Story 1: If someone is carrying the whole company, then you know the company is setting up for failure. That refrigeration team *should've* written that report.
I hate lazy bosses who rely on/demand hard workers cover for people who aren't doing their jobs. How about this boss...? do your DAMN job and see to it that the slackers are keeping up with their own tasks.
Oh trust me, I know. I’ve been in that position where the entire branch was on me, and I had one manager whose desire to see people in uniform trumped his desire to not have employees pass out from heat stroke, another manager who I had to teach how to do his job, and a driver who was a bully with a vendetta against me who never got in trouble(even from customer complaints) because Daddy was his boss and shielded him. Took them 2 weeks for anyone to figure out how to use the system(and it’s by no means complicated) after I walked off and quit
How dare you! If you have time to write internet comments *YOU SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN THE REPORT* !!!!!! I wish you, your family and your most loved ones the worst! >:(
I went to a Catholic school, being an agnostic. We also had those prayer moments and we could also opt out. Once, a female teacher said that "everyone has to read from the bible" so she made me go and read. I was 17 at the time. There was a scripture assigned for each day, but you could also choose one to read. So I chose 1 Timothy 2, 11-14: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner." All of this, while looking at her on the eyes. She got red, noticeably angry, but didn't say anything. And she also never forced me to read the bible again.
I think you’re remembering wrong. Adam was deceived, but not by The deviI it was by Eve. They’re both at fault for disobeying. Women are permitted to teach skills but in spiritual things the man assumes the head.
First story: OP should have never signed that write up. Since policy and procedure states the heads of which ever department the mess up happens in are supposed to write the report they are literally forcing OP to do something outside of OP’s contractual duties. Doesn’t matter what convoluted emails her boss sends. I would have said “I’m not signing this, but we are going to HR about how you are trying to penalize me for not doing something that is outside of my work contract”. Guarantee that boss would start back pedaling, but you don’t cut a-holes like that slack. You have to follow through. Otherwise they’ll just get sneaky, and go out of their way to find a reason to hurt you.
@@thedogthatlived8649 not if it’s for failing to do work outside of your contractual responsibilities. If they fire you for that then you just sue them for wrongful termination. That’s why you have a work contract. And OP made it clear that per policy this was someone else’s duties. It’s also pretty clear from the end of the story that these duties weren’t in OP’s work contract. Otherwise OP’s boss would have been able to lay the blame at OP’s feet.
@@ryancook4771 I’m not saying it’s the case or in this case but every Job I’ve had it’s usually you can sign or go one 3 weeks probation. I just said it cause no one mentioned it
@@thedogthatlived8649that sounds really shady. Especially if it’s a write up for something you aren’t contractually obligated to do. That means your boss could wake up and say, “hmm the sky isn’t green today. Guess I’m writing up Thedogthatlived. And if they don’t sign I get to fire them”. Don’t get me wrong I’ve been in some situations when I first started working where I felt pressured into saying yes or signing my name. But, I’ve learned it’s mostly smoke a mirrors. They talk big and scary, but that’s just it. They talk. I learned you have to read your contract. If something like that ever happens again I’d personally take the termination. Then I’d go see a lawyer, and file for unemployment. Wrongful termination cases are juicy, and a lot of times the attorney fees can be added to the judgement so that you don’t have to pay out of pocket. The key is to fully know and understand your work contract, and your local employment laws. Follow those things to the letter, and never give your employer more than you are obligated to give. Sounds crappy, but how often have they gone above and beyond their obligations to you?
OP: **Does other people's work and picks up the slack** Manager: **Tells OP to stop doing other people's work** OP: **Doesn't pick up other worker's slack** Company: **Loses Money** Manager: **Surprised Pikachu Face**
Not just that... the boss was now complaining and writing OP up for not managing and covering for some other department that dropped the ball. WTAF? Boss is just lazy and taking the easy way out instead of insisting the other team do their own work.
This is a big reason why unions put a stop to this kind of thing. It sounds silly at first, that you're not allowed to help people in other departments. But, if that happens once, there's a good chance managers will rely on it, resulting in exactly this scenario. Unions stopping this forces the company to actually hire people for each job/department, which also cuts down on the problems a company has when an employee is sick.
Second story: I get decently frequent nosebleeds. They're manageable with a box of tissues, but there's still plenty of blood in the process. Judging on how OP had a single tissue getting increasingly bloody, I wonder if that boss would notice red stains on the carpet...
In similar fashion to the story (doesn't involve a nosebleed) I used to work at a movie theater and of course we sold popcorn. There as I was cleaning the popcorn machine one day and of course it has sharp edges as I happened to give myself a serious enough cut that it would not stop bleeding and they had just finished mopping the concession floors really really clean and the manager on duty was having an important meeting so I as a good, dutifully employee decided to go and inform him that I needed to get some industrial cleaner for the popcorn machine and I needed some rather serious bandages for my cut but he refused to acknowledge my presence, telling me that "my issue was not as important as his meeting" so I went back to my post @ the concession stand and proceeded to stand there with a paper towel that was getting more and more wet with blood and wait and when he finally came to acknowledge my presence after 30 minutes or so I had spilled enough blood all over his clean floor and he flipped his lid asking "why did you not come and tell me why are you bleeding all over my clean floor, what is wrong with you?" and when I told him word for word that he said "my issue was not as important as his meeting" he rather got quiet, admitted he was wrong and asked that I go ahead and clock out for the day and go see the emergency room about getting my cut sutured. Yes, everything turned out okay for me and a new rule was put in place by management that if any situation similar to mine was to ever occur again, the employees were to go and take care of their injuries and delegate the cleanup to their fellow coworkers. No, they took the machine out of service that day to take it all apart and clean every square inch of its entirety to ensure that there was no chance of contamination to the product. They even found the dead roaches that I had been hinting might be in the cracks and crevices that kept sporadically appearing in customer's popcorn bags. Still shocked I wasted a YEAR of my life there!
A little correction to story #3: OP writes that THEY'RE not invited to the family gatherings, not HE'S not invited. Meaning it's most likely, that the parents were no longer invited.
That's up in the air. "They're" can also mean one person, and since the story is in third person, it's not wrong to use "they" when speaking of the main subject.
@@joshrivet4011 It would be grammatically incorrect though to use 'they' when referring to one person. It's also not what first comes to mind, so I would argue the commenter is right to say its the parents
@@joshrivet4011 I always love to see people being edjucated about the gramatical use of singular they. Unfortunatelly in this case it's safe to assume that they refers to the parents, because in the story the brother was always refered to as he.
Third story: I love when these type of things happen. I hope the brother is doing better now , his entire family sounds like those toxic people who think bullying is cool, at 50 years old. The ultimate cliche would be if his dad was an ex footbal player now coach, and his mom a blond ex cheerleader
Yep, and they never went to college, the dad went to work as some kind of mechanic or doing some kind of “man” job, The mom is a stay at home mom because she doesn’t have any skills or any ambitions or any desire to put her time on the line to help pay for expenses, which was fine, whatever floats your boat and clearly you got by for a good while like that, but now you’re learning that you took your son for granted and now you’re going to have a hell of a time paying all these additional bills and expenses you weren’t doing for a long time which can add up in a household of five people, and the rest of the extended family no longer wish to associate with you because your crap has finally caught up with you.
I just wonder why Jack hadn't moved out already before. He clearly is able to take care of himself and pay his own bills so why was he staying with his parents and paying their bills? Just to be nice? I guess this was the kick in the butt he needed to say "screw these people I'm outta here"
My guess is either his family blackmailed him into staying or he was getting his affairs in order before making an exit; families like that can easily boot you if you try to stand up for yourself
Story #4 - Some years back we had a manager who had the flu, but decided that he was just not going to miss the staff Christmas Party. It was a buffet. The next week half of the staff were out sick (maybe 60 people). The week after that the other half were out. Only one employee was at work through it all and he looked like death warmed over, the whole time. If you're sick, *STAY HOME!*
@@brunothebat4122 - Everyone eventually called off, except for the one employee who was at work the whole time. He swore that he would never do it again, because how it prolonged his own illness.
@@morallyambiguousnet I was wondering about it because if he called off work that Christmas Party either to family or got sick himself that day or was he there for it and just got lucky. Only way I can think of is that he was off that day. That's why he was the only one there.
@@brunothebat4122 - Oh, he was definitely there on the day of the buffet. Everyone was. No one missed it. That's why one Typhoid Mary managed to decimate the entire department. The one guy that came in for the whole two weeks was sick as a dog the whole time.
@@morallyambiguousnet Wow. Talk about a REALLY lucky employee. I wish I got some luck like that guy. I was expecting for that one guy to have missed it due to either a family emergency or sick with something else. Props to him for surviving it without catching a flu.
Story 4 + Comment: If someone is sick, *don't ask them to come to work!* Like, how ignorant would you have to be to push aside someone's illness when asking them to come to work? You've only got yourself to blame when you get sick as a consequence.
Like, if I ran a business and someone called in sick, I'd ask, "can you work from home, or do you need a day or two to recover? keep me updated if it gets worse, okay?" Although, if I ran a business, it would be a bakery, so that wouldn't work either. It'd be more like "call us when you're not coughing, and we'll get you back on the schedule. feel better, buddy."
Churches, some pasters tell their congregations that if thier love for the Lord is true then he'll protect you or only the unclean get sick . Just look at how those mega churches and some smaller ones all across the country refused to lock down at the beginning of the pandemic. Ya it was for money but the church attendees didn't see it that way and thy for sure pull this stuff.
