Best ways someone has wound up an awful employer

28-06-2018 12:44PM

It wasn’t me, honest! Years ago in a large supermarket, a particularly obnoxious co worker used get up everyone’s nose. They’d clock in and spend half an hour chatting with pals in canteen “Doing changeover” which was already done. Time was spent in stockroom and other places where they had no business being, leaving co workers to do all the work. One evening, they left their keys on the worktop before disappearing on some urgent errand. One very fed up co worker “accidentally” pushed the keys into a pile of boxes that were then sent to the crusher!

razorblunt · 28-06-2018 01:07PM

Odelay wrote: »

Yeah...... none of this happened.

No, it did, that Spar with the really well known ice cream section.
If you build it they will come!

lawred2 · 28-06-2018 01:08PM

sexmag wrote: »

Id like to hear peoples stories of how they or other people have wound up an employer who was either bad, oppressive or just a down right jerk.

Ill start, its a simple one, employer in an office implamented a new rule that plants cant be in the office , on peoples desk etc,used health and saftey as the excuse, people watering them is dangerous near electrics, the pollen etc but really was just a jerk who didnt like plants, the people in the office and just thought of ways to make life awful. Next day this french lady brought in this huge fake plant she got in ikea and stuck it on her desk. Boss tried to claim she couldnt have it but HR backed her up and now everyone has big fake plants all over the office, place looks nice

I don't know - those justifications all seem reasonably valid to me.

Sounds like a decent workplace if that's your biggest problem.

lawred2 · 28-06-2018 01:10PM

weisses wrote: »

Guy baked a weed cake ...boss had a slice not knowing it had weed in it ,boss drove away in his car ... thought he had a heart attack, pulled over on the hard shoulder called an ambulance ... rest is history

jesus christ - he could have killed himself or someone else driving that car..

that's an outrageously reckless thing to do

Donald Trump · 28-06-2018 02:26PM

Hector Bellend wrote: »

What about the person theyre having their affair with?

Do you really think theyre happily married?

Ah sure I didn't think that far ahead about the the potential emotional, sociological or philosophical repercussions of the scenario posited in my initial flippant attempt at humour

martingriff · 28-06-2018 05:31PM

HankScorpio123 wrote: »

Had a job in a Spar shop years ago. Owner was an absolute ****. I handed in my notice after about 8 months working there. So my last day is on a Sunday at the start of the summer.The shop had a big grand re-opening on the Monday morning after getting renovated. This was clearly a big deal to the owner. Photographers in. Free stock being given away. Huge crowds expected. And the big selling point of the renovation....an amazing selection of ice cream and a brilliant ice cream and slushie machine.

So my last shift, as I said was the Sunday night before. We're scrubbing the place from top to bottom while he stands around barking orders and shouting at people to get stuff done. He even tells one of my co-workers, who's black, that she should be used to this sort of strenuous work where she "comes from". Anyway, he leaves about an hour before closing (not before raiding the off license as usual) and gives us a list of things to do. One of those things was to turn off the ice cream machine. The machine was new. Nobody was ever trained in how to operate it which resulted in a lot of screw ups and unhappy customers the few days prior. So I decide...**** it it's my last day and I wasn't told how to use this machine so I'm gonna take the plug out. That's turning it off right ? Hahaha.

Fast forward to the next morning. About 15 missed calls on my phone before I finally answer. He's irate. The ice cream has all melted. The stuff in the freezer is all melted. 5 grand worth of stock ruined and the machine totally fooked just in time for the grand opening. I wish I was there to see the look on his face although a former co-worker of mine tells me he was in an absolute state. Close to tears was how she described him as people flocked in their hundreds to try out this new, much talked about ice cream section in the shop and photographers waiting to put pics in the local papers.

Ya that is what you have liked to have done in reality you did not as you be in more serious trouble then pissing off a boss

Or if it did happen is was more then likely an accident by someone else and your just acting the big man/woman

I do not see the rational in doing anything to a boss as you may never know (especially if you stay in the industry) when you may meet them again and you may need something like a job

Capt'n Midnight · 28-06-2018 10:18PM

You know the way church organs have different lengths for different notes and nodes and antinodes ?

It's similar for electricity.

Except at the frequencies used by electric trains the dimensions would be hundreds and hundreds of miles.

