My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer this year so I asked to have a couple weeks off to go visit her. She lives 1000 miles away and I hadn't seen her in over 5 years. My General Manager says 'I don't know if we can do that, we don't have enough closing staff right now.' I went over their head and politely informed their boss of my situation and got an okay to go. I received good news yesterday my mom's cancer has shrunk 70% with chemotherapy and she'll now be able to go back on immunotherapy to help extend her life. I'm still planning to go back to see her for a month long visit in the new year so we'll see how my manager reacts to that.
Your boss is an incompetent, lazy fool, an utter moron, or a sociopath. Wishing you and your mother a merry Christmas and the happiest of new years, with many more to follow.
I worked for a family run business for 22 years and my young daughter got very sick. When I called to request the 30 day unpaid leave that was in our handbook the comptroller answered (not family) and told me they'd have to replace me. I hired a lawyer and sued and won. Don't mess with MY family.
That's so crappy of them. I had a family emergency come up right at Christmas a few years ago and had to leave the day after Christmas - across the ocean, no less. I went for 3 weeks. Yes, it was unpaid and my boss at the time was also a small business owner, but he was extremely understanding and I was able to return to my job when I got back.
@@ReiKoko My immediate boss was a very fair man, but he had died from cancer. We used to call the comptroller Weasel. Looking back I should have called back and asked for the younger son, but I was so angry that I just told Weasel "You do what you have to, but I have to do what I have to do." The MFer didn't have kids. Besides their motto that are on all their products and their trucks is Trust your family with our family. That's the other reason I sued them. Haven't bought their products since and never will. When I see them in friend's cupboards I still want to throw them away. Best revenge was the woman I worked closely with that never called out, was there at 5:30 every day walked up to one of the bosses, handed him the reports she printed out and said "I'm done, I quit" shocked the hell out of them.
I worked at a small diner once. My boss was explaining some new coupons to me. A customer got up from her table and was standing at the counter next to the register (because I was u able to get back to her table) obviously ready to leave and get in with her day. Mind, there was about 5 other tables seated at the time. I told my boss, " excuse me just a sec, lemme help this customer" When I was done, I walked back over to him and he blew up at me saying to never walk away from him when he is speaking to me, and on and on. I told him customers are my tip priority, not coupons that are a week out. He fired me on the spot. I started to grab my big bucket of tips and he said, no I couldn't take them. So I grabbed my stuff and started walking out the front door. I then realized 4 of the 5 tables got up as well and walked with me. The look on his face was priceless. The customers all shook my hand, tipped me and I went home happy to get away from him. Several weeks later he tried to blame me for a break in. The police interviewed me, and then laughed and apologized for wasting my time. Pure gold when I found out HE did the break in just to set me up. Buwahahahaaa! I never felt so good about being fired!
Charlotte is right about micro-managing. Another thing I've realized about micro-managing, is that you become so used to someone telling you what to do, that you forget how to think for yourself, then you're lost when you're on your own.
I was just saying this in a company meeting. Our boss is very loved by us but he's moving on to another role. I told his boss who's interviewing candidates that we would not do well with micromanagement. My thought is if you treat people like children they will act like children. He acknowledged that a manager can keep an employee while many employees leave when the manager will lose employees. This will end up costing the company money because they are spending time and resources constantly training new hires.
I struggle SO much with this but I HAVE to micromanage everyone because they are already not doing anything on their own and I tell my bosses that I shouldn't have to because none of them are new and they know what is expected of them. We do the same thing every day so the fact that I have to tell them to go to everything is so frustrating.
@@Reflectionofmedusa I think thats different actually. Like for example. On my previous job my boss, while a nice guy, he didnt let me do things my way even if the results were the same or even better. On my current job, my boss do check if I'm doing stuff and sometimes reminds me that I need to finish something in a certain amount of time. But he let me do things my way. To me thats just management. As long as the result is whats required, it doesnt matter the specifics of how I did.
@@Reflectionofmedusa saying your employees "you do this and you do that for today" is managing, while saying every second "now you can go to the bathroom, now you can take a break, now call this business partner, but only after finishing one page of the file you're working on, etc" this is micromanaging
Years ago I worked for McDonald's. I was hired as basically a janitor. I basically did everything no one wanted to do like the outside trash, cleaning the restrooms, ETC, ETC. I knew what I had to do because my job never changed. After about a month my boss wanted to know where I had been, I told him that I was outside doing the outside trash and policing the entire lot, it was really big. He then told me that I was to let him know where I was and what I was doing at all times. I agreed, I told him everything I was doing which meant that he would be hearing from me like a hundred times throughout my shift. That lasted for 3 days before he changed his mind on my checking in with him throughout my shift. I took real pleasure interrupting him no matter what he was doing. I gave him exactly what he asked for, he realized what he asked me to do and he realized his mistake. After that he never asked me to tell him what I was doing again. NOTE! Just because their management, it doesn't mean their smart.
When I worked in retail, I would always ask for the Christmas/ Christmas Eve shifts. I grew up Jewish so we didn't celebrate that and the pay was often time and a half but the main reason was to let people who did celebrate have the time off. Plus, it made people cool with switching with me for New Year's Eve. It was a win/win for everyone.
I rarely got any holidays off. I was even a single mom and was rarely approved when I was literally the only one with kids. So, I would always request Halloween off. That became our tradition instead. Since I worked both ce and Christmas we would celebrate late CE and then the kids would spend the day with my mom and brothers and sisters. It worked well.
Yeah I used to volunteer for most of the holidays at my old job because I didn't have kids yet so I didn't have any reason to celebrate them. And my mom worked retail too so we never celebrated holidays with family on the day of anyway so it didn't matter to me at all.
I did the same thing. Not because I was religious, but just to be busy, and to give others time with their families. I spent as much time away from home as possible, so I was certainly not being a martyr about it. 😊
I don’t have kids so I always offered to work Halloween for my coworkers. I also worked with a coworker who was Jewish. I did not really celebrate Christmas either, so the 2 of us always offered to work Christmas and Christmas Eve. Our coworkers really loved us! It doesn’t take much to make a difference in others lives. 15:06
I often worked the holidays... partly for coworkers and partly the extra $. My kid is just about done HS and is independent and wants to celebrate with friends, sooo..
I had a boss in a kitchen who would always have someone complain about hair in their food and blame the cook no matter what. The servers never got in trouble for this. I was the only bald man in the kitchen and one day I was the only one working because the weather was bad and none of the other cooks could come in. One customer tried putting a hair in their food to complain and get it free. The boss came into the kitchen in a rage ready to blast all the cooks for leaving hair in the food. When he saw it was just me cooking he stopped screaming as he came into the kitchen. I asked what the issue is and he said, "There is a hair in the food." I took off my hat to pretend to scratch my head as if thinking how it could happen and also to show off my shaved head. "Not sure where the hair came from. Is it the same color as the customer?" I told him. He went out and sure enough, the hair was the same color and length as the customer's. They ended up having to pay for the meal and were told not to come back. After that when there was a hair found he first checked the color and length of the customer's and if it was the same he made them pay and kicked them out. There was a lot less "free" meals sent out and 90% of the kitchen catching sh*t was stopped. This was just one of the many things the boss hollered about and even wrote some of us for. All the cooks got together and we confronted the owner and told him what was going on. At first he didn't believe us until we told him to look in the "write up" book. the book was immediately scrapped and the boss we had was fired. The new boss was the owner's daughter who was pure joy to work for/with. She even came into the kitchen, served food, and even did dishes to help when it got busy. In the end I didn't want to leave but the owner sold out and I went to another kitchen to work.
@@BreakofDawn it is more common than people know. you knw you are getting your meal comped if you find a hair so some people will eat part of the meal then "find" a hair to get a brand new meal for free
@@BreakofDawn Free food!!! Your story made my stomach lurch a bit! Lol!!! That was just gross. It employees were required to wear hair nets, they would be blame free. Nothing like somebody's long ponytail swinging around and depositing hair here and there. Yuck!!
I have went out to eat and there was hair in my food. I can't handle conflict. I just stop eating and didn't say anything.... I didnt realize that people actually put their own hair in the food.
Man, the things y'all people working in culinary service industries have to endure, it sounds like hell on earth sometimes! I've only got experience being a waitress/minor helping in the kitchen, but never was a cook or anything like that. Wow, big respect.
I had some girls try and say they found a long blond hair in the food. 2 blonds at the table. The cooks were bald or black. The 2 waitresses were red heads. Literally could have only come from them. It was delightful when the manager stood up for us and informed them as such. They paid for their meal, but informed us all they would not be back. Dueces!
As a former print shop employee, charging their employees 50 cents each for photostatic copies on plain 20# white paper is ridiculous, especially since she printed them herself. One can go to Office Depot or Staples and get DIY copies for much less than that. Back in the 90s, we charged 15 cents a page, unless it was a volume order over 100, and we were full service. We still had people bitch about how expensive we were, but usually came back because they wanted someone else to do it, and we had a really good copier (that's why we didn't let untrained people operate it). I was working there when my son was kidnapped, and my boss didn't charge me for the negatives and plates I made with my son's photos and the kidnapper that we used to print 1000s of flyers (I was the graphic artist/darkroom tech). They were printed, not copied, so it took the talents and time of our pressman too. I packaged up the printed reams and mailed them to The Center For Missing and Exploited Children for national distribution, and my boss let me use the company postage machine for that too, at his expense. Please notice the flyers of missing children on the wall when you walk into your local Walmart. In 1993-1994, you would have seen my baby up there. About a year after he went missing, a very observant police officer saw the kidnapper walking down the street, thought he'd seen his face somewhere. He told me that a little voice in his head told him, "Stop this guy, NOW!". He wasn't doing anything wrong, so I'm forever grateful to that officer who also told me he always looks at those flyers!
@@LazyIRanch good Lord that is soooo lucky, and how wonderful of your employer to be so generous. What a wonderful outcome, I'm so sad you had to go thru that. I cannot even imagine. My youngest was "high jacked " as the judge put it, by her father. I couldn't see her nor talk to her. I used to call for wellness checks all the time. I'd constantly drive by checking on her and everything. I finally got her back via courts. They tried again, and I just waited till she was at the house by herself with the exes gf, and took her. I then refused to let him see her again, as i was the custodial parent. But not knowing where your baby is, gone from you without any idea... that's every loving parents nightmare. Bless you!!!
I once asked a work colleague why she wouldn't come for office gatherings and stuff (I was a newbie at the time). She politely took me aside and told me that she sees everyone for 9 hours everyday five days a week and doesn't want to spend a minute more than that time. I'm so glad for her teachings 💁♀️
I spent 22 years in the Navy one of my favorite jobs was getting Sailors home on emergency leave. I slept in the office because you never knew when someone was going to come in upset that someone was in the hospital or worse. One time one of the junior Sailors that helped load the aircraft when we needed extra help came to me very upset as her grandfather had just passed. She normally worked in a storeroom and was not under my command. Her chief denied her leave because there was no way for her to fly to Norfolk then to Florida in time for the funeral. I told her the only person that could deny a leave was our Commanding Officer (who I worked for directly) I called her Chief and said if I can get her to Florida in time for the funeral will you let her go? He said yes but did not want to but alas he knew I had already logged the request the CO would see for the Sailors travel. We were off the coast of Florida but the regular C2 aircraft that transported cargo and crew was still flying in and out of Virginia. I then went to the helicopter squadron as they were flying in and out of Pensacola and explained what was going on. I had a very good reputation with the Helo command for taking very good care of their people so they were happy to help and carry a passenger as a favor. 2 hours later off she went the Helo had to stop for fuel just outside her home town and guess who was with her grandmother 4 hours after hearing the news. My greatest award I ever got was a Counseling Chit for taking care of my people to much I framed it and it still hangs over my desk. A boss barks orders a true leader will put his people before himself and that is how you build a great team.
I was in the Navy and went on emergency leave. Both my brothers were in a tragic car accident that left 2 dead. I was an 18 year old kid and clueless. The man who told me, got the Red Cross to help me and offered to drive me to the airport is an Angel. He even checked on me when I got back. I wish I remembered his name but this was in 88.
My sister was the assistant manager at a Comfort Inn. They would have a Christmas party for employees and their families. My dad would be Santa for them (he LOVED it.) One year my dad was in the hospital and couldn't be Santa that year. So I went in his place. I understood why he loved doing it immediately. The way the kids would look at you, I can't describe how much joy I got out of seeing the kids looking at me like I was the greatest person on the planet. I took it seriously too. I was thinking that maybe next year I'll sign up to be a mall Santa or something. Side note: my dad had a beard that looked just like Santa's but not as white (definitely getting there though). He loved going to stores when it was close to Christmas. Little kids would come up to him or just stare at him awestruck. He always played along, my mom would be Mrs. Clause by default, but she loved it too. Remember The Santa Clause and all the kids recognized Tim Allen's character as Santa? It was similar to that. He even had kids come up to him and ask for one or two things for Christmas. This always put a smile on his face and put him in a great mood the rest of the day. I'm glad he always played along. I miss him so much.
My Opa(grandfather) was from Holland. He had skin that tended to get pretty red, thick white hair and a white beard, and blue eyes. Kids thought he was Santa all the time. The kicker? His name was Rudolf (he went by Rudy though)
Here's a wholesome one for counterpoint to all the bad ones: earlier this year my mother had a problem at the assisted living where she is, and I made an emergency trip down to see what I could do (unfortunately I live a long distance away.) When I talked to HR about it, not only did they approve the time off, they told me if I needed to stay longer, they would look into get me FMLA payments, so I would have some money coming in while I was taking care of my mother. Moral to the story: find a really good employer who is known for taking excellent care of their workers. I work for Wegmans supermarkets; they hire good people, and they take really good care of us.
Thank you for sharing this. These comments are working as a nice support group for people who had bad experiences, but even one story of a good boss is so encouraging. You begin to think no one cares about the lifeblood of their companies and it’s really disheartening.
Dang, we don't have Wegman's in southeast Texas, maybe not in Tx at all. It is so hard to find any company that takes care of their employees. I've work in food, retail, doctor offices.... They're all the same.
I worked for a woman who was the worst micro manager. She wanted to be copied in on all e-mails we sent. My petty revenge was to send individual rather than group e-mails to my clients. I would copy her in on each one as requested which then filled up her mail box.
