Like in the video the boss legit stoping his worker "not" doing their job, so the boss can do his job... so the boss job is to slow down productivity for no reason
That beautiful moment when middle management realizes their job can be done by a well managed spreadsheet and it doesn't really have a meaningful value add beyond pretending they're a goddamn prison warden...
I have an AH customer (I work in the field) who was unhappy about being called out for not doing the most simple tasks to get his stuff working when I'm busy working on his other equipment. After a back and forth he tells me "we need to have a chat next time you're here." I said "no, I don't think I want to do that." The dude had no idea how to respond 🤣Get the FO Chuck, without me keeping your stuff running you'll be unemployed next week, you've got nothing on me.
@@aluisious Then get him unemployed. People who are tripping on power the moment they feel even a single droplet of it need that humble pie fed to them as many times as necessary. Especially if they are basically propped up by other people while contributing essentially nothing.
Had this happen on a construction crew. Office guy only stopped by at lunch and had the balls to complain that we just sat around all day even though the project was on schedule and budget. Thankfully we had a good foreman, asked him to explain how all the work was getting done. SMH.
Worked in a factory making parts for military vehicles. The manager would waddle through the shop ONCE a month spending all of 5 minutes there, glad handing everyone and saying good job, and the supervisor would come back after he left to tell us everything he told him he thought we were doing wrong. I asked the supervisor how would he know what was wrong-how would he know anything about this shop besides what he sees on the spreadsheets. Supervisor didn't have an answer.
This really is how stupid supervisors are. This isn't even an exaggeration, I've had this convo almost word for word. I ended up telling me boss to go write me up if he needed to and that pussy ended up putting his pen down. This skit actually has me so triggered jesus christ 😂
Things I've had said to me in past jobs: Joe, I need you to restock the 5-gal roof tar, we've been out for three days and they're still sitting on the dock (I was off for three days, btw). Joe, would you go pick up that paper down (whatever aisle it was), I have walked past it three times and it's still there. Joe, when you're done cleaning up the dock, you need to sweep the floor (while I have the broom in my hand). Joe, we need to get all this freight pushed to the floor - manager claps hands - chop, chop (manager goes and sits in his office all day). Coworker: I'm not sure where this goes. Manager: Well, where do you think it goes? Me: Now I have to move all this stuff back to where it's SUPPOSED to go. I once had the idea to put tape measures at the register when I had a different manager at a lumber yard I worked at to help with 'add on sales'. My new manager tells me one day: "Joe, stop putting the tape measures up at the registers, we don't need the clutter". A couple weeks later, corporate calls and wonders why our sales on tape measures dropped so sharply. And that's only a few things.
The answer to so many of these types of questions that just need restocking: Is your arm broke? You saw it needed replacing, you know where the extras are stored, you got access to the floor. Why you bothering me?
EEOC my friend, it will automatically let the higher than them know wtf is going on. Shit used to be like that for me EVERY job I got until I started getting them involved. Got the "manager" kicked out of that branch for it too.
My boss once told me “Every time I walk past your desk, you aren’t working.” I told him, “Every time I take a break, you’re walking around doing nothing but creeping on people.” He made sure that I was not there much longer.
People that refuse to take leave are the reason everyone gets sick constantly. They refuse to take sick leave and then cough and sneeze everywhere while boasting about how they never take leave.
Man, this is for real… I lost a promotion to foreman because the owner pulled into the lot during break… yup, I was smoking. Almost like you ripped this dialog straight out of my own life experience, Marshall.
And you know the milisecond they come after you like this there is nothing you can do other try to remember every anger management lesson you ever had in your entire life. There is no rational argument, no facts, no evidence, no court of law that can absolve you in eyes of your dumbfuck boss.
