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Someone Asks “Blanket NDAs Are Now Illegal, What Can You Finally Tell Us About Your Former Employer?” And 30 People Deliver
What would you say if you could be completely honest about your job? Would you share all the dirty secrets and things your boss or management would never want the public to know? People in this online thread had the opportunity to spill all the hot tea about their jobs and they didn't hold back.
Internet user asked: "Blanket NDAs Are Now Illegal, What Can You Finally Tell Us About Your Former Employer?" and it led to some very interesting answers which show why NDAs are even a thing. From not talking about your paychecks to horribly treated employees, you can find anything among the answers. Perhaps you will even find some stories very relatable.
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#1
They ignored shut down mandates during covid and then lied about it underoath and the judge overseeing the case still sided with them despite providing evidence they had done so on both counts.
There is no justice in this country. There's just corporations and everyone else.
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#2
I unlocked the file cabinet, took my NDA along with the whole stack of NDA’s and shredded them. I never told anyone. I just didn’t want anyone else to be hurt by the horrible company I was working for if they did end up saying something. I was able to save a patients life by speaking out. The company was going to sue me but never did. The lady I saved sends me a $50 gift card for a local grocery store every Christmas. She sends it anonymous but I know its her because she’s the only one I know in that city where it’s sent from.
#3
DynCorp Intl, a huge govt contractor, hired hundreds of foreign nationals to work in Afghanistan. They refused to pay them for months, eventually abandoning a lot of them. Telling those that quit that they are responsible for their own way home.
#4
My separation agreement ends today so. Sorry about it guys. 🤷🏼♀️ I'm 36; 35 at the time.
Abercrombie and Fitch home office.
They knew their boardwalk was dangerous (I didn't). People had been slipping and falling on it for years. Then Me happened. I slipped and fell, which caused an L1 burst fracture. I ended up needing urgent surgery to fuse T11-L3 in order to stabilize the fracture. I was hospitalized for 8 days and out of work for 5mo. They are self insured basically meaning that they administrate their own worker's comp stuff, not the state. They f****d it all up so comically badly. They made my life a living hell on top of it being an actual living hell because of the horrific pain I was in due to injury and surgery. I had to quit my side job as a server, expenses skyrocketed, and I was isolated and financially devastated as a result of the accident. And I cannot stress enough how incompetent the claim administrator assigned to my case was - if she could screw it up, she did.
Their people talked a lot of s**t to my attorney about how badly they wanted me to come back. I had another job offer during that time that I passed up on as a result. Then on January 20, they informed me that "my position was eliminated due to a reduced budget" after record breaking profits. And so they threw me out like trash.
I'm left with PTSD, daily pain, and a rigid spine full of titanium that never needed to happen. And they f*****g fired me, which we are all absolutely certain was not retaliation in any way shape or form.
So. That's my honest review. Blessedly I start my new job on 4/10 so I won't have too much of a gap in my pay schedule to make me homeless. F**k everything that entire f*****g company lets slip out their lips.
BravePanda 1 year ago
Best wishes for healing, a decent lawyer, and all success at your new job.
#5
Two different places I worked created roles for minorities with a plan to not retain them so they can hire more minorities to satisfy quotas. If you were any good, they would promote you to a real job and hire another minority. Someone in HR told me “the reports only show how many the company hires, not how many they keep.”
#6
They tried to get me to sign one when I retired but I just laughed at them and walked out. When you retire you are not under any circumstances required to sign an NDA!!!
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
No reason to sign an NDA when you quit or retire unless they make it worth your while.
#7
Barclays would refund those charges for exceeding your overdraft if it was clear you had a good income or decent savings. But they’d enforce those charges on the poor single mothers who were struggling to live.
#8
They layed off 160 people so they could afford to give the COO a 30% raise.
#9
“yOu CaN’t DiScUsS yOuR wAgEs.”
B***h, we all knew you were hiring people at a higher wage than people who had been there for years and had more qualifications.
#10
Not an employer but a client had my company sign a NDA to never reveal his personal life. One of the worlds most well know financial guys worth 10’s of billions.
Anyhow tear down and rebuild he and his wife’s personal home. Demoing her bathroom and huge black very real looking dildo falls from the top of her vanity cabinet. The timing was such that she walked in right at that moment. Everyone looked at it and then her.
