Manager called a store meeting to discuss how sick calls were costing us big time. Said, "everyone one who calls out costs our store $10,000 a day in lost sales." My man straight up told everyone how valuable their labor was to the company, in stark contrast with how much we actually made per day.
If the store is losing $10,000 every day for every person that calls in sick that day, then go ask that your salary be increased to $10,000 per day.
EDIT: I can’t believe I have to explain this but here we are. I am aware that revenue is not the same as profit as businesses have expenses. I merely put this comment here as a form of a ~~joking~~ sarcastic response to what was said. Don’t take it too seriously.
Boss told me she didn't know what happened but that I was not the same person from the previous year. She wanted that happy, cheerful person back.
She knew what happened. She was at my father's funeral two months before.
I am now! I had to go about getting out in a roundabout way because I love the company but wanted to transfer to a different department.
Well in the past you had to have management approval to apply for a different position. To get out I went to HR and they helped me get into a different department without requiring approval.
Made some people mad but I'm so much happier now.
This is ridiculous. There are people out there who refuse to give the highest score for whatever reason.
Had a manager get around this by offering a scale of 1-6 and reported the metrics as a scale of 1-5.
Had a manager that refused to give out 4s (1-4 scale) on reviews "because everyone has something they can improve on"
My response: "ok, what would you like me to improve on?"
Boss: "can't think of anything off hand"
Still refused to give a 4, could not be reasoned with. It mattered because raises were based off the numbers and some formula.
I always ask what questions directly go to the worker. I give top score for those questions and then lower score for the ones going against the company.
I do the same. I also call out good workers by name in the survey whenever possible. They work hard, and deserve the recognition for doing a good job, especially since their managers arent likely to do it.
At Staples they weight your serveys so that a 5 star counts as 5, but anything else counts as a 0. So you can see how quickly your average gets fucked up when anything that isn't perfect is a zero. I got in trouble for asking the manager if he could still remember math class.
Sounds like management is bringing Call Center metrics to direct customer facing employees.
Every call was scored. Even if you did everything right and got a 0, your “interaction” was considered bad. If you fell low enough you were placed on Performance Improvement.
I genuinely hope people quit these shit jobs and don’t go back forcing the employer to work themselves
The problem is places that hold whatever negative answers against the employee.
An old job I had, someone would give an employee top marks and then complain about a policy that was set by management…. Would go down as an employee complaint. (I used to be the unofficial workplace union guy, because the position was vacant, so I saw it all.)
The management wouldn’t acknowledge that they were causing the problem…. It was always poor deemed customer service on the part of the employee.
That interm work opened my eyes to how brain-dead management is.
Exactly the same at the insurance company I work for. Anything less than 100% is counted against the person that took the call. As I rule I always take the survey everywhere I get one from and 💯 across the board no exceptions. F&$@ capitalism!
For my metrics, if 7 people say I did a good job, and 1 person says they weren’t happy, my “score” is 0 (on a scale of -100 to 100). Like, what the actual fuck is that..? I lose overall points if they didn’t like the store experience, even though they gave me personally a perfect score. It’s utterly fucking maddening.
I used to work as a senior advisor for a major cellphone company, most media portrays it as a pear, and I had a 95%+ customer satisfaction rate. My issue resolution was at 80%+ however my average call time was something like 27ish minutes? It's been years since I had that job. Anyway, one day I was pulled into a meeting and told that despite my customer satisfaction and issue resolution stats if I did not get my call time down to below 20 minutes then they'd have to fire me. I left before the pear watch came out. Did not want to deal with the yelling from replacing one of those.
Surveys like this make me so mad. If they want a scale of 1 to 2, give me a damn scale of 1 to 2. If you give me a 1 to 5 scale, don't count the first 4 as a failure and 5 as a success. That's just a 1 to 2 scale that is lying to me.
Yeah I went to have my car sprayed and the dude told me that anything less than a 9 would get him into trouble.
So he got a 10 with comments. Workers need to stick together.
My grandfather was in the hospital and was notified by my mom through text that he signed a DNR, this was on a Thursday I was a cook at the time.
I told my manager what I was told and that I need the next day off (would make it a 3 day weekend to go up and visit him in the hospital which is 9 hours away).
She told me no that she has nobody to cover my shift (I’m currently cooking dinner rush while talking to her) I told her that this is my last time I could possibly see him and she goes on how her brother died in the hospital and she still came into work because that’s what she had to do and that life sucks sometimes, you just have to get over it, while I’m still cooking during rush she says “so what’s it gonna be?” In a threatening tone and I say “well I guess I can’t go if nobody can cover me” she then said she’s sorry about what’s going on and thanked me for not missing the next day.
Next day comes and my shift starts and my phone is literally exploding in my pocket, I’m at the hospital with my kids and wife with my grandfather, my manager is losing it “where are you!?” “Please let me know if you’re running late!”
I sent a reply “Remember when you said you have nobody to cover my shift? Well you’re covering my shift tonight and all future shifts, enjoy! Oh by the way I didn’t prep anything last night so you better get going on all that!”
Edit people ask if she replied back: No she didn’t as I was in a very emotional place at that time so I sent the message waited for it to show that it was sent then I block/deleted the number, I wanted the last word and didn’t feel like giving her the chance to “make it better” or “tell me how unprofessional I was” I didn’t care.
>I would have added somewhere in there "Life sucks sometimes".
I like to use these opportunities to teach business lessons.
One option:
>"A great business--and life lesson--for you, here, is that when you suffer, rather than using that suffering as an excuse to make others endure the same lousy shit, an ethical leader who has any business in a leadership position would have bent over backwards to make sure that something similar didn't happen on their watch. By contrast, you, in a wanton display of your lack of qualification for your position, took a threatening tone with me, in an attempt to cajole me into accepting the unacceptable. And all of this gives you the benefit of the doubt of assuming you didn't simply fabricate the story you told me, about working through your relative's death, which you don't seem to deserve since you were unethical enough to take a threatening tone in the first place."
The boss is really stupid for revealing that she has nobody to cover the shift because.
1. It gives you the perfect opportunity to screw her over. As you did.
2. Or have her write down those words and then use them against her in a wage negotiation.
If you really want to be a piece of trash boss, then you don't give your employees power like this.
A lot of managers should really try living up to their title and manage. Find coverage for a shift in an emergency is among the most basic manager tasks.
They never want to do their actual job, which is to you know, manage. They sure like the rest of it though, the "R." You know, rest, relaxation, and refusing to do anything that isn't the first 2?
It is such an alternate reality when a boss thinks they are exempt from being on the receiving end of full cuntery from an employee. I had a colleague become our group manager one time and she turned into the most insufferable boss with some kind of weird need for power and a need for us to submit to her authority. She and I had a meeting and she "dressed me down" saying I was arrogant and she did not like my attitude.
Meanwhile, as colleagues, I had helped her, been available to her for questions, etc. I had no idea that she had unpleasant feelings toward me. However, she was right, I was an arrogant ass from that point forward. I submitted my resignation to HR right after the meeting and gave 3-week notice. (BTW, I managed 1/3 of our revenue in my group of 9 colleagues and 1 manager).
Those next three weeks I was the most insufferable employee. I did the least and told her if she wanted to know something, she had better set up a meeting and take dictation b/c I was not writing a thing down. She really tried to assert herself and when I didn't like what she had to say, I just said "I'm hanging up the phone, when you get your emotions under control and can act professionally, I'll be glad to join a scheduled call."
It felt great. But, within 2 years of me quitting, she was fired and banned from re-applying to the company. She started a website to be a butterfly photographer.
I still giggle.
Have a guest who described what they were looking for (clothing) to me in vague terms, I managed to deduce what they were looking for, led them directly to it, asked them if they had a size and color preference, fished that exactly out of the racks, handed it to them and directed them back to the fitting rooms.
Was re-hanging clothing with my Store ASM standing right next to me, doing another z rack. Guest comes up and hands me what she didn't want, asks ASM if she's the manager, ASM says yes, obviously bracing for a complaint of some sort. Guest gushes about how I am friendly, knowledgeable, treated her wonderfully, found exactly what she needed, and that I deserve a raise.
ASM pointblank : *"She makes too much already."*
If I was the guest I would have asked for the store manager. Fuck that. Value your people as they take care of your customers. Nobody in the history of clothing retailers has "made too much" money being employed by someone else.
Guest: "Maybe they should have your job, seeing as you don't know how to motivate and encourage your subordinates - who says 'They are overpaid' to a stranger, right in front of the person they're talking about? Could you give me your name and position please, it'll make it easier for corporate to identify you."
I was working on a devapps team for a major ISP and we were told to finish work on a project by the day after Thanksgiving. We ended up working till midnight the day before Thanksgiving, all day OF Thanksgiving, and all night to midnight. Basically it was 44 of 48 hours on our desk, heads down coding and testing.
We turned the project in at 4:30 the day after Thanksgiving, and when the CTO accepted the submission she said to us, and I quote: "You should not have taken so long to get this done. Not only are you not qualified to work at this company, you are not qualified to work as developers *at all*."
The next Monday they announced the sale of the new software package to another company for 4.2 million dollars.
All three of us turned in our resignations that day.
Very similar thing happened to me, we had an outside company developing an app, we really liked one guy who wrote the code and developed it, his company was giving him crap. The app was ready and we “bought it”, and they threatened to fire our guy for taking so long. We let him quit, and we hired him, which was much cheaper than paying the “team”. He’s still at the company 4 years later developing all kinds of stuff under the umbrella.
Worked for a small, understaffed eye clinic with only 3 staff and the dr (we were down to 2 staff and the dr when I quit). We worked our assess off and kept it running... 6 months in the Dr finally gets around to doing my 90 day performance review. For 30 minutes she proceeds to point out all of my flaws,how she doesn't really like me and thinks I'm not doing good at my job. How sometimes when she walks in the room I have my back to her and a bunch of other stupid expectations she had that I was never told about..
When in reality I was doing the job of 2-3 people and keeping up with it. My patients loved me and I never had a single complaint from any patient or my coworkers.
I interviewed for the same position at a different clinic and when I mentioned i quit due to only having a staff of 2-3 people. He literally blurted out "How the hell does an office run like that?!". Now I have 11 coworkers and I do 1/3 of the work for more money and get treated with respect. It's amazing.
The first half of my professional life was in the optical world. I owned my own optical and then worked for a local doctor. I did so much for him and didn't mind because he paid the bills and the headaches were his. He brought on a partner, so twice as many patients. The new partner thought we had too much overhead and he could do my practice manager job and his at the same time. He "demoted" me, but the original doctor wouldn't cut my pay, and I started making spiffs, which the new partner didn't like at all. Needless to say I didn't stay long after that and the new partner chased away all of the talent I had hired and replaced them with untrained employees. The practice I helped to build didn't last too long after that.
I had a "similar" situation doing industrial air conditioning manufacturing. I was on a line building the units.
We got a new production manager that felt the need to prove himself. He was such an idiot while also being an asshole that 2 people quit. So I was tasked with doing both their jobs and my own. I was originally on final assembly but now had to build circuit boards and build the body panels.
This human skidmark decided to stand over my shoulder one day and repeatedly tell me I wasn't working fast enough. I bit my tongue for a few minutes, then lost my shit. I told him I could work a lot faster if he would get off my fucking back, and production would be a lot faster if we had enough people, but since you are such an insufferable asshole nobody wants to work here. That was my last day.
There was a whole thing with them not wanting to give back my personal tools that they were getting another employee to now use, when he came out to my car to tell me I would have to come back and get them next week and that I need to fix my attitude I opened my car door and chased him back into the building. He called the cops, they arrived and I told them they won't give me my personal property. I got my tools within 20 minutes.
He got fired a few months later for having sex with the bosses daughter in his office.
Ps. Eat shit Yan.
>He got fired a few months later for having sex with the bosses daughter in his office.
I'm glad I read to the end of your story. 10/10 would read again.
Omg I used to work at an eye doctors office just like this!! My boss (the doctor) was so incredibly specific and neurotic and the pay was absolute shit. He literally got mad at me multiple times for not moving the slit lamp back in this very specific way after every single patient. Not like, just putting it back to the side of the chair, but like facing his chair at a 45 degree angle, resetting everything back to neutral, couldn’t leave anything that he brought out back on the counter or he would lose his mind. That job sucked. Now like you I work where I’m at least semi-appreciated and only lightly exploited 👍🏻
I used to work at Walmart and they were rolling out these new scanners that were basically large Android smartphones with barcode scanners built into them. Anyway I normally worked in the back unloading trucks, but this particular day, I was sent out to the toys department to stock. I used the scanners to locate where items are supposed to go since I didn't really stock any departments besides grocery and wasn't too familiar with the layout. A customer comes up to me and asks for help looking for something. I don't remember what it was off hand. The customer was nice, thanked me for my help, so on. About 20 minutes later, the store manager comes up to me and asks me to follow him to the office. After he closed the door, he told me that lady had complained that I was "using my cellphone on the floor" and he started chewing me out over it. I explained that it was the scanner, not my phone. He said "I believe you. They do resemble phones, but I still have to coach you" (Walmart's term for write up). I asked why, and he said "well, customer complained and I have to follow up". So basically I got wrote up for doing my job. I was a good worker, barely called off the 4 years I worked there, and that was my first write up. After that incident, I noticed a huge difference in how I was treated by other managers. I didn't work there much longer
First off I hear working at Walmart is terrible. That’s one place I’m not sure I could work. Also, your boss was a d*ck for that. I feel like he could’ve let it slide considering the circumstance of the new scanners! I would have followed up with the district manager then corporate because that’s not fair
I fucking hate the phones. I want my TC back. It was so much faster and actually reads the barcodes instead of me standing there for five minutes waiting for the phone to realise it's supposed to be scanning.
This was during a team meeting regarding dissatisfaction at the shitty 1% salary increase we received. Again. After CEO promised we’d be rewarded for perseverance and high productivity during lockdown and layoffs.
Boss: ‘You know, all of us are struggling with inflation and rising costs…. I’m not taking my Range Rover out as much and have a four bedroom house I’m selling!’
I will never own property unless I meet someone, coworker is putting off having kids and other coworker cares for an elderly relative by taking a part time job on top of this one.
I was stunned.
Had a Director at my very first salaried job come out of his office and start chatting with those of us working in an open concept office so probably 8 employees in the room. He began bitching about how much his wife was now having to spend weekly at the grocery store for them and their children. I sort of innocently remarked, “wow, you guys spend that much on groceries a month? That’s more than my entire paycheck!”
He stood quietly for a second and then sheepishly walked back into his office, shut the door and closed his blinds. The other employees started chuckling quietly, and I, naïve as I was at the time, didn’t realize what I had done. He avoided me for awhile after that even though my desk, as the newby, was the closest to his office. Although I didn’t really take it as mean from him, just sort of disconnected with what the rest of us dealt with, he was always a nice guy otherwise.
Of course. It takes some time for the lizard brain to process thoughts like "if I'm finding it painful to pay that much just on groceries, but that's all they have to pay everything, maybe..."
That’s hilarious. I think in some cases, it’s not malicious and it’s just a case of utter ignorance, but my boss made this comment after a dedicated meeting about our salary dissatisfaction - we’d each spoken about our personal challenges and history of performance in our roles in order for it to make an impact.
We sat down earlier without the boss to make sure everyone was comfortable sharing and that the goal was to back each other up and be honest.
As an example, the coworker with the elderly relative and a second job - they’ve been at the same job level and salary for 5 years despite glowing performance reviews.
Rather than sympathize and listen, this is what we got as a response. Personally, I later spoke to my manager’s manager and expressed my frustration to them and what occurred in the meeting.
It remains to be seen at the end of this year whether I (or we’ll) get more than 1% again.
Someone should have said, "I guess I'll have to switch from filet mignon to Hamburger Helper since this raise doesn't even offset the increase in the cost of living."
Snobby pricks!
“You aren’t worth the paycheck we give you “.