Once I worked at a textile mill (back before they all moved out of the US) and I had this happen to me. I was a fixer for 14 frames. The floor manger said they did not need me and was eliminating my position as unnecessary. She said she almost never seen me doing any work on the machines. She said on the rare occasions something did need work she could just call the shop to take care of it. That was on a Friday. I was told by a friend that still worked there that the production floor just about came to a stand still as the shop could not stay on the production floor all that time and other parts of the mill needed work as well. And the shop did not have the experience on the old machines (made in the 40's-60's), the machines were older that the shop guys. I only knew how the work on them from the old man that retired that I replaced. Withing a week the plant manger was pissed and every one realized just how much work I did do. They tried to get the old man that retired to come in until they could get a replacement a he told them forget it. He called me and told me they called him begging him to come back. That was the beginning of the end for that mill. Sorry for the long comment, That happened back in 95 and it still bugs me the way I was done.
Ah, this reminds me of shortly after my parents died and I had to go live with my aunt, who may actually be the chosen vessel by satan to spawn the antichrist, if satan could stand her. I remember when she told me "you don't do anything around here" and I told her "the floors are clean, the dishes are washed, the furniture is dusted, the windows are clean, the bathrooms smell like cleaner and when you get from work, lunch and dinner are always ready and waiting for you, have you noticed?" "Yes" she said "Do you clean the windows, floor, furniture, or the bathrooms? Do you cook?" "No." she says "Well there you go." "But I never see you do anything. When I get home, you're always lounging about." "that's at like what, 9pm or later?" "Yes." "I already did everything I needed to do for the day. By then I'm resting." "Well, I don't see you do anything, you need to help around here." "..."
Project managers too. They only come down when we aren't hitting their deadlines. We aren't hitting their deadlines because they didn't order all the parts we need.
@@patrickryan7829I worked for a company that got a new production manager. They implemented a strict production line for the diesel tanks we were building, expected 4 a day within 8 hours. It was literally impossible to do that, 9 hours at best if EVERYTHING went perfectly. Which it never does. So when we started doing 9-10 hour shifts to meet their demands, they banned us from working overtime, then lost their shit when we didn't get 4 a day.
@@patrickryan7829Always have to factor in for emergencies. Not every job operates at 100% efficiency. They tend to forget that every crew has a guy. We all know that guy.
I have so much respect for blue-collar workers, i can't imagine doing back-breaking labor for 10+ hour shifts and then get told "i don't see you working"
This scenario happens to office workers too. Boss 9th leaves their office at break and lunch so of course you’re not working. You’re on break or lunch. Lucky for me my boss doesn’t care. Says as long as the work is getting done they don’t give a shit what I do all day.
I’m a somewhat recently promoted manager. With a 20+ year history of blue collar work, not even heavy duty blue collar work, mostly DSD sales jobs, bread routes/snack routes. Nothing like real labor jobs, but still not easy. So I come from a background of working holidays and weekends, during worst winter weather, in crappy rundown delivery trucks. One of my first managerial situations was creating the regular weekly work schedule. I knew who the most senior guys were, and I knew they did excellent work. So I gave them the most coveted hours. Then I got blowback from the newest guy who thought I was showing favoritism and wanted the most desirable hours. Going back to my days as a driver when routes were assigned by tenure and experience I was quite blunt in how I was going to run the department and that I will absolutely reward those who’ve been here the longest and “paid their dues”. I knew I could rely on them. And I knew they’d do a good job. And left it at that. Few weeks later we had a full department meeting with MY boss present to make sure “all voices were heard” and that I was too strong headed in my approach. In the end we went with my plan and now that younger worker actually likes his shift and is developing into a good worker himself. I told my boss after that the workplaces I come from if a new guy came on and demanded the best route he would have been told where he can shove it. That I might be blunt, but I’ll be the fairest boss they ever had.
This happened to me when I was a new apprentice. It's like the universe prompted my boss to see me only when I made a mistake. My lead laughed at me because he was like "wow, literally every time you make a mistake the boss magically shows up."
i swear some managers have no object permanence, they think that if theyre not looking at the chair theyre sitting in, theyll just fall straight onto the floor.