My friend usually shaves their head. They work as a dessert chef in a fancy restaurant. Someone had complained that there’s hair in the dessert and blamed them. (Clearly looking for compensation and a free dessert) Imagine how shocked Karen was when my friend stomps out of the kitchen, clearly annoyed to be disturbed during rush hour, just to show their shaved head And to make it sweeter? They refreshed the shave just the morning before that shift 🤣
When I worked in a warehouse, my manager had a tendency of when you asked for time off or to use sick time with the response of “why“ which they are not allowed to do. I had a doctors appointment for my yearly visit for my lady parts, and when he asked why I responded with “I need to go see the Cooter-ologist to make sure my vagina isn’t doing the beatbox, he never asked again😂😂
I think I love you, Jessica Evans! 😂 I'm filing "cooterologist" in my brain. I need to see one, and I've been asking for a referral from my GP for 2 years but he keeps ignoring me. This doc is oddly squeamish, and stops me if I try to talk about my growing fibroid problem. About a year ago, I got pecked in the eye by a chicken and my eye looked horrible, all bloody. He would not look at me, or examine my injury. I showed him a pic of it on my phone, and he glanced briefly at it, shuddered and told me I'd be fine.
I'm a nurse, we don't even get friggin pizza. Last year for Christmas, we got an email, thanking us for 'our hard work during these trying times". I wish they didn't bother with the email.
Did 20+ years in nursing profession. Too many years like that, often followed by informing staff of a hiring freeze, or no bonus. Meanwhile the president and ceo are getting 6 figure bonuses for keeping costs down.
I know. In the medical field we hardly ever get any real recognition of the real sacrifice we do make. I mean I’m not looking to be put on a pedestal but even a real heartfelt acknowledgment would be nice. Oh well….. wishful thinking.
Dang that sucks. I worked as a nurse at a nursing home for a few years and we always had holiday "parties" in the break room. Each of the nurses, care nurses, and other staff on shift would bring a dish or snack and leave it in the breakroom. We could stop in on our break times and make a plate. I thought it was nice. Sometimes we exchanged names for gifts at Christmas depending on if people on the shift and floor wanted too.
Big companies will spend millions of dollars on things that are public relations related but won’t spend the time of day on making sure their employees are treated fairly. That is why the company in the first story was willing to spend what they did for the soccer match.
When I transferred to a new location with my company, whenever I applied for any days of over any holiday, be it 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Xmas, New Years, etc… you get the picture, I was denied because my co-worker had already been approved. So, I sat down just after the new year and put in for days off for EVERY day that could be considered a holiday (including my co-work’s birthday) and all were approved since I beat him submitting the requests. Needless to say, the following year my co-worker asked if we could sit down together and work out a schedule that was fair to both of us. What comes around goes around!
I worked for one company for six years when I left this year. My first manager who hired, was great. She was the most supportive person, and would stand up for anyone. She would schedule you a lot if you were competent, but if you needed a break, she was more than willing to give you the time off. She was like a mom/aunt to me, I always felt supported. My second manager was just as good. You could tell she really loved the business, and she cared about everyone. When I needed time off to go out of state for my aunt’s funeral, she told me not to worry. She was like an older cousin/big sister to me, and I was so sad when she left. I was hopeful about my third manager. That hope was misplaced. In the ten months I worked with her she managed to alienate every single person in that store. She spread toxic positivity like she was trying to reach a daily quota. She would write people up for the stupidest reasons. She thought everyone else was an idiot, and only she knew best. Her incompetence and need to micromanage ran that store into the ground. Everyone either quit or transferred. Of the people that are still there, most believe that the company is only keeping her on for the rest of the year because they don’t want to get a new manager in there during the holiday season. I should feel bad for her. But I don’t. She made this mess herself, and now she has to deal with the consequences of her actions.
If a company brings in a corporate crap manager after having good ones, they might as well just hire all new staff because the ones they have know they deserve better and won’t be around long.
@@BeeWhistler while you are not wrong, you also seem to be assuming that when I say “company,” I mean that I worked in a corporate office setting. That was not the case. I worked in food service. When you work in retail or food service, and the store you work at is not independently owned, chances are you’re working for some corporation. You just don’t get the respect of working in a corporate office setting, the benefits, or the pay.
I asked for a 2 week leave for my honeymoon after working 4 years with no vacation, it was granted. I literally gave them months of notice and reminded my boss regularly. I even reminded her 2 weeks before my wedding, on the day she was making the schedule. Guess who they called in on the first day of my honeymoon... yeah, me, because they knew we hadn't left yet. smh.
Hope you didn't go in. Doesn't matter if you've left yet. Your honeymoon is still your honeymoon. I wouldn't have. I don't care if I'm literally doing nothing right then. The answer would be no, but I wouldn't have answered under those circumstances.
Ugh, my previous boss was a big fan of office parties, so she tried throwing them on any possible occasion... and also made us pay for them! So all the office was collectively ill/got upset stomachs/had to take kids to the doctor/conducted the solemn funeral of pet hamster - anything went in order not to attend those parties. In a way she achieved her goal - she always said parties were to make us more united, and nothing got us more united than collective hatred :D
I’m watching this while working on a Christmas present for my boss! These stories really make me appreciate how kind and supportive my boss is, and how lucky I am to have that. My friend/Coworker and I worked on a card together that we’re trying to get everyone to sign. And now I’m making a holiday flower arrangement!
This is why I love my husband's company ❤ we just came back from a 3 week vacation to Europe to visit his grandparents since they are really really old and he wanted to see them in case one of them passes away, and his company was fully supportive of it.
I was an intern at a hospital and we were granted 10 days off per 6 months. I work in a major hospital and wanted to grant a 3 days leave to go to my hometown because i missed my family so much. I live alone in this big city. They did not allow me the leave even though i had my job letter which allowed me a leave of 10 days in 6 months and all of my coworkers were ready to cover for me. I cried 😭 alone in my bathroom and got back to my job :')
@@erikarussell1142 Even though im a surgery resident now, i truly believe those surgery consultants were just big bullies and im just trying to be more humble :)
@@whome4642 i come from a very humble background and i at that time did not have the guts to stand up for myself. I just did not go home for the whole rotation in that ward. Fast-forward, now im a surgery resident. Life is hard but better. Im just grateful
After I returned to work from having my son, I would pump 3 times a day in the "mommy room" (a closet that had a chair and a small countertop with a sink). I would be mindful of my time, so I would go on my 2 short breaks and 30-minute lunchbreak. Because each time you pump, you have to assemble, disassemble, and clean the pump. My breaks would end up being about 10 minutes longer than normal. Not to mention how hard it is sometimes to have a big enough letdown to produce milk. My supervisor was a huge micro manager, and she would even write me up for telling coworkers good morning every day as it was wasting valuable work time. She told me that if I was going to continue pumping during work hours, I would be required to stay late everyday to make up for the 30 minutes or so extra my breaks would take because of pumping. Little did she know my sister is a very successful HR person in the US and gave me all the knowledge I needed about breastfeeding and pumping rights. The very next day, I marched into the CEO's office and unloaded to him the issue and how I would be filing a lawsuit if I continued to be denied my rights. Him being a very conservative man went beet red once I even mentioned me pumping milk and promised this issue would be handled immediately and to continue doing what I have been doing all along. 60 minutes later, I passed my supervisor on the way to the mommy room. She quickly looked the opposite direction in shame and mumbled, "Take all the time you need." That day, I was able to relax enough to actually produce! It was the win of the year for me and my family.
In our company when we had a meeting requiring travel, every night was like your Christmas party - attendance mandatory. You would spend all day in meetings, then go for cocktails and then dinner. Stay up late and get up early so you could review materials and be prepared for the next days meetings. We referred to those dinners as “forced fun”.
Ugh. Work ‘retreats.’ Forcing me to do 10 hours of meetings a day for three days and then live/party with my co-workers. It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and it kept me off the streets. But fun? Nope.
I worked in retail and i had the best boss ever, on my first day of work i had to tell them that in a month i had a planned 4 days trip to vegas but i was like "but i wont go if you need me" so she said "its totally fine ill get someone else to cover for you" I was like are you sure cause work is my priority but she was super nice and she saw that i felt bad so she reassured me it was all good ! I swear i was singing every morning on my way to work i was so happy there and my boss became like a second mom for me 😊
I became a people manager last year after not being a people manager for a long time (because it can suck depending on who YOUR manager is). I try SO hard to be a fair boss. It is absolutely MY problem to solve if an employee requests leave with sufficient notice and the workload is not conducive to being short that person. That's a company problem, not an employee problem. A manager's job is to make it easier for their employees to get things done, not watch how many post-its they're using or whether they take 15 minute breaks or 18 minute breaks. Jeez. If you're micro-managing your staff like that, you have serious issues.
Office pizza parties are the equivalent of “You made us a ton of money, but we don’t want to give you raises for mailing us filthy rich”. It’s a bosses cheap way out.
I had a boss who would have a “company party” 2 or 3 times a year, there would be at most 8 employees and 20 or more of his friends show up. These were his personal friends not people we did business with, we employees didn’t know any of them. This was his way of entertaining his friends and being able to deduct the cost.
I love when managers forget that without staff, nothing is going to happen and they expect us to do everything whenever they want despite having other things to do. I work in a grocery store in produce. For the past 2 weeks I've been covering fish since i had experience and they needed help. The fish manager asked me if I wanted to come in Monday to help out and I said sure. That morning the store manager told the meat manager "I want her in produce today" so I said "I'd rather go home than go to produce right now". He didn't expect me to actually go home. The assistant store manager begged me to stay but I was just fed up with how the store manager has been treating people.
Reminds me, long ago I worked in a private gentlemen's club in janitorial & maintenance. During 'emergencies' I'd help clean guest rooms. During a time when I was helping maintenance with renovations (I did grunt work: moving furniture, pulling up carpets, scraping old wallpaper) I'd come in, at the maintenance supervisor's request, on a day off to help. Then front desk realized they are having a scheduling emergency with room cleaners. They wanted me to stop what I was doing for maintenance, that I'd given up a day off for, I wasn't even supposed to be there, to clean guest rooms. I hated that idea. I already worked balls to the wall for this establishment, why couldn't front desk have enough room cleaners on staff to call in?! Not the first time I'd asked myself that question! Told them no, if they want me to stop my work in maintenance dept I'd just go home. Otherwise I was just going to continue doing what I'd agreed with the maintenance supervisor that I'd come in for, on my day off. (He'd had to really ask nice and explain why he needed me to come in on my day off). I think I ended up going home. Good news, they didn't fire me. I was in my late 40s at that time and had made myself invaluable in other ways, would do ladder work that no one else did (cleaning chandeliers, upper vents, change time on clocks during dst, etc) I loved the building, but management was often dicey. 🎲🎲
Thank you for this. I needed this. I had to quit my cushy corporate job this year because of an abusive boss. HR didn’t care. Screenshots didn’t matter. It was horrendous. Still looking for a better job, but I’m trying to focus on the positive.
For the printing story, I would have calculated how much everyone had spent and then gone to a higher up and ask if the manager would be fired for stealing x amount of money from their subordinates. Also would have sent it in an email to have a paper trail.
I had to tell my current boss that if she kept micromanaging me or her other employees, there was going to be consequences meaning people quitting. I am the main closer and no one else wants to close and mop the floors 5 days a week she knows this and doesn’t interfere with my job anymore. It’s nice 😊
Sounds to me you are ready for something more. If you are happy more power to you but you have the right attitude to go far in anything you want to do.
I was seriously about to say I could understand the company not wanting employees printing 200 invitations, using color for packets of personal things. But 4 pages black and white?? Oh but then.... 100 color invitations!! 😂 oof
Oh my gods listening to these makes me love my job even more. I have had a few REAL crap work environments in the past but I have been with my new company for going on 3 years now. The job is stressful, just because it is a high pressure position. I think it’s healthy for me to get on here and hear these stories because while the work itself makes me want to rip my hair out at times it reminds me of what a great culture my workplace fosters and how incredibly lucky I am. The work sucks sometimes, but the people are FANTASTIC. Thank you video like this for reminding me how lucky I am
Long ago I worked for a big box company retail store. I had been there for eight years, working my way up to a lower management position. I had put immense effort and time into achieving the perfect work/life balance while giving my all to the company. I had the perfect schedule (2pm-10pm) for my lifestyle and family, etc. I was excellent in my role, never missed a deadline, etc., even though the pay was average. I had a snarly manager and regional manager that played 'favourites' with their employees that fit their corporate ideal best - I didn't with my tattoos and my pagan ways. I had saved and booked a two week trip to Mexico, returning just in time to handle the big inventory influx pre-Christmas. Just two days before my departure, they informed me that my new hours upon my return would be 2am, yes AM, to 10am. Those hours were totally counter to my life. They knew how the switch would mess up my life. I knew they wanted to switch me out so they could promote another person into my hours/position who was their 'type' of person (she went to the same church). If I didn't like those hours, I agree to be demoted and take a pay cut to keep my old ones. This other person wasn't trained on the important idiosyncrasies of the position, didn't know the schedules, vendors, employees, etc. and could I train them, etc. before I left. Long story short, I skirted the training and the next day told them to consider my two weeks on vacation my two weeks notice, I wouldn't be back. I was done with their microaggressions for my appearance and non-Christian sensibilities, and plenty of other shenanigans as it was. Apparently I started a chain reaction as when I returned from Mexico I learned another four people at our location had quit, leaving the store woefully shorthanded at the busiest time of year. No regrets. Over a decade later I have a new profession and make four times what I did back then, working with awesome peoeple :)
Long story shot, my former boss once disapproved my leave and I didn't show up and she called and I told her “according to my contract I give due notice and take my offered leave days, I did my part, I am not sure why you didn't do yours, I wasn't asking for permission, I was notifying you”. She told me to reapply so it can be approved and she is only my former boss because I finished my contract and left.
Petty revenge vídeos are my favorite saga. I would love a movie about Charlotte one day and how much her channel is funny. She definitely deserves all the aplause. 👏👏👏😂
Oh, the micromanaging boss reminded me of my first job after I got out of the Army. I was the shop supervisor for a welding shop that specialized in high end metal aculptures and decorative metalwork. The guy bought the company from the original owner who was retiring who was a barely proficient welder, and knew almost nothing about fabrication, decided he couldn't trust a woman to run the shop and started coming into the shop after answering morning emails and phone calls and giving the crew contradictory instructions. I had to constantly redirect the guys back to the tasks that would actually result in the projects getting finished. It came to a head about 4 months later when we were working on a project for the Ritz Carlton. I'd spent 2 days prepping some handrails for the grand staircase in the ballroom (extremely complicated geometry with compound curves) and had just finished getting everything aligned properly and he comes in and starts telling my welders to break everything down and essentially start over because "there's no way that fit-up will work". I finally snapped, I told him that if he didn't want me to run the shop he was welcome to do it all himself. Then told him "I'm done with this right now, I'm going home, and that I'd be back on Monday. If you want the projects we've currently got finished, you'll stop fucking them up every time you walk into the shop. If you can't do that, have my last check ready for me monday morning." He responded by saying he could do it all on his own and he'd have that check for me. Thing is, my crew was also sick of having to redo damn near everything he touched. So I spent the weekend talking with Supers of other shops I knew and gave all of my crew references and found them all new jobs with better pay. Monday morning I got there early and while waiting for him to cut me my check, got to watch him answer calls from all 14 of my crew telling him they had found new jobs and would just be stopping by later in the day to pick up their tools. He started screaming at me somewhere around the 6th call, and I just smiled and asked "Can I have my check now? Besides, you said you could do it all by yourself." He went out of business less than two months later and had to sell his house to pay for all of the breach of contract suits he got hit with.