So when they first electrified the railways in Australia they tried to save some money by short changing the electrical engineer. ( IIRC he came from Serbia or nearby )

So out of spite he designed the system with a branch line just long enough to act as a virtual short circuit.

Cue lots of head scratching.

Prominent_Dawg · 28-06-2018 10:34PM

tripadvisor.. they hate that!

NinetyTwoTeam · 29-06-2018 03:38AM

martingriff wrote: »

Ya that is what you have liked to have done in reality you did not as you be in more serious trouble then pissing off a boss

Or if it did happen is was more then likely an accident by someone else and your just acting the big man/woman

I do not see the rational in doing anything to a boss as you may never know (especially if you stay in the industry) when you may meet them again and you may need something like a job

get bent dude and let us enjoy this thread.

here's my one: back when video stores were still a thing I worked in a busy one, not in Ireland. A new store manager came in, cut the male workers hours and hired girls and gave them all the hours they wanted, especially if they wanted day shifts as he worked days and could droll over them to his hearts desire. he was a right little worm.

he opened the store every Saturday morning and first thing he would do was go through all the tapes from the overnight return box accessed via a wee mailslot type door at the front of the store to see if they were rewound, right tape inside etc.

me and my colleague quit due to the lack of hours but remained drinking buddies and on consecutive Friday nights we got locked and took turns urinating through the little door and all over the tapes he would be handling first thing Saturday morning.

NinetyTwoTeam · 29-06-2018 03:46AM

The Little Mermaid video cover has to be up there, though according to snopes it wasn't a disgruntled employee. But I just don't think any artist could draw that by accident. It was at least a prank, and the guy claimed it was accidental to protect himself from a lawsuit/ruined reputation.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/phallus-purposely-added-artwork-little-mermaid-vhs-cover/

Dramatik · 29-06-2018 11:01AM

A friend of mine put an advert in buy and sell with his boss's number for a playstation with 6 games and all the extras for around 3/4s of the recommended retail price, this was at a time when the playstation had only been released a couple of months and was a very much sought-after thing, it was also just coming up to Christmas as well. The guy was still getting phone calls 6 months later.

Owryan · 29-06-2018 11:07AM

Back when the recession started my employers introduced a pay freeze, cancelled the Christmas party and decided that the asbestos roof which was falling apart would not be replaced. Instead they decided we could wear masks when we had to remove parts that had broken away.

A few weeks later we found out that they had given themselves a pay rise, had gone to London for a Christmas party and decided that a bonus for themselves would be nice.

Guess how surprised they were when the EPA turned up one day, on foot of anonymous phonecall, and demanded immediate work to get rid of the asbestos. Cost €500,000 to remove it, another 300,000 to install a new roof and heating system and a hefty fine.

martingriff · 29-06-2018 09:59PM

NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »

get bent dude and let us enjoy this thread.

here's my one: back when video stores were still a thing I worked in a busy one, not in Ireland. A new store manager came in, cut the male workers hours and hired girls and gave them all the hours they wanted, especially if they wanted day shifts as he worked days and could droll over them to his hearts desire. he was a right little worm.

he opened the store every Saturday morning and first thing he would do was go through all the tapes from the overnight return box accessed via a wee mailslot type door at the front of the store to see if they were rewound, right tape inside etc.

me and my colleague quit due to the lack of hours but remained drinking buddies and on consecutive Friday nights we got locked and took turns urinating through the little door and all over the tapes he would be handling first thing Saturday morning.

Unless told by a mod no. As this is a public forum I will give my opinion. You seem to get angry quickly

NinetyTwoTeam · 30-06-2018 12:18AM

martingriff wrote: »

Unless told by a mod no. As this is a public forum I will give my opinion. You seem to get angry quickly

well boss suit yourself but your opinion was just you on your high horse being judgemental about the whole basis of the thread and not adding anything that anyone who would click on this thread would be interested in. no funny story about a bit of devilment, just scolding. do you seriously think anyone who is reading this thread wanted to hear that crap?

if there was a thread about 'best holiday you ever had', would you go in and say you lot should be ashamed for taking time off work and enjoying yourselves?

30-06-2018 09:34AM

Owryan wrote: »

Back when the recession started my employers introduced a pay freeze, cancelled the Christmas party and decided that the asbestos roof which was falling apart would not be replaced. Instead they decided we could wear masks when we had to remove parts that had broken away.

