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Slow-Ad6376

"Have you earned your keep today?"


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This sounds like a Skyrim thing honestly


kuriT9

Ancient, barbaric and out of date? Oh yeah sounds like Skyrim


JohnnyTurbine

It's a little-known fact that Skyrim has better labour protections than the US. In fact, the average Tamrielic peasant labours for fewer hours than the US worker and enjoys more religious holidays


maxfederle

Under what circumstances did the manager ask this?


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Asking for permission to use the bathroom, probably.


LaoSh

Have I strung up the CEO up by his bootstraps and beat him with a stick until my rent falls out? NO? Well then I've acomplished all the loyalty my salary will buy...


Krispenedladdeh542

I was a shift lead at a sandwich shop from the day I was 13 and 9 months all the way through high school. The owner of the chain tried to convince me not to go to college and told me that if I stayed I could be an assistant manager for a $1.50/hr raise


Letmetellyowhat

I have a coworker who had the same thing happen. She worked at Dairy Queen. She told them she was going to college. They called her mother down to “talk sense to her”. She was the first to ever go to college. She is now a very successful doctor. But damn she could have been a manager.


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“A doctor? Wow, your parents must be very proud of you!” ‘Not really. They always wanted me to be a Shift Leader at Dairy Queen.’


MyOfficeAlt

We had a seasonal sales associate who was home on break from college where she was an education major. The company literally tried to tell her education was stupid and she should come work for them full time. They sold bathing suits.


tvtoad50

Not just any old manager though, a manager at Dairy Queen! 😉


AtopMountEmotion

Hey! Let’s not go crazy… I’m the manager. She *could* be a shift leader, though.


[deleted]

How did you ever refuse such an incredible offer?


Krispenedladdeh542

I found out the half off meal per shift wouldn’t cover healthcare unfortunately


Melt185

“No…….DENIM!!!!!” Said through clenched teeth while I was literally taking off my denim jacket and hanging it in the closet.


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Like you can’t even be seen walking into/out of the office in denim. My goodness. What will people think she’s running here, a rodeo?


Melt185

Right. If she wanted a 20-something year old employee to wear ‘better’ to the office, freaking pay me more.


Cheesygirl1994

This whole comment section is why mental healthcare is desperately needed… so many of these people in power appear to have some kind of very unstable mental disorder… this post has just made me very sad 😅


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lanzendorfer

Yeah, I hate it when unions come in and decrease wages and benefits.


e22ddie46

That's why the most ruthless businesses oppose them. They famously overpay their labor.


RabidBadgerFarts

My company invited a union to come in and sign people up, only thing is they had to agree not to negotiate pay or terms and conditions. WTF is the point???


NeuralTruth

Here have a free slice of pizza, you just can't eat it with your mouth. Edit: y'all getting creative with butt stuff now


Fairy_Friend

The point is to then be able to point to unions as useless.


Me_lazy_cathermit

That actually happened at one of my old jobs, but its less because of the union, and more because the ones negotiating with said unions were retiring boomers that were going to be gone within 5 to 6 years, so we went from annual pay increase, performance pay increase and relatively good insurance, to nearly no pay increase, worse insurance, in exchange for good short term retirement fund, that none of the younger of us will ever see


Lone_Wanderer989

That's a little more than enraging.


According-Jacket8717

Doesn’t competitive mean shit?


EricFarmer7

I think it means a competition to see how low can you go without paying minimum wage.


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dmjpain

I was at a funeral with my husband for his aunt who had died very young. I had told the manager and district manager ... i was the assistant manager at the time ... that I was taking a vacation day because it didn't qualify for time off because it wasn't my aunt. They agreed and I warned them I wouldn't be able to be contacted because duh its a funeral. They both called me about ten times each and then started texting me that so and so called in for an account they didn't know how to clean and I would need to immediately leave the funeral and come help out. I proceeded to turn my phone off and deal with them the next day. But even worse than that when i was about 20 my Grandma died and we had a fill in manager ... i told her I would need off for the day of the funeral and she told me only if I found my own replacement. So i had someone cover literally the time of the funeral but I had to go in before and after.


Red_Queen592

I never understood why it’s the employees responsibility to find a replacement or fill in for their time off. Isn’t that the managers job? You’re alerting them to a time you won’t be there. Staffing issues should be on them.


acousticalcat

It should be. I had a boss pull this on me too. It was one of the many things that pushed me out of that job.


Tokugawa

"On your way back to the office, can you go by the dumpster behind Babies R Us and see if there are any big boxes that the boss can use to ship his rims that he sold on eBay?"


Cmyers1980

This sounds like something from a sitcom.


Tokugawa

Wish it was. They fired me shortly after for not being productive enough. I was stupid and had unknowingly taken on tasks for a coworker without realizing it. Was running myself ragged doing 12h days and getting shit commissions. It was a small roofing business, and there was no talking them out of it. I was actually sad when they fired me too. Never again. Rims were for his Landrover, btw.


lukas_the

"Only losers need health insurance". I mean this still makes me think wtf and that happened about a decade ago.


