#bad bosses

[pratchettquotes]

Ponder knew he should have never let Ridcully look at the invisible writings. Wasn't it a basic principle never to let your employer know what it is you actually do all day?

But no matter what precautions you took, sooner or later the boss was bound to come in and poke around and say things like, "Is this where you work, then?" and "I thought I sent a memo out about people bringing in potted plants," and "What d'you call that thing with the keyboard?"

And this had been particularly problematical for Ponder, because reading the invisible writings was a delicate and meticulous job, suited to the kind of temperament that follows Grand Prix Continental Drift and keeps bonsai mountains as a hobby or even drives a Volvo. It needed painstaking care. It needed a mind that could enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles in a dark room. It did not need Mustrum Ridcully.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

#ponder stibbons #mustrum ridcully #the last continent #discworld #terry pratchett #unseen university #wizards #academics #coworkers #bad bosses #work #colleagues #job description #theoretical physics #invisible writings #magic #personality types #patience #grand prix continental grift #bonsai mountains #volvo

[goodgrammaritan]

The most ridiculous, unbelievable part of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation isn't:

Driving under an 18-wheeler

Digging out an entire tree by the roots

A store clerk showing her lack of pantyline to a customer in full view of the store

250,000 lights on the house

250,000 lights on the house necessitating nuclear auxiliary power for the city

The bullet-speed sled

An elderly woman being able to giftwrap a cat

A turkey looking lovely on the outside but being dried out on the inside

A Christmas bonus paying for a pool

A cigar burning an entire tree in seconds

Everyone being TERRIFIED of a squirrel

A man being able to kidnap someone without knowing their complete address

An entire SWAT team being sent, including a helicopter

Said SWAT team bursting in through all the windows

The kidnappee not pressing charges

No, the most ridiculous, unbelievable part of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is:

A CEO, faced with the reality of what his bottom line has done to actual people, realizes the error of his ways and has a change of heart

#national lampoon's christmas vacation #ceos #bad bosses #capitalism ruins everything

[thatbadadvice]

Help! A Grown-Ass Man Didn’t Do A Thing He Wasn’t Obligated To Do

Alison Green, Inc.com, 19 October 2022:

A candidate hasn't attend his job interview, even though we called him to choose an interview time and then sent a confirmation email including time and location. I was wondering if I can send him an email in which I discipline him for not attending, because it cost me time and money for reserving the location, and inform him that he's been blacklisted from our organization.

I’m sorry -- you set up one entire job interview with a man, an incredible favor that speaks to your thoughtfulness, generosity, and good spirit, a thing you did for him out of the sheer goodness of your own heart, out of no interest of your own, entirely altruistically, and this is the thanks you get? The ungrateful boor cannot be allowed to disrespect you and the deep investment you made in him -- my goodness, you sent him a confirmation email for Pete’s sake! There is only one reason for a person not to show up to a job interview, and that reason is because they are a cruel, ungracious churl whose sole delight in this world is making your life more difficult, like you personally and specifically. No one ever gets sick or in a terrible car accident or has to care for a loved one or gets wrapped up in a community emergency requiring them to prioritize literally anything over spending a half-hour telling another stranger about how their greatest weakness is being the world’s biggest perfectionist.

If this lout is not turned into a shell of his former self by the merciless punishment you personally mete out to him in the service of preserving your good name, you run the risk of it getting around the 2728 North Highway 16 Commercial Park that you are some sort of employer looking for employees with whom to engage in a business relationship, to wit: the exchange of labor for compensation. If this great shame is made public, your reputation might never recover.

What did you have in mind? One worries that someone as kind and considerate as you (a confirmation email! one cannot get over it!) might be reticent to deliver the full thrust of discipline required to ensure that this man never forgets the horrible mistake he made the day he didn’t do a thing he wasn’t obligated to do, with someone who has no power over him whatsoever and to whom he owes absolutely nothing. Certainly calling him some mean names in an email is a place to start, but have you considered: also sending some rude texts? He will really rue the day he failed to discover all the wondrous benefits of hitching his economic apple wagon to your shining star! Spend some time brainstorming other options -- a little light flaying might do this guy a world of good.

