They're just narcs looking to squeeze whatever "praise" they can get. Like we should be thankful they graced themselves in our presence or something. Sorry, but I'd rather get to know a cashier or whomever employee I regularly see and let them decide if I'm worthy of their praise.
Last story: I smell TWO lawsuits: retaliation for the man fired and hostile workplace environment for the women/minorities who still have to work with that ahole despite the numerous complaints. I hope someone got them in touch with that attorney!
@@someguy7629 The phrase your looking for is wrongful termination. But you're absolutely right, the husband could sue for that and retailation. Idk if he could personally sue for discrimination, but he could certainly help open an investigation and testify if any of his ex coworkers decided to sue on those grounds
Yep. Op should go to either the EEOC or whatever the EEOC partner for his state is. All he would need is proof that he made the initial complaint and then hopefully he has a copy of whatever discharge papers they gave him. All those women could also file suit for religious and ethnic discrimination.
That mystery shopper story is so ridiculous. That employee did everything I would have wanted from a customer service standpoint. He explained it in simple to understand terms, but he could still fail his "evaluation" because he didn't do what the employer wanted. I'm glad that OP didn't rat him out.
I got a negative review from a mystery shopper because I was busy with an elderly customer and her coupons. I verbalized that I'd be with them as soon as possible. Surprise surprise when I go to the self checkout machine and find the groceries unattended and no one to he seen. Management asked me about it and I told them what happened. It wasn't held against me because the mystery shopper was an impatient asshole.
@@arsenalxa4421 How could they even hold it against you? You're supposed to handle one customer at a time. If anything, you should have gotten points for that.
When I was a mystery shopper most of the questionnaires we had to complete were quite reasonable. I then got a new one for a clothing store I hadn't done before and the woman that assisted me in the store was lovely and could not have been more helpful. When I was completing the questionnaire, among the many questions there were three asking in different ways what she could have done better. I felt that was leading to finding something to be negative about her service.
The weirdest thing I ever experienced in a shop was, I came in looking for a VCR (it was the 90s). Looked around, nobody to help. So I went to study the details on the display boards, compared, narrowed down until I had what I wanted. The process took almost an hour (three isles of VCRs). THEN, after I decided which to take, all of a sudden a wild employee appeared. The douche wanted to put his tag on the box so he could claim commission. I told him to get lost or I kick his balls, throw the box into his mug and leave without the device.
I had a boss who fired me because I did not want to wash the windows since it was very clearly gonna rain. he acted like it as the worst thing in the world and i was like 'oke bye' and went to visit an old workplace nearby that was actually good to me.
@@velvety2006 I would have still done as the boss asked. Unless it is illegal or unethical, I'll do as the boss asks. Not robotically though as of course I'd point out if I felt something was not a good idea, but if he or she insisted I'd do it. It's the nature of being an employee.
@@It-is-me...Melsie he was supposed to train me as cashier, he used me as a cleaning lady if he could have gotten away with it he would have borrowed me to the other shops, I had to stay outside the store when he went to the mosque. and he had 7 kids so if he waited long enough he could exploit his own brood, no need for me to be treated like that when he bred his own future employees.
I was working at a restaurant named... let's just say it's synonymous with a "Container of Caucasians." I was serving a beef stew to a customer and gave the (horrible) joke of "Your name must be Stew!" The customer looked me dead in the eye and said "You're fired." I laughed and looked over my shoulder to see my manager behind me. "Hey Deb! This customer says I'm fired! Can I go home?" Deb: (Casually) "Oh sure, just clean up your tables, sweep the floor, and then clock out so you can be fired. But I'm going to rehire you for your 6 am shift tomorrow morning." Me: "Damn, thought I'd have a weekend off."
I've learned 2 things about work: - it's FAR easier and cheaper to keep an employee than it is to get a new one - people tend to leave bad management, not bad work Also, 6:39 caught me sufficiently off-guard
@@black1917 It's not just the $10k training cost. They also lose a person whose making the company money. So the company loses even more than $10k. Especially if multiple people quit
Last story: If I've learned ANYTHING about the Activision/Blizzard fiasco, it's that companies with a certain "culture" will cover each other. Seems like that one problem employee isn't the ONLY one that thinks and says the things he does and people like HR are in on that circle.
What's the line? There's an in-group that the law protects but doesn't bind and an out-group that the law binds but doesn't protect. Seems to describe the company pretty well from what the story tells us.
Yeah, people gave the Catholic church crap (rightly so) for covering their own when they were accused of criminal acts, but I always knew that they were far from the only org doing this. They were probably one of the worst, but from what I saw coming out of Activision-Blizzard, they weren't as far ahead of the pack as we might like to think.
“Yes Officer, this employee won’t just stand there and take my abuse!!!” I’m sure she is one of the calls the officers will laugh about during their breaks.
@@Hybrid301 Could've just put an apple in her mouth, like a pig. Or put a muffel (?) on her mouth, those you put on dogs to prevent them from biting and attacking people
I used to have a friend who'd do this to me, she'd hurl insults at me and just expect me to be silent and do nothing 🙃 she's probably a Karen in training now 😅
As a cashier: we're not trained to thank you. We're told to say "have a nice day/night". I've NEVER had another cashier tell me "thank you" other then when I tell them to have a nice day as well
How about you thank us for shopping at your store I can order anything online you know? , the only reason i still drive myself to the local supermarket is for the human element and that should be appreciated.
@@barefoot6033 because that's not what we're trained to do. I've been a cashier at multiple different places and not one of them told me to say thank you for shopping/coming so I don't. I say have a nice day, that should be enough. Cashier's don't owe you thanks.
I think it's a cultural difference as well. Here in Finland, when I worked as a cashier I always said "Thank you" to the customer when they paid. And they usually repeated it back to me lol.
I love how R slash slowly transitions from his normal voice to the Karen voice during the second story 😂 Edit: Holy cow this is my most liked comment! Thank you!
I was just about to type that! XD Just hearing him go from normal to Karen is hilarious & it makes me think that he thought OP wasn’t going to be a Karen & as he kept on reading he realized OP was a Karen & transitioned his voice as so.
@@That_Guy977 That moment he realized he didn't have a Manly Karen Voice was so funny. That momentary dither, realization, acceptance, and Moving On in a two- sentence span was hilarious.
To prove retaliation under US federal law, you need to prove (1) you engaged in a protective activity (2) you suffered an adverse employment action and (3) the adverse action was in retaliation for engaging in the protected activity. So yeah, the Crocs guy has a viable lawsuit.
First Story: Lmao wow the Karen is just mad that she has to actually do work. I would’ve done the same thing. Management chose poorly in hiring someone who had no idea what they were doing Second Story: Imagine thinking u are entitled for to a thank u for shopping there 😂 Third Story: Work smarter, not harder Fourth Story: Wow what a selfish prick. Bozo makes that much money and wouldn’t let the staff have that one little thing Fifth Story: Thats what they get for being an asshole for no reason Sixth Story: Mystery shopper? Seventh Story: Wow imagine being so unsympathetic. OP’s child’s life is on the line and the boss wants OP to still work knowing that?! Ugh, I’m glad the manager got in trouble for this Eighth Story: Lmaoooo I would’ve laughed at that boss Ninth Story: I hope OP’s husband sued the hell out of this company. They defended this this piece of shit of a coworker and fired OP’s husband for no reason
A mystery shopper is someone sent either by corporate or an outside service to pretend to be a clueless shopper, and then grade the store on the customer experience, whether the information provided was correct, whether the staff was friendly and approachable, etc.
A couple folks have spoken on what mystery shopping is, so I'll just say it's okay side money. Most jobs will pay between $8-25 depending on how in-depth the work is, and they take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. If you consider it, beware of scammers, as they abound the industry.
Incompetence, delusion, greed. These words are the ingredients of any greedy penny pinching suit. No longer do they just want to make A profit, they want ALL of the money despite time and effort and SOME money have historically kept companies afloat for years! Ugh…
Bruh, if someone skilled quits and you clearly didn't expect it to happen, and you might want them to stay, calling the cops on them won't exactly tempt them to work for you again!
For the mystery shopper story, as someone who used to work in a similar environment to that best buy employee, they only care about sales, you can be even more technologically illiterate than the customer for all they care, as long as you make sales. The funny thing is that coming on as aggressively as they're trying to tell employees to do is just gonna piss most customers off, especially if you try to sell them "installation" for a plug and play device. Also if you go straight to recommending the most expensive items without actually taking what they're saying into account, people get really skeptical really fast.
Sadly the people coming up with these sales scripts haven't sold anything in 30 years and are probably so tech illiterate themselves they don't realize how ridiculous it is to offer installation for plug and play devices. It tells customers everything they need to know about a business and it's why brick and mortar greed machines are dying. Good riddance.
💯💯💯 Exactly! I am far more likely to return to a store if employees are honest and treat me like another person rather than a wallet like upper management often prefers. Part of the reason I love Apple stores is that every time I go, the staff will tell me if something is actually worth buying. I have had employees tell me better/cheaper alternatives from Amazon, Bose, etc (to the point where they will miss out on a $500+ purchase from me). So when they say, “this product from us is the best”, I actually trust them. It’s a way better strategy.
