This boss actually BRAGGED about firing a team member

[@t.nash8]

“I’m too busy to worry about someone being late”. Spends all his time checking up to see if someone’s late.

[@kailynbrennan1412]

He didn’t “spend all his time” checking on whether or not he was late. You dial a number, or check a time sheet which takes 2 seconds, and he most likely only even did that a couple of times, because he fired him so he wouldn’t have to waste any more time on it whatsoever.

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

​@@kailynbrennan1412 Did you miss the part about Matt's car breaking down? It's mentioned twice. Paying attention is a skill.

[@StormArmy96]

​@@kailynbrennan1412 How's the taste of boot leather?

[@dudette2x]

​@kailynbrennan1412 I bet you are an absolutely nightmare to work with lol

[@kailynbrennan1412]

@ might want to bet on something else. I’m respected because I know my role, work hard and do it well, but you’re welcome to believe whatever nonsense you want

[@deantodd8103]

Anyone else thinking that Matt was probably one of the most effective and hardworking employees, and that this crap-for-brains boss just entered the "find out" stage of F around and find out?

[@pamelac21]

My dad had a rule that if his managers decided to fire anyone or someone on their team quit, the manager had to do their job until there was a trained replacement. It was 100% enforced. Effectively cut out the petty firing.

[@sonarharin3906]

Wow that is a good rule!😅

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

@@sonarharin3906 that should be the law

[@Nick-ic8vn]

You can't petty fire someone in the UK..it's illegal. If this story is true and set in the UK matt would have had several verbal and written warnings before he could be fired.

[@NightRaydes]

​@@Nick-ic8vn hahaha. That's what you think. It's actually easy to just fire someone in the UK off a whim. We're a lot less likely to sue than someplace like Americans.

[@selwynowen6213]

When these people fire an employee for petty things. And they come out with, we all have to cover his workload, seeing that he was the person who caused the staffing shortage, he can cover their workload

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

"I dont know, Matt took care of it" is likely to be a phrase that will be trending on that team for a while.

[@CC-vq1yg]

Matt was the only person in the team who liked having the early or late shift is also possible. Imagine getting fired for being late, after your car broke down

[@marciafischer7391]

What’ll be great is even new team members using this line.

[@xamyx725]

@@CC-vq1ygImagine being too pretentious to take a bus… 🙄

[@CC-vq1yg]

@@xamyx725 who said anyone was too pretentious to take the bus? Learn to listen, read and comprehend before commenting next time so you come across as a complete ass-hat

[@fdm2155]

What do you want to bet boss has no idea how valuable Matt was to the team? 🙄

[@kailynbrennan1412]

@@fdm2155 Fact is, literally nobody is that valuable. People disappear every day, whether because they quit or are terminated. The company picks up and moves on almost immediately. No, they don’t waste time caring about what they may have lost.Their focus is on either refilling the position or shifting existing positions to cover the work that was done by the person no longer there. It’s a business and people who expect that the boss is going to sit in the corner and cry because they lost a good person need to grow up and have a date with reality.

[@elliscrane]

Is that the royal "we"? I'd bet real money the boss isn't picking up any extra shifts.

[@EikePilt]

I don't like the statement "we have to power through it." You know what the reward is for staying late and working hard? You get to do it again tomorrow!

[@patrickm6012]

In the immortal words of Tonto who said to the Lone Ranger “what ‘we’ white man?”

[@ushmush4074]

Never understood why people do this though, if the boss puts you in that position, just do your contracted hours and go home.

[@iCore7Gaming]

never do overtime unelss you're paid 2x

[@kailynbrennan1412]

@@EikePilt it’s called life. Sometimes you’ll be expected to pick up the slack, and yes they can ask you to do that. If it goes on for an extended period of time, and you don’t like it, find another place to work. The grass most likely won’t be greener, but you’re more than welcome to make an art out of job hopping looking for that non-existent perfect job

[@effdiffeyeno171]

​@@kailynbrennan1412 sounds exactly like a boss that won't give a pay rise or hire more staff.

[@RebelYell95]

Sounds like being fired because you're late for your car breaking down is an illegal reason.

[@kathyrosen2593]

Not if it's an At Will state.

[@jonathanhollick6947]

​@@kathyrosen2593think most of these are British

[@aps-pictures9335]

It’s more that you fired an employee, who you’d spent money and months training up (presumably), and now you’re going to be incredibly short staffed… because he was late twice. In most contracts there’s no obligation to work more hours than it states - meaning the manager likely just gave himself the position of having to cover all of those shifts whilst hiring. It’s incredibly short sighted.

