Regarding the story about 3 minutes of company time, I once got chewed out for being 1 minute late and my job was threatened. I applied for another job in the same company and was hired with a 30% raise. Never put up with abuse.
Story 5: That's the two sentences bosses should not smugly utter: "If you don't like working here, then leave. I don't need you." Especially if your crew is tightly-knit!
Anyone with self respect should instantly quit. If you stay, then the boss knows they can treat you like a doormat. People will say "Pride doesnt pay the bills". Well, I agree with that, but putting up with that is not pride, thinking that way makes you no different than a slave. Finding a new job may be stressful, but not as stressful as working in that environment.
That pretty satisfying story. My parents have a cleaning company and I have been working with them before it was even totally legal for me to work (lol just for some allowance on a weekend job near our place, no child labor..) and I have many experiences in cleaning profession. I really like their attitude I feel like a lot of people take cleaners work for granted. Good for them.
Had a boss (company's CEO) who said that to me once. Couldn't quit immideately because of the laws in my country and I wanted a new job first, but it was very sweet when I finally did. Handed my notice to my team-lead who immediately raced to the CEO who was completely flored that I had handed in my notice. I was the only one on the team able to handle some complex organisational and tech issues. I stayed around to try and teach my replacement, but she struggled with anything that went beyond the basics. After I left my ex-team- lead called my several times with questions. I finally told him that I would have to charge them an hourly fee for the next question. They never called me again. Heard from a friend that even months laters they were still having issues because my replacement was only able to handle about a third of my previous workload and none of the tech issues. Without me around they actually had to second someone from IT to the team to handle those issues. Such a sweet feeling.
I've been a housekeeper for 5 years, one at a Marriott and currently at a resort. Marriott gave us 25 to 30 minutes to clean rooms. Resort I currently work at rooms can take up to 2+ hours to keep up with the standard we have and even then I feel like it doesn't get super clean regularly. Go to any hotel and housekeeping staff is sometimes paid the least but have high expectations and major time crunches. Don't piss off your housekeepers. Lose them and your hotel/resort is screwed.
My girlfriend at the time had targets of 20 minutes per room which I believe they were trying to put down to 15. Their work hours we're built on that assumption as well.
@cptbubbles The fact that housekeepers have to put up with so much is why I always make sure to thank the housekeepers who come to clean my hotel room and let them know that I appreciate their work
Story 5 - “If you don’t like working here, then leave I don’t need you.” Me: Uhhh yes you do. No workers means no business. Famous last words before your business tanks. Reminds me of this first episode of Hotel Hell, The owner had no clue on how to run a Hotel, stole tips from his workers, let his friends stay for free and never paid his employees. When Chef Ramsey confronted him about this the owner told Gordon ‘They don’t have to work here.’ And that pissed Chef Ramsey off so much that he ripped into him that he had no idea how lucky he was to have any workers still willing to work for him. The business tanked after a while.
@@crimsonmaelstrom573 Same here. That guy was such a *****rd that I felt myself channeling Chef Ramsey. His lover was no better. When I heard that it closed down all I could think was ‘Serves you right you greedy SOB.’
The irony that Story 4 Boss got. Telling OP he could be fired for doing something when he got that information through means that are a fireable offense.
Hell if he actually tried to get more people then I’m sure his employees would have at least tried to help if only cause it lessens their work load a bit
It's also ironic too. Tried so hard to make more money that you end up losing it. Huge lesson in humility where you hit someone where it hurts most. And in this case, the pocketbook of a money hungry person.
I would love to be a fly on the wall as he thought he could do the whole hotel himself in 20 mins per room to that standard, then found out pretty quick how hard his staff were actually working.
Story #3 and #5: The best managers I've had have considered their main job to take care of anything that keeps employees from doing their main job. One of them said "I'm the guy who cleans trash off the runway so that you can take off and soar." It's great when the manager looks at things that way.
I have taught leadership courses, and this analogy is amazing. It perfectly describes what I try to teach. I’m using this one. Thank you for sharing it.
Story 3: What was he expecting? For OP to just magically become a mechanic and fix the problem? It literally costs zero dollars to just put up an Out of Order sign.
Story 4 reminded me of a job I had long ago. I worked in the accounting office for a smallish, family owned temporary company. I would come in early, skipped lunch, stay late, work Saturdays, etc. One day I took about fifteen minutes longer at lunch…no good reason, just hanging out at the local art museum. The accounting manager lost his mind. I told him to either put in a time clock, or leave me alone. He went ‘crying’ to the Accounting VP, for whom I was doing most of my work. About an hour later the VP came out to say that I would now be under her direct supervision! 😂
I’m a retired middle manager and I can’t tell you how many times I covered for my line staff when higher management made some ridiculous demand. I usually has housekeeping people under me and would for out of my way to protect them from the disgusting disrespect upper management had for them. I love how the younger generation is quiet quitting.
*Story 4- My hubby works for a roofing warehouse, and they pretty much can’t function without him!* He was hired to be a warehouse worker, but then they had him loading houses. Now, they just put him somewhere without telling him and expected him to do both jobs. Since they started doing that, he said “ok! I’m ether a loader or a warehouse worker. But not both!” So, if they have him on a truck, he won’t do anything in the warehouse that day. And since then, a lot of things aren’t getting done! Jobs aren’t getting pulled, because people are slow and don’t wanna stay to finish them. Also, customers are complaining because of how slow the workers are when they’re waiting for their material.
I can speak to its place in light manufacturing. *If* everything is in place, it has been a modest help. The problem is that *when* things are out of place, it is a massive burden on us. We are now shutting down or rescheduling production & waiting on supplier shipments on a regular basis, because we keep very little raw material on-hand. Some orders have been delayed by weeks from this.
@@TheAttacker732 hopefully that doesn’t go unnoticed by your boss. I used to work for a place where they implemented lean a bit too much, which would put us at risk of loss of contracts and millions of dollars, the only reason we didn’t was because us people who actually did the work would jump through flaming hoops and get what we needed done with sheer tenacity and creativity. Of course the higher ups always reaped the benefit more than the lowly employee (we did have profit sharing) as they gave themselves massive bonuses, and we got an atta boy.
We had this huge corporate Cut Costs! Earn extra money by telling management how to save money. So we were assigned to reducing marketing costs. Spent hours and hours on our report that would have saved six figures. Management’s response? You’re ideas suck and you suck. How dare you? We made our presentation and we were humiliated. Last time I ever participated in save the company money we love you crap. I love love love how younger generations are sticking it to them. Signed, a boomer who wasn’t Gordon Gecko.
I think in general the most common was new bosses get fire is going off on a power trip on workers, firing critical staff they can't replace, and violating workers right since they never bother to read the book on it.
Bold to assume that such bosses are all literate. I've had more than one boss that would be more likely to eat the rulebook than be able to actually read it.
Final Story - OP was smart to ask for the Bosses Boss’s orders in writing to not only keep her safe but to also throw it back in the idiots face. Well Done OP.
@@belfire777 Print it out because you know it's going to cause a shit-storm? Or maybe you can still view already received emails you just can't receive any more ... hell, my PC at home does that, if the internet goes down for some reason anything I've already received is still viewable, I just can't receive anything new.
@@belfire777you must be young. Web email is relatively new in the lifespan of email - you used to set up a local mail application which would reach out to the mail server to download your messages, and then you’d interact with them locally. The mail server not holding onto messages any longer than was necessary to deliver. Many businesses still use locally installed Outlook for their employees and you could configure your iPhone’s mail app to work similarly - giving you access to any previously downloaded email sans internet connection.
@@belfire777I’m assuming OP screenshot the email at least and possibly saved it various ways/locations digitally and physically since that would be her saving grace from getting fired…
Was one hotel we used to stay at where the new owners pulled that crap. They even stopped buying plastic liners for the garbage cans! They ended up losing the franchise with that hotel brand.
Story four underlines my experience as a long time shop steward. When a deadbeat manages a promotion they always assume their employees are all deadbeats, and when a hard worker is promoted they always respect the effort their employees make. Managers assume their staff are the same kind of worker they are. I have never seen an exception to this rule.
I was a phlebotomist also. I had a classmate get help from the instructors to get approval from his future job to wear 'blood stain' themed scrubs. He was going to be a traveling phlebotomist who would ho to peoples homes and nursing facilities. My friend and I wore a oot of Happy Bunny scrubs, they were very popular.
See, I wouldn't have gone and bought outrageous scrubs, I would have coordinated the whole shift to wear "improper" undershirts. Let her send the whole shift home and see how that goes over with the bosses.
@@malacan4006 yeah agreed. If there is an alternative, it'd be best to minimize the risk of halting operations. Not a medical professional but I certainly wouldn't be happy sitting there dying while the nurses were fighting a dress code war with management, even if it's management's fault for requiring dumb restrictions.
I like to think the boss is actually a good person. It says that he called back 10 minutes later. That’s enough time for a man who’s managed to build a business to sit in his chair and think about what his employee has to do and recognize that he’s been in the wrong. A lot of executives are capable of empathizing with their employees if they stop to think.
