"Being willing to work only 8 hours a day says a lot about your commitment to this company" "The company being willing to only pay me for 8 hours a day says a lot about its commitment to its employees"
we have atm a staff member who is calling in sick with only a couple of hours' notice, so our supervisor is having to scramble to get their shifts covered, and guess who's usually asked about that, so I printed out a tweet that reads "Let's normalize not confusing someone's free time with their availability" [Broderick Hunter, Oct 29, 2020] and pinned it to the office noticeboard
Yeah , the dismissiveness (if that's actually a word) based on age , experience etc. Listening to the person's ideas then deciding doesn't take much energy . Unless this person is a Superstar at there job and knows if it ain't broke don't fix it . Only reason I can think of for them to at least not hear her out . Happy Trails
I understand the gripe. However, being in an environment that has significant consequences for being out of procedure, cover your butt, and don't reinvent the wheel.
I know I keep saying this, but I love these. 🤣👍❤️ One of the maxims I teach in my real-world software engineering class (CS 428, BYU) is: The only way to effect change in your organization is to go in every day prepared to be fired. I heard that in a session at a software engineering conference in the early 1990s; the truth of it hit me immediately, and I’ve repeated it ever since.
Subscribed some time ago but this may my first time saying, Thank You. Such a good resource for workers. It absolutely is fine to say, I work my hours without saying, F you. Notwithstanding that, as a Scot, totally love your 'UNT' mug. Chef's kiss. Keep up the good work. Within 9-5, obvs. Excellent.👏
There are companies that actually respect their employees and healthy boundaries. This is why i feel so loyal to my company. They respect my time so i work the best i can during my work hours.
Every single time I have put down a boundary about volunteering my time to a job, I get iced out of everything and let go within a couple months. Almost like businesses don't value a work/life balance for the peons.
When I was still in trucking, I'd take a couple weeks off at Christmas, coming back out (ending time off, getting back on the road) after New Year's Day. Most of the time, we wouldn't have any loads shipping during that week, so ... Every once in a while, dispatch would call and ask if I could get a load within 2-3 hours away before the end of the year (customer "needs the product off their yard"). We'd work out a compensation, usually a couple extra days added to the end of my time off. That company was GREAT. (It got sold while I was off work from a knee injury; out of a hundred drivers, I understand now there's 8; almost all of our trucks and trailers are sitting in one of a couple yards not being used..)
❤Brilliant! Management always wants to leave work early so they tell the team to be ready to work early too so I skip 1/2 of my unpaid break to be sure I get paid ALL of my hours to keep my hourly pay. One manager said I need to stay the entire time frame I’m scheduled, but then changed his mind by the end of the night. I made it clear that I can’t afford to lose hourly pay so either he approves the shorter break time or we can stay until the later hour. I love that he couldn’t fight me on this schedule. 😂
Tip from a CTO who has learned this over the course of 24+ years in the field of IT: Video and phone and in-person meetings need to be summarised. Ask your manager to confirm your conversation's main topics via email, or suggest that you do it instead. Always CC (not BCC) HR (if you have them) and their boss (if they have one) in the email, too. Always send yourself a copy (BCC!) to your private email. Paper trails saved my butt several times. "Hi manager, just to confirm the points we discussed in our video call today. You want me to work weekend hours because otherwise a future promotion is off the table. You agreed that my freelance rate is 200% during those days, and 450% in the weekend evenings. Please confirm this email including everyone in the CC or correct me if I misunderstood. Looking forward to Saturday!"
My husband consistently worked 10 hour days and was on call. Six months ago they unexpectedly “offered” him a package to retire early. He took it and can’t fathom how that are doing without him. They are fine.
My job switched office hours to 9 hours M-Th and 4 on Friday. Core office hours are still 8-5, but we can shift where we get the extra one in. I start at 8, take a 30 minute lunch at 12:30, and end at 5:30. Sometimes, I shorten my lunch even more and leave a bit early since it's super unlikely someone will need me past 5:15
This is why I love my union, it's all there in black and white (though it reads like stereo instructions with all the legalese) and any time they want to step outside that, it becomes a reminder that it's all discussed at the beginning.
"if something urgent comes up, you can contact literally anyone else." "if it's an emergency, you can call 911." LMFAOOO! loved these rebuttals to the micromanager. 🔥
If only more Americans would join unions and handle all of the nonsense by having rules written into their contracts - this type of aggravation would be a thing of the past. Companies will never respect your boundaries and provide fair compensation out of the goodness of their hearts. They don't have hearts.
