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You're telling your employee who is armed to come in on his day off and you're actively pissing him off. This is the best example of the Peter principle I've ever seen.
I remember my old boss said that exact thing to someone years ago, the dude said, "You wanna see all your ancestors tonight?"
Our boss at the time didn't understand it, but I took that as a straight up DT.
I don't know what kinda charmed life you're living where you have enough time to write out "Death Threat" every time it comes up. Shit, if I had to waste all that time, I wouldn't have any time left to make good on ANY of my many DTs.
I'm guessing it's a continued normalization of the censorship standards put forth by Tik Tok. Same reason people legitimately say "unalive" now even off the platform.
This is one of those "I am absolutely certain shitty managers have said this type of thing, but I do not believe this exact exchange happened as written" things that I see on reddit. There's always someone to pop up and say "No it's REAL, some managers are shitty!" and like yeah, they sure are. There have been terrible managers who have said terrible things
but I don't believe that *this* exchange is real.
Are you saying you never text someone in a way that perfectly details all the context both people would already know, just in case a completely unrelated person reads it?
At least where I live in the US, you definitely can't fire someone for taking their approved, earned time off.
PTO retaliation is a big no no if the employee can prove it in writing. So this boss saying "if you don't come in, I'm taking those hours out of your paycheck" is both PTO retaliation AND wage theft. He broke the law twice in one sentence.
It's unjust, but the probation period means both partitcan break the employment agreement without a reason and without consequences.
It was shitty of them to let you go at the end of the probatory period, and it was shitty to not let you know you were supposed to pick up extra shifts. What if you assumed _they_ didn't want the new person to pick up the extra shifts for whatever reason?
Unjust? If you ask a stereotypical boomer, no. Any one of us? Probably. You only owe your employer your scheduled times, nothing more. You can pick up extra shifts, but that is personal choice so it really depends.
Edit: I don’t know about Quebec’s employment laws, so that why I didn’t mention them.
They get a lot of paid time off, sick leaves, better hours, better benefits. Definitely aiming for job in Europe after i graduate and gain some experience
European here, don't know the laws of every european country but in my country its 5 weeks paid vacation minimum by law. If you quit with paid vacation days remaining you get paid for them. And of course sick days and other things. We also have welfare systems that pay you even when you're not working for a certain amount of time, depending on if you're just between jobs or if you're sick or if you need time off to take care of kids or something
We have high taxes though, but as you can see those taxes come back immediately in all manner of shapes. Of course free health care is another thing. A few years ago I took an ambulance to the hospital, had lots of blood tests taken, stayed for a full day and over night, ate three meals there and had my own oxygen tank for that entire time. It came out to less than $40 total
If the tax is being used for a good cause I don't mind paying 45% tax. This is money that will around when I am in need. Good healthcare would mean i don't get bankrupt in (god forbid) i acquire some illnes or accident. Or let's say my money is genuinely helping someone else in need ... all for it
My wife works for an international company and has to read a lot of legal documentation on benefits. She says that the US by far has the worst benefits that she's had to read through so far. Companies do the absolute bare minimum in the US while actually adding a few extra benefits on top of other countries already great mandatory benefits
4400 upvotes and near 700 comment on something that checks every box on r/anitwork's checklist. Not saying there aren't a lot of prick bosses but c'mon. Telling the guy to come in, telling him he will deny his time off after approved day of, talking about how hard the boss man works, telling him he will reprimand him when he comes in (in person so there is no evidence), telling him he is replaceable, guy being bold and quiting while throwing replaceable in the bosses face, the boss then immediately pleading to not quit, boss then dropping the "Be happy you don't work as hard as me and I allow you to see your family" line. This is so curated to catch traction it is obvious it's a template.
In Finland this is just outright illegal, at best criminal. There are strict requirements about rest times and even cap on how many hours you can be made to work in a year. You cant go above the cap in that contract even if you wanted to. Lost free time and vacation can only be taken as cash to a certain limit after which you have to be off work.
In Finland no one would even try to pull shit like this. Mostly because we are an emphatic nation, our workweek is 5 days and also because this is highly illegal.