I was a nurse at a nursing home (talk about a flu vulnerable population) and felt ill. Next day screaming fever, sore throat, cough, diarrhea - at orientation we’re told “don’t come to work sick”, this was during H1N1 scare so the CDC kept saying “don’t go to work sick” I called my doctor for an appointment, it was scheduled for day after next (they were slammed with people trying to get antivirals). They said (you should know it by now) “don’t go to work sick “. My common sense after almost 20 years in nursing profession said “don’t go to work sick “ when I called work to say I couldn’t work that night, they said “but wE’re So sHoRt sTaFfEd, eVeRyOnE iS sIcK. This might result in a verbal warning as you’ve only been here a short time “. Note: I’d been working there for just over a month but on an 8/10 , they said I need 30 days worked (that night would have been 30)until sick time kicked in , not number of days since hire. I caved and went into work, my throat’s so raw it was bleeding, I was running 103F fever, prolific snot production, and nonstop cough. None of my coworkers would come near me, the previous shifts charge nurse came by to check our unit before she left for the night and saw me (I think another staff member notified her, lol) As I was nodding out on the desk a mere 10 minutes after walking into the building. I know you’re all thinking I was sent home and they heavily disinfected the spot I sat in, but you’d be wrong. I made it through the shift though I don’t remember much of it, went home, called HR to call out for my next shift, and passed out. I was called into a meeting 2 days later and terminated for sleeping on shift (I honestly don’t remember) and writing my notes in an illegible scrawl, some of it crossed out very messily - a no-no for medical documents (again, no memory of that particular shift). Heard from a former coworker that they’d had a massive flu outbreak, even set up a quarantine unit where the sickest patients were, and a lot of staff had gotten bad flu as well - and they temporarily suspended any policies about sick time during outbreak. Somehow, someone “forgot” to respond to my unemployment filing, so it went through uncontested. Clarification - 8/10 is a 12hr shift designation where I worked 8 out of 14 days per pay period, but 12hr shifts not 8 hr shift (10 days would be 40hr work week for 2 wk schedule)
I will never, ever understand the logic of "i don't care if you're sick, you HAVE to come in". like it takes two seconds to think "won't this employee not be able to perform their duties? won't they possibly infect the rest of the team?" no, they just think in the moment "i need a warm body in this spot, right now"
Boss: Don't interrupt! Employee: I'm standing here holding a fucking tissue to my face that keeps getting redder and redder. What does that tell you, genius? Seriously, I've had so many bosses like this, it's disgusting. And then they wonder why their turnover rates are so high. 😒
The last story reminded me of when my late Grate Grandmother was ordering her stone. This was when my Grate Grandfather passed away, and to save money she ordered her stone at the same time. Along with her date of birth she asked for a 19 to be placed as the beginning of her date of death. The carver said that it's not a good idea to carve even part of your death date so early, and she told him not to tell her what she wants to have on her tombstone. She died in 2001, and all she said about her marker was it wasn't her fault that the gravestone carver didn't know when she would die, and she wasn't going to pay to have it changed. My grandma did that.
It reminded me of Spike Milligan. For the Americans in the audience, look him up. For many years, he'd quip that he wanted 'I told you I was ill' on his gravestone. When he died, the church refused to allow it, as it lacked decorum. So it was engraved - but in Gaelic..
My favorite bible passages involve the (male) guests that were at Lot's house. Men came to the door saying, "Give them to us, so that we may 'know' them." Lot says, " Oh, no, please don't hurt my guests. Here, I have two virgin daughters, take them instead and do what you will." It's in Genesis somewhere. I don't have a bible in front of me.
And after his wife turned into a salt pilar they got to "know" their father otherwise his lineage would die so they decided to bore his children, but he never knew because he was asleep... Like... Dude, that's not how it works 🤣
@@monedameow Because they plied him with liquor. So maybe he was capable of the act, but didn't remember after it happened. Catholic school for 12 years... you get to know all the dirty parts of the bible.
I would read from the Song of Solomon, e.g.: “[6] How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! [7] This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. [8] I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine”
Story 4: this reminded me of when I was working at the hospital as a house keeper. It was coming up on flu season and everyone was getting thier vaccines. I know they’re okay, but I have a history of having bad reactions to vaccines (hospitalized as a baby after my immunization shot. I still have a scar from my hives on my neck that looks like a vampire bite) and I told my boss this. He gave me three options; take the needle, don’t take the needle and wear a mask (this was pre-Covid), or get written up. I was newish to the job, and they had us wearing black canvas uniforms to clean in. I was already hot during work so I took the risk and took the needle. Three days later I’m dizzy and not feeling good. I tried to call in but they have a 24 hour call in period. So… I drive in… still dizzy, and go to work. Not half way through my morning I’m passing out in the hall. A nurse pulls me aside and calls my boss, telling him I need to go home. He gives me 2 options: suck it up and get through my day, or go home and get written up. I was pissed at this point. I was in a loose loose situation, and he was punishing me for something he made me do. So, I went home and didn’t sign the write up. I left that job later. Shout out to the House Keepers. You guys were the in sung hero’s of the pandemic. I have other stories about this work place.
The key thing is to realize when your own family members are toxic. Then you have to find a way out. Once you live without the negativity for a few months you'll realize "I feel much better now." I'm never going back. Them saying, "I'm never speaking to you again" is actually a blessing.
Sixth story : 'murica, land of the insurances and extremely high hospital bills. Yet the selfish people there keep saying "I don't need the hospital now, so why should I pay taxes to fund these other people's access to it!?". By the time you do need access to the hospital, be it for cancer or whatever else... You'll find out the taxes paid are MUCH less than any of the procedures you'd go through and you'd leave the hospital without any extra bills to pay. The tax is even lower than most insurances for the majority of people, too. Only if you made over $100k would it cost a tiny bit more.
I legit have only been to the hospital twice in my life. Once cuz I was threatened with legal action if I didn't give birth to the little shit I never wanted, and once cuz I got stabbed and I couldn't reach it to sew it up myself. Both times I was treated like shit just cuz I didn't look "normal" to the doctors. So no, I don't want to fund hospitals when they employ people who dont give a fuck about their patients in the first place
My nephew was a Jewish boy who attended a Catholic school (it was the only private school in the area and the local school district was pretty bad). When ever he was asked to read from the Bible he only read from the Old Testament - basically the Torah. He had a beautiful voice, so in his senior year he was asked to read the morning Bible quote over the loudspeaker system. About halfway through the year one of the Nuns asked why he didn't read anything from the New Testament and he had to remind her that he was Jewish! They asked someone else to read on alternate mornings for the rest of the year.
I'm always amused when religious folks try to force non-believers to recite their holy book. They always assume "Oh, they don't believe the same thing we do, it must be because they don't know anything of our faith" When it's quite often "I know about your faith, possibly more than you do, and that's why I'm not of it" I sadly suck at remembering things involving numbers (I'm a comic geek who couldn't tell you the first appearance of half my favorite characters because numbers just do not stick in my brain) but if I could memorize them I'd just mention the whole bit with the Amalakites, or the Midianites, or any of the other "Kill them all and let Me sort them out" bits God pulls in the Bible.
The only time I ever got the flu, I had just gotten a new position at my IT department, going from a wonderfully lonely evening shift to the busy day shift. Flu rampaged thru, we were dropping like flies. Except the continually sick kid. He never got it. We figured he was full of so many other bugs, the flu couldn't get in. 😄
Story 3: I have no idea why Jack waited that long to leave. Forget the stupidity, that whole family is straight up toxic. The only facepalm-inducing stupidity here is the sister's: did she seriously expect Jack to keep footing the bills while she took all the credit and caused him to be kicked out? Good riddance to all of them.
I think he took over the bills gradually and didn't notice how much his parents are using him. Similar to abuse victim, one step a time and victim just accept it untill it's really bad.
Abusive family are always shocked when their victims finally decide enough is enough and either fight back or leave. And since the family seems to stuck in their overgrown-teen mentality, they probably can't comprehend the long-term consequences of their short term actions that play into their stupid popularity contest
The last story reminds me of one tombstone that I’ve seen in compilations of funny or unusual graves that has “F you” on it, but spelled out acrostic style (that is, with the first letters of the lines in the writing read from top to bottom).
rSlash asked at the end of the Jack-the-bill-payer segment "How can you live in a house as an adult and presumably own the house but not even know who's paying the electrical and water bills?" OP doesn't mention it, but here's one possibility: Parents are more focused on funding their drug addictions than paying their bills. It happens all too often.
Hospitals sure do drop costs from bills really easily when they are asked to, plans, etc. Its almost as if its not a real loss for them, or like the cost is overinflated or something. How odd.
The tombstone reminds me of what’s written on the comedian Spike Milligan’s headstone “I told you I was ill”, the only way the cemetery would display it was if it was translated into another language. So it’s in Irish.
First story reminds me of my workplace We had 5 people working in our warehouse and the out the door rate was around (usually above) 95%, which it had been for the 3 years I had been working here up to this incident 1 of them had a problem with another person and constantly caused issues for that person so one day that person told our boss he wasn't working with the problem worker and took a job in our office 1 year later the problem worker still works here and causes problems with most people he's around, we now have 2 new permanent warehouse workers plus 3 other workers being pulled to help from other areas on a regular basis So with now a total of 6 permanent and 3 occasional warehouse workers surely things are better and run smoothly, right? The out the door rate is around 85% now but was down as low as 72% at the start of the year
My family tends to have intense arguments over mundane things. I have threatened to get “ here lies X, beloved daughter, beloved sister, the Oxford comma is always needed” on my grave to get the last say and baffle people in the future. My mom thought it was hilarious, but when I said I’d have hers read “beloved wife, beloved mother, The Lion In Winter is a Christmas movie” on hers, she was legitimately touched I’d make sure something she felt so passionate about was on her grave.
The story around 11:00 reminds me of my own history of stuff like this .. my solution wasn't reading those outrageous parts .. I chose the few good parts. Like, Jesus trashing a temple in spirit of anti-commercialism/capitalism, or him showing respect and love for people considered outcasts, or him preaching about compassion for people who have a hard life for whatever reason .. or him saying how the likelyhood of someone rich getting into heaven is pracitcaly non-existent etc. My obligation wasn't at a school, but reading in proper sermons at church. And I thoroughly enjoyed rubbing into the faces of the majority of heinously conservative church goers, how far they are from the ideal they claim they strive for .. and that Jesus basically was the original socialist and hippy.
The "Outer Courts" of the temple, where the commerce was going on, were supposed to be set aside for non-Jewish converts to Judaism to come and pray to God. Carrying on commerce in those courts was horribly disrespectful to both them and to God. Jesus' actions had nothing to do with him being anti-commerce or anything similar, and had everything to do with being respectful of both God and other people.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 I think we're on the same page here. The definition of anti-commercialism is "the belief that quality, or artistic value, or *doing good* is more important than advertising and making a profit.". I think, respecting a place of worship falls in the category of "doing good".
Yeah, you can tell where the sister stands on the whole nerd thing, considering that her "master plan" hinged on her brother still paying for everything after getting kicked out. Clearly, someone's used to always getting her way.
That last post reminded me about this: My girlfriend once told me about the time when she was at the graveyard with her family. Her father noticed that her brother's (died 2 years old due to sickness) relatively small, but still heavy, gravestone had gone dirty from all the dust and stuff that the wind had blown on it. He literally picks it up, lifts it in their car and travels home and eventually washes it in his garage sink. :D
Wait so the parents begged for their son to pay their own bills? I mean helping out is one thing, but the fact that they relied completely on their 28 year old son, and treated him like garbage 😂
It's funny how often I get accused of being an obnoxious atheist. It usually happens after someone says something like "Jesus loves you." Or "God bless you" and I respond with "oh I'm an atheist but cool have a good one." And they're usually like "ew atheists are always in your face about their beliefs" despite them being the ones bringing up religion in the first place
I went to a Catholic high school, there were a crap ton of Chinese exchange students, and I'm just now realizing how weird starting class with prayer probably was to them.