Ask them to record it, so you can check it with the labour union, if that exists or a solicitor on being required to work past the hours legally set up in your work contract or making promotions conditional on extra hours put in. Todalooodalooo and they will never mess with you again.
I never dealt with people who worked in departments I managed that way and had the lowest turnover and highest profitability in 3 companies I worked for. Being decent to people has great rewards.
Still no good way of dealing with all that extra time spent on work travel- like when after work is done, and having to go to dinner with coworkers until whenever. That's OT as soon as the conversation becomes work related in my opinion. And your lost family time between after-dinner until bedtime... Need to cover this one next year at some point!
My working week was 7h.24 minutes a day, well if I felt in the mood to do that 😂. We had flexible working hours and provided the work got done, management didn’t really care. If a job needed completed, I worked a bit extra time - the extra hours were then added to my core hours of 37 hours per week and if I added enough extra hours I took a flexi day off and that didn’t come out of my annual leave entitlement….
I've had bosses cite me for "insubordination" when asserting my rights like you do in these videos. I wish the employment situation right now was such that people could assert themselves. Unfortunately, with folks like Elon Musk who MANDATE that their employees work unpaid overtime (he makes them sign something saying they'll do this), we're all screwed for the next four years or so.
Client: "But XYZ company accepts our jobs without those documents!" Me: "I can not comment on what XYZ chooses to do, but our company adheres to the industry codes that we were required to sign in order to work with you."
Sorry - I will require ALL team members to provide an emergency contact before taking PTO. FYI, I have *never* called anyone when they are on PTO - we plan well for their absence, and I cope with the minor "urgencies" that come up, so my team can fully disconnect when using PTO. (I did call someone once: another team member passed away unexpectedly, and I didn't want the person on PTO to be surprised on their return)
If my contact says i work 9-5. Then that is what i work. Plus the the whole this is how we have allways done this. Is the company way of saying we will be going out of business in the near future. Companies need to understand that they need employees. Employees so not need them. Their is always a position somewhere elsee.
My Father told me I should always be the last to leave...... It worked for me.... Because I worked in Motor Racing and I loved my job, so it didn`t feel like work...... I rose to the top of my profession and was well respected..... But it was not in a corporate office..... That would have driven me insane!!!! So Find a job you Love and it will never be "Work".... :-)) xx
The fact is, that as long there are employees willing to work 60-70 hours a week, employees working 9-5 will have little chance for promotions. Sure there are exceptions, where an employee is brilliant and very eficient in the same time (rather rare though) or one sleeps their way up, but in general people willing to sacrifice their personal life will be the ones promoted. Some might not find it fair, but that is the reality. And it's cute to see these shorts and try to empower people, but it also gives young and inexperienced people false hopes.
We had a manager once who started coming into the canteen. He then started discussing work with a couple of the sections. The rest of us were well peed off .we were on our dinner hour .so we weren't working ..and we certainly didn't want to hear work being discussed. .after the third day of this I openly said ..work work work ....let's talk about work. He didn't get it . The next day he started asking me about my section . I ignored him and didn't answer. He finally got the message. He stopped coming into the canteen .
overtime without pay is illegal in my country. If you work overtime your entitled to dinner payed by the employer and overtime is always minimum125 % weekends 150% and on hollidays 200%
Don't worry, the middle aged person who has been through a couple of lay-offs and doesn't have the narc-ey charisma to always land on the top of the restructuring pile, but has way too much to lose (health insurance can't lapse with your whole family depending on it) and knows how long it has been taking to get any job interviews, much less any at their current level, will stay and do the work.
If most people did this in the work place they wouldn’t have a job. I mean I think these videos are great but not realistic sadly. Bosses use their power to manipulate the staff to do what they want not what is good for the staff. We had to pass a law in Australia called the Right to Disconnect, you should hear the opposition to this, it’s disgusting that bosses think they have a right to intrude on your life for the “corporate” good.
Do people actually talk like this in corporate America? What happened to straight talk and getting to the point? Plus, I find the lack of invectives disheartening.
"An emergency! You should call 9-1-1!" LOL. I also love "You know what else is high on your team? Turn over." Hahahaha.
