My favorite phrase for this is from a screenshot I saw ages ago. I believe it was about a marine captain's saying this, but I could be very wrong. 'If you take care of your men, they'll take care of you! If you don't take care of your men, they'll take care of you.'
They are technically correct. What can't be replaced is experience and institutional knowledge. You also can't easily re-train those things once it's been lost.
Story 3: "I hope you're happy!" Happy to not get fired over a crime I didn't commit? Yes, I am in fact. Good luck getting another job. Hope they pressed charges.
In all my years of working in office jobs, the most replaceable role has always been President/CEO. Upper Management is there to support the work of their employees, and anything other than that is terrible management.
You never embezzle from a small or franchise business. Their profit margins aren't large enough to hide theft for long and thieves are almost always found out.
'everyone is replaceable" is only touted by bosses who do not know anything about the job and can't tell the difference between done right and totally screwed up.... oh the stories I could tell........
If someone says "everyone is replaceable" it's always the line which causes the people who *weren't* replaceable to move on to a new position with a competing business.
It's totally true, everyone IS replaceable. What the boss/manager fails to realise is, so is he and the entire company within the industry. Firing your best workers is always a bad choice. 😮
@@lancerevell5979 I've worked with someone who literally wasn't replaceable though. There were only 2 people in the country qualified to do his job, and nobody was available to train others to have the relevant skills. And the other person who had the qualifications was running his own business, so not an option to replace him if he left. When his boss gave him reason to quit, they literally had to close their doors and sell the place off to someone else (who hired the guy who quit because, still the only one who could do the job).
Story 4 - When Managers hire their ‘friends/roommates/family’ into a Management position… you know that it’s never going to end well. Especially when said new Management has NO Experience whatsoever.
Even if we go with Machiavelli, the "its better to be feared then loved, if you can't be both" guy. If you don't reward loyality there is literally no benifit to following you
Boss---"What if the store is held up at gunpoint while you're away?" Me---"Then I'll be damned glad that I was away! What? Do you expect me to take out an armed robber? I'll need MUCH higher pay for that!"
When bosses say "everyone is replaceable", they forget that it applies to them too. Workers are not glued to their places and can easily replace one job with another.
If I was being facebook stalked by two people I got fired because they were stealing I'd have changed my employment entry on there to say: "Crime Solver at (pizza place)" lol
some place takes forever to replace someone. Where I work, one person was transferring to another location and he was the only one for his position(an important position at that). He gave them four months notice and they didn't find someone to replace him for a least a month after he left. I was a good thing that members of management knew how to do his job.
"If you don't like it leave" or "you're replaceable" Me: okay good luck finding anyone who rarely calls out, does all the work i do and is always on time and if late stays the extra time.
These stories reminded me of one from the early days at my last job. A supervisor quit (no one cared he was a jerk) they promoted someone else internally to his role, Kevin, Now Kevin was a brilliant leader, a good boss primarily as he had worked his way up from the bottom and he knew how things worked. The company tried to keep him on the wage he was on as aline leader, when he was RUNNING THE ENTIRE SHIFT, he quit. we had a succession of extranl hires after that and most of them were disasters until they prmoted from internal staff again
So many bosses think employees -- the people doing the work as nd keeping the company running -- are totally replaceable, with little to no notice, backup, or training.
The wendy and stan story: I just came to say that, about 15 years ago, a friend's dad used to work at a convenience store. Something similar happened and he ended up reporting his coworker. Not only did they fire the coworker, they fired my friend's dad because "hewad unreliable and not a team player".
@@ryukaze7392 not that I know. The problem in Mexico is that it's not that easy to sue and most of the people won't do it because it consumes too many resources that we might not have. Money, time, a good lawyer, etc.
Second to last story: I was an auditor of 3 states for a chain of over 80 finance companies. I found thief after thief by looking at reversal of payments. The other thing they liked to do (caught 2 of these when I was still a manager) is take the payment with a handwritten receipt telling the customer that the computer was down. When the customer would get called about a past due payment, they would bring in the receipt, and I would check the report, and there was no overage. I had to fire a couple of gals for doing that. I sometimes think the mind of a thief has a mental illness component to it. Reality just isn't going on in there.
I was the victim of one of those scams (although in the end, it was the scammer who "paid" one way or another). I paid a bill at a business which was also the franchise for an equipment hire company. The bill I paid was for equipment hire. Then the company sent me a bill saying that it hadn't been paid. After sending them two letters showing that I'd already paid, I got the "final notice" and rang them instead. Lo and behold, the person I spoke to just said that I wouldn't have to pay anything. I got the distinct impression that I was not the first person to call them with this compaint and that they already knew that something decidedly fishy was up with that particular francisee. Then the woman on the phone has the gall to advise me that I should have written them a letter about it. I replied "I did! Twice!" She didn't know what to say to that. But at least I stopped getting bills.