Story 7: this story I can understand, I have a sister whose also Catholic. One time her church was having a bring a buddy event thing, I had told my mom several times that I didn't want to go, I wanted to stay home. Before anyone gets on to me and before I go on with the story I do believe in God, I just don't do all of that religion like go to church or pray before eating. My mom and sister had forced to me go, I didn't like it one bit! It was just singing and standing while some guy talked, I tried to sit down while the guy was speaking but my mom got on to me for it, I was just tired of standing and sitting and doing the same thing over and over again! I don't like being forced to do something that I didn't wanna do! And going to church is one thing! My irl friend tried to get me to go to his church, saying it was different then the one I went to, but nope! I got to him saying that I didn't want to go to a place where I was forced to go into a building that I didn't want to go! Do you think God would be happy to see someone who was forced to go church? No, he would be upset cause he can see that someone is upset at having to be in a place where they never wanted to go to in the first place! Also if anyone does in fact read this, I don't mean to come off as a religion hating ass-hole, I respect everyone's religion just as long as I'm not forced to part take in them.
With the flu story it reminded me of the time I had to call in sick. I worked with food and according to the food handlers class if you have diarrhea you can’t be at work He was pissed because i was the only backup worker and he had to cover the shift despite starting work that day at 5 am
Traditional Catholic here, and that was freaking hilarious. And thank u to OP for not being a jerk, but very understanding. That being said, that teacher was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!
@@JosieJOK when I learned what that Book meant I died, I was already in college and was paid to do an analysis for a clinical psychology class... When you like really read the Bible, man, it's SO screwed up. They should have gone with Lot''s daughters, who laid with him so his lineage wouldn't die, "but he never realized because he was asleep" and they bore his children. Twisted tihs
That’s a great picture of Lars Lagerbäck, a former national Swedish football coach, in the thumbnail. I’m mentioning this because I’m pretty sure he’s completely irrelevant to the video but he does look pretty upset (our team was never super good but he was an expert at coaching the team to slow the game down and we played a lot of 0-0 games) and it’s fun to see him pop up in random places.
Tyson foods was great at that. I don't know if they had a product specifically for Walmart, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. You could get pelted with frozen chicken, get carpal tunnel, get any number of other injuries, and they were YOUR fault! I ended up with panic attacks and being medically unable to keep working there. I knew other people who ended up on quad-canes from spine damage from standing on cold concrete floors because they couldn't be bothered with OSHA regulations (I heard ex-Pres Bush had something to do with that). Even though the OSHA required mats would have helped, I doubt it would have been for long. The plant I worked in was very careful about FOOD safety, but NOT about EMPLOYEE safety! Of course, I avoid buying Tyson food. I won't claim to not eat it if I have nothing else, but I prefer a can of veg or fruit over any Tyson product.
I'm not going to defend every verse, but the Elisha one always confused me on why that was "bad". A large group of young men go up to someone, and say, "go on up", a reference to Elijah being taken to heaven, so basically die, and then insulting him? Yeah it wasn't simple jeering, they were going to kill him.
My work is doing what the first story was. They demand that people work much more then required and the workers are starting to notice that the friends of management are letting others pick up the slack they produce. Then said friends get rewarded for it by becoming employee of the month, party's, or special treatment. I even saw one of them take a nap while at work in front of a camera
Had a former boss like the sick story At a busy time of year he told every1 they had to be with no exceptions The next day a driver didn't come in and the boss called his house and left a message saying if he didn't come in he could look for a new Job........drivers wife called in later on that day and said how her husband had a heart attack and was rushed to hospital!! Between me and my wife(who I met working there) we could write a book .
Going to the office when sick: Damn, am I glad I live in a country with sensible employment laws. When I get sick, I don't need a doctor's note for the first two days. Afterwards, I need one. But I get paid the whole time for up to 6 continuous weeks (afterwards, the health insurance takes over and pays a percentage of the salary) - but if I get sick again, especially on a different diagnosis (think flu and then I break my leg), the 6 weeks start new. Also, my job is protected while I'm sick (unless very specific circumstances occur, like it becomes clear I won't recover in any timely manner). Social security, mandatory health insurance and labour laws ftw. Suck it, America.
Wow, that sounds great! What country is that? In mine, not 1 sick day gets paid as full time, it's down to 70 % right away, and after 20 days of these (per year), an even smaller percent. (it's a European country)
@@susankreber Germany. There might be exception, and if the situation is not clear, a court will finally decide the matter, but that - and especially the 6 weeks - are law. Ah, and health insurance is mandatory, of course.
@@gi0nbecell Thanks for the info (and this sounds great!). I gotta admit, even without these exact perks, I'm happy to be in a European country at least, I think paid holidays and paid/partially paid sick days are a given here more or less everywhere, luckily.
@@susankreber that‘s humane standards basically all civilised countries offer (and I‘m jealously peeking north to Skandinavia in that regard). The US are the only country of (basically) western tradition and democratic principles that doesn‘t. Hard to wrap my head around that…
@@gi0nbecell Same here, before I started hearing American corporate stories and then watching some vids like above, I was SO sure they had similar laws to ours regarding this. Still crazy to hear some Americans go without a day off (paid OR sick) for years and that's why they're considered for a promotion (or just aren't fired/scolded), etc... and that some of them think working 50-60 a week for many years (while often being paid for 40) is normal and being 'ambitious'. In my country, you're reminded again and again AND AGAIN to use up ALL your paid vacation days before Dec 31, and if you somehow don't, they even pay you for some of those (again), as if you'd worked extra days.
Story 1: I work at walmart, and I do my absolute best to make sure I make my coworker's jobs more enjoyable. I'll pick up on other positions in my department slacking, I'll go out of my way to take whatever work the person after me will need to do. I buy donuts every week to give the others something to look forward to because my department is very chaotic. If that's how my work was reaponded to, I would be furious.
About the story "Getting the office sick"; I went abroad for the first time in 7 years and overslept by 10 minutes the first day back. That was totally my own fault and I apologized profusely. I have however developed covid-like symptoms after that and my boss gave me a stern warning that "it doesn't matter if you have covid, you are required here". I was so exhausted after traveling for a whole day after my week off after my wedding that I just said "okay, I will be there in the office by lunch" (even though I was perfectly capable of handling my work from home). Turns out she wasn't there herself either because "uhhh I have kids".
I'll call this the FSA story. I hope that's correct. I went through something very similar. In this case, I have no insurance, was very clear from the start, applied for financial help. I had life threatening issues that had to be treated. Out of almost 16,000, about 700.00 wasn't covered. I was so, so appreciative that the bulk of it was covered, but I still couldn't pay the remainder. I was threatened with collections. I said: "There's nothing else I can do. I'm sorry." It went to collection and hit my credit, but this is what I learned. Medical emergencies are never, ever considered part of your credit report because credit history is based on your spending habits. It is actually recognized that medical emergencies are not applicable to your credit history because they are EMERGENCIES. It was removed from my credit report in two months and I never had to lift a finger.
I did not expect to see Janne Andersson as a cranky meme. This comes to show how far he's gotten that rSlash admits him into the ever-growing roster of memeable characters.
For those of you in the USA. Medical bills DO NOT affect your Credit and/or Credit Scores. Let them go to collections. Then pay them when you want. You CANNOT get sued for non payment. You CANNOT be denied service from that same establishment as well. You should still pay it as it's YOUR debt.
Story #6 is exactly why I never use an FSA. It's WAY too much hassle, and there's too many ways to get screwed over for miscalculating how much you'll need. Plus the savings are going to be basically negligible.
Bible quote: The Song of Solomon has lots of salacious bits in it. We even used a not too salacious one as one of the readings for our wedding mass. The priest used the story about taming the fox from The Little Prince as the basis for his homily. Fun!
Spike Milligan had the same trouble with his headstone. All the comedian wanted was the phrase 'I told you I was ill' the church agreed to it but when he died they said he couldn't, so they put 'Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite' If you can't have what you want put it in another language. God bless the funny man.
I hate bosses that make people work while sick. Viruses spread FAST. Recently my mother caught covid. She tested positive on Sunday. We were over visiting family. By Wednesday, 7/8 people in the family caught covid (me and my brother included). All but one of the infected had fevers of 100 and above. That one that didn’t get a fever didn’t have symptoms.
If any reader gets big hospital bill like OP and does the same thing make sure you check with a lawyer before taking rSlash advice and returning stuff. If you do that and get caught you could be breaking the law by misrepresenting funds (unless of course you use the money to buy shares as wealthy people have ensured they don't count as part of your personal wealth legally in a lot of places to avoid taxes). Returning a few items wouldn't be an issue though.
I've worked at a company with more than 15k employees. It was really simple work and people pretty much worked shoulder by shoulder. If you came to work with obvious symptoms of anything infectious you'd be docked pay. It was in the contract. This was mostly to discourage people from infecting each other, I've never heard of it being acted upon.
For story 3 that's complete idiocy, who the hell expects someone to keep paying the bills after kicking them out of the house and you can tell Jack was waiting for an oppurtunity like yhis because he was gone that week. Also, i think you misread the ending, i think it's his parents & sister not invited to family gatherings anymore not him
I used the Bible quote: “She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys whose emission was that of horses” in a meme that had two goth girls in a naughty position in a graveyard against a grave. At the bottom, it read, “Hey ladies! Wanna get biblical?”
I have a similar story to the nose bleed one. One day when I was in class in 8th grade my period suddenly started early and full on. I immediately went up to my teacher to ask for the bathroom. She was talking with another student and told me I had to wait. I told her it was an emergency but she said I had to wait until she was done with the other kid. Several minutes later she finally let me talk and I said I have to go to the bathroom now. Once I got there my underwear and pants were ruined. I cleaned up the best I could and went to the office to call my mom to come get me. I was gone so long that when I went back to class the teacher was angry. I told her what happened and of course her response was "Well why didn't you tell me?!" Um, dude I tried. When my mom got there I told her what happened. She wasn't happy. Then I told her which teacher and she REALLY wasn't happy because she was the full-time babysitter for that teacher's grandkids. I'm assuming she told the kids' mom because after that the teacher ALWAYS let me talk to her regardless of what she was doing.
The two stories about the "I don't care that your sick!" reminded me of what happened when I used to work at McDonald's. I literally had the flu and I tried to call out b/c of how I was feeling. They told me that b/c I didn't call in six hours before my shift, they didn't believe me for being sick. "If you don't come in OP, your fired!" Well, I came in worked about 2-3 hours and they literally said, "Go home OP. Your obviously sick." "You sure Boss? After all, I tried to call in b/c of me being sick but you said that if I didn't come then I'm fired!" "Ah, yeah, go home. Call us six hours before your shift if you need to call out." A week later my boss was calling out b/c you guest it, SHE got sick!
