Despite obviously intended as an April Fools joke, the reason that backfired spectacularly is because there are plenty of companies that would try that shit

@liamgoetz2890

Жыл бұрын

I like to believe April fools was the plan if it failed

On April fools, you never, EVER make jokes to your employees about cutting wages or making slave-like changes to the work policy. The guy deserved to have all of that happen to him for being so inconsiderate. People feed their kids with the money they earn at work.

@gotgunpowder

2 жыл бұрын

get over it lol

@dragonkyng

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think it was the employer who put the notice out

@oz_jones

2 жыл бұрын

It was an employee you dingus

@Drago_Whooves

Жыл бұрын

Funny April Fools Joke: New dress code, all employees now need to wear company branded Cowboy hats while on-shift, these will be provided by the company

@toniotrussardi8126

Жыл бұрын

@@gotgunpowder stf

My dad worked at a furniture factory for years where they paid by production not by hour. New management wanted them to take time away from their work to clean the bathrooms without a pay raise or paying them by the hour because they didn’t want to hire custodians. Several people protested and were fired, my dad worked there for over a decade but now he works for a smaller luxury furniture shop where he’s treated right and is paid handsomely by the hour.

8:48 "Making the firing manager's job easier..." That happened at a movie theater I worked at in the Long Ago, and Far Away. In a lull, in front of most of the closing concessions staff, the hiring/firing manager told us, "I need to lose 6 people." We were all, Okay...? No one thought anything of it. Summer would be over soon, most of us wouldn't be as available when school started again, fewer hours would be fine. There was a rotating closing staff of about 13 of us, and most of us went to Denny's after we wrapped up for the night to eat and have social time. So we were actually work friends. Some of us spent more than that time socially outside of work too, but that was only about 1/3 of us. About a week later, he fired 3 people... IN that one week. NOW we all took him seriously, and those who didn't want to be caught jobless went out and found a new job. I was one of them. The hiring manager started looking glum. "What's wrong?" I asked him, already on my 2 weeks' notice. "I only needed to lose 6 people, and I lost 10. Now I have to hire and train more staff..." I was thinking, 'Well, you're the dumb butt who mentioned in front of most of the closing staff you needed to lose people. This is a mess entirely of your own making...' Didn't =say= that to him, but seriously. Hope he learned to not say crap like that in front of his staff ever again. The head manager did invite me into his office and asked me if I'd be willing to stay on. Told him the truth: got hired by UPS for twice the wage (or just about), for fewer hours. He realized there would be no competing with that.

I work as a virtual assistant under a BPO company, our client company decided to hire our team directly. When we received our new contract we found out that not only that there are no changes on our salary, they also removed our benefits. We got pissed and refused to sign the contract and client company was confused as to why. Fast forward several months, the client company informs us that we either sign the contract or they will let us go. Since we want to keep our jobs we decided to bear it and just agree to sign, this is where found out that the client revised the contact; 100% pay increase plus allowance and benefits. Turns out the upper management of the client company had no idea about the contents of the previous contract because the CFO kept them out of the loop.

A very long time ago, I worked at a call center. Crappy job, crappy pay. Management overheard one employee complaining to another, decided that they were the reason everyone was upset, and fired them. When people continued to complain, they decided the entire shift was bad and fired everyone. Unfortunately, someone misunderstood in HR, though whether on purpose or on accident, and fired *all* of the shifts. They went from one shift short...that they figured they could schedule other employees for...to no shifts. I don't want to know how much they lost, but I heard that the major company they did business with cancelled the contract because they didn't have enough staff to deal with the call volume. I was hired as an admin two weeks later at twice the pay and I laughed when they called to try to get me to come back.

6:15 reminds me of the Simpsons when Burns says he needs to cut costs then has a money fight with his assistant

I love when managers actually realize that treating good employees well will result in a better running company

Sometimes (often) pranks are not funny. They can also be dangerous. Think first. This is regarding the April Fools "overtime" prank.

