Yes you have to do it for everyone it's a funeral ffs

What a pri++k

I think a lot of it depends on the job too. A promotion could be taking you away from the parts of the job you actually enjoy.

GenX here. In my youth, it was called "just doing my job".

He's saying don't tell your colleagues that the boss is a douche by being difficult with your uncle's funeral. Call in sick. You felt like sh*t because your uncle died.

Please tell me there were consequences for this 'manager'

I feel I will be sick on that day, perhaps you should, accidently 'overstaff' the roster on that day.

How can you criticise someone for doing what you pay them to do?

Gen Zero for a reason.

As someone who has lost their dad. I would've lost my mind getting this email. As if it's not enough loosing someone you love then you have to deal with this.

There are a couple of factors burn out plays a part but also our generation has a irrational fear of failure and also the media makes this look really bad but most people has never wanted promotions. Our 20% of people stay in there same position for extended periods of time.

This is why compassionate leave exists and is separate from annual leave.

Megan, they lied to you and that SHOULD be your cue to start looking for another job. This happened to me but it was not till the 4th time I was passed over for an external candidate that my boss told me he had to hire me because I am a disabled vet but he never has to promote me. My error was in believing them each time they promised me a promotion. On the 5th time they passed me over I finally went to HR and filed a complaint, which is how I found out that HR is not there to do the right thing but to cover the asses of the people doing the wrong thing.

In my job mangers come and go like the wind only the engineers normally stay put.

Nearly double my salary (6 figures) in the last 4/5 years thanks to promotions but my happiness has greatly decreased. It all depends on where you find value, for some that is in cash but for other it's time or lack of responsibility.

I became a manager and had a good run for about 3 months. Mainly because the future looked bright. Then salary reviews came and I realized how unwilling the upper management was to add even a couple hundred per month for a deserving person. I am glad I got one substantial increase for a very good person, but then layoffs started, cost-saving measures and reorganizations and it all turned to crap. Some change would come, I'd communicate, try to motivate the team. Then in 2 weeks that change changed again and I'd feel like a stupid liar. Everyone felt like crap, I felt like crap and even the most motivated people (I also used to be one of them) were looking at me depleted, asking "what improvement can YOU make?" And they were right - I could not, my boss could not, even my boss' boss could not.

You missed the important part - they didn't get the meeting invite

In a job interview, the person being interviewed is also interviewing the potential employer. It's the job of the interviewer to sell the job to the interviewee

Yeah, they really don't value her. I'd be off as soon as I'd found a new job!

Who is this boss to decide going to a funeral is okay only for immediate family? It's heartless and bad business.

This candidate is smart. He basically triaged potentially tyrannical / overbearing / exploitative employers with his questions, filtering out ones like this dude who thinks he should be grateful merely for the opportunity. Good for him! A good employer will answer respectfully and persuasively.

I worked in HR and they are only for the company NOT the employees

I think the US needs some changes in employment law. I can't see the present admin making those changes.

My response is that I'm either going on holiday, or my boss is paying for my missed tickets. Compensating me and my family by buying us new tickets. Then triple whatever my hourly going rate is. 😅

This is such nonsense, I'm 34 now and when I was 22 or something, boomers said the same thing. Just makes for good rage bait on social media, some tribalism and people just complaining about an "out group". People have been complaining about "these damn kids" for generations. Love the videos and good to see some counter voice against this "Gen Z is lazy" nonsense.

I personally have refused promotion a couple of times. Mostly my reasoning is the blame culture of our parent company. In the past three years, I have had four direct managers, and three general managers. All have been fired for perceived 'failure' , despite business being removed by the parent company. How can you increase revenue when over half your customers are re allocated to the parent company headquarters? Then be blamed for falling revenue? I'll stick where I am, thank you.

The new Trump! The dude has amazing values! 😂👎

You are giving individuals/people way too much credit, people are stupid. A dry promotion is worth it if it means you can look for a job elsewhere by using your new status. People have brain rot in every aspect of their life, people want the comfort zone they are used to.