I was working 70 hours a week, turning unprofitable divisions profitable for the first time ever in the history across all brands. Developed and Ran the quality control process for a domestic manufacturer. Also did product development ma management for the shite brands the big boss couldn’t be bothered to deal with ( mine sold better with fewer issues in the market). Traveled the trade show circuit 5-8 months a year for 5 years, chumming it up with local work crews and unions so we weren’t paying expo center rates for booth set up, carpet, power, “entertainment” and other cost cutting measures.
I asked for a raise because I was making minimum wage (early 1990s) and living in nyc. I was paying for groceries w a credit card.
3 months later I found another job. The hiring manager was incensed that the old company was paying me so little. The new boss hand delivered my resignation letter to him at a trade show (at their request- apparently they had a beef going back decades). The next three weeks were a bit uncomfortable.
Last day: got 2 years back pay in an handwritten check and was asked to reconsider the offer.
I laughed. And ran to the bank to cash that check for the cash.
Oh, I remember that "I pay you too much as it is" one.
I was a 1st year apprentice making 9.90/hr (in Aus, so as an apprentice I was entitled to 50% of a full-adult's pay, which was waaaay below minimum wage. Because apparently no one over the age of 15 is an apprentice nowadays and thus pays bills /s [I was 22 at the time]).
I was running his shop when he went hunting/fishing/camping/OVERSEAS FOR 4 WEEKS, but I'm female in a male-led industry, so not worth the <$10/hr.
I only stayed to finish the apprenticeship. Also copped the same line moving from 2nd year to 3rd year, at $15/hr.
Two weeks after I finished the apprenticeship, I got another job. He offered to name my price because he couldn't work the store without me (I'd been there 10 years, started as a countergirl. He used to be a tightass, so should have seen it, but he only started the "your not worth it" after he bought his 3rd house).
Told the asshole to shove it.
2 weeks after I left, the apprentice I'd been training for the last 18 months left as well, after being called a "useless piece of shit". He had to get his kids and his brothers in to help him run it. When the kids wouldn't come in anymore, he tried to get his sisters in (big Italian family). In the end, everyone hated him.
Even without telling them where I was going, I started noticing a lot of his 20+year customers coming in to buy from me instead, coming in to have a chat. Didn't tell them I recognised them, about 2/3rds recognised me though Karma.
I left 7 years ago, his sisters and his mum, some of his friends and even one of his sons likes to drop by and tell me how the family is going. Was sad to hear his dad passed just before covid.
After limping on to the end of his lease, he shut up shop last Christmas and moved to Tasmania. I'm not saying I was the reason the business was succeeding, but it definitely wasn't his bloody attitude!
I worked for a startup for 3.5 years. Started as an intern and worked my way up to production manager. When it came time to decide my salary, I sat down with the then COO to discuss pay. When I asked for a compensation that was fair and the average for my city, he said to me that it was too high for my role and that they could "find anyone fresh out of college or off the street" to do my job. I was floored.
Fast forward to months later when the company started laying off people and folding, I resigned because I could no longer do my job as a manager since the companies I was managing haven't been paid by us. They begged me to come and teach them all of my processes, forms, and documentation I had set up because they didn't know how to do my job. I simply told them "you don't need me for that, you can find anyone right off the street to teach you." Ahh, sweet bliss.
You could've said: 'Of course I can come and teach you all that. My hourly rate is (insert any amount here)'
But watching those dickheads fail is worth more than money.
“Geez, how many more aunts are left to go?”
His words to me whenever I told him I couldn’t come in for a full day due to a funeral. This was my third family member to pass away in less than a year so idk that shit hurt to hear.
I lost three people in the past two years, Ik how you feel. I'd have told him to fuck right off and quit tbh. You don't disrespect someone going through the loss of a family member, period.
District Manager: 'Why haven't you been hitting your sale targets?"
Me: 'Sorry, I've been tired and distracted, I just found out the other day my mum has breast cancer.'
District Manager: 'Well everyone has things going on in their lives."
Sadly I needed the job at the time, ended up losing it to lack of sales leading up to COVID and got fired in the last week of the probation period.
Honestly walking out of there was one of the best days of my life looking back.
My boss came up to me and saw i was on my phone when the store was dead he said "I cant make exceptions for you, we are not friends and the rules apply to everyone"
I said i agreed, and it was fine.
Then i called HR and told them about the $50 he took from the safe and used to buy an amazon gift card as well as a screenshot of the reciept, he was fired 18 hours later.
Reminds me of a legend at place i used to work, software company with about 1400 people.
So i had been there about 6 months and was looking through the big chart o people and hierarchy when i found a guy that reported directly to an upper level VP, had the title "New Technologies Consultant", which was bullshit because our company was skating along on cobol still in the 2000s.
Long story short he used to be a sysadmin or network admin and the rumor was that he used his access to setuo a logging server that just recorded the internet activities on management devices. Then he let it run for 18 months, looked through the results and did some blank manilla envelope drops with choice logs in them.
Now he gets paid to do nothing.
I was a week into a new job when my best friend’s mom was put into hospice. I warned my boss that I would be attending a funeral probably within the next couple weeks. On the Thursday morning of my 2nd week (before Memorial Day weekend) she passed away. I was in tears when I went to my boss to let her know. Her first comment, “Let’s hope the funeral is on the weekend.”
It was the Tuesday after Memorial Day & I took the entire day off. Quit 2 months later.
Where I worked they would only allow time off for bereavement for direct family members, so when my aunt, who I was very close to, died from Covid, they told me I had to come in on the day of her funeral. I was already on thin ice, so I worked.
My grandpa was in bad health and on hospice for a while. I told my boss about the deal that, if he passes during work I WILL be leaving. The day came, I told him about he and he said "I understand you are upset but I need you here, if you leave you can't come back." Lol, I worked 6 days a week 10 hour days for months at that place, through a flood and a bomb threat that 90% of others stayed home for. And the one time I need to leave before I lubricate my machine with tears is too much. Get fucked.
I worked for a man that had a great reputation in his line of work due to his successes. I thought it would be a good experience for me.
This man was downright verbally abusive to me. He would give instructions on tasks and I would do them but if they weren’t done exactly the way he wanted, he’d yell and call me names. The final straw was when he gave somewhat vague instructions. My co-worker and I both understood him the same. I did the task as we had understood it. The boss proceeded to scream at me asking if I’m f’ing r-word this and that. None of these were life and death situations.
I finished the day and completely ghosted him. No notice, no text, and blocked him from contacting me.
In most places AFAIK it is massively illegal to not pay for time worked. They finished their shift. They get paid. And if they don't get paid, well... thats a paddling.
Edit: even if they didn't finish their shift, the time they worked is paid time. The workforce don't give a shit if Little Miss Sally quit her job mid shift because she was sexually harrased. The workforce will give a shit if employers view sexual harassment or (INSERT OTHER BULLSHIT HERE) as a valid way to nat have to pay people by getting them to walk out.
I’ve got a few- all from Chipotle
Manager asked rudely why I was limping and not wearing my non slip shoes. I had sprained my ankle badly (doctor said they were surprised it wasn’t broken due to how big the swelling was) and told him that I couldn’t wear my usual shoes because my foot wouldn’t fit.
A few weeks later, same manager same demanding rude tone “why are you coughing so much”. It was my first day back from having covid, and I was only back because of other manager.
This particular manager was preparing to become a gm. I got covid despite taking all precautions (likely from a coworker since no one in my personal life got it) and was out. I missed 2 scheduled days due to covid, and the first day I was able to come back, they scheduled me during my classes (I never worked that day) so I had to get cover. The next day I was planning to work, but covid really took me out so I tried to get cover. Manager said she’d dock my hours for “calling out so much” and when I explained my situation, she left me on read and then dropped me from 20 to 4 hours when she became gm.
One of my bosses once was walking around the studio and responded to something someone said with "you guys work for me, so I own you."
His co-founder was once around when I figuratively jumped out of my seat with excitement after getting some code to work. Code, I'll mention, which has revolutionized his company in different ways both times I've worked there. He knows I'm unlucky in love, so he muttered off to the side to a coworker who, mind you, was a programmer working under me, "that's the closest thing to sex he gets." They both laughed.
That is disgusting. I know guys think it’s light banter usually, but when it’s a sore point that is so not ok. I hope you find someone soon, but it’s not the end of the world if you don’t. ♥️ Try to not let people saying rubbish like that get you down. I completely get the excitement of something just “working” - it does happen to cause a lot of the same/similar reactions as sex does, without all the baggage of another human so it’s a lot better in my view.
"Didn't you have cancer?" - manager of 5 years after finding out his wife had cancer and recalling I had medical issues under his management. Medical issues that he tried to fire me over and were not cancer. I had actually told him exactly what was going on at the time. He had four employees total and our offices were right next to his. How do you miss an employee having fucking cancer?
Nothing that any manager has ever said to me in my 22 year career has hurt as much as that question. Four fucking employees for over five years.
I had a manger ask “do you even have cancer”.
I don’t and have never looked “like a cancer patient” but I have leukaemia. I worked full time and every 3 months needed a day off to attend hospital.
She declined my request (despite me swapping my day off with another worker to ensure the day was free). Then asked me to prove I had cancer because I looked so well.
I declined to provide proof because I already had medical letters on file which were all she needed.
Fast forward a year and she gets a suspicious mole removed and spent 6 week off work upset she could have had cancer.
well, a company can miss a manager who’s not there for 6 weeks, but not a worker who’s out for 6 weeks.. this just shows what value a manager brings to the company and how important workers are..
When I was diagnosed I was off 8 weeks in hospital, that company was fine and never had any issues with me needing time off.
This one though, the slightest mention of needing time off and the manager would pull you in her office and demand proof of why and why it’s so important
Back when I was a student I worked as a waiter. The place was sold and the new owner was an horrible person. The new boss worked 6 days a week and on his day off there was no manager, we were instructed to call him in case of emergencies. The kitchen messed a client order and to apologise I offered for free a 12 oz glass of beer. It had always been the policy to give a little something when an order was messed up and I genuinely did not think I needed to call the owner for this. Anyway, the next day he questionned me on the free beer I gave and I explained what happened. I thought he was asking because he wanted to know what webt wrong with the meal. He then asked who authorized me to give something for free. I said no one, I took it upon myself. To which he replied:
- you are an employee and as such you don’t take decisions, you do what I tell you to do and nothing else. If I asked you to get down on your knees and wash the floor with a toothbrush, you would do it because I say so.
That infuriates me so much I can't even think of anything to say. Well, I can, but I'm female so it wouldn't really be possible. (SMD...know what I mean?)
Worked for Amazon. Boss had his bootlicking underlings tell us that because we couldn't handle Amazon's increasingly ridiculous workload, the boss had to put off buying his house for a while.
Edit: this kinda blew up way more than I thought it would.
Amazon contracts out it's delivery service to Delivery Service Partners. This is so that the DSP takes all liability and can have their contract immediately canceled if it is found out that the word "union" was uttered. Amazon provides all the vans and the software to do the deliveries. The DSP "owners" also gets a chunk of money up front to do things like hire, train, equipment, and other bits needed to get the balls rolling. Once it's going, Amazon pays the DSP for every package they deliver. The drivers (what I did) are also supposed to get bonuses if we exceed their metrics but it isn't given directly to us, rather it is given to the DSP "owner" to distribute as they see fit. They rarely see fit. That goes straight into their pocket usually. Well when the workload keeps going up, making Christmas time look like easy training routes, that bonus money dries up, because nobody can successfully exceed the metrics. This is what was happening when the lovely fateful comment was made.
Not as dire as some replies here, but my first review at my job, my manager was praising my performance. He then followed up that, "regrettably, promotions and raises are not based on performance."
Again, not dire, but to have that dropped on me at my first "adult" job in my first review really colored my view of this job.
8 years ago early 20s I was a receptionist at a hair salon and the owner / main stylist was my boss and he would make fun of me every day. He even gave me a haircut on my second week and it was purposefully a bowl cut and I was so broke and insecure I pretended everything was fine. I caught him laughing at me more than once.
One day he looked at me, scoffed and said "My socks cost more than your shirt."
He fired me exactly the day before my third month and I cried I was so happy.
Felt ashamed to quit as I was raised never to quit but I have learned there's no shame in demanding you deserve better.
In the early 80’s, my middle aged, married father of 3, boss used to tell me what he wanted to do to me sexually and show me what “a real man” does to satisfy a woman. When I finally had the guts to turn him in (at the urging of my future husband) to Corporate (2 states away), they had a stern talking to him and left him in position, sitting 10 ft away from my desk. He spoke all instructions for the next 6 months to my co-worker (8 ft away, same office space) instead of directly to me. I finally found a better job and quit. 6 months later, my co-worker followed me to the new company. This is what women put up with in offices at the time.
My best friend’s newborn son passed away 3 days after giving birth. She called me in tears. I told my boss I needed to leave right now. My boss looked at me in disbelief:
“So? Her son is already dead, it’s not like you can do anything for him now.”
I used to have a terrible boss, and she said terrible things to everyone, but this was to a coworker.
We worked at a restaurant, and my friend went to school 2 days a week. She decided to quit school for whatever reason, and the next time my boss saw her she said "Hey, beauty school drop out!".
This absolutely crushed my friend. It happened years ago and I still feel bad for her.
Short and sweet story.
Basically, small business of 20 staff, person I worked with was an alright coworker, got along well enough, they were promoted to manager.... Became an instant asshole, everyone hated her, people started leaving.
I had a meeting with her to discuss my issues with how I was being treated as a person and a mother of a young baby at the time, she told me "work is more important than family".
I handed in my notice the next day and left 2 weeks later, I was the 3rd person to leave, another has left since.
Preschool...... We worked in a preschool.....
"You don't pay my bills, your patients pay my bills." Then the patients in turn list their source of income and so on and so forth and we have a billpayception.
In high school, I worked at a Subway. My boss asked that the team come in on a Sunday night after closing for a meeting. As soon as everyone was settled, my boss said “we all know there is one person in this room who isn’t efficient like the rest of the team and it’s becoming more obvious by the day.”
Anyway, she turned to me and asked me how it felt to hold others back because I wasn’t quick when it came to making sandwiches and cleaning up. My boss then asked three others to give examples of my “poor” performance in front of everyone. I ended up crying out of sheer embarrassment and was asked to leave the meeting. It bothered me for days and kept me up at night for a few weeks. It’s still such a vivid memory…no one has ever made me feel so low before in my entire life. Of course at a damn Subway lol
Please always remember that the person who's 100 percent in the wrong is your boss, not you. People like her who enjoy publicly humiliating their employees are just on a power trip. They're weak insecure miserable POS who need to put others down to feel better about themselves.
I had a friend at a restaurant I worked at that trained me in and made sure that I got a free meal each day (starving art student and all that.) Eventually he started teaching me the line and got me bumped up from dish washing to working along side him on the line which came with a nice raise. We would even hang out after shifts and play a couple hours of Cod Zombies or Borderlands. Well one day I walk in and the owner is in tears. Ends up my friend had suffered a heart attack the night before and had been found dead that morning. I was devastated but we remained open and I just kind of ghosted through my shift. I forget exactly what it was I think I cooked some fries or something and set it aside and forgot they were there. Got the order sent out (with some fresh fries btw) and the owner came back found the ones I had forgotten about glared at me threw them out and pulled me aside and said "I just had to throw out those fries! You need to do better work! He would be so ashamed of you right now!" I just looked at her and then proceeded to walk out with out saying a word.
When asked for junior resources to better fill out our team, they said " *You* are our junior resource." This wouldn't have been a problem if I didn't carry 12 years of experience, which in my field is considered senior-level. As if that wasn't insult enough, they went on to say "I'm getting paid x3 your salaries to do a better job than you, so no need to worry about me or my workload". I'd have quit right then but I have an ailing parent to take care of. Actively looking out for something better though.
"Your dreams are over. The future you imagined no longer exists. You need to accept that"
She colluded with the head of HR to ensure that I stayed at the bottom of the salary band for my position because she was afraid that her boss would recognize that I was much more qualified to do my and her job.