If they could legally get away with it, upper management would tell sales to just mug the customer and take their wallets, their cell phones, the fillings in their teeth, and if time and circumstances allowed, maybe a liver or a kidney, or both. Expecting the customer to come back again. Then go on to wonder why sales are declining, and in typical "No. The children must be wrong." fashion, blame the employees and increase demands of them that are increasingly impossible, and when they're unable to spin straw into gold or lay a dozen golden eggs, have mass layoffs and firings. Then when the company craters even farther, they golden parachute to safety while everything behind them goes up in flames, and they move onto the next company, and the cycle begins anew. Meanwhile new management takes over and it's "Now Jebrey, we noticed you only illegally harvested one of the customer's kidneys. Phil was able to get both kidneys, a liver and a lung. We're going to have to let you go."
They should have so done that. They were looking forward to it an their manager had to be so asinine about it. What did he even need all of those pizzas for? Did he do it to spite everyone that works under him?
OP should have called HR and complained about the DM stealing all their Pizzas... I would LOVE to be able to listen to the DM explain to HR why he took all the Pizzas the HR left SPECIFICALLY for the Store Employees...
A few years ago I took a 'bullying in the workshop' PD session at my old job. The woman who facilitated the session was an employment lawyer. On the first 'real' slide (after the intro, etc.) she noted she ethically had to tell us this information before giving the rest of the presentation, so that we could know what was likely to happen if we reported bullying to HR. The slide showed a pie chart of what happens to people who report bullying in the work place. I forget the exact numbers but it was something like 85% of the time the reporter loses their job (either being fired or constructive firing that results in quitting). A teeny, tiny percent of the time the bully loses their job. A slightly greater, but still teeny, tiny percent of the time the bully is punished in any other way. I ended up leaving that job. It was an abusive workplace. The only reasons that management had these types of sessions were to appease the union and to pretend that they were doing something about the rampant bullying there. Ultimately, the upper admin team were the biggest bullies of the lot and allowed the bullying to flourish because it helped to keep us worker bees believing that we were were garbage, 'lucky to have these jobs', and really had no where else to go (typical abusive relationship). I heard that after I quit a bunch of the best workers followed. Someone leaving that toxic place broke the spell and reminded everyone that we really could leave and find something better (and yes, I made sure to let key people know that I had, indeed, found something WAY better).
@Purple Citrine Thing that makes me chuckle most? Karens claiming ' I am going to corporate about this'. Corporate gives not a crap as long as the profits keep rolling in. Glad you have so much support!
Cashier here, if you are going to demand I "thank you for shopping here"... I say "i hope your day is as pleasant as you." Evil grin. They can't complain to the manager because that isn't a mean thing to say to a customer. I even told a supervisor, she uses it too!
To answer your question from the first story. Upper management falsely equate having a college degree to being more intelligent than the peons that actually run the show. I had the same problem where I used to work. Upper management falsely assumed kids out of college knew better than the people that had been doing the exact same job since said manager were in middle school at least lol. Usually they were completely incompetent, and thing ran much smoother when I worked on the weekend and none of them were around to harass us.
As a cashier in a discount dollar store in a small town, I can confirm, it's like 25% actual nice people, 35% Karens, and 40% people who are just tired and cranky. With everyone who comes in I will greet them with a smile and ask how their day is. I'm lucky if half the people who come in reciprocate or even talk to me lol
2:49 I know that a lot of people are used to being told "Thank you for shopping" and it feels unusual for not being told that for once, but I'd never imagine taking offense as much as Karen
2:48 to answer your question with one word: fraternizing. They hire new people to manage, because most bosses assume the rest of the staff will take issue, or the new manager would pick favorites. New face, no favorites.
Boss: “Drive our truck back! And no, you’re walking home!” OP: “The truck has been declared abandoned. Come to ME to pick it up or it gets towed!” Boss: “YOU CAN’T DO THAT!”
Exactly! All I could think listening to her is "They probably _do_ thank most of their customers. They're not thanking _you_ because you're a rude, entitled Karen!"
I was once told the same when my Mom was taken to ER for a mini stroke/heart attack. I was called by the hospital and when I called my boss to say I needed to leave, I got, "we really can't do that; she's in the best place. They'll take care of her." I was a in-home visiting nurse! "A good, Christian company that puts family first". It was my last straw with that company.
Second story is very relatable to me as a cashier. I gave a customer her receipt and was about to wish her a good day when she suddenly said "you're welcome" I confused said "excuse me?" She then saids "you're welcome. You should be thanking me for coming in. My money is paying your paycheck." I just started at her in disbelief. There wasn't a customer in line next and the store was loud enough to where only I could hear her
I had a VP of operations for North America that bought lunches for every employee with his own money, and made sure each shifts food was hot and fresh to enjoy during the meeting. He was great.
"My son is dying!" "Yes, and?" "What part of my son is dying do you not get?" "The part where that's my problem." That's...I don't want to believe it, it's cartoonishly cold and cruel. Where do they find people like this for management ?
With enough butt-kissing, any shit-stain can get a cushy job position. It's not about actually providing for the company, but merely putting on the act as if you would walk through fires and blizzards for the sake of its prosperity and take all the undeserved credit. It's mostly not until the entire business bleeds money or loses enough reputation that these horrible middle-managers has any correctional actions taken against them, and it's sad that many such cases still requires legal actions when it's blatantly obvious who's at fault. Corporate greed and employee-harassing Karens are to blame for toxic work environments wherever Unions are deemed taboo.
Then you ghost her until she needs you. Manager: "Come in! I need you!" You: "Yes, and?" Manager: "What part of I need you to work did you got get?" You: "The part where that's my problem."
I wish I was as naive as you. I've literally seen a manager once call an employee and say "Well what time is the funeral end? I expect you in 30 minutes later or you're fired." I was a customer and just dropped what I was going to buy. Emailed corporate when i got home (didn't have names), however I saw a few weeks later the manager was still there. I decreased my shopping at that store.
That last one makes me sick. I'm trans, and was fired one for "making too much of a fuss" over my deadname being written everywhere for everyone to see when I was trying to keep it private. They only fired me at the end of the probation period, and wouldn't reimburse the stuff I had to pay for with my own pocket to be able to work there (which they promised they would do) because it hadn't be more than 3 months since I started working. 😤🤬
I'm sorry that happened to you. While I don't personally understand the importance of deadnaming, since I'm not trans, I do understand that it clearly was important to you, and its a very sensitive subject that is intensely personal. Basic human decency and common courtesy cost your employer nothing, and still they refused it. That they knowingly used it against your wishes is just malicious and petty and stupid, and unnecessary. And it sounds like they were absolute dicks, since they lied to you about covering the costs you incurred just to be able to do the job, then invented or "discovered" an excuse to get out of any responsibility whatsoever. Hope you find someplace that'll respect your privacy.
@@thegrimharvest It boils down to "call people what they want to be called." Simple as that. If your name was Jack, and someone came up to you and said "No you're really more of a Mark." And then proceeded to keep calling you Mark no matter how much you asked them to stop, you'd be pissed too. Just replace your name with anything that's not your name, and the situation works. It's just about basic human decency.
you might be able to talk to a lawyer about this- cause not only would it mean this company gets in trouble for something it was doing, but also, it would make that workplace safer for any future trans people who may work there :>
my impression of the management in story 1 is that "veteran employees cost more, fresh hires are cheap and we can make more money of not having to pay" but... you have to pay for quality work.
The second story irks me so much. I actually make sure to thank every person who has ever waited on me, whether in a restaurant, petrol pump, etc. I feel like every person must work in the service industry for 1 year to learn humility.
i have said for years that 6 months working for a large fast food place (Mc Ds, BK, KFC, you get the idea) should be enforced for kids in high school(think of it as a paid class). 1 it would teach them responsibility, 2 they earn an income and start to learn about tax and all that crap, 3 it would teach them to clean up after themselves, and lastly in this list, it would teach them how to treat retail workers, or any workers really.
@@gutz-Coldrevenge I think *a* customer service job is good enough. I have ASD and I couldn't do 6 months fast food- I did 3 weeks and it actually nearly broke me. That amount of stimulation doesn't work for some people, and a, ahem, certain fast food icecream chain wouldn't even hire me after I told them I have autism. On the other hand, I've been a Computer Operator and Front Desk Attendant for almost two years, and deal with the same sort of things from unkind people, and learned the same skills in an environment that's healthy for me.
@@liamfaoisidheold true enough, fast food is just the one I've had experience with (golden arches), and it taught me more then I thought it would, funny enough, the thing it taught me the most is also a slipknot song title..... People=shit
As someone who regularly has to cover a register (the punks they hire never show up) I will say that I do more than mentally tell people to f off. Especially if customers bring up an item with no tag on it or if the customer doesn't agree with the price despite me scanning each item one at a time. Honestly RSlash your "one free pepper spray a year" idea sounds good, but honestly I think it needs to be tweaked. To maybe one a day. Lol
If I find an item I want to buy without a tag, provided I notice the tag missing, I look for a tagged one first to take that to get scanned. Naturally, the untagged one goes in the bag to avoid more problems
I always try to find things with tags, but every now and then I'm in a hurry and it doesn't have one or the barcode won't scan. I always apologise to the cashier for the delay and if they apologise to me, I tell them not to worry - I know they're busy and under a bunch of pressure, and it's not their fault about the tag. They're just trying to do their job.