This is so spot on that I'm feeling the mental anguish just by watching it. I can't tell if it's because of the acting or the script. But I almost called my union shop steward. Lol
Or just sat in the break room all day until 12 and then go do work for 15 minutes when that jerk of a boss walks through but he still wouldn't see him working unless he asked where he was and went to see.
lol I’ve seen this before people tried to call me lazy once before at work and reported me to the owner that shut them down right away I don’t get site visits as much as others do since I’m the only superintendent that has framed/rocked/taped his job when the man power wasn’t available.
"I complete every task I'm instructed to complete. If you're failing to come up with task for me to do, there's nothing I can do about that on my end."
@@peterrose5373 Aye, but then I'm doing something and they can't complain anymore. If they feel silly later about paying me to do something stupid and counter-productive, that's on them, and maybe next time they won't fuss, if last time they fussed I hopped too at my pointless task and made them feel silly.
@@peterrose5373 Ran out of work one time and they had me run this little street sweeper looking thing around the shop for a couple hours. The owner showed up as I was finishing and said he was so happy to see the floors look so clean. It basically became my full time job. It was very easy to do and it kept me free of suspicion. They couldn’t say I was just standing around lol.
Recently worked at a new local store and the boss did this, would ask me to do a task/my coworker would ask for help/etc. I would complete the task and afterwards do some things that needed to be done but ultimately I would run out of things that were needed and did small things. Boss would sit me down and have a talk with constantly about how im not doing enough. What he wanted everytime was to push and come up with new ideas for the company. As in marketing, inventory, item recommendations. Basically wanting me to take initiative on things that should be on him to do. Keep in mind I wasn't there for any of that, I got hired on to operate a interactive station but turns out it was just a retail job. Boss told me as soon as new people got on my "lack of work" would show and id be out. That exactly happened, but guess what, 1 month later, none of the new people he hired work there anymore
I currently work in a restaurant, the owner does not do this to me very much, BUT both of my coworkers absolutely do. Ive had to have the boss come in and tell them to mind their own business because they spend more time telling me what to do than their own jobs, and as soon as i stop running and juggling at least 4 things at once, its clear to them that Ive obviously been slacking off all day and need to go take care of their tables for them while they go out back and smoke. Cant blame them for smoking 70% of the shift, what with such a lazy burden like myself doing their jobs for them.
I got a part time job a few years ago shelf stacking in my home town (literally worked from close of shop till all product on shelves but contracted 4 hours) after 2 days of watching everyone else get their pallet and just load their trolley up and wander round each aisle as they encountered stuff they had loaded i started to spend the first 20-30 minutes actually sorting my pallet into piles depending on the aisle it belonged in....for a whole ass month i had my shift manager on my ass telling me to start stocking the shelves as soon as my shift started...and every day i told him "if i spend this time sorting this i will have finished my pallet before everyone else and be able to help them finish sooner" only to be told that it looks like i am doing nothing for that first half hour and it makes him look bad...after that month the store actually started to pay someone to go up to the warehouse during opening times to sort all of the pallets delivered that day into food cages so that the staff could focus on one aisle each....this massively reduced the amount of time we were all working beyond our contracted hours (its in the uk but the company decided to use EU law instead so as to not pay us overtime...we just got our standard hourly rate even if we ran past midnight)...i never got the credit for that either
Working at daycare and the director had the gall to say I don't do my job because I don't sweep, or mop, because when she did it herself the water came up brown and there were piles of dust around. Even after mopping a floor the water WON'T EVER come out crystal clear in a classroom that has constant foot traffic, especially after recess. I mop two rooms every day but they are lil baby rooms so the floors themselves aren't that bad, the water in there comes out pretty clean. Besides all the other rooms have periods where they AREN'T mopped so I'm not suprised if the water did come out concerningly brown. And sweeping is the exact same way, I dust mopped a room, everything was spotless. Decided to dust mop immediately again, and dirt comes up. These sorts of people expect you to somehow do your job flawlessly within a short time limit, when they themselves have no idea how any of it works.