Leave

Did this for years. Fuck em.

Fair play. Gis a job mate,:p😅

I actually agree with the boss. The employee is probably a Gen Z who will be late when there is even a small amount of traffic.

But some employees are absolutely dog 💩😂

it's not an annual leave, it's a bereavement. So there's no discussion to be there, she is absent on this day to go to a relative's funeral. And if still refused, it's ground for constructive dismissal lawsuit.

I was once told by a manager (not MY manager) that she did not believe my apology for having forgotten to cc her on an email regarding a PTO request that I sent to my manager. Something had come up on short notice and I needed to know if I could have a day off the following week. Because I had submitted my request less than 2 weeks before the date in question, I was told that all future requests must be made at least 30 days in advance or my request would be denied and I would be written up. Funny how taking a day off required 30 days notice (for me but nobody else) but they only asked for 2 weeks notice when quitting.

I have always been a hard worker, (with horses) the boss who was on my back all the time, often with petty things, got minimum from me. Mt last boss just let me get on with things and had my 100% loyalty and effort. He trusted me completely. I respected him and he me. A question he asked me at my interview was, "What was the worse thing about employing me?." I replied that his horses would become mine and I would always be thinking of the best for them. I got the job, worked for him for 20 years until his death.

I had an old mgr who insisted all hours I had taken off for a funeral.

Stupid people

Don't get me started. On 2018I had a friend, my father and my grandmother pass in the space of 4 months, working 4 days a week and trying to complete a course at TAFE. When I asked for the day to go to my friends funeral, I was asked to do half a day as otherwise there would only be one member of our team on the floor, as the other (of 3) had requested PTO already for that day. Mind, they didn't mind leaving me alone to run the floor on many other occasions.

If your contract makes no mention of workinf outside of your contracted hours, and your employer is very insistent you do, have a stern word with them, if they continue to insist, take it up with a work tribunal; extraction of unpaid labour, breach of modern slavery act.

"Muppet" is probably my favorite insult from brits. 😂

The CTO decided that the server room was wasting money on the air conditioning during winter "because it's freezing outside" saving 50pln/month. In less than a week the phone exchange and one of the servers overheated costing almost 15k to replace. Fortunately for the idiot the data was not lost, or it'd cripple the entire company.

These kinds of companies are full of sociopaths and liars. Sociopaths because they want to escape their wives and kids because they don't feel love and liars because most people are normal and hate this kind of workplace but need to survive.

Just want to say that there's nothing creepy about the fact that its a male boss messaging a female employee... point being it is just creepy no matter what genders are involved.

Import immigrants to do the top jobs,

"What are you doing that's more important?" Oh right, sending messages at 9pm and asking him what's more important thing he do at 9pm... Perhaps sleep is overrated and he should has been working for 24/7 straight without sleep 😂

Or the employees are just bloody lazy

I worked at a small town newspaper once. It was back in the day of those awful fax rolls on the fax machine. The boss spent an hour screaming at us one day because we came in to find fax paper all over the floor with news, ads & community announcements that people had sent us. It happened all the time but he was sick of it. Then he forbid us to give out the fax number anymore. He said the next time I hear anyone telling anyone the fax number they’ll be fired. Someone tried to speak, can’t remember if it was me but he was too enraged & just repeated his threat about instant dismissal & stormed out. The thing someone wanted him to remember? The fax number was on the front page of the newspaper along with all the other contact details.

Its a PROJECT MANAGER not a quarterback. Sorry, PMs, I agree your job is stressful, but definitely not the kind of role with a superstar hire. PM is more about how much stress you can take without breaking, not what you can do.

Wait. Lets hold up for a minute. Just one minute. And I really want to emphasise this: The phrase "quiet quitting" is actually just a stupid way to say that you're doing your job?