Interns having to fullfil the role of a full time employee with minimum pay, and refusing to make them a permanent employee once internship ended "because their budget won't allow it". Company mission - we are a slave farm.
I hate it that you have to "gain experience" by being a super low wage intern and yet they apply all the rules that a normal employees have Also, i hate those careers where these types of internships are mandatory :/
You got paid as an intern? 🥺 Damn, I heard those existed, but didn't really believe it. JK, I had a few paid, but most were definitely not at minimum wage equivalent even if I'd only worked 40 hours. A decade later, I still hear the "well you could get some valuable experience..." Nah, I have gotten valuable experience while getting $50/hr on a flexible schedule, doing something I'm directly passionate about. My only advice is to learn your worth and start demanding it. Once we accept less, it sets the tone for future bad offers unless you change careers. And there's zero shame in that, contrary to what Boomers drone on about. Niche down to what you are best at, and then test the waters. You might be pleasantly surprised.
In the US Navy, there is what they call "frocking." Promotions are generally decided once a year, and the people selected for promotion are promoted later - as much as a year and a half later. But a selectee can in many cases be "frocked." This means that they call you by your new rank, let you wear the symbol of your new rank, and (most important) give you the responsibility of your new rank. But you don't get the pay of your new rank or accumulate any time in that rank until the official date of your promotion.
@@rhondahulett9763I’m guessing it was salary, but the ‘billed’ hours count towards your performance target of worked hours for the quarter. So billing for travel time is ok in that case.
Accrued PTO disappears at the end of the year but they wont let you use it. My job only keeps your PTO through the year. When the new year starts, your PTO resets and you lose all the previously accrued PTO. They say that they encourage you to use your PTO during the year so that you don't lose it, but when you request time off, they deny it because there is a 'shortage of people' or some other problem. Thus you never get to use your PTO.
Simple. Tell them if they won't let you use your PTO until last quarter of the year is there by both sides agreement, you will take it anytime within this last quarter without needing their approval. You are entitled to that PTO and if they won't work with you or don't acknowledge your basic rights, take them. If that leads to getting laid off, you better not be in this toxic company anymore, so you can only win.
A few years ago, during the pandemic, the company paid out extra PTO. Now, there a limitations on what can carry over into a new year, and also, it cannot be paid out when people leave the company. Oh yes - and even more are planning to leave due to low pay in a city that has an exorbitant cost of living index.
Sounds like an unfair labor practice, stolen wages, or something to that effect. They are breaking their contract with you. Maybe contact an attorney or state labor board? I would not let them get away with that. They at least need to pay you for the time not used.
P.T.O. = Prepare The Others. I worked for Amazon , boss denied pto due to staffing issues. Quick call to HR got my pto approved, since it's illegal for them to not let you take it before you lose it.
This is what makes joining a trade union so vitally important. In all the years I worked for our union, I successfully defended many staff members when the employers didn't provide clarity, policy, training and equipment to enable workers to do the job. If management don't provide, workers can't work!
Purposefully assigning you, out the gate, to a project that had already been failing for 1 and 1/2 years before you joined, then seeing the blame get shifted to you.
Forced “fun” time with co-workers. “Anonymous” surveys about team engagement where a team member is singled out and you have to give feedback back on their engagement, what they bring to the team, do they uphold the company values etc. Shady.
When you raise concerns about terrible system integration - and get told to change your perspective from failure to success. How about you change your perspective from delulu to reality!
Omg Christmas parties, yes! I don't need to party with you people. If you want to do a thank you dinner at a fancy local eatery that is only my immediate team, great. But one huge party where we have to listen to the CEO give a speech and it's 7pm and I had to get a sitter or leave my spouse alone with the kids so I don't even see my family that night and if I don't go I don't get assigned the good projects or get a chance at promotion. No. No we're done here.
I have an out of proportion revulsion for any kind of team-building outside of work hours - like dinners and christmas parties. i think i am old enough now that i dont really fear saying 'no i cant make it, because i am spending time with my family'
There’s a very large hospital in our area I applied for a position and got an interview. During the process they tell you parking is not free. It is automatically deducted from your paycheck, $55/month at the time of my interview). Also their parking is on a seniority basis. So new employees have to park in the furthest lots and get shuttled in… no thanks
@@hollimurray9367Then you can blame the shuttle if you are late? (At least in the morning when travelling to work; going home you’ll have to take the L)
Oh, that's actually better than what one of our hospitals does to its staff. They have a TINY lot for employee parking, which is reserved for the admin (like legit 20 spots for an entire hospital) and the rest is paid customer parking at $10/day. Your alternative is to park on the street, which has a 2hr limit because the hospital is a block away from the city centre, after which time parking enforcement WILL be waiting to fine you $40. There's been a dozen petitions. The best solution they've come up with is some imminent domain crap to seize homes and charge employees $150/mo for a single flat parking lot, not even a compound with levels. The other hospital in the city is about ten blocks away with the exact same issues, though a slightly larger parking lot for employees (40 spots, maybe?) All of this a few years after closing down the hospital that was at the outskirts of the city. Make it make sense 🤷♀️
Asking for a raise and not getting a definitive yes or know. Your manager says they are still looking into it and will give you a response soon. In other words, No. But we will just string you along so you continue to do good work.
