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Problems of an Overworked Librarian #327

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Me: calls in sick with plenty of notice

Manager: can’t you just try tho just come in please

Me: ??? What part of I’m sick do you not understand???? Should I now infect everyone else??? Should I pass out on the sales floor? Are you serious???

[loreetperso]

which have the worst management ?

Starfleet (Star Trek)

The Planet Union's fleet (The Orville)

Voting ended onApr 13

[downtimeblog]

Story Time!!

So, this is a story from when I worked at a fast-food restaurant call McDonalds. When I was in high school my first job was at McDonalds as a cashier. I did pretty well at my job, customers like me and so did most of the managers. The only thing that wasn't good was one of the coworkers that was the same position that I was in. There was a chance that I could be promoted to team lead and so could she. She thought that she would definitely get the job because her mom was a shift manager. unfortunately, the promotion was based on performance not on who you know, and I was better at the job than she was and more liked by the team. The day that everything changed was a day like any other day. I came in for my shift then a huge storm hit. It was a nasty thunderstorm, the power went out and we had to close the restaurant. instead of leaving we were told to clean the store. so that is what we did. While we did our work cleaning, as any high school kids and college kids were, we made jokes about everything and because we didn't have to worry about customers, we did not filter what we talked and joked about. One of my male coworkers joked about throwing something into the fryers because they were off due to the weather to see if the oil was still hot enough to fry something. I had said something about throwing a quarter into the fryer would not be a good idea. Well, you know what happens when someone is listening to the conversation that you are having to see you slip up, they use something small to make up something big. That indeed did happen. Three or four days later I get a call into the manager's office to have a talk. That talk turned into me writing a statement about this so-called incident of me actually throwing a quarter into the fryer. (Never did that) I was placed on a one-week unpaid suspension for my actions and that I was under review along with the security tapes. After the week was up, I had another meeting with the manager. They found nothing on the tapes and would not tell me who told them. I was also a minor and they would not let my guardian in with me. My first job ever and I got fired because someone made a baseless accusation against me that they then found nothing to support said accusation.

Till the next one Bye!!

[tawnydawnsoap]

Shitty job tea for all three who voted yes please on my poll:

It was at a buffet so food safety was questionable. People used their gross hands all the time and if we didn't catch it, it would go on to be picked up by whoever came next.

The owner and general manager made his whole family managers so if you complained about him once, they'd go tattletell to him and you'd be in trouble.

One of my coworkers was fired with 0 notice because of the aforementioned reason. Employees were sent as spies to report back on his behavior to the gm.

Gm was on a constant power trip. Very profit centered, didn’t let us eat or drink if a customer had the potential of seeing us.

I was almost always placed as a busser, which at the buffet meant I had to walk around and ask customers for their finished plates and clean the tables afterwards. Gm would sometimes open up the overflow rooms when I was the only busser and without any prior notice, I have had to buss on my own at full capacity multiple times and when I got fed up and asked for help, gm rolled his eyes and begrudgingly sent someone out. I was also on my feet just walking bacl and forth for 5+ hours and we got in trouble for sitting down.

Customers very often got angry with employees for enforcing rules. So much so that we all stopped caring about soda in water cups. And then we all got in trouble for not telling them to stop with the soda in water cups.

We weren’t allowed to tell anyone who came in close to closing that we were close to closing until someone got mad at our manager. He really only cared if the customers got mad at him. Also this was somehow our fault.

There were around 14 employees hired after me. All of them except 3 of them have soared past me in the training they have been given. I worked there 8 months and still have the same amount of training as the 3 who were hired these last 2 months.

September through December we had a cashier battle for selling gift cards. Whoever sold the most gift cards won like 100$. He only put like 5 people on the cash register that whole time. One of the other managers made an announcement to anyone who had not been cashier and wanted to participate in the competition to be placed on the schedule as cashier, and GM didn’t do anything about it.

He scheduled me very sparsely but trying to use that sparse time was a nightmare. He would sit on my time off requests for weeks and weeks before denying them. Missed out on important family events to go wash dishes for 3 hours. And that would be my only shift of the week btw. I worked 5 days in February. 5. Whole. Days.

