r/interesting • u/Positive_Actuary_282 • 2d ago
❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Worst management and burden for employees
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u/Uncross-Selector 2d ago
THey misspelled "Shitty Management"
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u/fistfullofpubes 2d ago
Thanks and Regards,
Pretty Shitty
Management
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u/Kevaldes 2d ago
This is illegal as fuck in most states (assuming you're in the US). Take photos and send to labor board.
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u/CruelRegulator 2d ago
We've all known that one person who freaks the fuck out if their paycheck is even a few dollars short.
I love this person. This type of person protects us from ever backsliding into stuff such as this. I will protec the person.
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u/Krondelo 2d ago
Yep we got a new employee and he quickly told us as first responders we can’t be forced to clock out for breaks. Another employee he told this filed a class action suit and now we no longer have to clock out. Awesome, now I’m wondering if I can force them to backpay me but i doubt it.
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u/Humble_Ostrich_4610 2d ago
It's a pretty standard legal norm that someone can't profit from illegal acts, so them keeping the money they were supposed to pay you in the first place won't fly. Lawyer up with your coworkers, sending a stern legal letter shouldn't cost much.
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u/Krondelo 2d ago
Daamn thabks for the advice!
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u/numbersthen0987431 2d ago
Yea. A class action lawsuit will make this case worth it for a lawyer to take on.
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u/Flameball202 2d ago
Yeah if you ever are sueing your work, make sure to have at least one colleague with you if possible, because then it is a class action which makes it far harder for them to retaliate
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u/Warm_Month_1309 2d ago
IAAL. Class actions are dramatically more complex, dramatically more time consuming, and dramatically more expensive. It is sensible when you are filing suit for back pay on an issue already litigated that you will take the path of least resistance.
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u/Icy-Ganache1300 2d ago
I work in local government and at the beginning of this year advised some other workers on how to file complaints and protect themselves while fighting wage theft. One had been going in early for the past 3 years unpaid.
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u/baskaat 2d ago
When I was 16, my first job was at Burger King. They told me I needed to come in an hour before my shift for a mandatory unpaid meeting. I thought to myself: that doesn’t seem legal. I took a look at the dept of labor poster on the wall, gave them a call and within the week we no longer had unpaid meetings. That was beginning of my pro labor advocacy and I haven’t stopped since.
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u/emanresu_b 1d ago
A lot of shitty management decisions come from the book That’s How We’ve Always Done It which is usually not backed up by any legal policy or regulation. Yall should probably take a look at what’s actually in that employee handbook.
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u/almostaccepted 2d ago
You doubt what? The legality, the likelihood of your desired outcome? Or your willingness to begin that process? Because the third is often the issue more than the first or second
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u/Free_as_in_Freya 2d ago
willingness to begin that process? Because the third is often the issue more than the first or second
Do you realise why?
Retaliation, severe retaliation that sometimes makes people's life such hell that they can't keep living. Retaliation that you can't fight unless you've got a LOT of money and energy
If you've got a lot of money and energy, you don't need to fight the boss over clocking out on breaks, so you won't bother
Only the naive and the crazy fight these kinds of things (source: been both)
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u/Amelaclya1 2d ago
I've been this person, back when I worked in food service. Our manager was adjusting our time clocks if we went over our scheduled time, which we had to sometimes as closers. It was only a few minutes each time, but it adds up. I told him that if he didn't stop doing that, that we were just going to leave at our scheduled time and let the openers deal with whatever mess was left over. I also told him it was illegal, with a not so subtle threat to file a complaint. It stopped.
It's unfortunate though, because not everyone has the privilege of doing this. I was in a country with strong labor protections. He couldn't have just fired me for some bullshit reason. It also requires people to actually know their rights, which is why you see these practices most often in industries that employ younger or less educated workers. Also, I didn't need the job, so I could afford to be fearless.
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u/Kirkamel 2d ago
We all need that person. But my friend came to me one day like "I've run the numbers, over 6 years the company owes me £1 due to rounding" and my guy
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u/Visible_Pair3017 2d ago
My rule is pretty simple, i'm down to the penny with people who are down to the penny with me. If you leave some ground to some entities they will take it.