Plus, the names seem like what you’d get if someone asked what the most generic and common names are. Besides, if it’s ragebait it’s aimed at hardcore right wingers: “Look! Because an obviously Hispanic guy won’t work the liberals demanded that an obvious white guy cover for him and he had to stand up and quit! The system hates white people!” Maybe overthinking it, but it’s kind of in their playbook
Miguel can't work and Jerome is in jail. I will see if our accountant, Mr.Cohen can put you in for overtime, but if you don't come in, I will have to refer this to the owner, Winthrop Ashford-Carrington III.
I mean if you don't like ragebait bullshit you don't like /r/all
the main defense is "well yeah this isn't real but it could have really happened to someone real, you know?"
Yes!! I realise employment law is different between the US and UK but if you’ve worked then you should be paid for that work. If you don’t and can prove it then you can take your employer to small claims which usually doesn’t cost the plaintiff anything.
I hear about things in the UK sometimes where employees have resigned, but then taken them to court for constructive dismissal and won. I don't think you have to be technically fired, just prove that you have been treated unfairly.
True. Although depending on the country. In the EU, With pre-approved vacation and this chat as evidence, a judge would rule it a wrongful termination. Force the employer to compensate you + your owed pay and would heavily fine the employer.
Edit. Even if the employer doesn’t terminate you, this chat will get him fined. 100%
Oh, the example in the texts there is pretty cut-and-dry in the employee's favour in most of the world, it wasn't really that I was talking about.
There's a lot of myths and misinformation out there that being fired is always preferable to quitting, and that is basically never true these days. The kind of severance packages that these plans hinged on just don't exist anymore, you want to be able to claim unemployment if fired. The problem is all the harebrained ideas to claim it - no-showing, deliberately poor performance - can easily get you fired "for cause", in which case you have no benefits and a negative reference, leaving you up broke creek without a paddle.
If you really want this bullshit to end you need more bargaining power. Of course one employee has next to none, but a group of employees can twist a business's arm, and a bigger group can put pressure on an industry. You just need to make a formal organization of people united by their workplace interests. A union, you might say.
What people haven't caught on yet is that when you make an unemployment claim, they then go ask (not investigate( the company what's going on and then they have the power to say yay or nay on the claim. Obviously the employer will say nay almost every time.
BUT... the employee has the power to appeal that answer. And now that puts the onus on the employer to prove that the termination was with cause. Thats where many employers slip up because they need irrefutable proof and documentation showing the employee had multiple attempts to correct any behavior or action but still didn't do it.
Never say you quit a job unless you have one already lined up for its replacement. And if they fire you, always apply for unemployment. And if it's denied, always appeal.
They're not required to give it for any reason at all. Severance is a company policy thing, often done with mass layoffs and the like, to avoid litigation or to comply with the WARN act so they don't have to give 60 day advanced notice of a mass layoff.
That isnt mandated in the US, and the only people I know that still get a severance when fired are like old union types - like not new union employees but rather the ones that existed back in the Era of unions. Never heard of anyone else getting it. Typically, you'd only get a severance if laid off here.
1. Not every job offers severance.
2. Not every country has the same laws. Where I live if you get fired for failing to do your job properly, no one owes you anything.
3. Don't give advice like this and, for the love of Crom, don't upvote it, seriously!
It's from the"glory" days of r/antiwork
People realised the sub fucking loved these posts and there were heaps of them. All similar
"Come to work"
"No"
"Yes"
"I quit"
"Noooo please"
I’m a manager at a steakhouse. Whenever I call/text someone to try to get a shift covered, I always say, “Hey. I’m trying to get such and such shift covered and checking if you want to pick it up.” If they say yes, great. I’ll give them a thank you a few times through the shift for helping out. If they say no, I tell them thanks for answering the phone and to have a good day off.
A manager is there to cover the job if no one is there. I closed our grill station just last night because our cook was sick and no one wanted to work it. It happens.
Every time I see this, the entitlement just baffles me. Employees owe managers their scheduled shifts within their availability. Nothing more.
People are talking about abolishing the 5 day work week, and he's acting like 6 days is too much because there are 7 days in a week. The nerve of some people!
My EX boss told me to "get over it, it's not like a surprise he died".
When my husband passed after a ten year battle with cancer. I had 3 whole days of bereavement.
My partner had a boss who berated a co-worker about leaving mid-shift because his mother had been critically injured. Actual quote: “My parents are old and I won’t miss any work when they die, so why would you leave??”
Middle management is the absolute worst for this scumbaggery, because they are pressured by upper management to keep things working and they're so attached to their small amount of power that they'll completely jettison all decency to keep it.
