11 Employers Who Take Pettiness to the Next Level
By Mustafa GatollariMar. 29 2021, Updated 4:Fifty one p.m. ET
It's roughly insane how petty some people can be, even supposing that madness is not unusual at the moment. One virtually expects pettiness when it comes to the dissolution of a courting: whether or not it's deliberately changing your Netflix account information or making passive-aggressive social media posts about you. The same can occur with best buddies, just ask Mudasir about this classic meme.
While one would settle for this kind of emotionally-charged trifling conduct, in the place of work we would assume it could be less not unusual. But that is not the case in any respect.
Like this Auto Shop that was dealing with a former worker who was adamant about receiving his last paycheck.
A-OK Walker Luxury Autoworks has worked on Ford Mustang convertibles for Trouble With the Curve and has been working on high-end and rare vehicles for years. However most lately they have been accused of paying a former worker with a wheelbarrow of pennies, 91,500 of them to be exact.
The New York Times reported that A OK gave Andres Flaten his ultimate paycheck in thousands of coins smeared in what is presumably transmission fluid. He was once a supervisor on the autobody store and asked for the $915 that the business owed him. On a Mid-March day he received a wheelbarrow filled with greasy pennies.
His female friend, Olivia Oxley posted a clip of the mound of pennies on Instagram. In probably the most videos she dips her hand into the pile of cash and her palms are covered in a shiny substance. She posted concerning the ill-treatment Andres reportedly persevered as an employee of the car shop.
She wrote:
"My boyfriend's last paycheck delivered at the end of the driveway in pennies....at 8pm on a Friday. His last day was in November."
She persisted: "First things first when he quit he gave a written resignation letter complete with a two weeks notice. After Miles Walker of AOK Walker auto works continued to be the a**hole he is and make a normal workday hell, making unnecessary comments about my boyfriend's daughter and just be an all-around d**k, that 2 weeks turned into 5 days."
"My boyfriend respectfully delivered his uniforms washed and in a box comeplete with another letter as to why he was leaving early. Fast forward 3 months and he was refusing to send out the last paycheck claiming damages to the shop. Once the word “lawyer” was introduced, this is what he did."
"1. We can’t even get all the pennies up because they’re covered in some type of oil.
2. Who the hell knows how were going to get them out of the driveway, up into the car, out of the car again, and into a bank or coin star. And that’s if we can even do that because they’re covered in oil."
"I’m not sure what’s worse...the fact that this man is so miserable he can’t accept an employee leaving because he’s the biggest a**hole I’ve seriously ever met, or the fact that he went through THAT much effort to get $915 worth of HEAVYYY pennies just to say ‘f**k you’. I mean....couldn’t he have just pissed on the check or something?....."
"MILES WALKER @ AOK WALKER AUTOWORKS in peachtree city.
PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE. Bring him down. No one like that deserves to have successful business."
Tons of people posted their sympathies in reaction to Olivia's Instagram add.
For probably the most phase, other people appeared sympathetic. Yelp reviewers flocked to the Auto Body's store web page in order to bomb it with unfavourable feedback and 1-star reviews. It currently sits at a 1.Five out of five, however, it kind of feels that Yelp has posted an "unusual activity" alert in order to notify people that A OK has been the topic of a few fresh ire that does not immediately replicate the standard of provider the business might or would possibly not provide potential purchasers.
It seems like A OK may have gotten their inspiration in paying Andreas with pennies in a wheelbarrow from this one particular person who got their automotive towed and was once indignant about having to pay the advantageous in order to get their car again.
So they decided to pay them the use of the same method, and uploaded the entire thing on YouTube.
Here's the object: as inconvenient as it's, businesses and people cannot reject viable kinds of legal tender, and that includes paying someone in pennies. However, there is a coin scarcity due to COVID, so they are going to want to carry that up if they wanted to dispute the form of payment they gained legally.
This isn't the first time an employer acted petty to their workers, alternatively and there are Redditors with some harrowing stories of coping with some less-than-ideal bosses.
Refusing a hug.
"Supervisor asked me for a hug, I declined, she said she refused to have anyone unhappy on shift and told me I should go home." - Underhaul.
Quoting a fact TV display when firing an employee.
"My bosses gave everyone a copy of the schedule that had all the names of the workers. We were told to choose three people who we thought should be laid off. I gave them back the list and told them that they didn't hire me to make those types of decisions for them. Two days later as I was coming into work I was stopped at the door by one of the owners, he told me that "Survivor council has convened, and that I have been voted off the island. Yeah, your fired." I had worked there for over a year, and to be dismissed like it was a f*cking game was pretty ridiculous." - jlbecks.
Limited legal responsibility.
"Was working for a small business and was repeatedly asked to use my own personal car to make deliveries and pick up supplies. I eventually told the owner that I didn't feel comfortable using my personal vehicle for company work. My statement was polite and voiced my concerns of only having liability insurance on it and having to pay for all the gas on my own too. The owner was like, how many miles did you drive yesterday? Maybe 3? Here's 75 cents. That's average mileage pay. And he drops 3 quarters into my hand." - bumpty.
Jesus works here.
"My previous job my boss told me that I needed to go to church, and they were concerned because no one ever saw me say grace when eating lunch in my cubicle. She and others in the office would constantly nag me about Christian stuff, it got so bad that I would avoid conversations with many folks there because it always lead to Jesus. They ended up firing me for petty reasons and I've lawyered up." - drkush.
Breakfast's the most important meal of the day.
"I had a nurse supervisor who would take advantage of my being a nice person but having me pick up her breakfast every day in the cafeteria, since I was going over there for myself. Every day. She was lazy and I was being taken advantage off. So one day I decided I wasn't going to do. When she came to bring me her money I politely told her that I wasn't buying that morning. It turned into an argument to the point of where SHE CRIED and I said, fine, gimme your money, whatever, I'll go get your breakfast. She walked away. Later, I was called into the Director's office and she said I should have just got the breakfast for her. WTH?" - taralegal.
"Dear Diary..."
"I found a private diary of personal gripes about me that my manager wrote up. Then locked in the filing cabinet. Not work related sh*t either. Just things I did that bugged her. It was rough because It was a tiny pet food store and it would just be the two of us sitting there. with no customers for hours. And then I realize all the time she's spending in the bathroom, it her writing sh*t about me. When I thought about it, she was even doing it sitting on bags of dog food next to me. I couldn't believe it.I eventually told her I knew about them and she was red paint pink in the face." - drexalparks.
Bring it down a notch.
"I had a boss tell me that I was working too hard and making her favorite employee look bad... wut?" - priseambolina.
Stop wearing ties.
(*11*) - XavierMendel.
Paper clip.
"I got called into my bosses office for putting the paper clip too close to the top of the center of the piece of paper. No one ever told me I had to keep it directly in the center. Apparently this is a very important rule." - [User Deleted]
The font affront.
"My old boss used to get furious at me because when I needed to enlarge text in MS word for a small print job (maybe ten envelopes, each with someones first and last name on them) i had to do each day, I would type the text, highlight it, and then change the font size. He demanded that I change the font size before I started typing and threatened to write me up if I didn't." - herestoshuttingup.
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