According to a study of over 11,000 individuals in Norway, bosses spend a notably larger amount of their work hours on social media compared to their subordinates.
Workers Divulge The Most Unethical Request Their Boss Ever Made
Most large corporations are built on a ‘leadership’ model that borrows heavily from the military idea of Chain of Command.
The top gives orders, which are followed with increasing levels of detail the further down the chain one goes.
The trouble is that the orders aren’t always proper – or even, in some cases, legal.
Non-disclosure agreements and general embarrassment often keep people from telling these stories but Redditor SethmAR15 decided to use the anonymity of Reddit to ask:
“What’s the most unethical thing a boss has ever asked you to do?”
Someone needed a break.
“Many, many years ago I was working as a part-time mechanic for a guy selling ‘restored cars’.”
“He called me in for an emergency brake repair on a TR-4.”
“One of the rear wheel cylinders had failed and he needed it fixed ASAP.”
“He had a buyer lined up with cash.”
“Instead of having me hone and rebuild the cylinder properly (I had the tools and the kit to do so) he wanted me to cut the pipe to the rear brakes and just crimp it over onto itself, enough to stop the leak.”
“He was in a hurry and wanted it fixed before the customer saw anything.”
“I fixed it properly anyway, so that no one would die, and then rolled my toolbox out of there that very night.” ~ limeycars
The benefit of the doubt.
“Also at Dollar Tree, most of my cashiers were teenagers or dipshits that never showed up for work so this older Korean woman kept getting called in to work the register.”
“She was pretty much getting 40+ hours every week and open season for benefits was getting ready to start.”
“My district manager called me and told me I had to convince her to not get any benefits or else.”
“I told him that else better be him doing that shit himself because I’m not about to do his dirty work.” ~Sol-Blackguy
An executive decision.
“Not me but my dad’s story.”
“1980’s.”
“My dad worked at a small mid-western bank as an executive.”
“One day a fellow executive comes in with several loan applications and says he needs them all approved.”
“My dad looks over them quickly and immediately realizes none of the applicants qualified.”
“If they approved them the loans would go into default within three months and these people would lose their farms.”
“My dad said it wasn’t possible.”
“The other exec says ‘well if you just fudge the numbers it is.’ My father tells him that’s impossible because other exec never walked into his office and they never had this conversation.”
“The other exec nods and takes the papers back.”
“Six months later the FBI raids the bank.”
“My father was the only exec who didn’t go to prison for fraud.” ~ BlackStarCorona
We’re trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty.
“Similar but different.”
“As a teen, I worked at a car dealership in the service department.”
“At the time, there was a major recall for transmission repairs.”
“They would do fake warranty repair orders on cars that did not need it and came in for other reasons, and bill the manufacturer accordingly.”
“They had to order replacement parts to continue the fraud, and would tell me to take them to a storage room above the parts department.”
“It so happened on my last day there, an auditor was on site for routine audit stuff.”
“In the break room I told him what I knew and left.”
“Fast forward 3 months and the dealership was closed.”
“I probably wouldn’t have said anything if my boss hadn’t been such a dick when I asked for time off to attend my grandfather’s funeral.”
“He thought I was lying and I had to bring in the obit (pre-internet) to keep my job.” ~ RunMelba
Dollar Tree doesn’t play around!
“My old boss at dollar tree would make me drive her to the bank in my car every night.”
“And she would have me park like 10 feet back from the ATM while she walked up to it.”
“She told me that if someone ever tried to run up on her while she was depositing the money I had to run them over.”
“She said if they were too close to her to just hit her as well.”
“She was incredibly adamant that I absolutely HAD to do this and very serious.” ~ durkinbrowns
Expiration dates are suggestions, right?
“Back in a butcher shop portion of a grocery store I worked at.”
“The supervisor asked me to change the date on some burger that wasn’t selling.”
“The day she asked me to do this was the sell-by-date.”
“I even asked her if that was safe/legal.”
“She just tapped her name tag that said supervisor on it and said that was the only thing I needed to worry about.”
“I put new tags on all of the packages while she was there but I didn’t put them on the shelves.”
“After she left for the night I found the store manager and showed him.”
“I showed him the old tags, which were just under the new tags so it was easy to pull them back and prove it. He had me toss the burger down the trash chute and my supervisor was gone from the store by the end of the week.” ~ Nerdfatha
There are always more workers.
“Keep people at work when there was a chemical leak from the car painting shop next door, and people were getting sick.”
“The boss wasn’t on-site (almost never was), I tried calling him and got no answer, and I was the most senior worker on-site so I sent everyone home.”
“When I was almost home (1h+ commute) he called me back.”
“He had gotten my voicemail where I explained the situation and he was not happy.”
“Apparently we should have waited it out or I should have arranged for everyone to work from home (not possible).”
“The guy was a dickhead but this one still makes me angry when I think about it.” ~ipakookapi
Seeing is believing?
“Branch Manager (Banking) asked me to pose in a picture, showing a lot of cleavage, to use on his construction loan website for his builders.”