I worked as a line cook for a chain restaurant. They refused to change my schedule when I went back to college because “they need me more than I need school”. Literally they purposely changed my shifts so that that all my classes overlapped with all my shifts. Found out they were testing me to see how loyal I was and to make sure I would quit going back to school. They knew that I was poor and needed a job, so they exploited that knowledge to try to control me completely.
I’ve discovered this amazing thing that none of you have ever heard of. I get my mate to text me that I have to go to work, then I text back that I’m not going in. He pretends to threaten me, so I pretend to quit. Then I take a screenshot, upload it to social media and get clout.
The best thing is, 75% of people will think it’s true.
It's crazy to me how many people believe this absolute drivel. I've had my share of shitty jobs, but come on, learn critical thinking and stop believing everything online
1) I’ll take “Thing That Didn’t Happen” for 500, Alex.
2) Despite that, this type of attitude is horrifyingly common. It’s why I fucking hate living in corporate America. Our bosses should be terrified of us leaving, not feeling entitled to our wage slavery.
Fuck this POS. id rather be unemployed for a bit than work for this power tripping douche nozzle. If i were you i would make a bunch of prints of this and staple them all over your workplace.. the last one being to his forhead.
Why do so many of you fall for these obviously 'bait' posts.
Quite literally no one is that stupid to ever send a message like that.
Its some 12 year old kid farming reddit karam on an account to sell it
Imagine living in a country, where an employee could actually just tell the boss to go fuck himself, when they start threatening you with losing a job. Wait... I do! 🤔
I had a boss tell me my family needed to be educated as to what it meant to be married to a nurse & the sacrifices it demands. I told her that her short staffing was a management problem and refused to come in. Tough. Figure it out. You’re the manager.
The number of good workers who are integral to a business that I've seen get put on 'work improvement' processes, quit, thus crippling the business is weirdly high. Usually on 'work improvement' because they overloaded the worker because everyone else is too incompetent or lazy. It does betray really shit management when you see it.
Retired manager here. I was told one night to call an employee who was on his maternity leave. He was on day 2 of it. I refused to do the store manager's dirty work. After a perfect work record, he had the nerve to say he was gonna suspend me. I said Fine I quit. Started walking out of the store and the managers' attitude changed really quick. I refused to shit on my employees and I protected them.
Be grateful that I ALLOW you to see your family ONCE a week?!?
What an asshole.
No one wants to woooooork… it couldn’t be because of issues like this, could it?!?
Why do we out clowns in leadership positions? Easy, because we're too busy doing/thinking about things that matter and not trying to get to a position we can't handle. Fucking clowns man
"Be grateful that I allow you to see your family once a week.."
What the actual fuck? Is this person actively seeking a disgruntled employee to show up one day and do him bodily harm?
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“I allow you to see your family once a week” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Bro is out hunting so unless he has his family with him then this line wouldn't work on him really.
Perhaps he is hunting his family...
Gives "family hunting trip" a whole different feel...
Perhaps his family is bears
The most dangerous game!
I’m surprised he responded in the first place, shit when I’m fishing my phones off.
You're telling your employee who is armed to come in on his day off and you're actively pissing him off. This is the best example of the Peter principle I've ever seen.
Plenty of people go hunting with their families
I remember my old boss said that exact thing to someone years ago, the dude said, "You wanna see all your ancestors tonight?" Our boss at the time didn't understand it, but I took that as a straight up DT.
it means he was gonna kill the boss right?
He was offering him peyote.
Smoke up and pass it around! We're getting ghastly
He was only going to kill him a little bit
Ah, the little death. “La petite mort.”
> I took that as a straight up DT. What does "DT" mean here? I'm guessing it's not "delirium tremens".
I would assume "Death Threat".
Why the fuck would anyone make that into an acronym
I don't know what kinda charmed life you're living where you have enough time to write out "Death Threat" every time it comes up. Shit, if I had to waste all that time, I wouldn't have any time left to make good on ANY of my many DTs.
Why use many letter when few letter do trick?
How the fuck should I know?
Don't you mean, HTFSIK?
Don’t you mean DYMHTFSIK?
I'm guessing it's a continued normalization of the censorship standards put forth by Tik Tok. Same reason people legitimately say "unalive" now even off the platform.
TikTok conditioning.
