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bob, in [REPOST] Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

Moral of the story, don’t fuck with people’s vacation time.

Just treat your employees well. How hard can that be?

dystop,
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dystop, in That time the boys team had our back against sexist uniforms
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thanks for contributing!

and oh man high school gymnastics/athletics is almost as prone to such scandals as priests and altar boys. I'm glad the teams stood together!

Abridgedlife,

In hindsight it’s crazy how many adults had to fail us to get there but I’m glad the boys team helped us call bullshit

darcy,

Oh darling I have stories about male teachers not understanding how periods work that will make you cringe!

bob, in "Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!

You are absolutely a good storyteller. I enjoyed this.

darcy,

Thank you, you're too kind.

tom, in Dispose of financial records? You got it, boss.

So I once made the mistake permitting a client to store some (say a dozen) boxes of financial records in my home for a couple of weeks. By ‘permit’, I mean they just dumped them there, and I didn’t physically restrain them from leaving.

You chose.... poorly.

Saigonauticon,

Haha...yeah. I'm an academic at heart and my first few years at running a business were a complete disaster. I've since graduated into being a mediocre businessperson, which is probably about as far as I intend to get.

tom,

that sounds like you made it. one day you'll be a good businessperson!

Saigonauticon,

Maybe someday, but it's exhausting. I would probably be much happier if I just closed shop and went to do a PhD. I might even be able to afford to, in a couple of years.

Then maybe teach engineering in some unknown university in the countryside. Or run a machine shop that helps artists make things. Or just build alarmingly large robots for no reason at all.

MentalEdge, in How to close down Production 101
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"Here, have a look at reality"

Your boss, for some ass-backwards reason: "No"

sleepyducky,

I still don’t know why she didn’t even think for a second there could be an error in the system.

Unless maybe she was hiding something, maybe stealing funds and hiding them as overstock?

axtualdave,

Unless maybe she was hiding something, maybe stealing funds and hiding them as overstock?

What's a little embezzlement between friends, right?

I can't think of a good reason beyond theft and/or embezzlement that the boss would react so strongly to missing inventory.

roofuskit, in [REPOST] You might like to back up that decision...
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And it's that day that Mr. Chairman and his Pastor friend lost their massive CP collection.

dystop,
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given their reaction, i'm sure that was it.

"DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I SPENT CURATING ALL THIS - er, nevermind"

Rogue_General, in "Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!
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Kill 'em with kindness, love it!

darcy,

That is always a good strategy. Eventually some people realise what a fool they're making of themselves. Others get even angrier the nicer you get, sometimes to the point where they can't function properly.

cura, in Can't go to the bathroom more than once per class? OK, I'll just stand outside the classroom.
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Wait, in kindergarten you guys had workbooks already?

c2h6,

Maybe "workbooks" was the wrong term. We had pages with the alphabet, "C is for cat" with a cat for you to color, etc.

kartonrealista,
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This sounds like a work of creative fiction. I don't think kids in kindergarten can read or write

c2h6,

I'm pretty sure I could write in kindergarten. Not super fancy stuff but like "I have a cat"

average650,
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My kids were definitely learning to read and write int kindergarten. They were able to read basic sentences (like, "look at the cat") by the end of the year.

kartonrealista,
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Maybe that's a cultural difference. How old would the kid be?

The kindergarten my younger brother went to like more than a decade ago didn't have backboards and stuff, at least none that I remember. Kids would learn to read and write in the "0th" class of the primary school by the age of 6.

average650,
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Kindergarten is 5.

I will say that when I was 5, we were learning the alphabet and stuff, but I certainly didn't start any reading until 1st grade. It seems like some stuff starts early now.

eee, in Dispose of financial records? You got it, boss.

hahaha i'm sure he owes a bunch of people money, not just you and the government!

side note: there's a vietnam lemmy instance? wow!

Saigonauticon,

There are a few started on different servers, but I set one up locally. Normally I spend some time on Reddit answering questions from travelers &c as a bit of a public service, but with Reddit becoming boring, I figured I'd give that a try over here.

Vietnam is a friendly but notoriously opaque place, so there is usually no shortage of questions 😄

kalipike, in Dispose of financial records? You got it, boss.
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Oh, man. Getting that kind of stuff in writing is soooo good. * chef's kiss *

Saigonauticon,

I mean, it would have been better if they didn't go out of business, and paid my invoices. Barring that, at least I'm left with something to laugh about!

seeCseas,

you know you done bad when someone asks you for something in writing

Timwi, in Follow the expense policy to the letter, he said.
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Oh boy, this is such an awesome story. Thank you for sticking it up to the abusive manager and entertaining us with the result.

Unfortunately I didn't have the guts to do this. I used to work at a place where everything was fine until a new line manager was installed who moved me to a different desk in another building. That desk was right next to the server room, which was noisy with a constant low-pitched grumbling. I was not able to think or concentrate in that environment, so I would frequently take my laptop to another floor and do my work there. The manager was not happy about that and demanded that I should return to my assigned desk and stay there. I told him it would mean I wouldn't be able to accomplish any work and he said something on the lines of “I don't care”. I should have taken him up on that; I should have stopped working entirely and just browsed the web all day until he gets wind of it and finally admits that he does care. But I was too cowardly to dare. I continued to defy him by spending most of my time at the “wrong” desk though.

eyy,

know your worth and stand up to incompetent bosses!

Bakoda, in "Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!
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This is exactly the kind of story I want to see more of on here! Well done!

darcy,

Thank you. I don't usually write such long posts so this means a lot.

Lells, in "Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!
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Back in Reddit, I might have also have seen this in "TalesFromTheFrontDesk", which is another one I'm missing over here right now. It's one of those great "ticks the boxes of both" stories.

darcy,

I haven't told this story before, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone else had a similar experience. Hospitality has its fair share of nightmares.

sin_free_for_00_days, in Admin work matters!

Just a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing!

dick, in How to close down Production 101

When you try and dig everyone out of a hole, but your boss decides to make things worse 😂

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