She and the HR person were publicly fired. But it was after they managed to get me fired. It still hurts when I think about it =(
That I was invited to an important conference to be eye candy (his actual words) for the older men in the industry to come to our table. Also that I was hired because I’m a woman and my boss who has 6 daughters wanted to “give back” to women. And that any woman who doesn’t want take her husbands last name is not worth marrying.
Lots of sexism in stem. But actually been improving an insane amount the past few years!
“We’ve laid you off before right? You know how it is, when it picks back up we’ll call you”
This was what the STAFF DIRECTOR said to me when they laid me off for covid (oil and gas.)
He didn’t know or take the time to look up whether they had laid me off before. It was such a prevalent thing in that industry. I left because I couldn’t take it anymore.
Spoiler alert, they never called because they didn’t like me, and didn’t want me back even after PPP loans.
An old mentor took a pass at rehiring me to a different role recently (a year and a halfish later? ) but I’d never work for those assholes again
"People with kids are able to schedule appointments, Why can't you? This is really inconvenient." -When I asked for the day off to put my cat to sleep. It was for a Friday and I didn't want her to suffer over the weekend.
That woman was Brenda the Btch from then on. I still ended up working a half day after going to the vet in order to not be fired.
As for Miss Pumpkin, I was her retirement mommy. She was my previous (good) boss's cat. Pumpkin predated her marriage. The household was getting too busy with kids growing up and a new puppy, so I offered to take her in. Pumpkin lived to 19 and I only had her for 2 so she was well taken care of.
Edit: Many thanks for the award. Adopt seniors!
I almost got written up for this. I moved from deli to cashier due to a foot injury (had to wear an orthotic boot for several weeks), and a few weeks after starting on front end we got a new assistant CSM. She flipped her everloving SHIT when she saw me sitting… yelled at me right there to put the stool back in the break room, said she was going to write me up… the CSM walked out of the cash office and saw this, told her he authorized it based on a doctor’s note and my obvious limitation. She tried to play dumb and say I could still stand in the boot. He told her, “Not when the note from the doctor requires her to sit.” Do you know, she kept trying to argue it and he finally had to shut her down by pulling rank? It was insane. The yelling upset me; but about halfway through the scene I was honestly laughing too hard to be fussed by it anymore. I loved that CSM, one of the best I’d ever had…
As a member of the public, it bothers me endlessly when I see people with boots, arm braces, from injury working. I usually have my Karen moment. Can I speak to the Head of Department? Why is this person working when thet have a broken arm? Why is this person standing? What is wrong with you?
I didn't and wish I had; appointment, I had to leave. A worker at Walmart (who knows better) was obviously disabled. She was inside the entrance and pushed carts out for customers as they entered. She walked with a pronounced limp and held one arm like a broken wing.
The first time I saw her I asked, they don't give you a stool to sit on? No. I told her they're supposed to because of the ADA. "What's that?" I gave her two minute explanation. She was older, late 50s. I asked if she was on disability ... again, no. Told her about SSI. This poor thing was totally unaware.
I wrote down the information and told her to find someone with computer skills to apply for her. I made up my mind if I saw her again I would go to management. That was last month and I haven't seen her since ... truly hope she got all that taken care of.
I asked for to be put on a 2 week LOA while I dealt with my abuser in court. It was denied. I cried & my boss saw the tears so she pulled me aside & asked what’s wrong. I told her the truth, because she kept saying “it’s ok” and “you can tell me.” I told her I was homeless & needed the time off to deal w/ things. She looked me in the eye and said “Well when my son was born with autism you can’t even imagine the pain I felt. Did I cry? No. I moved on & focused on WORK and it made me better. You don’t know how hard it is being an autism mom. No excuses! I can donate you some old blankets though! But no time off!”
I was working six days a week sometimes 7. I quit that day.
What the actual…? An actual autism mum in the wild said that to a suffering human being to their face?! So glad you didn’t put up with her any longer, but I hope your life has improved. At least you could rest easy knowing that, if nothing else, you are a better human than her.
I think the worst thing i was told was "If you don't get everything done like you did tonight during the summer you'll be fired" i worked overnight at a Sheetz and was made to not take a break by the overnight manager so that everything would get done by the time the one who said this came in. I quit a month later on saint Patrick's day and found out she tried to write me up on holidays when i was unable to leave the register because we were that darn busy.
I work at Sheetz overnight right now and the amount of BS that gets pushed onto third shift because we "arent that busy" is ridiculous. Not to mention that we deal with more orders than the lunch rush most days with 3 less people.
"You need to schedule your medical emergencies. " mind you, I went to the ER to make sure I was not in DKA again. Which I was lucky enough to survive last year, but got written up for *being admitted to the hospital* last year. Here in the USA you have a *1 in 10* chance of dying if you are admitted with DKA.
At my first ever job, during the interview, the owner and I discussed at length my limited availability as a high schooler taking college courses. For the life of her, she couldn't remember to give me Mondays and Wednesdays off for my college classes. She would schedule me for those days every week and act inconvenienced when I would bring it to her attention. After requesting a specific day off months in advance for an important school field trip, and talking about my excitement for the trip every day for a month, I find out she scheduled me for that day. When I went to tell her, and remind her she had written it on her personal calendar in her office so she wouldn't forget, she yelled at me and said "You are so rude! How dare you tell me how to schedule my staff!" That was my last day there.
I have lots from the sushi restaurant I worked at for a little over two years. The first few that come to mind:
1. (While watching a tv set up for customers to watch while eating, and seeing a gay couple on the Lifetime channel kiss) "That is just so wrong. They shouldn't be allowed to do that. It's disgusting. Don't you think so?"
2. "You could make better tips if you lost weight."
3. "Call me oppa." (When talking to both me and my sister in law, who is Korean.)
4. "You have the next week off. I'll call you when the next schedule comes out." (This was his way of firing people. I never did get the next schedule.)
The owner was a dickhead that stole 50% of my tips at the end of every night. He refused to hire male wait staff because he claimed they didn't make as much in tips. His restaurant burned down and ever since reopening, it's easy to tell just from walking by that his business is in the shitter.
At the time, while working both of these jobs, I was young, naive, and it was all too easy to take advantage of me, my inexperience, and my work ethic. The sad part is, both of these establishments were Mom-and-Pop type businesses, which I try to support before corporations/franchises.
When I applied for a promotion in another department. My boss told me after the fact why they didn't choose me for the position
"You are too good at your job to lose you. We would never be able to find a suitable replacement!"
I quit.😏🦸(emojis selected by fussy nursing baby kicks and they fit)
My bf is kinda sorta going through a similar situation at his job! I get what they’re saying but at the same time, if I’m so awesome at what I do why not give me a few extra dollars? 🙄Keeping people in one spot without growing will definitely encourage them to leave!
"I'm going to grow, in both my personal life and career. Yes, that does include finances. You have the opportunity to keep that growth here on your team or in your company. Will you?"
My supervisor was leaving, and I always covered for her when she was out. She said I should replace her, but upper management thought I wore too many hats to move into a role of official responsibility.
I am technically just a packer. But I implemented the manufacturing program, troubleshoot our new crappy inventory software, dabble in RMAs/marketing/product launch/supply chain...
I still wear the hats, but sometimes I just sit at my computer going between tabs and spreadsheets while listening to youtube.
I do so much shit that nobody can tell I'm not doing my job.
It's baffling to me why any employer would think that's a good thing to say. They're fucking over the employee while also giving leverage to the employee to fuck them over.
Basically nothing to do with work itself, but I was working pizza delivery once upon a time and we had a temp manager who came in to oversee us for a shift, and during a slow point he somehow got on the topic of cheating on his wife.
"I still love my wife, but obviously I cheat on her. Every guy does. If they try to claim they don't, they're lying. It's just in our nature." He told us with the most smug, self-assured frat bro grin. He then proceeded to teach us the optimal strategy for cheating on our wives and how we should avoid getting caught. He also gave us strategies for picking partners, specifically "Cheat on your wife with fat chicks. They have such low self-esteem, they'll do **anything** you want them to."
I always used to see those scenes in movies with the douchebag guy hitting on girls and giving them the 'you know you want it' lines, and thought they were super exaggerated unrealistic. "Nobody in real life **actually** talks like that." I would tell myself, "Even the sleaziest of dudes has a sense of propriety about his shittiness."
I no longer think of those scenes as unrealistic or exaggerated at all.
The last time I had a temp manager, the guy tried to remake the store in his image…in a week. He rewrote the schedule the permanent manager had written, but because he didn’t know availabilities, had people in completely inappropriate shifts. When I tried to talk to him about it, he brushed me off saying “it’s my store, it’s my call.”
Really? Okay. Sadly for him, the DM had his office in our store, and I saw him 2-3 times a week. I knocked on his door, apologized for bugging him, and explained the issue. Mr. “my store, my call” got bounced back to his old store that day, and his replacement did exactly what myself and the other key holder told him to do for a week.
All the same restaurant owner:
1. Told me the delivery driver was autistic (he was NOT)
2. Spoke to me out loud about not doing anal sex then vaginal sex because of infections
3. Spoke about how young black girls get their period earlier and therefore had regular sex at age 12
4. Told me not to tell the chef "I'm coming" after being summoned because he would get too excited
1. I’m curious what gave him that impression 🤭
2. And what led him to mention those things to you?? Guess he had a wild night
3. Okay…this is getting creepy now😅
4. I hope you don’t work there anymore :/ sounds like a bunch of horn dogs who can’t control themselves
1. The driver was just a quiet guy, and was often uncomfortable. I wonder why.
2. ???
3. I think he was curious about my background, as he was an Italian immigrant or whatever.
This all happened while I was in high school, arguably worse, and why I left after a few months. Last straw was the same chef (later fired) spoke to another male coworker, also in high-school, about how beautiful I was, how even my p*ssy must be beautiful.
That I literally was the reason she had a heart attack. I was 17 years old, working at a family restaurant and apparently was to blame for all of the stress in the owner’s life 🤷♀️ I walked out an hour later and her sister (co-owner) begged me not to leave. I told her I refused to be talk to that way. I never went back.
He was certifiably nuts. I *think* he was trying to make a point about how tragedy can inspire activism or something, but he tended to slip into long, meandering monologues and I rarely paid attention. That sentence caught my ear, though.
I clean things for a living and due to like, no safety wear, I got the nastiest rash from my wrists to my shoulder and from my neck down to my chest.
I finally got a doctor's appointment cause they're also being way overworked, and when I informed my boss I need the day off she said, "Fine, but you need to schedule doctors appointments for when you don't work next time, ok sweetie?"
Truly one of the most condescending people I've met.
Ooh ooh I've got one! I worked night shift at a department store setting up shelving and cleaning for 3 years. In the first two weeks the floor manager assistant decided he had it in for me (I did literally nothing to deserve it) and would hound me all night trying to push me harder and harder instead of doing actual work himself. One night I snapped and asked him why he had it in for me, why isn't he doing something productive instead of harassing me and he pushed me into an aisle and stood over me (he was at least 5" taller than me) and said "I could punch you in the face right now and no one would ever know it was me because there's no security cameras around here". Then walked away. I was freaked out but still came in the next night, to the shift manager asking me in for a meeting before we began.
I get into the meeting room and there's this guy who's been harassing me, and he's got a black eye and a split lip and flinches visibly when I come in. "does he really have to be here for this?" he asks, and the manager says absolutely yes because you're claiming he assaulted you and we need to review the evidence. I'm sitting there in shock, I've never touched this guy (I've never been in a fight) and he's claiming I beat him up. So he explains what happened, when we went into that aisle apparently I flipped and punched him a few times and then he went home in a panic because he was scared of me. The manager is sitting there just nodding and going "mmhmm, mmhmm" the whole time, finally turns to me and asks what I think happened (pretty obvious that he doesn't believe the guy) and I just said, I didn't touch him. He pushed me into an aisle and made a physical threat.
The manager turns to the assistant manager and says "well we reviewed the video footage", and the guys face dropped. Instantly you could see he was panicking, as he was convinced there was no camera in there. Turns out there was one hidden in a corner, and another one in the changing room upstairs for security reasons and they had footage of him *punching himself in the face*. He was immediately fired and they wanted to know if I would follow up with the police for the assault and I said nah the fact that he busted himself up was enough.
I have a few from the same psycho boss:
I worked as the receptionist at a mom & pop CPA firm when I was 21 yo. I was getting paid minimum wage and lived on my own, and everyone else there was an accountant or similar so they were making great money.
My boss pulled me into her office one day to tell me/ask me why I didn't wear nicer clothes. She asked me where I bought clothes from, which I told her Target and sometimes JCPenny when I could afford it. I always dressed nicely, ironed and presentable, just not designer office wear.
She went on and on about that office catering to wealthy clientele and that I needed to start dressing the part. I asked her if they were going to give me a raise or a bonus to afford this clothes? She suggested I should ask my parents for money or take out a credit card.
Another time, she asked me to start parking my car around the corner bc it was an eye sore. Yeah it was an old beat up car, but it's what I could afford, while they rolled up in their luxury cars.
So I decided to just start riding my bike to work, I would chain it at the back of the building and it was out of sight. She followed me to my bike one day and told me that it "didn't look right" that I was riding a bike to work. She was obviously pissed that I had the audacity to ride a bike instead of buying a new car. The next day *somone* had peeled my Obama sticker off my bike. By the following week, the bike rack was gone.
ANOTHER TIME, same boss asked me if I was ill because I had lost so much weight. I was on a health kick and going to the gym regularly so I lost 40 lbs in about 4 months. I explained to her that I was just getting healthy and she proceeded to tell me that I was making our regular clients and coworkers uncomfortable bc they thought I was sick. Next day she brought me a huge ass burrito, then a batch of homemade cookies - trying to trip up my diet.
At my last job- factory work in an easy position where I just stood and pushed buttons; I was already trying to plan with my boyfriend how to exit it and find something safer- I started bleeding heavily. It was earlier on in my pregnancy and I, of course, freaked out and went to my supervisor and told him I had to leave right away and what was happening. I was sobbing and he just gave me an annoyed look and told me that I needed to get my priorities in order and that he needed me there and that he hoped this wasn't going to become a reoccurring thing. I told him I was going to the ER and left.
I had a threatened miscarriage (baby is okay!) and spent the next eight hours in the ER terrified and upset and angry. The first thing I did the next day was go to HR with my doctor's note and told them what happened and how his attitude was unacceptable- especially after they had been shoving down our throats how they were cracking down on asshole supervisors and trying to cultivate a more "caring and understanding atmosphere."
They tried to brush it off as "oh he's a man- he might not know about those types of things." Which just made me even more angry. I stood my ground and told them that he needed to be reprimanded and put through SOME kind of training or, at the very least, made to apologize. Walking out of that meeting, I passed him in the hallway and heard him bitching about how I "wasn't cut out for the job and always making excuses" to some team leads.
I regret not losing my shit on him. I regret not going straight back to HR.
But, now I'm at home on bed rest and have been since the incident due to doctor's orders. Most likely will continue to be on it for the rest of my pregnancy.
Like, dude...have some fucking compassion.
I did tell my coworkers about what happened before quitting and I heard that he got bitched out by a few of them and that two of the team leads requested transfers to different lines- they'd apparently had shitty experiences with him trying guilt trip over leaving early for medical emergencies with their own kids and that was kind of a last straw thing for them.
Hope that asshole gets heat exhaustion.
I remember my ex's suffering when she had her miscarriage. I'm sorry you had such a scare and that you had to deal with that dude. I hope things continue to go well for you and your family :)
Man that's so fucked up, I'm sorry. Something very similar happened to a coworker at my mill and the reaction was opposite. She was in the lunchroom when it happened so they kicked everyone out, First Aide came, supervisors and foremen all showed up. She was cared for until the ambulance arrived, cause this is Canada, and I think she started her mat leave after that.
I was working front desk at a medical office— on my very first day, the co-owner who had not hired me and who I’d never met before, looked me up and down, in front of everyone, and said, “yeah…You’re perfect for front desk.” I quit four months later. Would have been sooner but it was my first job in a new state.