In regards to the first story, I feel for OP. I get triggered when I hear my wife is training new employees, because in two jobs I was let go from I trained the new hires who became my replacements.
@@MyDogIsYoshi That happened both times for me. Actually three times in two jobs. The first job they hired to guys for me to train the promoted both of them over me before finally firing me.
Story 1 : management wanted that " I knew they were great first " kudos .. in this story whoever picked that "manager" should never ever be allowed to even pick a lunch place again.. Child lifesupport Story: That manager should be blacklisted from ever having a chance to work anything more them a janitor until she takes a "being a normal human being "course.. The kitchen Story: op should've responded with " yeah I did do that the people decided they hated you so much they told me to tell you to F OFF"..
My favorite rslash phenomena, ranked: 1. When Yugo crashes the episode. 2. When Rslash gets so outraged he starts cursing. 3. When he realizes the narrator is a Karen and morphs into his Karen voice. 4. When Rslash goes off on anecdotal tangents. I love this channel so much lmao
*First OP:* Going by rSlash's intro, I thought OP raged-quit IRL. Turns out the boss overreacted by _calling the cops!?_ *Second OP:* The slow transition into the Karen voice will never not be funny. Also, I read a thread on a message board about a woman complaining that cashiers don't thank her for shopping when handing back her change. They just say, "Here you go." The message board mainly consists of older women, so there's that. *Third OP:* OP is living the dream! *Fourth OP:* Nah, dude, District Manager and I would be fighting.^ How are you going to steal five boxes of pizza from employees? From _anyone?!_ That pun shouldn't have made me laugh. ^for legal purposes, I was joking. I wouldn't fight the District Manager for stealing pizza, but my opinion of him will drop significantly. *Fifth OP:* And _that's_ why you don't tell your employee to eff off after they give you their two-weeks notice. Unless the employee was a BH; then they can eff off. *Sixth OP:* I've had offers to work as a mystery shopper, but wasn't interested. Judging from OP's experience, I didn't miss much. *Seventh OP:* OP has the patience of a saint. Dawn would've gotten cussed out if it were me. The aftermath is so satisfying to hear. *Eighth OP:* LOL, that top comment sums up the post. *Ninth OP:* Is Archie Bunker, Jr. blackmailing HR, or something? Anyway, if OP's husband can't sue his former employers, he should at least take his story to the public assuming he hasn't signed an NDA. Meanwhile, people can review b0mb (spelled that way because YT) Crocs, lol.
On your response to the 6th story, that was probably a scam. I work with 6 mystery shopper companies, and they don't recruit. Scammers, however, will pose as them, often sending fake checks for people to cash and "reimburse" in the process. They tried to get my MIL with that.
One of my absolute favorite things about this channel is when Dabney is reading a post and realizes that it's a Karen and he slowly transitions into his Karen voice. Chefs kiss, 10/10, amazing every time.
"if you think Crocs cares about minorities, you're wrong😢" Corporations don't care about anything but cash. Being a minority is irrelevant, in fact, corporations cater to minorities nowadays, but not because they care, if course. this is clearly an isolated incident that was indeed motivated by bigotry, but not by the entire company, the entire company just doesn't care.
I used to mutter angrily about an old coworker of mine. He was pretty sexist and treated all of the girls like they weren't capable or work hard enough, and especially yell at me that I was going to slow even though we were all busy and we were swamped. This man came at me on my break to yell at me for something I didn't even do. I was so glad when he was forced to quit. Especially when I'm on my period, I can get really angry and be a total b-word, and most of the time I catch myself and apologize. But with this coworker I never regretted going into full B*tch mode.
The manager in the 5th story kind of reminds me of my current manager. She has fired one of the cashiers for getting sick twice, once with 'the ronna' and another with food poisoning. In the fast food industry we're not supposed to come to work if we show any signs of food poisoning because it could potentially be passed onto the customers. It ecplisitly states it in the handbook multiple times over. And still expected the cashier to work after firing her twice. So the cashier quit and I hope files a complain with the district manager... again.
Yes the last one is retaliation, and this is illegal in a lot of places and would make a lawsuit. BUT there is no evidence, and it's unclear if other workers will come forward as witnesses in fear of retaliation, so it's hard to hold up in court when you essentially only have a he said-she said situation.
I don't know much about law, but couldn't they use the previous complaints made against the one coworker as evidence? Like, they have records that the husband made these complaints, and then shortly after he's fired for supposedly making a comment that mimics the ones that were reported. I feel like a judge would find that highly suspicious. Even if that's not admissible in court, couldn't he sue for wrongful termination? Afterall, the company has no tangible evidence that he made such a comment
@@PyroRoadScout Use complaint documentation as evidence: Yes, it is possible and it would hold up as admissible evidence, but it is not easy to force the cooperation to adhere these documents as evidence in court, because data protection and other laws come into play. Then, if we assume you were able to force them to produce these documents to the court, it still would be incredibly easy for them to tamper with the documents (these usually don't even need signature, it's a printed piece of paper) or say the lost them, or claimed they aren't kept in record that long. While that sure as hell wouldn't be less suspicious the missing of the documents doesn't hold up as evidence. So while you could use these documents as evidence its hard to get your hands on it. If he can sue for wrongful termination depends on his contract, but i think this was in America (not sure though, but the majority of stories are) and American workers rights are pretty horrible and if you're not specifically protected by your work contract companies can fire their employees for literally no reason, so to be covered by protection of wrongful termination he'd have to prove retaliation or discrimination and we are again at the same problem. But also I'm not a lawyer so I can of course not give definitive statements on American law. However this really doesn't sound like an easy to win case.
@@Scarlett.Granger Not really, nothing trumps a subpoena, and he also go straight to the labor board/department, who are rabid about this shit. The companies own written policy ,which they're not allowed to keep secret, would basically screw them if they tried to claim they lost it or they don't keep them for long, as for tampering, that easily proven by having THE ACTUAL PERSON WHO MADE THE COMPLAINT testify. No clause in any contract in America stating that you're not allowed to sue your employer has ever held up in court as it is an illegal clause and thus not enforceable. As for the right to work part, it's a common misconception that you can be fired for ANY reason, these companies are still bound by labor laws and wrongful termination and retaliation still applies, as does discrimination. MANY companies have tried what you've insinuated and all have lost, many add to the juggernaut that is case law.
First story: The reason companies hire people fresh out of college in management positions & not from within is because that way the company can easily condition a fresh mind to perform exactly to their expectations without question. People who work their way up are very likely to develop their own system in doing things & companies don't like that simply because it's not the way they want it to be, regardless of whether that manager is doing an amazing job or not. It's more a power move on the company's part.
I absolutely love this subreddit it’s a combination of malicious compliance and ahole tax and with the amount of times I’ve been screwed over by employers it just gives me the best justice boner! Keep up the good fight y’all!
Answer to your question from the first story: Companies would rather outside hire because it's cheaper for them to bring in fresh meat that they can underpay than promote from inside and give someone the money they deserve for working a garbage job. That's how it was at AutoZone when I worked there.
My job at Publix cut my hours to one day of work A MONTH because they took in like 50 college kids in a single month, and they wouldnt even give me a consistent schedule for that single day just so I could make enough money to survive working 2 jobs. Come to find out that some yuppy rich kid that wasnt a college-returner who constantly broke the rules by clocking in when he was off, abandoned his job on his actual work days, sexually harassed the cashiers, and literally did nothing but steal free soda from the fountains and walk around was getting more hours than me despite the fact that I was busting my ass. The day I no-showed at that company was one of the best days of my life. Great corporation to work for as an associate, by the way, but the Greer, SC branch is run by incompetent morons aside from my boy DeVito.
Never ever agree if your boss says “I’ll take that as you quit” do exactly as the op did and say “I am not quitting” they can use you agreeing to deny benefits and make it out that you broke any contract not them
rSlash, the answer is money. You can pay less money to a fresh graduate than you'd pay to a promoted employee. Heck, you can pay them _less_ than your current employees
3:03 I was standing there, refilling my tarantulas' water bowls, listening to the stories, and had an uncontrollable laughing fit for a good couple seconds 😂
I'm sorry? As a person who shops frequently, I have ALWAYS THANKED THE CASHIER!!! They put up with shit daily, and they just kindly rang me up and bagged my groceries. I have never once expected to be thanked.
