
My Bad boss experience: ok so to fit this in a comment section I’m going to skip alot but the basic story is as follows. I work with a utility company that requires a state issued license. The superintendent of our group was in charge for about 5 years when he got tired of the cold weather. He found a similar job in a warmer climate. He put in his two weeks and was gone. There was only one other person in our group with the required license so naturally he got the job. Sadly the replacement sucked and was “asked to leave” a few months later. In that time frame the old boss realized that the grass was not greener so he moved back to town and when he heard that his old job was open again he tried to get it back. I had also applied for it since I was the one filling the “acting” role and doing the day to day work. He called and asked if I thought he had a good chance of getting his job back and I told him I thought he did but even if he didn’t, I was the only one remotely qualified for the position so if I got it I would hire him back. He told me that since he used to be my boss there was no way he would work under me. Fast forward a month and when I got the position he begged me to hire him in my old position and I reminded him that he said he would never work under me. He hasn’t talked to me since
Why would you say he was a bad boss? In your story, you didn't say anything about his performance or, more importantly, his disperformance or his bad treatment to you. If what he did was rejecting the idea of working under you, I can tell that 99% of people also would also have the same reaction toward that possibility. It doesn't mean they are bad people, they are just feeling a little bit let down given their past working resume. You can say that pride get into their head, but not necessarily being a bad person.
@@gorilladisco9108 the very first thing I said was that I’m going to skip a lot because this is the comment section. Before we were up for the same job he was my friend, we hung out outside of work a lot. Then he moved away ansd we talked on the phone and played online games together. I even tried to get my (actual) boss to give him his job back at first. When they didn’t happen and my AB said he was hoping to give me the job, my friend became petty and vindictive and tried to sabotage not just the promotion but my employment with the company.
Story 2: I think the bad boss is hoping for OP to beg to keep his job even taking a pay cut to keep it but the idiot decided to gamble his livelihood for a couple of dollars. Amazing how bosses try to save pennies while losing millions because of stubborn pride.
Pride is the downfall of many men and women.. I'm a super proud person, to a fault but I've started to get better with time .. I think pride is a good and bad thing ..
On the fire extinguisher story, I was a new new hire off a internship at a mechanic job. I was having issues diagnosing a driveability issue to which he suggested spraying carb clean(extremely flammable) on the engine to find a vacuum leak. A spark jump from a faulty spark plug wire set it on fire. I reacted as trained with the fire extinguisher, my boss was pissed because it took but a moment to do but cleaning up the vehicle and paying to recharge the fire extinguisher cost time and money. He realized I was following orders and reacted correctly but told me the fire extinguisher was a last last resort.
Story 6: This is why you're supposed to work for roles like "Manager" instead of trying to earn it by being buddy-buddy. Those who do the former are significantly more likely to succeed
@@weirdredpandaIt works because they know how to game the system, passing off the most work while gaining the most credit. It's unfair, but they get away with it as long as they don't do something really stupid, or can at least pass the buck. Trevor, though? Trevor was sloppy. What the hell was he thinking by not telling his staff to not work on an important project? Just trying to spite his rival? He got caught with his pants down and got a lesson in humility.
I was once at at a class about the interviewing stage of obtaining a job. They asked about what benefits are best to have at a job. People were saying healthcare, disability benefits, childcare, etc. The answer was a great boss. None of the other’s matter, if you’re miserable working for this company, and your boss sucks.
Steve story.... Perfect example of what happens when a new boss decides to act like the Big Dog and lift his virtual leg and mark his territory all over. With the usual results.
I had a coworker that was HIV positive. Our shift manager had a son that went to school with coworker and the manager told her son, who then told the whole school.
Story four: Last I check OP's manager has no reason to reveal OP's personal Information to the rest of the office meaning OP's manager just committed Invasion of Privacy.
Story 4: I'm gathering that this happened in the US. That's a HIPAA violation and can be considered a federal offense. That boss could have (and should have) gotten fined for that.
Remember, if a boss tells you, don’t get me unless it’s an emergency or a fire as their go to thing to say. Or if they say “I don’t babysit” those all actually translate too “I don’t do my job”
story 2: I was a floor associate working in apparel at the "spark" store. I also happened to be the only one under 65, and the only one who hadn't retired from another job previously. that said, i was 1 of 2 people that stocked the shelves, faced the racks, and zoned the whole area (basically making it look clean). well, one day i was the only one opening. so i had to work the fitting room, stock shelves, face and zone, while answering phones. the MOMENT someone else got on, i was called up to the front to cashier (Didn't even have time to hand over keys, which was code for informing the newcomer of everything going on, as well as literally handing over the keys to the fitting rooms). well, by the time i got back to my department 3 hours later (previous story, i was told to NEVER abandoned the front end until specifically released), I was now WAAAAAAAAY behind on work. the same manager that told me to never abandon the front end saw me cleaning the same table i had been on when he last walked by. he called me into the office and fired me for "taking 3 hours to clean a single table". i went ahead and accepted the termination. within a week, i found another job. i went in to buy a pair of pants for this new job. boss man saw me and begged me to return. I flatout told him "I'll return for a sign on bonus of $10k, and no less than $20/hour." he about swallowed his tongue, saying no one in the store makes that much. i smiled and said "Too bad you fired the only one in that department who actually worked fast enough to keep up, huh? you know my price. if you can meet it, i'll come back. otherwise, i'll consider any contact to be harassment"
Paying your new hires more than current staff isn't something new, it's a common tactic to hire people and the company hopes their current employees don't find out. This is why we should always be discussing our pay
The comment on story 1 reminds me of a guy I worked with at my first job who wanted to see what would happen if he pulled the fire alarm... in the kitchen... The answer? Everything gets covered in foam that's a bitch to clean up, and the restaurant gets shut down for hours as everyone gets put on cleaning duty. I named my first car after that guy because it was a lemon.
On the 5th story I one time had a manager that told me if the store called me with an IT related issue I was to answer, go to the store, and solve it in spite of us both having a corporate IT person with remote ability and a service we paid for that we could call to fix the issues. The reason was she didn't want to see the charges on the monthly P&L statement -- any internal IT issue that was "store solvable" (item unplugged or turn off/on would fix) was charged $25 an incident and service was billed after 4th call of month at $25 an incident For the better part of a month I'd get calls and have to drive to store to fix items like a stuck receipt printer (paper jam), unplugged or simple rebootable items, and other such incidents. I'd sent to company HR the times, dates, and mileage reimbursements. I got asked by one of our HQ staff what all of this was for and I explained and found out that as I was off the clock and not enough hours between shifts at those times it would be at both overtime pay and a penalty pay (2x hourly pay -- OT hours 4x pay) and each of the incidents was guaranteed at a minimum of 2 hours each, regardless of how short it was. Thd company owner contacted me about it and I sent him the list of what I had been emailed was the instructions from manager, and each of the 15 incidents I got called back in for and he was beyond pissed Manager was fired the next week
That's the problem when managers think they can order employees about without reading the fine print. Weirdly related, I'm tech support at a regulatory organization, and took a look at a printer that was clearly having issues I couldn't solve, so I told them to call the maintenance company. Turns out, it was out of warranty, so the organization took the hit financially and I got an earful about it. Ever since then, I always double-check if a busted printer is under warranty or not. Always check whether it'll cost you, people.