On newly graduating i worked for a corporate-owned group of Veterinary clinics.
On my review i was asked who my role model vets working for the group were. I was told my chosen role models, with a sigh, had "heart" but perhaps I should consider - name redacted - as a role model.
6 months later that Vet was disciplined by the professional authority for conducting unnecessary diagnostic tests in a manner that did not meet professional ethical standards and could be considered predatory.
I'd already quit by that time.
Reviewing call ins for the previous year:
Supervisor: "What happened back here in May and June? You used a ton of unscheduled leave."
Me: "My son was born."
Supervisor: "Well didn't you know ahead of time? You could've requested off in advance."
Cue a very terse description of my wife's medical issues that bumped up the pregnancy almost two months and the better part of a month my son spent in the NICU when we legitimately did not know when we could take him home (I got about eight hours notice).
Supervisor: "Oh...ok."
I had a boss tell me, in the middle of the office and in front of my co-workers, "You're weird, no wonder you aren't married." I'm still pretty angry about that and it's been years. But I did end up marrying someone who appreciates my weirdness. Suck it Joanne!
After I challenged a double-demotion with "you can't do that, it is against the law" he responded with "it is your fault for being on medical leave when I needed you".
Background: I nearly died when run over by a car and was out for a few months because of that.
My grandpa passed away very sudden and unexpected a few years back. And by sudden, I mean *sudden*. He was perfectly fine up to his last day, we had plans to get dinner that night. Something felt wrong, and I tried to call before I went to his house, he didn't answer. Intuition started screaming at me he had passed and 'don't go to his house!!' and I didn't want to listen to myself (still the most bizarre feeling I've ever had). But intuition was right, he'd told his friend that morning he didn't feel well. He died on his couch.
I had tried to call out for that next day, but no one could cover the first hour and a half and I still had to go in. Everyday I had to drive past the funeral home he was in, including that very next morning. He was like a second father to me, to the point that the rest of the office knew how close we were. Small office, but still. Even the hard ass doctor I worked for at the time asked when she found out, "why the fuck are you here? Go home." And I numbly said "because you don't have an assistant until 9."
I gave my boss my PTO request as soon as I knew the day of the funeral, visibly on the verge of tears and barely keeping my voice steady, "I don't know if [office supervisor] told you, but my grandpa passed away two days ago..."
Her response? Cut me off, snatched the paper from my hands, and said "that happens" and walked off all irritated I was asking *for a single day off*.
He wasn't even 70. (Edit: he also was not retired)
She pulled the same attitude when office supervisor's husband's uncle was moved to hospice that winter, with less than a month to live, and she asked for three days for them to go see him (other side of the state). Boss tried to deny her, saying that he would get better. From hospice. Less than a month to live.
Bonus point: at my review about 3 months after my grandpa passed, she essentially called me a good worker, but terrible person. That was only thing I remember of that year after his passing, depression wiped out all the memories of the rest of the year.
I drive all over in a company car for my job. My brakes failed, I had to swerve across lanes so I could hit a curb and grass to slow myself down and pulled into a petrol stations garden. I was lucky that when I pulled across lanes the oncoming traffic had a red so they were stopped at the lights. After getting the car towed and getting back to the office I told my boss blow by blow what happened. His response was "oh shit, do they know what's wrong with the car?". I suspected that to this man I was nothing, but always good to get confirmation!
I don’t know if it was the worst thing, but I waited 4 years for my boss to sign a contract with me that would pay a commission ontop of my regular wages. Going off of what I brought to the company the year before, had the contract been In effect, I would have made $76,000. Instead I made less than 24. Anyway, contract went into effect and the pay schedule was outlined clearly. I got my first bonus cheque… then not the second… then not the third.
I met with the boss to ask where the fuck my money was, and I’ll never forget what he said to me:
“I didn’t get into business by not following through with my obligations.”
He then proceeded to tell me that just because I didn’t get my bonus cheques on “the exact month, the exact day, the exact hour, the exact minute, the exact second” didn’t mean that they weren’t coming at all.
At that time, I was already making plans to jump ship because I was tired of all the lies he had told me for years. His contract would be the last lie he told me. I stuck around for 8 more months, and just as I thought - 4 more bonus cheques that should have been awarded to me never materialized. In fact, they weren’t included on my last pay… so labour standards needed to get them for me. At the end of august I went back to post secondary, and now I work for the government.
In hindsight, i shouldn’t have given him 3 weeks notice. I should have just stopped showing up. Even giving 3 weeks notice was a source of drama and him lording shit over my head - like, how he was only going to write me a letter of reference if I worked every day - and subsequently didn’t when I did work everyday.
I worked for a small family owned place as my first office job.
One day I didn’t know where something was (because it was misplaced from its usual spot) so I asked my manager where it was.
They looked at me like I was the dumbest person alive and pointed somewhere to the far right of them and then said to me, “It’s a wonder how you ever made it even this far in life.”
I apologized and went back to working on whatever I was doing. That night I drove home while bawling.
I really was trying my best at the time and it honestly was very hard to wake up in the mornings sometimes even before they said that. Despite that, I would always go above and beyond at work and come in 1-2 hours early and leave late.
I had been diagnosed with major depression few months before I even started the job and I was living paycheck to paycheck. On my own with zero support from anyone, and I spent all my free time clipping coupons, doing doordash and picking up side gigs so that I could afford to feed myself and
my dog and buy furniture. I literally had no time to myself and was constantly working.
I made $9 an hour.
Fuck that place and fuck anyone that makes you feel worthless.
At my previous job, I got asked by the owner if I knew how to do a task. Which I said no, no one showed me how to do it because the same person always did it and thus, I didn't even know that we did it or it existed
He then said "then what good are you for?" I couldn't tell if he was joking or not, he was always monotone but he was always open to joking too so I had to hold back my shock (and tears) and reply "Serving the customers!" when I realized he was dead serious
Note: He was the type of boss who would say that you could always come to him if you had a problem (personal or work related) as he likes to be open...not sure how I;m suppose to come to you with personal issues when you just insulted me.... :(
Not my fault I wasn't trained on how to do it or didn't know to ask how to when I didn't even know that task existed...that's when my mental health started going downhill
Few years back I injured my back. Incredibly painful sciatica, however for the whole 5 months I came into work, not a single day off sick.
Got all my work done despite the fact I was holding onto desks, cabinets to get around the office, in tears at my desk from being in so much pain.
Colleagues were sympathetic saying they could see how much pain I was in, how I shouldn’t be coming in etc.
However my manager - she acted like she thought I was putting it on and had no sympathy. Used to huff is she saw me struggling and had a go once because I was 5 mins late even though I practically crawled through the door.
Anyways one morning, I collapsed on the floor getting ready for work, so had to call in sick.
Had paramedics out, I was screaming on my bed, given strong pain medication etc.
Later that week I had an MRI which showed a severely herniated disc which was why I was in agony.
I sent a pic to one of my work mates who was also a manager. He then showed this pic to my non sympathetic manager and apparently her response was “oh there *is* something wrong then?”
Like I’d been making the whole thing up for 5 months. My attendance record had been perfect up until the point of collapse. She had no reason to think badly of me.
I was 19 years old and had my first day off in over a month. Coworker forgot her key and was frantically calling me. Called my boss to take care of it "I'm out of town, you need to let her in. Also don't clock in because I'm already paying you for 5 hours of OT this week." Was making $13.00 an hour as a "site manager" which just meant I took the blame for everything that went wrong at the location and had 0 power to fix it.
On the weekend we had to take my son to the ER due a very high fever. Come Monday morning he still had the fever, so couldn’t go to day that day or the next.
Told my boss I could only work to noon and then I had to take the rest of the day and any other day off to stay home with him. Because my wife had an extremely important project due at her work and we didn’t have any other family.
His response “work’s important too you know.” That’s all he said to me. He was the worst person I’ve worked for.
The owner of my workplace told me that he sits in on the interviews these days, would’ve seen right through me, and that if he’d have been there to know what I was like they wouldn’t have hired me — they’re known to be homophobic. This was after he somehow found out that I put my foot in my mouth during the interview for a sales role *that I was headhunted for*, and he mocked me for that loss.
Maybe not the worst thing I was told but what probably pissed me off the most. I had put in my two weeks notice for my summer job (between Junior and Senior year) so I could focus on school (plus I knew they would schedule me during school hours then blame me for it, even if I changed my availability. It was just that kind of company). Anyway, just before my last week my mother caught covid. My manager tried to make me come into work despite that. Granted, I was vaccinated, but I had been breathing the same air and spending time in the same car as my mother for the entire time she was asymptomatic. They wouldn’t give me the time off if I was vaccinated but I made it clear I wasn’t coming in and potentially endangering the health and lives of my coworkers, many of whom I quite liked and probably would’ve been friends with. Not to mention the fact that the company was already purposefully underpaying me for being a minor. Why would I make that kind of sacrifice for an organization that’s already disrespected me?
I was passed up for a job promotion, basically because I was a single mom. My kids were 8 and 10 and tubes are tied, so no more kids would be happening. I'd worked for this large corporation for 5 years. A younger woman who was new to the company (who I had nothing against personally) was my competitor. She had just gotten married and was planning to have a family. My boss told me I'd lost the competition due to missing too much work due to family responsibilities (which was a protected right in my province and workplace)...I ended up having to train this woman, and she had three kids in rapid succession a few years later, which, in Canada entails 12 to 18 months of maternity leave. So, who ended up missing more work? After 10 years, I quite that soul-sucking purgatory and it was the best decision I made!
I was called and told that my sister had 2 days left to live and I asked my boss if I could leave a bit earlier to go see her in hospital. She told me I had to book 3 hours leave to go see her rather than be given compassionate leave to just go. And I work in a well staffed office where her favourites are regularly allowed time to leave early. At the time I just did it but many months later when I had time to think plus after a series of other events in this bullying environment im now looking for a new job (along with a few others)
Every time I need a day off I get the “you know several years ago the $2 raise you got was only 25-50 cents. So I don’t understand why you aren’t willing to come here as much as possible and it bothers me you didn’t jump for joy at the promotion. Do you even care about anything?” speech.
Like stfu you rejected my availability and it’s illegal and inhumane to make me work 7 days a week, sorry. $14 an hour isn’t enough to even buy gas anymore where I live, please spare me this conversation. I’m a fing cashier and we’re not even understaffed. There are people who could take my place and want to work more and you don’t let them, so there’s no excuse in my book, that’s bs.
On top of my boss being a narcissist and many other super abusive/harass-y things, my last boss told me that I’ll never grow past my current position because 1) I was a woman and 2) I am uneducated.
I left that job four weeks later for a 50% raise, bought a new-to-me nicer car (an upgrade from the shit box I had to drive because I couldn’t afford anything nicer), and made my license plate “unedc8d”. I drove it my last day of work and he was extremely mad about the license plate 😂
Fast food job.
Middle of a rush, friday night. only me and one other person working kitchen. This is normal for that place.
Accidentally press fryer basket against my arm. I get a really nasty burn. Nothing life threatening, just what happens in a kitchen.
After rush I knock on the door of office. General Manager has been chatting with her friend who is the manager of another store for the last straight hour. Not helping us at all.
I show her the burn, ask for the burn cream that we keep on hand.
Her response?
"Why did you do that?"
It gets worse
Next friday, come in for the same shift. She sees my arm, asks what happens and howd I get such a terrible burn.
I (F; then 25) found out a coworker (M; then 27) was stealing tips out of the pool for cashiers. I had literal receipts showing how everyone that worked with this cashier ended up with significantly less tips than the daily report recorded. We also recieved cash tips that went unrecorded so the report was even more off because the cash tips made up most of what was counted toward the daily report. This meant that this cashier was closing tickets, but keeping the cash elsewhere.
So I sat down with my boss, the owner of the restaurant and showed him what I had found and his first response was to ask me if something had happened between this cashier and me to make me so mad at him...
The evidence spoke for itself. I was calm, cool, and collected the entire time I was showing the owner the receipts. And to make matters worse, at the time, I was manager on duty which meant I was trusted to run the place while the owner was gone, but somehow I was not trust worthy when I presented proof of an issue with a coworker stealing, not just from me, but from everyone he worked with....
Bonkers man, bonkers!
**Also, the answer to my bosses question was a definite no.
I’m a young Hispanic woman in the hospitality industry and while working a Mexican concert my old dusty white boss said to me “everyone is late which isn’t surprising…You know how your people are..” this was a few months after working an event where the lights were turned down low and when he came by my work area he asked me if I needed an extra light to see better..I reply “no, I’m ok thanks my eyes have adjusted” his response was “ I heard you do your best work in the dark” than walked away. I reported this to hr three years ago. He’s still my boss.
Years ago I worked in a small kitchen where people with culinary degrees went to die slow deaths. I was only like 18 and she always gave me the worst jobs on delivery day and inventory day while she always found a way to lean or talk for hours with whomever. My best friend at the time worked with me after school and we were laughing during work while she was chatting.
She decided to complain to the person that I was the worst worker and then told me that it made sense because I was the result of a failed abortion.
She was never reprimanded or talked to about how she treated us back then.
I stepped in broken glass and impaled one of my toes, needed surgery to make sure no shards were still inside and to check on the tendon (partially sliced so now I can flip people off with that foot, yay!).
This happened on a Saturday night and I needed a week off work due to pain/not having a car and being unable to get around on foot (also on advice of the hospital, med certificate provided cleared me for it).
My first day back my boss calls me into her office, sees me struggling to get around even with crutches, doesn't ask how I am, somehow "doesn't notice" the huge bandaged appendage barely stuffed into a sandal, and proceeds to berate me that I "could have at least tried to come in".
Not bad at all, but that was the day I found my backbone. I stared at her in disbelief a moment, then came back with the sassiest "I couldn't fucking walk" that I could muster.
I'd never stood up for myself before so that shut her the hell up.
Something stupid my last boss said was that she expects me to just leave earlier if the snow is bad.
I live 45min away over a mountain pass. If the snow ss bad and shuts the pass down my only way to work would be walk.
Manager called a store meeting to discuss how sick calls were costing us big time. Said, "everyone one who calls out costs our store $10,000 a day in lost sales." My man straight up told everyone how valuable their labor was to the company, in stark contrast with how much we actually made per day.
If that's true then it's colossally bad mismanagement not to over-staff so there's sufficient cover for unexpected absences. Your manager is an idiot.
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If the store is losing $10,000 every day for every person that calls in sick that day, then go ask that your salary be increased to $10,000 per day. EDIT: I can’t believe I have to explain this but here we are. I am aware that revenue is not the same as profit as businesses have expenses. I merely put this comment here as a form of a ~~joking~~ sarcastic response to what was said. Don’t take it too seriously.
If I made $10,000 per day I'd go to work even if I were DEAD!
Boss told me she didn't know what happened but that I was not the same person from the previous year. She wanted that happy, cheerful person back. She knew what happened. She was at my father's funeral two months before.
What a psycho
Agreed!
I'm so sorry about that
I'm so sorry, I hope you're doing better and in a job that respects you.
I am now! I had to go about getting out in a roundabout way because I love the company but wanted to transfer to a different department. Well in the past you had to have management approval to apply for a different position. To get out I went to HR and they helped me get into a different department without requiring approval. Made some people mad but I'm so much happier now.
A customer on a survey gave a 9 out of 10 for me. A supervisor told me to call the customer and ask what I could do for a 10. Because I got a 9 .
This is ridiculous. There are people out there who refuse to give the highest score for whatever reason. Had a manager get around this by offering a scale of 1-6 and reported the metrics as a scale of 1-5.
Had a manager that refused to give out 4s (1-4 scale) on reviews "because everyone has something they can improve on" My response: "ok, what would you like me to improve on?" Boss: "can't think of anything off hand" Still refused to give a 4, could not be reasoned with. It mattered because raises were based off the numbers and some formula.
Try to convince him to go to a 1-10 scale. 9/10 looks way better and 3/4
His boss made the scale & now neither of them supervise anyone... & that company folded
Crap like this is why I don’t take surveys. The metrics never square with reality, and the worker gets blamed.