“He wanted them to ‘see’ who they would be working with in a daily basis so he could get more business.” ~ Hchel25
This sounds like an episode of the Sopranos.
“I had a boss ask to me take a bunch of stock from the warehouse to his personal storage unit, and not to ask any questions …” ~ TJDigital_
What’s a little illegal dumping between coworkers?
“Loaded unknown chemicals into the nose of tractor trailers for out of state transport.”
“I’m sure it was all illegally dumped. Just out of HS I had no idea the scope of what was happening.”
“Nothing was labeled, containers, trailers and manifests all claimed empty containers.” ~ Reddit
It can be very easy to just do what you’re told, to just follow the orders.
Remember though that actions have consequences and to be wary of anyone trying to slide those consequences off their shoulders—and on to yours.
People Explain The Reason They Walked Out Of A Job Interview
Job interviews are a major head game.
On one hand, they’re very exciting. An invitation to interview is one of the later steps in the journey to landing a new job.
And yet, they’re wildly performative, forcing us not to be ourselves, be polite, show off our skills and demonstrate general likability all in less than an hour.
It’s no wonder Redditor JimmySaulGene wondered about one of the more chaotic ways that could all go down.
They asked:
“People who walked out of a job interview, why did you do it?”
For one person, it all came down to personality.
“Years ago, I went to an interview, and sat down with the man who was to interview me. Sat in silence while he read something on his computer for a few minutes, then waited for a minute or so while he looked over my resume (it was a small business, he is the same person who called me to set up the interview and he’d had the resume for a few days.)”
“He finally looked up at me and said, ‘Well, I’m not sure why you applied for this job; you really don’t have any of the skills or experience I’m looking for.’ He was just so arrogant and I felt like he was trying to make a power move to make a lowball offer.”
“I didn’t apply to any job that I wasn’t qualified for. I was just instantly pissed that he was playing games. I calmly said, ‘Then I’m not sure why you‘re wasting my time,’ and I stood and walked to the door.”
“He said something like, ‘Oh, no, let’s talk,’ and I told him I wasn’t interested in working for him.”
“I had a job already, I just wasn’t terribly happy with it, so I really didn’t feel like putting up with his b.s.” — RumBunBun
Another person was stunned by a big twist.
“Showed up for a construction/trades workers ‘hiring event.’ I’m a plumber by trade and work was bleak as hell in my city at the time, so I went. Sh** looked legit until they sat us down to speak about the work scope.”
“They claimed to be one of the companies that were building Rogers Place in Edmonton. After they gave us sketchy details they said ‘however, if you don’t want to do that you can….’ And started speaking about how to do door to door sales of mostly chocolate in the higher end communities around the city.”
“They talked construction for maybe 15 minutes and the rest was door to door chocolate sales and unicef fundraising and how we can have an income of 150k+ a year doing that. I left probably 20 minutes into that. I had a friend who champed it out and stay the entire time. The stories he told me were hilarious.”
“Ironically, 30 minutes after I left, I got a call from a company who was actually a contractor on the Rogers Place job and ended up working for them for 4+ years.” — kokumslayer69
In this example, the Redditor was a fly on the wall.
“The guy interviewing me interrupted the interview to scream at one of his employees. Like red in the face screaming and berating the guy. And then tried to just pick up where we left off like it was nothing. No thank you.” — DrunkBeavis
This Redditor just had a bad feeling.
“I’m a vet tech. Interviewed at a primary care, single doctor practice. The manager was over 25 minutes late to my interview. While I waited for her, the front desk staff ignored me while they talked crap about the techs, manager, and clients.”
“The manager said they did not believe in referring to any specialists, because ‘Dr. A is a specialist in everything from grizzly bears to canaries.’ He was not, he hadn’t even done a rotating internship and definitely had not done any type of residency program.”
“I had already worked in a toxic clinic, but at least the doctors were competent. When she asked if I had any questions, I just asked if I could have my resume back, so I didn’t waste the paper.” — Karbar049
This one was, well, just bizarre.
“Applied for a software developer position for an online retailer. First round of interviews was a traditional technical skills and whiteboard coding session, second round was a cultural fit interview with HR.”
“I assumed it would be an one on one interview with HR, it was a room with 20 something people applying for anything from legal to finance.”
“They asked us to stand up, then crawl into a ball and pretend we were flowers opening. At this point I honestly thought it was some kind of prank, then I saw everybody around me doing it.”
“I just said thanks for the opportunity and left.” — neolabaque
Another case came down to timing.
“I once went to a job interview for a large welding shop, in the middle of a rain storm. After talking to the interviewer for 30 or so minutes, he walked me out to the shop floor to take a welding test. The machine we went to was in decent condition, but was literally sitting in a puddle of water.”
“The welding table’s legs were rusty and not grounded well, and also in said puddle. Over half the shop was flooded. I turned around and said ‘No thank you.’ Then proceeded to walk out the door. My life is worth more than $20 an hour.” — Alpha_Hellhound
This Redditor played with nothing to lose.
