Repeat after me: you are allowed to speak to co-workers about your wage. It is against the FLRA for management to try to dissuade, prevent, or any other way to thwart you from conversing about your wage to co-workers.
I agree with you BUT asking for a wage increase in front of other colleagues who may be from other departments at a "team meeting" isn't the time nor place to bring it up. They may have had better success by going into the supervisor's office, away from other workers.
@@ctochs The story doesn't specify which departments were all in on the "team". I've been part of teams which consisted of IT, sales and marketing. Each of those are considered teams as well. If it was solely the tech support who were at the meeting, I don't understand why the supervisor flipped his lid. I guess I may have interpreted it wrong.
Yeah, you are but it’s a bad idea. If you’re speaking with someone that’s so-so, while you’re high value, even though you do the same job, the low value person gets pretty upset and will say, “Hey! Why are you getting more?” “Uh, because I’m a better negotiator.” They walk right over to the boss, “Boss you’re paying him $X. We do the same thing. I want $X” Boss, “how do you know he gets paid $X?” Now you’ve ~ mind you, you’re just a good employee, smart, hard working on time and your friend, not so much ~ but you’ve jeopardized your relationship with your friend and pissed off your boss. It’s a bad idea.
I ran my own business. How the heck did these idiots expect to keep a business when they treat their employees like crap? They deserve to lose the business. Angers me that the people in charge would treat others like this.
My dad owns 8 Mexican restaurants and by all means I started learning the business at the age of 9. My mom was a hardass about if you want something work for it and I did. I stopped working due to my hips and lungs I have bad health issues. I work at our farm wear I earn a lot I mostly take care of my sheep and my poultry. One of my dad's former employee decided to steal some recipes and try to open up his own restaurant he failed miserably. The guy had a terrible attitude and treated people bad and when he opened up for the first 3 weeks it was shut down. I don't know what happened all I know they health inspector came and found rats and food contamination I heard this from my dad.
A lot of big companies nowadays don't care and treat their employees as nothing more than cogs in a machine. The only people they care about are shareholders.
@@StCrimson667 wow, I know you are right..but it just doesn't make sense to me. I would have been considered a small business owner and didn't have stock owners. But I still can't see treating folks like this. I bent over backwards to keep my employees happy...BUT in return they did the same for me. Loved those ladies that worked for me.
@@KarlaGarcia-ld6mv oh wow, running restaurants. My hats off to your dad as well as you. Restaurant business is one of the hardest and most challenging. I went to culinary school for a while when I was younger. Did work in an upscale restaurant for a time. Stealing recipes? Oh crap...absolute no no ever in the restaurant business. I ended up with a real estate co, and a fabric-craft store. Thanks for your input.
@@rayshelld791 That's how we were growing up my dad took all my siblings to the restaurants. I was 16 I had to stop working but my older sister was the accountant, my older brother was the cook, and I did waitressing. My dad's side of family aren't allowed to step foot any of the establishments due to past drama. My mom's side of the family have their own restaurants. What's so annoying is that most people assume that I'm rich but I'm not it's fairness and minimum wage.
To the manager that blocked the door to stop a walkout (Ballpark story)? I wouldn't climb anything, I'd have called the police and report a kidnapping, then call OSHA about her blocking the escape doors, let the government sort it out
More dramatic to have the workforce leave through the order window, though really you could have still reported it to OSHA since she still blocked an emergency exit.
@@AnonYmous-mc5zx, true, but she suffers nothing, but replacing her staff. My way, she faces real charges for real crimes, also fines and possible jail time. People will continue to break the law until you make that call.
I got accused of sexually harrasment which led to me being "separated" from my job. I walked out of my bosses office crying while gathering my things a few coworkers asked what happened and as I told them the oldest one looked me dead in the eye and said "bullshit that bitch is getting the hammer" the next few days I heard from my boss screaming "what did I do" turns out most if not all of the front desk staff quit the next day
Damn he/she has my respect. Damn straight everybody quit on the spot in his face. Firing someone for something petty is bad. Firing someone over a SH claim is absolute dogshit
Company lays off employee 1 year from retirement and after 35 loyal years. Younger generations: Yeah we're not giving undying loyalty to a company that doesn't care about us. Older Generations: You should be loyal to a company!
I went to work for a lady whom was my mother's employer. She owned a shop that primarily sold custom t-shirts in a small, Wild-West themed tourist trap town. I was hired on, with the agreement that around the holidays, I would get a special $1,000 bonus, just like my mom did every year she had worked there. Holidays come and she invites us all to a fancy dinner. We go, thinking that we would get our bonuses there. No bonuses. For anyone. Only a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant that my mother and I wouldn't have bothered setting foot in even if we had the disposable income, seeing it as a waste of money. The subject was lightly approached, and the owner said that the shop, unfortunately, did not make enough to pay us all for a holiday bonus, so she decided to treat us all to a fancy dinner instead. While I and my mom were both polite at the dinner, smiling and joking as usual, we were both livid. Especially so since this woman collected expensive cars, like Jaguars, plural, and had six total, bought a new house for her mother, and twice a month would take trips to Puerto Rico, without fail, among other flaunting displays of wealth. And she had the audacity to tell us that she couldn't afford to give us, three employees total, the $1,000 bonuses she always gave out? We both quit shortly thereafter, and she was confused as to why. Unbeknownst to her, my mother is very much a bubbly social person, who draws people in, and can very easily talk them into spending money when they were planning, or even when they weren't planning on doing anything more than just looking around. She went above and beyond to maintain that store and inventory that the owner never thought to do or ask for. And when she left her high and dry, it was a blow to the business. (I was no slouch either, but my mother has some crazy energy reserves, and plus, the owner was someone she considered a friend, so she was willing to go that extra mile for her and the business.) The other employee, an older woman, was not a good salesperson, was always trying to put up the tackiest designs up for display that were never the big money makers, and was slow as hell on the register, often stopping what she was doing to chat with the people at the counter and in the shop. (My mom was happy to chat, as was I, but we were both capable of doing so while ringing customers up, taking their money and credit cards, making change, and bagging their purchases, to amicably keep the line going.) We learned that the shop was doing very poorly since my mother and I left, and the replacements turned out to be the owner's daughter and her drug addict boyfriend, who routinely stole from the shop. She had to sell some of her cars and stop taking her trips down to PR, and we heard that she ended up losing her mother's new house. My mom and I are both genuinely sorry that that happened, but it could have all been avoided had she simply bothered to shell out the holiday bonuses, like she had promised.
My favorite Mexican place closed because of something like this. The cooks were a husband and wife team, who were distant relatives of the owner. Since they worked lunch and dinner, their two little daughters would get dropped off from school in the parking lot, and sit in the dining room watching My Little Pony on the TV. When they were thirsty or hungry, they'd just ask the waitress, and she'd get them something, usually made from the leftovers from cooking something else. The point is, they weren't just getting food off the menu for free. The owner came in one day, saw the girls watching cartoons and eating a take-out order that had been cancelled, he threw a fit. At two little girls. He screamed about them stealing and called the waitress some awful things in Spanish... and then he turned the cartoons off. A humongous biker guy grabbed him by the head and growled, "I was WATCHIN' that..." and pretty much dragged the owner out the door. Never yell at children in front of a Shriner... The cooks took the girls, the TV, half the cooking utensils, everything else they owned, and the waitress, and left. It was Taco Tuesday. The restaurant probably lost over $1000 just that night. The cooks were unemployed for less than a week. The wife's mother basically bought them a closed Thai place at the other end of the strip mall. It is now basically identical to the old place, complete with the same food, staff, and tables... which they bought from the auction after the old restaurant went belly-up, just as an "F you" to their former boss. He was out of business within 90 days. He went back to building swimming pools. I hear that's failing too. Though admittedly that might just be from the Coronavirus, but I kinda doubt that.
Henry Rodgers That would've been so awesome to see the jerk who screamed at two little innocent girls, get grabbed by the head and hauled out for an attitude adjustment by the biker guy! I don't care if he was the owner. If you're in a leadership position, or any position of power over people, you are expected to act in a decent, professional manner.
I found funny the fact they also took the waitress, like they just ask her "f this guy, wanna join our family?" And she just nod and walk out with them
Stories like these need to happen a lot more often. Maybe if more companies went under because bosses found out the hard way their employees weren't as replaceable as they thought, less companies would treat employees like crap.
@@ettinakitten5047 I think that is why companies lobby against such safety nets. They need to keep the slaves from running away while the beatings continue till morale improves.
We got robbed. The manager said she had enough, left me alone at the store to figure it out and went home. I had a question about my job as I was pretty new so I texted her, she told me to not text her and figure it out on my own. I closed the store and quit lol. Everyone else in the store proceeded to quit because they were scared how we had no safety if we got robbed again, and we actually knew this guy was coming because he had stolen repeatedly the weeks prior from partner shops and they got him on camera. He was violent. Nobody gave a shit about my safety.
Please tell me she just came back to an abandoned store and was like Where yall at I need people to run this place I don't care if you got a thief who might break your head open to steal some candy, come into work NOW! Cause Jesus she would've been sued so fast if it happened again and someone got injured, much less fired
@@ghostslayer1981 she never came back for the day! Thats basically how she was. Like I dont care, do your job. I closed the store and quit and returned my keys the next day. She was angry and had zero empathy.
So I worked at a safeway when I was in high school. This one kid (another clerk) was stealing TONS of booze from the storage room and taking it out with the trash and selling it. The management eventually found out but couldn’t pinpoint who it was, even though everyone knew. So they decided it was a good idea to threaten every single clerk and cashier with legal action if they didn’t fess up. And more than half the store quit because of how they handled it.
The most satisfying part of these stories is when the aftermath comes rolling around. Something to the effect of, "And within 1-3 months, the store/corporation/business practically imploded due to 300 people walking out over x/y/z bullshit." Always makes me smile.
That poor guy getting hired on as the new manager... Getting disrespected by the outgoing manager for no reason (honestly, should have been thanked for the unknown, unintentional tip-off) and discovering for himself that he was working for a shitty employer.
Had a retail manager once (nearly 30 years ago) who seemed cool at first, young, fun girl, single mom but seemed pretty stable. She turned 6 of us girls against each other, after about 3 horrible weeks I had said something cruel to a coworker that I was close to before Jacqui came along, I felt terrible so when we were doing clean up after closing I tried to apologize and she tried to apologize at the same time, we said "what's happened to all of us?" and we both suddenly said "Jacqui!", we went & got the other girls & spent an hour hashing out everything, figured out Jacqui was also a meth head (started coming in with full makeup on only one eye, wearing mismatched shoes, no keys, falling asleep at the backroom desk, crazy red eyes, angry at nothing, etc.) and we wrote up what to tell HR. We each called the next day with our "statements" and she was fired the next day. It was the greatest feeling to know we'd never have to deal with her again at Miller's Outpost 😅
I'm glad this worked out so well. It really highlights the importance of introspection, humility, and patient communication between people to help deal with malicious sociopathic parties. Those higher than that manager also deserve credit for listening to her subordinates, taking them seriously, and removing a malicious member from the organization. I want life to end up like the event described in this story.
@@gamershadow8 False imprisonment is a Gov-only crime. Most states consider this kid-napping, but that's the least of her concerns when OSHA and the county have their way with her.
14:19 I had to deal with an owner like that. She changed my shift and didnt tell me, and attempted to write me up for being late (even though I was always there 15 minutes early and would stay hours over.) I wrote a strongly worded letter to corporate about possible legal repercussions for the threats of termination due to her incompetence. Course it was all bullshit, but she ended up "retiring early."
Christmas! Buy the Boss something he would cherish forever. The big get together was held in the main building..On his desk was presents 4 feet high on each side. Like he was looking past pillars of presents from 50 people. After 18 years of incredible popularity the radio station was sold.This was the week before Christmas, he announced that certain people would no longer be needed. The station sold for millions...be he stated that one third of the price was eaten up by taxes... Soooo there would be no Christmas presents or bonuses for any one. MY FANTASTIC CO WORKERS who took care of his extensive car collection with me just sat at our table laughing in pure discust. We did car shows had tours of the museum, events, 12-14 hour days we're the norm. Could do anything the card needed, this was a great job made difficult by mismagement.. Loved the cars, the people..at the car shows and events...but came the time to quit.
