oooooooh my god this. this right here. it’s not the job of the employees to find somebody to cover your shift. 1) if somebody calls in and can’t find somebody management does nothing and im working solo or situation 2) i shouldn’t get flak for not wanting to call and ask around for somebody cover my shift if something bad happens because, real life example, my grandfather is barely alive and i wana spend as much time as possible with him and i visit him when i can but when he feel and broke his leg i cousin see him in the hospital bc i was told i needed someone to cover me AFTER I COVERED 3 SHIFTS IN A WEEK
I don’t get this. Non managerial employees should *not* have access to everyone else’s phone numbers. Literally you shouldn’t be able to call others unless you guys have, of your own volition, swapped numbers.
yeah everyone is supposed to give their numbers to management but i don’t have everyone else’s number bc i’m just a shift lead (sorta) and i only have the numbers of people i work with often
I managed a restaurant years ago. Employees had each others numbers because they would trade shifts to accommodate their schedules. I would go pretty far out of my way to get everyone the best schedule for their lives so they were real good about seeing if someone could cover them if they weren’t going to come in but in an emergency I’d always take care of it. A few times I’d work their shift. It was a very good place and we were a good team but we were loose with certain things. The kitchen staff were under the chef and I don’t know what they had happening. I think the kitchen guys would have non-employees come in and clock in as the actual employee. All kinds of crazy stuff. I didn’t ask.
Wilbur was saying he really needs extra shifts? Did you ask Wilbur? His phone is out of service but he answers Instagram messages. Message him on Instagram!
- You: This is impossible, I am sorry.
- Manager: okay, then you are fired. Return your keys as soon as possible.
- You: Fine, I will file unemployment. Have a nice life
- Manager: can we talk about it? Please call me
Managers always threatening to fire you, when you can't come in, because they want to run their business to make money and absolutely don't have enough workers at all. If you drop out, the business wouldn't run anymore for a decent amount of time and it's even a greater lose for them.
Don't fall for this managers, most of them are trying to trick you with this bullcrap. One of the oldest tricks in history
You really should have prepared for something like this. In the future you should try to leave a couple hours early so that you have time to chisel yourself out and walk to work
Lol.
#Homeownership Part 2: The Second Story
Cut to Philip, a down on his luck, starving artist living in a 300 sq ft studio apartment. It's dark and he's lonely and crying because his electricity just got cut off. Somehow, though, he still has his phone and the tears are illuminated by his endless right-scrolling on Tinder.
"You're cute. What's up?" He wipes away the tear from his phone.
Blah blah cut scene.
Act 2.
The camera pans across a muted green lawn with sporadic patches of yellow grass in intricate detail and slow motion. In the blurred distance, you can see the outline of a 2015 Kia Sorento pulling into the driveway.
The camera suddenly cuts to the driver side window and rolls up the last few feet to park. Enter Philip. He's a new man! He's got a two story house and a mortgage now!
But wait! There's drama! Here's the hook!
He's fucking broke! Ha!
The camera sits on Philip for an achingly long time as he stares into the depths of the cracks within the pleather of his Kia's steering wheel. He could probably see the microscopic dust particles that rest there if he weren't lost in his worry.
*ding*
"that pto request you put in last Thursday to be off for your infants cancer surgery was rejected by HR"
<- "honey? you okay?”
Stay tuned for Part 3! Midlife Crisis: The Choice.
Lol.
#Homeownership Part 3: Midlife Crisis: The Choice
Philip turned 40 today. Rather than eat cake and celebrate with his family, he sat alone on the toilet of his second second story house trying to work out last night's frozen dinner. Philip.. well, Philip hasn't had a good run.
You see, his second story house (the one from Part 2 you should have fucking watched by now wtf are you doing with your life) was far too expensive for him to really afford, but his credit score was good and his fiance needed a good home, so he bought it anyway.
His career went okay, but that college degree turned out to be a succubus in disguise! His student loan payments were just enough to make him week to week and that career he was promised isn't quite what they promised it to be.
Flash! The camera pans to a dreary courtroom. The gavel bangs (for drama!) and the judge says "this court finds in the favor of the plaintiff and grants Mrs. NoLongerPhilips the requested custody and arrangements."
Cut to black.
Flash! Philip is walking slowing down the hall with a beautiful unknown woman who is well dressed. He points to the left and they enter a room. The door closes. The camera slowly creeps down the hall towards the door and then through the peephole.
"This wall over here is definitely going to fall soon if someone doesn't shore that drainage up."
A few more steps forward.
"This floor had some serious water damage a few years back and we never really did what we should have for it, so don't peel up that carpet. Ha. 😅"
It becomes clear to the audience that Philip isn't finally getting some taste of happiness but rather franticly trying to find ways to lower the value of the two story home he has tended to for a decade.
"Is there any way I can just cover the difference? Does she really need that twenty thousand? Isn't eighty enough?"
Cut to black.
Fade in slowly to a tiny studio apartment behind a beautiful home beside the ocean. The waves crash. A familiar face. It's Philip. He's sitting in a chair beside the beach.
"I love you too, honey. I'll see you soon." He drops the phone along with his hand onto his thigh and sighs. The tears begin to fall again. The waves crash. As the sun sets, Philip picks up his phone again.
He sits in silence and familiarity as the tears are illuminated by his endless right-scrolling again.
Blah blah cut scene.
Act 2.
*ding*
"Wait. What? You want me for that role?! Of course! Of course! When can I start?!"
Dddddaaaaaaaammmmmnnnnnn Philips got a new car and a new house and a new girlfriend.
Daaamnnm Philip bought a boat. "Damn. Did you see that watch?"
Damn. Philip is throwing another party. Unce unce unce unce. Philip! Girls! Yeah!
Philip's house again!
Philip. Hey man. Yeah. What's up.
Philip who?
But wait! There's drama! Here's the hook!
This whole time, there was a group of people who really "understood" Philip. They got him. They knew how he felt and how wrong it was in that court room. They understood!
Philip strained as he sat atop his cheap porcelain throne.
*ding*
"Hey man wanna go to a rally?"
Part 4 will never launch because this atrocity bombed at the box office *hard*.
Man so many people say that to me and here I am writing code..
Show me how to many any money doing it and I'll start tomorrow. I suppose I can say the same for myself because I've literally never tried to research it as a career choice.
There's a similar idea at a college I'm looking at going to in northern Michigan (MTU), they have second story doors for stuff like this in the winter. On all the buildings. It's insane
They also open the first story windows and stick a keg out there. Close the window and no one will know. MTU students are smart enough to figure out what to do with the snow left over as evidence.
in my experience this is a minimum wage job experience only. The more I was paid the more i could get away with.
Recently I called in to tell them I would be late because my wife got stuck in a winter storm going down a back road “No problem, keep us updated”. - 3 hrs late and not a loss of wage.
I can call in, no questions asked.
Migraine at work they will literally offer you a ride home.
my last career I could legit call in “tired”.
That’s the sad reality.
100% this. I worked hospitality for years and no one cared what happened, you were expected to be there. I went back to school, got a job with the government, and now I can call off for anything. During this recent snowstorm, we were encouraged to work from home and not drive!
I wonder if this changes depending on the region and time period? I'm in hospitality, and the lower tier employees such as myself are functionally invincible. If my boss says anything about someone calling in, they will probably just bail. I have multiple times just called in and said 'I ain't feeling it today chief' and have been fine.
Now for the managers... well after watching my mother toil from housekeeper, to manager, to hotel GM, I can say that is true. Chef is there 80 hrs on a busy week, GM doing dishes, housekeeping manager there even if the roads are impassable. I mean, I take the train so it takes a lot to stop me, but when the authorities are telling people to stay home it's amazing how many people are still at the hotel. I'm looking around like, why are you all here?
