@@morThanatos Because paraphrasing what they just watched and just adding a reaction meme onto the end is a low effort, high payout strategy for the dopamine addicts that are modern internet culturalists.
I had an employee that would threaten to quit everytime he wanted a day off with short notice. My boss would always give in. He tried it with me on what was typically the busiest day of the year & two other employees (related) had requested that day over a month before. He came to me the day before & said "l need tomorrow off" Me: sorry, can't do it Him: if u don't give me it off, I quit Me: ok, quit Him: seriously? U know I need this job. Me: Not my problem. If ur not here tomorrow, I'll take it as ur resignation. He came in the next morning & I brought him in the manager's office & explained the next time he threatened to quit, I'd fire him. Never did it again.
I had an employee in my business who pulled that crap, until my office manager finally told her to take it up with me. She came in all in a huff and said "I'm taking tomorrow off." I asked why did she need it. Her literal excuse was she has a voucher to a day spa and it expired the day after. I told her that less than 24 hours notice for a day off for something that wasn't an emergency was not acceptable. I then pulled up her work record, and showed her that she had missed 18 days in the past year, all with less than 24 hours notice. she then said, "well, if I can't have the day off, then consider this my notice." I said hold on, she got a smirk face like she won, until I handed her a form confirming she in fact was being released for excessive absences. Cue Pikachu face LOL She yelled "you CAN'T DO THAT!" I just calmly said, last I checked, MY NAME is on the building, so yeah I think I can. She stormed out, knocking a computer off the table on her way. I had it on CCTV, so I had my attorney mail an invoice for damages stating if she settled within 30 days I wouldn't press charges. her husband came in a week later, paid the invoice, apologized for her actions, then asked me and some of my staff if we'd be character witnesses if needed in his divorce. LOL Talk about a bad week.
We had this one employee some time early last year who was assigned to my job position (back wall jammer) while I was handling the area above the shipping dock (I work in a warehouse) and she ALWAYS kept whining about being assigned to my position because she couldn't handle being contacted on the radio for everything (short version of BW jammer; you make sure product cases on conveyors are moving. It's actually easy. And yes you get radio'd up for any products jamming up in your area) and all she mostly did was go spend over an hour in the bathroom playing on her phone. She kept threatening to quit and at one point she actually walked out and didn't return for the rest of the shift. The problem was she borrowed my badge because her temp badge wasn't working and she didn't return mine. When she returned the next day, she gave me back my badge and claimed she was "arrested". I didn't let her borrow my badge anymore because of this. Well, the day she finally quit, she took out her phone and called her mother to come get her (no lie) and she announced she was quitting because she was tired of being bothered on the radio and being "overworked" (she barely did anything) and when she announced all this, she was being obnoxiously loud for everyone in the break room to hear. Of course, one of my other coworkers said "don't quit" but I said nothing cause I practically didn't care at that point. She walked to the door, did one last look and said "bye everyone" in a rather pitiful tone, looked at me for a response (I still said nothing) and walked out. She didn't come back since.
Entitled people always seem to get caught off guard when their attitude isn’t accepted-good to let them know that not everyone will put up with their BS
The guy who couldn’t have a 5/5 rating. I felt his story in a way. I worked a nursing home. I always was willing to come in and work when they needed it (working 9 days without stop), many 16 hour shifts (my shift was 8 hours) and jumping to any unit. When performance review came I was expecting a “thank you for helping here’s the small raise we’re giving people.” Nope I got a “can try harder” and when I asked why she said “well look at your hair it’s a mess” I have naturally frizzy hair that I always kept back in a ponytail at the back of my head. My hair was never a mess just frizzy. I got denied a raise because of frizzy hair from the manager that had burnt hair from too many colorings and straighteners put into it. After that year I stopped trying just did my 5 days and went home at 8 hours.
