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In the US, employees can quit any job at any time, unless they are under an actual (legal) contract. There are no requirements for bonuses, but actual paychecks have strict delivery deadlines, and people who aren't getting paid after leaving should first demand their paycheck, and then speak with their state's labor board or department (which may have different names, depending on which state it is). That camera under the break-room table looks like an attempt at getting "up-skirt" photography, so that's a felony in most states. Denying restroom visits when needed is a violation of basic human dignity, and probably employment law as well. Definitely a violation for any part of management to take the tips intended for line workers. These companies take advantage of people not knowing their rights. They should be reported to authorities and to customers -- the latter is often more effective at correcting bad behavior on the part of businesses.
@@TheRealScooterGuy "In the US, employees can quit any job at any time, unless..." It's not at "any time" then. You can't waive your rights under any "legal" contract in the civilized world (i.e., not in the U.S., apparently).
I like how we (maybe millennials) are told: *"Quit complaining, we had it worse, do what you're told! Have to do what you have to do"* *"None of you want to work! You care only about (insert whateverthephuk) and your way of thinking and logic is immature, childish (insertwhateverthefuk)"* *"You NEED to stay with the company for at least 20 years or more to become recognized and "Eventually" you will move up within the company which comes with raises"* *"It does not matter how you are treated because (insertwhateverthefuk) you should be thankful you have job because (Insertwhateverthefuk) they pay you"* *"You receive what you put into it! Because (insertwhateverfuk) you will never know what struggles and hardships "WE" have been through and what are you willing to sacrifice?"* Ohhh man I could go on for days, maybe weeks! Anyone else able to relate to this!? Disturbingly hilarious they expect us to shovel shit in our mouth with a smile from ear to ear and be "Thankful" *"Are you not thankful!?!?"* No... *"Shocked Pikachu Face"*
I got a job at Walmart, and my manager was a piece of fucking shit right outta the gate. I told him that the job wasn't for me and quit. Fucking two weeks later the asshole calls me up and asks me why I hadn't been showing up at work, and asked me if I was cool to come in for a shift that afternoon. I fucking lost it on the guy. Come to find out that it wasn't uncommon for Walmart to try to pressure people who quit into coming back like that.
I was a store manager of 10 people. We hit our Black Friday sales goals and my regional manager said to get everyone a pizza party... she sent me a $20 prepaid card to get it. So... I gave the #1 salesperson the $20 gift card and used the company credit card to purchase a reasonable meal. Fast forward... I got in alot of trouble.
What you should do next time is refuse it and have everyone sign a paper that its not enough money for anyone to eat and its disrespectful. File a formal complaint
Not getting paid well at my current job IS LITERALLY the reason why I'm leaving it! The fuck is wrong with 0:13 where they say that "it's not about the money." Money is LITERALLY the ONLY reason why I go to work! If someone just gave me a check that paid for my monthly necessities for doing nothing, I'd do nothing.
it depends; past a certain threshold money stops being the most important factor in keep employees; I think its 85k/yr. Obviously this doesnt count for some of the places shown in this vid and I'm sure some HR drone in retail corpo HQ actually thinks that applies to people making 8 bucks an hour...
@@peterberg3446 Which is probably the case for HR clowns who came from wealth and work just to have something to do while dad and husband pays for their existence
If you took someone from a workplace in 1970, and put them down in a workplace today - they'd think there must have been an alien invasion and the humans were now serfs.
Last year, the hospital "celebrated" my mom's 50th year of employment there with a $50 coupon to the gift shop. She only makes $1 per hour more than the brand new hires. I still see red when I think about this.
That randomly unplugging the fridge to save energy is the opposite of saving energy. Any fridge from the last 20 years has a power saving technique where it shuts itself off when the set temperature is reached. If you unplug it randomly, the temperature will rise and it will take even more energy to bring the temp down when it gets plugged again.
All refrigerators, its called a thermostat. What it does is overwork the compressor, and put the internal temperature into unsafe territory potentially getting someone very sick.
@@TheDude397 Management is almost invariably the people too lazy/incompetent to work, so they get jobs where the "job" is hiding in their office or interrupting work with stupid ideas, yep.
You'd be amazed. Most people don't care about their recruitment techniques, they're just looking for a job to pay the bills. That's how these corpses get away with so much shit in the first place, nobody even notices until they're committed to a job where Christmas feels more like Lucifer's birthday than Jesus.
thats boomer mindset for you, just shame people into working for you and problem solved. its not like we have EVOLVED beyond animals over the last 24,000 years, ah hell naw, thats just a conspiracy theory by the lazy leftists. anyways sarcasm and bashing of boomer logic aside, you right it won't, but try telling that to someone with a boomer mindset. it would be like talking to a brick wall.
Over 30 years ago worked as a secretary in a law firm Senior partner's wife was the office manager. In my yearly eval i was given poor marks and no raise because though i had been "great" for almost the whole year, I had to be out for a week at the end of December because i suffered a miscarriage and had to have outpatient surgery. Yeah. She was awful.