I worked at a freezer warehouse that dealt with about 80 inbound and 70-90 outbound truckloads per day. The management was total shit. Low pay, over worked us, blatant favoritism, and more. We grumbled to each other a lot and management got wind of some of our complaints. They had a meeting 1 day for all of first and third shift and the plant manger stood up front and told us that we should "knock off our shit and be grateful you have jobs because you are all instantly replaceable." 90% of the forklift drivers, including myself, got up, punched out, and left. This was at the start of the day and there were already 40 outside waiting to be unloaded. I found out later that they frantically tried to get temps in to unload the trucks but with so little luck that the plant manager tried to unload some. She was about 400 pounds and likely hadn't done any real work in years. She had a heart attack on the shipping dock. She lived. The company didn't.
I quit my job and so did the 2 others I was working with. We worked on a farm and the owner had us in a swamp for 8 hours pulling weeds. When i stepped out of the water i had a dozen or so leeches on my legs. In addition to this he docked us an hours pay for showing up 10 minutes late. I quit and then the others did right there too. We were the only 3 employees at that time
My dad works as an engineer. A while back, his old job let go of a bunch of the people who had been there for the longest, him being one of them. This was not even a year after they forced him to switch to a position of work he knew little on. They forced him to switch what he was doing and was experienced in. This all happened after a new management took over.
I don't understand why the owners always use nepotism to get a new manager. Just because he is a son doesn't mean he is the best person. Should give the new person a month see how they are doing ask the staff. If they suck make them quit.
I think some also want to brag that they're "keeping the business in the family". They dream of having some dynasty like The Rockefellers or somebody. After the business tanks because of the incompetent relatives they put in place, they can reflect on how they lost so much because of their pride. (Note that some families do have good, competent relatives who can keep the business going. It's just wrong to assume someone is perfect for the job just because they're related to you)
Almost happened where I currently work. Our beloved store manager left after over 20 years at the store bc she wasn't going to get a higher pay/better job within the company, and so she looked elsewhere. Company tried to get her to stay, and because they were so sure my overworked former boss would stay, they never let her train her replacement- because they didn't have one prepared 3 months in advance. They tried to give the job to someone we did not have anything good to say about. He came in once and everyone there hated him and how poorly he was gonna run the store. (Cutting certain hours, less time to do truck, less time to put stuff on the shelves, more time being forced out with customers, ect.) And eventually we all, separately surprisingly, tell the big boss that if that guy is made store manager, he will be the only worker in the store. They did not hire him in our store at all, but every single one of us had other jobs lined up if he had, and the big boss knew it.
My mother was working at a nursing home, doing 6-hour shifts. Management shortened the shifts to 4 hours, and wanted the same amount of work done. So Mom, with my dad's blessing, told them to take their job and shove it, and she said many of the other aides left when she did. My dad had been laid off, which is why she got the job in the first place, and he had gotten a job in the meantime.
What I want to know is, when a company introduces a stupid new policy and people start quitting, why don't they ever just get immediately rid of the policy or fire the person who's causing people to quit after the third person quits? By keeping the policy active they're just asking to go out of business.
Worked at a place, The management had locked the doors and dipped. Everyone was stuck in there for an hour and everyone was freaking out. I went in the pack to calm down cause I started having a panic attack from all the customers pushing me into a wall. Management found me in the back and fired me after they made me work the rest of my time then refused to pay me and threw me out. A year later they came back (they move around, they're an amusement park thing with haunted houses, where I worked) and they had 30 other employees from the haunted house quit on the first night because the management staff were tyrants and horrible to their workers. They were left with 5 haunters that night and a few quit after that making it so they didn't have any haunters for the rest of the season.
I worked for a truly wonderful optometrist for 5 years, he was utterly amazing as a boss and person, between his retirement announcement and the new owner every single tech quit. I felt bad for the new owner because he wasn't a bad guy he just wasn't the doc we all loved. All of us figured it just wasn't going to be the same so now was the time to go.
I worked at one place for a few months, the original manager had the place run like clockwork and myself and my coworkers really like him. Then a new store from the same company opens up in another town and he gets transferred there to train them before it opens. Then the new manager comes in and has us come in together for a meeting to introduce herself to everyone at once. However once she starts the meeting she proceeded to put herself on a pedestal highlighting her skill while shittalking the previous. My coworkers were pissed and all of them almost immediately quit.
At PetsMart. We had this awesome store manager, really chill guy but still good manager (wouldn't let people get away with crap and expected you to do the job you were hired for.) Assistant store manager quit and they hire this guy who damn near ran a home improvement store into the ground in our city. Assistant manager seems cool at first but gives all of us that feeling. You know, somethings off. Guy starts making small changes to the schedule after its posted so people are coming in late/early/not coming in and someone complains to corporate because this is bs. Corporate starts putting pressure on store manager. The Assistant manager keeps doing crap like that until the store manager just quits. Assistant gets upped to Store manager and his first act is to hire the shitty area managers from the other store he messed up. They all start choosing who they like and don't and if they didn't like you, they made your life hell. The first walk out was about 5 people. STILL NOT THE BIGGEST WALK OUT! The grand finale of this douchery is that a groomer was pregnant, like about to pop preggo. Her water breaks at the start of her shift. Manager tells her she needs to finish grooming all of the dogs on her schedule before she can go to the hospital to have her baby. A full, 8 hour shift. Another groomer walked her out, telling him to fuck off you piece of shit and generally broadcasting to the whole store that this asshole is trying to make a woman in labor groom large, unpredictable dogs. The grooming staff left, the floor staff left. Pretty much everyone who wasn't new walked out.
I raised small rodentia as a serious hobby and sold under contract to a family owned pet store. Owner made his just graduated daughter manager. Over a few months she’d changed who had the power to do some things from staff to her. Wouldn’t be bad but she’d always be late in to work. Two weeks running she had refused my normal delivery of 30 animals, which I was having to deal with and had no room for. The puppy fellow, the kitten fellow and snake food guy (rats from pinkies to full grown and baby bunnies) and I, were there at open. She wasn’t. Hour and a half, puppies, and kittens, couldn’t wait any longer. Puppies said he’d try mid afternoon before he left town. Kittens said they wouldn’t be back. Snake Food and I waited another hour. She comes breezing in and got told about who left and the one that wouldn’t be back. She threw a fit. Snake Food, all she wanted was baby bunnies and nothing else- his pre call a few days before she said bring everything. Snake Food quits and walks, he made a 2.5 hour drive to deliver 8 rabbits??? She turns to me and doesn’t want anything again, then starts begging me like a four year old to raise bunnies for her. I told her I didn’t have the space and it would take money I didn’t have and at least six months to get the first litter and and two more MONTHS to get them to size. By know she’s on the floor on her knees screaming, bawling and begging me to raise bunnies for her. I walked out with Snake Food. She apparently rolled on the floor with a full tantrum and an employee called the owner and let him listen, then was told what happened and if something wasn’t done the doors were going to be locked as the staff left for the last time. I went in there a few days later and the owner was there. I received an apology and asked if I’d consider a new contract. I told him I sold my stock to another breeder and had kept just two pair...She’d only had a few months, so the store recovered
D I know people have to make a living the best way they can, but raising litters of little animals purely for them to be eaten by snakes sickens me. If I saw a snake trying to eat a little baby anything, (except a poisonous snake), in my yard, I'd be like the cave woman in the B.C. comics, whacking that snake with anything I could find. Sorry snake lovers. I just can't deal with feeding a snake something I'd rather have as a pet.
@Sufiya H. I'm not crazy about that either. I do eat some meat, but am more inclined to eat vegetables. I just don't know what would become of all the farm animals that people raise if they knew they couldn't kill and eat them. I'm afraid they'd be considered pests and killed for that reason. I just don't know a good answer for this problem, but I do hate the thought of so many animals being raised to be killed.
@@lordiedams348 I wish they ate green briers, or poison ivy,or some plant we need less of, but that's not the case. It just seems so unfair to make a mother animal repeatedly have litter after litter only to have them taken away to feed snakes. There's a lot of cruelty involved in life. I guess it can't be avoided.
I'm a supervisor at a warehouse. We have a new manager that apparently doesn't trust people to fill out their own paperwork on how many orders they finished in a night. So now I have all the orders at my desk and will hand out premade bundles of orders to people. I will write down their name, the total number of orders given, the size of those orders, and how long we expect them to take to finish. If they don't meet expectations the plan is to call them into the office to grill them on why they are slacking. Oh and also they still have to fill out their own paperwork too. No one has quit yet cause this has only been going on for like a week but I've already started looking for another job and I'm hearing plenty of anger from workers on the floor. The new manager has a reputation of being a micromanager and a manipulative liar so I am pretty sure the company is not going to be doing so well in the near future. Some other stuff the manager has done: Arbitrarily change how we replenish product because "His way is better." Even tho he has never done replenishment before. Threatened a lead because she disagreed with his opinion. Lied to workers about offering schooling assistance to keep those workers a little bit longer. Badmouthed temps in earshot of those temps. (who then quit. Not that they need much to leave. He fires them if they are late even by a min or ask for time off) Promised raises with back pay only to go back on the promise of back pay on the day they announced the raise would go into effect. (His raise was back paid tho) Called my workers into his office to yell at them for a mistake they made even tho I already talked to the worker in question and the matter was resolved. Came out onto the floor to yell at my workers telling them they are doing their jobs incorrectly even tho they aren't. Told a worker they weren't allowed to work 2 jobs and to quit the other because people should be loyal to one job and one job only. Offered 3 days paid overtime ($500 a day) for an inventory project over memorial day weekend. Then the day before they rescheduled so people only could work one day. (thus ruining their holiday plans and depriving them of promised money) Offering "optional" overtime then being mad that not enough people accepted the "optional" overtime Its been a long year. This is just crap off the top of my head that he's done.
USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) during her final two years before decommissioning was known as "Tap City," as 32 sailors asked to transfer out of the ship within a month. The Chiefs were fucking terrible and kept asking for impossible standards, then sending them to DRB or pushing for Captain's Mast for not meeting the standards. Eventually Squadron had enough of their shit and sent some of their guys to monitor them, "or babysit," for a whole month. Poor CO had to deal with it all, and he was a good CO from what I heard. I felt bad for them as several friends were assigned to that boat. Bad deckplate leadership leads to the entire crew suffering. Submariners already have rough jobs as it is.
My company had a mass exodus years ago. Every President's day we have a bank wide meeting (we're a small community bank) and we have a motivational speaker talk to us. He introduced something from a book called "Humble, Hungry, Smart" and how it describes how a company will have "A, B, and C" team members. "A" members were those who went above and beyond, "B" workers did the work but did not take extra responsibilities, and "C" workers were just here for the paycheck. My CEO liked this so much that he made us and our manager evaluate us to see where we stand and how we can all become "A" workers. If we weren't "A" or "B" members by the end of six months wed be fired. Not even a month into this we went from a company of 210 to 150. So many people from admin left or resigned so fast that HR couldn't keep us up to date on who is left and who is still here. We had emails with a whole list of names saying that they're gone. This happened in 2019. Now, we don't even bother with those terms as we had too many people leave because of it.
I was working nights at a factory, they tried to have me and my friend pull overtime because one of the managers accidentally dumped a pallet of mats over. Then about 4 weeks later my friend called in sick around noon, they said not to come in, I wasn't going to work if they fired my friend because that's a bullshit reason, and I was sure I would have to do OT, I showed up to clean my friend locker, they saw me. I just said I was cleaning the locker, I took the shit to my car and just left.
I used to work at an amusement museum in Pigeon Forge TN as my last job before i started working where i do now. The hours were terrible (they ignored my hour requests) and the rules were so arbitrary and stupid. They had a manager who was a white trash mother of 4. One night i was running the floor (i was team lead) while this manager was also working. She had been placed in one room per our boss who told me that i didn’t have to move anyone for the remainder of the night if we stayed as slow as we had been (closing at 7pm). I did as our boss said and began delegating cleaning/closing tasks while some of our other coworkers dealt with the remaining customers. The white trash manager came up to me out of nowhere (left her post unattended with customers in the room) and started cussing me out because she had been in one room for what she felt was too long. I told her that our boss had told me to do that and that we were closing in 15 minutes, but that she could take a break if she wanted to and i would watch her room (she wanted to go on a smoke break). My other coworkers, after witnessing white trash manager blowing up on me, took my side and were planning on going to upper management about her. I was scheduled to close alone that night and work at noon the next day. I closed that night, took the deposit to the bank and showed up at noon the next day with my shirts and keys. Dropped them off in my cubby and left without saying anything. That job sucked so bad.
