Having a boss that cares about you is the best. Encouraging your personal and professional development, making you feel like a valuable member of the team, even saying a simple "thank you" really contributes to job satisfaction.
Sometimes, however, it feels like this boss doesn't even exist. Like they're just a fictional character, created by some business management faculty to trick students into joining the workforce.
Take this viral thread for example.
It started with a tweet by comedian Kevin McCaffrey. In it, McCaffrey recalled the time when he told his manager that his grandma had died before a double shift he was scheduled for. Their response? "Can you just work one shift?"
As the tweet blew up, people started replying with baffling phrases they heard from bosses themselves. Below are some of the most delirious ones.
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Bored Panda got in touch with McCaffrey to learn more about the story behind his famous tweet. "I was a server in Anderson, Indiana for 4 months in 2003," he said. "Was I happy with it? No, haha, but I don't blame OG. It was a good server job in the area, the employees were very cool overall."
McCaffrey doesn't really remember what the real reason was that day, but he has a theory. "The TV department at Ball State's activity fair (called SuperParty) where people sign up for what shows they want to work on for the year. I was the host and EP of a late night talk show, and they wouldn't let me take the day off. I wasn't gonna miss it, so fake grandma had to have a bad day."
Hmmm .... she was happy to ignore the roaches up until the employer upset her. Not cool. Not cool at all.
The main thing McCaffrey took away from all the replies his tweet got was that "management, in every job, is delusional."
"They demand far more than they're willing to give almost everywhere, and expect people who are clearly working survival jobs to bail on everything in their lives to deliver unlimited salad and breadsticks for 2.13 an hour and an average of about 10% tip," he said. "I also learned that there are plenty of people very mad that I lied in 2003 at the Anderson Indiana Olive Garden and missed that shift."
A study by CareerBuilder.com shows that a whopping 58 percent of managers said they didn’t receive any management training. Let that sink it. Most managers in the workforce were promoted because they were good at what they did, not because they made the people around them better. This statistic might explain their lack of competence. Our leaders aren't trained to lead.
Here's another interesting fact for you. Leigh Branham, author of The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave revealed that 89 percent of bosses believe employees quit because they want more money. I bet any boss would love this statistic to be true (because it basically pardons them from wrong-doing) but it is simply not true. Only 12 percent of employees actually leave an organization for more money.
I'm a bit perplexed that work would even have the right to know your Dr, let alone ring them on a whim.
A Harvard Business Review survey revealed that only 49% of full-time workers responded that they had "a great deal of trust" in those working above and alongside them.
That becomes a bigger problem when you consider their other research which has found that positive teams that trust each other are more productive, creative, and resilient and improve the organization’s overall effectiveness.
Recognition is the number one thing employees say their manager could give them to elevate their job satisfaction to new heights. Sadly, as you can see from the tweets, not every boss gets it. Global studies prove that when it comes to inspiring people to be their best at work, nothing else comes close—not even higher pay, promotion, autonomy, or training.
Fair enough, nobody forced you to burn your hand, it was your choice #clearly.
Why did some of you downvote Ian Koch's comment? They were asking a question.
Gallup discovered that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. However, its analytics suggest they usually get it wrong. In fact, Gallup found that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.
Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units, and this variation is in turn responsible for severely low worldwide employee engagement. Gallup reported in two large-scale studies in 2012 that only 30% of U.S. employees are engaged at work, and a staggeringly low 13% worldwide are engaged.
If only they listened more.
Why would you take paid time off over medical leave? No boss is going: " Wow, what an outstanding employee!!! Taking PTO instead of the medical leave he could have gotten. Amazing, remind me to promote him and give him a raise when he comes in." Instead they'll be like: " Jeez, what a dumb@ss. Remind me to fire him when he returns."
wow, kidney stones suck(from what ive heard) and if your pissing rocks, you need to stay home.
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Shows no one has rights in America
I had some things happen at my last job where every single solitary person I spoke to had the same two responses: "That has to be illegal" and "You should sue him". I finally went to both a lawyer and the state dept. of labor and asked them what I could do. Their response? "It's an at-will state. You can quit." Both literally told me my boss could essentially do whatever he liked without repercussions and the only right I really had was the right to quit.
That's why they push 'at will' states. It is appalling.
Next time, call the ethics board of your employer to see if there are any ramifications that can be taken due to their treatment of you.
Similar thing happened to me. I was told that bullying is not illegal and so even though there was proof they created a hostile work environment because it had nothing to do with my gender or other protected identities but rather because they were just assholes I couldn't do anything.
All the "at will" thing means, is that they can let you go without cause. They are still bound by all the same labor laws.
A few of these were no tin the USA, for the record, and also, we have rights, but we're not TOLD about them b/c we were taught unions and the NLRB are "evil socialism", and not there to cover our butts when management lies to us. My dad was an SOB, but also a union steward. If we don't stand together, we never get heard, as workers. We have resources. You may get nothing personally out of it ------ but you may find out that you can make a change for the good. Speech over. Peace.
The laws are posted (usually next to the time clock) at every employer in the US.
Poor people dont have rights anywhere. When I was working in Belgium I would only get paid if I went to work, I didnt have the right to sick paid days. When I was in the Netherlands i got asked in an interview if I planned on getting pregant (which isnt legal afaik). When I was in Germany i had a contract for half time earning 600 euros a month and I was forced to work 50 to 75h a week. It is not only USA.