@KnakuanaRka

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, a prank is something the victim can laugh about as well. So many KZread pranksters need to learn it isn’t just an excuse to be a dick.

The IT/tech assembly manager at a software/hardware company was embezzling money by sending servers to new sites that didn’t exist and selling the hardware to competitors. Normally this would only get him alone fired but he was using other employees names and IDs without their knowledge and had them dragged into the investigation. The others weren’t fired for being a part of it, but instead were fired for the MASSIVE brawl that ensued in the company shipping department when the shipping manager decked the IT manager for using his name and everyone jumped in to take sides.

I worked at a large family owned RV dealership as a salesperson. They had about 25-30 sales people. Well most of their sales was done via internet. I had worked there about two years. I had noticed our website went down. We had a staff of IT specialist who all they did was computer stuff in the “IT room”. Well I came in on Monday the website wasn’t up and it was down all day Sunday and into Monday which was really odd cause 1. Our IT team was really good and 2. Monday we had weekly meetings which our sales team would go over sales and different promotions for that week. So I tell the sales manager nicely our website out. He said “I know we will all have a meeting about it later.” So couple hours goes by.all the salespeople into the conference room. The two owners come in. You could tell they were upset by their faces. I thought sales were down and we were gonna yelled at. However, I was number two in the company for sales. So they put a picture of a server on the overhead projector. The one owner said “does anyone know anything about this.” I’m think huh what? He said on Saturday evening this (the computer server) was stolen out of the IT room. If anyone worked Saturday please come to the front of the room. I stood up walked to the front.(keep in mind in the course of 2 years I had only been back to the IT room maybe 3-4 times when the company laptop was goofing up). Now he said. We have a thief among these “salespeople “. There was 22 of the 25 salespeople at the front of the room. He said who wants to admit to stealing the server. No one says anything. I could tell the one owner getting more worked up because no one said one word. I’m looking around to see if anyone stepping forward or saying anything. Then the upset owner said “alright I’m giving the thief 30 seconds to turn themselves in or I’m firing everyone who worked Saturday.” He waited 30 seconds . Again nothing was said. He said “alright if you worked Saturday clean out your cube and get out of here. “ So literally the owner fired 20 plus people for nothing.

I’m glad that company got screwed over with that magazine bullshit. They try to screw customers and pressure employees to be salesmen when they only cashiers

The only reason I like these videos despite them obviously being completely copied is because I want to see more videos like these

@metalhead6783

2 жыл бұрын

I mean i like to just listen to people that have done dumb things or something like that while doing something else. I know these channels are all copy paste and stuff but it is perfect for just listening. Or music which i do even more but i like listening to these sometimes too.

@129140163

Жыл бұрын

I like these videos because I find the robot TTS voice’s mispronunciations entertaining (e.g. “ER” as in “emergency room” pronounced “urr”).

@somethingsomething404

Жыл бұрын

@@129140163 or when it says doctor when it means drive (dr.)

That one about the king’s 15 wives spending like there’s no tomorrow is gold 🤣🤟

That last one about the aircraft company...the fact that even then, our society had/still has so many people willing to lay the blame at the feet of the manufacturer rather than the deranged criminals that commit the heinous acts WITH those instruments made by a manufacturer is so appallingly stupid... "Terrorists used a (insert plane manufacturer name/model #) to crash into the twin towers. Boycott that company immediately! It's clearly their fault! This never would have happened if they hadn't built those planes! The terrorists could have easily been thwarted by not having those planes, bc there are obviously not OTHER PLANES to choose from!" FFS....🤦🤦🤔

21:45 Can you imagine what that poor kid was feeling? Showing u for work a week before Black Friday to find that you had suddenly gone from the new guy with plenty of more experienced coworkers to the single and then most senior cashier?

Barnes & Noble plus Amazon remain (previously it was Waldenbooks and Borders) these 2 companies co exist for quite a long while until Borders suddenly disappeared via Amazon meanwhile Waldenbooks within the mall remained for quite longer until Barnes and Noble ended up absorbing Waldenbooks (side note lady employee wearing high heals skirt and blouse used glitter to throw everywhere ran out of the store) before being hired as Queen Consort for England to aid her 12 lady friends while also serving as new Queen after Elizabeth 2 died of old age.