12:19 Have you ever heard of "scrip"? In the late 19th and early 20th century, major mining and logging companies would set up worker towns, and then issue the workers scrip instead of money. Scrip was a currency that was only accepted by the company's own stores, and had absolutely no value otherwise, and could not be exchanged for dollars. Payment in scrip was banned in the early 20th century, and is now only practised by companies who hope people don't know it's illegal.
thank God it's illegal for companies to do that today. I can just imagine a world in which i worked for an airline that paid me entirely in mileage plan miles, but they had 100% authority to change the values of the miles / prices of individual things. Makes me think of how dictators in a bunch of different countries have decided to print money to solve their budget problems, making the old money worthless and requiring them to issue bigger and bigger denominations until they run out of room to print more zeroes on their bills.
Regarding the unpaid overtime note: “Dear boss, I appreciate your desire to see productivity improve without driving up labor costs. It reminds me of the way you save the company money by leaving out those pesky apostrophes. A bunch of us just got off a conference call with the US Department of Labor. They’ll be dropping by Monday. I’d recommend you do the right thing and pack up your office (on your own time) this weekend. Eliminating redundant, overpaid and ineffective management is only one way we’re committed to this company. Signed, The New Guy”
Absolutely perfect! Although I would add "with all the grammatical errors within this post I am inclined to call this message a scam hence the need for official investigation...for the sake of company security"😎👌
Nah they wanna be like that id just say Im not about to get used by you, pay me for extra labor. I would get fired but im sure there are better places to work
I got a Christmas bonus of $100.00 one year. The next year it was $100.01. I asked the boss "so if I stay here 100 years I get another dollar"? Everybody laughed. Except the boss.
It's exponential. You'll get another penny next year, then another two the next, then four, then eight, and soon you'll be multiple dollars over, just in a few decades!
@@westsidelester And somebody doesn't understand how to do math. The first year was 100 and the second was 100.01 the third would be 100.02 then you'd do you calculation to the 28th power and you'd have to add 100 dollars on after which you also didn't do here. You thought you were a very very smart person and instead just showed everybody that not only are you trying to be a know it all you screwed it up.
@@thomgizzizexcept the start of the three decades was never specified anyone of any meaningful intelligence would be able to conclude he must have been referring to the second year bonus as year 0 then running 30 years from that also he said “your… pennies” maybe if you spent more time being a worthwhile human being instead of a waste of earths oxygen you would understand that.
I worked at a certain healthcare facility, where our unit was designated to take "call outs". We had a book we were supposed to write the name, time and date they called, what unit they were scheduled to work, and REASON for calling out. Later in the day (i.e. regular business hours when the management folks strolled in) someone would call and ask for the list. One employee had a family member who needed extensive medical care and she called out for appointments and such, using her FMLA leave. I put "FMLA leave" as the reason. A manager told me "You have to ask them the exact reason, you can't just put FMLA." I responded with "Do they have an approved FMLA form?" (answer was yes) "Okay, then that's all the information I am entitled to since I am not a member of the family member's health care team. Have you heard of this law called HIPAA? It's not just for OUR patients. It's for EVERYONE." Ugh!
is your manager a nurse, or someone with actual clinical experience? because I am finding that at most hospitals you dont have to go very far up the ladder to find people that have NO clinical experience or background whatsoever....
When I left the job I had before my present one, they wanted me to do an "Exit Interview". I asked the HR lady; "Ok... please tell me why I want to do that." And she said, "To help us understand why people are leaving and... blah blah.." And I said, "You did not listen to the question- I asked you why I... as in Me.. want to do this. I did not ask you why YOU want to do it." I was amused by her inability to form a coherent response. And , there was no "Exit Interview". Bloody corporate Meat Puppets..
I only did an exit interview once because I wanted to keep them happy enough to provide a good reference for my next job, feels like blackmail to be honest. Boss asked why people were leaving, I didn't say because they're toxic!! I just said I don't know..
wow someone else that understands US labor laws. I live in an at will State and constantly have to inform my coworkers that at will does not mean the boss can just fire you for no reason.
Also you can always contact the health department and fire department and have a surprise inspection done. cheapskates like these usually have something that will ruin them.also inform the IRS.
I left a retail job because they used the cameras to watch us, not the customers. They would decide if we were working fast enough. Btw, customers were constantly shoplifting and no one was ever confronted.
Yup! I worked for a retail place that I loved, but shoplifting was constantly happening in the back corner of the store yet corporate kept blaming employees for the losses and forced management to check purses, pockets, etc on exit (but only for the closing shift, of course).
A boss from a previous job told me I had to stay on after completing my work hours so production can finish. I asked if I was getting anything extra or overtime, he said "no". I clocked out and went home. Never let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Give them an inch, they'll take a mile. I also got a similar Christmas gift of a couple of chocolates from a different job where I worked for 12 years.
problem is we will get fired man. the market is tough, if you've got a job, even a shutty job, you are one of the lucky ones. maybe you've got the correct features to add diversity to an hr's portfolio and you can get a job anywhere, but for us blancos its bend over and take it or else sleep in the gutter with the roaches. i cant afford to lose my job, so when my boss says jump, i jump. and when my boss gives me an empty bag, i say thank you.
problem is we will get fired man. the market is tough, if you've got a job, even a shutty job, you are one of the lucky ones. maybe you've got the correct features to add diversity to an hr's portfolio and you can get a job anywhere, but for us blancos its bend over and take it or else sleep on the sidewalk. i cant afford to lose my job, so when my boss says jump, i jump. and when my boss gives me an empty bag, i say thank you.