Give them a week for a clear response. If they don't give you one, keep nagging in a very persistent way about it. At some point, start asking uncomfortable questions about the matter. So many possibilities.
Spot on. I was strung along like that for years... More pay promised when you meet a landmark, then strung along as they "check into it," only to be told "no" because the additional licensure isn't actually needed in the role. Yet, you use the knowledge every day to do the work exceedingly well. It's the only job I've ever had where excelling in a role and obtaining excellent reviews doesn't even translate to regular COLs, let alone any merit raises whatsoever.
My ex-wife used to call me during our mutual business hours, and start with, "Guess what?" Knowing the joke, I'd still reply, "What?" Then she'd make a chewing noise and around it, say, "Free pizza!" One of my few fond memories.
My Last job I was the highest paid and the oldest, The comment came down the owner was worried I could not keep up with the 20 yr olds. So began the push out, I was blamed for others sitting around staring at their phones, as it became OT by end of week. I trained everyone how to move the material without damaging it, and how to rotate and keep the inventory moving properly. Now they have even more OT even after hiring 2 people to cover what i was doing alone.....
Telling you that you are being promoted but have to relocate for the position. Then telling you that if you don't take it, you have to quit. Your current role has either been eliminated or filled.
I guess Amazon. It's a worldwide shitshow for employment and it's too funny, Bezos collecting money by the billions but squeezing every possible drop out of the people. Greediness is a disease.......
Leadershit telling you to take initiative and be assertive, and then not supporting you or stating you did the task wrong because it was not the way they would have done it.
I worked at a pizzeria as a delivery driver. Prior to putting in my resignation letter, on several occasions, either the shift leads (whom I got alomg well) or myself would either directly tell (or give not-so-suttle hints at) the manager that I was set for a promotion. They never said the words "gaining valuable knowledge and experience" directly, but they might as well have said it by their actions and their other attempt at praises (i.e. we value your great work [yes, this was said to me verbatim]). Long story short, I quit after realizing they were never going to try and give me a promotion, or a raise for that matter. I really loved that job.😔
Telling you a job is 75% technical work and 25% project mgmt work....then after spending 5 months trying to do the technical job, your boss says "Oh yeah, that part of the job is gone, it's 100% project management."
Saying you can WFH 2 days a week but any holiday or vacation time taken can negate those days bc now the other 3 days(or any remaining after pto) are required in office
I still say use an episode to break down every single aspect of how much work-travel actually ends up costing the employee in terms of all personal costs and time is lost for a typical 5 day work trip. How much personal time are you using to plan/pack for the trip, go to the airport, sit at the airport, sit on the tarmac, fly, land, sit, sit at the hotel, work, go to dinner with colleagues, spend time away from home in the hotel room, jet lag recovery, sickness recovery, damaged car expenses if you are forced into storing the car at the airport, etc.. and then what kind of home expenses are you accruing that should technically be paid for but aren't.. like the weekly DIY lawn maintenance, doubled clothes washing upon return, childcare burden placed onto the spouse or grandparents, loss of opportunity to use services you subscribe to including Gym or club(tennis) membership, Home TV/Internet, any gamepass type subscriptions, etc. Employees end up sacrificing quite a bit more than they realize when raising their hand for work travel, and you usually have to come right back home after the work is done.
Expecting employees to staff and run events, as well as attend events representing the company, outside of work hours. You are doing free promotion work for the company.
Told by a manager that not a single person employed there would take any initiative, while in the handbook, posted all over the building and in group "collective meetings", told to not think, not show any initiative, not to stray from the letters of SOP. I said, kinda killed initiative, reckon? I got let go the following day, lack of work as the reason, finding out they hired someone else to fill the position less than 24 hrs later thru the same temp agency I worked for. Speaking the obvious apparently wasn't SOP either.
Not filling your bosses position when she resigns, but expecting you to do your own job AND hers without additional compensation... then having to train your boss's replacement. All while being told: "you definitely earbed a raise and promotion because you had as great review, but you won't be getting the raise and promotion ". When voluntary layoffs were offered because they were cutting 6,000 jobs, I took the larger severance package for the "voluntary" layoff and walked.
Years ago I read a qutoe from a famous economist to the effect of: "If you cannot find qualified applicants for your position your total compensation package is insufficient. End of story. There's nothing to talk about." His wording was more elegant but that was his point. Anyone have any idea who that economist was? I'd love to throw that quote at a few people but can't if I can't prove who said it. Thanks in advance.
Yearly surveys that when the “results” are presented they are shewed towards positive responses that employees know are not accurate. Under utilization of employee capabilities due to management fear of loss of power. Flat out lying to an employee that a complaint has been made, requiring the employee sign an acknowledgment, never filing it. I found this out when I asked my new manager about a complaint where she had been in the meeting with me and the prior manager. She acknowledged that the complaint never existed and there was no smear on my record. I worked with the new manager for 8 years, she ALWAYS had my back on record, regardless of what we discussed in private (& there were times a word of caution was called for and appreciated!)
