This is how I lost my job. Except they fired me for going to the restroom and called it 'abandoning job duties'

@smsff7

2 ай бұрын

That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen OSHA has bathroom policies.

@yl6128

Ай бұрын

holy sh!t - literally

This engineer is my kind of guy :)

@MrSprinkles6921

3 жыл бұрын

A true hero.

I just love it when the business majors learn that they really are expendable

@johnsmith-gk4td

3 жыл бұрын

True, but we shouldn't forget businesses create jobs.

@ronr8687

3 жыл бұрын

Things like engineers are not really a dime a dozen you can’t party your ass off drink, smoke and sleep your way through school and still graduate with honors in any science major like you can with business or the liberal arts. Engineers aren’t a dime a dozen either they called engineering (mechanical at that) pre-business at N.C. State and it’s true to say something like that or imply what I’m thinking is just insane. And this whole business creates jobs argument is played out too congrats you create a bunch of low level low earning jobs that folks take to decide how they’re gonna blow their brains out one day in the meantime is fine I guess. No folks want careers and sad to say the business elite have stymied that away also I’m just being honest I don’t need a clown looking over my shoulder while I set up a new network or build another part of a program to help run my network if you don’t know anything about my work which many managers don’t then shut up same goes for that whole we create jobs bs no I made my own job since the idiots who can only call themselves managers who know all this business jargon and have no real skills can’t do what I do I have a job. I’m not knocking business but this super pro business bullshit is what’s got us so fucked now no way in hell business should be in the same room as someone in the sciences that’s bottom of the barrel and cream of the crop.

@johnsmith-gk4td

3 жыл бұрын

Uhmm....I've been in the engineering field for the last 30+ years (Wpn Sys). This doesn't mean I'm going to have a hissy fit about someone else's career path.

@ronr8687

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith-gk4td I’m not having a hissy fit but I’m sick of that idea that someone who chose business is just as important as folks doing the actual work that’s just ignorant and I’ve only been in IT for a few years myself but the last thing I need is some dumbass who doesn’t know anything about tech telling me I need to hurry up and screw something up or worse telling me I’m more expendable than they are you should know you’re the one who does the work not them. Unless you’re just a manager within, and without experience in engineering.

@matthewangelini2245

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronr8687 damn bro you have a high valuation of yourself, not everyone in IT knows what they're doing lol... I'm an account which btw is definitely not an expendable position as you claim all of business majors are (super arrogant btw) IT at my work kinda sucks tbh... long story short regardless of your job, people are going to be stupid and bad at what they do not everyone "gets it" idc if your an engineer, IT, MBA, Accounting or a cashier at McDonalds

"Management" is always screwing things up with their team-building and task-oriented mumbo jumbo. They think this activity for the sake of activity keeps them relevant & indispensable. Charles De Gaulle once told his cabinet that "The cemeteries are full of indispensable people"

@joeschembrie9450

3 жыл бұрын

There are indispensable people, it's just that the people making the noise aren't them.

Just retired, always hated that team building crap, made sure Management knew it. They tried to fire me for having a pinup calendar on my workshop wall , could not stop laughing , told them I would take them to court and being such a ridiculous reason it would make the newspaper. They backed off, but sighed with relief when I left

@rextransformation7418

3 жыл бұрын

@@princessmarlena1359 😀👍

Somehow management seems to actually believe that the cheering and clapping is uplifting and team building when, in reality, it is annoying, demoralizing and makes workers feel like idiots. It reminds me of those scenes in old western movies where the bad guy is shooting his gun at a victim's feet telling him to "dance". Of course, I guess, management could very well know all the forced cheering and clapping makes the workers feel manipulated but maybe they are on a power trip and like treating workers like puppets.

@billdougan4022

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of 'Wheel of Fortune', w/o the wheel.

@paulsz6194

3 жыл бұрын

Participation awards...🤣🤣👏👏

@Kodiak357

3 жыл бұрын

I'm retired now but hate those pre-hire tests to find out if you are a team player and how good an ass kisser you are. I think they usually quit reading mine when I state "probably shoot the son-of-a-bitch. They all seem to state we are one big group of equals, bullshit if someone can fire me and I can't fire him we ain't equal. I hated those namby pamby tests and never wanted to work for a company that did them.

@lindaterrell5535

3 жыл бұрын

I loathe “kumbaya” management. And - ugh - “slogans”

@drl5002

Жыл бұрын

And it would be one thing if they were having a meeting and announcing things like due to company growth, everyone is getting a raise and xyz benefits, or so and so well liked employee is retiring, can we get a shout of congratulations for them, something actually worth cheering for.

