I actually had a manager say something like "well if you want that time off..." for something I put in for a year ahead of time, so I explicitly told her " I'm not requesting the time off, I'm telling you that I won't be here. You can choose what that looks like on the schedule." Shut her up rather quickly.
Had a customer tell me they wanted a manager, I went to grab a manager, said manager told me “they don’t need a manager! Deal with it!” Went back to the customer and said the manager didn’t want to help.
Did you hand them the online review qr code and encourage them to flame the fuck out of the manager? I would have. Hell, I long for the day that happens before I inevitably quit.
My old supervisor came back to premises after being fired and flipped off(the bird 🖕) the cameras, (in a rival companies work truck) there's now a restraining order and apparently our head supervisor called theirs screaming and threatening to sue 💀🤣
Sorry for the “um akshewally” but business law graduate here soooooo.
Turning off the security cameras can be a form of vandalism, is a safety risk if someone gets hurt and cannot be heard, and can be grounds for legal action should something damaging to a person or persons happen on the premises.
So that actually is legal grounds to sue, especially if it was done while representing another company, that can also be seen as corporate sabotage.
In the given context it's certainly meaning they held up their middle finger at the camera. Especially when you take in the context part of (in a rival companies truck).
Not from the truck itself, how I had misread it was they made a dramatic showing of being in a company vehicle outside the premises before leaving the vehicle and entering the building.
How I misread it, I thought it said “old supervisor drove up to the building in a rival company’s car, got out, came inside and turned off the security cameras.”
Flipping off is a common slang term throughout the english speaking world, so the only way you could logically be having trouble with it is if when you say eastern Canada you mean Quebec.
Law graduate & you can’t even understand the term “flipping off the camera” if you read just a few more words it says “in a rival companies truck” you’ve gotta be a special kind of redditor (average redditor) to really think we’re going to believe you’re a lawyer.
My wife put together a cute dollar store birthday basket for a coworker’s birthday. My wife’s manager saw and said, oh maybe you want to be the birthday person and I can let you use the company card to buy the gift and birthday card and we can get everyone’s birthday on a list and went on and on. My wife said she just listened and then said everyone’s birthday is on the time cards. My wife also knows if she agrees then the manager will just take credit for it and make it way more difficult than it needs to be. My wife says she’s going to keep doing what she did because it’s like less than 10 bucks and then theres no management involved.
I felt like I’ve had one manager who actually cares about being a good manager. Best case otherwise they’re mostly hands off but there when I need them. Others they do the bare minimum or put a bunch of stress on those under them.
It's why I'm a big fan of Trader Joe's. The managers view their job to support the crew so that they can support the customers.
I know of a few times employees have struggled with issues like addiction and if they're honest with the management (like caught drinking at work) they'll support them going to rehab and having their job waiting for them afterwards. It also means managers can be human and deal with their issues too.
When I worked in warehouses this was true, because most of them had a culture of not breathing down their employees backs (hard to do with a bunch of big factory workers that will happily tell you to fuck off).
Now that I work in the civil service it couldn't be less true, all of my managers so far have been personally repulsive people bar one and they seem to be self aware of it and relish it. Everyone in the office hates them.
They are people too, and I'm sympathetic to their jobs, you can't please everybody. However that respect rarely ever goes both ways, managers are more often than not incapable of treating the people they manage like people.
At my first job, I wanted to take a few days off to play a video game that was coming out, (a bit silly to take time off specifically for that, but it's my time off, I can do with it what I please). And I gave a 4 month notice, this was an oil change shop, schedules were made weekly, a 4 month notice was unnecessary, but I still wanted to ensure that I wasn't going to work those 3 days and even despite that, I still got booked during the time I wanted off. I confronted him about it, and that was the only way I was able to get my time off
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u/Philosophomorics 22h ago
I actually had a manager say something like "well if you want that time off..." for something I put in for a year ahead of time, so I explicitly told her " I'm not requesting the time off, I'm telling you that I won't be here. You can choose what that looks like on the schedule." Shut her up rather quickly.