“I should have; I stayed there out of morbid curiosity to see how low they would go, but I had made the decision I wasn’t gonna work there early in the process.”
“I’m glad I stayed. The last thing that happened in the interview was the CEO personally asking us all to promise that, if we ever make a mistake, the company will calculate how much that mistake cost us, and we will voluntarily pay the company that amount.” — Oudeis16
And of course, there was the guy selling snake oil.
“I was approached at work (bagger for a major grocery store chain when I was 16) by a guy who asked me if I would be interested in making $1100 a week. He told me to meet him at one of the empty businesses in the same plaza after work.”
“He went on this long spiel about the melaleuka tree from Australia and how his company made soaps and shampoo out of it. Then he told me for $500 he would train me how to sell the products. I just turned and walked out the door with him yelling behind me that I would never amount to anything with my attitude.” — DeusEx-Machinist
This person strayed slightly from the prompt, but what a story.
“Slightly different – I actually interviewed and was hiring by a call center that focused on getting donations for a variety of non-profit organizations (I was desperate). It was on a Thursday, and I was told to show up the following Monday.”
“When I showed up Monday morning, the entire business unit was completely empty. Like, stripped to the floor, wires hanging from the roof empty.”
“When I was there the week before, I saw around 20-25 cubicles of people all working diligently, a managers desk at the far back, and waiting area chairs with a table, all in one large room. To this day I have no idea what happened, I just know they got out of there quick in 3 days time.” — Digideegs
This Redditor found out how to have a good time regardless.
“Pyramid scheme advertised as ‘sales and marketing.’ “
“It was a group interview. They served wine for fu**s sake! They had obvious stooges initiating conversation about how great this opportunity was.”
“I got very drunk and stopped being polite about it.” — wonderbrawl
For most of us, interviews are pretty standard fare.
But should they turn out like one of these, feel free to show yourself out.
These People Took Quitting a Job to the Next Level
We’ve all quit a job before. And most of the time, it’s fairly uneventful. A little notice, maybe some chats, a polite handshake and you’re out the door and onto something else.
But sometimes, you gotta do a little more than that. Sometimes, for better or for worse, you just gotta go out in style.
That’s what the people in these examples from Reddit did. A few were on good terms with their former employer, some were obviously very much not so, and some maybe just wanted to have a little fun and leave a memorable mark that their coworkers would remember them for.
Whatever the reason, it’s passionate, it’s genuine, and we’re here for it.
11. The TP resignation
(You may need to click the post to see the entire thing, it’s worth it.)
10. This sincere consolation
You win some, you lose some. And by “some,” I mean me.
How my buddy Todd gave his notice at his job. His name is Todd by the way. This is classic Todd. from funny
9. This airing of grief
Farewell, Alex. We hardly knew ye.
8. This unexpected error
Or maybe it wasn’t so unexpected, considering his treatment.
One of my co-workers quit today. We found this on his desktop. [PIC] from pics
7. This thoughtful letter
“I do not doubt for a second that you are the devil in disguise.” is just a wonderful punch of a line.
6. This bottle of the hard stuff
That is wonderfully heartwarming, actually.
5. This cake
But is it a lie?
4. This “effective immediately” resignation
The job ain’t worth all the pain.
My wife just quit the job that made her cry nearly every day for two years. I couldn’t prouder!
3. This meal ticket
Um, order up, I guess.
2. This custom greeting card
That’s the only reason I’m here, after all.
STUMPED FOR WORDS DESIGNS1. This very detailed cake
Sticking a little plug in there at the end is a nice touch.
So, my brother-in-law has resigned from his 9-to-5 job in spectacular fashion. Jerry Maguire meets Masterchef. pic.twitter.com/4JB1gPp1kj
— stu jackson (@flackhackjack) April 16, 2013
If you’re gonna quit, do it in style.
What’s the best quitting experience you’ve ever had?
Tell us in the comments.
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These People Got Really Creative with the Way They Quit Jobs
Have you ever had a job that you wanted to quit so bad that you fantasized about all the time?
Like, gone were all the daydreams of riches or fame or exotic vacations or beautiful partners, suddenly the dream you most reached for was just telling your boss to shove it?
Well, it looks like some of these folks brought to us by Reddit might have felt the same, as they didn’t just quit, but quit with a flourish. Because if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing theatrically.
10. Watching the clock
He knew it would be forever before you had to change that battery.
A co-worker posted pictures of himself in random places when he quit. This is the back of a clock, and he quit 2 years ago. from funny
9. Going extinct
I like the look on the dinosaur’s face. Like he doesn’t wanna get involved in this.
8. The meaning of life
So sad that it should come to this.
For this Towel Day: Here is how I quit my last job. Sorry for the low picture quality. from funny
7. Retaliation
There’s so much going on here and I’d like to know about all of it, please.
6. Into the great beyond
That is subtle. I wonder how long it took them to notice.
5. To whom it may concern
I would have added “dictated but not read” just for a little razzle dazzle.
