For the "everyone has to listen to the same music rule," the solution is simple. Have several people bring in portable Bluetooth speakers and all play the same song on them, but at slightly different starting points so that none of them are in sync. It would sound absolutely horrendous.
I got fired for wearing Navy blue socks instead of black. I'm blue black color blind. I ended up settling out of court for $115k usd. Right to work states rule.......
An old manager buddy of mine told me a story of how some newbie manager tried to come into his store and tell one of his employees to go home for the day just because of the color of her socks. After it was confirmed that this guy was not joking, he was told to fuck off, since that employee was the only other person running the store that morning
potaterjim yeah we’ve had that happen a few times at my old job... at a movie theatre... I don’t know who cares about the person selling them popcorn/cleans their theatre has full black socks...😂😅
It's not being treated loke children. It's being treated like property they are begrudgingly obligated to pay...well, in the worst cases like these at least. If corporate leaves their low-level management some leyway and you have decent bosses, it can be decent except for probably neber getting paid what you're worth if you do honest work.
Kinda like the president of my school who had to be strong armed into closing the campus by the rest of the board Becuase he believed -40 degree weather wouldn't be an issue for students getting to class
They have more to lose if they upset their boss, so they work you harder so they don't put themselves at risk. Especially in retail, things make more sense when you remove all emotions from the situation and just think about what benefits the manager the most. They'll learn if people stop listening to them when they pull that shit.
it's nice, although as par of being assertive an make yourself clear may be better to tell what you want than what you don't want. (even if they do something that you dont want, tell what u'd like instead)
Szobiz it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. In this case I wasn't trying to teach people not to do these specific things, but rather teaching them what mindset to avoid.
Just for my own curiosities sake id like to question as to how that went over I.e. did anything chuckle worthy come out of the situation from your senior management or perhaps your fellow executives
I always think it's funny when places have dumb ass rules like this and then are wondering why they have such a huge turnover rate. Happy employees will always be more productive employees.
I actually have good managers who let shit be at the workplace, and don't enforce dumb rules. But it only takes one idiot like this to ruin lives, honestly.
@topal Osman well for the UK you can start with the count dankula case or the one where a pedophile was let go without jail time or being put on a list even though he was proven to have broken the law.... because he was in school to be a dentist. General lack of free speech, the rise of socialism, people not realizing brexit is about gaining sovereignty of their own country. I am still laughing. May is so incompetent that she might fumble into the best solution possible. No deal and not paying the 37b to the eu that they already spent.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 not to mention the multiple cases of people facing seversl thousand pound fines for watching "right wing propaganda" due to the anti-terrorist act. And journalists being arrested at the border while allowing people that even muslim countries consider too extreme to come speak in your countries mosques.
I'm pretty sure the water limit was illegal, it goes against basic human rights. I also believe the no food/bathroom for a 12 hour shift is not legal either. I'm not sure though, I used to have to work 10-12 hour shifts with no break bc there was nobody who could cover for me.
I work 8 hour shifts with no breaks. That IS illegal, at least where I'm from. I make such good tips and my boss is my landlord so I don't speak up. I've thought about it many times though... Also many of my coworkers are on-call. Legally they are supposed to be paid for 2 hours if they don't get called in but they of course don't pay them even though they sit and wait all night to see if they have to work.
The rule about not being able to ask whether someone was fired or not sounds extremely fishy for me. I can think about two reasons why it would be implemented: 1. To avoid protest when someone was fired against rules or if the rules were abused 2. To hide mass lay offs
I got a different approach: whenever someone left, that one manager went around and told everyone how bad that person was. I should add that it was quite normal in that business that everyone who gave notice of termination (or was laid off) was usually sent home to receive months of payment for doing nothing (or take a job elsewhere). There are reasons for this, but it is a waste of lifetime and money.
My first job in high school as cashier at a fast food place, I was told by the assistant manager that if I wasn't more "friendly" toward the male customers that I would be demoted to grill team. She explicitly told me that was why I was hired as cashier. At a fast food place. Would you like a strip tease with that, sir?
I had a job that measured if you were taking too many sick days with a score system that multiplied the total number of days off by the number of times you were off. So if you took 5 separate sick days (5x5=25) over the course of a year your score would be the same as someone who took 5 entire weeks off (25x1=25) in one go. If you had one sick day a month for a year, you would have the same score as someone who missed half the entire year. The company went bust.
@@adriangodoy4610 I think the system was designed to be lenient on people who had serious illnesses like that. The logic was a person who takes a week off for an operation shouldn't have the same attendance record as someone who calls in with a hangover every now & then. The maths of the system was just screwed.
@@kilborn666 it kinda makes sense though at the same time if you think it through the way the way I interpreted it. it means those with chronic illnesses that might need to take a chunk of time off e.g. 4 weeks because of an operation for a known reason is given more leniency with everything in consideration than someone who just calls in sick every other week probably because they felt like it. Also in the UK at least if you're sick for 5 days or more you need a doctors note so then that would say why and the employers can understand what is going on, in my limited experience people are less of an asshole if you stop to explain why things are like they are.
I worked a retail job and if you were caught socializing in the back, you could get written up. I very quickly found a way to avoid getting written up. in order to actually catch you not working and only socializing, the managers had to ask “What are you working on back here?” And either catch you saying, “I’m working on this project” when clearly you were talking, or you’d say, “I’m taking a break,” as to which they’d stand back there and then once 5-10 minutes passed they’d demand you get back to work. But I found out that if I simply responded back, “What are you doing back here?” They were subjugated to the same rules; as it stated NO EMPLOYEE can be socializing in the back. This would catch the manager off guard and they’d immediately find a task to do back on the sales floor, as if they were found taking time to try to catch employees not working, it would be seen as they were not working either. Eventually they stopped asking me why I was in the back. And. Eventually I became a manager there too, where I changed the actual rule to; please try to find something to do in the back while you talk. Idk if that’s better, but it’s something.
When I was a freshmen and when I was a sophomore, my High School had a rule that if you were 10 minutes late to 1st block, then you would get ISS (In School Suspension), *BUT IF YOU CAME TO SCHOOL PAST HALF OF 1ST BLOCK, THEN YOU WERE ONLY MARKED AS ABSENT TO 1ST BLOCK!* (Needless to say, I would arrive at school, then my mother drove to a parking lot nearby and I caught up on homework)
My High School was a shit hole. If you missed one period you would be considered absent for the whole day. If you ended up missing 15 periods in total you would have to go to Truancy Court.
High school teacher here, I know, it's a dumb rule. I would always give my students a 10-15 minute window grace period for my 1st period classes.. we're usually doing school announcements and a lesson warm-up anyway, not a huge loss if students are late. But yes, I have to mark students absent, after 30 minutes, regardless if they show up late
When i worked at Netflix CS it was standard to arrive 5 minutes early before your shift starts and set up the systems. This was unpaid. I of course refused that and always arrived at time, i was never late. But i was never early. My team leader was gonna give me a warning and i refused to sign it. After arguing for 30 minutes our business manager enters the room and tells me "it will be easier for you if you just sign it". After a while they started saying i was LATE??? I told them to check the systems and they said i signed in just in time, like I always do. Ended up with HR getting the case, and they said "Hey this is not legal, we cant make people work unpaid". No shit. Netflix CS then changed the rules and we were allowed to begin our shifts when they actually did begin.
I was working as a greeter... i was not allowed to speak... so i just nodded and bowed to every one who entered... Which made customers furious because some of them asked me things and not being allowed to speak, i could not answer them... "Excuse me, where is the bathrooms?" "Could you tell me where parking lot X is?" My favorite was when my boss showed up and asked where the bathroom was, i just held up a piece of paper where i had written "Company rule 4, You are not allowed to speak while on the job" I got fired on the spot and i just shouted "FINALLY!" (We do not get social pay if we quit or job)
heh i know the feeling. i was escorting a guy and he tried to small talk but i couldnt reply, i hated to look rude, but he understood i couldnt talk pretty quickly.
They fired you for following the rules...?? That's messed up. Also, WHY?? Greeters are SUPPOSED to be able to talk. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR... smh
I worked for an American school franchise in a Muslim country. The company only recognised christian holidays, so during Muslim holidays we sat in our offices and empty classrooms with nothing to do. However, we were supposed to expel students who were absent too often, which would have meant expelling _all_ students who took Muslim holidays - which was all of them. So we marked all the absent students as "late". Specifically, 28 days late.
@@talalmunir25 _"Which country"_ Saudi Arabia. Full of the friendliest, most laid-back people, with the filthiest sense of humour. Just the opposite of what you'd expect, judging by their government.
I work at a summer camp and got in trouble last summer for being "too close" with my campers. Sorry I'm good at my job and my campers actually like me, I'll try to be worse at my job in the future.
I kinda understand this one, it's not about you being good at your job. There's a power relationship there, its a twofold thing. Theres the concern that if you're too close with your campers, that power relation is diminished and your authority and the authority of other leaders is compromised. There's also the issue of abusing your authority with the campers, and other people might get the wrong idea on how close they can be with the campers.
@@garrofwar148 Considering I was the only counselor in the 3 years I've worked there that was able to control that age group (11-13 year olds) I don't think the authority was compromised. Every counselor that had that group before me warned that they were an awful group, they were rude, they didn't listen, they were mean to each other, etc. But I didn't experience any of that. They were great for me, because I treated them with respect and like adults and they responded well to that and liked me. I wasn't just being a pushover, I was making a conscious decision about how to run my group and treat my campers, and it was very effective. I honestly don't know what my boss's issue with it was, but it definitely wasn't that. Was probably the latter thing you mentioned, although I take offense to that, because I find it sexist. No one is going to make that assumption if I'm a woman. But because I'm a dude, being friendly with my campers must mean I'm a child molestor.
@@tgags123HD Then your boss is only there for business, not basic human relation/courtesy... I'm sorry but yeah they may only see the campers as business.
That's just how military is sometimes. Someone implements a weird rule that really only affects one person, well it gets looked over for a while then it's, "ok they've had enough. Change it." In war, there is no mercy. Any second could be their last in combat. So this stuff serves to toughen up and prepare people or make them leave for their own good and the good of the team they would hold back.
I work in aircraft maintenance (2a5) b shred. We had an section chief who said we must have a clean and presentable uniform at all times despite crawling ,kneeling and leaning over chemicals and fluids throughout the entire shift. Our uniforms were stained from aircraft fluids , blood etc and often had wear marks or were faded, etc . He had denied my order of cover all’s twice and couldn’t wrap his head around why everyone in the shop always was dirty when he worked “maintenance” and his uniform looked clean despite the fact his job was to sit in an office and make slides and briefs about our production
Dang that last one sucks. Working in retail already sucks and is a hassle, but being "on call" like that? Jeez. I'd try to find another job, I wouldn't want to deal with that.
On call is the fucking worst. Thankfully good managers know to only use it on certain days (I'm talking like 1 on call day for a person every few months) and it's not us who have to call in to make sure we aren't working thankfully. Manager on duty has to call and confirm whether they will be needed or not
I'm pretty sure that was called the 0 hour policy fast food places would always have people working under these contracts. My country has now banned the 0 hour policy.
I grew up in California and "on call" to me always meant that you had to be avaipable at a moment's notice to come in, and it rotated. My father would be an "on call" mechanic one week every two months, which meant he could be woken up at 1am and called off to fix a forklift out on a farm or at some newspaper printing press or fish market or whatever. I volunteered to work "on call" for retail, Big Lots, because it came with over time pay and got me brownie points with the management (which resulted in more weekly hours and a but more freedom). People would see the weekly schedule and I had 21 hours where they had 12 or 16 and asked why I had so many, and the answer is because I was also willing/able to come in when I wasn't scheduled and always said yes, and never called in either. Look... peoppe have families and lives and reasons they need time off. However, far more people make excuses and ruin it for the responcible single mothers who really need to take their kid to the doctor. There were plenty of "I have a hangover from last night, so fuck it" kinds of people who would admit they were slacking off and thank me for having their back. Like... I just needed the money to pay for my car. Thanks for donating our hours. That ppace was super fucked when I got a better job. I literally got messages by managers begging me to come in and they would pay me indopendant contract labor and a higher rate because they were desperate and needed somebody they could trust... and I had to tell them I was at work doing my real 40 hour job. It was impossible.
The way to get ahead in life is to work as many hours as possible when younger and start investing money in safe diversified stocks in different sectors.
Currently going to college and working in a retail store at the same time. We're not allowed to say over the intercom when the store closes **or that we've already closed.** We physically have to find the customers and ask them if they "need help finding anything before we close," even if it's already 15 minutes past closing time. Many times this has resulted in customers being accidentally locked in the store, or them just unlocking the doors while we sort the cash office. Great rule.
We have a similar rule at the supermarket I work in. We do have a bell which we ring to notify customers, but someone usually walk the stores informing the customers we are closed and to finish up their shopping. Mind you we have 15-30mins, depending on the day to close up the store and do all the money counting, so customers need to hurry it up.
We're supposed to "officially" start announcing closing time over the loud speaker 15mins , 10mins, 5mins, ect... before closing until we're closed. One time I had this guy and his filipino wife who we could not get to leave the store and they continued shopping 30 minutes after we had closed.
where i work, we mane an announcement at 30 minutes until closing time, 15 minutes until closing time, and at closing time. and each time, we tell the customers to please make their final selections and bring them to a register. we do get those asshole customers who come running in or 5 minutes before we close to get that one item they just couldn't do without (which is usually something idiotic). but most times we're out of there about 5 or 10 minutes after close...and sometimes even right at closing time (if it's slow). we're pretty much laid back, don't have any weird or crazy rules, and our management staff is awesome.
@OrangeGalen : Honestly, I would have reported her. Any rule against drinking water with no valid reason has _got_ to violate some kind of law. Or at the very least an unspoken rule regarding basic human decency.
@OrangeGalen : Yeah, that makes sense. Now that I think about it, back when I was in high school, I probably would have just imagined getting her in trouble while I sat there internally raging.
@OrangeGalen I also have a teacher with a rule that no drinking water is allowed, but i get thirsty a lot and need to drink a lot of water. So i just turn around, face my back toward her and drink the water. I was still young back then and i didn't realize this could be easily seen, ya i was really dumb. But what i also didn't realize was how lazy she is and how "dedicate" she is at her job. She literally just face down, read out the text book and pretending she was teaching. So the rule for me basically become "you can drink your water but not when i am paying attention at my job"
I work In a butchery. We used to wear just hair-nets (think what a lunch lady wears on her head) until an *Eye lash* was found on a steak . Now we wear the equivalent of a Ruck sack on our head with only eyes/nose/mouth holes to peep through. Not joking. Search "mondasian cybermen" and we LEGIT look like this but with a cap on our head . Edit:Thanks for the likes everyone ! Alot of comments have bought up good points about the masks but my department have used that logic already for the last _Two years_ but to no avail . We (and the town) are used to the creepy masks now .
I think it wasnt meant to repremand you and your colleagues (atleast not directly). But simply because of hygiene, the meat might have been sent to get minced, which is at high risk for contamination
I don’t even need to look that up to picture that! A whovian walking in and seeing you all in those would immediately turn around and go. If you see a Cyberman cutting up meat, GTFO!!!!!!
To stop the idiot trend... I know. It makes me sad to live in a world where people are so uncaring and stupid. I thought it was just child authorities who did this shit. Now im a bit scared to grow up, or at least work an office job. It sounds sad
Hearing "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" made me actually grit my teeth, cuz the regional manager at the store I worked at said it all the goddamn time
mine says it all the time, made us “check lists” to follow so we know that there are stuff to clean... clean supplies ran out because were //cleaning// then proceeds to complain about us using cleaning supplies more than necessary and asking why we were cleaning stuff that are already clean
When I worked at my local McDonald's for the overnight shift, they told me that too. Problem was there wasn't muck "work" to do really early in the morning after the switch from the evening to overnight when I worked the grill. We were told to clean random shit to look busy or we were "lazy" employees. I could only clean the same fucking counter for so long. That shit made me want to tear my hair out.