I also dyed my hair bright blonde after my mother keeps complaining I leave hair everywhere I go in the house for revenge too and now there's blonde hair everywhere. It didn't go well lol
I was forced to go to this year's Christmas party at my job. It was mandatory since it was the first one in 2 years. I got covid and so did everybody else from my office. I do 100% of the audits for my company and my office does all of the scheduling of work. We have been shut down for 2 weeks. Yeah can we just get a bonus next year
"Do any of us really like office pizza parties?" Yes, Charlotte, some of us do. I had one just a few days ago and it was great. We have lots of parties together at work 😊
One time my boss asked me to order pizza for my office (i was the youngest employee in the office,fresh out of HS) Turned out, one of the colleagues ordered pizza beforehand for all of us and boss decided that the whole thing that I ordered I'll take to my family and myself The boss payed me back and gave me additional money as a surprise too That was the most wholesome Christmas pizza party on my first job :)
Charlotte, I have been binge watching you today and saw the video where you said "I wonder if I got a sweatshirt with the word petty on it, or maybe a hat with the word petty, would anyone buy it? 🤔" And I've seen your background go from plain white to a few purple lights to a full petty masterpiece. You've come a long way, baby! But what has always been there is your wit and your awesome responses. Let the Potato Queen rule forever!! 👑🥔👑
I enjoy office parties, especially since we didn't really have any work gatherings for so long due to covid. It's nice to actually talk to people about non-work related things. I also like it because I moved interstate and don't have any family or friends outside of work so they tend to be one of the few social things I actually get to attend. Imo it helps me bond/relate to people better :)
I worked at a call centre office that would buy lunch for the the whole team as a "well done treat" on the busiest day of the month, Usually a Friday, it was a MASSIVE selling point for them during the hiring process. However what the didn't tell you was that this was due to the fact they expected you to eat lunch at your desk that day, despite not being paid for your hour lunch. Some other highlights; They would also expect you to be at your desk 15 min before your shift started, but you wasn't allowed to clock in before exactly on the hour (start) and until min 30 seconds after the hour (end), if a call came in during that waiting time you would have to take it regardless of how long the call was (but you would rarely get paid for the extra), if you was caught logging out on the hour you would face a meeting. We also had to clock in and out of our toilet breaks which were capped (outside of break times) to TOTAL 7 minuets per shift. If you went past this your name on the board would start flashing and the MD frequently walked around shouting "where's so and so..." "Why are they still in a comfort break...That's 5 mins too long...etc" Customers could hear this over the phone at time too. She asked me once why I had been in the loo so long once... So I told her just as loud ***WARNING TMI FOLLOWS *** "Sorry babe you know it's my TOM and all that, I've good a really heavy flow and this period poo is killing me..." But the Icing on the cake, at Christmas the whole management, training, admin and back office staff would be allowed to go home half day to attend and be treated to an all expenses paid meal (alcoholic drink included). However, the rest of the team had to plan their own party, with no contribution and we wasn't allowed to discuss the plans at work. (Even tho they would plan the dinner for the same night so many of them could join our thing after). We were all brough a chocolate advent calendar on Dec 1st tho 🥳lol
Oh, do I have a story for you. I worked retail and am disabled. At the time, I wasn't on disability as I was undergoing treatments to see if they could stop my condition from advancing, but I did have doctor's appointments 2 hours away every 3 months for spinal injections. I also required 2-3 days off after said injections as it affected my motor function. My bosses knew this, and I would schedule the next appointment at the previous one, so they ALWAYS had 3 months notice. It's important to note that they told me that they had a "first come, first serve" basis for time off and that the required minimum was 2 weeks notice. My condition would also get worse as I got closer to appointments, because, go figure, I was in more pain. Anyway, every time my appointment would roll around, I'd have to fight with HR to get the time off and even went into work early and in immense pain several times. One time, my appointment had to be moved, because of an incident with the train that meant I couldn't get into the city. I put off my treatment for two weeks instead of a few days due to their staffing requirements. When I submitted my request, there was nobody else in the ENTIRE STORE scheduled for time off that day. One week later, I'm told it was rejected, because my manager was taking off. She put in her request literally that day. Fuck that. I called out, and told them when I called out that I was going to my appointment. I brought a note home from my doctor and took the next 3 days off, too, as specified in the note. After that, I decided I was done with that job and was just waiting it out until I either found another job or got fired (because I needed unemployment). Fast forward 3 months. Once again, a week before my appointment, it was denied. I couldn't reschedule even if I had wanted to, because most of the time it took months to get an appointment anyway. So, I called out, told them, went to my appointment, etc. Rinse and repeat twice more. The last time, they called me the DAY OF MY APPOINTMENT while I was IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE to tell me I had to come in the next day. I was just going to let them fire me, but I decided to make them look bad first. So, I went in to work. I was in INTENSE pain, couldn't hold onto things, and could barely work my wheelchair. Customers started telling customer service and management that they should let me go home. When the customers would ask me what was wrong, I'd just say "Oh, I had a spinal injection yesterday, but they said they'd fire me if I didn't come in today." Lo and behold, the store manager saw it in his heart to send me home only 2 hours into my shift! I immediately went to the hospital, they helped reduce the pain, and gave me a note for a full week off with the explicit line "CAN NOT RETURN TO WORK EARLIER THAN THIS DATE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES". It's a decent sized town but not what anyone would consider "big", so word spread pretty quickly about how "the heartless managers at (STORE) made a crippled 22 year-old come in and work right after surgery." Older Christians who would come in and see me would stop to pray with me, and I would let them. People were telling each other not to apply to jobs at my store so much that our applications dropped by almost half. Applications by disabled people pretty well stopped, and customers would say nasty things about my boss when he passed them. A few weeks later, they fired me. It's been 5 years or so, and they still have a reputation as being a horrible place to work if you're disabled, got fined by the EEOC, and went from 2nd in the district to 5th. I may not be living in the lap of luxury, but I'm on disability, have supportive family, and don't have to worry about forcing myself to work under those conditions any more.
I had a boss that would check our purses on the way out at the end of the day. I was new to the law office, I complied. I found out that there was a good reason for this insanity. Someone was crazy enough to go out of their way and stealing the big gumbo toilet paper roll. What dumb person does that? That thing is super heavy and it feels like sandpaper on your exit hole. I was pregnant and had to use it every hour. I would bring my own tissue from home because I did not want to get blamed for using up the toilet sandpaper.
My husband works for a large chain store. They sell food, clothing, toys, tires, and do oil changes. No one can not take time off from Black Friday to after New Year’s Day. But last winter before Christmas my father had a massive stroke. He lived 4 days. Work let my husband come to me for a couple days. Surprised me. But when we got the report that dad had the stroke my husband told his area department head what was going on and he told him he work it out and to go to me when I needed him. I know most employers would not make an exception. I was so thankful. I know this was not a petty revenge, but felt I needed to tell how great this store was.
The first one is gold to me! A few years ago I worked at a food establishment and one of the managers would ALWAYS blame me for the hair in the food (WHEN IT WAS CLEARLY HERS) then I died my hair blue and in a 10 month period only once did we find a hair in the food 😆
i work for a call centre... ive been told that my "comfort breaks" are adding up -- these "comfort breaks" are toilet breaks. We have to log on the phones and once logged on everything is tracked - when we go on break, lunch, and go to the toilet. I go when my body tells me to go - my boss has told me "you need to adjust your routine so you go before work or on breaks" - he knows i have IBS. Worse is that we are expected to take a call (naturally) but if we go on break late because we've taken a call they complain. If you accidently press break instead of lunch, that goes against you, if you log on late because of system issues, that goes against you. Work tally it all up and have spent time creating documents on how to improve your time management and set expectations. Meanwhile, my boss who isnt logged into a phone has openly admitted to watching netflix or playing video games (we've been working from home since the pandemic) whilst he should be doing work - he justifies this by saying "if i dont work an hour during the day i will do an extra hour in the evening". He also can use the toilet whenever he wants (not times) and can choose when to speak to the customers who want to escalate their issue to a manager. I did do a 6month secondment in HR recruitment that was not micro managed - lets just say that boss was extremely pleased with how productive i was, supportive, helpful etc ... now i'm back on the phone i do the bare minimum - why should i care if the boss doesnt
These remind me of a little tale from my old job. I was IT, all on me onesies, meaning handling network, email server, spam filtering, website, electronic marketing and the PBX (which was something likely scrounged from eastern Europe from the early 70's, this being in the mid 00's). My boss insisted that I make the calls and prompts route a specific way, I forget how it was to be, and I told him, since it was the 30-ish'th time he'd demanded it, that it did NOT work that way. I'd called the manufacturer and scraped the web for every scrap of documentation on this thing, so I knew what I was talking about. Well, he imperiously says "let's go...", and basically frog-marches me across the building, past many co-workers, to the PBX. He held up one finger in a "pay attention" gesture and began typing. As he typed, the keystrokes became more and more violent. Finally, he slammed the keyboard and stalked off. I followed him back to catch the fallout from his failure. When I reached his office, he looked up at me and said "Go ahead, go make a sign that says 'I was right and was wrong...send out an email, whatever...'"...I let that thought float a moment, then replied, "No, It's enough for me that you and I know."
I asked for THREE days off, close to a holiday, a whole 6 months prior. Gotta love customer service jobs!!! Luckily, I had the best manager ever, who approved my request AND stood up to other managers who wanted to retroactively deny my request, calling it, "unbelievable." Over two decades later, and I still remember that manager and his devotion to good employees with the highest regard.
@@gloriaalex11 I worked in HR for an Airport authority as my first "adult" job after college. My boss was the horrible HR manager who only got her position by having all the people previously above her fired for dumb reasons. I worked under her for 7 years. I almost left more times than I can say. I have ADHD. So, having someone micromanage me while I'm trying to focus made my job so much harder than it needed to be. She threw me under the bus constantly for her mistakes. She listened to my phone conversations and commented the whole time making it hard to listen to the person on the other line. She once told me that if I ever talked too much in front of her colleagues (the good looking ones) she would slap me. She never actually slapped me, of course, but it was so shocking that I kept questioning myself whether I actually heard that right. I had. She spent most of the day on her dating profiles and/or in our CFO's office having an affair with him. Then she would rush in her office 10 mins before her early departure for the day and start yelling at me to do the things she neglected all day and again would hover while I did them. She always left early, but didn't want anyone to know. She micromanaged me while driving, at the spa and on her long lunches with her friends. She hovered behind me reading my emails as I tried to read or type if they involved a project she actually had to care about. She would actually snap at me to "hit send" before I could proofread my emails. 🤦 I had to agree with all of her opinions and tastes. She hired her unqualified daughter for a highly skilled position even though her daughter had no experience or education for the position. There were almost 120 candidates to select from. My manager told her daughter all the highly confidential information about employees that only HR should be privy too. If a decent looking woman interviewed for a position, I knew immediately my manager was going to do everything possible to persuade the interview panel that said woman was a bad choice. She wasn't just an awful micromanaging boss. She was all around a crummy human. She reported directly to our company's Executive Director and totally had him manipulated. When our ED retired, the new ED saw right through my manager and fired her after my manager had been working there for almost 20 years. The day after she was fired, I had to call her in for her exit interview. I asked her all the standard questions that she wrote probably 20 years prior. She was gritting her teeth and glaring at me the whole time. I never complained about her a single time while reporting to her, but I'm pretty sure she put some of the blame for her being fired on me. I got to walk her out and inform her of the termination process that she could probably quote to herself. It was a great day! My ex and I celebrated that night after work.
I worked at a place that decided they wanted maintenance to record every minute of their shift. Corporate decided they only wanted to know the real work after we started recording bathroom breaks as "Shit Time" "Sanctuary" and other nonsense. We also recorded stuff like "Talked with managers 2hrs". Most of the floor managers had our backs on it, cause they had their employees doing it too and hated it. They also gave us suggestions.
I genuinely had the best boss in the world, I straight up gave a 2 week notice , when being a main one for my part of my job. I trained someone for two nights who did AMAZING when I left , and I straight moved on of state for a now 3 months, and I have a job waiting on me with higher pay when I come back in March or so. 😂🙏🏽 thank you lort
I worked for a veterinary hospital and it was ALWAYS about what benefited them and not their employees. To the point where we didn't even get lunch breaks on Saturdays, when we were open 8:30-3, and we usually didn't leave until 4, with only one 10 minute break...
I once spent 5 years with a company, being extremely loyal and dedicated. Also doing everything that wasn’t even in my job description or pay grade. A few years in a row they gave us $150 Amazon gift cards as a Xmas bonus. The last year I worked for them we received a $50 bill in an envelope with a card explaining that we needed to learn the importance of budgeting our money. I wanted so badly to give it back with a note saying “obviously you need this more than we do”. But I felt ungrateful. Fast forward to me receiving a bit of higher paying job offer, which I offered to stay if they would match. They declined and I left.
I work at a petrol station, i have worked christmas day for the last 5 years. This year I flat out said I can't work that day...oh and i won't be working next christmas either as my sister invited me on a cruise. I normally get stuck working every public holiday because my manager knows I have no kids where everyone else does. It doesn't mean I don't have family and friends I want to spend time with.
I have 4 ft of hair, and while I was a chef at a super ritzy restaurant I used to get blamed for it all the time. I went to French braiding my hair and then twisting into a bun. Every damn time I would still get blamed... finally I told the straight up Karen of a boss I had, that everyone there has hair except her. And she's the only one who doesn't cook. I said everyone here is wearing hair nets and being precautious but you. And it's always super short hair in the food miss mary... I guarantee you it isn't mine.
I work at Whole Foods and during the holidays they want you to work long hours for almost a week straight and thanksgiving was no exception. I was supposed to work the morning before thanksgiving but not get out until like 7 pm and by the time that day rolled around I was exhausted. One of my bosses had the audacity to ask me if I wanted to work overtime that day and I flat out told her that I wouldn't be coming in and she was shocked. I had to formally call out but I stuck by my word that I wasn't coming in. I've learned over the years that my mental/physical health must come first.