She says “well x doesn’t f**k me anymore” she picks it up and kisses it. Walks out.
#11
Our sales department deliberately used deceptively vague language when selling extremely expensive travel packages to disabled passengers.
They routinely left caregivers stranded with no accommodation other than “the floor” or sleeping in the same bed as their patients. They also routinely failed to provide accessible bathrooms for disabled passengers. They also lost/damaged wheelchairs and mobility aids. There was little to no sympathy for these passengers and their caregivers when they rightly complained.
When I tried to raise the issue with higher ups I was labelled a trouble maker. I left the company back in 2019 but I know nothing has changed in regards to sales. The price for the cheapest trip offered was over 2k cnd per person for a two day trip. The average booking was 8k for a 5 day holiday. They charge much more now.
Can you imagine paying 8 thousand dollars and not being able to shower, or your mobility aid being lost. Then when you complain you are told you were never promised anything only “we will do our best” or “that shouldn’t be a problem!”
F*****g disgraceful.
#12
I worked for a great Fintech start-up that got acquired by another company that was pretending to be a Fintech, but was actually a private equity company that would buy and gut competition. The owner of the new company is a real life billionaire villain. He bought an island and cut off beach access to the locals. A real piece of s**t.
My team wasn't touched in the acquisition because we were deploying the product to the customers, so we were the ones that brought in the revenue. At one point, the new owner was a huge twat to my awesome boss. At that point we started a mass exodus. 90% of the team left in the next 2 months. This killed a $10M project and set the f****r's acquisition goals back by years.
#13
They intentionally had a creative meeting, scouted and booked people with down’s syndrome with the sole purpose of ‘1 up’ing’ a rival brand who booked people in wheelchairs for a catalogue shoot.
The more messed up part - most of the discussion was cantered around what mental disability was physically obvious on camera, to appeal to mothers, while laughing about ‘how will [rival brand] top that!’
Sadly, this goes for all xyz rights or movements out there
Fiona Parky 1 year ago
I work for a charity that deals with “invisible” disability every single day. I wish I thought this was a joke but it’s absolutely not; “You don’t look blind/ deaf” , “How dare you use a disabled space when you don’t use a wheelchair”. “You’re not disabled, you’re walking”. The list could go on and on. Trouble is those people who are stupid are too stupid to realise it.
#14
I worked a few years as a recruiting manager for a large staffing company. They do not respect employment law. They hire minorities with the anticipation to let them go a few weeks later after they get credit for hiring X amount of minorities.
They are incredibly sexist. Most companies would explicitly say they only wanted men even though we had women better qualified.
Most times, they will lie about a job being temp to hire in 90 days because they have to fill the positions or risk losing the customer.
I was criticized for treating my employees as humans and not numbers. I stayed in contact with them, would find them other placements, and if I knew a layoff was coming, I would let them know so they weren't blindsided.
Anyone who came in looking for work but was "over qualified" I wasn't allowed to place. I was also criticized for placing an amazing woman who was trans. My boss lost her mind.
I believe that right is right and wrong is wrong. We need to be good to others and give people chances!
#15
The CEO's daughter accused me of rape because I wouldn't alter any official documents, she wanted to hide her excess spending of company money from her father. When I was proven innocent, her father offered a hefty sum on top of my severance package so that I wouldn't press charges. I had to sign the NDA in order to get both, but it officially expired four days ago.
Edit: My lawyer advises against saying the name as I could be sued for slander.
#16
A window and siding company in the Midwest, not Renewal By Anderson.
They will inspect the work that needs done, come up with a number for the work. Add a grotesque amount to that number. Then, offer you 'discounts' to get closer to the actual amount to make it seem like you're getting a great deal. If they tell you they'll give you the "manager discount as a one time courtesy" to 'sweeten the deal' it's b******t.
For example, say they quote you at 35k for the job, but can drop it down to 15k after discounts and specials, 10k if they do the manager discount, 10k is the actual true amount for the work and the discounts are b******t fluff.
They also brag about being rated A+ with the BBB. That's only because they exploit a loophole with keeping that score with the BBB. You can be a s**t hole of a business and be A+ as long as you acknowledge customer complaints and have written proof you did whether you actually resolved it or not. Just have to acknowledge the complaints.