[@boltneck1853]

​@@aps-pictures9335 A manger like that covering shifts himself 😂😂😂😂 Nah, never happen!

[@anthonycunningham8116]

​@@kathyrosen2593Most of these examples tend to be from Britain, where the concept of 'At Will Employment is very much less and workers generally tend to have rights.

[@CristobalSegura-ro8zn]

Brakes went out on my car. My boss would pick me up and take me home. He even towed my car to the mechanics to have my brakes repaired. Offered me a loan and said I could pay it back over time but I had enough cash on hand to cover it.

[@VTX00128]

Wow that's a rare one. Most of the time we've been told your on your own. Or your fired.

[@xamyx725]

@@VTX00128Which it should be… Do you not realize how many people literally walk to/from work, take a bus, etc…? Car problems is not an excuse…

[@SirTorcharite]

Do you realize that there are people who don't live within walking distance of anything? I don't even have a neighbor in sight. Trees and hills far as you can see. But I have four vehicles just in case! Redundancy saves the day when unexpected trouble happens! Now if only everyone else could be as blessed in life as I've been we'd all be good!

[@xamyx725]

@@SirTorcharite Uber & Lyft exist…

[@SirTorcharite]

@xamyx725 Ha yeeeah bud I live 45 minutes from the nearest town. An hour fifteen from the nearest small city. I work an hour forty-five away. You wanna figure up the cost of that taxi to and from work? It's a better deal to just have several running and maintained vehicles. If one surprises you, just go to the next. Weather isn't cooperating? Try a different vehicle. I've got a vehicle for almost every situation I can reasonably find myself in lol. Because that's what a person who lives in the sticks does. Prepare for problems. It's a costly lifestyle but it assures reliability.

[@darkzim3872]

I once worked for a company that gave people points (for lateness and sickness but for all sorts of reasons ) once you reached a certain level of points you was out but the problem was their was no wat to get rid of the points so eventually everyone would end up getting too many points and then get sacked what ended up happening as soon as people reached about 50% of their point quota they started looking for a new job and then left the company ended up replacing their entire work force over a few years some people reached 50% of the quota before they finished training

[@acrawley5128]

As a manager, I was once asked to do a presentation for other managers explaining my next to zero employee turnover. I honestly didn't get it but after some digging around they all had some sort of strike system where they fired and disciplined people like that. I ran a very tight ship but I've always recognized that life happens outside of work and treated people like people. To me it was just natural it never occurred to me to fire a good employee because he was 5 minutes late for the 3rd time that year but company wide I was an anomaly.

[@Urban_Guy]

I believe this is referred to as the Bradford Scale (also known as Bradford Formula or Bradford Factor), which is used to measure absenteeism.

[@SchardtCinematic]

Wow for that job ro not have a point reduction time over say a point will be removed after 6 months. So it gives you a chance to redeem yourself.

[@boltneck1853]

A proper Bradford Scale should operate on a rolling 12 months and only be used as a guide to identify issues such as persistent absence! Follow up should include finding out why and seeing if accommodation can be made! It should never be X number of strikes and out!

[@Eet0saurus]

@@acrawley5128 at least someone higher up noticed the difference and decided to do something about it. I hope that presentation did have effect and changed the other managers methods.

[@Cyraneth]

“Been thinking about” makes it sound like they just felt like firing someone on a whim, and the “lol” really doesn’t help… That person shouldn’t be in any kind of managerial/leadership position..

[@xamyx725]

Or, it could be he was a shitty worker, and now there was a valid/legal reason to fire him… We had an employee at my previous job who was incompetent, so Management had to wait until he did something that “training” wouldn’t fix (he yelled at me in front of guests, and Management asked me to write a statement) before they fired him…

[@Andaer11]

And that the boss says “lol” is a red flag to me

[@paul8161]

The best bit of the video , yeah, i fired him he was late. The boss sounded so triumphant in that, until he was told, you know his car broke down, right?🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️.. just excuses, so the boss basically fired him because he didn't find out the full story and jumped to a dumb conclusion. Yeah, well done, genuis. 🤦‍♂️..well-done for screwing your own company over.🤦‍♂️

[@johnbarnes7706]

I would start looking to get out also if I worked for someone like this.

[@xamyx725]

Why are you automatically presuming Matt wasn’t a complete screwup prior to this…?

[@JohnStrain-eu6eu]

The "useless" is this boss.

[@joeschmo622]

_"We'll have to power through it."_ "What you mean 'we', paleface?"

[@UncleMarcFudge]

Would be a shame if every employee of his suddenly had "car troubles" on the way to work the next day.

