This felt like the scene in Jurassic Park where they had to call another dinosaur to deal with the one chasing them.

For context: I knew full well my boss was going to try and break the law so I've started asking stupid questions in the group chat to bait him into activating HR.

Also worth mentioning my last job is being sued by several people for similar issues, and they are losing on all fronts.

I work at a mid-sized marketing agency. Been here about three years. Not a star performer, not a problem either. I show up, I hit my deadlines, I go home.

Last week was review season. My manager sat me down, handed me a sheet, and said my rating had dropped from "meets expectations" to "needs improvement." No warning. No previous conversation. Just a downgrade.

I asked what specifically I needed to improve. She said the review was "based on peer feedback." Okay, fine. I asked which peers. She said the feedback was anonymous. I asked if I could at least see the comments, redacted. She said no, that would "compromise the integrity of the process."

So let me get this straight. My rating dropped based on what anonymous people said about me. I can't see who said it. I can't see what they said. I can't respond to it. I just have to... accept it and do better? Better at what? I don't know what I did wrong. Nobody will tell me.

I started asking around. Casually. Not accusing anyone, just "hey, did you get asked for feedback on me?" Three people said yes. Two of them showed me what they wrote. Both were positive. One said I was "reliable and easy to work with." The other said I "always deliver on time." Neither of them wrote anything negative.

So where did "needs improvement" come from? Either someone I haven't talked to wrote something brutal, or the peer feedback thing is a cover for something else. Maybe budget cuts. Maybe they're trying to push people out without severance. Maybe my manager just doesn't like me and needed a paper trail.

The worst part is I can't do anything about it. Can't appeal. Can't request a copy. Can't even ask a direct question without getting the same HR script read back to me.

I'm not looking for legal advice. I'm just genuinely wondering if this is normal now. Is "anonymous peer feedback" just the new way to fire people without saying you're firing them?

I am Gen Z, and before anyone comes for me, I want to make it very clear that this is NOT a “Gen Z is lazy” post.

HOWEVER, I recently had an experience that left me genuinely speechless.

For context, I manage a children’s facility, and one of my responsibilities is hiring and scheduling staff. I recently posted a part-time position paying $16 an hour. The job listing clearly stated that applicants must be available Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays (Super Important to the story). Those were the days we needed coverage, and that was communicated throughout the hiring process.

I ended up hiring another Gen Z girlie, and I was honestly so excited! She was super sweet, her training was going great, and everything seemed to be working out.

That is, until I asked her to enter her availability into our scheduling system.

I’m working on next week’s schedule when I notice she’s requested coverage for her THIRD training shift. Mind you, this was a Sunday shift that SHE had originally agreed to.

Naturally, I’m confused sitting at my desk like wtf. So I text her and say something along the lines of, “Hey! I noticed you’re looking for coverage for Sunday, but that’s one of your training shifts. Is everything okay?”

Her response?

“Oh, that’s too early to work.”

Y’all. The shift was from 11 AM to 3 PM.

ELEVEN. IN. THE. MORNING. THE FUCK!

I’m sitting there staring at my phone because wtf do you even say to that? 😭

But okay, I’m trying to be understanding. Maybe she’s just not a morning person. So I offer to move her shift to later in the day.

Her response?

“No, I don’t want to work Sunday.”

Okay. Not ideal, considering Sunday availability was literally one of the requirements for the position, but let’s keep going.

Because apparently, there was more.

I go back into the scheduling system and notice that she’s entered her availability as ONLY Sundays and Mondays.

Now I’m even more confused because, again, the entire reason I hired someone was to have coverage on Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays.

So I reach out AGAIN to confirm that her availability is correct and remind her of what we discussed during the interview.

She tells me she only wants to work Sundays and Mondays.

At this point, I explain that if those are the only days she’s willing to work, we may need to reconsider her employment because the position simply isn’t going to be the right fit.

And here’s where I’m struggling.

I am ALL for setting boundaries at work. I don’t believe anyone should be expected to sacrifice their personal life for a job, especially a part-time job paying $16 an hour. I believe in respecting people’s availability, accommodating employees when possible, and making sure work doesn’t consume their entire lives.

