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re: Your Worst Employer Abuse Stories?
Posted on 1/25/23 at 10:27 am to Epic Cajun
Posted on 1/25/23 at 10:27 am to Epic Cajun
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Wait, so you had multiple vacations planned with your family and your boss told you that you had to cancel them and you prioritized your work over your family? You suck
Yea, what a cuck. Honey the kids are in the car ready to go to Wallyworld. Sorry honey, boss just called says I have to cancel vacation again. This guy likes to watch guys frick his wife while he beats off in the corner.
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Posted on 1/25/23 at 10:30 am to upgrayedd
quote:you work at a zoo and your boss was fricking a monkey? damn son
threw shite at people
Posted on 1/25/23 at 10:39 am to WB Davis
Had a boss/owner of a small company that I worked for in college, asked me to take his truck to go get him some lunch one day. Scraped the side of the truck on the yellow pipe by the fast food window. Instead of using his insurance to fix the truck he went and got a quote and started holding out money from my check every week to cover the repairs. I quit soon thereafter.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 11:03 am to BillyGibbons
Walking a way from a pension clise to retirement wasn't a personal option. He didn't feel that strongly about it but would not have taken a vaccine shot if it wasn't a company mandate (works 100% remote also). So for them to lift the mandate right after he had it sucked. But it wasn't a hill to die on for us.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 11:11 am to WB Davis
I worked for an employer that let me go because I was (a) the highest performing sales rep, already knocking down serious change that exceeded the VP of Sales' salary, and (b) I had a multi-million $ order about to go into production and the company would owe me over $250k in commission just on that one sale. So I was let go because I was making others look bad in comparison, and they did it just two months before the product would ship and the invoice would be issued. Once it shipped and hit the account of the customer, this is when I would get guaranteed to be paid on the sale.
The VP of Sales thought he was the smartest person in the room. But... I knew how much things cost. I knew the price concessions the company had received from suppliers, I knew the suppliers, and I knew the huge margin the company stood to earn from the sale. I also had the long-standing relationship with the client and I knew the fine print in their purchase order allowed them to cancel the order anytime before it shipped. And I did not have a non-compete with my now former employer.
So, I went to my customer, told them what happened, and that I knew how to earn back my commission and save the customer an additional half a million $. They were happy to go along, so we wrote up an agreement that I would be paid, as an independent consultant, a fee of 30% of any savings I could gather and shave off the cost by shopping the business.
I reached out to a competitor, which was selling essentially the same product, and which also did business with the same suppliers for products. In less than a week I was able to reach an agreement to shave $900k from the price. I still didn't tell the new company or suppliers who the client was, though. I went to my customer, told them I had it negotiated, delivery dates, matched up specifications, the whole nine yards. They agreed, canceled the original order with my ex-employer and issued a PO to their competitor, which was really happy that I handed them such a large bluebell. They didn't owe me anything, and I made my quarter-million $ back directly from the buyer.
The stupid VP made one vain attempt to come after me for breach of contract and tortious interference, but he had assumed that I had a non-compete clause and I guess their attorneys had missed the cancellation clause in the original purchase order.
Anyway, long story short: employer screwed me out of a quarter-million $ payday, but I got it back and screwed them. Oh, and the company that got the business was so grateful that they offered me a global sales position.
That VP of Sales was out of a job less than a year later.
The VP of Sales thought he was the smartest person in the room. But... I knew how much things cost. I knew the price concessions the company had received from suppliers, I knew the suppliers, and I knew the huge margin the company stood to earn from the sale. I also had the long-standing relationship with the client and I knew the fine print in their purchase order allowed them to cancel the order anytime before it shipped. And I did not have a non-compete with my now former employer.
So, I went to my customer, told them what happened, and that I knew how to earn back my commission and save the customer an additional half a million $. They were happy to go along, so we wrote up an agreement that I would be paid, as an independent consultant, a fee of 30% of any savings I could gather and shave off the cost by shopping the business.
