Let me clarify: the business didn't need the employee to be there, it needed the employee to be pliable.
Also, in this case: the business = the boss
Imagine posting this like it's something to be proud of.
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
You missed the !: !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
I think I may have edited it before you replied but thank you anyway. I realized my fuckup when clicking it opened my default email client...
In the first world, we have employee protections that mean that a) pulling stuff like this in the first place is illegal and that b) bragging about it on social media means that when you get dragged in front of an employment relations tribunal, your lawyer caves their forehead in with their palm and tells you that you owe back pay and penalties
Daily reminder that the US is a shit hole country.
The US will do anything but socialism
The US will do anything but socialism unless you're a corporation or wealthy individual.
FTFY
I literally told my employees back in the day that if for any reason a request was denied, just don't show up anyway. I also never asked for a reason for the request. The building won't burn down if you aren't here. Just keep in mind that someone has to pick up the slack and pay it forward.
My direct boss always wondered why employees would come in on off days to cover shifts when I was there, but not him. Don't be an ass, treat employees with respect, and surprise, surprise, people actually want to work.
Reminds me of my former employer. Would always give us time off when we requested it. Was always understanding if we needed time away or had issues going on that impacted us work. When I gave my 2 weeks notice I told him to call me if he needed cover as I knew him and his wife were going on holiday soon (the guy almost never takes proper time off). Nearly a month later he calls and mentioned one of his newer employees was out sick. Very enthusiastically agreed to come back for a week to cover them as I had started my own business. Lovely people and would always cover a skip like that in a heart beat. They’re few and far between.
I dunno who needs to hear this but, they need us more than we need them.
They keep trying to flex and act like they're in charge of everything because they sign the paychecks, the fact of the matter is that the money they give you is a paltry amount compared to what they're making from your labor. If you don't do the work, they won't make any money at all. Sure as shit the business owner isn't going to step up to do your job.
They need you. They want to convince you that you need them. They want to take your power away from you.
Employment is a two-way street. Anyone who will treat you like trash isn't worthy of your sweat.
Any manager who talks about work like that in public isn’t a manager of any high caliber.
Probably just a gas station manager or some shit
I had something similar happen once when I was a teenager, working McDonald's. Keep in mind, is not PTO it's just 'don't schedule me these days'. Handed my request to a manager like a month in advance. Before I went in the family vacation, double checked everything was fine. When I got back from vacation, went to work to get the next schedule only to get stopped and informed I was fired for 'no call no show'.
The one manager that didn't like me for some reason (honestly don't know why) had changed the schedule to explicitly get me fired. The manager I handed my request to was there and even said she remembered my request and putting it in the books but claimed there was nothing they could do.
Technically, I've been fired twice from McDonald's (second time was years later at a different McDonald's and basically the owner thought my hair was too long and I had 'girls hair'). So I cut McDonald's out of my life a long time ago. And it brings me great joy every time I read about McDonald's having financial problems or people not going there as much as they used to. I hope I live long enough to see McDonald's file for bankruptcy. And all the managers that wronged me, I've never forgotten. I wish them nothing but unhappiness and misfortune for all their days.
And all the managers that wronged me, I’ve never forgotten. I wish them nothing but unhappiness and misfortune for all their days.
seems like you already won tho. You left. They stayed.
“For the needs of the business” to feel powerful.
This. The only "need" for the business being satisfied is that one manager's "need" to hear his own voice and to lord power over someone. And such managers are the ones whom, if I were in charge of the business, I'd make redundant in a heartbeat.
I got fired as a teenager for visiting my late grandfather on his deathbed. I was fired within a few days of his death.
At work right now they're denying all the new vacation requests because we've got to make a bunch of products for customer. But they at least told us when the order was placed, so everybody took a vacation before the rush or planned one afterwards.
I've managed people for 20 years, and I've never denied a PTO request. The business has never collapsed because of that.
We have Dec 24th and 25th off this year. My entire team requested Monday, Dec 23rd off. I denied all of them (after securing it as a paid holiday).
"no one wants to work" [for dicks].
hired somewhere else a week later
They forget, they're as disposable as we are.
To be clear, the employer loses on the unemployment claim with this one without a big packet of documentation.
Can somebody explain "y'all can front if y'all want"?
edit: thanks for the replies. The differences in interpretations make me wonder why people don't just say "bluff" or "challenge me" or whatever the boss actually did mean to say. It seems like inventing slang has really accelerated in the last say 20 years. I hear so many more slang terms now. It's like everybody wants to make up their own language. Seems like non-inclusive behavior to me.
"Rebell at your own demise"
To front someone is to face them, to challenge them. This basically said "you challenge me to fire you? Challenge accepted."
I thought it was about 'putting up a front', trying to act tough without expecting blowback.
Sad. Reads like they needed a warm body but it didn't much matter who
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