@@kitkat47chrysalis95 Take it, sleep on the sidewalk, or learn to be more valuable than you are now, sure. If you can't say "no" then you can't negotiate.
@kitkat47chrysalis95 WTF are you talking about? You blancos have the best jobs, you make the most money. If you have a low paying job as a white person then you failed at life. Only recently that you blancos have to compete like the rest of us and you whine and moan like beeches.
We had a guy from corporate come down for a staff meeting at our clinic. He said, "Lunch was on me today." He a 12 piece chicken bucket for a clinic with over 30 employees
When I worked at CVS i got a phone call from corporate that told me to quit checking people out and send them through self checkout. So I had a guy watching the cameras who wasn’t even at my store who told me how to do my job. Now that’s micromanaging hell
I live in a really small town (less than 1000 people). We just got a new Dollar General built. Management really thought they were gonna make that shit slick, and modern, and faaaancy for us little mountain folk. Computerized self-checkouts (that require a constant and I assume reasonably strong internet connection... which is laughable to think about here) and ONE singular manned checkout counter, for the if the self checkouts were busy or down. Well, they have mostly been down since about the first week of the store opening. I went in there once or twice and actually got to to use things the way they set it up, and ever since ALL self-checkouts are 'down' (I have a theory that IF the local internet ISN'T what's stopping them, it's that we are a poor community and also sadly riddled with drugs so I don't think they realized how much theft was going to occur with self-checkouts lol). Must be GREAT for the employees that weren't supposed to have to constantly be watching the checkout area so they could focus on everything else.
Well, you needed somebody to tell you how to do your job obviously. Good thing that wonderful corporate executive was aware of the situation and took the time out of his busy day to call you up and give you some pointers.
That don't seem to understand the self checkout is now why their stores are devoid of customers. The local CVS is a UPS drop spot too, but noone will use it since there are no employees guarding the packages now anyone can just run in there and steal them. I don't see how they are still in business.
Our company used the give every employee a $100 bill and throw a beautiful party with a live band, great food, prize drawings, photo booths, etc. As of last year they announced no party, even though the profits were the highest in history. Instead we each got a pair of whimsical socks, a small bag of chips, and a candy bar (to shove up our butts I guess).
Similar thing happen to me, at first the company feels like new family to me. We help each other to finish that day target. Sometime we create small party at break, each one bring food and we eat together. Slowly the company grow bigger, much more people. Isn't it good? To the boss? Yes, but to me is a no. Why? There's many reasons for that. He start to put camera on every corner to make sure "we fully work". No more party on break, no more working together, just get your own job done, it doesn't feels like family anymore. In the past i can get fast sleep (around 20-30 minute) to recharge my self every break time, but now I can't even sit for 20 minute before someone call for me. I start to get sick once every month so I decide to quit the job :(
Every time i see cups, plates and gift wrappings with measly amounts of candy and phrases like "You make us snow happy", " company name strong, etc." My eyes roll back in disgust because i know these are probably the same people in HR that hang "live, laugh, love" shit all over their desks and cube walls. Seeing beige or white objects with serif font and cute motivational phrasing or imagery (outside of wedding settings) is starting to make me physically ill.
yep. my company actually expects people in the office to set up that shit for free. and somehow, it's ONLY THE WOMEN DOING IT. i have never once seen a man set up anything like that. and i worked in the office 3 years pre-covid. personally I detest the fuck out of it and refused participation in any of it.
My ex had those tacky motivational phrases on pretty much every wall in her house, even the bathroom and kitchen. It had the opposite effect, it just pissed off every guest that came over. Sick of the sight of that stuff 😂
6:04 Not only is the restaurant required to have bandages, but they're required to have BLUE bandages so that if it accidentally falls in the food it's immediately visible.
HR does not heed any advice given during exit interviews. HR also lies that anything and everything shared during an exit interview would be kept confidential.
Never, EVER trust HR Dept. for ANYTHING to "remain confidential" . I was told what was said in HR STAYED in HR, when i went to report a serious, valid violation made by my Supervisor i was assured it "will remain confidential". Yeah, right, i didnt even make it back to my Dept before that Supervisor met me in the hallway and started cussing me out and repeated what i just told HR nearly word for word.,they obviously called him the second i left HR and told them everything. "confidential" my a**!
@@mikebryant614 On break, overheard HR people talking to "emotional support" counselors called in to interview employees, saying they wouldn't cater to these "wimps".
That's like sitting down with your ex immediately after you dump them, and giving them intensive notes on self-improvement to work on for the coming months. The point of breaking up is to *end* the relationship, not make it more complicated.
I was told multiple times at the last place I worked that, if you didn't give a glowing response about the company on your exit interview you'd be marked "not available for rehire." You may not care about being able to be rehired at the place, but if a future job calls for reference for the job you worked at for 15 years and they say they wouldn't rehire you but aren't even legally allowed to say why it doesn't look great for you, right? It's blackmail.
That McDonald's sign that says employees are not allowed to quit until speaking with a supervisor, are you going to try and physically stop people from walking off the job?! Good luck with that!
More or less what they don't do for you is take you off their employment list, so you can't apply for unemployment or any other kinds of action. For instance you apply for another job they do a follow-up call and they say Well no he's still works for us She whatever
@patchdavis35 Quite true. That's capitalism. Plus, some of these jobs are not meant to be lifelong careers. Raising the wages will just bump up the cost of living down the road as we're seeing today.
