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Fun fact: Aldi's workers sit because it's more efficient to sit at the register than to stand. "We don't sit at the register, we're not Aldi's" is just them saying "We don't feel like letting you sit because you're human or being efficient with time".
It is definitely not legal in Canada to make your workers stand for an entire shift.
Shop I work at used to have a no sit policy at the automated welders where you stand in one spot and put parts on a fixture the machine then welds and drops down a chute. I decided I was gonna sit if i wanted to and used one of the parts tables to sit on while working. The shop owner came in one night and went through the roof I dared to sit. My boss came over and told him to leave me alone, i do double the work of 1st shift. Owner called bullshit and they both went into the office to look over production numbers. Year later and the company bought chairs so people could sit or stand as they chose.
Same when they moved me to the assembly machine. I'd spend the first hour tuning the machine, getting parts stocked, cleaning around it, then dial up the speed when it was running smooth enough and would just sit and read a book while filling the hoppers every so often. A machine that ran 2k parts on a normal day, maybe 3k on a great day, was now putting out 6k in one shift. My boss again told the owner to just leave me alone, i knew how to get the machine to run and increase production. I almost got fired for tampering with the machine because of that. I was overproductive and they were going to fire me for it. Still work there and my current spot i get bitched at for not staying past the end of the shift to check material in, but when I do stay i get bitched at for not leaving on time. I've just gotten to the point i don't care. I toss a coin and go home if I don't feel like staying, let the chips lie where they fall
I am MAD that they don’t allow that. I have flat feet and if I don’t move around or sit down from time to time for a few minutes my feet hurt so bad and I start to get dizzy. Sitting in-between customers isn’t a crime and it isn’t lazy. Your boss is most likely sitting around if they aren’t doing anything out of their office.
"If you sit, you don't look productive" is what I was told when I worked in manufacturing. Yeah no no, the uncomfortable workers who are losing feeling in their legs because they're not allowed to move much that then trip/stumble are FAR more productive ... sure sure ...
But yeah, that's how you can tell when someone really is lazy/hates their job. Aldi's cashiers are usually the fastest check outs I've ever had - and they're usually in a good mood - better than most other cashiers - and yet I've had a few who literally wait til the belt basically puts the item in their hand and if that doesn't happen they won't reach for it. And it's like either you didn't get enough sleep or didn't wanna do this job because geez.
In my past job we had a main counter where the one being the one operating the checkout needed to stand, otherwise we'd get called out by the boss. As someone with knee and foot pain, that shit sucked
15:20 here's a fun fact about doctor's notes, a doctor can legally give one to a patient that requires one apon request, and bosses cannot ask the doctor or request what the symptoms are because of US patient privacy laws and HIPAA
whole ass multi billion dollar company couldnt even handle giving workers a $20/hr paycheck
"B-b-but then daddy elon is gonna be slightly less disturbingly rich!"
-Mfs who call twitter X prob
The worst part is that even if you increase the minimum wage like California did, companies will literally jack up their prices in order to keep their shit unsustainable and get more money out of you. Again, see California. They legit increased their minimum wage to $20, which is far more sustainable, and fast food joints decided to jack up their prices by as much as 50%, which doesn't bode well, since that means other buisnesses like Real Estate might also jack up their prices, and make everything return to the same exact problem as before.
The greed and stupidity of American corporations is mind boggling.
@@frankm.2850 I'd say other countries have especially bad corporations, maybe some worse than the US. But yeah, we ARE the poster child for capitalist shitholes.
Well to another post that says I only looked at the gross profit and not the net profit and ignored the rent on all the buildings, all the trucks for logistics, warehouse upkeep, buying the stuff to sell, cost of electricity, advertisement, how many employees they have, cost of opening new locations and so much more because my brain thinks any money that not going to the employees I hear about must be going to exces and to nothing else. That not how business works
That sign to the Denny's servers about "adults need to buy adult food and beverages!" really got to me. What if someone comes in with a disability, or simply can't stomach a full sized iced tea? You'd rather they buy the bigger option, waste food/drinks and their money, all so you can line your pocket with a few extra dollars at the end of the night? Whoever wrote that needs a reality check, not everyone is built the same and people need different portion sizes.
I got stressed out just reading the sign, I would probably want to quit on the spot, I'm not trying to play lethal company by meeting a quota for Dennys
Is that even legal? I don't think you can force what your customers have to buy based on their age. That feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
They literally would rather that. Money is God so money is what you're supposed to bring in. They don't give half a crap about reality.
@@AIHumanEquality This is where the true meaning of "The customer is always right" comes in. They're always right in matter of taste, as in, you can't force them to buy what they don't want and can't stop them from buying what they want, as long as they're *paying for it*
What makes them more money? That's the answer, it always is. American Capitalism, make as much as you can, fuck everyone else. I'm sure if restaurants could get away with it they'd charge a rental fee for booster seats and the plate your food came on along with a washing fee for the silverware you use
I don't understand how bosses don't realize you are TELLING them you're sick and not coming in , not ASKING if it's ok to have the day off
15:27
One of the main reasons why walmart had a CRUSHING failure in Germany was that they tried to introduce standing cashiers. Employees weren't having it and customers thought they were being assholes.
Because I know from my experience, that tiredness and leg sore make people much more tipsy and nervous
It's not cashiers being assholes, it's about management trying to force their way against the inherent human biology
9:58, if anyone is curious about the BRAT diet, it stands for Bananas, Rice, Applesauce and Toast. It's a diet for people with issues like nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
for a moment i thought it *causes* nausea and so forth...