At the very least, this man needs to be informed in no uncertain terms that you, the people who set up an interview to which he entirely fucking ghosted, are really the ones who didn’t want to work with him, and that actually you don’t even care if he works there or not, he can absolutely sit and spin as far as you are concerned, you hope he falls off the face of the earth, you barely have even given him a second thought, he is entirely meaningless to you and no person in the entire universe could possibly interest you less. 

(Any chance this no-show good-for-nothing is an entitled Millennial or lazy Gen-Z-er? The younger generations really have no understanding of workplace norms at all!)

#bad advice #workplace #job interviews #job search #careers #career advice #bad bosses #workplace drama #i wish a mf would #advice

[innocuousibis]

A bad boss is one who makes you feel like you are indispensable until it's time to compensate you, and then they suddenly make you feel like your labor is not worth the value you agreed on.

A bad boss is one who is unappreciative of the work you have done. One who exaggerates your mistakes and shortcomings, and will remind you of them constantly in order make you feel like your position is precarious.

A bad boss is one who constantly reminds you how much you are costing them to employ you.

I would rather work for someone who honestly tells me that the wages are low and the hours long than someone who offers me high wages and reasonable hours and then uses guilt and threat of unemployment to get extra unpaid time out of me.

So long as we have capitalism, tolerable employment means mutual trust between a boss and an employee. Trust that you won't waste my time, and I won't waste your money. You trust me that I'm not slacking or making mistakes out of carelessness, and I trust you that my time is valued at the wage we agreed on. If my time isn't satisfactory, let me go. Don't use guilt to get more of it out of me for less.

Why are bad bosses so fucking common?

#anti work #anti capitalism #bad bosses #rant

[mattsmemes]

#meme #mattsmemes #memes that make you go hmmm #surprised pikachu #self worth #quit #resign #know your worth #raise #asking for a raise #bad bosses #awful bosses #work memes #HR

[meetingboy]

I used to say I’d know if it was worth working for someone if I could see how they treat the waitress and what kind of tip they leave, but I now think it’d be just as helpful to see how they treat people when shopping on Black Friday.

#bad tippers #bosses #interviews #bad bosses #Black Friday #treat others how you want to be treated

[fixomnia-scribble]

Well. I loathe bringing up management issues at work, but after a most illuminating chat with a couple of folks above me - I think I’m going to have to. What I thought was, perhaps, just me being highly sensitive and reacting strongly to criticism from a new director is apparently an ongoing and increasing issue with this person.

I should note that the friends I’ve described the situation to have reacted with degrees of horror and outrage, which is wonderfully uplifting to a bruised spirit, and has helped restored a badly shaken confidence. But when senior colleagues start voicing similar concerns about this manager, and strongly urge younger staff to document everything and practice describing the impacts upon the workplace and their morale to upper management - yeah, it’s definitely Not Just Me. A manager with fifteen years over me is refusing to report to this person directly, after only three months, and is reporting to a lateral director instead.

And there’s nothing like being reminded how a good manager would have behaved and continued to behave, to make one cry over lunch out of sheer validation, and a kind of grief. It’s partly generational: many of us just grew up dealing with shitty and/or abusive managers and either didn’t recognize it, or just sucked it up. And it’s partly me, loathing confrontation and getting anyone in trouble, even if they did it to themselves. But as one of my older colleagues said, managers who start treating staff like their personal stepping stones to a career fast-track need nipping in the bud, fast..

ETA: BAHAHA so at a major high-level meeting today, a couple of my colleagues and I (who have all had issues with this director) were singled out for some Nice Words from a Very High Up, which is a lovely way to end a week. And while everyone was smiling and nodding in the Zoom boxes, this director was just ladling out the sweetness and hinting that her leadership was the key. And nobody bought it.

No doubt a bigger person would not be grinning wolfishly to themselves, but I’m sorry to say that this person brings out the schoolyard ex-bullied-kid in me.

#School school school #bad bosses #office life #95% of my colleagues are remarkably wonderful

[forsakebook]

#facebook #facebook employees #Mark Zuckerberg #Science and Technology #meta #delete facebook #delete instagram #delete social media #forsakebook #suckerberg #facebook as a business #bad bosses #heartless billionaires

[suzilight]

“Quiet Quitting” BS

8/22/22 Seattle Times headline is How to spot signs of ‘quiet quitting,’  according to experts. This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com.  ok.  