Story 5: Some people just have impossible expectations for the team they have. What's more important, employees having a balanced workload, or saving money? Sorry, but you sometimes just have to hire more people, even if you get less money as a result
Bad bosses don't realize that treating good employees with respect and consideration saves money though. Hiring process takes time and money, not to mention finding ones as hardworking as current ones. It's usually more cost-efficient to keep current employees happy, but I guess their ego got the best of them
Actually, I like the outrageous scrubs they have now. They lend cheer to what is already a stressful place, both to patients and staff. It's especially great in the pediatrics areas
People need to learn that the workload is the workload. Period. If somebody leaves the company for whatever reason your workload does not suddenly increase... You can still only do the same amount of tasks in the same amount of time as before. It is not your responsibility to bend over backwards and break your back and go insane with stress trying to make things work just because your boss doesn't want to hire another person. Do a good job and don't cut corners. If you are getting harassed for not picking up the slack then start looking for another job because that is not your responsibility... It's their responsibility as the bosses to hire enough people to do the job properly.
Ain't that the truth. I'm a trucker, and I drive for a major spedition company. Now, we get a route and the goods to load every morning when we come in, and then we do our stuff at hit the highway, going back and forth with the various full loads and delivery drives, whatever we get that day (meaning that we always have a bag with clothes and hygiene stuff in case we get sent to another country on a five day trip or whatever). Some days when we are not going abroad, we also do pickups at a customer and bring the load back to our terminal. At one time, we had this guy in the office who would send us the info to pick up from customers, and he always knew better than any driver what the driver was doing. You know how they are. I was at one time driving south and when I got a message to pick up a full load in Copenhagen and drive it directly to another customer within 3 hours, I naturally called him and told him I couldn't possibly do that since I already had a full load on my rig and was presently driving over the Kassel pass in the south of Germany, heading south towards Austria. So I was at least an 11 hour drive from Copenhagen (which can't be driven the same day all together by a single driver due to rules that prohibit driving more than 9 and a half hour each full day, followed by a mandatory 13 hour rest period before proceeding to drive the rest). So I again told him it couldn't be done and he had to send somebody else, and why. He just told me to cut the BS and do as I was told. Which of course I didn't. Then 2 hours later, the top boss calls me and demands to know why I am not presently leaving said customer with the full load I was ordered to pick up. And he was furious. I asked him how he expected me to do that. And he told me I just had to go there when told and do the job. "Do you even know where I am, just approximately." I asked. No. And it didn't matter. I just had to go as ordered. Then I told him that I already had a full load for Austria on the rig and had just parked for the night outside Kassel in Southern Germany, and asked him how the eff he or anybody else expected me to be in Copenhagen to do a job I didn't even have space for on the rig. Deep silence at the other end. Then finally; Which trip are you assigned to? came through. I told him a full load both ways to Langenlois in Eastern Austria. And I would not be back in Denmark until thursday (this was monday late). So this would be my only job this week altogether (due to work time rules in Europe for truckers). He just hung up, and I continued my dinner at the truck stop. Come thursday and my arrival back at the terminal. After having unloaded and tended to the rig and parking it, I went to the office to finish the paperwork. I had barely entered the office when said office worker was all over me, shouting for the whole office to hear how I had ruined his chances of getting an upcoming promotion and that I would pay for this with my job. I asked just one question. "And just how do you expect to get me fired when I'm not even hired by your spedition company, but a sub contractor trucking company that you have no say over?" Then the boss came out, drawn by the shouting and comotion, quickly oversaw the situation and asked me if I had finished my paperwork. "I was planning to when this bozo attacked me and started verbally abusing me and threatening me." And that's when I knew the bozo was finished. The boss got the most incredulous grin on his face. "Did he, now? In which manner did he threaten you, pray may I ask?" I told him. So, he said turning towards the bozo. "you send somebody to do a job they have no chance to carry out timely, then complain to me to have him punished in some way because you can't be bothered to check which route he is on, and now you threaten him when you have absolutely no authority to do so because I told you to do your job properly and not harras people working for us and withdraw your application because you are are clearly not ready for a promotion? It would seem I misread the situation and didn't see the whole picture." I could see that Bozo for a moment thought he had redeemed himself and expected to be back in the running. Then his face dropped completely. "I'm about to correct that error. Pack your stuff and leave. You will get your 3 months severance pay, but you are not working here any more." Then he told me to go get my paperwork done and go home and enjoy the weekend ahead. And he would contact my boss to let him know that I would be on paid leave the next week to allow me to recover from mental abuse by a former speditionist in the office. I laughed all the way out to my car and driving home. Morale of the story is exactly what you said, Aaron. Only in my case, the office boss was how you described and the top boss was the exact opposite to show that you have good people doing a good job if you allow them to do their job properly and earn your company a good profit.
I remember the "White T-shirt" rule at my place of work, so I found a blue polo (with pocket) that matched my blue scrubs and a pack of V-necked white t-shirts. wore them both under my scrubs (my neck was getting chaffed by the damn scrubs anyway and the polo collar prevented this. Got yelled at for no t-shirt, unbuttoned the polo and showed that I was wearing a t-shirt (nothing mentioned about round .vs. v-necks, nothing mentioned that it had to show either!).... A lot of fellow workers saw what I did and also bought polo shirts for under their scrubs (Nashville, Tennessee. gets hot early in the spring!) in matching colors for their department's scrubs. I warned them to get at least 70% cotton polos and 100% T-shirts... We Won!!!
I use to work in the oilfield. One morning, a supervisor complained that I didn't have my fire retardant shirt buttoned up while I was still at the yard. I asked him 'Am I on a location? ' He said no. I told him 'Then quit complaining'
As a Union Lead Steward we urged employees to get it in an email. And then send that email to your home email and/or print it, because some bosses would retract the original email and deny it ever happened.
I learned to keep any texts I get from bosses and even other workers... Came in handy BIG time when I had to deal with an old job trying to deny my unemployment benefits. They also shot themselves in the foot too by bringing in the timesheets, which only proved my case more. And I can even hit them with a wrongful termination claim too.
Last one reminded me of something that happened to my brother years ago. He was working in a small IT company and the boss decided to do some rebranding and during this time switched everyone that worked for the company from employees to contractor, which from what I understand is not really legal. Anyway, my brother was essentially the only system administrator for the company at the time. The boss seemed to do some other things that were either incompetent or just flat out shady/illegal. Anyway, the boss takes it upon himself to unilaterally apply an update to a server during regular business hours which ended up breaking a web application. My brother gets a call while we were eating dinner from the boss indicating what was done and that he needed my brother to drive an hour downtown to help him try to fix the issue. My brother, being a contractor, refused and the boss told him that he would pay him several hundreds if he would just go out there and help. My brother told him that the boss already owed him thousands in pay. He hung up the phone and we had a lovely dinner.
Story 6 - When will managers every learn that it's a major red flag when your employee asks you to send your "request" to them in email, and then add to it "never mess with IT"?🤦♀ It's a good to see a malicious compliance power used for good for everyone!
It's kind of amazing to me how many boss-from-Hell stories begin with getting a new manager, and the mangler feels (s)he has to show they are boss by clamping down on people who are already doing their jobs well.
Too many times over my decades of working, I would see a new manager come in, and immediately start changing things, acting like a dog marking it's territory by peeing on everything. Productivity and morale always take a nosedive.
Dick waving ruins everything. I lost a decent job over that shit and they hired three teenagers to take my place and they all quit a month into it cause they couldn't handle the workload.
The "If you don't like it, quit" gambit can work, but only if you truly do have options. My Dad was working in the park service and his coworkers were grousing about some new policy or other. His supervisor just said: "Just so you know, there are a hundred people who want your job. You can go, anytime." He wasn't being an asshole, he was just telling the truth.
Absolutely true. My city has one of the biggest city parks in the country and when I was younger wanted to get a job in park service. The waiting line was huge. It is a city job with great pay and benefits, you get to work outdoors in fresh air and there is plenty of "downtime".
Story 2 - I love it when workers use the ‘bosses’ own dress code rules against them. They’re wearing outrageous scrubs while still following the rules and wearing a white undershirt. LOL!😅😅😅😅😅
Possibly the best, "Malicious Compliance", episode in a couple of years. The final story really resonated with me as a former IT worker. IT can be rewarding or hell, depending on support from higher ups.
Story 5... the boss thought the cleaners were just lazy... and ignored them, but with them being "at-will" gave him the notice, since he wasn't willing to be reasonable with the workload.
I'ma nurse. We got a new director that took ALL the suction machines from patients rooms and from ER. She said they were ordering a different brand that would replace the other ones, but we're not in yet. And yes, you guessed it, a patient choked to death in spite of our attempts at the Heimlich maneuver because we had NO suction available! She attempted to write up the floor nurses but admin investigated and let her go!
Story 5: considering how hotel housekeepers have to endure the aftermath of hotel room parties and God knows what else, you would think that the hotel management would be smart enough to treat them well and not just tell them that they can leave if they don’t like the job anymore. Apparently this guy wasn’t 😂
Story 3: never expent your employees to work like an engineer especially after you treat them poorly, because when you ask them to fix a problem, the engineer will fix the problem for the engineer and only the engineer
The story about the housekeepers is priceless because reputation is everything in the hotel business. Any other hotel would snap them up in a heart beat and there's ALWAYS openings in housekeeping so in that situation he eally had fuck all power over them.
I could never work as a phlebotomist. First Halloween that came around, I'd dress up as Dracula, approach a patient with a syringe held high and say, "I've come to make a weethdraaaawal!"