I reached out to a competitor, which was selling essentially the same product, and which also did business with the same suppliers for products. In less than a week I was able to reach an agreement to shave $900k from the price. I still didn't tell the new company or suppliers who the client was, though. I went to my customer, told them I had it negotiated, delivery dates, matched up specifications, the whole nine yards. They agreed, canceled the original order with my ex-employer and issued a PO to their competitor, which was really happy that I handed them such a large bluebell. They didn't owe me anything, and I made my quarter-million $ back directly from the buyer.
The stupid VP made one vain attempt to come after me for breach of contract and tortious interference, but he had assumed that I had a non-compete clause and I guess their attorneys had missed the cancellation clause in the original purchase order.
Anyway, long story short: employer screwed me out of a quarter-million $ payday, but I got it back and screwed them. Oh, and the company that got the business was so grateful that they offered me a global sales position.
That VP of Sales was out of a job less than a year later.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 11:17 am to WB Davis
I worked for a female attorney in undergrad who used to be a judge and she threw heavy things at my head on multiple occasions
Also had a german shepherd trained to defend her and I had to learn a bunch of commands in German
Pretty volatile relationship. She'd cuss me out and then try and give me life advice and I'd tell her her politically connected husband left her because she sucked and she'd cry. Then she'd buy me pretty nice things (by college student standards) and on it went. Wrote me really nice recs for future jobs/law school.
Also had a german shepherd trained to defend her and I had to learn a bunch of commands in German
Pretty volatile relationship. She'd cuss me out and then try and give me life advice and I'd tell her her politically connected husband left her because she sucked and she'd cry. Then she'd buy me pretty nice things (by college student standards) and on it went. Wrote me really nice recs for future jobs/law school.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 11:29 am to Pettifogger
Our company signed a multi million dollar contract with one of our customers. As a result, they sent in some of their staff to help with technical issues. One of their staff members was sexually harrassing one of our hourly employees who at the time was a recent hire and still in 60 day probation period. She took her complaint to HR who then notified the VP and President of the company. VP and President of the company fired her before she could get her 60 days in.
This post was edited on 1/25/23 at 11:31 am
Posted on 1/25/23 at 11:42 am to WB Davis
Here's the thing, if my employer asks me to come in, I'll more than likely come in unless I had prior plans that I couldn't cancel.
If I'm "told" to come in, I have plans 100% of the time, even if I don't. If you speak to me like a normal human being, I'll go the extra mile.
If I'm "told" to come in, I have plans 100% of the time, even if I don't. If you speak to me like a normal human being, I'll go the extra mile.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 11:43 am to Willie Stroker
quote:First lesson in management.
I will never ask them to do something I am not willing to do myself.
Second lesson: You pass all the credit & glory to your subordinates when things are going well and take all the arse whippings when they aren't.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 1:35 pm to WB Davis
In my experience there are people who would do anything to gain favor, workaholic, scared to lose their jobs, need to look good in front of others, etc.
Me.. It's a matter of job, money, a balanced life, and sensible duty to the job. But then again, I don't worry about my position at my job.
Example 1: A manager wanted me to go up north to train this dept. of a company taking over one of our accounts. It would entail me staying there, I don't know, months. He said, "you are the perfect fit, blah blah". I said no, I can't do that. He dropped it. What is he going to do, write me up? Go ahead. We'll talk to HR about it.
Another example - a manager I had a few years back kept pushing me. He finally did something that broke the back for me. I was on my way to a Christmas gathering, I read the text, pulled over on the side of the road, called him and raised my voice to him (not yelling). I'd never done that to a manager before - I was prepared to go to HR or start looking for another job. He left maybe a year later.
Edit: I'll say this, I think it depends on the job, the expectations you were made aware of taking the job, and the money you're making, your career field, and position in life. If someone's making 400K/yr and the execs say you go to Hong Kong for 6 months, well, you go to Hong Kong or quit. If you're making below 6 figures in IT and single, yeah, you don't have to put up with it because you have options.
