Anne: "Remove the fence!" OP: **Removes the Fence** Anne: "Uh...when are you building a new fence? My dog might run away and is chewing my furniture!" Love it when people demand you do something that will affect them in the long run, inadvertently shooting themselves in the foot.
When I was hearing about this dog barking at everything and chewing on furniture etc., I thought this woman should worry more about training her damn dog and/or getting him into doggy daycare if he's that destructive.
My side fence is nearly two full feet in my neighbor's yard. She wants me to take it down. I refused since the fence is on her property and it's been there since before I bought the house. We've feuded about it for years and she even tried to take me to court. The court ruled that the fence is on her property, so it's her responsibility to take it down.
@@THEDubbleHelixx Yeah, they said it was a German Shepherd? Can be high-energy dogs. If she's leaving it at home all day while she works, that isn't fair on the dog at all.
And he still tells OP an illegal instruction. The lunch is not to replace your OT. It is 100% off clock. OP should still call the labor board or department
@@kaiseremotion854 The bubonic plague can be treated with antibiotics if caught soon enough. Worst that happens is you get hospitalized in an isolation room. That being said, I agree. It sounds very unpleasant.
@@bethanyboarder7751 yea it's treatable, but at the same time you don't wanna catch it lol, also there is that tiny chance you do die. Iirc a woman in the middle of no where died cause she didn't recognize the symptoms before it was too late
@@kaiseremotion854 jeez. I definitley don't deny it's unpleasant, but a lot of people think it's still untreatable and you will inevitably die, so I wanted to put that out there for anybody who thinks that
The "Zero Overtime" story reminded me of something I used to say all the time: "You can annoy your direct manager all you want as long as THEIR higher ups are favorable to you."
Last story: Ronnie is literally the sort of boss that gets employers sued for violating worker protections. HR took one look at OP and went "the lawsuit isn't worth it."
Story 1: Bubonic plague (Y. Pestis) is endemic in prairie dogs. So monitoring this dangerous pathogen in the animal reservoir seems a reasonable public health measure. OTOH, the mismanagement of OP’s position is par for the course for management types.
government shit is always managed so poorly. I was once sent on a 6 hour round trip to clean the inside of one of those light up store signs (the ones with the 2 plastic panels with branding and the fluro tubes in the middle). ANYONE could have done it, but due to poor management, the company I worked for was the only one that was allowed to do it and yes, we billed travel each way (hourly rate and fuel usage). on another occasion, I was sent to the hardware store to buy 20 electric heaters because the HVAC was down in an office building. I warned them that running all of them would probably trip a breaker, but did they listen? no. I was paid to drive to the hardware store, we charged 10% on top of cost for the heaters, then I was paid to plug one in under each desk, just for the breaker to trip like I warned. all because it was 18ºC (65ºF) in the building instead of the usual 21ºC (70ºF). the HVAC was only going to be down a day and it was spring, so was not getting any colder. I have a bunch of other stories just like those ones and I rarely worked on jobs for that contract, my main work was on other stuff, the boss just got me to do that shit when all the other guys were busy.
There was a delivery of important certificates to the wrong office by GSA. Those managers in the DC offices don’t consider the distances in the Western states as compared to the Eastern states. The size of the shipment was about 50 cartons weighing 25 to 30 pounds each. I said that they needed to get a contract carrier to move them to the correct location. Their first response was “put them in your vehicle and deliver them”. My response was: 1) I need to rent a larger vehicle as none of ours are large enough; 2) Will you authorize per diem, including lodging and meals 3) take a piece string to your wall map placing it to cover the distance between both locations and now make a circle with it from their office location. How many states will be crossed? They finally conceded when the estimated cost of my taking 2 days to make the delivery would cost them (not from our budget!). Yes, this was within a single state. But for simplicity, in California from Sacramento to Bakersfield which is about a little over a 4 hour trip without traffic if driven straight through without picking up the vehicle, gas and food stops, plus loading and unloading. They finally saw the costs and had a contracted carrier pick up and deliver the certificates.
Story2: OP misunderstood, they don't want to pay you overtime, but still expect you to do it. That's typical of a non-represented position, particularly a manager. it's "covered" by the "premium" salary managers are paid.
I'm a consultant. We build these contracts to take place for 3-5years, with baked-in salaries for half a dozen people. Then we complete the project in less than a year, but the contract requires we are paid out ALL salaries to my company for the remaining two years. So, we staff one person who clocks in for 8 hours per day for years whose entire job is just to forward calls in case someone has a question about an already finished project. This lady receives maybe one call per month and makes 6 figures because she's on the books for a dozen contracts. Chillest job ever.
“[...] she works with big cats[...] No, she does not miss her job” Yeah, that REALLY wasn't my question here. DOES SHE GET TO CUDDLE MASSIVE KITTENS?!?!
it likely depends on the type of facility! you cannot socialize cats meant to be released into the wild, but you CAN hang out with already socialized rescues confiscated from illegal owners.
Even if they're socialized at a young age, hanging out with big cats isn't a good idea. They're bigger and stronger than you, and even if they like you they're designed to kill things, so all it takes is one little moment of accidently being too rough with you and you're severely injured or dead. At least in any responsible facility, the practice of allowing full contact between big cats and their keepers - or other large animals like elephants for whom an "oops" moment could be deadly - is on its way out. Not just for the safety of those working with them but for the animals themselves - if an animal badly hurts someone, even accidentally, that taints people's perception of that animal from then on.
in a lot of cases, mid level/upper management actually get bonuses based on cost savings "they" gain the company. So of course they almost always try to cut OT for the lessers.
Due Date story: Trying to force a pregnant lady that was near due date to work entirely on-site? That's no good. But really, I hope Ronnie got reprimanded for trying to pull that s**t
Yes, we should revoke a person's means of living during the most pivotal moment of their lives. You do know that there are laws to protect pregnant people for a reason, right? @@listey
I just don't get the hatred for letting people work from home. I mean, she has already proven, that she was productive doing remote work. But no, if she is not in the office, it's harder to micro manage her. Play stupid games, win stupid prices.