They claim a lifetime warranty on all of their windows and siding, however, will only honor the warranty if they can gain from it. An example being, a customer I worked with had his window broken during a storm. He called them to come out and said they could replace the window... However, they would be charged to repair the frame itself as it was damaged. I inspected the frame, it was pristine. The window got hit with a branch and only broke a single pane. They're a scummy f*****g business.
#17
I discretely took my NDA (I was in charge of them) when I left. My boss is a f*****g b***h and not even her kids can stand her. That is all.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Even better than this story. We got a new principal at our school who announced that anyone could get their current personnel file and take out any past documents they didn't want there.
#18
My last job regularly made us work forced overtime, usually 10-12 hr days, 5 days a week. On holidays we were told we couldnt have lunch or break time because it was "too busy" which is very illegal. I worked 15 hours straight on christmas with no breaks. They also made us do extensive setup before our shift which usually took about 30 mins and was not paid (also illegal). Oh and female employees were regularly harassed and abused by customers. We were not allowed to hang up on these customers for any reason at all even when they were threatening to kill us or getting sexual (both of these happened to me multiple times) we were just expected to deal with it. Oh and when we all got laid off on our day off they immediately shut down access to our pay stubs (it was all digital, no paper copies) so we couldnt collect unemployment.
They were sued for all the illegal stuff they did. I got a cool $50. Whoop-dee-doo.
I dont recommend anyone work for this company. It rhymes with Shnicrosoft
#19
They bribed customers with gift cards to give the company 5 star reviews. I now don’t trust any reviews.
#20
I worked at this company where I did marketing. This was a really small business with only about 10 employees. Most of the work I did was on a laptop that would constantly shut down. It got to the point where I would have a panic attack because I would lose an hour of work. It would shut off every 15 minutes, and instead of just buying me a new laptop, they would try to have geek squad look at it but they would never solve anything.
Long story short, I ended up getting laid off because I guess they didn’t like me complaining about how I couldn’t get my work done. They had a previous person who got laid off and was writing horrible reviews. So due to this, they threatened me and said if I say anything about the company, they would come after me.
I know now that was completely illegal as you are able to legally express your opinion about the company and you can’t get in trouble if you say “I believe” or “I felt.” I’m convinced the manager and his wife were probably doing illegal stuff honestly. They were also one of those companies that acted like everyone was a “big family” which I didn’t realize until later in my career was a red flag.
RagDollLali 1 year ago
"We're really like a family here" seems to have become one of the biggest red flags out there and I'm really happy about that. I've worked for a few places that felt exactly like one big dysfunctional family, now when I hear that phrase my right eye automatically starts twitching lol.
#22
They were reusing butter from customers plates and giving it to the next person.
Edit: I did report them and got fired. Because of wait times during COVID, the statute of limitations passed and they got away with it.
#23
Like any narcissist, at least one of his kids hate him. He moved to exploit workers while you had to pull teeth to get a raise. He exploited Covid loans and ended up with a brand new Tesla.
He always told me not to have an us Vs them mentality, while constantly reminding me that I’m upper management and not to be friendly with my staff. I came from the bottom up in that company and my staff meant the world to me. I was firm when needed, but they all knew I had their backs.
After 10 years, I got fired 2 weeks after I came home from vacation bc a suck up kissed his a*s. He had told me upon coming back that I’d never have the GM position e when the current retired. Once all that happened, I stopped doing extra. Kiss a*s guy worked 75 hours the week after I got fired and then quit.
They spent 6 months having to redo EVERYTHING bc I was the one who developed our digital systems. Almost all of my old staff quit within that time.
The company I work for now I absolutely LOVE. They really appreciate me and my experience. Never going to manage a place like that again bc I don’t want that pressure. 5 years was long enough. (We also have a lot of their clients so it’s funny that it happened.)
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
I bet they spend ages calling him trying to get their stuff back too
#24
I worked for a school district that changed grades to boost graduation rates.
Phoenix(or nix)they/them 1 year ago
My school district did that a few years ago, and ngl it is great and it makes a fallen grade easier to get back up and remain in a passing grade
#25
A publication I worked for completely embezzled from the parent company. The editor in chief hired their best friend as creative director. Creative director contracts their husband as a “men’s fashion editor” when the publication had no men’s fashion section and was not a fashion-related pub. He was paid thousands monthly on retainer and almost never came into the office, and if he did he never did any work. On top of that he was paid usage fees for travel images he took and were printed. That family took a one week trip for a story, brought their child, and submitted a $40,000.00 expense report after for it. Oh, then there were the future invoices for her husband’s usage fees for his photos, while they were being paid to be there because it was for a story.