This makes me appreciate my job. You can show up 30 minutes late, say sorry as you walk past the office, fill out the time card accordingly, and never hear a word about it again. If you need to take a phone call, go for it. Spend 5-10 minutes goofing off and chatting while waiting for a subassembly to move down the line, no big deal. Step outside for some fresh air every few welds when it's smoking bad, all's good. No quotas, no official write-ups, the owner of the company comes out and talks directly with us welders multiple times a day, problems are dealt with face to face. No paperwork, no record keeping, no HR involvement, just straight up talking it out man to man. If we butt heads with the shop lead, we don't catch any flak from up top, we just argue it out until we come to some agreement. Shifts are consistent, and any time outside of the agreed shift is 100% up to the employee to take or not. I work 8s, most people work 10s, we've got some part timers, some people go for overtime, but nobody is forced to. Yeah, it's hard dirty dangerous welding shop work, but it's nice and clean and safe compared to the industry as a whole, and the laid-back atmosphere with everyone keeping it real makes it a great place.
Rocky Mountain Rotary we have a 6 minute leeway, but if you’re more than 6 minutes late you get half a point. 11 points you’re fired. You get a full point for missing a full day, even if you have a doctors note. You can use pto to cover it so you still get paid, but you still get a point. Makes no sense. Like why would I waste my pto if I’m still gonna get a point. And if we have a doctors note it should be excused. One guy accidentally sliced his arm open and he had to go to the ER, he still got half a point for leaving early.
When I was in high school I worked in the auto body shop which we treated like a job because we were building cars from frame up and working on teachers and students cars as 'money' most of the time it went into the shop and new parts or parts. He taught me a bunch of amazing work ethics. We ran it basically the same and since I put in the work and stayed for 4 years through the whole time always there after school when we had a car needed so I worked my way up till I was basically running the office teaching the kids in my class. I had full reign on the grade book and emails. I was the one who ordered parts. He never gave me shit as long as what he wanted was done. When my best friend died who was also in the class he let me cry on his shoulder and woildnt let anyone sit at his desk out of respect. Sorry for the long reply but there still are people like that.
@@brennicolas3093 Oh oh oh! I got one. If we are going to call in, we have to call in at least 30 minutes ahead of our shift or it will count as a no call no show for two points. Guy was driving in one night when the roads were a bit icy. He wrecked and flipped his car, ambulance had to take him to the hospital, the whole shebang. He got 2 points. Poor bastard. Another guy had a mild heart attack while on the floor and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He got a whole point because he "left" before the halfway point of his shift. He had waited an hour to have the heart attack, he would only have gotten half a point.
That's a wonderful way for the restaurant to lose their liquor license and garner massive fines. When you eventually leave, if you leave on bad terms, you could report that lol but they'll get caught eventually (most likely).
It's funny to us, but there are still people in the world who believe in curses and the like. I don't know anything about Uganda in particular, but it's possible that such accusations could put a person in harm's way.
I had a regional manager look at me like I was an alien when I explained to her that it was physically impossible for me to be in two places simultaneously.
yeah happened to me once too, told management i quit because management was absolutely horrendous (yes i told them that they were running the company terribly). they put down they fired me when i got my t5 or whatever it is. then the company went bankrupt less than a year later.
Can bet that's because they were supposed to get additional expenses if the employee left vs when they were fired. Or it was for statistic's sake, "see how great our company is? Nobody left by themselves, _ever!"_
I'd say these were more dictatorships. Fascism has more to do with governments propping up failing economies as if everything were normal - by any means necessary.
Dude, same. My work advertised itself as "fun and games" but when I started I was being told every five seconds not to do something or I'd get in big trouble (one of which is stop moving).
I got a good one. A fast food restaurant I worked at a while back had the most ridiculous tardy/attendance policy I had ever seen. I'm not the best at getting to work on time, but I never push it more than 5 minutes (always for the usual bull shit, traffic, weather, etc) but when I started working there they had taken it pretty seriously I thought since I was in a probationary period and they gave me a write up. Annoying since I was only two minutes late, but wasn't the biggest deal since I just saw it as management trying to flex their authority and make sure I wouldn't develop a habit of being late. So next time I'm scheduled to work I decide to leave incredibly early. I show up to work 15 minutes early, wait in my car until a couple minutes before I start, and clock in with 3 minutes to spare. Good right? Wrong, I had *yet another* meeting with the manager about how punctuality is of utmost concern at this company and since I had gone against the company policy I would have to receive a second write up. What was the policy I violated you ask? Apparently, what the company expects us to do *every time we clock in* is to stand in front of the clock until the *exact* minute we were scheduled to work and clock in *on the dot.* I thought this was so ridiculous that they were trying to fire me over petty bull shit because of problems with money, but then I noticed that every other coworker was doing this for every shift. Not only that, this was something that extended *beyond* the probationary period and a worker could be fired without hesitation if they clocked in early/late more than three times. They would stand in front of the clock staring at it like jack asses until the right moment simply because the company didn't want to pay a penny more than what was on the schedule. I had never believed in a million years I would ever be punished for being early, but there I stood on the brink of getting fired over it. Needless to say, I played along for a couple more weeks and found a job elsewhere that gave significantly less shits about it. I understand that the extra money over several coworkers clocking in a half hour early could add up, but it still blows my mind being 3 minutes early would get me write up. I'm not an economist, but I can't imagine the cost of doing paperwork for hiring someone, then firing them, then hiring someone new on top of going through the process of training them yet again is more cost effective then just dealing with someone being 3 minutes early.
Sounds like the call center I used to be at. We’d have a shift that started at 9am but the thing was we changed desks every single day (gotta love hot desking) and would have to reconfigure the computer every time we changed which took about 10 minutes. But they expected us to be logged in and ready to go at 9am and would only pay us from that time. So the idea was we’d use our own time to adjust the computer and chair to suit us, reconfigure, login to about 5 different systems, and set everything up...on our time. Needless to say the turn over for staff was off the charts.
Glad we had flexi-time - had to be on the job between 10-12 and 2-4 each day but could work any time between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. weekdays to make the hours up. Getting overtime payments for weekends was a pain howevere, even though it was necessary sometimes.
Timed bathroom breaks? I had a job like that. We were "timed" whenever we went poop - 6 minutes was all that was allowed but the bathroom was so far away it took 4 minutes round trip to get there and back, that leaves 2 whole minutes to actually poop! The bosses never timed their own poop...I wonder why not apply it to themselves....
Maybe your bosses are on salary? I know that if you're on salary, you aren't timed for your breaks/lunches. Also, I work for a call center - not sure if you do too - and we get two 15 minute breaks. When I actually worked inside the call center, my cubicle was a good 5 minutes (to and from) away from the restroom. I completely understand how you feel. However, since I work from home now, I don't have to worry about the 5 minutes each way because my bathroom is a few feet from my desk (it's set up in my master bedroom).
I used to work for a family run hotel. I could go on for days about the many ridiculous things they did, but the one rule they had was charging more for more people in a room. Fair enough but people got smart enough to sneak more people in after checking in. I worked by myself the night shift. The owners expected me to go to the rooms where I thought that there were more people, knock on the door and check. I told them out right that there was no way I was doing that. I'm a woman and there alone in the middle of the night. They ended up "cutting my hours" when a guest had a cooler stolen out of his vehicle in the parking lot. Never mind that he had left it in an open truck bed and even if I had time to watch the parking lot every second, I would have had no idea that the cooler didn't belong to whomever took it. I told them not to bother cutting my hours, I quit. They called me every week for months begging me to come back.
I had an apartment land lady try that, if it was just me rent would have been $400 per month but with my wife and two kids it would have been $1600. Needless to say we told her to stuff it up her ass, then reported her to the land lord tenant board.
My grandpa used to totally be one of those people who would sneak extra people into the rooms. He would check in with my grandma while my mom and her two siblings hid in the car. Then they’d sneak the kids in later. Not to mention these are *incredibly* cheap motels. Like the cheapest they could find. Dirt and pests galore. Hilarious/sad thing is he actually at the time was making hundreds of thousands from his hardware shop (he eventually became a self made millionaire). Whatta guy.
In the US, there is such a law that you can only have so many in a hotel room. If you lie about how many are going to sleep in the room, it's considered defrauding an innkeeper.
It is absolutely not true that UPS trucks don't turn left. What's really the case is that the routing software plans multiple destinations favouring right turns to left with a 10:1 ratio.
And we drivers favor right turns when possible as well just because it's faster. I dunno if there's actual routing software though. Maybe there is, but at my small centre we've just manually set up sequence routes or not bothered with them at all and just shoved new streets in wherever on the machine's database.
@@unspun1YT Not so. I worked at 7-11 at one point and you are not allowed a lunch break. You are allowed to eat, of course, but you have to work while you do so, and anything you eat you have to pay for of course unless you brought in your own food.
I am from canada where you have to have a lunch break other wise your employer can get into alot of legal problems. I didnt know where this person was from, so that is why i "asked"
Pharmacist is a salaried position. They don't get the same protections that an hourly employee does. I think hourly are required to get a half hour unpaid lunch when working six hours or more. But, some companies ignore labor laws.
My friend works as an auto mechanic. He has to wear a full suit, including suit jacket and tie, because he has to look professional for the customers who will never see him. It costs hundreds to clean motor oil from one of those things or repair rips. Friend wears one under what is essentially a hazmat suit without the hood and face mask or helmet. He also has to be clean-shaven and with hair no longer than his shoulders. Joke's on them, he has a natural afro.
@@CaTastrophy427 That tie is a safety hazard if there, for some weird reason, are moving parts in an engine repair shop. There are a few professionals you should never trust: A thin cook. A clean mechanic. A tailor with ill fitting clothes. A teacher whose resume is full of spelling errors.
@@VhsVcr While doing military service I was ordered to clean out a dusty cellar. We are talking really dusty here. Of course my boots were dusty at the lunch meeting, and of course I was ordered to clean them, Right before going back into that cellar. Cleaning them at the end of the day was one thing, but in the middle of the day just for the lunch break?
A number of US states are working on getting rid of - or have gotten rid of - the on-call retail scheduling issue mentioned in the video. EDIT: ....or making retailers pay employees for the time between checking in with their employers and receiving a decision, e.g. phone in two hours before, employee gets paid for those two hours regardless of whether they are scheduled to come into the shop that day or not.
@@queencleopatra007 I haven't worked retail but know plenty of people who do or did and the whole keeping employees in limbo until right before they may or may not need to go into work seems to just add insult to injury in an already difficult job. Aside from firming up schedules with advanced notice, there was a case in California to make retailers pay employees for the time they wait between calling in and their employer making the decision to schedule them that day or not.
I have never heard about this rule being in retail, I know some things regarding medical have it like nursing homes and hospitals but never heard of retail having it.
a friend of mine is a train driver, and twice a month he would have "astreinte" (i don't know the english word). Basically, he goes to work with a blank schedule and just sits in the break room until someone doesn't show up/call sick. He is payed full salary for those days. They have a different system for those who can afford it (ie. live close enough) they are allowed to not be there if they can show up in less than 15 minuts but they are only payed 2/3.
@@DeathlordSlavik The practice varies store by store. It's pretty common for people who might work behind the counter at a fast food place as well as all sorts of stores. The case in California I mentioned above was against American Eagle Outfitters (I think - might have been Abercrombie).
THIS I am a lunchlady and we are allowed 3 points before termination You get a point if you call off sick You get new points at the of the school year :^)
@@4swordsluver I used to work at a cafeteria for the federal government. If you showed up to work with so much as the sniffles the floor head (who was a former drill sergeant) would make you feel like it was the first day of boot camp, then send you home. I miss working for sarge, he passed away a few months before I left.
People at my work were forbidden from making popcorn during their lunch breaks even though the vending machine had microwave popcorn in it. The reason was because when someone made popcorn every employee and some customer would wander in and say “sombody making popcorn?” The rule ended when one of my bosses walked in munching on a bag of popcorn and announced that the ban had been lifted btw
I've never seen an office wide ban, but I did see one co-worker banned from making microwave popcorn after the second time she burned the bag and stunk up the whole building.
@@Johncornwell103 I know my state is a little better than some places (like we do have laws saying you have to receive overtime pay else legally you don't have to do the task) but hearing how some people end up treated honestly angers me.
Management at my job have tried to change like, 12 rules while i've been working there. I've ignored them all and they've all been removed. My favorite was "you need a doctors note to be able to drink water on the clock". I work in a deli, where it is hot and dry.
Being in an animal and don’t give it water for several days. Then show manager the dead animal and say, he never got a doctors note, can we drink water now?
Same exact rule at my current job. I can completely understand not being allowed to keep cups of water on top of your work station where it could potentially spill, and no open containers (i.e. container must have a lid or bottlecap), and even not being not allowed to drink anything besides water because of potential stains and sticky messes. But no water whatsoever without a doctor's note is ridiculous, especially considering the customer service managers carry drinks around with them and even have a personal break table in the office.
I was a server in an Italian fine dining establishment. We freely gave bread to every table and refilled if low before even requested. We also worked a lot of doubles so not uncommon to work a 12 to 14 hour shift. The owners wife was the bread nazi. There were notes in every employee space reminding you that bread was not free and penalties for eating it. At first I thought ok they are just cheep. Turns out as I went through training I found out there was a brown bag we were supposed to through the ends into and also any bread left in the basket on the tables and I thought, well maybe they make bread crumbs from it. Nope she wanted it to feed the birds in her yard. We would lose shifts if caught eating the heel of bread on a 14 hr shift because we were taking it from her birds. Because of the nazi, the chefs would sometimes take mercy on us and make something for the staff because in fine dining the chefs weild all the power. I have never felt more liberated in my life than when I walked out of that joint!!!
I worked at a red lobster and they too tried to enact a no-bread policy. But we didn't have anywhere to keep a lunch and they only gave a 50% discount on the food. I hated the bread but some of the other college kids didn't survive. Sadly
@@DirtyPrancing the policy there was 50% off also. Lunches ran $15-$30 and dinners $25-$30. Totally unaffordable to eat on a regular basis. On the bright side it keeps my weight at 115 lbs.
I had a temp job while I was in high school and I kept it while in University. I only worked one day a week on Saturdays contracted to 9-5. This basically meant I had to work 9-5, and if I came earlier I still had to work till 5. My timetable for university gave me a day off on Mondays. I thought I could make extra money and if I start at 7 I should finish at 3 and I can study too, considering I'm not meant to be working. My manager was having none of that and wanted me to stay to 5, on a day I'm not rostered to work on. He let me go but in future I had to finish at 5. I never worked Mondays again 😂😂
Quality Control Agent: Listen, this paperwork shows a mistake with your initials. Would you please mind remembering to not repeat the mistake? Employee: *wailing* WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?!
I worked at a hospital that locked the bedpans in a closet because they didn't patients to use them so patients would just poop and pee in there clothes or beds, even ones who weren't incontinent. Yeah, I quit that job. I'm not a damn Gestapo officer.
"All recreational activity is forbidden on company time & resources... Except fantasy football" This one actually makes sense because fantasy football is not recreational... it is war.
We were forbidden by head office from knowing if there was a security camera system installed, and if there was one that we found it had to be taken out. Incomprehensible nonsense.
@@kitsunekaze93 this is not an area of law i know a lot about. (The UK). It was a retail store, its common here on the shop floors, but i dont know anything about staff only parts. I have little knowledge about cameras recording staff in other parts of the economy. I wish i could give a more conclusive answer, apologies.
We have locked first aid boxes as well--2 main reasons, theft prevention and so management is aware if a worker so much as needs a bandaid for a paper cut, so they can be written up for a workplace safety violation because "all accidents are preventable." So you find unofficial stashes everywhere--desk drawers, filing cabinets, toolboxes. I'm sure plenty of the official supply expired in the Obama Administration. We had a contractor gash his hand on a flange one time and bled like a stuck pig and the area supervisor didn't want to open the cabinet because of "liability" or some bs, said she had to sign out the key with her manager, so I busted the lock off with a large screwdriver, basically told her if you write me up, remember who maintains your network and keeps this plant humming along. We also have a workplace policy forbidding workers to call 911 if someone is seriously hurt or ill--a manager is supposed to do it. Needless to say I work for the government.