I worked for a company that mandated training. I was supposed to get one hour a day to do this training as each module was set up to take an hour. After that hour was up my manager was supposed to come over to quiz us before we could leave for the day. I was supposed to do this 5 days a week for 6 months. The training was set up to last 5 months and any extra time was to be spent on any weak areas and practice. I was lucky if they gave me 1 day a week. When I complained they told me to do it at home. I asked if I was gonna get 5 hours ot every week. That was a no.
The pizza party hits deep. I remember a crap job telling us that each person can only have 1 or 2 slices each person... The response was employees going AYCE and taking full pizza. Then people started asking when the next order will be coming in.
Your videos have been absolutely eye opening. I'll stay in my medical job; we absolutely have our share of administrative manipulation to deal with, but nothing like what the business world appears to have to deal with.
I'm a newly retired home healthcare nurse, working per diem. If you work at a for-profit outfit, watch out. Our full time nurses were switched to salary (to avoid paying the overtime) mileage was cut, on-call pay was cut, and when our supervisor tried to defend us to her boss, the outcome is that she gave her two week notice. They're about to find out that you can't run a home health agency without nurses and therapists.
I hate the having to pay for parking when they don't even secure the lot because we aren't on the main work campus. $25 a month to park on a piece on cement with no cover and they don't even scrape or salt it until after most the spots are full. If we take a snow day we lose that day in pto pay even if we don't want to use the pto.
When a company says its employees might have to work overtime but instead of paying for those hours, it offers the opportuinity to leave earlier some other day, or get a day off from work. In essence, it means you're working overtime for free. The company may offer a day or two off, or even the opportuinity to leave earlier some other day, but it *should* also pay extra.
I, in general, do not mind comp time, but that's because I use it. If I'm working overtime to finish a thing and accrue 10-20 hours over a month, that's extra vacation days for me.
My son's company was purchased by a company covered by the union but they are not union. He was sent an employee handbook two years ago by the parent company at the start of the new year that outlined the vacation policy. The non-union group was not compensated as the handbook stated they would be so he brought it up at a meeting. Nothing came of it. This year, according to the handbook (newly updated at the beginning of the year) he again was not compensated as per the handbook and again brought it up to his supervisors. At this point, he was told that the compensation mentioned would not happen until the beginning of 2025 and workers had to be with the company for 8 years. Now, from what he has told me all other aspects of the handbook are being followed, just not paid vacation hours. He feels that if it's in the handbook they have to follow, the company should be following ALL of the handbook themselves. Your thoughts? (we cannot afford an attorney on this, so that won't help if that's your thought, blessings though!)
I'm going to semi- defend paying for parking. I worked for a company who didn't own/ control the parking lot, so we had to pay monthly to park - but they worked out a discounted rate. I ran the numbers - if I parked on my own it would be over $120/ month, but through my company I think I paid $50? And I could use the lot at nights, weekends, holidays, etc for other things without paying more per month - and there were often events there or nearby. I probably saved much more than I spent. But, if the company charges for parking and owns the lot? SCAM
"Black out" weeks centered around holidays. I (briefly) worked for a company that automatically gave everyone some paid holidays off (Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Easter, and maybe 4th of July or Labor day if i remember correctly), but here's the catch: NOBODY could EVER get any days off that fell within the same week as one of these holidays. For example, Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday, but no one in the company was allowed to take off the following friday IN PERPETUITY. As someone who has absolutely zero family nearby and can usually only travel around paid holidays to see them, this was a problem.
Love your channel! I'm self-employed, so only a little applies directly to me. But you are righteous! I've seen many of these things go on within organizations I deal with. However, a large proportion of people proportion of people work at will, without contracts. And of those, a very large number are utterly ignorant of recourse when an employer's demands are unfair. I hope you keep spreading the word.
The last company for which I worked had Great Christmas parties... and they were either on-site on-the-clock or, when off-site, included free alcohol for both you and a guest (and your guest's dinner), and off-site wasn't mandatory.
Some places (like Boston) employees having to pay for parking is the law. It’s to encourage ride sharing and using public transportation. Companies are allowed to subsidize an MBTA pass and often it is free.
I work at a university and we close for the winter break every year. During this closure we have to take 3-4 days off unpaid. So I have to choose between using my PTO or not get paid. It’s annoying but we get like 2 weeks off in total so it’s a good trade off.
As someone who works in HR, I feel seen! 😭 Even though our job is to protect the business, we are employees too! If you hate these scams, how about being the one selected to enforce them while internally screaming 😍 On the whack policies topic, it’s 80% of the time leadership being controlling instead of creating a healthy culture of trust. Now everyone gets to be on edge and even more stressed. Which is obviously great for retention 🙄
Expectation of being available for overtime (paid) before your shift with no discussion from the night before after overtime the night before. We're doing so much overtime right now, I quickly told my new boss that hey it's good to be enthusiastic about offering overtime during this busy time, but expecting last minute overtime over ever single available minute before, during, and after my shift for days on end? No. That's what led to making my dinner with expired milk tonight and getting violently ill and having to clock out two hours early (after working two hours of overtime tonight already and four hours last night). Asking and expecting a large amount of overtime and having the balls to say oh but take care of your mental health when you clearly don't understand the emotional labor of doing my job to my level of ability, that's just baloney.
I worked at a company where instead of cash bonuses, gave me a basket of cheap Mary Kay perfume that I couldn't use and other garbage like that. It didn't change until all we top performers threatened to stage a walkout if they didn't start compensating us fairly.