I operate under the assumption that most if not all management people from the top down are "bonus driven", meaning... the less money that is spent and the more that is made the bigger THEIR bonus is, which is fine in principle, but what it also means is that they will eagerly throw people under a bus, burn them at the stake and are short sighted on how doing so may have negative consequences later down the line, all to insure their bonus is maxed out for the immediate pay period.
I have been watching Casual Criminalist, which is mostly about serial killers. I am trying to picture any of them receiving a letter where they are scolded by some rando. lol
Story 5: The old lady fell victim to one of the classic RSLASH blunders: never cut down someone else's trees. Last story: Isn't it illegal to deny reasonable accommodations for medical conditions like pregnancy? Ronnie could've landed the school/office in heaps of trouble if that's the case.
Also story 1: This is an illustration that when you're paid hourly, you're paid for your time, not your labor. I experienced this once for about two months when I was a temp in the mortgage industry before I was hired full time. We had almost no Work to do but the boss didn't want to let two of us go so he hid us off in a corner of the building and told us to just show up clock in amuse ourselves then clock out and leave
“She wrote to a bunch of serial killers in prison to tell them how disappointed she is in them” That’s excellent 😂😂 disappointment is always so much worse than anger 😂
Fence Story: Y'know, maybe she shouldn't have immediately jumped to threatening legal action when talking to OP about the fence. Like, maybe just ask OP to adjust the fence without the threats
or you know, offering to pay for the cost of moving the fence or doing it herself. the biggest expense of a fence is buying the materials itself, installing it is rather cheap compared to that.
@@Artretha She has a high energy dog that seems cooped up a lot. I’m guessing he’s not getting enough exercise, which can lead to destructive behavior.
Regarding the 18 months of doing nothing for Big Blue, ie. IBM: it was once calculated by an internal employee there that, due to all their overhead of meetings to confirm every aspect of every decision anyone ever thought they'd made, it would take at least 9 months to ship a product that was just an empty box. The fact that they got found out in a mere 18 months is, frankly, amazingly fast.
For that last story, aren't pregnant women considered a protected class or something? Like your employer is required to provide reasonable accommodations, and if they retaliate against you for being pregnant (eg they fire you) then they can get sued? Not a lawyer, but I do wonder if OP in that last story had a case or something.
Story 1: heard this on another channel and the guy actually dedicated the ENTIRE VIDEO to this story and all of the comments’ stories about people ending up in the EXACT SAME situation!!! Apparently it’s more common than you think. 🤣🤣 This doesn’t even include a story that this YT’er covered a year or 2 ago where the same thing happened to a Redditor in middle management and he ended up mooching off of the company for a year to a year and a half or so? I don’t remember the timeline but that post had at least 10-15 updates as he updated the readers pretty regularly, and the video the other YT’er did was hilarious. So apparently this kind of thing isn’t too uncommon. Lmao 🤣🤣
I have one of those gravy train jobs like in Story 1. It was an internship at a company who had thought of hiring a person instead of buying a software that would do the same job. The job was to do patent searches to check if their invention would not infringe on existing patents. In the time that I had worked there they only had 2 patents and both of those were already published meaning that the work had gone beyond the point where my work was needed. I worked there for 6 months and would have worked there for even more but I had ended up with an actual job with the salary x5 more than my internship stipend. I sent them the notice to quit and did end up receiving another month of salary after I had quit.
For the fence story, I just thought she was going to lose some of her yard when it got moved, but to have that fence removed altogether is way more deserving toward that hateful woman. She can pay to get her own fence now. Screw her. :P
As it was a government job the employer could claim ownership as it would be created on the job. It probably wouldn't happen, but it could. I have seen it happen and actually have something in my possession that was created by a secretary on a whim, then mass produced and distributed by the agency.
When I was a kid, there was this mean ass dog that lived in the neighborhood. All the neighborhood kids knew to be weary around that yard. One day, we're all playing outside when someone realizes the door leading to the dogs backyard was wiiiide open. We all take off and my lil brother was around 5 or so, so his running speed was...lacking and well, someone had to slow that beast down 😶 he then acquired another dog bite scar to his collection cause it was not the first nor would it be the last 🤦♀️
Oh my heck, you’re poor little brother, that’s horrible. You should take him out to a nice dinner to make up for letting him be the designated sacrificial “lamb” on more than one occasion, apparently.
Kinda reminds me of my old job at the VERY beginning of the pandemic! I was an associate practitioner in the COVID testing labs set up by the NHS and when everyone was told to stay home, we may have had one or two hours of work per week as no one was testing initially... (after about 3 months though, it got busy), That being said, I said I was available to begin work in January but the lab didn't open until March, so I got paid 2 months salary to stay at home!
My malicious compliance story recently: I am a sales person at an IT company. Recently, just close the largest single deal in the almost 40 years of the company's existance. Relevant as obviously I am one of the top achievers at the company. The company is enforcing return to office 3 of the 5 days a week. When I go to the office, I ensure only the urgent work is done (just to keep my customers happy) and then spend the day chatting with colleagues. Removing both them and myself from doing work. You want me in the office to improve productivity? Good luck with that.
I think in your comment about managers in the support story that you forgot that OP and their boss were managers with their boss sounding more like the VP of that sector if the company
The story where the guy wasn't getting any overtime and the other company didn't like that fact reminds me of what happened to my dad. During the 2008 recession when lots of people were losing their jobs My dad didn't lose his job but he wasn't getting paid anymore they basically said well tell you when you have more work to do. Well apparently he was working on a project and the company involved with the project told the owners of the company my dad worked for that if my dad didn't come back to work on that project they were going to take their business elsewhere. So my dad ended up being one of the only workers with basically full time employment again. Not always bad though apparently The owners realized that if some people got degrees that could be beneficial to them so they were actually paying for people to go to college. When the owners decided to get out of that chunk of their business My dad went to work for the other company with a substantial pay raise of course.
12:13 -- Ooooh! He did a Picard Maneuver! He did say "on screen" a lot so that counts right? And if his second-in-command happened to see it and took action, would that count as his Number One making it so?