The Washington Post’s headline is:

‘Quiet quitting�� isn’t really about quitting. Here are the signs.

Hmm... working their scheduled hours and taking care of their job responsibilities, THEN GO TO ENJOY THEIR LIVES?!    And, employers are concerned that this attitude may be spreading.   bah hahaaaa

Where’s the article about bad bosses, constant last minute overtime emergencies and unrealistic job load?   Where is the expert article, How to spot signs of ‘Sadistic Supervisors’?  

#quiet quitting #tired of the constant fire drills #work life balance #bad bosses #unrealistic job responsibilities

[thegenxpointofview]

Employment secrets your company will never tell you, but I will

So, another Wednesday another blog post. On this one we are going to look at employment from the corporate point of view. Now it’s been a minute since I was a manager in a company and did hiring and firing, I concede that. However, observing current practices and having colleagues who are still managers I can say not a lot has changed from a people management perspective. But you’re here for the…

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#Bad Boss #bad bosses #Employment #Getting a job #unemployment #Working

[reasoningdaily]

HipHopDX: Lil Wayne Settles Lawsuit With Former Chef Over Her Firing

Lil Wayne and his ex-personal chef have settled their lawsuit amicably, with the latter bringing it against the rapper for allegedly engaging in wrongful termination.

KTLA is reporting that the suit was settled as of Thursday (March 7), according to papers filed by the attorney for Morghan Medlock.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but the parties reached a settlement two days prior to the relevant paperwork being filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Judge Kristin S. Escalante accepted the terms of the settlement, which concludes a long and rancorous battle that began in December 2022, when Medlock first accused Weezy of wrongfully terminating her from her position as his part-time personal chef.

Medlock said the issue first occurred when she accompanied Wayne on a Memorial Day trip to Las Vegas and had to suddenly leave when she was notified that her 10-year-old had sustained a head injury that left him hospitalized.

Though they all boarded Wayne’s private jet to return to L.A., he reportedly severely delaying the flight by smoking on it, so she hopped on a different flight. Medlock assumed the rapper’s team would understand the situation, especially because she was two years into the gig, but she alleged that she was terminated instead.

The docs stated that Wayne’s team continued to ask her if she was quitting after the incident, and that despite saying she wasn’t, Medlock got the cold shoulder when trying to return to work. Eventually, she was formally told she was being let go.

The former chef says her termination violates a California law that states it’s illegal to fire someone because they missed work to care for their sick or injured child. She sought $500,000 in damages.

Shortly after the filing, a spokesman for the Young Money boss told The Neighborhood Talk that Medlock’s termination had nothing to do with her family emergency, claiming instead that she was let go due to a breach of privacy.

In a post sharing the statement, The Neighborhood Talk pointed to several TikTok posts in which she identified herself as Lil Wayne’s private chef.

One such post found Medlock demonstrating the steps she takes to set up food and snacks on Weezy’s private flights. Others included captions such as “Chef Morghan Flying To Cook Lil Wayne Dinner” and “Lil Wayne’s Favorite Foods By Chef Morghan.”

The posts remained on Medlock’s publicly accessible TikTok page despite her termination and the subsequent legal action.

#Morghan Medlock #Lil Wayne Settles Lawsuit With Former Chef Over Her Firing #lil wayne #bad bosses

[rosejacksonwright]

If you stop me from eating and paying my rent, you instantly cross my path and become dead to me.

#anti bullying #anti abuse #anti discrimination #workplace bullying #bad bosses #intimidation

[goodgrammaritan]

So my job forgot to submit my name to whatever program it is that gives raises. Months after the raise was supposed to have been implemented (after I wrote a detailed letter spelling out exactly how many hours I'd worked without being compensated, necessitating an in-person meeting with the district manager after months of asking my boss), they finally implemented my raise (50¢/hr). I asked if I could get retroactive pay and they said they would do their best.

I got retroactive pay on my latest paycheck, but only about half of what I was expecting. My boss told me that he was told they made a mistake and the raise should have only been 25¢/hr. He also encouraged me to email the district manager and "make a stink" about it. I sent an email detailing how disappointed and angry I was, having now been told four different things about how and when raises occur. I asked to see the company's official pay policy in writing, as word of mouth did not seem to be reliable.

