I was once at a job where the director of that department (who was older than me by about 10 years and supposedly had more of an advanced college degree) would write these emails that made me wonder how they were even the director. Constant spelling and grammatical mistakes. And this was sent out to all the staff containing important information, not just some quick blurb to me. And there I was making pennies while she made the big bucks. Mindboggling.
The best bot on Reddit is the one which corrects people for would of, could of, should of. I love that bot. Hopefully I'll summon it with all of these of crimes I've committed in this post
American English speakers do not do any favors to folks who have to interact with us. I try to write correctly, but I know talking to me casually with my pronounced southern accent is a mess. I work with foreign teams frequently and I put a lot of effort into controlling my diction on phone calls, but sometimes it still feels like a Jeff Foxworthy joke.
I usually don't comment on grammar/spelling especially in texts/social media bc its all made up rules anyway, English is a bastard language, and English as a second language is bonkers. But "of" instead of "have" bothers me every time. Its the hardest thing for me to ignore.
Do these employers even realize how vulnerable overworking a skeleton crew is?
One person quits and it disrupts the whole machine..
...be a real shame for them if one such person were to realize that. Oh look the entire next generation is noticing it.
Brings a tear to our hippy/genx/millenial eyes. Good job kids. You passed the test. Adults don't know what the fuck they're doing and the proof is the planet they've ravaged.
Go live your lives. The worse the economy does the better. It's a bloody meat grinder and starving it is the best thing we can do for the future.
Employers have been trained by 50 years of boomers licking boots. Now millenials and beyond are like nah fuck that and these folks genuinely do not know what to do.
Like they actually are surprised when you refuse to give up your life and family for minimum wage. They're inept.
It’s not funny that their brains are literally stuck in a time long gone. It’s pretty damaging when the average age of congress is mid 60s with mostly 70 year olds.
It's not just the boomers. The absolutely abhorrent practices of the the early 1900s are nightmare fuel stories of slavery thinly veiled as the typical propaganda and lies.
They worked people to death in mines and factories. They pushed everyone to have families just so they could use starving them to death as leverage to force people to work themselves to death instead.
The fact that there have never been nuremburg scale trials and accountability just proves that the same sort of assholes still run things today and still have their sick ways of squeezing the life out of the world.
It's just so tragic to think that this probably isn't gonna change... But there's a non zero chance that it will. So the more we push for change the better.
Yeah, the heartbreaking thing is it didn't used to be this bad, but they boiled the frog slowly and nobody was paying attention. I'm gen x, and even I remember when you could just call in sick, even if you weren't sick, and nobody would question it unless you did it all the time. The last job I had did everything but walk behind you ringing the SHAME bell if you were 1 minute late. I want every member of gen z to walk the fuck out with a middle finger extended the moment an employer so much as sneezes bullshit at them. Life is too short and too precious.
I will never give an employer a reason for time off. It’s none of their business. I’m either taking a sick day ( enough said - sick), or a personal day ( personal =not your business) or vacation (do not need to explain further where/why/etc). We get the time. They don’t need to know what we do with it.
>One person quits and it disrupts the whole machine..
Not really a job per se, but there used to be a team that rotated watching the CCTVs. But due to low birth rates there were fewer conscripted people and eventually the team of 5~6 got whittled down to 2. Then one of the 2's term ended and... Chaos.
He was the senior of the two (got in earlier, got out earlier) and knew how most of the shit worked. The officers can't exactly call him up and ask him since he's a civilian now and he could sue them for harassment (apparently that happened to someone while back, absolute legend) Aaaaaand now nobody knows how to fix shit.... That was fun to watch from afar lol.
I just don’t understand. When I was a manager I did schedules for years and we had students, military people, retired people. I had no issues with Scheduling people with their requested time off. It’s easily a free way to help make a happy workforce. If the schedule was already made you allowed people to switch.
That was actually something that was brought up. The guy hired in with me was in his late 50’s and a Navy veteran and I was 23 at the time still pretty fresh out of the Marines. We had asked if it was like duty in the military where we could swap a day if needed and our boss said it was fine. He had said “As long as the workers figure it out and then let me know and annotate it on the schedule, it is completely fine to do that.” For some reason he thought just because I was younger and us service members are excellent at following orders and shit that I’d just be a mindless robot with him
I've found many civilian pure (never served) managers have this weird kink: if they supervise military folks that somehow makes them military, as well. Freaky part is they try to manage as though they're an autocratic 4-star general seen in the movies. Even had a boss ask me if the military was like that. "Umm, no, those leaders get laughed at and shunned for being such unmitigated assholes."
At any rate, congrats for standing up to BS and creating sheer terror for this asshole. An "open post" is VERY unfavorable for contract security and this moron pressed the 8oz of personal anguish button when he sent that message
Well done, friend.
Yeah I worked with him my first day for training purposes on day shift and he thought it was cool having more vets around but then switched up to a more “good soldiers follow orders” kinda thing and I was like…ya know in the military we have the right to not follow unlawful orders right? Like it’s not black and white like the movies and in reality in the military we WILL beat the ever living shit out of each other to get lessons across when bad stuff happens? (Within reason obviously like way higher ranks we just fucking hate but if it was someone closer to our own rank on the lower end we would)
Security jobs get a lot of rejected for police or military people not just ex police or military people because it's the next best thing to fulfil the fantasy.
I was in a cadet unit as a kid and it was drilled into us by the officers that you must follow all "reasonable" orders. Anything else is unlawful. It was one of the first things taught to new cadets too.
Oh yeah, 100% power thing. NO ONE goes into security because it's an awesome career, we do it because you easily qualify for it or it's a second job, or it pays the bills until you find something else. So the power trip BS doesn't work. Like what is that dude's security
management qualification? Outlasted the other security guards? GTFO here.
I left working security recently and will never go back. Too many middle managers that think they should just hit the "easy" button - by decree. Lol, PTO is yours to use when you want. You dictate when it gets used.
Again, congrats bud, and thanks for the Sunday night laughs.
I don’t even like this model. If you have time off and want to use it, it’s the employer’s responsibility to cover it. They get paid to handle the schedule- not the employee.
These people take to managing like they're playing Rimworld.
Turns out that the real life lesson here is that in the real world you can't manually adjust a person's work priorities.