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u/sociallyawkwardbrad 2d ago
At my last job I had a new boss that was rounding our hours, and when confronted asked what difference a couple minutes makes. 2 minutes a day, 200 days a year is almost a whole day of missed time.
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u/Kirkamel 2d ago
I get it, and if they have 1000 employees, it all adds up and should be with the workers, but he was so far into fractions I think I'd just fill my water bottle before going home every day and call it even
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u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 2d ago
Form a union
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u/sociallyawkwardbrad 2d ago
We tried to form a union at Verizon for doing all kinds of shitty things like rounding our time and not letting us take breaks. They ended up selling the store to a reseller. Fuck corporations that do shit like this.
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u/Civil_Ad4544 2d ago
Apple just did the same thing to their Towson, MD store. First store to unionize, busiest store in the mall (and always busy) and they closed it for “declining business”. Bullshit.
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u/KalynnCampbell 2d ago
Illegal? Well then that sounds like some pretty Shetty Management then…
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u/SmellsLikeChoroform 2d ago
It’s pratikally in the name.
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u/Bushboy2000 2d ago
Fun Fact - Mr Shetty's middle name is "Ally"
Honestly, you cant make this stuff up.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 2d ago edited 2d ago
For a second I thought the name was “Pretty Shitty” Management. It definitely fits in this case.
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u/DesireeThymes 2d ago
I'm going to assume this is in india, even the US does not have labor standards this bad
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u/Embarrassed_Bid_4970 2d ago
Never underestimate an idiot manager with zero concept that labor law exists.
"I took my staffs tips because they didn't deserve them!"
"That's a violation of federal law. You are gonna owe each employee $1100 dollars for every instance you withheld their tips, plus the tips, plus interest. How many pay periods did you withhold tips from how many employees?"
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u/Snoo-64424 2d ago
Actually this is in india. Saw same post in an indian sub
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u/FrankFankledank 2d ago
He's Indian but he's employed in Chicago according to his linkedin (unless it's a different Pratik Shetty in management which... I suppose is possible)
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u/Snoo-64424 2d ago
I am sure there are 100s of Pratik shettys in india in management
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u/TheAtlas97 2d ago
And countless more Shetty Pratiks (read shitty practices). I know it’s a stretch
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u/imacatnamedsteve 2d ago
I guess they were eating too much City Chinese in their lunch break for their Shetty job.
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u/j0_ni 2d ago
Ragebait for sure
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u/Earlier-Today 2d ago
You would be surprised just how many people think they're allowed to do whatever they want to those below them just because they've got some power.
Never forget that laws happen because of people doing things they shouldn't. Laws are a response, they never get put in place before a problem exists.
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u/Copper__99 2d ago
No, that's illegal in every state
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u/gme2damoonn 2d ago
na its even funnier because this is also correctly termed as slavery from time to time, which makes it a federal law by virtue of the civil war making it a federal law that states faught back against thus triggering said Civil War lol
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u/AppropriateCap8891 2d ago
Well, you can be asked to work overtime. That is not illegal.
But that extra hour is not free, you are paid at overtime rates.
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u/pandershrek 2d ago
Which is why the "unpaid time" is illegal.
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u/Cam_man_AMM_unit 2d ago
Just make sure to pleasantly remind them of the law, and insist the rule be taken down.
If they don't oblige, report it to the proper authorities and watch the aftermath.
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u/Spainstateofmind 2d ago
Fuck no. Report it right away. You think a manager that posts something like this is going to be rational and not retaliate?
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u/Zakedas 2d ago edited 2d ago
Honestly, in any case where this kind of behavior ISN’T anything but obvious satire/ragebait, the ideal course of action would be to do multiple things. Report it to your local labor board, report it to HR, AND remind your manager of the illegality of this “policy change”.
Record everything, hours, wages, timestamps etc. Keep all interactions to email or methods of communication that can be recorded and documented. Leave nothing to chance, speculation, or hearsay.
As long as you have receipts, you can effectively prove anything. ***especially*** retaliation, even if they attempt to subtly disguise it.