I worked at a place in my teens that tried paying new hires more and tried to sneak it by us. Unfortunately for them all the new people were friends so when all the employees found out they were getting paid less close to 10 of us went in and said we would all be quitting...next thing I know it's "Wait everyone is getting that pay bump someone should of told you guys". No one believed that but we sure did get that raise
Plot twist: the hefty, non-negotiable payment for Finance Bro Steve's ego boost came at the full force -- and waving it off meant absolute hell for him.
For the story with the karen boss that divulged personal medical records, if it was in the USA it would absolutely be against the law for anyone to divulge medical records without the owners express consent, wether that be written or physical. It is a violation of HIPPA laws
I would've gotten what she said about the whole coming into work right after traveling to this training in writing. Then submit it to the board of health in the state as well as the better Business bureau. Also if I was in a company and the boss made another coworker mine with a new infant go on a trip I would quit right there and then because apparently she doesn't give a crap about people to give a crap about a little child that's innocent could potentially die.
The boss who didn't care how something worked reminded me of a new boss who did marketing (it was Milliman consulting and her department did pension benefits). She said she didn't need to know what we did or how we did it and there were quite a few employees managing millions of pension dollars. Not sure how you sell something to companies when you don' t have a clue what you are selling compared to the competition but she would say this often so it must be true. How you even supervise as the manager when you have no clue what people do or if they are doing it right is amazing. Apparently she was superwoman and we would laugh behind her back. I guess sales people are good at everything and don't need to know law, accounting or computers like the rest of us. I wish I could say she was the craziest boss I ever saw but of course not. I saw lots of situations where companies would have an engineer, doctor or lawyer be the HR manager for a very large company (like Hughes, Exxon, etc) because they must know what they are doing with all those brains they have. It is funny but I always feel bad for the person who is actually doing the work and not getting the pay or title. It creates extra work for me when I have to phone around the company until I find out who is really doing the work so I can get things done. I always train people to not use email but physically go to the department or client if possible and that way you get past the dead wood and get things done.
Used to work in a place where they fired 2 people 1 for calling the fire department and 1 for pulling the fire alarm because they do everything in house (a machine caught fire in the middle of the building)
In the last story, it seems implausible that a narcissist would admit the reason his department failed to complete a job was because he told them not to rather than to generate an excuse laying the blame on OP.
I once worked at a Machine Shop that was jobbing oilfield down -hole equipment. I was the ISO Quality Assurance. They turn the parts, I use precision measuring tools and the job's blueprint, comparing the two. If it met tolerances, I would engrave the part # on each piece, and call for pickup. The two things I heard more than once were: "Beat it to fit, paint it to match, and SHIP IT!" and "We ain't makin' watch parts!" Then one day I was able to see the pricelist. OMG!!! You could have purchased the HOUSE I WAS RAISED IN, OUTRIGHT, for the money just ONE SMALL PARTS RUN cost! I lost all respect for the Shop at this point, and eventually I got fired. So much for the high-precision world of the machine shop.
For story #6, I'm surprised Trevor wasn't fired on the spot. I'm shocked he was offered his old position back instead of being put in a lower entry level job.
Story #3 reminds me of a job I had almost 15 yrs ago. Before I became a Registered Nurse (RN), I used to be a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). I took on an agency job to supplement my pay working for the Hospice in my area. The agency always sent me to a nursing home the next county over that was 50 miles one way from my apartment. I got paid good though. I got $28/hr. Well, the nurses that actually worked at this nursing home would ask the agency nurses how much we got paid and, thinking they were just curious, we told them the truth and they were MAD, to say the least. These LPN's were begging the big bosses for a raise. They were getting, I believe, $17/hr. They contacted a union to come speak to the staff to hopefully have all staff vote for a union to represent them. Well, the big bosses asked the staff what it would take to stop the union talk and the LPN's stated emphatically "A RAISE!!!!' and they got it. They got a raise across the board of $25/hr and after that I rarely got sent there after that.
Trevor wasn't just a narcissist. People like him are actually privately very insecure. They have to get undermine and one-up others to assuage their own fragile ego, hide (even from themselves), their own insecurities and/or inabilities.
Story 3 - This is why all salary info needs to be public in the US. That way, people can know when they're being screwed over by management and fight for fair pay. I got stuck in a similar situation as OP, but it was in my full time salaried job. My company scrambled for a while when I left for a job that paid me what I was worth. Story 4 - I would have gone to HR as soon as manager started sharing my personal medical info. If it were a legitimate HR dept, they would have destroyed Karen for that plus creating a hostile work environment for her bullying long before the training thing came up. Story 6 - I'm surprised that Trevor didn't try to throw OP under the bus, but I guess he wasn't that smart after all!
story 6: or he was smart enough to know that throwing OP under the bus would just get him in even more trouble. Most people we hear about in stories like this one just dig themselves a deeper whole by doubling down and such and end up fired and/or sued by the company, but Trevor just faced the facts that he ROYALLY screwed up, and at the end of the day, he still had his original job, even if he did screw himself out of the promotion. So I'd say he was smarter by NOT throwing OP under the bus.
Story 3: yeah it sucks. My previous employer decided to bump up starting pay to literally like $0.75 less than what I was making and I had been there for almost 10 years! I decided then and there that they don’t deserve my loyalty. Granted our manager went to bat for us and got us long termers several more dollars per hour but the damage was done. I knew they didn’t value my work or my position. Now I’m working somewhere else that pays me more than DOUBLE what I was earning! Treat your employees like the value they bring your company or you won’t have that value for long! It’s been almost a full year and they STILL haven’t been able to effectively replace me. I hated doing it to my former manager and coworkers but the company dug this ditch and they can deal with it.
Last story: The Director influenced Trevor's behavior by giving him a position he CLEARLY wasn't qualified for all because Trevor handled the director's balls instead of actually doing his job smh... Then yelled at him because he made a horrible decision based on ego. I hate leadership like that, the military is filled with supervision like that director.
steve making love to his ego reminds me of the worst 'training day' i had when i foolishly attempted work in sales for a bank. the entire training day (8 hours broken up in 2 hour sessions) was nothing but the alleged trainer making love to his ego telling us what we COULD learn in actual training if we reached an arbitrary sales number as trainees. to sum up, the training we got was being told how we MIGHT be trained if we as sales people with no training made sales worth x ammount of currency. all i got from that alleged job is 2 wasted months of my life, no skills learned, and endless hate for said bank in general.
With story 2 it’s tough, because a lot of companies will have some clause in the hiring contracts and have a different classification for new hire vs rehire making it where rehires can’t get new hire bonus or pay increases as they’re a rehire. OP got lucky in that scenario but power to him for getting that worked out.
Oh God Im so happy I don’t have to do yearly “training” conferences anymore. I’m a hairstylist and the presentations though, omg. Once we had a lady with a small burger chain talk to us about having a successful business. There’s no shame in working in fast food but to compare, it’s like me as a hairstylist telling a nurse how to do her job better. Like, retention means two different things in our professions if you know what I mean. Another was a guy who was in the military and how he overcame being injured.🤷🏻♀️ Thank you for your service but it ended up he lied or was some sort of criminal. Another was a nascar driver. What the French does that have to do with this haircut!?
