ive seen my boss get sent commercial blueprints emailed to him to quote 15 minutes before quitting time on his birthday. The turnaround time on this bid was 8am the next morning.
what’s is your story of seeing someone blow up with anger in the workforce?
In staff meeting, boss roles out bonus structure for staff with 100% utilization (hours billed to client over total hours). My manager says out loud, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” Which it was, because now every staff member is billing the client 120-180% for the same overall output. Couldn’t believe my manager had the balls to say it, and it was helpful because he told us not to overcharge the client. That kind of moral fortitude was rare at the firm. When he retired I eventually quit.
I had a coworker that was so unhappy with his annual review/raise. He went into the conference room stood on top of the conference desk, dropped his drawers and defecated all over the desk. He then told his boss he had an upset stomach and was going home. He never came back.
Haha this is all nothing compared to working in public schools. Trying being physically and verbally attacked on a regular basis. You office babies are a joke.
Many years ago, I was in a work meeting where the team leader just lost his shxt. It was head- scratching to see someone lose their composure to that degree in a professional setting. Almost like he was going to go to his car after the meeting and come back in with a gun. Fortunately that didn't happen.
Haha this is all nothing compared to working in public schools. Trying being physically and verbally attacked on a regular basis. You office babies are a joke.
You accept being physically attacked on a daily basis?
I am genuinely curious why a teacher would accept being physically and/or verbally assaulted. If that happened in the uk and a student physically assaulted someone, they would be excluded and wouldn't return. If it was me who was the teacher, I would never return. I mean how could you work in such an environment and not snap?
We've had people leave at lunch and never come back, but nothing theatrical. I would consider anyone that rage quits a job to have some inner work that needs to be done, probably with the help of a therapist.
It was 9/11 and two of our salespeople were in Dallas. The firm was pretty good about transportation. You could stay where you where until a flight opened up or rent a car and drive back to Florida.
The male boss and his hot junior saleswoman (both married), took 10 days to get home via rent a car from Dallas to Tampa. Some of us raised our eyebrows, but given everything that had occurred, it wasn't worth mentioning.
The head sales manager, however, did not agree. I am not in sales, so I wasn't in the first after 9/11 sales get together, but I heard about it.
He went on a rant for 20 minutes and used the f word maybe 50 times. "Look, damnit, I know you two spent 10 days "blanking"". He threatened to fire the woman (nice), even though guy was senior to her.
Afterwards, I told him that he can't fire either now since the story would get back to the legal crew and they would have a fit. He was clearly holding the woman responsible. He had to be dim.
Years later, both guys lost their job. The first guy lost it for sleeping with a client's wife. The sales manager was an HR nightmare. He once mentioned that his black secretary (very smart woman) had "black" penmanship.
I stayed at the place since there were 4 or 5 people on the product side that are rare talents.
While on leave in the Boz, some guy on a bus back to base straight up broke a girl's jaw for rejecting him. It was mid-morning but he as 2 bells to the wind. He was summarily beaten down and ultimately court martialed.
Late 1980s. My days as a Cobol programmer. There was a senior programmer in charge of an application that was constantly abnormally ending ("abend", as it was called) in need of one coding bug patch after another. One day she flipped out and loudly screamed at her supervisor for about 2 minutes then stormed out of the building. She was gone for a few days, but then returned and a week later there was a repeat of the previous incident. She screamed for about 2 minutes and left. Never saw her again after that. The woman was under 5 feet tall and I was amazed that a person so small could have a voice that produced such ear splitting volume.
Haha this is all nothing compared to working in public schools. Trying being physically and verbally attacked on a regular basis. You office babies are a joke.
You’ll have to go into more detail on how exactly you are physically attacked on a regular basis. I mean, why do you put up with that?
We've had people leave at lunch and never come back, but nothing theatrical. I would consider anyone that rage quits a job to have some inner work that needs to be done, probably with the help of a therapist.
I don’t know, there are some pretty awful places to work in the world.
We've had people leave at lunch and never come back, but nothing theatrical. I would consider anyone that rage quits a job to have some inner work that needs to be done, probably with the help of a therapist.
I don’t know, there are some pretty awful places to work in the world.
Yes, there are. That's why most people just leave at lunch and never come back vs. the public meltdown.
A dude (average build) was hassling the check-out line cashier at Safeway over some expired coupons. The line was backing up, minutes are passing and people are starting to get wrestless. Finally, the cashier snapped and grabbed the guy by the collar and pulled him over the counter. Meanwhile yelling something to effect of "you want coupons? Here's a blanking coupon for you!" as he slammed his head into the cash register. People in line and another employee stepped in and shut down the action. Wild stuff. They hauled the guy to another room for questioning.
After that our catch phrase became "you want coupons? Here's a blanking coupon for you!"
Haha this is all nothing compared to working in public schools. Trying being physically and verbally attacked on a regular basis. You office babies are a joke.
Then share a story. That's the point of this thread afterall
I worked as a PM for a terrible company a few years ago. We had a UX Designer who was tasked with a project that required two months of work. Unknown to us, another team at an another office basically did the same exact project and presented their work to our client just two days before we were set to present.
The director of our department mistakenly allocated work to both teams but failed to check in on it because he had more pressing things to do, apparently.
The UX Designer found out, shut his laptop, and walked out. He looked like he was going to snap. He was gone for a full week and then came back. He said “you paid me to really do nothing, so I will do nothing this week and get paid.”
He quit a month later and got a job at Facebook, no joke.