The people I work for are stupid

[BitVyper]

So last week, I fell and hurt my shoulder while doing forced overtime late in the evening. No broken bones, but I couldn't really lift anything. The next day I let my supervisor know, and she gets bent right out of shape, starts all but accusing me of lying, and demands to know why I didn't tell a supervisor right when it happened. Apparently the fact that the last supervisor had gone home fully two hours before I fell was not enough justification.

Nevertheless, I go to the doctor with some paperwork, and the doctor says I'm on light duty for a week. She had offered to give me a week off to recuperate, but I figured nah, I don't want to put anyone out too badly.

The next day, I go to work, and apparently the fact that I had pointedly told my supervisors that I was unable to work the previous day due to my injury was not clear enough - they are shocked that I didn't return to do work after seeing the doctor. We get that resolved though, but then we run into another problem - apparently their own paperwork plus the doctor's note isn't thorough enough, and they need me to go back to the doctor with a new batch of paperwork to find out exactly what I am capable of doing. So back to the doctor I go, and we do the whole song and dance again.

I get back to work, and I find out I have a disciplinary meeting scheduled because they're trying to blame me as much as humanly possible (apparently, I should have gone to a friggin emergency room instead of waiting a night). They say it's just a mandatory thing, but I can't help but notice they didn't do any extra meetings the time I got an injury where I could have sued them for negligence. So we do the meeting, and the union pretty much proves it was just a waste of time.

Now, a week passes, and I'm off modified duty. Suddenly, I get more paperwork in the mail this time. So I go and wait two hours at the clinic just to hand fifteen minutes of paperwork to a doctor, and now we're here.

Lets take stock, shall we? For every page of paperwork the doctor does, the corporation is billed 55 dollars. When all was said and done, there were eight full pages of paperwork penned by doctors. Every time I go to a doctor, the corp owes me three hours of wage. That's nine now. Disciplinary meeting takes the time of two supervisors plus me plus a union steward, then there's the resulting fireworks display from that, and when all is said and done, this injury has cost a lot of friggin money. And for what? To waste my time? To waste the doctor's time? For the sheer euphoric joy of lighting money on fire?

What the hell?

Oh, and by all means share your own stories of retarded bureaucratic bullshit.

[Funka Genocide]

One time I joined the Navy. They made me eat my own soul continuously for 6 years.

But yeah, your story sounds pretty harsh too bro.

(As a side note I've never worked for a union but it seems to be the general consensus of everyone that doesn't work for a union that everyone that does work for a union is a lazy ne'er do well and that's probably why you're jumping through so many hoops.)

[Krylo]

I got fired for not turning in a fellow employee for making threats.

The threats he made in my presence were that he was going to light up dynamite at his home in his garage and commit suicide, not against the company.

He had been making similar threats (some even violent) since he started working there when the store opened three years prior. I informed a manager about six to seven months into my employment that someone should talk to him.

To top it all off, there is nothing in the employee handbook which says that I am required to turn in a fellow employee for making threats, violent or otherwise.

On the plus side, I am thoroughly enjoying my unemployment benefits to this day, after winning a trial to get them.

Note: Employers are taxed extra for every employee receiving unemployment benefits.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

You should try working for my sisters bosses. It's like what Bitvyper's said, but every single day. For 3 years. About anything and everything they can become arseholes over, they will do. Complete fucking bastards.

I guess you expect that though. They're laywers.

EDIT; as an example; my sister just bought a house and requested some time off to try and get stuff worked on so it can be made livable. Her boss accuses her of, "Fucking him around and skiving off" (his actual words) and then demands a letter from our mum to prove that she's telling the truth.

My sister is 25 and had to get a letter from a parent for permission to have time off work. Yeah...

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Funka Genocide

(As a side note I've never worked for a union but it seems to be the general consensus of everyone that doesn't work for a union that everyone that does work for a union is a lazy ne'er do well and that's probably why you're jumping through so many hoops.)

Only if your union is from the 1930s and thus run by the mob.

Once when working for a non-profit organisation we made too much money and Internal Revenue was coming down on us for it so we had a month where we were forced to be profligate with money. We started giving stuff away to our clients, buying ourselves new chairs and computers- good times.

[BitVyper]

but every single day.

Yeah, pretty much the same here. It's nice to have a specific incident to use for an example though.

[Azisien]

Well let's see, I guess racism is stupid so this story works.

My boss is a full-on overt racist. I was getting used to analyzing the more subtle 21st century aspects of racism but this guy is open about it, stopping short only of saying things right to customers faces.

I'm an assistant manager at the retail store so I tend to get a lot of resumes. My boss pulled me aside and said, "Make sure to throw out any resumes straight away from, you know, questionable applicants."

I reply with a joke, something along the lines of people that haven't showered or shaved for the past 3 months.

His reply, slight movement toward me and lower voice volume, "No, black or brown people. And don't worry, I'm allowed to be racist because I'm a minority too." (He's Chinese)

That was a specific instance, but there's been plenty of cases of his straightening up and telling me to watch out when any kind of darker-skinned visible minority shows up decked out in 'thug' gear.

So much for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms!

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by Azisien

"No, black or brown people. And don't worry, I'm allowed to be racist because I'm a minority too." (He's Chinese)

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I'm sorry I don't have anything thread-relevant to share (haven't had a job before), but attitudes like that are a personal beserk button of mine. I'll get out of everyone's hair now

[Funka Genocide]

You might think that I have no morals when it comes to work since I joined the navy, but honestly I don't have much trouble with the concept of killing other people for money, I mean it's not like most of them didn't have it coming.

But that shit is just unacceptable. I would quit or make a huge fuss with all kinds of paperwork, hidden recorders, eyewitness news etc. etc.

(Being a "brown" person myself I am highly offended, which is unusual for me.)

[bluestarultor]

Not only that, but he's absolutely wrong. There are laws against racial discrimination and it doesn't matter if the boss is black, white, Chinese, or Martian. Racial discrimination is not tolerated.