I have a manager who has quite a belittling and smarter-than-thou attitude, tries to micro-manage everything that everyone's doing whenever he gets an opportunity to even talk to us, and has tattled to our boss on multiple occasions whenever _he's_ not satisfied with us not going above and beyond for the company, resulting in very angry e-mails being sent out. It has caused enough friction that some of us want nothing to do with him anymore, and I've honestly considered that if he ever criticize my work again I'll just turn to him and tell him to take over for me if he thinks he's so much more clever. I've been working for the company for 8 years, where I did a lot of unpaid administrative work outside of working hours during the first few years, and I told my boss as much during a phone call at one point. I've recently shown that I have no qualms to stand up for myself against the kind of verbal abuse that they've shown, even though I try not to push the case too often because I'm generally not a confrontational type of person. Even though my boss has said multiple times that if we don't like how things operates within the company we should consider whether this is the right place for us, I know for a fact that I can deliver results under the right conditions and that it, along with the knowledge and experience I provide, is something that isn't easily replaceable. And since the pay always puts me significantly on the plus each month, even though my qualifications reasonably gives me room to negotiate a much higher salary that my boss has supposedly denied any potential new recruits, I have no intention of quitting any time soon.
I can kinda relate to that son on life support story, because while I was taking my Abitur (German A-Levels), both my grandparents died. And they didn't die peacefully in their sleep. One caught germs in the hospital and basically withered for three months and the other got cancer. When I went to my vice principal to ask him what I should do, he looked me dead in the eyes and told me I 'had to focus on what's important.' Still hope he chokes on his self-righteousness someday.
On that last story, that guy really needs to look into getting a lawyer and suing that place for retaliation and wrongful termination. They're literally sitting on top of a gold mine right now, and if they win, they will be reimbursed all court costs and lawyer fees, plus any settlements they are awarded, all on the company's dime. Many lawyers would drool over the prospect of getting this case.
Thank you. I just got done watching an agent orange documentary and it broke my heart. I'm just trying to get my mind away from all the pain at this point. The companies that made it knew what they were doing and think about it. If it's a chemical that kills plants, how could it be safe for people? Anyways, I hope everyone stays safe and has a better day.
Re: First story ... if you promote from within, the employees are going to expect/demand a raise, but if you hire someone into management off the street, so to speak, you can pay them the bare minimum.
2:50 the second story. That seems to be a very specific thing that American store workers thank shoppers. Here in the UK, it's the exact opposite way around, the customer is expected to thank the cashier for their service.
Me- I gotta dip for half a year Job- Cool. Also, while you were gone, we got you a raise Me-.... Job- More hours too, if you want them, that is optional Me- I have so many doughnuts to buy
If a cashier said "thanks for shopping", I'd consider not coming back. But then, that's why Walmart failed in Germany, the greeters were creepy as hell. I want to buy beer and ground beef, not have a social visit with a stranger.
For the last story, for the love of God he should've go to HR and say "but I never actually did something to any employee, did I? As long as I didn't touch anyone then I should be fine, right?"
can confirm for the mystery shopper thing. I worked in a shoe shop while I was in college and nearly got fired for recommending that a customer buy a cheaper, but, in my opinion, better pair of slippers than the expensive ones we were supposed to push. Sorry that I can't sign off on charging little old ladies fifty quid for a pair of slippers.
I feel like the lady that complained about not being thanked for her business is the same type of person that believes that just because the business closed two minutes after they walked in they're entitled to help no matter what.
I would love to get a follow up on the last post, because I'm almost completely certain the husband could sue. Not only could he get them on retaliation, he could get them on wrongful termination. Plus, he could help kickstart an investigation into the company for discrimination in the workplace
Hearing Rslash go from normal to Karen voice is like watching Jeff Goldblum turn into the fly monster. Sometimes I fear he'll get stuck after transforming and become a Karenzilla.
2:06 I worked for a popular optical chain for 13yrs. About 5yrs in, in all their wisdom the company decided we needed to focus on sales, not the importance of optical. So they hired a manager of a men’s business suit store 🙄 who had zero experience in optical. Anyone that wears glasses knows measurements, properly fitted frames, and lens material is more important than up selling. I was only 23, and from day one he hated me, idk why. Managers also had daily sales goals, meaning he had to help customers. He had more remakes and returns than anyone else. He only lasted in our store for a year, and that’s only because he had us help customers under his login.
I worked for a company where I went to customers' houses and we were allowed to keep our company cars at our own houses. One day, they schedule me for a job before my shift started, not tell me, take it off my shift and mark it as a no show, not say anything about that either... None the wiser, I start my shift, go to my 11:00 appt, my 1:30 appt, and on my way back I call the office to inform them I have a flat and I need to block off my (currently empty) 3:30 slot while I take the car to the shop and swap it with the loaner work car (they kept this at the shop for situations like this). My boss tells me she thought I quit because I was a no show to my 9:00 appt. I didn't take 9:00 appointments and she knew this. So she tells me to just drop the car off with the doughnut and go home. I tell her I don't have her a way home and tell her to just come by my house and get the car. She calls me later that evening and offers me my job back... at 2k/yr less than what I was making when I started (1.5 years prior). I declined and told her to come get the car.
12:20 hey my former boss ALSO called me unprofessional for telling him I won't go an hour out of my way to "just answer some questions" and pick up my (late) final check a month after I quit (and didn't have an answer when I told him he could have literally just asked because I answered coworkers texts once or twice)
Having worked at best buy for 8 years, and have been mystery shopped. The employee handled that interaction perfectly, that was until Jolee took over then the culture for employees to sell felt more and more predatory, granted best buy is in survival mode with the competition with online retail, but everything tracks, with the mystery shoppers story.
I love it when Dabney just gradually devolves into the Karen voice when he realizes the OP is a turd.
Exactly
He's does it perfectly too. Sometimes I'm just starting to realise they're a Karen when I hear the shift in his voice and I feel so validated lol
I was just coming to comment this!
That's the best XD
just as soon as I start thinking, man this sound like a Karen, his voice subtly changes. got me dying🤣🤣🤣
What the hell is wrong with that person asking for a "thank you" of the cashiers? I always thanks THEM because of their hard work and help.
Exactly. I think my mother would rise out of her grave and box my ears if I didn't thank the customer service people.
I don't wait for a thank you. I thank them for helping me. In places I frequent, some have started thanking me before the transaction is complete.
They're just narcs looking to squeeze whatever "praise" they can get. Like we should be thankful they graced themselves in our presence or something. Sorry, but I'd rather get to know a cashier or whomever employee I regularly see and let them decide if I'm worthy of their praise.
Exactly, when you wish somone a good day you ussualy get it back. and it makes both parties feel better overal.
Retail workers are treated so badly that a simple thank you to them with a smile might make their day just a little better.
Last story: I smell TWO lawsuits: retaliation for the man fired and hostile workplace environment for the women/minorities who still have to work with that ahole despite the numerous complaints. I hope someone got them in touch with that attorney!
Seriously the husband and his coworkers needs to sue. And I'm pretty sure a good lawyer will take this case personally.
I hope the husband’s coworkers also walked out.
3 = Unlawful firing (i think that's what it is called) I'm not from the U.S
@@someguy7629 The phrase your looking for is wrongful termination. But you're absolutely right, the husband could sue for that and retailation. Idk if he could personally sue for discrimination, but he could certainly help open an investigation and testify if any of his ex coworkers decided to sue on those grounds
Yep. Op should go to either the EEOC or whatever the EEOC partner for his state is. All he would need is proof that he made the initial complaint and then hopefully he has a copy of whatever discharge papers they gave him. All those women could also file suit for religious and ethnic discrimination.
That mystery shopper story is so ridiculous. That employee did everything I would have wanted from a customer service standpoint. He explained it in simple to understand terms, but he could still fail his "evaluation" because he didn't do what the employer wanted. I'm glad that OP didn't rat him out.
I got a negative review from a mystery shopper because I was busy with an elderly customer and her coupons. I verbalized that I'd be with them as soon as possible. Surprise surprise when I go to the self checkout machine and find the groceries unattended and no one to he seen. Management asked me about it and I told them what happened. It wasn't held against me because the mystery shopper was an impatient asshole.
@@arsenalxa4421 How could they even hold it against you? You're supposed to handle one customer at a time. If anything, you should have gotten points for that.
When I was a mystery shopper most of the questionnaires we had to complete were quite reasonable. I then got a new one for a clothing store I hadn't done before and the woman that assisted me in the store was lovely and could not have been more helpful. When I was completing the questionnaire, among the many questions there were three asking in different ways what she could have done better.
I felt that was leading to finding something to be negative about her service.
"This employee isnt trying to scam me and treat me like i live under a rock to do so, this is a terrible worker"
The weirdest thing I ever experienced in a shop was, I came in looking for a VCR (it was the 90s).
Looked around, nobody to help. So I went to study the details on the display boards, compared, narrowed down until I had what I wanted. The process took almost an hour (three isles of VCRs). THEN, after I decided which to take, all of a sudden a wild employee appeared. The douche wanted to put his tag on the box so he could claim commission. I told him to get lost or I kick his balls, throw the box into his mug and leave without the device.
Manager: "If you leave, you know you can't come back."
OP: *"I see this as an absolute win."*
Or in my case don't threaten me for a good time I'm out
I had a boss who fired me because I did not want to wash the windows since it was very clearly gonna rain. he acted like it as the worst thing in the world and i was like 'oke bye' and went to visit an old workplace nearby that was actually good to me.
@@velvety2006 I would have still done as the boss asked. Unless it is illegal or unethical, I'll do as the boss asks. Not robotically though as of course I'd point out if I felt something was not a good idea, but if he or she insisted I'd do it. It's the nature of being an employee.