I once worked as a valet for a medium-sized restaurant. The problem was that their parking lot was very, VERY small (with barely enough space for about 20 cars, when they had over 30 tables). We weren't allowed to deny service to anyone, so on rush hour and busy days we had to take the customer's cars to the parking lot of a mall around the corner and literally run back. If that wasn't bad enough, the owner was super stingy about paying us back for what we had spent on the mall's parking lot, always going about how we should pay out of pocket from the tips we got, and how we were being ungrateful for asking for our money back. I only worked there for about three weeks before I had had enough. As far as I know, they're still doing the same.
I worked in retail, the dress code was pretty relaxed but there was a rule that 'Shorts are allowed but they cannot show too much skin'. I wasn't really sure what that meant but I looked at what my coworkers were wearing and wore similar ones. I was called out by my manager that my shorts were too short . When I explained that I was actually wearing longer shorts than some of my coworkers she told me that because I was taller than them(I'm 5'11 and most of my coworkers were short)I'm showing more skin and I need to wear shorts that are comparatively longer. So I had to wear mid-thigh shorts from then on while my coworkers could get away with pretty much as short as they wanted.
One of my company's stores was staffed with mostly very petite girls and they were allowed to wear shorts on the weekends, except for the one girl that was thicker than the rest. My manager there actually told her she was only allowed to wear bermuda style shorts because her butt was too big to wear the same style as the rest of them.
As someone who also has a big butt it is true that the same length of clothing will fit you differently, it appears much shorter and looks more risque than in more slender people. And Don't get me started on dresses
@@perlasmermaid5812 I too have a big butt, I avoid shorts because they make my thighs look like a busted can of biscuits so I don't even fuck with it lol
@elephantasmic Whole different situation perhaps, but I was often called out for cursing or using rude words on my education (I was there from age 21 to 23.) I would often shrug my shoulders and say; 'But why am I the one getting reprimanded? Didn't you hear what Wendy said? I was even trying to stay as polite as possible here.' And she'd respond; 'Yeah but Wendy has a different character from you. Wendy is quite a loudmouthed person and you aren't.' And I said; 'So, because I have been quite silent and mellow for the last couple of months, I can't say the F-word, but *she* is allowed to talk about wanting to murder someone's newborn, because she hasn't brought the baby for show-and-tell yet?' And they said; Indeed. She often uses language that's a bit inflammable, whereas you never do that, so I don't accept that from you.' And I asked; 'If I had arrived into this building a year ago, behaving like Wendy does now...you would've thought that was acceptable? Like when she hit me with her waterbottle and screamed, because she said it felt like I ignored her?' And the teacher answered;' Yes. In that case, I would've thought that was just your personality being a bit rough. But it isn't, your personality is different. And that is just how Wendy happens to respond to a dissapointment.' (For clearity; a classmate had gotten pregnant and had birthed the baby on tuesday. She hadn't visited the school at thursday and so, Wendy said that she hoped the mother would find the child dead in the crib, because that'd 'teach her to dismiss her classmates like that.'
Stupid work rule I heard from a friend: Attend a risk assessment briefing before long weekends or going on vacation, because scuba diving, motorcycle riding or hang gliding would be considered risky recreational activities. His job: Explosive ordinance disposal, detonating IEDs or unexploded ordinance.
That's a rather sensible rule though. Risky recreational activities are still risky regardless of what you do - just because he blows bombs up for a living doesn't mean he is an expert in scuba diving or hang gliding. Not to mention that a lot of the "my job is dangerous" crowd tend to scoff at safety precautions because "I know this better than you", before proceeding to mess up and injure themselves.
@@MyVanir I've lost about 4 dozen people I know to hazardous military duty but only to off duty activities. And that wasn't a hazardous activity. I have seen hundreds of times more injuries playing sports than military duty related. The most dangerous place on deployment is the recreational areas (basketball, volleyball, baseball, football fields.) DNBI accounts of greater than 86% of injuries and casualties during conflict. Silly rule might have been a better choice of words.
When I was is the Army, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. My First Sergeant implemented a rule saying "If you are depressed, you cannot lead troops or be an NCO." He even tried to demote me for it.
@@jemimaho7710 yeah, I was actually counseled by him where he tried to justify it so my Squad Leader filled out a counseling sheet basically saying "It takes a lot of strength to admit when you need help and someone who can do that can lead troops." I was really glad he stood up for me.
I'm sorry you had to deal with depression, as I've struggled with that my entire life. However, I don't buy that because I'm an army veteran, and so is my ex husband and my dad. No one soldier can decide who gets promoted to the rank of NCO. Especially not a first sergeant. The commander, maybe. I know that you wouldn't have been demoted for that. Something tells me that there's a lot more to this. At any rate, even if it were true, it's a rather valid point to question the leadership skills of a person with mental illness.
@@michelleprieur1 I was a Corporal at the time heading to Sgt. He was trying to have me laterally put back to Specialist. I just figured most people wouldn't understand that so I paraphrased a bit. He was just an "old fashioned" guy and had a mentality that if it didn't bother him, it shouldn't bother anyone.
We have the same " if there's no work then you must find work " rule, I work at a tire shop, we aren't busy 1/3 of the time so once we've cleaned everything we have nothing to do. It got to the point where we organized the tires that were garbage.
I remember doing an internship at a shop before. They encouraged it but it wasn't as hard pressed. They'd be fine with ya going on your phone if you've gone so far to organize the scrap wheel weights lol (yes, it was sorting steel ones from other materials, we just dumped the buckets in the scrap metal pile after)
@@cpufreak101 we usually just do garbages, scrap metal, and a lot of sweeping and if its winter we just push the water out. It even got to the point where we seeped the shelves where we had our new tires.
We have the same rule. We are expected to clean if there is nothing else to do. But its impossible to stay busy the whole day as my job isn't super difficult, and extra long shifts are common.
My only silly work rule was whoever left the building last had to leave a single light on in the middle of the work space so the ghosts can see after we leave... I worked in a theater... It's a silly superstition and a waist of electricity... Everyone knows ghosts can see in the dark.
Stage superstitions are very important, and can be the make or break point for the actors. Plus, even though the ghosts can see in the dark, they do appreciate the extra light to see by, and makes their after dark performances much better.
I worked in a law firm once where they made me wear a bell. Apparently I was too quiet and people would forget I was there. It was all in good fun. ^_^
My coworkers tried to give me a bell once. I hid it somewhere the first chance I got, scared the crap out of one of them when he jostled the hiding spot and thought I was right behind him
The UPS not turning left thing... It's not a safety thing. They have delivery rounds, they turn right more often because it's more efficient and they don't have to stop and wait for oncoming traffic, which cuts down delivery times and wage costs. That it's safer is irrelevant to UPS. Most delivery companies also do this.
@@dynamicworlds1 The ambulance is going to take the shortest route to the fucking hospital because someone dies if they don't. More often than not you're going to need to plan your course ahead of time if you plan on *only* taking right turns. By law, you have to get out of the ambulance's fucking way and they can run reds.
I once saw a WikiHow on peeling a Kumquat. I'm not sure who's ever going to use it. I don't peel Kumquats, I eat them with the skin (since I buy organic ones if I ever get Kumquats.) Guess the WikIHow wasn't written for me.
@@MrMalicious5I'm pretty sure that if Amazon developed their own drugs they'd test them on us, too. Actually, having worked there going on 5 years, I know they would.
We cannot drink water near a customer. If it’s busy and you have a really sore throat and it hurts to breathe and speak you still have to speak and ask if they want paper or plastic bags and you cannot drink anything.
I'm a waitress and we kind of have that rule too. If you drink water or anything in front of a customer you'll be told to go and hide to drink It because it doesn't look smart enough.
It does look unprofessional, eating/drinking anything in front of a customer. Like would you eat at a restaurant where the waiter/waitress was munching on a bag of Doritos while serving you?
At my dads work, the punishment for missing one day is the exact same if you missed two days. So basically, if I see that he didn’t go to work then I pretty much know he’s not gonna be there tomorrow either.
"If you have time to lean, you have time to clean". Example of a jingoistic rule not followed by those who belch it out because they are never subject to it.
11:30 Okay no, that's bullshit. If you're not paying me extra, I'm not on call. If you're not paying me extra, I'm not working overtime. I'll tell you up front, "Since you're not paying me extra, I'm not going to be on call. That costs extra. You can schedule me, and I'll show up, otherwise you clearly don't need me, so I'm not."
The problem companies take advantage of desperate people. So you may have this cavalier attitude but if you had no job and had people relying on you then you probably wouldn't.
No, I've been in this exact position before. More than once. Sometimes they write me up for it once and then yield. Sometimes they drop me. I have left jobs before, with people who depend on me. It's not as hard to get work as people make out. You go down to the local workforce commission office, take the next job off the board, and work it while looking for a better job until you're satisfied. Letting them poach unpaid work out of you is a sucker's game. ESPECIALLY if the reason you're doing it is "to support someone". And the redditor making the comment in the first place agrees with me - finding a babysitter on short notice like that is hard.
Not a work place, but when I was at high school we had a natural hair colour only policy, which is pretty standard. Over the summer when I was 13, I stripped the dye off my hair, so it went from a peroxide blonde to dark ginger. When I went back to school I was put in detention for dyeing my hair an unnatural colour. They honestly thought that the bleach blonde was a natural colour. I had to get my mum to come into school and explain that it wasn’t, I’d just been dyeing my hair that colour for 2 years. Headteacher was a knob.
For some reason it reminds me of an old dress code my high school used to have. They required girls wear a certain type of shorts that weren't even made anymore so they all instead had to wear pants or dresses even on hot days. A bunch of girls ended up showing up in Bikini's to protest.
Only natural hair? Which shithole country is that? Would be completely illegal here. Dress codes for school too. Especially if it is for underwear. You could probably even sue for sexual harassment if anyone acts like checking it
GodMode England lmao. We have school uniforms etc, but in most schools its not that strict. Most schools also have the natural hair colour thing too because bright colours can be seen as a ‘distraction’. I was also excluded in year 9 for dip-dyeing my hair pink and refusing to strip it out. My year 9 picture is literally me with bright pink hair.
@@Maddie-ri8ct then i had luck with my country. We only had a few rules. No alkoholics. Dont smoke, but if you do noone cares. No knifes or guns. No illegal drugs. Dont use your phone until class 8. Dont leave the school territory, if you do you dont have an insurance.
Both of my old jobs had an unofficial role which was along the lines of 'Constantly change Grace's job description so she never knows what's happening until she gets to work and never get her input on implemented changes to her work, either'. Yes, I am Grace. Yes, I quit both of those jobs because of nervous breakdowns. Life Hack: Never apply for a position that's just been created, because sure as hell the employers will never know what they should get you to do and will constantly change things without asking.
Had a similiar Experience. Was Foreman of an shop. Problem was the shop was a State funded Program run by a Company. I Basically got People who where "too broken" for Hard Work and had to get them smoothly back into Work. Fixing old Bikes that got Donated to then give them to Familys who cant afford one. Fixing old furniture with the same goal. Repairing Stuff in Kindergardens and Public Playgrounds. Sounds ncie and easy? First day got 19 People fresh out of Psychiatry with heavy Depression and one Person with a Stiff Leg Prothesis who wasnt allowed to lift more than 10lbs due to hip and Back Problems. No Problem the Goal was to ge tthem back slowly to a "work ready" Persona over 6 Months time. So lets look at the Stuff the State and the company gave us to work with. Tables lots of Tables but not one screwdriver or Drill or any sort of tools. Okay lets take the Monthly Money that Program was giving me to spend on Tools? Nope! Its a state Program so i had a Social Worker who was my Superior. She decided that the old Carpet in the Break Room was more important. Same with curtains andother Stuff. It was summer, no one was sitting in the Break room during Break times. We made coffe and sat outside in the sun. After 5 Weeks i could finally start getting some Tools for the 20 People that should have been working. Remember theyre all with heavy depressions (except one). I had around 9 People left, the rest sat at home because why not? After 6 Months the Workshop wasnt running at all because of that Social Lady. But the Windows had nice Curtains, a new Carpet in the Break Room, new Wallpapers etc. Ive got a whole 6 Bikes done and 2 Beds. The Project got closed down afterwards because we made no progress. Sad because the Idea was quite good. Helping People getting back into Work while also providing a bit to the ones in need.
One job was being in charge of a school library, and the other was working in a church office. At least they knew better than to get me to try to make tea; I don't drink it, can't make it, everyone would somehow get food poisoning.
@@gracehowell. So you were basically the real-life version of Ramirez from the "Ramirez, do everything" meme :D. I hope you have no more nervous breakdowns at least
@@kaitan4160 That's when you just call them out on their shit and explain to them how it works. I did printing and worked post-press cutting down the press rolls to size. My machine was about 4 feet high and I had to inspect every foot of the roll. They wanted to take our chairs so I just kept finding shit to sit on. Pissed my boss off so bad, but they couldn't do anything about it.
At my school (is this okay for not being work?) they have this ridiculous rule that you can't pick up snow. I got detention for getting my hand *near* snow.
That is actually a pretty common rule. We weren't allowed to pick up snow either because kids would start snowball fights and people would get hurt. If you were caught picking up snow you would get yelled at, if you looked like you were going to throw it or make snow balls or something you got detention. Every school I went to had this rule.
the school i worked on had a similar rule but about picking insects. there would always be a mess if one kid grabbed an insect just to torment the others
2:20 I have this problem at my job. I make custom t-shirts at a custom t-shirt shop and I'm not allowed to sit and stare when clocked in. The shop is located in a dying mall so there's little to no foot traffic most of the time and the stores around us are empty. My duties are to work on shirt orders, make sure orders that are to be done by the other department are ready to be run, and making sure that completed orders had the customer contacted. Well if we had no orders and all the completed orders have been contacted and I run out of things to clean, I'm at a loss. I get yelled at if my boss walks in and sees my sitting or standing, doing nothing even if everything is spotless and there's no orders to be filled. I asked her what she wants me to do and most of the time it's clean this or that which I've already done. She tells me to do it again. At that point she's just having me waste cleaning supplies which costs her more money. (?) Then I used to work at Walmart. Their point policy was if you were over 5 minutes late, you'd lose half a point because it's considered half a day. Then, if you were sick and you leave early, you lose a full point. So if you're sick, just don't even bother showing up to try. Especially if you're late from being sick. That's a point and a half in a single day. 5 points in 6 months and you're fired. No wonder Walmart's employee turnaround rate was so high. Horribly pay, horrible attendance policy, you're treated poorly most of the time, not a good job.
@@Coolkc456 Ah okay, I know about Amazon, because it has an internet store in a few European countries like the UK, France and Germany. So I guess Amazon is a bit larger company, but Amazon also treats it's employees like disposable trash.
@@verenigingvandemagogen4548 well walmart tried to expand into europe around the beginnings of the 2000 but they left quite quickly because i guess it was not profitable. well i had one around 12km away from me in germany in my childhood.
I work as a designer-Illustrator, and a few months before they hired me, the other illustrators were not allowed to browse the internet. Even looking for references for their drawing. If they needed a reference for the drawing or a picture from a photostock, they had to ask the line manager... but not for the permission to browse, no no no. The line manager had to find them the image and send via corporate chat. Yup. Thankfully this stupid idea didn't live long.
@@Szobiz well it makes sense in a way that it is easier for a janitor to clean everything... seperating bio-waste from paper or plastic and such is actually good, but that's just my opinion...no offense (sorry if i spelled something wrong, i am not a native english speaker ^^")
I can understand the hazard, but as a previous pregnant woman, making it to any trash can/toilet was hard, let alone trying to find the exact trash can you can throw up in?
why not give pregnant women a biohazard can they can put close to their desk? If you bother making rules about which to use because it has become such a problem, why not think one step further? And please don't tell me vomitcans for pregnant women are too expensive!