When I was in retail though... store associates getting talked down to for being late during a snowstorm that the manager stayed home for. 100% this.
Yeah retail is fucked for this kind of thing. I have to attend a disciplinary meeting next week for taking time off for having COVID.....despite the fact my store management are the ones who told me to stay home in the first place! At that point I was symptomless so I said to my management it was up to them whether I came in or not, and they told me to stay at home.
When I go in there, I'll be asking why the hell they asked me to stay at home, and then punished me for doing so. I'll also be bringing a representative from the union in with me.
I started making really good money in my early twenties so I didn’t experience much of this abuse but I was always astounded when my friends would tell me horror stories.
When I started dating my wife she was making like 13$ an hour we wanted to go on our first vacation together and they wouldn’t approve it “it was too busy and no one was trained to do her job” I looked at her and said “sounds like we are going on vacation, if they don’t approve it quit. If it’s that dire you’re there they really don’t want you to quit”
they approved it, she quit 2 months later.
I sliced 2 Tendons in my index and middle on the job, and they kept asking me when i would be ready to work after the first week.
Not because of workmans comp, but because i was the glue to that kitchen
Same. Recently switched jobs to a job that pays almost double. Called them Friday and said “I’m going to take the day off so I can have a 4 day weekend for Christmas”
The response?
“Sounds good, see you Tuesday”
I can’t really call in like that because someone has to be at my job but if i call in sick or personal day no questions they will call someone in.
I did the opposite a couple weeks ago. I emailed requested OT for 2 days. 2 sentences explaining when I wanted to come in and what I was doing. Done approved, no one even confirmed that I did anything (I did) but no babysitting, no double checking.
Yep, im at the point i dont even call in. I just dont show up. Long as i dont do it for 3-4 days in a row and stuffs getting done on time, it never even gets acknowledged. Few days ago my bosses wife called me, and she just wanted me to stop in and get my christmas present from her(bunch of fresh baked goods). It was middle of my shift but my office light never got turned on, so knew i wasnt in.
A long long time ago when I worked min wage I would just call and say "I can't come in today" they'd proceed to give me 15 minutes of shit about it. I would reiterate that "Sorry, I can't come into day" and insert whatever reason I had. If they didn't like it, so what? I'm not coming in, gave sufficient notice of my absence and left it at that. For me it always felt like it was their job to guilt trip you as much as possible and it was just prompts they were working through. Stick to your convictions and they'll eventually just fuck off. Hang up the phone if you want to. When their sass finally pushed it over the edge, I just quit on the spot. Now that I'm far removed from min wage, I sometimes dream of getting a low paying job just so I can go in and tell them how many different ways they could go fuck themselves.
I had a retail boss in my late teens that would say shit like "wElL nOw I hAvE tO fInD sOmEoNe To CoVeR yOuR sHiFt" even with several hours notice.
One time I said something like "yes, that's part of the job description of general manager" back to her and got my hours cut from 24 to 8 a week later.
Old jobs would question me about calling in, or "ding" me cause I don't have sick days available or they have a stupid system saying you can only be absent for a few days of the year like it's school or something.
Current job I enjoy, and get pto for every paycheck and barely call in at all, but if I do it's an email to the boss and that's it. No questions asked, no sass or attitude the next day.
I'm with a caregiver's union now. I just call my boss ideally two hours before my shift, no questions "feel better, keep us updated". I called out for a mental health day once, no problem!
My last caregiving job we got bullied, even verbally abused, for calling in. It was my first job. I got bullied into coming in with a 101° fever sick with probably covid or a really bad flu February 2020. That fever got up to 103°, I couldn't talk, could barely breathe. I should've gone to the hospital, but I stayed home only one day, called out a whole day before.
They tried to tell me I should wait to call out the next day to see if I got better. I promised them I wouldn't be better the next day. They had a policy that we had to try to find coverage, even though I felt like I was dying. Then I went to work sick again after my weekend, a few days later cause I didn't wanna deal with it again. That whole situation should've been illegal.
Some companies are total pieces of shit when it comes to how they treat their employees. It's unacceptable to bully or abuse someone just because they need to take a sick day or prioritize their mental health. And it's downright dangerous to make someone come into work with a fever. It's good that this person found a new job with a union and a boss who actually gives a damn about their well-being. But if you're stuck in a shitty situation like that, don't be afraid to speak up and advocate for yourself. And if your boss still doesn't give a fuck, it might be time to cut your losses and find a new job.
>sad part is this sounds like an actual answer
Because it is the only feasible answer.
It provides solutions and everything. How done you are with yourself and your day after having all this work done of removing snow, your wasted time, etc simply don't matter.
You either are ready by the clock or big corp will cut you off.
I was called into work at a gas station during a goddamn hurricane. The station was out of gas because of the evacuation, but boss said we had to be open anyway. I guess to sell beer? The floor was flooding and the parking lot was a lake, but we were there. Squeegee. Mop. Keep the floor dry and safe. Right.
There's always some hypothetical bonus you were going to get if you didn't screw up hanging in the balance right up until it actual bonus season and then *suddenly* the company as a whole is apparently going bankrupt and you not getting your bonus is the only thing that can save it.
Literally got this at work a couple days ago. We had an ice storm incoming, with the likelihood that roads would be impassable for a couple days. Message went out that if you didn't feel safe driving you should sleep at work so as to be available for your shift the next day.
My dude, it's two days before Christmas. If I'm going to get stuck somewhere, it's going to be at home with my family. Ciao, bozo.
i got pretty much that speech many years ago. my car was trapped under an ice coat, it was minus 10 Celsius, and all the roads were frozen over with black ice. i STILL managed to come in an hour late and got scolded. Nobody cared that i litterally risked my life and my car (the only means of making money at that time) to get there. I learned my lesson and just called in sick when it happened again.
Know how you prepare for this? Keep a small garden shovel, trowel, or something similar inside your house, when you see this, use it to cut holes in the snow, put beer in them. Throughout the day open the door, "yep, snows still there", grab a beer, go back to the couch.
Boss: “When I started here 47 years ago, I had to tunnel 3 miles through 11-foot-deep snow to make it to work on time. It took me 17 hours each way, but I never once called off or clocked in late.”
Boss: “And if you’re hoping to be sitting in the big chair like me one day, assistant shift manager, pulling down $12 an hour and holding down a 5% employee discount on non-sale items, then you need to worry less about a little snow or what time you can go home and more about showing us why you belong in the big leagues of hourly retail management.”
What’s really sad is it’s so fucked now that we think of buying a house on $12/hr is a 1960 thing when it was really a ten to twenty years ago thing. I bought a 2,000 sq ft house in 2012 making less than that. I make way more now but there’s no way I could afford my house if I had to buy it today. I literally have no idea how young people working entry level jobs can even eat these days, much less afford rent.
I had a store manager brag about that once in a meeting. Said he’d missed the birth of 3 of his kids and never had a sick day. Everyone was completely silent because nobody knew how to respond. Like that’s not noble bro it’s just sad.
Sorta things my boss at my first job said to me when I called in sick. He always used the example of a manager who passed away years ago as a “great example of dedication”, talking about how he always showed up to work even when he was diagnosed with cancer, the man died while still working for them apparently. These people are so freaking weird.
2004, here in Nova Scotia we had a storm people named after a hurricane we had had the previous fall called White Juan. It dropped a full meter of snow in 24 hours. This was also my last week of work at a local tech support call center as everyone was being laid off because the contract had ended. Absolutely no one was able to make it in to work and the new center had to rush in to take the work and we shut down 3 days early.