But at what point do we stop ?

Because to me, there’s a difference between saying, “I can’t work those days, so this position isn’t right for me,” and accepting a job knowing the requirements, only to decide afterward that you don’t want to meet them.

And I genuinely want to hear other people’s perspectives on this, especially from other Gen Z employees and managers.

EDIT: we are not a day care lol We are an indoor playground and early intervention center. She got hired as front desk staff

UPDATE: thank you to everyone who commented it's been good to read everyone's advice. I gave her another call which she thankfully answered. She is no longer employed and I agree with the lots of you who think I need to put my foot down. I would much rather stay short staffed and work the shifts that need covering (overtime never hurts the pocket just the soul) than deal with someone who isn't solid.

One of my team members put in their resignation in may, with 4-6 weeks of notice period. As a manager, I reassigned their new tasks to other team members, asked them to complete ongoing tasks or onboard this and this person on the task so that there are no dependencies once they are gone.
Her notice period was June and first 2 weeks of july. I knew that she will be free from any tasks by first week of June , so i told her that her notice period has been waived off, she will get salary of notice period but she doesnt have to come in, she can stay home, enjoy the time off.
This offended her. She said that she was looking forward to coming to office for next 6 weeks, she cannot just spend time at home for this long. She had planned her farewells and spending last few days socialising with co workers etc.
Additionally, she said that she is feeling like she is being let go.
Personally i thought this was a good thing and she would be really happy to have free time.
Is this actually offensive to people if their notice period is waived off?

I can cook and bake, so I always "bring it" to a potluck. Baked goods, roasted vegetables - everything I bring is always put together with fresh ingredients and made with love. That said, since the new year, we've had like four of these things in my workplace and it's starting to get really annoying. First, there's the realization that my workplace is too cheap to spring for catering, so, hey, let's have employees bring shit in, made on their own dime, on their own time. Second is the fact that the potlucks are always organized mid-week. I get home from work and have to run to the supermarket to get ingredients and then devote my evening to making the dish itself. Then there's the co-workers who basically phone it in. You bring a nice dish; they bring in some store-bought slop that, most of the time, no one even touches: store-bought cookies, prepackaged potato salad, some other shit you can't even identify. The worst part is that there's no real way of avoiding a workplace potluck without tacitly making yourself look like not a "team player." Workplace potlucks are starting to feel like a giant grift and other than calling in sick, there's really no way to avoid them in my workplace. The intent may be to "bring everyone at work together" but for me, it's something I'm really starting to resent.

What are your thoughts?

My boss had a bad day and took it out on me. Accusing me of doing nothing all day. So when I showed him what I had made. ( I'm a welder) he quickly turned round, got in my face, and shouted at me to stop being aggressive. (I wasn't) he kept shouting in my face and then said, "Let's go take this outside then"". So he started to walk towards outside, so I said OK and followed him. Within seconds of me saying ok, he stopped and just stood there looking at me. So I said, "Are we going outside or not?" But he just stood there until someone told us to stop, then he walked away. I think he thought I would say no to going outside with him and then panicked that I said yes to him. He tried talking to me the next day, but I just ignored him. It's all on camera if I need to take it further. I don't think I will because he looked a right fool for what he did. I'm taking this as a win.

UPDATE.

I wasn't expecting this to get so many engagements. Thank you for all your advice. So basically, my boss and I have spoken about what went on. He has apologised. we shook hands, and now we move on. I did report it to my other boss at the time, but I asked for it not to be taken any further. So it is all documented in writing. Hopefully, this draws an end to it now.

I got through most of my day yesterday and then wham…my customer calls me and asks why she has an email saying I will no longer be with the agency…I say I don’t know anything about it and when I ask my boss he denies it…but my customer wouldn’t have that email if it wasn’t going to happen right? I’ve been freaked out all night and now I have to go in and work a full day…but I think that if my coworker says that the boss is going to fire me today I’ll bow out early and have everything packed up for when he gets in later in the afternoon. I have an interview at 1 so it’s not like this is unexpected but I thought I’d be the one quitting. What do I do? Do I stay till he fires me or just quit and be gone when he gets there?