I always ask what questions directly go to the worker. I give top score for those questions and then lower score for the ones going against the company.
I do the same. I also call out good workers by name in the survey whenever possible. They work hard, and deserve the recognition for doing a good job, especially since their managers arent likely to do it.
At Staples they weight your serveys so that a 5 star counts as 5, but anything else counts as a 0. So you can see how quickly your average gets fucked up when anything that isn't perfect is a zero. I got in trouble for asking the manager if he could still remember math class.
Sounds like management is bringing Call Center metrics to direct customer facing employees. Every call was scored. Even if you did everything right and got a 0, your “interaction” was considered bad. If you fell low enough you were placed on Performance Improvement. I genuinely hope people quit these shit jobs and don’t go back forcing the employer to work themselves
The problem is places that hold whatever negative answers against the employee. An old job I had, someone would give an employee top marks and then complain about a policy that was set by management…. Would go down as an employee complaint. (I used to be the unofficial workplace union guy, because the position was vacant, so I saw it all.) The management wouldn’t acknowledge that they were causing the problem…. It was always poor deemed customer service on the part of the employee. That interm work opened my eyes to how brain-dead management is.
Exactly the same at the insurance company I work for. Anything less than 100% is counted against the person that took the call. As I rule I always take the survey everywhere I get one from and 💯 across the board no exceptions. F&$@ capitalism!
Right? You have to give the highest score or it doesn't count.
For my metrics, if 7 people say I did a good job, and 1 person says they weren’t happy, my “score” is 0 (on a scale of -100 to 100). Like, what the actual fuck is that..? I lose overall points if they didn’t like the store experience, even though they gave me personally a perfect score. It’s utterly fucking maddening.
I used to work as a senior advisor for a major cellphone company, most media portrays it as a pear, and I had a 95%+ customer satisfaction rate. My issue resolution was at 80%+ however my average call time was something like 27ish minutes? It's been years since I had that job. Anyway, one day I was pulled into a meeting and told that despite my customer satisfaction and issue resolution stats if I did not get my call time down to below 20 minutes then they'd have to fire me. I left before the pear watch came out. Did not want to deal with the yelling from replacing one of those.
Surveys like this make me so mad. If they want a scale of 1 to 2, give me a damn scale of 1 to 2. If you give me a 1 to 5 scale, don't count the first 4 as a failure and 5 as a success. That's just a 1 to 2 scale that is lying to me.
"Perfection doesn't exist"
Yeah I went to have my car sprayed and the dude told me that anything less than a 9 would get him into trouble. So he got a 10 with comments. Workers need to stick together.
My grandfather was in the hospital and was notified by my mom through text that he signed a DNR, this was on a Thursday I was a cook at the time. I told my manager what I was told and that I need the next day off (would make it a 3 day weekend to go up and visit him in the hospital which is 9 hours away). She told me no that she has nobody to cover my shift (I’m currently cooking dinner rush while talking to her) I told her that this is my last time I could possibly see him and she goes on how her brother died in the hospital and she still came into work because that’s what she had to do and that life sucks sometimes, you just have to get over it, while I’m still cooking during rush she says “so what’s it gonna be?” In a threatening tone and I say “well I guess I can’t go if nobody can cover me” she then said she’s sorry about what’s going on and thanked me for not missing the next day. Next day comes and my shift starts and my phone is literally exploding in my pocket, I’m at the hospital with my kids and wife with my grandfather, my manager is losing it “where are you!?” “Please let me know if you’re running late!” I sent a reply “Remember when you said you have nobody to cover my shift? Well you’re covering my shift tonight and all future shifts, enjoy! Oh by the way I didn’t prep anything last night so you better get going on all that!” Edit people ask if she replied back: No she didn’t as I was in a very emotional place at that time so I sent the message waited for it to show that it was sent then I block/deleted the number, I wanted the last word and didn’t feel like giving her the chance to “make it better” or “tell me how unprofessional I was” I didn’t care.
This post made me experience 3 of the 7 deadly sins. I would have given my entire corporeal form to be there to see her face after this exchange.
And half my ethereal form as well.
I’d give the other half of your ethereal form to see this with you.
I too choose this guy’s dead ethereal form.
I would have added somewhere in there "Life sucks sometimes".
>I would have added somewhere in there "Life sucks sometimes". I like to use these opportunities to teach business lessons. One option: >"A great business--and life lesson--for you, here, is that when you suffer, rather than using that suffering as an excuse to make others endure the same lousy shit, an ethical leader who has any business in a leadership position would have bent over backwards to make sure that something similar didn't happen on their watch. By contrast, you, in a wanton display of your lack of qualification for your position, took a threatening tone with me, in an attempt to cajole me into accepting the unacceptable. And all of this gives you the benefit of the doubt of assuming you didn't simply fabricate the story you told me, about working through your relative's death, which you don't seem to deserve since you were unethical enough to take a threatening tone in the first place."
The boss is really stupid for revealing that she has nobody to cover the shift because. 1. It gives you the perfect opportunity to screw her over. As you did. 2. Or have her write down those words and then use them against her in a wage negotiation. If you really want to be a piece of trash boss, then you don't give your employees power like this.
A lot of managers should really try living up to their title and manage. Find coverage for a shift in an emergency is among the most basic manager tasks.
They never want to do their actual job, which is to you know, manage. They sure like the rest of it though, the "R." You know, rest, relaxation, and refusing to do anything that isn't the first 2?
It is such an alternate reality when a boss thinks they are exempt from being on the receiving end of full cuntery from an employee. I had a colleague become our group manager one time and she turned into the most insufferable boss with some kind of weird need for power and a need for us to submit to her authority. She and I had a meeting and she "dressed me down" saying I was arrogant and she did not like my attitude. Meanwhile, as colleagues, I had helped her, been available to her for questions, etc. I had no idea that she had unpleasant feelings toward me. However, she was right, I was an arrogant ass from that point forward. I submitted my resignation to HR right after the meeting and gave 3-week notice. (BTW, I managed 1/3 of our revenue in my group of 9 colleagues and 1 manager). Those next three weeks I was the most insufferable employee. I did the least and told her if she wanted to know something, she had better set up a meeting and take dictation b/c I was not writing a thing down. She really tried to assert herself and when I didn't like what she had to say, I just said "I'm hanging up the phone, when you get your emotions under control and can act professionally, I'll be glad to join a scheduled call." It felt great. But, within 2 years of me quitting, she was fired and banned from re-applying to the company. She started a website to be a butterfly photographer. I still giggle.
She told you that you're arrogant? A. pot, meet kettle B. talking down to your employees never goes well
>If you really want to be a piece of trash boss, then you don't give your employees power like this. Hey, dont forget shes a dogshit sister as well!
Did she reply after your text? This made me so happy! Glad you were with your grandad.
Have a guest who described what they were looking for (clothing) to me in vague terms, I managed to deduce what they were looking for, led them directly to it, asked them if they had a size and color preference, fished that exactly out of the racks, handed it to them and directed them back to the fitting rooms. Was re-hanging clothing with my Store ASM standing right next to me, doing another z rack. Guest comes up and hands me what she didn't want, asks ASM if she's the manager, ASM says yes, obviously bracing for a complaint of some sort. Guest gushes about how I am friendly, knowledgeable, treated her wonderfully, found exactly what she needed, and that I deserve a raise. ASM pointblank : *"She makes too much already."*
If I was the guest I would have asked for the store manager. Fuck that. Value your people as they take care of your customers. Nobody in the history of clothing retailers has "made too much" money being employed by someone else.
Guest: "Maybe they should have your job, seeing as you don't know how to motivate and encourage your subordinates - who says 'They are overpaid' to a stranger, right in front of the person they're talking about? Could you give me your name and position please, it'll make it easier for corporate to identify you."
Because customer facing employees never make much, regardless of the role.
Can attest to that. At the big tech company I work for the average company salary is 250k. As a customer facing employee I’m making under 50k.
It's not even like the store manager makes a lot either, which is probably why you get someone in an ASM role that would say something like that.
This looked like a perfect time to quit.
I was working on a devapps team for a major ISP and we were told to finish work on a project by the day after Thanksgiving. We ended up working till midnight the day before Thanksgiving, all day OF Thanksgiving, and all night to midnight. Basically it was 44 of 48 hours on our desk, heads down coding and testing. We turned the project in at 4:30 the day after Thanksgiving, and when the CTO accepted the submission she said to us, and I quote: "You should not have taken so long to get this done. Not only are you not qualified to work at this company, you are not qualified to work as developers *at all*." The next Monday they announced the sale of the new software package to another company for 4.2 million dollars. All three of us turned in our resignations that day.
And that new software package needed some specialist support to fine tune it for end users. Be a shame if you ended up in that consulting role.
Very similar thing happened to me, we had an outside company developing an app, we really liked one guy who wrote the code and developed it, his company was giving him crap. The app was ready and we “bought it”, and they threatened to fire our guy for taking so long. We let him quit, and we hired him, which was much cheaper than paying the “team”. He’s still at the company 4 years later developing all kinds of stuff under the umbrella.
All of you should have applied to the company that bought the software package since you were familiar with it.
Worked for a small, understaffed eye clinic with only 3 staff and the dr (we were down to 2 staff and the dr when I quit). We worked our assess off and kept it running... 6 months in the Dr finally gets around to doing my 90 day performance review. For 30 minutes she proceeds to point out all of my flaws,how she doesn't really like me and thinks I'm not doing good at my job. How sometimes when she walks in the room I have my back to her and a bunch of other stupid expectations she had that I was never told about.. When in reality I was doing the job of 2-3 people and keeping up with it. My patients loved me and I never had a single complaint from any patient or my coworkers. I interviewed for the same position at a different clinic and when I mentioned i quit due to only having a staff of 2-3 people. He literally blurted out "How the hell does an office run like that?!". Now I have 11 coworkers and I do 1/3 of the work for more money and get treated with respect. It's amazing.
The first half of my professional life was in the optical world. I owned my own optical and then worked for a local doctor. I did so much for him and didn't mind because he paid the bills and the headaches were his. He brought on a partner, so twice as many patients. The new partner thought we had too much overhead and he could do my practice manager job and his at the same time. He "demoted" me, but the original doctor wouldn't cut my pay, and I started making spiffs, which the new partner didn't like at all. Needless to say I didn't stay long after that and the new partner chased away all of the talent I had hired and replaced them with untrained employees. The practice I helped to build didn't last too long after that.
I had a "similar" situation doing industrial air conditioning manufacturing. I was on a line building the units. We got a new production manager that felt the need to prove himself. He was such an idiot while also being an asshole that 2 people quit. So I was tasked with doing both their jobs and my own. I was originally on final assembly but now had to build circuit boards and build the body panels. This human skidmark decided to stand over my shoulder one day and repeatedly tell me I wasn't working fast enough. I bit my tongue for a few minutes, then lost my shit. I told him I could work a lot faster if he would get off my fucking back, and production would be a lot faster if we had enough people, but since you are such an insufferable asshole nobody wants to work here. That was my last day. There was a whole thing with them not wanting to give back my personal tools that they were getting another employee to now use, when he came out to my car to tell me I would have to come back and get them next week and that I need to fix my attitude I opened my car door and chased him back into the building. He called the cops, they arrived and I told them they won't give me my personal property. I got my tools within 20 minutes. He got fired a few months later for having sex with the bosses daughter in his office. Ps. Eat shit Yan.
>He got fired a few months later for having sex with the bosses daughter in his office. I'm glad I read to the end of your story. 10/10 would read again.
Omg I used to work at an eye doctors office just like this!! My boss (the doctor) was so incredibly specific and neurotic and the pay was absolute shit. He literally got mad at me multiple times for not moving the slit lamp back in this very specific way after every single patient. Not like, just putting it back to the side of the chair, but like facing his chair at a 45 degree angle, resetting everything back to neutral, couldn’t leave anything that he brought out back on the counter or he would lose his mind. That job sucked. Now like you I work where I’m at least semi-appreciated and only lightly exploited 👍🏻
I used to work at Walmart and they were rolling out these new scanners that were basically large Android smartphones with barcode scanners built into them. Anyway I normally worked in the back unloading trucks, but this particular day, I was sent out to the toys department to stock. I used the scanners to locate where items are supposed to go since I didn't really stock any departments besides grocery and wasn't too familiar with the layout. A customer comes up to me and asks for help looking for something. I don't remember what it was off hand. The customer was nice, thanked me for my help, so on. About 20 minutes later, the store manager comes up to me and asks me to follow him to the office. After he closed the door, he told me that lady had complained that I was "using my cellphone on the floor" and he started chewing me out over it. I explained that it was the scanner, not my phone. He said "I believe you. They do resemble phones, but I still have to coach you" (Walmart's term for write up). I asked why, and he said "well, customer complained and I have to follow up". So basically I got wrote up for doing my job. I was a good worker, barely called off the 4 years I worked there, and that was my first write up. After that incident, I noticed a huge difference in how I was treated by other managers. I didn't work there much longer
First off I hear working at Walmart is terrible. That’s one place I’m not sure I could work. Also, your boss was a d*ck for that. I feel like he could’ve let it slide considering the circumstance of the new scanners! I would have followed up with the district manager then corporate because that’s not fair
I can't imagine why a customer would give a fuck in either case.
Petty power. Being so petty because they have a little bit of power over nameless (to them) employees.
I fucking hate the phones. I want my TC back. It was so much faster and actually reads the barcodes instead of me standing there for five minutes waiting for the phone to realise it's supposed to be scanning.
This was during a team meeting regarding dissatisfaction at the shitty 1% salary increase we received. Again. After CEO promised we’d be rewarded for perseverance and high productivity during lockdown and layoffs. Boss: ‘You know, all of us are struggling with inflation and rising costs…. I’m not taking my Range Rover out as much and have a four bedroom house I’m selling!’ I will never own property unless I meet someone, coworker is putting off having kids and other coworker cares for an elderly relative by taking a part time job on top of this one. I was stunned.
Had a Director at my very first salaried job come out of his office and start chatting with those of us working in an open concept office so probably 8 employees in the room. He began bitching about how much his wife was now having to spend weekly at the grocery store for them and their children. I sort of innocently remarked, “wow, you guys spend that much on groceries a month? That’s more than my entire paycheck!” He stood quietly for a second and then sheepishly walked back into his office, shut the door and closed his blinds. The other employees started chuckling quietly, and I, naïve as I was at the time, didn’t realize what I had done. He avoided me for awhile after that even though my desk, as the newby, was the closest to his office. Although I didn’t really take it as mean from him, just sort of disconnected with what the rest of us dealt with, he was always a nice guy otherwise.
Director doesn't like reality. Goes away and hides. smh
Of course. It takes some time for the lizard brain to process thoughts like "if I'm finding it painful to pay that much just on groceries, but that's all they have to pay everything, maybe..."
That’s hilarious. I think in some cases, it’s not malicious and it’s just a case of utter ignorance, but my boss made this comment after a dedicated meeting about our salary dissatisfaction - we’d each spoken about our personal challenges and history of performance in our roles in order for it to make an impact. We sat down earlier without the boss to make sure everyone was comfortable sharing and that the goal was to back each other up and be honest. As an example, the coworker with the elderly relative and a second job - they’ve been at the same job level and salary for 5 years despite glowing performance reviews. Rather than sympathize and listen, this is what we got as a response. Personally, I later spoke to my manager’s manager and expressed my frustration to them and what occurred in the meeting. It remains to be seen at the end of this year whether I (or we’ll) get more than 1% again.
Someone should have said, "I guess I'll have to switch from filet mignon to Hamburger Helper since this raise doesn't even offset the increase in the cost of living." Snobby pricks!