There was an opening on the Final Test line where I worked. It included about a 30% increase in pay. They took one of the worst people from my department, and told me that I was too good to be taken from my line, yet wouldn't pay me any more. I turned out twice the work of anyone else in my section, and I got constant crap from the under performers, along with my supervisor. For instance, he stomped up to my bench one day, yelling, "You didn't test this @#$%^ board!" I put it into the computerized test fixture, and it passed. I ran it a second then third time. It failed, twice at the first test. He was still ranting as I modified the test software, to duplicate that test at the end. Assembly had switched two components that would pass for the first few seconds. Then a capacitor would charge, and it would fail. He was still ranting like a loon as I switched the two parts and it passed. I handed it back to him and said, "Take it to the cleaning room, on your way back to your desk. It was built wrong, and Engineering's half ass software didn't detect it. I've repair the board and the software." Then I turned back to what I was already working on. After that, I was put on a 'Special Project'. We had a new product in engineering that was a total mess. he told me, "We have a job that even you can't do!", and gave me a nasty smirk. I had to piss off about a third of Engineering, along with management in production to fix all the problems in Assembly. I had to build test fixtures and clean up the poorly written test procedures, into a linear form. The originals were out of sequence, so one lengthy test had to be done three times. Then I had to drag IT before the upper management to get the rights needed to connect the production units t our network for testing. They 'thanked' me by laying me off once everything was running smooth enough to start shipping the product.
Something I can speak on from personal experience. This isn't bad management. It is petty action from someone in HR. I myself was once a victim of this. One of the key people in HR didn't like people making more money than him, so he deliberately low balled salary recommendations for multiple staff. I can't respond for everyone this happened to, but in my particular case, my managers saw the salary projection and got it raised by $6k. If there was any justice in the world, it was that one person in HR who then had to resubmit my salary projection and write my salary modification letter.
I think most of us can relate to that, I am the same way, a problem at my job that they need somebody to help fix my phone rings...top of the list We can promote or give somebody a pay raise....I'm told to work harder if I want it the next time it comes up because I am not on the list for this one (not that we've promoted from within in like the past 9+ years anyhow for example My Employer: "You want a promotion, you work hard for our company and you will get it," Also my employer: Hires a new executive director who just moved in to the area and is fresh out of college whereas me the 14+ year employee couldn't even get an interview for the job
recent history indicates there is something that pisses them off more, the case with a group of nurses and medical technologist went something like this: Staff: "Hey I've got this job offer for better pay, benefits, and more days off. If you can't match it then I'm going to resign." Hospital company: "Ha, nobody would pay you that much. feel free to quit." So all seven of them quit. Company: "Screw you to, were gonna sue your new company and get a court to put a block on you starting."
Back when I was working customer service my team manager's manager approached me, one of our clients isn't happy with me because I told a customer flat out that the company fucked up and there's nothing I can do for her (basically the problem was some language barrier with the customer being British, the client Germans and me the only one who worked this particular field and the client trying to blame their own incapability to understand English on me). I flat out told him "You deal with them. I won't be bullied into accepting fault just because they are dimwits. And if you think threatening me with letting me go, you mistake me for somebody who cares for this job. I am the only one you have and you know it!" A year later when my contract was due to resign I didn't and left.
@@FirstIsa The only thing is, the only way the old company could sue is if the former employees had signed a no-compete clause when they signed on with the original company. So I find it kind of difficult to work up much symapathy for a group of people too stupid to understand what a no-compete clause is when they signed their contract.
@@Nerobyrne Can confirm: I work retail, people DO do dumb shit like this irl. Just 'cause a story SOUNDS fake don't always mean that it is. I like to call such stories the "I Couldn't Make This Shit Up If I Tried" chronicles. X3
My husband kept getting punished for being the best employee out of 5000. They kept saying a score of 5 was impossible even though it’s probable. He was able to keep his first perfect 5 score, but after that for the next 9 years he was only able to be given a 4.5 at the most. They would purposely mark something he did wrong even though it was right, they made sure it didn’t really matter but they didn’t want anyone to feel bad someone below the higher ups was getting a perfect score. I always thought it was stupid as crap.
Yeah I had a job that pulled the same crap, they would never give you the maximum raise because they assumed you messed up at some point with no evidence. After that I refused to go the extra mile if I was going to get the same pay bump regardless
People should learn that HR is an enemy of the employees, not their friends. Their job is literally to give people as few things as possible without causing a walkout.
@@ibidaxiuero personal experience it depends on the field, and which HR rep you speak to. And of course if that HR rep has your bosses nuts in their pocket
First story: I feel like there’s a lesson in this story. Know how much your value is in the work place. Cause if you’re going to bluff about quitting your job then you better make sure The company can’t risk losing you, or at least likes you enough to let you take your job back.
Or you can get higher pay elsewhere. Companies are notorious for underpaying, threatening to quit is a legitimate negotiation tactic if it's not a bluff.