Being forced to use PTO for sick days. My job has 5 days of PTO, only after the first year, and if you're sick and can't come in, you're forced to use that very limited PTO instead of using it for vacation.
Yeah, I learned decades ago that there is nothing "anonymous" you do on the interwebs. Pretty much everything you do on the interwebs can be traced back to you now, if you know the right people.
I run the place solo 2 days a week and 2 days w one person. The one thing male bosses compliment me on is cleaning. After 2 yrs of it I get it. That's all women are good for. I want other compliments like you brought the store back from a dump w bad mgnt. That one is for a man tho
0:46 My current situation and it's full of crap because I won't get any back pay for the role I took this summer if/when I've proved to them I deserve the promotion
Non compete clauses for non executive positions and requiring employees to pay for training to prepare for certification on a company skill. Recently had an employer offer me a $130 dollar course to certify me for a $15 license test. I went by the licensing agency and took the test (15 questions multiple guess) handed them the license and was immediately taken off the schedule lol.
Being hired to fill a certain role and then being shuffled into a different role with more responsibility and stress without adjusting the compensation.
*Company Vehicle* Sounds good (reliable vehicle, free maintenance and maybe even gas), but it is an excuse to pay the employees less -- since they do not _need_ a personal vehicle, they do not need to be paid enough to afford one. This birds the employees to the company -- try getting a job without your own "reliable transportation" (meaning not bus) these days. They make it harder for you to leave the company by paying you less.
Added bonus: they get a bunch of free work from you, since people have no problem approaching you and asking questions when they see you getting into / out of the company-branded vehicle.
Having you watch mind numbing training videos and then just shoving you into that role without any 1-on-1 training. I've had that happen at a few jobs and most think I'll be fine since I have over a decade of job experience in that role but at different companies. Note: i'm in the food industry. Every company's register layout is different and when I say that McDonalds' registers are the most complicated I've ever seen is an understatement o.o!!!! Not to mention the limitation on what someone can do before needing a manager over to approve or remove something -.-
Forcing managers to give employee ratings that average to OK, so that if someone is doing an excellent job, you'd have to say someone else is doing a subpar job.
Mandatory group chats on cell phones. If there is information i need for my job, tell me when i am on the clock. Dont force me to check my messages at all hours of the day, just so i don't miss that one communication i needed.
NON anonymous interviews, and during work hours, about the company, even filming interviews with workers under pretext that it’s for social media postings, and we are encouraged to talk about the company in only positives
Paying for parking!!! I once turned down a hospital job for this. They said if I didn’t want to pay for parking, I could find street parking. In the busy downtown??? LOL that’s a headache I don’t need every single morning. Now I park for free because I work from home. 🤣🤣🤣
A bit off topic but how about doing one about "when your boss is an ex hard core university frat rat? I've known a number of those in my 39 years of civilian employment and in my experience those guys just can't give it up and realize frat rat is not a thing anymore. Very annoying.
Assigning you to a job you are NOT trained for, not allowing you to refuse the "offer" and then blaming you for not being able to fulfill the role.
And yeah there is a story behind that one
Yassss OMG
Perfectly said, friend. Been there.
AKA CATCH 22
@@blue8857that is where the mad matter worked and I saw him at Costco too
Interns having to fullfil the role of a full time employee with minimum pay, and refusing to make them a permanent employee once internship ended "because their budget won't allow it". Company mission - we are a slave farm.
I hate it that you have to "gain experience" by being a super low wage intern and yet they apply all the rules that a normal employees have
Also, i hate those careers where these types of internships are mandatory :/
You got paid as an intern? 🥺 Damn, I heard those existed, but didn't really believe it.
JK, I had a few paid, but most were definitely not at minimum wage equivalent even if I'd only worked 40 hours. A decade later, I still hear the "well you could get some valuable experience..." Nah, I have gotten valuable experience while getting $50/hr on a flexible schedule, doing something I'm directly passionate about. My only advice is to learn your worth and start demanding it. Once we accept less, it sets the tone for future bad offers unless you change careers. And there's zero shame in that, contrary to what Boomers drone on about. Niche down to what you are best at, and then test the waters. You might be pleasantly surprised.
Can't afford raises, but can afford huge bonuses for upper execs.
In the US Navy, there is what they call "frocking." Promotions are generally decided once a year, and the people selected for promotion are promoted later - as much as a year and a half later. But a selectee can in many cases be "frocked." This means that they call you by your new rank, let you wear the symbol of your new rank, and (most important) give you the responsibility of your new rank. But you don't get the pay of your new rank or accumulate any time in that rank until the official date of your promotion.
@@jdotoz That's horrible!
@@barbarawarren9443 It's always done as a big celebration, but it is pretty messed up if you think about it.
I worked for a company that always had us travel outside of normal work hours. I billed the hours every time even though they told me not to.
Did you get paid?
@@rhondahulett9763 Absolutely. I would have quit otherwise. Besides, they just billed the clients...
@@rhondahulett9763I’m guessing it was salary, but the ‘billed’ hours count towards your performance target of worked hours for the quarter.
So billing for travel time is ok in that case.