I'm an air force weapons loader We aren't allowed to leave anything on the table in the break room. We all got called out to do jobs on the line and one of our NCOs took all our stuff (lunches, water bottles, phones, ABU tops etc) and put them in the office. Because of this we spent 3 hours after all work was done on a friday (swing shift) cleaning stuff that was already clean. I vacuumed the mat you stomp your feet on for about 30 minutes straight cuz if you weren't cleaning you were wrong.
w h e z We actually had this weird rule in my Prep year in school. We would always say ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’. One day our teacher yelled at us and said ‘if you say that one more time you’re getting into big trouble!’.
@@Cerberus03 I think that's a thing about teachers. If all the students start doing this one thing a lot, even if it's not remotely offensive, life threatening, a distraction or etc., teachers will ban it.
MisterBurgerBeachball1225 😂 Yeah. They do ban some pretty silly things. It probably just annoyed her to the point where the only thing she could do was that. I dunno.
This video makes me appreciate my job so much more. At my job I get 3 1/2 weeks paid vacation a year, free healthcare, 3.5% of my yearly wage put into a 401k, a state pension plan, and I can watch Netflix and TV while I am working. It’s also a very laid back and low stress work environment. I actually got triggered hearing some of the rules people mentioned in this video.
Ta'Ru Harris I’m a system operator in the 24 hour control room of a municipal energy agency. We supply electricity and natural gas to small towns and I oversee that in the control room. I’m not going to disclose who my employer is though.
Worked at Casey’s, they said it was too expensive too have a camera system pointing at the pumps so as a cashier we had to give customer service, clean, stock, always stay busy. At the same time they wanted us to write down the make, models and license plates of people driving off. We complained we couldn’t see all the license plates. So they invested in a notebook, pen, and a shitty pair of binoculars.
Jeremy Nolen they have a monopoly on gas stations in MN. One town of 6,000 people had 3. They bought out every gas station in town and then closed them down.
I was in an office where the boss said you had to tell her if you were going to the toilet. I refused and sent an email to HR telling them it was ridiculous and I wasn’t doing that. I accidentally cc the email to all the staff. Also had a job that wanted you to show up 15 minutes early and stay 15 minutes late without pay. I didn’t do it. We had a board that you wrote on for when you were taking your holidays and mine had been up for ages but the manager complained that they were going to be difficult to cover and I couldn’t take them then. I went to the board and changed my dates so that I took 4 weeks holiday in a row starting the next week and then my first shift back I quit.
This makes me so glad to work for the company for which I work. Everyone's extremely laid back and super chill as long as long as you aren't super-obviously slacking. This bureaucratic ultra-corporate school level stuff is depressing.
That rule would be so easy to exploit. For example, if it were up to me I'd try to get as many people as possible to bring in a bluetooth speaker, hopefully getting between 10-20 speakers total, and we'd all play the exact same song but at slightly different starting points so that none of them were in sync. It would be a horrendous chorus of misery.
I once worked at a place that catered mostly to Spanish speaking customers. The business was WASP owned, they insisted that we couldn't just provide contracts in Spanish because we would have to translate the contracts. Despite me bringing up that we only needed to translate one and could just make copies, they insisted.
An Amazon warehouse my dad used to work at would rather keep an ambulance outside the building than install an air conditioning system. If you suffered a heat stroke and had to be taken away by an ambulance, you were fired.
That retail one at the end is 100% true and I hated every day of it. Whole days wasted freeing up time to be “on-call” while still only making your normal pay.
Yeah I have on call days and literally I have to tell people, I'll let you know at 4 if I work or not, most of the time I don't work so I just like wasted my whole day waiting till 4pm.
I work at Ross in the fitting room, and we are supposed to put hangers on clothes when people want to go in with them. Ok. Well it was a Saturday and like 10 people came at me at once, causing me to forget to put on a hanger on one shirt. My store manager saw what happened and said ,"if you forget a hanger one more time, we're gonna have a different conversation in my office!" Excuse me tf? Checking the clothes and tickets I get. For security. But a hanger?
@Skittle Factory I once hid my ADHD from the manager of my inturnship, because I was afraid they'd treat me differently. I was planning on telling him after 2 months, to make sure they got to know me, before they'd make up their minds about my ADHD. Everything was going well, but then I mentioned it to a collegue and they immediately told him. He then scolded me for not-mentioning-it and claimed he didn't want a student from my school 'that has something wrong with her.' Before this happened, he'd gathered the entire group of my collegues together, that were standing around me in a circle, arms crossed and stared me down as if they'd caught me stealing money. It was so humiliating. I later got another inturnship within that company and my collegue tried to frame me for stealing a pen, when it clearly said on the side that the pen came from a company that specialised in helping people with ADHD sort their organizing-problems out. I was the only one with ADHD in that company.
@@Widdekuu91 it sounds so incredibly weird... if that happened in my country ( sweden ) that manager would be in court for discrimination. also, a pen? they are so cheap that all companies i have seen so far gives them away for free to spread their name more
@@kitsunekaze93 Well, the pen wasn't even from their company, it was from a company that helped kids with ADHD (I went there, at age 16.) The company I'm talking about is V&D, in the Netherlands. But they had a cup filled with random pens to use in the office and while I was being fired by my manager, she started taking the pen (and other items) out of my bag to 'check' if I wasn't stealing things. She then decided she would keep the pen 'just in case it was theirs' and accused me of stealing it, because it 'looked a lot like the pen that we lost a week ago.' But I stood my ground (I was very angry, that helped as well) and I demanded my pen back and made her take it out of her pocket (where she had stashed it after taking it from my bag) and read what it said out loud. Once she said; 'ADHD-helping-kids (blahblah, youknow)' she said; So what? We can't have a pen that's about helping kids with ADHD? Who says it's yours? Just because you have ADHD doesn't mean all pens about ADHD are yours.." But I just waited and stared her in the eyes and eventually she said; 'Youknow what, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and I'll even let you keep our pen.' And I said; 'Very generous of you, to give me my pen back' and then she kindof roughly pushed me out of the door, slammed it behind me and I was officially fired. You'd think I had done something to deserve it. But they simply didn't renew my contract for money-reasons, (I now know) they were about to go bankrupt.
@@Widdekuu91 dude that sounds awful! If you can do your job, it shouldn't matter what may afflict you and what you may have to work with. That IS discrimination on their part and you don't deserve to be treated like that.
Back in high scool, you were marked absent if you were in the classroom after the professor. Doesn't matter if it you entered right after the professor or were 30min late. Our public bus system is never on time. Ever. Either early or late. So when we'd see we were gonna be late, we never bothered to run and try to make it. Every other day you'd have at least one student rolling up to class half an hour late with a fresh coffee and pastry. I mean, if you're gonna be marked absent might as well get breakfast, right?
;w; my school would announce on the intercom when a bus (or more than one) was late, telling all the teachers not to count them tardy.. i can't believe other schools would do otherwise? that's just gross :/
@@vethir To be fair, students must have used like 15+ different busses, plus the ones that came by train, it just wouldn't be feasable to expect the school to keep track of which students used which bus routes and the entire cities busses.
8:24 is straight up illegal. In the state of Washington as an example, employers are required to give you a 10 minute paid break for every four hours worked, and you must be given a 30 minute unpaid lunch for every 5 hours worked.
I used to work at UPS. We had a similar problem of the "1 second late and you're written up" policy. Basically it just ended up that no one ever clocked in and said, "Whoops, I must have forgotten." Luckily the place was so large that no one really cared. Even most of the supervisors encouraged it. We worked on the actual ramp of unloading and loading. The only close parking to the guard shack was over a quarter mile walk away. The guard shack took at least 5 minutes to get through. Then you had to walk half way back the way you came from the parking lot once on property to actually get to where you clocked in. Generally, once you actually got to work, you waited anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes to actually get an assignment and then often another 30 minutes for the plane to land. And they got upset about you being one second late. I don't miss it.
For the "everyone has to listen to the same music rule," the solution is simple. Have several people bring in portable Bluetooth speakers and all play the same song on them, but at slightly different starting points so that none of them are in sync.
It would sound absolutely horrendous.
Tidy Heidi
YES
I mean, you're not breaking the rule ;)
That's genius tbh
I got fired for wearing Navy blue socks instead of black. I'm blue black color blind. I ended up settling out of court for $115k usd. Right to work states rule.......
Niiice
damn bro neat!
Hahaha awesome
An old manager buddy of mine told me a story of how some newbie manager tried to come into his store and tell one of his employees to go home for the day just because of the color of her socks. After it was confirmed that this guy was not joking, he was told to fuck off, since that employee was the only other person running the store that morning
potaterjim yeah we’ve had that happen a few times at my old job... at a movie theatre... I don’t know who cares about the person selling them popcorn/cleans their theatre has full black socks...😂😅
Must drive 5mph below the speed limit.
Speed limit in company parking area: 5mph.
So you work from home ?
Drive in reverse
"Why are you late!? And can you explain why you're still just sat out here in your car?"
"Company policy."
I'm not yet an adult but it's shocking to me how some adults are treated more like children by their bosses than children are treated like children.
It's not being treated loke children. It's being treated like property they are begrudgingly obligated to pay...well, in the worst cases like these at least.
If corporate leaves their low-level management some leyway and you have decent bosses, it can be decent except for probably neber getting paid what you're worth if you do honest work.
Welcome to capitalism, where the uber rich tricks middle management into thinking they have actual power to abuse.
@neil finder Pretty sure capitalism killed hundreds of millions of people too. We're just better at paying people off to stop caring.
@neil finder
Millions die each year from lack of clean drinking water as a direct result of capitalism.
Shut up about economic systems already, just admit communism is failed and pure capitalism is also bad.
Sometimes you have to wonder how far some of these higher ups are removed from reality.
They're not necessarily removed from reality. They're just body contortionist that like fisting their own assholes with their heads
The answer is yes.
I mean cash blinds anyone, when you are paid as much as some higher ups are you don't really care about people working under you.
Kinda like the president of my school who had to be strong armed into closing the campus by the rest of the board Becuase he believed -40 degree weather wouldn't be an issue for students getting to class
They have more to lose if they upset their boss, so they work you harder so they don't put themselves at risk. Especially in retail, things make more sense when you remove all emotions from the situation and just think about what benefits the manager the most. They'll learn if people stop listening to them when they pull that shit.
I'm an executive, and I showed this video to senior management as part of training of what they shouldn't do.
it's nice, although as par of being assertive an make yourself clear may be better to tell what you want than what you don't want. (even if they do something that you dont want, tell what u'd like instead)
Szobiz it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. In this case I wasn't trying to teach people not to do these specific things, but rather teaching them what mindset to avoid.
Just for my own curiosities sake id like to question as to how that went over I.e. did anything chuckle worthy come out of the situation from your senior management or perhaps your fellow executives
@@thomasbertrand8204 I would like to know as well.
Demian Zivkovic - Good for you! We need more management like yourself.
I always think it's funny when places have dumb ass rules like this and then are wondering why they have such a huge turnover rate.
Happy employees will always be more productive employees.
Studies show that's not entirely true, but they will definitely make working there more pleasant.
Betty Swallsack Yeah. Keep them happy but that doesn’t mean spoiling them
Some company wants staff to resign for certain position , so they can find another person to work with minimum salary .
@Betty Swallsack thats why you make the rules like no playing games on pc or phone, don't use phone on duty and so on
I'm glad my workplace isn't like this. One of the only rules at my office is, "if the boss wants to have a Nerf war, everyone has to participate".
Andre Lee That’s a cool rule.
Is there, like, a Nerf armory/closet at your workplace as well, or is there a bring-your-own-nerf-gun policy?
@@platinum_noelle Yes.
Sounds like The Office
good rule
"No playing hide and seek when there's a power outage"... We just hid from the ones enforcing this, making the game more fun.
This is the best idea I've heard in a while.
@@ArcanineEspeon Only the new kids were found. For the ones who had seniority, we were goddamn whispers in a windstorm.
Video should be renamed to "Why All Management is Devoid of Common Sense and Basic Intelligence."
I actually have good managers who let shit be at the workplace, and don't enforce dumb rules. But it only takes one idiot like this to ruin lives, honestly.
And yet most governments keep trying to micromanage people's lives with this same sort of bullshit.
@topal Osman well for the UK you can start with the count dankula case or the one where a pedophile was let go without jail time or being put on a list even though he was proven to have broken the law.... because he was in school to be a dentist. General lack of free speech, the rise of socialism, people not realizing brexit is about gaining sovereignty of their own country.
I am still laughing. May is so incompetent that she might fumble into the best solution possible. No deal and not paying the 37b to the eu that they already spent.
"Why all management inflicts the pain of having previously been in you position back on you tenfold."
@@vagabondwastrel2361 not to mention the multiple cases of people facing seversl thousand pound fines for watching "right wing propaganda" due to the anti-terrorist act. And journalists being arrested at the border while allowing people that even muslim countries consider too extreme to come speak in your countries mosques.
A lot of these sound straight up illegal
There's an organization dedicated to dealing with this stuff. That's how bad it is.
I think some of this IS illegal
I thought it was just me. Glad to see my concerns aren't misplaced
I'm pretty sure the water limit was illegal, it goes against basic human rights. I also believe the no food/bathroom for a 12 hour shift is not legal either. I'm not sure though, I used to have to work 10-12 hour shifts with no break bc there was nobody who could cover for me.
I work 8 hour shifts with no breaks. That IS illegal, at least where I'm from. I make such good tips and my boss is my landlord so I don't speak up. I've thought about it many times though... Also many of my coworkers are on-call. Legally they are supposed to be paid for 2 hours if they don't get called in but they of course don't pay them even though they sit and wait all night to see if they have to work.
The rule about not being able to ask whether someone was fired or not sounds extremely fishy for me. I can think about two reasons why it would be implemented:
1. To avoid protest when someone was fired against rules or if the rules were abused
2. To hide mass lay offs
It's actually for personal privacy and saving face for the person fired.
@@KumaraDosha Yeah, I agree with Kumara on this one. That one seems to be the only legit rule on this list. Everything else just seems crazy.
@@KumaraDosha no offense but it sounds like you actually work at a place where the management and HR isn't corrupt as shit. I'm so jealous.
@@maryfrancess93 I used to, yeah--a hospital. (Left on amicable terms due to other life decisions.)
I got a different approach: whenever someone left, that one manager went around and told everyone how bad that person was. I should add that it was quite normal in that business that everyone who gave notice of termination (or was laid off) was usually sent home to receive months of payment for doing nothing (or take a job elsewhere). There are reasons for this, but it is a waste of lifetime and money.
My first job in high school as cashier at a fast food place, I was told by the assistant manager that if I wasn't more "friendly" toward the male customers that I would be demoted to grill team. She explicitly told me that was why I was hired as cashier. At a fast food place. Would you like a strip tease with that, sir?
"demoted" has 0 threat power when you're being paid jack shit either way
Wtf? You're a cashier not a hostess lmao-
That's hilarious, but it's also really messes up, hang it there
I'm pretty sure that could legally be called sexual harassment
Justin Noker yeah, that sounds very illegal.
I had a job that measured if you were taking too many sick days with a score system that multiplied the total number of days off by the number of times you were off.
So if you took 5 separate sick days (5x5=25) over the course of a year your score would be the same as someone who took 5 entire weeks off (25x1=25) in one go.
If you had one sick day a month for a year, you would have the same score as someone who missed half the entire year.
The company went bust.
That is fucking bs wtf
i think it's because they're trying to cut expenses/pay as much as they could... but it's just very stupid & rude... unethical too.
@@adriangodoy4610 I think the system was designed to be lenient on people who had serious illnesses like that. The logic was a person who takes a week off for an operation shouldn't have the same attendance record as someone who calls in with a hangover every now & then. The maths of the system was just screwed.
Most employers would frown on you taking a sick day every month, most employers would also frown on you for taking 5 consecutive weeks off.
