What Instantly Kills Employee's Morale?
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Had a good crew member that was there for over a year and who did the job of a crew leader. Always on time, got along with everyone, etc. He asked to be formally certified and paid as a crew leader (it was like $4/hr raise plus extra benefits) and they jerked him around for a few months before outright saying no. He walked into work the following Monday with his guitar, sat in the middle of the table, like physically on the table, and sang "you can take this job and shove it" before walking out.
great way to jump ship
Dude multi classed in bard.
EPIC! 😃
@@diamondmx3076 and put extra points into charisma
I did something a little different I was supposed to be getting a manager position they hired a guy that was a manager at McDonald's and thought he would be able to do manufacturing. Six months and $30k later I had already left to a new company. Owner had to sell the company and take a huge loss.
Any one employee might be replaceable, but every employee at once isn't. Employers and managers like to push until there's a mass exodus, and then act surprised when everything falls apart because no one's there to do the job.
"But... I did EVERYTHING just as I was taught in business college... Cut their pay, take their bennies, bugger them when not looking...
WHY ARE THEY MAD???
This.
This happened at my first job. I left and went to work at restaurant B and ended up working with like four people from my first job.
Two of us are still working at restaurant B
Happened at several of my former workplaces.
I just find it hilarious myself.
Those who abuse their employees deserve what's coming to em if multiple people start quitting left and right. If they wind up getting canned themselves then all the better.
@@zomboids2100 sadly a lot of them end up failing upwards
It's somewhere between surprising and appalling how many managers think that employees work for the manager's bonus and not the employees' paychecks.
I legit had a manager talk to me about why I need to sign people up for the Rewards system. When I asked why (like what are the perks of the program for the customer) he said 'So I can get a bonus'
I did not like that manager. Glad he got canned a week after letting me go.
@@PapasBlox I had a boss say something similar. My response was, "Okay, and? My paycheck is the same regardless of how many people I sign up." He was mystified at the idea that I couldn't give less of a shit whether or not he made more money when I saw no benefit from his bonus. I'm loyal to my paycheck, full stop, and it's hilarious to me that companies expect post-WWII loyalty from employees while offering Industrial Age treatment of those employees.
@@Thagesthoughts my boss once tried to sign ME up for their rewards thing, despite my not wanting any of it. Even had my coworkers tell me all about it and how much they loved it.
I did my want any of it because a) I never really shop there, and B) even if I did, I couldn't use the rewards thing with the 20% discount for employees.
My shift got over before Boss could actually do the signup and to this day, I don't have a rewards card with that company.
Not me but my friend: She used to work in an office. Extremely mundane and repetitive office drone work. No skill required, just do the same thing over and over for eight hours a day, five days a week. Good salary, not great, but made it worthwhile. They had no productivity issues in the office, in fact it was one of the top five US branches of the multinational corporation.
She and most of her coworkers got through the boredom by listening to music on their earbuds (only one used so they could still hear if someone talked to them). Then all of a sudden the brand new office manager decided he needed to make a grand entrance to the office to mark his arrival, and he decided to ban music in the office. Six months later a third of the staff had quit and the people still remaining had deliberately simmered their productivity down to the bare minimum required. Management never budged on the no music thing though, I guess saving face is more important than morale and productivity.
I worked somewhere that did this exact thing. It’s a completely insane policy.
way to add boredom to already boring task, if people can't quit I bet people gonna start hanging themselves or jumping off the building.🙄
See that's something I never get. What is the point of it? If you are losing staff and productivity goes DOWN why would you continue enforcing a policy that's objectively bad for business? Is it an ego thing? "I won't let all these lazy entitled brats even mildly enjoy their day while on the clock! I don't care how many people keep quitting, how many I need to keep retraining, how much productivity goes down or how much money I lose!"
If people are doing their jobs and doing them well who cares if they're listening to music while they do?
@@ajregalia1334 And also 'it's not like the management layer above me would figure out what mess I did if I don't say anything. Let's see what I'm going to blame this quarter's employee turnover rate and reduced productivity on. I can just skate by!'
@@ajregalia1334 It's because most colleges' business major curriculums remain frozen in the economic and corporate climate of 1980, leading to middle managers and upper management (the majority of whom are either fresh graduates whose parents got them the job or aging relics who can't even figure out how to open their email without getting an underling to do it so they can take credit for it) constantly trying to run the business in a way that worked 40 years ago, ignoring the multiple economic crashes and shifting social climate among the people who actually keep the company running. They had to suffer through working in an era before this technology was widely-available, and they don't want to have to adapt to new technology due to intellectual laziness.
It's also very much an ego thing. A lot of fresh business school graduates feel like they have to establish themselves as the alpha wolf on day 1, either unaware or uncaring that they just come off as an insecure douchebag more focused on making their mark on the company's history than with actually keeping the company running smoothly. You see it all the time as some buzzword-slinging yuppie rises the ranks, holding meetings where three hours are spent with many words being spoken but nothing actually being said beyond "we have to business more."
"....where they introduced their son to everyone and told us he was taking over they gushed about his prestigious business education and background."
I can already tell where this is going, turning a "family owned" business into just a business.
Every time I hear the words "owners' son", I know it's about to be a managerial sh!tshow.
If they have a 'prestigious business education', but they're coming home to run Mom and Pop's Shop....then college was just an expensive party.
Especially restaurants
When the spoiled children of the owners take over
The only time I’ve ever seen/heard of a family business getting better when the owners kid or wife stepped in is genuinely my own family's business lmao 😂 my mum married my dad (with a 21yr age gap) at age 19/20 after having worked under him for a few years, and within 5 yrs of that she had eliminated stupid expenses (like the fresh cut flowers every week for £50 that lasted til Wednesday, and got replaced on mondays, staff breakfast every morning which was replaced with snack breaks + ice cream in summer, not reordering stock that never moved, etc), changed the dress code so the women were allowed to wear trousers (and then never worn a skirt again for the next 30 yrs lol) and continually pushed the business forward, by getting new services (getting trained herself along with staff to ensure she understood how to help them/their tool requirements etc, and that she could step in if someone was sick) and advertising in new ways, along with slowly renovating/updating services/tools/systems/the building as they became outdated or unusable, all while raising 3 kids, handling 2 step kids, and eventually ended up running the place for the last ten years of its operation (we closed last year).
Throughout her 30-40 years working there, she raised profits by 50%, slashed useless spending by 25%, made the customer AND staff experiences better (we had constant repeat staff - family, family friends, distant cousins, ppl’s partners etc - all of us kids worked there for a few summers at least, we weren’t given special treatment beyond being the only ones who knew how to unlock the safe/have the keys etc, and she made sure that everyone who worked there from the 14 yr old Saturday girls to the 70 yr old lunch rush cover lady got their birthdays off, a present for their birthday + Christmas, and if you’d ever worked there before, you could show up and need help, and get it, or show up on Christmas Eve and get invited in for the post-closing drinks and snacks session 😅)
On top of all that, when she wanted to sell or hand over the shop to the next gen, she ASKED all of the family if we wanted it, we all said no, so she tried 3 different non-family managers, and when none of them panned out, and she asked AGAIN if we were sure, and we all said yes, she sold the business instead of trying to family-obligation us into it. Truly, a queen among peasants 👑
MBAs don’t translate to good business. It’s sad how he destroyed the business. If you kid hasn’t been involved in the business for a while, don’t hand it over to them. Better to take the most senior employee who understands the system and place them in charge.
Calling us in for a meeting to tell us that we don't work even half as fast as the other stores. So.... We all visited other stores and watched how they were just as slow or slower than we work.
F them all
Ngl, that's hilarious lmao
"Oh, we're that much slower.. Huh, let's pay a visit and see what we can learn!"
'Wait, you guys are being called slow? We're running 3 days behind, how's YOUR store look!?'
"1 day behind."
'Wh-'
That is something I saw endless in retail and stock/ freight moving. "This other store is perfect! Why can't you be." Then you go to the other stuff, in this case it was literally 3 blocks away and they said the exact same shit about how "This other store is perfect! Why can't you be!" Then they would list the exact same set of reasons why their so amazing.
The producers dragged us in during our lunch break for a mandatory meeting, then they had a 5 star catered lunch brought in for THEM, not us. I snatched a tray of jumbo shrimp and ran out of there. I was nearly fired for that. Worth it! 🤣
You're interrupted my lunch break with a mandatory meeting and don't get me food too?
That's arguing with the person cutting your hair stupid.
@@jasondyrkacz8270 Princess Marlena isn’t stupid. Employers shouldn’t disrupt meal breaks and yet eat right in front of them.