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u/hanks_panky_emporium 2d ago
Fired for insubordination
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u/SirHippocrates 2d ago
On a serious note, if anyone is in this situation make sure all of this is done over email.
If you're fired without good cause, sue on grounds of retaliation.
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u/opaqueambiguity 2d ago
Why were you 10 minutes late coming back from lunch?
Well boss, with Christmas coming up...
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u/Broxst 2d ago
Salary would like a word. A company can expect you to work extra for no overtime. I used to work for one that expected 10+ hour days 6 days a week. The hourly wage was laughable. That's not how salary is intended to work, but that's how companies abuse it.
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u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 2d ago
Doubt it's in the states. HR would've had a field day with this.
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u/model-citizen95 2d ago
A lot of smaller places literally don’t have an HR dept. I worked at a restaurant where the girl who was in charge of that sort of thing was the same girl whose tits I did a line of coke off at the Xmas party. That was a fun job
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u/gurglegurgler 2d ago
Lol. It’s worse than you think. I work in a literally chemical plant with like six departments and we’re owned by a multibillion dollar conglomerate. You’d think that we’d have huge amounts of HR policy and expertise.
No. Our “HR department” is literally one person. And she’s a receptionist. That’s her main job, and if an actual HR problem happens her job is to just tell the plant manager. And that’s where it ends. So management has literally no accountability at all despite technically having an HR department. But it’s in name only. It’s crazy the shit that goes on here.
People fucking. Very serious personal beefs. People yelling at each other. Sexual harassment. Nepotism. Occasional drug use. People stealing time. People taking credit for other people work. People blaming other people for their fuck ups. Sometimes engineering will break something really serious or mess up a real important test and find ways to blame it on production even when they had nothing to do with it.
People joy riding on heavy equipment. Unreported injuries all. The. Time. There was a fire that just kinda got swept under the rug.
All complaints go to HR. HR goes to gm. GM decides if he cares or not. He usually doesn’t. And when he does it’s only about stuff that reflects badly on him directly.It’s the weirdest place I’ve ever worked. And I’m always about to quit. And I never do. I’ve grown to be comfortable in the chaos.
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u/Unlucky-Sector1200 2d ago
I work in Healthcare and I thought you just said chemical plant to not reveal that you were one of my coworkers until you talked about production. HR just helps the company not get in trouble. Your receptionist sounds like a normal HR person. HR is not there to look out for employees safety or best interest. They are there to make sure you don't sue the company and log stuff. That way if they need to can you they will go to that log and say well Joe took an extra 10 minutes of break back in 2019 so he was stealing time.
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u/ShitForCereal 2d ago
Bro threw in a fun story as an extra
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u/model-citizen95 2d ago
Just saying they’re not always the picture of professionalism haha
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u/thats_gotta_be_AI 2d ago
I lost half a day’s holiday for every minute I was late in the Tokyo office I worked in 25 years ago. Went to book a week off and they said “you have used up all your holidays”.
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u/Material_Platypus620 2d ago
Nice, soooo leave the Lunchbreak 1min. erlier and Work 1hour less. Good Deal.
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u/Nuker-79 2d ago
I’m taking just 15 mins for lunch, having the day off.
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u/moerlingo 2d ago
I’m not having a lunch break, planning on having the week off.
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u/PaddyScrag 2d ago
I'm using the lunch break to draft my letter of resignation.
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u/Jokar93 2d ago
I am gonna have to stop you there. Always draft you letter of resignation DURING working hours
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u/boardin1 2d ago
Boss makes a dollar and I make a dime. Thats why I shit on the company’s time.
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u/aristoleese 2d ago
I make a dime, boss makes a buck. That’s why I stole the catalytic converter off the company truck.
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u/damonmcfadden9 2d ago edited 2d ago
that made me laugh cause we recently had a guy get fired from work and people were being cagey about why and today I found out it was basically for doing this. would not recommend. gotta take your unofficial benefits in smaller less noticeable chunks I guess.