Oh wow
Literally I had something happen yesterday. I am a barista and I make drinks all day long, so I was in a bad headspace yesterday and only asked the shift,”Hey can I not be on bar today? I don’t think I can connect with customers that well today.” My store manager wouldn’t stop butting in to the conversation I was having with the on duty shift! I got pulled to the back for a conversation. I was talk it was my responsibility to always be 100% or I could just go home. SM asked if I had sick time to use to go home and I told her “No, I need that for when I get sick.” I can still do my job, just not on bar where I am required to talk to people when they come in. Apparently I’m not allowed to have bad days or ask to be moved from a position that I am burnt out in.
The laptop reset one is absolutely infuriating personally. A good percentage of my job is just resetting and reconfiguring laptops that have been returned to us so they can be reused. 99.9999% of the time, I will know nothing about the last person who used it, let alone their password, because I don't have to. I'd actually be really worried if I did. I just reimage the darn thing and move on. I'm amazed no one ever told the boss that that's an option.
I work in IT and this is one of the most basic tasks.
My thought was either:
1. Their whole IT department left, or never existed.
2. They wanted to be able to use the ex-employees account for shady stuff and then retroactively blame it on the employee.
11:36 Competitive Salary: Companies compete to offer you the lowest amount possible and see where you decide to settle.
16:08 really pisses me off because there are people who MEDICALLY have to order off the kid's menu just because of the portions being smaller
Tell me we live in a disillusion dystopia without saying, "We live in a disillusioned dystopia":
I used to afford a waterside view one bedroom apartment as waitress, that I can no longer afford as a lawyer!
God the fast food shit💀when I worked at an undisclosed "Mexican" food chain they hired a sexual harasser and racist, acted surprised when several people quit after complaints unanswered about him. He was getting creepy with several girls some underaged and they did nothing because he was "a good hardworking manager". He even exposed someones criminal record because other employees liked that person better than him. Five people quit that night lol. The next week they had to fire him because he beat up a homeless man outside the store on shift and the police were called🙄no one who quit returned even after the higher ups begged
you've got a really cool pfp
also that's a really messed up story (probably should have said this first)
If that was Canada or the EU they'd have so many fines and lawsuits they'd be out of business real quick.
Fucking awful that this happens at all. Nice Collector profile pic btw.
@@AIHumanEquality it was the US no one who works minimum wage has the money to sue this huge company and it's not like the homeless man could sue him so at the end of the day they got away with it. It's kinda funny tho bc the racist dude got absolutely dog piled in the work chat when he sent the screenshots of the other guys criminal record. They lost like 7 workers because of this one dude and had to shut down the store for a few weeks after the incident with the police.
i’ve learned to do the bare minimum at work. i spent months trying to do extra before i realized that i cannot get raises. it’s not in my contract. all i get is a compliment during my PA meeting. so screw that, i’ll do exactly what you hired me for and NOTHING more.
That is so wild! My employees get inflation adjusted and a small raise on top of that every 6 months and that seems to be about the standard here. Even if there's no upward mobility, the amount of experience on the job figuring out exactly how the boss and the managers like things done should still be rewarded. And it can NEVER happen that due to inflation they end up with a decrease in buying power, that's just not right. Someone who has been killing it for 4 years has had 8 adjustments and 8 small bumps in pay. If there's no upward mobility at ALL, yeah, you'd be crazy to put in extra effort beyond keeping the job. If performance isn't rewarded, you're going to end up with C-tier performances.
5:00 depending on where you live, the garbage men can make way more than the average American salary. My great uncle makes $65k a year from it, and is actually about to retire very well.
4:10 Honestly, I would just reply, "since you fired me 6 months ago, I fail to see how this is my problem, any further attempts to contact me will be met with a restraining order"
In high school, I worked at a McDonalds with a general manager who used to write rude and aggressive notes *daily,* and put them in the break room. Stuff like "WE DO NOT ACCEPT CALL OFFS ON FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, OR SUNDAYS. STUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP."
Then this one, which caused a massive uproar because a chunk of our staff were either living in their cars or using their free meal to feed their kids: "YOU ARE NOT A CUSTOMER, YOU CAN'T ORDER ICE CREAM, LARGE DRINKS, SPECIALTY BEVERAGES, EXTRA SAUCE, OR A BASKET OF FRIES!!!!!"
She would also bitch about how closing staff cleaned, but would never scold morning or afternoon for failing to take out the trash all day. We counted one time. 107 bags of trash, some of them leaking or not fully closed, and we had to take this out in addition to our normal duties. I thank God every day that we moved and I no longer have to work there. It's been a while, so I'm in college now.
I hate that phrase"suck it up buttercup" someone told me that after I have been sick for days because of a medicine I needed to take for my health.
@@Simipourfangirl SAME. It was one of her favorite phrases. I severely injured my back by working with machinery, and I had a note that I had to have specific days off for physical therapy. I told her through text and sent a picture of my dr's note. She told me to "suck it up buttercup" because "everyone gets injured at work, don't be a p*ssy about it." I turned my note anyway and was treated like a black sheep for 3 months until I worked normal hours again. That place was so toxic.
I went to my doc with 104 fever and was rushed to the ER. In the ambulance I called my top boss letting them know I'm in the ER and probably have to stay in the hospital. Later I sent an email telling my bosses that yes, I was admitted to the hospital with life threatening infection.