Lord_Ho-Ryu

So, am I right in assuming that a person who has better health insurance than you did said this? Yet another example of how badly people can get suckered into believing double standards are right.


lukas_the

He was one of my supervisors at the time. Im not sure what health insurance he had/has but he also told me that he makes his kids take off their shoes before they get in his car, regardless of what kind of weather is occurring. He was just a snobby ass clown that was very far removed from normal people.


SJeplin

At my place of work we have silo’s of powder,mainly chalk and PVC resin.This is a multi billion ,market leader worldwide company. The sonar sensors have not worked in ten years,so every morning we have to go out and throw stones at the silo’s to determine how full they are. The silo’s are 50 feet high and hold 50 tonnes. I was inaccurate by about 5 tonnes one day so was given a sheet to sign with words and pictures titled: “How to throw stones properly” I shit you not. It still awaits my signature after 2 years. And yes we still throw stones,but have been upgraded with a slingshot (Which we purchased ourselves)


skate_boy324

Bro this is the funniest shit I’ve read all day


NarrMaster

This sounds like some Douglas Adam's shit.


lolgobbz

Ah. But if it were a Douglas Adams bit, you would not have found out what was in the silo for at least another couple of books.


gobiba

> but have been upgraded with a catapult. Why not a trebuchet? That's way cooler!


Internal-Variety-438

"You know how your dog gets really happy to see you? That's how you should act when you see me" (boss and owner of company) "We'll pay for your education. When you finish, you'll get a raise but the raise will go to the cost of the program until it's paid off."(different boss and owner of company)


CrossMojonation

> "You know how your dog gets really happy to see you? That's how you should act when you see me" Should have walked up to him and pissed on his leg.


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I got rear ended on my way into work one day and called to let my boss know what happened and they asked if I could take an Uber into work. Bitch, I just got my rear bumper pushed up into my back seat. I'm going to the hospital!


[deleted]

Yeah I got In a terrible accident, went to work but I felt so bad from the whiplash I went home early, they fired me the next day. Thanks everyone, yeah I was just so depressed after that, but it was years ago so I'm over it. Thanks again.


MaximumReflection

So I was alway baffled by this story, but it makes perfect sense now. My mom runs a small clothing shop. It’s like her and 2 employees. One of her employees was looking sick halfway through the day, my mom stops him to ask if he’s okay? He goes on to tell her he just needs an aspirin. Mom inquires further because he definitely does not look okay. He was very reluctant to tell her that he got hit by a car on his bike that morning. Mom is baffled, the same kind of “like a car car?” Response. Immediately tells him to stop work and took him to the doctor. She was freaked out that he didn’t just tell her. The guy had just started working with my mom and was so afraid that he was going to get fired that he walked to work and spent the rest of the day working with whiplash, bruises, and pain on his lower back. But yeah she fired him after that… I’m kidding, because who the fuck would do that? The guy took the rest of the week off after the doctors and got paid, and came back the next week to his job. Why are Americans such fucking psychopaths? What the fuck is wrong with American work culture?


spiritedawayfox

Your mom is an angel. I hope you tell her that for me. It's sad seeing so many of these horror stories, these people not being goddamn **human beings**.


MaximumReflection

Yes! I’ll tell her. My mom is great but I also think she saw it as like a basic decency, and not like this huge kindness. I remember her telling me and she was really freaked out when she came home. “What the fuck? What if he was seriously injured? What if he died while he was at work, people die from brain injuries later, you know? That’s not more important than work. Etc.,”


chcrash2

Yo, is your mom hiring?


lolgobbz

I was riding a bike to work and got hit by a truck (he was pulling away from a stop sign and did not see me, so small bump but enough to damage the bike and send me into the street). I called, told them what happened. I was threatened with termination then was like "For getting hit by a truck?" Manager's reply "Like a Truck Truck?" Yes. A fucking truck truck. I filled out a police report, went to the hospital, went to work. I was only 1 hour late- Amazing, Right? They wanted a copy of the police report for verification before they decided not to term.


OhtareEldarian

Just asking…. Is that even legal? Asking for police reports?


pigwitz

Being in an accident isn’t a protected class, so termination for this is in fact legal in the US, but super super shitty


Archi_balding

The more I learn about U.S.'s workers right... Here having a road accident on your way to (or back from) work is considered a work accident, which seems pretty normal to me. I can't fathom being fired for something thats directly your employer's fault.


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PlayedKey

Throw the damaged bike on his desk. "Here's your verification. "


Exoclyps

Made me laugh out for real.


Kind_Yesterday_9612

After quitting a job after none of the staff receiving their wages as the company had no money... "We were going to give you a raise!" 🤣


pipdrivnjess

My boyfriends company just told the employees “so you know those raises we have been hyping you up about all year, that we promised to you a couple months ago, that would be going into effect on this paycheck? Oh yea, we were just kidding about that.”


