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The new, last minute TS policy.
Boss's babysitter must be on holiday too
I'll take made up stories for 500 Alex
I assume that they will also be issuing uniforms since your own clothes are personal items!
Is there a part 3?
I didn't actually think this was going to continue, and in that exact way. I was joking - i didn't expect the manager to *actually* be walking right into that.
I work at a university and IT had just run a system upgrade on a test system which reactivated the notification emails (that are only supposed to run from the live system). I set up a test record in the system and promptly received an email from the Director of Planning asking whether I was seriously proposing the creation of a Master of Arts in Basketweaving 🙃
Why do these managers not put this in the calendar or look at it.
To the toilet, my work had tried to tell us we were only allowed to use the bathroom on our lunch break. So people started submitting doctors notes to HR saying it’s a health reason to go when they need. The management came back saying “you are not allowed to submit doctors notes to HR” anymore. Everyone just lost respect for the management and just ignored them from then on.
"You should have messaged me." What is the point of messaging this guy? He doesn't review the schedule. He doesn't look at the calendar. He doesn't read his email. WHY THE HELL SHOULD ANYONE ASSUME HE WILL CHECK HIS BLOODY MESSAGES??
I don’t answer my phone or text messages when I’m not at work, plain and simple
And then they question why no one is having children… excuse me ma’am, did you take a mortgage out on your home?? If yes, then you bought something that you couldn’t afford and so did your entire generation.. it was called “living” and now it’s called “national debt”, and you won’t pay it…. This generation is doing exactly what it was told and the crows are coming to roost. Tell your grandchildren how hard you worked.. oh wait.
Wow. I've seen the company I work for do things akin to this. It's sleezy.
I had something like this with a boss. I asked him for confirmation of something as wasn't sure, he said yes that is what to do. I then got called into a meeting for doing it wrong and when I said I had checked with him I got told well you obviously asked at a time when I was busy and not really listening.....and it was still my fault
He also called me in for drinking coffee at 10am when I didn't start my shift until 10.30....
"Why did you go to the funeral?" "Because it wasn't you, it was someone I respected."
Craig gets paid in end of year bonus and quarterly performance analysis.. Craig isn’t paid income or hourly and therefore doesn’t give AF… make ALL employee’s (including owners) hourly and this kind of BS disappears
Yeah, that's slightly against the law... Would love to see how that would neasure up against the ADA...
Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency for me.
my favorite is when a person calls in sick and must find a replacement to work their shift... I understand the need to have someone there, but do you really want them there if they are red-nosed, sneazing, and so on when in customer relations?
😮 of course you can move around the time your family member decided to die... That manager is unhinged!
And this is why you just do not read messages or answer phone calls from your boss when you're on your annual leave. Seriously. Just don't pick up the phone.
The employee sounds like he should be the manager and the manager should be in the unemployment line
I'd have tested that manager, "It's _your job_ to read those emails & keep up with all of _your_ tasks. That's why they pay _you_ the big bucks, Sir. I'll see you when I return, good bye."
“Your lack of awareness on team correspondence is not my responsibility”
One of my close friends shot himself in 2017, and I had taken the call while on shift at work. I explained to my boss I needed to leave as I was a mess after that call, she proceeded to tell me "this is why we don't answer the phone at work." I was able to leave, unfortunately didn't stand up for myself to her.
I think departing words "f... you" would be appropriate. What. A. Dick.
I had a nightmare boss once who finally realized I had too much work (in her words I had an overly filled platter, not a plate) so I trained a colleague to take 30% of my work. Five months later she then said I wasn't working enough with what they were paying me. 14 years I had the best reviews and all of a sudden this? She was a frof in a frying pan not knowing where to jump most of the time. I devided to quit, then she wanted me to finish out the quarter for year end balancing. Good lord, I couldn't run fast enough out of there
And folks wonder why I didn't respond at all when my boss called me on my first day of my vacation. 😉
Fine have to do it then. What a response is he trying to guilt him for daring having a life away from the company. Everything the boss said was trying to put fault on employee. Him signing of on holiday, how is he to remember that, when it’s his job to know. You should have said just before, he did the handover and email everyone. Plus how is it their fault he doesn’t read emails, what’s the Point of having a work email if he not going to bother with it
Save those texts. I would go talk to HR on my own and tell them this garbage is completely inappropriate.
i hope she made copies of all of those any anti marrying emails, sounding like legal action
Not without a contract
🤣🤣🤣🤣........no.
Wow, the first moment I'd hear a bell for lunch break would be my first cue to start looking for another job, lol ! Obviously, I'm thinking of this in the context of an office or something similar. I believe that a manufacturing job I once worked at in the late 70s did have a bell, and that was okay, because it was a somewhat noisy place, compared to an office or lab work places etc.
Screenshots of the texts and send them to the boss' boss with a note statingthat any more interupptions by the boss will result in the employee getting holiday pay and additional PTO time. Employee's boss is an idiot.
i wish 'thick skin' had been a requirement at my office
This conversation should have ended with "Ooops my bad, I shouldn't have tried bothering to be nice with that phone call in the cab. Because of your attitude I'm now not going to do that either. Goodbye!" 😈
Sue him for slander.
This should go straight to HR anyway, because it sounds like there needs to be a known precedent for the manager not doing their job and then trying to lay blame on underlings.
It sounds like the boss was testing the waters to see what he can get away with this employee. I'm glad they stood their ground. If they relented and paid, the boss would have repeated this the next time😊.
Multiple studies have shown that remote work has INCREASED productivity for the workers that work remotely. Any business in existence will have higher productivity if the workers are happy.
He has no idea what's going on beneath him. No idea! Should he?! He needs three reminders, not just two!
This is why you dont answer text or email when you are off
I've called people on leave before, then said "oh, sorry, let's talk when you get back, have a good trip. Cheers." We're not doctors or paramedics, nobody is dying while we push work back a week
Perhaps they should swap roles if the manager is not capable of actually, you know, managing a team? 🤷
If someone want to leave you for a client. Maybe it's a sign that you're a cunt.
Just answer, “sure. You will need to pay the flights for me the family and the hotel and all relevant cost as this vacation was preplanned and will need to happen the way was planned.”
It's so good to hear about a boss who ISN'T terrible on this channel. Obviously the bad bosses are more entertaining, but...
Straight to HR with that guy then. He clearly has no business being a manager if he can't even handle a schedule and email.
I just told my boss today I'm on holiday next weeks Friday (so not tomorrow) and the Monday after that, so a long weekend. His reply: just remember to mark it in the calendar so he sees it and knows not to call me. Northern Europe here