Remember people, if you piss off your employees, them quitting is a better option but piss off all your employees, then there is a chance of a mystery murder where all comments were "The problem is it could be anyone" Ok here is saying, you can't claim territory or victory without an army, an army is nothing without its soldiers. A ship is nothing without its crew.
Almost had a moment. One of my first jobs was at a restaurant and the manager spilled oil everywhere and started yelling at me like it was my fault so while he was yelling at me I walked around and he said you're fired and then a few other people walked out. He ran after us and pulled me off the side and apologized, he went on about how his home life is stressful and he didn't mean to take it out on me.
passed out bonuses at a company wide meeting.. but only the people that worked there 3 or more years got one, while the rest got to see them pass out checks.
I work as a researcher at the SCP Foundation, and one day, SCP-682 broke out of it's cell, and while the MTF managed to re-contain it, a lot of other researchers went missing, and didn't return to work the next day, and I can't figure out why.
Mum was claimed by her co-workers as the "nicest at the bank." She got fired. Team moral plummeted and half of the team quit. They tried to offer her the job, she said no, higher pay? Nope.
Not really a lot of people quit just me, alone in a warehouse, at night , doing a job for 10. Left because I was alone for 3 months and they expected me to do my job of filling out 15 gaylords of foam and 20 gaylords of boxes i had to manually fold. I was more productive than the day shift that had 15 women, but management wanted more from me. But to do it alone for 8hrs getting $9hr being only 19 it was just to much.
I worked at a place that was a combination burger king and tcby in a town in nowhere wyoming. The first few months there were awesome the managers were great and my boyfriends mother was the district manager for that location and a few others in other towns. She could be an annoying workaholic but everyone else was great. Then the owners of that franchise decided they didnt want to pay her what she was worth and fired her in favor of a guy willing to work for about 2/3 of what theyd been paying the previous person. Initially i quit with about 6 other people but when i ended up being harassed for my height and weight by my next boss i walked out on that job and went back to the burger king. That went well for a few months until one day i woke up and i was sicker than i had been in YEARS. I was dizzy, nauseous and delirious. I barely made it to the living room couch to try and call in sick. The buttons on the phone seemed to move around so my boyfriend dialed the number.. and i just got a busy signal. For a solid hour i laid on the couch hitting redial every now and then and kept getting a busy signal. At that point my boyfriend made me go back to bed where i passed out. Hours later he came in and told me i had been fired and that the guy had called us liars. Neither of us cared as i was so sick i dont remember the rest of that week. Well it turned out i was just the first casualty of this guy having a complete mental breakdown and those he didnt fire ended up quitting and he essentially had a double store to try and run solo. In the end he ended up in a psych ward. I figured out well after this all happened that i should have gone to the ER with how sick i was but hey lessons learned.
some people, like myself, like to relax with a nice but of weed in the evening. I've always worked and do my job well. Mind my own business and mostly focus on my family. Being threatened with a drug test can expose the guilty, but doesn't mean the guilty are filthy drug addicts
TheBritishWolf I'm wondering if a drug test indicating marijuana use would be held against a person if they had a legal medical card? It doesn't seem like it should.
It amazes me the number of bosses that don't realize the importance of employees and how mistreating them will lead to a worse business with less profit. it's the equivalent of getting so mad that your car won't start that you slash your own tires. so stupid...
The lumber and hardware company "Southerlands" is a backwards company. The cashiers are basically the lifeblood of the company - > customer relations! (not really but I was a cashier. Canned for drinking for medical reasons). I was miserable. Air was CRAP (dust, pesticides, chemicals, mold, no air filter). They lost every cashier after I left. They were hiring people with medical reasons to be there. Texas is a very hot place in the spring to summer and very very cold in the winter. They are not insulated worth crap and the rain came in. Protected by buckets haha. The worst part is that the major leaking was on the fans/lights. At least the boxes that were wet had a discount. Thievery was absolutely big but that's all hardware stores. We had a LOT of cameras but who needs that. I will say what was the worst. Their food and drinks XD the coffee was only Folgers. Snacks were cane sugar and corn syrup. It was crap for all of us people who needed medical attention. One sip of the Folgers gave me the emergency runs for a while. The bathroom was very far away. Brought my own coffee thermos, haha.
@@KnakuanaRka candy corn, budget twizzlers, beef jerkey that was more sugar than beef. Not really too bad for a construction worker occasionally. What I DID love was the energy drinks "Bang" which had a masterfully crafted Sucrose that had very different flavors and were indigestible. But that causes gas haha. 300+MG caffeine, 200 IU Vitamin B12, some B1, 2, 4, and 6. Absolutely no sugar. The purposefully mutated Sucrose covered all that. I just wish they were selling the small cans. They only had the 16oz. Great flavor but you can't really set it down too long before the fizz goes away and you are stuck with exotic tea
when i worked at an indian restaurant, the owners treated us like shit. would always give us our paychecks late, allowed the senior employees to eat ice cream in the back while we did their jobs, and also let the kitchen staff do horrible shit that would definitely make them fail a health inspection, except they would make all the kitchen staff come in the day before an inspection and clean everything. i was a server, but i also had to bus tables, mop floors, act as hostess, dry dishes, you name it. i was a high school student working 5 days a week, and they would always call on my days off asking me to come in, even when i was in class (i always said no). after about 3 weeks of waiting for my biweekly paycheck, i went into another restaurant to order food. my sister had worked there before & the owner needed help, but she had already gotten a new job. he asked me if i wanted to work there and i said, “sure ! i can start monday.” monday comes and i’m scheduled to come in that evening to my other job, but i’ve already started training at this new job and decided i liked it way better. i texted the owners an hour before my shift started and told them i quit. my best friend worked there and she said within a week, the owners had fired several employees, causing her and the entire kitchen staff to quit. :) tl;dr: owners of dirty roach & rat infested restaurant treated the staff like shit. after i quit most of the staff quit too.
24:30 I work as a software developer. In the last company I've been we didn't even had mattresses. If you can, take a brief nap at your desktop and keep working. Third world, ladies and gentlemen.
When l had the owner arrested and thrown in prison for embezzelment and not paying his workers. I quit first, noone else got paid, l went to the sherrif.
I worked at the holiday inn express and suites. It’s was second month of 2021 so workers in this field were scarce enough already. When I had arrived, people from the maintenance guy to the general manager were just quitting on the spot. I didn’t know why at first, but after my only other manager quit and I was asked to do double shifts 5 days a week, I just joined the herd and got tf out within like 4 weeks 💀🤣
I was one of 57 people who quit in a three week period. The pay was offensive and we had to know other departments in the store. I was hired as a cashier and had helped out in six different departments. For 12 dollars an hour. I now make almost 9 dollars more an hour at my current, non retail, job. Edit: I just remembered that after I quit, I received a letter in the mail pertaining to benefits. At the top of the letter it had the phrase, "Due to your termination". I was so pissed. I had submitted my two week notice, I was not fired. So now I wonder if that will show on my employment record as being fired. If it doesn't, then they should really reword the goddamn phrase.
There was a customer everyone hated and thought of as the worst human being to ever exist. The company hired him - as district manager. Cue mass quitting. The particular store where I worked, in fact, lost so many it had to close and, last time I drove by, was still closed.
I worked for a boss that used to yell and scream up and down the hallways about shit. It was a data management company (IT). He was inept as fuck. The company went bankrupt a year after I left.
A guy was/is sexually harassing the younger female staff at my deli (some of them being 16-17 years old). The butchers went to the boss about it and he went off on THEM for "spreading rumours" and "hearsay". By September, the meat department lost a cashier, two pork butchers, a butcher who worked there for 4 years, and two chicken butchers. The boss refused to do anything about the guy sexually harassing employees and customers. I'm quitting too.
Not me but had a manager at a chicken express we worked at, she was super sweet and juggling personal issues with full time work and school. One day we got word that management was changing and we were happy for her to get promoted but instead they cut our employee discount, made the worst manager supervisor regardless of the fact that she was dating the cook and demoted the cool manager, the real kick is that on her first shift after the meeting the tried to have her train a new staff member. She laughed and said that was above her pay grade then quit the next day. Fuck chicken express.
I work at a McDonald's they decided the workers dont need breaks or meals they punished us because managers gave away free food. 13 ppl quit just because of them taking our free drinks away. We had to pay for water. At work. Then even more left over the meals
My job (Me included) we are all leaving cause managers turned into a real jerk. Changes hours on people daily, punishes anyone who doesn’t agree...even tried to hire a guy who steals from him repeatedly and shows up drunk and under the influence to work all the time after he got fired again for the 7th time.....I have come to the conclusion that their is and never will be a good boss and when their is one companies sack em for fighting for the staff instead of their interests...typical America profits before consumer/product/staff :/
I had an employee once. Small mom n pop place. They kept air mattresses and blankets too. Saw them used once. A severe blizzard hit. For some of us it was far too dangerous to try to go home. We closed up early, and all those mattresses were pulled out. We slept the night there. It was uncomfortable. But they gave those us supposed to be working the next two days paid days off. Mostly to destress after that event. Some people still quit over it.
I worked in an auto part shop for about 2 months, it was a skeleton crew but the five of us working the cell got along, but the “supervisor” (who was friends with the floor manager and office staff) was an egotistical tyrant who didn’t know anything about the work cells yet expected numbers that even the day force couldn’t achieve, loitered around us, nit picking everything we did without telling us how to do it properly and disrespected everyone while demanding respect. In the morning of events He had me running everywhere across the factory, so when the fourth time he moved me I annoyed said I’ll need to grab new paperwork again to which he got up in my face and asked if “do you have a problem?” to which I said “yes” and and then listed how useless he was and how he was negatively effecting our workplace. he couldn’t tolerate the “disrespect” and yelled “well I come with the company so either get in line or get out” I said I wanted to speak to his higher up and he only screamed “get out” after that until I left. Well I called in the next day to talk to HR, they said they’d look into it and by the next hour they.called back and said I was terminated without even hearing my side. I don’t know if it was that incident that sparked events, but through the following week I heard the rest of the 4 guys on my cell apparently just didn’t show up to work and quit (to which I say good on them)
How to deal with a bad boss >Get a group together >Get all black clothes >Go pay boss a visit >Leave phones at home >Jump boss and whoop their ass >Rinse and repeat until desired results
@@PiroKUSS getting jumped by a mob is democracy at the end of the day. Perhaps not be sociopaths or psychopaths that revel in tormenting people just there because they need to pay bills to support a life they didn't even ask for in the first place? Idk there needs to be consequences for being a piece of shit I'm really just fed up with society and how people are and how it only seems to get worse.
If any company told me someone had to be in the bathroom with me while I took a drug test, I would tell them they can shove their definitely-not-worth-it job so far up where the sun don't shine that the job opportunity can use them as a hand puppet. I'll take a drug test, no problems. But if you want to tell me you trust me, a grown ass adult, so little to appropriately pee in a cup that I need a babysitter in the bathroom with me, I don't want anything to do with that position, because the micromanagement red flag is waving proud, surrounded by lights and signs that say "LOOK HOW RED THIS FLAG IS!" Drug tests are fine, but witnessed drug tests should only be for those in inpatient addiction care facilities and those on probation from criminal offenses.
I've never done illegal drugs and barely even do legal ones (tried marijuana a few times but never drank alcohol, etc). And I would quit over a policy like that. No one gets to watch me pee unless they're under age 5 or have fur.
Such a satisfying forum to listen to. Reminds me of an old job of mine. company sold to corporate company. GMs are given impossible standards and felt bad for all of us. The GMs decided to leave and open their own business. 10+ employees followed them when the new GM cut hourly pay by $2/hr and created impossible standards. 😘 most of them were minors and didn't know they were able to contact OSHA or HR about the pay cut since they were never given a prior notification. many customers also left and started going to new place. I stayed behind for one more year until I found a new job that paid significantly more. This was all in the south where wages are low to begin with and businesses are not as well monitored as the northeast. I wish the former GMs well woth their new business and still follow them on FB.