@@It-is-me...Melsie he was supposed to train me as cashier, he used me as a cleaning lady if he could have gotten away with it he would have borrowed me to the other shops, I had to stay outside the store when he went to the mosque. and he had 7 kids so if he waited long enough he could exploit his own brood, no need for me to be treated like that when he bred his own future employees.
@@velvety2006 Ahhh, that old bait and switch. I agree if you have been misled as to what the job is then best to run!
“I’m quitting this highly stressful job.”
“You’re not coming back!”
Isn’t that kind of the point? Karens be stupid.
Yeah give it like 20 years lady when mega corps rule the world, not governments
Karens be stupid, entitled, and willfully ignorant.
I think she was saying that trying to convince herself she was firing OP
So she would be the leaver and not the leavee
I was working at a restaurant named... let's just say it's synonymous with a "Container of Caucasians." I was serving a beef stew to a customer and gave the (horrible) joke of "Your name must be Stew!" The customer looked me dead in the eye and said "You're fired." I laughed and looked over my shoulder to see my manager behind me. "Hey Deb! This customer says I'm fired! Can I go home?"
Deb: (Casually) "Oh sure, just clean up your tables, sweep the floor, and then clock out so you can be fired. But I'm going to rehire you for your 6 am shift tomorrow morning."
Me: "Damn, thought I'd have a weekend off."
I mean, it was worth a try. Love that your manager had a good sense of humour at least!
Bowl of Whites? 🤔
@@DeMoraJS Try Cracker Barrel.
Funniest story I've ever read xD
@@navigatoroftherealms8237
I was thinking "White Castle"
I've learned 2 things about work:
- it's FAR easier and cheaper to keep an employee than it is to get a new one
- people tend to leave bad management, not bad work
Also, 6:39 caught me sufficiently off-guard
I remember reading somewhere that b it costs a business $10,000 to hire and train new employees. You'd think they'd treat us better
@@jennifert8542 That sounds about right. Could give someone a 4 dollar per hour raise and still be below 10,000. Some people are so dumb
@@jennifert8542 To giant corporations/companies 10k is easy to budget for.
@@black1917
It's not just the $10k training cost. They also lose a person whose making the company money. So the company loses even more than $10k. Especially if multiple people quit
@@Marco_El_Afro-Latino Point. Also the loss in reputation when those employees start telling why they quit.
Last story: If I've learned ANYTHING about the Activision/Blizzard fiasco, it's that companies with a certain "culture" will cover each other. Seems like that one problem employee isn't the ONLY one that thinks and says the things he does and people like HR are in on that circle.
Yeah, what happened to the 'he didn't actually do anything rule'? Somehow that didn't apply to OP's husband. How convenient!
What's the line? There's an in-group that the law protects but doesn't bind and an out-group that the law binds but doesn't protect. Seems to describe the company pretty well from what the story tells us.
So TRUE!
Yeah, people gave the Catholic church crap (rightly so) for covering their own when they were accused of criminal acts, but I always knew that they were far from the only org doing this.
They were probably one of the worst, but from what I saw coming out of Activision-Blizzard, they weren't as far ahead of the pack as we might like to think.
That's just standard human nature. Humans prefer their in-group. You'll find it everywhere you find people.
“Yes Officer, this employee won’t just stand there and take my abuse!!!”
I’m sure she is one of the calls the officers will laugh about during their breaks.
I’m surprised she didn’t get arrested for abusing the 911 system.
@@BersealiaDreamheart the cop probably decided it wasn’t worth hearing her whining in the back of his car all the way back to the station.
@@Hybrid301 Good point!
@@Hybrid301 Could've just put an apple in her mouth, like a pig. Or put a muffel (?) on her mouth, those you put on dogs to prevent them from biting and attacking people
I used to have a friend who'd do this to me, she'd hurl insults at me and just expect me to be silent and do nothing 🙃 she's probably a Karen in training now 😅
As a cashier: we're not trained to thank you. We're told to say "have a nice day/night". I've NEVER had another cashier tell me "thank you" other then when I tell them to have a nice day as well
How about you thank us for shopping at your store
I can order anything online you know? , the only reason i still drive myself to the local supermarket is for the human element and that should be appreciated.
@@barefoot6033 because that's not what we're trained to do. I've been a cashier at multiple different places and not one of them told me to say thank you for shopping/coming so I don't. I say have a nice day, that should be enough. Cashier's don't owe you thanks.
@@barefoot6033 Good for you. Want a cookie?
In my country you would be told to f* off, if someone tried this shit.
I think it's a cultural difference as well. Here in Finland, when I worked as a cashier I always said "Thank you" to the customer when they paid. And they usually repeated it back to me lol.
I love how R slash slowly transitions from his normal voice to the Karen voice during the second story 😂
Edit: Holy cow this is my most liked comment! Thank you!
Haha I was just coming to the comments to say the same thing, it’s great
Made my skin crawl XD
It’s funny to hear when he decides who’s the Karen
Has he gotten better at transitioning that voice? I feel like he's gotten better
I was just about to type that! XD
Just hearing him go from normal to Karen is hilarious & it makes me think that he thought OP wasn’t going to be a Karen & as he kept on reading he realized OP was a Karen & transitioned his voice as so.
it's funny how he'll start a story, realize it's a "Karen" story and switch from normal voice to Karen voice mid story
Reminds me of the time he was reading a long chat log and found out halfway in that the Karen was a dad lol
@@That_Guy977 That moment he realized he didn't have a Manly Karen Voice was so funny. That momentary dither, realization, acceptance, and Moving On in a two- sentence span was hilarious.
I love whenever he does that
@@That_Guy977 where can I find that?
@@That_Guy977 I actually find those voices irritating
To prove retaliation under US federal law, you need to prove (1) you engaged in a protective activity (2) you suffered an adverse employment action and (3) the adverse action was in retaliation for engaging in the protected activity. So yeah, the Crocs guy has a viable lawsuit.
First Story: Lmao wow the Karen is just mad that she has to actually do work. I would’ve done the same thing. Management chose poorly in hiring someone who had no idea what they were doing
Second Story: Imagine thinking u are entitled for to a thank u for shopping there 😂
Third Story: Work smarter, not harder
Fourth Story: Wow what a selfish prick. Bozo makes that much money and wouldn’t let the staff have that one little thing
Fifth Story: Thats what they get for being an asshole for no reason
Sixth Story: Mystery shopper?
Seventh Story: Wow imagine being so unsympathetic. OP’s child’s life is on the line and the boss wants OP to still work knowing that?! Ugh, I’m glad the manager got in trouble for this
Eighth Story: Lmaoooo I would’ve laughed at that boss
Ninth Story: I hope OP’s husband sued the hell out of this company. They defended this this piece of shit of a coworker and fired OP’s husband for no reason
A mystery shopper is when corporate sends some to audit a store. And evidently those were some messed up KPIs
A mystery shopper is someone sent either by corporate or an outside service to pretend to be a clueless shopper, and then grade the store on the customer experience, whether the information provided was correct, whether the staff was friendly and approachable, etc.
A couple folks have spoken on what mystery shopping is, so I'll just say it's okay side money. Most jobs will pay between $8-25 depending on how in-depth the work is, and they take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. If you consider it, beware of scammers, as they abound the industry.
Depending on the country it is extremely rude not to say that to a customer though.
OP's husband could lead a class action lawsuit against them as long as they kept a copy of all the complaints filed and the responses.
Love me some anti work posts. Really shows how it's nearly all management issues causing poor relationships with employees
Incompetence, delusion, greed.
These words are the ingredients of any greedy penny pinching suit.
No longer do they just want to make A profit, they want ALL of the money despite time and effort and SOME money have historically kept companies afloat for years! Ugh…
Bruh, if someone skilled quits and you clearly didn't expect it to happen, and you might want them to stay, calling the cops on them won't exactly tempt them to work for you again!
For the mystery shopper story, as someone who used to work in a similar environment to that best buy employee, they only care about sales, you can be even more technologically illiterate than the customer for all they care, as long as you make sales. The funny thing is that coming on as aggressively as they're trying to tell employees to do is just gonna piss most customers off, especially if you try to sell them "installation" for a plug and play device. Also if you go straight to recommending the most expensive items without actually taking what they're saying into account, people get really skeptical really fast.
Sadly the people coming up with these sales scripts haven't sold anything in 30 years and are probably so tech illiterate themselves they don't realize how ridiculous it is to offer installation for plug and play devices. It tells customers everything they need to know about a business and it's why brick and mortar greed machines are dying. Good riddance.
💯💯💯 Exactly! I am far more likely to return to a store if employees are honest and treat me like another person rather than a wallet like upper management often prefers. Part of the reason I love Apple stores is that every time I go, the staff will tell me if something is actually worth buying. I have had employees tell me better/cheaper alternatives from Amazon, Bose, etc (to the point where they will miss out on a $500+ purchase from me). So when they say, “this product from us is the best”, I actually trust them. It’s a way better strategy.
