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People Share 30 Of The Craziest Situations That Their Employers Still Expected Them To Continue Working Through
Many of us had to go through “the initiation” that was our first job, especially if these were summer jobs back when we were in high school, and even more especially if it was in retail.
However, for some, horrible jobs are not necessarily their first ones. It can, unfortunately, happen to any one of us and at any point in our lives, especially if the source of all things horrible is the manager.
Comic writer and editor Stephanie Cooke recently took to Twitter to ask everyone about times when something crazy happened to them or to their work, but their managers expected them to continue business as usual. This led to some of the most horrific replies provided by other tweeters.
Stephanie Cooke asked Twitter about their craziest work experience, but one where they still had to work
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Jeff Heinemann 5 years ago
Mine is on the same lines as this. My mother was in hospice after losing her legs from a blood clot lodged above her kidneys so I had missed a lot of work. When I went in to give them the update that she had passed, they first informed me that I was being let go for missing too much work. I loudly said, "GREAT! Now I can go to her funeral!"
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
Sometimes you just want to knock on their heads and say hello, is anybody in there. Lol
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
The manager either did not take in what they had been told or did not believe it. At least that is what I believe. My father died when I was so sick from chemo that I had to stop the treatments for a week (chemo once a week and radiation every weekday) and when I resumed the chemo treatment, I was told to cheer up rather harshly by an oncologist who clearly had not bothered to listen to the answer when she asked why I looked so gloomy.
Id row 5 years ago
I used to carpool with my boss. He came to pick me up one morning and my husband had just gotten home from the hospital where his brother had just died. I barely had time to see if he was ok when my boss showed up. I told him what happened and I was hoping he'd tell me to take the day off. Instead he did a kind of, 'that sucks' and we drove off to work. I kind of hated him a little after that.
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
I'm wondering whether the manager had serious mental health issues.
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deanna woods 5 years ago
Wow. That manager sounds like a total douchebag. I hope you quit that job.
Olivier van Remoortel 5 years ago
I think these situations allow for just stating that you are going. When we ask a question we leave room for refusal. Sucks that you had to go through that,
Samantha Hurrell 5 years ago
Some managers literally don't understand how to deal with people passing away, at a back to work meeting with my manager (and the assistant manager who shouldn't have been there) I was told 'people die.' Same manager who decided that being told that someone needed to stay with my ill gran wasn't good enough, until I mentioned the ambulance crew said so. I hope you ditched that company hard.
Logan Scaggs 5 years ago (edited)
When that manager dies they sure as hell won't get "Un-dead"
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Cold Contagious 5 years ago
He is a special kind of heartless monster residing in a rotted out shell of a human form. Marnie is right on. There's a special place in hell for a person like that.
Eddie Maurer 5 years ago
I would have either punched him as hard as I could or find the nearest solid object and smash him with that. That is not ok and no one should be talked to like that.
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Francesca Annoni 5 years ago
I wasnt able to walk properly 16 hours after giving birth.. this is insane..
JuJu 5 years ago
16 hours after birht I wasn't even allowed to go to the restroom by myself...
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is ridiculously low standards. I take it this happened in the US, where more and more states are making it harder to have an abortion. If they cared at all about babies, this kind of treatment of a new mother/baby would be illegal. But it is not about the children, is it? It is about keeping peoples' attention focused on one issue so that they will not notice what goes on under the radar.
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
This was dangerous. Why would you do that? Regardless of returning the work laptop and phone - couldn't your husband have done that? Why did you risk a haemorrhage for THAT?
Marie-Anne Duhem 5 years ago
What a r******d social service in a country like America... We (in Belgium, but all of Europe in similar trend) have three and a half months paid maternity leave (usually plus best wishes, flowers, and gifts from employer's management). Dad's can ask for, be it with less financial support, for paternity leave as well.
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deanna woods 5 years ago
Sorry for your loss and I am glad that you didn't go back. This employer sounds terrible.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I'm so sorry. I hope your boss thinks of this late at night when they can't sleep.
Kimberly Young 5 years ago
Wow. Because I'm sure you chose to have a miscarriage, and at that exact moment. People who act like your misfortune is such an inconvenience for them have no business being in management.
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
Very sorry for your loss and so very glad to hear that you didn't return to work there. They didn't deserve to have you.
Samantha Hurrell 5 years ago
Don't blame you. If they're not going to give you time to grieve, you don't need those type of people in your life.
Vicki Thill 5 years ago
The manager takes that position and all that goes with it. When anyone on my crew needs to leave for an emergency, I take their place, most often unpaid. I'm sorry for your loss.