Story 1. Correction. Letting the place burn down is the cheaper alternative. The insurance company has to pay for all of the damage as well as compensate for monetary loss because it’s a business. That’s why the boss was pissed. 5:04
i had an awful boss once while working at a gas station, during a summer all the hotdogs ran out due to massive amounts of tourists but boss had an emergancy stash of frozen hotdogs for such occassions, unfortunatly only 1 package out of i think 20-25 (12 hotdogs per pack) were within the legal date to sell, the oldest package was over 3 years old so i proceded to throw away all that i was legaly not allowed to sell since boss was adamant that we follow the yearly training test we had to take regarding how to handle food and other stuff running a small store the next day i came in to my shift we had gotten new hotdogs and boss had sharpied over all the date stamps on all the hotdog packages, presumably so i woulndt throw them away, buuuut according to law and health regulations if you cant tell the best before date of a product you arent allowed to sell it , so in the bin it went aswell wouldnt suprise me if he had brought some of the old hotdogs from the trash bin outside back in to sell since he put down the effort of sharpie every single package that day before i arrived to my shift
The last story is like wtf. But the story comment about the kitchen fire op should not have gotten into trouble as he was told to do it. Yea there could have been other ways to put it out
For Story 5, if I was there, I'd be thinking of the song, "Gaston", on a loop! "No... one's... Been like Gaston, A kingpin like Gaston, No one's got a swell cleft, in his chin, like Gaston. As a specimen, yes, he's intimidating, My, what a guy, that Gaston!"
Yup, that’s Jingles for you. I worked there for 4 years while in college and they claimed I couldn’t get a raise because I hadn’t been there for a “full calendar year” yet 🙄
Story 3... I wish that worked like that in IT... but companies like to have you help train a person, then lay you off... and I had well over a decade of experience... and then decide I shouldn't get a good severance package. and just to rub salt into it... HR apparently didn't know I had worked for them, and offered a 6-month contractor position at $5/hr less than I had been offered (and as a contractor... no seniority, I had to pay employer part of taxes, no health/dental benefits, no rrsp contributions...). I counter offered either 25% more than I had been making if they wanted me as a contractor, or reinstating me. Never heard back.
Love the way this guy occasionally goes off filling in with total speculation of further villainy on the part of a story's bad guy! "And I bet that boss was murdering kittens while he denied that overtime...!"
I was told after the first rounds of interviews I was told I wasn’t going to be considered for the new GM position. The other two managers were going to continue on because “everyone knows and likes them”. Golf Club and the head pro and superintendent were the “cool kids” 🤮
4:54 Actually, I can sort of understand that one...most Restaurants/Bars (anything with a Commercial Kitchen) will have 2 types of Fire Extinguishers...the small(ish) red cans mounted to the wall for small trashcan sized fires and a Monster Extinguisher system installed with pipes leading to the grills and deep fryers...if OP triggered that one, the ENTIRE kitchen would have been coated in a fine layer of fire retardant powder (they don't use Halon anymore as it proved hazardous to people for some reason I can't find at the moment)... My father used to own a restaurant and he told me if the kitchen system ever triggered, the Restaurant is closed for at least 3 days for cleanup and any food not sealed in the walk-in freezer is garbage and if the freezer door was open when it went off, everything in it goes right in the dumpster and they're closed for at least another 2-3 days until they can order and receive enough food deliveries to restock the Freezer... So if OP actually pulled the manual release for the grill/deep fryer fire suppression system instead of grabbing a small extinguisher off the wall, yah, he'd be in trouble...
Some places you are trained to not use a fire extinguisher at all and will get in trouble for using it; it might have been one of those types of places concerning the story in the comment.
Sister-in-law does botox and other skin treatment stuff for spas, her last place they over booked her to the point she couldn't take lunch or even a bathroom break. She told them to stop for months and then after talking to my brother (her hubby) she decided to quit when she got a call to come in on a scheduled vacation day. She isn't the only person who is trained/certified to do what her job was but the only other person is the mother of the person who does the schedule and girlfriend of the owner and she was barely there and probably was giving her workload to my SIL so she could do what ever. Anyways, she's now working on starting her own Spa because for some reason it's stupid easy, she just has to find a doctor to sign off on medical supplies they need to order because that's how it works.
if you work for a "boss" that has one employee scratch your head it is worth working for him and not work for youself. cause most of the time this "boss" is a leech
4:42 getting into trouble because you stopped a fire with an extinguisher that’s meant to extinguish fires?! Wtf! I’d have walked out immediately, even if rent was due that day…
That last story, i would have asked the worker under Trevor in an email to repeat what she had been told in a reply email. Document, document, document!
My company divulged that I was pregnant unexpectedly to all my co workers. The only reason I didn't rail them in court for it was because I truely believe they were just excited for me and didn't realize how illegal it was. Though it raised alot of deep concerns about their incompetence so I began to learn my rights and actively recite them when needed. I get the cold shoulder now but I don't care. You are my boss not my friend. I know my place. It's time you learned yours
the story with the fire? that's why you have CO2 fire extinguishers. kills fire effectively without contaminating anything. sure, these are mostly used around server rooms because they are a bit more expensive. but a fire usually means quite some damage, and extinguishers with foam or powder work equally good but contaminate everything around the fire. that's why CO2 is so well liked in server rooms. it does not destroy computers. who would have guessed that not destroying computers is a good idea?
Out Of State Training: I would hope that everyone go! Then let Corporate know why the office is going to be shut down for 2 weeks!! Make sure Corporate knows who to "thank" for the fiasco!!!
I worked at one place that when minimum wage increased above what people were being paid simply raised wages to the new minimum I told the manager I was being paid 50 cents higher prior to the increase and expected to be 50 cents above after the increase and if not then I'd be getting corporate involved When manager refused I called corporate and they were shocked as the dictate was to move people to same point above the new minimum wage. Manager was fired the next week
Story 5: Perfect example of the harm that government unions to do the public and the taxpayers. Since they are union, they can't be fired for anything less than committing a felony, and even then there will be months of arbitration to go through.
Unions also protect the rights of their members. Most states that aren't union tends to have higher unemployment and turnover for whatever companies are there.
So what would you have done if your boss had demanded you travel to the other end of your state for a meeting? Pay for it out of your own pocket? I bet not!
Yep! Agreed! when I was working in the only grocery of the village, I started minimum wage. Every 800 hours or something like this, I would gain a 0.10$ augmentation. Mind that I was at school part time. So, it was pretty much 0.10$ of augmentation by year. So, I started like at 8.25$. Now, economy at this time has force the gouvrment to augment the minimum wage a couple of time. So, after a couple of years, while I had a lot of autmentation to reach the high hourly salary of 9.15$, new hire was at the minum wage at 9.05$. It was completly stupid. And yes, we had a union... with the representative being a good friend of the owner.
'is this an emergency?!?'
'Not for me...'
I suppose the response that would have gotten the boss' attention was "Well, it's about your car, so..."
Similar to story 1B:
My son worked for a fast food place (doesn't matter which one), and was one of their most reliable employees. There was a small grease fire in the kitchen, as happens sometimes in those places, especially when you have layabouts half-assing their cleaning because they'd rather be on their phones.
Anyway, most of these people had no clue how to respond to an emergency situation. My son calmly grabbed the extinguisher, put out the fire, and went back to work.
Did the management thank him? Give him a bonus? No, they gave him a damned write-up for leaving his station during peak hours.
He doesn't work for those clowns anymore.
Edit: Thanks for the supportive comments! Yes, he does work at a much better place now. Family-owned by friends of ours. They treat him very well.
Sadly, no good deed goes unpunished🤦♂️
Might as well let the place go on fire then no one has a job. I hope he has a better job now.