If they could legally get away with it, upper management would tell sales to just mug the customer and take their wallets, their cell phones, the fillings in their teeth, and if time and circumstances allowed, maybe a liver or a kidney, or both. Expecting the customer to come back again. Then go on to wonder why sales are declining, and in typical "No. The children must be wrong." fashion, blame the employees and increase demands of them that are increasingly impossible, and when they're unable to spin straw into gold or lay a dozen golden eggs, have mass layoffs and firings. Then when the company craters even farther, they golden parachute to safety while everything behind them goes up in flames, and they move onto the next company, and the cycle begins anew. Meanwhile new management takes over and it's "Now Jebrey, we noticed you only illegally harvested one of the customer's kidneys. Phil was able to get both kidneys, a liver and a lung. We're going to have to let you go."
I mean I think it’s kind of obvious they only care about sales.
that one comment at 12:13 ("You're FIRED! Now get back to work!") gave me Regular Show flashbacks
I would've done a mass walkout after that pizza thing. Then the boss can experience the feeling of having the rug pulled out from under them.
They should have so done that. They were looking forward to it an their manager had to be so asinine about it. What did he even need all of those pizzas for? Did he do it to spite everyone that works under him?
@@fanfictiondreamer7836 You need to eat a lot of pizza to maintain an asshole of that size.
OP should have called HR and complained about the DM stealing all their Pizzas...
I would LOVE to be able to listen to the DM explain to HR why he took all the Pizzas the HR left SPECIFICALLY for the Store Employees...
A few years ago I took a 'bullying in the workshop' PD session at my old job. The woman who facilitated the session was an employment lawyer. On the first 'real' slide (after the intro, etc.) she noted she ethically had to tell us this information before giving the rest of the presentation, so that we could know what was likely to happen if we reported bullying to HR.
The slide showed a pie chart of what happens to people who report bullying in the work place. I forget the exact numbers but it was something like 85% of the time the reporter loses their job (either being fired or constructive firing that results in quitting). A teeny, tiny percent of the time the bully loses their job. A slightly greater, but still teeny, tiny percent of the time the bully is punished in any other way.
I ended up leaving that job. It was an abusive workplace. The only reasons that management had these types of sessions were to appease the union and to pretend that they were doing something about the rampant bullying there. Ultimately, the upper admin team were the biggest bullies of the lot and allowed the bullying to flourish because it helped to keep us worker bees believing that we were were garbage, 'lucky to have these jobs', and really had no where else to go (typical abusive relationship). I heard that after I quit a bunch of the best workers followed. Someone leaving that toxic place broke the spell and reminded everyone that we really could leave and find something better (and yes, I made sure to let key people know that I had, indeed, found something WAY better).
I never fail to thank cashiers for their service. The smile and 'You're welcome' works for me every time 😊
@Purple Citrine Yeah. Seeing the number of Karens and Darrens that fast food workers endure is heartbreaking. Stay strong Purple! 👍👏👏👏
@Purple Citrine Thing that makes me chuckle most? Karens claiming ' I am going to corporate about this'. Corporate gives not a crap as long as the profits keep rolling in. Glad you have so much support!
Cashier here, if you are going to demand I "thank you for shopping here"...
I say "i hope your day is as pleasant as you."
Evil grin.
They can't complain to the manager because that isn't a mean thing to say to a customer.
I even told a supervisor, she uses it too!
11:37 the "you're fired, now get back to work" reminds me so much of House MD lmao
To answer your question from the first story. Upper management falsely equate having a college degree to being more intelligent than the peons that actually run the show. I had the same problem where I used to work. Upper management falsely assumed kids out of college knew better than the people that had been doing the exact same job since said manager were in middle school at least lol. Usually they were completely incompetent, and thing ran much smoother when I worked on the weekend and none of them were around to harass us.
As a cashier in a discount dollar store in a small town, I can confirm, it's like 25% actual nice people, 35% Karens, and 40% people who are just tired and cranky.
With everyone who comes in I will greet them with a smile and ask how their day is. I'm lucky if half the people who come in reciprocate or even talk to me lol
2:49 I know that a lot of people are used to being told "Thank you for shopping" and it feels unusual for not being told that for once, but I'd never imagine taking offense as much as Karen
2:48 to answer your question with one word: fraternizing.
They hire new people to manage, because most bosses assume the rest of the staff will take issue, or the new manager would pick favorites. New face, no favorites.
Boss: “Drive our truck back! And no, you’re walking home!”
OP: “The truck has been declared abandoned. Come to ME to pick it up or it gets towed!”
Boss: “YOU CAN’T DO THAT!”
Got to love that smooth transition into Karen mode in story two. 🤣 Bet I know why nobody thanks her for shopping with them.
Even before the story I see why no one thank this person. I wouldn't either.
If cashiers were honest they'd say "please never come here again"
Exactly! All I could think listening to her is "They probably _do_ thank most of their customers. They're not thanking _you_ because you're a rude, entitled Karen!"
I was once told the same when my Mom was taken to ER for a mini stroke/heart attack. I was called by the hospital and when I called my boss to say I needed to leave, I got, "we really can't do that; she's in the best place. They'll take care of her."
I was a in-home visiting nurse! "A good, Christian company that puts family first".
It was my last straw with that company.
Second story is very relatable to me as a cashier. I gave a customer her receipt and was about to wish her a good day when she suddenly said "you're welcome" I confused said "excuse me?" She then saids "you're welcome. You should be thanking me for coming in. My money is paying your paycheck." I just started at her in disbelief. There wasn't a customer in line next and the store was loud enough to where only I could hear her
"Officer, that employee that quit on me is just standing there... Maniacally!"
I had a VP of operations for North America that bought lunches for every employee with his own money, and made sure each shifts food was hot and fresh to enjoy during the meeting. He was great.
"My son is dying!"
"Yes, and?"
"What part of my son is dying do you not get?"
"The part where that's my problem."
That's...I don't want to believe it, it's cartoonishly cold and cruel. Where do they find people like this for management ?
OP: My son is on life support.
Manager: I missed the part where that's my problem.
With enough butt-kissing, any shit-stain can get a cushy job position. It's not about actually providing for the company, but merely putting on the act as if you would walk through fires and blizzards for the sake of its prosperity and take all the undeserved credit. It's mostly not until the entire business bleeds money or loses enough reputation that these horrible middle-managers has any correctional actions taken against them, and it's sad that many such cases still requires legal actions when it's blatantly obvious who's at fault. Corporate greed and employee-harassing Karens are to blame for toxic work environments wherever Unions are deemed taboo.
Then you ghost her until she needs you.
Manager: "Come in! I need you!"
You: "Yes, and?"
Manager: "What part of I need you to work did you got get?"
You: "The part where that's my problem."
That guy needs to be put on life support.
I wish I was as naive as you. I've literally seen a manager once call an employee and say "Well what time is the funeral end? I expect you in 30 minutes later or you're fired." I was a customer and just dropped what I was going to buy. Emailed corporate when i got home (didn't have names), however I saw a few weeks later the manager was still there. I decreased my shopping at that store.
That last one makes me sick. I'm trans, and was fired one for "making too much of a fuss" over my deadname being written everywhere for everyone to see when I was trying to keep it private. They only fired me at the end of the probation period, and wouldn't reimburse the stuff I had to pay for with my own pocket to be able to work there (which they promised they would do) because it hadn't be more than 3 months since I started working. 😤🤬
That's why you never make a fuss during the probation period. Capitalism sucks to suck...
I'm sorry that happened to you. While I don't personally understand the importance of deadnaming, since I'm not trans, I do understand that it clearly was important to you, and its a very sensitive subject that is intensely personal. Basic human decency and common courtesy cost your employer nothing, and still they refused it. That they knowingly used it against your wishes is just malicious and petty and stupid, and unnecessary. And it sounds like they were absolute dicks, since they lied to you about covering the costs you incurred just to be able to do the job, then invented or "discovered" an excuse to get out of any responsibility whatsoever. Hope you find someplace that'll respect your privacy.
@@thegrimharvest It boils down to "call people what they want to be called." Simple as that. If your name was Jack, and someone came up to you and said "No you're really more of a Mark." And then proceeded to keep calling you Mark no matter how much you asked them to stop, you'd be pissed too. Just replace your name with anything that's not your name, and the situation works. It's just about basic human decency.
you might be able to talk to a lawyer about this-
cause not only would it mean this company gets in trouble for something it was doing, but also, it would make that workplace safer for any future trans people who may work there :>
I hope that OP’s husband got his correspondence with HR in writing.
my impression of the management in story 1 is that "veteran employees cost more, fresh hires are cheap and we can make more money of not having to pay" but... you have to pay for quality work.
The second story irks me so much. I actually make sure to thank every person who has ever waited on me, whether in a restaurant, petrol pump, etc. I feel like every person must work in the service industry for 1 year to learn humility.
i have said for years that 6 months working for a large fast food place (Mc Ds, BK, KFC, you get the idea) should be enforced for kids in high school(think of it as a paid class). 1 it would teach them responsibility, 2 they earn an income and start to learn about tax and all that crap, 3 it would teach them to clean up after themselves, and lastly in this list, it would teach them how to treat retail workers, or any workers really.