@@Zoloft77 Well, Zoloft, dear, we can guess how YOU are dealing with things. I hope you brought enough for everyone. Complaining that giving ANYONE a raise will only make it harder for EVERYONE is a VERY OLD strategy used by companies who don't want to give ANYONE a raise. Also, just what kinds of jobs would you consider "meant to be lifelong careers"? Is there even such a thing anymore?
@@Zoloft77 Thank you for your emotional intelligence. I half expected to get blessed out as usual. Working people need to stop blaming each other for our sorry state and, in the words of the late Irish singer, "Fight the real enemy". I'm impressed with you.
I once left and went home from my job as a mail carrier in front of an advancing hurricane. We had often been instructed that we would not be required to work in "unsafe" conditions. On that morning, we were still anxiously expecting we might be sent out into the storm,. The Sheriff's office had even pulled their Deputies in off the streets. Twenty minutes after I went home, "the call" came from our main office, 50 miles away, sending all employees home on "Administrative leave" (paid) for the day. As I had left before "the call" came, I was WOPd (With out Pay) for the day, even though I had shown up for duty, and had driven through the advancing storm in my effort to show up and do my job. Thanks, Boss.
@@AdmiralStoicRum Wow. You think I will actually be able to force the boss to give me written documentation showing he is violating the labor laws, and then I'll have the resources to hire a lawyer to submit my case to the Department of Labor on my minimum wage salary. After he fires me, I could then wait a few years for it to go through the courts. Great Idea! That's what I'll do! Thanks for the advice!
12:08 I have had that happen to me. The manager deemed it necessary to remind me that I was contractually bound, so I reminded her that failure to pay for services rendered made our contract null and void. I gave her 24 hours to fix it. In 12 hours 3 paychecks hit my account.
Lol Home Dep makes employees watch videos that have actors acting out situations. Some show union recruiters as sneaky dangerous people that some times show up pretending to be a customer or get hired to be disguised as a fellow employee. They're real motive is not to help you but to get control of you and make you have to pay them big chunk of money out of your check. You're to report such scary persons to management immediately and hand in any union paraphernalia you've come across in the store.
The problem with unions is they never know when to stop pushing and end up ruining everything. Just look at the UAW, they're literally bankrupting the companies. I'm sorry, but pulling a lever on an assembly line is not worthy of a six-figure income.
People wouldn’t hate unions so much IF UNIONS WOULD STICK TO THEIR INTENDED PURPOSE! At this point corporations and unions are running neck-and-neck in treating workers like cattle or disposable worker bees. Unions need to focus on worker needs and stop paying the people at the top big bucks (i.e. OUR excessive dues) for ignoring us in favor of doing all kinds of unrelated weird shit!
The disgusting microwave at my job had a sticky note saying, “keep the microwave clean like the one you use in your house!” I stuck a note on that one saying,”which is it?! Do you want it clean or like the one at my house?!”
I worked at a public utility. Some genius decided putting the copier in the break room was a good idea "due to the noise distracting people." A lot more distracting when you're trying to read and people start asking questions about work while you're trying to eat. Pretty soon, no one was taking breaks or lunches in the break room. I understand some of the supervisors were upset about this because they couldn't find their employees to ask questions whenever they wanted to.
You hear people say, "No body wants to work anymore." No, nobody wants to work crappy, dead end jobs, where they're not treated well, and don't earn a livable wage. And then, people read this and say, "They just need to stop whining, it's a job, and you are not supposed to like it." Well, that's BS because if an employee isn't happy, or at least comfortable, their productivity will be subpar, and they will quit as soon as something better comes along. The military figured this out in the late '90s and early 2000s. They realized it costs less to improve pay and benefits in order to retain a trained service member, than what it costs to recruit and train a new one. A lot of civilian businesses still haven't figured this out because there has always been a consistent stream of people willing to do the work. At least until now.
I switched jobs almost a year ago and the difference was clear from day 1. To make a long story short I'd much rather work 4 hours every day doing hard physical labor in a place that actively encourages me to take care of my health and to take regular breaks, stay hydrated, etc and that treats us all like human beings and actually cares and provides for us and has our backs and pays well and gives regular performance raises and buys us free meals from Panera and has amazing benefits and is just generally a pleasant place to be in Than EVER step foot in a Wendy's kitchen again for ANY amount of time
The nursing home industry hasn't figured out that treating nurses and CNAs like crap causes 99% of the problems in the nursing home enviornment. If patients and family members would scream at management instead the workers, maybe things would change for everyone. People don't quit jobs, they quit managers.
Had a boss that called an “emergency meeting” for me and 3 co-workers. When we rushed in, he was sitting behind his desk and in front of him was an unwrapped candy bar broken into 4 pieces. He said he just wanted to thank us for doing a good job and we could all share the candy bar. What a douchebag.
1:51 It's bad enough that they have the gall to pressure their workers into giving them free labor (which is undoubtedly skirting the law), but then they have to make it all the more infuriating by using "your", the possessive, in place of "you're", the contraction, misspell "their", and switch interchangeably from second to third person.
I noticed that too and audibly barked a laugh! Like if YOU'RE going to request these things of YOUR employees, the least you could do is have proper grammar!