[@StewartyMac]

I've had bosses in the past who simply don't care why you're late and its one of the most infuriating things ever.

[@ReeceGeee]

All this ‘we’ talk about powering though, but if your car breaks down there is no ‘we’ 😂😂

[@ushmush4074]

I'd have asked the boss directly how many extra shifts he'll be doing.

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

me too, knowing full well that it would mean he'll try to make me do them, but oh, lo and behold! Here comes my "f*ck you" notice!

[@pistolannie6500]

Yeah WHO'S this "we"....U hidin a mouse in your pocket?? (phrase I've always heard.…when someone would say ..We..."U got a mouse in your pocket?"

[@whataguy7032]

Boss: "We're going to have to do extra shifts until we get someone in.".........Me: You mean YOU'RE going to have to do extra shifts because I"M not doing ANY extra shifts!

[@philiprice7875]

old joke lone ranger and tonto surrounded by apaches LR looks at tonto we are in trouble tonto reply what do you mean WE white man?

[@whataguy7032]

@@philiprice7875 I think the quote was, what do you mean, paleface?

[@claratalbot7613]

Yeah. I wonder how that boss would like to have a talk with HR. This could be considered a form of retaliation since the boss was looking for a reason to fire Matt for a while, then decided to use an event that was out of the control of the worker to fire him

[@ezlomacks6533]

Not "we." "You." You get to power through this since you wanna fire someone for their car breaking down and him not getting it fixed immediately.

[@DanielleBaum]

i had a former coworker that honestly did need to be fired, but even when she didn't call show up my manager still tried calling her going "Look just tell me what's going on. you're not fired yet, but we need to know" it was nicer than she deserved (this coworker asked for time off, the person doing the schedule just didn't put her name on the schedule for the week and she assumed it meant she was fired...she wasn't. someone was just lazy doing the schedule)

[@totallypointlessvideos3832]

It is about a small man with power. Some people are unable to handle it.

[@boltneck1853]

If they asked me to do extra shifts id say no...and probably not as politely as that!

[@debbieaitchison4704]

The car I was using (had borrowed it from a friend) broke down on my way to work on my second day at one job. I phoned in and apologised. I was supposed to be getting training. I was about half a day late. Everyone was super chilled out about it and told me not to worry as it wasn’t anything I could have expected.

[@makeittillufakeit]

why am i getting totally Mexico vibes. If your boss texts you like this, look for another job. The boss is office gossip leave.

[@deb7834]

Matt is well out of that toxic uncaring firm. Hope Matt is ok.

[@KeyrunBenji]

One thing worse than a bad manager is a bad manager who likes to gossip

[@laughing_gnome]

The company I work for you get 3 chances per month unless a pattern is formed then you are out regardless of your position if we are told to cover for the sacked person we ignore them , it's. Not my job

[@DreamweaverProductions-gz7fd]

I had a boss that was this callous on firing people. He got to me and noped out when I said "okay I'll see you in court," and then suddenly it was "I might have misspoke" 😅

[@roblewis226]

He decided he could reduce the headcount and boost his bonus. He fired the first person who crossed his path.

[@randolphstead2988]

When he says "we" he means "you."

[@leewilliams955]

Employment tribunal will equal i nice little earner lol 😂

[@gregoryk.9815]

No no you will be doing extra shifts until you get somebody. Nobody else will be working extra shifts to cover for your incompetence, you fired him you covered the duties

[@dukeofdevon5608]

Unfair dismissal case coming up

[@lindabarrett5631]

They always refer to "we." That really means you.

[@ataraxiadreaming9]

Dude should have just quit that day he already he knows his boss is an asshole.

[@AshleySpeaks4U]

From ER: "I'm sorry to send you this so late, but I'm in the ER. I was at my car door this morning and was hit by an addict speeding by." Boss: "So how many hours until you will be in?" 😂

[@CuriousRobyn]

As someone who sort of fell into being a manager, these videos show me that I’m pretty good at my job and also how not to act! Because wow.

[@FantasmagoriaAhoy]

I've only had two competent managers. The rest clearly got promoted because they were too dangerous on the front line.

[@LT-hg7fc]

My son worked at a big brand store and had to take some unexpected time off while his dad was dying. They gave him points because he had to call in the weekend his dad passed away. You get so many points and you are fired. One day he thought he was working an 8hr shift and took an hour lunch but was actually working a 7 hr shift and should have taken a half hour lunch. His manager said that would probably be 2 points and he knew that would put him over so he quit. They freaked because they didn't have anyone so they told him they wouldn't give him the points but he decided to still quit. Lessons learned for that manager. Dumb asses!!!