Have to love the "I don't work here anymore. Got a problem, find someone else to fix it... OOOR hire me externally at a higher pay of course"

I worked at a ford dealership body shop around 30 years ago, we would take lunch around what we had going on getting something painted or primed and use the hour for drying time new manager told us we had to go to lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 no exceptions we played by their rules a few weeks went by the office noticed a lot less vehicles were was getting delivered and told us to go back how we did it before.

Note the important role of the union in all this. It's why management hates unions.

@TimTheEnchanter0

4 ай бұрын

agreed!!

Videos like this should be made mandatory viewing for those who want to change engineering culture.

@somedude5414

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Boeing and Intel.

@deineroehre

3 жыл бұрын

Should be mandatory on every university which pops out future managers and these "excel players". These have to learn that they don't do anything useful in the most cases and have to learn from the skilled employes, otherwise they aren't leading, they just walk around...

@inachu

3 жыл бұрын

LOL when new manager comes in and the engineers do their jobs which is top notch in the entire industry and the manager always wants excel spreadsheets. Those managers just need to be fired,

The workforce always mistreat their best employees

@wowzery

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, then they wonder what happened when everything goes downhill after they fire that employee.

"Are you REALLY sure you wanna do this?" Famous last words to hear

Stories like this warm my cold dead heart.

@MrSprinkles6921

3 жыл бұрын

Do you work in an office?

@deadlyraver4454

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrSprinkles6921 nope.

@greenbareet

6 ай бұрын

MAX, HELP MEEE! IM... FEELING!!!

Slightly different thing happened to a friend in about 77. He was a tower crane operator and had a pee bucket up in the cab but he had to do a doodoo so he came to ground and did his business On the way back to climb up the crane a new foreman told him to take this shovel and clean out this ditch. He dropped the shovel and said a shovel don't fit my hand. Foreman popped up and fired him, he said see that man, go talk to him. Foreman went over and talked to the owner who went apeshit on him. You don't fire one of two men in Oregon that can run a tower crane and the others a buddy of his. Needless to say he wasn't fired and retired from that company probably forty years later. Good thing the foreman didn't try fighting him, hell of a nice guy but built like Dick Butkus. He offered to teach me how to operate a tower crane, I have a bad fear of hights but told him I think I can get up to the cab but when he said I'd have to crawl out to the end of the stinger and grease the trolly I said ain't happenin bud, two bad minimum wage at the time was three bucks or so and he was pulling in over fifty. Dumbass me should have asked if he could get me in on a ground mounted crane but I didn't think of that.

Firing top engineer😂.oh lord,I cant imagine the loss.

@MrSprinkles6921

3 жыл бұрын

What a dumb reason to fire an extremely critical employee.

@ninepuchar1

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrSprinkles6921 Exactly. Lol,I would be paying him more to convince him to stay in the company,cus he knows the operations. And he who knows his way around gets his job done. His expertise and charcater are big assets to the company.

In school their called "bullies" in business their called "management"

MY Mum taught me a few things, one of being, if you are invaluable at your job and some idiot manger "lets you go". and you are asked to come back. Humility Pay. Managers always feel the need to stamp their image on everything but had outlasted 3 changes of managers. Now I work for myself. OH and we had the clapping and the "Get Hyped" before the work day....WHAT A WANKER.

When I worked for Tetra Tech, a large Engineering firm, they suddenly announced that anybody with side gigs would need to make a full disclosure to their manager. I brushed it off, but our manager came in from another city and sat with each of us, and it was a pretty serious thing. So, stupidly, I told him that I was doing side jobs, but explained that I had my own resources and was not competing. He said it didn't matter and that I would have to choose one job or the other... TODAY. I was shocked but had a moment of brilliance and told him that the office would be a ghost town if they actually pursued this course. I told him two of the people in the office raised cattle, one fixed up old houses, and one fixed old cars. He ended the meeting, and I never heard another word about it.

Butthole tax, that's absolutely priceless

Yip sounds familiar My manager loves to lose it with people, shouting swearing n threatening people n even punched an employee right out of her chair. Well my manager tried it with me then ended up goin off work for a month and a half with "stress" n coming back part time. Moral of the story is dont mess with the work force especially the ones that go the extra mile cos ur gonna be in the shit when they do the absolute bare minimum

This is a Feel Good story!! Should be made into a movie. Netflix or HBO (here’s a great, True Story; arguably more entertaining than another transformers movie...

i once worked in a factory mass producing truck brake components . this company employed a CNC programmer to get 3 new machines up and running . all 3 had robot arms . after 4-6 weeks the production was moving well with very few problems . so the boss decided to eliminate this person from the payroll . made up a bullshit excuse he wasn’t up to scratch . as he was leaving the shed he said to me . stay away from the machines on a certain date !! sure enough on that day the machines were operating normally then the robot arms thrust the head tool in to the machine as it was cutting parts . what a mess . destroyed the machines . lol . i left that week also. arsegoles to work for

@izayus11

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's actually very hard to hide a self destruck timer on that kind of equipment. Any kind of forensics will reveal malice, specially if you claim warranty from te maker of the cnc machine. So this is either fake, plain lucky, or "your buddy" is in jail for destruction of company equipment.