Lol. I guess he should have just let the place burn.
We don't eat fast food, the employees all hate their jobs because they are treated like crap by management and we would much rather have good food where people care about the customers. My daughter worked at a fast food place and got fired for leaving her station to help someone who was choking, she pointed to a co-worker and told them to call 9-1-1 but the manager told them not to because it would make the restaurant look bad, being that we are in a small town the story spread like a wild fire and no one ever eats there.
@@RunnyBabbitMom I would argue that leaving a person to choke would make the place look bad than saving the person.
Training story: So was Karen the BIG boss or just a middlin' boss? If she wasn't the big boss, I'd have gone over her head and embarrassed her with the truth. Big boss or not, I might also have contacted the state's health department over her plans to ignore quarantine on return and for ignoring the remote training.
Story 5 was beautiful. $6,000 all because he wanted to stand in front of others and say "i am so cool"
Didn't we learn in grade school, that the ones who habe to tell you how awesome they are, truly aren't
Some people need to be heckled hard for that lesson to stick.
And because he was a shiny new manager, he was probably still in his working test period. When you're still in your working test period, you can be fired without cause. This would get him undoubtedly fired.
You got to admit that it takes a certain kind of talent to be able to take an entire day talking about themselves. Even comedians limit their story telling to around 2 hrs.
@@meh2510 😂
It's making me think of the song, "Gaston"!
With the training issue, I bet that Karen got a kickback for face to face training especially if it was done outside at a facility she had a relationship with.
You never know it could have been the boss trying to burn the place down for the insurance.
This and blame it on the new guy
And he would’ve gotten away with it too if weren’t for those meddling kids and their dog!
Yeah when DarkFluff said that if they didn't use the fire extinguisher then the building could've burned down, and it would've been a lot more expensive, I was just like "aaaaaactually there are people that do this, committing insurance fraud, to make more money, and the fact that they said never to use the fire extinguisher really makes me wonder..." 😅 Not that I know how profitable this is in the long run, considering the amount of time it takes to renovate the place, taking lost daily revenue into account...
Standard practice in my country
My oldest son had a pay differential problem with the green mermaid coffee place. They hired new people on a new pay schedule but would only raise older staff to that level once they reached time in service. This would cause a double pay bump for him, so they let him go. One of the numerous illegal acts by that company.
I've heard it's one of the worst places to work at . Especially earlier, but now that they're going to union, maybe it'll be better? I hope so.. I hope your son got a better job,and is happy!
I used to get the "Green Mermaid coffee a lot but switched to other sources after the multiple reports of how employees are treated. D Bros. is available in our area and it's even better coffee, smoother and no bitter taste ever.
Thank you, he works in IT now and also married
OP who literally destroyed her Karen boss after she came back from having her baby is a total savage. I wish I could give her a hug or a high five.
She deserves a standing ovation 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sharing someone's personal medical information is indeed HIGHLY illegal. There are several ways to punish her for it as well which could easily result in her losing everything she owns ontop of sitting in a 6x6 concrete room for a very long time.
Story 4: Don't tick off someone who can go over your head and find out that you lied to their face. That would surely get you fired......
My dad used to work for a place that sold out to another company. Their job was to scan paper documents and put the information on a computer. When the company sold, they were in the process of going digital, so workflow was dwindling to an end. The company laid off half the staff and then slowly let the other half off over time.
The company did contract work for the government, and since they were going digital, the contracts were harder to get over time. There was one particular contract the company was hoping to get and the bosses kept saying that they might still get it. My dad eventually realized he could just look up information about the contract and see what the deal was. Turns out, the higher-ups in the company had known for a while that the contract had already went to a different company and were lying to everyone in order to keep the remaining employees, well, employed until there was no work left at all. Even the bosses at this department were being lied to about the situation!
There’s more to the story, but that’s the only relevant part lol
That last story the comment was right Trevor was arrogant and backstabbing but at least he was honest which is more than most
Got a boss you detest? Want to ruin his day?
Just do everything he tells you to do, exactly the way he told you to.
Sadly it didn’t surprise me the guy got in trouble for using the fire extinguisher. I work in the fire protection industry, so I hear a lot of stories and have several of my own. One such is about a Panda Express near our mall that tells their employees that they will be terminated if they activate their legally required kitchen system. Keep in mind this system is what puts out kitchen fires before it grows out of hand. So they would literally be terminated for not letting the place burn down.
Any workplace that fires employees gor doing the *RIGHT THING* in an emergency should be shut down ASAP and the boss(es) who created that ridiculous policy should be fired and/or banned from opening any future business if they own that company
@@nancyomalley6286 oh I 100% agree, and I’m just waiting for the day the place burns down. Unfortunately that’s what it would take stir anything to change since having that kind of rule isn’t illegal in itself, just enacting it.
Insurance money. They're hoping to collect
On the story with Karen boss not letting pregnant OP do remote training: Another way OP could have crushed Karen (and potentially her company) would be to wait until after the training and everyone comes straight back to work. At that point, OP could report to the Health Department that the company (and Karen in particular) was not following the two week out-of-office rule whenever people travelled.
Story 4 : In my country, sharing medical stuff to others with no consent is Highly illegal. And she would have been fired and most likely charged for that, and harrasment, causing a toxic workplace being a bully, etc......
Same in the US. You can get fired from your job and be blacklisted from that particular field for violating privacy/confidentiality laws.
HIPAA was drilled into us until we screamed in agony at my old job (HR/Payroll).
@@GeorgieB1965 Yeah, HIPAA carries a $250,000 fine and jail time for each violation, so it's not something that your screw around with. That boss should have been reported for the violation.
Yup best way for HYPAA to be down your throat and up your crack is to share another employee's personal medical information, and Jebus protect you if you happen to be in a union
I suspect it was something to do with the pregnancy, people feel entitled to that info. 'It's good news, what's the problem?'
Irk, and you know HR would gasslight about that
@hannahcallow6374 HR will 100% gaslight you when I comes to pregnancy, "why are you making such a big deal out of this?" Maybe because it isn't any of your damn business, and the reason women keep their pregnancy hush hush, isn't they don't want the gossip to spread like a virus
Story 3: OP missed an opportunity...should have told the manager "And since I am an experienced cashier and training the others I think I should be getting an even $12/hr."
its always a good day when darkfluff posts
Doesn’t he post every day?
@@darlenefraser3022 It's always a good day. :D
@@jacknoe4024 💯 Absolutely! I look forward to this time of the day, every day!
Yes sir! 😃😃
I hate the wait!
Story 1: Sue knew the lights were on and didn't say anything either. Now I wonder why she would have done that. Could not be that the boss is a total jack a** could it?
The fire extinguisher story reminded me of a time I got in trouble for using the wrong fire extinguisher for putting out a fire. I used one that worked but cost my boss to replace it. He told me I should have used a water can one because it wouldn't have cost him to refill it.
Its only the wrong one if it wasn't designed for that fire.
Was it a grease fire? 🔥+💦= 💥💥💥
@suzannepottsshorts no it was a fire from a cigarette someone had put out in one of those cigarette tree ashtray type things. None of us that worked there would have used a water can on a grease fire. It was a security job but we were also required by the site we did security for to be certified in first aid, CPR, and AED use as well as some basic fire fighting skills like what type of fire extinguisher to use for different types of fires and how to properly use a fire hose and how to put out a fire using a fire extinguisher
@@suzannepottsshorts Or had high voltage electricity involved (like the machine still had power)? Then your Next of Kin would be filing a Lawsuit while you were in the hospital or the morgue!