After story 4 I was going to say that one good thing about the past few years is that a LOT more companies have realized that you lose more work hours by making people work while sick than you do by letting them have time off. Then story 5 happened. I know it's the US, but still. There's wilful ignorance and then there's blatant disregard for reality.
Jack's story proves that blood is as thick as thin air! Family is exclusively based on both loyalty and reciprocity. Sharing DNA, or even growing up together, is not important without mutual love!
Story 1: It's not just the US with this mentality. I work for a very large company with locations here in Australia. I'm a bit of an Excel nerd, and I have created many spreadsheets and macros to make work easier for us. But no matter how much I try to help, or how many ideas I research on my own time and then take to management, it always ends the same way. It's not important and I don't know what I'm suggesting. Or it's too much work to implement, so we're putting it off for now (um, if you wait, the task gets bigger. Duh). So, thankfully, I found your channel and the more stories I see, the more I am learning to just sit back, relax, and watch the carnage when it hits the fan. Thank you for saving my sanity (or what's left of it. Lol). Keep up the great work.
"We need you to come up and lead mass." "Okay, fine." *reads Zechariah 14: 12-13* "Please never lead again." For those who don't know, this is one of the more gruesome passages in the Bible.
Second Story: Nose Bleed I have had so many random nose bleeds, the best thing I can do is just go to the restroom and apply running water to my nostrils from the side, while removing all the blood I can. It usually stops after a few minutes, when I can use a small piece of folded toilet paper and replace it every so often.
When I was 10 as part of our church's little indoctrination ritual we were supposed to read out our favorite verse from the bible. The kid in front of me got up to the mic, opened the Bible, solemnly looked at it, then took a big breath and said "Jesus wept" before walking away. Fucking based.
I enjoy when an awful family considers it a punishment to NOT invite you to family gatherings. It is like giving a person who wants nothing to do with you the silent treatment and then wondering why they are so happy.
Also on Story 3 : it's funny as hell what happens when the money runs out and truth comes out how quickly people tunes change.. The sister :" how dare you not let me take credit for you're accomplishments ". The "parents " when their piggybank stops caring about them :" comeback please comeback and let us abuse you " .."oh you don't want to comeback you're band for getting away from us the abusers".. f that..
Seeing these work stories makes me thankful I'm in an amazing place. Amazing coworkers and managers, I can talk and joke around with anyone and we all get alone, and if I need a day off or can't go I can tell my managers and we can work something out or anything.
Aww there's a killer business idea. Tombstones that change with age. Have some hard rock like granite, then coat it with some kind of mineral layer that completely dissolves away over the course of ~20 years, leaving a completely different engraving behind.
The nose bleed story reminded me of every Earth Since final I ever took. I would always get a nose bleed at the beginning of every Earth Since final, and the moment I finished the final, so did my nose bleed. My last teacher's eyes bugged out because I turned my final, without any blood spots, and asked to use the restroom to clean up my hand, which was caked in blood.
The nosebleed story lol I remember in elementary school I had a p.e teacher who wasn't fond of me. I remember I ran into her office and said "Ms. J! M-" "EXCUSE ME, LAST NAME, I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION. DO NOT EVER INTERRUPT ADULTS, THATS RUDE!!" So just like in the story, she keeps talking to this other teacher. They're talking and talking, and to my young mind it felt like forever when it might've just been a few minutes. She sees that I'm still there and goes "What, last name." "MATTHEW IS BLEEDING!!" "............sigh. Okay."
I don't think it is the parent's fault for not knowing who pays those bills. On the company sites and bill letters it is normally listed as "the occupants" or "the account holder" paying the bills with maybe an account number attached. This means with the sister lying it would be jack's word against hers. The thing that baffles me here is that most companies send warning letters to the address and non-payment notifications before cutting off utilities (even if you are not on the mailing list). This means that either the parents missed the letters and didn't check their account (e-mails probably went direct to jack, if he forwarded them I agree with r/), the sister both actively hid the letters but didn't read the letter that probably had a massive [URGENT DO NOT IGNORE] stamp on it or jack actively ensured they didn't get the letter by setting the mailing address to somewhere else. Regardless, the sister is horrible and a complete fool. If jack is a bit of an asshole or the sister is especially stupid then the parents can't be blamed for anything more than favouritism and being too trusting.
My brother is much the same as those parents. He acts like a child constantly so he gets treated like one, then whines about being treated like he's in jail all because I had to start demanding him to... clean up after himself or take care of his cat instead of sleeping all day when not at work. And almost every time he argues with me he tries to pretend he is the one paying the bills here even though he knows I have enough money to live the rest of my life comfortably without a single cent more in income and have since before he moved in with me. He pays for some of the groceries and nothing more and he is not only not the one "taking care of the bills", he actually makes them cost more because he refuses to just watch stuff online because there's "too much choice" so I have to have a cable package which bumps the price from 125 to 196 after tax. That increase is more than the rest of my bills combined most months. And it's funny too because we do one single grocery trip a week and he'll often whine about being "forced to do it" even though it is not possible for me to know what he needs when he doesn't know until he sees it half the time meaning he needs to be there for HIMSELF primarily. But what takes the cake is he whines about working nights implying he shouldn't be doing anything during the day but sleeping and that it's unrealistic to expect anything else. Except every time we see at least one of the guys he works with while we're out. You know, because working nights doesn't remove your responsibility to get necessary things done. Some people really just don't responsibility well and he's been on the verge of homelessness more than once because of it because I can only put up with so much narcissistic the world is out to get instead of cater to me nonsense.
Man, some employers just don't get how 'being sick' works. Granted, some probably abuse the system and get paid 'sick' vacation, but most employees actually are sick. And there is a reason we should stay home!
I once ended up with a $5000 bill for a 6 hour er stay. My insurance was willing to pay $2000 and I was saddled for the remainder, which I didn't find out until after I was sent to collections.
I'm surprised it was that cheap actually. Especially with a brief hospital stay included. Glad this hospital had a financial assistance program. Pretty sure every single person staffing that department would be proud of OP for getting the most out of their FSA.
The idea of having something like “f*** my tombstone fell over!” On the bottom of it would be genius in my area, because 90% of the headstones in my local cemeteries are down now, and they aren’t fixing them because of budgets & no immediate need - they might want to rectify it rapidly if not doing so leaves that out in the open ^^’ and if not, it’s pretty great left as is anyways
Any time I hear the words "at your supervisor's discretion" in regards to the attendance policy, I know it's time to start looking for other employment. Because let's be real, that's code for "Don't be late or absent unless you're literally dying, and even then, get a doctor's note." People get sick. People get into accidents. People have all kinds of random, unplanned problems that come up without a moment's notice, that's just part of life. If it becomes an obvious pattern, yes, that's grounds for disciplinary action, but if it only happens once in a very great while? Y'all can just chill. Shit happens.
I was working at a pizza place and on my way back to the store from a delivery I got a horrible nose bleed. It was miserable. I had to stop at a convenience store with a literal handful of blood. It was even dropping out of my hand. The guy yelled at me about bleeding everywhere, because of the neighbourhood I was shocked that he didn't ask if I was ok, did I get hurt by another person... what a jaggoff. I went back to the store the next day to file a complaint.. it took a solid 10 minutes for the nosebleed to stop. Thankfully I had a cool boss who understood.
The last story reminds me of a joke Billy Connolly told during one of his stand-up shows, it was something like this "I want my grave stone to have carved on it in tiny letters, so you have to get real close to read it, it should say 'Move your standing on my balls!' "
I admit that living in Europe is easier with an employer. if you are sick, you go or call the doctor and you get two weeks of paid time off without any problems. No limit how many times you are sick a year.
That story with the hospital bill: The insurance company did NOT pay 16000 dollars. They removed $16000 from the price. Big difference. That actual sum they paid is much MUCH lower than that.
A really big and famous corporate company (international) fired me because I was sick. I was down with a nasty variant of COVID and had fluid in my lungs. They straight up just fired me.
Story 1: If someone is carrying the whole company, then you know the company is setting up for failure. That refrigeration team *should've* written that report.
but thatd require......................................
them to do their job
It sounded like their job was to be on top of the other departments and their reporting though.
I hate lazy bosses who rely on/demand hard workers cover for people who aren't doing their jobs. How about this boss...? do your DAMN job and see to it that the slackers are keeping up with their own tasks.
Oh trust me, I know. I’ve been in that position where the entire branch was on me, and I had one manager whose desire to see people in uniform trumped his desire to not have employees pass out from heat stroke, another manager who I had to teach how to do his job, and a driver who was a bully with a vendetta against me who never got in trouble(even from customer complaints) because Daddy was his boss and shielded him.
Took them 2 weeks for anyone to figure out how to use the system(and it’s by no means complicated) after I walked off and quit
How dare you! If you have time to write internet comments *YOU SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN THE REPORT* !!!!!! I wish you, your family and your most loved ones the worst! >:(
OP should dispute the write-up and if corporate sides with the boss, find a new job and make the company lose even more money.
MAKE THEM SUFFFFFFFFFFFER
Sadly its not as satisfying as face to face telling your boss “you are wrong” escentially
I went to a Catholic school, being an agnostic. We also had those prayer moments and we could also opt out. Once, a female teacher said that "everyone has to read from the bible" so she made me go and read. I was 17 at the time. There was a scripture assigned for each day, but you could also choose one to read. So I chose 1 Timothy 2, 11-14:
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner."
All of this, while looking at her on the eyes.
She got red, noticeably angry, but didn't say anything. And she also never forced me to read the bible again.
This is why I believe in God but not the bible.
@@frosted_glaceon5513 this is why i believe in neither
@@aubarlowe ?
@@frosted_glaceon5513 ?
I think you’re remembering wrong. Adam was deceived, but not by The deviI it was by Eve. They’re both at fault for disobeying.
Women are permitted to teach skills but in spiritual things the man assumes the head.
First story: OP should have never signed that write up. Since policy and procedure states the heads of which ever department the mess up happens in are supposed to write the report they are literally forcing OP to do something outside of OP’s contractual duties. Doesn’t matter what convoluted emails her boss sends. I would have said “I’m not signing this, but we are going to HR about how you are trying to penalize me for not doing something that is outside of my work contract”. Guarantee that boss would start back pedaling, but you don’t cut a-holes like that slack. You have to follow through. Otherwise they’ll just get sneaky, and go out of their way to find a reason to hurt you.