@@juliusquasar1565 i dont know what that form of speech is called but he was "pretending" to speak for her like that is something that he would say in her position
@@agentbarron3945 ohhhh, I see, my mistake! 🤦
Thats arguing with your tattoo artist in the middle of a tattoo. Don't do it.
Administrators: "You can't drink coffee anymore."
Teachers: *THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN*
Ya that was ridiculous.
Sips Red Bull and flies off with his wings( instantly dies on ground)
every social worker would go cold turkey and quit if management tried that
My boss tried this. She didn't even want us to bring our own. I told her no one would work for her if she pulled that shit.
I always hear this in korgs voice now
Did a perfect record for a year in order to get a bonus. Was told after it was all said and done that since we did so well the bonus was gonna be so large were not gonna know what to do with it, We were told that line for almost a full year after completing our goal. Everyone thought it was gonna be $5k but i was expecting $1k at best.... it was $140 after tax and a .19c raise.
... please tell me you stop putting effort in that company and just did the bare minimum
Hey, they were right. You had no idea ehat to do with a "bonus" that size.
That's dumb please tell me you stopped trying to do a good job or just straught up left.
Sue for false advertising
That's when u walk out
9:00 "You can't drink coffee in front of students." "Okay." (later) "Why did you turn all the student desks to face the back of the class?" _(sips coffee)_
😂😂😂
This is my coffee. *SIIIIIP*
actually good idea. this is also a great way to see if the students are actually working.
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
There is a quote that I'd like to get tattooed somewhere and which I believe every single human being on the planet should live by: "Make game of that which makes as much of thee." If your company is exploiting you, treating you like nothing but a factor to be optimized, then you have absolute permission to treat them in exactly the same way and approach your job as a way to contribute as little as possible and extract as much as possible.
OwO
Or in the words of every low wage worker told to give 110% "Minimum wage, minimum effort."
I guess i'm incredibly lucky with where i work right now. No they don't pay the first prize wages, but they help employees in general with doing their jobs easier AND helping out beyond just doing their jobs. They don't treat us like parts in a machine that can be replaced. I've noticed that the employees in general are more willing to do a bit extra just because of that. It creates an environment where colleagues tend to be flexible and willing to help out.
Just to illustrate, during the yearly review, i mentioned i wanted to make more hours and i was told that there wasn't enough extra work for me there, but they have set me up with other companies that want to use my skills. I'm an electrician by the way. I love making things work :)
You Magnificent Bastard. I'm stealing that.
Well said Dustin. I'm of the same mind
The great irony of all this is that, if you are GENEROUS with your employees and actively treat them well, you end up getting so much more back (check out Costco vs. Walmart. Costco actually has a higher profit per employee)
Having worked at Walmart for about 2 years I think they get off by treating their employees like utter garbage. They just seem to enjoy it way too much.
My dad does this and it works. Granted there are the few exceptions that take advantage of his kindness...but it still works most of the time.
@@107frenchy the thing is, you just deal with those exceptions on a case by case basis
If you punish everyone for the crimes of the few, everyone is going to start behaving like a criminal
@@midknight9715 Have you heard why Walmart failed in Germany? When they tried to get stores there everything they do to their American employees is either illegal or violates the German constitution.
@@potaterjim Yeah that's what he does. Sometimes those exceptions get better without intervention but other times he's forced to give them a warning. He hasn't been forced to fire anyone for a few years, most get their shit back together when they get a warning.
Once when I worked in a bakery they were upset because someone was stealing finished product. They came in and yelled at us and then they put cameras up.
It was the owner's son.
Employers kill employee morale. Sales managers kill employee morale when they are up you butt all of the time to get the next project out the door yesterday by making unreasonable promises to get the sale.
Sales managers are the bane of my existence. Can't tell you how many times they promised something that wasn't physically possible.
1) "X sales manager said you guys have new version of [thing] now, we need it today". "Umm...no we don't. Nobody has those. They just started manufacturing those new versions and they haven't been distributed to us yet". Sales manager..."Well, you're going to have to figure it out."
2) 4:30 pm on a Friday: "We called X sales manager, and he said this can be brought this out now." Us...being so short-staffed that nobody can do that, calling sales manager to see, since he promised it (without checking, obviously), can he take it in his own car to maybe help us out? "Nah man, I'm at a retreat with the other sales managers in the Poconos".
3) After I personally delivered several dozen [things] to a location, get a call from X Sales Manager..."they're all out of [things]". "I literally brought those out a couple hours ago, it's impossible that they used all of them. Did they check?" "Well, they said they're out." I drive one hour to get to location...there they are, siting right where I left them, in the same location. After the third time this happens, I had enough, and I sent a nasty-gram to him and his boss stating that they're wasting my time on a routine basis. Guy has the stones to get mad at me.
@@gundammon Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. Never happy.
Modus operandi of many modern corporations. Meet demands. Aim higher. Endlessly. Boring and burning out.
@@gundammon I'd definitely say leave if you can
No raises for ten years. When we finally got one it was 2 percent and then the cost of insurance immediately increased to take that back away.
My annual rail fare increases outstripped my wage increases on several occasions.
Once, the rail company decided it had to bring 'fares up to date' to cover line maintenance (so you know what that meant). Their fare increase was 10 times my wage increase that year.
It forced me into doing overtime for an already hard manual job.
Sounds like social security in the US.
my boss threatened to fire me, over and over, for no particular reason. also accused me of not doing part of my job, which i had done. i quit.
I got some:
1. Here, have a promotion. Yes, you get 3 times the responsibilities and are now 24/7 on call. Why would you think you deserve a raise?
2. Snack budget has been removed and drinks that are purchased must contain caffeine.
3. Our cleaning crew has been let go, we expect you to clean the bathrooms. (I am a systems administrator BTW) I told the boss to fuck off. He can fire me if he likes, but good luck finding anyone near my experience who is willing to also handle janitorial work, especially at the starting salary point. Boss hired a company of one person who comes in weekly to handle cleaning.
4. You will work OT, but you are salaried and thus exempt from OT pay.
5. Annual review time. You get a raise half of what minimum wage earners got (due to increase of minimum wage in our state).
6. Got written up for asking a question to HR in regards to the new time sheet program. They said I refused to comply when I had already filled it out.
I did tell the CEO to kiss my ass when he tried throwing other crazy restrictions on us. He couldn't do anything about it.
Good for you. Stand up for yourself.
4 is very common in the UK. I've never had a job that paid overtime.
@@chriswilson1853 really? in just about every single state in america companies are forced by the government to pay 1.5 ot unless they are in agraculture.
Here I've been told all my life that the US is a horrible place to work and should be looking to move someplace else. Nah, I enjoy having guaranteed overtime while paying a third of the taxes lol
@@agentbarron3945 Jobs that pay by the hour pay overtime, as do some salaried jobs. I work in computers, and those sort of jobs tend not to pay overtime, but then again it's very rare I need to work it.
Also, no employer can force you to work more than 48 hours per week, paid or not.
We also get four weeks paid holiday and it's much harder for them to fire you. They need a good reason and have to go though a procedure, they can't just lay you off.
@@chriswilson1853 weird, most jobs in computers here are about the only salaried positions you would expect to get overtime if you were salaried because of the crunch(though not mandated by the government, there's just a lot of tech companies here so you can easily find a new job if you are well qualified)
And in my opinion, at will employment is a double-edged sword. I can quit for any reason I please, just the same reason that they can fire me for any reason. I'm naturally a hard worker and will pick up the slack whenever they need, so when I see underperformers getting fired I think hurray, finally, maybe they will get someone who actually does their job. And if they fire me then the company is going under anyways and whats the reason to keep working there?
I was fired from a place once without warning at all, sure it sucked. But less than a month later the company went under. Without at will employment I would have kept my job for a staggering one month more.
When they told us we had to fight back if we were robbed or we would be fired. One of the cashiers robbed the store at gunpoint on a day the manager was there. Got fired and went to jail but proved a point as I hear the manager ran out the backdoor
"No one is getting a break today"
"You're going to have to stay longer"
"You're going to have to work tomorrow (Tomorrow being a holiday)"
Yep, been there. Second job - returned home, my mum opens my sandwich box and discovers I only had time to take one bite. That was my entire sustenance for the day - because every day the boss's daughter would cut short or cut out my breaks altogether to work instead.
They were always firing people for really petty reasons (one girl was fired because she had a bit of a headache that day. She hadn't asked to go home or anything like that. Just said she had a headache and was overheard by the boss's wife).
I finally decided I didn't want a firing on my work record and quit. It was a good decision.
The CEO bragged to industry colleagues that the database of ideas he asked us to put our suggestions in was total bullshit, he didn't care what we had to say, and he only pretended to care about our ideas to shut us up.
