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Mar 26, 2025 11:25 PM
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porcinechoirmaster
My boss, the last time I made a significant error: "Learn from this and try not to make the same mistake a second time."
Me, mortified, thinking I was going to be fired: "You got it, boss."
My boss: "Good. Now, how're the other projects going?"
nobodyspecial995
Oh, so you know what is like to work for my company?
Widgetboy
I had this conversation with my last boss so many times.
Ambipolar
Me: So, [employee] had written there was an issue with [a thing]
Site Manager: Alright I will look into when that happened and explain this to the person who made the mistake.
Me: No, uh, I already checked when and who was working..
ThatGareBear
I worked as an editor/ photographer for a handful of magazines. It was also my job to put our content on the Internet AFTER approval from the lead editor. One month the content didn't get uploaded on the net in time. Lead was furious and came and started yelling at me in front of coworkers. He told me to pull up Basecamp (our project tracking software) so he could see where exactly I fucked up. Turns out he never sent approval that month. Blamed me still.
Distractus
This is actually how I got fired 2 weeks ago
Gaiashining
I always admitted my mistakes to my direct reports. In a world where everyone has more responsibilities than time, mistakes are made. Fess up and fix them….drama over.
Mooseman1991
I had a boss who was THE definition of excellent. She treated everyone with a kind motherly nature when it had nothing to do with work (gets you far with a bunch of man children in construction). And when it was about work she was calm, extremely helpful, a barrier between us and the customer, supplier, etc…
If you messed up, she would explain and you didn’t get anxious, you’d get hyped to try and fix it.
If she messed up we always gave her the same grace and all worked together.
HunterArtisanFarmer
Even if you are a front line employee knowing how to pull operational reporting can save your butt. Back when I was a collector we were going to get chewed out for our high delinquency rate…because we were being forced to do customer service for another department. I went in there with numbers…took the abuse for about 3 minutes and then ripped my bosses new assholes. Ended up becoming the guy that higher level execs used to evaluate middle management. My career has been so odd.
KyleAldrete
aggression beats meekness, and since most aggression is from horrible evil people those are the people that get what they want. nothing will change until the meek take over and make it so evil people cease to exist entirely.
rareunicornmeat
My current store manager has a variation on this, anything they HAVE to do, like pull in the stuff placed outside suddenly after me doing for 10+ years we don't have to pull EVERYTHING, just part of the stuff. oh but what if it gets stolen? We'll play it by ear and see if the cost out weights the benefits. While I am grateful to not have to move the plant racks, I'm just not happy that it took someone else doing my job to convince people it was challenging in the first place.
OdinYggd
I still like how when you are upset because things that would make the company run better aren't getting done they try to bully you into being quiet about it.
cousteau
The difference between a boss and a manager.
A manager manages their employees, a boss only bosses them.
DrLOAC
A large percentage of this country believes “Abusive Father” is the pinnacle of leadership styles
angryjeep
Mauritius, right?
NaughtButOne
"My dad was hard on me and I turned out fine!"
Narrator: They did not, in fact, turn out fine.
Chattafaukup
If anybody ever has to assure you that they turned out fine. Then they didn't. It's like when people have to keep insisting you can trust them.
JaceTiger
Oh yeah. I didn't fully wash a physically impaired client's hair (because he said he didn't want it done that day) and my manager ripped me a new one. I just found out she didn't sterilize his urinal and it was "oh it's fine"
Like no bitch, he frequently gets UTIs and those could kill him. An itchy scalp isn't nearly as bad.
Bertfisch
Did u say that?
JaceTiger
I didn't point fingers since I wasn't 100% sure she was the one that was supposed to sterilize the urinals that day, but since this happens a lot I brought it up
porcinechoirmaster
My boss, the last time I made a significant error: "Learn from this and try not to make the same mistake a second time."
Me, mortified, thinking I was going to be fired: "You got it, boss."
My boss: "Good. Now, how're the other projects going?"
porcinechoirmaster
He's genuinely why I keep working there. He self-identifies as a shit umbrella for the people under him, with the stated goal of keeping management from breaking anything we do, has never complained about my PTO, covered my ass when I made mistakes, and taught me a whole bunch about how to work in the corporate world.
He also made friends with HR and had all of us do the same, so that we'd know what was coming down the pipeline.
justfillingthespace
That's how it is for all of the supervisors at the IT department I work in, including the director himself. It's been *wonderful*.
originalcharacterdonotsteal
Bless these bosses. And usually you can straight up ask them how you're doing if you have any doubt of your standing.