Story 2: as a pathologist who is responsible for lab directing I can say that most of us would have said and done the same as that lab director in that situation 😂
I've often said that people will actually work harder, and be more devoted to a company, even when making slightly less money if they feel appreciated. I currently work for a place I would be hard pressed to leave simply because they have been so accommodating when family issues have happened (elderly parents) and I had to miss work. We regularly actually get scheduled with overtime, and if we actually end up working over those scheduled hours they don't say anything. Family run (at least half the managers in the store are somehow family) with only 2 locations,so very much able to maintain that family atmosphere companies tend to lose when they get too many locations that get too spread out. There's one other store in the area that is a much larger chain, but I understand is still family owned as well, and while has more locations, they are all still close enough that they use many of the same suppliers that is known for a family atmosphere, and there was even a video that went a little viral in this area where one of the stockers was being watched closely by a kid pretty far on the autism spectrum. He asked the kid if they wanted to put some of the items up too and showed how to do it etc. The kid's parent was the one who shot the video and said it made their son's day to be "allowed" to actually do something akin to work.
That hotel story. It's why I tell people don't do more than your expected to do. Because if you do extra work, then it will become the standard moving forward and the uppers will get used to and expect that level of standard. Especially when people start leaving for whatever reason and with this crappy economy going on in the states, you're not getting paid extra for extra work and they're going to expect you to do the work of 3 people and you're just 1. Only do what you're paid to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Story 1: Hahahaha Good for you. Story 2: Ah, to be a fly in that lab in order to see Karen's face! Story 5: Boss got what was coming to him. I hope that all of you found new, suitable employment.
1) LOL, kudos OP, way to go. 2) Excellent, well done. 3) So nice when officious A*holes get the boot. 4) Love this. 5) Good for the cleaners for not taking this crap. 6) Great job OP.
Story 2 is just amazing. Like it's hospital work. That shit's chaotic, lots of pressure and long hours. Let them wear whatever they want as long as it's all up to health code and not publicly indecent.
It is like with calling police. Those who are in the wrong are usually the ones who start to threaten calling police on the other person. They are so entitled and believe they are always in the right, even when clearly being in the wrong. Or just bold enough because they could brute force their way often enough by being brazen.
Re the hotel housekeepers. I am a courtesy driver for a hotel in Australia and all staff here are treated as important and equal. Think watching the GM walking the property with a bag picking up rubbish because he has a little bit of spare time on his hands. The reason we get consistent 5 star reviews is because we all work together to achieve the highest standard we can. Housekeepers are an equally important part of the business.
I think for all businesses, success is 50% dependent on your customers and 50% on your employees. Your employees are a reflection of your business. Without either, a business will fail. Thankfully, the company that I work for understands this. Even part-timers are treated well. Our GM goes out of her way to make sure her employees are well represented and happy and sets a good example. Our turnover is very low.
For hotel boss replace hotel with nursing home! That became dangerous so we all resigned called the health authority who came in straight away and told him he had to hire agency staff who got paid x2 what we did! Financially crippled him soon closed so stupid
Chest Hair guy: Only suggestion I would have had for him would be to make a comment (to said power tripping Turd Burglar) that he has been staring at his chest hair in a creepy way and that OP was considering going to HR over s*xual harassment. Make the pr*ck sweat a little
Story 2: Honestly, if I was in the hospital, seeing the medical workers wearing scrubs with interesting patterns would make me feel less afraid. Dyed hair, too. That should be the standard. Professionalism is terrible!
Agreed! I'd rather be helped by someone with a personality than someone who comes off as a corporate drone. I already know the hospital is treating patients like we're on an assembly line, anything to combat that feeling is a plus!
Imagine getting bad news from the guy in the kissy lips scrubs tho "I'm sorry ma'am, your husband has three broken ribs." I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face hearing that or saying that with those scrubs
A dress code that gets THAT specific about T-shirts? Good grief! Bottle return machine story: Yep, I used to live in Michigan where there's a ten-cent bottle deposit so I know of those machines. I would simply have made a sign that said "OUT OF ORDER, see manager so and so" and taped it over the hole the bottles are fed into. OP was not a mechanic, nor did he have the authority to call for one to repair the machine. Tracking story: I'm a retired truck driver. I retired just after the company I putting dash cams into the trucks. But these dash cams also had cameras that were pointed at the driver, supposedly ONLY to see what the driver was doing before, during and after an accident. Yeah, right! That was BS. They did use them to monitor the drivers whenever they wanted. Had they only been used the way they were "intended" to be it wouldn't have been a problem, but they made it a problem.
The dress code one sounds like the last company I worked for... As I remember, they didn’t make you wear a T-shirt but if you did, it had to be white, as I recall, if you were one of the drivers. Then, you also had to dress a certain way (at your own expense, unless you were a wheelchair van driver, in which case they used a uniform company) which was black pants with a white shirt on. The outfit had to be dressy enough, so it had to be something like a dress shirt or a golf shirt... I remember, at a stop, another medical transport driver was wondering why we had to dress so fancy, when they were basically allowed to wear whatever they wanted..., within reason, of course.
Sounds like the only job I quit without notice, too. Pants had to be tan khakis, no outer pockets. Belts had to be black or brown. Shirts were issued by the company, and needed to be tucked in. Hair had to be natural colors, and up. No piercings beyond one in each ear. I bought 5 pairs of the same tan kakhis only to find out I couldn't wear them because they had visible outer pockets. Hated that job
Correct, the US fires "at-will" meaning neither side needs to give a reason or a period of termination. As well as teh fact that there's no US federal law that defines the amount of hours that constitutes for a full-time work week, this in practice means that permanent contracts often include hours that would simply be illegal elsewhere in the world. In my country you can only work 40 hours avg per week over 12 weeks, and not more than I believe 48 or 52 in 1 or 2 weeks but the 12 week average needs to be 40 or less, else they're directly violating the law.
Story 5: Owner didn't want to save money, he wanted to make more profit. There's a difference. There are legitimate reasons to cut costs, within reason, for short periods of time. What the owner wanted here, though, was to increase his own profits. That's a losing strategy in the long run because no matter how much you make there's always a (theoretical) increase. You simply can't have increasing profits indefinitely, it's mathematically impossible.
When I worked for a City government, I always documented every "order" or request via email. I also kept a contemporaneous log both in the local server's file system, and to my personal email. (No one could alter my personal email, just in case of any "questions".) Note: It was illegal to record conversations without everyone's permission, so having a personal recorder was out. Places that don't have that law, I recommend that anyone in government have a hidden mic and recorder for their work, recording with time stamps their entire day. Thus, you are absolutely protected against any inaccurate accusations.
11:30 Apart from knowing OP is an awesome employee, the boss' boss knew it was easier to fire/ hire a flunky who does nothing except shuffle paper and write meaningless reports (OP's manager) ..... ..... than to fire an experienced worker like OP willing to work 18-20 hours and then FIND a substitute for him!
Story 5: it's not even malicious compliance by that point, that's just not returning because the discussion he was offering had already happened and the outcome of the discussion is that nothing changes. Story 6: having worked IT in a similar position (still IT at the same company, just not a similar position anymore) it's kind of odd. You'd think there would be a proper department for such an org. That includes a Change Advisory Board (CAB) which includes specialists and some business managers. If something sounds like it could break shit then it gets shot down right there and you need to go pretty high in order to override that decision (pretty sure the CTO and you'd better have a damn good reason). Granted we never had requirements like in the post and being in the EU all work after hours was compensated, so if a server goes down on a weekend, you bet I get paid double my rate from the moment I got the notification to the moment I am back home.
Story 4: In every place that I've worked in, the clock-in works in 7 minute intervals. Meaning that If I clock in at anytime between 8:00 and 8:06, it will count as clocking in at 8:00 If I clock in later, then I am late. Same applies to clocking out. If I clock out at 4:58, it still counts as clocking out at 5. The boss won't lose his crap over 2 minutes. Hell, on Fridays he sometimes tells us to close shop 15 minutes early, cause he knows no one comes in
The best managers are the ones who can accept their workers know what they're doing and have the self reflection to not try to step in and muck everything up.
Story 2. If I were in OP's shoes I would be getting My Little Pony, Hello Kitty and similar scrubs. But add to that, I am a male who has had a few people describe me as someone who would fit in with many of the more notorious motorcycle clubs (tattoos, beard, mustache and hair that haven't been close to clippers, scissors, razors or any other sharp objects in roughly 10 years )
Story 4 I work at a job where I don't clock in/out (service tech) due to the number of places I go to on a daily basis. We also get mileage pay when using our own vehicles. We had for a very short time a person that was "upset" that we seemed to leave/arrive at the same times every day or arrive/leave on the hour/half hour and our mileage was rounded to the mile. Our boss wanting to basically rattle the person's cage had ys write down exactly when we started/ended every day as well as mileage to the 10th of a mile Well it lasted 1 pay period where payroll was delayed by her having to manually figure out the hours and mileage as we rounded for simplicity Owner was pissed at that person big time as the delay in sending in payroll cost the company several hundred dollars for the delay
Wish i had a story with a happy ending but the place I worked at, sells shakes but not steaks, is still fully functional. When i was there, there was stolen wages, tax fraud, illegal child labor practices, obvious racism towards the lesser-paid hispanic workers, denied 2-week notices, and sexual harassment. I, 17M at the time, reported to my general manager that a coworker, 25F, had been grabbing me and demanding i let her "treat" me, despite telling her i wasnt interested several times, and i was lauughed out of the office. She also got my number, address, my cousin's number and address, and changed her availability to match mine. It was hell.