I always tried to make sure I was worth my pay. I was asked to be the assistant to someone who constantly threatened to quit as coercion. I accepted the position and promptly took a 3 day training course. The next threat was "Give me a raise or I quit." and the boss said "OK". She then got her purse and said she was taking the rest of the day off, thinking she had won again. The next day she was ranting about her key not working. Boss reminded her that she had quit the day before and thus no longer worked there. The lock to her office had been changed! She was quickly hired at another place . . . . . and just as quickly fired after less than 2 weeks. One week having been orientation. The beginning of her end in the field. After learning and doing the job alone, not needing an assistant, for almost a year, I ASKED for a raise of just over 25% along with a brief letter explaining why I felt I deserved it. After a quick run-by to the home office, it was approved. I happily worked there till I retired.
The story about a diploma in Latin was hilarious. I've also graduated from a very old European university. I would like my diploma 10 times more if it would be in a scroll form. On a serious note, we must submit a copy of our diploma during signing the job contract.
@@P2J3M4 I spent some of my formative years in Europe. Then, we came back to America, and when we were registering for school, my siblings and I had to bring our report cards from our old school, and submit them to the new school, so they'd know where to place us. My mother tried, but never grasped the language, and my father's grasp on it was even worse than hers, but all of us kids were fluent. So, when she brought me to the elementary school, with my report card full of 1's, and comments about what a great student I was, and how smart I was, I dutifully translated it, and told the teachers that the lower the number was, the better the grade. They didn't believe me, called me a little liar, and put me in remedial classes. My Mom tried to tell them it was true, but since she couldn't ACTUALLY read the card, they said, "Sure, lady. We all want to believe that our children are geniuses." Next year, they said, "Ooops!" and put me in the gifted program, because apparently, I was actually smart! Who knew? I did struggle for a little while, in math, because I wrote my 7s to look like 4s, and my 0s to look like 8s, because that's who they wrote them at my old, European school. But once I figured out new ways of writing numbers, it was great. But I still remember that day when I had only been there a month or so, and was just getting the hang of the numbers, when the teacher came up to me, and said, "I know you're struggling. The next section is going to be REALLY hard for you." "It is? What is it?" "Don't worry. Most children struggle with it. You're not alone." "OK. What is it?" "We're going to learn the metric system!" "Oh, thank God! This Imperial system is useless and makes NO sense, at all!" Naturally, having used the metric system for the last two years, I was perfectly fluent with it, already, and aced everything from Day 1 (I knew how to write the numbers, now), and she was absolutely gobsmacked that I, a child who had attended school in Europe, would be able to grasp the metric system. I still hate the Imperial system. What the heck is a peck? What's a rod? A bushel? How many feet in a mile? WHYYYY?????
Here's what I don't grasp about that story: the guy they fired had proved he could do the job regardless of his credentials. Surely it's better to go with proven competence rather than losing time and taking a chance on a new guy. Same for all other previous hires: if they're actually doing the job, it would seem they're qualified. Asking new hires to prove it is one thing as it loads the dice your way, but why load them after they're thrown? It makes no sense.
@@perryshaffer8358 it's often justified as a proof of character thing and I don't entirely disagree. The person has proved that they're willing to falsify information (and possibly documents) to get what they want. Depending on industry it could also affect the company's licensing and insurances. If it's just simply a character thing the rest of the checks would probably be part audit and part protection against any wrongful dismissal claims where if he tries to come back and say he's the only one that was fired for this infraction the company can now say "But we checked everyone else". The fact that they were willing to work with that OP to come up with alternatives to their requirements says to me that they're trying to strike the balance between proof being required and not putting undue burden on the current employee while trying to work out a new process which should have been standard years ago.
14:15 I find stories where the OP brags about how great they are hard to swallow. Like, one time, I tried going to the gym and they told me they wouldn't allow me in because I was too muscular and sexy and might distract the other gym-goers. Then, my girlfriend dumped me because my equipment was too big and she said she was afraid it'd kill her. Finally, my boss fired me because they couldn't believe that someone as handsome as me could be so smart.
I ran up against that "Can't give a 5/5" with yearly evaluations also. I had my supervisor tell me that HR wouldn't let him give a 5/5 for everything, So even though he was giving me a 4.5/5 in one category, he would have given me 5/5 if allowed. With my case though, it made no difference in terms of pay etc., as that was determined by union contract. As long as you didn't get a bad evaluation, it was pretty meaningless.(Yay, brownie points!)