When I mentioned the very little scheduling to my friend, who was his son, he said "you're just not as important to the store as someone like [coworker], so you're on the bottom of the scheduling priority." Yeah. Of COURSE I'm not.

I got a lecture for asking if I could take a second job? Because I agreed that I wouldn't take a second job and that's why I was hired? Then maybe can I get more hours sir? No? I can't? Well what if I quit. What if.

Anyways. My aunt and grandmother are taking me to the Amsterdam tulip festival for my graduation trip so I am not gonna stress over 3 shifts in which I work my ass off for the shitty buffet. Bye bye terrible management. And my not terrible coworkers whom I will actually miss a lot.

[the-artificial-human]

I’m leaving a job I’ve loved for years, because it has gone so down hill.

I’ve loved working at a doggie daycare for the last four and a half years. I’ve bonded with the dogs who come in to play, they are my babies. I love them all very much and leaving them breaks my heart.

In early February I got offered a front desk position at a vet not far from the daycare. It’s not much more pay wise, but it’s a consistent schedule with guaranteed 40 hours every week instead of 32 some and 60 others. The company has much better mental health awareness as well. When I first started in early February, my goal was to keep a day a week at the daycare so I could still see my babies. Not only has that turned out to be unsustainable, but other factors have left me making the decision to leave.

Several months ago they begged me to step up and be a shift lead. I gave them requirements: a raise, REAL training for the position (I’ve been a shift lead before and got thrown in with almost no training) and the chance to go to another location that isn’t as understaffed to learn from their leads. I only got the raise, despite being promised all three requirements. The moment I was a shift lead again, I was treated like absolute shit. I was given no support whatsoever when it came to running shifts. Not only was I given no support, I was treated like a burden for needing support and talked down to constantly when I couldn’t do something I had never been trained to do. I wasn’t given breaks for months, despite legally being required to give them to us, and would get yelled at by management if they thought I was even attempting to take so much as five minutes to catch my breath. I was working shifts over 15 hours over the holidays without any breaks at all, and was treated like absolute shit for wanting to sit for five minutes.

I took the front desk position immediately because of how awful I’ve been being treated. Two weeks ago, I learned that one of the other leads, who was the newest lead before I stepped back up, has been talking mad shit about me to everyone behind my back for months. Not only that, but someone has been spreading rumors to pet parents that a previous employee, a close friend of mine that I’m moving in with in April, was abusing dogs and that that is why she no longer works at the daycare. This person is someone I know extremely well, that would be the opposite of who she is as a person. I learned that all the other shift leads except me were told this, and specifically told not to say anything to me, or the associates that are friends with her. It feels very suspicious to me - I’d think they’d want the people who are friends with her to know if she legitimately did do something. But from what I’ve been told by the one person willing to tell me about it, they were not shown any kind of evidence (there are cameras everywhere and if something had happened there would have been meetings with the whole staff per company policy and the videos would have been shown to the leads) and basically told “trust me.”

That’s already bad enough. Then yesterday, after work at the vet, we stopped by to get some stuff on our way home and I said hi to some of the people at the daycare part of the store. I was texted almost immediately after we left by an associate on staff that the shift leads immediately began talking shit about both me and my friend as soon as we left. In front of associates and where they could be heard by clients. That is so insanely unacceptable. I’ve already caught them spreading rumors about current and previous employees at the store and caught them lying directly to my face multiple times over the last six months. I’m tired of the Mean Girl bullshit that’s been taking over the daycare for months now, and I honestly won’t be surprised if I’m not given the chance to have an exit interview after my last shift tomorrow because they know I’ll call out everything that’s been going on to whoever comes from HR to do it.

I’m just so tired of the way they’ve been treating us and the shit talking and spreading rumors. I don’t feel like I could stay there anymore even if I hadn’t learned about them talking shit about me to associates, because it absolutely would make it hard to work with any new people who come in and don’t know me. I’m so sad to leave, but I feel free knowing I won’t have to deal with the middle school drama from a bunch of grown ass adults anymore

[ignensis]

[courageousoutloud]

A waste of time

We just had a meeting at work and everything that was mentioned was total bs and a waste of time. Management will say what they want and just over look others concerns and advice's. The day will come when one will say I should have listened or taken that person seriously, but now it’s too late.