I came to the comments to write those grammar mistakes. While not being able to learn grammar rules of their mother language voluntarily and writing those in their mother language, where did he find the audacity to want them to work for him voluntarily?
Of its illegal as hell. You can not legally do anything to benefit your employer without compensation. Working off the clock is completely illegal and companies can be fined for it.
They got us a ping pong table a while back and they wondered why we never used it. It couldn't possibly be because we were working our asses off and still getting more piled on and oh, I'll just use my 10 minute break to spank a ball around.
Develop a better skillset. The vast majority of the “employer is cheap” situations employ unskilled labor, thus your labor isn’t valued. With a better in demand skillset, things get much much better.
Spoken like someone who is management. Even better skill set employees can get screwed over by incompetent, lazy, greedy or outright asshole managers. I work at UPS, we bust our asses, but management gets a year end bonus off our hard work.
I heard of a woman, first day on a job, goes to lunch to find THE MICROWAVE to hear up your food is COIN OPERATED. And I think they were paying for coffees no doubt.
This remind me with the story i heard somewhere, every paycheck day there will be bazaar outside the office, guess who own it? The boss itself 🤣 there's no way i would let the money i earn goes back to the boss pocket
Why the hell would they coin operate the microwave? That's going to drive people to leave the building and eat at a restaurant everyday rather than bring lunch from home. Now they're going to be later in coming back from lunch, thus lost productivity hours. Paying for coffee at least I can understand, but not a dollar for a single cup! Make it a quarter or something, just enough to cover the cost of the coffee grounds.
@@benwagner5089 It is truly silly to someone who understands electric rates. You could operate a microwave for one hour for around $0.30 in electricity (depending on the microwave and local electric rates) so typically, microwave users will be using somewhere around $.01 to $.02 worth of energy per-meal to heat food. That said, if the boss is charging $.25 to $1 for that coin-op microwave then it's still probably way cheaper than going out to eat. Just cruel for a company to charge a 1000% markup to use their microwave.
6:45 Definitely can confirm the FedEx one, during the initial COVID outbreak we were told we'd receive hazard pay, time off if you tested positive, and cleaning supplies to stay safe at work. We received no extra pay, we were forced to use our sick days even if we weren't the ones that contracted COVID (like say if you were living with someone that caught it and were forced to quarantine), and the cleaning supplies had to be bought by us initially and we were never reimbursed. We received the pin in this video and a silicone armband for "thanks for being essential employees" and making the company over a billion dollars that year...
OOO! A PIN! Gee, thanks, Boss! Is that better than getting a sticker with a picture of a cat that says, "MeWOW"? It's so gratifying to know I'm appreciated!
I also work there, tbh, when covid hit i just looked at the data and went, i'm not even going into most buildings for more than a minute, didn't catch it, made quite a bit of money with "response" though We did lose a ton of managers to "response", but not covid
I got blacklisted by my local FedEx cause one of their drivers tried to hit me with their truck when I was trying to flag them down (they delivered the wrong package) and I called them. They outright said “we won’t deliver to you anymore then” instead of firing the person responsible.
Amazon refusing to let workers use the bathroom? HAH! I’ve got the perfect counter. Wear diapers to work until your boss gets sick of the place smelling like shit, and the rule gets repealed.
Like, they could have at the very least made some cheap confetti out of colored paper or something, put SOMEthing in that bag. But then again I guess that'd be too much effort for their (Corporate) laziness.
One of the many reasons that we need Unions so badly in the South. Employers here can be viciously abusive. Fortunately for me, I work for myself, primarily because of the labor conditions here.
If you work for yourself why do you care if another place does or doesn't have a union? Sounds like the last thing any place needs is unions. Go union and go out-of-business because the businesses aren't tolerating unions anymore.
@@roybatty5028 They do absolutely no such thing. They may have been a necessity 60 years ago but they certainly are not a necessity today. Maybe you should go count the amount of businesses that have gone bankrupt or closed their doors because unions showed up.
The smaller print explains that no one is allowed to quit without talking to management first. It seems an attempt at conflict resolution, but really poorly executed.
Yeah the second time the company I worked for had problems getting us our paychecks the entire nightshift clocked out and went home. Amazingly our checks were there the next next day. We were working for a new contractor within a month.
I can speak from experience saying not all retails are shit. At least the TJ Maxx I work at treats us like human beings and goes above and beyond to support us. I'd rather DIE than ever set foot in a Wendy's kitchen again...
@@Kinokoumori Same. I worked at the old B.Dalton's. The manager at the one store was a gem, we would bust our humps for him without complaint. The next time I worked at a B.Daltons the manager there was an evil petty little shrew, who got upset when I told her I couldn't work the shift I was assigned because I was in training at a new full-time job. "Well, you tell them that you need to be here at this job and can't take time off from it!" Right, the job that lets me pay my bills, and I just started, wow, a hell of a good look.
My god. I think I'd prefer NO appreciation gift instead of what is clearly a slap in the face. Reminds me of last Fathers day where my manager gave out these shitty clearance multitools. Fell apart in 2 days from me just opening it to see what tools it had
@@Puggy42069 I don't know where you live, but where i live unions exist solely to ensure the state will get it's 25% share from the union contribution, which was MANDATORY until 2017, then became mandatory again in 2023. It's featherbedding at it's finest.