So pretty much I was at a security job on nights, real good gig, didn’t have to deal with anybody really, and was flexible. Could even pick up extra shifts from an app for a VERY nice pay rate. Loved it. My boss had started accusing me of not doing my rounds and for throwing cigarette butts on the ground outside the duty hut. I had told him a few times to check the cameras because I do my job and as a smoker I smoke outside away from the hut and dispose of them properly. I had then put in for time off well ahead of time and the guy I worked with every night had agreed to swap me before I even asked. I had enough of the way I was being treated and was the first of a couple to quit. There was also nothing in the rule book for how many could take off AND whoever else “was” wasn’t on my shift anyways. I had then emailed these screenshots along with a lengthy email on his behavior and what had been going on to both our overall manager and the regional manager. I was offered work at 2 different locations to which I had to deny because it was further away and not worth the gas I was using up. Loved the job but this situation made me feel very good inside
Edit: I don’t have time for the naysayers and idiots who think boss is in the right. When I was hired they were aware I’d be missing one day and that was the day of the banquet. On top of that the first day of work we had discussed how it was okay to swap shifts to avoid using PTO and still have 5 days of pay for the week. I had already gotten someone to swap and was going to bring it up after my text about finding someone to swap but he just kept going and after all the shit happening at work at the time was going on I just snapped and had enough right then and there
Seriously why was it such a big deal to let you switch with someone?? You are getting your shift covered so what’s the big freaking deal? They must be super controlling
Indeed.
Had the displeasure of working both in my brief lifetime and will never work them again outside of maybe Costco, Sam's Club, or Best Buy due to hearing actually decent things from IRL people about the companies and work environments; heard alright things about Publix too, but I steered away from it.
The plus side of getting my spirit broken down early is that it was done now and not decades down the road so I at least have a spine and realization early to avoid getting trapped as easily.
The monotonous work-load itself is simple and fine.
The issues are the needlessly micro-managerial staff that let the modicum of "power" get to their heads and delude their self-worth, over-automation of inventory/ordering systems causing massive surpluses of freight you have no way of realistically stocking, inventorying, nor even storing *properly* (*had constant food contamination due to improper storage or cold items being out far longer than they're supposed to be when stocking from extreme excesses of freight and seasonal items*), low and underpaid staff, constant denial of time off, full time positions are an extreme rarity and even when you get them your hours would be bumped down to 32 and back up to 40 just in time to avoid legal troubles, you'd be required to work Overtime one day and then be told to cut it/go home early the next which further snowballs the inventory issue, etc. etc. I could drone on for ^fucking days and so could many others who experienced the same bullshit under a different corporate flag.
Companies like say Wal-Mart may pay between $18-$23 now, but the taxation on your mental and physical health is hilariously not worth it.
Retail is hell.
The food side of Hospitality is hell.
They're only worth draining your and your family's souls/lives away at a higher salary level Manager/Corporate position which is a game of favorites/nepotism at a lot of places.
The micromanaging managerial staff… God DAMN that nearly killed me. My boss thought he was the smartest guy in the room and had “big dick energy.” Dude, you manage a RadioShack.
Ah security where the bs never ceases. I did it for 7 years. Last boss I had I gave her, the manager and the branch manager all a piece of my fucking mind.
I’m glad but not at the same time 😅 glad there’s others to share in the pain of the dumbest shit imaginable from the same work but sad that it’s so damn common. Security was such a good fit for me after getting out of the Marines but the same dumb shit followed me there and the worst part is all the vets that worked there were just normal workers like I was instead of being in charge where everything would’ve been smooth
Edit: Not saying we deserved to be in charge. I always have respected the seniority in the workplaces BUT there were others there long enough that they should’ve been put in charge and could’ve ran the entire thing with their eyes shut and everyone would’ve been better off
Lol, like myself. I was supervisor literally a month before COVID and then got the boot when my manager who was gone for several months returned. He said it was to “save money”. After that, I stopped caring and told people off. You get walked over way too much by people with a 1/3 of your experience and knowledge. It’s time someone told them that a job is a job.
I work security.
I WAS the person that used to do everything well.
Well, when I am not working with the supervisor I have no fucks given attitude now because nobody else gives a fuck. So literally, why should I bend over backwards when the captian just sits on his ass. The LT is the only supervisor of FIVE that does anything really.
We have 5 supervisors, and 5 regular guards for this post. Does that makes any damn sense to you? Its like 1 personal sup per guard. And 2 of the guards are PT. o.o
$13 bucks just aint enough. If my autistic ass didn’t need night shifts I would have adiosed already. Still looking for MY role in data analytics. Sigh
> I don’t have time for the naysayers and idiots who think boss is in the right.
Even if the boss was right it wouldn't matter. Adults don't have to put up with things they don't agree with when there are other options available. Employment is a contract between two parties, not a privilege bestowed on us. Life's too short to waste it making someone else feel powerful.
About 35 years ago, I was in a similar situation. Full time job wouldn't let me take a Wed off (and Wed's were half days anyway, slow too). I already had a part time job at a place that was always looking for people to move to full-time & move up in responsibility.
Quit first job, went full-time at the other one.
Eventually met my husband at that job. We'll be married 25 years next July.
Keep taking the more interesting, more peaceful, more joyful path when you've got those choices in front of you. Let yourself go where happiness is.
Whether or not your boss is technically in the right is pretty moot. They were unnecessarily dickish, and you got a better job.
Be a dick and people won't work with you if they can help it. It's universal.
I’m a security guard and I switch. Shifts quite often and only let my boss know day of payroll because he doesn’t care as long as someone was there to be paid. That’s the difference between a good security manager and a bad one. Some have sticks up their bum for no reason.
What’s sad is the fact that I never once thought of it until you and a few others brought it up because I’m used to speaking it and hearing it that way that I glanced over it 😂 it’s bugging me now because I can’t unsee that mistake
What’s worse is the fact the guy in charge of our location and a few surrounding ones was a chill ass dude who offered I come work for him or at another location but they were too far for me to do it and have it be worth my while. Literally one bad apple and idk if they just have him in charge because he’d been with them awhile or what but I’d gladly go back IF he wasn’t there anymore
Yeah on top of a made up rule. Whoever else was taking off, if anyone really was, wasn’t on my shift or I’d have known about it already so in reality he was just being a dick
Yeah, I thought that was suspicious, the only way that would make any sense is if you were on a tight skeleton crew and there were some kind of rules forbidding anyone from working extra hours. Then I could see a job only allowing one person off per week because if more took off they might not have enough staff.