My ex-manager wouldn’t give me my last paycheck without a resignation letter… from funny
4. Breaking point
At least you’re leaving them with something nice to remember you by.
Look what my coworker and I left on the break room table today from funny
3. I’m not mad
I think you forgot the passive part of the passive aggressive thing you were going for.
2. Put it on the whiteboard
This isn’t a quitting note, this is a whole manifesto.
1. A long road ahead
Is that allowed?
Nothing beats quitting. The next day though…?
Have you ever quit a job in style?
Tell us about it in the comments.
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This Person Got Revenge When Their Boss Demanded They Work Overtime for Free
You want me to do what, boss?
For free?!?!
In case you haven’t been paying attention, some employers out there like to do everything they can to take advantage of their workers.
And that includes asking them to work overtime for no pay.
Let’s see what happened in this story from Reddit.
You demand we work overtime for free? Enjoy trying to open the store with no employees.
“I’ve met Grumpy in Narcotics Anonymous. He volunteered there after they helped him and became my sponsor.
Seeing that I was trying to get my s**t together, he offered me my first job out of high school. Grumpy was the manager of a store for a company that sold everything you needed to build a house. From cement and bricks, to custom made cupboards. I started as a “loader”, filling the trucks that were making deliveries.
A little background for the company (it plays an important for later). When they started, back in the early 1980s, they sold everything you needed to build a brick and mortar home wholesale to professionals.
During their first expansion, they got a really good reputation for their prices of power tools, custom cupboards and landscaping (including custom made garden furnitures). The stores were basically big warehouses. In mid ’90s, they opened their doors to the general public, which accompanied by a rising tent of DIY, skyrocketed their sales.
That brought a second, smaller wave of expansion and the opening of the online store (first only with phone orders and later with a proper site). When I joined, they were doing a third shift on their business plan.
They had cut down on things that weren’t a big seller (like bricks and concrete) and were focusing more on the big sellers (custom made furniture, landscaping, tools and, for some weird reason, plumbing).
My first 8 months on the job was a dream. Grumpy was an excellent manager. Having started in the company roughly the same age I was and being promoted through the ranks, had developed a very distinct managerial style. His concept was simple: “if my employees are happy, they work better and provide better services, which leads to better sales”.
That meant that while Grumpy managed one of the inner city stores, meaning medium to small size compared to others, we were fourth in revenue nationwide and first in customer happiness.
And then the reason for his nickname stroke. While everyone called him Grumpy (a nickname he was kind of proud of), he was far from it. The reason was he had a medical condition that affected his nerves and had left him with a permanent frown on his face.
He had declined promotion due to that condition (knowing the extra stress would make his condition flair up, meaning he wouldn’t be as effective as he would like). His medical condition flaired up unexpectedly and Grumpy had to be hospitalized and be on sick leave for a time. HQ decided to not have one of Grumpy’s assistants be an Acting Manager for the duration, but bring in a regional manager to take over the store for the duration. Let’s call him Wilhelm.
Wilhelm was the exact opposite of Grumpy. He was younger than Grumpy (he was in his late 20s, Grumpy was in his late 30s), had a business degree and he hadn’t worked the floor at all.
He was hired from the beginning as an office drone and climbed his way to regional manager. The reason he was put in charge of our store had to do with the change of the business plan of the company.
You see, the change of focus had created a lot of empty space in the stores. A supermarket chain had approached the company with an offer to rent the empty space, especially for inner city stores.
The company had accepted and placed regional managers in key stores to help with integration. The thing is, the supermarket chain had a reputation of being bad employers. That was reinforced by one of our tellers, who had worked for them for three years before quitting to join us.
Wilhelm didn’t help also. His managerial style was based in only one concept: make more money in any way possible. He started by changing our schedule from monthly to weekly, raising the sales targets to unrealistic heights and always demanded more. In the first two weeks, six experienced people had left (four quitted and two fired) and replaced by young, inexperienced people that were easier to manipulate.
And then, the integration happened. The floor was the first to feel the problem. The supermarket opened its doors and was understaffed. Wilhelm started sending people over to “help” for four to six hours, while also demanding to work their regular shifts. If someone declined, he/she was written up. Two write ups in six months and you were fired.
Then Wilhelm came to “lay the law” in the loading bay. The loading bay was shared between the two stores. Wilhelm declared that we had first help the two guys of the supermarket unload their trucks first, because their products were “perishable”, and then started loading our own trucks.
That would throw our delivery schedule to the wind. The loading crew worked 05:00 to 13:00. We loaded first the trucks that had longer to travel, so they will be ready to leave at 07:00 at the latest (the company had a next day delivery policy for a 150 miles radius).
What Wilhelm declared meant we couldn’t start loading our trucks before 07:30 and they couldn’t start their route before 09:30. We said as much, but Wilhelm didn’t care. He said we had to do both jobs. When someone inquired about overtime, Wilhelm said no. He said we already made too much money with unsocial hours (05:00 to 08:00) and leaving “early”, so he wouldn’t approve overtime.
