#shitty bosses

[bittersweet-in-boston]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76342921

Here, have a bittersweet holiday Stucky fic I wrote in two days…

[transpidergwen]

If you have to work on Christmas you're legally allowed to strangle your manager with sleigh bells if they step one inch over the line

[ashstatic]

Paraphrasing for my new boss:

"I'm not a micromanager but I require you to write down how you've spent every second of your day and I need to approve all your communication before you send them. For meetings please write out a flow chart of what you would say and responses to things they might ask. I will also require you to blindly follow all of my suggestions, however if the suggestion blows up in your face it is your fault. If you do a good job I will take that as an act of aggression and respond accordingly to put you in your place.

If you don't do these things I will take it as disobedience and talk down to you like the maggot you are because I am living out some messed up fantasy about controlling other people."

So anyways, I don't do well with authoritative types. It's almost comical how mad the words "no" or "I disagree" make them.

[magpie-69]

I'm done for the day. Possibly the week. Or maybe forever! So fucking hacked off 😡🤬

28th October '21

[ceevee5]

I love the stock photo.

[pumpkinspicepunani]

I Was a Hollywood Assistant and I Got Yelled at on the Toilet

And also everywhere else.

The bosses and some of the people in the comments are literal fucking demons.

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after 9 DAYS of consecutive shifts at work and i have found out many things:

my supervisor at a previous job was called "the cockeyed cocktail queen" as she worked in a very.... explicit place in Hamilton Bay (???) and she had to not wear glasses which made her look a little cross eyed

my manager got my coworker pregnant like a month after quiting

another supervisor and manager randomly quit because our bosses suck ass and give us literally zero appreciation

I won the staff raffle for upselling, literally worked my ass off for a month for it because I was led to believe we didnt get just TWENTY-FIVE FREAKING DOLLARS (AUD 💀)

the same supervisor told one of my best friends i was spreading nasty things about them in MY workplace when they dont work there anymore and I have absolutely nothing nasty to spread (literally wtf)

Anyway...

I hate my workplace, but i love my job to bits but aaaaaaa my bosses suck ass.

I had really hoped having an almost full set of bosses who were women or at least identify as women would be so atrocious about staff rapport.

its just gotten worse and worse over the years but with COVID, its made it almost impossible to get new work and im too scared to quit and find work and end up left with no financial stability 🤪

[isaakbutler]

In Which a District Manager is a Petty Ass.

Rant ahead. Feel free to skip.

TFW you and your team lead warned your district manager almost daily for two whole weeks prior to today (Oct. 27th) that your store is going to be wrecked because of a remodel and resets won’t be done on time and she still gets pressed about why they aren’t done. So she calls you in the middle of your second shift at a different store and starts grilling you about said resets even though you’ve already told her that they won’t all get done in the timeframe she expects. And then, hours later, when everyone is supposed to be off for the night, makes a work group chat message that puts you on blast without naming you specifically after being pissed off you can’t somehow change time and space to get resets done in a destroyed, mid remodel department in your store.

Like... I’m sorry the corporation that is this store entity decided that a Remodel, and an Optimization and Full Store Reset all needed to happen at the same time as our twice a year resets happen. It wasn’t my idea to be that stupid. No one asked me if that would work for me. I wasn’t bloody consulted. 

I only have not slept right for almost a month because of back to back resets that all have to start at 5 AM some of which were two plus hours away, been told to go to every other store in the district to the detriment of my own store, at all hours of the day and night, Drive two plus hours away multiple times, not be allowed Health Insurance, not get hazard pay for working in a store that has had THREE Covid outbreaks in the last four months. I’ve only been in close quarters with people who refuse to cover their face and social distance every day but let me just not be a good enough employee because I can’t just make the store let me do stuff in a ruined department. 

And because you all can’t provide consistent hours between resets. the month of reset work I’ve gotten will disqualify us from getting EBT benefits right when hours are going to bottom back out and be back down to ten to twelve hours a week because said corporation refuses to locate clients for us to have consistent work. And has refused to do so for over a year. So thanks for being a petty asshole, in a group chat, over things I can’t possibly control like resets and remodels.

No, I didn’t spend two hours in the last two days unburying my bin at this store so I could get my paltry amount of work done. No I didn’t almost tear a ligament trying to move a double stacked pallet of shit that doesn’t belong in my bin from my bin to try and do my job today. No not at all. No I didn’t go to bat for the soulless corporation I work for when the store manager wanted to start bitching about resets not being done even though it’s his damn fault we can’t get them done.

I guess I deserved that petty ass deliberately vague blast in a work group chat. I guess I’m still not doing enough for my job. I also need to be Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme and stop time to get shit done. 

No I have no control over when our signage box shows up either but go ahead and be mad about that too. Cause I have SO much control over the shipping of boxes from our home office. 

I have legit done everything I can short of pulling magic out of my very soul to get things done for you. But go ahead and leave passive aggressive anonymous call out blasts in group work chats some more. Keep it up and you’ll lose a good employee who has never called in or laid out, has put important non work things on hold to go work in stores that have no people cause they’ve already been driven away, has worked for two years without health insurance or PTO or sick time. See what happens when you shit on people you lean on.