That micromanaging boss sounds like a narcissist. I worked with someone like that once. She wasn't even my boss, but her job was connected to mine. She often disrupted me when I was trying to write biweekly reports ( which often took all day). It was always picky, stupid stuff that didn't matter. I finally realized this was her passive aggressive way of making me seem incompetent when I struggled to finish my work. I discovered ways to block her, and told her once to please not disturb me, that I would come to her. If she tried, I completely ignored her until she gave up and left me alone.
I was a dish washer/prep cook for a few years and for a long time was one of two women in the back of house. I had short purple/blue/red hair that I could just get into two tiny pig tails to fit the “hair must be up at all times” dress code. The other woman had dark hair down down to her waist but always had it up in a bun under her hat. Both of us were able to keep our hair hidden under the hat and were really good about it to try and keep it out of the food. The servers on the other hand NEVER kept their hair up. Half of them had beach waves, a couple would just have a head band, and yet where did all the managers go first to find someone to complain at for the hair? Us in the kitchen. Most of them were reasonable and once they saw that our hair was literally hidden and there was no way it was ours, they just backed off. That is until I started growing my hair out a little bit. I still had small pigtails, but now they wouldn’t fit in the hat and would stick out the bottom. One night a customer complains that there’s a hair in their food and the manager comes storming into the back and specifically blames me because I didn’t have all my hair hidden under my hat. It was a 2 foot long bleach blonde strand that was so obviously not mine that I took one glance at it and just turned away saying it wasn’t mine. They had the audacity to ask me how I knew without checking. I tore off my hat to display my freshly dyed dark blue jaw length hair and flatly stared at them. They just shut up and left. Never did get an apology.
I asked management in a Social Services Agency for a couple of months of family leave to be primary caretaker for my dying sister. It was a small company, we knew each other's business, and when I was denied, it was pointed out my sister had a husband and an adult daughter who lived locally. (one hapless, one a selfish entitled b**** that only visited once a week because being 4 months pregnant is apparently a full-time job.) I was also slightly behind in submitting some paperwork which I said I would work on and submit while away. Administration again said no. I said I was sorry, I acknowledged that I might be fired for taking the leave but it was something I had to do and made a plan for how my cases were going to be covered in my absence. I also said the kind of person that refused to assist her sister die was not someone they should hire to help our clients. I probably received five phone calls a day with stupid questions, but I was not fired. It turned out not to be the months we had thought we had, only 3 weeks. I would not have missed them for anything in the world you could offer me. I took an extra couple of weeks helping my brother-in-law de-wife the house and deal with paperwork, condolences etc, before I told my boss that my sister was gone. If they knew, (saw the obituary or something) , they never said a word.
I'm sorry for your loss, but so glad you were able to spend that precious amount of time with your sister. Props to you for seeing past your works' needs and focusing on being with your sister. I regret going back to school instead of taking leave right after my dad ended up in the hospital. We were all trying to act like life was normal in our family, but I wish I had spent more time with him since he passed away a month later. It's a hard lesson to learn that time with our loved ones is worth prioritizing over work and school.
@@isloth75 Thanks much, I hadn't thought of that, but I'd been there 28 years at that point. (Recently retired, because now it's my turn to be old, and miss it like crazy...).
6:12 No, corporate was willing to give him the branch manager a month off for the good of the whole company. The regional manager was the one that wouldn’t approve the week vacation leave request. The RM was forced to by his boss to accept the month long participation “retreat”. The RM couldn’t deny the request, even though he wanted to.
"Work parties" and "nights out" are the worst. I flat out refuse them unless they are on company time. I always tell the bosses I work for "I am here 9 till 5 every day because you pay me to be here. Are you going to pay me to go to the party?"
I used to work in the claims department at an insurance office. Our phone system had a feature that allowed you to change you call availability for various reasons. Code 4 was “personal” which we were required to use for any personal breaks (bathroom/smoke break, etc) and I got in trouble for “taking too much personal time” after having abdominal surgery and having to spend extra time in the bathroom yet one guy I worked with spent at least an hour a day smoking outside and never got a single comment about it
It is always fun to expose clearly unauthorized rules by asking questions at meetings with the unknowing higher ups. I did that once with a manager trying to make us pay to use the bathroom. She was promptly fired and the infinitely more personable and better qualified assistant took her job. She tried to get rehired. Was promptly arrested for trespassing and assault when told to leave and refused and tool a swing at her replacement. She was also clearly 4 sheets to the wind and it was absolutely entertaining to watch her fall on her face and miff the punch.
When I worked at a college library students got 5 black-and-white copies a day and .50 for all colored copies. We had 2 Universities using the library and we also had a sought after daycare so we had a small childrens and youth section. I had to print things and the library refused to let me pay. University of Central Florida was able to pay by putting money on their account. Sometimes they did not have enough all the print material came out at the checkout desk. One of the girls taking microbiology printed 18.00 of colored pages she said it helped her study. I have never heard of anyone charging so much for printing.
I had a boss who would emotionally gaslight the heck out of me (I recognized it immediately so thankfully I wasn’t *too* effed up from it). When I finally called her out on it, she asked me how was [something entirely unrelated] was gaslighting. That instantly stopped the shouting match in its tracks, because I suddenly wondered if she even knew what gaslighting actually is. Turns out she’d gone through most of her life never understanding the term, as well as several other things related to psychological/emotional manipulation, and that explained SO MUCH. I can’t say things got better moving forward-I still ended up leaving-but it did open my eyes to the reality that sometimes aggressors are victims who have no idea.
i used to work in a kitchen before i moved to a different state. i put in my two weeks notice and told my boss when i'd be leaving, because she did the schedule on a month-to-month basis. she knew EXACTLY when i'd be flying out, and lo and behold, she schedules me for an afternoon shift for the MORNING IM GOING TO FLY OUT. thankfully, my brother (who also worked in the kitchen) graciously took that shift for me. doesn't mean i wasn't super pissed about it though,
I once worked full time for a newspaper. At some point, one of the bosses decided that the full time staff needed to document their entire work day. Literally a diary with entries such as, staging machine 6:20 PM-6:55 PM, Setting up machine 6:55 PM-7:30PM. Every minute needed to be accounted for. Productivity dropped because everyone was filling this stuff out. Lasted about a month.
My first job, I worked at a supermarket for 3 years (I was super depressed, and didn't have the emotional energy to look for different work). I requested 6 weeks off over xmas/new years so I could go on a big camping trip with my family. I found cover for all of my shift for the entire time (school holidays, there was always teens looking for shifts), and they declined it. So I gave them 6 weeks notice (I applied a couple months in advance) and worked right up until I was to go on holiday. Excellent holiday, I applied for a bunch of jobs while I was on holiday (that goodness for internet cafes) and got a job in a sector that I worked in for the next 15 years. Best decision ever.
I retired 6 years ago because of health problems, my last employer was the worst human I have ever met in my life. He was trying to break me and make me quit so they wouldn’t have to keep paying for my medical leave. I had been there 10 years and they treated me like such garbage. It’s been almost 7 years and I still have nightmares about that place! The one boss I would like to see burned alive was injured when that Haboob went thru Phoenix about 13 years ago. It threw him on his ass and broke a few ribs, so every time I see a video clip of it, I cheer it on! Haha
I feel for you LeeMary. I had to take a medical leave from my hospital job and was told by my boss that I was faking it (even with medical letters from multiple doctors stating that a leave was necessary).... He also said that he would prove it.... and make me pay all the disability money back. Sadly I expected more compassion for medical illnesses because I worked in the medical field... I was soooo wrong.
I worked for a boss who LOVED Christmas! I mean, he REALLY LOVED IT! On year he got a live tree that was too big for the 2 floor vestibule. They had to cut the top of the tree off to fit it in and it stretched from wall to wall. Then he sent two of the managers out to buy more lights, more ornaments and more garland. They spent days decorating it. People had to edge past the tree to enter the office. The two managers went out after Christmas and bought a 6 ft. fake tree. Then there were the gifts. There used to be a company called LTD that sent out a catalog every year of kind of kitschy gifts, some actually good things, a few interesting things, all cheap...well he loved that catalog. Actually, he loved any catalog. I ran the mailroom and for weeks before the office Christmas party, all of these cases were delivered. I filled the conference room with them. We'd get rolls and rolls of wrapping paper and 2 or 3 trusted employees were assigned to wrap all of these gifts. There was a method to the madness. Each group of gifts was wrapped in the same paper. One year he gave each employee a set of stainless steel flatware. They were all wrapped in the same paper so that when we assembled the gift piles, yes, piles, we knew what gifts went where. Each employee got a pile of 5-6 gifts. He gave us all small suitcases/briefcases one year, along with myriad other items. I mean, it was like getting hit with a Santa stick every year. And every Thanksgiving he gave us a nice fresh turkey. It was a lot of fun and he spent a small fortune on these gift piles for 40-50 people every year. And the higher ones rank in the company, the more gifts one got. I was low on the pole, but I still got a good haul! We all did. It was fun. Would have preferred getting paid better...
My mother re-married a very narcissistic man. We had moved around a lot and ended up on an 80-acre farm. One of the things he did that was disappointing to me, my brothers and most of my external family was to line up his goodies on the kitchen counter and point to his goodies and announce "TABOO!" This was a reoccurring tradition when at the end of the week, my mother and step-father would go into town and buy groceries. On a particular week when I was twelve, they had purchased a whole side of beef and had the nearby town's butcher cut it up and packaged the side of beef into steaks and roasts with the rest ground up into hamburger. Again, my two brothers and I were lined up in the kitchen and got the "TABOO!" lecture about the steaks that were downstairs in the celler's freezer. What was most humiliating was when we had company or in the presents of other family, that were at our table, was the explanation of why we got hamburger instead of steak. They were told that my brothers and I didn't like steak therefore the reason for serving hamburger to us at the meal. I finally decided that I would get even somehow. I came up with a plan to hide when the school bus would come to pick us up in the morning for school which occurred well after our parents had already left for their jobs. I would hide in the culvert that was underneath the road. (It was tall enough to stand up in). After the school bus left, I would then go inside the house and eat steak after steak until just before my mother and stepfather got home from work. I would clean up and air out the house from the aroma of cooking steaks. I did this for many days. I got away without suspicion by telling the school in a forged letter, that I had mononucleosis and would be off school for a couple of weeks. I enjoyed those steaks, with every preparation I could think of until I ate every single one. I remember thinking to myself, "I wonder what he'll say when he finds out there are no more steaks within the pile of white packages in the freezer?" Eventually, he did find out and was very angry that all of his steaks were gone. But he had no inkling of what I had done. He angrily accused the butcher of stealing all the steaks. I had never told a soul until I was 71 years old and finally confess this to my brother for the first time in 60 years. My step-father, mother as well as most of my aunts and uncles, and my next younger brother had all passed away when I confessed this petty 12-year-old moment to my youngest brother. He howled with laughter because he remembered those days very well as I did with a lot of long-ago anger. So I have enjoyed my secret pettiness for 60 years, occasionally laughing to myself, knowing that I had eaten all of the steaks that we were not allowed to touch or ever be good enough to eat. I would comfort myself when I remembered the cruelty he bestowed on me and my two brothers.
A whole bunch of people at the Walmart I used to work at, including myself, had to work on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Thanksgiving because, even though corporate sent out an email stating all Walmarts were to be shut down nation-wide, too many customers complained that it wasn't going to be open, so the managers told the employees, "hey, I know corporate said this in an email, but if you don't come in on your scheduled shift, points will be doubled or tripled depending on how many people actually show up to run the store."
My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer this year so I asked to have a couple weeks off to go visit her. She lives 1000 miles away and I hadn't seen her in over 5 years. My General Manager says 'I don't know if we can do that, we don't have enough closing staff right now.' I went over their head and politely informed their boss of my situation and got an okay to go. I received good news yesterday my mom's cancer has shrunk 70% with chemotherapy and she'll now be able to go back on immunotherapy to help extend her life. I'm still planning to go back to see her for a month long visit in the new year so we'll see how my manager reacts to that.
Your boss is an incompetent, lazy fool, an utter moron, or a sociopath.
Wishing you and your mother a merry Christmas and the happiest of new years, with many more to follow.
You only have one mom. You can always get another job. Glad she’s doing better.
Sending my love and prayers for your momma..♡
@@LeOhio817 Well said..1000% Agreed !
I'm so glad to hear your mother is better! And also that you were able to go spend time with her -- so important!
I worked for a family run business for 22 years and my young daughter got very sick. When I called to request the 30 day unpaid leave that was in our handbook the comptroller answered (not family) and told me they'd have to replace me. I hired a lawyer and sued and won. Don't mess with MY family.
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Well deserved!! They grind you down for cash, may as well RINSE them darling! 😂😂😂
That's so crappy of them. I had a family emergency come up right at Christmas a few years ago and had to leave the day after Christmas - across the ocean, no less. I went for 3 weeks. Yes, it was unpaid and my boss at the time was also a small business owner, but he was extremely understanding and I was able to return to my job when I got back.
@@ReiKoko My immediate boss was a very fair man, but he had died from cancer. We used to call the comptroller Weasel. Looking back I should have called back and asked for the younger son, but I was so angry that I just told Weasel "You do what you have to, but I have to do what I have to do." The MFer didn't have kids. Besides their motto that are on all their products and their trucks is Trust your family with our family. That's the other reason I sued them. Haven't bought their products since and never will. When I see them in friend's cupboards I still want to throw them away. Best revenge was the woman I worked closely with that never called out, was there at 5:30 every day walked up to one of the bosses, handed him the reports she printed out and said "I'm done, I quit" shocked the hell out of them.
@@Neverendingstory78 Doesn't matter it was in their handbook that we had to sign. That's what got me the settlement.
I worked at a small diner once. My boss was explaining some new coupons to me. A customer got up from her table and was standing at the counter next to the register (because I was u able to get back to her table) obviously ready to leave and get in with her day. Mind, there was about 5 other tables seated at the time. I told my boss, " excuse me just a sec, lemme help this customer"
When I was done, I walked back over to him and he blew up at me saying to never walk away from him when he is speaking to me, and on and on. I told him customers are my tip priority, not coupons that are a week out. He fired me on the spot. I started to grab my big bucket of tips and he said, no I couldn't take them. So I grabbed my stuff and started walking out the front door. I then realized 4 of the 5 tables got up as well and walked with me. The look on his face was priceless. The customers all shook my hand, tipped me and I went home happy to get away from him. Several weeks later he tried to blame me for a break in. The police interviewed me, and then laughed and apologized for wasting my time. Pure gold when I found out HE did the break in just to set me up. Buwahahahaaa! I never felt so good about being fired!