Next morning I get an email back from my direct supervisor reminding me that per protocol I should have called in before start of the work day between 7 and 7:30 am.
B...TCH!!!! I was hooked up to pain killers and was out of it. What part of being in the efing hospital was hard to understand? That was the moment I lost all respect to that boss.
I worked in a long term care facility, was having abdominal pains and one day it got so bad I was unable to stand and barely walk, had to have family take me to the ER, turns out I had Gall Stones and they admitted me to the hospital and put me on morphine, by the time I got anything for the pain I had been awake for at least 32 hours and 20 of it in immense pain so as soon as the pain killers worked I was out cold, as soon as I woke up I called my work place told them I was in the hospital and they said okay, was in for 3 days and they pulled out my Gall Bladder which was inflamed, infected and had gangrene, doctor said I could have gone septic at any moment and life was in danger.
The Day I got out of the hospital and got home I saw a note taped to my door about how unprofessional my behavior of not showing up to work was, I took the note in and asked wtf this was and the manager said that it was left the first day before I called in to let them know what happened. I in my 10 years working there have never been a no call no show in my life and then suddenly I don't call and your first thought is I'm dodging work and not in some horrific accident? I worked for another 4 months before a work place incident caused an injury that kept me from being able to work anymore and the Admin blamed my surgery on my injury to deny me workman's comp and then twisted some words to make it out that I quit to deny me unemployment and then the company later fired them to avoid all legal issues, slightly for me and mostly because the admin made sick nurses work during the height of Covid that caused many of the elderly residents to get sick and pass away.
oh and I was paid less then 10$ an hour on top of all this
@@BlazeDarks if you have the papers you can uh.. Sue
I used to work for a company that paid "decent" but I worked my ass off to finally get a specialist position and they worked me to the point I had a 15 min cry break out back daily.
I finally couldn't take it anymore after a manager said something to me and I walked to HR and gave them a month notice (cause I had no back up)
I job searched and got an interview with a company I'm still with today. I get paid DOUBLE for an "entry" level job and I'm one of the highest paid workers because I work hard. Good companies exist and we should only support them until the other CEOs get their head out of their ass.
23:50 The answer is simple. Don't accept anything less than 100% and sue him for wrongful defamation of character, slander, and harassment.
Yeah except suing someone is highly paywalled DLC that's been cut from the main game.
@@RuSosan Thanks America for capitalisming the law.
1:14 I had this happen at the movie theater where I worked for four years. A supervisor position opened and the manager posted the job seemingly to encourage employees to apply. Me and about three other long time workers put our hats in, but heard nothing else about it. Weeks later, they're introducing us to the new supervisor they just hired, and when I asked him if he had any prior experience working in the company or a movie theater he told me that he didn't.
Naturally, me and the others were pissed and started getting in a lather about it whenever we'd be making the rounds (I worked the guest service desk so it was easy to chat with coworkers when business was slow.) Imagine my shock when the manager then calls me into his office to tell me that "workplace gossip is uncalled for" and me and my coworkers needed to respect their choice. So about a week later, I quit in rebuttal.
Best part? The exact same manager called me back into his office and pleaded with me to stay, saying he'd match whatever I was making at my new job. I told him I didn't have another job lined up as I still lived at home and planned to job hunt in my off time, and he visibly paled. I'll never forget the look on his face. 😊
Should have lied. Told some comfortable wage.
A lawyer can’t afford an apartment they could 20 years ago as they could a table waiter
A law graduate sent his story to the newspaper in Italy saying he is in his 40's, has never been able to get a stable job in his field, was offered plenty of volunteering jobs and that it's nearly impossible to make it in the industry unless you have connections. If law graduates are screwed right now this is serious.
My granddad was a law graduate, my grandma was a health and safety engeneer on job sites. They lived in Ukraine during the Soviet union. Mostly in Kiev the capital. My granddad worked in the offices for the military (I think the secret one. Both of them are dead now so it doesn't matter). He had a funded home by his employer. They were poor but they could afford to put food on the table for four of them: my great grandmother, my grandma, him and my mother. My dad comes from a family of 7 kids from southern Italy. He was also poor. Didn't have the opportunity to study but managed to get by learning to work on bricks. My mom had a fully funded university appartment paid for by university as she was an excellent student. She graduated in foreign language studies (French, English and I'm not sure if also Russian or Ukrainian) with the highest score. Back in the day it was easy to get by. Now it's almost like you're living at gunpoint.
I got told, after a back breaking 60 hour work week, "your work is seriously appreciated". That was it, only words. And i just had a 50 and was informed next few saturdays are on as well. Will be quitting soon lol
I love being a dishwasher, My knowledge of quantum physics really came in handy!
Gotta know how to manipulate those virtual particles to REALLY clean deep.
You know which quantum particle has food residue on it and which doesn’t
@@ChillyUltraKill Every particle has food residue, but at the same time every particle is clean. It's the dishwasher superposition.
Sometimes dishes come out of the dishwasher still dirty. But they came out of the dishwasher, so they must be clean.
A superposition of both clean and dirty. I put the plates away anyway.
