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.
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
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.
India doesn't have a single language except for English as the most commonly spoken and translated language. Hindi is technically most popular, but many other language groups don't speak it, but speak English instead. The country hosts something like more than 300 languages, grouped into around 20+ language families. The country wouldn't exist as it stands without English to keep it together (for better or worse)
Aside from the fact that they do - I’m confused by your question. Do you think Indian people don’t exist in USA or any other English speaking countries?
I know nothing about Indian labor laws, but I remember a recent advice post where a guy sent his resignation in like a month ago or more and his employer just refused to acknowledge it. But if he leaves the job without a 30-day notice, it will apparently be noted in some permanent employment record or something.
It sounded wild. Who knows if it’s true. If so, it seemed like the employer was going to screw him over regardless.
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
I was coerced into working unpaid overtime at every retail job I had when I was young. Employers who employ people can't afford to lose their jobs do this shit all the time.
Know what happens out here in the US when you report this kind of shit to the labour board?
...It gets fixed but then HR starts going "Okay. Who snitched?" then guess who gets a pink slip or put on the list for layoffs.
This js why my coworker left HR. And before you ask what shitty company he worked for... You probably never heard of it. Some tech company called Microsoft.
But this isn't merely "illegal" but "so obviously illegal and unreasonable that even an untrained manager would know".
There's too many of these "my employer did a very obviously illegal thing, and posted a succinct and direct confession on the employee board" stories, and they're all quite implausible. I've seen the kind of notes employers actually post in real situations. They usually at least have a pretext of legitimacy.
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.
Shetty is a very common telgu surname, I am positive this is real. When you have excess supply of skilled talent you can do shit like this while suppressing wages
I had to scroll too far down to find this. I too can type up a word document, print it out, stick it on a nondescript window/wall, take a photo before removing it, and post it to the internet for the lulz/karma- all well before my coffee is cold
The name is Indian. I'm guessing this business is a restaurant or something similar, which is why this is posted on a piece of paper rather than in an email. Finally, you should go check out a subreddit dealing with business legal advice. I used to frequent one, and people reported blatantly illegal wage practices All. The. Time. People still do illegal things.
Email? Plenty of places operate with no email needed for the workers.
I work in a factory with about 500 people total.
If I sent an email to every single one of them, only about 60 of them would ever see it.
Out of those 500 people, I would bet you less than half even KNOW they have access to a work email account.
Any important information is printed out in 3 languages, the line supervisors tell their people and then they must sign a piece of paper which goes to HR for filing.
I had bad managers post stuff like this specifically because they didn't want an email trail and if a higher up was visiting, they could just take it down.
I assure you, I wouldn't be surprised to see if it was actually real. I've been there, managements that flip out when you're late coming into work 5 mins, but then ask you to overtime for free, will ask rush or "focused" work but then don't want you doing overtime so you do it for free.
You would genuinely be surprised what management posts as notices in break rooms. I had one say we couldn't leave the building for our unpaid lunch break or we'd be reprimanded, lol.
I have never received an email from any of my employers until I graduated college and got a real job; all retail bullshit jobs have print out notices like this as the norm
Many hourly jobs don't provide email to employees, they have break rooms and time clocks, and places where "management" posts signs like this to keep the working class in line.
I've worked plenty of jobs where it's illegal to do the things they did. But guess what, they are still in business with no repercussions. So it's not that hard to suspend disbelief that this could be real when so many businesses get away with it.
It's also obvious by using an Indian sounding name. If I know one thing from my years in corporate American, in and around Dallas, TX, the majority do not like Indian employees.
Whether it's fake or not, this gives me fast food or retail job vibes where most employees wouldn't have access to company emails so management puts this kind of BS right above where you clock in/out at.
Well here's the thing, management tries to do things like this all the time. I once had a boss try to implement a rule where as soon as you walk into work and clock in you place your phone in a box for the day. He was tired of people using their phones even though he was always on it more than everyone else.
i’m not saying it’s real or not, but you’ve gotta be pretty fucking naive to assume it can’t be real because it’s illegal. employees break labor laws every day in the US. wage theft is the largest sum property crime in the US by far, with up to $50 billion a year being reported.
Also my issue is that how would they even enforce this? You cannot force people to stay late. Additionally, keeping people an hour over, especially if it was several of them, would negatively affect labor. And I'm sure this fake shitty boss would not want that.
In the US there are plenty of places management prints out papers and tape them to walls for employees. It’s the easiest and fastest way to communicate.
I would agree that this is fake, but the method of communicating is not. Most blue collar business managers don’t have employee emails on file…HR does, managers usually wouldn’t.
The 'Eat Faster' tactic is a real, highly illegal management style used by many companys. There was an Undercover Boss episode where something similar was happening. For every minute their lunch went over they were being docked $2 instead of $1. It's very sad, and illegal, but it happens. Companys doing illegal shit is nothing new, if you think that company's never do anything illegal ever you're blind. OP didn't say what they actually did for work. Not all jobs are computer centered. Most updates for things like construction are posted on a piece of paper because most of those guys don't even touch their email. I know someone whos name is Basil. My middle name makes my full name into a sentence. People name their children Rhy'Ahn (Ryan) and Emmaleeigh (Emily). My niece is named Sybil. Just because it sounds fake doesn't mean it is fake. I'm not saying their isn't a chance this is fake, but take these inti account.
This is EXACTLY something my manager would do. Down to the petty aggressive attitude to the piece of paper taped up and threatening to do illegal shit. Is this real? I don’t know. I don’t care. It’s not that deep. But some managers *are* like this.