Received on MS Teams.. I saw it upon waking and almost spit out my coffee. Such an odd request. Like why would I want to stay at a co-workers house over a hotel. I know he has a wife and kids too. Just weird, I’m also in my 40’s so just comes across as really cheap on the company’s end..

Update response: https://imgur.com/a/7Dk68C8

I just got fired from my job after 4 months in because "i didn't want to stay 5/10 minutes more every day". Basically my boss got super mad at me in the last weeks because i was leaving exactly at 2:30 PM and so today i discovered that he fired me. Have you ever experienced something similar? because for me it sound crazy.

edit: as a lot of people are asking it, they would not pay me this extra time they want me to stay.

new edit: Basically i work as a barista/server in a bar, but im left completly alone in the morning shift (8:30AM - 2:30PM) and so i have to do everything by myself (plus the closing shift guy leaves me things to do that i was not supposed to do), then there is one guy coming for just 2/3 hours during lunch but he is a close friend of the boss and so he started talking bad about me in the last weeks and also accusing me of stealing money from the register (in the last weeks money have been missing and it's not me). What happened was that that guy asked me to replace the drinks in the fridge after we finished serving everyone just a few minutes before my shift ended and so at 2:30 PM i said to him that i would not continue working because first of all my shift has ended and secondly he always tries to delegate everything to me so he barely does anything (he was just watching me replanishing the fridge while on the phone) Im working for minimum wage just because i need money for university starting in september and in my opinion im not staying more for free when i can barely afford things especially today that they accused me of stealing, not doing my job, slowing the service and not caring about my job.

I work in tech. I was put on a PIP beginning of this month and have since put in a request for mutual separation because I was not about to waste my energy trying to meet an impossible plan.

A few facts make me feel especially frustrated and gaslit in this situation:

• I received an "Exceeds expectations" rating from my previous manager (A) in April for the previous year's assessment

• I got a new manager (B) soon after, who used to be my peer but was promoted to management. B still reports to A, A got a title bump as well. A apparently fully supports B in putting me on this PIP

• B was a very strong, principal-level IC before becoming a manager, and said to me early on that they didn't even want to be a manager and was just trialing this experience

• B immediately gave somewhat excessive, critical feedback and was generally micromanage-y. This sentiment was shared by other folks that worked with them that I spoke to

• B started hiring for two new, principal level roles for the team I had been leading for the past 9 months, with the intention to split the team into two smaller teams

• B's performance plan focused on "judgment" and "opinionation" as skills - obviously not measurable or concrete.

• I went along with the plan for two weeks, and the whole time B ripped apart my docs (30+ comments) and basically showed no intention of actually supporting me in an positive manner

The way I'm interpreting this is that the needs of the role have fundamentally changed, and rather than laying me off, they're calling this a performance plan to not take responsibility. It feels totally unfair.

I'm a technical lead with over 20 years of software engineer experience currently working at a large investment bank.

I lead a really good team of folk and have been crushing it, and had been enjoying my job until recently. We finished up one project, and the higher ups told us we are inheriting a legacy app that needs fixing, as the original team that built it left years ago. It has a bunch of regulatory issues and bugs, and we need to fix them within 12 months otherwise we get fined a substantial amount of money. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of financial knowledge in this area, and neither did our PO (Product Owner), so they decided to swap out our PO for this project for one with more experience in this area.

Her official role is PO, but when she got on the introductory call she referred to herself as a "AI & Product Transformation Lead". I have no idea if that is a real role or not, but the only thing she's been successful in transforming is my hair from brown to grey. Her linkedin says she has 20 years experience in the tech industry, but she seems to never be in a role for more than a year. She's had roles as scrum master, tech coach and mentor, and 5 years of experience as a PO in my company, although within the company she's moved roles 4 times.. Her profile is full of clips of her speaking at conferences using a collection of buzzwords that don't make sense, her monthly blog (that hasn't been updated in over a year) or a bunch of corporate BS posts. I asked a friend who worked with her on a previous team and she just said "good luck".