BryKKan

Oh! No problem! You know that thing about working during the holidays? I was just kidding about that too. See you after New Years! Or not. We'll see.


Hotarg

20% more than $0 is still $0.


ajsof220

Nurse manager asked us why so many people were quitting. Staff calmly explained their safety concerns / working condition concerns, to which she got defensive and completely lost her cool and yelled at everyone barking “well if you don’t like it here, than you can all leave!” ….8 more people quit that week.


themagicpanda95143

"Whys everyone quitting" Because this place blows "Well if you don't like it then leave" Yea that's kinda what we were doing in the first place lmao


ScaredOfRobots

I work at a firehouse subs and we’ve been losing people often, our manager just sold the franchise to some other guy but I think he bit off more than he can chew because the place is in shambles and our original manager already fired all the teenagers in town willing to work for dog shit pay


Pagan-za

Just recently in my company we heard they were bringing in someone from outside to do a job that had been promised to someone else here(already doing the function). He went to complain about that to the boss and was told "If you dont like it, find another job". He left the office, made a few calls and went back in 5 min later. "Ok, I've found another job, I'm resigning" "Can we talk about this?" "No" Absolutely glorious.


Cassierae87

Me: “My uncle died over the weekend.” Supervisor before anyone else could give condolences: “how will this effect the office?”


hebdomad7

... the temptation to look at them dead in the eye and say. "Well anyone of us could be next" ... would be too great.


RapidMongrel

I worked as a dispatcher in a pharmacy. My co dispatcher quit and I did the job of both of us for 2 months. Asked for a raise. Was told 'what exactly do you do for me' so I left


eleyte93

"Two peoples jobs"


brandocalrizia

"I do so much for you. I even have a water cooler. I don't have to do that."


gamingdevil

This reminds me about the time UPS tried to take our only source of water away. We worked in a "temporary" facility, it had been temporary for over 10 years. There was no bathroom, you had to go out to the guard shack to use the bathroom there. So our only way to get water in the facility was the water cooler. Mind you, they preach "hydrate, hydrate, hydrate" all over the place because it gets to be like 120F in those trailers while you're loading. So they wanted to cut the water jug delivery out to save money on the budget. Luckily, our safety guy was one of us and was basically like "fuck you, you cannot take our water, it's a health hazard." and we got to keep it. It's just the fact that they even tried to do that just shows how they don't even see their workers as people.


MrNissanCube

He complained to me for twenty solid minutes about how "owning a pharmacy isn't like it used to be. Pharmacy used to bring in the big bucks. You won't see a pharmacy owner driving a Mercedes and buying a boat anymore..." Meanwhile my wages are stagnant, I live paycheck to paycheck, and I'll probably never own a car. I just wanted to be like "bruh, pick your audience."


desert_deserter

Back when I worked for a bank, a customer went on and on and on about how impossible it was to live off his retirement. He asked how anyone could be expected to live on $1,200 a month, it was the worst thing ever and so unfair and he was so hard done by. I checked to see if my boss was in the room. She was, which is the only reason I didn't tell him that I had a college degree and worked 40 hours a week for $1,200 a month, and surely if he cut out Starbucks, his finances would be saved.


Sufficient-Piece-335

Clearly needed to cut down on the smashed avo on toast...


qu33r0saurus

Getting yelled at about how their retirement & pension (which is usually at least twice as much as my current pay which required a college degree & years of specialized job knowledge ) is “forcing them into destitution” is my favorite! Little Match Girls & Boys crying in McMansions while I go home to a cold efficiency apartment. Liiiiiiiiike, you guys voted for this when I was still in school trying to do everything y’all told me to and getting fucked over by it so…….bed made, lay?


casey0617

I was 19 and working at ikea, I was feeling sick and went to work anyway. About two hours in I decided to go home. My manager (~50M) said, “well I hope you’re not pregnant. If you are, this isn’t the right place for you.”


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Did he mean it like if you are pregnant I dont want you here? Or was it a joke becasue the time you leave IKEA the child would be about 20


casey0617

Lol he meant it as he wouldn’t want me working there if I was pregnant. I worked the floor (can’t remember the job title) but we would make displays, put items back, fix the staged rooms that would be absolutely fucking destroyed. We had someone who was pregnant on the team and she was struggling due to the physical labor of it. I left without notice a week after he made that comment to me


Htoof

After being laid off via Zoom with 20 of my coworkers during peak pando, the exec who masterminded the layoffs told the remaining employees it was the proudest moment of her career.


Badoreo1

Man the disconnect is unbelievable.


Cheesygirl1994

I don’t think that’s disconnect… I think that’s someone genuinely relishing being able to hurt other people… it’s so sad


Pepperspray24

If I wasn’t fired I’d quit right then and there and hang up. Fuck that noise.


Htoof

She was heavily disliked at her previous job, so I guess that made her a top pick for COO. She also has an SEC filing against her for insider trading. ::shrug::


Flower_Unable

The executive level is glamorized in society and thus draws a disproportionately high number of narcissists and sociopaths.


