Categoría:policy

Café boss forces customers to pay 75 cents for tap water, then nixes the policy when an employee makes him explain it to customers: ‘My boss handles all questions about the water policy.’

Publicado el por Categorías:angry, bad bosses, barista, cafe, cheap, customer service, money, policy, water

Charging money for tap water is ridiculous.  Nickel-and-diming customers has been a business strategy with debatable effectiveness, depending on the business. If you go to a grocery store in NYC, there’s a good chance that you will be asked to pay for your grocery bags. It’s a way for the company to make a couple …
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Employee notices she takes less PTO after her company adopted an unlimited PTO policy: ‘In 2022, I took 13 PTO days. Last year with unlimited, I took 8.’

Publicado el por Categorías:company, coworkers, employee, europe, human resources, policy, PTO, time off, unlimited, vacation

That’s how they get you. Unlimited PTO sounds like a great deal. Who wouldn’t want to have to think twice about requesting a day off work after having a little too much fun on a Wednesday night? You wouldn’t have to forego taking days off to «save up» time for a big vacation. You could …
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‘The rules don’t apply to me’: Hotel Staff Remove a Guest Who Showed Up at the ‘No Kids’ Pool With Her Child, Ignoring Hotel Policy

Publicado el por Categorías:boss, children, employees, hotel guest, hotel policy, hotel pool, hotel rules, hotel staff, kids, mother, parenting, policy, pool, swimming, toys, work, workplace-stories-reddit

Some people are under the impression that the rules don’t apply to them, especially at hotels. One person described their experience at a ‘no kids’ hotel pool area they were at. Another guest had showed up with her kid in tow, and the kid was playing with Star Wars toys which he happily spread around, …
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‘Sorry, can’t come in today’: Employee Calls in Absent for 11 Years After Getting Disciplined for Arriving 22 Seconds Late

Publicado el por Categorías:absent, attendance, attendance report, clock in, discipline, employee, facility, malicious-compliance-reddit, micromanager, policy, rural road, train, train tracks, workplace-stories-reddit, write up

Why are micromanagers allowed to manage people, systems, or anything at all? Who put them in charge? They need to be fired, asap. One employee was fed up with their strict office administrator who wrote them up for being 22 seconds late without notice. Suddenly I feel better about my own managers… 22 seconds? Is …
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Tutor Quits After Boss Refuses to Give Water to Thirsty Kids

Publicado el por Categorías:antiwork, children, Horrible Bosses, i quit, kids, policy, Reddit, reddit thread, teaching, thirsty, tutor, work, wtf

If your entire business consists of taking care of other peoples’ kids, maybe providing those kids with their most basic human needs should be worked somewhere into the budget. Just a thought.  When u/frodothebaker sent an email to their employer inquiring about why on earth their tutoring company had a bizarre «no water for kids» …
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