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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Wow. That manager sounds like a total douchebag. I hope you quit that job.
I wasnt able to walk properly 16 hours after giving birth.. this is insane..
Sorry for your loss and I am glad that you didn't go back. This employer sounds terrible.
"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."
You should have reported the dairy plant and your boss to the health authorities.
yeah because I would rather pay the bill for the hospital visit than work for sure
Yeah, actually. I'm horribly allergic to both devastating natural disasters and BS management decisions....
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.
Wtf, does he even know what chemo treatment is or what it’s for?
The kid was not fine and could have killed you and your unborn baby by throwing that chair at you.
"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."
Call police, let them listen in & then say you found one at the back. Easy arrest when he walks in.
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).
All the worse for your boss also being your dad, and equally hard and heartless in both roles.
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.
How dare you show up on time after you told me different?!?
"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."
People don't see to understand this, but if there is a decapitated corpse near a middle school, students and faculty should GO HOME.
If that booster pack was anything other than Yu-Gi-Oh!, that customer can suck it.
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.
Maybe the only flu her boss is familiar with is the 24 hour kind that comes out of a vodka bottle.
This happened to a friend of mine, got his teeth knocked out delivering pizza from some psycho trying to rob him of the $$$ and the pizza. The manager told him he was wrong to have the cops and to come back for more deliveries. Then he tried to dock his pay b/c they have a policy of not fighting back and blamed him for "not just give the cash up" well after 4 months of back and forth with the company and the cops pulling the CTV from the inside the elevator he was attacked in, he got new teeth and an undisclosed amount of $$$.
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.
This is the first time ever that the phrase "literal floaters" has been used.
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.
How did you sell books of the customers we’re not allowed in, like what?
I'm pretty sure that's what the military is attempting to "drill" into the heads of new recruits.
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.
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?
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?
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...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.)
You should have contacted a lawyer and let him talk to your boss.
Load More Replies...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.
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?
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...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.)
You should have contacted a lawyer and let him talk to your boss.
Load More Replies...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.