Nickie LaRue 5 years ago
I'm so sorry for your loss. I was once fired for having a miscarriage during a "holiday" weekend, it was an ugly thing to do..
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Stephanie Dallaire 5 years ago
I got a job with commission at a shoe store and outsold every other associate (I already had loads of experience) and was told that you didn't get your commission on the first couple of days. They quickly learned that I wasn't to f**k with.
Pamela24 5 years ago
That's absolutely illegal in my country. I went for a trial shift to a store once - got a break and of course paid!
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
That's insanity. I'm not prone to physical violence, but that would be enough to send me over the edge.
Trash Panda 5 years ago
Yup. There is a thing called labor law. Kitchens use the term "stage" which is like an audition for a kitchen job but a lot of those kitchens will have someone stage for a 10 hour shift or even longer. That completely goes against the intent of having a person stage for a position. A competent cook can prove his abilities in just a couple of hours during the prep time in a kitchen.
TheKnightOwl 5 years ago
Not getting paid is s****y, but it's normal to work long shifts in hospitality without a break. Not saying it's right, but it's very common. Longest I ever did was 12 hrs, 1 toilet break and ate on the run. I've worked hospitality for 25 years, and as much as I love people, I'm so done.
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
"Nah, she just helped raise me, look after me when my parents were busy/needed a break, sneak me an extra $20 when I was going to the movies with my friends, all the usual awesome grandma stuff. Not important at all. Fool."
Kasia Siwa 5 years ago
Is that even legal in the US? I had bereavement days and was told that the Dept of labour considers 2 days mandatory for bereavement they might not have to pay you but they have to give it off to you
Raluca Neacsu 5 years ago
Same thing happened to my co-worker. We share the same manager. This *** is real.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
You should have reported the dairy plant and your boss to the health authorities.
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
My friend works for a VERY well known courier company, not UPS, another one. He was diagnosed with a bone issue affecting his pelvis. Even though he had a spotless employment record of over 25 years they wouldn't give him time off for surgery. Then one hip actually disintegrated while he was at work and he collapsed, he was told to be back in the next day. He had to get a hip replacement and a sympathetic manager gave him the sickleave but on his return he was told that if the other hip went he needn't bother coming back.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
If you are ill with a contagious disease, please don't go to work or school so you can infect others with your pestilence.
Amanda Hunter 5 years ago
It's the same for servers in Restaurants, if they're sick and no co workers are able to cover for them, they're fired if they don't show up at work.
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hunger games 5 years ago
yeah because I would rather pay the bill for the hospital visit than work for sure
Demi Zwaan 5 years ago
Only if this story was in the US. In first world countries you don't have to pay a bill for that. Not saying that we fake collapsing and blacking out, of course.
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
Oh yes, I obviously faked that, mainly to get away from you though
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
He should have called an ambulance and closed the shop or whatever it was.
deanna woods 5 years ago
You should have told your boss to cover your shift himself because you were going to the hospital.
Denis Brown 5 years ago
I hope you told him to buckle up because he would be sitting in your chair for the rest of shift while you went to hospital.
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
Is this in America? They would NEVER get away with that in Australia.
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deanna woods 5 years ago
I am sorry that you had to go through that. Your boss sounded like a heartless idiot.
ADDYSON DAVIES 5 years ago
Yeah sorry I was violated criminally It won’t happen again What a heartless idiot
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
I hope you got another job asap. That was a disgusting thing to do to you.
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
This is appalling. I hope you found somewhere else to work. If that had happened in Australia, they would NOT have gotten away with this treatment.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
What's this madness with "Not allowed to go home". When I need to go home, I'm going home. Boss can choose whether i walk past or over him.
Pan Narrans 5 years ago
Not necessary, because he would be busy fighting off my wrath. I had a college who's baby was in hospital after correctional surgery and he suffered because he wanted to be with him, although he *knew* everything was alright with his son. I sent him home, covered his work also for a week, and told the boss about it after two days. His reaction: good call.
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My aunt was taken off life support shortly after I went in to work and my manager let me leave to be with my family.
AY1984 5 years ago
I think many big employers are very sympathetic to things like this. My grandmother died and my boss offered to drive me home (she ended up calling my husband because I couldn't form a coherent sentence). My father died and I was allowed to work funky work hours for a week from home. When my mom died I was so exhausted I wanted to be at work so I worked the next day and people didn't know she had died until a week later (my mother's death was long and I had cried my eyes out for two weeks straight prior so I was emotionally spent by the time she passed away). Some of these bosses though have no business being a boss....