Story 3: As someone who used to have a neighbor with a fruit tree that hung over my property, the rotting fruit thing can actually be a _massive_ problem. In our case it was mulberries, and they fell into our pond, clogged up the filter, fermented in the water (killing some of our fish), attracted clouds of flies, smelled like _shit,_ and coated any hardscaped surface in a layer of purple sludge. I was a kid at the time (around age 5), but I distinctly recall my mother offering to pay to have the tree removed. The neighbor declined, even though the tree was also turning _her_ yard into a fly-riddled sludge pit. "Dropping fruit in the yard" might sound like a Karen complaint at first, but I wouldn't write it off so quickly - a 50-year-old mulberry tree can turn your yard into an exercise in futility if you have literally anything else to do with your day other than clean up mulberries lmao
Oh man I would've ran a side business, write a book, get my resume updated by getting more skills and keeping my prospective jobs openings on LinkedIn if I had that sweet job.
my best work malicious compliance story: I was a graphic coordinator for a larger newspaper in Georgia. The year I started, the Super Bowl was in Atlanta and we were close enough that the newspaper could print a Special Edition for that Sunday. One major car dealership bought a full page color ad for the event. When the ad came to my desk to check for both graphic and mechanical error to print, the words SUPER BOWL were glaring across the top of the page with the Super Bowl logo on it. I brought this to the attention of the designer who said it's what the ad rep and client wanted. I went to the ad rep and explained SUPER BOWL and the logo were copyright infringement and being so close to Atlanta, it was going to be noticed by the NFL. This ad rep didn't like me in the first place because he knew I knew he was full of BS most of the time and called him out a lot on it. He finally said "I'm who brings money into here, just do your F------- job." I decided no, and went to the director of advertising.who literally said to me "you're about as important as a fry cook at McDonald's. Just do your job and run what the client wants." I said fine, but I WANT IT IN WRITING that this ad is running against advisement. I wrote the letter, got both the ad rep and director to sign and gave each a copy. I also sent a copy to HR who just ignored it as me causing issues. The aftermath" the NFL DID see the ad and sued the newspaper AND the dealership. When HR called a meeting about it, the ad rep AND director started throwing me under the bus saying as coordinator I should have known, I should have warned them and HR said they received nothing saying from anyone about it. That's when I produced copies of the signed letter to everyone there, including the owner and publisher of the paper. And I said, if you want to see the original, I will provide it. If I'm fired over this, I'll provide it to my attorney. The owner, who transifered me there from another newspaper he owned in the Midwest, said "no, that's ok. I think I've seen what I need. You're excused." It was my lunch hour then so I took it. When I returned, the ad rep was cleaning his desk and the name of the director was being removed from the wall next to his door. I heard the newspaper settled with the dealership and the NFL for a total amount somewhere in the six figure range. All for a $3500 ad I said was wrong.
10:31 I had to do the same thing at a (just over) minimum wage supermarket job. One week I did 33 (of 39, not in US nothing to do with denying benefits) hours in 3 days including a 13 hour day when someone called in sick and we were nearing the end of the tax year so no overtime for anyone, just short shifts if you’ve gone over your time. I tried to explain to the manager on duty of the Friday that I needed to leave early both that day and Saturday, he ignored me and sent me home half an hour early on the Friday and told me it was ‘fine’. He was less happy coming to me on Saturday morning about half 9 when he told me I had to leave at 10, and I would get the half hour of overtime whilst I covered for my replacement coming in.
I actually have a sweet government-ish job related to the certification of PDO and PGI wine and grapes. On paper I work 8 hours a day minimum wage, but in reality I work 2 month of the year in total hours. We have a busy season around September and we have a wine tasting every month or two, but my office hours with the public are 9am-1pm and I'm alone in my office, my boss is busy and has given me freedom to basically do whatever, because when it comes to it, I do my job extremely well. So I have another job in the afternoon, which sometimes pays me triple my minimum wage (private ESL teacher) and it's awesome. My position is actually necessary for the industry, but very uneventful the majority of the year. We do some projects here and there, but it's the best gig. I also get the best regional wines for free.
Zero Overtime - It's not simply that Upper Management thinks the grunts are expendable, it's that they think we're replaceable, that there's a thousand like us just waiting to step in when they break us.
1st story: lmfao my previous position was basically being part of the furniture. and yes it was a government job lol. during that time i enrolled in Mandarin Class, tried to learn digital art, read books, tried to learn morse code but quit 2h later cuz of my adhd and brought my gaming laptop to work. i eventually transferred to another government sector that doesn't drive my adhd brain to insanity lol
22 inches of yard means a lot more in the UK than... America or Australia. If our neighbour moved the back fence 22 inches closer into our property, we wouldn't be able to open our back door anymore.
@@melissaconnellyjones2622 This is fairly normal for England, and this specific 100+ year old type of house, the entire property is barely more than 13 foot wide. The floor plan is basically every room one behind another, with room to room access in most cases, though there is a corridor to the staircase, and and corridor on the upper floor. I don't know the total length, but it's probably around 80 to 120 foot, including the front and back yards. Either way, when you have a grand total of less than 14 foot for the entire width of the property, stealing almost 2 food would be very significant, and obvious.
Something similar happened to me, only not job-related. When we still had Cable TV we were only paying for 1 group of channels. Then a special promotion occurred and we got a 2nd group of channels. We didn't know about the deal and still had the channels for years until we changed something I don't recall. So without the 2nd bundle, we called our provider to ask what happened. That's when we discovered they had been giving us a free bundle for years and didn't notice.
I listened to this last night, and I happened to be watching worst roommate ever just now, where a soldier was poisoned but the initial cause of death was thought to be plague from a prairie dog. Season 2 episode 3. Made me wonder if these things are perhaps related. Depending on timing of each case, of course.
MC with a hint of Tree Law! How exciting ^-^ I miss the Tree Law and real estate stories, but I get that AITA and MC stuff does better for the algorithm. Thanks for another great episode, Dab!