Four years later we were acquainted by another company, and the braggart CEO was the first one to be told to pack his shit and get out.
I brought a Chromebook before becoming a media student. I brought my phone after becoming a media student.
The Chromebook has 16 GB space. My phone has 128 GB space. If you ever think about buying a Chromebook then that's not you, that's the devil speaking.
There was a period where Google was handing out free Chromebooks to schools and students. Likely this school got a deal with Google and thought it would be a "great" idea to "modernize" the school with new Chromebooks without considering the fact that Chromebooks are basically just cheap, crappy laptops.
@@TheRhetoricGamer Ooooohhhhh, so _that's_ why my school gave us those dreaded things.
One of my kid's friend asked me for advice into buying a laptop or a pc. I asked him what did he want it for? Gaming? Studying? Just surfing the net? Then another friends told us about the Chromebooks and how good they are. When he said 16GB of space, I almost spit my Icee. WHAT?! What about the OS updates/patchs? Apps updates? The memory space needed for the processor to work hassle free. There's so many things in consideration when you're buying electronics. But this other kid wouldn't stop talking about that shitty thing. At the end the first kid asked me to go along when going to the PC Store.
My Nokia has a sd card of 512GB and my laptop has 1.2TB (half SSD and half HDD). You're talking truth, Chromebooks are the devil speaking. lol
@@LassoOfTruth yeah you can't even download stuff on my Chromebook everything you can do on it has to be with wi-fi. We only use it in my family to watch Netflix on the TV because the TV is over 10 years old and can only use HDMI and not anything cordless.
Generally they only have 2 GB of RAM and a 2 core processor.
One word description: potato.
A guy walks with a young boy into the woods. The boy turns to him and says, "Hey mister, it's getting really dark and I'm scared." The man replies, "How do you think I feel? I have to walk back alone
I had to reread that four times before I got it
wow lol
I dont get it
@@tarantula51 the kid isn't coming back out of the forest if you catch my drift
UH OH
Summary of how management at my job is.
1. Yells at new employees because they aren't sure what to do.
2. "GPA, GPA, GPA!!! WORK HARDER!" (mind you, employees only get ~$200 bonus per year if we meet GPA goals which is nothing compared to what we make on *required overtime*)
3. "You're doing it wrong, do it like this." (proceeds to show us an inefficient method that is harder and slower).
4. Employee finishes a 3 hour task in 1 hour. "I'm disappointed in you."
5. Stares down employees working instead of helping them, which generally just makes them uncomfortable.
6. Talk about how they're the greatest and best at any job on the site.
7. Asks someone to do step away from a trainee to do a task. Yells at them for leaving trainee. Yells at them when they take the trainee with them.
Then they complain about morale being low. Hmm.
Walmart just did something like this. They just reworked their entire store structure so that people who had earned promotions into management lost those promotions. They then took away bonuses for most departments. They have a handful of departments that got raises in lieu of bonus but for the most part everyone just lost but corporate.
Oh yeah, I worked at Walmart for a year in OGP. Every other department got a good raise except us. If we had gotten the raise we deserved (we were the ones hit massively due to COVID), I would have stayed.
@@ragingraichu219 small question what does OGP stand for sorry you didn't get the raise.
@@robertgosney5657 Online Grocery Pickup.
Meanwhile, the retail chain I work in (Ironically owned by Wal-mart through a chain of other businesses!) has been giving out bonuses that increase dependent on your position during these lock-downs, specifically as a thank you for sticking through the thick of it. A nice 200-800 bonus every 6 months or so is nothing to scoff at in a job where you're barely earning more than minimum wage. And if you happen to join on a few weeks before it's supposed to be coming up, you're still entitled to that bonus, which is nice.
Walmart is a trash company anyways. I avoid shopping for them like the plague.
Owner told everyone at the end of the year we were too broke for bonuses. Shows up the next day in a brand new, tricked out truck that costs 70k off the lot. His other truck wasnt even 8 years old.
RIP his tires
@@Ivan-vn1pd I have a feeling he’d be lucky if that’s all that got damaged.
Key the words "TOO BROKE" into the side
Empty a fire extinguisher in the interior because obviously that truck's on fire; it burned up 70k of company funds.
how did you all resist not keying it, even a lil
About 5 years ago i worked as a waiter at a restaurant which was a steakhouse and was the only one in our town. The owners were hitting retirement age and sold up being bought by an Indian guy. We have an introductory meeting where he explained his goals saying he wanted to turn it into an Indian restaurant.
Problem? there were two Indian restaurants close by, 1 pretty much next door separated by a Thai restaurant and another right at the corner of the street, literally a stones throw away. Also there were Indian takeaway shops opening up everywhere which used to be fish and chip shops, now we hardly have those.
I gapped it 2 months later but not before the head chef and front of house manager.
"I know we have a unique niche in this location, but how about we change into the most common restaurant choice with the most competition instead?" Yeah, sounds like a sound business decision.
Christmas rolls around, management holds a meeting to tell us all how valued each and every employee is to the company, they hand out gift cards to a grocery store saying its not as much as they would like but they hope $25 can help put a nice Christmas dinner on the table. The gift cards had no money loaded on them.
Company had been very strict in enforcing safety policies (after years of the "try not to die today" mentality) and wanted to add some extra incentive so management bought a side by side (ATV) and said that if the shop employees can go one full year with no incidents then one person (shop employee) would take it home as their own. Office staff complained about not having a chance at winning so the solution was to bring the office staff down to the shop during weekly safety meetings to discuss ways to not get papercuts. Chances of winning the side by side were cut more than 50% and not one shop employee was happy. 11 months after starting the CEO of the company loaded the ATV into his truck to take it home.
Countless incidents similar to this: One of the shop employees talks with managers and arranges a date for a pot luck lunch where we would all be given an hour long break instead of our normal 30 min break. Everyone in the company is invited, including people who work in different buildings. All the shop employees are down and have planned out what they would like to bring, the office staff starts complaining because they dont want to bring anything. New rule imposed, youre welcome to join if you bring something to share. Day of the pot luck rolls around, none of the office staff brought anything to contribute but complained to the CEO, he said its all going to be cancelled unless everyone is welcome (what a coincidence, he didnt bring anything himself)
During the crash in the oil industry the company (unsurprisingly) had some layoffs. In one shop alone it started out with 27 people one week, 8 the next, around 12 after that, and a few stragglers here and there (number of shop employees dropped to about 18 after all the layoffs). About a month later the company had 9 brand new ford F-350 work trucks and the CEO had a brand new ford F-150 king ranch company vehicle.
Mid week in December the coked out foreman pulls all the shop employees outside (so he can have a smoke, duh) and hands out papers for us to sign saying we agree to the 10% paycut that was issued 3 days prior. One guy said he needs to take the sheet home and discuss it with his wife, "sure no problem, bring it back first thing tomorrow". His toolbox was pushed in front of the bay door with all the contents of his locker dumped on top of it before the 6am start.
Around the time of all the layoffs during the recession there was one guy who had worked for the company for over 18 years. They gave him a temporary layoff (60 days long, if it goes for 61 its considered permanent, if you're hired back on it resets). Temp layoff issued, 59 days later they call him back to work. Two weeks later issue another temporary layoff, 59 days call him back to work, then one more temp layoff. They didn't want to pay his severance and were just hoping he would find a new job and not come back because then it would be considered as him quitting this job. Dude had a mortgage, car payments, a wife, kids, and 4 weeks pay over the course of 200 ish days.
The more I write, the more I remember. Did I mention this was all at one company?
Very sad, man. I don't feel bad at all about "being mercenary" with what work I do before my company moves to a.new location. They are moving the company not because we are under performing, we are doing quite well, but because they stand to make much more money be closing down us and two other facilities to consolidate them into one location, with cheaper land taxes, water waste fees/penalties, etc. That makes sense for a business standpoint and that's fine . . . but to me, if it's not about us being a work family and it's all.aboit the money then I get to play the same game when asked to do stuff over my pay grade; give me a pay rate that day at that level of work. About 300-500 people will lose their jobs so I can't say I feel bad a out putting in minimal effort for a company that's leaving anyway.
That last one sounds very much like a slam-dunk case for constructive dismissal.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 I was thinking that too.
That’s so disgusting. There needs to be more regulation for businesses and corporations. Idc what anyone says.
*10% pay cut* did they want everyone to quit
Spouse worked for a big tech firm, salaried. Twice there was a mandatory 10% wage cut. One was only a few months, one was several months. They wondered why people bailed.