@@kilborn666 it kinda makes sense though at the same time if you think it through the way the way I interpreted it. it means those with chronic illnesses that might need to take a chunk of time off e.g. 4 weeks because of an operation for a known reason is given more leniency with everything in consideration than someone who just calls in sick every other week probably because they felt like it. Also in the UK at least if you're sick for 5 days or more you need a doctors note so then that would say why and the employers can understand what is going on, in my limited experience people are less of an asshole if you stop to explain why things are like they are.
I worked a retail job and if you were caught socializing in the back, you could get written up. I very quickly found a way to avoid getting written up. in order to actually catch you not working and only socializing, the managers had to ask “What are you working on back here?” And either catch you saying, “I’m working on this project” when clearly you were talking, or you’d say, “I’m taking a break,” as to which they’d stand back there and then once 5-10 minutes passed they’d demand you get back to work.
But I found out that if I simply responded back, “What are you doing back here?” They were subjugated to the same rules; as it stated NO EMPLOYEE can be socializing in the back. This would catch the manager off guard and they’d immediately find a task to do back on the sales floor, as if they were found taking time to try to catch employees not working, it would be seen as they were not working either.
Eventually they stopped asking me why I was in the back.
And.
Eventually I became a manager there too, where I changed the actual rule to; please try to find something to do in the back while you talk.
Idk if that’s better, but it’s something.
That's dope
This commenter is going places.
[Speech 100] What 're you doing back here?
You are an inspiration
tl;dr: employee becomes manager through the power of "no u"
When I was a freshmen and when I was a sophomore, my High School had a rule that if you were 10 minutes late to 1st block, then you would get ISS (In School Suspension), *BUT IF YOU CAME TO SCHOOL PAST HALF OF 1ST BLOCK, THEN YOU WERE ONLY MARKED AS ABSENT TO 1ST BLOCK!* (Needless to say, I would arrive at school, then my mother drove to a parking lot nearby and I caught up on homework)
My school is like that :(
@@HOMM1ECLAN Maybe he's latino
Or maybe, just maybe, he either doesn't have a driver's licence or a car of his own.
My High School was a shit hole. If you missed one period you would be considered absent for the whole day. If you ended up missing 15 periods in total you would have to go to Truancy Court.
High school teacher here,
I know, it's a dumb rule. I would always give my students a 10-15 minute window grace period for my 1st period classes.. we're usually doing school announcements and a lesson warm-up anyway, not a huge loss if students are late.
But yes, I have to mark students absent, after 30 minutes, regardless if they show up late
When i worked at Netflix CS it was standard to arrive 5 minutes early before your shift starts and set up the systems. This was unpaid. I of course refused that and always arrived at time, i was never late. But i was never early. My team leader was gonna give me a warning and i refused to sign it. After arguing for 30 minutes our business manager enters the room and tells me "it will be easier for you if you just sign it". After a while they started saying i was LATE??? I told them to check the systems and they said i signed in just in time, like I always do.
Ended up with HR getting the case, and they said "Hey this is not legal, we cant make people work unpaid". No shit. Netflix CS then changed the rules and we were allowed to begin our shifts when they actually did begin.
This shit is the reason why Netflix got a lot of debt and almost unprofitable i see
Who cares, stop whining just deal with it, it's an extra 30 minutes before shift, just be grateful you have a job
@@mitchell3593 I wont be grateful for a shitty employer acting.. Shitty. For a company to be profitable happy workers is one of the keys.
@@AllNamesWasTakenlol no, productive employees are needed, not happy ones
@OriginalYithian I'm not being an asshole, I just hate people that don't show any initiative, also I'm definitely not a manager,
I was working as a greeter... i was not allowed to speak... so i just nodded and bowed to every one who entered...
Which made customers furious because some of them asked me things and not being allowed to speak, i could not answer them...
"Excuse me, where is the bathrooms?" "Could you tell me where parking lot X is?"
My favorite was when my boss showed up and asked where the bathroom was, i just held up a piece of paper where i had written "Company rule 4, You are not allowed to speak while on the job"
I got fired on the spot and i just shouted "FINALLY!" (We do not get social pay if we quit or job)
heh i know the feeling. i was escorting a guy and he tried to small talk but i couldnt reply, i hated to look rude, but he understood i couldnt talk pretty quickly.
They fired you for following the rules...?? That's messed up. Also, WHY?? Greeters are SUPPOSED to be able to talk. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR... smh
I worked for an American school franchise in a Muslim country. The company only recognised christian holidays, so during Muslim holidays we sat in our offices and empty classrooms with nothing to do.
However, we were supposed to expel students who were absent too often, which would have meant expelling _all_ students who took Muslim holidays - which was all of them. So we marked all the absent students as "late". Specifically, 28 days late.
Which country
That realy nice of you, is good to see that people care about muslims. :3
@@talalmunir25 _"Which country"_
Saudi Arabia. Full of the friendliest, most laid-back people, with the filthiest sense of humour. Just the opposite of what you'd expect, judging by their government.
@@StefanTravis Thats actually really great to hear! :D
What kind of holiday that is 28 days in a row
I work at a summer camp and got in trouble last summer for being "too close" with my campers. Sorry I'm good at my job and my campers actually like me, I'll try to be worse at my job in the future.
I kinda understand this one, it's not about you being good at your job. There's a power relationship there, its a twofold thing. Theres the concern that if you're too close with your campers, that power relation is diminished and your authority and the authority of other leaders is compromised. There's also the issue of abusing your authority with the campers, and other people might get the wrong idea on how close they can be with the campers.
@@garrofwar148 Considering I was the only counselor in the 3 years I've worked there that was able to control that age group (11-13 year olds) I don't think the authority was compromised. Every counselor that had that group before me warned that they were an awful group, they were rude, they didn't listen, they were mean to each other, etc. But I didn't experience any of that. They were great for me, because I treated them with respect and like adults and they responded well to that and liked me. I wasn't just being a pushover, I was making a conscious decision about how to run my group and treat my campers, and it was very effective. I honestly don't know what my boss's issue with it was, but it definitely wasn't that. Was probably the latter thing you mentioned, although I take offense to that, because I find it sexist. No one is going to make that assumption if I'm a woman. But because I'm a dude, being friendly with my campers must mean I'm a child molestor.
@@tgags123HD Then your boss is only there for business, not basic human relation/courtesy... I'm sorry but yeah they may only see the campers as business.
Dude no way I got fired for being too close to kids at my camp too. Apparently you're not allowed to fist them anymore? Smh rules these days
@@keachweder6217 Excuse me, but what the fuck?
The soldier crying outside because there was a no crying at your desk policy broke my heart :'(
That's just how military is sometimes. Someone implements a weird rule that really only affects one person, well it gets looked over for a while then it's, "ok they've had enough. Change it." In war, there is no mercy. Any second could be their last in combat. So this stuff serves to toughen up and prepare people or make them leave for their own good and the good of the team they would hold back.
I bet there had to be another shift of firewatch to make sure this person didnt kill themself
I work in aircraft maintenance (2a5) b shred. We had an section chief who said we must have a clean and presentable uniform at all times despite crawling ,kneeling and leaning over chemicals and fluids throughout the entire shift. Our uniforms were stained from aircraft fluids , blood etc and often had wear marks or were faded, etc . He had denied my order of cover all’s twice and couldn’t wrap his head around why everyone in the shop always was dirty when he worked “maintenance” and his uniform looked clean despite the fact his job was to sit in an office and make slides and briefs about our production
@@johnlopez128 you should've brought that up
John Lopez ok that's going a little to far
Dang that last one sucks. Working in retail already sucks and is a hassle, but being "on call" like that? Jeez. I'd try to find another job, I wouldn't want to deal with that.
Yeah, I work at retail rn (RIP), I cant imagine doing this job were 3 days of my weeks are "Ifs"
On call is the fucking worst. Thankfully good managers know to only use it on certain days (I'm talking like 1 on call day for a person every few months) and it's not us who have to call in to make sure we aren't working thankfully. Manager on duty has to call and confirm whether they will be needed or not
I'm pretty sure that was called the 0 hour policy fast food places would always have people working under these contracts. My country has now banned the 0 hour policy.
I grew up in California and "on call" to me always meant that you had to be avaipable at a moment's notice to come in, and it rotated.
My father would be an "on call" mechanic one week every two months, which meant he could be woken up at 1am and called off to fix a forklift out on a farm or at some newspaper printing press or fish market or whatever.
I volunteered to work "on call" for retail, Big Lots, because it came with over time pay and got me brownie points with the management (which resulted in more weekly hours and a but more freedom).
People would see the weekly schedule and I had 21 hours where they had 12 or 16 and asked why I had so many, and the answer is because I was also willing/able to come in when I wasn't scheduled and always said yes, and never called in either.
Look... peoppe have families and lives and reasons they need time off. However, far more people make excuses and ruin it for the responcible single mothers who really need to take their kid to the doctor. There were plenty of "I have a hangover from last night, so fuck it" kinds of people who would admit they were slacking off and thank me for having their back.
Like... I just needed the money to pay for my car. Thanks for donating our hours.
That ppace was super fucked when I got a better job. I literally got messages by managers begging me to come in and they would pay me indopendant contract labor and a higher rate because they were desperate and needed somebody they could trust... and I had to tell them I was at work doing my real 40 hour job. It was impossible.
The way to get ahead in life is to work as many hours as possible when younger and start investing money in safe diversified stocks in different sectors.
Currently going to college and working in a retail store at the same time.
We're not allowed to say over the intercom when the store closes **or that we've already closed.** We physically have to find the customers and ask them if they "need help finding anything before we close," even if it's already 15 minutes past closing time.
Many times this has resulted in customers being accidentally locked in the store, or them just unlocking the doors while we sort the cash office.
Great rule.
A drug store that I worked at had that rule.
We have a similar rule at the supermarket I work in. We do have a bell which we ring to notify customers, but someone usually walk the stores informing the customers we are closed and to finish up their shopping. Mind you we have 15-30mins, depending on the day to close up the store and do all the money counting, so customers need to hurry it up.
We couldn't even tell customers we were closed if they were still in the store because a lady complained about being asked politely to hurry up.
We're supposed to "officially" start announcing closing time over the loud speaker 15mins , 10mins, 5mins, ect... before closing until we're closed. One time I had this guy and his filipino wife who we could not get to leave the store and they continued shopping 30 minutes after we had closed.
where i work, we mane an announcement at 30 minutes until closing time, 15 minutes until closing time, and at closing time. and each time, we tell the customers to please make their final selections and bring them to a register. we do get those asshole customers who come running in or 5 minutes before we close to get that one item they just couldn't do without (which is usually something idiotic). but most times we're out of there about 5 or 10 minutes after close...and sometimes even right at closing time (if it's slow).
we're pretty much laid back, don't have any weird or crazy rules, and our management staff is awesome.
7:44 Oh yeah, people work great when there _freaking dehydrated._
@OrangeGalen : Honestly, I would have reported her. Any rule against drinking water with no valid reason has _got_ to violate some kind of law. Or at the very least an unspoken rule regarding basic human decency.
@OrangeGalen : Yeah, that makes sense. Now that I think about it, back when I was in high school, I probably would have just imagined getting her in trouble while I sat there internally raging.
I would love that rule. Make a killing by when I bump my head due to "fainting".
@OrangeGalen I also have a teacher with a rule that no drinking water is allowed, but i get thirsty a lot and need to drink a lot of water. So i just turn around, face my back toward her and drink the water. I was still young back then and i didn't realize this could be easily seen, ya i was really dumb. But what i also didn't realize was how lazy she is and how "dedicate" she is at her job. She literally just face down, read out the text book and pretending she was teaching. So the rule for me basically become "you can drink your water but not when i am paying attention at my job"
*they're/they are
I work In a butchery.
We used to wear just hair-nets (think what a lunch lady wears on her head) until an *Eye lash* was found on a steak . Now we wear the equivalent of a Ruck sack on our head with only eyes/nose/mouth holes to peep through. Not joking. Search "mondasian cybermen" and we LEGIT look like this but with a cap on our head .
Edit:Thanks for the likes everyone ! Alot of comments have bought up good points about the masks but my department have used that logic already for the last _Two years_ but to no avail . We (and the town) are used to the creepy masks now .
@@msi4887
They wouldn't dare complain about another freaking eyelash again.
I think it wasnt meant to repremand you and your colleagues (atleast not directly). But simply because of hygiene, the meat might have been sent to get minced, which is at high risk for contamination
I don’t even need to look that up to picture that! A whovian walking in and seeing you all in those would immediately turn around and go. If you see a Cyberman cutting up meat, GTFO!!!!!!
Basically a balaclava
Unless you were meant to wear goggles with that, how would that stop eye lashes from getting on the meat?
I thought I'd chuckle watching this video. Instead, some of those rules outright triggered me. Damn.
You bastards!
YOU BASTARDS!!
!sdratsab uoY
You bass turds!
To stop the idiot trend...
I know. It makes me sad to live in a world where people are so uncaring and stupid. I thought it was just child authorities who did this shit. Now im a bit scared to grow up, or at least work an office job. It sounds sad
Hearing "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" made me actually grit my teeth, cuz the regional manager at the store I worked at said it all the goddamn time
SpaceAce
Did you tell him, “If you have time to make rhymes about work ethic, you’ve got time to clean,” back?
@@lazyfoxplays8503 Well fuck now I wish I would have. That would been a much better reason for getting fired.
mine says it all the time, made us “check lists” to follow so we know that there are stuff to clean... clean supplies ran out because were //cleaning// then proceeds to complain about us using cleaning supplies more than necessary and asking why we were cleaning stuff that are already clean
Haha, I tell my team the same, no time to hang around in the kitchen, you're there to work!
When I worked at my local McDonald's for the overnight shift, they told me that too. Problem was there wasn't muck "work" to do really early in the morning after the switch from the evening to overnight when I worked the grill. We were told to clean random shit to look busy or we were "lazy" employees. I could only clean the same fucking counter for so long. That shit made me want to tear my hair out.
This makes me appreciate my job. You can show up 30 minutes late, say sorry as you walk past the office, fill out the time card accordingly, and never hear a word about it again. If you need to take a phone call, go for it. Spend 5-10 minutes goofing off and chatting while waiting for a subassembly to move down the line, no big deal. Step outside for some fresh air every few welds when it's smoking bad, all's good. No quotas, no official write-ups, the owner of the company comes out and talks directly with us welders multiple times a day, problems are dealt with face to face. No paperwork, no record keeping, no HR involvement, just straight up talking it out man to man. If we butt heads with the shop lead, we don't catch any flak from up top, we just argue it out until we come to some agreement. Shifts are consistent, and any time outside of the agreed shift is 100% up to the employee to take or not. I work 8s, most people work 10s, we've got some part timers, some people go for overtime, but nobody is forced to. Yeah, it's hard dirty dangerous welding shop work, but it's nice and clean and safe compared to the industry as a whole, and the laid-back atmosphere with everyone keeping it real makes it a great place.
Rocky Mountain Rotary we have a 6 minute leeway, but if you’re more than 6 minutes late you get half a point. 11 points you’re fired. You get a full point for missing a full day, even if you have a doctors note. You can use pto to cover it so you still get paid, but you still get a point. Makes no sense. Like why would I waste my pto if I’m still gonna get a point. And if we have a doctors note it should be excused. One guy accidentally sliced his arm open and he had to go to the ER, he still got half a point for leaving early.
Sounds awesome, frankly.
When I was in high school I worked in the auto body shop which we treated like a job because we were building cars from frame up and working on teachers and students cars as 'money' most of the time it went into the shop and new parts or parts. He taught me a bunch of amazing work ethics. We ran it basically the same and since I put in the work and stayed for 4 years through the whole time always there after school when we had a car needed so I worked my way up till I was basically running the office teaching the kids in my class. I had full reign on the grade book and emails. I was the one who ordered parts. He never gave me shit as long as what he wanted was done. When my best friend died who was also in the class he let me cry on his shoulder and woildnt let anyone sit at his desk out of respect. Sorry for the long reply but there still are people like that.
