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Beanš
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Beanš • upvoted 29 items 2 years ago
Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
To be fair, this was more about being an oblivious moron than intentionally disrespectful. Either way, it was wholly offensive. About 6 weeks ago, we were facing a major audit coming up, so all staff have to ensure we're performing to standard processes. My boss (of our three-person team) sends us a link to the location of every process in the business and says "look it over," which is the equivalent of "Final exam next week, I recommend reading the textbook." He then decides to pick the two most important processes to highlight, and he will train us in depth on those. The first one he picks is the one that we were trained on just 3 weeks ago, 95% of which doesn't apply to our department whatsoever. The second one he trains us on is the process that I personally wrote and trained our group on, less than two years ago. Not only was it insulting to have my own words read back to me, but doubly so because he was reading right off the document as if he's seeing it for the first time, so it was obvious that he wasn't paying any attention when I was training him. As of today, I became the second person from that team to leave. :)Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
Yes. When I worked for a college accounting department as a work study student. I worked my butt off, but the manager we had in charge found work elsewhere and a woman from our grants department was promoted to manager. She had this attitude that work-study employees were beneath her and that we needed to have our hands held like children. Her solution to someone making a mistake on paperwork was to call a meeting of all the work-study student and point out the mistake, specifically naming the offender. After the first two times of her doing this, I finally requested a private meeting in which I told her that it was both humiliating and degrading for her to call a meeting because one person made an error and openly call out that person in front of everyone. She said that she did it to make sure everyone is on the same page and that the mistake wouldn't be repeated. Problem was, I'd worked for that section of the accounting department longer than she had and was friends with the Vice President since I also acted as fill in for the secretaries when they took their lunches. I told him what she was doing...he called a halt to it. She finally got her regular employees to approach us individually with mistakes so they could be corrected...which is how it was originally done before she was put in charge.Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
Principles and assistant principles have a habit of instructing to you do what you are already doing. I asked the AP what the procedure to follow was, she responded with "you're job is to do what I tell you to do." No s**t, I think I just asked you what you want me to do. Had a principle tell me to be professional and she decided how equipment was to be used. This in a meeting I requested to say we needed her/them to decide how the allocate the equipment. Most principles are useless ladder climbers. Don't ask permission and never beg forgiveness. Just get it done, wait for them to move on, and pay your union dues.Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
A misogynistic creep of a supervisor who had been previously fired twice and still somehow got his job back threatened to fire me for going "AWOL" for being off work with a doctors note due to being severely ill with morning sickness. Using words he doesn't understand for official documentation clearly shows his level of education. He also told me that I wasn't allowed to show any emotion at work or I would be fired. (I work alone) I had been upset about being attacked by a dog on the job not long after I found out I was pregnant and a different supervisor (new and trying to ingratiate herself to the previously mentioned supervisor) had lied in the report about the incident. It is nearly impossible to be fired from this company (theft and harassment are really the only ways with a heavy burden of proof) so I really had no fear of losing my job over his ill educated tyraid. I didn't want to stress the baby and I was bed ridden for the majority of my pregnancy so I took the rest of my pregnancy off on the doctors advice and had a healthy baby. I won a position at another location before my return to work with an absolutely wonderful supervisor. I later found out that misogynistic supervisor got fired again and didn't get his job back this time. Win-win-win!
Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
My supervisor insisted on starting everyday with a sexual assault. HR refused to do anything for ages b/c "he was important". Finally, 5 of us were able to report him and got his a$$ fired. He was your typical charming sociopath protected by a broken system. I'm pleased to say that his firing led to some massive internal cultural changes. Culture change is hard, but worth it.
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Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
Yes. When I worked for a college accounting department as a work study student. I worked my butt off, but the manager we had in charge found work elsewhere and a woman from our grants department was promoted to manager. She had this attitude that work-study employees were beneath her and that we needed to have our hands held like children. Her solution to someone making a mistake on paperwork was to call a meeting of all the work-study student and point out the mistake, specifically naming the offender. After the first two times of her doing this, I finally requested a private meeting in which I told her that it was both humiliating and degrading for her to call a meeting because one person made an error and openly call out that person in front of everyone. She said that she did it to make sure everyone is on the same page and that the mistake wouldn't be repeated. Problem was, I'd worked for that section of the accounting department longer than she had and was friends with the Vice President since I also acted as fill in for the secretaries when they took their lunches. I told him what she was doing...he called a halt to it. She finally got her regular employees to approach us individually with mistakes so they could be corrected...which is how it was originally done before she was put in charge.Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
Principles and assistant principles have a habit of instructing to you do what you are already doing. I asked the AP what the procedure to follow was, she responded with "you're job is to do what I tell you to do." No s**t, I think I just asked you what you want me to do. Had a principle tell me to be professional and she decided how equipment was to be used. This in a meeting I requested to say we needed her/them to decide how the allocate the equipment. Most principles are useless ladder climbers. Don't ask permission and never beg forgiveness. Just get it done, wait for them to move on, and pay your union dues.Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
To be fair, this was more about being an oblivious moron than intentionally disrespectful. Either way, it was wholly offensive. About 6 weeks ago, we were facing a major audit coming up, so all staff have to ensure we're performing to standard processes. My boss (of our three-person team) sends us a link to the location of every process in the business and says "look it over," which is the equivalent of "Final exam next week, I recommend reading the textbook." He then decides to pick the two most important processes to highlight, and he will train us in depth on those. The first one he picks is the one that we were trained on just 3 weeks ago, 95% of which doesn't apply to our department whatsoever. The second one he trains us on is the process that I personally wrote and trained our group on, less than two years ago. Not only was it insulting to have my own words read back to me, but doubly so because he was reading right off the document as if he's seeing it for the first time, so it was obvious that he wasn't paying any attention when I was training him. As of today, I became the second person from that team to leave. :)Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
A misogynistic creep of a supervisor who had been previously fired twice and still somehow got his job back threatened to fire me for going "AWOL" for being off work with a doctors note due to being severely ill with morning sickness. Using words he doesn't understand for official documentation clearly shows his level of education. He also told me that I wasn't allowed to show any emotion at work or I would be fired. (I work alone) I had been upset about being attacked by a dog on the job not long after I found out I was pregnant and a different supervisor (new and trying to ingratiate herself to the previously mentioned supervisor) had lied in the report about the incident. It is nearly impossible to be fired from this company (theft and harassment are really the only ways with a heavy burden of proof) so I really had no fear of losing my job over his ill educated tyraid. I didn't want to stress the baby and I was bed ridden for the majority of my pregnancy so I took the rest of my pregnancy off on the doctors advice and had a healthy baby. I won a position at another location before my return to work with an absolutely wonderful supervisor. I later found out that misogynistic supervisor got fired again and didn't get his job back this time. Win-win-win!Hey Pandas, When Have You Been Disrespected By A Supervisor Or Manager At A Job?
My supervisor insisted on starting everyday with a sexual assault. HR refused to do anything for ages b/c "he was important". Finally, 5 of us were able to report him and got his a$$ fired. He was your typical charming sociopath protected by a broken system. I'm pleased to say that his firing led to some massive internal cultural changes. Culture change is hard, but worth it.This Panda hasn't followed anyone yet
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