Twice I have put out grease/oil fires with a water spray. I had expended the proper fire extinguisher without effect. Yes, if properly done, water does work! I even confirmed this with the state firemarshall during fire training at work.
I once worked for a bad boss. She would do really stupid things like require meeting notes to be proofread for grammar before distributing them. I was stuck with awful systems to work with, and then she would implement new ones without proper notifications and exepct us to follow them with no procedures or guidance. I would be given vague projects with few guidelines, try to do them, told to "figure it out" if I tried to ask questions, and then was told I was doing them wrong when I finally presented something. I actually left that permanent job for a temporary one, it got so bad, and in my new company I was converted to permanent within a year, and quickly rose to a supervisor position and a six figure salary within 5 years. I found out later that within a year of resigning, my old boss was not able to meet her goals and everyone in my old department was either fired or found other positions.
I have a couple bad boss stories. 1) when I worked at Banfield Pet Hospital, I worked my butt off, not only did I do all of my job requirements, but I helped the vet techs with their job requirements too . Well there was a vet tech opening coming up and they knew i wanted it. I was told by one of my co-workers that the manager refused to give me the spot because she didn't like me, even though I had busted my butt and did all of my job as well as half of everyone else's job. I to this day still don't know why she didn't like me because I was nice to everyone. Needless to say I quit, and she had the nerve to say "well if you leave us without notice you can't come back", I just told her I don't want to come back LOL 🤦♀️🤣🤣🤣
2) I used to work at Hobby Lobby as a cashier and my job was going great until I got pregnant. After I told my boss that I was pregnant, they started trying to do things to make me quit and when I wouldn't quit they set me up and fired me. I had a lot of evidence, but unfortunately I couldn't find a lawyer to help me because they said they wouldn't make enough money off the case. But apparently they didn't like the fact that I was pregnant so they wrote up all these write-ups that never happened (and obviously were never signed because they never happened) and fired me. For example on the "write ups": one of the write-ups they wrote up was that I told someone to buy something else because I didn't like what they were buying. Not only did I not do that, but that made no sense because we didn't get paid on commission
Strange. There are laws against firing a woman for being pregnant - and if you had all that evidence to prove they were gunning for you, you should have sued them into the ground. Sounds like you had a poor choice of lawyers.
Just discharged from the hospital after major surgery. I'm in pain, but then Dark Fluff pops up in my notifications and now I'm not hurting as much. ❤❤❤
Narcissistic Lead... never EVER screw over payroll! They're the ones that make sure everybody gets paid! If you foul that up, YOU are directly marked with a bullseye as to WHY nobody is getting paid. Demotion isn't the only punishment you get. Torches and pitchforks are handed out for a discount, tar is free and feathers are handed out by the pillow-full.
Story #5 is exactly why we shouldn't have so-called "successful" business people go into politics and handle taxpayer dollars.
Basically Alex Baldwin's character from Glengarry Ross, except we spend more than 15 minutes with him and can see his character flaws and inflated ego.
Instead of Steve, he should have been nicknamed Gaston!
Also, it's exactly why the signature American allergy to unions should be taken out back behind the shed.
If those people didn't that that bargaining power, they would be stuck with that dude.
@@MernomI can't necessarily disagree, however I can say that for every good union story you hear/see, there's 100 cases of people who shouldn't have jobs but the union keeps them employed (see police officer unions for example)
@@sportqcguy9630 If the unions are not doing their job right, their management should be replaced.
Story 5 - This is why private equity & banking makes so much money. They push all the costs for their shitty decisions on employees.
Never ever back yourself against the public service and its unions. We WILL get our guaranteed allowances
Story 4: Is there not an HR at the company, or a State Labor Board? Karen should be reported, immediately, to HR, the Labor Board, and to the State Health Board, especially because she blatantly disregarded the mandatory health law about the 2 week isolation.
I remember when they increased minimum wage in my state and I was making less than the new hires while I was in school. I asked my GM at the time could I get the increase added to mine and gave all the reasons why as I was a star employee. He agreed, fought for and won my wage increase for me. Sometimes bosses can be awesome!
New Baby Story: If I were OP, I'd have gone to HR about Karen's constant Abuse and Belittlement and when she revealed my Private Medical Information, I'd have called HR again and then called a Lawyer and Sued Karen for her Abuse and violating my Privacy Rights and then called the Department of Labour to make a complaint against Karen for her Workplace Harassment, creating a Toxic Work Environment and Violating HIPPA Laws...
Karen I suspect would not be employed there for long and she should be owing me a rather hefty chunk of change too...
13:41 There are lot of things Karen could gain:
1. Enjoyment from pushing people around and feeling she's "in control.
2. Work trips are ripe for embezzlement, writing off expenses that never happened and pocketing them.
3. She could just loiter around with everyone else not in the office, if her "work" was making herself look busy by micromanaging and harassing everyone around her.
The power-tripping boss of the new mom...got tripped! HR should have been involved as the idiot was also refusing to comply with mandated health compliance AND violating FEDERAL HIPAA laws.
Story 4: My guess is that she just wanted to show her employees that she was the boss, and she didn't care about the money spent as it wasn't coming out of her pocket.
My Bad boss experience: ok so to fit this in a comment section I’m going to skip alot but the basic story is as follows.
I work with a utility company that requires a state issued license. The superintendent of our group was in charge for about 5 years when he got tired of the cold weather. He found a similar job in a warmer climate. He put in his two weeks and was gone. There was only one other person in our group with the required license so naturally he got the job. Sadly the replacement sucked and was “asked to leave” a few months later. In that time frame the old boss realized that the grass was not greener so he moved back to town and when he heard that his old job was open again he tried to get it back. I had also applied for it since I was the one filling the “acting” role and doing the day to day work. He called and asked if I thought he had a good chance of getting his job back and I told him I thought he did but even if he didn’t, I was the only one remotely qualified for the position so if I got it I would hire him back. He told me that since he used to be my boss there was no way he would work under me. Fast forward a month and when I got the position he begged me to hire him in my old position and I reminded him that he said he would never work under me. He hasn’t talked to me since
Sometimes pride is a heck of a dumbass ...
Why would you say he was a bad boss? In your story, you didn't say anything about his performance or, more importantly, his disperformance or his bad treatment to you. If what he did was rejecting the idea of working under you, I can tell that 99% of people also would also have the same reaction toward that possibility. It doesn't mean they are bad people, they are just feeling a little bit let down given their past working resume. You can say that pride get into their head, but not necessarily being a bad person.
@@gorilladisco9108 the very first thing I said was that I’m going to skip a lot because this is the comment section. Before we were up for the same job he was my friend, we hung out outside of work a lot. Then he moved away ansd we talked on the phone and played online games together. I even tried to get my (actual) boss to give him his job back at first. When they didn’t happen and my AB said he was hoping to give me the job, my friend became petty and vindictive and tried to sabotage not just the promotion but my employment with the company.
He wouldn't have worked well under you and would have caused you trouble.
Story 6: Trevor should have been fired immediately for deliberately sabotaging the project.
Story 2: I think the bad boss is hoping for OP to beg to keep his job even taking a pay cut to keep it but the idiot decided to gamble his livelihood for a couple of dollars.
Amazing how bosses try to save pennies while losing millions because of stubborn pride.
