@@MarshallPatrick no prob brother! Like I said before thank you for making awesome straight dead ass legit hysterical content. My pops was a GC for years and I grew up in and around the industry with all the tradesmen and you are so dead on funny!
gotta be honest, if they said something like this i think every guy especially the ones a bit more redneck thn the others will turn that into a reality faster thn management can make anything sensible happen, now i know thats enough time for anyone to figure somethin out or the world to explode either or
@@zachmiller1855 I just used the Bosses account for things like that he really should have known better then to have a Username that's literally just Mgr001.0670 and a password which is basically London01 with the number part being +1 every 4 weeks and gets set back to London01 at the start of each financial year London01 London02 London03 😂
I wonder how long it would take for a warehouse to lose 95 percent of it's workforce if they prevented them from drinking coffee, energy drinks, soda etc?
Mofos in Six Flags will tell you that we are only allowed to consume water in front of the clients. Anything else makes us look like we're either lazy or stealing from the company.
Coworker of mine once got so fed up he dropped a deuce in the complaint box. Big ole' stinky turd. Everyone knew who did it but no one was going to rat him out. Management was not amused. So they changed the box out for a laptop. Turned out that laptops don't respond well to being peed on, so that failed and so they brought back the complaint box. But then some dumbass in management sent out a memo saying you had to have prior permission to put a complaint in the box! The next week they found the complaint box overflowing with complaints about the permission requirements, which they quickly walked back on. And every 3-6 months, that same coworker would put another "deposit" in the complaint box when management did something stupid (like cut the end of year bonuses).
When I read , So they changed the box to laptop. Turns out that laptops don't respond well to being peed on, I legitimately lol'd. I genuinely needed that so ty
@@hsimpson7267 The deuce? I don't think most of us ever realized that it was there because it was in a well-ventilated area and not all dookies smell really terrible. The urine, however, was inside an office and you could smell it down the hall when I walked in on that Monday AM - someone had their fun over that weekend. That lingered for a bit.
We had this exact same issue at our place of employment. The monthly meetings had a round table at the end where any and all questions and comments could be brought up. Then we added the anonymous shoe box for questions. Real questions were asked and that lasted for the next two monthly meetings. Then it went digital. All anonymity went away, under the guise of its still anonymous. Such B.S. This is so relatable.
@@TGC1775 You still have to use an employee ID to submit that, you could file the complaint from some remote island, they still will know who sent it...
@@ProcyonDei Theres a proper way to deal with this. Have 1 employee who doesnt care about their login getting out "accidentally" leave their sign in somewhere. Me, have a me. Company I worked at had just under 500 people working there. Took them a week to have over 600 complaints filed under my login. Management knew I did it on purpose, they knew me for years and knew this was how I handled prime grade bs. But of course I went through the motions reporting lots of "suspicious" activity under my name and I think someone got my password, full on smug innocent call my bluff attitude. Toss me a turd and I will set it on fire on your doorstep with your entire workforce as my hands. They disabled the sign in for complaints after that.
except for the health and soft drink thing, that’s 100% accurate how the post office management team treats employees, can’t say shit to them or else they never stfu.
As a former PSE clerk I can confirm this. After they told me I "wasn't even a real employee" I started talking shit to them at every opportunity. They can't do anything against you expect insult you and they know it.
The reality is anytime they decide to take the coke machines out is because they wanted a higher percentage of the sales than what was right or what was agreed to.
@@AngryCosmonaut Always remember, if in a one party consent state, record any situations where you are harassed directly by management. Lawyer's love wrongful termination suits when you bring in evidence of direct harassment.
My favorite boss i ever had did this when a soda ban was started. He basically told us that he had to tell us no more soda but he was not told to enforce this new rule.
I worked for a hazmat response/industrial cleaning job that tried to tell us we couldn't buy Gatorade with the company card anymore, only water. We had to remind them what we do and threatened to shove management in a tyvek, respirator in a 130 degree tank in the middle of summer and see how long it takes them to become hyponatremic drinking only water.
@@ob2kenobi388nope, your body can't replace the electrolytes you lose when you sweat that rapidly. You can drink all the water you want, but you need the electrolytes too.
Everyone just call in sick the next day, let management do the work. Spend that day looking for a better job. Put the supervisors phone number down as a reference. Make sure you have some friends call him pretending to be future employers. 1 the supervisor will get freaked out when shows and he starts getting a bunch of reference calls from new employers 2 when your friend calls have them record it so you know what he’s saying about you. Also when he lies you can sue the company later
Depends on the state though. Some states, you have to inform the other party of the conversation they’re being recorded, or that conversation will be inadmissible in court.
Here's how you get around 'anonymous' reporting that requires your employee ID. Find out the management's employee ID number, and put that in every time. Share it around.
@XTGEDARKMAGEX remember the nearly useless cloth masks that were lauded as protection throughout the pandemic? Just in case I have a complaint, I keep one with me, and it’s oversized so it hides my face But throughout the pandemic whenever we were required to wear them, the requirements didn’t dictate what kind we wore, so I wore a ski mask
@@nicholasselke5214 If you were talking about the anti respitory particle masks that actually were up to grade? Nope. Those were very useful. Its just capitilism made sure they paid the bottom bidder on their production scale and distribution to the public, thus those were the pointless ones.