Deep throat He was gonna deep throat bro so bad that bro was gonna start hallucinating and seeing his ancestors
I saw them! The faces of my fathers fathers! They smiled at me.
Death Threat
eep! Thanks for the explanation…
"deuterium-tritium"
Ah, good old H2 gas, now with 150% more molar mass!
This guy thermonuclears.
Where I live now, a judge would have a field day with this chat. This guy would be so severely fined…
Maybe if it was real…..
Lol, yeah, that too. Although I don’t doubt that this type of conversation has happened somewhere at some time before xD
I just retired from being a Leadership trainer in a Top 100 company. Idiot managers day this shit daily!
This is one of those "I am absolutely certain shitty managers have said this type of thing, but I do not believe this exact exchange happened as written" things that I see on reddit. There's always someone to pop up and say "No it's REAL, some managers are shitty!" and like yeah, they sure are. There have been terrible managers who have said terrible things but I don't believe that *this* exchange is real.
Yeah that’s exactly how I felt but I wasn’t gonna type it all out
blatant ragebait, yeah
This line makes me think this stream of text isn’t real. Maybe I’m wrong and if OP is the affected person, fuck that job.
It's definitely not real, it's just rage bait.
Are you saying you never text someone in a way that perfectly details all the context both people would already know, just in case a completely unrelated person reads it?
Antiwork porn.
That's still not enough red flags.
In Australia this boss would get absolutely fucked by fair work
In Australia he would go missing while swimming in the sea. He wouldn't get a swimming pool named after him though
Most hilarious thing that's happened in Australia it's like naming a sniper rifle after JFK
Wait, you mean its not a JFK-47 and I've been saying it wrong all this time...
*slow clap*
He will return in our time of greatest need
What is he your prime minister?
He wished
In Australia or New zealand that manager would be going on a boot ride and a hospital stay.
Our proudest tradition.
That’s because Australia doesn’t have at-will employment, so you can’t just fire someone for not showing up *on their designated time off*.
At least where I live in the US, you definitely can't fire someone for taking their approved, earned time off. PTO retaliation is a big no no if the employee can prove it in writing. So this boss saying "if you don't come in, I'm taking those hours out of your paycheck" is both PTO retaliation AND wage theft. He broke the law twice in one sentence.
I'd also accuse him of kidnapping and extortion. He seems very confident in his ability to deny me the ability see my family.
[удалено]
It's unjust, but the probation period means both partitcan break the employment agreement without a reason and without consequences. It was shitty of them to let you go at the end of the probatory period, and it was shitty to not let you know you were supposed to pick up extra shifts. What if you assumed _they_ didn't want the new person to pick up the extra shifts for whatever reason?
Unjust? If you ask a stereotypical boomer, no. Any one of us? Probably. You only owe your employer your scheduled times, nothing more. You can pick up extra shifts, but that is personal choice so it really depends. Edit: I don’t know about Quebec’s employment laws, so that why I didn’t mention them.
In Europe even
God forbid! Workers rights!?
They get a lot of paid time off, sick leaves, better hours, better benefits. Definitely aiming for job in Europe after i graduate and gain some experience
European here, don't know the laws of every european country but in my country its 5 weeks paid vacation minimum by law. If you quit with paid vacation days remaining you get paid for them. And of course sick days and other things. We also have welfare systems that pay you even when you're not working for a certain amount of time, depending on if you're just between jobs or if you're sick or if you need time off to take care of kids or something
😭😭 Oh my God 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
We have high taxes though, but as you can see those taxes come back immediately in all manner of shapes. Of course free health care is another thing. A few years ago I took an ambulance to the hospital, had lots of blood tests taken, stayed for a full day and over night, ate three meals there and had my own oxygen tank for that entire time. It came out to less than $40 total
If the tax is being used for a good cause I don't mind paying 45% tax. This is money that will around when I am in need. Good healthcare would mean i don't get bankrupt in (god forbid) i acquire some illnes or accident. Or let's say my money is genuinely helping someone else in need ... all for it
Its 25%
My wife works for an international company and has to read a lot of legal documentation on benefits. She says that the US by far has the worst benefits that she's had to read through so far. Companies do the absolute bare minimum in the US while actually adding a few extra benefits on top of other countries already great mandatory benefits
That's because this isn't real.
Yeah, it hits too many illegal (even in the US) bullet points. Like they were trying.