This is literally our maintenance officer with us. Hes talling corporate that we're not working when we log all the work we do. My supervisor brought in our call sheet, plus all the other stuff we do. Granted we're not "on the floor" like this situation but we've got a ton of stuff we're doing that he's not physically seeing. Corporate sent an outside observer to watch what we're doing and they're like these guys are busting their ass. If I were in a supervisory roll like this and I had this assumption I would go out of my way and observe what they're doing all day. That way I can back up the point someone isn't working.
I got a coworker I mess with thats like the orange shirt. Every time I see you, got a drink in your hand, always sitting down, always got food in your hands, never doing any work. I know he works, and on the very rare occasions, sometimes he is working when I walk past his area.
Yup, next one, ask you to work overtime because you are out of finished product, but you are out of finished product because there are no raw materials to process
I got written up once for going to the smoking area with the smokers. As a non-smoker, I felt entitled to take a break at the same time for the same duration as the smokers. The boss did not like that attitude… I felt the company was not entitled to force me to work extra because I chose the healthy option of not smoking while letting the smokers slack off … boss did not like that one.
I legit had this conversation with a kitchen manager right before i quit. I asked how i could get promoted to do more and he would say i needed x y and z at which point i pointed out specific times within the last month/week i had done every single thing only for him to get on the loop of you need to do more, oh you do that thing well I haven't seen it, but I'm always around and see whats going on. Dude was terrible at managing and on the rare occasion hed actually jump on the line he was also probably the slowest one there.
@@midwestmind691Respect, from a former manager. There's better ways than micromanaging. Yeah, see to what you must, but so long as you spend a little time ironing out the kinks, a well structured team runs itself. And that team has a higher morale because of the feeling of independence. If number are good, no complaints are coming in, and the place isn't falling apart, laize fair is the play. Less stress on everyone until you're needed for something major.
Reminds me of my general manager calling me in the morning, yelling, asking me where I am. I told him that I wasn't supposed to be working despite being scheduled. He was the first manager to be informed of his scheduling error. He was also the manager who approved me not to be scheduled for this particular shift.
I don’t tolerate this shit anymore. I’m a skilled worker and if my boss thinks I’m not working hard enough I can go slower and maybe even use my pto and then they can see what’s being done and by who lmao 😂
Yeah, I've had managers and supervisors like this. You could be busting your ass for 5 hours straight, not see them once. But the moment you step away to take a break, they're right there seeing you not working and complaining about it.
Or going to the bathroom to blow your nose from being out in freezing weather I'm a cart pusher at Walmart and I've been called out for having to blow my nose every 15 to 20min in-between each time in weather that was -6 or -7 and snowing plus ice and saying I was constantly inside when i wasn't further proof was the snow and ice on me and shaking from the cold
Ive had this confrontation😂😂. I challenged him to walk my departments and all the depts as far as paint, 5 for those counting at home; and find 1 customer that didnt know my name. Find one hack of lumber not flat stacked and culled, 1 product that we show in stock thats not on the shelf and faced. Find one aisle that hasnt been swept and cleaned. He disappeared for about 30min and actually came back and apologized
I actually had this happen. I was doing manual labor with a bunch of other guys, and the other guys sat around doing nothing. So every hour or so, I'd get tired and sit down for a couple minutes, and since no work was being done when I stopped, the other guys actually did something for those couple minutes. Naturally that's the only time my boss would come around. From his perspective, I sat around doing nothing all day and everyone else was doing all the work. Didn't matter when I sat down, my boss showed up without fail right then.