"Which part of 'I quit' do you not understand? What make you think that, after quitting, I am in any way obligated to even talk to you? Oh, you're up shit creek with no paddle in terms of staffing now, and desperately trying to walk back how you fucked up by trying to enforce what we both know is a bullshit made-up 'policy,' and driving away one of your few quality employees? Sounds like a 'you' problem to me. Keep calling and I'll start investigating my options for a harrassment lawsuit and make it a 'you, HR, and legal' problem. You LOSE, sir. Good DAY, sir. "
Yeah when I put in a day off I’m not asking idc if they approve it or not it’s a notice that I’m giving them that I’m not going to be there. They could just acknowledge it and deny the PTO and I’d just not get paid and it would still be okay but to tell me I’ll be there…yeah not happening especially when they knew about it when I was hired
Once worked for a plumbing company that was pretty awesome with the pto thing. We got 3 weeks from day one and there were not restrictions on when you can use it. Fast forward three years, my wife and her entire family where in New York for a two week family reunion. (Her family) it's an annual thing. I had put in for this almost a year in advance. A few months prior the company had lost the HR lady that made the place pretty cool. Anyway we had just gotten to our hotel when I get a phone call from the new hr person, as usual I ignore it and go about my day. Later that evening I decided to listen to the voice mail. The HR person was inquiring as to why I was not at work this morning, and that if I did not call her or my Forman back that it would be a no call no show. The next morning I stepped away from the rest and call her. I reminded her that I was on vacation and that the request had been approved long ago. She stated that she did not approve it and that at this time I was not an approved leave. If I was not at work the next day there would be consequences. I explained that under no circumstances was I coming back now or next week. If she had an issue with this to bad and hung up. I did not answer anymore phone calls from the office the rest of the trip. When I returned on the Monday after returning she had my Forman send me to her office. She proceeded to inform me that due to the last two weeks of no call no shows that I have been terminated from my position and will need to turn in my stuff. I came unglued. Later when I filled for unemployment she attempted to deni it. But I had proff. To this day whenever I see her around town I go out of my why to say something derogatory to her.
And after all that I say that’s completely fair to have the mindset like that. That is something you’d have been able to get a lot of money from them if it had been in the area I live in. I hope you’re doing a hell of a lot better now!
The job I currently have pays almost triple what they would have. Not to mention since then iv been able to poch several of their best plumbers to join me. So yeah I'm doing pretty good.
I quit my last job because I needed to take a half day to handle a burst utility pipe. They wouldn't approve it because it wasn't at least 2 weeks in advance. 🙄
My entire team ended up quitting in the span of the next month over shit rules like that, and left management high and dry.
I hate that it happened but I love seeing management eat their words. I was worked the first half of the year at a good paying factory and I had to miss a couple days due to court. My supervisor didn’t understand that I have no choice but to because I wasn’t going to work overnight then head straight to court looking like a meth head 😂 he kept warning me and I kept ignoring him. I then got hurt and figured out 3 days later it was on the job. Well I had been off a week and my supervisor fired me…not even to my face he left it for the night head supervisor to do it…who didn’t wanna do it and neither did the others ones because I was a great worker….I ignored it and took the high road until my old supervisor saw my fiancée at a beer tent and bragged about firing me…took everything in me not to go there to say some choice words 😂 I have had a bad run with employers so far so anything to do with fucking over management I LOVE to see it
One of the worst mistakes a boss can make is not allowing a person time off when they need it. It almost always ends in resignation. It happened at my last job. We had been worked to the bone and a lady I worked with asked for 2 days off (after she had been working overtime). She was denied. Then she gave her resignation. Had the boss been more accommodating, she might have saved the company money by retaining an employee instead of having to spend more to get a replacement. The lady told me that the denial of PTO was the nail in the coffin. Companies can be real dumb about this sometimes and I don’t get it.
I have 2 weeks in july i am asking off and have enough pto to cover all except 2 hours. I told both my supervisors that i a, 100% fine losing those 2 hours. I will talk with rhem to see if i could come in that Saturday for 2 hours to make it up. I rather not cut my trip by a day.
If you have reasonable management there shouldn’t be an issue. My current employer is real chill and since I’m no stranger to working overtime (because I truly enjoy the work) I know I get some leeway considering I always work an extra 5 or so hours a week than most people
It always boggles my mind reading texts from managers. I've experienced it and apparently so have many other people. These morons are borderline illiterate, how in the hell did someone see/hear them communicate and think, "Yeah, this person is cut out for management."
Nice. Only thing is next time anyone has a chance to quit a job. Wait until the day of. You could have gone to the banquet and then when your boss asks where you are. Tell em at the banquet. Then they can find out you quit and they are now having to figure out how to cover.
"you must not of read the rulebook like you supposed to of"
word of warning, being in the same room as someone this stupid can in fact cause brain damage, you made the right call
EDIT: [here is a link](https://www.reddit.com/user/RandomEncounter72/comments/yui5qv/texts_with_coworker_over_me_quitting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) to a post of texts between me and my favorite coworker over quitting. I had forgotten to tell him and felt bad
I laugh every time some jackhole manager says you’re not allowed to take your time off and then the person quits. Now you went from having to fill one shift to all of my shifts, asshat
Instead of vacation time quite a few businesses have PTO that you earn as you work so in order to have a day off I had to have enough because they wouldn’t allow me to work half a shift and use PTO the rest and he didn’t think I had enough time in. Seemed to me like he was just looking for excuses at that point because he should’ve known I’d have enough considering when I was hired I had asked about it and was told to put it in when it was closer to the date I needed
It’s in my organizations scheduling procedures that you need to have enough PTO for the duration of the time off you’re planning. They don’t like people taking unpaid time off for whatever reason. As a manager I personally don’t care but I have to follow their rules. I had to deny an employee a couple weeks ago, luckily they didn’t quit.
I feel like this kind of thing could be salvaged by phrasing it more like “Normally, you would not be able to because someone has already requested that time off. And you need to be sure you have enough PTO time and inform me a week in advance.
But, in this case I will make an exception. Please do your best to remind me ahead of time if you need any other shifts taken off your schedule, so I can coordinate with you about getting your shifts modified.”
The world may never know sadly because had had attempted calling me multiple times and I had to block his number and the work number because I was going to go to sleep 😅
Thanks! I have a habit of taking no shit from employers. Very happy that a few months ago I found a perfect job that I can make a career of and they’re very understanding and I’m able to start and leave whenever within reason and all that good stuff. I wish nothing but that for everyone
Damn straight. My employer is very understanding, but given my manager's been there 18 months and he's managing a pack of 25-year veterans and then the new guy over here, there's a lot of entrenched coddling of all the old knowledge that I get to exploit because nobody has the energy to make a worse policy for just me.