@@rhapsodymipo I have no idea what you mean by "exist solely to ensure the state gets it's share." As far as politics are concerned, corporations which are firmly ANTI Union bribe state and federal lawmakers to crush unionizing by passing "right to work laws" and other anti-union measures. It seems clear to me who's really "featherbedding."
I’ve been extremely fortunate to work for unionized jobs my whole life (maybe 2 or 3 that weren’t). Obviously didn’t stay long at the non-union places, but dedicated decades to the unionized jobs (and was a ‘good worker’ in return). Now collecting my well earned and hard fought pension. Unions are so important! And being active for your union is what keeps it strong! You don’t need a degree to have a good living. People need to spend time fighting for / voting for their right to a decent living.
Don’t sit inside ANY break room for your break. Go outside sit in your car or under a tree. Our break room is so disgusting the cleaning people don’t clean it and I want to spend my break in the sunshine. The conditions inside are deplorable. GET OUTSIDE!
@@icedriver2207 -- I suspect that the comment means the doors lock behind you when you exit the building, and nobody is there to let you back in. Thus, not a fire code violation, but still a problem during night shift. I previously worked at a place like this. We could get back in the front door with our employee badges, but the doors to the patios were locked at night, and it was about a quarter-mile walk (400M) to get back to the front door. Propping one of those patio doors open at night for more than about 90 seconds would set off an alarm, so that wasn't an option either.
A company from Europe opened up an office in New York , around 3 years ago. They advertised for staff, and stated the working hours ( mon - fri 9-5 ) and the pay ( reasonable , way above minimum wage ) and the benefits. 10 days sick leave per year , 3 weeks vacation in the first year, rising after that , full health coverage , etc normal european working conditions. Everyone thought it was a joke. No job could be that good. No one applied. The company brought in 30 staff from Europe .
Not always the case. ALPLA, which is a company from Europe, is currently the subject of a class action lawsuit for forcing their employees to work unpaid overtime.
Depends on where you live. Despite losing the civil war and dissolving the confederacy, America still has a confederacy. We got 51 mini-nations and they all like to do their own thing. Each state and D.C. has laws about what you can and cannot do to employees.
@@jimnorthland2903 Believe it or not, I can't get hired for those, either. I was fired from a commission only job after two weeks. My guess is that I intimidate people with my intelligence, but I really don't know.
The one at 1:20 that tells you not to push a button or you will kill people is a giant osha violation. If the machine can kill you it should definitely have lockout tags on it. A local sawmill had an incident several years ago where someone didn’t use a lockout tag and they stepped into a piece of machinery and someone else hit a button on it and they were killed. Don’t do something dangerous for someone else’s company to save them money. I had a boss at my last job who refused to rent a lift to hang fascia on a tall building even though his ladders weren’t tall enough. He wanted us to put his tallest ladders in the bucket of a skid steer and then he would lift us up the last 10 feet. I walked off that job. Apparently nobody died there after I left because they used the ladders in the skid steer to finish the job.
Once upon a time, it seems like a lifetime ago, I worked for Ford Motor Credit in Dearborn, MI. At the time, the President and CEO was a guy named Don Winkler. When we did a good job on something, our immediate superior could nominate us for a reward, which consisted of "Wink Bucks." Fake dollar bills with Don's face on them. You could redeem your Wink Bucks for merchandise that was listed in an online catalog. I got some once, and they were enough for me to get a pack of like 30 tennis balls. That sounds cheap, but good, quality, tennis balls aren't, and I played tennis, so I appreciated the git. Well, ole Don thought he was the shit. One day, he gave a handful of Wink Bucks to the grandson of the founder of Ford Motor Company, Edsel Ford. Ooops! Don probably thought it was funny. Mr Ford did not. Winkler was out within a few months of this stunt. Officially it was because of the company's billion dollar losses, but you have to know that if you piss off the family, you're toast!
Reminds me of the old textile companies in the South, where employees were paid in company "script", which could only be used in the "company store" to purchase overpriced goods.
Exit interview? I’ve seen an employee engagement survey that purport a highly motivated and contented workforce, only to see 20% of that workforce unionize within days of the release of the survey result. Reason of course is that folks justifiably do not trust those surveys. And the reason for that is simple: I once designed a product rollout survey designed to find reality. It came back with some ugly results. The VP of that area directed me to redesign the survey, and specifically said “make us look good”. Based on these parameters, exit interviews would of course be designed to make the organization look good while painting the exiting employee as the real problem.
My wife was an admin. One time her company wanted to give all the admins peace lillies with the Bettas in the glass jar for secretary's day. But those cost $40 each, so to save money they just bought plants in a glass jar for like $20 and put in their own Bettas for $5 more. Then gave them out to the admins so they could watch them all die in hours by from poisoned by the chemicals in a plant jar.
It became so toxic that people were quitting in droves. One guy got a call at work; “Hi, this is Bob at XYZ, we’re wondering if you would like to…” “See you Monday morning at 08:00.” He got the call late Saturday afternoon. The pay was decent (the survivors are around $140,000/yr,) and “everything covered” insurance. Of those still employed there, many have a net worth beyond $1,000,000, but still, the rats were abandoning the ship. After enough abuse, people just walk-out no matter the pay, benefits, or work schedule.
2:00 to be fair, you can't expect much from a manager who doesn't even know the difference between your and you're, or knows how to use a spell checker.