Accrued PTO disappears at the end of the year but they wont let you use it. My job only keeps your PTO through the year. When the new year starts, your PTO resets and you lose all the previously accrued PTO. They say that they encourage you to use your PTO during the year so that you don't lose it, but when you request time off, they deny it because there is a 'shortage of people' or some other problem. Thus you never get to use your PTO.
Simple. Tell them if they won't let you use your PTO until last quarter of the year is there by both sides agreement, you will take it anytime within this last quarter without needing their approval. You are entitled to that PTO and if they won't work with you or don't acknowledge your basic rights, take them. If that leads to getting laid off, you better not be in this toxic company anymore, so you can only win.
A few years ago, during the pandemic, the company paid out extra PTO. Now, there a limitations on what can carry over into a new year, and also, it cannot be paid out when people leave the company. Oh yes - and even more are planning to leave due to low pay in a city that has an exorbitant cost of living index.
Sounds like an unfair labor practice, stolen wages, or something to that effect. They are breaking their contract with you. Maybe contact an attorney or state labor board? I would not let them get away with that. They at least need to pay you for the time not used.
P.T.O. = Prepare The Others.
I worked for Amazon , boss denied pto due to staffing issues. Quick call to HR got my pto approved, since it's illegal for them to not let you take it before you lose it.
@@marcfuchs6938contact national labor relations near you as you have rights.
This is what makes joining a trade union so vitally important. In all the years I worked for our union, I successfully defended many staff members when the employers didn't provide clarity, policy, training and equipment to enable workers to do the job. If management don't provide, workers can't work!
Use it or lose it PTO. Except no PTO is allowed. That salary savings is given to the executive as bonus.
Purposefully assigning you, out the gate, to a project that had already been failing for 1 and 1/2 years before you joined, then seeing the blame get shifted to you.
Forced “fun” time with co-workers. “Anonymous” surveys about team engagement where a team member is singled out and you have to give feedback back on their engagement, what they bring to the team, do they uphold the company values etc. Shady.
When you raise concerns about terrible system integration - and get told to change your perspective from failure to success.
How about you change your perspective from delulu to reality!
Omg Christmas parties, yes! I don't need to party with you people. If you want to do a thank you dinner at a fancy local eatery that is only my immediate team, great. But one huge party where we have to listen to the CEO give a speech and it's 7pm and I had to get a sitter or leave my spouse alone with the kids so I don't even see my family that night and if I don't go I don't get assigned the good projects or get a chance at promotion. No. No we're done here.
I have an out of proportion revulsion for any kind of team-building outside of work hours - like dinners and christmas parties. i think i am old enough now that i dont really fear saying 'no i cant make it, because i am spending time with my family'
I could not agree more. I’m retired , but always hated these functions. Show up late , and leave early.
There’s a very large hospital in our area I applied for a position and got an interview. During the process they tell you parking is not free. It is automatically deducted from your paycheck, $55/month at the time of my interview). Also their parking is on a seniority basis. So new employees have to park in the furthest lots and get shuttled in… no thanks
That is when you send them an invoice charging them for wasting your time.
I work at one of those $40/day to park. Shuttle very unreliable, won’t take it.
@@hollimurray9367Then you can blame the shuttle if you are late? (At least in the morning when travelling to work; going home you’ll have to take the L)
Oh, that's actually better than what one of our hospitals does to its staff. They have a TINY lot for employee parking, which is reserved for the admin (like legit 20 spots for an entire hospital) and the rest is paid customer parking at $10/day. Your alternative is to park on the street, which has a 2hr limit because the hospital is a block away from the city centre, after which time parking enforcement WILL be waiting to fine you $40. There's been a dozen petitions. The best solution they've come up with is some imminent domain crap to seize homes and charge employees $150/mo for a single flat parking lot, not even a compound with levels.
The other hospital in the city is about ten blocks away with the exact same issues, though a slightly larger parking lot for employees (40 spots, maybe?)
All of this a few years after closing down the hospital that was at the outskirts of the city. Make it make sense 🤷♀️
Asking for a raise and not getting a definitive yes or know. Your manager says they are still looking into it and will give you a response soon. In other words, No. But we will just string you along so you continue to do good work.
Give them a week for a clear response. If they don't give you one, keep nagging in a very persistent way about it. At some point, start asking uncomfortable questions about the matter. So many possibilities.
Spot on. I was strung along like that for years... More pay promised when you meet a landmark, then strung along as they "check into it," only to be told "no" because the additional licensure isn't actually needed in the role. Yet, you use the knowledge every day to do the work exceedingly well. It's the only job I've ever had where excelling in a role and obtaining excellent reviews doesn't even translate to regular COLs, let alone any merit raises whatsoever.
My company had Christmas parties on company time. The whole place just about shut down for a few hours
You're not wrong, but I'll still eat the pizza!
My ex-wife used to call me during our mutual business hours, and start with, "Guess what?" Knowing the joke, I'd still reply, "What?" Then she'd make a chewing noise and around it, say, "Free pizza!"
One of my few fond memories.
Yep, because that's one day that I don't have to buy or bring my lunch.