On applications (and other forms):
Emergency contact: 911!
(I know it's supposed to be a family member, but COME ON!!)
🤣🤣🤣
"I'm not the long term solution for the company's lack of appropriate resource planning." Nailed it.
"Being willing to work only 8 hours a day says a lot about your commitment to this company"
"The company being willing to only pay me for 8 hours a day says a lot about its commitment to its employees"
"They pay me to care until 5. After 5 I don't care on my own time"
we have atm a staff member who is calling in sick with only a couple of hours' notice, so our supervisor is having to scramble to get their shifts covered, and guess who's usually asked about that, so I printed out a tweet that reads "Let's normalize not confusing someone's free time with their availability" [Broderick Hunter, Oct 29, 2020] and pinned it to the office noticeboard
One the emotional support demon from clicky!
"That's the way it's always been done." There in lies your problem!
Yeah , the dismissiveness (if that's actually a word) based on age , experience etc. Listening to the person's ideas then deciding doesn't take much energy . Unless this person is a Superstar at there job and knows if it ain't broke don't fix it . Only reason I can think of for them to at least not hear her out .
Happy Trails
Admiral Grace Hopper said something like that being one of the most dangerous phrases in the English language.
--- which is why the competition seems to be doing such interesting things.
I understand the gripe.
However, being in an environment that has significant consequences for being out of procedure, cover your butt, and don't reinvent the wheel.
You know what else is high on your team? Turnover.
The boss just got burned
Turnover sent me!😂😂😂
So many companies expect on-call status without the on-call pay.... no thank you!
Absolutely LOVE your last one!!
These responses are brilliant - I just need to memorise them!
Turnover!!!! What a wonderful response
Great editing, as always. The last one is just a perfect chef's kiss!
I know I keep saying this, but I love these. 🤣👍❤️
One of the maxims I teach in my real-world software engineering class (CS 428, BYU) is:
The only way to effect change in your organization is to go in every day prepared to be fired.
I heard that in a session at a software engineering conference in the early 1990s; the truth of it hit me immediately, and I’ve repeated it ever since.
Subscribed some time ago but this may my first time saying, Thank You. Such a good resource for workers. It absolutely is fine to say, I work my hours without saying, F you. Notwithstanding that, as a Scot, totally love your 'UNT' mug. Chef's kiss.
Keep up the good work. Within 9-5, obvs. Excellent.👏
There are companies that actually respect their employees and healthy boundaries. This is why i feel so loyal to my company. They respect my time so i work the best i can during my work hours.
Well done! No donating time to big corporations. 😆
Every single time I have put down a boundary about volunteering my time to a job, I get iced out of everything and let go within a couple months. Almost like businesses don't value a work/life balance for the peons.
When I was still in trucking, I'd take a couple weeks off at Christmas, coming back out (ending time off, getting back on the road) after New Year's Day. Most of the time, we wouldn't have any loads shipping during that week, so ...
Every once in a while, dispatch would call and ask if I could get a load within 2-3 hours away before the end of the year (customer "needs the product off their yard"). We'd work out a compensation, usually a couple extra days added to the end of my time off. That company was GREAT. (It got sold while I was off work from a knee injury; out of a hundred drivers, I understand now there's 8; almost all of our trucks and trailers are sitting in one of a couple yards not being used..)
Your urgencies do not become my emergencies.
Thank you for reminding that I don't want to work in an office again.
Omg, so deliciously satisfying to watch!! The re-defining of business and personal boundaries is palpable lol
I'm recently retired. Watching these vids is very triggering and raises my blood pressure. I wish this brilliant lady was making vids 20 years ago.
❤Brilliant! Management always wants to leave work early so they tell the team to be ready to work early too so I skip 1/2 of my unpaid break to be sure I get paid ALL of my hours to keep my hourly pay. One manager said I need to stay the entire time frame I’m scheduled, but then changed his mind by the end of the night. I made it clear that I can’t afford to lose hourly pay so either he approves the shorter break time or we can stay until the later hour. I love that he couldn’t fight me on this schedule. 😂
Some people work to live and some people live to work... It's important to understand the difference ❤
Tip from a CTO who has learned this over the course of 24+ years in the field of IT: Video and phone and in-person meetings need to be summarised. Ask your manager to confirm your conversation's main topics via email, or suggest that you do it instead. Always CC (not BCC) HR (if you have them) and their boss (if they have one) in the email, too. Always send yourself a copy (BCC!) to your private email.