When the need for power and control overrides the company's number one priority profit. If I were apart of the C suite I would of let them know that they were cheaper and easier to replace that they were expendable.

@zacharysheetz3701

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, some people are so obsessed with being bigger cogs in the corporate machine that they fail to realize it is easier and cheaper to replace a basic cog, which they still are. Than the small, more complex, and absolutely vital spring, deep in the machine.

I’m in a similar boat with a former employer. Having them write bigger checks with my company name rather than my government name warms my heart every month. The equipment I manage will soon be obsolete but its good while lasts.

Lowkey hoping I get fired before summer so I can take a vacation!

I love how this guy just wiped his ass with this business

New management always has to change things to show that they know how to do it better. As we have seen, this holds true for the highest office in the nation.

He thought American corporate culture was cringe lol

@KlavierMenn

3 жыл бұрын

Seeems so.

@MrSprinkles6921

3 жыл бұрын

@@KlavierMenn No! I refuse to believe it!

@davecrupel2817

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSprinkles6921 As an American, i can confirm it is very cringe. I can't stand being around it.

These are the awesome revenge stories.

I do believe most of these types of stories can be explained easily by the "Simple Management Mindset" that: "Anyone who is actually competent is a direct threat to me." And when I say "Simple Management Mindset," I am referring to both the simpletons, and the simple thought.

Few things destroy small businesses as effectively as being bought by big ones, and decided they knew best for these companies.

instantly regrets it, nope, took weeks

@ziolan8970

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure as soon as word got out he was talking to the union they regretted it

Way to go. That may teach them a lesson.

Guess she is sorry now

Manglement at it's finest. Don't mess with your most valuable engineer especially one who has his ducks in a row

They always promise it will be the same or better... Usually it becomes bad and then worse, step-by-step, month-after-month.

Move along. Nothin' (new) to see here.

don't care bout office politics but got really power play..

Skills are worthless these days. You need friends and a good lawyer.

@user-nh3gu1ge3d

3 жыл бұрын

dumb

@dewmontjerkins9886

3 жыл бұрын

So true...

That beep played loud as hell in my car. Not a fan of that at all

Not all hero's wear capes

Ha , ha ,ha , absolutely brilliant .

turn off the background music my guy

That's RIGHT!!

Need a dispenser here put a teleporter here

Booom!!!

Must be Boeing

Was his name Dominic Cummings?

Sounds like a fairy tale. I think this is a product of creative witting.

why oh why do they put annoying background music on. only means i don't listen to the end.

The engineer belonged to a union? If this story is true, the engineer must be a non-American. I'm a mechanical engineer living and working in the US. American engineers vehemently despise unions. So I doubt the truth of the story.

@GefreitervonAdler

23 күн бұрын

Original writer here. Did you miss the part about this taking place in Sweden, and the labour laws being different as there is no at-will employment? Unions are strong in Sweden.

That drum beat has to go.

Epic

6x his hourly rate is low, I'd do it for 10x if I was him hahhaha

😎

Love it hahahaha

😂Awesome👍

why did you pick an AI voice that doesn't sound in the slightest bit interested in the story being read?

…Worked for a big insurance company and they were always playing strangely destructive mind games with these so called team building meetings. Also had us take classes for things that had nothing to do with us or our job area. All it did was slow down work productivity which we had to make up when we got back to our jobs after learning a job skill we had no use for and we didn’t use in our area. And once our old managers started to retire, you know, the ones who knew how everything worked, we got these new young guys who had no idea what we did and how we did it. Made all kinds of weird unnecessary job changes that messed everything up and made it impossible to do our jobs correctly. I got out just before the crap hit the fan hard, from what little I could hear about, there were a bunch of major job disasters thanks to these changes. I left complex job descriptions, but from what I heard either they didn’t follow them or tossed them away. Haven’t heard anything new and I’m glad I retired before all this…..

AI bullshit. Disliked.

Awful video. Not only it's AI-read but there is this annoying song in the background.

Just for future reference anymore these really really good videos please don't play the f****** music in the background leveled volume with the person speaking I'm not even going to continue the video because they're so many like this and I just can't really get into the video with f****** club music playing in the background blasting

These redditors have very active imaginations