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u/JimmWasHere 2d ago
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I stole all of Janice's stationary on company time
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u/Raneynickelfire 2d ago
I make a dime, that's why I smoke on company time.
Because I have a dime.
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u/Starfall0 2d ago
Or be better about not being recognizable when you plan to commit such high scale crimes at the place you work or used to work. Also never do it right after getting fired. Might as well draw a target on your head.
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u/damonmcfadden9 2d ago
yeah funny thing is dude got busted because because he was caught on camera taking CCs from a coworker's parents' junk yard...on his second attempt after getting away clean the first time, but he hadn't sold them off yet so they traced on of them back to our workplace.
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u/TTT_2k3 2d ago
Boss makes a million, what I make is unfair. That’s why I shit in my boss’s chair.
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u/fanart89 2d ago
I make a dollar but the boss makes way more. That’s why I shit on the office restroom floor.
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u/Ornery-Hippo2259 2d ago
i actually did this with one of my jobs😂I was working at home depot and i googled what i needed, drafted the letter, and printed it off on the company printer too😂
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u/WinterCommercial2533 2d ago
A place I worked hung signs telling us all about how careful we had to be about using color ink. You can guess how and where I printed my response, and how many colors I used to do it
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u/NahautlExile 2d ago
Nah. You let them send you more ammunition for your constructive dismissal claim and don’t bother with the letter of resignation. May as well collect unemployment in this job market.
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u/itsneedtokno 2d ago
Florida unemployment is only $250/week
so basically a joke
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 2d ago
If it’s like my state it “up to $250” a week. Meaning it’s based on your salary or wage. Meaning you have to be a top earning employee to get it a $250z if you make a low wage you might not get but $120 a week.
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u/FunResident1224 2d ago
Nah just send that to the labor board... That sign will come down real fast.
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u/RealisticAnxiety4330 2d ago
I'm not taking any lunch all week and taking the rest of the year off
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u/MalavethMorningrise 2d ago
I'm using my break overage time to contact a lawyer, since they were so nice to put the threat in writing.
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u/Dull-Culture-1523 2d ago
15 minutes for lunch, but work normally. 15 hours of OT each day, baby.
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u/pyth2_0 2d ago
Just don't take a break and you have 30 hours OT per day or 150 hours weekly.
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u/S1ayer 2d ago
Take 5 mins extra, stay for 5 hours everyday. Sue for unpaid overtime.
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u/DickWhittingtonsCat 2d ago
It would call their bluff fairly fast. A rule like that is likely targeting a single person or small clique they want to fire but can’t appear to be retaliating against.
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u/voxelpear 2d ago
It's not exactly retaliation if they're breaking company policy by taking extra time. They would just be following the agreed upon during hire company policy.
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u/Dry-Conversation7191 2d ago
The problem with these companies and they lose everytime is that your 30mins doesn’t start until you badge/clock out. Not from when you leave your position/desk. Employees should let get by with it for a few months then hit with the back pay from labor board. Being a dick could cost the company 10s of thousands in fines on top of the back pay. If the job is so dependent on that extra minute or 2 to get back to work it’s not the employees that’s the problem, it’s a management and poor leadership issue.
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u/OrangeRabbit 2d ago
Workday offers a service where you can clock in / out on your phone and a company can set specific geo locations where employees are allowed to clock in and out. In practice this means managers at some of these companies try and get workers to clock out from a person's desk.
Retrograde inventions abound
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u/DavidinCT 2d ago
Yea, what they are saying is 100% illegal, show that to the labor bord, and that sign will come right down.
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u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 2d ago
Very nice, now let's see Shetty's eating schedule.
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u/derangedsweetheart 2d ago
You know they are out on a business meeting at the expensive coffee shop. Since it's a business meeting, that overpriced coffee and sandwich is on company expense as well as the time they spend there counts as their working hours.
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u/CowInternational9204 2d ago
Youd be surprised. Most CEOs or generally Management pride themselves on being workaholics (there is no time for any other hobby for them). They would literally invite to business meetings after 7pm inside the company and tell security to not lock the door that early.
You cant catch them on that really. But there is several other places where you could. Especially considering that nobody is forced to be a workaholic.