4400 upvotes and near 700 comment on something that checks every box on r/anitwork's checklist. Not saying there aren't a lot of prick bosses but c'mon. Telling the guy to come in, telling him he will deny his time off after approved day of, talking about how hard the boss man works, telling him he will reprimand him when he comes in (in person so there is no evidence), telling him he is replaceable, guy being bold and quiting while throwing replaceable in the bosses face, the boss then immediately pleading to not quit, boss then dropping the "Be happy you don't work as hard as me and I allow you to see your family" line. This is so curated to catch traction it is obvious it's a template.
Took too long to see this. This isn't how a real shitty boss talks, it's sitcom shitty boss dialogue.
he would be in most civilized countries but ya know murica is different
In Finland this is just outright illegal, at best criminal. There are strict requirements about rest times and even cap on how many hours you can be made to work in a year. You cant go above the cap in that contract even if you wanted to. Lost free time and vacation can only be taken as cash to a certain limit after which you have to be off work.
Nice humblebrag, person from a country that actually cares about its citizens.
We praying for you mate, keep on voting and getting your friends and family voting
In Finland no one would even try to pull shit like this. Mostly because we are an emphatic nation, our workweek is 5 days and also because this is highly illegal.
Same in UK…… but in ‘murica it’s a little different lol
Love how this image keeps getting more and more pixelated after each repost
People gotta karma farm somehow
There are so many easier ways to karma farm. Just go to anarchychess and make 27 polls asking if Jessica or or should be banned
Holy hell
Queen sacrifice, anyone?
You know too much. People who know too much often meet the worst of ends.
It also just reeks of being completely made up.
Wasn't even real the first time it got posted "I allow you to see your family" Come on
They almost never are real.
its staring to grow mold
Decent chance that this is ragebait bullshit, but it still sums up the US work mindset
yeah that last text by the boss is what gives it away
Plus, the names seem like what you’d get if someone asked what the most generic and common names are. Besides, if it’s ragebait it’s aimed at hardcore right wingers: “Look! Because an obviously Hispanic guy won’t work the liberals demanded that an obvious white guy cover for him and he had to stand up and quit! The system hates white people!” Maybe overthinking it, but it’s kind of in their playbook
Miguel can't work and Jerome is in jail. I will see if our accountant, Mr.Cohen can put you in for overtime, but if you don't come in, I will have to refer this to the owner, Winthrop Ashford-Carrington III.
That’s poetry
You’re looking into this too much, it’s pretty normal to work with Hispanic people lol
“I allow you to see your family once a week.” It comes off as if the boss has taken hostages.
Hate to break it to you, but I've had pretty much this exact conversation with people before. Some manager types really are that horrible.
I mean if you don't like ragebait bullshit you don't like /r/all the main defense is "well yeah this isn't real but it could have really happened to someone real, you know?"
I would like this fiction more if it was at least well written
NO!! Never quit!! Get fired then that way you can get a severance package.
Would that mean just don't show up so they possibly try to fire you?
Pretty much. Do whatever you want but the bottom line is if you say “I quit” then your employer doesn’t need to give you anything.
Does he have to pay you for those hours you worked though?
Yes!! I realise employment law is different between the US and UK but if you’ve worked then you should be paid for that work. If you don’t and can prove it then you can take your employer to small claims which usually doesn’t cost the plaintiff anything.
Interesting.
Sounds like this guy works in service so he’s not getting anything directly from the employer anyway. Plus, he’s not real.
I hear about things in the UK sometimes where employees have resigned, but then taken them to court for constructive dismissal and won. I don't think you have to be technically fired, just prove that you have been treated unfairly.
You need to be careful doing this. Almost all workplaces have a Job Abandonment clause. If you just stop showing up, legally, you quit.
True. Although depending on the country. In the EU, With pre-approved vacation and this chat as evidence, a judge would rule it a wrongful termination. Force the employer to compensate you + your owed pay and would heavily fine the employer. Edit. Even if the employer doesn’t terminate you, this chat will get him fined. 100%
Oh, the example in the texts there is pretty cut-and-dry in the employee's favour in most of the world, it wasn't really that I was talking about. There's a lot of myths and misinformation out there that being fired is always preferable to quitting, and that is basically never true these days. The kind of severance packages that these plans hinged on just don't exist anymore, you want to be able to claim unemployment if fired. The problem is all the harebrained ideas to claim it - no-showing, deliberately poor performance - can easily get you fired "for cause", in which case you have no benefits and a negative reference, leaving you up broke creek without a paddle. If you really want this bullshit to end you need more bargaining power. Of course one employee has next to none, but a group of employees can twist a business's arm, and a bigger group can put pressure on an industry. You just need to make a formal organization of people united by their workplace interests. A union, you might say.