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Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
When my uncle died, his granddaughter was refused permission to go to his funeral. She had z coworker who was refused time off to bury her son. The only time off for a funeral was if your spouse died.
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
You just tell each table "I'm crying because my father just passed away and the boss won't let me leave." I guarantee that by the second table you'll be on your way home - and there's a good possibility that the boss will be on his way to the ER.
Mark Kelly 5 years ago
Awful. Herein Canada my work gave paid time for immediate family members.
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Hayley Parkinson 2 years ago
Yeah, actually. I'm horribly allergic to both devastating natural disasters and BS management decisions....
Maeve Raffaele 4 years ago
When the top comment has 22 downvotes (Just trying to cover it a bit)
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And you didn't leave and tried to see your dad anyway? I quit a job on the spot when a boss wouldn't let me go home when my wife called me that my father in law was taken to hospital.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
This is how the USA treats staff/workers? Obviously a backward county
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hallowed demon 5 years ago
i wonder how he would like his hand being removed. do you have his address by any chance.😈😈😈😈
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
That's when you wave your blood spewing hand over a few trays of food. "Shall I go see the medic NOW?"
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
What fascinates me is the poor regulations on employment in the USA (where I assume all these cases come from). In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, employers would NEVER get away with the behaviours recounted in these examples of crisis.
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Viviane 5 years ago
Scenario in my head: Shake hands with the supervisor and explain, "I hate to waste water, so I never wash my hands."
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
I would've brought my own Playtex Kitchen Gloves at the Dollar Tree.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I think buying some gloves yourself would have been a better option.
Susan Gardner 5 years ago
After the first day, I definitely would have brought my own, but you were a teenager you didn't know :(
Vicki Thill 5 years ago
I work in the culinary field and there are times that my "self ordered" gloves are taken by other facility staff and I have to drive to the pharmacy to buy my own. I refuse, personally, and by law, to put anyone, including myself, in danger. I've walked out for reasons like this.
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
My sister had pneumonia when she was a kid. Nearly died. I guess she would have had a stronger immune system as an adult, but she got it just the once over ten years ago, and her immune system has weakened pretty significantly as a result. She gets pretty sick every month or so, and usually misses a week of work. It doesn't help her situation that she works in a care home, but there's not much else available where she lives, so their colds/flu/whatever usually affect her at some point.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
WE all need to be extra careful now, with extreme handwashing like almost all the time. For two reasons. The one is so that we ourselves do not get sick with covid19, or the flu, but the other reason is more important, that is our main weapon against us transmitting it to other people, people who may be much more fragile. In Europe, although it seems like the cat has been let loose, there is universal healthcare and a rather well-informed population. In the USA, it was with great alarm that I realized that the only reason for there being so few patients diagnosed with covid19 is because the bloody testing kits were faulty and up until now very few [people have been tested at all... https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve
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Kiss Army 5 years ago (edited)
I had Lyme Disease and had to have IV meds twice a day. Because I was a teenager and didn't want to stay in the hospital, the doctor was cool and let me stay at home and go in twice a day for the treatment. My boss wanted me to still work even though I had an IV port in my hand or wrist with entire time. (I worked in food service by the way.) That was a big nope...
Cathy Homan 5 years ago
I was in the hospital in a coma and got fired because I didn't call in sick every day.
Katinka Min 5 years ago
I had pneumonia, once. it took me WEEKS to get back on my feet properly.
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
Wtf, does he even know what chemo treatment is or what it’s for?
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
As a former chemo patient that one is making my effing blood BOIL!!!! I'd be happy to come and crown him over the head with a blunt object for you.
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deanna woods 5 years ago
They should have told him that if he didn't leave and stay out they would be calling the police. I hope he eventually left you alone.
Olivia Masterson 5 years ago
Mine tried stalking me till I told him I had a 30.06 with his name on it. I just can't for the life of me, figure out why he stopped.
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Id row 5 years ago
I used to be a court reporter back in the 90's and the manager of the office we were based in tried to saying they were going to be charging all of us for 'use of office space'. I packed up my stuff and walked out. They called me later on asking if I still wanted to work there and I asked if they were still going to charge me for their office space and they said yes, so I said no. Who does that?
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Attention all employees! Almost every licensed business in the US is required to carry insurance. That insurance covers any costs/losses in the event of a natural disaster (and in most circumstances emergency situations). That includes employees' pay. If you ever encounter a situation like this, make sure your second call is to the Dept. of Labor & Industries in your area.