So, from a nice environment that you wanted to work for, we all started getting miserable. We lost ten people in the loading crew in a month because of the new rules. The new hires didn’t last long.
The floor was a mess also, started turning personnel faster than a dollar hooker. Anyone who is staying is either looking for another job, is afraid of unemployment or is too young to know better. The sales had a very small decline, but customer happiness is plummeting fast.
After almost six months, all the “Old Guard” that was left, was ready to quit. But our “savior” came back. Almost six months from the day he was hospitalized, Grumpy walks in the store to claim his rightful position.
He isn’t a knight in shining armor, riding a pure white horse, carrying a legendary sword. He is in a normal attire, slightly limping and holding a cane. We have a “welcome back” party and have a small glimmer of hope now he is back. We are informed that Grumpy will be on light duties for two weeks, before he becomes the manager again.
Despite Grumpy being back, Wilhelm still remains the regional manager, which means he outranks Grumpy and makes it very clear in private meetings with all of us. If he caught as complaining to Grumpy, we were as good as gone. Still, a few of us are planning to have a meeting with Grumpy after the weeks (letting him get his “sea legs” back). But another department had other ideas.
During his “Reign of Terror”, the only department that Wilhelm couldn’t control was the workshop. He knew that if he treated them as bad as he did to us, they would quit and the sales would go from a small decline to bottom of the barrel real quick (as I said, custom made furniture was the number one seller).
So, the head carpenter has a meeting with Grumpy on his second day talking about “the future of the workshop”. In reality, the guy spilled the beans on Wilhelm.
With the pretext of “catching up” with the changes, Grumpy has meetings with everyone, learning what Wilhelm had done and why we had so many new staff. You could feel he was getting angrier with every meeting. He had also had an eye opening meeting with the manager of the supermarket. Finally, the time had come that he is the manager again.
The Revenge
On his first day back as a manager, Grumpy notifies everyone of a mandatory meeting after the store is closed. He has a solution. So gather in the store after closing hours. And Grumpy lays out the plan.
For the next couple of days, nobody except him is coming to the store. If anyone calls us, we should direct them to him. Which we did, when we started getting calls about the store being closed.
Grumpy’s answer to the HQ was simple: the staff was working on a second job during their shifts, which is a breach of contract, so I had to fire them all and find new staff.
That caught HQ’s attention, because nothing of the sort was reported in the past six months. They asked Grumpy for evidence, which he happily provided with our written testimonies. Which brought a s**tstorm on Wilhelm.
You see, Wilhelm had an “arrangement” with the supermarket manager. He got a kickback from our unpaid labor for the supermarket and the manager offered the same thing to Grumpy. He also included that Wilhelm regularly declined to sign overtime, which meant that if any one of us went to the Labor Department, the company would get a really huge fine.
The Aftermath
Wilhelm quickly got fired. We all received calls to “interview” with the company for an open position. We all received severance pay for our “firing” plus most of the unpaid overtime (about 80% of it). Almost all of us went back to work with a small pay raise based on experience.
The company took a long, hard look on the supermarket chain and distanced themselves from them (they stayed until their lease was over, but no shared employees anymore and a lot of theirs jumped ship to our side). Next time Grumpy had to take time off, one of his assistants took over.
Two did a stellar job, leading to be promoted to managers in other stores. Grumpy brought back his usual managerial style, leading again to a rise of sales and customer happiness.
I left the job three years later for a better paying position, but I still remember Grumpy as one of the best managers I ever had.”
Now it’s time to see how folks on Reddit responded to this story.
This reader said it should be obvious to all employers that happy workers are better workers.
No doubt about it!
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This reader said just because you have a business degree, it doesn’t mean you’re going to know how to work with folks…or to manage them.
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Another person said the old adage that “anyone can be replaced” is outdated and backward. And it hurts companies in the long run.
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And finally, this Reddit user said that, unfortunately, as long as sales are good, bad behavior in the workplace usually doesn’t go unpunished.
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Now we want to hear from you!
In the comments, tell us about your bad work experiences.
Please and thank you!
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Bad Boss Tells Great Employee to Quit. Immediately Regrets It.
I’m sure you’ve found yourself at jobs where management just didn’t appreciate you or give you the proper respect you deserved.
Hey, we’ve all been there at one point or another!
And it’s always so darn satisfying to hear a story about someone who quits a job and the boss knows almost immediately that they made a mistake.
A person took to Reddit to share their own story.
Here’s how it started.
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He started out slowly at the job but started taking on more responsibility quickly when management knew they could count on him…and when they didn’t want to do certain things themselves…
And so he started doing just about everything about the joint.
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He was working his tail off and the owners would sometimes tell him they wanted to make him a manager…
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But after they kept bringing up the management position and not delivering, the person decided to have a sit-down with one of the bosses and bring it up.
That’s called being a go-getter!
But the boss didn’t see it that way.
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So this employee decided to only do what they were originally hired to do.
Hey, if the bosses want to play that game, then that’s how it will be.