Some contacts (from experience) they can fire you or wright you up again if you don’t sign
@@thedogthatlived8649 not if it’s for failing to do work outside of your contractual responsibilities. If they fire you for that then you just sue them for wrongful termination. That’s why you have a work contract. And OP made it clear that per policy this was someone else’s duties. It’s also pretty clear from the end of the story that these duties weren’t in OP’s work contract. Otherwise OP’s boss would have been able to lay the blame at OP’s feet.
@@ryancook4771 I’m not saying it’s the case or in this case but every Job I’ve had it’s usually you can sign or go one 3 weeks probation. I just said it cause no one mentioned it
@@thedogthatlived8649that sounds really shady. Especially if it’s a write up for something you aren’t contractually obligated to do. That means your boss could wake up and say, “hmm the sky isn’t green today. Guess I’m writing up Thedogthatlived. And if they don’t sign I get to fire them”. Don’t get me wrong I’ve been in some situations when I first started working where I felt pressured into saying yes or signing my name. But, I’ve learned it’s mostly smoke a mirrors. They talk big and scary, but that’s just it. They talk. I learned you have to read your contract. If something like that ever happens again I’d personally take the termination. Then I’d go see a lawyer, and file for unemployment. Wrongful termination cases are juicy, and a lot of times the attorney fees can be added to the judgement so that you don’t have to pay out of pocket. The key is to fully know and understand your work contract, and your local employment laws. Follow those things to the letter, and never give your employer more than you are obligated to give. Sounds crappy, but how often have they gone above and beyond their obligations to you?
@@ryancook4771 capitalism
OP: **Does other people's work and picks up the slack**
Manager: **Tells OP to stop doing other people's work**
OP: **Doesn't pick up other worker's slack**
Company: **Loses Money**
Manager: **Surprised Pikachu Face**
Never fails
Not just that... the boss was now complaining and writing OP up for not managing and covering for some other department that dropped the ball. WTAF? Boss is just lazy and taking the easy way out instead of insisting the other team do their own work.
@@fdm2155 Ahhh, the Corporate blame-game... if you don't play, you lose.
This is a big reason why unions put a stop to this kind of thing.
It sounds silly at first, that you're not allowed to help people in other departments.
But, if that happens once, there's a good chance managers will rely on it, resulting in exactly this scenario. Unions stopping this forces the company to actually hire people for each job/department, which also cuts down on the problems a company has when an employee is sick.
Second story: I get decently frequent nosebleeds. They're manageable with a box of tissues, but there's still plenty of blood in the process. Judging on how OP had a single tissue getting increasingly bloody, I wonder if that boss would notice red stains on the carpet...
In similar fashion to the story (doesn't involve a nosebleed) I used to work at a movie theater and of course we sold popcorn. There as I was cleaning the popcorn machine one day and of course it has sharp edges as I happened to give myself a serious enough cut that it would not stop bleeding and they had just finished mopping the concession floors really really clean and the manager on duty was having an important meeting so I as a good, dutifully employee decided to go and inform him that I needed to get some industrial cleaner for the popcorn machine and I needed some rather serious bandages for my cut but he refused to acknowledge my presence, telling me that "my issue was not as important as his meeting" so I went back to my post @ the concession stand and proceeded to stand there with a paper towel that was getting more and more wet with blood and wait and when he finally came to acknowledge my presence after 30 minutes or so I had spilled enough blood all over his clean floor and he flipped his lid asking "why did you not come and tell me why are you bleeding all over my clean floor, what is wrong with you?" and when I told him word for word that he said "my issue was not as important as his meeting" he rather got quiet, admitted he was wrong and asked that I go ahead and clock out for the day and go see the emergency room about getting my cut sutured. Yes, everything turned out okay for me and a new rule was put in place by management that if any situation similar to mine was to ever occur again, the employees were to go and take care of their injuries and delegate the cleanup to their fellow coworkers.
No, they took the machine out of service that day to take it all apart and clean every square inch of its entirety to ensure that there was no chance of contamination to the product. They even found the dead roaches that I had been hinting might be in the cracks and crevices that kept sporadically appearing in customer's popcorn bags. Still shocked I wasted a YEAR of my life there!
A little correction to story #3: OP writes that THEY'RE not invited to the family gatherings, not HE'S not invited. Meaning it's most likely, that the parents were no longer invited.
Or at least the sister for lying and putting the parents in that situation
That's up in the air. "They're" can also mean one person, and since the story is in third person, it's not wrong to use "they" when speaking of the main subject.
@@joshrivet4011 It would be grammatically incorrect though to use 'they' when referring to one person. It's also not what first comes to mind, so I would argue the commenter is right to say its the parents
@@FoxLosst "The hotel clerk said they couldn't run your card."
"You remember that one kid from school? Apparently they're in town."
@@joshrivet4011 I always love to see people being edjucated about the gramatical use of singular they. Unfortunatelly in this case it's safe to assume that they refers to the parents, because in the story the brother was always refered to as he.
Third story: I love when these type of things happen. I hope the brother is doing better now , his entire family sounds like those toxic people who think bullying is cool, at 50 years old. The ultimate cliche would be if his dad was an ex footbal player now coach, and his mom a blond ex cheerleader
Holy shit, I shouldn't put it past them
I would just assume they are
Yep, and they never went to college, the dad went to work as some kind of mechanic or doing some kind of “man” job, The mom is a stay at home mom because she doesn’t have any skills or any ambitions or any desire to put her time on the line to help pay for expenses, which was fine, whatever floats your boat and clearly you got by for a good while like that, but now you’re learning that you took your son for granted and now you’re going to have a hell of a time paying all these additional bills and expenses you weren’t doing for a long time which can add up in a household of five people, and the rest of the extended family no longer wish to associate with you because your crap has finally caught up with you.
They sound like they peaked in high school and are trying to relive those days through their kids
I just wonder why Jack hadn't moved out already before. He clearly is able to take care of himself and pay his own bills so why was he staying with his parents and paying their bills? Just to be nice? I guess this was the kick in the butt he needed to say "screw these people I'm outta here"
My guess is either his family blackmailed him into staying or he was getting his affairs in order before making an exit; families like that can easily boot you if you try to stand up for yourself
He probably didn't mind and thought his parents were initially smart enough to recognize he was their golden goose.
How little did the parents think it through
Paying just the bills is probably cheaper than renting a flat (and paying the new bills too)
And not only that he basically just did what he wanted and was mostly relaxed.
Story #4 - Some years back we had a manager who had the flu, but decided that he was just not going to miss the staff Christmas Party. It was a buffet. The next week half of the staff were out sick (maybe 60 people). The week after that the other half were out. Only one employee was at work through it all and he looked like death warmed over, the whole time. If you're sick, *STAY HOME!*
Was that employee the only one who called off or just a REALLY lucky employee?
@@brunothebat4122 - Everyone eventually called off, except for the one employee who was at work the whole time. He swore that he would never do it again, because how it prolonged his own illness.
@@morallyambiguousnet I was wondering about it because if he called off work that Christmas Party either to family or got sick himself that day or was he there for it and just got lucky. Only way I can think of is that he was off that day. That's why he was the only one there.
@@brunothebat4122 - Oh, he was definitely there on the day of the buffet. Everyone was. No one missed it. That's why one Typhoid Mary managed to decimate the entire department. The one guy that came in for the whole two weeks was sick as a dog the whole time.
@@morallyambiguousnet Wow. Talk about a REALLY lucky employee. I wish I got some luck like that guy. I was expecting for that one guy to have missed it due to either a family emergency or sick with something else. Props to him for surviving it without catching a flu.
Story 3: I'm pretty sure that making fun of a "nerd" (Smart Guy) is the same as messing with an IT guy
Story 4 + Comment: If someone is sick, *don't ask them to come to work!* Like, how ignorant would you have to be to push aside someone's illness when asking them to come to work? You've only got yourself to blame when you get sick as a consequence.
Like, if I ran a business and someone called in sick, I'd ask, "can you work from home, or do you need a day or two to recover? keep me updated if it gets worse, okay?"
Although, if I ran a business, it would be a bakery, so that wouldn't work either. It'd be more like "call us when you're not coughing, and we'll get you back on the schedule. feel better, buddy."
Churches, some pasters tell their congregations that if thier love for the Lord is true then he'll protect you or only the unclean get sick . Just look at how those mega churches and some smaller ones all across the country refused to lock down at the beginning of the pandemic. Ya it was for money but the church attendees didn't see it that way and thy for sure pull this stuff.
My boss at Arby's (a fucking restaurant) threatened my job if I didn't come in. I was the fuckin line cook.
I was a nurse at a nursing home (talk about a flu vulnerable population) and felt ill. Next day screaming fever, sore throat, cough, diarrhea - at orientation we’re told “don’t come to work sick”, this was during H1N1 scare so the CDC kept saying “don’t go to work sick” I called my doctor for an appointment, it was scheduled for day after next (they were slammed with people trying to get antivirals). They said (you should know it by now) “don’t go to work sick “. My common sense after almost 20 years in nursing profession said “don’t go to work sick “ when I called work to say I couldn’t work that night, they said “but wE’re So sHoRt sTaFfEd, eVeRyOnE iS sIcK. This might result in a verbal warning as you’ve only been here a short time “. Note: I’d been working there for just over a month but on an 8/10 , they said I need 30 days worked (that night would have been 30)until sick time kicked in , not number of days since hire. I caved and went into work, my throat’s so raw it was bleeding, I was running 103F fever, prolific snot production, and nonstop cough. None of my coworkers would come near me, the previous shifts charge nurse came by to check our unit before she left for the night and saw me (I think another staff member notified her, lol) As I was nodding out on the desk a mere 10 minutes after walking into the building. I know you’re all thinking I was sent home and they heavily disinfected the spot I sat in, but you’d be wrong. I made it through the shift though I don’t remember much of it, went home, called HR to call out for my next shift, and passed out. I was called into a meeting 2 days later and terminated for sleeping on shift (I honestly don’t remember) and writing my notes in an illegible scrawl, some of it crossed out very messily - a no-no for medical documents (again, no memory of that particular shift). Heard from a former coworker that they’d had a massive flu outbreak, even set up a quarantine unit where the sickest patients were, and a lot of staff had gotten bad flu as well - and they temporarily suspended any policies about sick time during outbreak. Somehow, someone “forgot” to respond to my unemployment filing, so it went through uncontested. Clarification - 8/10 is a 12hr shift designation where I worked 8 out of 14 days per pay period, but 12hr shifts not 8 hr shift (10 days would be 40hr work week for 2 wk schedule)
Yeah, I'd like to see that how that three day policy works when someone ends up admitted for a week
I will never, ever understand the logic of "i don't care if you're sick, you HAVE to come in". like it takes two seconds to think "won't this employee not be able to perform their duties? won't they possibly infect the rest of the team?" no, they just think in the moment "i need a warm body in this spot, right now"
Second story : Dumb bosses who don't even listen as to why they are being "interrupted", deserve no love.