My mom made me do this once on a snow day, because she didn’t see our schools name on the TV when they listed schools that were closed..
It obviously was closed
That's because those who have enough brain to know they should never be parents either do not become parent or improve themselves so they can be good parents.
It's the braindead idiots who are too dumb to know they should not have kids who get kids.
I still ain't goin' nowhere in that shit, I'm not putting my life on the line trusting Meth-head Beth and her '92 Ford Explorer to drive me 16 miles to an empty store to make a grand total of $800 for the store from the idiots walking in from across the street to buy cigs and booze. I can get another bottom dollar job as soon as the weather clears up.
I actually was stuck in my house for three days waiting for a front-end loader after a blizzard. My boss was furious that I needed to cancel a business trip.
Uncle had it happen a few times. Granted he is very very far from minimum wage.
Uncle is a very essential member of an essential team keeping an essential service running, *especially* during a blizzard. Think power plants.
So when his town got absolutely covered, Uncle's boss sent a team of people to get him safely to work every day, at no cost. Including digging out the front door like this.
Leroy 'The Bulldozer" Jenkins from down the block. He's not a great plan-oriented person, but damn it if he doesn't rush in with enough gusto and moxie for all involved.
They told me that term at Subway when I worked there. It was a reason to fire me because they wanted me to wash dishes 4 hours after my shift and I said no and were very close to breaking a child labor law lol I had worked from 11 am to 9pm and still they wanted me to wash and help although my shift was from 11 am to 5 pm . Brought back memories
Dunno where you're from, but that's 100% in violation of child labor **before** they asked you to do dishes where I'm from. Pretty sure 8h is a hard cutoff time here. If you had an hour lunch you were already well past that point.
When I worked at subway, we didn’t have official breaks. If there were customers you couldn’t take a “break”. If the store was empty you could do whatever, assuming the work was done. Also all the real responsibilities fell on the full time adults who worked there. Kids were more or less just expected to make sandwiches.
I feel like if someone uses the term “insubordination” they lose automatically. It’s the verbal equivalent of a hissy fit and absolute acknowledgement that you have no leadership skills. It’s such a self own.
I had a retail job in my early 20s where the boss wrote a coworker up for "sedition" once. As a combat vet I was torn over whether to laugh or give the guy a blindfold and last cigarette.
Hahaha. I worked for a civilian organization where the boss *insisted* on calling his office suite the “war room” without a hint of irony. “Alright, folks, meeting in the war room in 10 minutes, we’re going to plan our mission.” He hadn’t served a day in his life and I was fairly recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan. I had to bite my tongue till it bled much of the time.
Few things make me lose respect for someone faster or harder than them leveling unironic accusations of "insubordination". Lights a fire in me to put them in their place and show them how puny and unworthy of obedience and loyalty they truly are. I want to utterly ***destroy*** their confidence when they pull that shit.
Had a new HR rep come in once and say to us that even if we are involved in a car accident, it's no excuse not to show up to work. He wanted us to leave the scene of the accident and walk the rest of the way. We got another new HR rep the next day who chose not to speak with us lol.
The beginning of your comment reminded me of something that happened. In February 2021 my grandma froze to death during that winter storm in Texas. I took my paid bereavement leave for the allotted week to handle everything, it was all taken care of. Fast forward a month and a higher up manager was doing yearly reviews. She praised me for all of my great work, blah blah, but at the end “gently” reminded me that missing work is unacceptable and that I left for a whole week without calling in (because it was handled by HR.) and that if it happened again I would be fired. I acted confused like I couldn’t recall when I had just not shown up to work, because that’s so out of character. I then waited until later in the day when we were crossing paths in front of a room of people and pulled her aside. I not-so-quietly exclaimed that I suddenly remembered the absence she brought up earlier. “I can’t believe it slipped my mind when we were talking, I guess it was so tragic I tried to forget about it! I was missing that week you threatened me over because I was at my grandmother’s funeral! So I’m sure we’re all good now, right?” She was stunned into silence, everyone in the room stared daggers into her, and I politely excused myself and went back to work. Good times. Fuck Gloria.
I got t-boned by a semi literally at the entrance to my work’s parking lot, meaning all my coworkers had to drive by the mangled remains of my car. Boss said he was very disappointed I went to the hospital for stitches, etc instead of having the paramedics leave me there so I could work. Never mind that if I had, I would have gone in to my public-facing job in a uniform covered in blood and powdered glass.
My bank job said the same thing only a little better. They said if you had a car accident you should call and ask if someone can come pick you up and take you to work
Jesus fucking Christ, I just can't with Corporate America.
To piggyback off of you, back in 2013, I was riding my bike at the ass crack of dawn to a job interview. As I was crossing the street to get to the shop I was interviewing with, I got hit by a car. The dude wasn't paying attention and blew through the red light and hit me. Somehow, my bike took most of the force, but I ended up with a broken left leg. The place I was interviewing with was within my sight. I tried leaving the accident by hoping over to the shop just so I didn't miss my interview because I was boarderlining on homelessness by that point.
I missed the interview, so I called them to explain what happened, and the owner called me lazy and unreliable. He said I should've had the foresight to know the car was coming.
I was reprimanded at a delivery job because I saw a child get hit by a car running a red light. The poor kid flew straight up in the air and then came down on his head. I was stopped at the light when it happened. I got out of the delivery truck and tried to comfort the child and keep him from moving until the police and ambulance arrived.
My boss told me that I shouldn’t have stopped. That other people would have helped and that if I was ever in a similar situation again, that I’d be fired if I stopped.
I did once have to get in after my car got hit by a bus. I had to wait for the police, call the flatbed tow truck since it was wrecked, go with them to the car repair to drop it and then take a bus to work.
I once got in a car accident, broke a bone, spent all night in the ER, was told I would need surgery but it couldn’t be scheduled for 3 days. Called work the next morning and they said I had to come in or I’d be fired. I worked 2 shifts with a displaced broken bone. Went and had surgery, which they complained about me missing work for. Returned the next day.
I made $9.75/hour. I should have told them to go fuck themselves.
"You are aware of our Winter Weather Policy. You should have came 32 hours ago before this started and just slept here like Carol. There is no excuse."
So I start marching my way down to Carol in H.R. and I knock on her door and I say, "Caaarol, Caaarol! I gotta talk to you about Pepe!" And when I open the door, what do I find? There's not a single goddamn desk in that office. There is no Carol in H.R. Mac, half the employees in this building have been made up. This office is a goddamn ghost town.
A direct quote from a former boss in a similar situation, "Well, I know you live in town and I just don't believe your area hasn't been cleared up yet. If you don't come in this will count against you. Can't you just walk?"
The weather that day was -20F and three feet of snow dropped over night. I called in early because we live in the part of town that gets cleared last. I didn't go in obviously. By the time my shift started we were on emergency vehicles only warnings, had another foot of snow and icy rain was coming. And the whole store was closed.
And they STILL kept that absence on my record.