But the boss clearly didn’t catch on after that first conversation.
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Wow! That’s totally ridiculous!
The conversation continued…and the boss laid down a challenge that he probably didn’t expect this person to take.
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But they did!
See ya later…but the bosses still didn’t catch on…they don’t seem too bright.
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And things went downhill very fast after this employee left.
Here’s how the story ended.
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What do you think about this?
Have you had jobs where you wanted to just walk out sometimes?
Or maybe where you DID walk out?
Share your stories with us in the comments. Thanks!
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10 Tweets About Work That are Right on the Money
Many of us have seen changes to our work situations lately.
More and more folks are doing their jobs from home, which is kinda nice as long as you’ve got a little space to dedicate to that sort of thing. Not super fun to be creating makeshift desks with your kids running circles around you and throwing play dough at each other or whatever it is that kids do.
Not that all the problems would go away if you were back in the traditional office, of course. No matter what form work takes, there’s always something to contend with.
It’s a strange thing, the world of employment – and nobody expresses that strangeness better than the people of Twitter.
10. Work it
There’s something very special and very weird at play here.
Work friends are so funny bc like do we see each other outside of work? Almost never. But do I know details about your sex life? Do i know your financial situation? Have i seen you in every mood imaginable? Do i know all your deepest darkest secrets? Hell yeah.
— Soph (@sophiapags) March 19, 2018
9. Going up
Best of luck, bro.
when I see someone running for the elevator: pic.twitter.com/vJcoEl4QdJ
— It's Asad AKA (The Attention Seeker) (@KeepitrealAsad) October 14, 2020
8. Give me a break
I don’t run so good as I used to.
Me : Sorry I'm late. I broke down on the way to work.
Boss : Is your car working fine now?
Me : Car?
Boss :
Me :
— Bengaluru Corporate Club (@blr_corp_club) March 28, 2020
7. Good morning
Can we not right now? Or like, ever?
when your coworkers want to have a full conversation at 8:00 AM https://t.co/UGRxV0Ldaw
— fly shit only 💸 (@whoismarkeeta) July 12, 2020
6. Slap suits
Sir I would PAY you for this privilege.
"Would you slap a co-worker for $25,000?"
Me: "It's not about the money."
— Will (@NoLeftTurns) September 28, 2020
5. Speedy delivery!
If I wait too long, maybe everyone will hate me.
them: wow you answered that email so fast!
me: thanks I have anxiety— Scarlet Meyer (@scarletkmeyer) October 17, 2020
4. Work it
My forehead? That’s hot.
the official mood from now until it’s time to retire pic.twitter.com/VQFWSlQNjg
— Betches (@betchesluvthis) October 6, 2020
3. On the flip side
The grass is always greener.
the only thing worse than being unemployed is being employed
— Geoffrey (@hungrystoic) December 13, 2010
2. The silent treatment
You just stare blankly until you find yourself in bed wondering what just happened.
Work ever kick your ass so bad that you drive the speed limit home with no music playing?
— Glizzy Gladiator (@Zackyypoo) February 29, 2020
1. The nod
Being an employee isn’t all it’s quacked up to be.
When you’re speaking to a boring customer at work😂 pic.twitter.com/U8kQ71tO5x
— Ross McCulloch (@Rossmac212) November 25, 2020
Tweets that good almost make the rat race seem worthwhile. Especially that last one. I’d work with that duck for FREE.
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An Evil Boss Forgot His Employees Are Humans and Got Instant Karma When They All Quit
If you’ve spent time employed by someone else, it’s possible you have encountered a terrible boss here or there.
It can be really demoralizing when your boss or manager treats you badly, and even worse when they treat the entire team that way. Sometimes, it seems like bosses even forget that their employees are actual human beings.
One person shared a pretty sweet story of how their evil boss got instant karma and lost an entire department.
The person starts by noting that they were hired on to help manage some problems that their predecessor had left behind. That’s not ideal, but it’s doable.
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And as these things so often do, everything started out really well. As long as the person did what they were supposed to do, the boss mostly left them alone.
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Unfortunately, it turns out that the boss has some pretty hardcore anger management issues.
Greeeeat.
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And of course, as soon as they asked for a raise… total crickets.
Fast forward a few weeks, and it turns out the employee made a mistake.
They say it wasn’t huge, and the problem was fixed… but the boss totally overreacted.
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The employee also knows their rights, and lives in a country that really supports workers. In news that will surprise no one reading along, it turns out the boss violated pretty much all of the rules and protections put into place.
The employee is obviously going to be fine, and to make matters even better, they were the only member of the marketing department. Guess what the boss doesn’t have now?
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Isn’t that story of instant karma pretty sweet?
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People Who Had Bosses Like Michael Scott Talk About Their Experiences
Bosses like Michael Scott from The Office really do exist out there.
It seems like it would probably be a barrel of laughs, but I have a feeling that if you’re in the thick of a situation like that, it’s likely not very much fun.
Let’s all enjoy these funny stories from AskReddit users about their weird, funny, and annoying bosses.