This is like when I worked at a welding shop, and the owner had to get a physical for some sort of life insurance policy. He had to quit chewing, so he tried to hang paper signs up all over the shop that said no tobacco use on company property. He kept chewing and the foreman (has his own office, is essentially a permanent office employee) would continue to chew and spit on the shop floor. Only took a couple of days of all the guys blatantly ignoring the signs for them to come down lol. Just because YOU need to do something, doesn't mean you should try and force it on all of your employees.
@@samlee1546as a welder if I step in chew spit someone would be catching unnecessary 12 inch sparks from a piece of scrap metal at inappropriate times that's foul use a bottle like the rest of us yes the bottle will most likely get spilled at some point but atleast it's not on my whip I'm dragging around my body
I used to work at Amazon. They called them “stand up meetings” where they spewed the same BS and we did the “mandatory” pre work stretch. It happened every start of shift and immediately after every lunch break. So twice per day
"It's anonymous, just put your employee number in!" Oh yeah, absolutely. The warehouse I work at tries that on us too. Every year they want us to fill out surveys on what we think of our jobs and it's 'anonymous' but you gotta put your employee number on it.
Does it spit out an error message if it's not a real employee number, and do you have to be logged in? I'd be using digits of pi, days that holidays fall on, elemental weights (92-235), or just button mashing.
We have a client that restricts energy drinks on their property. You cant even have an empty can in your truck because then it could be in your body and it's not allowed on their property even if it's inside you. All the coffee you could ever need is still allowed though.
Had a contractor like that. But as always, the unintended consequences bit them but good. They banned energy drinks on the site for employee health and safety. The young guys wouldn’t drink energy drinks on the job. They’d go out on break and lunch and then slam as many down as they could. Then they’d be pinging in the job site and getting stupid. One kid was lit up on them and hit a truck with a lift and management finally had their first energy drink-related accident.
@@IsaacSpurlock its perfectly legal. If you own the property you can make up whatever rules you want and if people aren't following your rules you can legally ask them to leave and not come back
I can't tell you how many times I've been in meetings like this . He speaks the truth ( Pack full of BS ) . Do what your told and don't ask questions . That must be a part of manager training classes .😂
That, or "emergency meetings" on things like how to open a door. They told us to pull on a door if the sign said pull, and to push if the sign said push. The reason? Someone not affiliated with our company, elsewhere in the world had been injured and so the corporate bosses decided to have the station manager give us that meeting where he talked to everyone in the office and warehouse as if we were in preschool.
"if you want to try and strap a refrigerator on the back of your forklift that's fine" Before that meeting was over a refrigerator would be on a forklift if not every forklift.
I worked at a machine shop that said no more drinks on the shop floor, they put out little tables to put your beverages on hidden away around the shop. Said it looks bad to our customer's when they see people drinking around their parts. Needless to say this place had quite a high turn over rate.
I used to work at a retail store, we had anonymous employee surveys, once every year. One time my coworker gave a real report. Corporate office saw the report, called my general manager and ask the gereral manager to speak to that employee. Unreal.
Back in the 1970's my dad worked for a bridge building company. The neighbor company that bordered the bridge company was Pepsi. Dad told me a story about the superintendent of his company got the bright idea he could get a little more work from the guys if they had nothing to drink while working. Bottled water wasn't a thing back then. So the superintendent told Pepsi to come and get the soda machine. This was the hottest part of summer. The union went on strike over the removal of the Pepsi machine. All the other unions in the area went on strike. Trains and trucks bringing in steel refused to cross the picket line. Cutting the town of 30,000 people in half with backed up trains. Pepsi was handing out free sodas to everyone on strike. The superintendent doubled down said hell will freeze over before he would back down. Three hours later the owner of the company showed and had no clue all this was going on. He asked the superintendent what was going on. All the other company owners whose factories went on strike in solidarity were mad and up dad's company owners rear end. The owner said all of this over a damn soda machine! He said I am not making money when my guys are on the street. They make me money I think they can have and deserve a cold drink working in this heat for me. He told Pepsi to bring 4 soda machines. Place them where no one has to walk a great distance to get to a cold drink. Please keep them stocked for the guys. He told the superintendent if you ever shut down my company over something so stupid again your gone.
Boss-man this had me howling! You forgot to mention the sparkling water though. Ive got a coworker that drinks La Croix like that sh*t is the essence of life. Also. I recently submitted an "anonymous" survey at work. I was not kind either. I politely but clearly laid out all the things I've seen/heard/had to do that I didn't care for. I swear the supervisors move differently around me now lol.
There is a company policy were i worked at similar to this. It was no drinks on the sales floor, yet it was fine for management to do it and leave their cups all over the store.
There was a tech company thar solicited anonymous surveys to discover complaints & concerns. Each employee was given their random anonymous paper survey sheet to fill out. Only it wasn't anonymous, every survey sheet had a code printed in incredibly small text somewhere on it & was matched with the employee not random. They find out exactly what they wanted, who are the complainers we need to get rid of, & they did.