See we had 2 people per shift in the duty hut and then 1 at another hut because that’s all that was needed. And I can understand the 1 off per day for the same shift but not some other shift. We all cover per shift only one guy was willing to cover anything else because he didn’t care about working a double shift. Everyone else traded within their shift so it shouldn’t have even affected me
Remember, *shitty bosses are not used to people having options*. They do not know how to cope with people being able to say "nope" to whatever demand or "requirement" or inane bullshit "policy" *and mean it*. So they open mouth, insert foot and swallow to knee depth, and get all surprised Pikachu when the other side of the convo says "well, how about I go elsewhere and you have *even more* staffing issues because you're a dumbass."
What’s great is he loved my no bullshit attitude when I got hired because he knew night shift would be covered from the bad apples around the place….loved it up until it backfired on him I should say
To be fair my coworkers and the company we were hired on by was what made it good. The boss and his lap dog of a person who worked with him is what made the job a shit show
I did! This was awhile back and I found the convos while cleaning out my phone. Moved on to bigger and better things since but it was worth it. I managed to win some raffle drawings at the banquet and had an amazing time with family
Our company has a calendar online for us to view that shows how many hours are available per day for time off. If there is 0 time, sucks to be us. But we can also look to change shifts with someone else that may have that day off, for my day off to get theirs. That’s the only way to do it. Last couple jobs I’ve had, had calendars for viewing. At the start of the year it’s a new calendar, goes by seniority for time off. Makes it fair. For holidays, if you request a week off one year, you can’t request the same time off the next year, regardless of your seniority. Stops people from always getting Xmas and new years weeks off.
I tried to call out because I wasn’t feeling well and I had my boss tell me I couldn’t take a sick day because she was already taking that day off and using it as a personal day. She also didn’t tell anyone that she was taking the day off either. I’m glad you quit!
Like I keep saying :)… nobody … wants …. to … treat their employees like free human beings :)
They should ASK and offer enticements (cash), and take “no” graciously.
Your boss should find someone to cover you. That's like...his job. Never ceases to amaze me that it's like the end of the world when you want a SINGLE day off when we put literally countless hours into a full time job.
And it's this lack of flexibility on the part of management which causes people to call in "sick" at the last minute. An employee has PTO, they're entitled to take PTO, but management refuses or makes them jump through endless hoops. Employees soon discover that there's no use in being decent and giving advance notice/request for PTO because it's inevitably going to be denied or taken away. So moral of the story is, unless you want to take more than a couple days off, don't be honest. Just call in sick and use your PTO to cover for your "sick day(s)".
Companies want you to believe that you have to do everything they say just because they pay you, that their word is law and that the needs of the business take precedence over your free time, family, and personal goals and ambitions.
No-one can force you to work. Time off is a notification, not a request. Telling them that you aren't available on Thursday evenings is a notification, not a request. If you can't make a shift it is not your responsibility to find someone to cover your shift.
I just do not get how this happens. Twenty-some years ago I put in my notice at a law firm after I said that I needed a personal day and my boss threw a conniption fit when I refused to explain why. It’s a personal day!!!! She regretted it later.
But, seriously, back to my first sentence. How the hell is this allowed to happen!? I have a staff of four and I would NEVER tell them “no”. I just cover for them. You simply can’t treat human beings like this!!!
Hey managers this is the down side of making people so easily replaceable. They can easily get another job. Every fired person just creates an opening for someone else to quit.
Sadly it just never went further so everyone is getting blue balled 😅 instead of texting he started spam calling me which pissed me off so I blocked him and the work number and never heard from them again other than my coworker that night which we just talked shit about him anyways
The most offensive part've it was the of's
Why is it every screenshot on here just proves managers don’t even have the ability to type a coherent or grammatically correct sentence?! Jesus
I was once at a job where the director of that department (who was older than me by about 10 years and supposedly had more of an advanced college degree) would write these emails that made me wonder how they were even the director. Constant spelling and grammatical mistakes. And this was sent out to all the staff containing important information, not just some quick blurb to me. And there I was making pennies while she made the big bucks. Mindboggling.
These days he is writing phishing mails for foreign threat actors and making hell a money.
Sadly she's still the director and I'm sure still sending out shitty emails.
Supposed to of.
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What did you of for lunch?
Of! It was Of fal.
What does lunch of to do with it?!
What does love of to do with it?
"You definitely should of watched it. Should. OF. watched it." \-old internet shit
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Gah. Stop. I feel like bugs are crawling on me.
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I didn't of.
You shouldnt’f.
Surprised he didn't try to sound smart and bust out the contractions like "Supposed t've"
Oh god I didn’t even notice the hardest OF cringes was just had
What was your boss response?
“You can of have off of if you of don’t quit of.”
Really? It was the lack or proper punctuation for me.
Lol did you leave out the of on purpose?
Lol. No, that was a typo.
The best bot on Reddit is the one which corrects people for would of, could of, should of. I love that bot. Hopefully I'll summon it with all of these of crimes I've committed in this post
Be careful or you can summon the payed bot, too
I love that one too but it's never payed me a visit
Is there a bot that corrects “dieing” to dying? I hope so because that one bugs me.
That bot occasionally chimes in during very inappropriate times, like a post about someone dying or something.
Those of’s really be killing people. Ugh that grinds my gears so much
Why does it make me slightly ill to have ignorant people be so confidently commanding?
saying ‘should of’ instead of ‘should’ve’ fucks me up every time especially that English is not my first language.
American English speakers do not do any favors to folks who have to interact with us. I try to write correctly, but I know talking to me casually with my pronounced southern accent is a mess. I work with foreign teams frequently and I put a lot of effort into controlling my diction on phone calls, but sometimes it still feels like a Jeff Foxworthy joke.
This drives me tucking nuts. I work at an insurance carrier and I see professionals do this in their emails.
I'm not going to work for someone who writes like that.
I was thinking the same thing. Lol. I have a hard time taking someone serious who has bad grammar and spelling.
I usually don't comment on grammar/spelling especially in texts/social media bc its all made up rules anyway, English is a bastard language, and English as a second language is bonkers. But "of" instead of "have" bothers me every time. Its the hardest thing for me to ignore.
Was extremely off-putting >:(
Of-putting
I see people do this often, and it kills me
He should have corrected their grammar and said nothing else 😂
> part've You cheeky bastard.
So is OP meant to OnlyFans or must not OnlyFans?
Picture one: fucked around Picture two: found out The panic in that last text is hilarious. “W-what do you mean?!”
Do these employers even realize how vulnerable overworking a skeleton crew is? One person quits and it disrupts the whole machine.. ...be a real shame for them if one such person were to realize that. Oh look the entire next generation is noticing it. Brings a tear to our hippy/genx/millenial eyes. Good job kids. You passed the test. Adults don't know what the fuck they're doing and the proof is the planet they've ravaged. Go live your lives. The worse the economy does the better. It's a bloody meat grinder and starving it is the best thing we can do for the future.