Oh such sweet sweet just desserts. Lol!!!
Wow, what a complete and utter ahole, who I hope was not only out of a job, but also arrested for the break in.
😮 what a psycho!
100% toxic boss and criminal at that. Glad you got out.
Holy crap, what a trash human being he was.
Charlotte is right about micro-managing. Another thing I've realized about micro-managing, is that you become so used to someone telling you what to do, that you forget how to think for yourself, then you're lost when you're on your own.
I was just saying this in a company meeting. Our boss is very loved by us but he's moving on to another role. I told his boss who's interviewing candidates that we would not do well with micromanagement. My thought is if you treat people like children they will act like children. He acknowledged that a manager can keep an employee while many employees leave when the manager will lose employees. This will end up costing the company money because they are spending time and resources constantly training new hires.
I struggle SO much with this but I HAVE to micromanage everyone because they are already not doing anything on their own and I tell my bosses that I shouldn't have to because none of them are new and they know what is expected of them. We do the same thing every day so the fact that I have to tell them to go to everything is so frustrating.
@@Reflectionofmedusa I think thats different actually. Like for example. On my previous job my boss, while a nice guy, he didnt let me do things my way even if the results were the same or even better. On my current job, my boss do check if I'm doing stuff and sometimes reminds me that I need to finish something in a certain amount of time. But he let me do things my way. To me thats just management. As long as the result is whats required, it doesnt matter the specifics of how I did.
@@Reflectionofmedusa saying your employees "you do this and you do that for today" is managing, while saying every second "now you can go to the bathroom, now you can take a break, now call this business partner, but only after finishing one page of the file you're working on, etc" this is micromanaging
I have a cousin with your name, were you ever on the radio?
Years ago I worked for McDonald's. I was hired as basically a janitor. I basically did everything no one wanted to do like the outside trash, cleaning the restrooms, ETC, ETC. I knew what I had to do because my job never changed. After about a month my boss wanted to know where I had been, I told him that I was outside doing the outside trash and policing the entire lot, it was really big. He then told me that I was to let him know where I was and what I was doing at all times. I agreed, I told him everything I was doing which meant that he would be hearing from me like a hundred times throughout my shift. That lasted for 3 days before he changed his mind on my checking in with him throughout my shift. I took real pleasure interrupting him no matter what he was doing. I gave him exactly what he asked for, he realized what he asked me to do and he realized his mistake. After that he never asked me to tell him what I was doing again. NOTE! Just because their management, it doesn't mean their smart.
Very true😂
That’s exactly what they get! Well played honestly
malicious compliance at its finest
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When I worked in retail, I would always ask for the Christmas/ Christmas Eve shifts. I grew up Jewish so we didn't celebrate that and the pay was often time and a half but the main reason was to let people who did celebrate have the time off. Plus, it made people cool with switching with me for New Year's Eve. It was a win/win for everyone.
I rarely got any holidays off. I was even a single mom and was rarely approved when I was literally the only one with kids. So, I would always request Halloween off. That became our tradition instead. Since I worked both ce and Christmas we would celebrate late CE and then the kids would spend the day with my mom and brothers and sisters. It worked well.
Yeah I used to volunteer for most of the holidays at my old job because I didn't have kids yet so I didn't have any reason to celebrate them. And my mom worked retail too so we never celebrated holidays with family on the day of anyway so it didn't matter to me at all.
I did the same thing. Not because I was religious, but just to be busy, and to give others time with their families. I spent as much time away from home as possible, so I was certainly not being a martyr about it. 😊
I don’t have kids so I always offered to work Halloween for my coworkers. I also worked with a coworker who was Jewish. I did not really celebrate Christmas either, so the 2 of us always offered to work Christmas and Christmas Eve. Our coworkers really loved us! It doesn’t take much to make a difference in others lives. 15:06
I often worked the holidays... partly for coworkers and partly the extra $. My kid is just about done HS and is independent and wants to celebrate with friends, sooo..
I had a boss in a kitchen who would always have someone complain about hair in their food and blame the cook no matter what. The servers never got in trouble for this. I was the only bald man in the kitchen and one day I was the only one working because the weather was bad and none of the other cooks could come in. One customer tried putting a hair in their food to complain and get it free. The boss came into the kitchen in a rage ready to blast all the cooks for leaving hair in the food. When he saw it was just me cooking he stopped screaming as he came into the kitchen. I asked what the issue is and he said, "There is a hair in the food." I took off my hat to pretend to scratch my head as if thinking how it could happen and also to show off my shaved head. "Not sure where the hair came from. Is it the same color as the customer?" I told him. He went out and sure enough, the hair was the same color and length as the customer's. They ended up having to pay for the meal and were told not to come back. After that when there was a hair found he first checked the color and length of the customer's and if it was the same he made them pay and kicked them out. There was a lot less "free" meals sent out and 90% of the kitchen catching sh*t was stopped. This was just one of the many things the boss hollered about and even wrote some of us for. All the cooks got together and we confronted the owner and told him what was going on. At first he didn't believe us until we told him to look in the "write up" book. the book was immediately scrapped and the boss we had was fired. The new boss was the owner's daughter who was pure joy to work for/with. She even came into the kitchen, served food, and even did dishes to help when it got busy. In the end I didn't want to leave but the owner sold out and I went to another kitchen to work.
@@BreakofDawn it is more common than people know. you knw you are getting your meal comped if you find a hair so some people will eat part of the meal then "find" a hair to get a brand new meal for free
@@BreakofDawn Free food!!! Your story made my stomach lurch a bit! Lol!!! That was just gross. It employees were required to wear hair nets, they would be blame free. Nothing like somebody's long ponytail swinging around and depositing hair here and there. Yuck!!
@@BreakofDawn I’ve worked in restaurants for roughly ten years from fast food to high end and it happened quite frequently anywhere I went
I have went out to eat and there was hair in my food. I can't handle conflict. I just stop eating and didn't say anything.... I didnt realize that people actually put their own hair in the food.
Man, the things y'all people working in culinary service industries have to endure, it sounds like hell on earth sometimes! I've only got experience being a waitress/minor helping in the kitchen, but never was a cook or anything like that. Wow, big respect.
I had some girls try and say they found a long blond hair in the food. 2 blonds at the table. The cooks were bald or black. The 2 waitresses were red heads. Literally could have only come from them. It was delightful when the manager stood up for us and informed them as such. They paid for their meal, but informed us all they would not be back. Dueces!
Hey, don't let them threaten you with a good time!
That last story was so satisfying. The manager got caught red handed and OP exposed the manager BS. LOVE IT
I was so invested. I bet you that pizza never tasted so good.
Lol that was my favorite too.
As a former print shop employee, charging their employees 50 cents each for photostatic copies on plain 20# white paper is ridiculous, especially since she printed them herself. One can go to Office Depot or Staples and get DIY copies for much less than that.
Back in the 90s, we charged 15 cents a page, unless it was a volume order over 100, and we were full service. We still had people bitch about how expensive we were, but usually came back because they wanted someone else to do it, and we had a really good copier (that's why we didn't let untrained people operate it).
I was working there when my son was kidnapped, and my boss didn't charge me for the negatives and plates I made with my son's photos and the kidnapper that we used to print 1000s of flyers (I was the graphic artist/darkroom tech). They were printed, not copied, so it took the talents and time of our pressman too. I packaged up the printed reams and mailed them to The Center For Missing and Exploited Children for national distribution, and my boss let me use the company postage machine for that too, at his expense.
Please notice the flyers of missing children on the wall when you walk into your local Walmart. In 1993-1994, you would have seen my baby up there. About a year after he went missing, a very observant police officer saw the kidnapper walking down the street, thought he'd seen his face somewhere. He told me that a little voice in his head told him, "Stop this guy, NOW!". He wasn't doing anything wrong, so I'm forever grateful to that officer who also told me he always looks at those flyers!
@@LazyIRanch good Lord that is soooo lucky, and how wonderful of your employer to be so generous. What a wonderful outcome, I'm so sad you had to go thru that. I cannot even imagine. My youngest was "high jacked " as the judge put it, by her father. I couldn't see her nor talk to her. I used to call for wellness checks all the time. I'd constantly drive by checking on her and everything. I finally got her back via courts. They tried again, and I just waited till she was at the house by herself with the exes gf, and took her. I then refused to let him see her again, as i was the custodial parent. But not knowing where your baby is, gone from you without any idea... that's every loving parents nightmare. Bless you!!!
Absolutely loved it! Came to the comments just to tell that to @Charlotte Dobre! 🌺💖💜🌺
I once asked a work colleague why she wouldn't come for office gatherings and stuff (I was a newbie at the time). She politely took me aside and told me that she sees everyone for 9 hours everyday five days a week and doesn't want to spend a minute more than that time. I'm so glad for her teachings 💁♀️
I spent 22 years in the Navy one of my favorite jobs was getting Sailors home on emergency leave. I slept in the office because you never knew when someone was going to come in upset that someone was in the hospital or worse. One time one of the junior Sailors that helped load the aircraft when we needed extra help came to me very upset as her grandfather had just passed. She normally worked in a storeroom and was not under my command. Her chief denied her leave because there was no way for her to fly to Norfolk then to Florida in time for the funeral. I told her the only person that could deny a leave was our Commanding Officer (who I worked for directly) I called her Chief and said if I can get her to Florida in time for the funeral will you let her go? He said yes but did not want to but alas he knew I had already logged the request the CO would see for the Sailors travel. We were off the coast of Florida but the regular C2 aircraft that transported cargo and crew was still flying in and out of Virginia. I then went to the helicopter squadron as they were flying in and out of Pensacola and explained what was going on. I had a very good reputation with the Helo command for taking very good care of their people so they were happy to help and carry a passenger as a favor. 2 hours later off she went the Helo had to stop for fuel just outside her home town and guess who was with her grandmother 4 hours after hearing the news. My greatest award I ever got was a Counseling Chit for taking care of my people to much I framed it and it still hangs over my desk. A boss barks orders a true leader will put his people before himself and that is how you build a great team.
You're awesome!
So is it a grandfather or grandmother?
@@Affluent_Pomegranate her grandfather passed so she got to be with her still living grandmother.
@@Affluent_Pomegranate grandfather passed so she was with her grandmother who was morning 4 hours later. Why is this hard for you?
I was in the Navy and went on emergency leave. Both my brothers were in a tragic car accident that left 2 dead. I was an 18 year old kid and clueless. The man who told me, got the Red Cross to help me and offered to drive me to the airport is an Angel. He even checked on me when I got back. I wish I remembered his name but this was in 88.
My sister was the assistant manager at a Comfort Inn. They would have a Christmas party for employees and their families. My dad would be Santa for them (he LOVED it.) One year my dad was in the hospital and couldn't be Santa that year. So I went in his place. I understood why he loved doing it immediately. The way the kids would look at you, I can't describe how much joy I got out of seeing the kids looking at me like I was the greatest person on the planet. I took it seriously too. I was thinking that maybe next year I'll sign up to be a mall Santa or something.
Side note: my dad had a beard that looked just like Santa's but not as white (definitely getting there though). He loved going to stores when it was close to Christmas. Little kids would come up to him or just stare at him awestruck. He always played along, my mom would be Mrs. Clause by default, but she loved it too.
Remember The Santa Clause and all the kids recognized Tim Allen's character as Santa? It was similar to that. He even had kids come up to him and ask for one or two things for Christmas.
This always put a smile on his face and put him in a great mood the rest of the day. I'm glad he always played along. I miss him so much.
So sweet ❤
That’s so sweet and a lovely memory 🥰
So wholesome and sweet! Bless you and your family! Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄
Santa...I mean "your dad"...sounds like he was a great man. So happy for the wonderful memories you have of him. 🥰
My Opa(grandfather) was from Holland. He had skin that tended to get pretty red, thick white hair and a white beard, and blue eyes. Kids thought he was Santa all the time. The kicker? His name was Rudolf (he went by Rudy though)
Here's a wholesome one for counterpoint to all the bad ones: earlier this year my mother had a problem at the assisted living where she is, and I made an emergency trip down to see what I could do (unfortunately I live a long distance away.) When I talked to HR about it, not only did they approve the time off, they told me if I needed to stay longer, they would look into get me FMLA payments, so I would have some money coming in while I was taking care of my mother. Moral to the story: find a really good employer who is known for taking excellent care of their workers. I work for Wegmans supermarkets; they hire good people, and they take really good care of us.
We don’t have Wegman’s where we live, but I’ve heard it’s a good place for employees and customers. 💖
@@a.kenneth3521 It's the #3 best place to work (and #1 retailer) in this year's People magazine. 🥰
Thank you for sharing this. These comments are working as a nice support group for people who had bad experiences, but even one story of a good boss is so encouraging. You begin to think no one cares about the lifeblood of their companies and it’s really disheartening.
FMLA is unpaid leave, unless you are using unused sick leave or paid time off.
Dang, we don't have Wegman's in southeast Texas, maybe not in Tx at all. It is so hard to find any company that takes care of their employees. I've work in food, retail, doctor offices.... They're all the same.
I worked for a woman who was the worst micro manager. She wanted to be copied in on all e-mails we sent. My petty revenge was to send individual rather than group e-mails to my clients. I would copy her in on each one as requested which then filled up her mail box.
r/maliciouscompliance 😂
My friend usually shaves their head.
They work as a dessert chef in a fancy restaurant.
Someone had complained that there’s hair in the dessert and blamed them. (Clearly looking for compensation and a free dessert)
Imagine how shocked Karen was when my friend stomps out of the kitchen, clearly annoyed to be disturbed during rush hour, just to show their shaved head
And to make it sweeter? They refreshed the shave just the morning before that shift 🤣
The customer *shocked face*
Strange for a shop to have an entire staff of bald people.
Huh?
@@snicole042omg really?
"SEE?! They don't even have any hair left! It's all gone into my food!"
When I worked in a warehouse, my manager had a tendency of when you asked for time off or to use sick time with the response of “why“ which they are not allowed to do. I had a doctors appointment for my yearly visit for my lady parts, and when he asked why I responded with “I need to go see the Cooter-ologist to make sure my vagina isn’t doing the beatbox, he never asked again😂😂
Cooter-ologist that’s hilarious!
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I think I love you, Jessica Evans! 😂
I'm filing "cooterologist" in my brain. I need to see one, and I've been asking for a referral from my GP for 2 years but he keeps ignoring me.
This doc is oddly squeamish, and stops me if I try to talk about my growing fibroid problem.
About a year ago, I got pecked in the eye by a chicken and my eye looked horrible, all bloody. He would not look at me, or examine my injury. I showed him a pic of it on my phone, and he glanced briefly at it, shuddered and told me I'd be fine.