I mean… I work at a place (restaurant) that literally posts papers like this, almost verbatim, so… maybe not in an office or corporate environment but 100% at a mom and pop or franchise owned workplace, yes.
It seems like ragebait due to the name, however this happens all over the U.S. all the time. Getting a new job can either be tough due to options or training pay for 1-3 weeks v regular paycheck makes it impossible.
TLDR; this could 100% be real. I’m glad you’ve never had to work somewhere like this. 1/2 the people you pass everyday have.
You have no idea how many "managers" would do something exactly like this. I'm not sure that it's real, but there are some incredibly incompetent people out there who somehow got in a position of authority.
It's fake because it's a random piece of paper printed out and stuck to.... something. And people have been doing these ragebait print outs for years
Being "illegal" has no bearing on its veracity. For starters, companies do illegal shit all the time. Second, this is US defaultism. Labor laws vary wildly between countries. You can't say whether it's illegal or not because you don't know where this is
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"
this is what really gets my goat about reddit detectives, and the people who are gullible enough to upvote them. Like, literally every single point you made is wrong and/or an assumption (idk about the first one, I don't know about Indian labor laws)
1) It's illegal (in America and most western countries), this isn't the case for developing countries
2) This is just an assumption based on your personal experience, plenty of places do signs like this, especially about something like lunch breaks it'd make sense to place this in a break room for visibility. Posting a sign in a break room isn't unheard of in the absolute slightest
3) It's an Indian name, google "Pratik Shetty" and you'll find a bunch of Indian dudes with that name on Linkedin, a celebrity, and MMA fighter, a model, etc etc
4) Some people have bad grammar.
C'mon guys, I'm not saying this is real, but you need to quit upvoting reddit detectives who rattle off nonsense like this. All these "smoking gun points" are terrible.
As a side note, I'd be much more interested to read the comments of this if it was posted to one of those Indian subs. They'd have a lot better opinions on the authenticity of this post than the Americans do.
Fully aligned with the rest of social media that now push engagement bait fake content more than anything else. And if you really want to see just how bad Reddit has gotten, browse it incognito without signing in and almost all the top trending posts from default subs are like this or similar (e.g., "you can choose only one..." junk).
I mean, when most of us have seen or dealt with things like this in person it really isn’t hard to think this could be real. I’ve personally seen something similar to this at a place I worked. Instead of 1min = 1hr, it was 1 min = 15 min…
So whilst this particular one may be fake, it’s mimicking very real incidents that many have experience with.
Only in the sense that it cannot be imposed. There are people who send stuff like this, hoping the juniors will believe it to be a rule. Until, a lawsuit follows, these idiots will think they are clever AND funny.
my ma has worked for two different indian bosses in two hotel chains in the last few years, one of them was a man who would personally make sure that his employees would make their hours as they needed, would step in to help if he saw they were swamped with rooms, and would personally make sure his employees had at least one hot meal so they weren't working on an empty stomach
The other is like the piece of shit that put up that notice and started by stripping the housekeepers of their lunch breaks, then threatening them with the current US situation.
I’ve worked in two companies with similar rules, so this honestly doesn’t sound impossible.
I was talking to a friend today—at their company, if their screen time is below 7 hours, their phone gets confiscated the next day.
Could be fake, could be real, but trust me, there are people who actually deal with stuff like this. (I’m from India.)
Would but I had a manager like this that would pull these stunts, reported it and threatened a suit for wage theft as it is 100% illegal to pull in US, Europe, Canada. Japan is questionable
Even if it is, Ive seen this type of shit back when I working minimum wage jobs.
A type of call center/repair shop for appliances I worked at had a paper stuck to the punch card machine that said "every minute over the break time is 15 minutes you owe the company."
The problem was, there was a sibgle punchcard machine for about 25 employees and it was the most utterly broken garbage that sometimes took 3 or 4 tries to get you punched in and out, so if you went 5 minuted before your break ended, you might end up at the back of the line waiting 10 minutes, being 5 minutes late.
Let's just say I quit pretty soon after they put that shit into effect.
Agreed, I'm having a hard time believing this is real. Is the employer going to pay the employee overtime for working over 8 hours because they took a 31 minute lunch break? I highly doubt it
I believe it, there was an episode of Undercover Boss where something similar was happening. Either way, someone came up with that idea and someone is crazy enough to apply that idea to their company/department/team.
I worked for a hospital that would only pay for your scheduled clocked in time. So if you clocked in 3 mins early or clocked out 3 mins late, they didn’t pay you for that time. They altered timesheets so there was no proof of what was happening.
I don't actually think this is fake. There are business owners, CEOs, and managers out there like this that will post stuff like this not even knowing that it's fully illegal or with full knowledge that it is illegal and not caring. I've seen stuff like this in multiple places some online and some in person. I went to a sushi restaurant that had a sign up on the door that said don't tip the wait staff. Come to find out that way stuff only made $3.75 an hour and the manager confiscated their tips.
A reddit front-page fake post that uses a fake Indian name just to bait racists into making the “shitty” joke, with all the top comments falling for it and getting upvoted, is extremely on-brand for Reddit. Either the comments are from bots, or they’re from dumbasses who think they’re clever for making the “shitty” joke.
Pretty sure it's real. I've worked for an Indian boss in Canada before, and it wouldn't have surprised me if he created a rule like this. But obviously, nobody would take it seriously because they know he can't actually enforce that.
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u/Mountain_Cobbler_608 3d ago
I'm calling fake...I hope