That part!!!
Pride is the downfall of many men and women.. I'm a super proud person, to a fault but I've started to get better with time .. I think pride is a good and bad thing ..
On the fire extinguisher story, I was a new new hire off a internship at a mechanic job. I was having issues diagnosing a driveability issue to which he suggested spraying carb clean(extremely flammable) on the engine to find a vacuum leak. A spark jump from a faulty spark plug wire set it on fire. I reacted as trained with the fire extinguisher, my boss was pissed because it took but a moment to do but cleaning up the vehicle and paying to recharge the fire extinguisher cost time and money. He realized I was following orders and reacted correctly but told me the fire extinguisher was a last last resort.
Story 6: This is why you're supposed to work for roles like "Manager" instead of trying to earn it by being buddy-buddy. Those who do the former are significantly more likely to succeed
Unfortunately, the "buddy-buddy" system is how it works in a lot of places.
@@weirdredpandaIt works because they know how to game the system, passing off the most work while gaining the most credit. It's unfair, but they get away with it as long as they don't do something really stupid, or can at least pass the buck. Trevor, though? Trevor was sloppy. What the hell was he thinking by not telling his staff to not work on an important project? Just trying to spite his rival? He got caught with his pants down and got a lesson in humility.
I was once at at a class about the interviewing stage of obtaining a job. They asked about what benefits are best to have at a job. People were saying healthcare, disability benefits, childcare, etc. The answer was a great boss. None of the other’s matter, if you’re miserable working for this company, and your boss sucks.
Steve story.... Perfect example of what happens when a new boss decides to act like the Big Dog and lift his virtual leg and mark his territory all over. With the usual results.
I had a coworker that was HIV positive. Our shift manager had a son that went to school with coworker and the manager told her son, who then told the whole school.
I bet that small fire was just a pilot light .
Story 4: 10:40 14:05
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure you can sue over that. 👀
It would result in a fairly hefty fine if memory serves.
Story four: Last I check OP's manager has no reason to reveal OP's personal Information to the rest of the office meaning OP's manager just committed Invasion of Privacy.
Story 4: I'm gathering that this happened in the US. That's a HIPAA violation and can be considered a federal offense. That boss could have (and should have) gotten fined for that.
Remember, if a boss tells you, don’t get me unless it’s an emergency or a fire as their go to thing to say. Or if they say “I don’t babysit” those all actually translate too “I don’t do my job”
I've had a freaking hard day today. My sister had emergency surgery for a cut in her intestines. This video was a nice way to end my day.
5months later, is your sister ok @stellamccoy5259 ? ❤
story 2: I was a floor associate working in apparel at the "spark" store. I also happened to be the only one under 65, and the only one who hadn't retired from another job previously. that said, i was 1 of 2 people that stocked the shelves, faced the racks, and zoned the whole area (basically making it look clean). well, one day i was the only one opening. so i had to work the fitting room, stock shelves, face and zone, while answering phones. the MOMENT someone else got on, i was called up to the front to cashier (Didn't even have time to hand over keys, which was code for informing the newcomer of everything going on, as well as literally handing over the keys to the fitting rooms). well, by the time i got back to my department 3 hours later (previous story, i was told to NEVER abandoned the front end until specifically released), I was now WAAAAAAAAY behind on work. the same manager that told me to never abandon the front end saw me cleaning the same table i had been on when he last walked by. he called me into the office and fired me for "taking 3 hours to clean a single table".
i went ahead and accepted the termination. within a week, i found another job. i went in to buy a pair of pants for this new job. boss man saw me and begged me to return. I flatout told him "I'll return for a sign on bonus of $10k, and no less than $20/hour." he about swallowed his tongue, saying no one in the store makes that much. i smiled and said "Too bad you fired the only one in that department who actually worked fast enough to keep up, huh? you know my price. if you can meet it, i'll come back. otherwise, i'll consider any contact to be harassment"
Paying your new hires more than current staff isn't something new, it's a common tactic to hire people and the company hopes their current employees don't find out. This is why we should always be discussing our pay
Most places that I worked, discussing salary with other employees was a sackable offence. Now, I wonder if that policy is even legal.
@@surferdude4487 of course its not, they cant fire you for discussing salary and if they do, sue them
The comment on story 1 reminds me of a guy I worked with at my first job who wanted to see what would happen if he pulled the fire alarm... in the kitchen... The answer? Everything gets covered in foam that's a bitch to clean up, and the restaurant gets shut down for hours as everyone gets put on cleaning duty. I named my first car after that guy because it was a lemon.
Along the lines of naming your car dick Turpin. (Famous highwayman who would stop traffic just like a shitty car)
😂😂😂😂 awesome
Stories 1 and 4: "'GO AHEAD AND QUIT' is a no-no threat for any toxic boss. People might call your bluff."
She got an ego boost throwing her weight around making her employees do something they didn’t wanna do. She was just a typical bully
On the 5th story
I one time had a manager that told me if the store called me with an IT related issue I was to answer, go to the store, and solve it in spite of us both having a corporate IT person with remote ability and a service we paid for that we could call to fix the issues. The reason was she didn't want to see the charges on the monthly P&L statement -- any internal IT issue that was "store solvable" (item unplugged or turn off/on would fix) was charged $25 an incident and service was billed after 4th call of month at $25 an incident
For the better part of a month I'd get calls and have to drive to store to fix items like a stuck receipt printer (paper jam), unplugged or simple rebootable items, and other such incidents. I'd sent to company HR the times, dates, and mileage reimbursements. I got asked by one of our HQ staff what all of this was for and I explained and found out that as I was off the clock and not enough hours between shifts at those times it would be at both overtime pay and a penalty pay (2x hourly pay -- OT hours 4x pay) and each of the incidents was guaranteed at a minimum of 2 hours each, regardless of how short it was.
Thd company owner contacted me about it and I sent him the list of what I had been emailed was the instructions from manager, and each of the 15 incidents I got called back in for and he was beyond pissed
Manager was fired the next week
That's the problem when managers think they can order employees about without reading the fine print.
Weirdly related, I'm tech support at a regulatory organization, and took a look at a printer that was clearly having issues I couldn't solve, so I told them to call the maintenance company. Turns out, it was out of warranty, so the organization took the hit financially and I got an earful about it. Ever since then, I always double-check if a busted printer is under warranty or not.
Always check whether it'll cost you, people.
I worked at a place in my teens that tried paying new hires more and tried to sneak it by us. Unfortunately for them all the new people were friends so when all the employees found out they were getting paid less close to 10 of us went in and said we would all be quitting...next thing I know it's "Wait everyone is getting that pay bump someone should of told you guys". No one believed that but we sure did get that raise
Story 5: For Finance Bro Steve, getting a captive audience to listen to him for 8 hours - at no expense to him - is a win.
Just the ego boost he needed😂😂😂😂
Plot twist: the hefty, non-negotiable payment for Finance Bro Steve's ego boost came at the full force -- and waving it off meant absolute hell for him.
"My, what a guy, that Gaston!"
For the story with the karen boss that divulged personal medical records, if it was in the USA it would absolutely be against the law for anyone to divulge medical records without the owners express consent, wether that be written or physical. It is a violation of HIPPA laws
I would've gotten what she said about the whole coming into work right after traveling to this training in writing. Then submit it to the board of health in the state as well as the better Business bureau.