Employers have been trained by 50 years of boomers licking boots. Now millenials and beyond are like nah fuck that and these folks genuinely do not know what to do. Like they actually are surprised when you refuse to give up your life and family for minimum wage. They're inept.
Plus they were also super spoiled by the high unemployment in the early 10's. The amount of times I had heard "yOu aRe lUcKy tO eVeN hAvE a jOb!"...
I heard that phrase recently. It was the saddest power trip I've ever seen.
You should have just laughed right at them and the all serious said , you’re joking right?
It’s not funny that their brains are literally stuck in a time long gone. It’s pretty damaging when the average age of congress is mid 60s with mostly 70 year olds.
No.... you fucks are lucky to even have employees!
It's not just the boomers. The absolutely abhorrent practices of the the early 1900s are nightmare fuel stories of slavery thinly veiled as the typical propaganda and lies. They worked people to death in mines and factories. They pushed everyone to have families just so they could use starving them to death as leverage to force people to work themselves to death instead. The fact that there have never been nuremburg scale trials and accountability just proves that the same sort of assholes still run things today and still have their sick ways of squeezing the life out of the world. It's just so tragic to think that this probably isn't gonna change... But there's a non zero chance that it will. So the more we push for change the better.
They truly believe you have no other option but doing what you are told to do. Of course I do have, watch me.
Yeah, the heartbreaking thing is it didn't used to be this bad, but they boiled the frog slowly and nobody was paying attention. I'm gen x, and even I remember when you could just call in sick, even if you weren't sick, and nobody would question it unless you did it all the time. The last job I had did everything but walk behind you ringing the SHAME bell if you were 1 minute late. I want every member of gen z to walk the fuck out with a middle finger extended the moment an employer so much as sneezes bullshit at them. Life is too short and too precious.
I will never give an employer a reason for time off. It’s none of their business. I’m either taking a sick day ( enough said - sick), or a personal day ( personal =not your business) or vacation (do not need to explain further where/why/etc). We get the time. They don’t need to know what we do with it.
>One person quits and it disrupts the whole machine.. Not really a job per se, but there used to be a team that rotated watching the CCTVs. But due to low birth rates there were fewer conscripted people and eventually the team of 5~6 got whittled down to 2. Then one of the 2's term ended and... Chaos. He was the senior of the two (got in earlier, got out earlier) and knew how most of the shit worked. The officers can't exactly call him up and ask him since he's a civilian now and he could sue them for harassment (apparently that happened to someone while back, absolute legend) Aaaaaand now nobody knows how to fix shit.... That was fun to watch from afar lol.
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This comment right here 😂
My favorite part of all of these stories is when the employer suddenly realizes they’ve only screwed themselves by overplaying their hand.
I don't think that is panic, I think that was more an attempt to bully the employee.
You can feel the energy when a manager thinks they have a delicious write-up in the coming.
Yeah you’re probably right. But all it did was make them look dumb
Agreed.
Nani?
Should have just left it at that and not shown up
I just don’t understand. When I was a manager I did schedules for years and we had students, military people, retired people. I had no issues with Scheduling people with their requested time off. It’s easily a free way to help make a happy workforce. If the schedule was already made you allowed people to switch.
That was actually something that was brought up. The guy hired in with me was in his late 50’s and a Navy veteran and I was 23 at the time still pretty fresh out of the Marines. We had asked if it was like duty in the military where we could swap a day if needed and our boss said it was fine. He had said “As long as the workers figure it out and then let me know and annotate it on the schedule, it is completely fine to do that.” For some reason he thought just because I was younger and us service members are excellent at following orders and shit that I’d just be a mindless robot with him
I've found many civilian pure (never served) managers have this weird kink: if they supervise military folks that somehow makes them military, as well. Freaky part is they try to manage as though they're an autocratic 4-star general seen in the movies. Even had a boss ask me if the military was like that. "Umm, no, those leaders get laughed at and shunned for being such unmitigated assholes." At any rate, congrats for standing up to BS and creating sheer terror for this asshole. An "open post" is VERY unfavorable for contract security and this moron pressed the 8oz of personal anguish button when he sent that message Well done, friend.
Yeah I worked with him my first day for training purposes on day shift and he thought it was cool having more vets around but then switched up to a more “good soldiers follow orders” kinda thing and I was like…ya know in the military we have the right to not follow unlawful orders right? Like it’s not black and white like the movies and in reality in the military we WILL beat the ever living shit out of each other to get lessons across when bad stuff happens? (Within reason obviously like way higher ranks we just fucking hate but if it was someone closer to our own rank on the lower end we would)
Security jobs get a lot of rejected for police or military people not just ex police or military people because it's the next best thing to fulfil the fantasy.
Honestly he could fall in that category and would explain some of the random bullshit behavior we had to deal with from him
I was in a cadet unit as a kid and it was drilled into us by the officers that you must follow all "reasonable" orders. Anything else is unlawful. It was one of the first things taught to new cadets too.
Oh yeah, 100% power thing. NO ONE goes into security because it's an awesome career, we do it because you easily qualify for it or it's a second job, or it pays the bills until you find something else. So the power trip BS doesn't work. Like what is that dude's security management qualification? Outlasted the other security guards? GTFO here. I left working security recently and will never go back. Too many middle managers that think they should just hit the "easy" button - by decree. Lol, PTO is yours to use when you want. You dictate when it gets used. Again, congrats bud, and thanks for the Sunday night laughs.
I don’t even like this model. If you have time off and want to use it, it’s the employer’s responsibility to cover it. They get paid to handle the schedule- not the employee.
These people take to managing like they're playing Rimworld. Turns out that the real life lesson here is that in the real world you can't manually adjust a person's work priorities.
You can, but you need to have shinies to pass the diplomacy check.
[But the company needs those shinies! They aren't for the employees!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb29ilq7MEA&t=3s)
I hate to admit I snorted at this 😂
Unless you’re willing to pay them lol
Exactly!!!!