I hear this and, once again, have to reiterate that HR is not the all-powerful authority that these stories make it out to be. Managers do have leverage in many of these processes and so many of these stories that have managers bowing down to insane HR mandates would have been solved with a little managerial pushback and escalation. Hilariously, so many paint the pansy managers as allies when they are actually accomplices.
I worked at a non-profit that was run by the town and employees were appointed by the town board. When too many members started to squawk to the board, they threw up their hands and told the non-profit to do it themselves, so they became a corporation. When I was hired, there was only one appointee left. She thought she was the queen bee and didn't have to do what she was told by the director. This was 2001 and everything was transitioning to computers. The Queen Bee resisted hard to the point her typewriter had to be taken away from her to force her to start using the computer. Then the day came when she was told she needed to learn how to use Excel in order to use all the forms that had been converted to digital. She flat refused to even agree to go to a class that the company would pay for. One day, she basically said, "If you try to force me, I'll quit." and she walked out. We all think she expected someone to go running after her. Instead, the Director said okay and filed her paperwork. Good riddance, Dorothy!
I work for customer care, and the best interactions I've had are with old people that have the purest soul you've ever met. They and the ones who understand that we can only do so much for them are the reason why we keep on working Its honestly frustrating how many entitled and dumb people you meet while working there. Thank you Rslash for providing wholesome and funny content to survive the day to day boredom! 💕💕
That "Fixing Karen's Keycard" story sounds like it could be the beginning of another malicious compliance story. "A new hotshot facility manager came in and started changing things because that's what new bosses do. Since the building was a lawless wasteland forever, I had taken it upon myself to do a bunch of duties outside my paygrade. However, the facility manager ran an audit on keycard permissions and found out that I had access to parts of the building that I needed access to to do these extra duties, and revoked them because 'I'm not a contractor or a salaried employee.' Okay boss! If I'm only permitted access to my own office, then I guess I'll just stop doing any extra duties where I'm not allowed!" Or something.
@@coreylemon If she had any reason to require that access she could've just TOLD the facility manager about said reasons and gotten official clearance for the areas.
Grandma and her phone problems was adorable💖 I'm a grandma and I'm learning a lot about technology, for me anyway, but I don't have a computer and somethings are hard to do on a phone for me. I got my first Samsung at Walmart through Verizon. It was a total nightmare,took forever, they didn't have the card I needed, sent me the wrong one, billed me for two phone numbers etc etc etc! Once I got it all straightened out, no problems. When I needed a new phone 2 years later I went to an actual Verizon store. What a difference! I was very polite and a little apologetic and he did everything!!! We sit and chat, my phone gets set up and I usually learn something 🤗 I only go there now and get my cases, screen protector put on and all my accessories there! I have noticed that at 60, I am always the YOUNGEST customer there🤣 Usually it takes a little bit for everything to transfer and process (?), so the employee will help someone else waiting. It's usually a confused but nice elderly person who's phone book,(contact list) has "disappeared". One women knew how to answer a call, but was accidentally hanging up somehow within a minute of answering on EVERY call lol. She was quite frustrated. He had to call her and watch what she did🤣 It was her chin! Through all of that the employees were so sweet. The last time I had to stop there I needed a new case. My grandson and I brought cookies because the first time we went there the employee gave him two KFC chocolate chips cookies from his lunch🥰
When my husband and I were in high school we both worked at a movie theater. He had work study, so he left school early every day to open the theater and picked up shifts all the time. Basically he made himself available for all operational hours and covered call-ins. Performance review came in and he didn't get a raise because he was "unreliable." I also was never promoted to supervisor because my bf worked with me, but siblings and other couples who'd worked there far less time than me advanced around us.
Your story with your grandma made me tear up today! It’s so sweet and made me think of the time my grandma called me to help her change the ink in her printer. She was putting it in backwards! We laughed so hard! My grandma is still with us but had dementia and barely remembers me. So it was good to have a flashback of the good days. Thank you :)
Same thing happened to me. HR told my manager he couldn't give 5/5 for all my reviews. Well I guess I need to do 4/5 work then cause I'm not going to get credit for anything more.
Little miss Shannon took a nap in a cannon, but people were too scared to light it. But she felt too cold, and, fitting her mold, she knew she just HAD to fight it. So she lit the fuse, and giggled, amused, knowing someone would soon come to help her. But oh, she was wrong, and it took her too long to realize that nobody liked her.