Worked at a mini restroom franchise (2 shops in town) the general manager fired one of the most experienced line cooks, because she felt he was unreliable, then decided the staff was taking too many smoking/vaping breaks; she gathered us all together for a meeting and carefully explained how our smoke breaks were bad for business, and how they were ending, effective immediately. There was another line cook starring at her and smiling the whole time, he put in his two week notice right there. She tried taking it back, but it was already too late. This led to kitchen staff only having only two line cooks left. The district manager had to start filling in for missing staff. The kitchen manager quit shortly after, and I quit as soon as I got another job TLDR: Restaurant General Manager loses half her staff trying to cut costs with smoking breaks

@Lycanthromancer1

Жыл бұрын

Wait a minute; they were cooking food in a restroom? What, did they copy what Hermione did to make Polyjuice Potion by sticking a cauldron in one of the toilets?

@djfreem6881

Жыл бұрын

@@Lycanthromancer1 restaurant, my bad, i did this on my phone originally

@dcg590

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t be smoking on company time. Good, leave. They’ll find people who don’t waste at least an hour a shift taking breaks while being paid. You did the restaurant a favor

@Lycanthromancer1

Жыл бұрын

"Nobody is allowed to smoke cocaine and drink hooch while they're supposed to be working!" That's odd. Nobody left that time. Drugs are drugs, right?

@djfreem6881

Жыл бұрын

@@dcg590 bet we did Lisa 👌🏽

Worked the day shift in a warehouse for a year and a half, left when COVID got bad, then came back on the overnight shift. Pay had increased and the hours were less, which most people didn't like, but I liked fine because I wanted the least amount of hours to reduce my chances of getting sick. Anyway. 3 months in, they buy some expensive new equipment and force us all to learn how to use it. In some ways it increases safety, but in others it's clunky and harder to use, and reduces output slightly. A month later, I get a missed call at home from a guy in a random department. The message only says he wants to pass on some info, he'll call again later. No urgency implied, no hint that anything might be wrong, no idea that this will impact my day at all, so I ignore it. I go to work that day, the warehouse is closed. I call the front desk, get a message saying all shifts are canceled, workers will be paid, await further updates. Just over a week later I get a letter saying my job has been eliminated because they're converting the warehouse into a tech-focused one. There were around 30 people doing the same job on that shift, and maybe twice that many on day shift, so that sucks.

The main manager at this drive in theaters I worked at was stealing from the safe three of our regular managers got fired for suspected theft before they finally caught him and then they fired everyone because I guess since he was corrupt that means everyone was working under him. The drive-ins were closed for a couple of days and then were opened with temporary staff they brought in from other locations.

We had to sign a document saying we would not drink water. A worker took an unopened bottle out of the garbage, and got fired. They also discovered this was not the first time. They reviewed camera footage and fired two other workers who gave her water bottles that were unopened and about to be put into the garbage because they felt sorry for her drinking it out of the garbage can. One member of management stood up for them to no avail. Instead of revoking the no water policy, they added it to the handbook. Not some poor little struggling company either. Multi billion dollar a year casino. The workers were on 12 hour shifts. They cannot figure out why no one wants to work there anymore. SMH

Some of these remind me of the UK gas and power companies! Making billions in profit, and charging a fortune for the fuel!

I've seen two, both in restaurants where I worked. The first one was when someone got into the labor report. It showed how much each person on the clock was being paid. They then printed the weekly report showing how much everyone was. They posted it in the employee bathroom. There was heavy favoritism with the managers and it showed in the amount they paid the staff. About half the staff quit within a day. At another the bar manager was hooking up with one of the waitresses. They had a blowout which everyone could hear. Including her boyfriend, who was a cook. He jumped in the middle of it and the manager fired him. One of the other cooks asked why he was fired for being mad because his boss was screwing his girlfriend. It seemed like a normal response. That cook immediately quit. The manager then started getting angry because the third, and final, cook on line (Me) was talking too long with the orders despite having to do the work of three people. I walked out. They closed for the night. The next day several people from corporate were there to try and fix things. The bar manager was fired, the GM was transferred, the waitress quit, the three cooks who quit also never came back. Over the next week they lost several other people who didn't want to deal with the drama and stress.