@@LazyIRanch Bloody hell, you need a new doctor 🤯
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I'm a nurse, we don't even get friggin pizza. Last year for Christmas, we got an email, thanking us for 'our hard work during these trying times". I wish they didn't bother with the email.
Did 20+ years in nursing profession. Too many years like that, often followed by informing staff of a hiring freeze, or no bonus. Meanwhile the president and ceo are getting 6 figure bonuses for keeping costs down.
I know. In the medical field we hardly ever get any real recognition of the real sacrifice we do make. I mean I’m not looking to be put on a pedestal but even a real heartfelt acknowledgment would be nice. Oh well….. wishful thinking.
Dang that sucks. I worked as a nurse at a nursing home for a few years and we always had holiday "parties" in the break room. Each of the nurses, care nurses, and other staff on shift would bring a dish or snack and leave it in the breakroom. We could stop in on our break times and make a plate. I thought it was nice. Sometimes we exchanged names for gifts at Christmas depending on if people on the shift and floor wanted too.
Big companies will spend millions of dollars on things that are public relations related but won’t spend the time of day on making sure their employees are treated fairly. That is why the company in the first story was willing to spend what they did for the soccer match.
When I transferred to a new location with my company, whenever I applied for any days of over any holiday, be it 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Xmas, New Years, etc… you get the picture, I was denied because my co-worker had already been approved. So, I sat down just after the new year and put in for days off for EVERY day that could be considered a holiday (including my co-work’s birthday) and all were approved since I beat him submitting the requests. Needless to say, the following year my co-worker asked if we could sit down together and work out a schedule that was fair to both of us. What comes around goes around!
Well, it pays to kind and considerate... it wouldn't have taken much to be decent about it to begin with
Brilliant!!!
I worked for one company for six years when I left this year. My first manager who hired, was great. She was the most supportive person, and would stand up for anyone. She would schedule you a lot if you were competent, but if you needed a break, she was more than willing to give you the time off. She was like a mom/aunt to me, I always felt supported. My second manager was just as good. You could tell she really loved the business, and she cared about everyone. When I needed time off to go out of state for my aunt’s funeral, she told me not to worry. She was like an older cousin/big sister to me, and I was so sad when she left. I was hopeful about my third manager. That hope was misplaced. In the ten months I worked with her she managed to alienate every single person in that store. She spread toxic positivity like she was trying to reach a daily quota. She would write people up for the stupidest reasons. She thought everyone else was an idiot, and only she knew best. Her incompetence and need to micromanage ran that store into the ground. Everyone either quit or transferred. Of the people that are still there, most believe that the company is only keeping her on for the rest of the year because they don’t want to get a new manager in there during the holiday season. I should feel bad for her. But I don’t. She made this mess herself, and now she has to deal with the consequences of her actions.
If a company brings in a corporate crap manager after having good ones, they might as well just hire all new staff because the ones they have know they deserve better and won’t be around long.
@@BeeWhistler while you are not wrong, you also seem to be assuming that when I say “company,” I mean that I worked in a corporate office setting. That was not the case. I worked in food service. When you work in retail or food service, and the store you work at is not independently owned, chances are you’re working for some corporation. You just don’t get the respect of working in a corporate office setting, the benefits, or the pay.
I asked for a 2 week leave for my honeymoon after working 4 years with no vacation, it was granted. I literally gave them months of notice and reminded my boss regularly. I even reminded her 2 weeks before my wedding, on the day she was making the schedule. Guess who they called in on the first day of my honeymoon... yeah, me, because they knew we hadn't left yet. smh.
wowwwww
Why did you even answer the phone!
Hope you didn't go in. Doesn't matter if you've left yet. Your honeymoon is still your honeymoon. I wouldn't have. I don't care if I'm literally doing nothing right then. The answer would be no, but I wouldn't have answered under those circumstances.
Wow. I wouldn’t answer the phone.
Ugh, my previous boss was a big fan of office parties, so she tried throwing them on any possible occasion... and also made us pay for them! So all the office was collectively ill/got upset stomachs/had to take kids to the doctor/conducted the solemn funeral of pet hamster - anything went in order not to attend those parties. In a way she achieved her goal - she always said parties were to make us more united, and nothing got us more united than collective hatred :D
I’m watching this while working on a Christmas present for my boss! These stories really make me appreciate how kind and supportive my boss is, and how lucky I am to have that. My friend/Coworker and I worked on a card together that we’re trying to get everyone to sign. And now I’m making a holiday flower arrangement!
This is why I love my husband's company ❤ we just came back from a 3 week vacation to Europe to visit his grandparents since they are really really old and he wanted to see them in case one of them passes away, and his company was fully supportive of it.
I was an intern at a hospital and we were granted 10 days off per 6 months. I work in a major hospital and wanted to grant a 3 days leave to go to my hometown because i missed my family so much. I live alone in this big city. They did not allow me the leave even though i had my job letter which allowed me a leave of 10 days in 6 months and all of my coworkers were ready to cover for me. I cried 😭 alone in my bathroom and got back to my job :')
It should be illegal.
I think it is illegal.
You did look for another job? Right?
@@erikarussell1142 Even though im a surgery resident now, i truly believe those surgery consultants were just big bullies and im just trying to be more humble :)
@@whome4642 i come from a very humble background and i at that time did not have the guts to stand up for myself. I just did not go home for the whole rotation in that ward. Fast-forward, now im a surgery resident. Life is hard but better. Im just grateful
After I returned to work from having my son, I would pump 3 times a day in the "mommy room" (a closet that had a chair and a small countertop with a sink). I would be mindful of my time, so I would go on my 2 short breaks and 30-minute lunchbreak. Because each time you pump, you have to assemble, disassemble, and clean the pump. My breaks would end up being about 10 minutes longer than normal. Not to mention how hard it is sometimes to have a big enough letdown to produce milk. My supervisor was a huge micro manager, and she would even write me up for telling coworkers good morning every day as it was wasting valuable work time. She told me that if I was going to continue pumping during work hours, I would be required to stay late everyday to make up for the 30 minutes or so extra my breaks would take because of pumping. Little did she know my sister is a very successful HR person in the US and gave me all the knowledge I needed about breastfeeding and pumping rights. The very next day, I marched into the CEO's office and unloaded to him the issue and how I would be filing a lawsuit if I continued to be denied my rights. Him being a very conservative man went beet red once I even mentioned me pumping milk and promised this issue would be handled immediately and to continue doing what I have been doing all along. 60 minutes later, I passed my supervisor on the way to the mommy room. She quickly looked the opposite direction in shame and mumbled, "Take all the time you need." That day, I was able to relax enough to actually produce! It was the win of the year for me and my family.
In our company when we had a meeting requiring travel, every night was like your Christmas
party - attendance mandatory. You would spend all day in meetings, then go for cocktails and then dinner. Stay up late and get up early so you could review materials and be prepared for the next days meetings. We referred to those dinners as “forced fun”.
Sounds like a damn nightmare. I'd quit. No ty.
Captain Holt: "Why is no one having any fun? I specifically requested it."
Ugh. Work ‘retreats.’ Forcing me to do 10 hours of meetings a day for three days and then live/party with my co-workers. It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and it kept me off the streets. But fun? Nope.
Drinking after work Japanese/ Korean style? lol
I worked in retail and i had the best boss ever, on my first day of work i had to tell them that in a month i had a planned 4 days trip to vegas but i was like "but i wont go if you need me" so she said "its totally fine ill get someone else to cover for you" I was like are you sure cause work is my priority but she was super nice and she saw that i felt bad so she reassured me it was all good ! I swear i was singing every morning on my way to work i was so happy there and my boss became like a second mom for me 😊
I became a people manager last year after not being a people manager for a long time (because it can suck depending on who YOUR manager is). I try SO hard to be a fair boss. It is absolutely MY problem to solve if an employee requests leave with sufficient notice and the workload is not conducive to being short that person. That's a company problem, not an employee problem. A manager's job is to make it easier for their employees to get things done, not watch how many post-its they're using or whether they take 15 minute breaks or 18 minute breaks. Jeez. If you're micro-managing your staff like that, you have serious issues.
Wanna be my manager? 😂 You're a rare breed, you care and are sane! I often wonder how some of these people become managers. It blows my mind
Office pizza parties are the equivalent of “You made us a ton of money, but we don’t want to give you raises for mailing us filthy rich”. It’s a bosses cheap way out.
I had a boss who would have a “company party” 2 or 3 times a year, there would be at most 8 employees and 20 or more of his friends show up. These were his personal friends not people we did business with, we employees didn’t know any of them. This was his way of entertaining his friends and being able to deduct the cost.
Oh wow
I love when managers forget that without staff, nothing is going to happen and they expect us to do everything whenever they want despite having other things to do.
I work in a grocery store in produce. For the past 2 weeks I've been covering fish since i had experience and they needed help. The fish manager asked me if I wanted to come in Monday to help out and I said sure. That morning the store manager told the meat manager "I want her in produce today" so I said "I'd rather go home than go to produce right now". He didn't expect me to actually go home. The assistant store manager begged me to stay but I was just fed up with how the store manager has been treating people.
Sounded like my old job lol 😆
Reminds me, long ago I worked in a private gentlemen's club in janitorial & maintenance. During 'emergencies' I'd help clean guest rooms. During a time when I was helping maintenance with renovations (I did grunt work: moving furniture, pulling up carpets, scraping old wallpaper) I'd come in, at the maintenance supervisor's request, on a day off to help. Then front desk realized they are having a scheduling emergency with room cleaners. They wanted me to stop what I was doing for maintenance, that I'd given up a day off for, I wasn't even supposed to be there, to clean guest rooms. I hated that idea. I already worked balls to the wall for this establishment, why couldn't front desk have enough room cleaners on staff to call in?! Not the first time I'd asked myself that question! Told them no, if they want me to stop my work in maintenance dept I'd just go home. Otherwise I was just going to continue doing what I'd agreed with the maintenance supervisor that I'd come in for, on my day off. (He'd had to really ask nice and explain why he needed me to come in on my day off). I think I ended up going home. Good news, they didn't fire me. I was in my late 40s at that time and had made myself invaluable in other ways, would do ladder work that no one else did (cleaning chandeliers, upper vents, change time on clocks during dst, etc) I loved the building, but management was often dicey. 🎲🎲
Thank you for this. I needed this. I had to quit my cushy corporate job this year because of an abusive boss. HR didn’t care. Screenshots didn’t matter. It was horrendous. Still looking for a better job, but I’m trying to focus on the positive.
Glad you're out of that hostile environment at least. Best wishes for your future! 💗
If you were able to get that job. You will be able to get an even better one. Good luck.
For the printing story, I would have calculated how much everyone had spent and then gone to a higher up and ask if the manager would be fired for stealing x amount of money from their subordinates. Also would have sent it in an email to have a paper trail.
I had to tell my current boss that if she kept micromanaging me or her other employees, there was going to be consequences meaning people quitting. I am the main closer and no one else wants to close and mop the floors 5 days a week she knows this and doesn’t interfere with my job anymore. It’s nice 😊
Sounds to me you are ready for something more. If you are happy more power to you but you have the right attitude to go far in anything you want to do.
I was seriously about to say I could understand the company not wanting employees printing 200 invitations, using color for packets of personal things. But 4 pages black and white?? Oh but then.... 100 color invitations!! 😂 oof
Yep
Oh my gods listening to these makes me love my job even more. I have had a few REAL crap work environments in the past but I have been with my new company for going on 3 years now. The job is stressful, just because it is a high pressure position. I think it’s healthy for me to get on here and hear these stories because while the work itself makes me want to rip my hair out at times it reminds me of what a great culture my workplace fosters and how incredibly lucky I am. The work sucks sometimes, but the people are FANTASTIC. Thank you video like this for reminding me how lucky I am
Long ago I worked for a big box company retail store. I had been there for eight years, working my way up to a lower management position. I had put immense effort and time into achieving the perfect work/life balance while giving my all to the company. I had the perfect schedule (2pm-10pm) for my lifestyle and family, etc. I was excellent in my role, never missed a deadline, etc., even though the pay was average. I had a snarly manager and regional manager that played 'favourites' with their employees that fit their corporate ideal best - I didn't with my tattoos and my pagan ways.
I had saved and booked a two week trip to Mexico, returning just in time to handle the big inventory influx pre-Christmas. Just two days before my departure, they informed me that my new hours upon my return would be 2am, yes AM, to 10am. Those hours were totally counter to my life. They knew how the switch would mess up my life. I knew they wanted to switch me out so they could promote another person into my hours/position who was their 'type' of person (she went to the same church). If I didn't like those hours, I agree to be demoted and take a pay cut to keep my old ones. This other person wasn't trained on the important idiosyncrasies of the position, didn't know the schedules, vendors, employees, etc. and could I train them, etc. before I left.
Long story short, I skirted the training and the next day told them to consider my two weeks on vacation my two weeks notice, I wouldn't be back. I was done with their microaggressions for my appearance and non-Christian sensibilities, and plenty of other shenanigans as it was. Apparently I started a chain reaction as when I returned from Mexico I learned another four people at our location had quit, leaving the store woefully shorthanded at the busiest time of year.
No regrets. Over a decade later I have a new profession and make four times what I did back then, working with awesome peoeple :)
Long story shot, my former boss once disapproved my leave and I didn't show up and she called and I told her “according to my contract I give due notice and take my offered leave days, I did my part, I am not sure why you didn't do yours, I wasn't asking for permission, I was notifying you”. She told me to reapply so it can be approved and she is only my former boss because I finished my contract and left.
Petty revenge vídeos are my favorite saga. I would love a movie about Charlotte one day and how much her channel is funny. She definitely deserves all the aplause. 👏👏👏😂
Same here 👍🤠
Oh, the micromanaging boss reminded me of my first job after I got out of the Army. I was the shop supervisor for a welding shop that specialized in high end metal aculptures and decorative metalwork. The guy bought the company from the original owner who was retiring who was a barely proficient welder, and knew almost nothing about fabrication, decided he couldn't trust a woman to run the shop and started coming into the shop after answering morning emails and phone calls and giving the crew contradictory instructions. I had to constantly redirect the guys back to the tasks that would actually result in the projects getting finished. It came to a head about 4 months later when we were working on a project for the Ritz Carlton. I'd spent 2 days prepping some handrails for the grand staircase in the ballroom (extremely complicated geometry with compound curves) and had just finished getting everything aligned properly and he comes in and starts telling my welders to break everything down and essentially start over because "there's no way that fit-up will work". I finally snapped, I told him that if he didn't want me to run the shop he was welcome to do it all himself. Then told him "I'm done with this right now, I'm going home, and that I'd be back on Monday. If you want the projects we've currently got finished, you'll stop fucking them up every time you walk into the shop. If you can't do that, have my last check ready for me monday morning." He responded by saying he could do it all on his own and he'd have that check for me.