That sounds so neat!
@@brennicolas3093 Oh oh oh! I got one. If we are going to call in, we have to call in at least 30 minutes ahead of our shift or it will count as a no call no show for two points. Guy was driving in one night when the roads were a bit icy. He wrecked and flipped his car, ambulance had to take him to the hospital, the whole shebang. He got 2 points. Poor bastard. Another guy had a mild heart attack while on the floor and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He got a whole point because he "left" before the halfway point of his shift. He had waited an hour to have the heart attack, he would only have gotten half a point.
I work in a restaurant but I'm not allowed to ask their ID so everyone can get alcohol basically
이달의소녀 이브 where is that restaurant, and what’s it called? Just asking for everyone else reading the comments
That doesn’t make sense
WTF! My bosses insist I ask EVERYONE for ID. Unless they look elderly, they get carded.
이달의소녀 이브 😂 That’s so dumb!
That's a wonderful way for the restaurant to lose their liquor license and garner massive fines. When you eventually leave, if you leave on bad terms, you could report that lol but they'll get caught eventually (most likely).
0:57 Sounds like a rule that a witch would make but okay.
It's funny to us, but there are still people in the world who believe in curses and the like. I don't know anything about Uganda in particular, but it's possible that such accusations could put a person in harm's way.
I had a regional manager look at me like I was an alien when I explained to her that it was physically impossible for me to be in two places simultaneously.
Hahaha I've explained this same thing to QA multiple times.
"Hold up now, bitch, I'm not Naruto."
Probably was the look of "yaa.... i know....? Is this person serious?"
How did she end up asking you to do that? Maybe she didn’t realize what had happened.
@Death Maze Challenge it's impossible
Not quite the same but.....I was fired because I quit. Twenty five years on and I still can’t figure it out.
"You can't quit, because YOU'RE FIRED!"
@@mrschizo2837 Reminds me of the movie, "Waiting"!
But I quit first so 😛!
yeah happened to me once too, told management i quit because management was absolutely horrendous (yes i told them that they were running the company terribly). they put down they fired me when i got my t5 or whatever it is. then the company went bankrupt less than a year later.
Can bet that's because they were supposed to get additional expenses if the employee left vs when they were fired. Or it was for statistic's sake, "see how great our company is? Nobody left by themselves, _ever!"_
I was promised silliness and instead got "Workplace Fascism"
I'd say these were more dictatorships.
Fascism has more to do with governments propping up failing economies as if everything were normal - by any means necessary.
going from childhood to adulthood 😕
Dude, same. My work advertised itself as "fun and games" but when I started I was being told every five seconds not to do something or I'd get in big trouble (one of which is stop moving).
@@NarwahlGaming That's not what fascism is at all, you cute little idiot. :) Don't even talk about economics unless you have an economics degree.
This is why some people don't deserve to wield any type of authority...
Not just "don't deserve"
"Cannot be trusted with"
Why no one should
I hereby declare that none may exercise authority over another...
@@MastaSmack
Héy héy héy that sounds like a-
It's too late, I already smacked a table with a hammer.
for awhile, I wasn’t allowed to tell customers to “enjoy the show”. i worked at a movie theatre.
Meli same, so we all started saying hope you like the movie, it didn’t sound as well but we sounded rude if we didn’t say anything
Corporate Efficiency Specialist: THE GAME!
*You've unlocked: Potted Plant for your cubicle!*
how much for the season pass to just become highest rank?
+3 rank preorder bonus extended overtime dlc ?
Employee used: Kiss Ass.
It was super effective.
+50 XP
+50 CHARM
_intensifying clapping_
I got a good one. A fast food restaurant I worked at a while back had the most ridiculous tardy/attendance policy I had ever seen. I'm not the best at getting to work on time, but I never push it more than 5 minutes (always for the usual bull shit, traffic, weather, etc) but when I started working there they had taken it pretty seriously I thought since I was in a probationary period and they gave me a write up. Annoying since I was only two minutes late, but wasn't the biggest deal since I just saw it as management trying to flex their authority and make sure I wouldn't develop a habit of being late. So next time I'm scheduled to work I decide to leave incredibly early. I show up to work 15 minutes early, wait in my car until a couple minutes before I start, and clock in with 3 minutes to spare.
Good right? Wrong, I had *yet another* meeting with the manager about how punctuality is of utmost concern at this company and since I had gone against the company policy I would have to receive a second write up. What was the policy I violated you ask? Apparently, what the company expects us to do *every time we clock in* is to stand in front of the clock until the *exact* minute we were scheduled to work and clock in *on the dot.* I thought this was so ridiculous that they were trying to fire me over petty bull shit because of problems with money, but then I noticed that every other coworker was doing this for every shift. Not only that, this was something that extended *beyond* the probationary period and a worker could be fired without hesitation if they clocked in early/late more than three times. They would stand in front of the clock staring at it like jack asses until the right moment simply because the company didn't want to pay a penny more than what was on the schedule. I had never believed in a million years I would ever be punished for being early, but there I stood on the brink of getting fired over it.
Needless to say, I played along for a couple more weeks and found a job elsewhere that gave significantly less shits about it. I understand that the extra money over several coworkers clocking in a half hour early could add up, but it still blows my mind being 3 minutes early would get me write up. I'm not an economist, but I can't imagine the cost of doing paperwork for hiring someone, then firing them, then hiring someone new on top of going through the process of training them yet again is more cost effective then just dealing with someone being 3 minutes early.
I don't get why they don't just round off to the nearest quarter hour in the computer.
@@billyjoejimbob75 Because that would require work on their end, silly
Sounds like the call center I used to be at. We’d have a shift that started at 9am but the thing was we changed desks every single day (gotta love hot desking) and would have to reconfigure the computer every time we changed which took about 10 minutes. But they expected us to be logged in and ready to go at 9am and would only pay us from that time. So the idea was we’d use our own time to adjust the computer and chair to suit us, reconfigure, login to about 5 different systems, and set everything up...on our time. Needless to say the turn over for staff was off the charts.
@@pinkmagicali lol that just sounds borderline illegal, did anyone ever report them for unpaid labor?
Glad we had flexi-time - had to be on the job between 10-12 and 2-4 each day but could work any time between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. weekdays to make the hours up. Getting overtime payments for weekends was a pain howevere, even though it was necessary sometimes.
2:00 What the hell is a Toilet Paper Queen, and also I low key want to be one
@Ambrose Burnside I still wanna be a Toilet Paper Queen
A control freak
I don't think you'd actually want to be the toilet paper queen because everyone will end up hating you
@@Rena152 Joke's on you, everyone hates me anyway
Rena Not if you smuggle them toilet paper
Timed bathroom breaks? I had a job like that. We were "timed" whenever we went poop - 6 minutes was all that was allowed but the bathroom was so far away it took 4 minutes round trip to get there and back, that leaves 2 whole minutes to actually poop!
The bosses never timed their own poop...I wonder why not apply it to themselves....
That sounds like something that should be illegal
Maybe your bosses are on salary? I know that if you're on salary, you aren't timed for your breaks/lunches. Also, I work for a call center - not sure if you do too - and we get two 15 minute breaks. When I actually worked inside the call center, my cubicle was a good 5 minutes (to and from) away from the restroom. I completely understand how you feel.
However, since I work from home now, I don't have to worry about the 5 minutes each way because my bathroom is a few feet from my desk (it's set up in my master bedroom).
Quite a few amazon workplace policies should be illegal.
0:57 It's not that silly, as in most parts of Africa you may be killed for "being a witch".
Better not bring a cell phone to Africa, then.
I was in a skype call with people from Uganda well over ten years ago.... and you think African’s don’t know what a cell phone is.... lol
@Thelondonbadger We already have that, just replace Witch with Nazi.
I used to work for a family run hotel. I could go on for days about the many ridiculous things they did, but the one rule they had was charging more for more people in a room. Fair enough but people got smart enough to sneak more people in after checking in. I worked by myself the night shift. The owners expected me to go to the rooms where I thought that there were more people, knock on the door and check. I told them out right that there was no way I was doing that. I'm a woman and there alone in the middle of the night. They ended up "cutting my hours" when a guest had a cooler stolen out of his vehicle in the parking lot. Never mind that he had left it in an open truck bed and even if I had time to watch the parking lot every second, I would have had no idea that the cooler didn't belong to whomever took it. I told them not to bother cutting my hours, I quit. They called me every week for months begging me to come back.
Good on you
I had an apartment land lady try that, if it was just me rent would have been $400 per month but with my wife and two kids it would have been $1600. Needless to say we told her to stuff it up her ass, then reported her to the land lord tenant board.
My grandpa used to totally be one of those people who would sneak extra people into the rooms.
He would check in with my grandma while my mom and her two siblings hid in the car. Then they’d sneak the kids in later.
Not to mention these are *incredibly* cheap motels. Like the cheapest they could find. Dirt and pests galore.
Hilarious/sad thing is he actually at the time was making hundreds of thousands from his hardware shop (he eventually became a self made millionaire).
Whatta guy.
In the US, there is such a law that you can only have so many in a hotel room. If you lie about how many are going to sleep in the room, it's considered defrauding an innkeeper.
michelleprieur1 They probably begged you to come back because their work environment was so shitty that they couldn’t keep anyone around for long.
It is absolutely not true that UPS trucks don't turn left. What's really the case is that the routing software plans multiple destinations favouring right turns to left with a 10:1 ratio.
And we drivers favor right turns when possible as well just because it's faster.
I dunno if there's actual routing software though. Maybe there is, but at my small centre we've just manually set up sequence routes or not bothered with them at all and just shoved new streets in wherever on the machine's database.
To be fair, people in uganda get burnt for being witches
that is not strange if you search after articles about "Child sacrifice in Uganda" then you know why kill a witch i oki by Ugandians.
In my country there are plenty of witches also.
8:25 isnt that illegal? You ARE entitled to a lunch break
Not in America.
john cornwell no you are legal required to have a 30 minute lunch break
@@unspun1YT Not so. I worked at 7-11 at one point and you are not allowed a lunch break. You are allowed to eat, of course, but you have to work while you do so, and anything you eat you have to pay for of course unless you brought in your own food.
I am from canada where you have to have a lunch break other wise your employer can get into alot of legal problems. I didnt know where this person was from, so that is why i "asked"
Pharmacist is a salaried position. They don't get the same protections that an hourly employee does. I think hourly are required to get a half hour unpaid lunch when working six hours or more. But, some companies ignore labor laws.
I work in a diesel equipment shop. Our new manager decided that being dirty was unprofessional and we would be reprimanded for it.
My friend works as an auto mechanic. He has to wear a full suit, including suit jacket and tie, because he has to look professional for the customers who will never see him. It costs hundreds to clean motor oil from one of those things or repair rips. Friend wears one under what is essentially a hazmat suit without the hood and face mask or helmet.
He also has to be clean-shaven and with hair no longer than his shoulders. Joke's on them, he has a natural afro.
@@CaTastrophy427 ugh. That's got to be brutal in the summer. I feel his pain.
@@CaTastrophy427 That tie is a safety hazard if there, for some weird reason, are moving parts in an engine repair shop.
There are a few professionals you should never trust:
A thin cook.
A clean mechanic.
A tailor with ill fitting clothes.
A teacher whose resume is full of spelling errors.
OMG I was an aircraft mechanic in the Military. SAME THING. God forbid your uniform got dirty NO MATTER what kind of work you were doing.
@@VhsVcr While doing military service I was ordered to clean out a dusty cellar. We are talking really dusty here. Of course my boots were dusty at the lunch meeting, and of course I was ordered to clean them, Right before going back into that cellar.
Cleaning them at the end of the day was one thing, but in the middle of the day just for the lunch break?
A number of US states are working on getting rid of - or have gotten rid of - the on-call retail scheduling issue mentioned in the video.
EDIT: ....or making retailers pay employees for the time between checking in with their employers and receiving a decision, e.g. phone in two hours before, employee gets paid for those two hours regardless of whether they are scheduled to come into the shop that day or not.
I've never even heard of such a thing. Makes me more appreciative of the retail jobs I've worked in the past.
@@queencleopatra007 I haven't worked retail but know plenty of people who do or did and the whole keeping employees in limbo until right before they may or may not need to go into work seems to just add insult to injury in an already difficult job. Aside from firming up schedules with advanced notice, there was a case in California to make retailers pay employees for the time they wait between calling in and their employer making the decision to schedule them that day or not.
I have never heard about this rule being in retail, I know some things regarding medical have it like nursing homes and hospitals but never heard of retail having it.
a friend of mine is a train driver, and twice a month he would have "astreinte" (i don't know the english word). Basically, he goes to work with a blank schedule and just sits in the break room until someone doesn't show up/call sick. He is payed full salary for those days.
They have a different system for those who can afford it (ie. live close enough) they are allowed to not be there if they can show up in less than 15 minuts but they are only payed 2/3.
@@DeathlordSlavik The practice varies store by store. It's pretty common for people who might work behind the counter at a fast food place as well as all sorts of stores. The case in California I mentioned above was against American Eagle Outfitters (I think - might have been Abercrombie).
You can't call in a sick day.
In a food packaging facility.
I see nothing that could go wrong with that lmao
I'll just let my snot and sneezes fly all over this food. I can't wait for my diseases to be shipped all around the country!
THIS
I am a lunchlady and we are allowed 3 points before termination
You get a point if you call off sick
You get new points at the of the school year :^)
@@4swordsluver I used to work at a cafeteria for the federal government. If you showed up to work with so much as the sniffles the floor head (who was a former drill sergeant) would make you feel like it was the first day of boot camp, then send you home. I miss working for sarge, he passed away a few months before I left.
Oooh, that's a Health & Safety hazard just *waiting* to happen...
I hope the unhappy and depressed military guy is okay.
People at my work were forbidden from making popcorn during their lunch breaks even though the vending machine had microwave popcorn in it. The reason was because when someone made popcorn every employee and some customer would wander in and say “sombody making popcorn?”
The rule ended when one of my bosses walked in munching on a bag of popcorn and announced that the ban had been lifted btw
I've never seen an office wide ban, but I did see one co-worker banned from making microwave popcorn after the second time she burned the bag and stunk up the whole building.
At least half of what was stated here would be in direct violation to labor laws in Germany.
At least some of it would be illegal _even_ in the US.
@@dynamicworlds1
Nope. Other than not drinking water.
@@Johncornwell103 I know my state is a little better than some places (like we do have laws saying you have to receive overtime pay else legally you don't have to do the task) but hearing how some people end up treated honestly angers me.
And this is why management his usually the most inept and incompetent part of any company
The Peter Principle - or maybe even the Dilbert Principle :)
I was once told to not teach English to my students in English..... I’m still not sure how that would work.
Teach Britain Europe english and if they ask or well asked say it's seperate.
Management at my job have tried to change like, 12 rules while i've been working there. I've ignored them all and they've all been removed. My favorite was "you need a doctors note to be able to drink water on the clock". I work in a deli, where it is hot and dry.
Doctors note to drink water? people are straight up fucking morons in this world!
Being in an animal and don’t give it water for several days. Then show manager the dead animal and say, he never got a doctors note, can we drink water now?
Same exact rule at my current job. I can completely understand not being allowed to keep cups of water on top of your work station where it could potentially spill, and no open containers (i.e. container must have a lid or bottlecap), and even not being not allowed to drink anything besides water because of potential stains and sticky messes. But no water whatsoever without a doctor's note is ridiculous, especially considering the customer service managers carry drinks around with them and even have a personal break table in the office.
I was a server in an Italian fine dining establishment. We freely gave bread to every table and refilled if low before even requested. We also worked a lot of doubles so not uncommon to work a 12 to 14 hour shift. The owners wife was the bread nazi. There were notes in every employee space reminding you that bread was not free and penalties for eating it. At first I thought ok they are just cheep. Turns out as I went through training I found out there was a brown bag we were supposed to through the ends into and also any bread left in the basket on the tables and I thought, well maybe they make bread crumbs from it. Nope she wanted it to feed the birds in her yard. We would lose shifts if caught eating the heel of bread on a 14 hr shift because we were taking it from her birds. Because of the nazi, the chefs would sometimes take mercy on us and make something for the staff because in fine dining the chefs weild all the power. I have never felt more liberated in my life than when I walked out of that joint!!!