Me.. It's a matter of job, money, a balanced life, and sensible duty to the job. But then again, I don't worry about my position at my job.
Example 1: A manager wanted me to go up north to train this dept. of a company taking over one of our accounts. It would entail me staying there, I don't know, months. He said, "you are the perfect fit, blah blah". I said no, I can't do that. He dropped it. What is he going to do, write me up? Go ahead. We'll talk to HR about it.
Another example - a manager I had a few years back kept pushing me. He finally did something that broke the back for me. I was on my way to a Christmas gathering, I read the text, pulled over on the side of the road, called him and raised my voice to him (not yelling). I'd never done that to a manager before - I was prepared to go to HR or start looking for another job. He left maybe a year later.
Edit: I'll say this, I think it depends on the job, the expectations you were made aware of taking the job, and the money you're making, your career field, and position in life. If someone's making 400K/yr and the execs say you go to Hong Kong for 6 months, well, you go to Hong Kong or quit. If you're making below 6 figures in IT and single, yeah, you don't have to put up with it because you have options.
This post was edited on 1/25/23 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 1/25/23 at 4:10 pm to WB Davis
I was a waiter at Ruth’s Chris my last year and half of college. The manager was a UGE bitch. Just relentless. Mid forties, thrice divorced, and just utterly consumed with bitterness and hate.
But it was really good money for a broke college kid, my coworkers were awesome, and I got great food for free regularly. So it was worth it at the time.
With graduation approaching, my request to have the entire weekend of my graduation off had been approved months in advance.
At the beginning of my Thursday night shift right before graduation weekend, the manager tells me she will need me to work Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday lunch, which also happened to be Mother's day, because they were going to be short handed.
When I told her I couldn't/wouldn't cover the shifts, she lost it. Cursed me up and down. Called me a "worthless piece of shite", yelling in my face that I'd never amount to anything with such a poor work ethic. I couldn't get a word in edge wise to remind her that I was graduating and had a bunch of family coming into town.
I smiled--which only enraged her more--let her finish, dropped my uniform apron at her feet, and quit on the spot.
She erupted. Totally unhinged. Screaming at the top of her lungs every insult under the sun as I headed toward the door.
I was almost out the door when she threatened that she wouldn't welcome me back for so much as a dishwasher position when I returned for the fall semester and to enjoy living in a trailer park for the rest of my life.
So I stopped, turned around, smiled, letting her finish her tirade. Then reminded her that I was graduating that weekend and starting medical school in 2 months. Loud enough for eveyone to hear, I wished her well fricking the line cook--which she was, and which she thought no one knew about, and which she wanted no one to know about because he was disgusting--and left.
Eat all the dicks, Stacy. Or at least the few remaining that you haven't already.
But it was really good money for a broke college kid, my coworkers were awesome, and I got great food for free regularly. So it was worth it at the time.
With graduation approaching, my request to have the entire weekend of my graduation off had been approved months in advance.
At the beginning of my Thursday night shift right before graduation weekend, the manager tells me she will need me to work Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday lunch, which also happened to be Mother's day, because they were going to be short handed.
When I told her I couldn't/wouldn't cover the shifts, she lost it. Cursed me up and down. Called me a "worthless piece of shite", yelling in my face that I'd never amount to anything with such a poor work ethic. I couldn't get a word in edge wise to remind her that I was graduating and had a bunch of family coming into town.
I smiled--which only enraged her more--let her finish, dropped my uniform apron at her feet, and quit on the spot.
She erupted. Totally unhinged. Screaming at the top of her lungs every insult under the sun as I headed toward the door.
I was almost out the door when she threatened that she wouldn't welcome me back for so much as a dishwasher position when I returned for the fall semester and to enjoy living in a trailer park for the rest of my life.