Story 1: Great story, but not actually malicious compliance. Just a great story about a jerk getting caught out. Story 2: Gotta love bosses who have no idea what they're doing, right? Story 3: Ohhh this is lovely! The malicious compliance was carefully managed to *NOT* cause problems, *AND* the boss learned the lesson properly! Story 4: lol this is another "not malicious compliance" story, but a glorious one! Love it! Story 5: Yeah, "replaceable" is *NOT* a word you want to say to long-term employees *EVER* (and should really be avoiding for anyone, because it makes people not want to be where they are any more).
I gave 6 months notice. Boss did nothing. Then at month 4 Covid hit. She was sure I wouldn’t leave then. 🤣 On my last week she asked me to stay a couple more weeks so she could hire someone 😳 I bought a retirement house in another state I was leaving on time 😊 Too bad, so sad 🤣🤣
As I used to say one place I worked in reference to me getting away with things and people under me would say "no one is irreplaceable," some of us have learned the business well enough they're more irreplaceable than others." I actually had people, including bosses in my chain of managers, with way more time in the business that came to me to ask how to handle problems
When I was young and ended up in some very high end private clubs I was pretty naive. I heard two men at the bar talking. One was complaining that he could not find anyone dumb enough to run one of his businesses into the ground for a tax write off. Also heard people talking about who to pay off for a new exit from an expressway that would be surrounded by property they had bought up.
Jeesh, I barely get used to our hardware and it's replaced. New phone system in January, new computers in February, new keyboards and headsets in March, new chairs in April, updated small kitchen appliances in June.... this is how it goes here. Our boss loves to update everything.
Last story? I doubt she even learned that telling your employees that they're replaceable means that a good number of them will take that as a threat and make you prove that they can be replaced...
Story 4: On the one hand, GJ boss man for standing by your good employee. On the other... I'd invite them into the office and have police waiting for them.
1) Good for OP for not putting up with this BS from his boss. A good example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 2) Nice MC and not continuing to be taken advantage of. 3) Very nice that OP's MC actions led to making things better. 4) Good grief, what a stupid manager and good for OP for sleuthing and informing the owner. It's good OP's actions led to the firing of the crooks and gave her a raise. 5) Too bad the new owner was the awful one and OP and other good people quit.
I had just started my shift as a cashier one day. There were three of us on the clock and one person who clocked out and sent his whole line of 10 people to my register as soon as I walk in the door. So I was on register with 10 people in line. The other cashier had an even longer line. A customer asks for a product that was locked up. I call my store manager in the office and asks if he can help the customer; since it may be 20 minutes or more until our checkout lines clear and a cashier can help. The boss comes out of the office swearing and slurring his words that he pays us to take care of the f'n customers. It's not his f'n job. He's getting the product as he is yelling this in front of customers. I tell him I am sorry and will only call him for the rest of the night if I specifically need a manager, as I am finishing my first customer of my shift. He flips out and says he's tired of my crap and if I don't want to f'n be there to go the f home. The customers are all looking on silently in shock. I know the night will get worse, not better. So I apologize to my line, shut off my register light and punch out after only 4 minutes on shift. The boss asks wtf am I doing. I said you told me to go home if I didn't want to be there, and right now I didn't want to be there. As I walk to the door the boss yells he would accept that as my immediate resignation. I stop at the door and say I never said I was resigning. I would be be back for my next shift. If he wanted me gone, he could fire me. But I would need my check the next day as required by law in my state for all fired employees. I came in the next day and the assistant manager was told to expect me to no call/no show. I knew he wanted me gone; I won't give him the satisfaction of forcing me to quit.
Story 1: Amazing that paying a bit more and biting the bullet can save the business from failing yet most obsessed over saving pennies over saving the business.
3rd; IF USA, a 1Hour lunch brake is a Requirement if NO Food Machines or Lunch room. Federal Workers Laws which are supposed to be Posted..🤔 4th; Again IF USA No One can deduct ANY Money from a workers check, OR Withhold it, Except the Courts..🤔🧑⚖....
The "anyone is replacable" story reminded me of a Dept. Head who was hired where I worked. For some reason, a retired Army GENERAL, who had no experience in the area of expertise of the agency he was hired to run and apparently no experience in running a civilian, albeit Civil Service, workplace. He was not used to having his orders questioned by ANYONE, much less his clerical staff. So he was almost outraged to have the secretaries explain that what he wanted wasn't possible with the resources available. (Our department was one of the last to have word processing -or ANY type of computer - installed. So he looked out a window, pointed and told the clerical staff they could be replaced by "anybody" walking down the street. NOT a good idea. (Also not true, of course.) He managed finally to tick off the elected officials who hired him. Most of his underlings had Civil Service protection. He did NOT.
Everyone IS replaceable, that includes large corporations. If the manager/owner/CEO/whatever is screwing up, they will blame everyone else until there is no one else to blame. (Side note, If it is "Too big to fail" then it should be 'broken down' to a more manageable businesses, possibly with more 'government supervision' for good measure.)