Whoever's reading this,I pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day amen

@UnknownUser-xk5rr

2 жыл бұрын

Don't wish good things on me.

10:11 "...6+ people auto-grat..." This should be required. Can't tell you how many 12-20 people tables who thought a $2-$3 grat was all I deserved (on a $200+ order) for running my butt off for them. Once, the $3 tip also included a card informing me that *Abortion* *Is* *Murder!* Okay, but what the duck does that have to do with my attempts to earn a living wage off your ungrateful selves?!

@erickpoorbaugh6728

Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of a story I heard from a server: Customer (entering with 13 other people): “Do y’all auto-grat?” Hostess: “We have an automatic gratuity on parties of eight or more.” Customer: “We’re two groups of seven.” I wish I could say this turned into a malicious compliance story where the “two groups of seven” were seated at opposite ends of the restaurant, but sadly that didn’t happen.

@cchastant8251

Жыл бұрын

@@erickpoorbaugh6728 ...damn, I hope they both tipped her somewhat decently, at least.

@Lycanthromancer1

Жыл бұрын

If you want to work for actual pay, don't work for tips.

Boss: I told my boss we would have this done by the end of the week so you are all working overtime Me: if your not here working and leading don’t expect me to be here I’m not gonna bust my ass because you make promises Boss: pikachu face Me: grab your tool cart and help or we just leaving like normal 🤷‍♂️ (We all knew we still had 3 weeks left on the build but he was trying to get a raise for his “leadership” 😂

12:49 Reminds me of a temp job at this rubber and gasket manufacturing plant (owned by a big corp. in India as I found out later) that I had for ten days across a three week period (2 days on then 4th of July, four day work week, building maintenance then another four day work week). Operations manager went almost four days without speaking to me. Was rude, condescending and offered no tips. Reminded me a lot of my dad in terms of how he looked, so I didn’t like him back on basis of my dad and I weren’t getting along. I think he had me summarily fired by my temp agency because I wasn’t meeting numbers on my machine. This place abided by a real if you can’t hang, bang, you’re gone mentality. I got switched to from station to station every two days, often missed my breaks and lunch, the quality assurance lady was a racist towards me and badmouthed me to my face for not speaking Spanish. Every time I’ve left a review, it gets deleted. Hmmmm…lmfao

even the drunk walk out of the pizza place lol

I worked at a company that paid well like 4k per day but then it was bought by a bigger company and after that everyone got paid minimum wage and so many rules no one was used to was implement and our new managers were extremely rude and disrespectful so in a matter of a week the majority of the employees quit

Thank you!!!😊

Idk if it was released on April fools day, you DO NOT and I mean DO NOT claim to be cutting peoples hours EVER! People will notice and get mad! They don’t care if it’s “meant to be a joke”, THAT IS NOT A JOKING MATTER!!!

The last one was sad.

this is just a re-upload. you can see the '5 hours ago' time stamp on the posts, but i've heard this stories ages ago

3:50 was the one that moved the manager? 12:50 if im not scheduled to work im not on call, if you want me on call youre paying me overtime rates. if you want me working then it should have been on the schedule. a lot of companies pulled things like this when several states jumped the min wage to $15, this is doubling the min wage in a lot of states btw. hours were cut to the point people were making the same or less and of course prices went up to "make up for the rise in wages." but there is good news, several companies had 2 week internships where you were guaranteed full time after 14 days...... so people were getting fired at 13 days and "rehired" either at the same or another location.