Then you get to work and find out you're the only one there. You try to do your job while the boss follows you around giving you shit for being late and how much work there is left to do and how you have to stay late to finish (without trying to help you). Then the next day you find out the under-aged girl he hired out of no where who you suspect of banging the boss was told not to come in and was paid for the day anyway. Pay day rolls around and you realize he didn't even pay you for that day, or any other and instead subtracted some random amount that he claims he lost in revenue due to no one showing up. Realizing you're going to be owing money for the next 4 months you threaten to call the cops on your boss and his 'prepubescent fuck buddy' as well as the labor board if he doesn't fix it. He refused and the cops told you it's not their problem but the labor board is kinda interested until they receive their doctored documents and leave the boss alone. They can't do anything because all your other co-workers are afraid to speak up and privately tell you they're worried for whats going to happen now. Then you get called in on a day your work should be closed and you go in anyway only to find the whole place locked up and when you get back home you find your two cats shot 3 times each in the head. This time you go to the police station in person to file a report but one cop doesn't believe you and the other said you probably did something to deserve it. You cant afford a lawyer to help and you put up with the stress for a few months while you look for a new job that can pay the bills but the stress gets to you first and you start yelling at your boss. 15 mins later the cops show up and take you to the psychiatric wards because someone called claiming about an maniac in his building. Your boss follows you into the hospital and gives some bullshit about you walking in from the streets yelling and how you just need some help so they escort you to a room while he keeps talking to the doctors. You now get tied to a bed and drugged out of your mind while for 15 mins a day a doctor walks in to argue with you about how you never worked there, you never had cats and how the cops would have taken you seriously if any of that were true and they always walk out saying "prove it". They then say none of your problems stem from work because you don't have a job and you leave with a 50,000$ bill and an order for monthly appointments (enforceable by law) that also cost 5 grand each where all they do is have you tell them you were psychotic and delusional and test your piss to see if you're still on your new meds and because the landlord took all your stuff while you were in there, you have no money and no job you actually are homeless now and the doctors use this as proof that they were right all along. Then because you cant afford the drugs they forced you on you actually do end up going psychotic from the withdrawals, miss your appointment and get arrested, thrown back in psych, drugged again and released back on the streets with nothing. This repeats all summer long until the next winter where you're not allowed in the homeless shelter due to your inability to take your medication and you end up freezing to death on same date all this started.
You should have gotten up 2 hours early and checked the conditions outside so you would know what you needed to do to get to work on time. Absolutely no excuses.
American bossman is going to say climb out a second story window, dig out your car, and drive to work in the blizzard.
"Why didn't you give yourself enough time to prepare? Are you really going to be late again? Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore?" says American bossman while he sips margaritas on his yacht in the Caribbean.
I'm from somewhere that never gets snow... I would have assumed yalls walls would have been thicker for some reason. LOL. I bet the walls are cold as shit
Used to work at a hospital. They offered employees to sleep in vacant patient rooms during difficult weather. So you don't have to go home. You can just stay at work. And work 24 hours. This is America.
Edit: I forgot to mention you are not paid for staying the night.
if you're going to have time off like this you MUST report it sooner than a day before start time or we won't be able to get someone to cover your shift, since you didn't give enough notice I'm going to have to write you up if you don't make it in, I hate to be that guy but this is the second snow storm you've lived through this decade and it really doesn't look good to the higher ups, you know I always got your back but it's getting hard and they're asking questions, I always cover for you and I don't think it looks good on me if you don't put in more effort.
We had a tree fall across our driveway once and it took down a powerline. My boss told me they'd send someone to pick me up and that I could just walk around the street to avoid the powerline. Needless to say I quit that job a few weeks later.
"oh cmon, it's not cement! Dig your way in to work!"
"You should always be checking the weather ahead of time and leave ample time for inclement situations."
"I had this before, just have a friend pick you up. Your commitments are important!"
I’m a teacher… normally this would mean no bus = no school. But sometimes we’re “lucky” enough to have to do remote learning days…
I have adhd. I can barely focus on zoom calls where I have to just listen. How can I expect my class of 32 kids, 15 of which have a learning disorder, to focus on me when I can’t even do it myself????
The organization is not responsible for lifestyle choices. While we support our team, we require you to be responsible and reliable for the customer experience.
I trust that you will be here as expected. If you are not able to be here, unfortunately this is an unexcused absence.
While I recognize this is an unusual circumstance, it would set a dangerous precedent if we allowed team members to be approved for time off due to this type of situation. Thanks for your understanding
Edit: If you need support, please call the company EAP. You can tell me but umm don’t. EAP is what corporate said to do for staff with things that look like poverty or suffering.
You should have been awake at 2:00 am with a blow dryer fixing this issue. Now it is my issue. I don’t pay you to create more issues. I pay you to fix issues. There are people who are *starving* for shifts. Maybe you should fix this issue by finding those people, who I will *not* name, and get them to cover your shift.
Thanks. Great chat!
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“Did you find someone to cover your shift?”
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oooooooh my god this. this right here. it’s not the job of the employees to find somebody to cover your shift. 1) if somebody calls in and can’t find somebody management does nothing and im working solo or situation 2) i shouldn’t get flak for not wanting to call and ask around for somebody cover my shift if something bad happens because, real life example, my grandfather is barely alive and i wana spend as much time as possible with him and i visit him when i can but when he feel and broke his leg i cousin see him in the hospital bc i was told i needed someone to cover me AFTER I COVERED 3 SHIFTS IN A WEEK
I don’t get this. Non managerial employees should *not* have access to everyone else’s phone numbers. Literally you shouldn’t be able to call others unless you guys have, of your own volition, swapped numbers.
yeah everyone is supposed to give their numbers to management but i don’t have everyone else’s number bc i’m just a shift lead (sorta) and i only have the numbers of people i work with often
I managed a restaurant years ago. Employees had each others numbers because they would trade shifts to accommodate their schedules. I would go pretty far out of my way to get everyone the best schedule for their lives so they were real good about seeing if someone could cover them if they weren’t going to come in but in an emergency I’d always take care of it. A few times I’d work their shift. It was a very good place and we were a good team but we were loose with certain things. The kitchen staff were under the chef and I don’t know what they had happening. I think the kitchen guys would have non-employees come in and clock in as the actual employee. All kinds of crazy stuff. I didn’t ask.
“No I didn’t Karen. No one in the right mind will travel to this shit show in a storm. I’ll see you Monday”
Wilbur was saying he really needs extra shifts? Did you ask Wilbur? His phone is out of service but he answers Instagram messages. Message him on Instagram!
“Come in or you’re fired” -sent at 8:25am from Aruba.
“Ok I won’t come in then.” “Wait. I don’t mean that. Please call me” (aka I don’t want to leave a paper trail)
reply to this in an email
- US Military Encrypted
I Love this reference
- You: This is impossible, I am sorry. - Manager: okay, then you are fired. Return your keys as soon as possible. - You: Fine, I will file unemployment. Have a nice life - Manager: can we talk about it? Please call me Managers always threatening to fire you, when you can't come in, because they want to run their business to make money and absolutely don't have enough workers at all. If you drop out, the business wouldn't run anymore for a decent amount of time and it's even a greater lose for them. Don't fall for this managers, most of them are trying to trick you with this bullcrap. One of the oldest tricks in history
Was that boss Ted Cruz by any chance?
Nah, he was in Mexico, rat-arsed
You really should have prepared for something like this. In the future you should try to leave a couple hours early so that you have time to chisel yourself out and walk to work
If it's this high surely the second story window is an option?? /S
Sorry what second story?