*Story 3-* my hubbys the *only one* who NEVER takes a lunch!!! He works in a warehouse, works from 5am-4pm, and *only eats a granola bar!!!* Everyone else stays out over an hour, but lunch is supposed to be a half an hour 😡 *They’re in shambles without my man!!! I love my hubby!!!* 🥰😘❤️❤️❤️
S5: To be fair, everyone _is_ replaceable. But bosses shouldn’t say that. The work people do is _valuable_ and employees should be treated well because of that.
As a recruiter & Talent Acquisition Coordinator for nearly 10 years, many of these bosses don't learn until it's too late all of the logistics and time needed to find replacements. It can be a 3-4 week process, from writing and posting the job on job sites and the company website to going through applicants and finding the right potential employees, then phone-screening them, then sending the candidates' resumes to managers, scheduling interviews with the managers, the managers spending time deciding who they want to hire, then making the offer to the potential new hire, then scheduling and planning orientation, and giving those new hires 2-4 weeks AFTER orientation to be trained. Long story short, it can be VERY timely and VERY costly.
I. Wonder if anyone out there. Showed some of these posts to their bosses and got them to change their minds for a better outcome in regard’s to their employees…. ??
I once heard the you are replaceable - and you are fired from my boss, so i turned around and said so are you; you are running this place into the ground with you lousy service and cheaping out is hurting our reputation so the companies who have contracts are going to go elsewhere, frankly i give this place 6 months max and left, well 6 months latter i met a former worker and the place just down hill and was gone within 4 months
"What if someone holds up the store at gunpoint???" WTF am I supposed to do, I'm a manager not armed security... call the F-ing cops not me off my lunch!!!, what can I do? offer the crook a f-ing sandwich for their efforts? (edit, I worked for Walmart and even if you were a concealed license holder we were discouraged from using our personal weapons under the threat of termination)
American work rules are insane. A break is a break. Being on call on a break is illegal where I live. The unions would rip a new one to a boss that would try to put employees on call during their break.
I wanted to and tried to abbreviate watching these videos. A cool shorthand for the malicious compliance videos. It hasn't worked. Indeed, it failed. "I'm watching Malcom." "I've been watching videos of Malcom." Yeah, it doesn't work. It doesn't sound cool. Not at all.
So my former bosses were all 'Oh we can totally accommodate' but never did. After I bring things up to them about how they were handling thing? "Look, we're "trying". Not everywhere is going to be like us!" After I left saying I was fed up with them; they tried pinning their mistake on me. Well...Guess what? My new job has been really accommodating and my boss checks in while I'm working to see how I'm doing (and if the building's cleaning closet needs anything). I still remember this February during deep cleaning when I was cleaning the bunks for spring and summer, he comes in and asks "Hey, do you enjoy working here? I know it's been a year since we've asked that but do you still like it here?" You know what I said? I. Said. YES. And had this big smile on my face. I genuinely love my current place of employment. My higher ups are angels. My co-workers are lovely. And best part? I GET TO SEE A DOG AT WORK :D
The moral of nearly all these Reddit rants is found in one of the oldest adages of all time. “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. If you’re a boss and think an employee should be demoted, replaced, fired, transferred…..FIND OUT how much they actually do first!
Can't afford to hire or give raises story: Another idiot owner stumbling over dollars to save pennies. Oh well, his loss. On call story: Nicely done, OP. Pizza store story: OP, you were smart to contact Eric. Stan was setting you up to take the fall. But you got to the boss before they could cover their tracks. Replaceable story: Technically, we're all replaceable. But not instantly. Some hiring, training and batteries required.
If a business is barely managing when they're "fully staffed", they were actually short-staffed. If a staff member gets hospitalised in a road accident on their way to work, the business should already have the staff to cope with such an unexpected and unpredictable event. If they don't have enough staff to cope with that scenario, they're understaffed.
Anybody who spouts off some bullshit like oh you and the rest of the staff are replaceable blah blah blah that's when you respond with you're right we are..... BUT SO ARE YOU!!!
great job on the video, really enjoyed the storytelling! but i can’t help but wonder if the whole "replaceable" thing is a little overblown. sometimes it feels like companies forget that real people are behind those jobs, and not just cogs in a machine. what do you all think?
I get that more money is more money, but I still can't help but get shocked when someone says "a $0.30 raise" - that's, what, $15 more on a 50 hour week? Before tax? How is a raise that small not considered an insult?
It always amazes me how companies (of all sizes) "cheap out" on their employees' primary tools. At one of my old jobs, I was hired specifically as a web designer. Imagine my surprise on my first day when I was led to my cubicle and discovered that I was expected to work on an old PC-XT system with a monitor that could display 16 colors. I didn't even know what my colleagues' work looked like until I was there a bit over a month and they finally got me an up-to-date system. (There was absolutely ZERO chance of my bringing my own system in, sorry.)
So, in the last story, the op answered the owner's queries about how to do certain things AFTER quitting? ......That's kinder than what I'd have done! Let's just say that the owner would have one of two choices: Either hire me as a consultant at double the rate I was getting paid as an employee if they wanted that info, proving that their assertions that I was replaceable were as phony as a three dollar bill, or find their number blocked on my end!