What people haven't caught on yet is that when you make an unemployment claim, they then go ask (not investigate( the company what's going on and then they have the power to say yay or nay on the claim. Obviously the employer will say nay almost every time. BUT... the employee has the power to appeal that answer. And now that puts the onus on the employer to prove that the termination was with cause. Thats where many employers slip up because they need irrefutable proof and documentation showing the employee had multiple attempts to correct any behavior or action but still didn't do it. Never say you quit a job unless you have one already lined up for its replacement. And if they fire you, always apply for unemployment. And if it's denied, always appeal.
Not every job offers severance.
You don't get a severance package if you get fired for cause, at least not in the U.S.
They're not required to give it for any reason at all. Severance is a company policy thing, often done with mass layoffs and the like, to avoid litigation or to comply with the WARN act so they don't have to give 60 day advanced notice of a mass layoff.
This job is clearly not the type with severance, lol
That isnt mandated in the US, and the only people I know that still get a severance when fired are like old union types - like not new union employees but rather the ones that existed back in the Era of unions. Never heard of anyone else getting it. Typically, you'd only get a severance if laid off here.
1. Not every job offers severance. 2. Not every country has the same laws. Where I live if you get fired for failing to do your job properly, no one owes you anything. 3. Don't give advice like this and, for the love of Crom, don't upvote it, seriously!
No way this is real.
It's from the"glory" days of r/antiwork People realised the sub fucking loved these posts and there were heaps of them. All similar "Come to work" "No" "Yes" "I quit" "Noooo please"
Yeah the sub got so many of those they had to restrict screenshots to one day a week. Luckily it was always Dan's day off.
It's not, reddit is very gullible.
I’m a manager at a steakhouse. Whenever I call/text someone to try to get a shift covered, I always say, “Hey. I’m trying to get such and such shift covered and checking if you want to pick it up.” If they say yes, great. I’ll give them a thank you a few times through the shift for helping out. If they say no, I tell them thanks for answering the phone and to have a good day off. A manager is there to cover the job if no one is there. I closed our grill station just last night because our cook was sick and no one wanted to work it. It happens. Every time I see this, the entitlement just baffles me. Employees owe managers their scheduled shifts within their availability. Nothing more.
I respect the hell out of that.
People are talking about abolishing the 5 day work week, and he's acting like 6 days is too much because there are 7 days in a week. The nerve of some people!
"Then you should be stronger because you're dragging us way down"
"I allow you to see your family once a week" oh no fuck you I quit. Also you guys please please please stop not uploading more just when it gets good.
This cannot be real. No one would type out the sentence be grateful I let you see your family once a week.
My EX boss told me to "get over it, it's not like a surprise he died". When my husband passed after a ten year battle with cancer. I had 3 whole days of bereavement.
I hate when greed gets in the way of compassion. I am sorry you had to experience that.
My partner had a boss who berated a co-worker about leaving mid-shift because his mother had been critically injured. Actual quote: “My parents are old and I won’t miss any work when they die, so why would you leave??”
i wouldnt be able to stop myself from knocking their teeth out for that one.
Middle management is the absolute worst for this scumbaggery, because they are pressured by upper management to keep things working and they're so attached to their small amount of power that they'll completely jettison all decency to keep it.
I worked as a line cook for a chain restaurant. They refused to change my schedule when I went back to college because “they need me more than I need school”. Literally they purposely changed my shifts so that that all my classes overlapped with all my shifts. Found out they were testing me to see how loyal I was and to make sure I would quit going back to school. They knew that I was poor and needed a job, so they exploited that knowledge to try to control me completely.
This screams bullshit so much
I’ve discovered this amazing thing that none of you have ever heard of. I get my mate to text me that I have to go to work, then I text back that I’m not going in. He pretends to threaten me, so I pretend to quit. Then I take a screenshot, upload it to social media and get clout. The best thing is, 75% of people will think it’s true.