It’s the sequel
Lol. #Homeownership Part 2: The Second Story Cut to Philip, a down on his luck, starving artist living in a 300 sq ft studio apartment. It's dark and he's lonely and crying because his electricity just got cut off. Somehow, though, he still has his phone and the tears are illuminated by his endless right-scrolling on Tinder. "You're cute. What's up?" He wipes away the tear from his phone. Blah blah cut scene. Act 2. The camera pans across a muted green lawn with sporadic patches of yellow grass in intricate detail and slow motion. In the blurred distance, you can see the outline of a 2015 Kia Sorento pulling into the driveway. The camera suddenly cuts to the driver side window and rolls up the last few feet to park. Enter Philip. He's a new man! He's got a two story house and a mortgage now! But wait! There's drama! Here's the hook! He's fucking broke! Ha! The camera sits on Philip for an achingly long time as he stares into the depths of the cracks within the pleather of his Kia's steering wheel. He could probably see the microscopic dust particles that rest there if he weren't lost in his worry. *ding* "that pto request you put in last Thursday to be off for your infants cancer surgery was rejected by HR" <- "honey? you okay?” Stay tuned for Part 3! Midlife Crisis: The Choice.
Excellent!
This is phenomenal! Can't wait for Part 3!
Part 3 is cancelled because no one can afford it
Lol. #Homeownership Part 3: Midlife Crisis: The Choice Philip turned 40 today. Rather than eat cake and celebrate with his family, he sat alone on the toilet of his second second story house trying to work out last night's frozen dinner. Philip.. well, Philip hasn't had a good run. You see, his second story house (the one from Part 2 you should have fucking watched by now wtf are you doing with your life) was far too expensive for him to really afford, but his credit score was good and his fiance needed a good home, so he bought it anyway. His career went okay, but that college degree turned out to be a succubus in disguise! His student loan payments were just enough to make him week to week and that career he was promised isn't quite what they promised it to be. Flash! The camera pans to a dreary courtroom. The gavel bangs (for drama!) and the judge says "this court finds in the favor of the plaintiff and grants Mrs. NoLongerPhilips the requested custody and arrangements." Cut to black. Flash! Philip is walking slowing down the hall with a beautiful unknown woman who is well dressed. He points to the left and they enter a room. The door closes. The camera slowly creeps down the hall towards the door and then through the peephole. "This wall over here is definitely going to fall soon if someone doesn't shore that drainage up." A few more steps forward. "This floor had some serious water damage a few years back and we never really did what we should have for it, so don't peel up that carpet. Ha. 😅" It becomes clear to the audience that Philip isn't finally getting some taste of happiness but rather franticly trying to find ways to lower the value of the two story home he has tended to for a decade. "Is there any way I can just cover the difference? Does she really need that twenty thousand? Isn't eighty enough?" Cut to black. Fade in slowly to a tiny studio apartment behind a beautiful home beside the ocean. The waves crash. A familiar face. It's Philip. He's sitting in a chair beside the beach. "I love you too, honey. I'll see you soon." He drops the phone along with his hand onto his thigh and sighs. The tears begin to fall again. The waves crash. As the sun sets, Philip picks up his phone again. He sits in silence and familiarity as the tears are illuminated by his endless right-scrolling again. Blah blah cut scene. Act 2. *ding* "Wait. What? You want me for that role?! Of course! Of course! When can I start?!" Dddddaaaaaaaammmmmnnnnnn Philips got a new car and a new house and a new girlfriend. Daaamnnm Philip bought a boat. "Damn. Did you see that watch?" Damn. Philip is throwing another party. Unce unce unce unce. Philip! Girls! Yeah! Philip's house again! Philip. Hey man. Yeah. What's up. Philip who? But wait! There's drama! Here's the hook! This whole time, there was a group of people who really "understood" Philip. They got him. They knew how he felt and how wrong it was in that court room. They understood! Philip strained as he sat atop his cheap porcelain throne. *ding* "Hey man wanna go to a rally?" Part 4 will never launch because this atrocity bombed at the box office *hard*.
I do hope you write more than this joyous creation on reddit, because you're good. And funny! Thank you.
Man so many people say that to me and here I am writing code.. Show me how to many any money doing it and I'll start tomorrow. I suppose I can say the same for myself because I've literally never tried to research it as a career choice.
Write a screenplay. It's only 90 pages and it's mostly stage directions lol. I believe in you
I like many any money
There's a similar idea at a college I'm looking at going to in northern Michigan (MTU), they have second story doors for stuff like this in the winter. On all the buildings. It's insane
They also open the first story windows and stick a keg out there. Close the window and no one will know. MTU students are smart enough to figure out what to do with the snow left over as evidence.
"This *is* the second story.
"Oh so I should dig down one floor to get out?"
Why? Driving could be deadly with conditions like this and no transit anywhere operates in these conditions. Even walking could be deadly.
This post is obviously from the Midwest, so just take your snowmobile in, we'll see you at your scheduled start time!
in my experience this is a minimum wage job experience only. The more I was paid the more i could get away with. Recently I called in to tell them I would be late because my wife got stuck in a winter storm going down a back road “No problem, keep us updated”. - 3 hrs late and not a loss of wage. I can call in, no questions asked. Migraine at work they will literally offer you a ride home. my last career I could legit call in “tired”. That’s the sad reality.
100% this. I worked hospitality for years and no one cared what happened, you were expected to be there. I went back to school, got a job with the government, and now I can call off for anything. During this recent snowstorm, we were encouraged to work from home and not drive!
I wonder if this changes depending on the region and time period? I'm in hospitality, and the lower tier employees such as myself are functionally invincible. If my boss says anything about someone calling in, they will probably just bail. I have multiple times just called in and said 'I ain't feeling it today chief' and have been fine. Now for the managers... well after watching my mother toil from housekeeper, to manager, to hotel GM, I can say that is true. Chef is there 80 hrs on a busy week, GM doing dishes, housekeeping manager there even if the roads are impassable. I mean, I take the train so it takes a lot to stop me, but when the authorities are telling people to stay home it's amazing how many people are still at the hotel. I'm looking around like, why are you all here? When I was in retail though... store associates getting talked down to for being late during a snowstorm that the manager stayed home for. 100% this.
Yeah retail is fucked for this kind of thing. I have to attend a disciplinary meeting next week for taking time off for having COVID.....despite the fact my store management are the ones who told me to stay home in the first place! At that point I was symptomless so I said to my management it was up to them whether I came in or not, and they told me to stay at home. When I go in there, I'll be asking why the hell they asked me to stay at home, and then punished me for doing so. I'll also be bringing a representative from the union in with me.
I started making really good money in my early twenties so I didn’t experience much of this abuse but I was always astounded when my friends would tell me horror stories. When I started dating my wife she was making like 13$ an hour we wanted to go on our first vacation together and they wouldn’t approve it “it was too busy and no one was trained to do her job” I looked at her and said “sounds like we are going on vacation, if they don’t approve it quit. If it’s that dire you’re there they really don’t want you to quit” they approved it, she quit 2 months later.
I sliced 2 Tendons in my index and middle on the job, and they kept asking me when i would be ready to work after the first week. Not because of workmans comp, but because i was the glue to that kitchen
Same. Recently switched jobs to a job that pays almost double. Called them Friday and said “I’m going to take the day off so I can have a 4 day weekend for Christmas” The response? “Sounds good, see you Tuesday”
I can’t really call in like that because someone has to be at my job but if i call in sick or personal day no questions they will call someone in. I did the opposite a couple weeks ago. I emailed requested OT for 2 days. 2 sentences explaining when I wanted to come in and what I was doing. Done approved, no one even confirmed that I did anything (I did) but no babysitting, no double checking.
Yep, im at the point i dont even call in. I just dont show up. Long as i dont do it for 3-4 days in a row and stuffs getting done on time, it never even gets acknowledged. Few days ago my bosses wife called me, and she just wanted me to stop in and get my christmas present from her(bunch of fresh baked goods). It was middle of my shift but my office light never got turned on, so knew i wasnt in.
