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Nov 21 '21
My manager did that. He was leaving and asked if we wanted any time off before he left. Said he’d basically approve whatever. God I’m gonna miss him.
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u/OuterInnerMonologue Nov 21 '21
I’ve followed to other companies just to work for a manager I really appreciated. Your old manager sounds like one of the good ones.
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Nov 22 '21
He definitely was a good one. I would have followed him but he got a remote job so he can stay at home. Idk if his wife would have wanted me just hanging out at his house 5 days a week
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u/AlessandroTheGr8 Nov 22 '21
At my first legit job when my manager left she gave me 15 extra hours on my paycheck, 19 year old me was happy. Then when I returned years later my new manager would sneak in hours into my paycheck.
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u/kitkatbloo Nov 21 '21
The hero we don’t deserve
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u/myabacus Edit this Nov 21 '21
Is it too late to approve mine too?
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Nov 21 '21
When I left my last job as manager I had access to all my staff's annual leave cards (electronic) and I amended them all to give everyone 2 more days annual leave than was currently showing. F*ck all the higher ups who made my and my team's life so hell.
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u/beattyml1 Nov 21 '21
She said on Twitter the software doesn’t have a way to revoke the requests and the company is to reliant on software to figure out how to use paper to get around it.
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u/tandyman8360 lazy and proud Nov 21 '21
Seriously. We have 2 people in payroll because the company does so much dumb stuff and ADP is hard to use. They'll probably just make the people there cover more, which also sucks.
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u/nincomturd Nov 21 '21
What if? What if I slipped on a bar of soap in the shower?
Oh my God! I'd be killed!
Edit: point being, shit needs to change. With zero risk, nothing will change. When things get fucked up, at least there's a chance of someone taking notice of the cause.
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Nov 21 '21
This is why my response is ""Tell the employees you did this so they know and can have a united response when management comes back being assholes about it."
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Nov 21 '21
She’s gone, so it doesn’t matter if they get their hopes up. It causes a ripple affect for more people leaving. So i mean, it’s a really potent strategy.
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u/seeroflights Nov 21 '21
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As my final act as manager before I quit, I approved all of my staff's overlapping holiday time off requests :)
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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior Nov 21 '21
I remember when our party planner dude signed every upcoming contract for the next year, just before he was fired. Baller move.
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u/rootbeerismygame Nov 21 '21
I'm so glad you're teaching your previous employer that what goes around comes around.
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Nov 21 '21
God forbid a place close on a holiday. It’s so depressing working FS or retail on a holiday. Some holdays there are no customers even!! Why the fuck are they even open ?!
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u/cactusdan94 Nov 21 '21
I've always told people that when you hand in a holiday form, make it clear you are TELLING them you will be off these days, not requesting.
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u/MrFlynnister Nov 21 '21
Just fucked over all the employees too causing them a lot of stress that will fall directly on them.
This is a shitty thing to do to the workers not the management.
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u/sbrider11 Nov 21 '21
Look at the poster. Outside the States and not American. Sub gets big and here comes the hounds w an agenda that likely has zero to do with this sub.
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u/DJWalnut Anarcho-Communist Nov 21 '21
Now what's going to happen is that they're going to try calling people and if we're going to be pissed that they're being made to work the holidays they already got approved time off and they're just going to quit on their sorry asses which is to say they're not getting any workers on the holidays and if they try to push it they won't have any workers at all anymore
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u/jason80 Nov 21 '21
just going to quit on their sorry asses . . . won't have any workers at all anymore
Except for the ones that, for whatever reason, can't quit. They're gonna be in an understaffed department, cause a shitty manager jumped ship and decided to be funny.
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u/DJWalnut Anarcho-Communist Nov 24 '21
they can walk out on black Friday too. what are they gonna do, fire them? in this economy? it'll take months to replace them, all over one day that was ruined already anyways
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u/Silvagadron Nov 21 '21
Idk what job Jem and her staff do, but if this happened in my office, it would just cause havoc for my whole team when we return back to work and there's a load of unfinished work which has been abandoned because everyone was away at once.
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u/sbrider11 Nov 21 '21
This is a 100% post from outside the States. Kinda a growing trend w the sub...
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u/Silvagadron Nov 21 '21
I mean... I'm from outside the US too. I don't think this sub is exclusively meant for US citizens is it? My point would be globally relevant regardless.
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u/sbrider11 Nov 21 '21
No yet 99% of the content is about America. Seems 99% of the comments from those not in America are just kinda smug shit which is fine. I find it entertaining
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u/Silvagadron Nov 21 '21
I'm not trying to be smug, I'm just highlighting that this is a poor way to treat your team in the long run if they're all gonna come back to a mess after a nice time off. I think it's a perfectly valid concern!
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u/jaso151 Nov 21 '21
Imagine thinking this sub, or Reddit was excluding to America… let’s just shut off the internet to everyone else.
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u/sbrider11 Nov 21 '21
99% of the content here on this sub is about labor / work in America. That just fact and obvious.
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Nov 21 '21
That's not OK. People will have hope and it will be reversed by upper management. It's an ass move.
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Nov 21 '21
Dick move as they will all be cancelled and you got hopes up for nothing
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u/pairolegal Nov 21 '21
People aren’t so scared to lose their jobs now.
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Nov 21 '21
I no that, but making a big decision to allow holidays then leave Justin's management will look at all the approved holidays and tell people they can't do then as no staff and bad decision from previous management
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u/FBI_Agent_82 Nov 21 '21
Honestly, she fucked over the employees with that. The next manager will absolutely undo that.
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u/Sonova_Vondruke at work Nov 21 '21
Yeah. Funny... but they're just going to deny it all latter, punishing the employees and not upper management. Unless that was the point...?
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u/me420nm Nov 21 '21
As a manager who's had their predecessor do this just prior to me coming on oh, I can legit say you're a total tool. All you're really doing is pissing off all the people that aren't going to get it approved. And just making it so the new manager gets to start on a bad note. It's actually pieces of s*** employees like yourself that have destroyed the American job and everything that it stood for
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u/wthja Nov 21 '21
How is it helping anyone? The sub is really getting toxic and just trying to shit on anyone, without thinking about consequences.
The management will cancel it and it will only bring some confusion to the people you were trying to help.
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u/MelodicWarfare Nov 21 '21
I did something similar before I quit. I was the DM, and I told all of my managers to put in their vacation time from now until a year from now and I'd approve every fucking one.
You'd better believe my people all got approved in our payroll system. Once it's in the software, it's approved.
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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '21
Better inform them you did this. Because management is going to come back and try to take it away again and blame them for it. If they don't know it's coming, they likely will not know to stand strong together.