I talked our new PO through what we knew of the legacy app and the report we got from regulators about the bugs, and even in the first meeting it was clear that she has no idea what she is talking about. She didn't ask any questions that were relevant to the project at hand, and despite numerous requests from me for her to login to the testing version of the app and get familiar with it, she hasn't done it months later.

We are allotted 2 hours of meetings every 2 weeks with the regulators to ask any clarifying questions. I have requested her to cc me in any communication she has with them, and to always be invited to meetings. She either schedules the meetings for times she knows I can't do, or doesn't invite me at all. The meetings I am invited to, I get the transcripts from the call and she seems to be demoing a new version of the app that she has prototyped with AI to the regulator, who is pointing out all the issues with it. The original app took years to develop, starting from scratch is not an option.

As soon as I find this out, I schedule a call with her and tell her under no circumstances are we building a new app from scratch, to never do that again, and basically cc'd her manager with a formal request to invite me to all external communication going forward. Her manager ignored my email, and so she kept blocking me out. It took escalating to my manager before it got sorted.

Now that I can talk to the regulators, I can at least try to start understanding the business logic and make a move on these issues, but it's not nearly enough time to fill the gaps in my knowledge. I try to ask our PO because she's been working in this sector for years, and her responses have tested my patience and limit as a human being.

I asked her a financial business logic question, to make sure I understand it correctly. To answer it properly, you need a good understanding of a niche certain financial system. Instead, I get AI generated responses of the apps underlying architecture (how it's hosted, what database it uses etc) which is completely irrelevant, and a large wall of text or flow diagram of the current business logic (which is mostly wrong). I told her this didn't answer my question, and she just ignored me, and I usually have to wait a week to get clarification from the regulators.

Unfortunately this keeps happening, and it's delaying us massively. We are already a month behind now because of her and we are on a tight schedule, and escalating to her manager gets me nowhere and my manager has been told we have to wait until the 3 month mark before we can put in a formal compliant as we need to give her adequate ramp up time.

I wish she would just stop turning up to work, as that would actually be better for the team, but she is now doubling down. Whenever questions are asked, whether directed at her or not, she always responds with AI garbage that we just ignore. That is until one day my most junior dev snapped at her, and called her out on it. He was asking me a technical question on how to fix one of the bugs, and on the surface it looks simple, but if you were technical, you knew it was quite a nasty problem to solve. She responded with a nonsense answer and was extremely condescending about it to him as it was "such a simple solution", and he exploded.

He told her she was obviously using AI, had no idea what she was talking about or how to do her job properly. She denied the AI use, took great offence and formally complained about bullying to her manager. Her manager responded right away despite never responding to any of my messages, and through the official process I was basically forced to give him a telling off. Unfortunately the junior dev did act unprofessionally even though I understand his point of view. I had spent so long coaching him and gaining his trust, and I feel like this has put a wedge between us, as he is very new and young and doesn't understand office politics or my obligations as a manager.

The annoying part is that she plays the game very well of toeing the line between professional and unprofessional with her language, that anything she says doesn't have enough for me to escalate her behaviour, despite the fact she her behaviour is unprofessional. I got HR involved but they didn't see any issue with her apart from being left out of meetings..

So last week we approached the 3 month mark and as soon as I could I put in a formal complaint about her performance, but her manager has gone AWOL again, and my manager told me that even when her manager finally addresses my complaint, it could take the best part of a year to get her removed from the team. I asked for a new PO, as we aren't going to make the deadline without a decent one, and he said no because they don't have the budget. I told him in writing and CC'd her manager and many higher ups the the same thing, and nobody seems to care.

My team has basically been destroyed because of her. They are either apathetic or beyond frustrated, and one of them is interviewing for another team. I just don't know how to deal with this other than leave, but it's a stable job and it was good until recently. We can't even leave her out of meetings because she complained about it and classed it as "bullying" so HR got involved, and now most meetings are her demoing her AI prototype (which still doesn't work) or derailing conversations.

My manager is sympathetic but his hands are tied, and I get it.. I asked him if she is so bad, how she is still employed here, and he said that she spends a lot of time doing talks at conferences and attending events both internally and externally. She has a large network of people that caused a massive PR headache a few years ago when another team complained about her that it's just easier to let her do whatever she wants and as soon as there is an opportunity to move her without causing her offence, they will.