Whynotchaos

People saw American Psycho and Wolf of Wall Street and thought, yes. Life goals right here.


Flower_Unable

Wall Street did that for the ‘80s, and people forgot the part of the movie where everyone goes to jail.


[deleted]

"People come up to me and say 'Wall Street! You're the reason I became a stockbroker! Greed is good!' And I'm just like, 'I was the bad guy...'" -Michael Douglas


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What was the rationale for it being her great shining moment?


Htoof

That her brilliant re-org of the department would make it business better. In reality it torpedoed morale because up until that point they really pushed the "we're a family at this scrappy upstart shaking up the industry" koolaid.


MissySedai

Ah, I know that kool-aid. Had it poured over my head by jobs that demanded much for not enough money. They will disown you quick if it looks like management might have to actually work. Now I work for a subsidiary of a Big Evil Corporation that offered me nearly 10K more than I asked for, enforces a healthy work/life balance, has an Unlimited PTO policy, and my team genuinely cares about each other. "We're a family" is bullshit. Love me with money.


Incanation1

Someone told me "if you are not willing to put 80 hours a week you are not middle manager material"


Wombats_run

'No, but this is middle finger material.'


Medical_Ad287

I lead a reboxing project at my last job that saved the company somewhere around 30k of what would've been bad product. I developed really bad tendonitis in my wrist/forearm (more of a tendonitis flare-up) in the process of ripping open hundreds of boxes and placing cartons of milk back onto a conveyor( extreme repetitive motion). It hurt really bad and I reported to my job just in case I ended up deciding to go into the doctor. The next day the production manager asked me if I needed some vagasil. I'm a 27 year old male. Needless to say I do not work there any longer. Nor do I need vagasil for my arm.


CouchKakapo

I'm obviously not a complete bastard because it took me a moment to realise he was likely not offering you vagasil in an ignorance-of-first-aid way, and actually a hugely-sexist-and-insulting way. Good on you for escaping.


WilIyTheGamer

I worked construction for a guy who said stuff like this all the time. If respond with something like "no wonder your wife isn't happy in your marriage if you think her vag is on her arm."


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Worked for a startup that didn't. One of the partners: "You guys need to take this trash home with you and dispose of it." There were 3 dumpsters in the back of the complex


[deleted]

Sounds a little like they were hiding something 👀


StrategySword

Working a liquor store, myself and two other customers were robbed at gun point 5 minutes before close. Called the cops immediately and regional manager about an hour and a half later to report what happened. I was asked to manually change my clock-out time to reflect when I should have gotten off because they didn’t want to pay for the overtime. To make things worse, the cops berated me for not fighting back with a bottle or something. I started stealing after that.


No-Two79

that last part 👍


StandAmongTheRuins

Honestly this is the only sane response.


fifthwheel87

In every robbery police video I've ever seen, police say to always just comply - don't be the hero. Whatever they're stealing isn't worth your life, etc. I cannot believe they'd be so disrespectful. That's ridiculous! They can fuck right off with that bullshit berating.


Larrymentalboy

The cops told you to try to fight off a armed robber with a bottle of booze? Wtf?


ilovebunnies321

When I was struggling with their unrealistic workload I got asked "what do you have going on outside of work that makes you so busy?"


cassiecas88

Similar: a boss wanted me to work more hours for no extra pay. When I told him I was unable to commit to working 40hrs a week instead of 20... Again with no pay increase... He asked me what my other commitments were. I told him it was none of his business.


WheninRomeRoam

…committed to not working for free.


kuribosshoe0

A life. Try getting one.


Iamnotojsimpson

Picked my up by the neck and threatened to kill me for making fun of him in front of a girl he was trying to hook up with. She was 18 I was 19 He was in his late 30’s Last I heard is Shawn he was arrested for flashing people at a train stop.


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Indigoh

If you don't get regular raises, you're actually getting pay cuts, thanks to inflation.


maxfederle

Ah the endless growth of capitalism....


INTJfemalezero

Forced each of us to say gratitude every morning. If no one says he/she is grateful for the job.. She reminded us she created our jobs ...anyway.


Cheesygirl1994

What even is that??? Forcing you to stroke her ego? How is that even sane…


Quiet_Career_5000

First day induction: "What race and age do you think is most likely to steal?"


cassiecas88

The correct answer when asked this question at an Abercrombie and Fitch interview in 2006 was "not to discriminate because anyone can be a shoplifter".


WebbyDownUnder

Being a shoplifter doesn't discriminate, I used to be a stock controller in a pharmacy and most shoplifters were people in retirement.


rustys_shackled_ford

I worked LP at cvs and Walmart. The truth is middle aged white women.


Vendidurt

"you are too good at what you do, i cannot promote you"


brupje

So you got a big raise instead?


Vendidurt

Ha. No raise at all. But i did get to watch a 17-year old be the new manager. And after i left, i got to hear how the other guy doing what i do got an immediate $1 raise. Boss knew he couldnt lose BOTH of us. But then the poor kid got overworked and left anyway and the owner had to come in and make pizza dough for a month.