SleazyBijou
Hiring?
porcinechoirmaster
Not at the moment, sadly. We do work in the laboratory field with state and federal government contracts and those are VERY uncertain right now, so there's a hiring freeze.
lordfwahfnah
As soon as he makes the same mistake a second time I guess
Worldsmadeofink
LanguageLine Solutions: From now on, you are forbidden to transfer calls for technical issues.
Interpreter: But what do I do if I have technical issues and I can't interpret properly?
LLS: You have to make it work.
Worldsmadeofink
>>>
LLS: We received complain from a client about you.
Interpreter: I couldn't listen well due to the technical issues I was having and I was not allowed to transfer the call.
LLS: Yeah... well... about that... you're fired.
cousteau
So you got to leave a toxic company and shitty boss, AND with some luck you mentioned this info when they were claiming to be firing you "due to performance issues".
PorneliusHubertII
I just had my boss sit me down and scold me for "being lazy" because i spent 7/12 hrs sitting in a storage area waiting for something to work on. Note: my job and everything i am responsible for was done, work area clean and everything. .y job is to keep machines supplied with material, keep my work are organized, and be ready for shit hit the fan calls on the radio. So basically I got scolded for being too good at my job.
CatharticRooster
you are speaking to my soul right now. My workplace will write up any forklift driver they consider being "lazy" when we each have designated jobs, and when the job is done, there is nothing to do. They just like seeing us drive around the plant in circles I guess.
PorneliusHubertII
I hate that they will be quick to call out when you are not actively working, but won't say a goddammit thing positive when you are breaking your back when shit hits the fan.
Chattafaukup
I worked for my own father for about 6 months when he needed help and i was broke. (he owns his own company). It was still the same with my own flesh and blood father. He left a door open on a trailer and got thousands of dollars of equipment stolen. He was livid and when I pointed out that he had left the door open himself he suddenly was much less angry. Later he went back to blaming me and being salty about it. Many people just cant hold their L.
NotThatPrivate
I got fired, once, because my boss kept yelling about how we did our closing work and I finally wrote down what he said. Taped it up next to the register.
Next time he complained about how we did it, I pointed to the sign. He let me go by text an hour later
SarcasticComment
My mother was the same way when she insisted on micromanaging the getting of a headboard up the stairs. yelling at everyone to not damage the walls, only to trip over it and put a baseball sized hole in the wall. That was met with a "whoopsy, no big deal. your dad can fix that." Had any of us done that she'd be screaming bloody murder
CedricDur
Same thing. Both on mistakes and ideas. My father had an idea? It was a great idea. Someone else had an idea? Crappy idea. Shit happened because of one of us? The roof would fall. He fucks up to the tune of 20 thousand euros? Well, shit happens.
ArgentXero
Shoulda told him "well you had me, so you literally cant stop taking L's" Then skateboard your way out the room with your backwards hat and soda with bendy straw.
CedricDur
i literally had a time I will never forget. I was doing some work and knowing he was picky I went to get my dad, showed him what I was doing, asked if he thought it was what he wanted done. He says yes. I do it. Later he's angry because he didn't want it done like that. I point out I took the trouble of calling him first. He counters with an exasperated, 'Didn't you see I wasn't paying attention when you were explaining it??'.
Chattafaukup
sometimes when our parents do something that hurts us we never forget it. istays in our heart.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
*handle their L.
Chattafaukup
semantics?
tooomanystevesgotbanned
Clarity.
kittyanya
Mom says something. I prove her wrong. She denies it until she's blue in the face, then accepts it. Never apologizes.
bearatrooper
That's why I didn't like Encanto. Nobody apologized to Bruno, particularly the grandmother. It's disappointing how many people missed the fact that the toxic family remained toxic.
LookingLikeASnack
I liked Encanto but there's no doubting that the final act of the film was a drop off in writing quality. To be exceedingly fair, it's hard to write a story about familial abuse and the cyclical nature of trauma and have it end in a satisfactory way. Largely because those sorts of stories don't have nice, clean endings irl.
datphone777365
I dont tolerate that sort of shit from family much less strangers, if they dont like it they know what their options are. If cut off people for less then most would think because of repeat actions.
Bertfisch
Yeah me too fuck em