The company I work for does that too. They had a highly motivated maintenance person and after 5 years had not had a raise. So all was asking was a quarter and would have probably been good for the next 5 years. I mean seriously and they refused to do it and now they have hired three people in position which cannot accomplish what used to do. was magnanimous in her job. was magnificent and they should have qualified the quarter to keep there and we've been suffering ever since been like 3 years now.
Story four is so old, but also OP is kind of messed up because they literally made all the characters named after South Park kids and somehow made Cartman “the good guy” district manager.
I worked at a store one time where they where paying us just over minimum wage. I had been working there for over 5 years and still was making just over a dollar over minimum wage. They hadn't given us raises for two years due to various dumb decisions on the CEO's part. Then came the kicker. It came time to start hiring seasonal workers and they put up the advertising. it read that they would start hiring the part time seasonal workers at two dollars an hour over what they were paying the full time workers at our store. Blatantly portrayed on the front doors of the store for all to see, we had to walk past these signs every day. We full time workers ganged up on management and asked them to raise our wages to match. It was denied. So we conspired. We all quit. They had to run the holiday season with just part time workers and management. I heard it sucked. And we weren't the only store in this chain this happened to, the decision to not match the wages came down from corporate and this was a nationwide company, the full time workers in all the stores quit. It couldn't have happened better if we had planned it. The company went bankrupt and no longer exists. Wouldn't have happened if the CEO had just matched the wages.
It's false that everyone is replaceable. In a healthy company, everyone should be replaceable at a non catastrophic cost. But it's more of a goal than a simple reality.
Now I know this really wouldn't work in small businesses, but in a big corporate environment employees should be able to replace their superiors as in they should be able to depose them and demand a new one without resistance from the higher-ups
#1 If the job is demanding with a high end computer and FOUR (4) screens, there is no way it can be done with a computer that was entry level 15 years ago with a single monitor. That owner was pretty clueless to the point of being hopeless. All of those : Management act all stupid. The crap hit the fan. Management : Surprised Pikachu Face.
Every boss who calls the employees "replaceable" is doomed to one day swallow their words when they themselves get replaced...
Employees*
My favorite phrase for this is from a screenshot I saw ages ago. I believe it was about a marine captain's saying this, but I could be very wrong. 'If you take care of your men, they'll take care of you! If you don't take care of your men, they'll take care of you.'
To be fair there are plenty of workers who are very much easily replaceable.
@@Tim85-y2q These stories show that bosses are more replaceable 90% of the time.
They are technically correct. What can't be replaced is experience and institutional knowledge. You also can't easily re-train those things once it's been lost.
Boss: "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, FIND ANOTHER JOB!"
Employee: "Ok" **quits**
Boss: *surprised Pikachu face*
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Never make an ultimatum where you can't accept the other option.
"I'm not accusing you" ... why not? If you're not accusing me, then why am I (op) getting in trouble for it?
Story 3: "I hope you're happy!" Happy to not get fired over a crime I didn't commit? Yes, I am in fact. Good luck getting another job. Hope they pressed charges.
Final Story - Using the threat of ‘ You’re replaceable’ is a sure fire way of losing all your workers and your business.
In all my years of working in office jobs, the most replaceable role has always been President/CEO. Upper Management is there to support the work of their employees, and anything other than that is terrible management.
Perhaps but the key is to only say it to people you can actually replace easily.
You never embezzle from a small or franchise business. Their profit margins aren't large enough to hide theft for long and thieves are almost always found out.
"If you're gonna do wrong, at least do it right!"
This true, I worked at a chain mid level restaurant and the GM got caught stealing. The owner was on top of it
'everyone is replaceable" is only touted by bosses who do not know anything about the job and can't tell the difference between done right and totally screwed up.... oh the stories I could tell........
If someone says "everyone is replaceable" it's always the line which causes the people who *weren't* replaceable to move on to a new position with a competing business.
Dark Fluff can always use more stories!
It's totally true, everyone IS replaceable. What the boss/manager fails to realise is, so is he and the entire company within the industry. Firing your best workers is always a bad choice. 😮
@@lancerevell5979 I've worked with someone who literally wasn't replaceable though. There were only 2 people in the country qualified to do his job, and nobody was available to train others to have the relevant skills. And the other person who had the qualifications was running his own business, so not an option to replace him if he left.
When his boss gave him reason to quit, they literally had to close their doors and sell the place off to someone else (who hired the guy who quit because, still the only one who could do the job).
Story 4 - When Managers hire their ‘friends/roommates/family’ into a Management position… you know that it’s never going to end well. Especially when said new Management has NO Experience whatsoever.
rewarding loyalty is a great business strategy.
Even if we go with Machiavelli, the "its better to be feared then loved, if you can't be both" guy.
If you don't reward loyality there is literally no benifit to following you
Story 4: There has to be some red flags when the store manager decide to hire his roommate who has no management history as the new assistant manager.