The last story sad not only innocent people lost their lives innocent people lost their jobs. Somebody needs to make a documentary on the plane company and how the attack effected them

Why do you think Woolworth went bankrupt

i am a german pain nurse i germany labour laws says that if a company teaches you have have to get a full time contract without an wxpiring date . i worked 8 years for them.my first 2 years in halftime after a rough summer where literally 80% of our staff was either ill or ade holiday per doctor. so we got a full time contract. fast forward 6 years. we get a new boss (yey) and as always everything should get better......... they tried to meditate with contracts but mine was fixed and controlled by law so they lied about me abusing and eldery man( they told i punched that man im 2m 5 tall if i had punched him there ould be marks at least) so they fired me and thought becaus i was only 25 at that time i wouldn´t know my rights. they lost big in front of th court had to pay me 25000 € but the destroyed my image so i can never ever work in my field. ah funny thing is they (my old firm) cries about that they have not enough workers im sorry for my bad english

In this video: "Tell us about mass firings" "Best I can do is mass resignments"

Simple. Out of touch corporate management.

You've already posted this video

Why do I feel like I've read this before?

The story about getting the store ready in 3 Weecks it's the reason why you must akwats worck what you paid for. No extra hours if the death line it's ridiculous just do what you can no what they ask. They never reward worck that it's not clocked.

@jffry890

Жыл бұрын

Wanna try that again, strokey?

Pretty sure I saw this exact thread and comments on a different video a couple years ago. If you're gonna read off of reddit for your watch-farming, at least make it new shit.

@jffry890

Жыл бұрын

You did. It's the same guy re-uploading videos on a new account to dodge demonetization of this kind of lazy TTS content which is against KZread TOS.

Shame about Walden Books. They always let indy authors do signings there.

As much as I love these videos, people are being lazy and using the same prompts with the best of thread so we get the same stories over and over again I heard some of these stories at least 5 times now.

@jffry890

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if all of these TTS videos are made by the same guy. They're all carbon copies of each other. The good news is they were abandoned when KZread killed monetization for lazy content such as this.

Cutting peoples’ wages on April Fool’s Day is not funny at all. In fact, you’re just ASKING for a mass exodus of employees.

Why repost this? This has been covered before word for word on other channels

@Superman37891

2 жыл бұрын

Because this channel itself hasn’t posted this AND they’ll get views, likes, comments and most importantly ad revenue from it

@Snowboi1963

2 жыл бұрын

I really dont care, they are funny and i enjoy them. Dont like them? Just ignore it and move on

@Superman37891

2 жыл бұрын

@@Snowboi1963 OP’s point is it’s not fair that reh video uploader is just directly copying others’ work as their own

@johnlatimer8601

Жыл бұрын

@@Superman37891 you gotta be joking you mean the work everyone else did/experienced/wrote about and someone random got an automated voice to read screenshots of said experiences/work ? Lmao 😂😂

10th

Do you ever upload anything new anymore?

To the entitled person saying they have a life out of work and if the employer can’t respect that, you won’t work-too bad for you. Either you work the hours they give you Or leave. You can be easily replaced and why would anyone in or out of work want to deal with your entitlement? You need the job, they don’t need you. You’re not special and you better figure that out. Idk who told the younger generation they can do whatever they want and their opinion and feelings are all that matter, guess what? They don’t. You don’t always get your way. Grow up.

@davidcunningham1289

Жыл бұрын

Is that why there is a major staff shortage going on all over the place, because they don't need us? Or are you just mad this "younger generation" has more backbone then you did to not take crappy work environments.

Bruh

I am like number 193

this was reposited, most of hte content from this channal just reposts the same video

:)

First

@tiger31623

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you are second

@ashercd6487

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiger31623 yeah, they're second

I'm always first to make a comment

It’s always an issue when I see these videos and there always comments that don’t answer the original question, but this one makes me particularly annoyed. We couldn’t even get past the first comment, which was in no way answering the original question. What is it with people and not understanding what’s being asked? If you can’t answer it properly then don’t answer at all. Edit: so after watching the whole thing, you want to know how many replies actually answered the question? 9. Only 9 of them. How is r/Askreddit this braindead?