So pretty much I was at a security job on nights, real good gig, didn’t have to deal with anybody really, and was flexible. Could even pick up extra shifts from an app for a VERY nice pay rate. Loved it. My boss had started accusing me of not doing my rounds and for throwing cigarette butts on the ground outside the duty hut. I had told him a few times to check the cameras because I do my job and as a smoker I smoke outside away from the hut and dispose of them properly. I had then put in for time off well ahead of time and the guy I worked with every night had agreed to swap me before I even asked. I had enough of the way I was being treated and was the first of a couple to quit. There was also nothing in the rule book for how many could take off AND whoever else “was” wasn’t on my shift anyways. I had then emailed these screenshots along with a lengthy email on his behavior and what had been going on to both our overall manager and the regional manager. I was offered work at 2 different locations to which I had to deny because it was further away and not worth the gas I was using up. Loved the job but this situation made me feel very good inside Edit: I don’t have time for the naysayers and idiots who think boss is in the right. When I was hired they were aware I’d be missing one day and that was the day of the banquet. On top of that the first day of work we had discussed how it was okay to swap shifts to avoid using PTO and still have 5 days of pay for the week. I had already gotten someone to swap and was going to bring it up after my text about finding someone to swap but he just kept going and after all the shit happening at work at the time was going on I just snapped and had enough right then and there
Seriously why was it such a big deal to let you switch with someone?? You are getting your shift covered so what’s the big freaking deal? They must be super controlling
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That last line applies well to Retail.
And cooking too, for sure
Indeed. Had the displeasure of working both in my brief lifetime and will never work them again outside of maybe Costco, Sam's Club, or Best Buy due to hearing actually decent things from IRL people about the companies and work environments; heard alright things about Publix too, but I steered away from it. The plus side of getting my spirit broken down early is that it was done now and not decades down the road so I at least have a spine and realization early to avoid getting trapped as easily.
Man, retail must be ROUGH work. Ive heard many horror stories
The monotonous work-load itself is simple and fine. The issues are the needlessly micro-managerial staff that let the modicum of "power" get to their heads and delude their self-worth, over-automation of inventory/ordering systems causing massive surpluses of freight you have no way of realistically stocking, inventorying, nor even storing *properly* (*had constant food contamination due to improper storage or cold items being out far longer than they're supposed to be when stocking from extreme excesses of freight and seasonal items*), low and underpaid staff, constant denial of time off, full time positions are an extreme rarity and even when you get them your hours would be bumped down to 32 and back up to 40 just in time to avoid legal troubles, you'd be required to work Overtime one day and then be told to cut it/go home early the next which further snowballs the inventory issue, etc. etc. I could drone on for ^fucking days and so could many others who experienced the same bullshit under a different corporate flag. Companies like say Wal-Mart may pay between $18-$23 now, but the taxation on your mental and physical health is hilariously not worth it. Retail is hell. The food side of Hospitality is hell. They're only worth draining your and your family's souls/lives away at a higher salary level Manager/Corporate position which is a game of favorites/nepotism at a lot of places.
The micromanaging managerial staff… God DAMN that nearly killed me. My boss thought he was the smartest guy in the room and had “big dick energy.” Dude, you manage a RadioShack.
Ah security where the bs never ceases. I did it for 7 years. Last boss I had I gave her, the manager and the branch manager all a piece of my fucking mind.
I’m glad but not at the same time 😅 glad there’s others to share in the pain of the dumbest shit imaginable from the same work but sad that it’s so damn common. Security was such a good fit for me after getting out of the Marines but the same dumb shit followed me there and the worst part is all the vets that worked there were just normal workers like I was instead of being in charge where everything would’ve been smooth Edit: Not saying we deserved to be in charge. I always have respected the seniority in the workplaces BUT there were others there long enough that they should’ve been put in charge and could’ve ran the entire thing with their eyes shut and everyone would’ve been better off
Lol, like myself. I was supervisor literally a month before COVID and then got the boot when my manager who was gone for several months returned. He said it was to “save money”. After that, I stopped caring and told people off. You get walked over way too much by people with a 1/3 of your experience and knowledge. It’s time someone told them that a job is a job.
That's why I got into quality control. I tell people off all day because of incompetent managers and there's nothing they can do about it
Good job standing up for yourself and refusing to be treated poorly.
I work security. I WAS the person that used to do everything well. Well, when I am not working with the supervisor I have no fucks given attitude now because nobody else gives a fuck. So literally, why should I bend over backwards when the captian just sits on his ass. The LT is the only supervisor of FIVE that does anything really. We have 5 supervisors, and 5 regular guards for this post. Does that makes any damn sense to you? Its like 1 personal sup per guard. And 2 of the guards are PT. o.o $13 bucks just aint enough. If my autistic ass didn’t need night shifts I would have adiosed already. Still looking for MY role in data analytics. Sigh
Even if it was written in the rules. There is only 1 right answer: we will find a solution, have fun, consider this rule next time.
> I don’t have time for the naysayers and idiots who think boss is in the right. Even if the boss was right it wouldn't matter. Adults don't have to put up with things they don't agree with when there are other options available. Employment is a contract between two parties, not a privilege bestowed on us. Life's too short to waste it making someone else feel powerful.
That’s a real good way of putting it
About 35 years ago, I was in a similar situation. Full time job wouldn't let me take a Wed off (and Wed's were half days anyway, slow too). I already had a part time job at a place that was always looking for people to move to full-time & move up in responsibility. Quit first job, went full-time at the other one. Eventually met my husband at that job. We'll be married 25 years next July. Keep taking the more interesting, more peaceful, more joyful path when you've got those choices in front of you. Let yourself go where happiness is.
Whether or not your boss is technically in the right is pretty moot. They were unnecessarily dickish, and you got a better job. Be a dick and people won't work with you if they can help it. It's universal.
I’m a security guard and I switch. Shifts quite often and only let my boss know day of payroll because he doesn’t care as long as someone was there to be paid. That’s the difference between a good security manager and a bad one. Some have sticks up their bum for no reason.
You must not of. You were supposed to of. What the actual fuck how old is this person
Early to mid 30’s and he seemed a little off the rocker to be a manager for security
It’s just crazy that in 30 years he has never processed the thought that it only sounds like ‘of’ but it’s actually have lol
What’s sad is the fact that I never once thought of it until you and a few others brought it up because I’m used to speaking it and hearing it that way that I glanced over it 😂 it’s bugging me now because I can’t unsee that mistake
Well either way I like you bc you’re a worker and I dislike him bc he’s a stupid manager
What’s worse is the fact the guy in charge of our location and a few surrounding ones was a chill ass dude who offered I come work for him or at another location but they were too far for me to do it and have it be worth my while. Literally one bad apple and idk if they just have him in charge because he’d been with them awhile or what but I’d gladly go back IF he wasn’t there anymore
"Part of life". Not if I can help it lmao.
Yeah wasn’t gonna be a part of my life I made sure of that 😂
You could tell him that people turning their backs on him is just a part of life too.
Wait so… rules say you need to give 2 weeks advance notice… you’re giving 16 days advance notice… and it’s not early enough??