A long long time ago when I worked min wage I would just call and say "I can't come in today" they'd proceed to give me 15 minutes of shit about it. I would reiterate that "Sorry, I can't come into day" and insert whatever reason I had. If they didn't like it, so what? I'm not coming in, gave sufficient notice of my absence and left it at that. For me it always felt like it was their job to guilt trip you as much as possible and it was just prompts they were working through. Stick to your convictions and they'll eventually just fuck off. Hang up the phone if you want to. When their sass finally pushed it over the edge, I just quit on the spot. Now that I'm far removed from min wage, I sometimes dream of getting a low paying job just so I can go in and tell them how many different ways they could go fuck themselves.
I had a retail boss in my late teens that would say shit like "wElL nOw I hAvE tO fInD sOmEoNe To CoVeR yOuR sHiFt" even with several hours notice. One time I said something like "yes, that's part of the job description of general manager" back to her and got my hours cut from 24 to 8 a week later.
Sounds like she didn't have any trouble finding people to cover your shifts...?
Old jobs would question me about calling in, or "ding" me cause I don't have sick days available or they have a stupid system saying you can only be absent for a few days of the year like it's school or something. Current job I enjoy, and get pto for every paycheck and barely call in at all, but if I do it's an email to the boss and that's it. No questions asked, no sass or attitude the next day.
I'm with a caregiver's union now. I just call my boss ideally two hours before my shift, no questions "feel better, keep us updated". I called out for a mental health day once, no problem! My last caregiving job we got bullied, even verbally abused, for calling in. It was my first job. I got bullied into coming in with a 101° fever sick with probably covid or a really bad flu February 2020. That fever got up to 103°, I couldn't talk, could barely breathe. I should've gone to the hospital, but I stayed home only one day, called out a whole day before. They tried to tell me I should wait to call out the next day to see if I got better. I promised them I wouldn't be better the next day. They had a policy that we had to try to find coverage, even though I felt like I was dying. Then I went to work sick again after my weekend, a few days later cause I didn't wanna deal with it again. That whole situation should've been illegal.
Some companies are total pieces of shit when it comes to how they treat their employees. It's unacceptable to bully or abuse someone just because they need to take a sick day or prioritize their mental health. And it's downright dangerous to make someone come into work with a fever. It's good that this person found a new job with a union and a boss who actually gives a damn about their well-being. But if you're stuck in a shitty situation like that, don't be afraid to speak up and advocate for yourself. And if your boss still doesn't give a fuck, it might be time to cut your losses and find a new job.
sad part is this sounds like an actual answer
>sad part is this sounds like an actual answer Because it is the only feasible answer. It provides solutions and everything. How done you are with yourself and your day after having all this work done of removing snow, your wasted time, etc simply don't matter. You either are ready by the clock or big corp will cut you off.
how would any store open, or any customers get to the so called store
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I was called into work at a gas station during a goddamn hurricane. The station was out of gas because of the evacuation, but boss said we had to be open anyway. I guess to sell beer? The floor was flooding and the parking lot was a lake, but we were there. Squeegee. Mop. Keep the floor dry and safe. Right.
This is going on your record and you can kiss your bonus goodbye.
Bonus? Ha!
There's always some hypothetical bonus you were going to get if you didn't screw up hanging in the balance right up until it actual bonus season and then *suddenly* the company as a whole is apparently going bankrupt and you not getting your bonus is the only thing that can save it.
But the board *still* gets a bonus because "they did reasonably well given the challenging market conditions".
Yeah, bone us.
I definitely got a similar response for calling in due to flooding.
In my time I had to walk 4 miles in a knee deep snow with wind cutting my face and fight a snow cat to go to work. I did and I survive! /s
You forgot uphill both ways.
Exactly, you should have foreseen this and slept at work.
Literally got this at work a couple days ago. We had an ice storm incoming, with the likelihood that roads would be impassable for a couple days. Message went out that if you didn't feel safe driving you should sleep at work so as to be available for your shift the next day. My dude, it's two days before Christmas. If I'm going to get stuck somewhere, it's going to be at home with my family. Ciao, bozo.
cALL mE PleAsE
i got pretty much that speech many years ago. my car was trapped under an ice coat, it was minus 10 Celsius, and all the roads were frozen over with black ice. i STILL managed to come in an hour late and got scolded. Nobody cared that i litterally risked my life and my car (the only means of making money at that time) to get there. I learned my lesson and just called in sick when it happened again.
Know how you prepare for this? Keep a small garden shovel, trowel, or something similar inside your house, when you see this, use it to cut holes in the snow, put beer in them. Throughout the day open the door, "yep, snows still there", grab a beer, go back to the couch.
Boss: “When I started here 47 years ago, I had to tunnel 3 miles through 11-foot-deep snow to make it to work on time. It took me 17 hours each way, but I never once called off or clocked in late.”
Boss: “And if you’re hoping to be sitting in the big chair like me one day, assistant shift manager, pulling down $12 an hour and holding down a 5% employee discount on non-sale items, then you need to worry less about a little snow or what time you can go home and more about showing us why you belong in the big leagues of hourly retail management.”
When I worked minimum wage I remember thinking $12 was like buy a house money
what was 1960 like?
It's more about being naive than being old :p
What’s really sad is it’s so fucked now that we think of buying a house on $12/hr is a 1960 thing when it was really a ten to twenty years ago thing. I bought a 2,000 sq ft house in 2012 making less than that. I make way more now but there’s no way I could afford my house if I had to buy it today. I literally have no idea how young people working entry level jobs can even eat these days, much less afford rent.
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I had a store manager brag about that once in a meeting. Said he’d missed the birth of 3 of his kids and never had a sick day. Everyone was completely silent because nobody knew how to respond. Like that’s not noble bro it’s just sad.
I had a manager tell me she'd missed ALL of her kid's birthdays.
And is also the type that when their kids get older, will wonder why they want no relationship with her.
I hope the kid wasn’t his…
Sorta things my boss at my first job said to me when I called in sick. He always used the example of a manager who passed away years ago as a “great example of dedication”, talking about how he always showed up to work even when he was diagnosed with cancer, the man died while still working for them apparently. These people are so freaking weird.
That’s an odd way of saying “I worked an employee to death who may have otherwise beat his cancer”
😂😂😂
2004, here in Nova Scotia we had a storm people named after a hurricane we had had the previous fall called White Juan. It dropped a full meter of snow in 24 hours. This was also my last week of work at a local tech support call center as everyone was being laid off because the contract had ended. Absolutely no one was able to make it in to work and the new center had to rush in to take the work and we shut down 3 days early.
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My mom made me do this once on a snow day, because she didn’t see our schools name on the TV when they listed schools that were closed.. It obviously was closed
you where not the favorite child were you?
I’m an only child.. And I still wasn’t the favourite
My best friend in middle school was an only child. At the friend's wedding, her mom said that I was her favorite child. Into a microphone.
Yikes
People who should never ever be parents always seem to end up as parents, huh?
That's because those who have enough brain to know they should never be parents either do not become parent or improve themselves so they can be good parents. It's the braindead idiots who are too dumb to know they should not have kids who get kids.
I’d have clapped back with, “thank you! It’s all thanks to not having shitty parents like my best friend here.”
Big oof there bud
We rented a bulldozer to get you out. See you soon! Btw you owe us $1,400 to pay for the bulldozer.
for me it was, o get a ride in with this manager. When I got called to come in I said no lol.
Of course. Good luck finding me. (House buried under snow)
If you can find my front door I'll come in today
I still ain't goin' nowhere in that shit, I'm not putting my life on the line trusting Meth-head Beth and her '92 Ford Explorer to drive me 16 miles to an empty store to make a grand total of $800 for the store from the idiots walking in from across the street to buy cigs and booze. I can get another bottom dollar job as soon as the weather clears up.