That's them bosses that are prepping to see if you can battle it out before they fire you so they say stupid shit like that to make you quit or kick they asses. Now imma be honest, this is the BEST "How NOT to treat employees as a Production Supervisor" training vid. This will remove any and all "I'm in charge" thinking types off the bat. I had to call EEOC a couple times to straighten shit up on 10 occasions because of know it all management that thinks a write up is gonna make me change from doing my job to doing my job... out of policy
Reminds me of when I worked in the school library and the principal, who I saw maybe three to five times a year, would write my assessments instead of the librarian that I actually worked under.
Fun fact, in most work especially unioned and especially government work you cannot be written up by your supervisor. They can give you warnings but not write ups. This is likely 100% the case if the company has a HR. They can grieve to HR in the form of documentation but if your supervisor pulls you in for a chat like this, you should either request a witness or better yet record the convo. I'm talking as the guy who is behind the guy being a dummy. The amount of bad supervisors X_X. Basically
This actually happened to me at my old job. Call it timing or luck. But every time I finished doing my work, and decided to chill for 60 seconds. The supe walks up and looks at me and then pulled me to have a "talk" about my productivity. This isn't a skit, this is a documentary.
The first job I ever worked in my life had a boss like this. I would stock an entire aisle with my box, then I would stop for 4 minutes to stretch my back. Bossman would walk past that aisle at that point. He would constantly berate me for that. Meanwhile, I'd walk up to my coworker an hour later and find out that his box he had started on was still full, and he straight up would tell me "Yeah I've been goofing off this whole time, and every time I start to actually work, the boss would walk by. Wanna try these bubble wands?" You cannot convince me that luck is not a stat.
I'm always "on the radar" until they still don't see me working the hardest jobs in places no one else wants to go to. Someone has to clean out the gutters or it all backs up. Honestly I'd rather not be seen doing it. It's dirty hard work but I appreciate the compliments from other WORKERS when they say "Hey thanks for cleaning out the gutters. I was worried they'd back up if someone didn't do something."
Last job I had, the owner just stopped asking, and saw the security feed. Saw I worked till there was nothing left as the sole remaining employee before I'd sit while waiting for customers. Never complained again, she was happy I could organize well enough to earn myself some downtime. If the work is done, it's evident. You need to see it with your eyes, but once you do, don't double down like this video shows. Just drop it, the job is being done. Push it, and good workers start walking cause they have better things to do with their time than put up with you.
This reminded me of my brother in law. Had to live with him and my sister, cleaned house every day, and zero appreciation shown. Accidentally posted without finishing….brother in law tried to start a fist fight with me over “not doing anything” at one point. Never going back again for that.
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I work this gift that would come to my desk while I was eating lunch. At the same time I'd scroll yahoo on my phone. He'd come out ignoring the sandwich in my hand and ask me to do a task. Later he would p**s and moan he always caught me browsing on my phone. When I pointed out that the only time I was ever at my desk was lunch, he responded how was he supposed to know that. I responded with, "Well I thought the sandwich and chips in my mouth were a dead give away, but I guess next I'll put up a sign" Then he got upset that my response was so rude. Like I said he was a gift from the short bus faeries
Dude this has been my coworkers for years. I typically work shifts where I'm the only person in the building, and they come in for their shift and see tons of work was done. The problem is for the hour we have overlap they are like "you never do anything so how do you get so much done?" Got a new supervisor at one job that bought the lie of the other guys that I didn't do anything. They came in Monday morning to more work done that the entire 2 shifts of the week. The supervisor asked why I didn't get any work done over the weekend. Huh?
At a recent job of mine I called my supervisor incompetent to his face when this exact scenario happened. Pulled me into the main office for a sit down to talk about my work ethic and how he has never seen me working or at my supposed assigned or usual work areas, and whenever he did see me that I was "slacking off" (taking a water break or sitting down to rest for a moment after loading/unloading pallets of product) I said to him that If he actually got off his ass and bothered to learn our jobs and understand the process instead of staring at a screen and sticking to the cooperate script to read off of when things go wrong (due to his lack of leadership) I wouldn't have to go around the workplace helping everyone out so we actually get done on time. He exploded on me and went on a tirade of how long he has worked there and how he "earned" his position. Long story short I was written up and stalked by him and his snitches since.