"Well you should have known this was an exception!"
Yeah, that's why I politely tried to interrupt you!
Boss: Don't interrupt!
Employee: I'm standing here holding a fucking tissue to my face that keeps getting redder and redder. What does that tell you, genius?
Seriously, I've had so many bosses like this, it's disgusting. And then they wonder why their turnover rates are so high. 😒
The last story reminded me of when my late Grate Grandmother was ordering her stone. This was when my Grate Grandfather passed away, and to save money she ordered her stone at the same time. Along with her date of birth she asked for a 19 to be placed as the beginning of her date of death. The carver said that it's not a good idea to carve even part of your death date so early, and she told him not to tell her what she wants to have on her tombstone. She died in 2001, and all she said about her marker was it wasn't her fault that the gravestone carver didn't know when she would die, and she wasn't going to pay to have it changed. My grandma did that.
God was just like ha nope
A grate grandmother is very different from a great grandmother
"1999+2"
It reminded me of Spike Milligan. For the Americans in the audience, look him up. For many years, he'd quip that he wanted 'I told you I was ill' on his gravestone. When he died, the church refused to allow it, as it lacked decorum. So it was engraved - but in Gaelic..
The 28 year-old paying all of his parents bills is a fantastic son. Good on him for becoming a great person while having parents like that.
My favorite bible passages involve the (male) guests that were at Lot's house. Men came to the door saying, "Give them to us, so that we may 'know' them." Lot says, " Oh, no, please don't hurt my guests. Here, I have two virgin daughters, take them instead and do what you will." It's in Genesis somewhere. I don't have a bible in front of me.
And after his wife turned into a salt pilar they got to "know" their father otherwise his lineage would die so they decided to bore his children, but he never knew because he was asleep... Like... Dude, that's not how it works 🤣
@@monedameow Because they plied him with liquor. So maybe he was capable of the act, but didn't remember after it happened. Catholic school for 12 years... you get to know all the dirty parts of the bible.
I would read from the Song of Solomon, e.g.: “[6] How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
[7] This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
[8] I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine”
@@monedameow actually he was drunk
Story 4: this reminded me of when I was working at the hospital as a house keeper. It was coming up on flu season and everyone was getting thier vaccines. I know they’re okay, but I have a history of having bad reactions to vaccines (hospitalized as a baby after my immunization shot. I still have a scar from my hives on my neck that looks like a vampire bite) and I told my boss this. He gave me three options; take the needle, don’t take the needle and wear a mask (this was pre-Covid), or get written up. I was newish to the job, and they had us wearing black canvas uniforms to clean in. I was already hot during work so I took the risk and took the needle. Three days later I’m dizzy and not feeling good. I tried to call in but they have a 24 hour call in period. So… I drive in… still dizzy, and go to work. Not half way through my morning I’m passing out in the hall. A nurse pulls me aside and calls my boss, telling him I need to go home. He gives me 2 options: suck it up and get through my day, or go home and get written up. I was pissed at this point. I was in a loose loose situation, and he was punishing me for something he made me do. So, I went home and didn’t sign the write up. I left that job later. Shout out to the House Keepers. You guys were the in sung hero’s of the pandemic. I have other stories about this work place.
The key thing is to realize when your own family members are toxic. Then you have to find a way out. Once you live without the negativity for a few months you'll realize "I feel much better now." I'm never going back. Them saying, "I'm never speaking to you again" is actually a blessing.
Sixth story : 'murica, land of the insurances and extremely high hospital bills. Yet the selfish people there keep saying "I don't need the hospital now, so why should I pay taxes to fund these other people's access to it!?". By the time you do need access to the hospital, be it for cancer or whatever else... You'll find out the taxes paid are MUCH less than any of the procedures you'd go through and you'd leave the hospital without any extra bills to pay. The tax is even lower than most insurances for the majority of people, too. Only if you made over $100k would it cost a tiny bit more.
The other reason is (or should be) because you care about people other than yourself/those just like you.
I legit have only been to the hospital twice in my life. Once cuz I was threatened with legal action if I didn't give birth to the little shit I never wanted, and once cuz I got stabbed and I couldn't reach it to sew it up myself. Both times I was treated like shit just cuz I didn't look "normal" to the doctors. So no, I don't want to fund hospitals when they employ people who dont give a fuck about their patients in the first place
Unfortunately , to many people complain that's this america, and they have the right to make money. But come on. The medical system here is trash.
@@WeirdJerz3y I mean, it's actually one of the best in the world, so long as you got ample money to throw at the best doctors and hospitals lmao.
Actual medical procedures aren't that expensive - it's a much deeper issue, which is made worse by insurance companies and hospitals themselves.
My nephew was a Jewish boy who attended a Catholic school (it was the only private school in the area and the local school district was pretty bad). When ever he was asked to read from the Bible he only read from the Old Testament - basically the Torah. He had a beautiful voice, so in his senior year he was asked to read the morning Bible quote over the loudspeaker system. About halfway through the year one of the Nuns asked why he didn't read anything from the New Testament and he had to remind her that he was Jewish! They asked someone else to read on alternate mornings for the rest of the year.
I'm always amused when religious folks try to force non-believers to recite their holy book.
They always assume "Oh, they don't believe the same thing we do, it must be because they don't know anything of our faith"
When it's quite often "I know about your faith, possibly more than you do, and that's why I'm not of it"
I sadly suck at remembering things involving numbers (I'm a comic geek who couldn't tell you the first appearance of half my favorite characters because numbers just do not stick in my brain) but if I could memorize them I'd just mention the whole bit with the Amalakites, or the Midianites, or any of the other "Kill them all and let Me sort them out" bits God pulls in the Bible.
First story : Yup, this is what happens when you treat your good employees like garbage. Lose money because the others don't pick up their slack.
Honestly, same with the third story. Doing other people's work, told to stop, they stop, surprised pikachu
The only time I ever got the flu, I had just gotten a new position at my IT department, going from a wonderfully lonely evening shift to the busy day shift. Flu rampaged thru, we were dropping like flies. Except the continually sick kid. He never got it. We figured he was full of so many other bugs, the flu couldn't get in. 😄
Story 3: I have no idea why Jack waited that long to leave. Forget the stupidity, that whole family is straight up toxic.
The only facepalm-inducing stupidity here is the sister's: did she seriously expect Jack to keep footing the bills while she took all the credit and caused him to be kicked out?
Good riddance to all of them.
Abusive losers expect you to do their dirty work and they take all the credit for it when it gets done right..
I think he took over the bills gradually and didn't notice how much his parents are using him. Similar to abuse victim, one step a time and victim just accept it untill it's really bad.
Abusive family are always shocked when their victims finally decide enough is enough and either fight back or leave. And since the family seems to stuck in their overgrown-teen mentality, they probably can't comprehend the long-term consequences of their short term actions that play into their stupid popularity contest
Story 4 : why was the supervisor allowed to keep his job ?? At worst he should've been demoted..
The third story. Man good on the guy for getting out of there. Not to mention that they showed who they are by wanting him there just for the money.
I was just WAITING for someone to quote the "There she had longed for her lovers" passage. Good old Reddit didn't disappoint me today.
The last story reminds me of one tombstone that I’ve seen in compilations of funny or unusual graves that has “F you” on it, but spelled out acrostic style (that is, with the first letters of the lines in the writing read from top to bottom).
What about the tombstone of the late, great comedian Spike Milligan (he had it done specially)? The words were "I told you I was ill!"
rSlash asked at the end of the Jack-the-bill-payer segment "How can you live in a house as an adult and presumably own the house but not even know who's paying the electrical and water bills?" OP doesn't mention it, but here's one possibility: Parents are more focused on funding their drug addictions than paying their bills. It happens all too often.
Hospitals sure do drop costs from bills really easily when they are asked to, plans, etc. Its almost as if its not a real loss for them, or like the cost is overinflated or something. How odd.
The tombstone reminds me of what’s written on the comedian Spike Milligan’s headstone “I told you I was ill”, the only way the cemetery would display it was if it was translated into another language. So it’s in Irish.
First story reminds me of my workplace
We had 5 people working in our warehouse and the out the door rate was around (usually above) 95%, which it had been for the 3 years I had been working here up to this incident
1 of them had a problem with another person and constantly caused issues for that person so one day that person told our boss he wasn't working with the problem worker and took a job in our office
1 year later the problem worker still works here and causes problems with most people he's around, we now have 2 new permanent warehouse workers plus 3 other workers being pulled to help from other areas on a regular basis
So with now a total of 6 permanent and 3 occasional warehouse workers surely things are better and run smoothly, right?
The out the door rate is around 85% now but was down as low as 72% at the start of the year
My family tends to have intense arguments over mundane things. I have threatened to get “ here lies X, beloved daughter, beloved sister, the Oxford comma is always needed” on my grave to get the last say and baffle people in the future.
My mom thought it was hilarious, but when I said I’d have hers read “beloved wife, beloved mother, The Lion In Winter is a Christmas movie” on hers, she was legitimately touched I’d make sure something she felt so passionate about was on her grave.
The story around 11:00 reminds me of my own history of stuff like this .. my solution wasn't reading those outrageous parts .. I chose the few good parts. Like, Jesus trashing a temple in spirit of anti-commercialism/capitalism, or him showing respect and love for people considered outcasts, or him preaching about compassion for people who have a hard life for whatever reason .. or him saying how the likelyhood of someone rich getting into heaven is pracitcaly non-existent etc.
My obligation wasn't at a school, but reading in proper sermons at church. And I thoroughly enjoyed rubbing into the faces of the majority of heinously conservative church goers, how far they are from the ideal they claim they strive for .. and that Jesus basically was the original socialist and hippy.
Yes, well, socialism worked for Jesus because he could multiply the resources with his godly powers, like how he supposedly did with fish and bread.
@@Hekk. Way to miss the point of my comment,. dude.
The "Outer Courts" of the temple, where the commerce was going on, were supposed to be set aside for non-Jewish converts to Judaism to come and pray to God. Carrying on commerce in those courts was horribly disrespectful to both them and to God. Jesus' actions had nothing to do with him being anti-commerce or anything similar, and had everything to do with being respectful of both God and other people.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 I think we're on the same page here. The definition of anti-commercialism is "the belief that quality, or artistic value, or *doing good* is more important than advertising and making a profit.". I think, respecting a place of worship falls in the category of "doing good".