😂
when we were job hunting one of the available jobs we saw (i think it was a clothing store?) had one of the requirements of "must be able to regularly lift 50+ lbs" and in the description it said "it's like being paid to go to the gym!". minimum wage. we did not apply
I googled the equivalent in kg and HOLY FUCK 20+ kg?????? That's like lifting a 6 year old kid what?????
i work as a janitor at a school. we got gifts recently. ONE TINY JAR of jelly, probably LESS than ONE spoonfull, and a CHEAP notebook and pen. yeah, we all feel APPRECIATED!!! (not)
I work at a steel shop and when we have a reject coil that needs to be rebanded we charge a $350 reband fee to the supplier. It's just money that goes in the owner's pocket. I asked him once why he doesn't give the guys that have to reband coils a portion of that fee. "That might motivate them to reject coils more often" Yeah, yeah, if only they didn't have to go through quality, me, and the production manager to reject coils.
From the same people that used to hand out a $50 quarterly nous for no injuries at work. Not like that would motivate people to not report injuries or anything
That's less than I got on my job induction.
You're a hero, people always sleep on janitors
Worked with a janitor at a school who worked 20 years and still lives in his truck. Hope his next 10 years pays off.
7:22 you should quit by walking into the office of the person who arranged to send you that, place the almond bar on their table, and loudly say “I don’t want your salty nuts, I quit”
Fun fact: For any position that has you work for food of any kind, if you feel any sickness after your shift, and it gets worse when you wake up in the morning, notify your boss that you're staying home until you're healthy enough to go back (a sickness it usually no longer contagious after the symptoms start dropping in severaty, but make sure you still wait until theyre almost gone), if your boss demands you come back even though you're still sick, tell him that it's illegal for anyone to work in the food industry while sick. They can treated to fire you, or even go through it, but that will only make them look bad.
So, if your confirmed sick, no matter how mild, you can legally take the day off with no consciences, not even a write up.
The only reason why companies want you to go back to the office is because of realestate, they dont want to pay for empty offices, or dont want to repurpose or sell the property.
No way am i on their side, just a fact.
They cant care less about the middle management or what becky thinks is "the right way of going to work"
Idc what they want. It's their job to run a successful business, not the low level bottom employees. If they make a mistake as an executive or owner they need to own up to it and fix it not make it everyone else's problem.
So they just feel bad about the offices being empty? Weird.
@@mailcs06 its not that they feel bad, its that they dont want to waste money on an empty office but also can't be fucked to put in the effort of making that empty space into something else OR just reselling it, so they just force everyone back into the building.
On the other hand, our company has decided they no longer want to pay for our office, so we'll all be shifting to WFH. Which, unpopular opinion, is still annoying. What I want is the CHOICE.
@@hmnhntr a choice for workers is expensive, companies gotta make that extra 1 dollar somehow! (/sarcasm)
14:50 with what I’m being paid, I can’t afford to go to the doctor. Especially when I know I’ll pay 250$ just for them to give me an antibiotic. My favorite part is when you usually don’t get paid for sick days since you don’t have benefits, but they still expect a doctor’s note just to let you have the time off anyway! Or you’ll be punished!
Idk why companies are always like "well if we pay our workers a fair wage then the prices of everything will increase"
Like, just stop wasting it on yachts, super cars, private jets, helicopters, mansions, and other rich person stuff instead of blaming us for wanting a fair shot in life
If you keep doing this, there's going to be something done about it, and what it is very much depends on what you're gonna do about it
What always gets me is how in a nutshell:
- We *can't* afford to pay you for you work. Yes, you have done a managers job for a year now, but we simply *can't* afford to pay you $20 more per day. It's IMPOSSIBLE! That's like, what? More than $400 a year? You *have* to think about this rationally! Yes, sure: You do the work of 4 people. but... c'mon... be reasonable!
- We *can* however afford to pay 21 billions in fines and taxes for failing to meet safety requirements and wage theft. And lost income due to sheer incompetence and loss due to failing to meet deadlines due to refusing to hire people to cover that job. We will eagerly pay $50000 to avoid having to give someone a $80 bonus.
The last bit reminded me of something I most likely saw in one of EmKay's videos, so you might have seen it too, but it was someone in prison who was having allergic reactions to the blanket they were given, asked for a cotton blanket, there was a lawsuit involved and the State ended up paying like 20k for that lawsuit instead of, y'know, give them the fucking blanket
@@Mari-Schimmer Yupp. It's trucked how we are in a state of capitalism, where they'd rather pay billions, to avoid having to save millions. Like, they *refuse* to repair a leak because "It's not in the budget", but, it IS in the budget to have that leak break, cause a 3 week production shutdown and cost them millions...
Its always weird coming to this subreddit and seeing what people have to go through. Makes me happy that, while I have some gripes, overall my workplace pays me well, only expects a doable amount of work, and doesn't have any toxic people in my area.
The one major thing I am worried about is losing my work from home but that is less the company wanting us in the office and more that some people are making really easy to avoid mistakes on government paperwork repeatedly
"they've been working for 30 years, what should we give them?"
"How about some stale gummies and a card?"
"F**king genius!"
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Hello again
i would have expected like a wicker basket full of goodies
Maybe just maybe don’t be ungrateful
@@AidenTan-t4n jerking off the companies wont make you a millionaire, pal
Bernard Arnault, the richest person in the world has $231 billion. The lifetime income of the average American is 1.7 million. The richest person in the world has enough money to live for 135,882 lifetimes, the average life expectancy of an American is 71 years. If the richest person in the world suddenly stopped gaining money and stopped aging, they would have enough money to last for 10,327,032 years. Human history dates only back to 300,000 years ago. Bernard alone would outlive Human history 34.4x over. Rich people do not need this much money. Nobody has any reason to have this much money.