I'm not surprised the best employees get punished. Often times managers get put in power, and to appeal to their bosses. They cut corners to save profits, which makes them look better. The problem with that logic is, they expect those employees will do the same amount of work for less money, without questioning it. If you're the best employee, and know it. You sure as heck are either gonna question it or quit. Which leads to the bosses having to fix idiot manager mistakes.
Regarding the performance review thing. I was in the military and they have a kind of similar way of handing out reviews (which can make a break you when trying to advance to the next grade) unfortunately, they had quotas they HAD to meet with from 0/4 to 4/4 and only one person in my department would ever get it because the quota was one. No matter how hard you worked or put effort into the job, even staying late and coming in early to help. That didn’t matter. Most of the time the top score went to the biggest kiss ass.
Not only to managers punish their most valuable employees, but they act so SHOCKED when those employees seek other employment or leave to form their own companies! The old saying that "A manager rises to the level of his incompetence" has never been more true!
"No one can get 5/5 year running" Yeah, you're right. With how much work I am doing, mine AND not, I deserve a 6/5. But don't worry, I'll just do less of the work I normally do and have you Judgemental Bastards reported. "eh, ignore that last Email" Never EVER eff over a Hard Worker.
The keycard story reminded me of a job I had where one of my duties was issuing and tracking keys. When each person requested a key, they were required to fill out paperwork listing the date, the reason they needed the key, the tracking number of the key, and sign a list of rules. They were not to pass the key along to anyone else, the key could be recalled at any time, lost key = paying for a new lock (we had had someone making duplicates), etc. Our facilities were booked frequently for community group meetings. Of course, there was a "Karen" with a key. I discovered she'd had dups made of her key and gave them to people in her group, so she didn't need to be bothered to come in for their meetings. Once discovered, we changed the lock, she had to pay, and a staff member had to be on hand for their meetings for access.
The story about "quitting" to get a pay rise is basically how two of the Doctor Who's got replaced - Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker would both do this at contract renewal time, and both were a bit surprised when a new incoming producer said "Fine, go."
My last company didnt have HR, because the people who started the company had nothing but bad experiences when they were mere employees, and believed HR did nothing but impact things negatively. That has also been my experience (25 years in IT).
That 2nd to last story is painfully relatable. When I got moved from contractor to direct-hire at the company I work for, you become eligible for yearly bonuses based on a "PLM score" from HR. Well, apparently they don't like to give direct employees a high score on their first year because HR said "it would deter them from making an effort to improve". All my managers had rated me at an 8 (on a scale of 1 to 9), but HR decided to change it to a 5 for my first year, which drastically lowered my bonus. HR has also lost a lot of our employees to rival companies due to lack of raises and not matching offers, and now many departments (including the one I work in) are severely understaffed and overworked. And they're still refusing to hire new replacements because "we can't afford it" despite automated monthly emails claiming excellent company growth and profits. They seriously think that reducing someone's deserved bonus will somehow make them want to improve themselves. LOL. Unfortunately, I don't have as crucial of a role or connections to higher people in the company like the OP in that story does.
“We’re denying you any reward for your hard work, because that’s the best way to incentivize you to keep working hard. That’s how incentives work, right?”
Uhm... I'm european and pretty sure that no "prestigeous university" here gives you a latin rug with a centimeter thick wax seal :'D That sounds like an american fantasy of europe...
OP said the certificate was the size of a throw rug, which is a small decorative rug, not that it was a rug. They could have been talking about NUI Galway, a university in Irland, or some other university that gives you a parchment degree written in Latin. NUI Galway was the first result when I googled 'university with Latin parchment degree Europe'. Personally, I think they may have exaggerated the size a little bit to make the point that their degree was larger in size than the average degree.
I used to work as a Paramedic supervisor with about 24 ambulance crews. I worked for one of the largest ambulance companies in the USA. A paramedic has a pretty stressful job and are sometimes a bit difficult to manage but I was very senior in our division and didn’t throw my weight around and everything went smoothly. Too smoothly according to my supervisor. I was asked wh 16:25 ! I quit that day.y I never wrote anybody up. I be told her because they are doing their job. I was told I was wrong, I was to write someone up every shift. The employees needed the fear of the Company
“Special Projects” can also be assigned to someone who management just doesn’t like and wants them to quit. Even though they did their job and were well liked, if the bos doesn’t like you, your days are numbered.