@@gutz-Coldrevenge I think *a* customer service job is good enough. I have ASD and I couldn't do 6 months fast food- I did 3 weeks and it actually nearly broke me. That amount of stimulation doesn't work for some people, and a, ahem, certain fast food icecream chain wouldn't even hire me after I told them I have autism. On the other hand, I've been a Computer Operator and Front Desk Attendant for almost two years, and deal with the same sort of things from unkind people, and learned the same skills in an environment that's healthy for me.
@@liamfaoisidheold true enough, fast food is just the one I've had experience with (golden arches), and it taught me more then I thought it would, funny enough, the thing it taught me the most is also a slipknot song title..... People=shit
Hearing all of this makes me wonder why anyone is anti union. Corporations are not your friend. Your loyalty counts for nothing. Cover yourself!
As someone who regularly has to cover a register (the punks they hire never show up) I will say that I do more than mentally tell people to f off. Especially if customers bring up an item with no tag on it or if the customer doesn't agree with the price despite me scanning each item one at a time. Honestly RSlash your "one free pepper spray a year" idea sounds good, but honestly I think it needs to be tweaked. To maybe one a day. Lol
One a day, definitely 😁
I always try to be nice to the cashiers, they are people too.
If I find an item I want to buy without a tag, provided I notice the tag missing, I look for a tagged one first to take that to get scanned. Naturally, the untagged one goes in the bag to avoid more problems
I always try to find things with tags, but every now and then I'm in a hurry and it doesn't have one or the barcode won't scan. I always apologise to the cashier for the delay and if they apologise to me, I tell them not to worry - I know they're busy and under a bunch of pressure, and it's not their fault about the tag. They're just trying to do their job.
In regards to the first story, I feel for OP. I get triggered when I hear my wife is training new employees, because in two jobs I was let go from I trained the new hires who became my replacements.
I just trained a person who was promoted to be my boss. Because "he has the drive." He's been there for 6 or 7 months. I've been there for 2 years!
@@MyDogIsYoshi That happened both times for me. Actually three times in two jobs. The first job they hired to guys for me to train the promoted both of them over me before finally firing me.
@@ZaneReaver this has no right being so relatable.
Story 1 : management wanted that " I knew they were great first " kudos .. in this story whoever picked that "manager" should never ever be allowed to even pick a lunch place again..
Child lifesupport Story: That manager should be blacklisted from ever having a chance to work anything more them a janitor until she takes a "being a normal human being "course..
The kitchen Story: op should've responded with " yeah I did do that the people decided they hated you so much they told me to tell you to F OFF"..
My favorite rslash phenomena, ranked: 1. When Yugo crashes the episode. 2. When Rslash gets so outraged he starts cursing. 3. When he realizes the narrator is a Karen and morphs into his Karen voice. 4. When Rslash goes off on anecdotal tangents. I love this channel so much lmao
*First OP:* Going by rSlash's intro, I thought OP raged-quit IRL. Turns out the boss overreacted by _calling the cops!?_
*Second OP:* The slow transition into the Karen voice will never not be funny. Also, I read a thread on a message board about a woman complaining that cashiers don't thank her for shopping when handing back her change. They just say, "Here you go." The message board mainly consists of older women, so there's that.
*Third OP:* OP is living the dream!
*Fourth OP:* Nah, dude, District Manager and I would be fighting.^ How are you going to steal five boxes of pizza from employees? From _anyone?!_ That pun shouldn't have made me laugh.
^for legal purposes, I was joking. I wouldn't fight the District Manager for stealing pizza, but my opinion of him will drop significantly.
*Fifth OP:* And _that's_ why you don't tell your employee to eff off after they give you their two-weeks notice. Unless the employee was a BH; then they can eff off.
*Sixth OP:* I've had offers to work as a mystery shopper, but wasn't interested. Judging from OP's experience, I didn't miss much.
*Seventh OP:* OP has the patience of a saint. Dawn would've gotten cussed out if it were me.
The aftermath is so satisfying to hear.
*Eighth OP:* LOL, that top comment sums up the post.
*Ninth OP:* Is Archie Bunker, Jr. blackmailing HR, or something? Anyway, if OP's husband can't sue his former employers, he should at least take his story to the public assuming he hasn't signed an NDA. Meanwhile, people can review b0mb (spelled that way because YT) Crocs, lol.
Nah if I paid extra to get pizza from a place that's locally famous, that higher up is getting punched in the face
On your response to the 6th story, that was probably a scam. I work with 6 mystery shopper companies, and they don't recruit. Scammers, however, will pose as them, often sending fake checks for people to cash and "reimburse" in the process. They tried to get my MIL with that.
story 2 i thought the voice transition to the karen voice was funny
One of my absolute favorite things about this channel is when Dabney is reading a post and realizes that it's a Karen and he slowly transitions into his Karen voice. Chefs kiss, 10/10, amazing every time.
The amount of enthusiasm that rSlash said, "I smell a lawsuit", is PEAK.
10:34 lmao , the censorship is terrible . You can search “ folk oil “ and find the exact manager they’re talking about
"if you think Crocs cares about minorities, you're wrong😢" Corporations don't care about anything but cash. Being a minority is irrelevant, in fact, corporations cater to minorities nowadays, but not because they care, if course. this is clearly an isolated incident that was indeed motivated by bigotry, but not by the entire company, the entire company just doesn't care.
I used to mutter angrily about an old coworker of mine. He was pretty sexist and treated all of the girls like they weren't capable or work hard enough, and especially yell at me that I was going to slow even though we were all busy and we were swamped. This man came at me on my break to yell at me for something I didn't even do. I was so glad when he was forced to quit. Especially when I'm on my period, I can get really angry and be a total b-word, and most of the time I catch myself and apologize. But with this coworker I never regretted going into full B*tch mode.
"My son is on life support and my manager is being really toxic"
The internet as a whole: "And I took that personally. Off with the manager's head."
That manager needs to be on life support.
God, i hope that company in the last story gets sued into bankruptcy
"You're fired! Now get back to work!"
Sure... if you hire me as an independent contractor for 5x-10x my previous pay.
The manager in the 5th story kind of reminds me of my current manager. She has fired one of the cashiers for getting sick twice, once with 'the ronna' and another with food poisoning. In the fast food industry we're not supposed to come to work if we show any signs of food poisoning because it could potentially be passed onto the customers. It ecplisitly states it in the handbook multiple times over. And still expected the cashier to work after firing her twice. So the cashier quit and I hope files a complain with the district manager... again.
That last story, just holy fuck. Dude needs to lawyer up asap
Yes the last one is retaliation, and this is illegal in a lot of places and would make a lawsuit. BUT there is no evidence, and it's unclear if other workers will come forward as witnesses in fear of retaliation, so it's hard to hold up in court when you essentially only have a he said-she said situation.
I don't know much about law, but couldn't they use the previous complaints made against the one coworker as evidence? Like, they have records that the husband made these complaints, and then shortly after he's fired for supposedly making a comment that mimics the ones that were reported. I feel like a judge would find that highly suspicious. Even if that's not admissible in court, couldn't he sue for wrongful termination? Afterall, the company has no tangible evidence that he made such a comment
@@PyroRoadScout Use complaint documentation as evidence: Yes, it is possible and it would hold up as admissible evidence, but it is not easy to force the cooperation to adhere these documents as evidence in court, because data protection and other laws come into play. Then, if we assume you were able to force them to produce these documents to the court, it still would be incredibly easy for them to tamper with the documents (these usually don't even need signature, it's a printed piece of paper) or say the lost them, or claimed they aren't kept in record that long. While that sure as hell wouldn't be less suspicious the missing of the documents doesn't hold up as evidence.
So while you could use these documents as evidence its hard to get your hands on it.
If he can sue for wrongful termination depends on his contract, but i think this was in America (not sure though, but the majority of stories are) and American workers rights are pretty horrible and if you're not specifically protected by your work contract companies can fire their employees for literally no reason, so to be covered by protection of wrongful termination he'd have to prove retaliation or discrimination and we are again at the same problem.
But also I'm not a lawyer so I can of course not give definitive statements on American law. However this really doesn't sound like an easy to win case.
@@Scarlett.Granger Not really, nothing trumps a subpoena, and he also go straight to the labor board/department, who are rabid about this shit. The companies own written policy ,which they're not allowed to keep secret, would basically screw them if they tried to claim they lost it or they don't keep them for long, as for tampering, that easily proven by having THE ACTUAL PERSON WHO MADE THE COMPLAINT testify. No clause in any contract in America stating that you're not allowed to sue your employer has ever held up in court as it is an illegal clause and thus not enforceable. As for the right to work part, it's a common misconception that you can be fired for ANY reason, these companies are still bound by labor laws and wrongful termination and retaliation still applies, as does discrimination. MANY companies have tried what you've insinuated and all have lost, many add to the juggernaut that is case law.
8:55 If you were to have a manager position and your employee has a relative in the hospital, you gotta at least show some sympathy.
First story: The reason companies hire people fresh out of college in management positions & not from within is because that way the company can easily condition a fresh mind to perform exactly to their expectations without question. People who work their way up are very likely to develop their own system in doing things & companies don't like that simply because it's not the way they want it to be, regardless of whether that manager is doing an amazing job or not. It's more a power move on the company's part.
