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darcy, in Follow the expense policy to the letter, he said.

"If yor employees are trying to help you, let them." Sounds like common sense, but it seems like MBAs aren't being taught common sense...

eyy,

To this day I have no idea what HR Director's thought process was. He literally declined free money for the company.

AnarchistArtificer,

It's a bit absurd.

Let's imagine OP was trying to scam the company. The sheer gall of asking for approval on a scam would be so audacious that honestly, it wouldn't be safe to have an employee like that working on anything of value. The level of "fuck you, I don't care" that it would show would mean that the safest thing to do with an employee like that would be to fire them.

The guy didn't ask the basic question of "has OP given us any reason not to trust them?" If the answer to that was "yes", then maybe flying them out to the UK to act on the company's behalf isn't a great idea. And if that doesn't seem likely, then it's probably an employee trying to help and they should be encouraged

ilovefluffyanimals,

Exactly. If I were a good executive, I'd be pretty impressed that OP was being so transparent and forthright . . . not react in that way.

dystop, in How to close down Production 101
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"the person who has been working here for a long time must be wrong, it can't ever be the automated system!" - said no sane human being ever.

wizardbeard,
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A large portion of my job is automating things, and whenever there's a discrepancy my immediate response is to check the automation for issues. Automation brings speed and consistency, but there's a significant difference between consistency and accuracy.

I love when the boots on the ground tell me I screwed up, because then I can pick their brains and make things better!

Mischala,

Software engineer here. And so much this.

Our job is to build, but we aren’t experts in the field we are building software for. Detailed, high-quality feedback is insanely useful, because we are trying to get in the head of someone using our product day to day, but we can’t know exactly how or users want to work…

dystop,
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Automation brings speed and consistency, but there’s a significant difference between consistency and accuracy.

I deal with automation vs manual input a fair bit also, this is really accurate.

As a rule of thumb, when one or two cases go wrong, it's usually human error. If hundreds of cases go wrong at once, it's probably automation run amok.

dystop, in Admin work matters!
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We were disqualified due to my automations because they considered them cheating.

What the hell? I've never heard of anyone being scolded for being more productive.

I guess everyone in your office must write everything out on parchment and quill then.

sleepyducky,

15 years ago that was quite accurate: notebooks and pens. That company hated anything digital

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.

mdwhite999, in How to close down Production 101

Did you end up returning to work for them?

sleepyducky,

Oh hell no, I had already relocated to another city in the meantime. Plus the HR manager was present when I tendered in my resignation and said nothing. So no way I would return there

mdwhite999, in [REPOST] Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

Is it legal for them to remove people's accrued benefits?

corsicanguppy,

Depends: Is it America?

dystop,
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probably yes, if they give you time to use up the benefits.

dystop, in You really need to think about what is more important...
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dude your storytelling style is ace!

hats off to Chad.

Wheatley wanted everyone to know that he had this doctorate, as evidenced by his insistence in correcting any employee who did not address him as “Dr. Wheatley”. He will be henceforth referred to in this post as Mr. Wheatley.

This made me chuckle.

blightbow,
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I won't deny it, at least one third of my motivation for making this post was to deliver that diss.

(the other two thirds are split between Chad deserving the recognition, and doing my part to make this place more attractive than Reddit)

dystop,
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worth it!

darcy, in You really need to think about what is more important...

Ah, the classic tale of "Manager calls employee's bluff, loses and panics". Always makes for a good story.

Kaiser, in "Don't touch my bag!" OK, I'll do exactly that!
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Love these stories, thanks for sharing.

darcy,

Thank you for reading it.

dick, in You really need to think about what is more important...

chads of the world unite!

c2h6, in You really need to think about what is more important...

If I were Bottom, I might not quit if my pay never decreased. I'd take the hit on my dignity to continue getting a Director salary for a worker's job...

c2h6, in Admin work matters!

Some companies succeed partially because of management, others succeed DESPITE their management...

ethane, in You really need to think about what is more important...

Manager: "be my bitch or you're fired"

Worker: "k bye"

Manager: shocked Pikachu

Serdan, in [REPOST] You can't continue working from home because you go idle in chat too often

A good example of how capitalists want exclusive ownership of your time, even to the detriment of productivity.

theblueredditrefugee,

No kidding! It's like they don't even care about profit, they just want to hurt people

JunctionSystem, in [REPOST] "I don’t care if he is dead, put him on the phone.”

I'm not sure what she expected to happen?

dystop,
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¯*(ツ)*/¯

bighi,

It’s a made-up story.

MidgarZolom,

The above comment is a made up story.

BuddhaBeettle,
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Probably she wanted to stall the process as much as posible so that they could bill the service some more before cancelling.
That or they have a script to make the service as hard to cancel as posible and she was just parroting that, without really paying attention to what OP was saying.

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