Thing is, my crew was also sick of having to redo damn near everything he touched. So I spent the weekend talking with Supers of other shops I knew and gave all of my crew references and found them all new jobs with better pay. Monday morning I got there early and while waiting for him to cut me my check, got to watch him answer calls from all 14 of my crew telling him they had found new jobs and would just be stopping by later in the day to pick up their tools. He started screaming at me somewhere around the 6th call, and I just smiled and asked "Can I have my check now? Besides, you said you could do it all by yourself."
He went out of business less than two months later and had to sell his house to pay for all of the breach of contract suits he got hit with.
I also dyed my hair bright blonde after my mother keeps complaining I leave hair everywhere I go in the house for revenge too and now there's blonde hair everywhere. It didn't go well lol
@@BreakofDawn I was humbled by myself
your pettiness is legendary, and highlarious. much love
I was forced to go to this year's Christmas party at my job. It was mandatory since it was the first one in 2 years. I got covid and so did everybody else from my office. I do 100% of the audits for my company and my office does all of the scheduling of work. We have been shut down for 2 weeks. Yeah can we just get a bonus next year
Where I live it’s illegal to force people to attend work events outside of their work duties. You cannot use parties as work events.
"Do any of us really like office pizza parties?" Yes, Charlotte, some of us do. I had one just a few days ago and it was great. We have lots of parties together at work 😊
My company got Boston market for all the different shifts for Christmas meals. Multiple choices in food also. It was great!!
One time my boss asked me to order pizza for my office (i was the youngest employee in the office,fresh out of HS)
Turned out, one of the colleagues ordered pizza beforehand for all of us and boss decided that the whole thing that I ordered I'll take to my family and myself
The boss payed me back and gave me additional money as a surprise too
That was the most wholesome Christmas pizza party on my first job :)
@@4kach24 awh that's so nice!
Charlotte, I have been binge watching you today and saw the video where you said "I wonder if I got a sweatshirt with the word petty on it, or maybe a hat with the word petty, would anyone buy it? 🤔" And I've seen your background go from plain white to a few purple lights to a full petty masterpiece. You've come a long way, baby! But what has always been there is your wit and your awesome responses. Let the Potato Queen rule forever!! 👑🥔👑
I enjoy office parties, especially since we didn't really have any work gatherings for so long due to covid. It's nice to actually talk to people about non-work related things. I also like it because I moved interstate and don't have any family or friends outside of work so they tend to be one of the few social things I actually get to attend. Imo it helps me bond/relate to people better :)
life is waiting for Charlotte to upload now
I worked at a call centre office that would buy lunch for the the whole team as a "well done treat" on the busiest day of the month, Usually a Friday, it was a MASSIVE selling point for them during the hiring process. However what the didn't tell you was that this was due to the fact they expected you to eat lunch at your desk that day, despite not being paid for your hour lunch.
Some other highlights; They would also expect you to be at your desk 15 min before your shift started, but you wasn't allowed to clock in before exactly on the hour (start) and until min 30 seconds after the hour (end), if a call came in during that waiting time you would have to take it regardless of how long the call was (but you would rarely get paid for the extra), if you was caught logging out on the hour you would face a meeting.
We also had to clock in and out of our toilet breaks which were capped (outside of break times) to TOTAL 7 minuets per shift. If you went past this your name on the board would start flashing and the MD frequently walked around shouting "where's so and so..." "Why are they still in a comfort break...That's 5 mins too long...etc" Customers could hear this over the phone at time too.
She asked me once why I had been in the loo so long once... So I told her just as loud ***WARNING TMI FOLLOWS *** "Sorry babe you know it's my TOM and all that, I've good a really heavy flow and this period poo is killing me..."
But the Icing on the cake, at Christmas the whole management, training, admin and back office staff would be allowed to go home half day to attend and be treated to an all expenses paid meal (alcoholic drink included). However, the rest of the team had to plan their own party, with no contribution and we wasn't allowed to discuss the plans at work. (Even tho they would plan the dinner for the same night so many of them could join our thing after). We were all brough a chocolate advent calendar on Dec 1st tho 🥳lol
I love a good dose of Charlotte, a big cup a joe, and a good smoke. All the keys I need to have an amazing day. Ty gorgeous and all my besties!!!
Oh, do I have a story for you. I worked retail and am disabled. At the time, I wasn't on disability as I was undergoing treatments to see if they could stop my condition from advancing, but I did have doctor's appointments 2 hours away every 3 months for spinal injections. I also required 2-3 days off after said injections as it affected my motor function. My bosses knew this, and I would schedule the next appointment at the previous one, so they ALWAYS had 3 months notice. It's important to note that they told me that they had a "first come, first serve" basis for time off and that the required minimum was 2 weeks notice. My condition would also get worse as I got closer to appointments, because, go figure, I was in more pain. Anyway, every time my appointment would roll around, I'd have to fight with HR to get the time off and even went into work early and in immense pain several times. One time, my appointment had to be moved, because of an incident with the train that meant I couldn't get into the city. I put off my treatment for two weeks instead of a few days due to their staffing requirements. When I submitted my request, there was nobody else in the ENTIRE STORE scheduled for time off that day. One week later, I'm told it was rejected, because my manager was taking off. She put in her request literally that day. Fuck that. I called out, and told them when I called out that I was going to my appointment. I brought a note home from my doctor and took the next 3 days off, too, as specified in the note. After that, I decided I was done with that job and was just waiting it out until I either found another job or got fired (because I needed unemployment). Fast forward 3 months. Once again, a week before my appointment, it was denied. I couldn't reschedule even if I had wanted to, because most of the time it took months to get an appointment anyway. So, I called out, told them, went to my appointment, etc. Rinse and repeat twice more. The last time, they called me the DAY OF MY APPOINTMENT while I was IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE to tell me I had to come in the next day. I was just going to let them fire me, but I decided to make them look bad first. So, I went in to work. I was in INTENSE pain, couldn't hold onto things, and could barely work my wheelchair. Customers started telling customer service and management that they should let me go home. When the customers would ask me what was wrong, I'd just say "Oh, I had a spinal injection yesterday, but they said they'd fire me if I didn't come in today." Lo and behold, the store manager saw it in his heart to send me home only 2 hours into my shift! I immediately went to the hospital, they helped reduce the pain, and gave me a note for a full week off with the explicit line "CAN NOT RETURN TO WORK EARLIER THAN THIS DATE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES". It's a decent sized town but not what anyone would consider "big", so word spread pretty quickly about how "the heartless managers at (STORE) made a crippled 22 year-old come in and work right after surgery." Older Christians who would come in and see me would stop to pray with me, and I would let them. People were telling each other not to apply to jobs at my store so much that our applications dropped by almost half. Applications by disabled people pretty well stopped, and customers would say nasty things about my boss when he passed them. A few weeks later, they fired me. It's been 5 years or so, and they still have a reputation as being a horrible place to work if you're disabled, got fined by the EEOC, and went from 2nd in the district to 5th. I may not be living in the lap of luxury, but I'm on disability, have supportive family, and don't have to worry about forcing myself to work under those conditions any more.
I had a boss that would check our purses on the way out at the end of the day. I was new to the law office, I complied.
I found out that there was a good reason for this insanity. Someone was crazy enough to go out of their way and stealing the big gumbo toilet paper roll. What dumb person does that? That thing is super heavy and it feels like sandpaper on your exit hole.
I was pregnant and had to use it every hour. I would bring my own tissue from home because I did not want to get blamed for using up the toilet sandpaper.
My husband works for a large chain store. They sell food, clothing, toys, tires, and do oil changes. No one can not take time off from Black Friday to after New Year’s Day. But last winter before Christmas my father had a massive stroke. He lived 4 days. Work let my husband come to me for a couple days. Surprised me. But when we got the report that dad had the stroke my husband told his area department head what was going on and he told him he work it out and to go to me when I needed him. I know most employers would not make an exception. I was so thankful. I know this was not a petty revenge, but felt I needed to tell how great this store was.
The first one is gold to me!
A few years ago I worked at a food establishment and one of the managers would ALWAYS blame me for the hair in the food (WHEN IT WAS CLEARLY HERS) then I died my hair blue and in a 10 month period only once did we find a hair in the food 😆
i work for a call centre... ive been told that my "comfort breaks" are adding up -- these "comfort breaks" are toilet breaks. We have to log on the phones and once logged on everything is tracked - when we go on break, lunch, and go to the toilet. I go when my body tells me to go - my boss has told me "you need to adjust your routine so you go before work or on breaks" - he knows i have IBS.
Worse is that we are expected to take a call (naturally) but if we go on break late because we've taken a call they complain. If you accidently press break instead of lunch, that goes against you, if you log on late because of system issues, that goes against you. Work tally it all up and have spent time creating documents on how to improve your time management and set expectations. Meanwhile, my boss who isnt logged into a phone has openly admitted to watching netflix or playing video games (we've been working from home since the pandemic) whilst he should be doing work - he justifies this by saying "if i dont work an hour during the day i will do an extra hour in the evening". He also can use the toilet whenever he wants (not times) and can choose when to speak to the customers who want to escalate their issue to a manager. I did do a 6month secondment in HR recruitment that was not micro managed - lets just say that boss was extremely pleased with how productive i was, supportive, helpful etc ... now i'm back on the phone i do the bare minimum - why should i care if the boss doesnt
These remind me of a little tale from my old job. I was IT, all on me onesies, meaning handling network, email server, spam filtering, website, electronic marketing and the PBX (which was something likely scrounged from eastern Europe from the early 70's, this being in the mid 00's). My boss insisted that I make the calls and prompts route a specific way, I forget how it was to be, and I told him, since it was the 30-ish'th time he'd demanded it, that it did NOT work that way. I'd called the manufacturer and scraped the web for every scrap of documentation on this thing, so I knew what I was talking about. Well, he imperiously says "let's go...", and basically frog-marches me across the building, past many co-workers, to the PBX. He held up one finger in a "pay attention" gesture and began typing. As he typed, the keystrokes became more and more violent. Finally, he slammed the keyboard and stalked off. I followed him back to catch the fallout from his failure. When I reached his office, he looked up at me and said "Go ahead, go make a sign that says 'I was right and was wrong...send out an email, whatever...'"...I let that thought float a moment, then replied, "No, It's enough for me that you and I know."
The printing lady pizza party was the most entertaining story of all. Brilliant.
The “Paying to print personal stuff at work” story was the best classic kind of revenge for me😂😂😂🙌
I asked for THREE days off, close to a holiday, a whole 6 months prior. Gotta love customer service jobs!!! Luckily, I had the best manager ever, who approved my request AND stood up to other managers who wanted to retroactively deny my request, calling it, "unbelievable." Over two decades later, and I still remember that manager and his devotion to good employees with the highest regard.
I actually got to conduct the exit interview for my micro managing boss when she finally got fired.
I'm sorry, we're going to need to hear more about this please.
Oh yes we need more info! Oh to be a fly on that wall!
@@gloriaalex11 I worked in HR for an Airport authority as my first "adult" job after college. My boss was the horrible HR manager who only got her position by having all the people previously above her fired for dumb reasons. I worked under her for 7 years. I almost left more times than I can say. I have ADHD. So, having someone micromanage me while I'm trying to focus made my job so much harder than it needed to be.
She threw me under the bus constantly for her mistakes. She listened to my phone conversations and commented the whole time making it hard to listen to the person on the other line. She once told me that if I ever talked too much in front of her colleagues (the good looking ones) she would slap me. She never actually slapped me, of course, but it was so shocking that I kept questioning myself whether I actually heard that right. I had. She spent most of the day on her dating profiles and/or in our CFO's office having an affair with him. Then she would rush in her office 10 mins before her early departure for the day and start yelling at me to do the things she neglected all day and again would hover while I did them. She always left early, but didn't want anyone to know. She micromanaged me while driving, at the spa and on her long lunches with her friends. She hovered behind me reading my emails as I tried to read or type if they involved a project she actually had to care about. She would actually snap at me to "hit send" before I could proofread my emails. 🤦 I had to agree with all of her opinions and tastes. She hired her unqualified daughter for a highly skilled position even though her daughter had no experience or education for the position. There were almost 120 candidates to select from. My manager told her daughter all the highly confidential information about employees that only HR should be privy too. If a decent looking woman interviewed for a position, I knew immediately my manager was going to do everything possible to persuade the interview panel that said woman was a bad choice. She wasn't just an awful micromanaging boss. She was all around a crummy human.
She reported directly to our company's Executive Director and totally had him manipulated. When our ED retired, the new ED saw right through my manager and fired her after my manager had been working there for almost 20 years. The day after she was fired, I had to call her in for her exit interview. I asked her all the standard questions that she wrote probably 20 years prior. She was gritting her teeth and glaring at me the whole time. I never complained about her a single time while reporting to her, but I'm pretty sure she put some of the blame for her being fired on me. I got to walk her out and inform her of the termination process that she could probably quote to herself. It was a great day! My ex and I celebrated that night after work.
@@lavendarf1u7n Haha! See below. ⬇️
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I worked at a place that decided they wanted maintenance to record every minute of their shift. Corporate decided they only wanted to know the real work after we started recording bathroom breaks as "Shit Time" "Sanctuary" and other nonsense. We also recorded stuff like "Talked with managers 2hrs". Most of the floor managers had our backs on it, cause they had their employees doing it too and hated it. They also gave us suggestions.
Happeeeee Saturdaaay Spud Nation! I hope all of you TaterTots are having a fabulous morning! 🥰🥔🥔
Fabulous evening in my case, but thanks ❤
It’s actually Sunday morning here in New Zealand, but back atcha!
@@Speckwal Wow, I love meeting new people from different places! I hope you have a fantabulous night my fellow TaterTot! 💕
@@NZKiwi87 So, I'm talking to the future! LOL 😆 Happeeeee Sundayyyy to youuuuuu fellow TaterTot! 😘
Thank you~ Going to do my best!
I genuinely had the best boss in the world, I straight up gave a 2 week notice , when being a main one for my part of my job. I trained someone for two nights who did AMAZING when I left , and I straight moved on of state for a now 3 months, and I have a job waiting on me with higher pay when I come back in March or so. 😂🙏🏽 thank you lort
The last story about the office manager and the copier was the best!
GOOD MORNING MISS CHARLOTTE AND ALL THE BESTIES! Tot on!!
Hello tatertot bestie!!!
I worked for a veterinary hospital and it was ALWAYS about what benefited them and not their employees. To the point where we didn't even get lunch breaks on Saturdays, when we were open 8:30-3, and we usually didn't leave until 4, with only one 10 minute break...
