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The prospective employer ignores reasonable questions at the job interview.
Your new boss's second in command asks you how long it will take to get X, Y, and Z done. You give a reasonable estimate. Your boss throws a tantrum.
You find out that flex time means it's you that needs to be flexible at both ends of the work day.
Your boss tolerates inappropriate behavior toward you from his key employees. You report bullying and it's you who gets punished. Your boss is unprofessional and vindictive.
You get a raise and your medical insurance costs go up that amount the following week.
Your boss is certifiable. You find out that your boss has built up a tolerance to Valium that would put a horse to sleep.
You work as a caregiver in a severely understaffed nursing home, and the executive director asks you to sign papers saying residents receive care when they don't, and the director knows it.
(I walked off the job and reported them to the state, btw.)
I'll go first. You know you work for a terrible employer when they start requiring you to bring your own toilet paper to work.
When an horrific car crash happens right outside the doors, a person dies, and the boss walks out to the cops and paramedics and asks them to "wrap it up" because he has a business to run.
Another job I had: When you get a Christmas bonus...and it's a pen.
Just curious here but as a receptionist at a nature center, what was the illegal and dangerous things the boss asked you to do?
Plug damaged electrical cords with exposed bare wires into a broken exposed wall socket that we had been instructed not to use because it had been tagged as a safety violation by a building inspector. Falsify pay sheets and change payroll documents prior to an audit. Lie to police about her son when he was arrested. (the son was arrested for stealing from a police officer, who recognized the stolen items driving by their house).
Last edited by Tzaphkiel; 12-17-2015 at 05:34 PM..
I'll go first. You know you work for a terrible employer when they start requiring you to bring your own toilet paper to work.
Great thread by the way.
You know you work for a terrible employer when...
Employees get into fist-fights, and the boss thinks it's funny.
Employees show up to work drunk, and get a promotion.
The boss's incompetent brothers are promoted ahead of good employees who have been with the company for 20 years. They BOTH get caught stealing and still keep their jobs.
Employees are expected to work with equipment that requires shorting 230-volt wires with a screw driver to get the job done.
People are fired for getting injured on the job.
Employer doesn't pay for short-term disability insurance even though the payment was deducted from the employee's check. Injured employee has to keep working just to pay his bills.
Employees are expected to show up for work on time, but not clock in. They are expected to just hang around until there is something to do, then maybe they can clock in and be paid.
Employees are expected to drive trucks pulling illegal loads.
You're expected to repair trucks on the side of the interstate when it's -10 degrees F outside and snowing.
These are just SOME of the reasons I left the heavy equipment repair industry. Now as a college educated office-drone, I make twice the money for half the work.
Respect a man who works with his hands for a living. If you work in an office, odds are you can't even imagine what he goes through to pay the bills.
...your boss allows coworkers to read other coworkers' personal work reviews.
...your boss excuses the rudeness of your coworkers, all of whom are over 25 and some who are married, by telling you they are just "young".
...your business trains classes of 25 to 30 students in a class, 4 to 5 classes at a time, 2 or 3 times a year to keep up with the turnover in a business of only 300 to 500 people.
...your boss writes you up for something she told you to do.
....you get written up for not being able to solve a customer's phone problem when the problem wasn't with the customer's phone, but with the customer's mother's phone and that phone had service with a different carrier than the one you're working for, so there wasn't a blasted thing you could do to help her.
...you give your 2 weeks notice at work, your boss tells you that you don't have to come in for the last 3 days, then fires you for not showing up and tries to backdate the firing to the date you gave your 2 week notice.
...the founder of the company who is an honorary board member sells his stock back and gets out of the business because he hates the direction the new CEO is taking the company.
...your company president gets kicked out of office with his million dollar golden parachute and the retired president is brought back in to fix things up again, and meantime there are wage and raise freezes for the employees.
...the cook in the restaurant you work in slices off the top of his thumb with a knife and is told to put a bandage on it and keep working, because it's too busy for him to go to the ER.
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