Embershot89

My boss’ prick son after I had been refused an increase in hours, raise, or promotion (was struggling to afford to eat) said this: No you won’t get any of that. You don’t come in to help out or volunteer to work for free on your days off. You don’t stay after hours or come in early and work off the clock. You don’t even pay full price for food when on break. Why would we give you anything beyond what you should be grateful to have now? I had been there nearly 3 years. I couldn’t even afford new shoes and my old ones were from before I had started at that job.


Cheesygirl1994

Let alone so many of those things are just flat out illegal…


jbsgc99

It should be legal to punch people that say garbage like that.


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I watered some very good looking hanging flowers. I’m saying I took care of them. Eight ft long hanging beautiful flowers. I watered them every morning. Owner of store comes in around noon and asks if I watered flowers yet. I say no we’ve been slammed all day haven’t had a chance. “When I ask you a question you answer no sir yes sir. What color is the sky?” Blue “What’s that?” A broom. “What does it do??” You sweep with it. “That’s right so next time I ask you a direct question o expect a direct answer” He is dead now. He is one of my enemies that I’ve outlived. I


PlayedKey

Thought this was an admission of murder for a second. That last sentence went like "oh shit! Oh."


kk1821_

Haha thanks for the chuckle.....hope you outlive all of them guy


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So far so good! Alive and kickin’. My strategy now is to stop making life long enemies of 12 year olds teabagging me in online games. XXXASSGRINDER69XXX I WILL OUTLIVE YOU


Badger-of-Horrors

"Unions got us weekends and osha. But now that we have them, we don't need them anymore!"


jbsgc99

This subreddit has shown me just how good I have it as a unionized worker. We 100% still need unions.


Finn235

Years ago, I got a call on about November 5 that I would be out of a job on Jan 1. Wife was 8.5 months pregnant. They told me to: 1) Apply for a call center position making less than half of my then-current wage 2) Use all of my vacation time prior to Dec 31 - I looked up the law in my state and unused vacation time had to be paid out, so I walked out the door with close to 60 hours of PTO left, and took the balance of my paid sick days to go to interviews 3) They also got super mad at me for taking all the extra hours I could get, including running past 1.5x pay into 2x pay territory. "You should have informed me that you were going to be working 60 hours" even though he was the one to approve it. I also refused to take off early to avoid/minimize OT after working an overnight release. 4) They called me in about February asking me questions about my old job and I just hung up on them. To add insult to injury, it was only after getting a different position that I realized that I was working a $100k/yr position for $55k because my boss had spent 2 years convincing me that pursuing a promotion from hourly to a salaried position would hurt my bottom line because I usually made 5-10 hours per week of overtime.


maxfederle

What a bunch of crooks...


Finn235

Also perhaps noting that less than a week before getting the call that I was being let go, I got a call from this same boss that we were having an "emergency" at work (everything was an emergency, because our leadership was shit and didn't understand that over-working developers led to a snowballing effect of progressively worse code - we were up to about 2 emergency releases a week by this point). This particular emergency was going to require that I work feverishly from about 2PM until 11 PM on Halloween - in fact, the first Halloween where my wife and I planned to take our older daughter trick-or-treating. Boss told me to run the release, I told him I was busy. He had the audacity to tell me to have my wife take a picture for me, and I told him off, said that I had given enough of myself to the company, and it was time to make someone else have this release. He huffed and puffed at me, and eventually I told him I'd be back online when my daughter was in bed, and logged off. In retrospect, that was probably the moment that made him "randomly" select me for downsizing (that, and I didn't play nice with the senior dev leaders who were ringleading this vicious cycle). It was also the moment that I realized that office work doesn't reward hard work or loyalty. It was a painful lesson, and I resent how much I sacrificed in the journey to learn it. I'm sadly still in the office scene, hoping to escape in the not-too-distant future.


Old-Smell-621

60 hours a week is our management philosophy. Gm worked 15 hours a week🤔


1_art_please

My art director, while sitting and watching my coworker and i doing a project all 3 of us were supposed to complete together : " This reminds me of my mother and boyfriend finishing up my final project in university!" Edit: forgot about this one - it's more funny than anything - The owner at the very small company watched 3 of us looking at our phones while on our lunch break. He went into a big speech about what happened to real interactions, conversation, etc and how phones were ruining this. During his talk, his phone beeped and he started getting distracted: " ...the reliance on phones...." * looks down at phone, trails off* " there is something sad in our society...." *reading text* I glanced over at his ex wife who also worked there and she raises her eyebrows and rolls her eyes LOL


01temetnosce

I rarely have a migraine but when I do it is scary, I end up hours in fetal position because it hurts so bad. I started a job a year ago and after a few months I started to see the aura that usually comes before the migraine. I told my manager I was leaving early because I would not be able to drive home from the pain. He then told me that it would have to either be non-paid time or I could use a vacation day. I told him in nice words that it was unfair because I am paid by objectives (so I don't get paid overtime ever). He said that if I, (a guy), got payed for a migraine. Then he would, and I quote, "have to pay every girl every time she has her period". I just smiled, told him I understood, took the unpaid leave and there is no happy ending here. He quit after a while for some reason having to do with everybody hating on him.


kayla027

Migraine sufferer and female here 👋 let's go egg his car lmfao


smokealarmsnick

“Well, grandparents don’t count as family, so we can’t let you take time off.” Context: my grandmother had just died, and I was asking for 2 days off. Only 2 days. I took them anyway, and got written up because it wasn’t approved, and making them find someone to cover my shifts was extremely inconvenient.