I had a no OT allowed job once too... I was given the same "orders" to cut all OT on Friday! Well for several weeks my time on the clock for Friday was 2-3 hours instead of 8. So, then i was to cut my OT on Thursdays and just immediately leave at the end of my shift on Friday. The first Friday of this new rule... No one shows up all day for my department, so i have to do my job while also answer customers questions as well as i was the only one forklift certified in the store... I still ended the week with 3 hours of OT! Management just gave up and tole me to try to keep OT to under 3 hours 🤣
So "Ronnie" just wants to continue forcing a VERY pregnant woman to work on an on-job site? That's a form of abuse of power, on top of an illegal act! If a pregnant woman is pushed to the point of being forced into labor, a miscarriage or even harm to both the mom and the baby, then it's a SERIOUS problem! Not only would the person who forced the pregnant to keep working get into serious legal trouble, but so would the company that OP works at. And I wouldn't be surprised if OP filed a lawsuit against Ronnie for endangering the health and safety of both herself and her unborn baby!
Thats not how overtime works. Now, it might not be the US. But in the US, overtime, doesn't build up over the week, and as soon as you hit 40hrs it starts. If you have an 8hr shift, you get a minimum 30min lunch, and 2 15min breaks. And anything over that for that day, is overtime. Any boss telling you to structure it in, is breaking the law. Record and report it. You deserve that pay.
Do to the concept of adverse possession the new home owner did need to do something if she wanted to keep ownership of the land that the fence was on and not lose the land sometime in the future. From my amateur knowledge of property law I would think that drafting up an easement to allow the fence to stay for a duration of time would be enough.
Sounds like the big manager was trying to get himself a bigger end of year bonus for himself by reducing budget expenditure from overtimes, but since sometimes managers are only hired to deal with a team/ people and dont know how the actual buisness works he didnt realize what probelms he was causing. And since he is a manager he probably wouldnt even listen to asvice
Love the daily uploads, I watch them every morning! However, I hope that you enjoy doing it too. I feel like most people need a weekend off to have a break. Doing it daily can get tedious.
The first story is kind of frustrating. This kind of thing happens all the time and it’s a big factor in government spending. It’s the reason why defence contracts are so big, so much waste because of negligence. Yea this is not OP’s friends fault but they obviously could have said something before just wasting a year of time with an office full of people
Oh that tree story really pissed me off bc recently my uncle said he knew a great Gardener for my garden and my mum just let the guy into my house while I was at work. He was only meant to cut the grass but when my mum got there he was cutting down my expensive trees! 😡 I was so angry, he's so lucky it wasn't me that caught him there. I'm so furious at both of them bc apparently he couldn't speak English so obviously he would need to be observed if that were the case. Edit Oh not to mention, you wanna know why he did that? Because my neighbour apparently told him to. Like wtf, what kind of person takes instructions from a neighbour? He said he thought she owned both houses. Oof it's got me all riled up again, I'm so frickin pissed at her.
I love the away days. However the surprisingly limited footage has impacted some of the recent ones. Generally the only time I forward the video is when you are loosing badly
Anne: "Remove the fence!"
OP: **Removes the Fence**
Anne: "Uh...when are you building a new fence? My dog might run away and is chewing my furniture!"
Love it when people demand you do something that will affect them in the long run, inadvertently shooting themselves in the foot.
When I was hearing about this dog barking at everything and chewing on furniture etc., I thought this woman should worry more about training her damn dog and/or getting him into doggy daycare if he's that destructive.
@@jamesnorman9160 My first thought was that she's not exercising the dog nearly enough.
well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions
My side fence is nearly two full feet in my neighbor's yard. She wants me to take it down. I refused since the fence is on her property and it's been there since before I bought the house. We've feuded about it for years and she even tried to take me to court. The court ruled that the fence is on her property, so it's her responsibility to take it down.
@@THEDubbleHelixx Yeah, they said it was a German Shepherd? Can be high-energy dogs. If she's leaving it at home all day while she works, that isn't fair on the dog at all.
I love how excited Dabney gets when trees get brought up. In another life, he could have been a tree lawyer.
Rather unsatisfying Tree Law (tm) story, really. Karen didn't lose her property.
He probably was! 💙
I think he was a free in a past life
That would be hilarious. Imagine him being a lawyer
@@bigjalapeno7061 All of his closing arguments would be in dirty limerick form.
I’m suprised big boss wasn’t fired in story two. What’s even more funny is that he is trying to retaliate against OP, but to no avail.
Yea really
And he still tells OP an illegal instruction. The lunch is not to replace your OT. It is 100% off clock. OP should still call the labor board or department
Those types of wildlife management jobs are pretty essential but it’s neat that they got paid just doing nothing except organizing the office
It sounds like a pretty nice job
@@bigjalapeno7061 until you accidentally infect yourself with the bubonic plague lmao
@@kaiseremotion854 The bubonic plague can be treated with antibiotics if caught soon enough. Worst that happens is you get hospitalized in an isolation room. That being said, I agree. It sounds very unpleasant.
@@bethanyboarder7751 yea it's treatable, but at the same time you don't wanna catch it lol, also there is that tiny chance you do die. Iirc a woman in the middle of no where died cause she didn't recognize the symptoms before it was too late
@@kaiseremotion854 jeez. I definitley don't deny it's unpleasant, but a lot of people think it's still untreatable and you will inevitably die, so I wanted to put that out there for anybody who thinks that
The "Zero Overtime" story reminded me of something I used to say all the time: "You can annoy your direct manager all you want as long as THEIR higher ups are favorable to you."
That's awesome
Last story: Ronnie is literally the sort of boss that gets employers sued for violating worker protections. HR took one look at OP and went "the lawsuit isn't worth it."
HR looking at 8.9mo super pregnant woman: 😮 Best get her home now, she's going to pop! Definitely not worth it happening there.
Story 1: Bubonic plague (Y. Pestis) is endemic in prairie dogs. So monitoring this dangerous pathogen in the animal reservoir seems a reasonable public health measure. OTOH, the mismanagement of OP’s position is par for the course for management types.
Add this to things he doesn’t know ( this is the most reasonable one)
1.) what foods are good sources of B vitamins
2.) how to pronounce Isaac
government shit is always managed so poorly. I was once sent on a 6 hour round trip to clean the inside of one of those light up store signs (the ones with the 2 plastic panels with branding and the fluro tubes in the middle). ANYONE could have done it, but due to poor management, the company I worked for was the only one that was allowed to do it and yes, we billed travel each way (hourly rate and fuel usage).
on another occasion, I was sent to the hardware store to buy 20 electric heaters because the HVAC was down in an office building. I warned them that running all of them would probably trip a breaker, but did they listen? no. I was paid to drive to the hardware store, we charged 10% on top of cost for the heaters, then I was paid to plug one in under each desk, just for the breaker to trip like I warned. all because it was 18ºC (65ºF) in the building instead of the usual 21ºC (70ºF). the HVAC was only going to be down a day and it was spring, so was not getting any colder.