Yeah, but they somehow keep amassing that much money, like if they were going to be immortal
Luckily so far immortality is out of the picture, so sooner or later, the end of life hits everyone, and what you will get after that, as you don't take your money to the afterlife with you?
Fun fact in Italy you can have your absent hours from school voided if you bring in a doctor's note. Basically they don't count in the final count. As missed hours are a deal breaker over here. If you pile up too many hours missing from school you can loose a year and be forced to repeat it as there wasn't enough time for you to learn and get evaluated by teachers. Unless you have a medical condition keeping you off school. It used to be that if you were missing from school for more than five days that you needed to bring in a doctor's note. Then I think they changed it to the school has to call the parents to check that their child is actually sick or missing for whatever reason rather than skipping school and not telling them. I remember also when one girl was able to use the law in her favour. She was forced to redo the year. Because of too many missing hours from being a volleyball player. Her family argued in court many sport associations don't even allow their team players to stay unless they prioritize school. As in if you blame the sports you play on your free time outside of school (we don't usually have school teams or if they exist it's within pe or school hours) on bad performance they don't accept it and will kick you out. You have to prioritize school to be in the team. And she was a good student. So they argued that the missed hours weren't enough to justify her missing the year. And I'm pretty sure they won because the italian government recognizes sports as part of a child's education and places value in the practice of sports.
Diswashing job requirements:
Must have 50+ years of experience
Must know quantum fluctuations line by line
Only young 20 - 25 yr olds.
Must have telekenisis
Salary: As low as we can go
HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
Wow, I only have 49 years of experience… 😢
Do i get benefits?
Dammit I have telepathy. I knew I should have chosen telekinetics.
@Love2Banime what's that there's only disadvantages so sign up while u can it's a limited staff position 💯💯
Dang, I went with clairvoyance instead.
I worked at a grocery store.
I had fun checking dates on stock, rotating it and making sure there wasn't anything out of date.
I was told not to check dates and rotate.
I quit over that.
Now I want to work doing ONLY that.
11:24 Same! I just applied at petsmarts. Seems as if half of the survey was “how willing are you to do the work of your coworkers/go above and beyond and do work that isn’t assigned to you” in different wordings. And the other half was “How much do coworkers like you”
I'm a cashier at Walmart and if my store got rid of self-checkout I would immediately quit. We only ever have 4 or 5 registers open at most when we have 30 registers, and even the stress at the current level on weekends is such that I'm already looking for another job after 3 months, since I have never dealt with high stress situations well. Also we don't have tap and the number of questions I get about that every shift drives me nuts.
I was hired a custodian to a Neighborhood Market Walmart who was offered a cashier role with no change in pay which was basically more work for less pay.
Worked for 4 months and resigned to return to make more doing less as a security guard with politer people.
reminds me of the difference in food work between Washington and Detroit. Washington: Working at a Golden Corral (granted, one of the better golden corrals in the U.S), everyone is actually a team, nobody leaves until everything is done, yet everyone gets out on time or earlier, and you can literally eat off the floor with zero health risks. Hell, you can't even smell that food gets made there at the end of the night. Minimum Wage.
Detroit: Currently working at an undisclosed "Tavern" in a VERY rich neighborhood. Everyone is part of the "Team", Bussers leave an hour before the servers, servers leave before the bartenders, bartenders have to finish unfinished front of house work. Cooks get to leave when they are "done" (wipe down their station, cover/put away food, take everything else to the dishpit). General Utility/Dishwashers are SUPPOSED to leave at designated times, including the closers, yet regularly have to stay 1-2-3 hours late to finish up or at the very least get the vast majority done (leaving 1-2 cookie sheets behind is fine, anything else is no-go). Cleaning standards are not enforced, all there is is a list that keeps disappearing from one of the fridges that lists everything that you would normally do at that Golden Corral, yet none of it has EVER been done. Less than the bare minimum is completed at the end of the night, something is growing underneath one of the registers, and nobody that currently works in the building knows how to break down the dishwasher because thats how long its been since it was last done. 18$ an hour (highest paying job i've had) and yet we cannot keep more than 2 dishwashers? What is even happening.
I really don't understand how some budget buck buffet has standards that are thousands of years ahead of a well established tavern that is also in a neighborhood that costs over 5000$ a month to live in.
I see your point. But calling GC budget buck is a bit off. Here in Iowa 30+ $ for 2 person.
At least it was last time I was there about 5 years ago. Now a bit higher I would imagine.
But yes, this restaurant was clean and pleasant too.
@@attilaschannel5198 it was years ago, without my discount it was about 18$ per adult with drinks, 14$ without, and then it was 7.50 for employees and the discount extended to up to 6 guests. looking online its still between 10-20$. apparently the one in my new area is almost 45$ per person what the heck
4:46 I got pretty chummy with the people who ran my local microbrewery.
After thanking them for sometimes giving my partner and I (who are regulars) a free pint or two, they told us it only cost them about 8-12 cents a pint to produce, so it was literally no problem at all.
Considering rent, materials, licenses, and everything; if the minimum wage of servers were to increase by even 100%, it would "force" beer prices to increase my a barely noticeable amount.
So, wages being bumped maybe the 10% we can all safely assume happened in this case here; anything larger than a 2% bump in prices is BS and gouging.