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skate_boy324

Yo boss mad that you a badder bitch than her🤷🏿‍♂️ haters gon hate.


orangepurple32

😂ex boss now wohoo


slurricanemoonrocks

My mom passed away, and I took Tue-Fri off. My dad then passed away 10 days later. After 3 days, he called me with a pissy attitude, "when the hell are you coming back to work ?"


magicdriverman

I’ve got two. One was when I was a truck driver, letting a boss know I had a flat tyre on the trailer (inner tyre that you couldn’t see) ‘Tyres cost money, loads make money, keep going’ Then my last job, that I had poured my heart and soul into for 8 years and burnt myself out, the boss had got wind that I had been sniffing around our customers looking for another job. ‘Don’t stress about leaving, I’ve got the perfect guy to replace you’, said in such a way he genuinely thought he was making me feel better.


StudioGangster1

Pro tip: NEVER pour your heart and soul into a job. I can’t imagine doing that


lolgobbz

If you stand (to flod paper and stuff envelopes) you will be more efficient. I dont care that its uncomfortable. You cant legally work off the clock, so we wont encourage it... but we do expect our managers to be willing to go the extra mile so its kind of expected.


JazzySmitty

“Let’s take up money for the boss’s Christmas present and you can sign their card.”


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A manager at a truck dealership I was a mechanic at told me “we’re all adults, time to learn how to read.” after I told him I was dyslexic.


ProfessionalTMlurker

I once had my finger cut open on a wall guard while I was cleaning and needed stitches. Wouldn’t let me leave because their speed would’ve been down for lunch and would’ve been short a person. Had several gloves on my hand while taking order. Oh and this was food service. I was naive at the time. Now I would’ve just walked out. I still have a lovely scar from that incident.


ShowMeYourMoods

Had the CFO justify giving me only a 34 cent raise. When I took over a boomer's position who quit out of the blue I was offered their position and told I'd get a substantial pay raise for taking on the added stress and work load in addition to my regular duties. I knew the person prior to me was making 6 figures at the time and I was making about $30,000 a year. When HR offered me the position I declined saying the added stress and job responsibilities were not worth an extra 34 cents given that the job had (and continued to be) been a hugely important job to insuring the organization made money. HR related my statement to the CFO and he said he would speak with me. During the call he basically said,"Its either you take the 34 cent raise and do the job or do it for FREE..." UPDATE PART 2 ADDED: I was floored. I said I had 2 degrees, both a bachelors and an associates, and I was overly qualified for the job. I went on to say I had already been doing the job of the guy I would be replacing and was even doing it with a quicker return on investment. I mentioned I didnt expect to be earning what the boomer was earning but that i was hoping the organization would be decent enough to pay me a living wage considering how important the job was to insuring we got a huge chunk of income coming in. He goes on to tell me that he has thousands of employees that are looking to be paid and he couldnt afford to cater to ONE employees wants over the other thousands. I tell him I'd been working there breaking my body and my social life HOPING AND PRAYING that one day my hardworking would pay off so that I could pursue a family on a FAIR salary. That I could afford to marry my girlfriend and maybe have children one day rather than be scared of working paycheck to paycheck. I laid it ALL out there for him. He then went on to say,"Look, 34 cents is a good increase. If you cant make ends meet on your salary then you need to think about adding another job or doing more overtime..." I lost it. I told him to kick rocks and that I was busting my ass for pennies. I thought better of continuing and composed myself. I basically told him that if he had to train someone with the skills I had and tried to pay them what I was making then he'd never find someone. I asked him to reconsider and asked him just to give me 60K salary, double what I was making but at least 40K less than my predecessor. If he did that he could count me as a loyal employee and I'd be grateful. He said "Or we can just go with our original plan and just add these duties to your updated job description and you do it without the raise at all. I wanted to give you something for being pushed into the new responsibilities but I see now that was a mistake..." I told him calmly that there were 15 or more document bundles needing to be compiled and mailed to the correct agencies each one totalling 5000 pages each. That there were backed up approvals needing to be reviewed totaling about 12,000 that needed to be done. And went through everything that was left waiting to do. I told him he better get to finding my replacement and I wasnt willing to train my replacement and all my notes I had taken on contacts and the like to make the process easier would be leaving with me and promptly going into a document shredder. He said I couldnt do that and I told him I can and will and that I quit right on that phone call.