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SykesDaMan 5 years ago
Yeah, I get that! I wasn't threatened by a scissors to the neck, but I moved to another continent after a horrible job.
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
That sounds insanely scary, it doesn't say how old the students were, and there'd be no way in hell I'd return to one on one work with him that day. He definitely should have been removed from the classroom setting and the incident further reviewed by someone in a position of authority in the school. More than just the tutor could have been in danger, or there may have been a very good reason why the student was acting out behaviorally. There's obviously more to the story.
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
What? I don't get it. That was a criminal assault and the police should have been called.
XxInstantKarmaxX 5 years ago
uh no offense but i don't think this is the best time to be moving to china 😣
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deanna woods 5 years ago
The kid was not fine and could have killed you and your unborn baby by throwing that chair at you.
Cold Contagious 5 years ago
That's exactly why the problem continues to escalate for some of these kids, they are not held accountable for their inappropriate behavior, then when they go too far everyone else wants to pass the blame on to someone else. It's a shame
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I would have said "Only if you stay here with him. If that's too much of an inconvenience for you, you can always send him home or call the police and have him arrested for assault. But if he's left here and throws more things at me that cause me to go into early labor or have a miscarriage...I think I'll have to make a call to my lawyer and union rep."
Umgreg Universe 5 years ago
I was about to freak out that you taught my brother and that I didn't know you were pregnant at the time, but then I remembered that the chair incident was in 4th grade.
Samantha Hurrell 5 years ago
Makes me scared just what it would have taken for that kid not to be fine. If the chair had been thrown at the VP maybe he would have understood even a fraction.
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Viviane 5 years ago
I was on lockdown once during an attack (one person killed). My boss was great, but most of my family in another town didn't seem to care. :(
Tara B. 5 years ago (edited)
I want to downvote this because your family sucks but an upvote for your boss wins. ♥️
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
"Sure. I mean I won't be able to work, since I can barely move, and have an IV in my arm, but I can visit. For a fee."
Cathy Homan 5 years ago
At 3am one morning there was a major car accident on the highway I took to work. I didn't have to be at work till 10am. So I figured it would be cleared. It wasn't. Called my boss and told him I'm stuck in traffic. Nothing is moving on the highway. He said well catch a bus. I told him I was on the bus. He apparently turned on the news and said you have an hour to get to work or your fired. I quit
Pryjmaty 5 years ago
I'm so thankful for where I work! When a guy hit my parked car, I called my manager to tell him I'd be late coming back due to waiting on PD to make a report. My manager was glad I wasn't hurt, car was driveable, but he was concerned I was too "shook up" to work effectively & offered for me to go home for the rest of the day, without it counting against me. Yes, I live in America. LOL
Mark Kelly 5 years ago
pfft I was in a minor one and my boss said to take all the time I need.
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Viviane 5 years ago
I have to wonder if calling the police would have been more appropriate...
RoseTheMad 5 years ago
It would have been, they'd have needed to attempt ID the body, and the body would have been retrieved professionally and safely. (why do you think whenever you see forensics teams on tv etc, they're dressed head to toe in protective gear?) the fact they just straight up told this guy to "fish the dead guy out of the water" is disgusting.
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That would have come under the heading of "Interfering with evidence" and you could have got into BIG trouble with the cops.
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
The police would have been very annoyed if the body had been disturbed unnecessarily., They get their own to do it.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Um, yeah. You shouldn't have touched it at all and insisted on calling the Coast Guard.
cybermerlin2000 5 years ago
If you are in national waters, as I suspect this person was, you are supposed to stay near the body but not touch it and call the coast guard. Explain the situation. The coast guard will be out asap with police to preserve any evidence.
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Management would demand you work even if you were dead, and your manager was the one who killed you.
Mando Lando 5 years ago
I'm from Cleveland and worked at circuit city at the time of that blackout. Our boss wouldn't let us leave. It was AN ELECTRONICS STORE WITH NO POWER. FFS
Jerry Conaway 5 years ago (edited)
I worked for a now defunct floor mat company . One morning they had no power due to a tornado that had ripped through the town the night before. Most folks that were not directly affected showed up anyway, despite lots of trees and power lines down on the roads. The only lighting was the emergency lights. The Yankee-b***h HR director gathered everyone together and asked if anyone wanted to go home. About half held up their hands. So they sent those people home without pay. After they had gone, they sent the others who had not volunteered to go home home anyway - with pay. Karma got the HR director about a year later when she was fired for inappropriate staff relationship.