Paper trails saved my butt several times.
"Hi manager, just to confirm the points we discussed in our video call today. You want me to work weekend hours because otherwise a future promotion is off the table. You agreed that my freelance rate is 200% during those days, and 450% in the weekend evenings. Please confirm this email including everyone in the CC or correct me if I misunderstood. Looking forward to Saturday!"
My husband consistently worked 10 hour days and was on call. Six months ago they unexpectedly “offered” him a package to retire early. He took it and can’t fathom how that are doing without him. They are fine.
“Part of your job description?” Oh so they don’t like it when “and other duties” bites them. Lol
Brenda needs one of these comebacks!❤❤! I mean that's what toodaloo is waiting for!😢😢pleeeeaaaaassssssseee! Give her a 🔥
Sassy Mondays 😂💕
I LOVED THAT "Turnover" comment is was pure gold!
OMG that LAST ONE! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
bout time she made a compilation! thank you work bestie!!🎉
These lines are so timely. I had to use one just today. 😆
My job switched office hours to 9 hours M-Th and 4 on Friday. Core office hours are still 8-5, but we can shift where we get the extra one in. I start at 8, take a 30 minute lunch at 12:30, and end at 5:30. Sometimes, I shorten my lunch even more and leave a bit early since it's super unlikely someone will need me past 5:15
What a great mash up of history. 🎉🇬🇧
A fabulous compilation. ❤
ooooh, the very last one made me so happy!
My boss is kinda like this - and calls me at home. I work at a restaurant too, not an office. >.>
To say what , where do we keep the menus ?
Happy Trails
What a breath of fresh air and new shield of armor on my fragile people-pleasing frame. Bless you!
This is why I love my union, it's all there in black and white (though it reads like stereo instructions with all the legalese) and any time they want to step outside that, it becomes a reminder that it's all discussed at the beginning.
Absolutely f&cking excellent, you nailed it on the head again and again and again…
I swear i got a C U Next Tuesday mug just cause of these videos 😂
if only I had the eloquent words in those times lol, LoeWhaley is amazing
If your team has to stay late all the time to finish their projects then they really cant be considered high performers now can they?
"if something urgent comes up, you can contact literally anyone else."
"if it's an emergency, you can call 911."
LMFAOOO! loved these rebuttals to the micromanager. 🔥
These corporations do not care about you. Do not donate your time to them.
Tooda-fuggin-loo. 🎤⬇
If only more Americans would join unions and handle all of the nonsense by having rules written into their contracts - this type of aggravation would be a thing of the past. Companies will never respect your boundaries and provide fair compensation out of the goodness of their hearts. They don't have hearts.
Ask them to record it, so you can check it with the labour union, if that exists or a solicitor on being required to work past the hours legally set up in your work contract or making promotions conditional on extra hours put in. Todalooodalooo and they will never mess with you again.
Your lack of planning is not my priority.
Wishing you, your families, your "work team," and followers a merry Christmas and a great new year. Looking forward to seeing how things progress
Oh gal you make me laugh each n everytime.. 😂😂
Turnover is a MOOD :D :D :D
Also you should make a printable of your best boundary lines or some kind of boundary-phrase -a day or boundary-a-month calendar. I would so buy!
In the last segment, the final toodaloo could also have been proceeded by a comment like, “what is also high on your team is them QUITTING on you!!”
I love these!
I am not sure why but she looks way prettier than usual. ☺
WHAT the heck is with the GIMONGOUS GLASSES???
I feel like I'm in church! PREACH!!
I have used something similar. These are fabulous. Really enjoy them.
Very apt & well done
I guess corporate ever got the memo that slavery was abolished.
I never dealt with people who worked in departments I managed that way and had the lowest turnover and highest profitability in 3 companies I worked for.
Being decent to people has great rewards.
Ooooffff, that last one was **fire**!
I love your videos, to laugh at what I WISH I would have said in my previous job!
Too wordy. "I have to be somewhere at 5:05 PM from now until 2050." Repeat as necessary.
Still no good way of dealing with all that extra time spent on work travel- like when after work is done, and having to go to dinner with coworkers until whenever. That's OT as soon as the conversation becomes work related in my opinion. And your lost family time between after-dinner until bedtime...