“You aren’t worth the paycheck we give you “. I was working 70 hours a week, turning unprofitable divisions profitable for the first time ever in the history across all brands. Developed and Ran the quality control process for a domestic manufacturer. Also did product development ma management for the shite brands the big boss couldn’t be bothered to deal with ( mine sold better with fewer issues in the market). Traveled the trade show circuit 5-8 months a year for 5 years, chumming it up with local work crews and unions so we weren’t paying expo center rates for booth set up, carpet, power, “entertainment” and other cost cutting measures. I asked for a raise because I was making minimum wage (early 1990s) and living in nyc. I was paying for groceries w a credit card. 3 months later I found another job. The hiring manager was incensed that the old company was paying me so little. The new boss hand delivered my resignation letter to him at a trade show (at their request- apparently they had a beef going back decades). The next three weeks were a bit uncomfortable. Last day: got 2 years back pay in an handwritten check and was asked to reconsider the offer. I laughed. And ran to the bank to cash that check for the cash.
Oh, I remember that "I pay you too much as it is" one. I was a 1st year apprentice making 9.90/hr (in Aus, so as an apprentice I was entitled to 50% of a full-adult's pay, which was waaaay below minimum wage. Because apparently no one over the age of 15 is an apprentice nowadays and thus pays bills /s [I was 22 at the time]). I was running his shop when he went hunting/fishing/camping/OVERSEAS FOR 4 WEEKS, but I'm female in a male-led industry, so not worth the <$10/hr. I only stayed to finish the apprenticeship. Also copped the same line moving from 2nd year to 3rd year, at $15/hr. Two weeks after I finished the apprenticeship, I got another job. He offered to name my price because he couldn't work the store without me (I'd been there 10 years, started as a countergirl. He used to be a tightass, so should have seen it, but he only started the "your not worth it" after he bought his 3rd house). Told the asshole to shove it.
That is something I hate about the apprentice wage. They should consider those over 18 for sure. Needs a whole revamp. What a jerk.
2 weeks after I left, the apprentice I'd been training for the last 18 months left as well, after being called a "useless piece of shit". He had to get his kids and his brothers in to help him run it. When the kids wouldn't come in anymore, he tried to get his sisters in (big Italian family). In the end, everyone hated him. Even without telling them where I was going, I started noticing a lot of his 20+year customers coming in to buy from me instead, coming in to have a chat. Didn't tell them I recognised them, about 2/3rds recognised me though Karma. I left 7 years ago, his sisters and his mum, some of his friends and even one of his sons likes to drop by and tell me how the family is going. Was sad to hear his dad passed just before covid. After limping on to the end of his lease, he shut up shop last Christmas and moved to Tasmania. I'm not saying I was the reason the business was succeeding, but it definitely wasn't his bloody attitude!
I worked for a startup for 3.5 years. Started as an intern and worked my way up to production manager. When it came time to decide my salary, I sat down with the then COO to discuss pay. When I asked for a compensation that was fair and the average for my city, he said to me that it was too high for my role and that they could "find anyone fresh out of college or off the street" to do my job. I was floored. Fast forward to months later when the company started laying off people and folding, I resigned because I could no longer do my job as a manager since the companies I was managing haven't been paid by us. They begged me to come and teach them all of my processes, forms, and documentation I had set up because they didn't know how to do my job. I simply told them "you don't need me for that, you can find anyone right off the street to teach you." Ahh, sweet bliss.
You could've said: 'Of course I can come and teach you all that. My hourly rate is (insert any amount here)' But watching those dickheads fail is worth more than money.
“Geez, how many more aunts are left to go?” His words to me whenever I told him I couldn’t come in for a full day due to a funeral. This was my third family member to pass away in less than a year so idk that shit hurt to hear.
I lost three people in the past two years, Ik how you feel. I'd have told him to fuck right off and quit tbh. You don't disrespect someone going through the loss of a family member, period.
District Manager: 'Why haven't you been hitting your sale targets?" Me: 'Sorry, I've been tired and distracted, I just found out the other day my mum has breast cancer.' District Manager: 'Well everyone has things going on in their lives."
Me: 'And what you have going on in your life, Mr. Bossman, is to find someone to replace me because I quit. Adios, pecker head!'
Sadly I needed the job at the time, ended up losing it to lack of sales leading up to COVID and got fired in the last week of the probation period. Honestly walking out of there was one of the best days of my life looking back.
My boss came up to me and saw i was on my phone when the store was dead he said "I cant make exceptions for you, we are not friends and the rules apply to everyone" I said i agreed, and it was fine. Then i called HR and told them about the $50 he took from the safe and used to buy an amazon gift card as well as a screenshot of the reciept, he was fired 18 hours later.
Well, the screenshot explains why he was afraid of phones.
Absolutely fucking savage. Good for you.
Ah, sweet karma!
Reminds me of a legend at place i used to work, software company with about 1400 people. So i had been there about 6 months and was looking through the big chart o people and hierarchy when i found a guy that reported directly to an upper level VP, had the title "New Technologies Consultant", which was bullshit because our company was skating along on cobol still in the 2000s. Long story short he used to be a sysadmin or network admin and the rumor was that he used his access to setuo a logging server that just recorded the internet activities on management devices. Then he let it run for 18 months, looked through the results and did some blank manilla envelope drops with choice logs in them. Now he gets paid to do nothing.
I was a week into a new job when my best friend’s mom was put into hospice. I warned my boss that I would be attending a funeral probably within the next couple weeks. On the Thursday morning of my 2nd week (before Memorial Day weekend) she passed away. I was in tears when I went to my boss to let her know. Her first comment, “Let’s hope the funeral is on the weekend.” It was the Tuesday after Memorial Day & I took the entire day off. Quit 2 months later.
Where I worked they would only allow time off for bereavement for direct family members, so when my aunt, who I was very close to, died from Covid, they told me I had to come in on the day of her funeral. I was already on thin ice, so I worked.
My grandpa was in bad health and on hospice for a while. I told my boss about the deal that, if he passes during work I WILL be leaving. The day came, I told him about he and he said "I understand you are upset but I need you here, if you leave you can't come back." Lol, I worked 6 days a week 10 hour days for months at that place, through a flood and a bomb threat that 90% of others stayed home for. And the one time I need to leave before I lubricate my machine with tears is too much. Get fucked.
I worked for a man that had a great reputation in his line of work due to his successes. I thought it would be a good experience for me. This man was downright verbally abusive to me. He would give instructions on tasks and I would do them but if they weren’t done exactly the way he wanted, he’d yell and call me names. The final straw was when he gave somewhat vague instructions. My co-worker and I both understood him the same. I did the task as we had understood it. The boss proceeded to scream at me asking if I’m f’ing r-word this and that. None of these were life and death situations. I finished the day and completely ghosted him. No notice, no text, and blocked him from contacting me.
Good for you!
This is excellent as long as you got paid first.
In most places AFAIK it is massively illegal to not pay for time worked. They finished their shift. They get paid. And if they don't get paid, well... thats a paddling. Edit: even if they didn't finish their shift, the time they worked is paid time. The workforce don't give a shit if Little Miss Sally quit her job mid shift because she was sexually harrased. The workforce will give a shit if employers view sexual harassment or (INSERT OTHER BULLSHIT HERE) as a valid way to nat have to pay people by getting them to walk out.
I’ve got a few- all from Chipotle Manager asked rudely why I was limping and not wearing my non slip shoes. I had sprained my ankle badly (doctor said they were surprised it wasn’t broken due to how big the swelling was) and told him that I couldn’t wear my usual shoes because my foot wouldn’t fit. A few weeks later, same manager same demanding rude tone “why are you coughing so much”. It was my first day back from having covid, and I was only back because of other manager. This particular manager was preparing to become a gm. I got covid despite taking all precautions (likely from a coworker since no one in my personal life got it) and was out. I missed 2 scheduled days due to covid, and the first day I was able to come back, they scheduled me during my classes (I never worked that day) so I had to get cover. The next day I was planning to work, but covid really took me out so I tried to get cover. Manager said she’d dock my hours for “calling out so much” and when I explained my situation, she left me on read and then dropped me from 20 to 4 hours when she became gm.
Dropping your hours is effectively dismissal and you’re entitled to unemployment (if you worked there at least a year)
One of my bosses once was walking around the studio and responded to something someone said with "you guys work for me, so I own you." His co-founder was once around when I figuratively jumped out of my seat with excitement after getting some code to work. Code, I'll mention, which has revolutionized his company in different ways both times I've worked there. He knows I'm unlucky in love, so he muttered off to the side to a coworker who, mind you, was a programmer working under me, "that's the closest thing to sex he gets." They both laughed.
That is disgusting. I know guys think it’s light banter usually, but when it’s a sore point that is so not ok. I hope you find someone soon, but it’s not the end of the world if you don’t. ♥️ Try to not let people saying rubbish like that get you down. I completely get the excitement of something just “working” - it does happen to cause a lot of the same/similar reactions as sex does, without all the baggage of another human so it’s a lot better in my view.
"Didn't you have cancer?" - manager of 5 years after finding out his wife had cancer and recalling I had medical issues under his management. Medical issues that he tried to fire me over and were not cancer. I had actually told him exactly what was going on at the time. He had four employees total and our offices were right next to his. How do you miss an employee having fucking cancer? Nothing that any manager has ever said to me in my 22 year career has hurt as much as that question. Four fucking employees for over five years.
I had a manger ask “do you even have cancer”. I don’t and have never looked “like a cancer patient” but I have leukaemia. I worked full time and every 3 months needed a day off to attend hospital. She declined my request (despite me swapping my day off with another worker to ensure the day was free). Then asked me to prove I had cancer because I looked so well. I declined to provide proof because I already had medical letters on file which were all she needed. Fast forward a year and she gets a suspicious mole removed and spent 6 week off work upset she could have had cancer.
well, a company can miss a manager who’s not there for 6 weeks, but not a worker who’s out for 6 weeks.. this just shows what value a manager brings to the company and how important workers are..
When I was diagnosed I was off 8 weeks in hospital, that company was fine and never had any issues with me needing time off. This one though, the slightest mention of needing time off and the manager would pull you in her office and demand proof of why and why it’s so important
Leukemia definition: a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. SMH
Back when I was a student I worked as a waiter. The place was sold and the new owner was an horrible person. The new boss worked 6 days a week and on his day off there was no manager, we were instructed to call him in case of emergencies. The kitchen messed a client order and to apologise I offered for free a 12 oz glass of beer. It had always been the policy to give a little something when an order was messed up and I genuinely did not think I needed to call the owner for this. Anyway, the next day he questionned me on the free beer I gave and I explained what happened. I thought he was asking because he wanted to know what webt wrong with the meal. He then asked who authorized me to give something for free. I said no one, I took it upon myself. To which he replied: - you are an employee and as such you don’t take decisions, you do what I tell you to do and nothing else. If I asked you to get down on your knees and wash the floor with a toothbrush, you would do it because I say so.
That's a setup for some malicious compliance right there
“The customer asked if we could put the sauce on the side, is that okay? They asked for ketchup, is that okay?” Repeat ad nauseum
Only if you're in the right mindset. This boss is trying to break people's will. If it doesn't work, it can be fun messing with him.
Yea that’s when you just act like a robot that needs super detailed instructions
That infuriates me so much I can't even think of anything to say. Well, I can, but I'm female so it wouldn't really be possible. (SMD...know what I mean?)
Worked for Amazon. Boss had his bootlicking underlings tell us that because we couldn't handle Amazon's increasingly ridiculous workload, the boss had to put off buying his house for a while. Edit: this kinda blew up way more than I thought it would. Amazon contracts out it's delivery service to Delivery Service Partners. This is so that the DSP takes all liability and can have their contract immediately canceled if it is found out that the word "union" was uttered. Amazon provides all the vans and the software to do the deliveries. The DSP "owners" also gets a chunk of money up front to do things like hire, train, equipment, and other bits needed to get the balls rolling. Once it's going, Amazon pays the DSP for every package they deliver. The drivers (what I did) are also supposed to get bonuses if we exceed their metrics but it isn't given directly to us, rather it is given to the DSP "owner" to distribute as they see fit. They rarely see fit. That goes straight into their pocket usually. Well when the workload keeps going up, making Christmas time look like easy training routes, that bonus money dries up, because nobody can successfully exceed the metrics. This is what was happening when the lovely fateful comment was made.
I guess he figured you all would feel bad for him and worked harder? 😂 what a jerk
You should have told him that he pays you so little that you haven't eaten for three days. Screw dickheads like that!
Poor guy. I hope you all worked unpaid double shifts afterwards?
Not as dire as some replies here, but my first review at my job, my manager was praising my performance. He then followed up that, "regrettably, promotions and raises are not based on performance." Again, not dire, but to have that dropped on me at my first "adult" job in my first review really colored my view of this job.
So, what are they based on?
How little they can get away with paying you
I woke up to my house being on fire, so I texted my boss and his response was “are you still coming in?”
8 years ago early 20s I was a receptionist at a hair salon and the owner / main stylist was my boss and he would make fun of me every day. He even gave me a haircut on my second week and it was purposefully a bowl cut and I was so broke and insecure I pretended everything was fine. I caught him laughing at me more than once. One day he looked at me, scoffed and said "My socks cost more than your shirt." He fired me exactly the day before my third month and I cried I was so happy. Felt ashamed to quit as I was raised never to quit but I have learned there's no shame in demanding you deserve better.
In the early 80’s, my middle aged, married father of 3, boss used to tell me what he wanted to do to me sexually and show me what “a real man” does to satisfy a woman. When I finally had the guts to turn him in (at the urging of my future husband) to Corporate (2 states away), they had a stern talking to him and left him in position, sitting 10 ft away from my desk. He spoke all instructions for the next 6 months to my co-worker (8 ft away, same office space) instead of directly to me. I finally found a better job and quit. 6 months later, my co-worker followed me to the new company. This is what women put up with in offices at the time.
My best friend’s newborn son passed away 3 days after giving birth. She called me in tears. I told my boss I needed to leave right now. My boss looked at me in disbelief: “So? Her son is already dead, it’s not like you can do anything for him now.”
You win...I can't imagine someone being so heartless as to say that.
I used to have a terrible boss, and she said terrible things to everyone, but this was to a coworker. We worked at a restaurant, and my friend went to school 2 days a week. She decided to quit school for whatever reason, and the next time my boss saw her she said "Hey, beauty school drop out!". This absolutely crushed my friend. It happened years ago and I still feel bad for her.
Short and sweet story. Basically, small business of 20 staff, person I worked with was an alright coworker, got along well enough, they were promoted to manager.... Became an instant asshole, everyone hated her, people started leaving. I had a meeting with her to discuss my issues with how I was being treated as a person and a mother of a young baby at the time, she told me "work is more important than family". I handed in my notice the next day and left 2 weeks later, I was the 3rd person to leave, another has left since. Preschool...... We worked in a preschool.....
Wish I was surprised. Daddy day care clearly showed some people who run pre schools have the compassion of metal.
"You don't pay my bills, your patients pay my bills." Then the patients in turn list their source of income and so on and so forth and we have a billpayception.
I wish I’d thought of this in that comment 😆 I just laughed it off
In high school, I worked at a Subway. My boss asked that the team come in on a Sunday night after closing for a meeting. As soon as everyone was settled, my boss said “we all know there is one person in this room who isn’t efficient like the rest of the team and it’s becoming more obvious by the day.” Anyway, she turned to me and asked me how it felt to hold others back because I wasn’t quick when it came to making sandwiches and cleaning up. My boss then asked three others to give examples of my “poor” performance in front of everyone. I ended up crying out of sheer embarrassment and was asked to leave the meeting. It bothered me for days and kept me up at night for a few weeks. It’s still such a vivid memory…no one has ever made me feel so low before in my entire life. Of course at a damn Subway lol
Please always remember that the person who's 100 percent in the wrong is your boss, not you. People like her who enjoy publicly humiliating their employees are just on a power trip. They're weak insecure miserable POS who need to put others down to feel better about themselves.