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Keuthonymos 5 years ago
Lush are horrible for this. I used to work for them myself, and their managers give no f***s about anything other than the money.
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Phoenix Hocking 5 years ago
I have one. I worked at a nursing home for a while. The boss took me and a couple of the nurses out for lunch to a Chinese restaurant in her car. A half hour or so after we got back, she called us into the office chewed us out for being back late from lunch.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago (edited)
This happened to my other half. This dude just crapped himself at my other half’s desk and just shook a turd onto the floor. Thankfully though my oh wasn’t told to clean it up (that unfortunate task went to the cleaners) but my oh did have to escort this dude out of the (government) office while he wiped s**t all over the walls and floor. My oh took a day off the next day!
cybermerlin2000 5 years ago
I would have handed the stuff back saying "This is not the sort of sh*t I'm paid to deal with" and if it was still there the following day? "Same sh*t, Different day"
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Cold Contagious 5 years ago
For real! Nothing could have kept me away from my father's funeral.
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Call police, let them listen in & then say you found one at the back. Easy arrest when he walks in.
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Incel Slayer 5 years ago
If you were below Houston you're entitled to medical care for that, below Canal you're entitled to monetary compensation. (This goes for anyone who worked in lower Manhattan between 9/11 and the following July). The dust was highly toxic and anyone exposed should be screened for related disorders (speaking from both knowledge and experience).
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
All the worse for your boss also being your dad, and equally hard and heartless in both roles.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Did you learn to wear your hair up and out of danger? You're lucky you lived.
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
Welcome to American healthcare! It costs a fortune but you have no other option! 😁
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I was not sure what I ate or drank, but I had a strong metallic taste in my mouth , my lips started to swell and my throat was getting tight. I knew I was having an allergic reaction and my coworkers could see it too. Apparently the only person who couldn't see it was my boss who said "Are you sure you have to leave?" I said "I can stay, but you'll have to dial the ambulance when I collapse from a closed throat." She was pissed.
Logan Scaggs 5 years ago
"Oh yeah because I totally ruptured my wrist on purpose." Who thinks that someone would intentionally hurt themselves just to get out of a job? That's just stupid.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
WTF is going on with managers thinking people injure themselves purposely? Though if they think hundreds of dollars worth of hospital bills are better than working there, they may be on to something.
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Final score:
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
How dare you show up on time after you told me different?!?
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KoalaLa 5 years ago
I call b******t. Police would never let this happen. Whole building gets cleared
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
BS. I was working in downtown Miami right after the first World Trade Center bombing. Apparently, a bomb threat was phoned in. All of the other companies working in our building were evacuated. Our CEO decided we didn't need to evacuate & didn't even tell us everyone else was evacuating.
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
This is insanely improper on behalf of the restaurant. Scarlet fever can result in more serious conditions that affect the heart, kidneys, etc. Workers who come down with contagious illnesses should be told to go home ASAP.
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
"No they're f*****g not. They're going to sit in shock glued to their TVs trying to work out what the f**k just happened, and why."
Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
They'll go into panicked hoarder mode tomorrow. Today they're watching the news in an endless cycle.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
The only sort of buying panic I recall following 9.11 was gasoline, only due to the fear of the price doubling.
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
Sharing is caring, an i right?
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Noooo. Stupidity is everywhere. In a large supermarket some ten days ago, I was told by a woman who was coughing wildly into the air while standing not far from me that she did "not have a virus infection, it was a cold!" and that she knew it because she had been to the doctor.
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Carrot dude 5 years ago
People don't see to understand this, but if there is a decapitated corpse near a middle school, students and faculty should GO HOME.
elfin 5 years ago
Many kids take buses, which can't change schedules instantaneously, and many parents work and can't take off because their child's school is closing. It's a no-win situation, but I think for the school to continue as normally as possible was not a bad choice. They could even use it as a learning situation.
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RoseTheMad 5 years ago
Wtf? This isn't some kind of b******t inhumane thing you were made to do. It's the logical and right thing to do. Both protecting the kids from being scarred by the image of a headless corpse (and ensuring they can try and focus on their education instead), and of course protecting the dignity of the deceased. It's not like sticking paper to a window is a hard task, either. Jeez...
Rachael Sampson 5 years ago
You missed the point. The school should have closed for the day and had the students and faculty go home. Not just let the students stay in close proximity to where a decapitated body is. That's what they were pretty much getting at.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I got that beat. I worked at McDonalds one morning when I pulled the fry basket out and a hashbrown slipped out into the oil. With out thinking, I grabbed a pair of tongs and went after it stupidly putting the first two fingers of my right hand into the vat of boiling oil. Minutes later I was in the break room, hand wrapped in a towel with ice waiting for my Dad to pick me up. My manager, Chris, comes back to stay "You can still finish your shift right?" I said "Chris! You go stick your hand in that vat and then tell yourself if you should still work or go to the ER!!" He left in a huff.