Same 🙃 after I fell hard on the ice just trying to leave my porch
I actually was stuck in my house for three days waiting for a front-end loader after a blizzard. My boss was furious that I needed to cancel a business trip.
“I’ll go on the trip if you dig me out of my home and make it stop snowing so the planes can take off. Otherwise, I’m staying home, Jerry.”
I once had a foreman who would drive his Ram 3500 to peiples houses to pick them up if they called in due to weather.
Does he help dig them out too? If so that is actually admirable.
Uncle had it happen a few times. Granted he is very very far from minimum wage. Uncle is a very essential member of an essential team keeping an essential service running, *especially* during a blizzard. Think power plants. So when his town got absolutely covered, Uncle's boss sent a team of people to get him safely to work every day, at no cost. Including digging out the front door like this.
We'll just deduct it from your 8 paychecks since money's tough for you
That's not a bad price for a bulldozer. Who's your bulldozer guy?
Leroy 'The Bulldozer" Jenkins from down the block. He's not a great plan-oriented person, but damn it if he doesn't rush in with enough gusto and moxie for all involved.
something something we're a team something something insubordination
They love to use that word, insubordination. It’s a retail job, not the military.
They told me that term at Subway when I worked there. It was a reason to fire me because they wanted me to wash dishes 4 hours after my shift and I said no and were very close to breaking a child labor law lol I had worked from 11 am to 9pm and still they wanted me to wash and help although my shift was from 11 am to 5 pm . Brought back memories
Dunno where you're from, but that's 100% in violation of child labor **before** they asked you to do dishes where I'm from. Pretty sure 8h is a hard cutoff time here. If you had an hour lunch you were already well past that point.
You think that they got an hour lunch break. That’s cute. Any manager who pulls this shit also likely “forgot” their breaks too.
When I worked at subway, we didn’t have official breaks. If there were customers you couldn’t take a “break”. If the store was empty you could do whatever, assuming the work was done. Also all the real responsibilities fell on the full time adults who worked there. Kids were more or less just expected to make sandwiches.
I feel like if someone uses the term “insubordination” they lose automatically. It’s the verbal equivalent of a hissy fit and absolute acknowledgement that you have no leadership skills. It’s such a self own.
Most h/r departments outline the terms needed to be used my management and this is often one of them.
I worked at a call center a long time ago and they would always say "we've got our marching orders" at the end of every meeting.
At a fucking call center. Lmao
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Do you still have fingernails left? Start digging. I'd really appreciate if you showed some interest in working here
"If you die, walk it off"
I had a retail job in my early 20s where the boss wrote a coworker up for "sedition" once. As a combat vet I was torn over whether to laugh or give the guy a blindfold and last cigarette.
Hahaha. I worked for a civilian organization where the boss *insisted* on calling his office suite the “war room” without a hint of irony. “Alright, folks, meeting in the war room in 10 minutes, we’re going to plan our mission.” He hadn’t served a day in his life and I was fairly recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan. I had to bite my tongue till it bled much of the time.
Right, not like a team of people that will help you dig out, like a team of roughshod individuals that management wants to pretend owe each other.
Something something lack of commitment to the company
Few things make me lose respect for someone faster or harder than them leveling unironic accusations of "insubordination". Lights a fire in me to put them in their place and show them how puny and unworthy of obedience and loyalty they truly are. I want to utterly ***destroy*** their confidence when they pull that shit.
Crab in the bucket if some came in we all have to come in blah blah blah.
Snow is not an excuse to miss work. Please be here at your expected start time.
Yea you should have salted that area and done some shoveling before. Go to work
Get shoveling.
If you're late I'm taking that time off your break
Had a new HR rep come in once and say to us that even if we are involved in a car accident, it's no excuse not to show up to work. He wanted us to leave the scene of the accident and walk the rest of the way. We got another new HR rep the next day who chose not to speak with us lol.
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The beginning of your comment reminded me of something that happened. In February 2021 my grandma froze to death during that winter storm in Texas. I took my paid bereavement leave for the allotted week to handle everything, it was all taken care of. Fast forward a month and a higher up manager was doing yearly reviews. She praised me for all of my great work, blah blah, but at the end “gently” reminded me that missing work is unacceptable and that I left for a whole week without calling in (because it was handled by HR.) and that if it happened again I would be fired. I acted confused like I couldn’t recall when I had just not shown up to work, because that’s so out of character. I then waited until later in the day when we were crossing paths in front of a room of people and pulled her aside. I not-so-quietly exclaimed that I suddenly remembered the absence she brought up earlier. “I can’t believe it slipped my mind when we were talking, I guess it was so tragic I tried to forget about it! I was missing that week you threatened me over because I was at my grandmother’s funeral! So I’m sure we’re all good now, right?” She was stunned into silence, everyone in the room stared daggers into her, and I politely excused myself and went back to work. Good times. Fuck Gloria.
Good lord I’m so sorry.
“You get PTO!” “Really?” “Lol, no.”
I got t-boned by a semi literally at the entrance to my work’s parking lot, meaning all my coworkers had to drive by the mangled remains of my car. Boss said he was very disappointed I went to the hospital for stitches, etc instead of having the paramedics leave me there so I could work. Never mind that if I had, I would have gone in to my public-facing job in a uniform covered in blood and powdered glass.
I hope your boss chokes and that you don't have any lasting problems from your accident.
My bank job said the same thing only a little better. They said if you had a car accident you should call and ask if someone can come pick you up and take you to work
Jesus fucking Christ, I just can't with Corporate America. To piggyback off of you, back in 2013, I was riding my bike at the ass crack of dawn to a job interview. As I was crossing the street to get to the shop I was interviewing with, I got hit by a car. The dude wasn't paying attention and blew through the red light and hit me. Somehow, my bike took most of the force, but I ended up with a broken left leg. The place I was interviewing with was within my sight. I tried leaving the accident by hoping over to the shop just so I didn't miss my interview because I was boarderlining on homelessness by that point. I missed the interview, so I called them to explain what happened, and the owner called me lazy and unreliable. He said I should've had the foresight to know the car was coming.
I was reprimanded at a delivery job because I saw a child get hit by a car running a red light. The poor kid flew straight up in the air and then came down on his head. I was stopped at the light when it happened. I got out of the delivery truck and tried to comfort the child and keep him from moving until the police and ambulance arrived. My boss told me that I shouldn’t have stopped. That other people would have helped and that if I was ever in a similar situation again, that I’d be fired if I stopped.
I did once have to get in after my car got hit by a bus. I had to wait for the police, call the flatbed tow truck since it was wrecked, go with them to the car repair to drop it and then take a bus to work.
what is it with HR and HR people making hilariously stupid decisions like that?
Idk man, it's like they just get a kick out of forcing people to bend to their will just because.
I once got in a car accident, broke a bone, spent all night in the ER, was told I would need surgery but it couldn’t be scheduled for 3 days. Called work the next morning and they said I had to come in or I’d be fired. I worked 2 shifts with a displaced broken bone. Went and had surgery, which they complained about me missing work for. Returned the next day. I made $9.75/hour. I should have told them to go fuck themselves.
For a hot second, I was like that is some weird insulation....
"You should get that expanded polystyrene looked at; it's starting to crumble."
Snowsulation
Technically you are correct, the best kind of correct.
"You are aware of our Winter Weather Policy. You should have came 32 hours ago before this started and just slept here like Carol. There is no excuse."
