re: Texas labor laws and the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever been told……..

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Being told my morning trip to the on site cafe to buy a bottle of water. Talking the time it takes me to walk there, but the water, and walk back. 3-5 minutes. It was a “problem”. In my 30 plus years of work. High school and college knuckle head jobs to career. I’ve never been told something so foolish.

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The reality of the current labor pool has not caught up to management yet. The reality is that a huge percentage of job candidates are trash. Micromanaging good, reliable, productive employees is completely asinine. They’ll either end up losing you to another job or they’ll fire you for something petty like getting water. However, they’ll end up sifting through hundreds of trash candidates and probably hire and fire your replacement multiple times before they find a quality replacement. At that point the cycle begins all over again because some dick head has got shite else to do but create problems over bottles of water… my personal response would have been I’m getting a bottle of water and if you continue to harass me about it, we’ll be sitting down with HR with a quickness. The message being that if you want to create problems, I’ll create some too. Being an a-hole (in a professional manner of course) has its place and you have to establish that you will not be run over by anyone.