My mom once applied to a gas station so she could get some more money on the side (she was on disability and food stamps but it wasn't nearly enough) she had to quit after just a few days bc they refused to give her a stool to sit down or even let her bring her own in. She had major problems with her back making it so that she couldn't stand up for long periods of time, so that was out of the picture.
10:42 my old company had a HR lady that lowered the salary claiming it was a typo IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERVIEW. I left 2 years ago, she's still there, and they still haven't found a replacement for me due to their shady tactics and toxic management. Last I heard, they're losing staff and falling apart at the seams like a comet/satellite breaking up falling to Earth. I was the senior IT tech, practically built and running the whole operation.
15:00 I used to get truant letters from school all the time.
I was never a truant. Kids tend to just wash their hands once a week and, through being forced to come in even if they are sick, spread that to me and I would be out a week from the flu sometimes twice a year. The _second_ I left High School, I went from yearly flu to not getting a single instance of the flu for nearly 8 _years_ . Coming in sick hurts everyone around you, you'd think covid would have reminded us all of that.
9:37 BRAT diet. For when you have a stomachache. Stands for Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, and Toast.
15:07 I lost 100% attendance awards for occasional unavoidable appointments like specialist opticians meanwhile I’m making myself ill by being perpetually overworked while disabled then been called lazy because this means I’m perpetually fatigued and you better your butt it came back to haunt me in my 20s
For me it was even better
I lost my 100% attendance award, because during basketball game I twisted my ankle, and for the rest of the school day I spent in the school nurse
Them: NoRmAlIsE sLeEpInG iN OfFiCeS
_Meanwhile, the animation studio that had given me access to a spare guestroom bcuz i was the only female artist and was also working 36hrs non stop along with my team, so i needed a room to sleep in or else i'll die:_
“This place REEKS of insecure corporate shame…”
My first job was food vending at a factory and office building. They did not know what their customers wanted and wasted POUNDS of food per week.
I only worked there for 9 months. I think something in me snapped when I was told by my manager that I MUST show up on Christmas Eve. Wouldn’t you know it, all the factory workers were at home and the building was shut up and LOCKED! 😂
The whole company was incompetent and so inefficient, it made me sick.
The company I work for right now doesn't have the highest salary (below average, lets leave it at that), but they do have one of the best policies I've ever seen in a company:
"You need to rest in your free time, finish your shift at your hour, not later, and also take your breaks accordingly and stop trying to cut them short"
Seriously, they get angry at your if you don't take care of yourself.
Problem is, *we have to work extra hours in many weekends and have call shifts every two weeks that last for a week* .
My partner recently "celebrated" their 20th year at a company, guess what they did??
They wrote their name on a board for the day. 20 years... Not even a personal thank you from the owner. (Its a small company so they talk to the owner often) I told them we need to look for a new job. Its ridiculous to be working so hard and not be appreciated
Damn, I got a pin badge and certificate for only working for 5 years! Though before that was just a congratulatory email. They'd give me a photo of a cupcake but couldn't give me a coupon for one?! I worked in a grocery store, it wouldn't have been hard to do! XD
my friend got a job paying $15/hr. She was told she would be starting Friday, so she quit her old job. They emailed her Friday morning to let her know the job was on a 2 week hold. She now has no job and is unsure if she'll have one at the end of the 2 week hold. Utter bullshit
0:36 ah yes, a master's degree in dishwashing, seriously though, imagine going to collage for 10 years, spending 10s of thousands of $$$ for pay so miniscule you'd be homeless before you get your first paycheck
my grandpa worked for 20 years at walmart and he got a framed award and a pat on the back
Yes the work is supposed to get you an car and house
Thanks for helping us make millions! Here's barely enough to survive off of!
At company my bf works at (in uk). You get extra holiday days with loyalty.
Plus a single use gift of a week holidays at 5 and 10 years. And two weeks at 15 and 20.
The base is 28 days (in most jobs in UK).
But thats the guaranteed minimum, if you get high enough position you can haggle.
@@AidenTan-t4n it’s walmart. they gave you like 9$ an hour back then. he worked like 9 hours a day. 81$ a day, not enough to live on now. luckily, he was a carpenter. the work can in fact not buy you a car and a house, especially when things like food, his highly disabled wife, and house that HE had to build on meanwhile he also worked, exist.
@@AIHumanEquality exactly, this is why i tell my friends to pay attention in class so they can get a sweet job that DOESNT overwork and underpay them.
Having seen a truly professional dishwasher in action I can fully believe they have a good understanding of quantum physics.
this country is going to hell in a hand basket. this is why im trying to flee it
You're not the only one. The Canada immigration office numbers from Americans has been surging the last 8ish years.
Good.
Get out while you can, and best of luck to you on that effort. 💪
@@AIHumanEquality canada ain't any better... if anything it's worse.
@@Viesta No it's not. I live here. It's definitely not as bad as the US for average citizens.
Remember when America was the country that people fled TO? Now it's the country you have to fight to flee FROM.
7:40 I swear some people do not understand the differences in presents. I have met adult people who do not understand that a plastic stamp or a bouncy ball from a vending machine is not the same as a homemade gift or money or something useful.
If those people are managers, those are the bonuses that exist
"The biggest con in this country is people making millions of dollars a year convincing people making $50,000 a year that people making $10,000 a year are the problem" - Brian Tyler Cohen
To make his level of wealth comprehensible, think of it this way: If Jeff Bezos gave every single Amazon employee a $100k bonus out of his own pocket, he'd still have as much money as he had a year ago.
22:16 "Hey, boss. Saw the sign. Here's my two weeks."