“Give me a job and I’ll let you hit it” is what I heard. 😂
Boss---"What if the store is held up at gunpoint while you're away?"
Me---"Then I'll be damned glad that I was away! What? Do you expect me to take out an armed robber? I'll need MUCH higher pay for that!"
So many of these could double as a business manual- *Trashing Your Business: A Simple Step by Step Guide*
When bosses say "everyone is replaceable", they forget that it applies to them too. Workers are not glued to their places and can easily replace one job with another.
So they are the thieves but blame someone else for getting fired? Makes sense.
And even threatened to take the money out of his paycheck, which is illegal.
Stevo please stay with us! I meant to tell you how lovely your fall scenery is 😊
TELL FLUFF TO PAY ME!!
@@EditorStevo He doesn't?
oof if he isnt paying you name and shame
@@EditorStevoFLUFF YOU BETTER PAY HIM AND GIVE HIM A BIG XMAS BONUS
If I was being facebook stalked by two people I got fired because they were stealing I'd have changed my employment entry on there to say: "Crime Solver at (pizza place)" lol
Story 4: Well, OP found the culprit behind the shortages alright. Maybe don't steal then
This was definitely at a Pizza Hut, I know this as I also worked there as a teen and $8.50 was the base pay for anyone under a supervisor
some place takes forever to replace someone. Where I work, one person was transferring to another location and he was the only one for his position(an important position at that). He gave them four months notice and they didn't find someone to replace him for a least a month after he left. I was a good thing that members of management knew how to do his job.
It is REALLY weird how often thieves are convinced they will never get caught, when there is an OBVIOUS "paper-trail".
Story 1 - It’s not OP’s fault that his moron of a Boss thought that OP was bluffing about quitting.
That Owner bought the business, Owner didn't build it. 🤷
"If you don't like it leave" or "you're replaceable"
Me: okay good luck finding anyone who rarely calls out, does all the work i do and is always on time and if late stays the extra time.
Both were stealing from the pizza place? Dollars to pizzas says they were doing bed activities as well both in the place and out of the place.
These stories reminded me of one from the early days at my last job. A supervisor quit (no one cared he was a jerk) they promoted someone else internally to his role, Kevin, Now Kevin was a brilliant leader, a good boss primarily as he had worked his way up from the bottom and he knew how things worked.
The company tried to keep him on the wage he was on as aline leader, when he was RUNNING THE ENTIRE SHIFT, he quit. we had a succession of extranl hires after that and most of them were disasters until they prmoted from internal staff again
So many bosses think employees -- the people doing the work as nd keeping the company running -- are totally replaceable, with little to no notice, backup, or training.
The wendy and stan story: I just came to say that, about 15 years ago, a friend's dad used to work at a convenience store. Something similar happened and he ended up reporting his coworker. Not only did they fire the coworker, they fired my friend's dad because "hewad unreliable and not a team player".
So they would rather be robbed blind as long as everyone's a team player.
@pshaw8406 that's exactly what I got from that too.
Was he able to get anything from being wrongfully terminated?
@@peachesnshtnow that’s messed up. Why even bother reporting theft
@@ryukaze7392 not that I know. The problem in Mexico is that it's not that easy to sue and most of the people won't do it because it consumes too many resources that we might not have. Money, time, a good lawyer, etc.
S1; owner is the perfect example of stepping over dollars to pick up dimes
Second to last story: I was an auditor of 3 states for a chain of over 80 finance companies. I found thief after thief by looking at reversal of payments. The other thing they liked to do (caught 2 of these when I was still a manager) is take the payment with a handwritten receipt telling the customer that the computer was down. When the customer would get called about a past due payment, they would bring in the receipt, and I would check the report, and there was no overage. I had to fire a couple of gals for doing that. I sometimes think the mind of a thief has a mental illness component to it. Reality just isn't going on in there.
I was the victim of one of those scams (although in the end, it was the scammer who "paid" one way or another).
I paid a bill at a business which was also the franchise for an equipment hire company. The bill I paid was for equipment hire. Then the company sent me a bill saying that it hadn't been paid. After sending them two letters showing that I'd already paid, I got the "final notice" and rang them instead. Lo and behold, the person I spoke to just said that I wouldn't have to pay anything. I got the distinct impression that I was not the first person to call them with this compaint and that they already knew that something decidedly fishy was up with that particular francisee.
Then the woman on the phone has the gall to advise me that I should have written them a letter about it. I replied "I did! Twice!" She didn't know what to say to that.
But at least I stopped getting bills.
Story 1: Great story, but not actually malicious compliance. Just a great story about a jerk getting caught out.
Story 2: Gotta love bosses who have no idea what they're doing, right?
Story 3: Ohhh this is lovely! The malicious compliance was carefully managed to *NOT* cause problems, *AND* the boss learned the lesson properly!
Story 4: lol this is another "not malicious compliance" story, but a glorious one! Love it!
Story 5: Yeah, "replaceable" is *NOT* a word you want to say to long-term employees *EVER* (and should really be avoiding for anyone, because it makes people not want to be where they are any more).