Also if I was in a company and the boss made another coworker mine with a new infant go on a trip I would quit right there and then because apparently she doesn't give a crap about people to give a crap about a little child that's innocent could potentially die.
The boss who didn't care how something worked reminded me of a new boss who did marketing (it was Milliman consulting and her department did pension benefits). She said she didn't need to know what we did or how we did it and there were quite a few employees managing millions of pension dollars. Not sure how you sell something to companies when you don' t have a clue what you are selling compared to the competition but she would say this often so it must be true. How you even supervise as the manager when you have no clue what people do or if they are doing it right is amazing. Apparently she was superwoman and we would laugh behind her back. I guess sales people are good at everything and don't need to know law, accounting or computers like the rest of us. I wish I could say she was the craziest boss I ever saw but of course not. I saw lots of situations where companies would have an engineer, doctor or lawyer be the HR manager for a very large company (like Hughes, Exxon, etc) because they must know what they are doing with all those brains they have. It is funny but I always feel bad for the person who is actually doing the work and not getting the pay or title. It creates extra work for me when I have to phone around the company until I find out who is really doing the work so I can get things done. I always train people to not use email but physically go to the department or client if possible and that way you get past the dead wood and get things done.
Used to work in a place where they fired 2 people 1 for calling the fire department and 1 for pulling the fire alarm because they do everything in house (a machine caught fire in the middle of the building)
Did these employees know that? If not that's management's fault for not informing them at the time of employment how procedures work.
@@MegaMagicdog not sure was there under different contracts
In the last story, it seems implausible that a narcissist would admit the reason his department failed to complete a job was because he told them not to rather than to generate an excuse laying the blame on OP.
I was thinking the fire was from a pilot light on a water heater lol
I once worked at a Machine Shop that was jobbing oilfield down -hole equipment. I was the ISO Quality Assurance. They turn the parts, I use precision measuring tools and the job's blueprint, comparing the two. If it met tolerances, I would engrave the part # on each piece, and call for pickup.
The two things I heard more than once were: "Beat it to fit, paint it to match, and SHIP IT!" and "We ain't makin' watch parts!"
Then one day I was able to see the pricelist. OMG!!! You could have purchased the HOUSE I WAS RAISED IN, OUTRIGHT, for the money just ONE SMALL PARTS RUN cost! I lost all respect for the Shop at this point, and eventually I got fired. So much for the high-precision world of the machine shop.
For story #6, I'm surprised Trevor wasn't fired on the spot. I'm shocked he was offered his old position back instead of being put in a lower entry level job.
Story 3: I don't know why they could've just gave everyone a raise from the start, but hey, at least OP managed to win in the end
Story #3 reminds me of a job I had almost 15 yrs ago. Before I became a Registered Nurse (RN), I used to be a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). I took on an agency job to supplement my pay working for the Hospice in my area. The agency always sent me to a nursing home the next county over that was 50 miles one way from my apartment. I got paid good though. I got $28/hr. Well, the nurses that actually worked at this nursing home would ask the agency nurses how much we got paid and, thinking they were just curious, we told them the truth and they were MAD, to say the least. These LPN's were begging the big bosses for a raise. They were getting, I believe, $17/hr. They contacted a union to come speak to the staff to hopefully have all staff vote for a union to represent them. Well, the big bosses asked the staff what it would take to stop the union talk and the LPN's stated emphatically "A RAISE!!!!' and they got it. They got a raise across the board of $25/hr and after that I rarely got sent there after that.
Shoulda called the fire department, talk about cleanup! Product loss? You betcha.
Many of us have met Steve, a legend in his own mind.
Trevor wasn't just a narcissist. People like him are actually privately very insecure. They have to get undermine and one-up others to assuage their own fragile ego, hide (even from themselves), their own insecurities and/or inabilities.
Story 3 - This is why all salary info needs to be public in the US. That way, people can know when they're being screwed over by management and fight for fair pay. I got stuck in a similar situation as OP, but it was in my full time salaried job. My company scrambled for a while when I left for a job that paid me what I was worth.
Story 4 - I would have gone to HR as soon as manager started sharing my personal medical info. If it were a legitimate HR dept, they would have destroyed Karen for that plus creating a hostile work environment for her bullying long before the training thing came up.
Story 6 - I'm surprised that Trevor didn't try to throw OP under the bus, but I guess he wasn't that smart after all!
story 6: or he was smart enough to know that throwing OP under the bus would just get him in even more trouble. Most people we hear about in stories like this one just dig themselves a deeper whole by doubling down and such and end up fired and/or sued by the company, but Trevor just faced the facts that he ROYALLY screwed up, and at the end of the day, he still had his original job, even if he did screw himself out of the promotion. So I'd say he was smarter by NOT throwing OP under the bus.
Story 3: yeah it sucks. My previous employer decided to bump up starting pay to literally like $0.75 less than what I was making and I had been there for almost 10 years! I decided then and there that they don’t deserve my loyalty. Granted our manager went to bat for us and got us long termers several more dollars per hour but the damage was done. I knew they didn’t value my work or my position. Now I’m working somewhere else that pays me more than DOUBLE what I was earning! Treat your employees like the value they bring your company or you won’t have that value for long! It’s been almost a full year and they STILL haven’t been able to effectively replace me. I hated doing it to my former manager and coworkers but the company dug this ditch and they can deal with it.
Last story: The Director influenced Trevor's behavior by giving him a position he CLEARLY wasn't qualified for all because Trevor handled the director's balls instead of actually doing his job smh... Then yelled at him because he made a horrible decision based on ego. I hate leadership like that, the military is filled with supervision like that director.
steve making love to his ego reminds me of the worst 'training day' i had when i foolishly attempted work in sales for a bank. the entire training day (8 hours broken up in 2 hour sessions) was nothing but the alleged trainer making love to his ego telling us what we COULD learn in actual training if we reached an arbitrary sales number as trainees. to sum up, the training we got was being told how we MIGHT be trained if we as sales people with no training made sales worth x ammount of currency. all i got from that alleged job is 2 wasted months of my life, no skills learned, and endless hate for said bank in general.
With story 2 it’s tough, because a lot of companies will have some clause in the hiring contracts and have a different classification for new hire vs rehire making it where rehires can’t get new hire bonus or pay increases as they’re a rehire. OP got lucky in that scenario but power to him for getting that worked out.
Oh God Im so happy I don’t have to do yearly “training” conferences anymore. I’m a hairstylist and the presentations though, omg. Once we had a lady with a small burger chain talk to us about having a successful business. There’s no shame in working in fast food but to compare, it’s like me as a hairstylist telling a nurse how to do her job better. Like, retention means two different things in our professions if you know what I mean. Another was a guy who was in the military and how he overcame being injured.🤷🏻♀️ Thank you for your service but it ended up he lied or was some sort of criminal. Another was a nascar driver. What the French does that have to do with this haircut!?