Didn’t let us go home when someone tested positive for COVID. Half the department later tested positive and the health department stepped in and shut everything down. We’re back to work now but management still thinks they weren’t wrong for making us work. Now we’re working 10 out of 11 days to make up for it. Did I mention we work 12 hour shifts.
Gotta love how all it takes is one little pandemic to bring all the human rights violations to the surface. Cuz believe you me, they were doing that BS before 2020. Most companies were. It's just, y'know, the common cold isn't doesn't literally chew holes in an otherwise-healthy person's lungs.
@A-A-Ron Davis Your cases aren't the only cases out there. An autopsy done some months back revealed the holes I mentioned. If it progresses far enough to kill, it punches holes in your lungs. Good on you for surviving, but don't spread disinformation. People die from it, even though you didn't.
(Oh, and that loss of taste and smell might be a long-term or even permanent thing. Enjoy the post-infection side effects!)
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 most of the people dying from it are those with weak immune systems or the elderly. Not your average healthy person. Are there healthy people dying from it yes, but not usually.
@@jacthing1 It still doesn't hurt to quarantine until you're better, so you don't have to subject someone else to it! My only qualm with the quarantines is that the government hasn't been doing any work to make sure that the effected person(s) are being delivered basic necessities like toilet paper, food, toothpaste, and so on. Our family had to go out and play doctor for my grandparents because they went radio silent for a few days, and when we got there they had basically no food left and were bed-ridden. We tried to get them to the hospital, but the ER sent them home instead of doing some temporary care despite a nastily twisted ankle and tarnished underwear on one, with the other being barely able to stand.
They're doing a lot better now, and although my grandmother believes she's not long for the world, both of them have recovered a lot. I think the knowledge that family was still looking out for them helped a lot with the mental side of things, and that had an effect on their will to survive and their immune systems fighting back
Tl:DR, quarantine is good but you better take care of the sickly, lest they should die unbeknownst to the world.
@@krel7160 yeah definitely
I work as a CAP 2 Associate for Walmart. We basically bust our asses all day to unload badly packed trucks and stock shelves for 8-10 hours at a time. Especially since the pandemic hit.
I hear from other workers, despite never having to sign the document myself, that they must vow to not unionize. I spoke with a lady from another department and I said "Well. They can't fire all of us, can they?" and she said with a downtrodden half chuckle "Yes. Yes they can. And they will."
It really sucks working for a company that survives off of the back of you that doesn't appreciate you at all or even care if you're working for them or not.
The 11 an hour simply isn't worth the mental and physical strain we have to go through.
Our entire job is a health hazard, other departments are treated just as badly, we're regularly talked down to, our staff is tired and as a result we are regularly understaffed in most parts of the store, it's just the worst shit ever.
Ex-CAP 3. feel your pain.
@@shadowknight1990o Luckily you weren't CAP 1, those fucks don't know how to do anything right.
Walmart is a hellhole, period. I refuse to shop there if I don’t have to because they’re basically slave drivers
As an maintenance, I have to do the doors because in our Walmart, we are shorthanded.
@@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886 I'd be surprised if you named a single Walmart that wasn't short handed. Electronics has two workers in the afternoon, one of which jumps between hardware, sporting goods, ect. and is responsible for ALL OF THOSE DEPARTMENT'S FREIGHT. CAP 2 is usually running on 5-7 people and we have 3000-4000 piece trucks regularly that we MUST finish in the space of 1:00-3:00PM or get a stern talking to from management. Then, from 3-10 we have to throw all of that freight up on the shelves, most of it being overstock that we have to bring back and put in the bins with 5-7 fucking people, not even enough to cover all of GM. Maintenance consists of two people most days and leave before the store even closes leaving CAP 2 to ALSO do their jobs. Front end is usually not short handed though. about five CS's with one or two CSM's on hand. Cashiers are usually pretty on point. That's the only redeeming quality of, I know it's a no no to say but they fired me anyway because I wasn't useful to them anymore, 2513. 2513 is a dogshit failure of a store and it's no one's fault except for upper management. Our turnover is about 6 months, many leave before that. It's so frustrating when you're a lowly worker that just wants to see your store succeed so your community can succeed but incompetence of those above you gets in the way of that.
Sorry for the rant all of the sudden. My blood just boils knowing that there are still good friends there going through that corporate hell.
I really wonder sometimes, what in the world they teach as business school. Shouldn't the first thing be that your employee's are the most important part of the company?
You would think so...
Unless managers want to do it themselves which we know they don't.
They do teach that at Business School. But companies are dumb and short sighted.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult yeah unfortunately a lot people don't think long term it seems.
That first one, I work in janitorial and let me tell you, this is something I do fear greatly in my line of work. Granted, it's not a job that is going to run out of place any time soon, loads of places are looking for people who want to do that job because far too few want to. But this is the mistake of so many companies, when they want to save cost, they cut the maintenance first and then realize later on when shit literally hit the fan that they find out it was a mistake. I have no pity for crappy management, they deserve all the scorn they get when they are bad at it, but when they're actually good, they deserve praise.
I'm working toward management, education and experience. It seems like a lot of people who have bad managers tell themselves they will have their own turn being a dick instead of saying that they will try to manage differently.
Healthy functioning people are not better motivated by threats and pay-cuts. They are motivated by their own values, whether it is their pay, believing in the company vision, enjoyment of their work.
Good managers enable their employees so much that the manager barely has to be present.
Maintenance and facilities always gets hit by budget cuts first.
They always think, "well, if things get worse, we can always hire a third party outside company."
What they never seem to realize is when you go third party, you have to play by their rules. You go by their hours and their price ranges. They know they don't need you, because they can always get another contract somewhere else, but you need people to clean and maintain now.
"we were expected to just sit and wait for calls to come in, even if it was a slow day."
"YoUrE nOt HeRe To HaVe FuN!"
Air Force here. I was once involved in a series of major projects that had my team working around the clock to meet the deadline. We worked from 0600 to 1800 six days a week with one full weekend every other weekend. This went on for around two months and people were obviously feeling pretty impatient, but we would get the job done.
Cue our flight chief, a freshly minted First Lieutenant, calling an impromptu meeting one day. We expected our being ahead of schedule would be rewarded. Instead, this dude pretty much ordered everybody to stop looking so mentally exhausted. We were being worked to the bone and this man, who was still working normal shifts, had the nerve to ask us, "Can you show more enthusiasm while working over 70+ hour weeks?"
This man was the reason at least four fully trained technicians decided not to reenlist at their four year mark. Me? I volunteered for the first available deployment and escaped to Kuwait!
Wow! I did 4-years in the Army. THE only trouble I had, other than an E-4 once trying to prison biatch me*, were two First Lieutenants. I stood up to both of those hacks.
So many "butterbar" hacks came and went. I wince even now all these years later whenever I see a "butterbar" insignia.
*A petty power move done in front as many of your unit as possible designed to lower your stature with others in the unit. They hope you'll not risk disciplinary action. Nope. Can't. If you do, no one will respect you--ever. One of you has to back down, and it can't be you.
When I was in the Army, we had many run-ins with a mythical creature known as the "Good Idea Fairy." Every time the Fairy appeared, the day was ruined.
Ignoring an bully employee for years to the point of saying as he was about to retire “ We never knew there were any problems with Mr. X”. Then I sent them the 20 something emails I’d sent to my supervisor about his actions. Soon after retirement Mr X had a medical crisis that forced him to get the treatment I’d been trying to convince my employer everyone would benefit from. I’ve heard he is much better. Would have been great if that had happened years ago.
As an admitting manager at a hospital. I was told my team were a dime a dozen and didn't need raises because they were easily replaced.
'Hey, you eleven, come with me. We're getting a single dime from the big boss whilst handing in our 2-weeks notices.'
...isn't there a general lack of people going into the medical field? especially a lack of nurses? thats actually a really big issue?
Yes there is. Not only that but the covid burnout is making it way worse along with doctors. Whoever is her boss is a complete buffoon
@@damien678 Yes. And Admissions is hardest hit.
@@maxalberts2003 just seems so wild to say they're replaceable after knowing that ya know?
Got 2
1.) First job I ever quit. Got a new manager who had a tendency to argue with everyone while rarely coming in. Straw that broke the camels back was managing get an assistant manager of several years to quit and telling me, someone who had been there for 4 years that I was expendable at best. She then told me to help teach a new person coming in on one of our busiest nights. It was super stressful. The new employee quickly decided this wasn't for them. After they left I was told it was somehow my fault. Suffice to say, I quit soon after.