Emperor Kitten 5 years ago
In my experience, a restaurant manager greatest fear is always actually having to cook something.
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Final score:
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Final score:
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
If that booster pack was anything other than Yu-Gi-Oh!, that customer can suck it.
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Final score:
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Beth Snyder 5 years ago
Unions are the reason certain countries have decent working conditions. Union-busting is the reason why certain countries' formerly decent working conditions are declining
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Olivier van Remoortel 5 years ago
Almost sounds like pure ignorance, rather than a-hole mentality
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Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Yeah...we lived in Texas for five years. the director was an idiot. I grew up driving on snow and ice, so I'm fine. I would have been BEGGING the staff not to come in when that happened. Texans are stupid drivers anyway - putting on the snow or ice would have been Death Trap Mayhem.
Evil Little Thing 5 years ago
Unless you are a snowy/icy road. Then Texas rolls over and gives up.
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Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Go to Google, search "Earthquake aftershock", and learn why you're wrong.
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
A lot of people can’t afford cars, so maybe it’s their only option
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
Maybe the only flu her boss is familiar with is the 24 hour kind that comes out of a vodka bottle.
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Emma B 5 years ago
That's 4-10 degrees Celsius for those using the Metric System. It's also not great for the musical instruments. Prolonged exposure to cold temperatures can do real lasting damage that would cost the owner a LOT of money.
Jeff Heinemann 5 years ago
I'm thinking he didn't really care and would tell customers the instruments were just fine.
Load More Replies... Kimberly Young 5 years ago
Yikes. I've worked in some pretty cold temperatures, but we were allowed to bundle up at least!
#69
Stacey Montebello 5 years ago
This happened to a friend of mine, got his teeth knocked out delivering pizza from some psycho trying to rob him of the $$$ and the pizza. The manager told him he was wrong to have the cops and to come back for more deliveries. Then he tried to dock his pay b/c they have a policy of not fighting back and blamed him for "not just give the cash up" well after 4 months of back and forth with the company and the cops pulling the CTV from the inside the elevator he was attacked in, he got new teeth and an undisclosed amount of $$$.
#70
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Why risk your life for some job? You can't live paycheck to paycheck if you've been impaled by a tree branch, or street sign that was flung in your direction at X mph.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Was it b******t though? Without actually knowing you could be the one who was incorrect. Also, many of the hurricane shelters in West Palm Beach (for example) are pretty close to the ocean, because that's where all the people are...
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
I'm assuming Miami. And in most places, the papers couldn't even be delivered.
#72
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
This is the first time ever that the phrase "literal floaters" has been used.
#73
M O'Connell 5 years ago
You didn't really have to do that, you could have refused. Instead you provided excellent service during adverse conditions. That's something you can use as business-leverage later on. Still not a good idea though.
#75
Emily Softley 5 years ago
I'd argue that telling the client he'll be late is a big indication that he is expected to be there.
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TheUntrustworhyEverythingBagal 5 years ago
How did you sell books of the customers we’re not allowed in, like what?
BlackestDawn 5 years ago
My guess is they had to bring the books (or other items) out to the customers.
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#79
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure that's what the military is attempting to "drill" into the heads of new recruits.
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Evil doesn't sleep, my boy. That's typical military life, and why I could never be a part of it. Bakura needs his sleep! I'll leave the terrorists to the heroes.
#80
M O'Connell 5 years ago
This sounds like a situation where you would have had LOTS of work to do. Simply leaving it for night-shift doesn't really sound like an appropriate course of action.
#81
M O'Connell 5 years ago
I must ask, how on earth did resetting a VoIP server result in power loss for the building?
#82
#83
Dave In MD 5 years ago
And the problem is? Did you expect to just leave and have a broken window in a unmanned store? Plus leaving the glass for the next shift?
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
No one died, or was severely injured, and what happened was an accident. It was not the wrong call to tell you to clean up, and carry on. You had a job to do. Also, what day it was doesn't matter. If you agreed to work Easter Sunday, you work Easter Sunday. If it was stipulated in your contract that you had to work at least one holiday a year, you work it, or your a*s gets fired. Simple as that. Why this tweet got 99 likes eludes me.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Probably because when it was originally posted it was a two parter with his post about Denny's.