And any that’s left is coming home with me lol
My Last job I was the highest paid and the oldest, The comment came down the owner was worried I could not keep up with the 20 yr olds. So began the push out, I was blamed for others sitting around staring at their phones, as it became OT by end of week. I trained everyone how to move the material without damaging it, and how to rotate and keep the inventory moving properly. Now they have even more OT even after hiring 2 people to cover what i was doing alone.....
Pay raises based on performance reviews where the review system forbids maximum recognition.
Telling you that you are being promoted but have to relocate for the position. Then telling you that if you don't take it, you have to quit. Your current role has either been eliminated or filled.
I work for a Major US corporation that every one of you would know and every single one of these points is standard practice here.
I guess Amazon. It's a worldwide shitshow for employment and it's too funny, Bezos collecting money by the billions but squeezing every possible drop out of the people. Greediness is a disease.......
You better be getting PAYYYYD!
HR. They will forever be my archenemy.
Leadershit telling you to take initiative and be assertive, and then not supporting you or stating you did the task wrong because it was not the way they would have done it.
if that is feedback with reasoning, it is okay
My favorite is always, "We just don't have the budget for that right now."
I worked at a pizzeria as a delivery driver. Prior to putting in my resignation letter, on several occasions, either the shift leads (whom I got alomg well) or myself would either directly tell (or give not-so-suttle hints at) the manager that I was set for a promotion. They never said the words "gaining valuable knowledge and experience" directly, but they might as well have said it by their actions and their other attempt at praises (i.e. we value your great work [yes, this was said to me verbatim]). Long story short, I quit after realizing they were never going to try and give me a promotion, or a raise for that matter. I really loved that job.😔
I once worked for a company that followed many of those practices. I gave them the best forty hours of my life.
In the meeting with HR over a written and documented issue. You are required to accept and sign. As an employee you are not allowed representation.
Company policy posted on line that they won't let you have a hard copy of and change it when it benefits one of their favorites
Telling you a job is 75% technical work and 25% project mgmt work....then after spending 5 months trying to do the technical job, your boss says "Oh yeah, that part of the job is gone, it's 100% project management."
Saying you can WFH 2 days a week but any holiday or vacation time taken can negate those days bc now the other 3 days(or any remaining after pto) are required in office
I was at a company once who told us that free parking was one of the benefits of working there...
Depends where the office is. If it’s the centre of a major city, free parking is a HUGE benefit.
@@donlogan83 Heh... we weren't in a huge city at all...
I still say use an episode to break down every single aspect of how much work-travel actually ends up costing the employee in terms of all personal costs and time is lost for a typical 5 day work trip.
How much personal time are you using to plan/pack for the trip, go to the airport, sit at the airport, sit on the tarmac, fly, land, sit, sit at the hotel, work, go to dinner with colleagues, spend time away from home in the hotel room, jet lag recovery, sickness recovery, damaged car expenses if you are forced into storing the car at the airport, etc.. and then what kind of home expenses are you accruing that should technically be paid for but aren't.. like the weekly DIY lawn maintenance, doubled clothes washing upon return, childcare burden placed onto the spouse or grandparents, loss of opportunity to use services you subscribe to including Gym or club(tennis) membership, Home TV/Internet, any gamepass type subscriptions, etc. Employees end up sacrificing quite a bit more than they realize when raising their hand for work travel, and you usually have to come right back home after the work is done.
Expecting employees to staff and run events, as well as attend events representing the company, outside of work hours. You are doing free promotion work for the company.
Told by a manager that not a single person employed there would take any initiative, while in the handbook, posted all over the building and in group "collective meetings", told to not think, not show any initiative, not to stray from the letters of SOP. I said, kinda killed initiative, reckon? I got let go the following day, lack of work as the reason, finding out they hired someone else to fill the position less than 24 hrs later thru the same temp agency I worked for. Speaking the obvious apparently wasn't SOP either.
Not filling your bosses position when she resigns, but expecting you to do your own job AND hers without additional compensation... then having to train your boss's replacement. All while being told: "you definitely earbed a raise and promotion because you had as great review, but you won't be getting the raise and promotion ".
When voluntary layoffs were offered because they were cutting 6,000 jobs, I took the larger severance package for the "voluntary" layoff and walked.
Years ago I read a qutoe from a famous economist to the effect of:
"If you cannot find qualified applicants for your position your total compensation package is insufficient. End of story. There's nothing to talk about."
His wording was more elegant but that was his point. Anyone have any idea who that economist was? I'd love to throw that quote at a few people but can't if I can't prove who said it.
Thanks in advance.
Yearly surveys that when the “results” are presented they are shewed towards positive responses that employees know are not accurate.
Under utilization of employee capabilities due to management fear of loss of power.
Flat out lying to an employee that a complaint has been made, requiring the employee sign an acknowledgment, never filing it. I found this out when I asked my new manager about a complaint where she had been in the meeting with me and the prior manager. She acknowledged that the complaint never existed and there was no smear on my record. I worked with the new manager for 8 years, she ALWAYS had my back on record, regardless of what we discussed in private (& there were times a word of caution was called for and appreciated!)
Continuous quality improvement, which really means continuous change with little to no real improvement.
I worked for a company that mandated training.
I was supposed to get one hour a day to do this training as each module was set up to take an hour. After that hour was up my manager was supposed to come over to quiz us before we could leave for the day.