I used to work for a company similar to Story 5. After COVID the managers thought it would be fine to operate with less staff and more work...we all begged for more help and his mindset was that if he had to hire one person,, he'd have to fire one person 🤦🏽♀️
The only manager that bitches about a technician leaving 3 minutes early has never worked as a technician. Leaving early is a luxury, normally you get to stay a few minutes (or hours) late at the client because you need to finish the task at hand.
I worked for a place that required wool or silk suits for EVERYONE. This included me slinging boxes in the mailroom and the IT woman who had to crawl around under desks wearing a straight skirt and heels.
That becomes a health and safety issue when it gets to that level of idiocy, and informing the appropriate authorities of the safety breaches can produce good results.
As a lifelong patient I appreciate a Phlebotomist who is good at their job. especially due to my veins being practically all collapsed and or made of steel.
Story 5, boss, taking his employees for granted was his downfall. If only he realized and correctly why his business was blooming in the first place...
Either the cleaning tasks are mission critical or they are not. If they are not, then they should not be yelled at when they are not done. Either the workers are easily replaceable or not. If they are, then the boss should have hired more quickly and easily. If the mission is critical and the workers not easily replaced, they should be paid more. Pay them overtime. Give them raises. That’s how you treat irreplaceable workers at an important job. He treated them like he could hire replacements the next day. And maybe he could, in which case he lied or was lazy.
Time clock fiasco. My mom worked as a nurse for over 20 years. They would routinely clock in and then go to their lockers. Then go to the report room to find out what's what with the patients and get their assignments. They got in trouble for clocking in before the 5 minutes mark (shift starts at 3 so you can't clock in before 2:55). So then the staff would wait in line, clock in starting at 2:55, then go to their lockers, and then to the report room. Since the locker room was a converted CLOSET, they had to take turns putting their stuff away. And this was in the winter. So they had boots to take off and put on their shoes. Now the previous shift can't leave until the next shift finishes report (someone has to be available for the patients). Also the med carts had to be counted with a member of each shift AFTER report is done. So to save a few pennies, they shelled out THOUSANDS in overtime that month alone. The head of the hospital, douchebag, gave a speech about how THE STAFF cost them so much money that bonuses and pay raises were on hold for now. The staff said that that's ok, bc you can't NOT pay the overtime which made up for the bonuses. He quickly went back to the old system and, finally, weeded out the people who were causing the problem in the first place. They would clock in 30 minutes early and then go take a smoke break, on company time, for 20 minutes before going to the locker room. Bonuses and pay raises were quickly reinstated. The hospital then found out that they saved thousands on top of the money that they lost the previous month. If only they'd just have taken care of the people abusing the system in the first place.
Story 5: You have to be a real idiot of a boss to think the “If you don’t like it here, then you can just quit” statement isn’t ever going to backfire on you. ESPECIALLY when you make ALL of your employees lives a living hell to work for you…
My brother had a boss named Frank Gambardina who was a two face a hole. I knew him so I told my brother his middle name, Anthony. He spread it around at work and that made him crazy.
Number 3 is easy, call the mechanic = problem fixed and your company flips the bill. He sayd "you need to fix it", he didnt say you cannot call someone who can fix it, technically you've fixed the problem.
First a few facts. 1. I am a native English speaker living in a Spanish speaking country. 2. I am a university student studying English. I have had some terrible professors but from time to time we get one that is a special kind of stupid. Not only do I comply with the requirements of each assignment but I will request that they comply with the school regulations and provide things such as a rubric (explains the grading scale), explain the scope and size of each project. One professor had intended to give a 200 word limit on an assignment left it open. I turned in a 5600 word masterpiece. I gave details descriptions of every aspect of the project. She was pissed! She tried to change the directions for the assignment 6 hours before it was due. I noticed and reported it to the head of the department. She spent the rest of the course trying to find errors in my work. I finished the class with a 98% and because of her behavior she is not at the university any more 😅
It doesn’t to me either, but it doesn’t surprise me... I don’t know if the story’s made up or not, but I have a feeling the boss felt like he wasn’t getting his money’s worth, so he gave them more and more jobs to do..., then gets mad if they can’t get whatever it is done in what they consider a reasonable amount of time. It sounds like my current boss (I am trying for a job in a different company), and when they leave, she says it’s because they don’t want to work, and doesn’t consider other factors (she has a tendency to not be a nice person...)
Of course it makes sense. Never heard of Quiet Hiring? "Why should I hire someone for the new responsibilities and pay more money for additional salaries when I can just dump the new work on the shoulders of my existing employees and pay the same amount, and just yell at them if it doesn't get done well?" See? Perfect sense.
To add onto Story 4, all the jobs ive worked on always permitted a 5 minute leeway time. Granted, I've never worked construction, but damn. Also, i like to imagine big boss called while the manager was sitting with him. I know it probably didn't happen.
I had a supervisor who was a complete asshole and was a bully. He would treat me badly and even name calling at times, and I would tolerate it because I needed a job and the pay was decent and the work wasn't very difficult. One day, he looked me in the face and said that I was the most difficult MF that he had ever seen. Needless to say, I quit on the spot with no regrets. Flash forward one week, the owner called me and offered me his job since he was fired for what he did and said to me. I passed since I immediately found an even better job with better pay. But it was good to know that he was fired. I even ran into him a few years later, and if looks could kill, I would have been dead.
The Dresscode story: at one job I had dresscode said belt pouches need to be firmly fixed to the body. The cordless drill holster didn't fit that description and I got told off for it. Next day I showed up with a cowboy hat and wild West Colt belt with the holster didn't strapped to my leg and shoved my cordless drill into the (open) holster (which it can easily slip out of) while keeping eye contact with the manager. Later that day he told me "consider the reprimand as if it never happened, please bring the one with the security strap over the tool again from tomorrow" he quickly realized the compliant holster was a safety hazard because the cordless drill could drop out off it at any time.
Regarding the story about 3 minutes of company time, I once got chewed out for being 1 minute late and my job was threatened. I applied for another job in the same company and was hired with a 30% raise. Never put up with abuse.
I once got chewed out over a 5min bathroom break during a stomach ache & was threatened with being fired. I was an unpaid student intern.
@@Misshowzat Unpaid intern: What are you going to do? Stop paying me?
that's legit what a coworker and i are doing currently with our county jobs.
Story 5: That's the two sentences bosses should not smugly utter: "If you don't like working here, then leave. I don't need you." Especially if your crew is tightly-knit!
Anyone with self respect should instantly quit. If you stay, then the boss knows they can treat you like a doormat.
People will say "Pride doesnt pay the bills". Well, I agree with that, but putting up with that is not pride, thinking that way makes you no different than a slave. Finding a new job may be stressful, but not as stressful as working in that environment.
fucking unionize y'all if you have a union every workplace is "tight knit"
That pretty satisfying story. My parents have a cleaning company and I have been working with them before it was even totally legal for me to work (lol just for some allowance on a weekend job near our place, no child labor..) and I have many experiences in cleaning profession. I really like their attitude I feel like a lot of people take cleaners work for granted. Good for them.
@@Raven-rv9jr : Not all the time, but yeah, unionizing helps when leveraging with management.
Had a boss (company's CEO) who said that to me once. Couldn't quit immideately because of the laws in my country and I wanted a new job first, but it was very sweet when I finally did. Handed my notice to my team-lead who immediately raced to the CEO who was completely flored that I had handed in my notice. I was the only one on the team able to handle some complex organisational and tech issues. I stayed around to try and teach my replacement, but she struggled with anything that went beyond the basics. After I left my ex-team- lead called my several times with questions. I finally told him that I would have to charge them an hourly fee for the next question. They never called me again.
Heard from a friend that even months laters they were still having issues because my replacement was only able to handle about a third of my previous workload and none of the tech issues. Without me around they actually had to second someone from IT to the team to handle those issues. Such a sweet feeling.
I've been a housekeeper for 5 years, one at a Marriott and currently at a resort. Marriott gave us 25 to 30 minutes to clean rooms. Resort I currently work at rooms can take up to 2+ hours to keep up with the standard we have and even then I feel like it doesn't get super clean regularly. Go to any hotel and housekeeping staff is sometimes paid the least but have high expectations and major time crunches. Don't piss off your housekeepers. Lose them and your hotel/resort is screwed.
My girlfriend at the time had targets of 20 minutes per room which I believe they were trying to put down to 15. Their work hours we're built on that assumption as well.
@cptbubbles The fact that housekeepers have to put up with so much is why I always make sure to thank the housekeepers who come to clean my hotel room and let them know that I appreciate their work
Story 5 - “If you don’t like working here, then leave I don’t need you.”
Me: Uhhh yes you do. No workers means no business.
Famous last words before your business tanks.
