• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I had a panic attack at work and a coworker heard me cursing through tears.

    In fairness, I’m sure hearing variations on “fuck damn ass piss shit fuck fuck” over and over was annoying.

    • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      How trash of a person must you be to

      1. see someone at work having an obvious panic attack and instead of helping, “giving them out” (if it can even be called that in this case) to your boss

      2. fire someone after the previous cunt told you about a coworkers panic attack

      I hope both of them learn what it feels like to be human someday and they won’t be able to sleep for it

    • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      The unwritten rule of unlimited PTO is like 2 weeks max but you’re gonna get the side eye if you even take that much. It’s just a scam because most people use less when it’s ‘unlimited’ and because depending on local laws they may have to pay you out for it in the event of separation of employment if it’s accrued.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I have a company that truly does mean unlimited PTO (with some rules of like okay come on don’t take 2 months off in a row or something crazy regularly), but I admit that is not the norm

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Oh I do, and it’s failing! Because of course it is! I expect them to be out of business within the year. (Currently job hunting and no matter what it’s going to be a step backwards back into corpo America)

            • HerrLewakaas@feddit.de
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              2 years ago

              You mind sharing what they do? It’s a bummer they’re failing, there need to be more companies that try new things like unlimited pto. I’d love to just go on a hike spontaneously without having to feel bad

            • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Sorry to hear that. The biggest downside of unlimited PTO is that you aren’t owed any PTO. So if you quit or they go out of business, you don’t get anything paid out like you normally would.

  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I told my boss that I was going to have to reduce my hours back to weekends only because college was starting back up again which meant I couldn’t do week day shifts, so they put me down for two mid week shifts and didn’t tell me about them, then they used that as an excuse to fire me.

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      2 years ago

      I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like classic “constructive dismissal”, which qualifies for unemployment in most states. Of course, you’d have to fight for it, which as a college student, would’ve probably been too expensive and time-consuming. Sorry about the shit boss.

      • TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        (Replying from alt instance cause main one is down)

        I’m in the UK and it was a dodgy cash in hand job at a chippy with no actual contract, so I didn’t really have any way to fight against it if I had wanted to keep the job anyway.

        Even if I had a way to fight against it I was technically too young for the job and my car didn’t have the right insurance to do it because of that so I didn’t want any extra attention. I got through the college year and got decent grades though so it all worked out alright in the end.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Pretty sure they’d get rejected for unemployment (at least in my state) as you’re required to have open availability in order to get it.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I had several bosses like that until my favorite boss of all time. We worked retail in a college town and so she expected this. Every semester she would sit us down and have us write out our availability for the new semester, and then she would give us all set schedules. It made everyone’s lives so easy.

      Managers like yours are just lazy and can’t plan ahead, it’s such an avoidable problem if you plan just the tiniest bit

  • Reborn2966@feddit.it
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    2 years ago

    company was a start up and they didn’t find any funds for 2023. the option was, work for free / “stocks” or be fired.

    at least i’m getting unemployment.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I applied for a warehouse job and the interviewer loved me and my resume and said I was hired, I just had to fill out a basic literacy test. I was studying at university so it was a silly thing to ask but he said it’s just a formality; they have to do it.

    One question said “describe yourself in three sentences”. I wrote something like “I am very punctual. I enjoy stacking boxes. I’m a self starter. I always do more than asked.” Get it? It’s four sentences but they asked for three. The fourth one being about doing more than asked. Funny right?? Yeah the interviewer called me back saying head office didn’t find it funny and I was disqualified for failing the literacy test.

    I figured I dodged a bullet because it must suck to work for a bunch of people without a sense of humour!

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They simply decided that intelligent person will get super bored in this position and will not perform well.

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Come on, that’s objectively funny, and if someone was properly manager-brained they’d just think “Ah, squeeze some more outta that one”. Lame behavior on every front

    • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      I think they wanted people who follow orders to the dot, not people who have a sense of humor. Sounds like a terrible place to work, but I still understand their reasoning.