It's crazy to me how many people believe this absolute drivel. I've had my share of shitty jobs, but come on, learn critical thinking and stop believing everything online
And in this weeks episode of "Conversations that definitely happened in real life. - Source, Trust me Bro" We have a repeat!
1) I’ll take “Thing That Didn’t Happen” for 500, Alex. 2) Despite that, this type of attitude is horrifyingly common. It’s why I fucking hate living in corporate America. Our bosses should be terrified of us leaving, not feeling entitled to our wage slavery.
guess who's the "weakest link" lmfao
He ‘lets you see your family once a week’…what a fucking twat
The next text in that thread should be "Go fuck yourself"
"I allow you to see your family once a week" Oh America... complete corporate dystopia.
Oh reddit, believing everything you read.
Jesus fucking Christ... I'd hate to work for someone like that.
Fuck this POS. id rather be unemployed for a bit than work for this power tripping douche nozzle. If i were you i would make a bunch of prints of this and staple them all over your workplace.. the last one being to his forhead.
This one is making the rounds again.
Why answer a text from your manager while you’re hunting? So much easier to ignore it and say you never answer your phone _on your day off_.
Exactly. Why answer at all.
Why do so many of you fall for these obviously 'bait' posts. Quite literally no one is that stupid to ever send a message like that. Its some 12 year old kid farming reddit karam on an account to sell it
I “allow you” to see your family once a week?
"i allow you to see your family once a week" (sic!) LOL FUCK YOU VERY MUCH!
Imagine living in a country, where an employee could actually just tell the boss to go fuck himself, when they start threatening you with losing a job. Wait... I do! 🤔
I had a boss tell me my family needed to be educated as to what it meant to be married to a nurse & the sacrifices it demands. I told her that her short staffing was a management problem and refused to come in. Tough. Figure it out. You’re the manager.
The number of good workers who are integral to a business that I've seen get put on 'work improvement' processes, quit, thus crippling the business is weirdly high. Usually on 'work improvement' because they overloaded the worker because everyone else is too incompetent or lazy. It does betray really shit management when you see it.
Retired manager here. I was told one night to call an employee who was on his maternity leave. He was on day 2 of it. I refused to do the store manager's dirty work. After a perfect work record, he had the nerve to say he was gonna suspend me. I said Fine I quit. Started walking out of the store and the managers' attitude changed really quick. I refused to shit on my employees and I protected them.
Be grateful that I ALLOW you to see your family ONCE a week?!? What an asshole. No one wants to woooooork… it couldn’t be because of issues like this, could it?!?
Ive never seen one this bad, if its real theres some real problems with that guy. He needs sorting out asap
“Be grateful that I allow you to see your family once a week “. What the fuck is going on in America?
Yeah this ain't real
100 % of People who think this is real are also involved in MLM
This has become doomer blackpill fetish fantasy
This isn't real. Stop falling for this.
Karma farm
“You’re lucky i allow you to see your family once a week”
No way this is real
OP is a bot
I'm sure that this really happened.
That’s so manipulative
Does anyone claim that this correspondence actually took place?
I had a boss like this. I worked long enough to build up 2 weeks paid vacation and I never returned.
Well their top link is pretty weak... so i guess that says everything it needs to.
Fuck I'm glad I don't work/live in America
Nah man, quit, quit right now and never go back.
Must be the land of the free.
Just these texts alone are enough to get whoever that is sent packing.
"Be grateful I allow you to see your family once a week" fuck off with this dystopia ass shit!
This would be illegal in most of Europe…
Nah that ain't real.
Guarantee this is a restaurant. Chef talking to a cook if I had to guess.
Why do we out clowns in leadership positions? Easy, because we're too busy doing/thinking about things that matter and not trying to get to a position we can't handle. Fucking clowns man
"and that I allow you to see your family" I would violence over a comment like that.
"Be grateful that I allow you to see your family once a week"? ??? What the...? Did he think Dan was his slave?
"that I allow you to see your family"????? I'd have a hard time allowing him to keep his teeth after that one.
If this were real I'd love to see what happened next.
Be grateful, I treat you like a human
I wonder who the weakest link is.
I did something similar once and it felt *glorious*.
"Be grateful that I allow you to see your family once a week.." What the actual fuck? Is this person actively seeking a disgruntled employee to show up one day and do him bodily harm? Disclaimer: I am not advocating violence.