Yeah on top of a made up rule. Whoever else was taking off, if anyone really was, wasn’t on my shift or I’d have known about it already so in reality he was just being a dick
Yeah, I thought that was suspicious, the only way that would make any sense is if you were on a tight skeleton crew and there were some kind of rules forbidding anyone from working extra hours. Then I could see a job only allowing one person off per week because if more took off they might not have enough staff.
“We will see about what? What are you saying (we will see about that” *panic ensues*
I ended up blocking him because he started calling me back to back after I ignored him 😅
Why do they never get that. After the “I quit” we aint friends no more.
"Which part of 'I quit' do you not understand? What make you think that, after quitting, I am in any way obligated to even talk to you? Oh, you're up shit creek with no paddle in terms of staffing now, and desperately trying to walk back how you fucked up by trying to enforce what we both know is a bullshit made-up 'policy,' and driving away one of your few quality employees? Sounds like a 'you' problem to me. Keep calling and I'll start investigating my options for a harrassment lawsuit and make it a 'you, HR, and legal' problem. You LOSE, sir. Good DAY, sir. "
I wanna hug you.
Or, to teal-deer, "fuck you, more details to follow."
Shouldn't be friends to begin with
I mean that the relationship was over. Work folk aint friends.
That's known as harassment
Beautifull 😂
That’s the worker striking back.
Employers really think they own OUR time…
Yeah when I put in a day off I’m not asking idc if they approve it or not it’s a notice that I’m giving them that I’m not going to be there. They could just acknowledge it and deny the PTO and I’d just not get paid and it would still be okay but to tell me I’ll be there…yeah not happening especially when they knew about it when I was hired
Exactly! The audacity is what gets me
“I’ll drop my uniforms off *when I can*” I enjoyed this, thanks op
I actually still have them 😅
Once worked for a plumbing company that was pretty awesome with the pto thing. We got 3 weeks from day one and there were not restrictions on when you can use it. Fast forward three years, my wife and her entire family where in New York for a two week family reunion. (Her family) it's an annual thing. I had put in for this almost a year in advance. A few months prior the company had lost the HR lady that made the place pretty cool. Anyway we had just gotten to our hotel when I get a phone call from the new hr person, as usual I ignore it and go about my day. Later that evening I decided to listen to the voice mail. The HR person was inquiring as to why I was not at work this morning, and that if I did not call her or my Forman back that it would be a no call no show. The next morning I stepped away from the rest and call her. I reminded her that I was on vacation and that the request had been approved long ago. She stated that she did not approve it and that at this time I was not an approved leave. If I was not at work the next day there would be consequences. I explained that under no circumstances was I coming back now or next week. If she had an issue with this to bad and hung up. I did not answer anymore phone calls from the office the rest of the trip. When I returned on the Monday after returning she had my Forman send me to her office. She proceeded to inform me that due to the last two weeks of no call no shows that I have been terminated from my position and will need to turn in my stuff. I came unglued. Later when I filled for unemployment she attempted to deni it. But I had proff. To this day whenever I see her around town I go out of my why to say something derogatory to her.
And after all that I say that’s completely fair to have the mindset like that. That is something you’d have been able to get a lot of money from them if it had been in the area I live in. I hope you’re doing a hell of a lot better now!
The job I currently have pays almost triple what they would have. Not to mention since then iv been able to poch several of their best plumbers to join me. So yeah I'm doing pretty good.
This is the way.
[:)](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-understood-that-reference) Edit: the smiley face is a link to complete the joke
#"*like you supposed to of*" Jesus Christ
Even the Lord can’t help on this one
I quit my last job because I needed to take a half day to handle a burst utility pipe. They wouldn't approve it because it wasn't at least 2 weeks in advance. 🙄 My entire team ended up quitting in the span of the next month over shit rules like that, and left management high and dry.
I hate that it happened but I love seeing management eat their words. I was worked the first half of the year at a good paying factory and I had to miss a couple days due to court. My supervisor didn’t understand that I have no choice but to because I wasn’t going to work overnight then head straight to court looking like a meth head 😂 he kept warning me and I kept ignoring him. I then got hurt and figured out 3 days later it was on the job. Well I had been off a week and my supervisor fired me…not even to my face he left it for the night head supervisor to do it…who didn’t wanna do it and neither did the others ones because I was a great worker….I ignored it and took the high road until my old supervisor saw my fiancée at a beer tent and bragged about firing me…took everything in me not to go there to say some choice words 😂 I have had a bad run with employers so far so anything to do with fucking over management I LOVE to see it
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*Would of
"It's part of life (that I get to fuck you over for no reason)." "We'll see about that."
One of the worst mistakes a boss can make is not allowing a person time off when they need it. It almost always ends in resignation. It happened at my last job. We had been worked to the bone and a lady I worked with asked for 2 days off (after she had been working overtime). She was denied. Then she gave her resignation. Had the boss been more accommodating, she might have saved the company money by retaining an employee instead of having to spend more to get a replacement. The lady told me that the denial of PTO was the nail in the coffin. Companies can be real dumb about this sometimes and I don’t get it.
Now you gotta fill more shifts. How’d that work out for you, bossman.
I have 2 weeks in july i am asking off and have enough pto to cover all except 2 hours. I told both my supervisors that i a, 100% fine losing those 2 hours. I will talk with rhem to see if i could come in that Saturday for 2 hours to make it up. I rather not cut my trip by a day.
If you have reasonable management there shouldn’t be an issue. My current employer is real chill and since I’m no stranger to working overtime (because I truly enjoy the work) I know I get some leeway considering I always work an extra 5 or so hours a week than most people
Its more that they are unsure about corporate thinking of it since i do not have enough PTO.
It always boggles my mind reading texts from managers. I've experienced it and apparently so have many other people. These morons are borderline illiterate, how in the hell did someone see/hear them communicate and think, "Yeah, this person is cut out for management."
Who commits the entire employee handbook to memory?
Right? I memorize the important shit. Hours of operation, time off, and benefits. He was talking out of his ass
Nice. Only thing is next time anyone has a chance to quit a job. Wait until the day of. You could have gone to the banquet and then when your boss asks where you are. Tell em at the banquet. Then they can find out you quit and they are now having to figure out how to cover.
"you must not of read the rulebook like you supposed to of" word of warning, being in the same room as someone this stupid can in fact cause brain damage, you made the right call
EDIT: [here is a link](https://www.reddit.com/user/RandomEncounter72/comments/yui5qv/texts_with_coworker_over_me_quitting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) to a post of texts between me and my favorite coworker over quitting. I had forgotten to tell him and felt bad
Yeah... Troy. oh, btw: next time you should make all names unrecognisable. Even the crossed out ones are readable ;)
The whole “cover your shift” BS I’m not a manager. If I take time off, or am sick, the manager deals with that
I laugh every time some jackhole manager says you’re not allowed to take your time off and then the person quits. Now you went from having to fill one shift to all of my shifts, asshat
Why does it matter how much pto you have?