I laughed out loud with Jack’s story, the student/Bible verse and at the end with the gravestone fallen over!!! Brilliant.
As someone who was foolish enough to actually knock a tombstone over, that crude phrase would have made it even more unforgettable.
Yeah, you can tell where the sister stands on the whole nerd thing, considering that her "master plan" hinged on her brother still paying for everything after getting kicked out. Clearly, someone's used to always getting her way.
You can read between the lines on this one and realize that there is a lot more going on than OP tells.
That last post reminded me about this: My girlfriend once told me about the time when she was at the graveyard with her family. Her father noticed that her brother's (died 2 years old due to sickness) relatively small, but still heavy, gravestone had gone dirty from all the dust and stuff that the wind had blown on it. He literally picks it up, lifts it in their car and travels home and eventually washes it in his garage sink. :D
Wait so the parents begged for their son to pay their own bills? I mean helping out is one thing, but the fact that they relied completely on their 28 year old son, and treated him like garbage 😂
It's funny how often I get accused of being an obnoxious atheist. It usually happens after someone says something like "Jesus loves you." Or "God bless you" and I respond with "oh I'm an atheist but cool have a good one." And they're usually like "ew atheists are always in your face about their beliefs" despite them being the ones bringing up religion in the first place
I went to a Catholic high school, there were a crap ton of Chinese exchange students, and I'm just now realizing how weird starting class with prayer probably was to them.
Story 7: this story I can understand, I have a sister whose also Catholic. One time her church was having a bring a buddy event thing, I had told my mom several times that I didn't want to go, I wanted to stay home. Before anyone gets on to me and before I go on with the story I do believe in God, I just don't do all of that religion like go to church or pray before eating. My mom and sister had forced to me go, I didn't like it one bit! It was just singing and standing while some guy talked, I tried to sit down while the guy was speaking but my mom got on to me for it, I was just tired of standing and sitting and doing the same thing over and over again!
I don't like being forced to do something that I didn't wanna do! And going to church is one thing! My irl friend tried to get me to go to his church, saying it was different then the one I went to, but nope! I got to him saying that I didn't want to go to a place where I was forced to go into a building that I didn't want to go!
Do you think God would be happy to see someone who was forced to go church? No, he would be upset cause he can see that someone is upset at having to be in a place where they never wanted to go to in the first place!
Also if anyone does in fact read this, I don't mean to come off as a religion hating ass-hole, I respect everyone's religion just as long as I'm not forced to part take in them.
With the flu story it reminded me of the time I had to call in sick. I worked with food and according to the food handlers class if you have diarrhea you can’t be at work He was pissed because i was the only backup worker and he had to cover the shift despite starting work that day at 5 am
Traditional Catholic here, and that was freaking hilarious. And thank u to OP for not being a jerk, but very understanding. That being said, that teacher was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought OP was going to quote from Song of Songs, so I give her credit for not going for the obvious!
@@JosieJOK when I learned what that Book meant I died, I was already in college and was paid to do an analysis for a clinical psychology class... When you like really read the Bible, man, it's SO screwed up. They should have gone with Lot''s daughters, who laid with him so his lineage wouldn't die, "but he never realized because he was asleep" and they bore his children. Twisted tihs
That’s a great picture of Lars Lagerbäck, a former national Swedish football coach, in the thumbnail. I’m mentioning this because I’m pretty sure he’s completely irrelevant to the video but he does look pretty upset (our team was never super good but he was an expert at coaching the team to slow the game down and we played a lot of 0-0 games) and it’s fun to see him pop up in random places.
Det är ju för fan Janne.
Tyson foods was great at that. I don't know if they had a product specifically for Walmart, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. You could get pelted with frozen chicken, get carpal tunnel, get any number of other injuries, and they were YOUR fault! I ended up with panic attacks and being medically unable to keep working there. I knew other people who ended up on quad-canes from spine damage from standing on cold concrete floors because they couldn't be bothered with OSHA regulations (I heard ex-Pres Bush had something to do with that). Even though the OSHA required mats would have helped, I doubt it would have been for long. The plant I worked in was very careful about FOOD safety, but NOT about EMPLOYEE safety! Of course, I avoid buying Tyson food. I won't claim to not eat it if I have nothing else, but I prefer a can of veg or fruit over any Tyson product.
I'm not going to defend every verse, but the Elisha one always confused me on why that was "bad". A large group of young men go up to someone, and say, "go on up", a reference to Elijah being taken to heaven, so basically die, and then insulting him? Yeah it wasn't simple jeering, they were going to kill him.
My work is doing what the first story was. They demand that people work much more then required and the workers are starting to notice that the friends of management are letting others pick up the slack they produce. Then said friends get rewarded for it by becoming employee of the month, party's, or special treatment. I even saw one of them take a nap while at work in front of a camera
Had a former boss like the sick story
At a busy time of year he told every1 they had to be with no exceptions
The next day a driver didn't come in and the boss called his house and left a message saying if he didn't come in he could look for a new Job........drivers wife called in later on that day and said how her husband had a heart attack and was rushed to hospital!!
Between me and my wife(who I met working there) we could write a book .
Going to the office when sick: Damn, am I glad I live in a country with sensible employment laws. When I get sick, I don't need a doctor's note for the first two days. Afterwards, I need one. But I get paid the whole time for up to 6 continuous weeks (afterwards, the health insurance takes over and pays a percentage of the salary) - but if I get sick again, especially on a different diagnosis (think flu and then I break my leg), the 6 weeks start new. Also, my job is protected while I'm sick (unless very specific circumstances occur, like it becomes clear I won't recover in any timely manner). Social security, mandatory health insurance and labour laws ftw. Suck it, America.
Wow, that sounds great! What country is that? In mine, not 1 sick day gets paid as full time, it's down to 70 % right away, and after 20 days of these (per year), an even smaller percent.
(it's a European country)
@@susankreber Germany. There might be exception, and if the situation is not clear, a court will finally decide the matter, but that - and especially the 6 weeks - are law. Ah, and health insurance is mandatory, of course.
@@gi0nbecell Thanks for the info (and this sounds great!). I gotta admit, even without these exact perks, I'm happy to be in a European country at least, I think paid holidays and paid/partially paid sick days are a given here more or less everywhere, luckily.
@@susankreber that‘s humane standards basically all civilised countries offer (and I‘m jealously peeking north to Skandinavia in that regard). The US are the only country of (basically) western tradition and democratic principles that doesn‘t. Hard to wrap my head around that…
@@gi0nbecell Same here, before I started hearing American corporate stories and then watching some vids like above, I was SO sure they had similar laws to ours regarding this. Still crazy to hear some Americans go without a day off (paid OR sick) for years and that's why they're considered for a promotion (or just aren't fired/scolded), etc... and that some of them think working 50-60 a week for many years (while often being paid for 40) is normal and being 'ambitious'.
In my country, you're reminded again and again AND AGAIN to use up ALL your paid vacation days before Dec 31, and if you somehow don't, they even pay you for some of those (again), as if you'd worked extra days.
Story 1: I work at walmart, and I do my absolute best to make sure I make my coworker's jobs more enjoyable. I'll pick up on other positions in my department slacking, I'll go out of my way to take whatever work the person after me will need to do. I buy donuts every week to give the others something to look forward to because my department is very chaotic. If that's how my work was reaponded to, I would be furious.
About the story "Getting the office sick"; I went abroad for the first time in 7 years and overslept by 10 minutes the first day back. That was totally my own fault and I apologized profusely. I have however developed covid-like symptoms after that and my boss gave me a stern warning that "it doesn't matter if you have covid, you are required here". I was so exhausted after traveling for a whole day after my week off after my wedding that I just said "okay, I will be there in the office by lunch" (even though I was perfectly capable of handling my work from home). Turns out she wasn't there herself either because "uhhh I have kids".
I'll call this the FSA story. I hope that's correct.
I went through something very similar. In this case, I have no insurance, was very clear from the start, applied for financial help. I had life threatening issues that had to be treated. Out of almost 16,000, about 700.00 wasn't covered. I was so, so appreciative that the bulk of it was covered, but I still couldn't pay the remainder. I was threatened with collections.
I said: "There's nothing else I can do. I'm sorry."
It went to collection and hit my credit, but this is what I learned.
Medical emergencies are never, ever considered part of your credit report because credit history is based on your spending habits. It is actually recognized that medical emergencies are not applicable to your credit history because they are EMERGENCIES.
It was removed from my credit report in two months and I never had to lift a finger.
Story #2: How would situations like that be an exception when you refuse to acknowledge what a situation is before delivering a verdict.
I did not expect to see Janne Andersson as a cranky meme. This comes to show how far he's gotten that rSlash admits him into the ever-growing roster of memeable characters.
Det är Janne Andersson mannen.
@@eken1725 I stand corrected. Rättar mig genast!
For those of you in the USA. Medical bills DO NOT affect your Credit and/or Credit Scores. Let them go to collections. Then pay them when you want. You CANNOT get sued for non payment. You CANNOT be denied service from that same establishment as well. You should still pay it as it's YOUR debt.
Story #6 is exactly why I never use an FSA. It's WAY too much hassle, and there's too many ways to get screwed over for miscalculating how much you'll need. Plus the savings are going to be basically negligible.
Bible quote: The Song of Solomon has lots of salacious bits in it. We even used a not too salacious one as one of the readings for our wedding mass. The priest used the story about taming the fox from The Little Prince as the basis for his homily. Fun!
Spike Milligan had the same trouble with his headstone. All the comedian wanted was the phrase 'I told you I was ill' the church agreed to it but when he died they said he couldn't, so they put 'Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite' If you can't have what you want put it in another language. God bless the funny man.
Every video i watch makes me more wiser against these types of people
Keep up the great vids!
I hate bosses that make people work while sick. Viruses spread FAST. Recently my mother caught covid. She tested positive on Sunday. We were over visiting family. By Wednesday, 7/8 people in the family caught covid (me and my brother included). All but one of the infected had fevers of 100 and above. That one that didn’t get a fever didn’t have symptoms.
If any reader gets big hospital bill like OP and does the same thing make sure you check with a lawyer before taking rSlash advice and returning stuff. If you do that and get caught you could be breaking the law by misrepresenting funds (unless of course you use the money to buy shares as wealthy people have ensured they don't count as part of your personal wealth legally in a lot of places to avoid taxes). Returning a few items wouldn't be an issue though.
I've worked at a company with more than 15k employees. It was really simple work and people pretty much worked shoulder by shoulder.
If you came to work with obvious symptoms of anything infectious you'd be docked pay. It was in the contract.
This was mostly to discourage people from infecting each other, I've never heard of it being acted upon.