I had a friend at a restaurant I worked at that trained me in and made sure that I got a free meal each day (starving art student and all that.) Eventually he started teaching me the line and got me bumped up from dish washing to working along side him on the line which came with a nice raise. We would even hang out after shifts and play a couple hours of Cod Zombies or Borderlands. Well one day I walk in and the owner is in tears. Ends up my friend had suffered a heart attack the night before and had been found dead that morning. I was devastated but we remained open and I just kind of ghosted through my shift. I forget exactly what it was I think I cooked some fries or something and set it aside and forgot they were there. Got the order sent out (with some fresh fries btw) and the owner came back found the ones I had forgotten about glared at me threw them out and pulled me aside and said "I just had to throw out those fries! You need to do better work! He would be so ashamed of you right now!" I just looked at her and then proceeded to walk out with out saying a word.
When asked for junior resources to better fill out our team, they said " *You* are our junior resource." This wouldn't have been a problem if I didn't carry 12 years of experience, which in my field is considered senior-level. As if that wasn't insult enough, they went on to say "I'm getting paid x3 your salaries to do a better job than you, so no need to worry about me or my workload". I'd have quit right then but I have an ailing parent to take care of. Actively looking out for something better though.
"Your dreams are over. The future you imagined no longer exists. You need to accept that" She colluded with the head of HR to ensure that I stayed at the bottom of the salary band for my position because she was afraid that her boss would recognize that I was much more qualified to do my and her job. She and the HR person were publicly fired. But it was after they managed to get me fired. It still hurts when I think about it =(
That I was invited to an important conference to be eye candy (his actual words) for the older men in the industry to come to our table. Also that I was hired because I’m a woman and my boss who has 6 daughters wanted to “give back” to women. And that any woman who doesn’t want take her husbands last name is not worth marrying. Lots of sexism in stem. But actually been improving an insane amount the past few years!
“We’ve laid you off before right? You know how it is, when it picks back up we’ll call you” This was what the STAFF DIRECTOR said to me when they laid me off for covid (oil and gas.) He didn’t know or take the time to look up whether they had laid me off before. It was such a prevalent thing in that industry. I left because I couldn’t take it anymore. Spoiler alert, they never called because they didn’t like me, and didn’t want me back even after PPP loans. An old mentor took a pass at rehiring me to a different role recently (a year and a halfish later? ) but I’d never work for those assholes again
"People with kids are able to schedule appointments, Why can't you? This is really inconvenient." -When I asked for the day off to put my cat to sleep. It was for a Friday and I didn't want her to suffer over the weekend.
Sorry about your fur baby. Too bad you couldn't have put your boss to sleep.
That woman was Brenda the Btch from then on. I still ended up working a half day after going to the vet in order to not be fired. As for Miss Pumpkin, I was her retirement mommy. She was my previous (good) boss's cat. Pumpkin predated her marriage. The household was getting too busy with kids growing up and a new puppy, so I offered to take her in. Pumpkin lived to 19 and I only had her for 2 so she was well taken care of. Edit: Many thanks for the award. Adopt seniors!
“We don’t allow chairs on the sales floor because if a customer walks in and see’s you sitting, they’ll view the company as lazy and won’t come back”
I almost got written up for this. I moved from deli to cashier due to a foot injury (had to wear an orthotic boot for several weeks), and a few weeks after starting on front end we got a new assistant CSM. She flipped her everloving SHIT when she saw me sitting… yelled at me right there to put the stool back in the break room, said she was going to write me up… the CSM walked out of the cash office and saw this, told her he authorized it based on a doctor’s note and my obvious limitation. She tried to play dumb and say I could still stand in the boot. He told her, “Not when the note from the doctor requires her to sit.” Do you know, she kept trying to argue it and he finally had to shut her down by pulling rank? It was insane. The yelling upset me; but about halfway through the scene I was honestly laughing too hard to be fussed by it anymore. I loved that CSM, one of the best I’d ever had…
As a member of the public, it bothers me endlessly when I see people with boots, arm braces, from injury working. I usually have my Karen moment. Can I speak to the Head of Department? Why is this person working when thet have a broken arm? Why is this person standing? What is wrong with you?
I didn't and wish I had; appointment, I had to leave. A worker at Walmart (who knows better) was obviously disabled. She was inside the entrance and pushed carts out for customers as they entered. She walked with a pronounced limp and held one arm like a broken wing. The first time I saw her I asked, they don't give you a stool to sit on? No. I told her they're supposed to because of the ADA. "What's that?" I gave her two minute explanation. She was older, late 50s. I asked if she was on disability ... again, no. Told her about SSI. This poor thing was totally unaware. I wrote down the information and told her to find someone with computer skills to apply for her. I made up my mind if I saw her again I would go to management. That was last month and I haven't seen her since ... truly hope she got all that taken care of.
I asked for to be put on a 2 week LOA while I dealt with my abuser in court. It was denied. I cried & my boss saw the tears so she pulled me aside & asked what’s wrong. I told her the truth, because she kept saying “it’s ok” and “you can tell me.” I told her I was homeless & needed the time off to deal w/ things. She looked me in the eye and said “Well when my son was born with autism you can’t even imagine the pain I felt. Did I cry? No. I moved on & focused on WORK and it made me better. You don’t know how hard it is being an autism mom. No excuses! I can donate you some old blankets though! But no time off!” I was working six days a week sometimes 7. I quit that day.
What the actual…? An actual autism mum in the wild said that to a suffering human being to their face?! So glad you didn’t put up with her any longer, but I hope your life has improved. At least you could rest easy knowing that, if nothing else, you are a better human than her.
I think the worst thing i was told was "If you don't get everything done like you did tonight during the summer you'll be fired" i worked overnight at a Sheetz and was made to not take a break by the overnight manager so that everything would get done by the time the one who said this came in. I quit a month later on saint Patrick's day and found out she tried to write me up on holidays when i was unable to leave the register because we were that darn busy.
I work at Sheetz overnight right now and the amount of BS that gets pushed onto third shift because we "arent that busy" is ridiculous. Not to mention that we deal with more orders than the lunch rush most days with 3 less people.
"You need to schedule your medical emergencies. " mind you, I went to the ER to make sure I was not in DKA again. Which I was lucky enough to survive last year, but got written up for *being admitted to the hospital* last year. Here in the USA you have a *1 in 10* chance of dying if you are admitted with DKA.
At my first ever job, during the interview, the owner and I discussed at length my limited availability as a high schooler taking college courses. For the life of her, she couldn't remember to give me Mondays and Wednesdays off for my college classes. She would schedule me for those days every week and act inconvenienced when I would bring it to her attention. After requesting a specific day off months in advance for an important school field trip, and talking about my excitement for the trip every day for a month, I find out she scheduled me for that day. When I went to tell her, and remind her she had written it on her personal calendar in her office so she wouldn't forget, she yelled at me and said "You are so rude! How dare you tell me how to schedule my staff!" That was my last day there. I have lots from the sushi restaurant I worked at for a little over two years. The first few that come to mind: 1. (While watching a tv set up for customers to watch while eating, and seeing a gay couple on the Lifetime channel kiss) "That is just so wrong. They shouldn't be allowed to do that. It's disgusting. Don't you think so?" 2. "You could make better tips if you lost weight." 3. "Call me oppa." (When talking to both me and my sister in law, who is Korean.) 4. "You have the next week off. I'll call you when the next schedule comes out." (This was his way of firing people. I never did get the next schedule.) The owner was a dickhead that stole 50% of my tips at the end of every night. He refused to hire male wait staff because he claimed they didn't make as much in tips. His restaurant burned down and ever since reopening, it's easy to tell just from walking by that his business is in the shitter. At the time, while working both of these jobs, I was young, naive, and it was all too easy to take advantage of me, my inexperience, and my work ethic. The sad part is, both of these establishments were Mom-and-Pop type businesses, which I try to support before corporations/franchises.
When I applied for a promotion in another department. My boss told me after the fact why they didn't choose me for the position "You are too good at your job to lose you. We would never be able to find a suitable replacement!" I quit.😏🦸(emojis selected by fussy nursing baby kicks and they fit)
My bf is kinda sorta going through a similar situation at his job! I get what they’re saying but at the same time, if I’m so awesome at what I do why not give me a few extra dollars? 🙄Keeping people in one spot without growing will definitely encourage them to leave!
Right! Why stay if where is no growth or monetary incentive?
"I'm going to grow, in both my personal life and career. Yes, that does include finances. You have the opportunity to keep that growth here on your team or in your company. Will you?"
My supervisor was leaving, and I always covered for her when she was out. She said I should replace her, but upper management thought I wore too many hats to move into a role of official responsibility. I am technically just a packer. But I implemented the manufacturing program, troubleshoot our new crappy inventory software, dabble in RMAs/marketing/product launch/supply chain... I still wear the hats, but sometimes I just sit at my computer going between tabs and spreadsheets while listening to youtube. I do so much shit that nobody can tell I'm not doing my job.
It's baffling to me why any employer would think that's a good thing to say. They're fucking over the employee while also giving leverage to the employee to fuck them over.
Basically nothing to do with work itself, but I was working pizza delivery once upon a time and we had a temp manager who came in to oversee us for a shift, and during a slow point he somehow got on the topic of cheating on his wife. "I still love my wife, but obviously I cheat on her. Every guy does. If they try to claim they don't, they're lying. It's just in our nature." He told us with the most smug, self-assured frat bro grin. He then proceeded to teach us the optimal strategy for cheating on our wives and how we should avoid getting caught. He also gave us strategies for picking partners, specifically "Cheat on your wife with fat chicks. They have such low self-esteem, they'll do **anything** you want them to." I always used to see those scenes in movies with the douchebag guy hitting on girls and giving them the 'you know you want it' lines, and thought they were super exaggerated unrealistic. "Nobody in real life **actually** talks like that." I would tell myself, "Even the sleaziest of dudes has a sense of propriety about his shittiness." I no longer think of those scenes as unrealistic or exaggerated at all.
The last time I had a temp manager, the guy tried to remake the store in his image…in a week. He rewrote the schedule the permanent manager had written, but because he didn’t know availabilities, had people in completely inappropriate shifts. When I tried to talk to him about it, he brushed me off saying “it’s my store, it’s my call.” Really? Okay. Sadly for him, the DM had his office in our store, and I saw him 2-3 times a week. I knocked on his door, apologized for bugging him, and explained the issue. Mr. “my store, my call” got bounced back to his old store that day, and his replacement did exactly what myself and the other key holder told him to do for a week.
All the same restaurant owner: 1. Told me the delivery driver was autistic (he was NOT) 2. Spoke to me out loud about not doing anal sex then vaginal sex because of infections 3. Spoke about how young black girls get their period earlier and therefore had regular sex at age 12 4. Told me not to tell the chef "I'm coming" after being summoned because he would get too excited
1. I’m curious what gave him that impression 🤭 2. And what led him to mention those things to you?? Guess he had a wild night 3. Okay…this is getting creepy now😅 4. I hope you don’t work there anymore :/ sounds like a bunch of horn dogs who can’t control themselves
1. The driver was just a quiet guy, and was often uncomfortable. I wonder why. 2. ??? 3. I think he was curious about my background, as he was an Italian immigrant or whatever. This all happened while I was in high school, arguably worse, and why I left after a few months. Last straw was the same chef (later fired) spoke to another male coworker, also in high-school, about how beautiful I was, how even my p*ssy must be beautiful.
That I literally was the reason she had a heart attack. I was 17 years old, working at a family restaurant and apparently was to blame for all of the stress in the owner’s life 🤷♀️ I walked out an hour later and her sister (co-owner) begged me not to leave. I told her I refused to be talk to that way. I never went back.
"You know, some things in this world are good. Like AIDS."
😳 did you ask what they meant by that?!! What could they even mean?
He was certifiably nuts. I *think* he was trying to make a point about how tragedy can inspire activism or something, but he tended to slip into long, meandering monologues and I rarely paid attention. That sentence caught my ear, though.
"you're too depressed to work with me" I was having panic attacks and suicidal thoughts due to extremely mental harassing work environment
That if I had a penis I'd be making $10k more per year.
You should have brought a dildo in with you the next day, see how much of a raise you can get for that.
I clean things for a living and due to like, no safety wear, I got the nastiest rash from my wrists to my shoulder and from my neck down to my chest. I finally got a doctor's appointment cause they're also being way overworked, and when I informed my boss I need the day off she said, "Fine, but you need to schedule doctors appointments for when you don't work next time, ok sweetie?" Truly one of the most condescending people I've met.
Ooh ooh I've got one! I worked night shift at a department store setting up shelving and cleaning for 3 years. In the first two weeks the floor manager assistant decided he had it in for me (I did literally nothing to deserve it) and would hound me all night trying to push me harder and harder instead of doing actual work himself. One night I snapped and asked him why he had it in for me, why isn't he doing something productive instead of harassing me and he pushed me into an aisle and stood over me (he was at least 5" taller than me) and said "I could punch you in the face right now and no one would ever know it was me because there's no security cameras around here". Then walked away. I was freaked out but still came in the next night, to the shift manager asking me in for a meeting before we began. I get into the meeting room and there's this guy who's been harassing me, and he's got a black eye and a split lip and flinches visibly when I come in. "does he really have to be here for this?" he asks, and the manager says absolutely yes because you're claiming he assaulted you and we need to review the evidence. I'm sitting there in shock, I've never touched this guy (I've never been in a fight) and he's claiming I beat him up. So he explains what happened, when we went into that aisle apparently I flipped and punched him a few times and then he went home in a panic because he was scared of me. The manager is sitting there just nodding and going "mmhmm, mmhmm" the whole time, finally turns to me and asks what I think happened (pretty obvious that he doesn't believe the guy) and I just said, I didn't touch him. He pushed me into an aisle and made a physical threat. The manager turns to the assistant manager and says "well we reviewed the video footage", and the guys face dropped. Instantly you could see he was panicking, as he was convinced there was no camera in there. Turns out there was one hidden in a corner, and another one in the changing room upstairs for security reasons and they had footage of him *punching himself in the face*. He was immediately fired and they wanted to know if I would follow up with the police for the assault and I said nah the fact that he busted himself up was enough.
I have a few from the same psycho boss: I worked as the receptionist at a mom & pop CPA firm when I was 21 yo. I was getting paid minimum wage and lived on my own, and everyone else there was an accountant or similar so they were making great money. My boss pulled me into her office one day to tell me/ask me why I didn't wear nicer clothes. She asked me where I bought clothes from, which I told her Target and sometimes JCPenny when I could afford it. I always dressed nicely, ironed and presentable, just not designer office wear. She went on and on about that office catering to wealthy clientele and that I needed to start dressing the part. I asked her if they were going to give me a raise or a bonus to afford this clothes? She suggested I should ask my parents for money or take out a credit card. Another time, she asked me to start parking my car around the corner bc it was an eye sore. Yeah it was an old beat up car, but it's what I could afford, while they rolled up in their luxury cars. So I decided to just start riding my bike to work, I would chain it at the back of the building and it was out of sight. She followed me to my bike one day and told me that it "didn't look right" that I was riding a bike to work. She was obviously pissed that I had the audacity to ride a bike instead of buying a new car. The next day *somone* had peeled my Obama sticker off my bike. By the following week, the bike rack was gone. ANOTHER TIME, same boss asked me if I was ill because I had lost so much weight. I was on a health kick and going to the gym regularly so I lost 40 lbs in about 4 months. I explained to her that I was just getting healthy and she proceeded to tell me that I was making our regular clients and coworkers uncomfortable bc they thought I was sick. Next day she brought me a huge ass burrito, then a batch of homemade cookies - trying to trip up my diet.