They would deny the statement and even if you proved it somehow it would probably violate the terms of their leasing, which would leas them to fire you anyways
@@naturetime3823 you realize management in this video said for us to try it? It’s on film. You know how many companies violate their terms of service on forklift cause of stuff like this? I would know been doing it for 26 years, but please tell me again I don’t know what I’m talking about. You must be great at parties.
Had a coworker that challenged bs and he was manager. He only got laid off when the lumber mill mysteriously burnt down. Everyone was Idc if I see him in 10 years if I see him again I’m buying him a drink.
The place I work at just recently switched over to an electronic time clock system. You swipe your employee ID to clock in/out. But the kicker is there is clearly a camera on the unit. Everything you swipe, a light turns on next to the camera for a second, indicating it is taking your picture. We've been told time and time again, by management, it is NOT taking our picture. So I put a small piece of electrical tape over the camera, next day it was peeled off. So now, I put my thumb over the camera when I swipe. I'm waiting for someone from management to tell me to stop doing that, even though it supposedly does not take our picture!
i did not expect a soft drink video to have the worst "youre a peon" spiel to date. maybe when mr manager steps out one evening, he will find some boys from down teh road waiting for him at this rate.
Worked with a guy named Gary and he reminds me of the dude in the orange shirt he was never afraid to say whats on his mind and he always tried his very best to do whats right but in the end he quit due to our company cutting corners, miss that guy honestly
The last job I worked at my boss had to fire 2 people because the whole day they never drank water only soda.... in 100 degree weather in a mechanic shop ya they passed out from dehydration 1 too many times and got fired 😂
I worked at academy sports and outdoors for a good chunk of time (it was my second job) one of my managers name was Rockie, Rockie sounded just like the manager in this video and he was a real turd. Also laughed about anything critical said about his “management” you somehow embodied him perfectly. My co worker let’s call him Kevin sounds like the employee in this video I’m laughing my head off thank you man!
That warehouse break room looks exactly like the warehouse I went to get interviewed literally the next day after I submitted the application. I thought I got hired. However, I never heard back from them again.
So this is one rule I actually sort of get, and not for the reasons you might think. Working In a food processing plant, allergens are a very common thing to deal with. Believe it or not, aspartame - which is a sugar substitute that can be found in diet colas - is considered an allergen. Sugar also attracts bugs, which is kind of something you want to not have in a plant that packages what you put in your mouth. And lastly, sugar is flammable, which poses a safety risk if not cleaned. Now if you can't have soft drinks in the lunch room, that's a different story.
Topic reminds me of my 07-09 Iraq Deployment. Army wide, we forced to drink Rip It energy drinks. We wer getting 2 cases of the shorty's. A person. Then they started counting how many were drinking. Then I started experiencing heartburns. Some people were getting kidney stones. Then we were about to rebel when they started trying to counsel us for drinking water over Rip It. Like, "Is this some sort of social experiment?".
I would definitely figure out a way to strap and power a minifridge on the back of my forklift. Management just gave me the ok after all. I’ll take that suggestion as allowance and consent to do it.
New subscriber here. Algo Rithm finally sent you to me.😂 Love the channel. Our head of HR said on a conference call to make sure we accessed the employee survey with the special code specifically for us. Reminder that it's totally anonymous. They removed the center console cup holders from our service vans because studies show that drinking ANYTHING while driving is hazardous to our health. You can't make this shite up it's everyone's life experiences being told.
1. This man isnt acting.. i think he actuslly starts to get into the role and gets vidibly upset lmao. Its perfect. 2. That "anonymous" shit is so true. I work at a hospital so we have to do that random ass training onlime every now and then. Shit you not there was a training segment of what to do if you get harassed and want to report it anonymously... one of the options was to email hr through your work email. . . Wtf lmao
Old shop I worked in? The productivity would be reduced to negative numbers if pop was outlawed. One of the best operators we had existed on coke and microwaved Spaghetti-Os.
I can deal with the plans changing 37 times a week, never having what I need when I need it. Or working 15 hours a day for 3 weeks straight without any time off, but you mess with my Mountain Dew, and I will burn shit to the ground with a smile on my face.
A lot of people at mills have a little cooler in their forklifts. That's all I thought when he said how boutique you put a little fridge at the back of your forklift
I am in a totally different line of work, but I have had managers at some jobs I worked take the exact same line of being above the rules, even industry standard safety procedures, as well as constant micromanaging without ever bothering to learn how things work. At that job, a customer-facing job, the biggest factor in how well my day went was not how busy the day was going but how many literal and figurative messes i would have to clean up from problem bosses.
That manager ain’t going to have soda in his fridge for long since all the “peonies” are going help “insure” that there isn’t a single can or bottle of soda left on company property.
TBH, we do have one complaint/feedback system in a tool that we use. It says its anonymous, but the only person who could, if needed, to check who sent it is me. And I wouldn't.. I have just stated that "it doesn't work like that" and "I cant find out".