1. The Italian Michael Scott.
“My Italian Michael Scott boss has that traditional stubbornness which he’s really allowed to display since it’s a traditional gelato shop and we’re an at-will state (US).
One summer, he fired a kid for ‘not being hygienic and not cleaning well’ when we all knew the boss was uncomfortable this kid was queer.
Next summer, I’m the manager and my then assistant manager and I are both queer women. In the midst of a mild homophobic/heretophobic (?) misunderstanding, we both came out to my boss. At one point before opening he pulls me outside to ask me a “personal question”- if I preferred having s*x with men or women.
I told him women, and I’m a pretty open person and find jokes help break barriers, so I ask him which he prefers. He says women, “of course,” and we walk back inside where my assistant manager is and joke about it with her, and I tell him he’s a lesbian since he prefers women. He finds this f*cking hilarious, and yells out in the shop
“I GUESS I’M A LESBIAN!”
He’s grown more understanding ever since. His questions are sincere, though sometimes badly phrased.
2. Five long years.
“I had one and these are just a few quick stories
He asked me how much I weighed during my interview
One time he was considering selling the company to a Japanese company and while walking them around the building he was heard saying ‘we really bombed the hell out of you, huh?’
He got on the intercom and interrupted everyone by yelling for someone to bring him the football team’s schedule
I have video of him telling a really cringy joke during a sales meeting. You could see at least one person covering their face in embarrassment
One time he told me to call his assistant and have her bring him a bag of coffee and his 5lb dumbbell
He had a ‘secret’ facelift. He was mysteriously gone for 3 weeks and came back with a beard.
I ended up with a box of pictures from the 70s with an exotic dancer giving him a lap dance. In the conference room. Same furniture.
One time I watched his business partner go down the pot luck line, tasting everything with the same fork. At the end of the line, he stuck his used fork into the cake. I haven’t eaten at a work buffet since.
Honestly, these are just the ones I immediately remember. It was 5 years of this.”
3. I love the part about the fence.
“My brother had two bosses at his first job that I think fit this. It was an old married couple that owned the gym across the street from us. Probably in their 70s when he started working there. The wife was from Germany and super strict, the husband was clearly losing it Some notable mentions are:
•when the husband combined bleach and ammonia to clean the hot tub and sauna room, tear gassing my brother in the process
•wife insisted the street be swept once a week, this was my brothers task. Almost every single time, the husband would come out halfway through with a leaf blower and destroy any progress my brother had made
•husband would regularly sit in the sauna for way too long and have to be rescued by brother and coworkers
•brother opened every Saturday. They never gave him a key so he would have to hop the fence to get in.”
4. Awkward.
“Yep, I had one.
Organized a thoroughly awkward award ceremony once (that we never did again).
Asked a Mexican employee if his new baby’s name was going to be “No Mas” during the shower we threw for him.
Heard me once use the phrase “economy of scale,” then used it wrong 5 minutes later in a conversation with different people.
Didn’t know the meaning behind “Black Friday” and what it meant for a company to be “in the black.”
Just like Michael Scott, only more of a d*ck.”
5. Drop your pants.
“Long ago, my 80 year old boss pulled me into his office
B: “Paul, I’ve noticed that your shirts come untucked and that looks unprofessional”
Me: I’m sorry about that Joel
B: I want you to start tucking your shirts into your underwear
Me: Uhhh…
B: Go ahead and and try it now.
Me: Joel, you know I have 15 women who report to me – I can’t un-do my pants in the office.
B: Sure you can. Drops pants. He is 80 and wearing Spiderman underoos…”
6. Yikes.
“I worked for a woman as her “personal assistant/ cat sitter”. She was super rich and off the deep end nuts.
She had me order a mannequin online, and then paid me to take one of the mannequin legs to Nordstrom to try and see what suitcase I could buy that would fit the dismembered mannequin body, because she wanted to fly with the mannequin to Pittsburgh to display “as her daughter”, dressed in her daughter’s clothes, at that daughter’s graduation celebration.
Buying the mannequin was a whole thing too. She kept trying to get me to order from “adult doll” websites because she didn’t get it.”
7. Hahahaha.
“My boss used to carry around a backpack full of hammers and if you fell sleep at your desk he started banging a hammer on your desk until you woke up and then he would autograph the hammer and give it to you as a gift.”
8. Never a good idea.
“Had a manager at my previous job that really, really tried his best to be everyone’s BFF.
He loved giving pep talks and thought he could raise our abysmal morale by being Mr. Positivity (note: morale was low because we were always buried in work and paid sh*t).
He’d crack jokes, randomly burst into song and sneak up behind you to yell “you’re doing a great job!”
Unfortunately, he was also super incompetent at his job. He relied heavily on a junior colleague for help with technical stuff (they practically did his whole job for him), and spent days working on paperwork that should really only take an hour or two.
If you had a problem, his answer was usually either to stare blankly at you until you left or to say “think positive and it’ll work itself out!”