I love the one where the "idiot son" cut off the AC of the building. Never said anything about exodus, didn't need to lol. It was so obvious. (At 22:10 I think)
My stepdad (a financial accountant) got a new job in our town (so he wouldn´t have to drive 60+ km to work everyday). The office was in a metall building and it was a very hot summer. Stepdads new boss forbidd everyone from using a fan on their desk (they work by themselves at their desks) (It was about 30*C /86* F) in the office for days and they weren´t allowed. Safe to say, he went back to his old job (his boss had already begged him to come back ever since he left) about 4 days into the new job (At better celery) ...Frick that anti-fan employer.
This place paid their people shit and they were always overwhelmed and understaffed. They just took their aprons off, left food in the oven, on the grill, left like 20 customers in line and walked out.
With a story about again in the Uncle in the diner that's their fault. They should have taken the time to make sure you to fully trained and front of house back in house management and Administrating and lastly make sure temperament for The job
Just this past summer my boss at my seasonal job (I worked at a summer camp) held staff to an unreasonable standard of perfection with protocol. It got to the point where people were threatened with being fired just for checking their phones once to see the time. The way she treated campers and the way she treated employees told completely different stories. Half of the staff left three weeks into work, each coming up with different excuses, and the other half wanted to quit. In the final week of work, a substitute boss took over, and she was so well-loved that employees who quit and were still local tried to get rehired just to be able to help out with disassembly. One employee even got to come back.
We had a Bad Friday night. Working in the kitchen Fried chicken Subs Pizzas. I had 4 write ups after 18m so out I went. By the end of the week 2 more quit min of 6 total. In 60days
Your not allowed to block a door like that, its considered entrapment... I had a boss do that once so I told her to either fuckibg move or I'm calling the police. So she tells me it's her building she will do whatever she wants. I call the police and she tells me on the way out the door that this was ridiculously unnecessary. I simply told her that I said if she didnt stop I would call them, she didn't move and here we are. I have a million stories from having worked retail for 10+ years I'll give you 2 more. Worked at a retail store and had the laziest manager I have ever worked around. All she did all day was push a shopping cart around and complain as she walked around all day home you were doing an awful job however anytime you asked her to help you she would literally say she doesnt get paid to do that and would walk off. Having been busy all day and being at my breaking point I hear the doorbell that a delivery driver was at the back door. Having no give a damn left I decided to go to lunch since it was time anyways i usually took lunch around 6pm and it was 5 till so i went. Came back and this lady came screaming at me that I left a driver outside for 45 minutes waiting. So I simply asked her why he didnt just walk around to the front door doesnt sound like a very smart driver to me. She then told me that she didnt like my "attitude problem" and getting to my breaking point again i simply told her that if i leave she will have nobody and will have to get off her lazy butt and do something or you can walk away and we can forget this all happened. Get a call the next day from the store manager to come to his office for quick talk. Naturally this lady is sitting in there. Mind you im really good friends with the store manager at this point and he knows me well enough to know that if theres an issue with me theres likely a good reason for it and I'm normally a pretty decent mooded person most of the time. He turns to me and asked what times I normally take break and for how long. I said that the code of conduct book says I'm entitled to a break st 4pm, lunch for an hour at 6, and my final break at 8 each for 15 minutes 20 tops with 20 being you visibly almost getting back to your duty station maybe 5 10 feet away tops. He then tells me that this manager has filed a complaint that I'm never around whenever she does her daily walk around the store and she insists that I'm taking breaks too often. I asked her what times she normally does her walks around that specific area of the store and she said 4, 6, and 8. And that she waits for me to see how long I'm bone and sometimes I'm gone for upwards of 30 minutes which I immediately cut her off and tell her that's a load of crap I have an alarm set on my phone telling me when to come back in. I then pull my phone out and show my store manager and he agrees that said alarms are visibly there. She then proceeds to threaten mr that if she walks back there and I'm not around she will have to give me a wrote up for attendance and I simply told her that if she does that I will file a harassment charge or we can forget this entire chat happened and go on with the day since I'm fully aware she steals coffee from the Starbucks counter inside the store everyday as well as everyone else is aware and she takes money out of the cash office daily that doesnt belong to her I have my sources who are very reliable and that if we keep having this chat that I will simply quit and she will have nobody to do her last work being that its the holiday rush. We decided to go about our day and I got a pay increase for staying. Another one was when I was an hourly manager for retail and worked under a salaried manager who always did some extremely shady stuff. One time right before I went to lunch at 2am it was an overnight job he tried getting me to return a ps4 game system with no receipt and nothing in the box. I give the guy the cut off signal that im not doing this since the registered close at 12am midnight anyways and that I'm going to lunch. Came back the next work day and was in the manager office with the store manager asking why I accepted a return for a $400 game system without a receipt. I told him I know exactly what your talking about and to roll the security tapes back I actually had given the cut off sign that I'm wasnt doing it. That fucking manager put it under my name so he wouldnt get caught. Rolld thr tapes back and that manager no longer works there.
I worked at one of those high interest loan companies. Not payday loan but like 1 step above we actually pulled credit and would deny/approve based on credit. Anyways, I’m working for one that had been around for 40+ years. Everyone knew the ceo and had good relations with upper management. I’m young at the time 21 ish but a lot of people had been there for years. It wasn’t great work but the company gave good bonuses and didn’t fire people too often. So they end up selling out to a larger company that does the same thing as us. Within the first few months they switch our schedule from 8:30-5:30 w/1 hr lunches to 9-5pm 3 days/week, 9-7pm 1 day per week and 9-5:30 1 day per week. Last Saturday of month became mandatory and managers were now required to be there 30 mins prior to opening every day. They also only allowed 30 min lunch breaks. A lot of us lived in small towns and would go home for an hour on our lunch breaks or run errands but not anymore. Tuesdays were brutal. They made employees in every branch sign non competes and changed the way we did almost everything. They also revamped the bonus program where in a perfect world you could make more bonus than before but realistically based on their crazy standards your bonus for the year was probably reduced by 40-80%. They also gave us phones that could be monitored, tracked and recorded. Managers were always getting put on write ups, audits were now being failed and bonuses were being withheld. Just really micromanaging everything. Within the first 2 years. 60+% of employees from every branch quit. Including district managers and higher up people. In some branches entire staffs of 3-4 people all resigned. You would think corporate would’ve looked in the mirror but no they actually got stricter. I survived 2 years and left for a better company. This same company (after i left) kept everyone working full time hours during COVID, demanding pre COVID results only to lay off at least one person from every office 4-6 months later. Like clearly people didn’t need loans at 6-7pm during March and April 2020…I’ve only been gone since summer 2019 and i would say that 95% of the people i knew throughout many states and offices are no longer with the company. Sad how many peoples’ lives changed after our original company sold
I have a shop supervisor he breaks everything he touches.burns out motors on machines from running it too fast, over tightes bolts often.likes to hide out in the warehouse.everyone calls him wreck it ralph.bosses put up with him as hes feeding them customer accounts from his parents failed business he more than likely ruined single handedly.😮😂
At my Last job we had enough that our store Manager ignored us and our complains and his psychic abuse. After I got into some thing where my trainee Status and the Organisation for trainees rights saved my ass and discovered that there is more not right I got out there a few months later when my contract Ended. After 6 months I went Back there and nearly everyone is gone and was replaced. Now at Covid19 Crisis he closed down the store (kind of Big like Walmart) I work now in a smal store and got now the people that got normally to the big Stores.
Haha this is great See I had a situation like this few years back worked at auntie Anne's pretzels. we lost a good manager but dealt with it i got my friend hired in and she quickly became a shift lead alongside me and our new store manager is a guy my age only been with the company a year.) and would leave shift early and have me stay doing doubles to finish the paperwork and close it got annoying but extra money. but what set me off was him blaming my friend for not showing up in time for a shift but I had the schedule on my phone I'm like shes not scheduled. Showed him hes like well I had to make a new schedule. Okay why didnt you txt us? Or call? Where is it? He says it's on the computer where we do the paperwork. I look at my friend check the computer it's not up there I tell him only opening shift is you and you didnt get here till 20 min ago. so your way late opening I'll take this up to the gm he said he would be here today. Manager gave an oh shit look. Not only that but he called one girl ugly and told her she wasnt allowed to wear shorts but allowed another girl to wear booty shorts on shift and belittling everyone. but mem I was already questioning him when he got her first day. I just took everything as a mental note the day before this though everyone had already talked about leaving but I saw this as the moment to act. Txt the other 3 main team members to come by bc we were all gonna quit today. So gm gets in sees us all there. Ask why everyone is here. Told him we can't work under someone who calls us ugly, lies about schedules,leaves early so ge can party, or try and hit on staff in a creepy manner. Gave my key apron and shirt everyone followed. I hung out in the area talking to my friend at Hagen daz about what just happened. and heard the gm yelling. Found out the company owners sold it to new company bought some pretzels and lemonade it was nasty guess quality goes down with out quality employees.
I also worked at Buffalo Wild Wings. I would consistently would open (be there at 10:00AM for prep work), be scheduled for a 30 minute break between shifts (usually didn't get it), and told that I am going to be closing (12-1AM) and have to be back the next day at 10.
Repeat after me: you are allowed to speak to co-workers about your wage. It is against the FLRA for management to try to dissuade, prevent, or any other way to thwart you from conversing about your wage to co-workers.
wage more like rage
I agree with you BUT asking for a wage increase in front of other colleagues who may be from other departments at a "team meeting" isn't the time nor place to bring it up. They may have had better success by going into the supervisor's office, away from other workers.
Ron Williams it was a tech support team meeting. They were all asking for raises
@@ctochs The story doesn't specify which departments were all in on the "team". I've been part of teams which consisted of IT, sales and marketing. Each of those are considered teams as well. If it was solely the tech support who were at the meeting, I don't understand why the supervisor flipped his lid. I guess I may have interpreted it wrong.
Yeah, you are but it’s a bad idea. If you’re speaking with someone that’s so-so, while you’re high value, even though you do the same job, the low value person gets pretty upset and will say, “Hey! Why are you getting more?”
“Uh, because I’m a better negotiator.”
They walk right over to the boss, “Boss you’re paying him $X. We do the same thing. I want $X”
Boss, “how do you know he gets paid $X?”
Now you’ve ~ mind you, you’re just a good employee, smart, hard working on time and your friend, not so much ~ but you’ve jeopardized your relationship with your friend and pissed off your boss.
It’s a bad idea.
I ran my own business. How the heck did these idiots expect to keep a business when they treat their employees like crap? They deserve to lose the business. Angers me that the people in charge would treat others like this.
My dad owns 8 Mexican restaurants and by all means I started learning the business at the age of 9. My mom was a hardass about if you want something work for it and I did. I stopped working due to my hips and lungs I have bad health issues. I work at our farm wear I earn a lot I mostly take care of my sheep and my poultry. One of my dad's former employee decided to steal some recipes and try to open up his own restaurant he failed miserably. The guy had a terrible attitude and treated people bad and when he opened up for the first 3 weeks it was shut down. I don't know what happened all I know they health inspector came and found rats and food contamination I heard this from my dad.
A lot of big companies nowadays don't care and treat their employees as nothing more than cogs in a machine. The only people they care about are shareholders.
@@StCrimson667 wow, I know you are right..but it just doesn't make sense to me. I would have been considered a small business owner and didn't have stock owners. But I still can't see treating folks like this. I bent over backwards to keep my employees happy...BUT in return they did the same for me. Loved those ladies that worked for me.
@@KarlaGarcia-ld6mv oh wow, running restaurants. My hats off to your dad as well as you. Restaurant business is one of the hardest and most challenging. I went to culinary school for a while when I was younger. Did work in an upscale restaurant for a time. Stealing recipes? Oh crap...absolute no no ever in the restaurant business. I ended up with a real estate co, and a fabric-craft store. Thanks for your input.
@@rayshelld791 That's how we were growing up my dad took all my siblings to the restaurants. I was 16 I had to stop working but my older sister was the accountant, my older brother was the cook, and I did waitressing. My dad's side of family aren't allowed to step foot any of the establishments due to past drama. My mom's side of the family have their own restaurants. What's so annoying is that most people assume that I'm rich but I'm not it's fairness and minimum wage.