OMFG, the "No one's a five out of five" thing pisses me off. My previous job pulled that. My mother was a manager and she's DAMN GOOD at her job. She's the type that companies should bend over backwards for because of how good she is (she's not conceded or anything like that, thankfully). When it came to her review, I (an associate who was working under my mom) overheard the head manager talking to the DM about it and the DM flat out told her that there's "No such thing as a 5 out of 5 employee. Make something up." I should say that when I heard this, it was loud. Like customers in the area would have heard it. Apparently indoor voices don't apply here. I didn't need to tell my mom what I heard because the head manager went straight to her and ranted about it. The highest scoring came with a raise and it seems like the higher ups were trying to keep employees from getting it. My mom ended up quitting some time later because of the attitude the DM had. The head manager freaked out. She refused to lose my mom and went as far as finding a loop hole. Actually, it cost the company more than if they had given her the raise. She had my mom reapply and was able to rehire her on at a much higher rate due to Mom's work history. Right before the end of 2020, the DM was fired due to the company restructuring, but the whole "No 5 out of 5 score" thing is still in effect. It's crazy honestly.
I remember an employee who quit because she wanted to take some time off. Our manager pulled in all supervisors and told us that we were to NEVER interview the woman if she ever applied for one of staff positions. She applied 4 or 5 times later that year before she got the message.
The 5/5 story; but it wasn’t the manager who was in the wrong here, it was HR. Also I can see an abusive partner pulling the “Let me do this or I’ll quit!”, but an employee? There’s no benefit for keeping an employee like that.
It’s always hilarious when the boss threatens their workers saying “do me a favour or you’re fired” but when they threaten themselves that they’ll quit, amazing. 😂
I have been teased by both my adult son and daughter about my lack of computer skills on multiple occasions. I have answered both of them by responding- you can give me a hard time about my technology illiteracy when you stop asking me to fix plumbing issues, home repairs or car maintenance problems. Until that time, let us all acknowledge that we have different areas of knowledge and abilities. Okay?
I have young idiots tell me that I'm too old to understand the technology. I worked in it for 60 years. from Radio, through RADAR, Cable TV, broadcast engineering, and electronics design. I started repairing computers in the early '80s, and my first PC was built from repaired and modified boards. I sigh and tell them that they are clueless children. I love the 'I know EVERYTHING about computers!. I smile and asked, Really? then you'll have no trouble formatting a hard drive with Debug on my XT computer'. Their eyes glaze over. Then I asked them about the ISS, and their equipment to contact NASA, or the Internet. I built it Some of my design ideas allowed one of our standard products to be put aboard the ISS. Lithium batteries were not allowed, so the standard battery backed RAM couldn't be used to store the settings during power down. I located ZMD 'Capstore' RAM. which met the requirements. This is now obsolete, but there is another newer memory type that doesn't need a battery. It combined flash with static RAM, and a capacitor to store enough energy to write everything to flash memory on power down. It was read back to the static ram on power up. One jerk little salesman at Best Buy proudly informed me that Win 95 was the first Microsoft operating system.
@@michaelterrell Those idiots are normally the ones spouting that Y2K wasn't that big of a deal because nothing happened and we all overreacted. And I'm like "Uhhhh... the reason that nothing happened is because thousands of people spent millions of hours making sure that nothing happened." Were planes going to be falling out of the sky? Probably not. But would the world economy have been screwed if we'd done nothing about it? For sure!
@@jimbobjones9330 I'm well awate of all the old code tat had to be examined, and that some needed to be modified. My problem with Y2K was the lying media. Orlando TV stations were spreading so many lies about it that I wanted to scream. Things like, No car will start after midnight, or All elevators will drop to the lowest floor exactly at midnight. Have you ever seen a car from 2000 or older that had any reason to recognize the date, or an elevator? How about electric gates that would trap people, or that no personal computer would boot again, so you would have to buy a new computer. Microwave ovens that even had a concept of day of the week, let alone an actual date? I was aware of the absurdity of a two digit year code in the '80s, when I started writing some simple software for myself. It was a database program for the c64, for my personal inventory of electronic components for my projects. with just 38911 bytes of RAM, I avoided that temptation by writing the code as compact as possible, but not cutting corners on data storage. On top of that, Commodore basic was tokenized, so you could write in tokens to make the program smaller, yet it would load as the full words, so it took less disk space. We had a Prime minicomputer where I worked. It didn't have a y2K problem, since it used days from a start date in the OS to calculate the date rather than a RTC. It had a couple KB patch to install a few weeks before the total number of days was exceeded.