Reminds me of this first episode of Hotel Hell, The owner had no clue on how to run a Hotel, stole tips from his workers, let his friends stay for free and never paid his employees. When Chef Ramsey confronted him about this the owner told Gordon ‘They don’t have to work here.’ And that pissed Chef Ramsey off so much that he ripped into him that he had no idea how lucky he was to have any workers still willing to work for him. The business tanked after a while.
I know that episode! That's the one with Juniper Hill Inn right?
@@Cherry-Lycan Yes, that’s the one.
When I heard that the business tanked, I wished I could have been there to tell the guy: “Gordon told you so!”
@@crimsonmaelstrom573 Same here. That guy was such a *****rd that I felt myself channeling Chef Ramsey. His lover was no better. When I heard that it closed down all I could think was ‘Serves you right you greedy SOB.’
The irony that Story 4 Boss got. Telling OP he could be fired for doing something when he got that information through means that are a fireable offense.
The boss of that cleaning crew had everything he could ever want and threw it all away by getting greedy.
Hell if he actually tried to get more people then I’m sure his employees would have at least tried to help if only cause it lessens their work load a bit
It's also ironic too. Tried so hard to make more money that you end up losing it.
Huge lesson in humility where you hit someone where it hurts most. And in this case, the pocketbook of a money hungry person.
I would love to be a fly on the wall as he thought he could do the whole hotel himself in 20 mins per room to that standard, then found out pretty quick how hard his staff were actually working.
Story #3 and #5: The best managers I've had have considered their main job to take care of anything that keeps employees from doing their main job. One of them said "I'm the guy who cleans trash off the runway so that you can take off and soar." It's great when the manager looks at things that way.
I worked for someone like that. It's nice.
I have taught leadership courses, and this analogy is amazing. It perfectly describes what I try to teach. I’m using this one. Thank you for sharing it.
@@mjjoe76 I'm happy to share, especially if it means more good leaders in the world.
Story 3: What was he expecting? For OP to just magically become a mechanic and fix the problem? It literally costs zero dollars to just put up an Out of Order sign.
Some people just want to bitch and complain about anything just to make himself and feel important
Yeah I know, OP is just a retail employee, not a freaking engineer
The grocery stores around me have a sign on the botttle machines that minors are not allowed to clean or repair them. Labor laws and liability issues.
He was expecting the store to magically manage itself so he didn’t have to solve problems and could sit around.
@@NickSteffen If that’s so then someone needs to tell him, ‘This isn’t Harry Frick’n Potter!’
Story 4 reminded me of a job I had long ago. I worked in the accounting office for a smallish, family owned temporary company. I would come in early, skipped lunch, stay late, work Saturdays, etc.
One day I took about fifteen minutes longer at lunch…no good reason, just hanging out at the local art museum. The accounting manager lost his mind. I told him to either put in a time clock, or leave me alone. He went ‘crying’ to the Accounting VP, for whom I was doing most of my work.
About an hour later the VP came out to say that I would now be under her direct supervision! 😂
Talk about "instant karma"…
I’m a retired middle manager and I can’t tell you how many times I covered for my line staff when higher management made some ridiculous demand. I usually has housekeeping people under me and would for out of my way to protect them from the disgusting disrespect upper management had for them. I love how the younger generation is quiet quitting.
Can only treat people like slaves for so long before they have enough.
*Story 4- My hubby works for a roofing warehouse, and they pretty much can’t function without him!* He was hired to be a warehouse worker, but then they had him loading houses. Now, they just put him somewhere without telling him and expected him to do both jobs. Since they started doing that, he said “ok! I’m ether a loader or a warehouse worker. But not both!”
So, if they have him on a truck, he won’t do anything in the warehouse that day. And since then, a lot of things aren’t getting done! Jobs aren’t getting pulled, because people are slow and don’t wanna stay to finish them. Also, customers are complaining because of how slow the workers are when they’re waiting for their material.
Story 5: making more productivity with less resources is called Lean in many industries, it has its place, but if you lean too far you fall over.
I can speak to its place in light manufacturing. *If* everything is in place, it has been a modest help. The problem is that *when* things are out of place, it is a massive burden on us.
We are now shutting down or rescheduling production & waiting on supplier shipments on a regular basis, because we keep very little raw material on-hand. Some orders have been delayed by weeks from this.
@@TheAttacker732 exactly, perfect example. Lean too far, fall over.
@@aluminumfalcon552 I wouldn't say that we've fallen over. However, my line went from making ~5k assemblies/day to... ~5k assemblies/day.
@@TheAttacker732 hopefully that doesn’t go unnoticed by your boss.
I used to work for a place where they implemented lean a bit too much, which would put us at risk of loss of contracts and millions of dollars, the only reason we didn’t was because us people who actually did the work would jump through flaming hoops and get what we needed done with sheer tenacity and creativity. Of course the higher ups always reaped the benefit more than the lowly employee (we did have profit sharing) as they gave themselves massive bonuses, and we got an atta boy.
We had this huge corporate Cut Costs! Earn extra money by telling management how to save money. So we were assigned to reducing marketing costs. Spent hours and hours on our report that would have saved six figures. Management’s response? You’re ideas suck and you suck. How dare you? We made our presentation and we were humiliated. Last time I ever participated in save the company money we love you crap. I love love love how younger generations are sticking it to them. Signed, a boomer who wasn’t Gordon Gecko.
I think in general the most common was new bosses get fire is going off on a power trip on workers, firing critical staff they can't replace, and violating workers right since they never bother to read the book on it.
Bold to assume that such bosses are all literate.
I've had more than one boss that would be more likely to eat the rulebook than be able to actually read it.
Final Story - OP was smart to ask for the Bosses Boss’s orders in writing to not only keep her safe but to also throw it back in the idiots face. Well Done OP.
How do you read the email if you dont have email access?
@@belfire777 Print it out because you know it's going to cause a shit-storm? Or maybe you can still view already received emails you just can't receive any more ... hell, my PC at home does that, if the internet goes down for some reason anything I've already received is still viewable, I just can't receive anything new.
@@belfire777you must be young. Web email is relatively new in the lifespan of email - you used to set up a local mail application which would reach out to the mail server to download your messages, and then you’d interact with them locally. The mail server not holding onto messages any longer than was necessary to deliver.
Many businesses still use locally installed Outlook for their employees and you could configure your iPhone’s mail app to work similarly - giving you access to any previously downloaded email sans internet connection.
@@belfire777 Or they saved that email to their own computer.
@@belfire777I’m assuming OP screenshot the email at least and possibly saved it various ways/locations digitally and physically since that would be her saving grace from getting fired…
Was one hotel we used to stay at where the new owners pulled that crap. They even stopped buying plastic liners for the garbage cans! They ended up losing the franchise with that hotel brand.
Story four underlines my experience as a long time shop steward. When a deadbeat manages a promotion they always assume their employees are all deadbeats, and when a hard worker is promoted they always respect the effort their employees make. Managers assume their staff are the same kind of worker they are. I have never seen an exception to this rule.
Cracking up at the image of dude fluffing up his chest hair with a comb😂
Makes me think of a guerrilla in scrubs😂
Austin Powers rug 😂😂
Made me think of Tom Cruise in tropical thunder..... 😂😂😂
I know right 😆😅😂🤣
I was a phlebotomist also. I had a classmate get help from the instructors to get approval from his future job to wear 'blood stain' themed scrubs. He was going to be a traveling phlebotomist who would ho to peoples homes and nursing facilities. My friend and I wore a oot of Happy Bunny scrubs, they were very popular.
My late sister was a pathology lab tech, and her staff wore scrubs. Her favorites to wear were covered in tropical frogs. She loved frogs.😅
See, I wouldn't have gone and bought outrageous scrubs, I would have coordinated the whole shift to wear "improper" undershirts. Let her send the whole shift home and see how that goes over with the bosses.
Medical professional, they don't want the patient suffer for a stupid boss
@@malacan4006 yeah agreed. If there is an alternative, it'd be best to minimize the risk of halting operations. Not a medical professional but I certainly wouldn't be happy sitting there dying while the nurses were fighting a dress code war with management, even if it's management's fault for requiring dumb restrictions.
Story 6: You had the boss by the knackers, and he had no choice to comply with your malicious compliance. Bravo!
I like to think the boss is actually a good person. It says that he called back 10 minutes later. That’s enough time for a man who’s managed to build a business to sit in his chair and think about what his employee has to do and recognize that he’s been in the wrong. A lot of executives are capable of empathizing with their employees if they stop to think.
Story 5: Some people just have impossible expectations for the team they have. What's more important, employees having a balanced workload, or saving money?
Sorry, but you sometimes just have to hire more people, even if you get less money as a result
Bad bosses don't realize that treating good employees with respect and consideration saves money though. Hiring process takes time and money, not to mention finding ones as hardworking as current ones. It's usually more cost-efficient to keep current employees happy, but I guess their ego got the best of them
Actually, I like the outrageous scrubs they have now. They lend cheer to what is already a stressful place, both to patients and staff. It's especially great in the pediatrics areas
I just saw this post after my own. Glad to see I am not alone in my opinion that this is better for patient moral
People need to learn that the workload is the workload. Period. If somebody leaves the company for whatever reason your workload does not suddenly increase... You can still only do the same amount of tasks in the same amount of time as before. It is not your responsibility to bend over backwards and break your back and go insane with stress trying to make things work just because your boss doesn't want to hire another person. Do a good job and don't cut corners. If you are getting harassed for not picking up the slack then start looking for another job because that is not your responsibility... It's their responsibility as the bosses to hire enough people to do the job properly.