So I stopped, turned around, smiled, letting her finish her tirade. Then reminded her that I was graduating that weekend and starting medical school in 2 months. Loud enough for eveyone to hear, I wished her well fricking the line cook--which she was, and which she thought no one knew about, and which she wanted no one to know about because he was disgusting--and left.
Eat all the dicks, Stacy. Or at least the few remaining that you haven't already.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 5:23 pm to OWLFAN86
He’s an Aggie. Likes dudes.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 5:33 pm to andouille
quote:
they refused to hire a competent person to back me up.
I'm amazed daily at the companies out there like this.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 5:58 pm to upgrayedd
quote:These stories are from 20-40 years ago.
You really do let your bosses walk all over you, dude
Every workplace I've known the squeezes the new graduates dry, and most of us moved on pretty quickly.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 6:16 pm to WB Davis
Sounds like you have a poor attitude.
You deserve punishment.
You deserve punishment.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 6:35 pm to grizzlylongcut
quote:
Most enlisted people when they get that high up in rank actually get dumber if you can believe it.
there is no dumber fricker on the planet than an e-7
Posted on 1/25/23 at 6:37 pm to WB Davis
quote:
I had one boss who repeatedly pulled vacations at the last minute and screwed over the whole family.
Nope. Zero percent chance I would put myself in a position to tolerate this.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:21 pm to SwampGar
Doctors that are allowed to be condescending, and curse and yell at staff.
Some true pieces of shite humans.
Some true pieces of shite humans.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:24 pm to SwampGar
In my teens I worked for a Journey's shoe store in the local mall. The manager was a stereotypical little-man-syndrome-having douchebag that was in his late 20s and balding, but let every little tiny bit of power he had go to his head. I'm talking the *exact* little-man, balding, loser, douchebag shoe store manager you're imagining in your head right now.
The way the store worked was, you'd have shifts doing "back of house" work, and you'd have shifts on the sales floor. They were supposed to be split evenly, usually even more in favor of being on the sales floor and less in the back.
The back of house work was basically receiving shipments and working those new products/shoes into the giant shelved walls, in numerical order, sorted by brand. When I started, the back room was in complete disarray to the point that nothing was even sorted by brand, size, product number, nothing. It was a free-for-all mess that made it impossible to go back to the back room and find anything for a customer in any timely manner.
So, being the perfectionist that I am, I took it upon myself to revamp the entire shelving system and inventory in the back room to get it back to the level and order corporate based their system upon. It took me months of shifts staying solely in the back room, but I received endless praise from the manager and even HIS BOSSES on the total overhaul job I had done. It was my work of art and made all the difference in the world when it came to locating products for customers in the back room.
Occasionally I'd have a front of house (sales floor) shift sprinkled in, but maybe 1/10th of the other employees. I was just too good at organizing and receiving orders and fixing the back room, according to the manager. I took it as a compliment on my perfectionism and brains that nobody else there possessed, and the manager purposely made it seem that way.
After a while, I took this attractive girl under my wing and the two of us were scheduled in the back of house nearly every shift together. She was a perfectionist and a hard worker just like I was, and the two of us absolutely killed it in stocking and organizing that whole inventory. As attractive young guys and girls that work together in confined environments often do, we began getting flirty and casually dating.
The manager did not like this, as he had made several douchey comments about how "she was HIS territory, that's why he hired her in the first place" and he had "called dibs when she started there" and unbelievable things like that.
About 2 weeks later I come in to work YET ANOTHER back of house shift, and I notice that I'm not on the next week's schedule. I ask the manager about it, and he makes it an obvious point to walk me to the back where he knew the girl was working. He then tells me "sorry, corporate said your sales figures weren't high enough and they made me let you go. Nothing I could do about it, your sales are the lowest."
I said "but you always scheduled me in the back because I was so good at it? You and corporate both have made compliments about how it completely transformed the store and sales! YOU constantly scheduled me back here!"
And he continues on with his "well, corporate made me do it" and "I hated to do it and I fought them to keep you" bullshite.