My shitty company scheduled me - a 3rd shift worker- for a MANDATORY meeting two hours away in the home office for 9am. ( This meant out of 3 days I stayed up two 25 hour stretches) gave me the night before off but made me use my PTO or schedule an additional night for "the shift I missed"....... WTF ! ????????
I have been a teacher in South Texas for almost 9 years. I’m sure there is a “good” reason why they do this; however, I can’t help and cringe at the amount of money the district spends on cheap trinkets to “thank” teachers and staff. Out of every the 20 appreciation gifts we get I usually throw or give away 19 to my students. Cheap pens, mugs, cookies, apron(yea that right)…etc. Just give us a $25 gift certificate to Walmart and call it a night people. I can’t even begin to imagine how much money is wasted on “gifts” that just end up in the trash five minutes later.
@@CensorshipVictim I love these videos. They make me laugh. If a company tried any of these in Europe , they'd lose all their staff within 5 minutes of any of these ' instructions ' being posted. And get visited by the Dept of Work the same day :)
That’s the company complying with the law. The law sucks. Although I have seen some companies increase the amount of the gift cards to balance out the taxes.
2:30 One of my kids place of employment pulled this BS to save money. The employees started using almost a whole roll at a time until this BS stopped. Employers were so confused as to why the extremely thin one ply TP was ending up costing more the old standard two ply.
@@an-cx1ho IKR! One can read through the current single ply available. Two ply now has the equivalent thickness and absorbability of the old single ply.
It is a violation of U.S. federal law ( video at 1:51 or so) to try to force people to work overtime with no pay. If your company legal department doesnt beleive that, then they need to look up the lawsuit that was filed a few years ago by employees of the Belgian company Food Lion that was operating in the U.S. who ended up filing a class-action lawsuit and winning. If I got an e-mail like this I'd be angry. They should know better. The nerve of some people. Edit: I meant to say people who are paid an hourly wage. My apologies.
One time, long ago when I demanded a raise at my job considering I was forced to take on the responsibilities of a manager, I told them very simply - If I am expected to do work above my position I expect to be compensated above my position. I was asking for a $1 raise, for double the work I was doing originally at my original rate. Sure it adds up, but that's the point. IT ADDS UP. They told me they cannot afford to pay me that much. I told them 'If you can't afford to pay your employees you can't afford to be in business.' - I just stopped doing the extra tasks after that point. I got fired for not being a team player and y'now what? Screw them, they ended up closing their doors down about four years after I was fired.
Pissed me off royally reading that 💩. Some people have mental illnesses, and can't really deal with toxic bosses. I bet you the person who wrote that wouldn't Say what he/she said to another persons' Face - not condoning violence, but they might get punched for saying that garbage.
In the UK. I once works at a lab. The work was dangerous with carcinogenic chemicals and strong boiling acids, and it was very poorly paid, so someone suggested we all join a union. One of the managers' wives worked at a supermarket, so he got her to bring home the yoghurts that were out of date and offered 1 - not one pack - but 1 individual yoghurt to anyone who said they wouldn't join a union.
Pretty sure that here in the UK it is flat-out illegal to prevent you joining a union. I have had at least one job where joining a union was part of the contract.
@@elLooto As I recall (it was many years ago) the membership was purely administrative. I stayed there several years, and the union was never mentioned again. The company wasn't that bad to work for on the whole, but I eventually refused to lower my engineering standards to their level, so I left to seek my fortune elsewhere. Still seeking....
"You can't quit, you don't have permission to quit!" "Fine, I just won't show up for work any more and since I can't quit, you know where to send the paychecks."
Words that come to mind: pathetic, disgusting, humiliating, demeaning, ignorant, predatory, sloppy, hateful, stupid One can certainly see why workers aren’t chomping at the bit for this nonsense! The ridiculous goodie bags and company bucks really take the cake. Fed Ex is unbelievable! And the nurses working through covid…..geez. People need to pull together and form companies for the workers instead of for fat cat CEO’s and stock holders. It’s really getting old.
My old workplace had both. My new workplace has neither. Guess what? I'm happily working my ass off at my new job for these amazing people who give me nothing but love and encouragement, while at my old job I was seriously considering jumping onto the highway on the drive there! Every. Fucking. Day. I still live with my parents and don't drive (thank you, economic crisis) but my mom is more than willing to drive my sister and I everywhere and they don't ask for rent (although I still help pay for gas and groceries since I'm not really using my money and my parents honestly deserve the support since they're amazing) and my mom IMMEDIATELY noticed the difference in my entire personality after just my first day at my new job. I went from being pissed off, miserable, tired, and depressed at Wendy's, to actually bring excited to go to TJ Maxx and smiling and being talkative and energetic again! I used to drag myself out of bed, loathing my shift at Wendy's. After my orientation, when my first official day at TJ Maxx came, my mom came into my room saying it was time for work and I SPRANG up out of bed with a loud "Yay!" and my mom looked at me like "Who are you and what have you done with my daughter?" and after my first day, instead of passing out on the couch like I used to, I went ou with my boyfriend to celebrate and had so much more energy! My mom said it was like a switch was flipped and suddenly I was a completely different person. A job can make all the difference, and I can honestly say quitting Wendy's was the BEST decision I ever made, and my life has changed for the MUCH better! TLDR: Wow! My new job treats us like fellow humans and actually supports and cares for us! I wonder why I'm so willing to work harder and more often here than I ever was at Wendy's where I was paid poorly and treated poorer? Guess we'll never know!