You don’t even need all that password hoopla to factory reset a laptop. They just don’t wanna have to send it in to the manufacturer to reset it for them and/or they are too lazy, ignorant, dumb, etc. to learn how to do it themselves. They would rather email a former employee that has been gone for 6 months, grab their password, unlock the computer, and scroll through settings until they find the factory reset option
pretty sure the company wanted to steal any info left on the laptop from the op.
3:02 why would anyone want to normalize naps at work? They treat us as children enough as it is. Why do we need mandatory nap time?
The problem is with word "mandatory"
Otherwise tho, sleeping in work should be incentivised, especially when you are allowed to do it on the clock, when the business is slow
Well rested employees bring in more productivity after all
Had a boss tell me I couldn't call in with constipation anymore because "she still did her job with constipation so it shouldn't be a problem". I was the cashier in a buffet also in charge of filling the salad bar, so whatever was fucking me up could have been easily passed to customers if I listened. Said boss also witnessed me have several mental breakdowns and then MADE FUN OF ME FOR THEM IN FRONT OF COWORKERS AND CUSTOMERS.
When that store closed down and I went in for my final check, she grabbed me by the wrist and told me to come work with her at another location
I absolutely did not, fuck that job (it made me feel not human by the end, which according to my parents at the time, was NORMAL)
The editors of Emkay giving the reading of r/antiwork to Robin to see what it would take to make him rage quit, but not go full crazy. And to amuse the viewers when Robin goes on a rant. 😂
Yeah babysitting is like a teacher without need for a degree or teaching
Teaching is like babysitting³
@@tatiana4050
Best part?
If teachers actually worked on babysitter rates, their salary would clock in at over 320k USD per year
19:37 that's a nice message and all, but it's kinda lost on us when you're doing the bare minimum to keep legally operating from your yacht
I work for one of the biggest companies in the world and the fact that the company has actively told me that my rights do not matter is insane. I just want to get paid an adequate amount of money an hour but the pushback is insane.
Working at theme parks suck. Do not recommend.
The company also has a college program where the only ones that love the job are those in Entertainment.
"Competetive salary"
A race to the bottom is a competition.
fun fact: in public school, i had to comit medical fruad and fake having IBS to go to the bathroom more than once a week per class
20:55 What do they even mean by 'sunrise syndrome'??? I can't find results online other than sundown syndrome on demetia patients, and sunrise syndrome having something to do with eye issues.
Gotta love buisnesses making junk up, huh?
Sunrise syndrome essentially is a mocking way to describe other people circadian patterns, as roughly 45% people struggle to wake up before 6 AM consistently, but in their case it's offset by their abilities to work past 10 or even 11 PM with relatively fresh minds
I work with a small local business, I think it's so shitty that these huge million dollar corps cannot handle giving hardworking people proper pay and not even showing appreciation for those that do show up.
For Christmas we got 200 bucks each for our hard work for the busiest year we'd had in our store, they offered my job back when I confided in them and helped me back onto my feet. They have done so much and I can never stress enough how sad it is that they are slowly disappearing due to these soulless corporations.
They never gave me the 'we are family' speel because we already know. When I went to work at a dealership it was day and night.
Wow, this stuff pisses me off. I run a very small business, pay my employees 38.50 per hour, keep the breakroom stocked with bottled water, 5 varieties of tea, coffee and snacks (all free, just part of the job), hand pick each employee's Christmas and birthday gifts (30-50 each) based on personal knowledge of these people, and grant all time off requests without arguing, and I manage to turn a small profit. So why the hell can't corporations pay people like I do?!? Oh, and I am not getting any tax breaks - small businesses don't.
I could certainly make more profit if I cut a few of those corners, but on the other hand, my employees don't want to leave.
Can someone explains me why "work ethic" is used a sinonym of "breaking labor laws"? Shouldn't be the opposite? I don't feel like it's too ethical to ask people to not go home and die in the office...
at my work if you are scheduled 5 hours you don't get to take a lunch break. but if you work even 5:01 that day they HAVE to give you a lunch break. here is the cool thing you can clock in 3 mins early and 3 mins late out. thats around 5:01-5:06 so they need to give you a lunch break.
5:20 the minimum wage here in New Zealand is 23.15/hr what is happening over in america
In Europe, Australia and Oceania the government sides with workers in terms of working standards
In America, government sides with corporates in squeezing workers dry
Legit the Walmart I used to work at gave me this envelope with a sheet of paper inside saying thanks for my hard work and to keep it up. Never got a raise one out of the 2 years I worked there.
The thing of napping at work is something that is done when companies have workers working for incredibly extended periods of time and they get so exhausted they NEED to sleep. If you want to be able to nap at work then you better be prepared for a 10-15 hour shift daily
16:30 I mean, I can't imagine getting out of Denny's for _under_ $13... what did you buy the cheapest entrée, no drink and not tip? Of course, I never go alone, and the credit card machines give you the option of tipping 22%-30% or something? (I forget exactly, but I know that movies tell you 15% is standard, and that isn't an option) So I never get out of there for under $40-50.
20:54 if the contract i signed doesn't say open availability, then I don't have open availability, end of story.
18:11 when I worked at Walmart all my shifts were between 7 and 7 and a half hours 😅
I was “part time” working 37 hours a week.
7:43 for this one, the best case scenario would be the higher ups told the manager their employees wont be getting any bonuses or raises, but the manager still wanted to do something nice for their employees. So, they went out and bought all that.