To the manager that blocked the door to stop a walkout (Ballpark story)? I wouldn't climb anything, I'd have called the police and report a kidnapping, then call OSHA about her blocking the escape doors, let the government sort it out
More dramatic to have the workforce leave through the order window, though really you could have still reported it to OSHA since she still blocked an emergency exit.
@@AnonYmous-mc5zx, true, but she suffers nothing, but replacing her staff. My way, she faces real charges for real crimes, also fines and possible jail time. People will continue to break the law until you make that call.
Keep in mind, all the customers at the window witnessed the manager's freak-out. Manager was most likely fired once word got up the ladder.
I wouldn't trust the Government to sort my Laundry.
Throwing the book at her! 😅
I got accused of sexually harrasment which led to me being "separated" from my job. I walked out of my bosses office crying while gathering my things a few coworkers asked what happened and as I told them the oldest one looked me dead in the eye and said "bullshit that bitch is getting the hammer" the next few days I heard from my boss screaming "what did I do" turns out most if not all of the front desk staff quit the next day
Lmao I've never heard that phrase "getting the hammer" homie wasn't playing
Well sounds like he wasn't playing.
Damn he/she has my respect. Damn straight everybody quit on the spot in his face. Firing someone for something petty is bad. Firing someone over a SH claim is absolute dogshit
Company lays off employee 1 year from retirement and after 35 loyal years.
Younger generations: Yeah we're not giving undying loyalty to a company that doesn't care about us.
Older Generations: You should be loyal to a company!
I’m an older generation and your loyalty to a company should only be as strong as their loyalty to you.
You owe them nothing but the work you agreed upon. They owe you nothing but the wage you agreed upon. Embrace the mercenary mindset.
It’s funny cuz a lot of companies are struggling cuz Gen Z doesn’t have patience to deal with people’s shit and will tell others off.
You wanna see low company loyalty? Talk to an old union guy lol
I went to work for a lady whom was my mother's employer. She owned a shop that primarily sold custom t-shirts in a small, Wild-West themed tourist trap town. I was hired on, with the agreement that around the holidays, I would get a special $1,000 bonus, just like my mom did every year she had worked there.
Holidays come and she invites us all to a fancy dinner. We go, thinking that we would get our bonuses there. No bonuses. For anyone. Only a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant that my mother and I wouldn't have bothered setting foot in even if we had the disposable income, seeing it as a waste of money. The subject was lightly approached, and the owner said that the shop, unfortunately, did not make enough to pay us all for a holiday bonus, so she decided to treat us all to a fancy dinner instead. While I and my mom were both polite at the dinner, smiling and joking as usual, we were both livid. Especially so since this woman collected expensive cars, like Jaguars, plural, and had six total, bought a new house for her mother, and twice a month would take trips to Puerto Rico, without fail, among other flaunting displays of wealth. And she had the audacity to tell us that she couldn't afford to give us, three employees total, the $1,000 bonuses she always gave out?
We both quit shortly thereafter, and she was confused as to why. Unbeknownst to her, my mother is very much a bubbly social person, who draws people in, and can very easily talk them into spending money when they were planning, or even when they weren't planning on doing anything more than just looking around. She went above and beyond to maintain that store and inventory that the owner never thought to do or ask for. And when she left her high and dry, it was a blow to the business. (I was no slouch either, but my mother has some crazy energy reserves, and plus, the owner was someone she considered a friend, so she was willing to go that extra mile for her and the business.) The other employee, an older woman, was not a good salesperson, was always trying to put up the tackiest designs up for display that were never the big money makers, and was slow as hell on the register, often stopping what she was doing to chat with the people at the counter and in the shop. (My mom was happy to chat, as was I, but we were both capable of doing so while ringing customers up, taking their money and credit cards, making change, and bagging their purchases, to amicably keep the line going.)
We learned that the shop was doing very poorly since my mother and I left, and the replacements turned out to be the owner's daughter and her drug addict boyfriend, who routinely stole from the shop. She had to sell some of her cars and stop taking her trips down to PR, and we heard that she ended up losing her mother's new house. My mom and I are both genuinely sorry that that happened, but it could have all been avoided had she simply bothered to shell out the holiday bonuses, like she had promised.
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The owner could have saved herself a friend and a ton of money by setting aside $3,000 dollars for holiday bonuses. Smh
My favorite Mexican place closed because of something like this. The cooks were a husband and wife team, who were distant relatives of the owner. Since they worked lunch and dinner, their two little daughters would get dropped off from school in the parking lot, and sit in the dining room watching My Little Pony on the TV. When they were thirsty or hungry, they'd just ask the waitress, and she'd get them something, usually made from the leftovers from cooking something else. The point is, they weren't just getting food off the menu for free. The owner came in one day, saw the girls watching cartoons and eating a take-out order that had been cancelled, he threw a fit. At two little girls. He screamed about them stealing and called the waitress some awful things in Spanish... and then he turned the cartoons off. A humongous biker guy grabbed him by the head and growled,
"I was WATCHIN' that..." and pretty much dragged the owner out the door. Never yell at children in front of a Shriner...
The cooks took the girls, the TV, half the cooking utensils, everything else they owned, and the waitress, and left. It was Taco Tuesday. The restaurant probably lost over $1000 just that night.
The cooks were unemployed for less than a week. The wife's mother basically bought them a closed Thai place at the other end of the strip mall. It is now basically identical to the old place, complete with the same food, staff, and tables... which they bought from the auction after the old restaurant went belly-up, just as an "F you" to their former boss.
He was out of business within 90 days. He went back to building swimming pools. I hear that's failing too.
Though admittedly that might just be from the Coronavirus, but I kinda doubt that.
Henry Rodgers That would've been so awesome to see the jerk who screamed at two little innocent girls, get grabbed by the head and hauled out for an attitude adjustment by the biker guy! I don't care if he was the owner. If you're in a leadership position, or any position of power over people, you are expected to act in a decent, professional manner.
That biker is a freaking legend. He deserves his own movie.
I wanna buy that biker a beer.
In my experience, bikers are usually the sweetest people you'll meet. Not the kindest, but the sweetest
I found funny the fact they also took the waitress, like they just ask her "f this guy, wanna join our family?" And she just nod and walk out with them
"No coffee in the office allowed at all"
ARE YOU TESTING ME SATAN
Stories like these need to happen a lot more often. Maybe if more companies went under because bosses found out the hard way their employees weren't as replaceable as they thought, less companies would treat employees like crap.
Na it would change nothing.
@@darthrevan2063 Agreed. Too many new owners are about strip the place bare and move on to the next acquisition.
These days it’s profits over people now sadly.
Stories like this would happen more often if we had decent safety nets so fewer people are living one paycheck away from homelessness.
@@ettinakitten5047 I think that is why companies lobby against such safety nets. They need to keep the slaves from running away while the beatings continue till morale improves.
We got robbed. The manager said she had enough, left me alone at the store to figure it out and went home. I had a question about my job as I was pretty new so I texted her, she told me to not text her and figure it out on my own. I closed the store and quit lol. Everyone else in the store proceeded to quit because they were scared how we had no safety if we got robbed again, and we actually knew this guy was coming because he had stolen repeatedly the weeks prior from partner shops and they got him on camera. He was violent. Nobody gave a shit about my safety.
At the convenience store I work at it was store policy to close up for the day if the manager on duty walked out
Please tell me she just came back to an abandoned store and was like
Where yall at I need people to run this place I don't care if you got a thief who might break your head open to steal some candy, come into work NOW! Cause Jesus she would've been sued so fast if it happened again and someone got injured, much less fired
@@ghostslayer1981 she never came back for the day! Thats basically how she was. Like I dont care, do your job. I closed the store and quit and returned my keys the next day. She was angry and had zero empathy.
So I worked at a safeway when I was in high school. This one kid (another clerk) was stealing TONS of booze from the storage room and taking it out with the trash and selling it. The management eventually found out but couldn’t pinpoint who it was, even though everyone knew. So they decided it was a good idea to threaten every single clerk and cashier with legal action if they didn’t fess up. And more than half the store quit because of how they handled it.
The most satisfying part of these stories is when the aftermath comes rolling around. Something to the effect of, "And within 1-3 months, the store/corporation/business practically imploded due to 300 people walking out over x/y/z bullshit." Always makes me smile.
Right?!?! The ones that fold within a year because some asshat with no people/managerial skills tanks it with one statement! Makes me giddy! lol
Seriously. These people don't deserve to be in charge of shit
That poor guy getting hired on as the new manager... Getting disrespected by the outgoing manager for no reason (honestly, should have been thanked for the unknown, unintentional tip-off) and discovering for himself that he was working for a shitty employer.
exactly it was an idiotic immature response!! it was not his fault he was just a new hire!!
I agree, I mean I understand everyone being upset about it but like y'all said it wasn't the new guys fault
The mental health story is terrifying. A higher up who can perfectly Forge multiple people signatures that is scary
Had a retail manager once (nearly 30 years ago) who seemed cool at first, young, fun girl, single mom but seemed pretty stable. She turned 6 of us girls against each other, after about 3 horrible weeks I had said something cruel to a coworker that I was close to before Jacqui came along, I felt terrible so when we were doing clean up after closing I tried to apologize and she tried to apologize at the same time, we said "what's happened to all of us?" and we both suddenly said "Jacqui!", we went & got the other girls & spent an hour hashing out everything, figured out Jacqui was also a meth head (started coming in with full makeup on only one eye, wearing mismatched shoes, no keys, falling asleep at the backroom desk, crazy red eyes, angry at nothing, etc.) and we wrote up what to tell HR. We each called the next day with our "statements" and she was fired the next day. It was the greatest feeling to know we'd never have to deal with her again at Miller's Outpost 😅
I'm glad this worked out so well. It really highlights the importance of introspection, humility, and patient communication between people to help deal with malicious sociopathic parties. Those higher than that manager also deserve credit for listening to her subordinates, taking them seriously, and removing a malicious member from the organization.
I want life to end up like the event described in this story.
the one in the baseball stadium was straight up illegal you don't get to adjust payrate mid shift it will cost you t=your business license
also illegal blocking your employees from leaving is false imprisonment im pretty sure
@@gamershadow8 False imprisonment is a Gov-only crime. Most states consider this kid-napping, but that's the least of her concerns when OSHA and the county have their way with her.
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I had to deal with an owner like that. She changed my shift and didnt tell me, and attempted to write me up for being late (even though I was always there 15 minutes early and would stay hours over.) I wrote a strongly worded letter to corporate about possible legal repercussions for the threats of termination due to her incompetence. Course it was all bullshit, but she ended up "retiring early."
Christmas! Buy the Boss something he would cherish forever. The big get together was held in the main building..On his desk was presents 4 feet high on each side. Like he was looking past pillars of presents from 50 people. After 18 years of incredible popularity the radio station was sold.This was the week before Christmas, he announced that certain people would no longer be needed. The station sold for millions...be he stated that one third of the price was eaten up by taxes... Soooo there would be no Christmas presents or bonuses for any one. MY FANTASTIC CO WORKERS who took care of his extensive car collection with me just sat at our table laughing in pure discust. We did car shows had tours of the museum, events, 12-14 hour days we're the norm. Could do anything the card needed, this was a great job made difficult by mismagement.. Loved the cars, the people..at the car shows and events...but came the time to quit.
Never stay late for a company that doesn't value you
I worked at a freezer warehouse that dealt with about 80 inbound and 70-90 outbound truckloads per day. The management was total shit. Low pay, over worked us, blatant favoritism, and more. We grumbled to each other a lot and management got wind of some of our complaints. They had a meeting 1 day for all of first and third shift and the plant manger stood up front and told us that we should "knock off our shit and be grateful you have jobs because you are all instantly replaceable." 90% of the forklift drivers, including myself, got up, punched out, and left. This was at the start of the day and there were already 40 outside waiting to be unloaded. I found out later that they frantically tried to get temps in to unload the trucks but with so little luck that the plant manager tried to unload some. She was about 400 pounds and likely hadn't done any real work in years. She had a heart attack on the shipping dock. She lived. The company didn't.
Hahaha 400lbs'😆.. seems like a workload increase for the forklift drivers, that they don't have now.
Serves the fuckers right.
She had a heart attack on the shipping dock.