Always. Always bribe the chef.
I worked at a red lobster and they too tried to enact a no-bread policy. But we didn't have anywhere to keep a lunch and they only gave a 50% discount on the food. I hated the bread but some of the other college kids didn't survive. Sadly
@@DirtyPrancing the policy there was 50% off also. Lunches ran $15-$30 and dinners $25-$30. Totally unaffordable to eat on a regular basis. On the bright side it keeps my weight at 115 lbs.
I had a temp job while I was in high school and I kept it while in University. I only worked one day a week on Saturdays contracted to 9-5. This basically meant I had to work 9-5, and if I came earlier I still had to work till 5. My timetable for university gave me a day off on Mondays. I thought I could make extra money and if I start at 7 I should finish at 3 and I can study too, considering I'm not meant to be working. My manager was having none of that and wanted me to stay to 5, on a day I'm not rostered to work on. He let me go but in future I had to finish at 5.
I never worked Mondays again 😂😂
I was quality control once and was told not to tell anyone they made a mistake because it might hurt their feelings.
Quality Control Agent: Listen, this paperwork shows a mistake with your initials. Would you please mind remembering to not repeat the mistake?
Employee: *wailing* WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?!
Seems like a fantastic way to kill someone through negligence.
I worked at a hospital that locked the bedpans in a closet because they didn't patients to use them so patients would just poop and pee in there clothes or beds, even ones who weren't incontinent. Yeah, I quit that job. I'm not a damn Gestapo officer.
"All recreational activity is forbidden on company time & resources... Except fantasy football"
This one actually makes sense because fantasy football is not recreational... it is war.
"what are you doing?"
*quickly closes youtube*
uh.... watching videos about fantasy football...?
Can somebody list the time this showed up in the video
@@talalmunir25 0:41 lol, right at the beginning lol
@@zachperez8937 thanks
Fantasy football can be considered team building.
We were forbidden by head office from knowing if there was a security camera system installed, and if there was one that we found it had to be taken out. Incomprehensible nonsense.
Did you search every nook and cranny just to spite them?
That's really sketchy tbh
It was sketchy tbh. Although nothing ever happened, noone really looked or found anything.
probably because its illegal to record your employees unless its for a very good reason
@@kitsunekaze93 this is not an area of law i know a lot about. (The UK). It was a retail store, its common here on the shop floors, but i dont know anything about staff only parts. I have little knowledge about cameras recording staff in other parts of the economy. I wish i could give a more conclusive answer, apologies.
We have locked first aid boxes as well--2 main reasons, theft prevention and so management is aware if a worker so much as needs a bandaid for a paper cut, so they can be written up for a workplace safety violation because "all accidents are preventable." So you find unofficial stashes everywhere--desk drawers, filing cabinets, toolboxes. I'm sure plenty of the official supply expired in the Obama Administration. We had a contractor gash his hand on a flange one time and bled like a stuck pig and the area supervisor didn't want to open the cabinet because of "liability" or some bs, said she had to sign out the key with her manager, so I busted the lock off with a large screwdriver, basically told her if you write me up, remember who maintains your network and keeps this plant humming along. We also have a workplace policy forbidding workers to call 911 if someone is seriously hurt or ill--a manager is supposed to do it. Needless to say I work for the government.
I once worked as a valet for a medium-sized restaurant. The problem was that their parking lot was very, VERY small (with barely enough space for about 20 cars, when they had over 30 tables). We weren't allowed to deny service to anyone, so on rush hour and busy days we had to take the customer's cars to the parking lot of a mall around the corner and literally run back.
If that wasn't bad enough, the owner was super stingy about paying us back for what we had spent on the mall's parking lot, always going about how we should pay out of pocket from the tips we got, and how we were being ungrateful for asking for our money back. I only worked there for about three weeks before I had had enough. As far as I know, they're still doing the same.
I'm fairly sure that is illegal, even in the US.
valets are a very weird thing, never encountered the practice in my entire life though.
I'm reconsidering getting a job when I'm an adult.
AllIsOne Well tough shit, buddy. Living in your parent’s basement or living off welfare checks isn’t better.
It’s a joke dude. Calm down!
Blu r/woooosh
im reconsidering the whole being an adult thing in itself, tried the product, i want a fucking refund
@@Blu97 ruclips.net/video/3Xa0L_Q567E/видео.html
A rule that said, no high fives. We give low fives now
I worked in retail, the dress code was pretty relaxed but there was a rule that 'Shorts are allowed but they cannot show too much skin'. I wasn't really sure what that meant but I looked at what my coworkers were wearing and wore similar ones. I was called out by my manager that my shorts were too short . When I explained that I was actually wearing longer shorts than some of my coworkers she told me that because I was taller than them(I'm 5'11 and most of my coworkers were short)I'm showing more skin and I need to wear shorts that are comparatively longer.
So I had to wear mid-thigh shorts from then on while my coworkers could get away with pretty much as short as they wanted.
One of my company's stores was staffed with mostly very petite girls and they were allowed to wear shorts on the weekends, except for the one girl that was thicker than the rest. My manager there actually told her she was only allowed to wear bermuda style shorts because her butt was too big to wear the same style as the rest of them.
As someone who also has a big butt it is true that the same length of clothing will fit you differently, it appears much shorter and looks more risque than in more slender people. And Don't get me started on dresses
@@perlasmermaid5812 I too have a big butt, I avoid shorts because they make my thighs look like a busted can of biscuits so I don't even fuck with it lol
elephantasmic Discrimination against tall people!
@elephantasmic
Whole different situation perhaps, but I was often called out for cursing or using rude words on my education (I was there from age 21 to 23.)
I would often shrug my shoulders and say; 'But why am I the one getting reprimanded? Didn't you hear what Wendy said? I was even trying to stay as polite as possible here.'
And she'd respond; 'Yeah but Wendy has a different character from you. Wendy is quite a loudmouthed person and you aren't.'
And I said; 'So, because I have been quite silent and mellow for the last couple of months, I can't say the F-word, but *she* is allowed to talk about wanting to murder someone's newborn, because she hasn't brought the baby for show-and-tell yet?'
And they said; Indeed. She often uses language that's a bit inflammable, whereas you never do that, so I don't accept that from you.'
And I asked; 'If I had arrived into this building a year ago, behaving like Wendy does now...you would've thought that was acceptable? Like when she hit me with her waterbottle and screamed, because she said it felt like I ignored her?'
And the teacher answered;' Yes. In that case, I would've thought that was just your personality being a bit rough. But it isn't, your personality is different. And that is just how Wendy happens to respond to a dissapointment.'
(For clearity; a classmate had gotten pregnant and had birthed the baby on tuesday. She hadn't visited the school at thursday and so, Wendy said that she hoped the mother would find the child dead in the crib, because that'd 'teach her to dismiss her classmates like that.'
Stupid work rule I heard from a friend: Attend a risk assessment briefing before long weekends or going on vacation, because scuba diving, motorcycle riding or hang gliding would be considered risky recreational activities.
His job: Explosive ordinance disposal, detonating IEDs or unexploded ordinance.
That's a rather sensible rule though. Risky recreational activities are still risky regardless of what you do - just because he blows bombs up for a living doesn't mean he is an expert in scuba diving or hang gliding. Not to mention that a lot of the "my job is dangerous" crowd tend to scoff at safety precautions because "I know this better than you", before proceeding to mess up and injure themselves.
@@MyVanir I've lost about 4 dozen people I know to hazardous military duty but only to off duty activities. And that wasn't a hazardous activity.
I have seen hundreds of times more injuries playing sports than military duty related.
The most dangerous place on deployment is the recreational areas (basketball, volleyball, baseball, football fields.)
DNBI accounts of greater than 86% of injuries and casualties during conflict.
Silly rule might have been a better choice of words.
He's an EOD. I'm pretty sure their already trained to deal with risky things
Why do some bosses think that making your employes miserable and unsatsified is a good thing?
Perhaps they were raised by parents who thought the same about parenting. Who knows?
Because you aren't a person to them -- you're a piece of equipment they're obligated to pay.
When I was is the Army, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. My First Sergeant implemented a rule saying "If you are depressed, you cannot lead troops or be an NCO." He even tried to demote me for it.
That really sucks!
I wouldn't want to be lead by someone depressed tbh. But they should at least help you recover, efficency and all
@@jemimaho7710 yeah, I was actually counseled by him where he tried to justify it so my Squad Leader filled out a counseling sheet basically saying "It takes a lot of strength to admit when you need help and someone who can do that can lead troops." I was really glad he stood up for me.
I'm sorry you had to deal with depression, as I've struggled with that my entire life. However, I don't buy that because I'm an army veteran, and so is my ex husband and my dad. No one soldier can decide who gets promoted to the rank of NCO. Especially not a first sergeant. The commander, maybe. I know that you wouldn't have been demoted for that. Something tells me that there's a lot more to this. At any rate, even if it were true, it's a rather valid point to question the leadership skills of a person with mental illness.
@@michelleprieur1 I was a Corporal at the time heading to Sgt. He was trying to have me laterally put back to Specialist. I just figured most people wouldn't understand that so I paraphrased a bit. He was just an "old fashioned" guy and had a mentality that if it didn't bother him, it shouldn't bother anyone.
We have the same " if there's no work then you must find work " rule, I work at a tire shop, we aren't busy 1/3 of the time so once we've cleaned everything we have nothing to do. It got to the point where we organized the tires that were garbage.
I remember doing an internship at a shop before. They encouraged it but it wasn't as hard pressed. They'd be fine with ya going on your phone if you've gone so far to organize the scrap wheel weights lol (yes, it was sorting steel ones from other materials, we just dumped the buckets in the scrap metal pile after)
@@cpufreak101 we usually just do garbages, scrap metal, and a lot of sweeping and if its winter we just push the water out. It even got to the point where we seeped the shelves where we had our new tires.
We have the same rule. We are expected to clean if there is nothing else to do. But its impossible to stay busy the whole day as my job isn't super difficult, and extra long shifts are common.
My only silly work rule was whoever left the building last had to leave a single light on in the middle of the work space so the ghosts can see after we leave...
I worked in a theater... It's a silly superstition and a waist of electricity... Everyone knows ghosts can see in the dark.
RialVestro
The ghost light is supposed to be in the middle of them stage, right?
Stage superstitions are very important, and can be the make or break point for the actors. Plus, even though the ghosts can see in the dark, they do appreciate the extra light to see by, and makes their after dark performances much better.
I worked in a law firm once where they made me wear a bell. Apparently I was too quiet and people would forget I was there. It was all in good fun. ^_^
Are you a ninja or a cat?
My co-workers complain that they can't hear me coming all the time, BROTHER!
I can understand this one, I've given four of my co-workers a fright when I walked up and said hello.
My coworkers tried to give me a bell once. I hid it somewhere the first chance I got, scared the crap out of one of them when he jostled the hiding spot and thought I was right behind him
Stolen from Seinfeld.
The UPS not turning left thing... It's not a safety thing. They have delivery rounds, they turn right more often because it's more efficient and they don't have to stop and wait for oncoming traffic, which cuts down delivery times and wage costs.
That it's safer is irrelevant to UPS. Most delivery companies also do this.
Apperently the ambulance company didn't ever hear that fairly obvious piece of information.
@@dynamicworlds1 The ambulance is going to take the shortest route to the fucking hospital because someone dies if they don't. More often than not you're going to need to plan your course ahead of time if you plan on *only* taking right turns. By law, you have to get out of the ambulance's fucking way and they can run reds.
mike hawk Also only if you drive on the right.
We have a health and safety right up that is 2 full pages long on how to properly blow up a balloon. I work at a bottle shop.
Wtf?! 😂
So many questions....
How is it even possible to take that long to explain how to blow up a balloon?
Worked at an Amazon warehouse that had a 6 step chart on how to put earplugs In...🙄
I once saw a WikiHow on peeling a Kumquat. I'm not sure who's ever going to use it. I don't peel Kumquats, I eat them with the skin (since I buy organic ones if I ever get Kumquats.) Guess the WikIHow wasn't written for me.
Do half of these people work for Umbrella Corp?
Amazon.
@@MrMalicious5I'm pretty sure that if Amazon developed their own drugs they'd test them on us, too. Actually, having worked there going on 5 years, I know they would.
WorldWalker128
Is Amazon really a bad company to work for.
@@Dwight_ If you work in the logistic side yes. Very hard and exhausting.
We cannot drink water near a customer. If it’s busy and you have a really sore throat and it hurts to breathe and speak you still have to speak and ask if they want paper or plastic bags and you cannot drink anything.
That sounds illegal. Check the labor laws in your area.
Unless you live in some poor third world nation, that is most likely illegal
I'm a waitress and we kind of have that rule too. If you drink water or anything in front of a customer you'll be told to go and hide to drink It because it doesn't look smart enough.
It does look unprofessional, eating/drinking anything in front of a customer. Like would you eat at a restaurant where the waiter/waitress was munching on a bag of Doritos while serving you?
@@kilborn666 we aren't talking about eating. We're talking about drinking water. If a waitress started drinking water I wouldn't even notice.
At my dads work, the punishment for missing one day is the exact same if you missed two days. So basically, if I see that he didn’t go to work then I pretty much know he’s not gonna be there tomorrow either.
"If you have time to lean, you have time to clean". Example of a jingoistic rule not followed by those who belch it out because they are never subject to it.
If you have time to make a rhyme about work ethic, you have some time to clean.
11:30 Okay no, that's bullshit. If you're not paying me extra, I'm not on call. If you're not paying me extra, I'm not working overtime. I'll tell you up front, "Since you're not paying me extra, I'm not going to be on call. That costs extra. You can schedule me, and I'll show up, otherwise you clearly don't need me, so I'm not."
The problem companies take advantage of desperate people. So you may have this cavalier attitude but if you had no job and had people relying on you then you probably wouldn't.
No, I've been in this exact position before. More than once. Sometimes they write me up for it once and then yield. Sometimes they drop me. I have left jobs before, with people who depend on me. It's not as hard to get work as people make out. You go down to the local workforce commission office, take the next job off the board, and work it while looking for a better job until you're satisfied. Letting them poach unpaid work out of you is a sucker's game. ESPECIALLY if the reason you're doing it is "to support someone". And the redditor making the comment in the first place agrees with me - finding a babysitter on short notice like that is hard.
@@williambarnes5023 not in Africa
Not on Alpha Centauri either.
@@williambarnes5023 not in a nucleas
The witch part had me stumped, and confused- until he said; _”Uganda”_
Not a work place, but when I was at high school we had a natural hair colour only policy, which is pretty standard.
Over the summer when I was 13, I stripped the dye off my hair, so it went from a peroxide blonde to dark ginger. When I went back to school I was put in detention for dyeing my hair an unnatural colour. They honestly thought that the bleach blonde was a natural colour. I had to get my mum to come into school and explain that it wasn’t, I’d just been dyeing my hair that colour for 2 years.
Headteacher was a knob.
For some reason it reminds me of an old dress code my high school used to have. They required girls wear a certain type of shorts that weren't even made anymore so they all instead had to wear pants or dresses even on hot days. A bunch of girls ended up showing up in Bikini's to protest.
Only natural hair? Which shithole country is that? Would be completely illegal here. Dress codes for school too. Especially if it is for underwear. You could probably even sue for sexual harassment if anyone acts like checking it
GodMode England lmao. We have school uniforms etc, but in most schools its not that strict. Most schools also have the natural hair colour thing too because bright colours can be seen as a ‘distraction’.
I was also excluded in year 9 for dip-dyeing my hair pink and refusing to strip it out. My year 9 picture is literally me with bright pink hair.
@@Maddie-ri8ct then i had luck with my country. We only had a few rules.