Other editors in chief from other publications were given a $25,000.00 clothing budget every year and a daily black car driver to take them to the office. When I worked for another title in the building that EIC submitted a very high expense report which included his groceries. The company would even provide interest free down payments to EICs for homes but they stopped doing that.
Meanwhile they ran multiple rounds of layoffs a year, consolidated staffs so they worked across multiple titles, and paid peanuts to regular employees. I was laid off from that company twice within 2 years and they didn’t vest my 401K match because both times I missed the cutoff by months.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
As they said in The Devil Wears Prada “a million girls will kill for this job”. The editor gets all the perks and the staff is treated like garbage. They hire trust fund babies because they don’t need to pay them.
#26
The old timers at the pharmaceutical plant used to go swimming in the tanks they used to make medicine in the summer when it was hot out.
Yep, there was old man balls in some of those pills.
This was a name brand pharma company too. One you’d expect to have good quality.
It doesn’t happen anymore obviously.
#27
One of my old bosses reprimanded an employee after the employee called HR to file a complaint about him. This is because the HR employee happened to be a friend of the boss in question, and the HR employee blabbed about it to the boss. The boss did not get fired but he did get reassigned not long after. Not sure what happened to the HR employee.
#28
The filtered water dispenser in the cafeteria produced floaty chunks of goodness for too long a time. I had to drink bottled water.
#29
I worked for the political consultant best known in DC circles for having gotten a dead fish in the mail from Rahm Emanuel.
The consultant was a super weird boss. Full of shady business practices, including expensing all of his personal s**t like family vacations to the business.
But this is the story that tends to blow minds:
My former employer had me print out his emails so he could handwrite his responses, which I would type up and send back.
ETA: no, I wasn't his assistant lol. He was too cheap to hire one. So he'd pull people off time sensitive client projects to do this c**p, which turned everything into chaos. One of the many reasons turnover was high and the business failed.
Alecto76 1 year ago (edited)
Rahm Emanuel was my neighbor while he was mayor of Chicago. Aloof, snotty...and very small. Fun Fact - his (unofficial) code name at 911/police dept was tiny dancer. EDIT: I just want to clarify that this nickname primarily sprung from his ballet background. I feel bad having referenced his height in this post. That was crappy of me. I apologize.
#30
He's actually a really nice guy. Former marine, took about 6 months off when he adopted a young boy to get him acclimated into the family
What do you think ?
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
F**k this. I'm naming names, and I'm reprinting here where it's relevant. Fairfax County Public Schools, in the DC suburbs, requires teachers to give students 50% for all undone classwork. And they are intimidated into not reporting when students beat the c**p out of teachers, because the rampant crime would make their equity scores look bad. Even if other teachers and admins deliberately stoke racial hatred, the admins answer: "Well, this would be admitting you don't know how to control your classroom."
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liam newton-harding 1 year ago
What is the point of this article? Everything said here could have been said under extant NDA's as no one is naming names.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I've said it before I'll say it again. There are many Tim Horton locations who abuse the Temporary Foreign Workers program in Canada, refusing to hire any locals, tossing applications and claiming they cannot find employees. Not all locations, but you'll know which ones do. The ones with diversified staff are not safe, either. I was working at one location, 5 hours, 5 days a week, refusing to give me full time day work. I was asked how old my daughter was so they could put me on evenings and nights, and when I told the mgr she was 8 she said "I guess you can't leave her alone at home then?" One week I saw I had no shifts. (All too common there.) I checked again the following weekend to see if I had shifts the next week I wasn't even listed on the roster. For weeks the mgr kept threatening me she would replace me with someone she knew in Thailand. The next week after I got a slip in the mail stating I quit. I didn't say I quit. Later one of my old co-workers told me she actually brought
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
