I’ve been a union rep for a good few years and honestly you wouldn’t believe the shit I’ve seen managers put in writing. “It is company policy to commit crimes here” levels of brazenly breaking the law, especially for stuff like disability discrimination. I can 100% believe this.
I assume if something illegal gets labeled as “Company Policy” (even though it isn’t), the company should immediately be held accountable regardless - so terrible managers don’t get to throw those two words around as a magic shield to protect themselves from employees being cognitively indisonant, unlike their perfect selves.
Being an “ass” is one thing (making conflicts like it’s yoir job).
Paying people preferentially because you and a couple of your buddies like them a bit (bonus points if you spend private time together as well) should be about 3 red flags for everyone involved.
Yeah, don’t believe this at all. Reads like some dream sequence someone had. Even the dumbest managers wouldn’t say something this stupid, they all know this is a trip right to HR.
I have absolutely met managers this dumb. I had a manager quote me in an email reply, with what was quoted in the same email chain and included with the other replies, then forward it (still including all the replies!) claiming that he “rescued” me from a client incident because I didnt reply.
With the reply from me just two emails below.
Yes, there are absolute idiots in management who would 100% reply with this.
I have had managers send me emails telling me to ignore warehouse safety standards set by OSHA, regardless of what the warehouse personnel tell me when I’m there for the day.
Also had managers that recorded themselves breaking company safety rules and post to social media.
I’ve even had one manager that straight up pointed a gun at me in front of 3 cameras thinking it was a funny joking thing.
Never assume management has a single brain cell, let alone enough to realize when something probably shouldn’t be done or said.
When I was a manager, I refused to discuss another employee with their coworker. If you want a raise, tell me why you deserve a raise for what you do. And I was very careful to only put established company policy in writing, everything else was “let’s circle back to that in person when we’re both at the office.”
These days there’s the possibly that a manager might just use an AI for response and not consider the implications if the tone looks professional at a glance, perhaps. There’s something that feels AI-ish about it anyway, but that could simply be the corporate “professional” writing style I suppose.
Did everyone clap, too?
I just don’t believe a boss would commit to writing “your output is higher and better but I like Tad’s vibe better.”
Just begging for a visit from HR.
I’ve been a union rep for a good few years and honestly you wouldn’t believe the shit I’ve seen managers put in writing. “It is company policy to commit crimes here” levels of brazenly breaking the law, especially for stuff like disability discrimination. I can 100% believe this.
Tbh, “company policy” are magical words.
I assume if something illegal gets labeled as “Company Policy” (even though it isn’t), the company should immediately be held accountable regardless - so terrible managers don’t get to throw those two words around as a magic shield to protect themselves from employees being cognitively indisonant, unlike their perfect selves.
My bosses must be smarter than the most them because they refuse to ever put anything in writing.
I don’t believe this but you can absolutely fire someone for vibes.
Your attitude does affect team members. I’d happily fire a high out put team member for being an ass.
Being an “ass” is one thing (making conflicts like it’s yoir job).
Paying people preferentially because you and a couple of your buddies like them a bit (bonus points if you spend private time together as well) should be about 3 red flags for everyone involved.
Sounds like an edge case
Nope. It’s a spectrum, but at some point “vibes” absolutely matter.
Yeah, don’t believe this at all. Reads like some dream sequence someone had. Even the dumbest managers wouldn’t say something this stupid, they all know this is a trip right to HR.
Consider yourself lucky then.
I have absolutely met managers this dumb. I had a manager quote me in an email reply, with what was quoted in the same email chain and included with the other replies, then forward it (still including all the replies!) claiming that he “rescued” me from a client incident because I didnt reply.
With the reply from me just two emails below.
Yes, there are absolute idiots in management who would 100% reply with this.
I have had managers send me emails telling me to ignore warehouse safety standards set by OSHA, regardless of what the warehouse personnel tell me when I’m there for the day.
Also had managers that recorded themselves breaking company safety rules and post to social media.
I’ve even had one manager that straight up pointed a gun at me in front of 3 cameras thinking it was a funny joking thing.
Never assume management has a single brain cell, let alone enough to realize when something probably shouldn’t be done or said.
When I was a manager, I refused to discuss another employee with their coworker. If you want a raise, tell me why you deserve a raise for what you do. And I was very careful to only put established company policy in writing, everything else was “let’s circle back to that in person when we’re both at the office.”
You’re overestimating people.
Yeah, this feels like bullshit.
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lol first time reading the opinions of morons?
I want some oponions. Regular onions aren’t doing it for me anymore.
These days there’s the possibly that a manager might just use an AI for response and not consider the implications if the tone looks professional at a glance, perhaps. There’s something that feels AI-ish about it anyway, but that could simply be the corporate “professional” writing style I suppose.
Oh thanks we figured it out together
Knew it was fake when I read it but now I see, LLM-generated fake
You can smell the prompt, or the way the model almost took it as a joke
Is there anything actually illegal happening here?