I once spent 5 years with a company, being extremely loyal and dedicated. Also doing everything that wasn’t even in my job description or pay grade. A few years in a row they gave us $150 Amazon gift cards as a Xmas bonus. The last year I worked for them we received a $50 bill in an envelope with a card explaining that we needed to learn the importance of budgeting our money. I wanted so badly to give it back with a note saying “obviously you need this more than we do”. But I felt ungrateful. Fast forward to me receiving a bit of higher paying job offer, which I offered to stay if they would match. They declined and I left.
I work at a petrol station, i have worked christmas day for the last 5 years. This year I flat out said I can't work that day...oh and i won't be working next christmas either as my sister invited me on a cruise. I normally get stuck working every public holiday because my manager knows I have no kids where everyone else does. It doesn't mean I don't have family and friends I want to spend time with.
the blue hair story is really petty af i love it lmaooo
I have 4 ft of hair, and while I was a chef at a super ritzy restaurant I used to get blamed for it all the time. I went to French braiding my hair and then twisting into a bun. Every damn time I would still get blamed... finally I told the straight up Karen of a boss I had, that everyone there has hair except her. And she's the only one who doesn't cook. I said everyone here is wearing hair nets and being precautious but you. And it's always super short hair in the food miss mary... I guarantee you it isn't mine.
I work at Whole Foods and during the holidays they want you to work long hours for almost a week straight and thanksgiving was no exception. I was supposed to work the morning before thanksgiving but not get out until like 7 pm and by the time that day rolled around I was exhausted. One of my bosses had the audacity to ask me if I wanted to work overtime that day and I flat out told her that I wouldn't be coming in and she was shocked. I had to formally call out but I stuck by my word that I wasn't coming in. I've learned over the years that my mental/physical health must come first.
That micromanaging boss sounds like a narcissist. I worked with someone like that once. She wasn't even my boss, but her job was connected to mine. She often disrupted me when I was trying to write biweekly reports ( which often took all day). It was always picky, stupid stuff that didn't matter. I finally realized this was her passive aggressive way of making me seem incompetent when I struggled to finish my work. I discovered ways to block her, and told her once to please not disturb me, that I would come to her. If she tried, I completely ignored her until she gave up and left me alone.
She said BOXING DAY like that's a real holiday! although it has been on every calendar I have ever purchased in my life...
I love petty revenge it’s the only good type of revenge
I was a dish washer/prep cook for a few years and for a long time was one of two women in the back of house. I had short purple/blue/red hair that I could just get into two tiny pig tails to fit the “hair must be up at all times” dress code. The other woman had dark hair down down to her waist but always had it up in a bun under her hat. Both of us were able to keep our hair hidden under the hat and were really good about it to try and keep it out of the food. The servers on the other hand NEVER kept their hair up. Half of them had beach waves, a couple would just have a head band, and yet where did all the managers go first to find someone to complain at for the hair? Us in the kitchen.
Most of them were reasonable and once they saw that our hair was literally hidden and there was no way it was ours, they just backed off. That is until I started growing my hair out a little bit. I still had small pigtails, but now they wouldn’t fit in the hat and would stick out the bottom. One night a customer complains that there’s a hair in their food and the manager comes storming into the back and specifically blames me because I didn’t have all my hair hidden under my hat. It was a 2 foot long bleach blonde strand that was so obviously not mine that I took one glance at it and just turned away saying it wasn’t mine. They had the audacity to ask me how I knew without checking. I tore off my hat to display my freshly dyed dark blue jaw length hair and flatly stared at them. They just shut up and left. Never did get an apology.
I asked management in a Social Services Agency for a couple of months of family leave to be primary caretaker for my dying sister. It was a small company, we knew each other's business, and when I was denied, it was pointed out my sister had a husband and an adult daughter who lived locally. (one hapless, one a selfish entitled b**** that only visited once a week because being 4 months pregnant is apparently a full-time job.) I was also slightly behind in submitting some paperwork which I said I would work on and submit while away. Administration again said no. I said I was sorry, I acknowledged that I might be fired for taking the leave but it was something I had to do and made a plan for how my cases were going to be covered in my absence. I also said the kind of person that refused to assist her sister die was not someone they should hire to help our clients. I probably received five phone calls a day with stupid questions, but I was not fired. It turned out not to be the months we had thought we had, only 3 weeks. I would not have missed them for anything in the world you could offer me. I took an extra couple of weeks helping my brother-in-law de-wife the house and deal with paperwork, condolences etc, before I told my boss that my sister was gone. If they knew, (saw the obituary or something) , they never said a word.
I'm sorry for your loss, but so glad you were able to spend that precious amount of time with your sister. Props to you for seeing past your works' needs and focusing on being with your sister. I regret going back to school instead of taking leave right after my dad ended up in the hospital. We were all trying to act like life was normal in our family, but I wish I had spent more time with him since he passed away a month later. It's a hard lesson to learn that time with our loved ones is worth prioritizing over work and school.
FMLA anyways, no matter what they said (as long as u had been working there long enough)
@@KL-rd9tg I know what you mean, it's happened to me. If only there was some way of knowing what's ahead, prioritizing would be so much easier.
@@isloth75 Thanks much, I hadn't thought of that, but I'd been there 28 years at that point. (Recently retired, because now it's my turn to be old, and miss it like crazy...).
6:12 No, corporate was willing to give him the branch manager a month off for the good of the whole company. The regional manager was the one that wouldn’t approve the week vacation leave request. The RM was forced to by his boss to accept the month long participation “retreat”. The RM couldn’t deny the request, even though he wanted to.
"Work parties" and "nights out" are the worst. I flat out refuse them unless they are on company time. I always tell the bosses I work for "I am here 9 till 5 every day because you pay me to be here. Are you going to pay me to go to the party?"
I used to work in the claims department at an insurance office. Our phone system had a feature that allowed you to change you call availability for various reasons. Code 4 was “personal” which we were required to use for any personal breaks (bathroom/smoke break, etc) and I got in trouble for “taking too much personal time” after having abdominal surgery and having to spend extra time in the bathroom yet one guy I worked with spent at least an hour a day smoking outside and never got a single comment about it
It is always fun to expose clearly unauthorized rules by asking questions at meetings with the unknowing higher ups. I did that once with a manager trying to make us pay to use the bathroom. She was promptly fired and the infinitely more personable and better qualified assistant took her job. She tried to get rehired. Was promptly arrested for trespassing and assault when told to leave and refused and tool a swing at her replacement. She was also clearly 4 sheets to the wind and it was absolutely entertaining to watch her fall on her face and miff the punch.
When I worked at a college library students got 5 black-and-white copies a day and .50 for all colored copies. We had 2 Universities using the library and we also had a sought after daycare so we had a small childrens and youth section. I had to print things
and the library refused to let me pay. University of Central Florida was able to pay by putting money on their account. Sometimes they did not have enough all the print material came out at the checkout desk. One of the girls taking microbiology printed 18.00 of colored pages she said it helped her study. I have never heard of anyone charging so much for printing.
Thanks for posting so early 🙏🏼😍 you’re inspiring
I had a boss who would emotionally gaslight the heck out of me (I recognized it immediately so thankfully I wasn’t *too* effed up from it). When I finally called her out on it, she asked me how was [something entirely unrelated] was gaslighting. That instantly stopped the shouting match in its tracks, because I suddenly wondered if she even knew what gaslighting actually is. Turns out she’d gone through most of her life never understanding the term, as well as several other things related to psychological/emotional manipulation, and that explained SO MUCH. I can’t say things got better moving forward-I still ended up leaving-but it did open my eyes to the reality that sometimes aggressors are victims who have no idea.
Love your videos! It's always like going on a petty journey together! (:
i used to work in a kitchen before i moved to a different state. i put in my two weeks notice and told my boss when i'd be leaving, because she did the schedule on a month-to-month basis. she knew EXACTLY when i'd be flying out, and lo and behold, she schedules me for an afternoon shift for the MORNING IM GOING TO FLY OUT. thankfully, my brother (who also worked in the kitchen) graciously took that shift for me. doesn't mean i wasn't super pissed about it though,
These stories make me feel so thankful for my bosses!
I once worked full time for a newspaper. At some point, one of the bosses decided that the full time staff needed to document their entire work day. Literally a diary with entries such as, staging machine 6:20 PM-6:55 PM, Setting up machine 6:55 PM-7:30PM. Every minute needed to be accounted for. Productivity dropped because everyone was filling this stuff out. Lasted about a month.
Hells ya Saturday saved! HAPPY HOLIDAYS YA'LL
7:24 all too well❤️❤️❤️❤️
That was a pizza 🍕 party worth going too.
Guaranteed the pizza tasted even better than usual. 😂
The last story with the pizza party is too good
Honestly the girl who dyed her hair blue, that was a really good idea. Like that was really clever lol
My first job, I worked at a supermarket for 3 years (I was super depressed, and didn't have the emotional energy to look for different work). I requested 6 weeks off over xmas/new years so I could go on a big camping trip with my family. I found cover for all of my shift for the entire time (school holidays, there was always teens looking for shifts), and they declined it. So I gave them 6 weeks notice (I applied a couple months in advance) and worked right up until I was to go on holiday. Excellent holiday, I applied for a bunch of jobs while I was on holiday (that goodness for internet cafes) and got a job in a sector that I worked in for the next 15 years. Best decision ever.
The first story is similar to when I bleached my hair and my dad could no longer blame me for hair around the house! It is a bonus.
That last one was awesome with the guy bringing up how much did they raise for the print jobs!!!! 😆👏👏👏
I retired 6 years ago because of health problems, my last employer was the worst human I have ever met in my life. He was trying to break me and make me quit so they wouldn’t have to keep paying for my medical leave. I had been there 10 years and they treated me like such garbage. It’s been almost 7 years and I still have nightmares about that place!
The one boss I would like to see burned alive was injured when that Haboob went thru Phoenix about 13 years ago. It threw him on his ass and broke a few ribs, so every time I see a video clip of it, I cheer it on! Haha
Lol that's amazing! I grew up in AZ so I've seen a few Haboobs and I'd pay good money to see something like that happen to some of my horrible bosses
I feel for you LeeMary. I had to take a medical leave from my hospital job and was told by my boss that I was faking it (even with medical letters from multiple doctors stating that a leave was necessary).... He also said that he would prove it.... and make me pay all the disability money back. Sadly I expected more compassion for medical illnesses because I worked in the medical field... I was soooo wrong.
I worked for a boss who LOVED Christmas! I mean, he REALLY LOVED IT! On year he got a live tree that was too big for the 2 floor vestibule. They had to cut the top of the tree off to fit it in and it stretched from wall to wall. Then he sent two of the managers out to buy more lights, more ornaments and more garland. They spent days decorating it. People had to edge past the tree to enter the office. The two managers went out after Christmas and bought a 6 ft. fake tree.
Then there were the gifts. There used to be a company called LTD that sent out a catalog every year of kind of kitschy gifts, some actually good things, a few interesting things, all cheap...well he loved that catalog. Actually, he loved any catalog. I ran the mailroom and for weeks before the office Christmas party, all of these cases were delivered. I filled the conference room with them. We'd get rolls and rolls of wrapping paper and 2 or 3 trusted employees were assigned to wrap all of these gifts. There was a method to the madness. Each group of gifts was wrapped in the same paper. One year he gave each employee a set of stainless steel flatware. They were all wrapped in the same paper so that when we assembled the gift piles, yes, piles, we knew what gifts went where. Each employee got a pile of 5-6 gifts. He gave us all small suitcases/briefcases one year, along with myriad other items. I mean, it was like getting hit with a Santa stick every year. And every Thanksgiving he gave us a nice fresh turkey. It was a lot of fun and he spent a small fortune on these gift piles for 40-50 people every year. And the higher ones rank in the company, the more gifts one got. I was low on the pole, but I still got a good haul! We all did. It was fun. Would have preferred getting paid better...
Yeah that last one she was saving up the money for her daughter's birthday party and got caught
My mother re-married a very narcissistic man. We had moved around a lot and ended up on an 80-acre farm. One of the things he did that was disappointing to me, my brothers and most of my external family was to line up his goodies on the kitchen counter and point to his goodies and announce "TABOO!" This was a reoccurring tradition when at the end of the week, my mother and step-father would go into town and buy groceries. On a particular week when I was twelve, they had purchased a whole side of beef and had the nearby town's butcher cut it up and packaged the side of beef into steaks and roasts with the rest ground up into hamburger. Again, my two brothers and I were lined up in the kitchen and got the "TABOO!" lecture about the steaks that were downstairs in the celler's freezer. What was most humiliating was when we had company or in the presents of other family, that were at our table, was the explanation of why we got hamburger instead of steak. They were told that my brothers and I didn't like steak therefore the reason for serving hamburger to us at the meal.
I finally decided that I would get even somehow.
I came up with a plan to hide when the school bus would come to pick us up in the morning for school which occurred well after our parents had already left for their jobs. I would hide in the culvert that was underneath the road. (It was tall enough to stand up in). After the school bus left, I would then go inside the house and eat steak after steak until just before my mother and stepfather got home from work. I would clean up and air out the house from the aroma of cooking steaks. I did this for many days. I got away without suspicion by telling the school in a forged letter, that I had mononucleosis and would be off school for a couple of weeks. I enjoyed those steaks, with every preparation I could think of until I ate every single one. I remember thinking to myself, "I wonder what he'll say when he finds out there are no more steaks within the pile of white packages in the freezer?" Eventually, he did find out and was very angry that all of his steaks were gone. But he had no inkling of what I had done. He angrily accused the butcher of stealing all the steaks. I had never told a soul until I was 71 years old and finally confess this to my brother for the first time in 60 years. My step-father, mother as well as most of my aunts and uncles, and my next younger brother had all passed away when I confessed this petty 12-year-old moment to my youngest brother. He howled with laughter because he remembered those days very well as I did with a lot of long-ago anger. So I have enjoyed my secret pettiness for 60 years, occasionally laughing to myself, knowing that I had eaten all of the steaks that we were not allowed to touch or ever be good enough to eat. I would comfort myself when I remembered the cruelty he bestowed on me and my two brothers.
I think that strategy was good for your mental health.
Clicked that button so damn fast!😂 Need me a dose of Charlotte to start my day.
A whole bunch of people at the Walmart I used to work at, including myself, had to work on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Thanksgiving because, even though corporate sent out an email stating all Walmarts were to be shut down nation-wide, too many customers complained that it wasn't going to be open, so the managers told the employees, "hey, I know corporate said this in an email, but if you don't come in on your scheduled shift, points will be doubled or tripled depending on how many people actually show up to run the store."