Need to cover this one next year at some point!
Most Excellent!
The first rule of being a professional is "Never neglect your billing!"
My working week was 7h.24 minutes a day, well if I felt in the mood to do that 😂. We had flexible working hours and provided the work got done, management didn’t really care. If a job needed completed, I worked a bit extra time - the extra hours were then added to my core hours of 37 hours per week and if I added enough extra hours I took a flexi day off and that didn’t come out of my annual leave entitlement….
Let me tell you I work in the public service without telling you I work in the public service. 😂
I love these. Just wish I had been so smart witted.
I think you are my spirit animal.
I would only consider working overtime if I got paid for it. Depending on the contract that is entirely up to me
I've had bosses cite me for "insubordination" when asserting my rights like you do in these videos. I wish the employment situation right now was such that people could assert themselves. Unfortunately, with folks like Elon Musk who MANDATE that their employees work unpaid overtime (he makes them sign something saying they'll do this), we're all screwed for the next four years or so.
Client: "But XYZ company accepts our jobs without those documents!"
Me: "I can not comment on what XYZ chooses to do, but our company adheres to the industry codes that we were required to sign in order to work with you."
That last one was such a burrrrn 🔥
Every teacher ever.
I love your videos. 💜💜💜👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
Shut it down, shut it down, shut that day down.
ARGH!! Keep it up!! Toodaloo!!
Offer coaching please. I wish so bad that I had your verbal skills!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corporate welfare is a 2 way street😂🎉
🌞 Spot on! ⚘️
Sorry - I will require ALL team members to provide an emergency contact before taking PTO.
FYI, I have *never* called anyone when they are on PTO - we plan well for their absence, and I cope with the minor "urgencies" that come up, so my team can fully disconnect when using PTO.
(I did call someone once: another team member passed away unexpectedly, and I didn't want the person on PTO to be surprised on their return)
If my contact says i work 9-5. Then that is what i work. Plus the the whole this is how we have allways done this. Is the company way of saying we will be going out of business in the near future.
Companies need to understand that they need employees. Employees so not need them. Their is always a position somewhere elsee.
Wow some predate toodilooo
My Father told me I should always be the last to leave...... It worked for me.... Because I worked in Motor Racing and I loved my job, so it didn`t feel like work...... I rose to the top of my profession and was well respected..... But it was not in a corporate office..... That would have driven me insane!!!! So Find a job you Love and it will never be "Work".... :-)) xx
The fact is, that as long there are employees willing to work 60-70 hours a week, employees working 9-5 will have little chance for promotions. Sure there are exceptions, where an employee is brilliant and very eficient in the same time (rather rare though) or one sleeps their way up, but in general people willing to sacrifice their personal life will be the ones promoted. Some might not find it fair, but that is the reality. And it's cute to see these shorts and try to empower people, but it also gives young and inexperienced people false hopes.
We had a manager once who started coming into the canteen. He then started discussing work with a couple of the sections. The rest of us were well peed off .we were on our dinner hour .so we weren't working ..and we certainly didn't want to hear work being discussed. .after the third day of this I openly said ..work work work ....let's talk about work. He didn't get it . The next day he started asking me about my section . I ignored him and didn't answer. He finally got the message. He stopped coming into the canteen .
The last one 😂😂
overtime without pay is illegal in my country. If you work overtime your entitled to dinner payed by the employer and overtime is always minimum125 % weekends 150% and on hollidays 200%
Don't worry, the middle aged person who has been through a couple of lay-offs and doesn't have the narc-ey charisma to always land on the top of the restructuring pile, but has way too much to lose (health insurance can't lapse with your whole family depending on it) and knows how long it has been taking to get any job interviews, much less any at their current level, will stay and do the work.
Do more videos on bosses.
If most people did this in the work place they wouldn’t have a job. I mean I think these videos are great but not realistic sadly. Bosses use their power to manipulate the staff to do what they want not what is good for the staff.
We had to pass a law in Australia called the Right to Disconnect, you should hear the opposition to this, it’s disgusting that bosses think they have a right to intrude on your life for the “corporate” good.
Only in America
Thank you God, I'm living and working in Europe :)
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 😀😀😀
Guilt tripping people! How low can you get
Do people actually talk like this in corporate America? What happened to straight talk and getting to the point? Plus, I find the lack of invectives disheartening.