I also worked as an unpaid intern for Antwerps university (Belgium). I developed a serious lung problem that made me very weak and I was coughing all the time. I needed take some days to be in the hospital for tests (like maybe 5 days in 3 months). I was working from home those days after the test (because my internship was very far so I wouldnt have time to go back to the office). They graded me terribly and barely passed me calling me "inmature and irresponsible". All because I had lung problems. Poor workers have zero rights in most countries. And interns have it even worse.
Oh some do...if you own the business...
Nope, you only get rights here if you're a gun.
If you live in Europe and you get sick you call work, tell them you're sick, go to a doctor and then you stay at home untill you're not sick anymore and you still get paid fully.
I think that's most countries except the US. So much for land of the free 🤷🏼♀️
I know... Then again we had a $hít of a president (nrn we don't tho)
We're free. We're free to die, suffer or quit.
That depends on your contract unfortunately
You don't always get paid full in the UK, some employers only pay statutory sick pay which is £95.85 per week (about $134) for up to 28 weeks. And you don't qualify for the first few days if sickness.
You don't always get full pay. In Spain, you get paid fully for the days off if the injury happened at work, but I think you get around 70% normal pay if it's a non-work-related illness.
Exactly. That if you even have a real contract. If they hire you ilegally (wich often is the only option in spain) you have no rights.
Not true. I worked with an interim contract and would only get paid if I showed to work. No paid sick leave or paid holidays. And that was Belgium.
We don't even need a doctor's note for the first two days.
In Belgium you do. Depends on the country.
Provided the doctor notifies your employer, you don't get penalized in the USA, to my knowledge. NLRB, ACLU, read your rights, employees have them!!
And when a company ignores your rights, what do you do? They know how to cover their tracks, they have more money to hire legal council. If they just fire you, you will be struggling to figure out how to pay your bills and eat, and barely have the time to fight them. Rights mean nothing if they aren't enforced.
You have to notify your job and after 2 days you must provide a note to come back to work.
@Aliwuid A, It's not someone else's job to know by magic that your particular rights are violated. You have to report the violation of those rights for them to ever be enforced or maintained. Yes, the corporations have the money. So you only use ten minutes a day on the "fight". That's ten minutes more than zero. Your choice. Peace out.
What's Olive Garden, and what's with their shitty managers?
It's an Italian chain restaurant.
It’s an American chain restaurant that serves “Italian” food;)
I'm pretty sure it's American.
Please, Italy don’t want nothing to do with that
Shows no one has rights in America
I had some things happen at my last job where every single solitary person I spoke to had the same two responses: "That has to be illegal" and "You should sue him". I finally went to both a lawyer and the state dept. of labor and asked them what I could do. Their response? "It's an at-will state. You can quit." Both literally told me my boss could essentially do whatever he liked without repercussions and the only right I really had was the right to quit.
That's why they push 'at will' states. It is appalling.
Next time, call the ethics board of your employer to see if there are any ramifications that can be taken due to their treatment of you.
Similar thing happened to me. I was told that bullying is not illegal and so even though there was proof they created a hostile work environment because it had nothing to do with my gender or other protected identities but rather because they were just assholes I couldn't do anything.
All the "at will" thing means, is that they can let you go without cause. They are still bound by all the same labor laws.
A few of these were no tin the USA, for the record, and also, we have rights, but we're not TOLD about them b/c we were taught unions and the NLRB are "evil socialism", and not there to cover our butts when management lies to us. My dad was an SOB, but also a union steward. If we don't stand together, we never get heard, as workers. We have resources. You may get nothing personally out of it ------ but you may find out that you can make a change for the good. Speech over. Peace.
The laws are posted (usually next to the time clock) at every employer in the US.
Poor people dont have rights anywhere. When I was working in Belgium I would only get paid if I went to work, I didnt have the right to sick paid days. When I was in the Netherlands i got asked in an interview if I planned on getting pregant (which isnt legal afaik). When I was in Germany i had a contract for half time earning 600 euros a month and I was forced to work 50 to 75h a week. It is not only USA.
I also worked as an unpaid intern for Antwerps university (Belgium). I developed a serious lung problem that made me very weak and I was coughing all the time. I needed take some days to be in the hospital for tests (like maybe 5 days in 3 months). I was working from home those days after the test (because my internship was very far so I wouldnt have time to go back to the office). They graded me terribly and barely passed me calling me "inmature and irresponsible". All because I had lung problems. Poor workers have zero rights in most countries. And interns have it even worse.
Oh some do...if you own the business...
Nope, you only get rights here if you're a gun.
If you live in Europe and you get sick you call work, tell them you're sick, go to a doctor and then you stay at home untill you're not sick anymore and you still get paid fully.
I think that's most countries except the US. So much for land of the free 🤷🏼♀️
I know... Then again we had a $hít of a president (nrn we don't tho)
We're free. We're free to die, suffer or quit.
That depends on your contract unfortunately
You don't always get paid full in the UK, some employers only pay statutory sick pay which is £95.85 per week (about $134) for up to 28 weeks. And you don't qualify for the first few days if sickness.
You don't always get full pay. In Spain, you get paid fully for the days off if the injury happened at work, but I think you get around 70% normal pay if it's a non-work-related illness.