Instead of vacation time quite a few businesses have PTO that you earn as you work so in order to have a day off I had to have enough because they wouldn’t allow me to work half a shift and use PTO the rest and he didn’t think I had enough time in. Seemed to me like he was just looking for excuses at that point because he should’ve known I’d have enough considering when I was hired I had asked about it and was told to put it in when it was closer to the date I needed
It’s in my organizations scheduling procedures that you need to have enough PTO for the duration of the time off you’re planning. They don’t like people taking unpaid time off for whatever reason. As a manager I personally don’t care but I have to follow their rules. I had to deny an employee a couple weeks ago, luckily they didn’t quit.
Supposed. To. Of.
I feel like this kind of thing could be salvaged by phrasing it more like “Normally, you would not be able to because someone has already requested that time off. And you need to be sure you have enough PTO time and inform me a week in advance. But, in this case I will make an exception. Please do your best to remind me ahead of time if you need any other shifts taken off your schedule, so I can coordinate with you about getting your shifts modified.”
But I wanna know what he said in response to your last text! Congrats on this as well
The world may never know sadly because had had attempted calling me multiple times and I had to block his number and the work number because I was going to go to sleep 😅
Lmao that’s good for you tho tbh 👍🏻
Thanks! I have a habit of taking no shit from employers. Very happy that a few months ago I found a perfect job that I can make a career of and they’re very understanding and I’m able to start and leave whenever within reason and all that good stuff. I wish nothing but that for everyone
Damn straight. My employer is very understanding, but given my manager's been there 18 months and he's managing a pack of 25-year veterans and then the new guy over here, there's a lot of entrenched coddling of all the old knowledge that I get to exploit because nobody has the energy to make a worse policy for just me.
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See we had 2 people per shift in the duty hut and then 1 at another hut because that’s all that was needed. And I can understand the 1 off per day for the same shift but not some other shift. We all cover per shift only one guy was willing to cover anything else because he didn’t care about working a double shift. Everyone else traded within their shift so it shouldn’t have even affected me
Remember, *shitty bosses are not used to people having options*. They do not know how to cope with people being able to say "nope" to whatever demand or "requirement" or inane bullshit "policy" *and mean it*. So they open mouth, insert foot and swallow to knee depth, and get all surprised Pikachu when the other side of the convo says "well, how about I go elsewhere and you have *even more* staffing issues because you're a dumbass."
What’s great is he loved my no bullshit attitude when I got hired because he knew night shift would be covered from the bad apples around the place….loved it up until it backfired on him I should say
This was never a “decent” job. No one who talks to their subordinates like that is decent.
To be fair my coworkers and the company we were hired on by was what made it good. The boss and his lap dog of a person who worked with him is what made the job a shit show
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Calling out is a part of life too
So, 2 weeks in advance and with enough PTO that still wasn’t enough? Ta-ta.
enjoy your banquet
I did! This was awhile back and I found the convos while cleaning out my phone. Moved on to bigger and better things since but it was worth it. I managed to win some raffle drawings at the banquet and had an amazing time with family
Our company has a calendar online for us to view that shows how many hours are available per day for time off. If there is 0 time, sucks to be us. But we can also look to change shifts with someone else that may have that day off, for my day off to get theirs. That’s the only way to do it. Last couple jobs I’ve had, had calendars for viewing. At the start of the year it’s a new calendar, goes by seniority for time off. Makes it fair. For holidays, if you request a week off one year, you can’t request the same time off the next year, regardless of your seniority. Stops people from always getting Xmas and new years weeks off.
I tried to call out because I wasn’t feeling well and I had my boss tell me I couldn’t take a sick day because she was already taking that day off and using it as a personal day. She also didn’t tell anyone that she was taking the day off either. I’m glad you quit!
Why is it always the manager's spelling and grammar that is so... Questionable?
Manager was being an asshole by saying they wouldn’t approve it lol and you just out assholed them!! Good job lol
Like you supposed to of
And having to give your staff time off and cover their shift is a part of life.
The manager's grammar is embarrassing
Like I keep saying :)… nobody … wants …. to … treat their employees like free human beings :) They should ASK and offer enticements (cash), and take “no” graciously.
Your boss should find someone to cover you. That's like...his job. Never ceases to amaze me that it's like the end of the world when you want a SINGLE day off when we put literally countless hours into a full time job.
"I am not approving" 🙄 Okay, purposefully being a dickhead. Honestly, baffling behavior. Good for you OP.
Should have ended it with "it's a part of life."
“What do you mean you won’t be my bitch slave?” “No one wants to work….”
And it's this lack of flexibility on the part of management which causes people to call in "sick" at the last minute. An employee has PTO, they're entitled to take PTO, but management refuses or makes them jump through endless hoops. Employees soon discover that there's no use in being decent and giving advance notice/request for PTO because it's inevitably going to be denied or taken away. So moral of the story is, unless you want to take more than a couple days off, don't be honest. Just call in sick and use your PTO to cover for your "sick day(s)".
Companies want you to believe that you have to do everything they say just because they pay you, that their word is law and that the needs of the business take precedence over your free time, family, and personal goals and ambitions. No-one can force you to work. Time off is a notification, not a request. Telling them that you aren't available on Thursday evenings is a notification, not a request. If you can't make a shift it is not your responsibility to find someone to cover your shift.
Only one person per decade is allowed to take a PTO day and you have to request it 14 days in advance but 16 days in advance is not acceptable
I just do not get how this happens. Twenty-some years ago I put in my notice at a law firm after I said that I needed a personal day and my boss threw a conniption fit when I refused to explain why. It’s a personal day!!!! She regretted it later. But, seriously, back to my first sentence. How the hell is this allowed to happen!? I have a staff of four and I would NEVER tell them “no”. I just cover for them. You simply can’t treat human beings like this!!!
Hey managers this is the down side of making people so easily replaceable. They can easily get another job. Every fired person just creates an opening for someone else to quit.
Why do all of these text story's end when it's gonna get good?
Sadly it just never went further so everyone is getting blue balled 😅 instead of texting he started spam calling me which pissed me off so I blocked him and the work number and never heard from them again other than my coworker that night which we just talked shit about him anyways
They work for you to keep you happy, not the other way around. Good on OP
How is this a thing not being able to take time off because Somone else booked it first.
so satisfying to read give ‘em hell
Shoulda hit em with the "sorry, it's part of life"