*is caught for stealing*
I HOPE YOURE HAPPY!
Wild
OP: gets a raise "Why yes, I am happy."
Story 5: "You're all replaceable"
_Company can't function without original workforce because new highers can't catch up_
Who’s replaceable now, eh?
Boss: if you don't like working here, then quit!
Me: okay! (Quits)
Boss: whaaaat??? 😨
I gave 6 months notice. Boss did nothing. Then at month 4 Covid hit. She was sure I wouldn’t leave then. 🤣 On my last week she asked me to stay a couple more weeks so she could hire someone 😳 I bought a retirement house in another state I was leaving on time 😊 Too bad, so sad 🤣🤣
4:59 Editor, blink twice if you need help lol
i was starting to think no one saw that cry for help.
Blink!!!
@@EditorStevo Only blinked once. He's okay guys XD
@@Talassai-f I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone had done
As I used to say one place I worked in reference to me getting away with things and people under me would say "no one is irreplaceable," some of us have learned the business well enough they're more irreplaceable than others." I actually had people, including bosses in my chain of managers, with way more time in the business that came to me to ask how to handle problems
Story 3 had a manager that can actually manage‽ although what was he expected to do if the store was held up by gunpoint?
When I was young and ended up in some very high end private clubs I was pretty naive. I heard two men at the bar talking. One was complaining that he could not find anyone dumb enough to run one of his businesses into the ground for a tax write off. Also heard people talking about who to pay off for a new exit from an expressway that would be surrounded by property they had bought up.
The story was great, who cares if it was long, they both got Karma love it 😂😂😂😂😂
Story 3 was great malicious compliance and props to boss in Story 4 for taking OP's worries seriously.
Jeesh, I barely get used to our hardware and it's replaced. New phone system in January, new computers in February, new keyboards and headsets in March, new chairs in April, updated small kitchen appliances in June.... this is how it goes here. Our boss loves to update everything.
Last story? I doubt she even learned that telling your employees that they're replaceable means that a good number of them will take that as a threat and make you prove that they can be replaced...
Story 4: On the one hand, GJ boss man for standing by your good employee. On the other... I'd invite them into the office and have police waiting for them.
1) Good for OP for not putting up with this BS from his boss. A good example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
2) Nice MC and not continuing to be taken advantage of.
3) Very nice that OP's MC actions led to making things better.
4) Good grief, what a stupid manager and good for OP for sleuthing and informing the owner. It's good OP's actions led to the firing of the crooks and gave her a raise.
5) Too bad the new owner was the awful one and OP and other good people quit.
I had just started my shift as a cashier one day. There were three of us on the clock and one person who clocked out and sent his whole line of 10 people to my register as soon as I walk in the door.
So I was on register with 10 people in line. The other cashier had an even longer line. A customer asks for a product that was locked up. I call my store manager in the office and asks if he can help the customer; since it may be 20 minutes or more until our checkout lines clear and a cashier can help.
The boss comes out of the office swearing and slurring his words that he pays us to take care of the f'n customers. It's not his f'n job. He's getting the product as he is yelling this in front of customers.
I tell him I am sorry and will only call him for the rest of the night if I specifically need a manager, as I am finishing my first customer of my shift.
He flips out and says he's tired of my crap and if I don't want to f'n be there to go the f home. The customers are all looking on silently in shock.
I know the night will get worse, not better. So I apologize to my line, shut off my register light and punch out after only 4 minutes on shift.
The boss asks wtf am I doing. I said you told me to go home if I didn't want to be there, and right now I didn't want to be there.
As I walk to the door the boss yells he would accept that as my immediate resignation. I stop at the door and say I never said I was resigning. I would be be back for my next shift. If he wanted me gone, he could fire me. But I would need my check the next day as required by law in my state for all fired employees.
I came in the next day and the assistant manager was told to expect me to no call/no show.
I knew he wanted me gone; I won't give him the satisfaction of forcing me to quit.
“i hope ur happy” dawg u were literally embezzling, ur lucky u only got fired
Story 1: Amazing that paying a bit more and biting the bullet can save the business from failing yet most obsessed over saving pennies over saving the business.
3rd; IF USA, a 1Hour lunch brake is a Requirement if NO Food Machines or Lunch room. Federal Workers Laws which are supposed to be Posted..🤔 4th; Again IF USA No One can deduct ANY Money from a workers check, OR Withhold it, Except the Courts..🤔🧑⚖....
Story 3 - I believe OP did make things better for his work place.
The "anyone is replacable" story reminded me of a Dept. Head who was hired where I worked. For some reason, a retired Army GENERAL, who had no experience in the area of expertise of the agency he was hired to run and apparently no experience in running a civilian, albeit Civil Service, workplace. He was not used to having his orders questioned by ANYONE, much less his clerical staff. So he was almost outraged to have the secretaries explain that what he wanted wasn't possible with the resources available. (Our department was one of the last to have word processing -or ANY type of computer - installed. So he looked out a window, pointed and told the clerical staff they could be replaced by "anybody" walking down the street. NOT a good idea. (Also not true, of course.) He managed finally to tick off the elected officials who hired him. Most of his underlings had Civil Service protection. He did NOT.