Thing he did I hated the most: whenever people would apply to work at the company, he’d print out the stack of resumes, sit at his desk and read aloud all of the parts he found “funny.”
He’d laugh at people for working at McDonald’s or other fast food places. He loved finding grammar mistakes and making fun of them. If someone had a cringe-y objective statement, he’d guffaw over that too. This was all done loudly, and it was a open office so you couldn’t avoid hearing it.
That definitely lowered morale too.”
9. The real, live version.
“Worked with a genuine Michael Scott: i.e. a nice, well-meaning person who just did some absurd things.
We had kidnapping drills one day, where we learned how to ‘not be kidnapped’. Notably, this was a regular, boring office in a regular, boring suburb. No reason why kidnapping would be on anybody’s radar…
He and several of the guys randomly broke out into a push-up contest. Again. White collar office. Middle-aged dudes in khakis.
Couldn’t remember the nationality of our Hispanic colleague. Tried to “learn Spanish” to make her feel special when she returned from maternity leave. (1) What he learned was NOT Spanish, and (2) she was from Portugal. She knew like, five words of Spanish.
Disappeared for four days. No call. No email. Wouldn’t respond to any of our attempts to reach him. Finally, someone drove out to his house to make sure he was alive. He was. He’d just forgotten to tell us he was taking the week off, and then lost his phone in a lake.
There were many, many moments like these. Great boss. Genuinely cared about everyone in the company. Occasional moments of brilliance, where he really got things done.
But OMG, so many moments of ridiculousness.”
10. This happened to me once, too.
“We had an anonymous feedback program at work, and our boss was livid with the results, particularly with several comments that he frequently lost his temper in meetings and would yell at us.
The more he talked about how incorrect and unfair and hurtful these comments were, the redder and angrier he got, until he finally pounded the table and shouted, “I DO NOT! SCREAM! IN MEETINGS! OKAY?”
11. Pathetic and not funny.
“Mine had aspects of Michael Scott but the ones that are sad and pathetic and not funny. A couple examples:
he called an all staff meeting to announce his divorce. He then instructed our receptionist to lie to his soon to be ex wife and deny he was in the office, all the time.
he was just so, so incompetent at his job. If a task was too big or complicated he would just …. Not do it. Wouldn’t ask for help or anything, he’d just move on and leave whatever issue to fester. I would have to constantly monitor and follow up with him to get things done that effected my job
his writing read like he used a thesaurus heavily. Tons of superfluous words clearly put in there to make him sound smart
when he was terminated he kept the corporate laptop and cell phone. After several strongly worded letters requesting their return, he drove back to the office, parked on the edge of the road (think busy rural highway) and made his teenage son carry it all across the yard and parking lot to deliver them
I was eventually tasked by the big bosses to coordinate his termination. They then gave me his job plus my previous one. I can do both within a 40 hr week no problem.”
12. Fun while it lasted.
“I had one for a year and it was awesome!
If he would be in the middle of a story and the phone rang he would literally say “let it go to voicemail”. If a customer called 5 min before closing he’d demand I let it ring and go to VM.
He was late more often than I was. He frequently bought us coffees. He always took our side in customer disputes and if a customer yelled at us or got abusive on the phone, he would call them back and get into an argument with them and tell them to order from someone else.
He straight out told us that if weather conditions were bad he didn’t care how late we were, just that we were safe. Sometimes he would tell me on random days to take a two hour lunch ( I was salary and didn’t punch in or out). He was great! And he gave me so much free stuff.
We used to call him Micheal Scott behind his back!
Unfortunately… the owners were a bit stricter.. Myself and another coworker got fired and said boss got demoted. It was fun while it lasted.”
13. Just play along.
“I’ve had a few. One would only approve your days off if you played into her ego.
Her boring stories had to be the most fascinating thing you had ever heard. She would come into the office and spin around in a new outfit and we had to pretend it was amazing.
I had to work every weekend for months until I started playing along.”
14. Best boss ever.
“I used Michael Scott as a reference point for an old boss of mine from the moment I started working there.
He made Chewbacca noises on the regular because one of my coworkers’ names sort of vaguely sounded like Chewbacca (it didn’t), used voice to text extremely loudly in his office for no reason to send really personal messages, got really excited and wore a specific vest any time we had after-work outings scheduled.
Shouted the same like 7 references to old movies and extremely awkward hip-hop song quotes 100 times a day, and insisted on greeting all our international coworkers very loudly in their language (they all speak perfect English, of course)
Looking around for approval afterward, and then fully giggling at everyone’s French accents on conference calls. He also told me a lot about an improv show he did for a full year after it happened.
That said – he had all the good parts too. He never hesitated go to the mat for any of us whether we deserved it or not, he gave really sage business advice and great examples of how to face challenges out of absolutely nowhere, and he came to every community play I did in the 4 years I worked for him.
And told everyone else in the office how good I was in it for the following month and chastised them for not coming. When things really got serious or bad in my life, he couldn’t have been more kind, helpful, and supportive.
Honestly? Probably the best boss I’ll ever have.”
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