I have a bunch of other stories just like those ones and I rarely worked on jobs for that contract, my main work was on other stuff, the boss just got me to do that shit when all the other guys were busy.
It's a serious issue in Mongolia where eating raw prairie dog liver is supposed to give you powers
There was a delivery of important certificates to the wrong office by GSA. Those managers in the DC offices don’t consider the distances in the Western states as compared to the Eastern states. The size of the shipment was about 50 cartons weighing 25 to 30 pounds each. I said that they needed to get a contract carrier to move them to the correct location. Their first response was “put them in your vehicle and deliver them”. My response was:
1) I need to rent a larger vehicle as none of ours are large enough;
2) Will you authorize per diem, including lodging and meals
3) take a piece string to your wall map placing it to cover the distance between both locations and now make a circle with it from their office location. How many states will be crossed?
They finally conceded when the estimated cost of my taking 2 days to make the delivery would cost them (not from our budget!).
Yes, this was within a single state. But for simplicity, in California from Sacramento to Bakersfield which is about a little over a 4 hour trip without traffic if driven straight through without picking up the vehicle, gas and food stops, plus loading and unloading.
They finally saw the costs and had a contracted carrier pick up and deliver the certificates.
@@rynieryarom4277 yeah... the power to time travel and die from a disease we could have eradicated ages ago
Story2: OP misunderstood, they don't want to pay you overtime, but still expect you to do it. That's typical of a non-represented position, particularly a manager. it's "covered" by the "premium" salary managers are paid.
Nope, he 100% understood what he was doing.
I'm a consultant. We build these contracts to take place for 3-5years, with baked-in salaries for half a dozen people. Then we complete the project in less than a year, but the contract requires we are paid out ALL salaries to my company for the remaining two years. So, we staff one person who clocks in for 8 hours per day for years whose entire job is just to forward calls in case someone has a question about an already finished project. This lady receives maybe one call per month and makes 6 figures because she's on the books for a dozen contracts. Chillest job ever.
“[...] she works with big cats[...] No, she does not miss her job”
Yeah, that REALLY wasn't my question here.
DOES SHE GET TO CUDDLE MASSIVE KITTENS?!?!
The only question that truly matters
it likely depends on the type of facility! you cannot socialize cats meant to be released into the wild, but you CAN hang out with already socialized rescues confiscated from illegal owners.
I did that once when I was little
Even if they're socialized at a young age, hanging out with big cats isn't a good idea. They're bigger and stronger than you, and even if they like you they're designed to kill things, so all it takes is one little moment of accidently being too rough with you and you're severely injured or dead. At least in any responsible facility, the practice of allowing full contact between big cats and their keepers - or other large animals like elephants for whom an "oops" moment could be deadly - is on its way out. Not just for the safety of those working with them but for the animals themselves - if an animal badly hurts someone, even accidentally, that taints people's perception of that animal from then on.
That guy was paid more than twice as much as most teachers for keeping a journal.
More than twice as much? Try 5 times. lol
Lot more than twice
I missed the bit where they said he's a teacher. I think you may have invented that bit..
@@listey i think you invented the bit where the commenter called him a teacher lol
@@lionlessartdepending on your accreditations teachers can make 100,000 a year
Overtime story: I love to see bosses lose more money after trying to cut costs they shouldn't be cutting.
corporate greed just always makes you brake a working system trying to save pennies. it would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad
Yep. Don't cut costs
My workplace tries to say no overtime but then don’t schedule more people during the rushes then get mad people hav e to stay later
in a lot of cases, mid level/upper management actually get bonuses based on cost savings "they" gain the company. So of course they almost always try to cut OT for the lessers.
Due Date story: Trying to force a pregnant lady that was near due date to work entirely on-site? That's no good.
But really, I hope Ronnie got reprimanded for trying to pull that s**t
I don't see the big deal. If she's not capable of working then she shouldn't be taking the paycheck.
Yes, we should revoke a person's means of living during the most pivotal moment of their lives. You do know that there are laws to protect pregnant people for a reason, right? @@listey
I just don't get the hatred for letting people work from home. I mean, she has already proven, that she was productive doing remote work. But no, if she is not in the office, it's harder to micro manage her.
Play stupid games, win stupid prices.
I operate under the assumption that most if not all management people from the top down are "bonus driven", meaning... the less money that is spent and the more that is made the bigger THEIR bonus is, which is fine in principle, but what it also means is that they will eagerly throw people under a bus, burn them at the stake and are short sighted on how doing so may have negative consequences later down the line, all to insure their bonus is maxed out for the immediate pay period.
I have been watching Casual Criminalist, which is mostly about serial killers. I am trying to picture any of them receiving a letter where they are scolded by some rando. lol
Love Simon, he's the best!
Story 5: The old lady fell victim to one of the classic RSLASH blunders: never cut down someone else's trees.
Last story: Isn't it illegal to deny reasonable accommodations for medical conditions like pregnancy? Ronnie could've landed the school/office in heaps of trouble if that's the case.
there was a part in parentheses that rslash didn't read that said basically exactly that for the last story, so... yes!
"big blue" is not a consulting company, its literally IBM
Also story 1: This is an illustration that when you're paid hourly, you're paid for your time, not your labor. I experienced this once for about two months when I was a temp in the mortgage industry before I was hired full time. We had almost no
Work to do but the boss didn't want to let two of us go so he hid us off in a corner of the building and told us to just show up clock in amuse ourselves then clock out and leave
This is a good excuse to bring a deck of cards or a couple of board games.
“She wrote to a bunch of serial killers in prison to tell them how disappointed she is in them”
That’s excellent 😂😂 disappointment is always so much worse than anger 😂
Always take advantage of your employers to the maximum possible extent.
