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Your boss who is a millionaire who owns several apartment buildings free and clear in the SF Bay Area, has given the same $200 bonus to all of his resident managers for the past 30 years - regardless of inflation or performance. Along with Costco food: a case of canned tuna, a bag of Cuties oranges and a case of Orville Reddenbacher popcorn.
The first year I worked for him, I increased his profits by about $30,000 on the one property I managed.
After 8 years, the profits continued. Every year I got $200 - same as his underperforming managers, and my tuna and Cuties. And he was completely baffled as to why I decided to retire, because I had such a good deal with my "free" apartment - and no salary. And was on call 24/7.
He couldn't believe I'd rather live in subsidized senior apartments in the boonies.
...You erroneously receive a packet from a group of lawyers who represent the owner of the building, replying to your company's request to terminate their lease 3 years early and lay off everyone.
I worked for a couple of months for a mobile home park owner, who rented out all of the mobile homes. His maintenance staff were Mexican. He had an employee lunch once a month, in which the Mexican workers prepared the meal, then ate at a separate table in the same room as the administrative staff who sat at a separate table in the same small room, and expected the Mexican workers to also serve them.
I wasn't sure where to sit and the owner waved me over to the administrator table, with him, his son, the bookkeeper, the property manager and me. The owner thought he was the Great Benefactor because he paid for the food the Mexican workers then had to prepare and serve, and clean up. And he thought he was being generous by "providing" a "free" employee lunch.
Back when I was a broke college student, I took a job (briefly) at a small company that hadn't paid their electric bill in a long time. During my first week there, the power was shut off. Fortunately, it was in the late spring, so no heat or a/c was needed.
The owner ran several hundred feet of extension cords to neighbors so we could power two typewriters. We worked by daylight, and one of my jobs was to drive to the copy center once a day to make copies of stuff. As I recall, I got a better offer a few weeks later and moved on. They were still without power. I think they kept going about another two months before tossing in the towel.
Recently, I was looking for a second job and ran across a small business that required everyone to use their own laptop and cell phone for work. As soon as I heard that, I made tracks for the exit. Last time I looked, the office they had rented was vacant.
If the company cannot buy your toilet paper be prepared to lose the job when the company declares Chapter 13. If the boss won't even spend his own money to get some for you that's no place to be working.
When you win a swank basket of food from a hospital conglomerate for having the most referrals to their psych hospitals that quarter.....
.... When you come back from doing 10 hours of even more evaluations and more hospital referrals, more fighting with insurance companies, more manipulative addicts, being in the freezing 10 inches of snow with no boots because you planned on being IN the office all day, and you are REALLY REEEEALY HUNGRY because you don't eat while you work so you can "squeeze in" as many evals for your company as possible....
.....You find out that your boss, your boss's boss, and everyone you manage on-site ATE THE ENTIRE BASKET!! And you forgot your dinner.
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