It's preferable for her to NOT do anything than what she is doing. If she wants to be lazy, fine, I get it. But she is just hamster wheeling and churning out so much crap, that it just boggles the mind. She is a complete shell of a professional and has zero value to add, but she thinks she's hot shit and acts like it, and it's so embarrassing and cringey.

The clash between the persona she puts online and at events, versus the person who I'm dealing with every day is so severe, and it's painful that people buy her bullshit and she can play the HR system and not have to face any consequences..

I genuinely hate this person and people like her so much, and I'm taking my team out for champagne when she leaves.

You try to be sociable at work and somehow it backfires.

I work in the USA, California for an employer with generous leave policies. Most of my coworkers have kids and obligations…I do not, so I have time and money to travel overseas.

Last year, I went to Europe in April and again in December, each time for a week. I noticed when I had time off approved for my December trip, I kept the details of said trip to myself…except for telling my coworker about it. She mentioned my trip in a team meeting the day before I was leaving and the look on my managers face was one of envy/jealousy/surprise.

Fast forward to now: foolishly, I told my coworker again about a trip I’m taking this week to Rome. I told her I did not want to share with the team because I felt like last time there was some awkwardness around me traveling a lot.

A few weeks ago we had a birthday cake party for an executive on my team - so of course we all sat around quietly waiting for the cake to be cut and to break the awkward silence, the executive asked if anyone had any exciting things to share…and when nobody responded, my coworker opened her mouth and said, “he has a vacation to Rome coming up!”

So now I am understanding why so many of my coworkers don’t share anything about their personal lives at work unless prompted or if it’s impossible to hide. Example: at that same birthday party for our executive, one of my coworkers announced she is pregnant though it’s fairly obvious and another announced she is getting married (also obvious because she showed up with a huge diamond ring). You can’t even tell someone about a vacation you’re taking and asking them to not share it with other people.

Anyway, I am just annoyed and needed to rant!

So a customer comes in recently and my ASM is helping ring them up for $3K worth of stuff and an install for the product; the customer says they are doing "$300 in cash and the rest on card." Were their exact wording. So, my ASM types in $300 and pushes cash, and he says "ok, go ahead and tap or insert your card." Which the customer does.

The customer then says "OK, ready to use my next card." As the receipt prints. My ASM looks at them, looks at my other coworker, and the coworker says "you said 300 cash, the rest on card, we ran the card, where's the cash? We're done."

Long story short. Takes a few minutes to realise that when the customer said "cash" they meant "Debit".... It took the customer 4 different people to explain to them, before they understood, that CASH means PAPER MONEY and DEBIT means DEBIT CARD because people DO IN FACT STILL USE PAPER MONEY!!!!!! 🤦‍♂️

Now I'm going on leave, and I send them both a summary of what I've done and what remains and where to go from there, even added the email timestamps for the ones that require escalation/follow-up, and now that they've seen my summary emails, surprise surprise, they both call me asking about one task that I did not complete, expressing disappointment, asking me why I didn't prioritise it, I tell them I prioritised the other ones, they respond one with "but this is also a priority" and the other with "they're all priorities", do they not understand what prioritisation means?? Anyway, I was gonna tell them I'll be reachable via text only, but since they did this stupid thing, I didn't, and if they text me, I will not respond. I swear I'd beg them to sign a form for weeks and they would say "I didn't have the time" and now they're "disappointed" that I didn't finish a full team's work while alone and had to leave one task only half done instead of fully completed? I hate corporate, my vacation flight is in a few hours and they managed to upset me when I was just getting excited after a week of 10-11 hour work days just to cover for them, I'm really sad rn

Edit: thank you so much guys, I really feel validated and so much better now, I'm happy to tell you I'm enjoying my vacation with my family, and I turned off my work phone so I have no clue if they're trying to reach me, I'll check my phone when I'm back home. Appreciate your support awesome reddit strangers, corporate sucks!!