Yeah prairie dogs carry the plague™️ and it’s something that every Coloradan has told me since I moved here lol
Fence Story: Y'know, maybe she shouldn't have immediately jumped to threatening legal action when talking to OP about the fence.
Like, maybe just ask OP to adjust the fence without the threats
Especially since she didn't even train her dog properly. If she had, it wouldn't have torn her furniture or been aggressive toward kids.
Come on now, a "jumping the fence" joke was right there! 😂
Lol yea
or you know, offering to pay for the cost of moving the fence or doing it herself. the biggest expense of a fence is buying the materials itself, installing it is rather cheap compared to that.
@@Artretha She has a high energy dog that seems cooped up a lot. I’m guessing he’s not getting enough exercise, which can lead to destructive behavior.
rSlash "...she works with big cats"
me: does she know Carol Baskin? 🤔
Regarding the 18 months of doing nothing for Big Blue, ie. IBM: it was once calculated by an internal employee there that, due to all their overhead of meetings to confirm every aspect of every decision anyone ever thought they'd made, it would take at least 9 months to ship a product that was just an empty box. The fact that they got found out in a mere 18 months is, frankly, amazingly fast.
For that last story, aren't pregnant women considered a protected class or something? Like your employer is required to provide reasonable accommodations, and if they retaliate against you for being pregnant (eg they fire you) then they can get sued? Not a lawyer, but I do wonder if OP in that last story had a case or something.
It's usually circumstantial, but I would guess the OP had a potential case and that's why HR was so accommodating.
It’s actually mentioned in the post that they can’t force OP to go on leave if there’s a reasonable accommodation that can be made
Me eating Mac and cheese at 9am listening to Rslash
Sounds like such a vibe, wanna share 🤣
Got any Mac and cheese left? I'm hungry. 🤤🤣
Me eating a biscuit at 8am 😉
I made breakfast burritos while listening... yum.
Lol that sounds nice as long as he doesn't tell a gross story
Story 1: heard this on another channel and the guy actually dedicated the ENTIRE VIDEO to this story and all of the comments’ stories about people ending up in the EXACT SAME situation!!! Apparently it’s more common than you think. 🤣🤣 This doesn’t even include a story that this YT’er covered a year or 2 ago where the same thing happened to a Redditor in middle management and he ended up mooching off of the company for a year to a year and a half or so? I don’t remember the timeline but that post had at least 10-15 updates as he updated the readers pretty regularly, and the video the other YT’er did was hilarious. So apparently this kind of thing isn’t too uncommon. Lmao 🤣🤣
I have one of those gravy train jobs like in Story 1.
It was an internship at a company who had thought of hiring a person instead of buying a software that would do the same job. The job was to do patent searches to check if their invention would not infringe on existing patents. In the time that I had worked there they only had 2 patents and both of those were already published meaning that the work had gone beyond the point where my work was needed.
I worked there for 6 months and would have worked there for even more but I had ended up with an actual job with the salary x5 more than my internship stipend. I sent them the notice to quit and did end up receiving another month of salary after I had quit.
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Re. the story about the guy getting $250k for sitting at home writing a journal, "Big Blue" was the nickname for IBM.
For the fence story, I just thought she was going to lose some of her yard when it got moved, but to have that fence removed altogether is way more deserving toward that hateful woman. She can pay to get her own fence now. Screw her. :P
My day can't start without my R/slash. 😊
you're legally allowed to cut off any branches that cross your property line so long as you stay exactly on your property
That first one....I would have written a book or something while "on-the-job" lol
Same. Writing stories is one of my hobbies.
As it was a government job the employer could claim ownership as it would be created on the job. It probably wouldn't happen, but it could. I have seen it happen and actually have something in my possession that was created by a secretary on a whim, then mass produced and distributed by the agency.
@@shannonp1656 really? Even if let's say they only used their personal phone to write it?
@@brittnt If it is on government time, yes. It may not happen, but it could.
When I was a kid, there was this mean ass dog that lived in the neighborhood. All the neighborhood kids knew to be weary around that yard. One day, we're all playing outside when someone realizes the door leading to the dogs backyard was wiiiide open. We all take off and my lil brother was around 5 or so, so his running speed was...lacking and well, someone had to slow that beast down 😶 he then acquired another dog bite scar to his collection cause it was not the first nor would it be the last 🤦♀️
Oh wow
Oh my heck, you’re poor little brother, that’s horrible. You should take him out to a nice dinner to make up for letting him be the designated sacrificial “lamb” on more than one occasion, apparently.
Not Reading That. Quick Question, What Do You Think I’m Gonna Tell You.
It's the friend of the OP in story 1 writing to literal serial killers and chastising them for what they did that cracks me tf up. 😂😂
Kinda reminds me of my old job at the VERY beginning of the pandemic! I was an associate practitioner in the COVID testing labs set up by the NHS and when everyone was told to stay home, we may have had one or two hours of work per week as no one was testing initially... (after about 3 months though, it got busy),
That being said, I said I was available to begin work in January but the lab didn't open until March, so I got paid 2 months salary to stay at home!
1st story: Why did the OP's friend writing serial killers to them she's disappointed in them make me laugh so hard?? 🤣🤣
I can't be the only one that started chanting TREE LAW TREE LAW TREE LAW!, right?
...right?!?!
I did.
morning everyone, time to rise and grind with r/slash in the background 🗣
Morning
My malicious compliance story recently: I am a sales person at an IT company. Recently, just close the largest single deal in the almost 40 years of the company's existance. Relevant as obviously I am one of the top achievers at the company. The company is enforcing return to office 3 of the 5 days a week. When I go to the office, I ensure only the urgent work is done (just to keep my customers happy) and then spend the day chatting with colleagues. Removing both them and myself from doing work. You want me in the office to improve productivity? Good luck with that.
I think in your comment about managers in the support story that you forgot that OP and their boss were managers with their boss sounding more like the VP of that sector if the company
i love that these past few videos have been getting longer, thanks Dabney !!
Razzy can get through BAMBOO? That's one tough doggo! I mean, they used to use bamboo for armor!💙
The story where the guy wasn't getting any overtime and the other company didn't like that fact reminds me of what happened to my dad.
