Think i just got fired!!!!!!!!

[Flaming Pie]

One of the items in your contract that you sign was prob "Miscellaneous" in it. Which means you have to do whatever the manager asks of you.

 

[Subu]

Should have stayed calm and got a job reference out of it.. Hindsight

 

[tip top toker]

Managers do alot more than the regular bottom rung staff. They supervise, do quality control, schedule the shifts, check stock, order more stock, customer assistance, resolve conflicts, and so on...

Get off your undeserved high horses.

I have to agree with this. People always say they do hard work while the manager sits in the office with his feet up. And i agree with that as well. But it does not in any way take into account what managers are doing while htye have their feet up. I have managed a company, my job kept me in my office away from heavy lifting and all that lot, but it was stressful as hell. On the most basic of levels it takes a hell of a lot of work to keep on top of invoices and margins. Like with an OS update on your phone, just because you can't see the changes, doesn't mean a hell of a lot is being updated under the hood. I'd spend 2-3 hours a day just updating wastage and requisition spreadsheets for the owners, and if they were not in on time, or accurate, i'd be in for a HELL of a bollocking in comparisson to what a stock room clerk might expect if they put something in the wrong place or made a miscount.

One of the items in your contract that you sign was prob "Miscellaneous" in it. Which means you have to do whatever the manager asks of you.

Just remember that a lot of businesses will straight ignore the idea of a contract. Makes it very confusing for the employees.

Funnily enough, i experienced this same kind of thing from the other side of the equation. I was a manager, and found i was being paid less than the cleaners (how in hell can they pay a cleaner £18K a year!?!), so i grabbed my keys and told the powers that be that i was out until they put things in perspective. Luckily i did not go down the route of making threats and ultimatums, i just told them that they needed to look at what was really happening, and it resulted in a happy outcome for everyone.

 

[kelly4]

Pie finally said what everyone else was thinking...except for 'lawsuit guy'.

 

[MFB]

HOLY SHIT YOU ARE MY TWIN! Shitty slave wage worker in a raggedy ass town with a dickhead boss! Its a grocery store, you are not going to be busy 24/7. Sounds like hes just trying to flex nuts like most dickheads. I would do everything in your power to get your unemployement, and I would definately get ahold of the union.

 

[tip top toker]

Pie finally said what everyone else was thinking...except for 'lawsuit guy'.

Exactly. It's not like he was unfairly saked, e.g "you're black, you can't work here any more" but it rather sounded like he had reasons for his statements. remember, you might get on well with all your colleagues, but if the boss asks one of them what do you think of X, more often than not it will be a response of "he is good, BUT.." as such giving the boss fair reason to think about getting rid of you.

Law suits should only come into play should there be truly valid reason, not simply because you disagree with your bosses assesment of your performance. I just got out of a job, and i was replaced and told not to come back, before i'd even given my legal notice because they "figured" i'd be leaving at some point in the near . That is a case for a lawsuit. Getting in a row with your boss about the quality of your work and what you should and should not be doing, well, that is not a lawsuit, that's simply a disagreement, you suck it up, you give your notice, and you learn from it.

Arguing with your boss will rarely ever turn out in your favour. I have learnt that the hard way over the years. You live and learn. you do not retaliate and give him an exucse to find any of a thousand ways to legally dismiss you, you talk to them about what can be changed to make things work better.

And my 2 cents on unions... FUCK UNIONS! Why on earth would you opt for a system that will give you short term benefits and long term inflation?

 

[mysunnyboy]

sorry

 

[mysunnyboy]

Managers do alot more than the regular bottom rung staff. They supervise, do quality control, schedule the shifts, check stock, order more stock, customer assistance, resolve conflicts, and so on...