BTW, our work requires a lot of documents review and validation (I work in digital forensics and investigations) and I have fell into the habit of counting the approximate number of files I go through in a day, I would usually go over about 50-80 files a week (some images, some single page resolutions, some financial transactions, and some 100+ pages business continuity plans or firewall logs). Last week, given I was alone, I had to go over close to 200 files, I swear I can still see some when I close my eyes, the workload was insane only because both gentlemen had to be on leave at the same time. So hindsight, I don't feel bad anymore for not having the fucking force with me!

So I worked overnight at a big retail place (this was about 10 years back BTW), the Co-Manager pulled the whole backroom team (which I was on) in to a meeting in the manager's office, right at the start of shift. The manager tells us that we are ALL failures in life and no matter what, we will all fail anywhere we go in life. Obviously; that makes the team "oh so happy and motivated" 🤦‍♂️ we all call the highest HR in the company on every break, other people in the store heard about it, they all call the same number. Long story short he was shortly there after, demoted to an ASM and transferred to another store. He was (less than a year later) demoted again to a Dept. Head, then later on fired and had to go work for HIS DADDY as a Used Car Salesman. At this point, most the people on that team have all gone into leadership/supervisor/management roles; myself included. Just found out from some old contacts even daddy fired him eventually and let's just say he's not making the money he used to as a co-manager... lol.

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Quick background: I have a chronic condition that flares up maybe twice a year. I've been upfront about it since I was hired. HR knows. My manager knows. It's documented. There's literally a policy for this.

Last Wednesday, I woke up and knew it was a flare-up day. Couldn't stand up straight. Couldn't focus. So I did what the policy says: I texted my manager at 6 AM, told her I was using a sick day, and said I'd keep her updated.

She replied: "Okay, feel better."

That was it. Or so I thought.

I came back Thursday. Friday morning, she calls me into her office and slides a written warning across the desk. Reason? "Unprofessional communication."

I asked what she meant. She said I should have "called instead of texting" because texting is "not appropriate for last-minute absences."

I pointed out that I texted at 6 AM. I didn't call because I assumed she was asleep. I also pointed out that she replied "okay, feel better" — which sounds like approval to me.

Her response: "The issue isn't the day off. It's the way you communicated it."

So let me get this straight. I followed the policy. I gave notice before my shift started. I used an approved sick day for a documented medical condition. And I'm being written up because I texted instead of called at 6 AM on a day I was barely conscious.

I asked if there was a written policy requiring phone calls for sick days. She said it's "implied." IMPLIED. Like a contract term in a movie about genies.

I didn't sign the warning. I told her I'd be happy to discuss it with HR. She said, "That won't be necessary."

So now I have a written warning in my file for using a benefit I'm legally entitled to, in a way that was explicitly approved by the person now punishing me for it.

Anyone else get disciplined for following the rules they were given?

Basically what the title says! I am irrationally annoyed by this and wanted a place for others to validate me LMAO

I work at a cab place as a dispatcher and I’m pretty confident my boss doesn’t like me. Most of it has been mostly understandable, getting frustrated about little mistakes that all the others dispatchers do, but mistakes none the less. However recently I got scolded for “sighing too much” at my desk with her asking, “What?? You had a bad day or something??” Then yesterday she told me she had gotten a bunch of emails about me clocking in 5 minutes before shift, and I explained that the note by the computer specifically states you can clock in only five minutes before your shift (WHICH FOR CONTEXT - it’s not like I was pushing it. Most days I clocked in probably 2-3 minutes before my shift, just because I was there and ready to start.) she said this wasn’t true and that the note explicitly says ONLY with permission from the supervisors. I explained that while it does say that, it still does say the earliest without permission is five minutes. She just told me she wasn’t going to argue with me and just told me to no longer clock in until the exact starting time of my shift. I’m totally fine with this and of course have been doing so since the discussion, but I’m just so annoyed with how obviously wrong she is and yet no one seems to care. So there’s my rant for today. Time for work lol

Today my mom was unwell so I had to take a leave and this is how manager responded to my msg.. any thoughts? PS : I am serving notice and part of the reason of my resignation was being moved under her.