2.) Caught a family of Karens trying to wreck a boat. I was working as an assistant manager at a fairly nice marina up north. They were ramming a rental into the dock over and over again. All the time yelling about how our boat is faulty. Never mind the fact that they had the boat in full throttle while barely turning the wheel. To busy complaining while scratching up the haul. I had to run up and slam the emergency shutoff on it. Nearly screwed up my leg in the process as the Karens tried to push me out of the boat when I went to jump in. Said that they had this under control and did not need me. Suffice to say, they went and complained to the owner about how rude I was to them. She took their side for whatever reason. The only silver lining was that I heard they had to pay of hefty fine later upon taking out another rental and bashing it through a massive no wake sign as well as some rocks.
Corporate promised us all raises, 100% guaranteed they said. The next week they went back on their word 6 people quit because that
We found out about our companies going out of business sale in the newspaper. We stole so much clothing it was unreal in that last week.
I was working 2nd shift in a factory. Found out they were laying off 75% of staff that day because we came into work and there was a local tv news crew in the parking lot that already knew before we did.
LMFAOOOOOO nice
Any workplace management anywhere: “You can no longer drink coffee in ...”
Employees: “So, you have chosen death.”
I worked a publix. I worked in customer service as a bagger. At first, it was excellent. We went to orientation, the person presenting was super gushy and talked about how great the business was and said they had a bunch of 'unique' bonuses.
One of those bonuses was that they never hired outside of the company except from the bottom, and they promoted people from the bottom. This was quickly debunked after people began to overhear some of the store managers talking about hiring a grocery manager from Kroger to fill a spot for a manager who quit. We asked about it and they just said if we spilled the secret we could kiss our jobs goodbye as this could tear down company morale. Turns out they were hiring managers from competition and saying 'they came from another location'. People who have worked at Publix for years have never been promoted.
The second big problem is the no tipping policy. At Publix, if you accept a tip, you are instantly fired. This is because they want the customers to be flattered when we take their groceries out to their car, load their groceries, make small talk, help them with anything else on the way out, such as cleaning the inside of their care to make room for groceries and spraying air freshener, and return the cart along with other carts to the indoor stock. They want the customers to feel like we are doing it just to please them and treat them like royalty (no fucking joke) and they have cameras outside that they review constantly. I've had to turn down juicy $10 and $20 dollar tips that could have paid for dinner that night just because Publix wants a few extra pennies in their pockets because customers come back. I can tell you right now that this is a psychological tactic.
The third big problem was at the start of Covid. A bunch of jobs were created, like wiping down carts, Sanitization of all the handles in the store and so on. Wiping down the carts was torture. We stood at the front entrance of the store, wiped down maybe three or four carts at a time, and gave them to customers. At first, it wasn't horrible, as we got to talk to people, and could wipe down carts beforehand and hand them to customers. But eventually, we had to wipe down carts for at least ten seconds in front of the customers, one at a time. We were told to waste the time of customers just to make sure said customers knew we cared. Another psychological tactic. On weekends, the front entrance could get seriously backed up because of this and the store manager would just scold us for being slow when this never happened before. Next, we couldn't have our phones, books, magazines, or ipods with us at the front when wiping carts. We were just expected to stand there. On weekdays, especially in the evening, we could go up to an hour without a customer entering the store, so we would just stand there, listening to the same 12 2010s pop elevator music songs. People began calling out because this job was soul crushing.
Then they began to tell us to insist that we take their groceries out for them. We couldn't take no for an answer until we asked and firmly grasped the cart several times, often creeping customers out, and then they would chastise us for not taking the carts out when the customers refused.
Then the manager began making issues of non-existent problems or minor things that could easily be taken out of context WEEKS after they happened. I was pulled into the office with the store manager who asked be about something that happened two weeks before. I was talking to a mother while bagging, and she said her son was being a dummy, and I said "that's okay, I'm a dummy to, so we can be dummies together" and the little six year old just lit up (one of the few things I loved about that job, the people I talked to. I excelled at interacting. One of the few things I was genuinely great at.) He told me that what I had said was incredibly inappropriate and I should never call a customer stupid. He admitted to having a conversation the same day about that event that happened two weeks before with a worker who was known to lie for brownie points and had been caught doing so before. Turns out said coworker said I called her kid a dumbass. I stopped being genuine after that.
Anything at that store could be chided: bagging with one hand instead of two, not talking enough, not smiling enough, and even not saying specific phrases they wanted us to say. They policed every conversation we had, telling us that we should have said certain regurgitated phrases over and over again instead of having real conversations.
Eventually, people began to quit en masse. They were tired of the whole authority attitude and policing every little connection and interaction.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when Publix began to align themselves with the who BLM and Left wing movement to gain a larger cut of the Millennial organic market. Have you ever heard of diversity quotas? There a legal precident that basically demands business to hire a certain amount on one or several races. A long-time and beloved customer service manager was fired for a black girl with no experience to recieve that diversity tax cut and look inclusive. The dude they fired was a hard worker, innovated, and was genuinely a great guy.
Then I was suspended for a week for bringing this up, and I quit right there, surprising the boss. I'm applying for food lion. I'll post more if you want.
Hah. Holy effing shit. I'm so glad there isn't one anywhere near me.
EDIT: Also, if you feel like baring your soul, please do so.
I bet that manager microwaved hamsters as a kid
@@calanon534 I don't regret working there, but, I'm glad I quit.
The worst thing was that they began to ignore our Availability schedules. I got a bunch of phone calls at my senior pictures because they scheduled me to come in at 6:30 in the morning. Not only did I take that day off, but my availability schedule specifically stated I couldn't come in before 8:30 in the morning. I did this because it was a 45 minute walk, and I ended up having to get up a 4:45 to 5:00 in the morning so I could wash, feed and clothe myself and grab a coffee at the CVS next to my house because buying anything at the store while in the clock was strictly prohibited, and that was an opening shift.
I asked them to not ignore my availability schedule because I really hated waking up that early and I set that schedule that way for a reason. The manager
The manager told me if I didn't want to come in I shouldn't have gotten this job.
Another instance, at the beginning of Covid, they gave us a $50 gift card every month. This turned to $100 a month. Then they just stopped doing it. I guess it was to raise morale, but removing that support blew far more than it raised it. That one isn't exactly terrible, but there were so many bad things before that that everyone couldn't help but feel slighted.
I started asking customers if they would like me to help them with their groceries instead of doing the whole disturbing grab the cart and demand to offer service. A manager pulled me aside, told me what I was doing wrong, and I asked why it was wrong, since I was being completely polite and doing my job. She sneered and said "would you like me to give you your paycheck?" Implying she wouldn't pay me in the most condescending tone ever. She basically threatened my job over a phrase because I wasn't giving customers a service when they clearly didn't want it and I wasn't going to be creepy. I quit a week after.
I could literally go on.
@@Spagg0t I don't completely blame him. A lot of these, especially the carts and the taking out grocery policies were company wide. But yeah, he was an asshat and a lot of people really just didn't like him. All the other managers besides maybe my customer service team leader were pretty chill.
@@Frame_Late You should tell your stories to Camelot331. Serioiusly, I would absolutely love to hear him expose this shit for all of TH-cam to see.
....Half of these I imagine involve the manager going "Oh crud...I said the quiet part out loud, didn't I?"
20:12 When great employees that dedicate their lives to a job, when they realize the company doesn't give a damn if you lived or died, they start working at the same level as anyone else, that employee is labeled and destroyed... Bad part is, the company could say they were let go for "Misconduct" and there is not a damn thing that employee could do about it... People can be deemed "Do Not Hire" yet the company does not get the "misconduct" label, as anyone that does not like the company and leaves (quits or fired) they are "Disgruntled Employee"
The most one can do is go to twitter and cancel said company. If things work well, action can be taken or that company gets a very bad rep and sales will go down for that company.
Glassdoor and similar places are extremely useful for this. A lot of places have an online presence where you can find employees from there and ask them what it's like to work there as well. Just don't ask a manager is all.
@@catreecemacleod7556 Unfortunately fake reviews are a thing.
@@SdoubleA Yeah, that can be true, though you can generally see a trend. If a company only has like 1 bad review and it doesn't match any of the good ones for what they complain about, that kinda stands out.
Most people don't quit jobs anyway, they tend to quit managers. Yeah, maybe the pay is too low for their skillset, but that doesn't usually push people over the edge to make large, dramatic changes in their lives. It usually requires some larger event to make a big life decision like quitting your job, and that usually means someone did something that caused the reaction, and it's usually a higher up who has more power than they can do anything about.
As such, if the complaint is about management, and they go into detail about things that management is doing wrong, and there are several which have similar complaints but each feels kinda different, it's usually enough to form a moderately good idea of what's going on.
People are vague about the things they like, but very specific about the things that annoy them. Vague complaints can probably be ignored, but consistent, specific complaints that show a trend are probably best avoided.