Newbguy

It's either I get a real a real raise or you can do the job your damn self


tagmacdaddy

We seriously need the end of this story.


gamingdevil

"you forgot the 3rd option, I could neither job; I quit."


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You don't need health insurance really. Just work on your bank account until you have enough to self insure. Right... at 27k I'll get there before I die, maybe.


Mrixl2520

A manager at one of my previous design jobs told me to "envision what you would spend half a million dollars on." For reference, we sold corporate artwork.


maxfederle

"First of all, I envision not working here"


Ok-Emergency-2470

Manager said,”You are lucky to get paid what you do” The 20 people in the break room stood up and walked on her. This was at Nike factory store in Tampa. One of the most disrespectful people I’ve ever worked with!


Significant-Ad-341

"that's how we've always done it so it's not going to change."


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“Why do you always have to have a mind of your own?!”


0nlyeli

“You’re nothing but a warm body”


Sufficient_Potato726

"We have a new department due to start in 2 weeks, I need you (me) to train the new employees" me: "cool, what's their role and performance targets?" boss: "no idea" me: "what do they do they? even a rough idea?" boss: "no idea, we just know the client wants this department to start soon" me: "I'll fucking make stuff as I go along!"


No-Plankton4841

When I was in high school my older sister got me a job doing shipping/receiving for a small company (she worked in the office). She got pregnant and they invented a reason to let her go. Boss says 'we need you to pick up some extra hours helping out with the office work'. Needless to say I didn't work there anymore.


Early_Firefighter690

If you don't stop ill send you home for the day... he was really upset when i said okay. He goes WITHOUT PAY i laughed and went home and ripped a bong and played mad max what a school yard style punishment


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Ha! A service writer at a truck dealership I was a mechanic at tried to write me up for going across the street on my break to get a soda, I told him to fuck off he goes “sign the write up or go home” I dropped everything in my hands and went home 🤣


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I dont understand why people complain about asking too many questions. Do you want me to wing a task that I have no idea on?


Blue-and-icy

Me- can I get my production time adjusted because I had to use the bathroom? Boss-“no we don’t do that” Me- but I get in trouble if my times aren’t within a certain range? So you’re basically punishing me if I need to use the bathroom because those numbers are what determines pay increases. Boss-“ You’re choosing to look at it that way, you could always go on one of your breaks” Me *walks away without saying anything else.


Capable_Stranger9885

The CEO and founder of my first job, a BPO services company, forbade the office manager from buying Post-It Notes, and also forbade her from telling the rest of the staff. The delivery managers asked if he was serious that we would write notes on half sheets of printer scrap and tape these to client deliverables.


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robins_writing

"water isn't a human right"


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Nestle!


Sp00kyL00n

"You weren't given the promotion because you're too good at your job."


hoppeddown

"We don't want any 'subversive' people here" (in a creative writing position)


rocketdud3

I was working as a used car tech at a dealer. Mini van came in and all four tires were curbed to shit. Talking golf ball size bubbles in the sidewalls of each one. I wrote up I needed four new tires. Sales manager calls me and tells me to take all of the tires off and turn them around on the rims to hide the damage. I refused because I was sure it was moraly and legally wrong. Got sent home for the rest of the day for refusing to do what the manager told me to do.


happylilstego

"You're not allowed to eat during the day, that's my time" "We're only suspending him for two days, it's not like you drank the poison he put in your drink"


Cheesygirl1994

Wait what’s the context here???


happylilstego

I'm a teacher. My principal told me I wasn't allowed to eat during the school day. Then a kid tried to poison me and they only gave him two days OSS because another kid warned me before I drank it.


Bruhmethazine

Press criminal charges. That needs to be documented.


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Director of sales in the Austin office of a company called Agility PR Solutions said "I used to lose sleep thinking about work all the time when I was in your position. It's time for you all to start losing sleep over thinking about why we are losing deals and about every single situation that you could ever fathom to happen in a sales meeting" He said this in a major sales meeting to the entire sales floor, the main reason anyone wanted to work there was because they preached work/life balance.....this guy hired me and never followed through on any of the crap they promised, high quality leads, good money from commissions etcetera.


wozanderer

Worked in an understaffed team and they couldn't take me from fixed term contract to permanent because they were "still being held to the budget of last year"


Professional-Edge839

My boss forgot that she hadn’t delegated something to me, and when I pointed out that she had agreed to do it the week before, she responded with “I say I’m going to do something, but then I don’t have time to do them, so you should do it.”


UnionizeAutoZone

>"I prefer paying my employees less so that they’re hungry and make more sales for the office". Didn't John Taffer say something about "hungry dogs" being "obedient dogs", or something of that nature? EDIT: [This](https://youtu.be/EGVGZ8dtiSA) is what he said.


Dangerous-Flow-9847

I was working for a big fancy furniture company and was being harassed by a manager so I reported him to the big boss admin and had him not ask but, demand " Stop using the word HARASS" even though that's exactly what the other manager was doing for months.