I was supposed to do this 5 days a week for 6 months. The training was set up to last 5 months and any extra time was to be spent on any weak areas and practice. I was lucky if they gave me 1 day a week. When I complained they told me to do it at home. I asked if I was gonna get 5 hours ot every week. That was a no.
Well, that just explained my entire work history...
The pizza party hits deep. I remember a crap job telling us that each person can only have 1 or 2 slices each person... The response was employees going AYCE and taking full pizza. Then people started asking when the next order will be coming in.
Your videos have been absolutely eye opening. I'll stay in my medical job; we absolutely have our share of administrative manipulation to deal with, but nothing like what the business world appears to have to deal with.
I'm a newly retired home healthcare nurse, working per diem. If you work at a for-profit outfit, watch out. Our full time nurses were switched to salary (to avoid paying the overtime) mileage was cut, on-call pay was cut, and when our supervisor tried to defend us to her boss, the outcome is that she gave her two week notice. They're about to find out that you can't run a home health agency without nurses and therapists.
"Unlimited "vacation
Companies who advertise for jobs that aren't really there.
Require employees to come into work 3 times a week. Yet, management are not required to come into work.
I hate the having to pay for parking when they don't even secure the lot because we aren't on the main work campus. $25 a month to park on a piece on cement with no cover and they don't even scrape or salt it until after most the spots are full. If we take a snow day we lose that day in pto pay even if we don't want to use the pto.
I think we all have been employed by one of these types of companies (it might be only a few months of employment for most )
When a company says its employees might have to work overtime but instead of paying for those hours, it offers the opportuinity to leave earlier some other day, or get a day off from work.
In essence, it means you're working overtime for free.
The company may offer a day or two off, or even the opportuinity to leave earlier some other day, but it *should* also pay extra.
I, in general, do not mind comp time, but that's because I use it. If I'm working overtime to finish a thing and accrue 10-20 hours over a month, that's extra vacation days for me.
I’m okay with K time.
My son's company was purchased by a company covered by the union but they are not union. He was sent an employee handbook two years ago by the parent company at the start of the new year that outlined the vacation policy. The non-union group was not compensated as the handbook stated they would be so he brought it up at a meeting. Nothing came of it. This year, according to the handbook (newly updated at the beginning of the year) he again was not compensated as per the handbook and again brought it up to his supervisors. At this point, he was told that the compensation mentioned would not happen until the beginning of 2025 and workers had to be with the company for 8 years. Now, from what he has told me all other aspects of the handbook are being followed, just not paid vacation hours. He feels that if it's in the handbook they have to follow, the company should be following ALL of the handbook themselves. Your thoughts? (we cannot afford an attorney on this, so that won't help if that's your thought, blessings though!)
I'm going to semi- defend paying for parking. I worked for a company who didn't own/ control the parking lot, so we had to pay monthly to park - but they worked out a discounted rate. I ran the numbers - if I parked on my own it would be over $120/ month, but through my company I think I paid $50? And I could use the lot at nights, weekends, holidays, etc for other things without paying more per month - and there were often events there or nearby. I probably saved much more than I spent.
But, if the company charges for parking and owns the lot? SCAM
"Black out" weeks centered around holidays. I (briefly) worked for a company that automatically gave everyone some paid holidays off (Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Easter, and maybe 4th of July or Labor day if i remember correctly), but here's the catch: NOBODY could EVER get any days off that fell within the same week as one of these holidays. For example, Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday, but no one in the company was allowed to take off the following friday IN PERPETUITY. As someone who has absolutely zero family nearby and can usually only travel around paid holidays to see them, this was a problem.
Love your channel! I'm self-employed, so only a little applies directly to me. But you are righteous!
I've seen many of these things go on within organizations I deal with. However, a large proportion of people proportion of people work at will, without contracts. And of those, a very large number are utterly ignorant of recourse when an employer's demands are unfair. I hope you keep spreading the word.
Various certifications are mandatory yet not paid by the company and must be done on your own time. And the certifications are minimally transferable.
Offering benefits at full time as a elling point but only hiring part-time/seasonal workers (this is mostly corporate retail).
Nailed it! You easily covered 4 or 5 percent of the ways they scam us…😂
The last company for which I worked had Great Christmas parties... and they were either on-site on-the-clock or, when off-site, included free alcohol for both you and a guest (and your guest's dinner), and off-site wasn't mandatory.
As you were speaking I could feel my blood pressure rising! I'm aghast at how many boxes I ticked.
Some places (like Boston) employees having to pay for parking is the law. It’s to encourage ride sharing and using public transportation. Companies are allowed to subsidize an MBTA pass and often it is free.
I work at a university and we close for the winter break every year. During this closure we have to take 3-4 days off unpaid. So I have to choose between using my PTO or not get paid. It’s annoying but we get like 2 weeks off in total so it’s a good trade off.
As someone who works in HR, I feel seen! 😭 Even though our job is to protect the business, we are employees too! If you hate these scams, how about being the one selected to enforce them while internally screaming 😍
On the whack policies topic, it’s 80% of the time leadership being controlling instead of creating a healthy culture of trust. Now everyone gets to be on edge and even more stressed. Which is obviously great for retention 🙄
Expectation of being available for overtime (paid) before your shift with no discussion from the night before after overtime the night before. We're doing so much overtime right now, I quickly told my new boss that hey it's good to be enthusiastic about offering overtime during this busy time, but expecting last minute overtime over ever single available minute before, during, and after my shift for days on end? No. That's what led to making my dinner with expired milk tonight and getting violently ill and having to clock out two hours early (after working two hours of overtime tonight already and four hours last night).