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Bunzilla 5 years ago
These stories make me so angry. There's no way that any of these should be normal, bosses should get fired for making employees work in these conditions. Just what kind of world do we live in?
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Those working conditions aren't normal and the majority of those stories would be illegal under labor laws in a lot of European countries. Refusing to pay because of a natural disaster? Nope. Refusing someone to go home? Forget it, it's work not a detention center. There's a long way to go for a lot of American workers.
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Incel Slayer 5 years ago
I was four months pregnant and suffering from hyperemesis gravidarium (severe unstoppable vomiting). My boss laughed and told me I had to come in anyway because his lawyer said "pregnancy is not an illness". I showed up every day and spent my entire shift curled up next to the bathroom because it was literally all I could do. (Fun side note, my boss and colleagues all smoked. Indoors, on the job.)
deanna woods 5 years ago
You should have contacted a lawyer and let him talk to your boss.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 5 years ago
I have the opposite experience with my employer. A few years ago, I got steroid poisoning from a shot for eczema. I was supposed to only get one in the office, but ended accidentally got prescribed at home shots. After a few days, I couldn't eat, sleep, and was seriously dehydrated. I only figured it out because I went to the doctor with my uncle and she noticed something was off. I was too weak to get out of bed, so my sister and dad went to my boss and told her what happened. She was very cool about it and gave me as much time as I needed to get better.
Katpocalypse Meow 5 years ago
These are all so horrible and saddening. Here's a story that will maybe tighten things up a bit. When I was a manager at a popular pizza delivery chain I had to threaten to call an ambulance for a sick employee because she refused to go home and leave me to handle the dinner rush with only one other person inside. Did my best to make my employees feel valued and appreciated and it really showed in moments like that. She ultimately went home and ended up being hospitalized for almost a week. So glad she ended up being ok in the end.
deanna woods 5 years ago
At the pizza place I worked at, the manager fell in the parking lot and broke her elbows and kept working. She didn't go to the hospital until the store closed.
Load More Replies... Viviane 5 years ago
One of my colleagues had to go in for emergency surgery. The two clients on her project called her to say, "Take all the time you need, but make sure you meet the deadline". I was new and no one was around to advise me, so I did the best I could on her project. They then called her and told her off because I had asked them some questions to which she would know the answer (as if I'd disturb her while she was recovering).
deanna woods 5 years ago
Some people don't care about anyone but themselves.
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Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
From the 90’s: our company had added extra rooms to our office, so the phone numbers of some of the higher level employees had to be changed. One of my co-workers was the only person who knew how to program the phone system. She was out sick with a bad case of the flu when the phone numbers needed to be changed. Using some kind of threat, our supervisor forced her to come in to re-program the phones.
Francesca Annoni 5 years ago
I had a bleeding during my shift a few months after a miscarriage, I was hospitalized for an emergency curettage. that evening I contacted my store manager to tell her how many days of illness I had, she said she had back pain and that if I hadn't returned as soon as possible she would have been forced to call a colleague from vacation. two days later I was already back to work ..
KayKay 5 years ago
During the 2018 flooding in the midwest- central Wisconsin to be specific. I ended up in flood waters with my two toddlers in the car. One thing led to another and the three of us were swept into deeper water and had to get to the roof of my Camry and wait for rescue. Next day I call work telling them what happened. They were okay with me not coming in that day for obvious reasons. Next day I call saying my car was probably going to be considered totaled (water was so high it came up to the windows- ie engine and everything under the hood was also submerged) And I did not have a reliable ride into or home from work that day or the next. I could tell in the tone of her voice that she was not thrilled. When I finally came back to work no one seemed to believe me until I showed pictures of how messed up my car was (debris-sticks, garbage- were inside the car, fenders were bent out from the force of the rushing water, scratched up from sticks, logs) and how traumatized I was by it.
KayKay 5 years ago
They said they weren't holding it against me when it came to my attendance, that was a lie.
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CelSlade 5 years ago (edited)
*TRIGGER WARNING* I was working on behalf of the NHS - reminding patients of their appointments, when I got one of the dreaded 'suicide' calls. An elderly gentleman had been about to kill himself when I called. Now I have to point out - these are not common and I wasn't working for 111, so it wasn't as if we were trained for it. But, I stayed on the line with him, keeping him talking and calm for 45 minutes while my manager called an ambulance. Once the paramedics arrived and took care of him, I ended the call, very shaken. My manager didn't even ask if I was ok - just put the next call through. They never even mentioned the call. Ever. At any point.