He sounds like my stepdad complaining about how lazy the cats are, because they're sleeping everytime he sees them. They're genocidal to the local pest population.
There’s a reason I come in early and don’t take breaks. Honestly with some experience with 20 hour military days I’d rather work 2 days a week for 20 hours a day.
I service porta johns for a living, had a client from outta state tell me I’m inconsistent and don’t show up on the scheduled service, he brought his boat from outta town and blocks one of the toilets every week, I blow the air horn at him and he comes out saying I don’t come on the same day consistently(I’m there every Friday at lunch time) proceeds to tell me he’s running a 4 million dollar project and I interrupt his very important business calls when I toot the air horn. Proceeds to block toilets and then switches out of town shifts with some other asshole. This is a yank problem. Not a southern one.
Not even a minute in and started dying. "All I see you doing is eat sandwiches and smoke cigarettes'" lmaooo! Perfect comedic pause. You think that's all he seen, the dudes break activity. Nope he also see those 2 minutes where he smoked haha. the rest of the video is awesome too. When the boss is surprised he been there four years thinking he been there just a couple months hahaha! That's even worse haha! He in four years has not once seen em work.
Reminds me of my wife. I can be working and doing chores all day long, non stop. But if I lay down in the evening to rest and to watch a video for 10 minutes, she storms into the room and starts yelling how I’m lazy and don’t do anything around the house. I guess some people see only what they want to see.
I love the you've been here for 4 months and I never seen you working. I've been here for 4 years. Right in 4 years... It's obviously he doesn't even know what the business even does much less the employees.
I had a boss like this, he had impeccable timing, we would be busting ass all day, the second i sit down & take a break or pull my phone out he shows up, he also had a habit of showing up during lunch with materials we had to unload, and he was always in a hurry, so it couldn't wait, needless to say.. lunch break started over after he left. 😁
yep... had this happen to me once, long ago... and the ONE time the boss actually came out to do a check on things, was the time I was on my *scheduled* break. It was a short gig anyways and I was glad to be rid of the prick when I moved on.
In my older jobs, the people who performed the employee evaluation, were the people who never once saw me work personally, but they are more than qualified to make judgments on my work ethic 👌🙄
This is so accurate its insane. This is not just an example of someone of management on a power trip but its also showing how there's a strong possibility that the upper company management needs to find excuses to get rid of individuals because of a decrease in profit. It happens all the time in the workforce and they sometimes place that responsibility on people like this manager in the video. They'll literally sometimes just pick random people they don't personally talk to and try to make it easier on themselves to release them since it's nobody of importance in their own lives. Ive seen it go down so many times first hand its ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, not all people in the position of management want to do this. Sometimes they have no choice in the matter which makes it a bit unfair to give them the burden of making such a harsh or tough decision. Some people actually have a heart and hate when that phase has to be performed, it sucks.
This is so my old boss Troy Roach from tellworks logistics in Eagan Minnesota would hide in his office playing video games all day only come out to nag and yell at me when I was the only reason shit got done there the few days I missed which was like 4 max in a year the next day I came back absolutely nothing was done but yet somehow I was the reason production was slow
Worked in a semi mechanic shop. One of the bosses came back to have a chat with us or something and saw that we were all sitting around the desk and doing nothing but talking. Instead of confronting us, he took pictures in secret and ran to HR. We were on lunch.
Is it weird that I can relate this from talking to a mod on discord. And even bring up people confirming and backing me up doesn't mean shit because of rank?
Was on maintenance crew at a factory a few years back and i got written up for not being at work on my weekend off. Needless to say, the whole maintenence department was in an uproar about it (shoutout for the guys having my back) and i decided it was time to find employment elsewhere
When the boss does not like you and puts you on the radar you can never do right. That was me at $20 per hour. I left there and now make $86 K per year.