@@michaelterrell For sure, the hysteria was heightened. That was stupid. But the stupid current thought of "the problem didn't exist" is idiotic. Remember -- the people actually fixing the problem had nothing to do with what the media was saying. The two-digit year issue had so many causes. Some of it just couldn't be avoided. The first machine I started programming on was a TRS-80 with 16K of memory. IIRC, that was upgraded from the 8K model. (It was a computer at school) I could see using a 2-digit year in the 60s and 70s if you had tens of thousands of records. Especially when you think "there's no way this will still be in use by the year 2000"
@@jimbobjones9330 It was a total screw up from many directions, but a lot of that old code should have been fixed when it became obvious that it wasn't going to crawl into the bit bucket and die. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX80, followed by a Tandy Microcolor computer. then Vic 20, C64, C128, SX64, then I started building PCs I repaired bad cards , and added RTC boards to a lot of XTs. I repaired hundreds of Commodore computers to the component level, as well. These days, I repair test equipment as a hobby. I have an almost duplicate of the workbench that I had when I built equipment for NASA, NOAA and the ESA, in the late '90s and after Y2k.
Yup, my last job treated me and their other best employee like we were replaceable so we both left. My friend just left this week. Lmao 🤣 no one left in the department knows everything we both did about the lead an managers paperwork.
I agree with that "Corporate America dowgrade" section. I worked at a FastFood Restaurant for like nine years and when I was almost a Manager-In-Training, they then put me as a "laborer" when the new General Manager came to work and put her kids, family friends and nieces as workers and Managers. They also hire people they want sexually and like, in spite of those hirees status as "Do Not Re-Hire" types. Carl's Jr and McDonald's in Colorado---you know you do.
To the first Story, she even provided insult to injury. She resigned. She quit. Not fired. This means she won't get unemployment because she left on her own terms.
ya, the grandma thing with the cell is literally my dad and aunt there's this thing with older generations that if they dont know, dont press anything even if it means you will die in the next minute otherwise
Stunned Shannon: What's interesting about that one is that as soon as Shannon got demoted, she was good because she was on the way out the door. When she didn't get canned, then she went back to normal
Last post, this is true for everything... I have customers ask me what the Canon printers can and can't do. Canon puts literal photos on the box to show what it can and can't do...
My dad used to work at a Starbucks, the employees were treated poorly so he tried to quick. He was offered the Manager position and a big raise. He decided to stay and after another year of working he never got the promotion or raise. He tried to quick and got the same offer knowing he would not get either he quit. Now he works at flying star and is studying to become a teacher.
My clerk did this twice… the second time she gave her notice I told her her replacement would be in the following day to start training….she withdrew her notice and we haven’t had an issue since
In 2011 my aunt was an accountant for a small real estate firm. I was spending the summer with her to get my GED. Her boss asked her the best way to cut some costs for their company and she told him that the accounting department as a whole was a waste of funds for a real estate company that owned as few properties as they did essentially firing herself.
‘No one gets five out of fives every year’ - I experienced this a couple of times. Once I was told that the paperwork needed to show that I had ‘grown’ next year so this year wasn’t allowed to reflect my actual capability. This was explained to me like they were doing me a favour. Another time my boss, who had given me perfect scores before, suddenly began waffling about not doing so but could not, of course, explain what I had failed to do or achieve. Her feeling as entirely subjective- in hindsight it was because I tended to treat her ideas with practical steps and not applause followed by implementing it for her.
I always love when HR doesn't realize someone matters more to the company than they do. When the upper management comes down on the other side they have no idea how to deal with it.
For the one who had the large parchment diploma: should have gone to a commercial printer and then put the full-color copying, packaging and postage down as an expense. To be nice, they could have had it reduced to fit on a single sheet, or maybe the printer could have scanned it so they could deliver it electronically. That also would have been nice to later photocopy for their own records. On another note, the University hurts their own reputation by not responding since people could then falsely claim to have a degree from there, knowing that the university will not discredit them.
HR: Nobody can have 5/5 twice in a row. Same HR: Workers with decreased performance will be penalized. Translation: Scoring 5/5 is always a punishable offense.
The minute I showed an aptitude for technology, I was volunteered as the family tech support line, from age 12 - 39 (my age now). I set up cell phones, computers, tablets, game consoles, televisions, cable and internet equipment. My family doesn't even bother calling actual tech support. They have me call.