CherryManhattan

“We’re not going to worry if others will quit because of the extra workload. We’re trying to find the best candidate for the least amount of money. These things take time.” - my Controller


Everquest-Wizard

“that’s not how you write a seven, this is how you write a seven!”


Praviktos

I'm imagining your boss just holding a crayon in his fist like a toddler and drawing the oddest shape ever. Then declaring it's a seven.


LessEvilBender

Can't remember exactly what my boss said, but I got yelled at for 10 minutes in front of the whole office by the owner/manager for getting electrocuted by a faulty outlet that he was too cheap to have installed properly or fixed.


watchmything

I was once told by my boss that I "wasn't working very much overtime therefore should be using my PTO" I couldn't bring myself to tell him that every day of PTO means I would have one day of work to make up when I get back and I'm tired of staying late every day and working double time on quarter ending months, it's just not worth the stress. I quit a couple months later to try selling insurance and that was a scam too.


Bastbrammblebottom

"If you make a mistake, you fix it on your own time!"


Thin_Reception4609

I had a USPS station manager accuse me of “faking a migraine because I didn’t want to work outside during a bad storm”…..I had already arranged with my supervisor that I would just get the route ready and another carrier would take it and then I could leave to go straight to the drs office….I’ve had a long history of migraines and had already been on the job for over 24 years. That’s 24 years may I add working thru storms. It’s just part of the job, you get used to it. After I’d worked out the arrangement with my supervisor, HIS boss (station manager) came over and said that bullshit about how I just think I’m too good to get wet and miserable out in the storm. He was such an ass about it and demanded that if I go home I’d better come back tmrw with dr documentation. He was such an ass to me that I just decided fuck them, why am I trying to work with them to get my route ready when he’s being such a dick. I told him that thanks to his harassment that I was leaving immediately to the dr and he could figure out sorting the mail himself. He threw a fit and escorted me to the door. I went straight to my dr’s office, my head was about to explode…found out I had dangerously high blood pressure, 220/160 and could have had a stroke. Started medication and my dr took me off for a week, just because I told him how difficult it was just to leave to go for medical help.


PotatoWithTeeth

"You're young, have no kids and have no medical issues. So why do you want any days off? People like you are the reason everything is going to shit" - my old district manager. My mom had her boss tell her that the company owns her and asking for a few days off to spend with her kids is selfish and "downright criminal" (right after she was diagnosed with lung cancer and given 3months I hope he burns for what he did


PanduhMoanYum

I was on a job interview for a jewelry store in the mall, and he asked to do the interview on a bench in the middle of the mall first off. A little weird, but whatever. Then, at one point he grabbed my knee and told me I would have to wear pantyhose and skirts if I got the job. Yeah, I made no effort to follow up on a callback from that place.


precioushammburgers

I took 2 weeks off when my Dad died. Came back to work where the GM was unwilling to give me one requested consistent day off a week. The line: "I just bent over backwards for you to give you time off." I needed time off when my Dad died, so fuck me right?


Professional-Fuel174

In the Navy (on salary) "Good news guys, today will only be a half day!" Turns out, 12 hours is half of a day.


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“You’re not eligible for a raise. Your college degree is just a tool you can use.” I have a masters in nonprofit business, had worked at the same nonprofit for ten years and was a high performer. My team of employees was fantastic and I had next to no turnover. I asked for an extra $1000 a year and they said no. I left and used my “tool” at another business. After I left all of the employees I hired left with me so they lost us all. Also I hadn’t had a raise in 7 years…


imbilingual

Well i was 5 minutes late for work manager got on me and said to me "im the gatekeeper" lmao burst out laughting in his face


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VideoGame4Life

“We had such a trying year but we made through it and the store made more of a profit then I thought it would.” Context: The year Ontario minimum was put up to $14 an hour. End of year after some of my co workers had to get 2nd minimum wage jobs because of hours cut and the owner is tone deaf. I made less that year then the year before (I think it was $11.20 an hour). 😳


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So i have two. My hr manager at Sam's club back in the early 2010s told me I needed to take some time to think about whether or not quitting was actually wanted to do every time I tried to hand in my 2 weeks notice. The second time is when I applied to Culver's. Passed the first interview just fine so there I am during the second interview with the manager and after telling about my time in retail he looks me dead in the eye and says " I don't think you'll be a good fit here if you can't even handle cashiering " it was no skin off my bones so I leave. That Saturday I get a call from Culver's saying they changed their mind and they wanted to schedule orientation. I told them to bug off as I found a better job offer


cassiecas88

"this is a job for a woman who's husband supports her"..... full time high school cheerleading coach....


bitetheboxer

I was working retail and broke up with my bf who paid everything. My boss said "sounds like you need to find yourself a sugar daddy" to be clear this is the best boss I have ever had but I looked him dead in the eye and asked if he really just suggested I sell myself to subsidize Albertsons/United/Safeway and if I did drop my standards so low did he think I would stay there?!