She lived.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
I quit my job and so did the 2 others I was working with. We worked on a farm and the owner had us in a swamp for 8 hours pulling weeds. When i stepped out of the water i had a dozen or so leeches on my legs. In addition to this he docked us an hours pay for showing up 10 minutes late. I quit and then the others did right there too. We were the only 3 employees at that time
That's illegal if he didn't give you proper safety gear
What do people expect when they hire unqualified relatives to be in charge of literally anything?
"lol i make mony an u make mony and we both mak mony! yay!"
Isn't that nepotism?
Sounds like the Trump administration.
dark14life Exactly what I was thinking! And he would like his line to continue in the presidency in perpetuity. What a disgusting thought!
@@dark14life How so?
My dad works as an engineer. A while back, his old job let go of a bunch of the people who had been there for the longest, him being one of them. This was not even a year after they forced him to switch to a position of work he knew little on. They forced him to switch what he was doing and was experienced in.
This all happened after a new management took over.
I don't understand why the owners always use nepotism to get a new manager. Just because he is a son doesn't mean he is the best person. Should give the new person a month see how they are doing ask the staff. If they suck make them quit.
parents that think their child is baby buddha tend to be narcissistic
@@killmeister2271 very true ive known people think that sun sines out the kids bum but everyone else can see the kid is a mean nasty piece of work.
I think some also want to brag that they're "keeping the business in the family". They dream of having some dynasty like The Rockefellers or somebody. After the business tanks because of the incompetent relatives they put in place, they can reflect on how they lost so much because of their pride. (Note that some families do have good, competent relatives who can keep the business going. It's just wrong to assume someone is perfect for the job just because they're related to you)
Almost happened where I currently work. Our beloved store manager left after over 20 years at the store bc she wasn't going to get a higher pay/better job within the company, and so she looked elsewhere.
Company tried to get her to stay, and because they were so sure my overworked former boss would stay, they never let her train her replacement- because they didn't have one prepared 3 months in advance.
They tried to give the job to someone we did not have anything good to say about. He came in once and everyone there hated him and how poorly he was gonna run the store. (Cutting certain hours, less time to do truck, less time to put stuff on the shelves, more time being forced out with customers, ect.)
And eventually we all, separately surprisingly, tell the big boss that if that guy is made store manager, he will be the only worker in the store.
They did not hire him in our store at all, but every single one of us had other jobs lined up if he had, and the big boss knew it.
My mother was working at a nursing home, doing 6-hour shifts. Management shortened the shifts to 4 hours, and wanted the same amount of work done. So Mom, with my dad's blessing, told them to take their job and shove it, and she said many of the other aides left when she did. My dad had been laid off, which is why she got the job in the first place, and he had gotten a job in the meantime.
What I want to know is, when a company introduces a stupid new policy and people start quitting, why don't they ever just get immediately rid of the policy or fire the person who's causing people to quit after the third person quits? By keeping the policy active they're just asking to go out of business.
Worked at a place, The management had locked the doors and dipped. Everyone was stuck in there for an hour and everyone was freaking out. I went in the pack to calm down cause I started having a panic attack from all the customers pushing me into a wall. Management found me in the back and fired me after they made me work the rest of my time then refused to pay me and threw me out. A year later they came back (they move around, they're an amusement park thing with haunted houses, where I worked) and they had 30 other employees from the haunted house quit on the first night because the management staff were tyrants and horrible to their workers. They were left with 5 haunters that night and a few quit after that making it so they didn't have any haunters for the rest of the season.
I worked for a truly wonderful optometrist for 5 years, he was utterly amazing as a boss and person, between his retirement announcement and the new owner every single tech quit. I felt bad for the new owner because he wasn't a bad guy he just wasn't the doc we all loved. All of us figured it just wasn't going to be the same so now was the time to go.
You guys have great gut instinct, tbh. Better escape than face the unwanted change.
Can't stand the change.
Goes to job were things are not the same.....
That's pretty shitty of you, you didn't give the guy a chance.
I worked at one place for a few months, the original manager had the place run like clockwork and myself and my coworkers really like him. Then a new store from the same company opens up in another town and he gets transferred there to train them before it opens. Then the new manager comes in and has us come in together for a meeting to introduce herself to everyone at once. However once she starts the meeting she proceeded to put herself on a pedestal highlighting her skill while shittalking the previous. My coworkers were pissed and all of them almost immediately quit.
At PetsMart. We had this awesome store manager, really chill guy but still good manager (wouldn't let people get away with crap and expected you to do the job you were hired for.) Assistant store manager quit and they hire this guy who damn near ran a home improvement store into the ground in our city.
Assistant manager seems cool at first but gives all of us that feeling. You know, somethings off. Guy starts making small changes to the schedule after its posted so people are coming in late/early/not coming in and someone complains to corporate because this is bs. Corporate starts putting pressure on store manager. The Assistant manager keeps doing crap like that until the store manager just quits.
Assistant gets upped to Store manager and his first act is to hire the shitty area managers from the other store he messed up. They all start choosing who they like and don't and if they didn't like you, they made your life hell. The first walk out was about 5 people.
STILL NOT THE BIGGEST WALK OUT! The grand finale of this douchery is that a groomer was pregnant, like about to pop preggo. Her water breaks at the start of her shift. Manager tells her she needs to finish grooming all of the dogs on her schedule before she can go to the hospital to have her baby. A full, 8 hour shift.
Another groomer walked her out, telling him to fuck off you piece of shit and generally broadcasting to the whole store that this asshole is trying to make a woman in labor groom large, unpredictable dogs.
The grooming staff left, the floor staff left. Pretty much everyone who wasn't new walked out.
hey im having a baby let me go to the hospital
“No you need to finish your 8 hour shift before giving birth”
That one where the nefew ran the store into the ground just made me sad
I raised small rodentia as a serious hobby and sold under contract to a family owned pet store. Owner made his just graduated daughter manager. Over a few months she’d changed who had the power to do some things from staff to her. Wouldn’t be bad but she’d always be late in to work. Two weeks running she had refused my normal delivery of 30 animals, which I was having to deal with and had no room for. The puppy fellow, the kitten fellow and snake food guy (rats from pinkies to full grown and baby bunnies) and I, were there at open. She wasn’t. Hour and a half, puppies, and kittens, couldn’t wait any longer. Puppies said he’d try mid afternoon before he left town. Kittens said they wouldn’t be back. Snake Food and I waited another hour. She comes breezing in and got told about who left and the one that wouldn’t be back. She threw a fit. Snake Food, all she wanted was baby bunnies and nothing else- his pre call a few days before she said bring everything. Snake Food quits and walks, he made a 2.5 hour drive to deliver 8 rabbits??? She turns to me and doesn’t want anything again, then starts begging me like a four year old to raise bunnies for her. I told her I didn’t have the space and it would take money I didn’t have and at least six months to get the first litter and and two more MONTHS to get them to size. By know she’s on the floor on her knees screaming, bawling and begging me to raise bunnies for her. I walked out with Snake Food. She apparently rolled on the floor with a full tantrum and an employee called the owner and let him listen, then was told what happened and if something wasn’t done the doors were going to be locked as the staff left for the last time. I went in there a few days later and the owner was there. I received an apology and asked if I’d consider a new contract. I told him I sold my stock to another breeder and had kept just two pair...She’d only had a few months, so the store recovered
I had to read this twice.
D I know people have to make a living the best way they can, but raising litters of little animals purely for them to be eaten by snakes sickens me. If I saw a snake trying to eat a little baby anything, (except a poisonous snake), in my yard, I'd be like the cave woman in the B.C. comics, whacking that snake with anything I could find. Sorry snake lovers. I just can't deal with feeding a snake something I'd rather have as a pet.
@@rhodawatkins4516 I mean what u think they eat in the nature? berries?
@Sufiya H. I'm not crazy about that either. I do eat some meat, but am more inclined to eat vegetables. I just don't know what would become of all the farm animals that people raise if they knew they couldn't kill and eat them. I'm afraid they'd be considered pests and killed for that reason. I just don't know a good answer for this problem, but I do hate the thought of so many animals being raised to be killed.
@@lordiedams348 I wish they ate green briers, or poison ivy,or some plant we need less of, but that's not the case. It just seems so unfair to make a mother animal repeatedly have litter after litter only to have them taken away to feed snakes. There's a lot of cruelty involved in life. I guess it can't be avoided.
It is pretty messed up when companies try to get people to make their own positions redundant.
21:53 wow...I feel sorry and for once its a story about the workers and not the manager messing everything up.
I'm a supervisor at a warehouse. We have a new manager that apparently doesn't trust people to fill out their own paperwork on how many orders they finished in a night. So now I have all the orders at my desk and will hand out premade bundles of orders to people. I will write down their name, the total number of orders given, the size of those orders, and how long we expect them to take to finish. If they don't meet expectations the plan is to call them into the office to grill them on why they are slacking. Oh and also they still have to fill out their own paperwork too. No one has quit yet cause this has only been going on for like a week but I've already started looking for another job and I'm hearing plenty of anger from workers on the floor. The new manager has a reputation of being a micromanager and a manipulative liar so I am pretty sure the company is not going to be doing so well in the near future.
Some other stuff the manager has done:
Arbitrarily change how we replenish product because "His way is better." Even tho he has never done replenishment before.
Threatened a lead because she disagreed with his opinion.
Lied to workers about offering schooling assistance to keep those workers a little bit longer.
Badmouthed temps in earshot of those temps. (who then quit. Not that they need much to leave. He fires them if they are late even by a min or ask for time off)
Promised raises with back pay only to go back on the promise of back pay on the day they announced the raise would go into effect. (His raise was back paid tho)
Called my workers into his office to yell at them for a mistake they made even tho I already talked to the worker in question and the matter was resolved.
Came out onto the floor to yell at my workers telling them they are doing their jobs incorrectly even tho they aren't.
Told a worker they weren't allowed to work 2 jobs and to quit the other because people should be loyal to one job and one job only.
Offered 3 days paid overtime ($500 a day) for an inventory project over memorial day weekend. Then the day before they rescheduled so people only could work one day. (thus ruining their holiday plans and depriving them of promised money)
Offering "optional" overtime then being mad that not enough people accepted the "optional" overtime
Its been a long year. This is just crap off the top of my head that he's done.
That poor store manager with the cashiers all scamming customers...
USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) during her final two years before decommissioning was known as "Tap City," as 32 sailors asked to transfer out of the ship within a month. The Chiefs were fucking terrible and kept asking for impossible standards, then sending them to DRB or pushing for Captain's Mast for not meeting the standards. Eventually Squadron had enough of their shit and sent some of their guys to monitor them, "or babysit," for a whole month. Poor CO had to deal with it all, and he was a good CO from what I heard. I felt bad for them as several friends were assigned to that boat.
Bad deckplate leadership leads to the entire crew suffering. Submariners already have rough jobs as it is.
Awesome employees: exist.
Poophead Manager: by the time I’m done that number goes down to zero.
My company had a mass exodus years ago. Every President's day we have a bank wide meeting (we're a small community bank) and we have a motivational speaker talk to us. He introduced something from a book called "Humble, Hungry, Smart" and how it describes how a company will have "A, B, and C" team members. "A" members were those who went above and beyond, "B" workers did the work but did not take extra responsibilities, and "C" workers were just here for the paycheck. My CEO liked this so much that he made us and our manager evaluate us to see where we stand and how we can all become "A" workers. If we weren't "A" or "B" members by the end of six months wed be fired. Not even a month into this we went from a company of 210 to 150. So many people from admin left or resigned so fast that HR couldn't keep us up to date on who is left and who is still here. We had emails with a whole list of names saying that they're gone. This happened in 2019. Now, we don't even bother with those terms as we had too many people leave because of it.
I was working nights at a factory, they tried to have me and my friend pull overtime because one of the managers accidentally dumped a pallet of mats over. Then about 4 weeks later my friend called in sick around noon, they said not to come in, I wasn't going to work if they fired my friend because that's a bullshit reason, and I was sure I would have to do OT, I showed up to clean my friend locker, they saw me. I just said I was cleaning the locker, I took the shit to my car and just left.
I heard one of my old jobs drug tested the entire store and 3 people passed. They swept it under the rug.