During the 2008 recession when lots of people were losing their jobs My dad didn't lose his job but he wasn't getting paid anymore they basically said well tell you when you have more work to do. Well apparently he was working on a project and the company involved with the project told the owners of the company my dad worked for that if my dad didn't come back to work on that project they were going to take their business elsewhere. So my dad ended up being one of the only workers with basically full time employment again.
Not always bad though apparently The owners realized that if some people got degrees that could be beneficial to them so they were actually paying for people to go to college.
When the owners decided to get out of that chunk of their business My dad went to work for the other company with a substantial pay raise of course.
12:13 -- Ooooh! He did a Picard Maneuver! He did say "on screen" a lot so that counts right? And if his second-in-command happened to see it and took action, would that count as his Number One making it so?
The first story has me howling 😂😂😂😂😂 the things they did for boredom 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Story 3: As someone who used to have a neighbor with a fruit tree that hung over my property, the rotting fruit thing can actually be a _massive_ problem. In our case it was mulberries, and they fell into our pond, clogged up the filter, fermented in the water (killing some of our fish), attracted clouds of flies, smelled like _shit,_ and coated any hardscaped surface in a layer of purple sludge. I was a kid at the time (around age 5), but I distinctly recall my mother offering to pay to have the tree removed. The neighbor declined, even though the tree was also turning _her_ yard into a fly-riddled sludge pit.
"Dropping fruit in the yard" might sound like a Karen complaint at first, but I wouldn't write it off so quickly - a 50-year-old mulberry tree can turn your yard into an exercise in futility if you have literally anything else to do with your day other than clean up mulberries lmao
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Imagine spending many laborious hours learning a new skill just to find out that you don't like that skill? Well, at least they got paid for it.
That's dry bamboo, fresh bamboo, however, is quite weak.
Oh man I would've ran a side business, write a book, get my resume updated by getting more skills and keeping my prospective jobs openings on LinkedIn if I had that sweet job.
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Too bad that the employees of the first job didn't have a board game hobby. Would have made it the perfect job
My thoughts exactly. Hell, a deck of cards and some things to use as chips could suffice.
Rslash: I’d love to see that guys journal entries. Day 416: -
Markiplier AD: I am desperately begging -
If I got paid to do nothing, I'd code my own personal projects all day just to look like I'm doing something important
For the fence: tell her that if it is on her property, it is her problem, and hers to take down.
my best work malicious compliance story:
I was a graphic coordinator for a larger newspaper in Georgia. The year I started, the Super Bowl was in Atlanta and we were close enough that the newspaper could print a Special Edition for that Sunday. One major car dealership bought a full page color ad for the event. When the ad came to my desk to check for both graphic and mechanical error to print, the words SUPER BOWL were glaring across the top of the page with the Super Bowl logo on it. I brought this to the attention of the designer who said it's what the ad rep and client wanted.
I went to the ad rep and explained SUPER BOWL and the logo were copyright infringement and being so close to Atlanta, it was going to be noticed by the NFL. This ad rep didn't like me in the first place because he knew I knew he was full of BS most of the time and called him out a lot on it. He finally said "I'm who brings money into here, just do your F------- job." I decided no, and went to the director of advertising.who literally said to me "you're about as important as a fry cook at McDonald's. Just do your job and run what the client wants." I said fine, but I WANT IT IN WRITING that this ad is running against advisement. I wrote the letter, got both the ad rep and director to sign and gave each a copy. I also sent a copy to HR who just ignored it as me causing issues.
The aftermath" the NFL DID see the ad and sued the newspaper AND the dealership. When HR called a meeting about it, the ad rep AND director started throwing me under the bus saying as coordinator I should have known, I should have warned them and HR said they received nothing saying from anyone about it. That's when I produced copies of the signed letter to everyone there, including the owner and publisher of the paper. And I said, if you want to see the original, I will provide it. If I'm fired over this, I'll provide it to my attorney.
The owner, who transifered me there from another newspaper he owned in the Midwest, said "no, that's ok. I think I've seen what I need. You're excused."
It was my lunch hour then so I took it. When I returned, the ad rep was cleaning his desk and the name of the director was being removed from the wall next to his door. I heard the newspaper settled with the dealership and the NFL for a total amount somewhere in the six figure range. All for a $3500 ad I said was wrong.
10:31 I had to do the same thing at a (just over) minimum wage supermarket job. One week I did 33 (of 39, not in US nothing to do with denying benefits) hours in 3 days including a 13 hour day when someone called in sick and we were nearing the end of the tax year so no overtime for anyone, just short shifts if you’ve gone over your time. I tried to explain to the manager on duty of the Friday that I needed to leave early both that day and Saturday, he ignored me and sent me home half an hour early on the Friday and told me it was ‘fine’. He was less happy coming to me on Saturday morning about half 9 when he told me I had to leave at 10, and I would get the half hour of overtime whilst I covered for my replacement coming in.
Last story, Ronnie is not a doctor. HR needs to let her know that before OP drowns that place in legal action.
I actually have a sweet government-ish job related to the certification of PDO and PGI wine and grapes. On paper I work 8 hours a day minimum wage, but in reality I work 2 month of the year in total hours. We have a busy season around September and we have a wine tasting every month or two, but my office hours with the public are 9am-1pm and I'm alone in my office, my boss is busy and has given me freedom to basically do whatever, because when it comes to it, I do my job extremely well. So I have another job in the afternoon, which sometimes pays me triple my minimum wage (private ESL teacher) and it's awesome. My position is actually necessary for the industry, but very uneventful the majority of the year. We do some projects here and there, but it's the best gig. I also get the best regional wines for free.
Need more tree law stories
Zero Overtime - It's not simply that Upper Management thinks the grunts are expendable, it's that they think we're replaceable, that there's a thousand like us just waiting to step in when they break us.
1st story: lmfao my previous position was basically being part of the furniture. and yes it was a government job lol. during that time i enrolled in Mandarin Class, tried to learn digital art, read books, tried to learn morse code but quit 2h later cuz of my adhd and brought my gaming laptop to work. i eventually transferred to another government sector that doesn't drive my adhd brain to insanity lol
I wanna hear the boredom christmas jingles....
22 inches of yard means a lot more in the UK than... America or Australia.