You can absolutely recommend against a company, i personally recommend against Securitas because they will not hesitate to risk lives and property damages if that can earn them a quick buck. Fuck Securitas, pretending to be a serious company.
Worked in a kitchen that aloud music to be played loud before we opened and while closing. But had to be kept lower during service. I had a speaker from altec that pounded and it fit in my pocket so I could walk around.
One day I come into open and one of the cooks has this "boombox" style speaker. I can hear the thing through two floors of parking garage. Sound like a club. I'm all for good, loud music, but this was ridiculous. Boss shows up an hour be for we start and we all have a laugh and he's told to keep it off during service. Half way through the day he gets the bright idea to play "hits from the bong" by Cyprus Hill. He's in the back doing prepping and I'm working the fryers up front. When I hear the loudest bong-toke ever"... The kitchen staff go quiet. The servers and all the customers in the front of the house go quiet... "Pick it, pack it
Fire it up, come along
And take a hit from the bong
Put the blunt down just for a second
Don't get me wrong, it's not a new method
Inhale, exhale
Just got a ounce in the mail
I like a blunt or a big fat cone
But my double barrel bo....
Boss gets to the back and shuts it off. Kid fired on the spot. Everyone is laughing as we get back to work. Come into work the next day and on every locker is posted a note with big letters.
"No more music"
That was the quietest 12-hour shift I ever worked. Wasn't the same after that.
Because a simple 'no inappropriate music' wasn't an option.
😂😂😂
21:10 sounds a lot like something that happened at my last job (aerospace manufacturing, we would sell non-critical parts to Boeing, but Boeing was only one of about 30 "clients"). Employee X would take over an hour to complete one part (which mainly consisted of measuring the already-made part, cleaning it, "deburring" it aka removing any sharp edges or left over bits from the manufacturing process, and slapping a sticker on it so the part was identifiable). In the same amount of time, I could get about 8-10 parts done (most people averaged around 3-5). Semi-annual review comes up. "Employee X does such a great job", gets high performance ratings which leads to a decent bonus. I (and several other hard workers) got just barely under the needed score for the bonus, were told we "were just doing our job" and "didn't exceed expectations" so we didn't deserve higher scores. The VERY NEXT DAY, less than half the number of parts got done (I still averaged better than anybody else). The following day we had an "all-hands-meeting" (which included higher-ups, basically our boss's boss, and HIS boss). Several people mentioned the uneven, seemingly biased performance scores and how somebody who does almost nothing all day got a bonus while people who bust their asses got nothing. Higher up people said our manager was the one who decided the scores and they could do nothing about it. It took almost 6 months for work to get back up to acceptable (by the client, still not acceptable to management) rates of production, which cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in late delivery fees, so they decided not to give anybody a raise or a bonus. Despite averaging better than every other worker, I was told in my performance review that I "did not meet expectations" and told I needed to work harder ... evidently just about everybody (except Worker X) got the same speech. Within a month, they had lost half of their most skilled employees (including me). It's been almost 5 years, and they're still in business, so they must have figured something out, but I do know that they lost some clients, and the ones they didn't lose charged them large fees and are currently at much lower production (and therefore income) levels. This was BEFORE the current crisis, so I don't know what's going on right now.
tl;dr: Company had to pay hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of dollars in fees, lost clients and income, and lost over half their skilled workforce, because the manager showed preference to a single person who couldn't even do their job and the higher-ups sided with the manager, punishing all other workers in the process.
9:26 they really went in with the 'they cant fire all of us' mentality
We had a small company cookout among 1st shift, 2nd shift and the office guys. We were given permission to use the grill and what un cooked meat was left, in this case only hot dogs remained, when our lunch time came. Well our boss comes back looked at us and very rudely told us “ you better enjoy these hot dogs because it’ll be last fucking time you’ll eat eat them here” this immediately bummed us out and we proceeded to clean up. Apparently the office guys complaint to him and said that there were no hamburgers left when they decided to eat and the boss thought we, 2nd shift, had hidden some patties.
Edit: I forgot to add his idea was that everyone gets to eat 1 burger, 1st,2nd and office people, before anyone can get seconds. It turned out that 1st shift people ate 2 burgers off the bat and that led to shortage of burger which led to the office people bringing it up to our boss.
Was it cleared up?
@@bensoncheung2801
Yes. Once we began to immediately clean up, we had an hour lunch, our lead went up to the boss and explained everything. The next day the boss came to us in our meeting and apologized to us. One of our more vocal coworker called him out on it and demanded why the other shift wasn’t yelled at like we were. The end result was that we, 2nd shift and by our choice, stopped eating with the other shift unless it was catered by a different company.
@@jhm3346 Can't they just sit on this issue?
@@bensoncheung2801
Who the coworkers from my shift? Well for one this was a couple of years ago and 2 both shift for the most part never got along all to well so this was a unanimous decision to have separate bbq.
Promoting someone who was hired after others on the team instantly kills morale and makes your subordinates want to kill you.
The *only* time promoting someone who was hired after others on the team is acceptable is when that someone has become so crucial, so loved by the team, that the location would not operate the same without them. And even then you'll still have some muttering from people who've been there for years.
Some people might work harder than everyone else
I disagree. Seniority shouldn't be a factor.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult
Agreed.
Seniority must be respected and must pay off as long as the employee remains positive and productive.
But basing promotions on it can be as destructive as nepotism.
This happened to my older brother who worked retail at a local store several years ago.
It was a busy day, and during one of the few bits of down time he had, my brother decided to take a quick bathroom break. When he got out of the bathroom, his boss asked him where he went since there were customers still in the store. My brother told him he had to use the bathroom, and his boss scolded my brother for doing so. He literally treated my brother, who is in his 30's, like he was a child who started a fight in school. To that, my brother said to his boss: "Fuck that. I quit!" and just stormed out of the store. He never returned to that store since and had found better work in a different retailer, and will be finishing his last day at this store tomorrow on good terms with the team. Whenever we drive past his old store, we poke fun at him saying "Hey look! There's -store-!" He usually responds with a groan.
tl;dr My brother had his morale instantly killed by his boss scolding him like a 5-year old for going to the bathroom without permission, despite being a fully functioning adult and then he decided to quit on the spot.
There is a lesson out of this to all employers, managers and building owners across the nation. Care for your employees and they care for you. Dont care for your employees and they will take care of you.
What kills employee morale is finding out your pay rate is lower than most other new co-workers within the same position. More like a knife to the heart, but yeah, horrible hourly wage.
Yeah, just saw my company is hiring now at higher starting pay than what I'm currently getting, duck them. I see places in town hiring for more than what I get, time to move on because I do most of the work and holding the place together atm.
Telling us they couldn't afford to give us a Christmas bonus, but just bought 4 new cars for department heads. The old cars were only 2 years old.
It's depressing knowing just how common that situation is
I worked at a place that did away with the morning and afternoon breaks...only lunch break now. Also there was a cafe/restaurant onsite...if you were wearing their uniform,you were no longer allowed to eat in the restaurant...the same people who weren't allowed to eat in the restaurant were expected to set up/ tear down tables and chairs after any meeting/parties/gatherings!..
In every meeting (2-3 times a week), the director would INFORM us (U.S.A. based programmers ... COBOL variety) that she could hire 3 offshore developers for what she paid us. Likely true, if they'd actually known COBOL at that time. After about 4 months of this, I'd had enough. Next meeting, same statement, I raised a hand... and asked, could you please just hire them then? The entire group (about 25) busted out laughing.... she closed her mouth and that was the last of that morale buster. They had other ones.... but that one annoyed me.
I cant' remember ever seeing a teacher walk from class to class without their coffee....ouch.
"took a literal crap in front of his office door"...
reminds me of a gag in an old online comic, "absurd notions", where someone CARVED his resignation letter into the door of the boss's office!
No one:
Robot voice: Karma's a BEACH.
Because either the comment had beach, or the TTS was edited to say beach.
Read the text. It said Beach
"ONE STROKE FOUR"
Tbh the one where they said they were moving manufacturing overseas, while yes it kills morale it was actually pretty considerate to the employees to tell them so soon, it takes a while to get a new jobs
Business managing is quite like Warfare you gotta keep to morale of your troops up if you don't want anyone deserting or asking for a transfer to another unit
PSA to managers moving to a new location, LISTEN TO THE DUCKING STAFF!
Our last two managers at work implemented their own policies which fricked us over, I gave my 2 cents but I don’t think they believe(d) me when I point out the issues, even when I try to be tactful.
If it weren’t for the veteran lower tier manager with clout, who basically let us override some of their policies, or the manager finally reverting changes when they realised it wasn’t working, our job would be borderline impossible.