Everyone IS replaceable, that includes large corporations. If the manager/owner/CEO/whatever is screwing up, they will blame everyone else until there is no one else to blame.
(Side note, If it is "Too big to fail" then it should be 'broken down' to a more manageable businesses, possibly with more 'government supervision' for good measure.)
*Story 3-* my hubbys the *only one* who NEVER takes a lunch!!! He works in a warehouse, works from 5am-4pm, and *only eats a granola bar!!!* Everyone else stays out over an hour, but lunch is supposed to be a half an hour 😡 *They’re in shambles without my man!!! I love my hubby!!!* 🥰😘❤️❤️❤️
Did that one business owner expect his employee to overpower an armed robber?
Hey there, Mr. Editor, hope your day gets better. You are appreciated ❤
Tell Fluff I'm due a rise
S5: To be fair, everyone _is_ replaceable. But bosses shouldn’t say that. The work people do is _valuable_ and employees should be treated well because of that.
To be fair, you are just completely wrong.
Of course, 'Wendy' was the weasel...
Hey! I caught that Mr Editor... wishing he could quit... XD (I wish i could quit too) 4:56
Love your fall-themed background 😊 🍁🍂.
As a recruiter & Talent Acquisition Coordinator for nearly 10 years, many of these bosses don't learn until it's too late all of the logistics and time needed to find replacements. It can be a 3-4 week process, from writing and posting the job on job sites and the company website to going through applicants and finding the right potential employees, then phone-screening them, then sending the candidates' resumes to managers, scheduling interviews with the managers, the managers spending time deciding who they want to hire, then making the offer to the potential new hire, then scheduling and planning orientation, and giving those new hires 2-4 weeks AFTER orientation to be trained.
Long story short, it can be VERY timely and VERY costly.
I. Wonder if anyone out there. Showed some of these posts to their bosses and got them to change their minds for a better outcome in regard’s to their employees…. ??
I once heard the you are replaceable - and you are fired from my boss, so i turned around and said so are you; you are running this place into the ground with you lousy service and cheaping out is hurting our reputation so the companies who have contracts are going to go elsewhere, frankly i give this place 6 months max and left, well 6 months latter i met a former worker and the place just down hill and was gone within 4 months
.3 an hr a year is only 300$ what a joke
3rd story: a company just doesn’t put a policy in place about breaks for their amusement. It’s the law.
Yes, people are replaceable, but there is a cost to replacing people. Not all of it can be counted $.
"What if someone holds up the store at gunpoint???"
WTF am I supposed to do, I'm a manager not armed security... call the F-ing cops not me off my lunch!!!, what can I do? offer the crook a f-ing sandwich for their efforts?
(edit, I worked for Walmart and even if you were a concealed license holder we were discouraged from using our personal weapons under the threat of termination)
17:47
"If it was't for the meddling kids!"
Lol
_(Don Messick voice)_ "Ruh roh!"
American work rules are insane. A break is a break. Being on call on a break is illegal where I live. The unions would rip a new one to a boss that would try to put employees on call during their break.
And you act as if this is how it is for the whole country.
Paying employees is just the cost of doing business.
Thank you Dark Fluff!
What's with the "man, I wish I could quit...." scrolling across the screen really fast at the end of Story 1? Everything good?
I wanted to and tried to abbreviate watching these videos. A cool shorthand for the malicious compliance videos.
It hasn't worked.
Indeed, it failed.
"I'm watching Malcom."
"I've been watching videos of Malcom."
Yeah, it doesn't work. It doesn't sound cool.
Not at all.
So my former bosses were all 'Oh we can totally accommodate' but never did. After I bring things up to them about how they were handling thing? "Look, we're "trying". Not everywhere is going to be like us!" After I left saying I was fed up with them; they tried pinning their mistake on me. Well...Guess what? My new job has been really accommodating and my boss checks in while I'm working to see how I'm doing (and if the building's cleaning closet needs anything). I still remember this February during deep cleaning when I was cleaning the bunks for spring and summer, he comes in and asks "Hey, do you enjoy working here? I know it's been a year since we've asked that but do you still like it here?" You know what I said? I. Said. YES. And had this big smile on my face. I genuinely love my current place of employment. My higher ups are angels. My co-workers are lovely. And best part? I GET TO SEE A DOG AT WORK :D
The moral of nearly all these Reddit rants is found in one of the oldest adages of all time. “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.
If you’re a boss and think an employee should be demoted, replaced, fired, transferred…..FIND OUT how much they actually do first!
Can't afford to hire or give raises story: Another idiot owner stumbling over dollars to save pennies. Oh well, his loss.
On call story: Nicely done, OP.
Pizza store story: OP, you were smart to contact Eric. Stan was setting you up to take the fall. But you got to the boss before they could cover their tracks.