      • ExFed@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.

        Martin Fowler has a pretty good collection of these.

    • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Those people would have also fired you for failing the question because you weren’t fired, you just weren’t hired. I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to have a sense of humor but they’re basically saying you’re illiterate because you can write 4 sentences instead of 3, instead of just being honest about the fact that they’re gonna micromanage you and they can already see it won’t work out because you don’t follow stupid rules to the letter.

    • jbrains@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Maybe writing two sentences would have been more than asked, since it would have been more concise. Who knows. I’m sorry that happened to you.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I shit all over the manager (figuratively) in front of everybody after one of their outbursts.

    Full disclosure: This was at a fast food restaurant I applied for a job at with the intent of fucking with 2 of the shittiest managers I’ve ever witnessed after stopping for a burger one time. Did it on a whim and it was quite a bit of fun. 10/10, would recommend. Plus, I got paid to do it.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 years ago

        If return-to-office announced at an all-company at my work, I’m putting in my two weeks in the chat and on our all-company slack channel.

        My place isn’t shitty enough to do that (I hope) but I’ve got a lil write-up in the works to copypaste immediately in the event they are. I’m curious as to if it would inspire anyone else to leave, too.

        I hope you don’t have to go back to the office, but you’re exceptionally based if you refuse.

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I have a bad case of Resting Bitch Face and I got fired from my barista job at Starbucks for not smiling enough and because I apparently “always looked like I wasn’t enjoying myself” while at work.

    My “default” settings face just looks serious, sorry, I can’t help it.

    • Atti@reddthat.com
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      2 years ago

      I was fired from Shopko for the same thing after being promised I was hired as permanent rather than seasonal. Of course, it didn’t seem to be a problem until after the holiday rush. Clowns.

  • PixeIOrange@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    I just got fired mainly because of shortage of work but also because of concentration disorders and not ending errors in my work due to my depression/ptsd… Feels weird…

  • potopato@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    First job I wasn’t experienced enough (kitchen porter at a busy restaurant).

    Next and last one my coworker was going to sue the boss for sexual assault and part of the crew including her were planning on suing for laboral exploitation (false contracts, unpaid hours, etc). The boss heard about it and fired us and threatened to sue us for bullshit (for staying after closing drinking, it was a pub so is something normal and some coworkers that were there but didn’t want to sue didn’t have any problem).

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    I finally made a vague comment pushing back against my boss’s fucking unhinged conspiracy theories and shitty beliefs after being forced to hear him spout it for nearly a year.

    “Wow, Wayne. I thought you were against the government regulating what people should do with their bodies. Huh… but okay.”

    He turned purple, didn’t talk to me for the rest of the day, and never put me on the schedule after that.

    Their entire business closed down a few months ago. I feel bad for were the ladies working there & my one co-worker. They were all part of the same church/religion, and they all basically cowered before Wayne. Wayne was an asshole who treated them all terribly. He was just mad that I didn’t let him treat me the same way.

    They also didn’t want to give me more than 18 hours per week or raise my pay up from 12$ an hour for the highly specialized job I was doing.

    Good riddance, Wayne.

        • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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          2 years ago

          Oh man this the thing that pisses me off so much. It became so abundantly clear during covid. “Stay inside and maintain social distance everyone, while I have my cocktail party chortle chortle”

          • Default_DefectEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Worst part of this too is when they get COVID and its the most mild case ever, cementing their shitting attitude about it being a “cold at worst.”

            • SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works
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              2 years ago

              Nah. This dude literally had a “mysterious heart attack” during the pandemic and never connected the dots. He survived. Literally blamed it on people who were “vaccine shedding”.

              Him and his wife also lamented on how many friends of theirs had died during covid, but always found an excuse to blame literally anything else but the pandemic.

              Guy went so far as to make fun of a man who came into the shop wearing a mask. The man’s wife was battling cancer at home.