We have Alexa controlling all the lights in our house. My mother-in-law wanted me to set it up in her house, but I was like "Nope. I don't want to be your tech support for the next 10 years"
Definitely feel for the supervisor in the second post(/the comment on the first post). So few employers increase your pay to match inflation, that waiting for your annual raise can often keep you below the wage/salary of a starting employee of your qualifications. If your company doesn't care about you enough to pay you your worth, then you *should* do whatever it takes to find someone who will. Even if that means finding a new job every time the amount you deserve goes up. When the new director just let her resign, he honestly did her a favor: He showed her that the only higher-up that cared about paying any of its employees, as opposed to dragging them along and hoarding the amount they *should* be paying for themselves, had just left. She probably realized she'd been pushed out of the path of a bullet, buffed up her resume, and found a new job that would pay her what she was actually worth within a couple weeks. OP is either a Karen, or just hasn't realized that they aren't being respected/paid as they're due.
your story abt helping your grandma is adorable. by god I wish my granddad was as easy to help. with him it's like "hey kid why is there this icon on the app?" "have you tried tapping on it" and then he proceeds to tap on the app and then 20 other things, the whole going "what's going on? what's this?" not leaving any time for anybody to catch up
Tech, (phones, smartwatches, tablets, laptops etc aren't obvious to everyone - they aren't dumb, they've just been brought up at a different time, so what's intuitive for you might not be for your parents or grandparents. When I was at school we had a computer science room - the computers 'printed' on ticker-tape, punching holes in it, before upgrading to dot matrix.
Yeah, that's a narrative I really hate. And it's normally by some dumbasses who were born with a tablet in their hand, and wonder why they, at 16, find the technology "so easy" to use that they've literally spent 16 years learning.
OMG, The first story is almost word for word something that happened to my co-worker...she turned in her resignation with the if you give me a raise I will stay section...they didn't give her a raise and she left...she didn't even have another job lined up and since she quit she cannot collect unemployment. Everyone in the office applauded as she was walked to the door on her last day.
I know someone works for a company using the corporate 1-5 score system, got marked a 4, and in turn quit doing overtime, weekends, and extra duties, and got a higher score next time. He has the most responsibilities of any non-exec employee, and they hired someone with significantly less experience, responsibilities, and skill for more than he makes, and I am not sure what they think is going to happen, because he is basically going to demand back pay for all the months his salary should have been higher, or they will have to hires 3 people to replace him, for more than they currently pay him per employee with the current job market. Some companies really are short sighted and ridiculous.
Lol I just had a similar experience with my Mom that you would have with your Grandma, Dabney. My mom always thinks her phone is out to get her (she has MS and is in her late 60s, so she has a lot of trouble understanding technology of any sort). I was helping her this morning with her glucose check, and while doing so, she started up a conversation about how her phone wouldn't let her get on Facebook, and how it had also been trying to force her into doing something shady. This is a frequent thing to hear from her, and to be fair, she has been hacked a few times on FB, so I looked at her phone for her. Well, the reason she couldn't get on Facebook, was because she had somehow accidentally turned her mobile data AND WiFi connection off. So, I explained that to her, and she insisted that Google must have done it. I, as patiently as I possibly could, tried explaining to her multiple times that it was easy to turn settings off if you mess with the pull down menu, which she had been doing because her phone had also been running out of storage and she'd attempted to "fix" it (another thing she believed Google was doing to her). I finally got through to her that she had simply saved too many photos and videos to her internal storage, and I showed her that I had transferred those things to her SD card (she didn't quite understand, but went with it). When I was done, though she understood that everything that was "wrong" with her phone were just normal things that could happen, she was still adamant in insisting that Google HAD to be up to something. So, I couldn't help but ask, "Why exactly do you think Google is doing stuff to your phone, Mom?" Her response: "I keep getting these pop ups from Google telling me to update my phone and things on my phone. It's a scam, because I didn't ask for any updates! They're trying to put a virus on my phone!" I did my best not to laugh, as I explained how updates work, and that it wasn't a scam to hack her phone. I went back into her phone and updated things for her after that. Had a good laugh about it with her afterwards. Lol I fully expect her to have a new conspiracy theory about her phone next week though.
Your mom's mistrust of Google is not entirely unjustified, but no, not every update, error or warning your phone issues is part of some nefarious plot against her.
A less wanted person threatening to resign for a payrise... The correct response would be to accept and process their resignation, and when they come asking for the job back, offer to rehire them for a lower wage.