Never do manager work without the promotion. You're better off quitting because they will never pay you more to do stuff you already do for less
Asking everyone to work about 6 weekends of overtime in a row and looking shocked when nobody wanted to do it.
17:00 is the worst kind of buisness story. I've seen that exact same thing myself, and absolutely loathe seeing a "under new management" sign on any buisness at this point.
If it's any consolation, our location recently had that (past 7 months). I applied under the old manager and was rejected in favor of "experienced" people that he never found. He said he'd hang onto the resume, and a friend said he'd always look over it, but nothing came of it. The new manager came in and at first thought she had to knock things into order, shortly before I re-applied. When I met her she seemed to really like that I was new and could be molded to fit the location's needs, especially so because of the previous application. From what I've pieced together there was a brief period where she thought the higher-ups put her here due to needing to get the employees in line, but it was really because of the previous manager. Every so often we have a little dust kicked up because of corporate causing her stress, but otherwise she's been the best boss I could've asked for and usually looks out for us, giving advice if asked and so on. So not every "under new management" sign spells disaster for the employees! But it does spell change, and change is not always something people adapt to.
The fact that so many of these people stayed is insane. How can you treat yourself so horribly!???
The working poor don't have a lot of choice.
I had some company representatives come by and he told us a whole pretty story that basically came down to 'we had to work harder, more and more flexible' at the questions part I asked if that also meant that we would be paid more. He started an angry rant about how we should be happy that we had a job. This was for a company for people with light disabilities, it's not like we can get a job elsewhere easily because when you have that earmark most jobs fear you either are sick often or too stupid to be able to learn something.
Watching everyone around me walk out, get let go, put in their two weeks, losing our bonuses, having a hypocrite boss who throws his guys under the bus whenever it makes him look good, the list goes on. What really broke me was when I asked to use my vacation time, after working over 3000 hours this year, it got denied. I had to go to the production supervisor to get my paid time off. He is the only one who has thanked me for working all that overtime.
As it turns out my supervisor doesn't want to admit that he is short staffed, he's been bragging about my work. My shift rides on my shoulders. No pressure. Although I've been having reoccurring dreams about doing my job.
I need to use my PTO and can't because we are short staffed and barely keeping everything together because of it =\ its so ducked up, this is the ONlY time in a few years that I need to use it and can't.
Worked part time at a warehouse temporary at a top us mnc specialising in computers and servers. Our job was to carry pallets of computer parts to a delivery area. When no stocks are brought down, we took a rest and used phones while waiting. Supervisor saw this and started shouting at us why the fuk we using phone. We kept quiet but deep down we are pissed af ( we worked like dog so we don’t see anything wrong with resting abit while waiting for stocks to come). Then we saw another guy with long hair literally just sitting at the cargo lift and waiting for pallets to arrive and his job was just to move that one pallet to us. So we asked the supervisor why is that so and why didn’t he get rotated to carry pallets like us? Supervisor said he will soon eventually. A few days passed and nothing was changed. We decided go talk to supervisor then we were going to quit. He began softening his tone towards us and said he just bought our safety shoes. We told him sorry no thanks. Keep it to yourselves. The rest of the workers left shortly after us and they became understaffed.
This incident left a very bad taste in my mouth towards this company because of one micromanaging supervisor. Now and then whenever I saw a job posting from this company, I will always remember what happened and told myself nah I’m not working for this shit.
Breaking morale is a strategy
The bosses changing people's timesheets after being submitted to avoid paying overtime was bad enough. When the two employees who went over the direct bosses head to complain about unpaid wages were fired without cause, everyone was done with that shit.
It probably really sucks to try and entirely re-staff multiple summer camps in the middle of July, but I find it hard to feel bad for my former-employeers.
TLDR; just pay your people the overtime they're owed
One of are managers gave us a lapel pin with a sticker on it that said hero. Right in mid corona season... everyone looked at it and threw it away. It was so quite that day, you can hear people sighing all day.
I remember my time at my town's Walmart:
1. A few managers were assholes - forced some of us to work into our designated lunch hours, made others cry. I even had my department manager blow up in my face in front of a customer because he thought I called for him by his full name on the walkie (didn't even know his fucking first name, just his last, and apparently he shares his name with another co-worker that I also called for in the same call). The embarrassment was horrible.
2. Scheduling for the first half of 2020 was shit. A lot of us assumed they were trying to can the elderly employees using shit hours to get them to quit. I and many others in the age range of 18-40 suffered shit hours too, so maybe they were trying to cleanse the whole store to hire newbies for less.
3. Managers almost always sided with customers, even if they were pulling shit to get free stuff.
I promised myself if I ever was forced to return to Walmart, I will shoot myself in the gut.
IDK, I think if someone took away my ability to drink coffee when I work it would be a big issue!
Not the company, a year or so I worked somewhere i legally can't say. One of my coworkers who had been there two weeks tried to pass himself off as my supervisor my first day. He does that with everyone so I guess not firing him lowered the moral
But, like, is he a snob about it? Like, 'do what I say, noob!' attitude? Cuz I could see someone pulling a stunt like that as an icebreaker of sorts if they did so lightheartedly ('haha, gotcha, welcome to [company], we're actually coworkers').
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 It would be nice if that were the case. I remember my first factory job, this guy that was training me told me that we had to yell "Yabba Dabba Doo!" at break times. I only did it once but we were good friends after that lol.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 it was like a control thing. He wanted to dicated hours since we had no acting supervisor and wanted to make sure he knew the exact way you did your job for various reasons I can't even speculate.
I work in the food industry, the first 3 weeks of the location being open one of the managers repeatedly called us disgraceful because it took us till 12 to finish cleaning everything (we close at 10 on weekends and 11 on weekdays). I was promised 40 hour weeks, full time, and I got 18 hours a week for those first few weeks. I had to pick up dishwashing just to get the hours I was promised. Problem is, everyone treats dish horribly. Then I get yelled at for standing up for myself, needless to say, im looking for a different job.
This video is could basically be renamed “101 reasons to unionize”
Or just..... work at a better company/start your own business. Unions bring with them a different set of problems.
Walmart executives: *Crapping their pants*
If you're employed by Walmart or ever were, this would hit a little too close to home.
Telling them they're not going home until the job is finished even though we were at the job site at 4am and it's now 10pm but we cant be late tomorrow or we will be fired. Yes it really happened.
Worked in a place like that, had a maintenance contact that for two weeks in spring where we did 12 plus hours a day 7 days a week.
Was absolutely fine with that as loads of overtime money in time for summer.
Then I started to get same request on random jobs and more often , time to move on
@@porkerthepig this job was landscaping in the south. Every day 6 days a week was 14 to 16 hours. A few times a month he'd pull the crap I posted. Then wonder why we're so tired when he finally checks on us and its 5pm out. Glad I dont work for him anymore. V
The chromebook story makes me cry. Those poor teachers!
I worked at a summer camp. As part of that camp's tradition, the staff would perform skits for their campers on the first night. It's to make them feel hyped and at home and they all walk away happy. Well, after skit night one week, some higher-up decided it would be a brilliant idea to go give that generic lecture about some kid committing suicide because they were bullied. It didn't even happen at the camp. Killed the morale for camper and staff alike.
I saw the one at 4:55 on a different r/Askreddit where it was "When did you leave your company with a massive mess to clean up."
Not a place I worked at but a friend did.
He worked as a transport manager at a single depot for a company that our family company worked with sometimes. They are a general haulage firm in the UK/Ireland. This particular depot was in an area that didn't turn out the best, and as such people got into the depot to try and steal goods and cause damage quite regularly. They paid shit wages for drivers and as such they only got shit drivers working for them. Long story short due to this and a host of other issues the regional manager or whatever says to the depot manager, that the only decent employees at this place were him and the forklift driver, and that if either of them left he would probably just shut this depot and move it's work to another yard. This, ironically, caused my friend to think 'well why would I work here as transport manager for not great money, when if the forklift driver decides to leave I'm out of a job?' he found a new job less than a month later, regional manager fired everyone else, closed the depot, and shifted the work to another location.
I used to work on a very busy tech support team of a small company. At the time, the tech support team was 2 people, me and one other. The other had taken time off for 2 weeks off (this employee prior to this had never taken vacation for 3 years). Obviously with half staff in tech support, I was overloaded with work and I clearly remember one day I had a list of tasks to complete the day of about 32 items. On a typical day, me and my teammate finished about 6 to 12 items each. I knew we were short staffed so I remember working particularly hard that day and completed about 17 - 18 items by myself. The next day at a meeting we had in the morning, I remember only being criticized for what I did not get done, instead of the 17 to 18 items I did complete (almost twice what we typically got done in a normal day). Like they were legit angry at me and almost yelling, although I literally did exactly what they asked for the day before and then some, literally busted my ass to try to help our customers, and yet leave on time because they didn't want to pay overtime. They were unreasonable at times but I distinctly remember this particular meeting as it was just ridiculous. It was like they were taking out their stress and frustration over not being able to attend to all of their important customer's needs at once on me despite it would have been difficult to complete that list even if both of us were there that day.