I used to work at an amusement museum in Pigeon Forge TN as my last job before i started working where i do now. The hours were terrible (they ignored my hour requests) and the rules were so arbitrary and stupid. They had a manager who was a white trash mother of 4. One night i was running the floor (i was team lead) while this manager was also working. She had been placed in one room per our boss who told me that i didn’t have to move anyone for the remainder of the night if we stayed as slow as we had been (closing at 7pm). I did as our boss said and began delegating cleaning/closing tasks while some of our other coworkers dealt with the remaining customers. The white trash manager came up to me out of nowhere (left her post unattended with customers in the room) and started cussing me out because she had been in one room for what she felt was too long. I told her that our boss had told me to do that and that we were closing in 15 minutes, but that she could take a break if she wanted to and i would watch her room (she wanted to go on a smoke break). My other coworkers, after witnessing white trash manager blowing up on me, took my side and were planning on going to upper management about her. I was scheduled to close alone that night and work at noon the next day. I closed that night, took the deposit to the bank and showed up at noon the next day with my shirts and keys. Dropped them off in my cubby and left without saying anything. That job sucked so bad.
After Christmas they started to cut hours, so people who got 40 hours a week got 14
Remember people, if you piss off your employees, them quitting is a better option but piss off all your employees, then there is a chance of a mystery murder where all comments were "The problem is it could be anyone"
Ok here is saying, you can't claim territory or victory without an army, an army is nothing without its soldiers. A ship is nothing without its crew.
Almost had a moment. One of my first jobs was at a restaurant and the manager spilled oil everywhere and started yelling at me like it was my fault so while he was yelling at me I walked around and he said you're fired and then a few other people walked out. He ran after us and pulled me off the side and apologized, he went on about how his home life is stressful and he didn't mean to take it out on me.
passed out bonuses at a company wide meeting.. but only the people that worked there 3 or more years got one, while the rest got to see them pass out checks.
I work as a researcher at the SCP Foundation, and one day, SCP-682 broke out of it's cell, and while the MTF managed to re-contain it, a lot of other researchers went missing, and didn't return to work the next day, and I can't figure out why.
Whoo!
An engineer NEEDS coffee ~ that shot gets boring!
They took away our break room, claiming we were “too lazy”. That was the last straw.
Mum was claimed by her co-workers as the "nicest at the bank." She got fired. Team moral plummeted and half of the team quit. They tried to offer her the job, she said no, higher pay? Nope.
Not really a lot of people quit just me, alone in a warehouse, at night , doing a job for 10. Left because I was alone for 3 months and they expected me to do my job of filling out 15 gaylords of foam and 20 gaylords of boxes i had to manually fold. I was more productive than the day shift that had 15 women, but management wanted more from me. But to do it alone for 8hrs getting $9hr being only 19 it was just to much.
Those 6 down votes must be from some of the frick ups in the stories lol
I worked at a place that was a combination burger king and tcby in a town in nowhere wyoming. The first few months there were awesome the managers were great and my boyfriends mother was the district manager for that location and a few others in other towns. She could be an annoying workaholic but everyone else was great.
Then the owners of that franchise decided they didnt want to pay her what she was worth and fired her in favor of a guy willing to work for about 2/3 of what theyd been paying the previous person. Initially i quit with about 6 other people but when i ended up being harassed for my height and weight by my next boss i walked out on that job and went back to the burger king.
That went well for a few months until one day i woke up and i was sicker than i had been in YEARS. I was dizzy, nauseous and delirious. I barely made it to the living room couch to try and call in sick. The buttons on the phone seemed to move around so my boyfriend dialed the number.. and i just got a busy signal.
For a solid hour i laid on the couch hitting redial every now and then and kept getting a busy signal. At that point my boyfriend made me go back to bed where i passed out. Hours later he came in and told me i had been fired and that the guy had called us liars. Neither of us cared as i was so sick i dont remember the rest of that week.
Well it turned out i was just the first casualty of this guy having a complete mental breakdown and those he didnt fire ended up quitting and he essentially had a double store to try and run solo. In the end he ended up in a psych ward.
I figured out well after this all happened that i should have gone to the ER with how sick i was but hey lessons learned.
When you suggest doing a drug test and most of the staff jump out of the windows....
Well, you can kinda see who was on drugs.
some people, like myself, like to relax with a nice but of weed in the evening. I've always worked and do my job well. Mind my own business and mostly focus on my family. Being threatened with a drug test can expose the guilty, but doesn't mean the guilty are filthy drug addicts
TheBritishWolf I'm wondering if a drug test indicating marijuana use would be held against a person if they had a legal medical card? It doesn't seem like it should.
Should be irrelevant if they’re doing their job. What people do with their bodies on their own time is their business
22:30
"asked to quit on the spot"
This is not how it is done.
"oh plz Mr. Tyrant can I not work for you anymore?"
It amazes me the number of bosses that don't realize the importance of employees and how mistreating them will lead to a worse business with less profit. it's the equivalent of getting so mad that your car won't start that you slash your own tires. so stupid...
The lumber and hardware company "Southerlands" is a backwards company. The cashiers are basically the lifeblood of the company - > customer relations! (not really but I was a cashier. Canned for drinking for medical reasons). I was miserable. Air was CRAP (dust, pesticides, chemicals, mold, no air filter).
They lost every cashier after I left. They were hiring people with medical reasons to be there. Texas is a very hot place in the spring to summer and very very cold in the winter. They are not insulated worth crap and the rain came in. Protected by buckets haha. The worst part is that the major leaking was on the fans/lights. At least the boxes that were wet had a discount. Thievery was absolutely big but that's all hardware stores. We had a LOT of cameras but who needs that.
I will say what was the worst. Their food and drinks XD the coffee was only Folgers. Snacks were cane sugar and corn syrup. It was crap for all of us people who needed medical attention. One sip of the Folgers gave me the emergency runs for a while. The bathroom was very far away. Brought my own coffee thermos, haha.
“Snacks were cane sugar and corn syrup.” o_O ?!!
@@KnakuanaRka candy corn, budget twizzlers, beef jerkey that was more sugar than beef. Not really too bad for a construction worker occasionally.
What I DID love was the energy drinks "Bang" which had a masterfully crafted Sucrose that had very different flavors and were indigestible. But that causes gas haha. 300+MG caffeine, 200 IU Vitamin B12, some B1, 2, 4, and 6. Absolutely no sugar. The purposefully mutated Sucrose covered all that.
I just wish they were selling the small cans. They only had the 16oz. Great flavor but you can't really set it down too long before the fizz goes away and you are stuck with exotic tea
when i worked at an indian restaurant, the owners treated us like shit. would always give us our paychecks late, allowed the senior employees to eat ice cream in the back while we did their jobs, and also let the kitchen staff do horrible shit that would definitely make them fail a health inspection, except they would make all the kitchen staff come in the day before an inspection and clean everything. i was a server, but i also had to bus tables, mop floors, act as hostess, dry dishes, you name it. i was a high school student working 5 days a week, and they would always call on my days off asking me to come in, even when i was in class (i always said no).
after about 3 weeks of waiting for my biweekly paycheck, i went into another restaurant to order food. my sister had worked there before & the owner needed help, but she had already gotten a new job. he asked me if i wanted to work there and i said, “sure ! i can start monday.” monday comes and i’m scheduled to come in that evening to my other job, but i’ve already started training at this new job and decided i liked it way better. i texted the owners an hour before my shift started and told them i quit. my best friend worked there and she said within a week, the owners had fired several employees, causing her and the entire kitchen staff to quit. :)
tl;dr: owners of dirty roach & rat infested restaurant treated the staff like shit. after i quit most of the staff quit too.
24:30 I work as a software developer. In the last company I've been we didn't even had mattresses. If you can, take a brief nap at your desktop and keep working.
Third world, ladies and gentlemen.
When l had the owner arrested and thrown in prison for embezzelment and not paying his workers. I quit first, noone else got paid, l went to the sherrif.
I worked at the holiday inn express and suites. It’s was second month of 2021 so workers in this field were scarce enough already. When I had arrived, people from the maintenance guy to the general manager were just quitting on the spot. I didn’t know why at first, but after my only other manager quit and I was asked to do double shifts 5 days a week, I just joined the herd and got tf out within like 4 weeks 💀🤣
I was one of 57 people who quit in a three week period. The pay was offensive and we had to know other departments in the store. I was hired as a cashier and had helped out in six different departments. For 12 dollars an hour. I now make almost 9 dollars more an hour at my current, non retail, job.
Edit: I just remembered that after I quit, I received a letter in the mail pertaining to benefits. At the top of the letter it had the phrase, "Due to your termination". I was so pissed. I had submitted my two week notice, I was not fired. So now I wonder if that will show on my employment record as being fired. If it doesn't, then they should really reword the goddamn phrase.
13:29 I feel so bad for the original owners, hope that prick is dead to them!
There was a customer everyone hated and thought of as the worst human being to ever exist. The company hired him - as district manager. Cue mass quitting. The particular store where I worked, in fact, lost so many it had to close and, last time I drove by, was still closed.
I love this kind of unity
I worked for a boss that used to yell and scream up and down the hallways about shit. It was a data management company (IT). He was inept as fuck. The company went bankrupt a year after I left.
A guy was/is sexually harassing the younger female staff at my deli (some of them being 16-17 years old). The butchers went to the boss about it and he went off on THEM for "spreading rumours" and "hearsay". By September, the meat department lost a cashier, two pork butchers, a butcher who worked there for 4 years, and two chicken butchers. The boss refused to do anything about the guy sexually harassing employees and customers. I'm quitting too.
Why didn't you gather evidence and call the cops on the guy?
@@PiroKUSS cops don’t care about that. That’s also not their job, it’s the managers job
@@kissit012 No it's not. If an employee sees something, they report it, no matter how low in the corporate pyramid their position is.
If I was in the crowd at the stadium fiasco I would have started clapping very loudly in support.
Not me but had a manager at a chicken express we worked at, she was super sweet and juggling personal issues with full time work and school. One day we got word that management was changing and we were happy for her to get promoted but instead they cut our employee discount, made the worst manager supervisor regardless of the fact that she was dating the cook and demoted the cool manager, the real kick is that on her first shift after the meeting the tried to have her train a new staff member. She laughed and said that was above her pay grade then quit the next day. Fuck chicken express.
I work at a McDonald's they decided the workers dont need breaks or meals they punished us because managers gave away free food. 13 ppl quit just because of them taking our free drinks away. We had to pay for water. At work. Then even more left over the meals
Vector Marketing or Kirby. Everybody walks out.
My job (Me included) we are all leaving cause managers turned into a real jerk. Changes hours on people daily, punishes anyone who doesn’t agree...even tried to hire a guy who steals from him repeatedly and shows up drunk and under the influence to work all the time after he got fired again for the 7th time.....I have come to the conclusion that their is and never will be a good boss and when their is one companies sack em for fighting for the staff instead of their interests...typical America profits before consumer/product/staff :/
Abuse of power and too low of wages at an Amazon warehouse.
I had an employee once. Small mom n pop place. They kept air mattresses and blankets too. Saw them used once. A severe blizzard hit. For some of us it was far too dangerous to try to go home. We closed up early, and all those mattresses were pulled out. We slept the night there. It was uncomfortable. But they gave those us supposed to be working the next two days paid days off. Mostly to destress after that event. Some people still quit over it.
That's a good reason to have bedding in a business.
Theatre manager exorcise the staff out the building like the poltergeists lmao 🤣
I worked in an auto part shop for about 2 months, it was a skeleton crew but the five of us working the cell got along, but the “supervisor” (who was friends with the floor manager and office staff) was an egotistical tyrant who didn’t know anything about the work cells yet expected numbers that even the day force couldn’t achieve, loitered around us, nit picking everything we did without telling us how to do it properly and disrespected everyone while demanding respect.
In the morning of events He had me running everywhere across the factory, so when the fourth time he moved me I annoyed said I’ll need to grab new paperwork again to which he got up in my face and asked if “do you have a problem?” to which I said “yes” and and then listed how useless he was and how he was negatively effecting our workplace. he couldn’t tolerate the “disrespect” and yelled “well I come with the company so either get in line or get out” I said I wanted to speak to his higher up and he only screamed “get out” after that until I left.
Well I called in the next day to talk to HR, they said they’d look into it and by the next hour they.called back and said I was terminated without even hearing my side.
