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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A lack of adequate planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No doubt answered with "we're a family here" nonsense, all while the company makes record profits and the executives get compensated with a giant bag of cash. Yuck.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Okay, cool. Family knows when to drop a subject. Good luck!"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Okay, cool. Family knows when to drop a subject. Good luck!"

Nice. I'll have to remember that retort!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

👏🏻👏🏻

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

I believe that this, particularly, is why many fast food restaurants are closing way earlier than they did several years ago. No, it isn't because of the pandemic. It's because someone (Gen Z) finally got fed up with the bullshit of managers dictating when they can work as opposed to a fixed schedule. No, no one should ever have to bear the burden of "picking up a shift" - that's just shitty management and has been for around 60 years. We've all just bowed our heads and accepted that we need a job. Gen Z said, collectively, "Wait, what?" and the world will be better for it. Under no circumstance should someone ever be forced to work 2nd shift one day and early mornings the next.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Should have hired taller people then"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Solid joke, but hard to pull off in person if you’re over 6 feet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't it work better in that case? The implication being that if you weren't the only tall person, then staff wouldn't be so short without you.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago

My job is IT. Staffing is your job.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Do some people actually get these messages? It sounds almost illegal. I get emails from management moaning at me for not using my annual leave and reminding me to take them before they reset.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Had a boss that refused to give me full time cause that would cost company more money, but would harass me if I ever called out. Would remind him that he refused to make me full time and didn't give me a raise that year so I sure as hell wasn't driving through a blizzard to come to work a night when I hadn't been scheduled until 15 minutes before he called.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve had companies write clauses in their employee manual which states you must apply and get approval for using your paid vacation days a month in advance. When you sign the contract, you agree to these rules.

The thing is, where I live, there is no requirement to receive approval, and you really only need to give one day of notice (which has precedent in court). The use of these days off if the employee’s legal right.

The really shitty thing is that companies can legally write illegal clauses in their contracts, they just can’t enforce them. However, if an employee is young and doesn’t know their rights, they will just follow the rules blindly (I know I did).

Also, leave only accumulated for two years here, so you have to use it or lose it.

So the moral of the story is to educate yourself on your local labor laws.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the US there's basically no legal requirements for paid leave so there's also little to no protection for it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

land of the free (for corporations)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yes, yes we do. I've recieved them personally

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Sometimes managers do guilt trip.

Shitty manager: "Oh you're taking a few days off to go to a funeral? Now Sarah has to work overtime... :-("

A dumb employee would then try to reduce your PTO time to make it work, because they're too stupid to realize that it's the manager's responsibility, not theirs.

Oh, and the manager is paid significantly more than them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your leave resets? That sounds illegal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Use it or lose it is very common, even in (US) government employment.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sounds like a Management Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One of the only positive things about working at Amazon is they they're actually competent enough to hire enough employees to cover unexpected life events. No joke, they hand out over an hour of personal time every single day, enough to take an entire day off after barely working a couple of weeks.

I've been sleeping in nearly every single shift for a year straight, coming in late constantly, and management literally couldn't give a single fuck. They even let you come back from breaks late and no one says a damn thing. I once stretched out a 15 minute break to 45 minutes, and nothing came of it. So long as your work gets done on time it's no problem. They even fired the one manager who would actually do things by the book and get after employees. I couldn't believe it when it happened; it's almost too unbelievable to be true.

The best part is that you don't even have to call in; taking time off is done with an app and it always gets approved instantly. If the pay wasn't shit (only $19.50hr), I'd never want to leave.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this for office work? Because it doesn't jive with the totalitarian surveillance/micro management regime I've been hearing about at their warehouses and for their drivers.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really?! That sounds like awful management.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That sounds like every job I've ever had. Working so hard everyone is making themselves sick and the moment you're not at 100% you'll be let go for underperforming. God forbid you actually ask to be paid for the overtime you worked, good luck chump. Then some other desperate soul will take your place until they're chewed out and replaced. We weren't even called employees, we were human capital. The worst part is I'd do it all over again if that meant I would have a paycheck again. At least then I'd be able to afford rent, cause if I don't find a job in a few months I lose my apartment. Apparently I'm living in the greatest part of the world.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like a management problem to me.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Translation: We're extremely short staffed, so we are shaming our employees into sacrificing their vacation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh hey it's my old work

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Forgot the part where management also says use it or lose it, your vacation no longer rolls over, and your vacation bank now has an expiry date. But thanks again for all your hard work.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

So you're saying you failed to plan adequate staffing capacity for the company's needs?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not good with faces, but that's Hugh Laurie correct? I enjoy his stuff, can anyone clue me into what this is from?

It's not house nor Bertie Wooster

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Interesting tidbit: He filmed his audition tape for House from his hotel room during the shooting of Flight of the Phoenix.

You can find it on YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Holy shit I just finished watching House for the first time like a month ago and I knew he looked familiar. So weird for me not to see him with any scruff or a cane

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

You need to watch black adder

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check out Avenue 5, hearing him switch between accents constantly is odd but fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's crazy how well he does an American accent. I'm currently watching Veep and was so impressed with how normal southern he sounds. Not a hint of a British accent!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reverse image search failed me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Dug a little deeper and found a Pinterest pin that seems to suggest it's his role as "Richard Roper" from "The night Manager"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

*Deuces

(No ill will 🤚🥹)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well fuck.

What a weird word. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This might be a US thing. I have worked in — what I consider — pretty unfulfilling jobs, but they usually still insist I take my vacation time and remind me to take breaks. Maybe it secretly came back in my performance review in obscure ways so I might also be an idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

"that's a shame, you should have considered it when you last downsized the workforce. I'll be back in a month"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

If your business requires all its employees to be there to function, it's understaffed.

People go on vacation, get sick, quit, have car trouble, and die. Your business needs to account for that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a planning issue on their side. Where I live, it's expected that some periods are just less busy because people like to take off those weeks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Literally me I was like.. WHO CARES

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yep. If you don’t want me to use it, don’t give it to me. I’ll be thinking about you on the beach. Not!

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