I've had the same job for over 3 years now. I made 117% of my commission goals last year but can't get a promotion because the company had a bad year last year. They made a profit, of course, but they just didn't have a growth in profit from the previous year (a record year for profits). My manager is doing what he can to help me find career growth opportunities, but it would require taking on a different role, which sucks because I liked this job. I liked this company.
If the rules hadn't changed from this time last year, I would have been promoted, and I worked hard for those numbers. Instead, it's like the company is treating keeping my on as a burden despite clearly benefitting from my work, like they want to get rid of my position but logistically can't. It's incredibly disheartening, especially considering that a similar thing happened at my last job and I was so happy at this company because it felt like they treated me as a person instead of a burden.
15:22 Not to mention, if I’m too sick to go to work, the last thing I want to do is go to the doctor. And when was the last time anyone was able to get a dr’s appt with no notice? I’ve been having to schedule appointments up to 3 months out.
16:34 Yeah, in college I worked retail and as a server. I never tried to get anyone to buy anything the didn’t want. I don’t want that done to me, so I’m not doing it to another person. There were even times when a customer was looking for something in particular. If we didn’t have it and they weren’t interested in the closest alternative, I’d make sure a manager wasn’t around and tell them where they could find what they’re looking for.
Annoying fact: If a company advertises itself as having competitive prices, it's actually just marketing lingo for "we underpay our employees". No exceptions.
"we do not sit at the register"
So you're telling me the self checkout we removed gets to sit, but I, who took over it's job can't?
I’m working as a valet at a casino, started out with $7.25/hr with shared tips amongst everyone. I’ve been working two years as one of their best employees who always changes my hours to help cover for people. I now make $7.80/hr with shared tips after two years. God I can’t wait to graduate as a nurse. Only reason I’ve stayed this long is because they’re thankfully very flexible with my school schedule (and I do genuinely enjoy the people I work with)
But my god I cannot afford shit
as someone who knows quantum physics i do not want to be washing dishes
r/woosh
@@attilaschannel5198 this mf does not know what woooosh means
We listen to the radio during class often (bakery) and they were talking about how the availability of adult content is the reason for why birth rates are declining... I "muttered" something about the real reason why it's declining is that no one has the time or money to have kids in this economy. My teacher agreed with me because she has two kids and has to work.
Gym opener story: i would have told them to pound sand as well. I suspect one of two things happened: 1. somebody's buddy wanted and esd given the manager's job or 2. They realized it was gonna be basically impossible to replace the opener position at thew wage and hours offered so tried to undo the promotion to manager as it was in their own words easier to fill that job.
Here's the thing, if your job mistreats you and doesn't give breaks and getting written up for false accusations, you probably aren't going to want to use them as a reference you submit to new potential employers. This means you don't need to give 2 weeks if they aren't going to be contacted for a future job interview in the first place. Also, sounds like the type of place that would badmouth a former employee which they are not allowed to do legally. This may be a learning lesson for companies: don't treat your employees like poop if you are going to expect them not to quit and if they do extend the courtesy of a 2 week notice. Heck, if a company treated me this badly, I would look for a job while on the clock and see if I could get hired right after some important all hands on deck type of situation where you are needed all the more. Then no show that day and when they call you, let them know that you quit and found another job.
19:44 How much do store managers get paid question mark I think that they're the canoe But I think the yacht is the owner of the business
8:03 eyyy star wars reference
15:23 That's just weird, over here even cheapest stores ever allow their cashiers to sit during work shifts.
I was flabbergasted when in uk I went to Costco with my friend.
All cashiers were standing
"This is Dollar General, not Aldi." Your right. Aldi is a much BETTER store. In practically every way!
I'm glad I live in a country with worker protections. America sounds like a dystopian worker hell.
I hate job ads now I see ads saying “£8-£20” I’m 17 I know I’m getting £10 at best when I’ll work harder I’m more dedicated than most others I get a warning for being 10 Minuets late but my boss oversleeps so much I can’t work for the day miss an entire days wage and yet gets nothing. I have an hours break I’m not paid for and at the moment I’m working a sous chef roll getting £7.50/h there’s an apparent “lack of chefs” but nobody wants to hire someone with limited experience and train them or if they do that they pay you pocket change and expect you to be as good as tony the 45 year old who’s been in the industry since he was 14 in less than a month. The state of work today is getting pathetic and honestly it’s only a matter of time before we revolt then the governments will realise exactly who tf is in charge. A machine can still work without a case on it but remove just one cog one bolt one tiny wire and it’s useless remember that
15:02 I remember when I was in elementary school that I really wanted to get the attendance award. At that point, I had been a really big award kid. Every year I got multiple, I had excellent grades, etc, but my friend had gotten an attendance award one year. I decided to try hard to get it, and went through like 80% of the year sometimes sick as a dog or otherwise and suddenly caught a mild strain of the flu, and they refused to allow me in school.
There really should be less stigmatism for a kid being sick. Kids shouldn't have to go to school vomiting for a crappy paper award that is ultimately meaningless. And the awards shouldn't be some big deal - rather, I don't think they should exist. It's an unhealthy expectation because I remember kids who were really sick, gave me Scarlet Fever sick, who were aiming for those awards. It actively threatens students health. At the very least, excused absences should be as they're named - excused - because as you said life happens. Can't control every little detail of our lives.
17:35 12 bucks a month, although scummy, is cheaper than paying for products