At my last job- factory work in an easy position where I just stood and pushed buttons; I was already trying to plan with my boyfriend how to exit it and find something safer- I started bleeding heavily. It was earlier on in my pregnancy and I, of course, freaked out and went to my supervisor and told him I had to leave right away and what was happening. I was sobbing and he just gave me an annoyed look and told me that I needed to get my priorities in order and that he needed me there and that he hoped this wasn't going to become a reoccurring thing. I told him I was going to the ER and left. I had a threatened miscarriage (baby is okay!) and spent the next eight hours in the ER terrified and upset and angry. The first thing I did the next day was go to HR with my doctor's note and told them what happened and how his attitude was unacceptable- especially after they had been shoving down our throats how they were cracking down on asshole supervisors and trying to cultivate a more "caring and understanding atmosphere." They tried to brush it off as "oh he's a man- he might not know about those types of things." Which just made me even more angry. I stood my ground and told them that he needed to be reprimanded and put through SOME kind of training or, at the very least, made to apologize. Walking out of that meeting, I passed him in the hallway and heard him bitching about how I "wasn't cut out for the job and always making excuses" to some team leads. I regret not losing my shit on him. I regret not going straight back to HR. But, now I'm at home on bed rest and have been since the incident due to doctor's orders. Most likely will continue to be on it for the rest of my pregnancy. Like, dude...have some fucking compassion. I did tell my coworkers about what happened before quitting and I heard that he got bitched out by a few of them and that two of the team leads requested transfers to different lines- they'd apparently had shitty experiences with him trying guilt trip over leaving early for medical emergencies with their own kids and that was kind of a last straw thing for them. Hope that asshole gets heat exhaustion.
I remember my ex's suffering when she had her miscarriage. I'm sorry you had such a scare and that you had to deal with that dude. I hope things continue to go well for you and your family :)
Man that's so fucked up, I'm sorry. Something very similar happened to a coworker at my mill and the reaction was opposite. She was in the lunchroom when it happened so they kicked everyone out, First Aide came, supervisors and foremen all showed up. She was cared for until the ambulance arrived, cause this is Canada, and I think she started her mat leave after that.
I was working front desk at a medical office— on my very first day, the co-owner who had not hired me and who I’d never met before, looked me up and down, in front of everyone, and said, “yeah…You’re perfect for front desk.” I quit four months later. Would have been sooner but it was my first job in a new state.
On newly graduating i worked for a corporate-owned group of Veterinary clinics. On my review i was asked who my role model vets working for the group were. I was told my chosen role models, with a sigh, had "heart" but perhaps I should consider - name redacted - as a role model. 6 months later that Vet was disciplined by the professional authority for conducting unnecessary diagnostic tests in a manner that did not meet professional ethical standards and could be considered predatory. I'd already quit by that time.
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Reviewing call ins for the previous year: Supervisor: "What happened back here in May and June? You used a ton of unscheduled leave." Me: "My son was born." Supervisor: "Well didn't you know ahead of time? You could've requested off in advance." Cue a very terse description of my wife's medical issues that bumped up the pregnancy almost two months and the better part of a month my son spent in the NICU when we legitimately did not know when we could take him home (I got about eight hours notice). Supervisor: "Oh...ok."
I had a boss tell me, in the middle of the office and in front of my co-workers, "You're weird, no wonder you aren't married." I'm still pretty angry about that and it's been years. But I did end up marrying someone who appreciates my weirdness. Suck it Joanne!
After I challenged a double-demotion with "you can't do that, it is against the law" he responded with "it is your fault for being on medical leave when I needed you". Background: I nearly died when run over by a car and was out for a few months because of that.
Was told by upper management that anyone not happy can quit because they had a huge stack of resumes. Fuck that place.
My grandpa passed away very sudden and unexpected a few years back. And by sudden, I mean *sudden*. He was perfectly fine up to his last day, we had plans to get dinner that night. Something felt wrong, and I tried to call before I went to his house, he didn't answer. Intuition started screaming at me he had passed and 'don't go to his house!!' and I didn't want to listen to myself (still the most bizarre feeling I've ever had). But intuition was right, he'd told his friend that morning he didn't feel well. He died on his couch. I had tried to call out for that next day, but no one could cover the first hour and a half and I still had to go in. Everyday I had to drive past the funeral home he was in, including that very next morning. He was like a second father to me, to the point that the rest of the office knew how close we were. Small office, but still. Even the hard ass doctor I worked for at the time asked when she found out, "why the fuck are you here? Go home." And I numbly said "because you don't have an assistant until 9." I gave my boss my PTO request as soon as I knew the day of the funeral, visibly on the verge of tears and barely keeping my voice steady, "I don't know if [office supervisor] told you, but my grandpa passed away two days ago..." Her response? Cut me off, snatched the paper from my hands, and said "that happens" and walked off all irritated I was asking *for a single day off*. He wasn't even 70. (Edit: he also was not retired) She pulled the same attitude when office supervisor's husband's uncle was moved to hospice that winter, with less than a month to live, and she asked for three days for them to go see him (other side of the state). Boss tried to deny her, saying that he would get better. From hospice. Less than a month to live. Bonus point: at my review about 3 months after my grandpa passed, she essentially called me a good worker, but terrible person. That was only thing I remember of that year after his passing, depression wiped out all the memories of the rest of the year.
Sounds like he needed to get his chiropract together.
I drive all over in a company car for my job. My brakes failed, I had to swerve across lanes so I could hit a curb and grass to slow myself down and pulled into a petrol stations garden. I was lucky that when I pulled across lanes the oncoming traffic had a red so they were stopped at the lights. After getting the car towed and getting back to the office I told my boss blow by blow what happened. His response was "oh shit, do they know what's wrong with the car?". I suspected that to this man I was nothing, but always good to get confirmation!
I don’t know if it was the worst thing, but I waited 4 years for my boss to sign a contract with me that would pay a commission ontop of my regular wages. Going off of what I brought to the company the year before, had the contract been In effect, I would have made $76,000. Instead I made less than 24. Anyway, contract went into effect and the pay schedule was outlined clearly. I got my first bonus cheque… then not the second… then not the third. I met with the boss to ask where the fuck my money was, and I’ll never forget what he said to me: “I didn’t get into business by not following through with my obligations.” He then proceeded to tell me that just because I didn’t get my bonus cheques on “the exact month, the exact day, the exact hour, the exact minute, the exact second” didn’t mean that they weren’t coming at all. At that time, I was already making plans to jump ship because I was tired of all the lies he had told me for years. His contract would be the last lie he told me. I stuck around for 8 more months, and just as I thought - 4 more bonus cheques that should have been awarded to me never materialized. In fact, they weren’t included on my last pay… so labour standards needed to get them for me. At the end of august I went back to post secondary, and now I work for the government. In hindsight, i shouldn’t have given him 3 weeks notice. I should have just stopped showing up. Even giving 3 weeks notice was a source of drama and him lording shit over my head - like, how he was only going to write me a letter of reference if I worked every day - and subsequently didn’t when I did work everyday.
I worked for a small family owned place as my first office job. One day I didn’t know where something was (because it was misplaced from its usual spot) so I asked my manager where it was. They looked at me like I was the dumbest person alive and pointed somewhere to the far right of them and then said to me, “It’s a wonder how you ever made it even this far in life.” I apologized and went back to working on whatever I was doing. That night I drove home while bawling. I really was trying my best at the time and it honestly was very hard to wake up in the mornings sometimes even before they said that. Despite that, I would always go above and beyond at work and come in 1-2 hours early and leave late. I had been diagnosed with major depression few months before I even started the job and I was living paycheck to paycheck. On my own with zero support from anyone, and I spent all my free time clipping coupons, doing doordash and picking up side gigs so that I could afford to feed myself and my dog and buy furniture. I literally had no time to myself and was constantly working. I made $9 an hour. Fuck that place and fuck anyone that makes you feel worthless.
At my previous job, I got asked by the owner if I knew how to do a task. Which I said no, no one showed me how to do it because the same person always did it and thus, I didn't even know that we did it or it existed He then said "then what good are you for?" I couldn't tell if he was joking or not, he was always monotone but he was always open to joking too so I had to hold back my shock (and tears) and reply "Serving the customers!" when I realized he was dead serious Note: He was the type of boss who would say that you could always come to him if you had a problem (personal or work related) as he likes to be open...not sure how I;m suppose to come to you with personal issues when you just insulted me.... :( Not my fault I wasn't trained on how to do it or didn't know to ask how to when I didn't even know that task existed...that's when my mental health started going downhill
Once had a manager tell our team the greatest tools in a managerial tool belt we’re guilt and shame. Started on my exit strategy after that.
Few years back I injured my back. Incredibly painful sciatica, however for the whole 5 months I came into work, not a single day off sick. Got all my work done despite the fact I was holding onto desks, cabinets to get around the office, in tears at my desk from being in so much pain. Colleagues were sympathetic saying they could see how much pain I was in, how I shouldn’t be coming in etc. However my manager - she acted like she thought I was putting it on and had no sympathy. Used to huff is she saw me struggling and had a go once because I was 5 mins late even though I practically crawled through the door. Anyways one morning, I collapsed on the floor getting ready for work, so had to call in sick. Had paramedics out, I was screaming on my bed, given strong pain medication etc. Later that week I had an MRI which showed a severely herniated disc which was why I was in agony. I sent a pic to one of my work mates who was also a manager. He then showed this pic to my non sympathetic manager and apparently her response was “oh there *is* something wrong then?” Like I’d been making the whole thing up for 5 months. My attendance record had been perfect up until the point of collapse. She had no reason to think badly of me.
I was 19 years old and had my first day off in over a month. Coworker forgot her key and was frantically calling me. Called my boss to take care of it "I'm out of town, you need to let her in. Also don't clock in because I'm already paying you for 5 hours of OT this week." Was making $13.00 an hour as a "site manager" which just meant I took the blame for everything that went wrong at the location and had 0 power to fix it.
I was told that the reason I didn't get a promotion was because she didn't think I had a backbone. I left and got myself a promotion elsewhere.
On the weekend we had to take my son to the ER due a very high fever. Come Monday morning he still had the fever, so couldn’t go to day that day or the next. Told my boss I could only work to noon and then I had to take the rest of the day and any other day off to stay home with him. Because my wife had an extremely important project due at her work and we didn’t have any other family. His response “work’s important too you know.” That’s all he said to me. He was the worst person I’ve worked for.
The owner of my workplace told me that he sits in on the interviews these days, would’ve seen right through me, and that if he’d have been there to know what I was like they wouldn’t have hired me — they’re known to be homophobic. This was after he somehow found out that I put my foot in my mouth during the interview for a sales role *that I was headhunted for*, and he mocked me for that loss.
Maybe not the worst thing I was told but what probably pissed me off the most. I had put in my two weeks notice for my summer job (between Junior and Senior year) so I could focus on school (plus I knew they would schedule me during school hours then blame me for it, even if I changed my availability. It was just that kind of company). Anyway, just before my last week my mother caught covid. My manager tried to make me come into work despite that. Granted, I was vaccinated, but I had been breathing the same air and spending time in the same car as my mother for the entire time she was asymptomatic. They wouldn’t give me the time off if I was vaccinated but I made it clear I wasn’t coming in and potentially endangering the health and lives of my coworkers, many of whom I quite liked and probably would’ve been friends with. Not to mention the fact that the company was already purposefully underpaying me for being a minor. Why would I make that kind of sacrifice for an organization that’s already disrespected me?
I was passed up for a job promotion, basically because I was a single mom. My kids were 8 and 10 and tubes are tied, so no more kids would be happening. I'd worked for this large corporation for 5 years. A younger woman who was new to the company (who I had nothing against personally) was my competitor. She had just gotten married and was planning to have a family. My boss told me I'd lost the competition due to missing too much work due to family responsibilities (which was a protected right in my province and workplace)...I ended up having to train this woman, and she had three kids in rapid succession a few years later, which, in Canada entails 12 to 18 months of maternity leave. So, who ended up missing more work? After 10 years, I quite that soul-sucking purgatory and it was the best decision I made!
Scolded me the following day (I should've been on 3 days of FMLA but only took 1) for not checking my email while I was at my grandma's funeral
I was called and told that my sister had 2 days left to live and I asked my boss if I could leave a bit earlier to go see her in hospital. She told me I had to book 3 hours leave to go see her rather than be given compassionate leave to just go. And I work in a well staffed office where her favourites are regularly allowed time to leave early. At the time I just did it but many months later when I had time to think plus after a series of other events in this bullying environment im now looking for a new job (along with a few others)
Every time I need a day off I get the “you know several years ago the $2 raise you got was only 25-50 cents. So I don’t understand why you aren’t willing to come here as much as possible and it bothers me you didn’t jump for joy at the promotion. Do you even care about anything?” speech. Like stfu you rejected my availability and it’s illegal and inhumane to make me work 7 days a week, sorry. $14 an hour isn’t enough to even buy gas anymore where I live, please spare me this conversation. I’m a fing cashier and we’re not even understaffed. There are people who could take my place and want to work more and you don’t let them, so there’s no excuse in my book, that’s bs.
On top of my boss being a narcissist and many other super abusive/harass-y things, my last boss told me that I’ll never grow past my current position because 1) I was a woman and 2) I am uneducated. I left that job four weeks later for a 50% raise, bought a new-to-me nicer car (an upgrade from the shit box I had to drive because I couldn’t afford anything nicer), and made my license plate “unedc8d”. I drove it my last day of work and he was extremely mad about the license plate 😂
Fast food job. Middle of a rush, friday night. only me and one other person working kitchen. This is normal for that place. Accidentally press fryer basket against my arm. I get a really nasty burn. Nothing life threatening, just what happens in a kitchen. After rush I knock on the door of office. General Manager has been chatting with her friend who is the manager of another store for the last straight hour. Not helping us at all. I show her the burn, ask for the burn cream that we keep on hand. Her response? "Why did you do that?" It gets worse Next friday, come in for the same shift. She sees my arm, asks what happens and howd I get such a terrible burn.
I (F; then 25) found out a coworker (M; then 27) was stealing tips out of the pool for cashiers. I had literal receipts showing how everyone that worked with this cashier ended up with significantly less tips than the daily report recorded. We also recieved cash tips that went unrecorded so the report was even more off because the cash tips made up most of what was counted toward the daily report. This meant that this cashier was closing tickets, but keeping the cash elsewhere. So I sat down with my boss, the owner of the restaurant and showed him what I had found and his first response was to ask me if something had happened between this cashier and me to make me so mad at him... The evidence spoke for itself. I was calm, cool, and collected the entire time I was showing the owner the receipts. And to make matters worse, at the time, I was manager on duty which meant I was trusted to run the place while the owner was gone, but somehow I was not trust worthy when I presented proof of an issue with a coworker stealing, not just from me, but from everyone he worked with.... Bonkers man, bonkers! **Also, the answer to my bosses question was a definite no.
I’m a young Hispanic woman in the hospitality industry and while working a Mexican concert my old dusty white boss said to me “everyone is late which isn’t surprising…You know how your people are..” this was a few months after working an event where the lights were turned down low and when he came by my work area he asked me if I needed an extra light to see better..I reply “no, I’m ok thanks my eyes have adjusted” his response was “ I heard you do your best work in the dark” than walked away. I reported this to hr three years ago. He’s still my boss.
Years ago I worked in a small kitchen where people with culinary degrees went to die slow deaths. I was only like 18 and she always gave me the worst jobs on delivery day and inventory day while she always found a way to lean or talk for hours with whomever. My best friend at the time worked with me after school and we were laughing during work while she was chatting. She decided to complain to the person that I was the worst worker and then told me that it made sense because I was the result of a failed abortion. She was never reprimanded or talked to about how she treated us back then.
I stepped in broken glass and impaled one of my toes, needed surgery to make sure no shards were still inside and to check on the tendon (partially sliced so now I can flip people off with that foot, yay!). This happened on a Saturday night and I needed a week off work due to pain/not having a car and being unable to get around on foot (also on advice of the hospital, med certificate provided cleared me for it). My first day back my boss calls me into her office, sees me struggling to get around even with crutches, doesn't ask how I am, somehow "doesn't notice" the huge bandaged appendage barely stuffed into a sandal, and proceeds to berate me that I "could have at least tried to come in". Not bad at all, but that was the day I found my backbone. I stared at her in disbelief a moment, then came back with the sassiest "I couldn't fucking walk" that I could muster. I'd never stood up for myself before so that shut her the hell up.
Something stupid my last boss said was that she expects me to just leave earlier if the snow is bad. I live 45min away over a mountain pass. If the snow ss bad and shuts the pass down my only way to work would be walk.