in a foreigner for my old position. When I applied for Employment Insurance I spilled everything about what happened and they seemed very interested about the outcome. I got accepted and went back to school, because f**k that s**t. Oh, and Tim Hortons boasts all these benefits and perks for employees, like scholarships and health insurance. They want their employees working full time for a certain consecutive amount of weeks or months before they allow anyone to access those. But doesn't matter how busy or slow they are they never give full time hours, unless you've worked there for many years and are a senior. Or the manager. The work schedules are made up every week, and everyone's shifts usually end up changing where everyone will work just below what would be considered full time. Tim Hortons also doesn't bake their donuts from scratch. They come in pre-made then the workers just glaze, dip and fill them. The kitchen and food areas are caked in dust and filth. I used to have to clean everything on my own at one location. Normally very few employees are assigned to actually clean anything. They're supposed to check the temperature of the hot foods, like soups and chili every 30 minutes. Never gets done. Some managers do absolutely nothing other than sit in their offices and watching the CCTV cameras. Not all Tims have the same policies. One location allowed tips to be kept individually. Another considered keeping tips theft, any extra money was given to the person on tills the most often for the week. I don't know if anything changed in the past 13 years but the discounts for employees is 80% on food, cold and specialty drinks, and free hot regular drinks. When I was keeping tips at the 1st site I never had to take a lunch to work. Tims does toss all their left overs at the end of the day except cookies. Cookies are never thrown out. At least they weren't when I worked there. They were the least popular and some were on the racks for weeks. They're pretty good now, so things might have changed since or at other locations. A 24/7, full store will have the freshest products over a kiosk. Kiosks have to get food sent over from the closest full store. You're not getting fresh. It's often a few hours old.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
F**k this. I'm naming names, and I'm reprinting here where it's relevant. Fairfax County Public Schools, in the DC suburbs, requires teachers to give students 50% for all undone classwork. And they are intimidated into not reporting when students beat the c**p out of teachers, because the rampant crime would make their equity scores look bad. Even if other teachers and admins deliberately stoke racial hatred, the admins answer: "Well, this would be admitting you don't know how to control your classroom."
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 1 year ago
What is the point of this article? Everything said here could have been said under extant NDA's as no one is naming names.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I've said it before I'll say it again. There are many Tim Horton locations who abuse the Temporary Foreign Workers program in Canada, refusing to hire any locals, tossing applications and claiming they cannot find employees. Not all locations, but you'll know which ones do. The ones with diversified staff are not safe, either. I was working at one location, 5 hours, 5 days a week, refusing to give me full time day work. I was asked how old my daughter was so they could put me on evenings and nights, and when I told the mgr she was 8 she said "I guess you can't leave her alone at home then?" One week I saw I had no shifts. (All too common there.) I checked again the following weekend to see if I had shifts the next week I wasn't even listed on the roster. For weeks the mgr kept threatening me she would replace me with someone she knew in Thailand. The next week after I got a slip in the mail stating I quit. I didn't say I quit. Later one of my old co-workers told me she actually brought
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
in a foreigner for my old position. When I applied for Employment Insurance I spilled everything about what happened and they seemed very interested about the outcome. I got accepted and went back to school, because f**k that s**t. Oh, and Tim Hortons boasts all these benefits and perks for employees, like scholarships and health insurance. They want their employees working full time for a certain consecutive amount of weeks or months before they allow anyone to access those. But doesn't matter how busy or slow they are they never give full time hours, unless you've worked there for many years and are a senior. Or the manager. The work schedules are made up every week, and everyone's shifts usually end up changing where everyone will work just below what would be considered full time. Tim Hortons also doesn't bake their donuts from scratch. They come in pre-made then the workers just glaze, dip and fill them. The kitchen and food areas are caked in dust and filth. I used to have to clean everything on my own at one location. Normally very few employees are assigned to actually clean anything. They're supposed to check the temperature of the hot foods, like soups and chili every 30 minutes. Never gets done. Some managers do absolutely nothing other than sit in their offices and watching the CCTV cameras. Not all Tims have the same policies. One location allowed tips to be kept individually. Another considered keeping tips theft, any extra money was given to the person on tills the most often for the week. I don't know if anything changed in the past 13 years but the discounts for employees is 80% on food, cold and specialty drinks, and free hot regular drinks. When I was keeping tips at the 1st site I never had to take a lunch to work. Tims does toss all their left overs at the end of the day except cookies. Cookies are never thrown out. At least they weren't when I worked there. They were the least popular and some were on the racks for weeks. They're pretty good now, so things might have changed since or at other locations. A 24/7, full store will have the freshest products over a kiosk. Kiosks have to get food sent over from the closest full store. You're not getting fresh. It's often a few hours old.
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