Ain't that the truth. I'm a trucker, and I drive for a major spedition company. Now, we get a route and the goods to load every morning when we come in, and then we do our stuff at hit the highway, going back and forth with the various full loads and delivery drives, whatever we get that day (meaning that we always have a bag with clothes and hygiene stuff in case we get sent to another country on a five day trip or whatever). Some days when we are not going abroad, we also do pickups at a customer and bring the load back to our terminal.
At one time, we had this guy in the office who would send us the info to pick up from customers, and he always knew better than any driver what the driver was doing. You know how they are. I was at one time driving south and when I got a message to pick up a full load in Copenhagen and drive it directly to another customer within 3 hours, I naturally called him and told him I couldn't possibly do that since I already had a full load on my rig and was presently driving over the Kassel pass in the south of Germany, heading south towards Austria. So I was at least an 11 hour drive from Copenhagen (which can't be driven the same day all together by a single driver due to rules that prohibit driving more than 9 and a half hour each full day, followed by a mandatory 13 hour rest period before proceeding to drive the rest). So I again told him it couldn't be done and he had to send somebody else, and why. He just told me to cut the BS and do as I was told. Which of course I didn't.
Then 2 hours later, the top boss calls me and demands to know why I am not presently leaving said customer with the full load I was ordered to pick up. And he was furious. I asked him how he expected me to do that. And he told me I just had to go there when told and do the job. "Do you even know where I am, just approximately." I asked. No. And it didn't matter. I just had to go as ordered. Then I told him that I already had a full load for Austria on the rig and had just parked for the night outside Kassel in Southern Germany, and asked him how the eff he or anybody else expected me to be in Copenhagen to do a job I didn't even have space for on the rig. Deep silence at the other end. Then finally; Which trip are you assigned to? came through. I told him a full load both ways to Langenlois in Eastern Austria. And I would not be back in Denmark until thursday (this was monday late). So this would be my only job this week altogether (due to work time rules in Europe for truckers).
He just hung up, and I continued my dinner at the truck stop. Come thursday and my arrival back at the terminal. After having unloaded and tended to the rig and parking it, I went to the office to finish the paperwork. I had barely entered the office when said office worker was all over me, shouting for the whole office to hear how I had ruined his chances of getting an upcoming promotion and that I would pay for this with my job. I asked just one question. "And just how do you expect to get me fired when I'm not even hired by your spedition company, but a sub contractor trucking company that you have no say over?" Then the boss came out, drawn by the shouting and comotion, quickly oversaw the situation and asked me if I had finished my paperwork. "I was planning to when this bozo attacked me and started verbally abusing me and threatening me." And that's when I knew the bozo was finished. The boss got the most incredulous grin on his face. "Did he, now? In which manner did he threaten you, pray may I ask?" I told him.
So, he said turning towards the bozo. "you send somebody to do a job they have no chance to carry out timely, then complain to me to have him punished in some way because you can't be bothered to check which route he is on, and now you threaten him when you have absolutely no authority to do so because I told you to do your job properly and not harras people working for us and withdraw your application because you are are clearly not ready for a promotion? It would seem I misread the situation and didn't see the whole picture." I could see that Bozo for a moment thought he had redeemed himself and expected to be back in the running. Then his face dropped completely. "I'm about to correct that error. Pack your stuff and leave. You will get your 3 months severance pay, but you are not working here any more." Then he told me to go get my paperwork done and go home and enjoy the weekend ahead. And he would contact my boss to let him know that I would be on paid leave the next week to allow me to recover from mental abuse by a former speditionist in the office. I laughed all the way out to my car and driving home.
Morale of the story is exactly what you said, Aaron. Only in my case, the office boss was how you described and the top boss was the exact opposite to show that you have good people doing a good job if you allow them to do their job properly and earn your company a good profit.
I remember the "White T-shirt" rule at my place of work, so I found a blue polo (with pocket) that matched my blue scrubs and a pack of V-necked white t-shirts. wore them both under my scrubs (my neck was getting chaffed by the damn scrubs anyway and the polo collar prevented this.
Got yelled at for no t-shirt, unbuttoned the polo and showed that I was wearing a t-shirt (nothing mentioned about round .vs. v-necks, nothing mentioned that it had to show either!).... A lot of fellow workers saw what I did and also bought polo shirts for under their scrubs (Nashville, Tennessee. gets hot early in the spring!) in matching colors for their department's scrubs. I warned them to get at least 70% cotton polos and 100% T-shirts... We Won!!!
I use to work in the oilfield. One morning, a supervisor complained that I didn't have my fire retardant shirt buttoned up while I was still at the yard. I asked him 'Am I on a location? ' He said no. I told him 'Then quit complaining'
"I want that in writing" should be words every employer/boss fears.
As a Union Lead Steward we urged employees to get it in an email. And then send that email to your home email and/or print it, because some bosses would retract the original email and deny it ever happened.
I learned to keep any texts I get from bosses and even other workers...
Came in handy BIG time when I had to deal with an old job trying to deny my unemployment benefits. They also shot themselves in the foot too by bringing in the timesheets, which only proved my case more.
And I can even hit them with a wrongful termination claim too.
Last one reminded me of something that happened to my brother years ago. He was working in a small IT company and the boss decided to do some rebranding and during this time switched everyone that worked for the company from employees to contractor, which from what I understand is not really legal. Anyway, my brother was essentially the only system administrator for the company at the time. The boss seemed to do some other things that were either incompetent or just flat out shady/illegal. Anyway, the boss takes it upon himself to unilaterally apply an update to a server during regular business hours which ended up breaking a web application. My brother gets a call while we were eating dinner from the boss indicating what was done and that he needed my brother to drive an hour downtown to help him try to fix the issue. My brother, being a contractor, refused and the boss told him that he would pay him several hundreds if he would just go out there and help. My brother told him that the boss already owed him thousands in pay. He hung up the phone and we had a lovely dinner.
Story 6 - When will managers every learn that it's a major red flag when your employee asks you to send your "request" to them in email, and then add to it "never mess with IT"?🤦♀ It's a good to see a malicious compliance power used for good for everyone!
It's kind of amazing to me how many boss-from-Hell stories begin with getting a new manager, and the mangler feels (s)he has to show they are boss by clamping down on people who are already doing their jobs well.
Too many times over my decades of working, I would see a new manager come in, and immediately start changing things, acting like a dog marking it's territory by peeing on everything. Productivity and morale always take a nosedive.
Dick waving ruins everything.
I lost a decent job over that shit and they hired three teenagers to take my place and they all quit a month into it cause they couldn't handle the workload.
Right? Like a new dog in the neighborhood gotta "mark their territory"...!
@@lancerevell5979perfectly put! I steal this
The "If you don't like it, quit" gambit can work, but only if you truly do have options.
My Dad was working in the park service and his coworkers were grousing about some new policy or other.
His supervisor just said: "Just so you know, there are a hundred people who want your job. You can go, anytime."
He wasn't being an asshole, he was just telling the truth.
Absolutely true. My city has one of the biggest city parks in the country and when I was younger wanted to get a job in park service. The waiting line was huge. It is a city job with great pay and benefits, you get to work outdoors in fresh air and there is plenty of "downtime".
Story 2 - I love it when workers use the ‘bosses’ own dress code rules against them. They’re wearing outrageous scrubs while still following the rules and wearing a white undershirt. LOL!😅😅😅😅😅
Imagine being so stupid to care about the color of undershirts.....
Possibly the best, "Malicious Compliance", episode in a couple of years. The final story really resonated with me as a former IT worker. IT can be rewarding or hell, depending on support from higher ups.
Story 5... the boss thought the cleaners were just lazy... and ignored them, but with them being "at-will" gave him the notice, since he wasn't willing to be reasonable with the workload.
I'ma nurse. We got a new director that took ALL the suction machines from patients rooms and from ER. She said they were ordering a different brand that would replace the other ones, but we're not in yet. And yes, you guessed it, a patient choked to death in spite of our attempts at the Heimlich maneuver because we had NO suction available! She attempted to write up the floor nurses but admin investigated and let her go!
Story 5: considering how hotel housekeepers have to endure the aftermath of hotel room parties and God knows what else, you would think that the hotel management would be smart enough to treat them well and not just tell them that they can leave if they don’t like the job anymore. Apparently this guy wasn’t 😂
Story 3: never expent your employees to work like an engineer especially after you treat them poorly, because when you ask them to fix a problem, the engineer will fix the problem for the engineer and only the engineer
Cmon bosses, When your employee asks "Can I get that in writing?" That should be a GIANT red flag that you are about to do a career costing mistake.
The story about the housekeepers is priceless because reputation is everything in the hotel business. Any other hotel would snap them up in a heart beat and there's ALWAYS openings in housekeeping so in that situation he eally had fuck all power over them.
I could never work as a phlebotomist. First Halloween that came around, I'd dress up as Dracula, approach a patient with a syringe held high and say, "I've come to make a weethdraaaawal!"
You would automatically become my favorite lol
As someone who's terrified if needles, I think you'd be my favourite
Story 2: as a pathologist who is responsible for lab directing I can say that most of us would have said and done the same as that lab director in that situation 😂
Kudos to the higher boss in Story 4 for taking the time to learn about the job and what the workers do.