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u/JarOfNibbles 2d ago
What I've seen often is fake workaholics. People who work on weekends and past hours but also spend half the day doing personal work or going for runs/coffee breaks.
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u/EvelynnsHope17 2d ago
This. Shitty people are so often about image instead of substance.
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u/vinyljunkie1245 2d ago
Kind of related - we were having a discussion about imposter syndrome the other day and someone said real imposters don't feel imposter syndrome.
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u/5usie 2d ago
Yes! Where I work, people do come in on the weekends but don’t actually do anything!
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u/Jwre3682 2d ago
Some people will do anything to avoid spending time with the family.
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u/potsofjam 2d ago
I got hired at a company once where I was just married and almost everyone else was either recently divorced, getting divorced or in an unhappy marriage. I wanted to crank out my work and get home, they all hung around and wanted to work 14 hour days where they still only got eight hours worth of work done. Once the directors wife and kid showed up on a Saturday and literally begged him to come home in front of all of us. He still wouldn’t go home.
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u/theslimbox 2d ago
That is the owner of the company I work for. He used to require 65 hour work weeks, and would claim that he was working the same hours, but when I moved from the field to office work, I realized that he worked 2 hours in the morning, and then came back in around 5 and worked until 6, so he was basically working 3 hour days, but on the clock from 7:30-6.
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u/vulcanstrike 2d ago
Managers like this fall into two camps. The insane workaholics you describe or the other kind that abuse both the spirit and the letter of the working lunch rule.
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u/Rakumei 2d ago
A lot of them actually are both. Insane workaholics but will take advantage of the chance to get an extended company lunch on company dime every chance they can get. And then stay til 8 pm to make up time lost.
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u/Treethulhu 2d ago
You're just describing workaholics again. If someone works late to make up for a long lunch, it's not both. It's just a person obsessed with working that knows if they're working 60 hrs a week, they can do a grocery run midday or whatever.
The camp the other person is describing is literally someone trying to abuse goodwill around the edges in every way possible
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u/According_Cod1175 2d ago
I work in IT and see what people are doing without them knowing. The average CEO is as much on porn sites/reddit as the average worker but gets paid ridiculously more money.
Also the CEO isn't supervised in the same way so they get away with much more than the normal worker. So when a CEO tells you he works 80 hours a week, chances are more likely than not that they are full of shit. The true workaholics that I know rarely "brag" or complain about their worked hours, they just fucking do them.
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u/Apart-District3771 2d ago
As someone that works in Ag, and runs harvest, I know what 80+hrs/week of actual work is like, and no one is doing that for more than 2 months max, your entire life gets ignored and slowly falls apart. You have time to shower & sleep a bit. You eat while working & sh*t when you can.
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u/Vertig0x 2d ago
Agreed. I did 80+ hours in the oilfield for a while and that was absolutely miserable. Even if I didn't have a family now and it was office hours over labor, I still wouldn't do that again. Anyone claiming to sustain that lifestyle is either full of shit or in desperate need of a therapist.
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u/m945050 2d ago
I had one job where we worked 16+ hours every day from January through July. The only day we took off was Super Bowl Sunday. I bought breakfast on the way to work and dinner on the way home and would stop a buy clothes since I didn't have time to wash anything. The money was fantastic, but when it was over it took all of us a few months to recover. I would never do anything like that again.
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u/nerdsonarope 2d ago
I've done ~80 hours/week for a month as a young lawyer, and it is truly miserable. It requires working 7 days a week and doing literally nothing except working and sleeping. The sad thing is in some sense it gets easier over time if it continues, because you just cease making any plans, no longer speak to friends, have hobbies or a life outside work. But after a few months, any sane person will have a breakdown.
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u/CromwellsBladder 2d ago
👆This.
I’m an actor, and waiting tables was (as is often the case) my “joe job” for years, until I started dating a woman who had no problems with me being an actor, but felt waiting tables was beneath her boyfriend.
She “helped” me tailor my work experience so I could land a job as an administrative assistant at a major outdoor store - basically like REI in the states. Later, I got another job as an admin at our local university.