Get off your undeserved high horses.

hey how many times do i have to ask you people, please leave the horse out of it

 

[slowbus]

so far my opinion on unions and union workers is in the toilet

 

[kinetic]

All the grocery store managers I know ( I'm in the buisness) make at least $125,000

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

if the guy is a true dick and a half

get a few bags of weed ........get some coke and baby powder.........and if u can lay hands on some e and acid (about 200 bucks worth) wear rubber gloves and bag it up make it all ready to for sale and cut it so look like alot of stuff

now take all this and put it in a area that guy controls ..........his car/his house/his shed


and drop a dime
fake stuff will get u just as much time as real stuff and the higher the amount the more time
assholes goes to jail or spends most of what he has on defence and is complete back to square one start over

this is my revenge for assholes that earn it

the other one is more fun get them shitty drunk .....................drive them to middle of bum fuck no where 1 state over ....strip them nakied and leave them on a back country road and go home

This is childish douchbaggery at its epicenter.



Really ? . . . you believe this to be good advice ?

 

[MFB]

Groceries will always sell, mufukas gotta eat. Its a good business to get into if you ask me. Sad they still pay their workers shit wages.

Wish we could help you with your problem man. I am a wage slave also I know what your going through. There are other jobs out there, you just have to keep looking and keep trying.

 

[ClaytonBigsby]

soooo i think i just got fired from my shitty job. First i work in a grocery store with the job title maintenance which entails nothing to do with maintenance but rather stocking shelves unloading trucks and pretty much every single department managers job so they can do god knows what while i bust my ass....

now that would be fine cause hey i live in a small hick town right now with no work and have kept this miserable job for 2 years...did i mention with 3 raises i now make a whopping 7.40 an hour lolololololol.

fast forward to an hour ago, the store owner who comes in everyday and gets in the way, well this douche pulls me aside in front of 2 people and starts in on me about how he was in thanksgiving day and in his opinion i was doing alot of walking around and doing nothing, oh but the departmentr i was working looked great he said???? then he has the nerver to also tell me one of the managers says i do an unsatisfactory job in working her back stock wtf???? 1st my fucking job is maintenance not fucking grocery second i told him not to play with me that he is well aware what goes on in here and that i do more than my share for this piece of shit minimum wage job, and proceeded to tell him that i would now be clocking out and leaving and if he had a problem with it to write me up or call the union hall(yes we are union)
Told him he had no grounds to fire me and that if he did and tried to fight my unemployment he would lose...which he then told me he wouldn't play those games with me blah blah blah and if i walk away ......
just told him make your mind up what you wanna do cause im not standing here and listening to his shit owner or not.


so you think the douche bag can possibly let his ego go and not fire me.... I don't think he will be able to see me everyday without it being a problem.
i called the union hall and they said fuck him that my job title is maintenance and that they had zero action if he fired me that i could either get my job back or just take unemployment.

think unemployment sounds good especially when the minimum is close to my pay anyways....

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I think you fired yourself.

 

[cannabineer]

This is childish douchbaggery at its epicenter.



Really ? . . . you believe this to be good advice ?

My response ... just ugh.

 

[Applepie/vanilla icecream]

Once your already on unemployment ( so your not an employee at this point ) ..... Have friend that you can trust, go in and make an accidental spill of some sort on the floor, possibly where you know there is a camera. You walk in 10 minuets later with shopping cart, have a few groceries and take a dive....make it look real as shit. Take down like a fucking pro......... don't just walk in and slip cause they may say "well why could you not of seen the slippery floor, are you a blind fuck " ..... thats why you use a shopping cart which blocks out lower vision as you come up on the spot..... Fuck his guy.... Let him kiss your ass all the way to his bank account. SORRY, but I personally HATE managers and owners that dog on people. I promise you, it will make you feel a lot better.

 

[tip top toker]

so many people with a lack of morals.

 

[guy incognito]

...and cognitive faculties.

 

[kelly4]

I once blackmailed my employer. The first time I deserved overtime, it wasn't on my check. When I called him on it, he lied to me and made up some bullshit about how he didn't have to pay overtime. I told him what the Feds and IRS were going to do to him if I made 1 call. He had been lying to dozens of Polish immigrants for at least a decade about wage laws, and tried it with me...he should have just paid me my overtime. LOL!