A few weeks later we found out that they had given themselves a pay rise, had gone to London for a Christmas party and decided that a bonus for themselves would be nice.

Guess how surprised they were when the EPA turned up one day, on foot of anonymous phonecall, and demanded immediate work to get rid of the asbestos. Cost €500,000 to remove it, another 300,000 to install a new roof and heating system and a hefty fine.

That’s outrageous, those employers are just scum.

Chaos Tourist · 30-06-2018 09:57AM

martingriff wrote: »

Ya that is what you have liked to have done in reality you did not as you be in more serious trouble then pissing off a boss

Or if it did happen is was more then likely an accident by someone else and your just acting the big man/woman

I do not see the rational in doing anything to a boss as you may never know (especially if you stay in the industry) when you may meet them again and you may need something like a job

Well, you'd just have to weigh up all the pros and cons there. Everyone is different. For some it doesn't really bother them or they're too scared to do/say anything. For my own mental health I'd relish confronting them outside of the workplace environment -- they're not so brave then without their badges.

martingriff · 30-06-2018 04:59PM

Chaos Tourist wrote: »

Well, you'd just have to weigh up all the pros and cons there. Everyone is different. For some it doesn't really bother them or they're too scared to do/say anything. For my own mental health I'd relish confronting them outside of the workplace environment -- they're not so brave then without their badges.

Fair enough as you say everyone is different. As you say some need to let them know what they have done and really I have no problem. There are pro and cons and if a supervisor/boss was so bad I doubt you would want to work with them again.

I suppose I am lucky I only had 1 bad person I worked with but it was not a boss or supervisor. I do think some of the posts on here were not great such as giving someone weed and ruining an icecream invetory. The first post on the thread I responded to was I saw I how real flowers can effect people.

martingriff · 30-06-2018 05:00PM

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

That’s outrageous, those employers are just scum.

Agree

martingriff · 30-06-2018 05:07PM

NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »

well boss suit yourself but your opinion was just you on your high horse being judgemental about the whole basis of the thread and not adding anything that anyone who would click on this thread would be interested in. no funny story about a bit of devilment, just scolding. do you seriously think anyone who is reading this thread wanted to hear that crap?

if there was a thread about 'best holiday you ever had', would you go in and say you lot should be ashamed for taking time off work and enjoying yourselves?

I responded to 3. 1 about real flowers and plants as I see the effect it can have on people, 2 someone been given weed and thinking he was having a heart attack as he could have an accident when panicking and the 1 you took issue with which I did not believe them. I also give an opinion why I would never do it. You make it sound as if I was giving out to all posts.

As for a thread on holidays I be jealous of there holiday. You seem to think I am some boss who things everyone should work all the time I am far far from that

Chaos Tourist · 30-06-2018 05:07PM

martingriff wrote: »

Fair enough as you say everyone is different. As you say some need to let them know what they have done and really I have no problem. There are pro and cons and if a supervisor/boss was so bad I doubt you would want to work with them again.

I suppose I am lucky I only had 1 bad person I worked with but it was not a boss or supervisor. I do think some of the posts on here were not great such as giving someone weed and ruining an icecream invetory. The first post on the thread I responded to was I saw I how real flowers can effect people.

Giving an unsuspecting person weed (particularly the strong stuff) is just asking for (legal) trouble and the reason we need emergency services.

the purple tin · 30-06-2018 05:34PM

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

That’s outrageous, those employers are just scum.

They sound like run of the mill executives to me

greencap · 30-06-2018 07:30PM

Owryan wrote: »

Back when the recession started my employers introduced a pay freeze, cancelled the Christmas party and decided that the asbestos roof which was falling apart would not be replaced. Instead they decided we could wear masks when we had to remove parts that had broken away.

A few weeks later we found out that they had given themselves a pay rise, had gone to London for a Christmas party and decided that a bonus for themselves would be nice.

Guess how surprised they were when the EPA turned up one day, on foot of anonymous phonecall, and demanded immediate work to get rid of the asbestos. Cost €500,000 to remove it, another 300,000 to install a new roof and heating system and a hefty fine.

we clean your rooms, we cook your food, we guard your homes.

do not **** with us.

Best ways someone has wound up an awful employer

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