Bunzilla 5 years ago
These stories make me so angry. There's no way that any of these should be normal, bosses should get fired for making employees work in these conditions. Just what kind of world do we live in?
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Those working conditions aren't normal and the majority of those stories would be illegal under labor laws in a lot of European countries. Refusing to pay because of a natural disaster? Nope. Refusing someone to go home? Forget it, it's work not a detention center. There's a long way to go for a lot of American workers.
Load More Replies... Incel Slayer 5 years ago
I was four months pregnant and suffering from hyperemesis gravidarium (severe unstoppable vomiting). My boss laughed and told me I had to come in anyway because his lawyer said "pregnancy is not an illness". I showed up every day and spent my entire shift curled up next to the bathroom because it was literally all I could do. (Fun side note, my boss and colleagues all smoked. Indoors, on the job.)
deanna woods 5 years ago
You should have contacted a lawyer and let him talk to your boss.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 5 years ago
I have the opposite experience with my employer. A few years ago, I got steroid poisoning from a shot for eczema. I was supposed to only get one in the office, but ended accidentally got prescribed at home shots. After a few days, I couldn't eat, sleep, and was seriously dehydrated. I only figured it out because I went to the doctor with my uncle and she noticed something was off. I was too weak to get out of bed, so my sister and dad went to my boss and told her what happened. She was very cool about it and gave me as much time as I needed to get better.
Katpocalypse Meow 5 years ago
These are all so horrible and saddening. Here's a story that will maybe tighten things up a bit. When I was a manager at a popular pizza delivery chain I had to threaten to call an ambulance for a sick employee because she refused to go home and leave me to handle the dinner rush with only one other person inside. Did my best to make my employees feel valued and appreciated and it really showed in moments like that. She ultimately went home and ended up being hospitalized for almost a week. So glad she ended up being ok in the end.
deanna woods 5 years ago
At the pizza place I worked at, the manager fell in the parking lot and broke her elbows and kept working. She didn't go to the hospital until the store closed.
Load More Replies... Viviane 5 years ago
One of my colleagues had to go in for emergency surgery. The two clients on her project called her to say, "Take all the time you need, but make sure you meet the deadline". I was new and no one was around to advise me, so I did the best I could on her project. They then called her and told her off because I had asked them some questions to which she would know the answer (as if I'd disturb her while she was recovering).
deanna woods 5 years ago
Some people don't care about anyone but themselves.
Load More Replies... Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
From the 90’s: our company had added extra rooms to our office, so the phone numbers of some of the higher level employees had to be changed. One of my co-workers was the only person who knew how to program the phone system. She was out sick with a bad case of the flu when the phone numbers needed to be changed. Using some kind of threat, our supervisor forced her to come in to re-program the phones.
Francesca Annoni 5 years ago
I had a bleeding during my shift a few months after a miscarriage, I was hospitalized for an emergency curettage. that evening I contacted my store manager to tell her how many days of illness I had, she said she had back pain and that if I hadn't returned as soon as possible she would have been forced to call a colleague from vacation. two days later I was already back to work ..
KayKay 5 years ago
During the 2018 flooding in the midwest- central Wisconsin to be specific. I ended up in flood waters with my two toddlers in the car. One thing led to another and the three of us were swept into deeper water and had to get to the roof of my Camry and wait for rescue. Next day I call work telling them what happened. They were okay with me not coming in that day for obvious reasons. Next day I call saying my car was probably going to be considered totaled (water was so high it came up to the windows- ie engine and everything under the hood was also submerged) And I did not have a reliable ride into or home from work that day or the next. I could tell in the tone of her voice that she was not thrilled. When I finally came back to work no one seemed to believe me until I showed pictures of how messed up my car was (debris-sticks, garbage- were inside the car, fenders were bent out from the force of the rushing water, scratched up from sticks, logs) and how traumatized I was by it.
KayKay 5 years ago
They said they weren't holding it against me when it came to my attendance, that was a lie.
Load More Replies... CelSlade 5 years ago (edited)
*TRIGGER WARNING* I was working on behalf of the NHS - reminding patients of their appointments, when I got one of the dreaded 'suicide' calls. An elderly gentleman had been about to kill himself when I called. Now I have to point out - these are not common and I wasn't working for 111, so it wasn't as if we were trained for it. But, I stayed on the line with him, keeping him talking and calm for 45 minutes while my manager called an ambulance. Once the paramedics arrived and took care of him, I ended the call, very shaken. My manager didn't even ask if I was ok - just put the next call through. They never even mentioned the call. Ever. At any point.
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