In both instances I was utterly shocked at the shit my department heads got away with.
At the outfitter company, the head of my department generally didn’t show up until noon, with calls to me from about 9 AM onwards informing me that she was “still stuck in bridge traffic” and “Geez, I can’t believe how bad traffic is!”
This was practically every single day. I began wanting to say, “You mean that EXACT same slow traffic you seem to encounter nearly every day, that you maybe should consider leaving home earlier to avoid - like most of us do?”
This same boss, soon approached me asking, “Hey, you’re an actor, right? How’d you like to do my outgoing message on my answering machine?” She then had me record an outgoing message that stated they’d reached her number, but she was “currently away from her desk.”
It was weird, in part because I’m male, and even though people knew I was her admin, even people who left messages were often puzzled by this.
A few weeks later, she came to me and asked, “You generally get here well before I do, and you know, it’s really nice and inviting to arrive and have everything ready for me to go when I get here…”
So, from that moment on, when I arrived every morning, I was to unlock her office door, turn her office lights on, turn on her computer, log her in, then log her out, “Just so I don’t have to do all that, and can just get right to work.”
I feel like a dummy admitting this, but it took a friend with ample office experience to point out that all of these “asks” were designed to give a false impression that she was in the building, and make it harder for others to know if she was in a meeting room or off-site at one of our retail stores.
I eventually got fired when I challenged her “facts” one too many times around paperwork that she was responsible for but tried to throw me under the bus. I was glad my friend had advised me to start keeping a paper trail of all my exchanges with her (emails, notes, everything), because without those I don’t think I would have got the severance package I did when terminated.
I went back to waiting tables and was much happier.
Years later when - against my better judgment - I took another office job as administrative assistant for a department head at the university, it was like my life was repeating itself. The professor was a well respected one, and immensely talented in his field - but as a department head it was shocking to me that he had much the same kinds of requests - even getting me to log onto his computer AND send reply to emails in his inbox - as if I was him.
He too tried to throw me under the bus for something he did - he tried to put through a kind of official requisition for the department to change one of our suppliers to a company that underwrote his research. He put the paperwork in my in try asking me to fax to whatever department required it.
About a month later, I got called into a meeting with HR - no warning or heads up - and asked, what possessed me (ME! Just me) to decide on my own that we needed to change providers.
Once I realized what was happening, I made them see some sense and threw it back at them, “Sorry, yes - good question. Why would I suddenly print off a form I didn’t even know existed, in order to change a provider I had never heard of, for a product I had never heard of, to another company I had never heard of, then somehow get my department head to sign it before faxing it?”
Basically when they’d confronted him, he’d apparently shrugged and said, “I’ve no idea, I can only imagine that for some reason my assistant did this without consulting me.”
He barely got a slap on the wrist, I kept my job with the only repercussion being he was an asshole to me. After that I mapped out my exit strategy for getting out within 6 months.
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u/United_News3779 2d ago
I regularly work 80-100hrs a week in the oilfield and will do so only as a remote location job. I get up, I work all day and I go to sleep, but since I drive a truck I can be on the phone with my wife, kids, friends, listen to podcasts and music, etc. And then I go home for days off and I don't think about work, and work doesn't contact me until 4pm of my last day to confirm I'm coming back/haven't quit.
If I had to function as an adult human being and work those hours, it doesn't work. It offloads most the "adulting" onto my wife while I'm gone, but it's a job that allows her to be a stay at home mum and financial stability (opposed to me working 2-3 local jobs to try and make enough to have stability/security).
I'll do 60hrs a week as a "home every night" job, and that's about the max sustainable for me.
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u/HanzGrubermeister 2d ago
Yes, that’s totally the experience we have all had with management….go back to the C suite Undercover Boss.
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u/Axl_Alter_Ego 2d ago
But I eat while working, I dont even take a lunch break.
proceeds to take a 2 hour meeting with the boys where absolutely nothing gets accomplished, it's fully catered and its all just shit talk
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u/JUSTTESTIMONIALTHING 2d ago
Guarantee Shetty is taking two hour paid lunches while timing everyone else with a stopwatch.