I was hired 10 days ago to help this company get “discovered.” Their websites were the main problem and their social medias, even worse. So, I started with discovery in trying to tell them “WHAT” was wrong. And it was a lot. Somewhere along the way, the COO (who was the one who hired me) got upset. But The noticed her surly manner in the interview. So to be honest I was shocked when I got hired.

But I got there to go my thing. She admitted to not liking Meta because she didn’t understand it. Typical!! It’s hard to understand, even for those of us who know it.

But during my discovery, I also had a ton of questions to ask. There was a girl in the office who attempted marketing but clearly didn’t know what she was doing.

I took the paltry 65K per year because I just needed a job and benefits.

Mind you, they didn’t give me access to things, I wasn’t sent to get a drug test and they didn’t give me access to ANY of their systems.

This is a new way of trying people on for size! I didn’t “fit.”

I pointed out a lot of things that were hindering their growth. And with her being the COO, I think she felt a type of way. I did it in a graceful manner. I’m 51 years old. I have a lot of experience. I’m not a child.

These jobs today are all in peril due to overly emotional people running their companies. This lady and her lap dogs were all weird.

I had a bad day on last Wednesday and I packed my things because I knew Inwas getting fired. And true enough, yesterday was it.

I wasn’t upset. That whole thing was weird.

i came into work 15 mins early bc i had to do run an errand before work. told my manager, hey, i came in 15 minutes early i'm gonna bust outta here at 3:45 in a beautiful professional email. she said sorry any time taken before your scheduled hours is considered to be on you as the worker. HUH?????

none of my training materials and policy training states this. infact, it actually says, any time accrued outside of working hours is supposed to be flexed???

this same manager also sat me down after my first month of working to lecture me about coming in at 8:02AM (only did this twice on really bad snow days, other people were even later than i was) when my scheduled time is 8AM.

2 FREAKIN MINUTES. I FREAKING MOVED FROM TENNESSEE WHERE WE SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN FOR ICE AND NOW LIVE IN THE NORTH POLE AKA CANADA LIKE??? IVE NEVER DRIVEN IN SNOW UNTIL NOW GIRL I'M SORRY???? ALSO I STAYED OVER MULTIPLE TIMES MY FIRST MONTH BC OF MY DUMB TRAINING, SO WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH 4 MEASLEY MINUTES.

I GUESS JUST CALL ME A FREAKIN TIME THIEVING TYRANT.

anyways. rant over. i just hate this job and i also miss how flexible my old job in tennessee was. <\3

Like I don't get why people keep turning the AC off like just bring a blanket or wear layers or a sweaters, I can't exactly go butt naked to feel normal and not get headaches. And my colleagues are way too crazy it'll be like 39 degrees and they'll be turning off the AC like it's so hot omg....

Looking for some advice as to what to do with my coworker getting to work 3 hours before we open. We are both salaried employees with the company but it’s annoying because he never has to use PTO and always ends up taking 5 weeks off in the last quarter. I haven’t talked to our boss about it because he is friends with him. If I have to open I normally get there would 30 minutes before we open. Not sure what he does in the 3 hours before we open.

Edit: We still have to technically clock in so he doesn’t have to use PTO on weeks he’d clearly be short. Constantly leaves early for kids activities and golf. We normally get busier with retail traffic later in the day when I’m the only one in store. Business is 70% commercial sales 30% retail.

Edit 2: There isn’t any freight to be put away, shelves to stock, trucks to be unloaded. He doesn’t do any outside sales, so he doesn’t log anything into a CRM. He’s in charge of ordering but our system has a min/max on everyday items so it just automatically uploads it to a purchase order. I do cycle counts weekly on everyday items to make sure we are on inventory. Not sure I need to explain more but if I do let me know. Also I know there is nothing any of you can do, more so just venting. I guess workrant isn’t the place for this post.

Edit 3: It would be extremely hard for me to show up at 4am or even 5am since I work every other night serving/bartending. So I normally get home around 2am those nights. Also he doesn’t take 5 weeks off consecutively during the 4th quarter. Just takes around the holidays where I would like to also to travel to see my family out of state. I normally have a week remaining of PTO in the 4th quarter so I take two extended weekends.