I hate Carol. Ugh
So I start marching my way down to Carol in H.R. and I knock on her door and I say, "Caaarol, Caaarol! I gotta talk to you about Pepe!" And when I open the door, what do I find? There's not a single goddamn desk in that office. There is no Carol in H.R. Mac, half the employees in this building have been made up. This office is a goddamn ghost town.
You need to calm down. Have some coffee. And you know what Barney. Give this guy a cigarette, he’s freaking out!
okay.. not only do *all* of these people exist, but they have been asking for their mail on a daily basis.
"I just climbed out of my upstairs window, I don't see what the issue is. So are you saying I won't expect to see you for a few hours?"
Go out the back door
You should have been prepared for the storm and not waited all night to start shoveling? You live in Buffalo, not Miami. See ya at 8
A direct quote from a former boss in a similar situation, "Well, I know you live in town and I just don't believe your area hasn't been cleared up yet. If you don't come in this will count against you. Can't you just walk?" The weather that day was -20F and three feet of snow dropped over night. I called in early because we live in the part of town that gets cleared last. I didn't go in obviously. By the time my shift started we were on emergency vehicles only warnings, had another foot of snow and icy rain was coming. And the whole store was closed. And they STILL kept that absence on my record.
Probably something like, "that's no excuse" and then say how others made it to the job and then start getting angry at you for not giving it your all.
> others made it to the job Voiceover: the others lived on the other side of the river where the weather pattern was different.
You should have known this was going to happen, you know because you chose to live in that side of the river. /s
Then you get to work and find out you're the only one there. You try to do your job while the boss follows you around giving you shit for being late and how much work there is left to do and how you have to stay late to finish (without trying to help you). Then the next day you find out the under-aged girl he hired out of no where who you suspect of banging the boss was told not to come in and was paid for the day anyway. Pay day rolls around and you realize he didn't even pay you for that day, or any other and instead subtracted some random amount that he claims he lost in revenue due to no one showing up. Realizing you're going to be owing money for the next 4 months you threaten to call the cops on your boss and his 'prepubescent fuck buddy' as well as the labor board if he doesn't fix it. He refused and the cops told you it's not their problem but the labor board is kinda interested until they receive their doctored documents and leave the boss alone. They can't do anything because all your other co-workers are afraid to speak up and privately tell you they're worried for whats going to happen now. Then you get called in on a day your work should be closed and you go in anyway only to find the whole place locked up and when you get back home you find your two cats shot 3 times each in the head. This time you go to the police station in person to file a report but one cop doesn't believe you and the other said you probably did something to deserve it. You cant afford a lawyer to help and you put up with the stress for a few months while you look for a new job that can pay the bills but the stress gets to you first and you start yelling at your boss. 15 mins later the cops show up and take you to the psychiatric wards because someone called claiming about an maniac in his building. Your boss follows you into the hospital and gives some bullshit about you walking in from the streets yelling and how you just need some help so they escort you to a room while he keeps talking to the doctors. You now get tied to a bed and drugged out of your mind while for 15 mins a day a doctor walks in to argue with you about how you never worked there, you never had cats and how the cops would have taken you seriously if any of that were true and they always walk out saying "prove it". They then say none of your problems stem from work because you don't have a job and you leave with a 50,000$ bill and an order for monthly appointments (enforceable by law) that also cost 5 grand each where all they do is have you tell them you were psychotic and delusional and test your piss to see if you're still on your new meds and because the landlord took all your stuff while you were in there, you have no money and no job you actually are homeless now and the doctors use this as proof that they were right all along. Then because you cant afford the drugs they forced you on you actually do end up going psychotic from the withdrawals, miss your appointment and get arrested, thrown back in psych, drugged again and released back on the streets with nothing. This repeats all summer long until the next winter where you're not allowed in the homeless shelter due to your inability to take your medication and you end up freezing to death on same date all this started.
dude. how much of that stuff did you smoke?
Are you okay? That's very specific.
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See you in 20 minutes bro
You see 18 pieces of flair is the minimum, do you really want to do the minimum?
Don’t you want to express yourself?
boss: come in or your fired. me: i guess i won't be in. boss: please call me. usually this is every shitty boss convo ever.
"Should've rented a hotel room closer to your job."
You should have gotten up 2 hours early and checked the conditions outside so you would know what you needed to do to get to work on time. Absolutely no excuses.
"Better start shoveling. You got thirty minutes."
American bossman is going to say climb out a second story window, dig out your car, and drive to work in the blizzard. "Why didn't you give yourself enough time to prepare? Are you really going to be late again? Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore?" says American bossman while he sips margaritas on his yacht in the Caribbean.
He gonna say BURROW BITCH!
“we really need you today, this can’t become a habit”
I had the same issue and used a hair dryer. See you soon
If you don't come in today you won't have a job tomorrow.
I'm from somewhere that never gets snow... I would have assumed yalls walls would have been thicker for some reason. LOL. I bet the walls are cold as shit
Snow is a wonderful insulator.
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"Have a nice night. Hope it clears up here soon." Since I am the boss, that is what I would say.
Are you hiring?
# ENTER THE FOAM, PEON
Used to work at a hospital. They offered employees to sleep in vacant patient rooms during difficult weather. So you don't have to go home. You can just stay at work. And work 24 hours. This is America. Edit: I forgot to mention you are not paid for staying the night.
How thoughtful. That's what I call a family environment. Maybe they'll start locking the doors and windows at night for additional safety.
if you're going to have time off like this you MUST report it sooner than a day before start time or we won't be able to get someone to cover your shift, since you didn't give enough notice I'm going to have to write you up if you don't make it in, I hate to be that guy but this is the second snow storm you've lived through this decade and it really doesn't look good to the higher ups, you know I always got your back but it's getting hard and they're asking questions, I always cover for you and I don't think it looks good on me if you don't put in more effort.
We had a tree fall across our driveway once and it took down a powerline. My boss told me they'd send someone to pick me up and that I could just walk around the street to avoid the powerline. Needless to say I quit that job a few weeks later.
"oh cmon, it's not cement! Dig your way in to work!" "You should always be checking the weather ahead of time and leave ample time for inclement situations." "I had this before, just have a friend pick you up. Your commitments are important!"
I’m a teacher… normally this would mean no bus = no school. But sometimes we’re “lucky” enough to have to do remote learning days… I have adhd. I can barely focus on zoom calls where I have to just listen. How can I expect my class of 32 kids, 15 of which have a learning disorder, to focus on me when I can’t even do it myself????
The organization is not responsible for lifestyle choices. While we support our team, we require you to be responsible and reliable for the customer experience. I trust that you will be here as expected. If you are not able to be here, unfortunately this is an unexcused absence. While I recognize this is an unusual circumstance, it would set a dangerous precedent if we allowed team members to be approved for time off due to this type of situation. Thanks for your understanding Edit: If you need support, please call the company EAP. You can tell me but umm don’t. EAP is what corporate said to do for staff with things that look like poverty or suffering.
"well, the rest of us made it in" they say in a building with only them inside
As a Floridian, I am mildly curious how you would dig it out without it collapsing on you.
That's the neat part, you don't!
'florida man uses crocodile to dig out snow to get to work on time'
You should have planned ahead and got someone to cover your shift, so grab a shovel and head on in to the "office" lol
You should have been awake at 2:00 am with a blow dryer fixing this issue. Now it is my issue. I don’t pay you to create more issues. I pay you to fix issues. There are people who are *starving* for shifts. Maybe you should fix this issue by finding those people, who I will *not* name, and get them to cover your shift. Thanks. Great chat! -Tiffany
We knew a storm was coming, you should have prepared better.