Turns out that wasn't the case at all, and he was just a jealous little elf that didn't like me getting close to the hot girl. I was friends with the regional manager (his boss) outside of work, and corporate didn't know he was going to - and didn't want him to fire me at all. I was actually being recognized in the regional and corporate ranks for my inventory system and skills behind the scenes, they wanted me to go to other stores and show how I did it.
He fired me all on his own after a couple years of literal hard work and sweat to get his store in decent order, simply because he didn't like the attention I was getting from a female coworker and his own bosses. The regional manager that was my friend told me there WERE NO sales figures or percentages you had to meet in order to stay employed there, that dude just made it all up.
frick that short, bald, power tripping douchebag Chris. I hope you read this.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:51 pm to RazorBroncs
quote:....and that's how I met your mother
In my teens I worked for a Journey's shoe store in the local mall. The manager was a stereotypical little-man-syndrome-having douchebag that was in his late 20s and balding, but let every little tiny bit of power he had go to his head. I'm talking the *exact* little-man, balding, loser, douchebag shoe store manager you're imagining in your head right now.
The way the store worked was, you'd have shifts doing "back of house" work, and you'd have shifts on the sales floor. They were supposed to be split evenly, usually even more in favor of being on the sales floor and less in the back.
The back of house work was basically receiving shipments and working those new products/shoes into the giant shelved walls, in numerical order, sorted by brand. When I started, the back room was in complete disarray to the point that nothing was even sorted by brand, size, product number, nothing. It was a free-for-all mess that made it impossible to go back to the back room and find anything for a customer in any timely manner.
So, being the perfectionist that I am, I took it upon myself to revamp the entire shelving system and inventory in the back room to get it back to the level and order corporate based their system upon. It took me months of shifts staying solely in the back room, but I received endless praise from the manager and even HIS BOSSES on the total overhaul job I had done. It was my work of art and made all the difference in the world when it came to locating products for customers in the back room.
Occasionally I'd have a front of house (sales floor) shift sprinkled in, but maybe 1/10th of the other employees. I was just too good at organizing and receiving orders and fixing the back room, according to the manager. I took it as a compliment on my perfectionism and brains that nobody else there possessed, and the manager purposely made it seem that way.
After a while, I took this attractive girl under my wing and the two of us were scheduled in the back of house nearly every shift together. She was a perfectionist and a hard worker just like I was, and the two of us absolutely killed it in stocking and organizing that whole inventory. As attractive young guys and girls that work together in confined environments often do, we began getting flirty and casually dating.
The manager did not like this, as he had made several douchey comments about how "she was HIS territory, that's why he hired her in the first place" and he had "called dibs when she started there" and unbelievable things like that.
About 2 weeks later I come in to work YET ANOTHER back of house shift, and I notice that I'm not on the next week's schedule. I ask the manager about it, and he makes it an obvious point to walk me to the back where he knew the girl was working. He then tells me "sorry, corporate said your sales figures weren't high enough and they made me let you go. Nothing I could do about it, your sales are the lowest."
I said "but you always scheduled me in the back because I was so good at it? You and corporate both have made compliments about how it completely transformed the store and sales! YOU constantly scheduled me back here!"
And he continues on with his "well, corporate made me do it" and "I hated to do it and I fought them to keep you" bullshite.
Turns out that wasn't the case at all, and he was just a jealous little elf that didn't like me getting close to the hot girl. I was friends with the regional manager (his boss) outside of work, and corporate didn't know he was going to - and didn't want him to fire me at all. I was actually being recognized in the regional and corporate ranks for my inventory system and skills behind the scenes, they wanted me to go to other stores and show how I did it.
He fired me all on his own after a couple years of literal hard work and sweat to get his store in decent order, simply because he didn't like the attention I was getting from a female coworker and his own bosses. The regional manager that was my friend told me there WERE NO sales figures or percentages you had to meet in order to stay employed there, that dude just made it all up.
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