Actually, it would be cheaper to let the place burn down if there was sufficient insurance on the place
Story 1. Correction. Letting the place burn down is the cheaper alternative. The insurance company has to pay for all of the damage as well as compensate for monetary loss because it’s a business. That’s why the boss was pissed. 5:04
i had an awful boss once while working at a gas station, during a summer all the hotdogs ran out due to massive amounts of tourists
but boss had an emergancy stash of frozen hotdogs for such occassions, unfortunatly only 1 package out of i think 20-25 (12 hotdogs per pack) were within the legal date to sell, the oldest package was over 3 years old
so i proceded to throw away all that i was legaly not allowed to sell since boss was adamant that we follow the yearly training test we had to take regarding how to handle food and other stuff running a small store
the next day i came in to my shift we had gotten new hotdogs and boss had sharpied over all the date stamps on all the hotdog packages, presumably so i woulndt throw them away, buuuut according to law and health regulations if you cant tell the best before date of a product you arent allowed to sell it , so in the bin it went aswell
wouldnt suprise me if he had brought some of the old hotdogs from the trash bin outside back in to sell since he put down the effort of sharpie every single package that day before i arrived to my shift
Wring kind of fire extinguisher. A restaurant should be using a food safe CO2 type, not the dry chemical type.
I always enjoy a good Darkfluff stories during the day 😊
The last story is like wtf. But the story comment about the kitchen fire op should not have gotten into trouble as he was told to do it. Yea there could have been other ways to put it out
Yeah, like call 911 for the Fire Department.
Trevor has to learn you work together with inferiors and superiors or you fall. Also dont; except mercy when you have shown none.
For Story 5, if I was there, I'd be thinking of the song, "Gaston", on a loop!
"No... one's...
Been like Gaston,
A kingpin like Gaston,
No one's got a swell cleft, in his chin, like Gaston.
As a specimen, yes, he's intimidating,
My, what a guy, that Gaston!"
Yup, that’s Jingles for you. I worked there for 4 years while in college and they claimed I couldn’t get a raise because I hadn’t been there for a “full calendar year” yet 🙄
Story 3... I wish that worked like that in IT... but companies like to have you help train a person, then lay you off... and I had well over a decade of experience... and then decide I shouldn't get a good severance package. and just to rub salt into it... HR apparently didn't know I had worked for them, and offered a 6-month contractor position at $5/hr less than I had been offered (and as a contractor... no seniority, I had to pay employer part of taxes, no health/dental benefits, no rrsp contributions...). I counter offered either 25% more than I had been making if they wanted me as a contractor, or reinstating me. Never heard back.
Love the way this guy occasionally goes off filling in with total speculation of further villainy on the part of a story's bad guy!
"And I bet that boss was murdering kittens while he denied that overtime...!"
I was told after the first rounds of interviews I was told I wasn’t going to be considered for the new GM position. The other two managers were going to continue on because “everyone knows and likes them”. Golf Club and the head pro and superintendent were the “cool kids” 🤮
4:54 Actually, I can sort of understand that one...most Restaurants/Bars (anything with a Commercial Kitchen) will have 2 types of Fire Extinguishers...the small(ish) red cans mounted to the wall for small trashcan sized fires and a Monster Extinguisher system installed with pipes leading to the grills and deep fryers...if OP triggered that one, the ENTIRE kitchen would have been coated in a fine layer of fire retardant powder (they don't use Halon anymore as it proved hazardous to people for some reason I can't find at the moment)...
My father used to own a restaurant and he told me if the kitchen system ever triggered, the Restaurant is closed for at least 3 days for cleanup and any food not sealed in the walk-in freezer is garbage and if the freezer door was open when it went off, everything in it goes right in the dumpster and they're closed for at least another 2-3 days until they can order and receive enough food deliveries to restock the Freezer...
So if OP actually pulled the manual release for the grill/deep fryer fire suppression system instead of grabbing a small extinguisher off the wall, yah, he'd be in trouble...
Some places you are trained to not use a fire extinguisher at all and will get in trouble for using it; it might have been one of those types of places concerning the story in the comment.
'As long as it works I don't care'. Good idea! Run your car without oil until the engine seizes up.
Sister-in-law does botox and other skin treatment stuff for spas, her last place they over booked her to the point she couldn't take lunch or even a bathroom break. She told them to stop for months and then after talking to my brother (her hubby) she decided to quit when she got a call to come in on a scheduled vacation day. She isn't the only person who is trained/certified to do what her job was but the only other person is the mother of the person who does the schedule and girlfriend of the owner and she was barely there and probably was giving her workload to my SIL so she could do what ever. Anyways, she's now working on starting her own Spa because for some reason it's stupid easy, she just has to find a doctor to sign off on medical supplies they need to order because that's how it works.
I worked in a gasstation for some time before i started my current job. The more expirienced staff and manegment where always open to questions.
if you work for a "boss" that has one employee scratch your head it is worth working for him and not work for youself. cause most of the time this "boss" is a leech
4:42 getting into trouble because you stopped a fire with an extinguisher that’s meant to extinguish fires?! Wtf! I’d have walked out immediately, even if rent was due that day…
When I worked at Chipotle years ago I made 9.75$. The guy who had been there a year made 8.75$.
That last story, i would have asked the worker under Trevor in an email to repeat what she had been told in a reply email. Document, document, document!
that was my first thought, too.
Story 5: That's pretty funny and the boss is definitely deserving. However, the biggest loser in this situation is the taxpayer.
My company divulged that I was pregnant unexpectedly to all my co workers. The only reason I didn't rail them in court for it was because I truely believe they were just excited for me and didn't realize how illegal it was. Though it raised alot of deep concerns about their incompetence so I began to learn my rights and actively recite them when needed. I get the cold shoulder now but I don't care. You are my boss not my friend. I know my place. It's time you learned yours
the story with the fire? that's why you have CO2 fire extinguishers. kills fire effectively without contaminating anything.
sure, these are mostly used around server rooms because they are a bit more expensive. but a fire usually means quite some damage, and extinguishers with foam or powder work equally good but contaminate everything around the fire. that's why CO2 is so well liked in server rooms. it does not destroy computers. who would have guessed that not destroying computers is a good idea?
Out Of State Training: I would hope that everyone go! Then let Corporate know why the office is going to be shut down for 2 weeks!! Make sure Corporate knows who to "thank" for the fiasco!!!
I worked at one place that when minimum wage increased above what people were being paid simply raised wages to the new minimum
I told the manager I was being paid 50 cents higher prior to the increase and expected to be 50 cents above after the increase and if not then I'd be getting corporate involved
When manager refused I called corporate and they were shocked as the dictate was to move people to same point above the new minimum wage.
Manager was fired the next week
Story 5: Perfect example of the harm that government unions to do the public and the taxpayers. Since they are union, they can't be fired for anything less than committing a felony, and even then there will be months of arbitration to go through.
How is that a problem of unions, that the boss made a mistake, even when they told him, that it is a bad idea?
Unions also protect the rights of their members. Most states that aren't union tends to have higher unemployment and turnover for whatever companies are there.
Can confirm. did state guv'ment HR/Payroll for 14+ years. Even with a verifiable felony people don't get fired.
So what would you have done if your boss had demanded you travel to the other end of your state for a meeting? Pay for it out of your own pocket? I bet not!
Perfect example of why ALL workers should be in a union to protect themselves, Unions help everyone except for bad employers.
Story 3:
OP should have demanded a 2$ raise at least.
Yep! Agreed! when I was working in the only grocery of the village, I started minimum wage. Every 800 hours or something like this, I would gain a 0.10$ augmentation. Mind that I was at school part time. So, it was pretty much 0.10$ of augmentation by year. So, I started like at 8.25$. Now, economy at this time has force the gouvrment to augment the minimum wage a couple of time. So, after a couple of years, while I had a lot of autmentation to reach the high hourly salary of 9.15$, new hire was at the minum wage at 9.05$. It was completly stupid. And yes, we had a union... with the representative being a good friend of the owner.