Every business story I’ve seen boils down to one thing. If you want to make good money, you have to spend good money to make your employees happy
I've often said that people will actually work harder, and be more devoted to a company, even when making slightly less money if they feel appreciated. I currently work for a place I would be hard pressed to leave simply because they have been so accommodating when family issues have happened (elderly parents) and I had to miss work. We regularly actually get scheduled with overtime, and if we actually end up working over those scheduled hours they don't say anything. Family run (at least half the managers in the store are somehow family) with only 2 locations,so very much able to maintain that family atmosphere companies tend to lose when they get too many locations that get too spread out. There's one other store in the area that is a much larger chain, but I understand is still family owned as well, and while has more locations, they are all still close enough that they use many of the same suppliers that is known for a family atmosphere, and there was even a video that went a little viral in this area where one of the stockers was being watched closely by a kid pretty far on the autism spectrum. He asked the kid if they wanted to put some of the items up too and showed how to do it etc. The kid's parent was the one who shot the video and said it made their son's day to be "allowed" to actually do something akin to work.
That hotel story. It's why I tell people don't do more than your expected to do. Because if you do extra work, then it will become the standard moving forward and the uppers will get used to and expect that level of standard. Especially when people start leaving for whatever reason and with this crappy economy going on in the states, you're not getting paid extra for extra work and they're going to expect you to do the work of 3 people and you're just 1.
Only do what you're paid to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Story 1: Hahahaha Good for you.
Story 2: Ah, to be a fly in that lab in order to see Karen's face!
Story 5: Boss got what was coming to him. I hope that all of you found new, suitable employment.
1) LOL, kudos OP, way to go.
2) Excellent, well done.
3) So nice when officious A*holes get the boot.
4) Love this.
5) Good for the cleaners for not taking this crap.
6) Great job OP.
I laughed so hard at OP in the first story combing his chest hair to make it fluffy!! 😂
Story 2 is just amazing. Like it's hospital work. That shit's chaotic, lots of pressure and long hours. Let them wear whatever they want as long as it's all up to health code and not publicly indecent.
When will these people understand that when an employee asks “can I get this in writing/an email” that’s a sign you’re messing up
Never. They think they're right and will ignore the danger signals.
It is like with calling police.
Those who are in the wrong are usually the ones who start to threaten calling police on the other person.
They are so entitled and believe they are always in the right, even when clearly being in the wrong. Or just bold enough because they could brute force their way often enough by being brazen.
Re the hotel housekeepers. I am a courtesy driver for a hotel in Australia and all staff here are treated as important and equal. Think watching the GM walking the property with a bag picking up rubbish because he has a little bit of spare time on his hands. The reason we get consistent 5 star reviews is because we all work together to achieve the highest standard we can. Housekeepers are an equally important part of the business.
I think for all businesses, success is 50% dependent on your customers and 50% on your employees. Your employees are a reflection of your business. Without either, a business will fail. Thankfully, the company that I work for understands this. Even part-timers are treated well. Our GM goes out of her way to make sure her employees are well represented and happy and sets a good example. Our turnover is very low.
The most effective way to ruin your boss is to follow his/her orders to the dot.
Last story: the boss got into legal trouble with overtime paying. Ummmm... no. The boss got into legal trouble because he WASN'T paying overtime.
For hotel boss replace hotel with nursing home! That became dangerous so we all resigned called the health authority who came in straight away and told him he had to hire agency staff who got paid x2 what we did! Financially crippled him soon closed so stupid
Chest Hair guy: Only suggestion I would have had for him would be to make a comment (to said power tripping Turd Burglar) that he has been staring at his chest hair in a creepy way and that OP was considering going to HR over s*xual harassment. Make the pr*ck sweat a little
Story 2: Honestly, if I was in the hospital, seeing the medical workers wearing scrubs with interesting patterns would make me feel less afraid. Dyed hair, too. That should be the standard. Professionalism is terrible!
Agreed! I'd rather be helped by someone with a personality than someone who comes off as a corporate drone. I already know the hospital is treating patients like we're on an assembly line, anything to combat that feeling is a plus!
Dye job blonds make me worry
Imagine getting bad news from the guy in the kissy lips scrubs tho
"I'm sorry ma'am, your husband has three broken ribs."
I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face hearing that or saying that with those scrubs
@@LegendStormcrow I was thinking more like purple or blue. 🤷 Blonde is boring!
@@ambriasaunders1869 karens wre generally dye job blondes.
A dress code that gets THAT specific about T-shirts? Good grief!
Bottle return machine story: Yep, I used to live in Michigan where there's a ten-cent bottle deposit so I know of those machines. I would simply have made a sign that said "OUT OF ORDER, see manager so and so" and taped it over the hole the bottles are fed into. OP was not a mechanic, nor did he have the authority to call for one to repair the machine.
Tracking story: I'm a retired truck driver. I retired just after the company I putting dash cams into the trucks. But these dash cams also had cameras that were pointed at the driver, supposedly ONLY to see what the driver was doing before, during and after an accident. Yeah, right! That was BS. They did use them to monitor the drivers whenever they wanted. Had they only been used the way they were "intended" to be it wouldn't have been a problem, but they made it a problem.
The dress code one sounds like the last company I worked for... As I remember, they didn’t make you wear a T-shirt but if you did, it had to be white, as I recall, if you were one of the drivers. Then, you also had to dress a certain way (at your own expense, unless you were a wheelchair van driver, in which case they used a uniform company) which was black pants with a white shirt on. The outfit had to be dressy enough, so it had to be something like a dress shirt or a golf shirt... I remember, at a stop, another medical transport driver was wondering why we had to dress so fancy, when they were basically allowed to wear whatever they wanted..., within reason, of course.
Sounds like the only job I quit without notice, too. Pants had to be tan khakis, no outer pockets. Belts had to be black or brown. Shirts were issued by the company, and needed to be tucked in. Hair had to be natural colors, and up. No piercings beyond one in each ear.
I bought 5 pairs of the same tan kakhis only to find out I couldn't wear them because they had visible outer pockets. Hated that job
As a non-American: I find these so strange... Like: do you have ZERO protection for unfair treatment, long working hours and termination?
Correct, the US fires "at-will" meaning neither side needs to give a reason or a period of termination. As well as teh fact that there's no US federal law that defines the amount of hours that constitutes for a full-time work week, this in practice means that permanent contracts often include hours that would simply be illegal elsewhere in the world. In my country you can only work 40 hours avg per week over 12 weeks, and not more than I believe 48 or 52 in 1 or 2 weeks but the 12 week average needs to be 40 or less, else they're directly violating the law.
Yes
Story 5: Owner didn't want to save money, he wanted to make more profit. There's a difference. There are legitimate reasons to cut costs, within reason, for short periods of time. What the owner wanted here, though, was to increase his own profits. That's a losing strategy in the long run because no matter how much you make there's always a (theoretical) increase. You simply can't have increasing profits indefinitely, it's mathematically impossible.
Wtf whatever underwear I am wearing is absolutely nobody's business. Maybe the army can dictate that, but certainly not a private company.
When I worked for a City government, I always documented every "order" or request via email. I also kept a contemporaneous log both in the local server's file system, and to my personal email. (No one could alter my personal email, just in case of any "questions".) Note: It was illegal to record conversations without everyone's permission, so having a personal recorder was out. Places that don't have that law, I recommend that anyone in government have a hidden mic and recorder for their work, recording with time stamps their entire day. Thus, you are absolutely protected against any inaccurate accusations.
11:30 Apart from knowing OP is an awesome employee, the boss' boss knew it was easier to fire/ hire a flunky who does nothing except shuffle paper and write meaningless reports (OP's manager) .....
..... than to fire an experienced worker like OP willing to work 18-20 hours and then FIND a substitute for him!
Story 5: it's not even malicious compliance by that point, that's just not returning because the discussion he was offering had already happened and the outcome of the discussion is that nothing changes.
Story 6: having worked IT in a similar position (still IT at the same company, just not a similar position anymore) it's kind of odd. You'd think there would be a proper department for such an org. That includes a Change Advisory Board (CAB) which includes specialists and some business managers. If something sounds like it could break shit then it gets shot down right there and you need to go pretty high in order to override that decision (pretty sure the CTO and you'd better have a damn good reason). Granted we never had requirements like in the post and being in the EU all work after hours was compensated, so if a server goes down on a weekend, you bet I get paid double my rate from the moment I got the notification to the moment I am back home.
Story 4: In every place that I've worked in, the clock-in works in 7 minute intervals. Meaning that If I clock in at anytime between 8:00 and 8:06, it will count as clocking in at 8:00
If I clock in later, then I am late.
Same applies to clocking out. If I clock out at 4:58, it still counts as clocking out at 5. The boss won't lose his crap over 2 minutes.
Hell, on Fridays he sometimes tells us to close shop 15 minutes early, cause he knows no one comes in
The best managers are the ones who can accept their workers know what they're doing and have the self reflection to not try to step in and muck everything up.