Asking and expecting a large amount of overtime and having the balls to say oh but take care of your mental health when you clearly don't understand the emotional labor of doing my job to my level of ability, that's just baloney.
I worked at a company where instead of cash bonuses, gave me a basket of cheap Mary Kay perfume that I couldn't use and other garbage like that.
It didn't change until all we top performers threatened to stage a walkout if they didn't start compensating us fairly.
At LEAST half of those were exactly how my old company i worked for was! Probably still is, they have no reason to change it...
My current job has had holiday parties, multiple off-hours potlucks, and a wedding.
Nooope.
Getting a great vacation benefit but you have to find coverage. If you cannot you cannot use vacation days.
Being forced to use PTO for sick days. My job has 5 days of PTO, only after the first year, and if you're sick and can't come in, you're forced to use that very limited PTO instead of using it for vacation.
Yeah, I learned decades ago that there is nothing "anonymous" you do on the interwebs. Pretty much everything you do on the interwebs can be traced back to you now, if you know the right people.
I run the place solo 2 days a week and 2 days w one person. The one thing male bosses compliment me on is cleaning. After 2 yrs of it I get it. That's all women are good for. I want other compliments like you brought the store back from a dump w bad mgnt. That one is for a man tho
0:46 My current situation and it's full of crap because I won't get any back pay for the role I took this summer if/when I've proved to them I deserve the promotion
“Family-owned business”
Non compete clauses for non executive positions and requiring employees to pay for training to prepare for certification on a company skill. Recently had an employer offer me a $130 dollar course to certify me for a $15 license test. I went by the licensing agency and took the test (15 questions multiple guess) handed them the license and was immediately taken off the schedule lol.
Demanding that you work inside the office two days a week, also known as sitting in an empty office by yourself on zoom
Not paying you enough because of the kind work environment. Like in other businesses have it worse, at least we are nice to each other.
Being hired to fill a certain role and then being shuffled into a different role with more responsibility and stress without adjusting the compensation.
Glad I'm retired, none of that stuff anymore.
*Company Vehicle*
Sounds good (reliable vehicle, free maintenance and maybe even gas), but it is an excuse to pay the employees less -- since they do not _need_ a personal vehicle, they do not need to be paid enough to afford one.
This birds the employees to the company -- try getting a job without your own "reliable transportation" (meaning not bus) these days.
They make it harder for you to leave the company by paying you less.
Added bonus: they get a bunch of free work from you, since people have no problem approaching you and asking questions when they see you getting into / out of the company-branded vehicle.
It’s like she is a nurse already
Having you watch mind numbing training videos and then just shoving you into that role without any 1-on-1 training. I've had that happen at a few jobs and most think I'll be fine since I have over a decade of job experience in that role but at different companies. Note: i'm in the food industry. Every company's register layout is different and when I say that McDonalds' registers are the most complicated I've ever seen is an understatement o.o!!!! Not to mention the limitation on what someone can do before needing a manager over to approve or remove something -.-
Forcing managers to give employee ratings that average to OK, so that if someone is doing an excellent job, you'd have to say someone else is doing a subpar job.
Leave Black Out periods so that staff are there for peak periods- where others are taking leave. Without compensation
I work at a state University and most of what is said hit. And the state legislature would like us to pay for work.
Mandatory group chats on cell phones. If there is information i need for my job, tell me when i am on the clock. Dont force me to check my messages at all hours of the day, just so i don't miss that one communication i needed.
I don't think HR was ever meant to serve employees.
We sued our company and won for company mandatory company training on our off time.
NON anonymous interviews, and during work hours, about the company,
even filming interviews with workers under pretext that it’s for social media postings, and we are encouraged to talk about the company in only positives
that training time was a rather good deal you became a full shiftt for half a day
Paying for parking!!! I once turned down a hospital job for this. They said if I didn’t want to pay for parking, I could find street parking. In the busy downtown??? LOL that’s a headache I don’t need every single morning. Now I park for free because I work from home. 🤣🤣🤣
work travel outside of work hours has always ticked me off. Pizza as a reward? for what? Getting a B on a 3rd grade math test?
Tell me more about the exit interview.
Christmas parties!!! Such a scam. Always hated them. Always will.
Anonymous surveys are awful, especially with misleading questions to ensure good results. Forced DEI training.
YOU ARE TERIFFIC!!! Thank you so very much.
All of this. ALL.
A bit off topic but how about doing one about "when your boss is an ex hard core university frat rat? I've known a number of those in my 39 years of civilian employment and in my experience those guys just can't give it up and realize frat rat is not a thing anymore. Very annoying.
What about capping wages for long-term associates?
You know what helps against this BS? Unionising
Human resources, i.e. corporate slaves.
Exactly 😢
parking costs me 60 a month on hospital support company grounds, and it is just a open lot no gates nada ,,, just saying seems a scam to me .
This is so depressing.