If our neighbour moved the back fence 22 inches closer into our property, we wouldn't be able to open our back door anymore.
Wow, that is a really small space. I hope your neighbors never do that to you.
@@melissaconnellyjones2622 This is fairly normal for England, and this specific 100+ year old type of house, the entire property is barely more than 13 foot wide. The floor plan is basically every room one behind another, with room to room access in most cases, though there is a corridor to the staircase, and and corridor on the upper floor.
I don't know the total length, but it's probably around 80 to 120 foot, including the front and back yards.
Either way, when you have a grand total of less than 14 foot for the entire width of the property, stealing almost 2 food would be very significant, and obvious.
Something similar happened to me, only not job-related. When we still had Cable TV we were only paying for 1 group of channels. Then a special promotion occurred and we got a 2nd group of channels. We didn't know about the deal and still had the channels for years until we changed something I don't recall. So without the 2nd bundle, we called our provider to ask what happened. That's when we discovered they had been giving us a free bundle for years and didn't notice.
Wrote the serial killers and told them how she was disappointed in them is gold! I love it
I listened to this last night, and I happened to be watching worst roommate ever just now, where a soldier was poisoned but the initial cause of death was thought to be plague from a prairie dog. Season 2 episode 3. Made me wonder if these things are perhaps related. Depending on timing of each case, of course.
Ah yes don’t talk and be nice to your neighbours, throw the book at them and then suffer the consequences.
MC with a hint of Tree Law! How exciting ^-^ I miss the Tree Law and real estate stories, but I get that AITA and MC stuff does better for the algorithm. Thanks for another great episode, Dab!
Ah yes, my daily R/slash after doing an all nighter, how nice
I had a no OT allowed job once too... I was given the same "orders" to cut all OT on Friday! Well for several weeks my time on the clock for Friday was 2-3 hours instead of 8. So, then i was to cut my OT on Thursdays and just immediately leave at the end of my shift on Friday. The first Friday of this new rule... No one shows up all day for my department, so i have to do my job while also answer customers questions as well as i was the only one forklift certified in the store... I still ended the week with 3 hours of OT! Management just gave up and tole me to try to keep OT to under 3 hours 🤣
16:58 "this killed the tree"
r/slas; -gleefully- "Uh-oh! UH-OH!"
Me: -gleefully- "TrEeLaW!!!" :D
Story 1: This is peak George Costanza right here.
Especially when they mentioned making the nest underneath the desk! 😂😂😂 George would definitely be proud.
Boss gives you trouble. Well I guess I'll just call your boss
The zero overtime story was giving me flashbacks of when I worked in customer service. NEVER AGAIN!
"Paid for nothing" was crazy, I just wish the girl never saw her boss.
Hey rslash can you do some more r/let’s not meet videos please
The management is dispensable thing won't work here dude, op was the manager
The first story was literally at the George Costanza level of nuts.
So "Ronnie" just wants to continue forcing a VERY pregnant woman to work on an on-job site?
That's a form of abuse of power, on top of an illegal act! If a pregnant woman is pushed to the point of being forced into labor, a miscarriage or even harm to both the mom and the baby, then it's a SERIOUS problem!
Not only would the person who forced the pregnant to keep working get into serious legal trouble, but so would the company that OP works at. And I wouldn't be surprised if OP filed a lawsuit against Ronnie for endangering the health and safety of both herself and her unborn baby!
Thats not how overtime works. Now, it might not be the US. But in the US, overtime, doesn't build up over the week, and as soon as you hit 40hrs it starts. If you have an 8hr shift, you get a minimum 30min lunch, and 2 15min breaks. And anything over that for that day, is overtime. Any boss telling you to structure it in, is breaking the law. Record and report it. You deserve that pay.
Do to the concept of adverse possession the new home owner did need to do something if she wanted to keep ownership of the land that the fence was on and not lose the land sometime in the future. From my amateur knowledge of property law I would think that drafting up an easement to allow the fence to stay for a duration of time would be enough.
Just hit 30 guys!!! Wish me luck with it
Regarding the story "Zero Overtime", this is why I sometimes call it "Upper manglement".
Yes, plague is still common in the American South West. In New Mexico alone, the average is 11 cases per year.
Sounds like the big manager was trying to get himself a bigger end of year bonus for himself by reducing budget expenditure from overtimes, but since sometimes managers are only hired to deal with a team/ people and dont know how the actual buisness works he didnt realize what probelms he was causing. And since he is a manager he probably wouldnt even listen to asvice
Love the daily uploads, I watch them every morning! However, I hope that you enjoy doing it too. I feel like most people need a weekend off to have a break. Doing it daily can get tedious.
Could make you cry over the fact that someone made almost what you make in a year in one month doing NOTHING 😂😅😢😭
The first story is kind of frustrating. This kind of thing happens all the time and it’s a big factor in government spending. It’s the reason why defence contracts are so big, so much waste because of negligence. Yea this is not OP’s friends fault but they obviously could have said something before just wasting a year of time with an office full of people
Oh that tree story really pissed me off bc recently my uncle said he knew a great Gardener for my garden and my mum just let the guy into my house while I was at work. He was only meant to cut the grass but when my mum got there he was cutting down my expensive trees! 😡 I was so angry, he's so lucky it wasn't me that caught him there. I'm so furious at both of them bc apparently he couldn't speak English so obviously he would need to be observed if that were the case.
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Oh not to mention, you wanna know why he did that? Because my neighbour apparently told him to. Like wtf, what kind of person takes instructions from a neighbour? He said he thought she owned both houses. Oof it's got me all riled up again, I'm so frickin pissed at her.
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Was not expecting a Tree Law story. 🙂
Is there a special reason that people on Reddit and other social media say “anyways” instead of “anyway”?
First story:
So I could have worked for this company and saved 16 years of higher education and made almost the same amount of money. 😢
Thank you Dabney for the gre😢video 2:19 at
George costanza would be proud
😂😂😂😂😂 the way she said b*tch gets me
Hurry up and wait at its finest
1st: Average government job moment, wouldn't be surprised if it was used for shady politician's less than legal stuff
I love the away days. However the surprisingly limited footage has impacted some of the recent ones. Generally the only time I forward the video is when you are loosing badly