For story 3 that's complete idiocy, who the hell expects someone to keep paying the bills after kicking them out of the house and you can tell Jack was waiting for an oppurtunity like yhis because he was gone that week.
Also, i think you misread the ending, i think it's his parents & sister not invited to family gatherings anymore not him
I used the Bible quote: “She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys whose emission was that of horses” in a meme that had two goth girls in a naughty position in a graveyard against a grave. At the bottom, it read, “Hey ladies! Wanna get biblical?”
I have a similar story to the nose bleed one. One day when I was in class in 8th grade my period suddenly started early and full on. I immediately went up to my teacher to ask for the bathroom. She was talking with another student and told me I had to wait. I told her it was an emergency but she said I had to wait until she was done with the other kid. Several minutes later she finally let me talk and I said I have to go to the bathroom now. Once I got there my underwear and pants were ruined. I cleaned up the best I could and went to the office to call my mom to come get me. I was gone so long that when I went back to class the teacher was angry. I told her what happened and of course her response was "Well why didn't you tell me?!" Um, dude I tried. When my mom got there I told her what happened. She wasn't happy. Then I told her which teacher and she REALLY wasn't happy because she was the full-time babysitter for that teacher's grandkids. I'm assuming she told the kids' mom because after that the teacher ALWAYS let me talk to her regardless of what she was doing.
The two stories about the "I don't care that your sick!" reminded me of what happened when I used to work at McDonald's. I literally had the flu and I tried to call out b/c of how I was feeling. They told me that b/c I didn't call in six hours before my shift, they didn't believe me for being sick. "If you don't come in OP, your fired!" Well, I came in worked about 2-3 hours and they literally said, "Go home OP. Your obviously sick."
"You sure Boss? After all, I tried to call in b/c of me being sick but you said that if I didn't come then I'm fired!"
"Ah, yeah, go home. Call us six hours before your shift if you need to call out."
A week later my boss was calling out b/c you guest it, SHE got sick!
After story 4 I was going to say that one good thing about the past few years is that a LOT more companies have realized that you lose more work hours by making people work while sick than you do by letting them have time off. Then story 5 happened. I know it's the US, but still. There's wilful ignorance and then there's blatant disregard for reality.
Jack's story proves that blood is as thick as thin air! Family is exclusively based on both loyalty and reciprocity. Sharing DNA, or even growing up together, is not important without mutual love!
Story 1: It's not just the US with this mentality. I work for a very large company with locations here in Australia. I'm a bit of an Excel nerd, and I have created many spreadsheets and macros to make work easier for us. But no matter how much I try to help, or how many ideas I research on my own time and then take to management, it always ends the same way. It's not important and I don't know what I'm suggesting. Or it's too much work to implement, so we're putting it off for now (um, if you wait, the task gets bigger. Duh). So, thankfully, I found your channel and the more stories I see, the more I am learning to just sit back, relax, and watch the carnage when it hits the fan. Thank you for saving my sanity (or what's left of it. Lol). Keep up the great work.
"We need you to come up and lead mass."
"Okay, fine."
*reads Zechariah 14: 12-13*
"Please never lead again."
For those who don't know, this is one of the more gruesome passages in the Bible.
Second Story: Nose Bleed
I have had so many random nose bleeds, the best thing I can do is just go to the restroom and apply running water to my nostrils from the side, while removing all the blood I can.
It usually stops after a few minutes, when I can use a small piece of folded toilet paper and replace it every so often.
When I was 10 as part of our church's little indoctrination ritual we were supposed to read out our favorite verse from the bible. The kid in front of me got up to the mic, opened the Bible, solemnly looked at it, then took a big breath and said "Jesus wept" before walking away. Fucking based.
I enjoy when an awful family considers it a punishment to NOT invite you to family gatherings. It is like giving a person who wants nothing to do with you the silent treatment and then wondering why they are so happy.
Also on Story 3 : it's funny as hell what happens when the money runs out and truth comes out how quickly people tunes change.. The sister :" how dare you not let me take credit for you're accomplishments ". The "parents " when their piggybank stops caring about them :" comeback please comeback and let us abuse you " .."oh you don't want to comeback you're band for getting away from us the abusers".. f that..
Seeing these work stories makes me thankful I'm in an amazing place. Amazing coworkers and managers, I can talk and joke around with anyone and we all get alone, and if I need a day off or can't go I can tell my managers and we can work something out or anything.
Aww there's a killer business idea. Tombstones that change with age. Have some hard rock like granite, then coat it with some kind of mineral layer that completely dissolves away over the course of ~20 years, leaving a completely different engraving behind.
The nose bleed story reminded me of every Earth Since final I ever took. I would always get a nose bleed at the beginning of every Earth Since final, and the moment I finished the final, so did my nose bleed. My last teacher's eyes bugged out because I turned my final, without any blood spots, and asked to use the restroom to clean up my hand, which was caked in blood.
The nosebleed story lol
I remember in elementary school I had a p.e teacher who wasn't fond of me. I remember I ran into her office and said "Ms. J! M-" "EXCUSE ME, LAST NAME, I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION. DO NOT EVER INTERRUPT ADULTS, THATS RUDE!!" So just like in the story, she keeps talking to this other teacher. They're talking and talking, and to my young mind it felt like forever when it might've just been a few minutes. She sees that I'm still there and goes "What, last name." "MATTHEW IS BLEEDING!!" "............sigh. Okay."
I don't think it is the parent's fault for not knowing who pays those bills. On the company sites and bill letters it is normally listed as "the occupants" or "the account holder" paying the bills with maybe an account number attached. This means with the sister lying it would be jack's word against hers.
The thing that baffles me here is that most companies send warning letters to the address and non-payment notifications before cutting off utilities (even if you are not on the mailing list). This means that either the parents missed the letters and didn't check their account (e-mails probably went direct to jack, if he forwarded them I agree with r/), the sister both actively hid the letters but didn't read the letter that probably had a massive [URGENT DO NOT IGNORE] stamp on it or jack actively ensured they didn't get the letter by setting the mailing address to somewhere else. Regardless, the sister is horrible and a complete fool.
If jack is a bit of an asshole or the sister is especially stupid then the parents can't be blamed for anything more than favouritism and being too trusting.
My brother is much the same as those parents.
He acts like a child constantly so he gets treated like one, then whines about being treated like he's in jail all because I had to start demanding him to... clean up after himself or take care of his cat instead of sleeping all day when not at work.
And almost every time he argues with me he tries to pretend he is the one paying the bills here even though he knows I have enough money to live the rest of my life comfortably without a single cent more in income and have since before he moved in with me.
He pays for some of the groceries and nothing more and he is not only not the one "taking care of the bills", he actually makes them cost more because he refuses to just watch stuff online because there's "too much choice" so I have to have a cable package which bumps the price from 125 to 196 after tax. That increase is more than the rest of my bills combined most months.
And it's funny too because we do one single grocery trip a week and he'll often whine about being "forced to do it" even though it is not possible for me to know what he needs when he doesn't know until he sees it half the time meaning he needs to be there for HIMSELF primarily.
But what takes the cake is he whines about working nights implying he shouldn't be doing anything during the day but sleeping and that it's unrealistic to expect anything else.
Except every time we see at least one of the guys he works with while we're out. You know, because working nights doesn't remove your responsibility to get necessary things done.
Some people really just don't responsibility well and he's been on the verge of homelessness more than once because of it because I can only put up with so much narcissistic the world is out to get instead of cater to me nonsense.
Glad OP carved the epitaph at all. Spike Mulligan didn't get that courtesy. He TOLD you he was ill.
Man, some employers just don't get how 'being sick' works. Granted, some probably abuse the system and get paid 'sick' vacation, but most employees actually are sick. And there is a reason we should stay home!
Wait $20 000 for MINOR surgery? That can be a whole years salary for some people? What the actual F****?
I once ended up with a $5000 bill for a 6 hour er stay. My insurance was willing to pay $2000 and I was saddled for the remainder, which I didn't find out until after I was sent to collections.
I'm surprised it was that cheap actually. Especially with a brief hospital stay included.
Glad this hospital had a financial assistance program. Pretty sure every single person staffing that department would be proud of OP for getting the most out of their FSA.
The idea of having something like “f*** my tombstone fell over!” On the bottom of it would be genius in my area, because 90% of the headstones in my local cemeteries are down now, and they aren’t fixing them because of budgets & no immediate need - they might want to rectify it rapidly if not doing so leaves that out in the open ^^’ and if not, it’s pretty great left as is anyways
The third story can be the reboot of revenge of the nards.
Any time I hear the words "at your supervisor's discretion" in regards to the attendance policy, I know it's time to start looking for other employment. Because let's be real, that's code for "Don't be late or absent unless you're literally dying, and even then, get a doctor's note." People get sick. People get into accidents. People have all kinds of random, unplanned problems that come up without a moment's notice, that's just part of life. If it becomes an obvious pattern, yes, that's grounds for disciplinary action, but if it only happens once in a very great while? Y'all can just chill. Shit happens.
Time to start my morning off right with a new RSlash video!
I was working at a pizza place and on my way back to the store from a delivery I got a horrible nose bleed. It was miserable. I had to stop at a convenience store with a literal handful of blood. It was even dropping out of my hand. The guy yelled at me about bleeding everywhere, because of the neighbourhood I was shocked that he didn't ask if I was ok, did I get hurt by another person... what a jaggoff. I went back to the store the next day to file a complaint.. it took a solid 10 minutes for the nosebleed to stop. Thankfully I had a cool boss who understood.
For the record. In that Bible Passage with the Bear, they weren't actually kids as in 10 year olds. Its more close to young adults
The last story reminds me of a joke Billy Connolly told during one of his stand-up shows, it was something like this "I want my grave stone to have carved on it in tiny letters, so you have to get real close to read it, it should say 'Move your standing on my balls!' "
Funny how the atheist was the one concerned with being blasphemous, not the actual Christians 😇
I admit that living in Europe is easier with an employer. if you are sick, you go or call the doctor and you get two weeks of paid time off without any problems. No limit how many times you are sick a year.
Wait really!?
Actually they could also have translated what he wanted on his tombstone into Latin, which some people still read.
story 1 is exactly why I always tell everyone to do the bare minimum of what your job requires you to do
I hope that everyone is having a good Monday!
thank you!! >w
My favorite Bible verse, Psalm 38:7 “For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundless in my flesh”
That story with the hospital bill: The insurance company did NOT pay 16000 dollars. They removed $16000 from the price. Big difference.
That actual sum they paid is much MUCH lower than that.
A really big and famous corporate company (international) fired me because I was sick. I was down with a nasty variant of COVID and had fluid in my lungs. They straight up just fired me.