Replaceable story: Technically, we're all replaceable. But not instantly. Some hiring, training and batteries required.
Is no one gonna say something about the Stevo message that went across the screen? You okay bud? (its probably a bit LOL)
Tell Mr Fluff I deserve a pay rise
Final Story: Uttering the words "Everyone is replaceable" is a fatal mistake.
man, i wish i could quit… what and will you? 😧
You don’t have to be smart to own a company. You just need $$$$$
Never train somebody to a higher level job than yours, after all you're not good enough.
So you are not accusing OP but you still are going to punish OP for it if it happens again? That sounds a bit like, you know, accusing.
If a business is barely managing when they're "fully staffed", they were actually short-staffed.
If a staff member gets hospitalised in a road accident on their way to work, the business should already have the staff to cope with such an unexpected and unpredictable event. If they don't have enough staff to cope with that scenario, they're understaffed.
Anybody who spouts off some bullshit like oh you and the rest of the staff are replaceable blah blah blah that's when you respond with you're right we are.....
BUT SO ARE YOU!!!
"Wheres the assistant manager?"
Translation: why do I have to do work?
Chanty Binx brougt me here.
Can't get enough of Big Red :p
STORY #2 when they called and asked if I wanted to work the holiday season I myself would have said $20 dollars an hour nothing less nothing more
I wonder if story 4 is a gravity falls reference, or if I'm just obsessed lol 😅
Story 4: remember folks, of you arent qualified for the position, you afent qualified to train.
Story 4 I feel that stan was planning on stealing the whole time
great job on the video, really enjoyed the storytelling! but i can’t help but wonder if the whole "replaceable" thing is a little overblown. sometimes it feels like companies forget that real people are behind those jobs, and not just cogs in a machine. what do you all think?
Nobody is teaching (or bothering to learn) how to think in advance about all possible consequences of various decisions they could make.
I get that more money is more money, but I still can't help but get shocked when someone says "a $0.30 raise" - that's, what, $15 more on a 50 hour week? Before tax? How is a raise that small not considered an insult?
These are my favorite 🎉
It always amazes me how companies (of all sizes) "cheap out" on their employees' primary tools. At one of my old jobs, I was hired specifically as a web designer. Imagine my surprise on my first day when I was led to my cubicle and discovered that I was expected to work on an old PC-XT system with a monitor that could display 16 colors. I didn't even know what my colleagues' work looked like until I was there a bit over a month and they finally got me an up-to-date system. (There was absolutely ZERO chance of my bringing my own system in, sorry.)
So, in the last story, the op answered the owner's queries about how to do certain things AFTER quitting? ......That's kinder than what I'd have done! Let's just say that the owner would have one of two choices: Either hire me as a consultant at double the rate I was getting paid as an employee if they wanted that info, proving that their assertions that I was replaceable were as phony as a three dollar bill, or find their number blocked on my end!
The company I work for does that too. They had a highly motivated maintenance person and after 5 years had not had a raise. So all was asking was a quarter and would have probably been good for the next 5 years. I mean seriously and they refused to do it and now they have hired three people in position which cannot accomplish what used to do. was magnanimous in her job. was magnificent and they should have qualified the quarter to keep there and we've been suffering ever since been like 3 years now.
Story four is so old, but also OP is kind of messed up because they literally made all the characters named after South Park kids and somehow made Cartman “the good guy” district manager.
I worked at a store one time where they where paying us just over minimum wage. I had been working there for over 5 years and still was making just over a dollar over minimum wage. They hadn't given us raises for two years due to various dumb decisions on the CEO's part. Then came the kicker. It came time to start hiring seasonal workers and they put up the advertising. it read that they would start hiring the part time seasonal workers at two dollars an hour over what they were paying the full time workers at our store. Blatantly portrayed on the front doors of the store for all to see, we had to walk past these signs every day. We full time workers ganged up on management and asked them to raise our wages to match. It was denied. So we conspired. We all quit. They had to run the holiday season with just part time workers and management. I heard it sucked. And we weren't the only store in this chain this happened to, the decision to not match the wages came down from corporate and this was a nationwide company, the full time workers in all the stores quit. It couldn't have happened better if we had planned it. The company went bankrupt and no longer exists. Wouldn't have happened if the CEO had just matched the wages.
It's false that everyone is replaceable.
In a healthy company, everyone should be replaceable at a non catastrophic cost. But it's more of a goal than a simple reality.
Now I know this really wouldn't work in small businesses, but in a big corporate environment employees should be able to replace their superiors as in they should be able to depose them and demand a new one without resistance from the higher-ups
4:56 "man, i wish i could quit...." scrolls across the bottom of the screen. Whats that about fluff?
DAMN you get LOW wages in US
#1 If the job is demanding with a high end computer and FOUR (4) screens, there is no way it can be done with a computer that was entry level 15 years ago with a single monitor. That owner was pretty clueless to the point of being hopeless.
All of those : Management act all stupid. The crap hit the fan. Management : Surprised Pikachu Face.