My old job (Fast food) didn't let us take water breaks in 100F heat while next to the grill, and also didn't clean the fryers properly so the food particles burned and filled the kitchen with smoke. We also didn't have a proper break room and had to eat in the dining room with the customers, and we also didn't even get a break unless we worked more than five hours and even then it was only one unpaid 30, no matter how long you worked (and in some cases they would straight up send you home halfway through your shift if they just didn't want to give you a break, making you lose out on hours). Worked there 5 years and never once got a raise. Compare that to my new job at TJ Maxx? • Free coffee/tea/cocoa in the breakroom • Breakroom has comfy upholstered chairs and a water machine that can give both hot and cold water, plus plenty of different condiments and other basic food stuffs in the fridge • Reasonably priced vending machines • Flexible work hours/allowed to work around my school schedule no questions asked • Regular annual raises for good performances • Almost weekly gifts of free food from high-quality places like Panera or Bertucci's, enough for everyone with a second batch reserved in the fridge for the night shift to ensure everyone got a meal, not to mention near daily bowls of free candy and even a huge cake for Women's Appreciation Day! • Actually noticing when I'm tired/dehydrated and encouraging me to go take a water/cool down break even if it's not time for my official meal break yet • CONSTANT words of validation and encouragement when they see me hard at work, all smiles and thumbs ups! • Friendly, supportive, and understanding managers who have been more than happy to let stressed/upset employees go home and rest/recover whenever they're dealing with stuff, and who also had my back with my social anxiety ("I'll tell the people on the phone you're hard of hearing so they'll talk to me, okay? Just sit back and I'll guide you through what they're asking.") • A fun, engaging work environment with plenty of options to suit my preferences, and coworkers/managers who are more than willing to let me unpack boxes in the back or retrieve carriages instead of forcing me onto registers • Decent pay for the hours I work, even part-time • An easy-to-use app that makes getting my schedule and requesting time off a breeze • An entire "snack rack" in the break room with everything from granola bars to poptarts to cookies to instant ramen, cereal, and mac and cheese, free for any employee to take in case they aren't able to bring their own lunch (I usually have a bag of popcorn and sone ramen!) • 10% employee discount, with a special 20% discount weekend around the holidays! • AMAZING benefits! Even for part-time employees! Everything from childcare to mental health support to school tuition help to every insurance imaginable, plus retirement plans! • Non-service dogs come into the store all the time and we all stop to pet them! Honestly, a massive upgrade!
@@patchdavis35 The list is in no particular order and we do order people to leave if the dog causes any problems, but 99% of the pups that come in are small enough to literally sit in the person's pocket and I don't even notice them half the time. The bigger ones are all gentle giants and we do have a grassy area outside where people will have their dogs go before entering. The dog owners are very courteous in my area and we're always sure to keep an eye on things and intervene if there's an issue. But yes, the pay is wonderful and the dogs are handled with care.
@@Kinokoumori Well, number one, I believe we all bascially work for our PAY, and that's the most important reason. Number two, I have a personal problem with domestic pets being in places where they should not be, as I volunteer for Audubon on Siesta Beach, and we have LOST the nests of our plovers and skimmers because people refuse to obey the law prohibiting bringing dogs upon the beach.
@@patchdavis35 Again... didn't put the list in any particular order and wasn't trying to. It's not in order of most important to least important because it has no set order so your point there is moot. Also it's a *store* where the dogs are leashed and controlled and monitored by staff and people alike. It's very different from a wild area where dogs are generally allowed to roam free - that much I do not agree with, and we're on the same page - so comparing a controlled environment with no risk of natural habitat destruction to dogs destroying plover nests on beaches is also a moot point. Edit: We also have a pet section so people will bring their dogs in to try out beds and collars before buying them, so at least they have a reasonable excuse to be bringing in small dogs.
I always welcome civil discourse. You seem to feel your have rendered my arguments both "moot". I will then now bow to your superior arguments. You win.
This is why businesses want to impose non-compete clauses on low and mid-level employees…..so they can’t afford to take a better job. The attitude is “you should be a medieval surf bound to the Manor for life. “
UNPAID OVERTIME? Run! Run far and fast! The fact that they put it in writing probably gives the employees basis for lawsuits. Of course, they probably understand people making minimum wage cannot afford lawyers, and the blowback for trying to "cause trouble" would probably cost them even these crappy jobs. In fact, they are probably counting on it.
no.... just report their ass - you have it IN WRITING ... then if they fire you milk that unemployment for the full 6 months and work a cash job somewhere.
Probably depends on the country but I believe there is a difference between volunteering to do unpaid overtime (as suggested in the email) and simply not being paid for overtime you did
@@archygrey9093 Don't forget that if employees are "volunteering" to work for nothing for the boss, they are taking work hours away from employees who might be PAID for the work.
I'm in a trades job where the use of proper lock-out/tag-out procedures is pretty common, and pretty essential. That note saying to not press the button because somebody might DIE is infuriating!
That's the trouble with small rewards. Instead of feeling good, people feel demeaned ("I worked hard and all I get is a [blank]?") You're better off doing nothing.