No alkoholics.
Dont smoke, but if you do noone cares.
No knifes or guns.
No illegal drugs.
Dont use your phone until class 8.
Dont leave the school territory, if you do you dont have an insurance.
Both of my old jobs had an unofficial role which was along the lines of 'Constantly change Grace's job description so she never knows what's happening until she gets to work and never get her input on implemented changes to her work, either'. Yes, I am Grace. Yes, I quit both of those jobs because of nervous breakdowns. Life Hack: Never apply for a position that's just been created, because sure as hell the employers will never know what they should get you to do and will constantly change things without asking.
Had a similiar Experience. Was Foreman of an shop. Problem was the shop was a State funded Program run by a Company. I Basically got People who where "too broken" for Hard Work and had to get them smoothly back into Work. Fixing old Bikes that got Donated to then give them to Familys who cant afford one. Fixing old furniture with the same goal. Repairing Stuff in Kindergardens and Public Playgrounds.
Sounds ncie and easy?
First day got 19 People fresh out of Psychiatry with heavy Depression and one Person with a Stiff Leg Prothesis who wasnt allowed to lift more than 10lbs due to hip and Back Problems.
No Problem the Goal was to ge tthem back slowly to a "work ready" Persona over 6 Months time. So lets look at the Stuff the State and the company gave us to work with. Tables lots of Tables but not one screwdriver or Drill or any sort of tools.
Okay lets take the Monthly Money that Program was giving me to spend on Tools? Nope! Its a state Program so i had a Social Worker who was my Superior. She decided that the old Carpet in the Break Room was more important. Same with curtains andother Stuff. It was summer, no one was sitting in the Break room during Break times. We made coffe and sat outside in the sun.
After 5 Weeks i could finally start getting some Tools for the 20 People that should have been working. Remember theyre all with heavy depressions (except one). I had around 9 People left, the rest sat at home because why not? After 6 Months the Workshop wasnt running at all because of that Social Lady. But the Windows had nice Curtains, a new Carpet in the Break Room, new Wallpapers etc.
Ive got a whole 6 Bikes done and 2 Beds. The Project got closed down afterwards because we made no progress.
Sad because the Idea was quite good. Helping People getting back into Work while also providing a bit to the ones in need.
One job was being in charge of a school library, and the other was working in a church office. At least they knew better than to get me to try to make tea; I don't drink it, can't make it, everyone would somehow get food poisoning.
@@gracehowell. So you were basically the real-life version of Ramirez from the "Ramirez, do everything" meme :D. I hope you have no more nervous breakdowns at least
Thank you, @Veleno. Now I have to look up that meme, because I can't picture it off the top of my head. Too many darn memes up in there.
@@kaitan4160 That's when you just call them out on their shit and explain to them how it works. I did printing and worked post-press cutting down the press rolls to size. My machine was about 4 feet high and I had to inspect every foot of the roll. They wanted to take our chairs so I just kept finding shit to sit on. Pissed my boss off so bad, but they couldn't do anything about it.
At my school (is this okay for not being work?) they have this ridiculous rule that you can't pick up snow. I got detention for getting my hand *near* snow.
That is actually a pretty common rule. We weren't allowed to pick up snow either because kids would start snowball fights and people would get hurt. If you were caught picking up snow you would get yelled at, if you looked like you were going to throw it or make snow balls or something you got detention. Every school I went to had this rule.
the school i worked on had a similar rule but about picking insects. there would always be a mess if one kid grabbed an insect just to torment the others
SohiHien
Meanwhile, my old school had targets for throwing snowballs at painted on a wall.
Got to train em young not to expect humane treatment
2:20 I have this problem at my job. I make custom t-shirts at a custom t-shirt shop and I'm not allowed to sit and stare when clocked in. The shop is located in a dying mall so there's little to no foot traffic most of the time and the stores around us are empty. My duties are to work on shirt orders, make sure orders that are to be done by the other department are ready to be run, and making sure that completed orders had the customer contacted. Well if we had no orders and all the completed orders have been contacted and I run out of things to clean, I'm at a loss.
I get yelled at if my boss walks in and sees my sitting or standing, doing nothing even if everything is spotless and there's no orders to be filled. I asked her what she wants me to do and most of the time it's clean this or that which I've already done. She tells me to do it again.
At that point she's just having me waste cleaning supplies which costs her more money. (?)
Then I used to work at Walmart. Their point policy was if you were over 5 minutes late, you'd lose half a point because it's considered half a day. Then, if you were sick and you leave early, you lose a full point. So if you're sick, just don't even bother showing up to try. Especially if you're late from being sick. That's a point and a half in a single day. 5 points in 6 months and you're fired. No wonder Walmart's employee turnaround rate was so high. Horribly pay, horrible attendance policy, you're treated poorly most of the time, not a good job.
Sounds shitty, what is a Walmart?
Isn’t that also called Amazon?
@@verenigingvandemagogen4548 Amazon is like Walmart, but online.
@@Coolkc456 Ah okay, I know about Amazon, because it has an internet store in a few European countries like the UK, France and Germany.
So I guess Amazon is a bit larger company, but Amazon also treats it's employees like disposable trash.
@@verenigingvandemagogen4548 well walmart tried to expand into europe around the beginnings of the 2000 but they left quite quickly because i guess it was not profitable. well i had one around 12km away from me in germany in my childhood.
I work as a designer-Illustrator, and a few months before they hired me, the other illustrators were not allowed to browse the internet. Even looking for references for their drawing. If they needed a reference for the drawing or a picture from a photostock, they had to ask the line manager... but not for the permission to browse, no no no. The line manager had to find them the image and send via corporate chat. Yup. Thankfully this stupid idea didn't live long.
My workplace has rules about which trashcans pregnant women are allowed to vomit in.
@Valami Izé does it?
@@Szobiz Yeah. I'm janitorial. We have normal waste, recyclables, and biohazard disposal.
@@Szobiz well it makes sense in a way that it is easier for a janitor to clean everything... seperating bio-waste from paper or plastic and such is actually good, but that's just my opinion...no offense (sorry if i spelled something wrong, i am not a native english speaker ^^")
I can understand the hazard, but as a previous pregnant woman, making it to any trash can/toilet was hard, let alone trying to find the exact trash can you can throw up in?
why not give pregnant women a biohazard can they can put close to their desk? If you bother making rules about which to use because it has become such a problem, why not think one step further? And please don't tell me vomitcans for pregnant women are too expensive!
I'm an air force weapons loader
We aren't allowed to leave anything on the table in the break room.
We all got called out to do jobs on the line and one of our NCOs took all our stuff (lunches, water bottles, phones, ABU tops etc) and put them in the office.
Because of this we spent 3 hours after all work was done on a friday (swing shift) cleaning stuff that was already clean.
I vacuumed the mat you stomp your feet on for about 30 minutes straight cuz if you weren't cleaning you were wrong.
That mat must have been sparkling clean after that while ordeal.
Not really work, but in 6th grade my class was prohibited to say the word "hairline" or else you'd have detention...
I bet they also banned everyone from saying "your mom."
w h e z 😂
w h e z We actually had this weird rule in my Prep year in school. We would always say ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’. One day our teacher yelled at us and said ‘if you say that one more time you’re getting into big trouble!’.
@@Cerberus03 I think that's a thing about teachers. If all the students start doing this one thing a lot, even if it's not remotely offensive, life threatening, a distraction or etc., teachers will ban it.
MisterBurgerBeachball1225
😂 Yeah. They do ban some pretty silly things. It probably just annoyed her to the point where the only thing she could do was that. I dunno.
This video makes me appreciate my job so much more. At my job I get 3 1/2 weeks paid vacation a year, free healthcare, 3.5% of my yearly wage put into a 401k, a state pension plan, and I can watch Netflix and TV while I am working. It’s also a very laid back and low stress work environment. I actually got triggered hearing some of the rules people mentioned in this video.
lucky you, kent
werewolf873 Yes, I am fortunate for sure. I don’t make a massive salary but the low stress and good benefits make up for it.
Kent What is your job?
Ta'Ru Harris I’m a system operator in the 24 hour control room of a municipal energy agency. We supply electricity and natural gas to small towns and I oversee that in the control room. I’m not going to disclose who my employer is though.
it makes me appreciate my job too because it's laid back as well, but i don't get any vacations, tax/401k help, or healthcare.. ;n;
Worked at Casey’s, they said it was too expensive too have a camera system pointing at the pumps so as a cashier we had to give customer service, clean, stock, always stay busy. At the same time they wanted us to write down the make, models and license plates of people driving off. We complained we couldn’t see all the license plates. So they invested in a notebook, pen, and a shitty pair of binoculars.
Jake Hamilton ah Casey’s. What a wonderful gas station
Jeremy Nolen they have a monopoly on gas stations in MN. One town of 6,000 people had 3. They bought out every gas station in town and then closed them down.
I was in an office where the boss said you had to tell her if you were going to the toilet. I refused and sent an email to HR telling them it was ridiculous and I wasn’t doing that. I accidentally cc the email to all the staff.
Also had a job that wanted you to show up 15 minutes early and stay 15 minutes late without pay. I didn’t do it. We had a board that you wrote on for when you were taking your holidays and mine had been up for ages but the manager complained that they were going to be difficult to cover and I couldn’t take them then. I went to the board and changed my dates so that I took 4 weeks holiday in a row starting the next week and then my first shift back I quit.
Nice :P
BOSS
You are obviously European and get paid holidays I assume. 4 straight weeks of vacation to come back and quit? Or you're a frugal, financial wizard
This makes me so glad to work for the company for which I work. Everyone's extremely laid back and super chill as long as long as you aren't super-obviously slacking.
This bureaucratic ultra-corporate school level stuff is depressing.
"All of you listen to the same music"
Me: so have you guys heard of nightcore before?
Are you a dude or chick?
@@trollsometimes9789 a woman
That rule would be so easy to exploit. For example, if it were up to me I'd try to get as many people as possible to bring in a bluetooth speaker, hopefully getting between 10-20 speakers total, and we'd all play the exact same song but at slightly different starting points so that none of them were in sync. It would be a horrendous chorus of misery.
@@alsinakiria add me on snapchat?
@@trollsometimes9789 don't have it
I once worked at a place that catered mostly to Spanish speaking customers. The business was WASP owned, they insisted that we couldn't just provide contracts in Spanish because we would have to translate the contracts. Despite me bringing up that we only needed to translate one and could just make copies, they insisted.
I'm not allowed to use ladders but I have at times been instructed to stand on chairs.
Haha our workplace policy is the reverse of that.
An Amazon warehouse my dad used to work at would rather keep an ambulance outside the building than install an air conditioning system. If you suffered a heat stroke and had to be taken away by an ambulance, you were fired.
That’s illegal
100% that's illegal!
Jeff Bezos is NOT one of the good guys.
I hope they SUED the shit out of them,.
That's a bullshit story
We have to wear t-shirts while unloading the truck in -30 c
Fuck that
Fuck that
Fuck that
Fuck that
That shits for Mexicans and high school dropouts. Fuck that indeed
That retail one at the end is 100% true and I hated every day of it. Whole days wasted freeing up time to be “on-call” while still only making your normal pay.
Bath and Body Works huh? They NEVER needed me for those "on-call" days during what is supposed to be the busiest time (seasonal position)
That would be illegal in Sweden.
illegal in most countries I imagine, it's too short notice and no way to live.
Yeah I have on call days and literally I have to tell people, I'll let you know at 4 if I work or not, most of the time I don't work so I just like wasted my whole day waiting till 4pm.
im a restaurant delivery boy. on-call shifts last only 2 hours for the supper time if/when its gets busy (5-7pm)
I work at Ross in the fitting room, and we are supposed to put hangers on clothes when people want to go in with them. Ok. Well it was a Saturday and like 10 people came at me at once, causing me to forget to put on a hanger on one shirt. My store manager saw what happened and said ,"if you forget a hanger one more time, we're gonna have a different conversation in my office!" Excuse me tf? Checking the clothes and tickets I get. For security. But a hanger?
@Skittle Factory
I once hid my ADHD from the manager of my inturnship, because I was afraid they'd treat me differently. I was planning on telling him after 2 months, to make sure they got to know me, before they'd make up their minds about my ADHD.
Everything was going well, but then I mentioned it to a collegue and they immediately told him.
He then scolded me for not-mentioning-it and claimed he didn't want a student from my school 'that has something wrong with her.'
Before this happened, he'd gathered the entire group of my collegues together, that were standing around me in a circle, arms crossed and stared me down as if they'd caught me stealing money.
It was so humiliating. I later got another inturnship within that company and my collegue tried to frame me for stealing a pen, when it clearly said on the side that the pen came from a company that specialised in helping people with ADHD sort their organizing-problems out. I was the only one with ADHD in that company.
@@Widdekuu91 it sounds so incredibly weird... if that happened in my country ( sweden ) that manager would be in court for discrimination. also, a pen? they are so cheap that all companies i have seen so far gives them away for free to spread their name more
@@kitsunekaze93
Well, the pen wasn't even from their company, it was from a company that helped kids with ADHD (I went there, at age 16.) The company I'm talking about is V&D, in the Netherlands.
But they had a cup filled with random pens to use in the office and while I was being fired by my manager, she started taking the pen (and other items) out of my bag to 'check' if I wasn't stealing things.
She then decided she would keep the pen 'just in case it was theirs' and accused me of stealing it, because it 'looked a lot like the pen that we lost a week ago.'
But I stood my ground (I was very angry, that helped as well) and I demanded my pen back and made her take it out of her pocket (where she had stashed it after taking it from my bag) and read what it said out loud.
Once she said; 'ADHD-helping-kids (blahblah, youknow)' she said; So what? We can't have a pen that's about helping kids with ADHD? Who says it's yours? Just because you have ADHD doesn't mean all pens about ADHD are yours.."
But I just waited and stared her in the eyes and eventually she said; 'Youknow what, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and I'll even let you keep our pen.'
And I said; 'Very generous of you, to give me my pen back' and then she kindof roughly pushed me out of the door, slammed it behind me and I was officially fired.
You'd think I had done something to deserve it. But they simply didn't renew my contract for money-reasons, (I now know) they were about to go bankrupt.
@@Widdekuu91 dude that sounds awful! If you can do your job, it shouldn't matter what may afflict you and what you may have to work with. That IS discrimination on their part and you don't deserve to be treated like that.
Back in high scool, you were marked absent if you were in the classroom after the professor. Doesn't matter if it you entered right after the professor or were 30min late. Our public bus system is never on time. Ever. Either early or late.
So when we'd see we were gonna be late, we never bothered to run and try to make it. Every other day you'd have at least one student rolling up to class half an hour late with a fresh coffee and pastry. I mean, if you're gonna be marked absent might as well get breakfast, right?
;w; my school would announce on the intercom when a bus (or more than one) was late, telling all the teachers not to count them tardy.. i can't believe other schools would do otherwise? that's just gross :/
@@vethir To be fair, students must have used like 15+ different busses, plus the ones that came by train, it just wouldn't be feasable to expect the school to keep track of which students used which bus routes and the entire cities busses.
8:24 is straight up illegal. In the state of Washington as an example, employers are required to give you a 10 minute paid break for every four hours worked, and you must be given a 30 minute unpaid lunch for every 5 hours worked.
this is thanks to OSHA, which I think applies to a LOT of these illegal policies...
I used to work at UPS. We had a similar problem of the "1 second late and you're written up" policy. Basically it just ended up that no one ever clocked in and said, "Whoops, I must have forgotten." Luckily the place was so large that no one really cared. Even most of the supervisors encouraged it.
We worked on the actual ramp of unloading and loading. The only close parking to the guard shack was over a quarter mile walk away. The guard shack took at least 5 minutes to get through. Then you had to walk half way back the way you came from the parking lot once on property to actually get to where you clocked in.
Generally, once you actually got to work, you waited anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes to actually get an assignment and then often another 30 minutes for the plane to land.
And they got upset about you being one second late. I don't miss it.