I almost walked out.
Had I done it, they would of had 0 techs to attend to their customers or other tech support issues that mostly nobody else in the company could really do. In hind sight, I wish I did.
It was kind of a slow decline into "I don't want to be here" from that point on (and truthfully, it had already been happening, but this particular time accelerated it and I left a while afterwards). So did my teammate.
That call centre one got me. I work for a call centre and when I first started I was doing the UK's covid track and trace covid program. Spent 3 months sitting doing nothing did 2 calls that entire time and yet we werent allowed to get up from our seats, talk to each other, listen to the radio that managers had at their desks and obviously we werent allowed any sort of entertainment on the floor. No phones, no books not even pen and paper. Fair enough theres security risks with some of those but for fucks sake. I've since been moved to another campaign and it's fine but everyone who was doing that job is planning on going out with a bang when the time comes as many already did.
My boyfriend’s job has had everyone working 50+ hour weeks for 5 months. It’s killing morale. They would rather work everyone into the ground than hire more help.
If he isn't salary, use the extra hours (overtime) to pay off all debts and then build emergency funds and savings. That way he isn't financially stuck when he finally quits or gets fired for not being a "team player."
10 hours of overtime is roughly 15 hours of straight pay. That is much cheaper than paying for a new employee with benefits. They will work you until you break
I worked for a company that gave pay cuts of five or ten percent once, depending on how much you were paid. Bonuses and fringe benefits were constantly stopped without notice. If you asked about them, "That was phased out long ago." The employee manual was online so they could edit it to remove any references to the lost benefits and add new rules immediately without notice.
Ok, we are doing an excellent job guys, but I think we need a little more organization.
Yep, I've been a victim of the inconvenient rescheduling idea.
The company didn't want to provide me with more hours (because if I went full time, that meant they'd have to pay into a company pension for me). Instead, they decided to chop my current days up into little pieces to ensure I was there much more often - with no extra pay to cover all my extra travel expenses. Stuff that. I quit.
I've also had family and friends suffer the austerity measures 'excuse' and had to accept both 0% pay rise and 'drastic pay cuts' - when it was quite clear the people at the top made sure they were still getting perks, pay rises, etc.
Having a monthly bonus that's shared with all my employees. Can only be lost gradually over the course of the month due to costly mistakes made by any employee. Props to the ones that don't last a month. Broken equipment, wrong stuff delivered, you name it. Initially it started as a grand total of $10,000 split across 20-30 employees, drivers got double. Then every month after that the number was random, but always less than $10k. Then the bonus would arrive... as a taxable paystub. Told the supervisor I wanted it in cash, and he thought I was joking...
"Doug, you suck"
Was that the manager, or his kid?
People don't quit jobs, they quit supervisors.
9:33 that's called "Collective Bargaining." It's like a union, but the individual still has power over themself
Mine killed it with his perfectionism. I worked as a dishwasher for a high up nursing home and he was the most draining part of the job. I wasn't the only one. At least one cook and at least 4 servers left, excluding me, while I worked there. He would want me to finish both washing dishes and cleaning up the kitchen completely by 8:00 pm. Problem was, some residents loved to just lounge in the dining room and finish eating around 7:15 (not that I minded personally) and I would receive an entire cart full of dishes by about 7:20. Mind you, an entire cart full could hold more than 20 trays, 30+ large plates, a bucket full of silverware, 30+ bowls, 40+ medium size plates and 40+ small plates and some other things. Not only that but I would normally be about halfway through memory cares dishes, which had a little bit more dishes to clean than the "main side" as I called it. severs were also expected to be able to serve dinner sessions of 30+ residents with only 2 severs. That would be 15+ residents who sometimes were hard of hearing, slow speaking, showing symptoms of dementia, etc. and some being relatively impatient with other residents. He had too many high expectations for his employees that he couldn't meet. I know because I broke my wrist on the way home from work in a moped accident (no one was hurt except me) and he had to take over for me. Turns out, my sister caught him and one other person working late still working on dishes, according to my sibling who worked night shift at the same nursing home. I'm assuming that late was around 7:30.
The moment the boss man walks through the front door, my morale instantly hits 0. LOL
😂😂😂
I'm actually the opposite! Our boss lady is pretty well versed and understanding when things get busy, so whenever she's around morale actually usually increases! Then again, I'm usually on the opposite shifts so I don't get to see her all the time. But that's also a good thing, because it means if there's been some kind of dissonance between the two shifts, I can usually be the middle man clearing up the air and giving explanations.
told us we werent getting a raise because we were told that money was being used to help others keep their jobs, but then announce theyre closing other locations
Just say the bigwigs need to able to afford their yacht payments. It's less insulting that way.
The store owner kept talking politics and complaining about the president in front of customers.
We served Frozen Yogurt and customers don't want to hear a grown man complaining.
He wound up losing a ton of business, so I quit because I got offered a job in insurance.
Realizing it was a great job, I convinced a lot of my old coworkers to apply with my company.
I'm not saying when it happened or who the president was when he was complaining.
The issue wasn't his politics. The issue was that customers enjoying themselves will come back.
The place where I learned to stop being an empty uniform and do real security really screwed up. Our team ran on morale. We caught burglars and recovered property when the cops couldn’t because there was this dynamic between this team of overqualified people who went back to entry level jobs during the Great Recession- we all came from places where we felt superior to the cops and the petit bourgeois country club board- our leader could have bought and sold them all back when he was drug dealer but he had a wife and kid to do right for now- I had been an engineer in a mine making six figures just by virtue of overtime, two other guys came to their 10 dollar an hour job in trucks with their name on the side because they were contractors who were wiped out by the housing crash.... the VIPs didn’t like all that dick swagger and they wanted an example made- they canned the patrolman and the dispatcher who everyone liked best some mild ambiguous back talk incidents- I very nearly succeeded in unionizing the shop over it and when that didn’t work we just made it an unofficial rule that we only do traffic stops on luxury cars- they couldn’t put it in writing that tickets were a kick back program targeted at the brown skinned workers- we wrote tickets on people who had lawyers until the club got sued- we had a meow contest ala super troopers. We would have gotten that place shut down if a truly great burglary crew hadn’t come along and forced us to start doing our jobs again.
Told me I was getting a raise and now it’s been about 3 months and I haven’t gotten the raise.
I do a gardening round, old ladies are where you always start with that. You'll never get better bosses, no matter how many 'human resources' degrees someone may have. An innate decency. My worst customers are large employers, so much so I'm thinking of rejecting them out of hand.
"Theres always something to do"
Like bro what do you want us to do get a tooth brush and start cleaning the corners???
The people who say that kind of stuff expect exactly this, yes.
I know you meant it as a joke but I agree with the responder.
Thats just code for "grab a broom and pretend to sweep the floor when the boss is looking"
1. Volunteer to work a holiday so you get paid time and a half. They cut your hours the following week.
2. Get told your store exceeded the target sales for that week. They cut everyone's hours the following week.
3. Customer threatens to gut you like a fish. You tell them to leave or the cops will be called. The customer complains to corporate and corporate apologizes to the customer and gives them a 20 dollar gift card.
4. Anytime Corporate tells you to do something, and then treats you like an idiot for doing that thing.
5. Anytime corporate makes policy/procedure changes, forces you to fully commit to those changes, and then two weeks later goes back to the old procedures. Half the time without emailing you.
6. Anytime there is a scheduled conference call or meeting that could have been an email. This usually happens when your super busy too.
7. You just spent the entire day making sure your department, area, or section is completely clean, organized, and up to standard. Corporate rep walks in and complains about a spec of dust on a shelf that you missed. (
8. Work place was promised a pizza party for going a full year without any accidents or injuries. Were told at the last minute it had to be frozen pizza purchased from the store using our own money...
9. Anytime a 20 year old piece of equipment breaks down and instead of ordering a new one, they go for another overhaul. Then the same piece of equipment has to be fixed again for the same problem a month later.
10. When your handed a reprimand for working unauthorized over time despite your boss asking you to stay longer because half the store picked that day to call out sick.
11. When your boss is handed a letter of reprimand for allowing employees to work too much over time even though those employees are covering for people out sick.
12. Being reminded that nobody is irreplaceable.
13. Lucky number 13.