I absolutely love this subreddit it’s a combination of malicious compliance and ahole tax and with the amount of times I’ve been screwed over by employers it just gives me the best justice boner! Keep up the good fight y’all!
Answer to your question from the first story: Companies would rather outside hire because it's cheaper for them to bring in fresh meat that they can underpay than promote from inside and give someone the money they deserve for working a garbage job. That's how it was at AutoZone when I worked there.
I don’t get making the college kid the manager. I understand hiring them but start them doing something practical at the store
My job at Publix cut my hours to one day of work A MONTH because they took in like 50 college kids in a single month, and they wouldnt even give me a consistent schedule for that single day just so I could make enough money to survive working 2 jobs. Come to find out that some yuppy rich kid that wasnt a college-returner who constantly broke the rules by clocking in when he was off, abandoned his job on his actual work days, sexually harassed the cashiers, and literally did nothing but steal free soda from the fountains and walk around was getting more hours than me despite the fact that I was busting my ass. The day I no-showed at that company was one of the best days of my life. Great corporation to work for as an associate, by the way, but the Greer, SC branch is run by incompetent morons aside from my boy DeVito.
Never ever agree if your boss says “I’ll take that as you quit” do exactly as the op did and say “I am not quitting” they can use you agreeing to deny benefits and make it out that you broke any contract not them
rSlash, the answer is money. You can pay less money to a fresh graduate than you'd pay to a promoted employee. Heck, you can pay them _less_ than your current employees
3:03 I was standing there, refilling my tarantulas' water bowls, listening to the stories, and had an uncontrollable laughing fit for a good couple seconds 😂
I'm sorry? As a person who shops frequently, I have ALWAYS THANKED THE CASHIER!!! They put up with shit daily, and they just kindly rang me up and bagged my groceries. I have never once expected to be thanked.
I have a manager who has quite a belittling and smarter-than-thou attitude, tries to micro-manage everything that everyone's doing whenever he gets an opportunity to even talk to us, and has tattled to our boss on multiple occasions whenever _he's_ not satisfied with us not going above and beyond for the company, resulting in very angry e-mails being sent out. It has caused enough friction that some of us want nothing to do with him anymore, and I've honestly considered that if he ever criticize my work again I'll just turn to him and tell him to take over for me if he thinks he's so much more clever.
I've been working for the company for 8 years, where I did a lot of unpaid administrative work outside of working hours during the first few years, and I told my boss as much during a phone call at one point. I've recently shown that I have no qualms to stand up for myself against the kind of verbal abuse that they've shown, even though I try not to push the case too often because I'm generally not a confrontational type of person. Even though my boss has said multiple times that if we don't like how things operates within the company we should consider whether this is the right place for us, I know for a fact that I can deliver results under the right conditions and that it, along with the knowledge and experience I provide, is something that isn't easily replaceable. And since the pay always puts me significantly on the plus each month, even though my qualifications reasonably gives me room to negotiate a much higher salary that my boss has supposedly denied any potential new recruits, I have no intention of quitting any time soon.
I can kinda relate to that son on life support story, because while I was taking my Abitur (German A-Levels), both my grandparents died.
And they didn't die peacefully in their sleep. One caught germs in the hospital and basically withered for three months and the other got cancer. When I went to my vice principal to ask him what I should do, he looked me dead in the eyes and told me I 'had to focus on what's important.' Still hope he chokes on his self-righteousness someday.
On that last story, that guy really needs to look into getting a lawyer and suing that place for retaliation and wrongful termination. They're literally sitting on top of a gold mine right now, and if they win, they will be reimbursed all court costs and lawyer fees, plus any settlements they are awarded, all on the company's dime. Many lawyers would drool over the prospect of getting this case.
Whoever sees this have a amazing day
Thanks bud, you too
Thank you. I just got done watching an agent orange documentary and it broke my heart. I'm just trying to get my mind away from all the pain at this point. The companies that made it knew what they were doing and think about it. If it's a chemical that kills plants, how could it be safe for people? Anyways, I hope everyone stays safe and has a better day.
I hope you have an amazing day as well.
Re: First story ... if you promote from within, the employees are going to expect/demand a raise, but if you hire someone into management off the street, so to speak, you can pay them the bare minimum.
As an employment lawyer. The mounds of illegal stories astounds me to this days.
Rslash starting in a normal voice and then switching to a Karen once he post becomes unhinged is *chef’s kiss*
It’s not slavery I’m just forcing people to work and barely paying them and never letting them leave
2:50 the second story. That seems to be a very specific thing that American store workers thank shoppers. Here in the UK, it's the exact opposite way around, the customer is expected to thank the cashier for their service.
I love how you immediately go into snotty voice the second you notice that you have an entitled person writing it. xDD
incompetent companies at their finest
Me- I gotta dip for half a year
Job- Cool. Also, while you were gone, we got you a raise
Me-....
Job- More hours too, if you want them, that is optional
Me- I have so many doughnuts to buy
The term Dabney didn't want to say is "towelheads". It's a very derogatory term for women who wear hijabs. And super ignorant.
"You're fired! Now get back to work!" Why does that sound so much like Mr. Krabs? Lol
If a cashier said "thanks for shopping", I'd consider not coming back.
But then, that's why Walmart failed in Germany, the greeters were creepy as hell. I want to buy beer and ground beef, not have a social visit with a stranger.
Second story: "You guys can chime in too"
Oh, we will whether you want us to or not.
Your children's health shouldn't come in between the way of your grind 💪
so work is more important than your children?
@@silverstar1178 Yes
For the last story, for the love of God he should've go to HR and say "but I never actually did something to any employee, did I? As long as I didn't touch anyone then I should be fine, right?"
Imagine your life being so devoid of meaning that you take personal offense at a cashier politely trying to expedite their queue of customers.
can confirm for the mystery shopper thing. I worked in a shoe shop while I was in college and nearly got fired for recommending that a customer buy a cheaper, but, in my opinion, better pair of slippers than the expensive ones we were supposed to push. Sorry that I can't sign off on charging little old ladies fifty quid for a pair of slippers.
Parker, you're fired, don't comeback til you have pictures of Spiderman!
YOU'RE FIRED!
I feel like the lady that complained about not being thanked for her business is the same type of person that believes that just because the business closed two minutes after they walked in they're entitled to help no matter what.
I'm surprised that Karen in the 2nd story is perceptive enough of other people to know they're mentally telling her to f off
I would love to get a follow up on the last post, because I'm almost completely certain the husband could sue. Not only could he get them on retaliation, he could get them on wrongful termination. Plus, he could help kickstart an investigation into the company for discrimination in the workplace
3:03 I love how rSlash slowly changes his voice as he realises that OP is a karen 🤣😂
Hearing Rslash go from normal to Karen voice is like watching Jeff Goldblum turn into the fly monster. Sometimes I fear he'll get stuck after transforming and become a Karenzilla.
3:00 the smooth transition from his regular voice to the Karen voice has me dead 💀
2:06 I worked for a popular optical chain for 13yrs. About 5yrs in, in all their wisdom the company decided we needed to focus on sales, not the importance of optical. So they hired a manager of a men’s business suit store 🙄 who had zero experience in optical. Anyone that wears glasses knows measurements, properly fitted frames, and lens material is more important than up selling. I was only 23, and from day one he hated me, idk why. Managers also had daily sales goals, meaning he had to help customers. He had more remakes and returns than anyone else. He only lasted in our store for a year, and that’s only because he had us help customers under his login.
I worked for a company where I went to customers' houses and we were allowed to keep our company cars at our own houses. One day, they schedule me for a job before my shift started, not tell me, take it off my shift and mark it as a no show, not say anything about that either...
None the wiser, I start my shift, go to my 11:00 appt, my 1:30 appt, and on my way back I call the office to inform them I have a flat and I need to block off my (currently empty) 3:30 slot while I take the car to the shop and swap it with the loaner work car (they kept this at the shop for situations like this). My boss tells me she thought I quit because I was a no show to my 9:00 appt. I didn't take 9:00 appointments and she knew this. So she tells me to just drop the car off with the doughnut and go home. I tell her I don't have her a way home and tell her to just come by my house and get the car.
She calls me later that evening and offers me my job back... at 2k/yr less than what I was making when I started (1.5 years prior). I declined and told her to come get the car.
12:20 hey my former boss ALSO called me unprofessional for telling him I won't go an hour out of my way to "just answer some questions" and pick up my (late) final check a month after I quit (and didn't have an answer when I told him he could have literally just asked because I answered coworkers texts once or twice)
Having worked at best buy for 8 years, and have been mystery shopped. The employee handled that interaction perfectly, that was until Jolee took over then the culture for employees to sell felt more and more predatory, granted best buy is in survival mode with the competition with online retail, but everything tracks, with the mystery shoppers story.
Me: actually tries to be a common human being
That one guy with no common sense: *demonic screech*
Its stressful when a loved one is in hospital for any reason, let alone on LIFE SUPPORT
"Bless your heart". Southern for "Fuck Off".
I smell a lawsuit, as well as a company who might get the Starbucks treatment with enough social media circulation.