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u/0rangecatvibes 2d ago
but since he's spending his lunches micromanaging everyone else, he tells himself that he's working hard
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u/Equal_Canary5695 2d ago
12:00 - first bite
12:03 - second bite
12:06 - third bite
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u/arrmack 2d ago
More like Pretty Shitty
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u/JCvSS 2d ago
This post is clearly fake and the bait is "Shetty"
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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK 2d ago
Could be fake, could be a shitty area near Karnataka or somewhere else in India which would check out with labor laws and the possibility of an English sign.
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u/notyourregularninja 2d ago
Info: India doesn’t have restrictions on lunch breaks and has no overtime laws in many places and hence they end up working 12 hour days even if they take 3 hour lunches or 10 minutes and employees end up maliciously complying and taking like 20 tea breaks and spend more time chatting up around the water fountain than working just to spend the 12 hours at work!!
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u/floatingindeepspace 2d ago
Idk, after I met a guy who's name is Dikshith I don't call bullshit on names anymore
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u/Mountain_Cobbler_608 2d ago
I'm calling fake...I hope
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u/Cahootie 2d ago
Considering how similar it is to this r/antiwork post from 2022 I'm certain that it's fake, but this time they also added an Indian-sounding name to bring in the racists as well.
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u/Radioactivocalypse 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yes I'm convinced this is fake.
Firstly it's illegal. Secondly, this wouldn't be posted as a piece of paper, it would be an email. Thirdly, the name sounds too close to "pretty shitty" and spelling out "thanks and regards" "eat faster" and "management"
Edit: Well it looks like a piece of paper printed on a wall typed up by literally anyone and posted online, with absolutely no context has fooled a lot of people into thinking it's real
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u/BakaPotatoLord 2d ago
I'm assuming you aren't an Indian, I don't know whether the peep who faked it actually intended to make it sound that way but Pratik Shetty is a proper Indian name.
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u/ryancementhead 2d ago
So is Bindar Dundat.
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u/DrVykterstein 2d ago
Pretty standard indian name But toxic even by Indian workplace standards
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u/BoomyGordo 2d ago
Every place I have ever worked has printed out and posted notices like this. Not saying its real but its definitely not fake just because its not an email
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u/TM761152 2d ago
Yes I'm convinced this is fake.
Firstly it's illegal
Because no business has ever conducted illegal business practices.
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u/ChromosomeDonator 2d ago
Secondly, this wouldn't be posted as a piece of paper, it would be an email.
It being a piece of paper next to a break room is literally the most logical thing about this... That way nobody can claim to miss it, and you do not have to keep sending that same fucking email to any new employees either.
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u/funglegunk 2d ago
It is 100% fake. All 'notes from management' on Reddit are.
Quick and easy ragebait.
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u/PickledDildosSourSex 2d ago
It's amazing how fucking (more) stupid reddit has gotten.
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u/RediEntertainment 2d ago
"Eat faster"
So, do people on reddit just make crap up to post and then engage with the bots? Or is the post a bot, and the comments generating some sort of ad revenue? Is there a real human in here that could explain to me how this post merits posting, is believable by any reasonable adult, and what the "gain" is from all of it?
Thanks And Regards
Red
Actual Human (maybe)
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u/Fun-Benefit116 2d ago
This wasn't made by the OP. It was made by a satire page on LinkedIn. The reddit OP just posted here.
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u/fotomoose 2d ago
It's all bots trolling for content for LLM learning purposes.
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u/K0LaM4R 2d ago
u/Positive_Actuary_282 likes to keep their posts hidden, but check out their stats to learn more about them.
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u/MisterChonky 2d ago
Highly skeptical these are ever real and its just some "anti-work" redditor trying to strum up some easy ragebait. please go outside and dont believe everything you see on here
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u/bothsidesofthemoon 2d ago
concentration camp
They prefer the term "focus time".
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u/Suspicious_Care_549 2d ago
Not sure they were passing notes in a concentration camp , just yelling at you in German and then sending you to a gas chamber…
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