I don’t know if it was that incident that sparked events, but through the following week I heard the rest of the 4 guys on my cell apparently just didn’t show up to work and quit (to which I say good on them)
3 confirmed cases of corona but they thought sending pablo in with two mops to fight the corona would make us feel safe
Give pablo a third mop, maybe that will cover it.
Do not underestimate Pablo, with just three mops he could eradicate corona
How to deal with a bad boss
>Get a group together
>Get all black clothes
>Go pay boss a visit
>Leave phones at home
>Jump boss and whoop their ass
>Rinse and repeat until desired results
That's fucking stupid, just call them out and quit if the boss doesn't care.
@@PiroKUSS getting jumped by a mob is democracy at the end of the day. Perhaps not be sociopaths or psychopaths that revel in tormenting people just there because they need to pay bills to support a life they didn't even ask for in the first place? Idk there needs to be consequences for being a piece of shit I'm really just fed up with society and how people are and how it only seems to get worse.
If any company told me someone had to be in the bathroom with me while I took a drug test, I would tell them they can shove their definitely-not-worth-it job so far up where the sun don't shine that the job opportunity can use them as a hand puppet.
I'll take a drug test, no problems. But if you want to tell me you trust me, a grown ass adult, so little to appropriately pee in a cup that I need a babysitter in the bathroom with me, I don't want anything to do with that position, because the micromanagement red flag is waving proud, surrounded by lights and signs that say "LOOK HOW RED THIS FLAG IS!"
Drug tests are fine, but witnessed drug tests should only be for those in inpatient addiction care facilities and those on probation from criminal offenses.
I've never done illegal drugs and barely even do legal ones (tried marijuana a few times but never drank alcohol, etc). And I would quit over a policy like that. No one gets to watch me pee unless they're under age 5 or have fur.
Such a satisfying forum to listen to. Reminds me of an old job of mine. company sold to corporate company. GMs are given impossible standards and felt bad for all of us. The GMs decided to leave and open their own business. 10+ employees followed them when the new GM cut hourly pay by $2/hr and created impossible standards. 😘 most of them were minors and didn't know they were able to contact OSHA or HR about the pay cut since they were never given a prior notification. many customers also left and started going to new place. I stayed behind for one more year until I found a new job that paid significantly more. This was all in the south where wages are low to begin with and businesses are not as well monitored as the northeast. I wish the former GMs well woth their new business and still follow them on FB.
I love the one where the "idiot son" cut off the AC of the building. Never said anything about exodus, didn't need to lol. It was so obvious. (At 22:10 I think)
I wonder how many of those were true. It's safe to assume that it's less than 5%
a decent percentage of these remind me of Bar Rescue episodes. Managers that are running a place into the ground.
Say it with me now... *telling others they cannot discuss their pay with others is illegal. At-will state or not.*
Also illegal in Canada.
My stepdad (a financial accountant) got a new job in our town (so he wouldn´t have to drive 60+ km to work everyday). The office was in a metall building and it was a very hot summer. Stepdads new boss forbidd everyone from using a fan on their desk (they work by themselves at their desks) (It was about 30*C /86* F) in the office for days and they weren´t allowed.
Safe to say, he went back to his old job (his boss had already begged him to come back ever since he left) about 4 days into the new job (At better celery) ...Frick that anti-fan employer.
This place paid their people shit and they were always overwhelmed and understaffed.
They just took their aprons off, left food in the oven, on the grill, left like 20 customers in line and walked out.
With a story about again in the Uncle in the diner that's their fault. They should have taken the time to make sure you to fully trained and front of house back in house management and Administrating and lastly make sure temperament for The job
Honestly those about restaurants sound like kitchen nighmares
Just this past summer my boss at my seasonal job (I worked at a summer camp) held staff to an unreasonable standard of perfection with protocol. It got to the point where people were threatened with being fired just for checking their phones once to see the time.
The way she treated campers and the way she treated employees told completely different stories. Half of the staff left three weeks into work, each coming up with different excuses, and the other half wanted to quit.
In the final week of work, a substitute boss took over, and she was so well-loved that employees who quit and were still local tried to get rehired just to be able to help out with disassembly. One employee even got to come back.
This raises my faith in humanity. 😂😂😂
We had a Bad Friday night. Working in the kitchen Fried chicken Subs Pizzas.
I had 4 write ups after 18m so out I went.
By the end of the week 2 more quit min of 6 total. In 60days
She still cant keep people.
People dont quit for Good Bosses
Basically the Baseball Stadium Lady
I see alot like place at my old job.
That manager should've been watched by the upper management
That replacement one made me laught so hard
Your not allowed to block a door like that, its considered entrapment... I had a boss do that once so I told her to either fuckibg move or I'm calling the police. So she tells me it's her building she will do whatever she wants. I call the police and she tells me on the way out the door that this was ridiculously unnecessary. I simply told her that I said if she didnt stop I would call them, she didn't move and here we are.
I have a million stories from having worked retail for 10+ years I'll give you 2 more.
Worked at a retail store and had the laziest manager I have ever worked around. All she did all day was push a shopping cart around and complain as she walked around all day home you were doing an awful job however anytime you asked her to help you she would literally say she doesnt get paid to do that and would walk off. Having been busy all day and being at my breaking point I hear the doorbell that a delivery driver was at the back door. Having no give a damn left I decided to go to lunch since it was time anyways i usually took lunch around 6pm and it was 5 till so i went. Came back and this lady came screaming at me that I left a driver outside for 45 minutes waiting. So I simply asked her why he didnt just walk around to the front door doesnt sound like a very smart driver to me. She then told me that she didnt like my "attitude problem" and getting to my breaking point again i simply told her that if i leave she will have nobody and will have to get off her lazy butt and do something or you can walk away and we can forget this all happened. Get a call the next day from the store manager to come to his office for quick talk. Naturally this lady is sitting in there. Mind you im really good friends with the store manager at this point and he knows me well enough to know that if theres an issue with me theres likely a good reason for it and I'm normally a pretty decent mooded person most of the time. He turns to me and asked what times I normally take break and for how long. I said that the code of conduct book says I'm entitled to a break st 4pm, lunch for an hour at 6, and my final break at 8 each for 15 minutes 20 tops with 20 being you visibly almost getting back to your duty station maybe 5 10 feet away tops. He then tells me that this manager has filed a complaint that I'm never around whenever she does her daily walk around the store and she insists that I'm taking breaks too often. I asked her what times she normally does her walks around that specific area of the store and she said 4, 6, and 8. And that she waits for me to see how long I'm bone and sometimes I'm gone for upwards of 30 minutes which I immediately cut her off and tell her that's a load of crap I have an alarm set on my phone telling me when to come back in. I then pull my phone out and show my store manager and he agrees that said alarms are visibly there.
She then proceeds to threaten mr that if she walks back there and I'm not around she will have to give me a wrote up for attendance and I simply told her that if she does that I will file a harassment charge or we can forget this entire chat happened and go on with the day since I'm fully aware she steals coffee from the Starbucks counter inside the store everyday as well as everyone else is aware and she takes money out of the cash office daily that doesnt belong to her I have my sources who are very reliable and that if we keep having this chat that I will simply quit and she will have nobody to do her last work being that its the holiday rush.
We decided to go about our day and I got a pay increase for staying.
Another one was when I was an hourly manager for retail and worked under a salaried manager who always did some extremely shady stuff. One time right before I went to lunch at 2am it was an overnight job he tried getting me to return a ps4 game system with no receipt and nothing in the box. I give the guy the cut off signal that im not doing this since the registered close at 12am midnight anyways and that I'm going to lunch. Came back the next work day and was in the manager office with the store manager asking why I accepted a return for a $400 game system without a receipt. I told him I know exactly what your talking about and to roll the security tapes back I actually had given the cut off sign that I'm wasnt doing it.
That fucking manager put it under my name so he wouldnt get caught. Rolld thr tapes back and that manager no longer works there.
That voice crack at the beginning tho
I worked at one of those high interest loan companies. Not payday loan but like 1 step above we actually pulled credit and would deny/approve based on credit. Anyways, I’m working for one that had been around for 40+ years. Everyone knew the ceo and had good relations with upper management. I’m young at the time 21 ish but a lot of people had been there for years. It wasn’t great work but the company gave good bonuses and didn’t fire people too often. So they end up selling out to a larger company that does the same thing as us. Within the first few months they switch our schedule from 8:30-5:30 w/1 hr lunches to 9-5pm 3 days/week, 9-7pm 1 day per week and 9-5:30 1 day per week. Last Saturday of month became mandatory and managers were now required to be there 30 mins prior to opening every day. They also only allowed 30 min lunch breaks. A lot of us lived in small towns and would go home for an hour on our lunch breaks or run errands but not anymore. Tuesdays were brutal. They made employees in every branch sign non competes and changed the way we did almost everything. They also revamped the bonus program where in a perfect world you could make more bonus than before but realistically based on their crazy standards your bonus for the year was probably reduced by 40-80%. They also gave us phones that could be monitored, tracked and recorded. Managers were always getting put on write ups, audits were now being failed and bonuses were being withheld. Just really micromanaging everything. Within the first 2 years. 60+% of employees from every branch quit. Including district managers and higher up people. In some branches entire staffs of 3-4 people all resigned. You would think corporate would’ve looked in the mirror but no they actually got stricter. I survived 2 years and left for a better company. This same company (after i left) kept everyone working full time hours during COVID, demanding pre COVID results only to lay off at least one person from every office 4-6 months later. Like clearly people didn’t need loans at 6-7pm during March and April 2020…I’ve only been gone since summer 2019 and i would say that 95% of the people i knew throughout many states and offices are no longer with the company. Sad how many peoples’ lives changed after our original company sold
I have a shop supervisor he breaks everything he touches.burns out motors on machines from running it too fast, over tightes bolts often.likes to hide out in the warehouse.everyone calls him wreck it ralph.bosses put up with him as hes feeding them customer accounts from his parents failed business he more than likely ruined single handedly.😮😂
At my Last job we had enough that our store Manager ignored us and our complains and his psychic abuse. After I got into some thing where my trainee Status and the Organisation for trainees rights saved my ass and discovered that there is more not right I got out there a few months later when my contract Ended. After 6 months I went Back there and nearly everyone is gone and was replaced. Now at Covid19 Crisis he closed down the store (kind of Big like Walmart) I work now in a smal store and got now the people that got normally to the big Stores.
She didn't take her TAMPON OUT
Now it's a tamp-in...
Gross and can be extremely dangerous.
Haha this is great
See I had a situation like this few years back worked at auntie Anne's pretzels. we lost a good manager but dealt with it i got my friend hired in and she quickly became a shift lead alongside me and our new store manager is a guy my age only been with the company a year.) and would leave shift early and have me stay doing doubles to finish the paperwork and close it got annoying but extra money. but what set me off was him blaming my friend for not showing up in time for a shift but I had the schedule on my phone I'm like shes not scheduled. Showed him hes like well I had to make a new schedule. Okay why didnt you txt us? Or call? Where is it? He says it's on the computer where we do the paperwork. I look at my friend check the computer it's not up there I tell him only opening shift is you and you didnt get here till 20 min ago. so your way late opening I'll take this up to the gm he said he would be here today. Manager gave an oh shit look. Not only that but he called one girl ugly and told her she wasnt allowed to wear shorts but allowed another girl to wear booty shorts on shift and belittling everyone. but mem I was already questioning him when he got her first day. I just took everything as a mental note the day before this though everyone had already talked about leaving but I saw this as the moment to act. Txt the other 3 main team members to come by bc we were all gonna quit today. So gm gets in sees us all there. Ask why everyone is here. Told him we can't work under someone who calls us ugly, lies about schedules,leaves early so ge can party, or try and hit on staff in a creepy manner. Gave my key apron and shirt everyone followed. I hung out in the area talking to my friend at Hagen daz about what just happened. and heard the gm yelling. Found out the company owners sold it to new company bought some pretzels and lemonade it was nasty guess quality goes down with out quality employees.
I also worked at Buffalo Wild Wings. I would consistently would open (be there at 10:00AM for prep work), be scheduled for a 30 minute break between shifts (usually didn't get it), and told that I am going to be closing (12-1AM) and have to be back the next day at 10.
MSHA wouldn’t allow a mine to run without a rescue team....at least i’m pretty sure they wouldn’t. My husband mines coal.