Story 2. If I were in OP's shoes I would be getting My Little Pony, Hello Kitty and similar scrubs. But add to that, I am a male who has had a few people describe me as someone who would fit in with many of the more notorious motorcycle clubs (tattoos, beard, mustache and hair that haven't been close to clippers, scissors, razors or any other sharp objects in roughly 10 years )
Documentation for the win! That is the essence of good malicious compliance, so very satisfying
The guy in that first story made his boss an offer he couldn't refuse 😂
Story two sounds like something I’d do if I was told to wear a certain thing under my chef jacket
Story 4
I work at a job where I don't clock in/out (service tech) due to the number of places I go to on a daily basis. We also get mileage pay when using our own vehicles.
We had for a very short time a person that was "upset" that we seemed to leave/arrive at the same times every day or arrive/leave on the hour/half hour and our mileage was rounded to the mile.
Our boss wanting to basically rattle the person's cage had ys write down exactly when we started/ended every day as well as mileage to the 10th of a mile
Well it lasted 1 pay period where payroll was delayed by her having to manually figure out the hours and mileage as we rounded for simplicity
Owner was pissed at that person big time as the delay in sending in payroll cost the company several hundred dollars for the delay
oh, i just remember a VERY old story where a very stupid customer thought that removing the "out of order" sign would MAKE THE MACHINE WORK!
sheesh...
Wish i had a story with a happy ending but the place I worked at, sells shakes but not steaks, is still fully functional. When i was there, there was stolen wages, tax fraud, illegal child labor practices, obvious racism towards the lesser-paid hispanic workers, denied 2-week notices, and sexual harassment. I, 17M at the time, reported to my general manager that a coworker, 25F, had been grabbing me and demanding i let her "treat" me, despite telling her i wasnt interested several times, and i was lauughed out of the office. She also got my number, address, my cousin's number and address, and changed her availability to match mine. It was hell.
I used to work for a company similar to Story 5. After COVID the managers thought it would be fine to operate with less staff and more work...we all begged for more help and his mindset was that if he had to hire one person,, he'd have to fire one person 🤦🏽♀️
Three minutes?! The guy worked for TWENTY HOURS! TWENTY! I’d love to know what OSHA or the Labor Department would say.
The only manager that bitches about a technician leaving 3 minutes early has never worked as a technician. Leaving early is a luxury, normally you get to stay a few minutes (or hours) late at the client because you need to finish the task at hand.
I worked for a place that required wool or silk suits for EVERYONE. This included me slinging boxes in the mailroom and the IT woman who had to crawl around under desks wearing a straight skirt and heels.
That becomes a health and safety issue when it gets to that level of idiocy, and informing the appropriate authorities of the safety breaches can produce good results.
He is absolutelyou get a lot more done. When you use a little sugar, then you would vinegar.
He didn't know how greedy had it with this cleaning crew.
As a lifelong patient I appreciate a Phlebotomist who is good at their job. especially due to my veins being practically all collapsed and or made of steel.
The boss in that last story got exactly what he asked for.
Story 5, boss, taking his employees for granted was his downfall. If only he realized and correctly why his business was blooming in the first place...
Either the cleaning tasks are mission critical or they are not. If they are not, then they should not be yelled at when they are not done. Either the workers are easily replaceable or not. If they are, then the boss should have hired more quickly and easily. If the mission is critical and the workers not easily replaced, they should be paid more. Pay them overtime. Give them raises. That’s how you treat irreplaceable workers at an important job. He treated them like he could hire replacements the next day. And maybe he could, in which case he lied or was lazy.
Story 4. I can sympathize. I got chewed out and written up because of 4 minutes of overtime when I used to work retail. 4 minutes.
Too many people apparently think being a boss of any kind means you take all the money and give nothing but orders.
A good king or in this case the manager (pets have bosses) never has to proclaim that he is king, his people will say it on his behalf.
there should be a rule where a manager should work in the employee's position for one day a month to let them know how hard the job is.
15:35 Oh man imagine if one of the cleaners was thinking about starting a cleaning business and this was the kick they needed!!!!
Time clock fiasco. My mom worked as a nurse for over 20 years. They would routinely clock in and then go to their lockers. Then go to the report room to find out what's what with the patients and get their assignments. They got in trouble for clocking in before the 5 minutes mark (shift starts at 3 so you can't clock in before 2:55). So then the staff would wait in line, clock in starting at 2:55, then go to their lockers, and then to the report room. Since the locker room was a converted CLOSET, they had to take turns putting their stuff away. And this was in the winter. So they had boots to take off and put on their shoes. Now the previous shift can't leave until the next shift finishes report (someone has to be available for the patients). Also the med carts had to be counted with a member of each shift AFTER report is done. So to save a few pennies, they shelled out THOUSANDS in overtime that month alone. The head of the hospital, douchebag, gave a speech about how THE STAFF cost them so much money that bonuses and pay raises were on hold for now. The staff said that that's ok, bc you can't NOT pay the overtime which made up for the bonuses. He quickly went back to the old system and, finally, weeded out the people who were causing the problem in the first place. They would clock in 30 minutes early and then go take a smoke break, on company time, for 20 minutes before going to the locker room. Bonuses and pay raises were quickly reinstated. The hospital then found out that they saved thousands on top of the money that they lost the previous month. If only they'd just have taken care of the people abusing the system in the first place.
Hey, Darkfluff. I love it when entitled owners realize how stupid they can be 😂
Story 5:
You have to be a real idiot of a boss to think the “If you don’t like it here, then you can just quit” statement isn’t ever going to backfire on you. ESPECIALLY when you make ALL of your employees lives a living hell to work for you…
My brother had a boss named Frank Gambardina who was a two face a hole. I knew him so I told my brother his middle name, Anthony. He spread it around at work and that made him crazy.
Number 3 is easy, call the mechanic = problem fixed and your company flips the bill.
He sayd "you need to fix it", he didnt say you cannot call someone who can fix it, technically you've fixed the problem.
On story 6, credit where credit is due that the guy also realised his mistakes and tried to do massive amends. That's rare but certainly welcome.
Oddly I would feel far more comfortable/relaxed with a guy wearing a Dora the Explorer scrub drawing my blood than someone wearing a generic scrub.
Story !: Doesn't sound like it's just that boss. The whole company must be pretty idiotic to have a rulebook like that!
First a few facts.
1. I am a native English speaker living in a Spanish speaking country.
2. I am a university student studying English.
I have had some terrible professors but from time to time we get one that is a special kind of stupid.
Not only do I comply with the requirements of each assignment but I will request that they comply with the school regulations and provide things such as a rubric (explains the grading scale), explain the scope and size of each project.
One professor had intended to give a 200 word limit on an assignment left it open. I turned in a 5600 word masterpiece. I gave details descriptions of every aspect of the project. She was pissed! She tried to change the directions for the assignment 6 hours before it was due. I noticed and reported it to the head of the department.
She spent the rest of the course trying to find errors in my work.
I finished the class with a 98% and because of her behavior she is not at the university any more 😅
Why does housekeeping have to clean the restaurant? That doesn’t make any sense at all.
Its just as likely the boss is utterly incompetent as it is the story is made up.
It doesn’t to me either, but it doesn’t surprise me... I don’t know if the story’s made up or not, but I have a feeling the boss felt like he wasn’t getting his money’s worth, so he gave them more and more jobs to do..., then gets mad if they can’t get whatever it is done in what they consider a reasonable amount of time. It sounds like my current boss (I am trying for a job in a different company), and when they leave, she says it’s because they don’t want to work, and doesn’t consider other factors (she has a tendency to not be a nice person...)
Of course it makes sense. Never heard of Quiet Hiring?
"Why should I hire someone for the new responsibilities and pay more money for additional salaries when I can just dump the new work on the shoulders of my existing employees and pay the same amount, and just yell at them if it doesn't get done well?"
See? Perfect sense.
The whole crew of Chick-fil-A, in the city I lived in, walked out and left no one to run the store.
To add onto Story 4, all the jobs ive worked on always permitted a 5 minute leeway time.
Granted, I've never worked construction, but damn.
Also, i like to imagine big boss called while the manager was sitting with him. I know it probably didn't happen.
I had a supervisor who was a complete asshole and was a bully. He would treat me badly and even name calling at times, and I would tolerate it because I needed a job and the pay was decent and the work wasn't very difficult. One day, he looked me in the face and said that I was the most difficult MF that he had ever seen. Needless to say, I quit on the spot with no regrets. Flash forward one week, the owner called me and offered me his job since he was fired for what he did and said to me. I passed since I immediately found an even better job with better pay. But it was good to know that he was fired. I even ran into him a few years later, and if looks could kill, I would have been dead.
Awesome!
It is easier said than done, but don't take abuse at a work place. Often the job isn't worth it and you will find a better one.
I'm sorry, but Story number 5 with the hotel cleaners, loyalty goes both ways
I will never understand bosses like the guy from Story 5. Has he never actually done a real days work of something?
The Dresscode story: at one job I had dresscode said belt pouches need to be firmly fixed to the body. The cordless drill holster didn't fit that description and I got told off for it. Next day I showed up with a cowboy hat and wild West Colt belt with the holster didn't strapped to my leg and shoved my cordless drill into the (open) holster (which it can easily slip out of) while keeping eye contact with the manager. Later that day he told me "consider the reprimand as if it never happened, please bring the one with the security strap over the tool again from tomorrow" he quickly realized the compliant holster was a safety hazard because the cordless drill could drop out off it at any time.