Yesterday the district manager came by again, and told me that he had pushed through the 50 cent raise as a special favor to me because he felt bad, but the actual raise is only supposed to be 25 cents. However, he did not tell me at the time that he was giving me special treatment at the time, so for my point of view, I was still being denied the money I was owed.

He said he was disappointed to have gotten my email, and his language was designed to make me feel small and selfish and greedy. After all, hadn't he done me a favor? Wasn't I now being paid more than I actually should be? (Also, he said he had wanted to talk to me before the retroactive pay appeared on my paycheck, but "you were out so I couldn't." I was on a vacation that had been on the schedule for months. Also, he has my email address. He could have told me this that way.)

I thanked him for explaining in detail how raises work with the company (which is a shitty system, by the way), but also reiterated that, not having access to an employee handbook detailing the pay structure, and only having his word to go by, which was that he would push for the 50 cent raise, it still seemed like I was being shorted by the company. With the information available to me, I was completely in the right.

But he made me feel like an asshole, he seemed bewildered that I was displeased, and acted like I should be super grateful for the extra 25 cents.

And my boss was present at this meeting, and said nothing about how he'd encouraged me to email the district manager and make a big deal out of it, so along with getting a guilt trip and a dressing down, I was feeling betrayed by my boss.

So all in all, I cried three times at work, which is always embarrassing, I felt like an asshole, and I felt guilty even though I was in the right as far as I knew.

After the district manager left, I spoke to my boss and requested to work one less day a week. I'm not quitting out right, because I like having a job to get me out of the house, I like my schedule, I like the vast majority of my coworkers and I enjoy helping customers, plus the employee discount is extremely helpful. (It's a pet supply store and I have two cats and two dogs, all of whom for health reasons eat Science Diet and Wellness Signature, two expensive brands.)

But fuck. It was an awful day.

(Also, my boss is toxically positive and wants everybody to be happy all the time always, and if you respond "Okay" when he asks how you are, he'll inevitably say "Just okay?" Just fuck off with that. But the day I've removed from my schedule is one of the days he's always there, so I will be around him less going forward.)

I really don't want to go in today. My two most annoying coworkers will both be there, and that's exhausting. Fourth day in a row I'll be taking an anti-anxiety pill before going in.

#work #bad bosses #adventures in retail #rant

[asrarblog]

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Sum Up – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #909

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#Asrar Qureshi #Bad Bosses #Blogpost909 #Bosses #Emotional Intelligence #Emotions #Employee Engagement #Leadership #Morale #Performance #Pharma Industry #Pharma Veterans #Productivity #Psychology

[neature-teacher]

Long post ahead, aka the saga of terrible bosses continues. Also a picture I really like, because my life is rapidly swirling into a toilet 🙃

I left my job where the owners would frequently talk about the teens that they employed, in a downright rude and condescending way. They were also misogynistic and homophobic, and just generally bad people. I thought I would end up in a better spot, but no. My new bosses suck too. They’ve exposed me to a severe allergen 3 times, and the last time I went to the ER! They’ve repeatedly told me the allergen (fish) won’t come back on the menu, and continued to expose me (and another staff member AND a child) to a deadly allergen. They told me last week that they’re returning fish to the menu, and I should decide “if I want to continue to work here, or find another place of employment … and that life is hard sometimes, but grownups have to make choices” …

I’m leaving a job yet again, my health is worth more than any job or paycheck.

#long rant #bad bosses #i dont have time for this

[mentorshelly]

When Bad Bosses Meets Petty Employees...

Article referenced In this hilarious article & video, a bad boss meets a petty employee and the results are hilarious! We’ll read in the article how the bad boss tries to control and manage the petty employee, but it’s all for naught! Resources mentioned: Career/Layoff Rejuvenation Workshop Looking for other services such as interview coaching, LinkedIn profile optimization and career strategy…

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#bad bosses #best petty revenge stories #employees getting laid off #laid off employee #petty employees #petty revenge stories #reddit petty revenge #toxic work environment #unprofessional leaders #unprofessional managers in the workplace #verbal abuse in the workplace