[@stavrosk.2868]

At a job where I worked for ten years, a former colleague became my boss. Funnily enough, he transformed into a mini Hitler obsessed with control. He started harassing people ,me included, to a point where I sought legal advice. That scared him. Once I left, for three years I saw ads popping up searching for an employee with my exact job description. Eventually he was fired because he had caused the departure of many trusted, good workers.

[@RobertLeather]

I got a written warning because I booked the morning off to visit my father in hospital and he died while I was with him. I contacted work to tell them what was going on. I had to stay the whole day to help my family. But I failed to update my holiday record within 5 days, because my father died. So they gave me a written warning. They did the same thing when I attended the funeral home and it overran by one hour. We parted company not long after that and the day I left was extraordinary, it was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Nobody needs to work for toxic companies and people.

[@MrMojo23100]

I would have to respond "Well if it's not a joke why are you 'laughing out loud?' That is extremely unprofessional and something HR will not be laughing about when I forward them this conversation."

[@mariangeerling2950]

Could this be a case of wrongful dismissal? This could cost the boys far more than he's realizing. And these texts could be a beach of privacy. More fines.

[@queen_nat4586]

"We'll power through, we got this" Is when I'd respond with "No, you got this. I quit"

[@JDYTC]

This channel gave me such a different perspective on Britons/Englishmen…

[@JeffTaylorRomania]

My car broke down on my way to work. I had to call AAA and have it towed. I was an hour late to work. I'm on salary. First words out of my boss's mouth when I came in was how was he going to deduct this from my pay. I told him you're not deducting a penny from my pay. Salary. And it was completely out of my control.

[@Uriel-Septim.]

Who are those people hiring all those awful middle managers, they should get fired.

[@LetholdusKaspyr]

When my employers have talked about needing to let someone go, they've always had a sort of tense poker face on as they're clearly dreading the process of the firing paperwork, recruiting and hiring a replacement, and filling in those extra shifts. To merit this kind of gleeful boot, someone had to screw up a lot worse than "late twice this week."

[@samsungemployee5243]

As a former employer i dont known how i feel about this because indeed when understaffed i did everything myself but i also started the restaurant by myself

[@jazihughey8161]

I have never had a boss care about “why” literally got skipped for a raise because even though I was hitting my targets I wasn’t hitting them as quickly as I had been. I said yeah I have a newborn now so I am a little tired: they recommend I get a sitter. 😂 I left that job 2 months later.

[@noahsiegle1058]

OH, my gosh! I wonder if this Matt was the person I was working with. It happened 3 weeks ago, he was fired on a friday, due to "poor work performance" and he showed up late twice that week because he was sick and his car broke down. I AM NOT KIDDING! Like, we all loved this man, he was our hardest worker, and he was given the boot Friday morning at 11:30 am. The people that fired him, they apparently didn't go through HR to fire him, and our HR director is soooo mad about it. Was it that Matt? By the way, the boss that fired him does absolutely nothing and he shows up late everyday and pisses the team off, just about everyday.

[@eng.miroslavmanahilov1944]

Someone needs to get some caps broken.

[@EllRiver]

"Well youve got a bigger issue now" "i talked to jack and rick. We decided that if your firing matt we quit."

[@travelwell6049]

That’s absolutely moronic. I wish the second person would go to HR and get the poor bloke his job back. This is definitely in America otherwise a tribunal case will be happening.

[@M23js]

I work at a place with a "point system" 12 points, you're gone. Call out is one point, on a holiday its two. Late is a half a point. If you are sick or out for a week, with a doctor note, its one point. Points fall off at the 90 day mark from getting the point. Lots of wiggle room. I am homeless and have no car. I have been at that job for 3 years, no call outs, no points and i have 3 kids that 2 of which have bdays on holidays. No excuses if even i can make it.

[@LexKaiNix]

I was 5 minutes late to work, wearing a sling on one arm and a hospital bracelet on the other. My boss told me that if I couldn’t arrive on time, to not bother and just take the day off (without pay! As if!) The next day I had a check up. Cue vicious compliance… boss called me 8 times that morning. Oh… I totally forgot that we had a client meeting that afternoon… sorry 🤞🏻

[@jtidema]

I'd say "Oh, such bad timing, as I'm not going to be able to work extra for several weeks".

[@da33smith37]

Meanwhile everybody is thinking, this might be a good time to start looking for a new job and a new boss

[@scruffythefuzzybear7872]

My aunt when she was my cafe manager I was about to sign contract with the cafe and then my car broke down, my highten emotion got the best of me at work not by choice and then got fired same day talking about her shit.

[@MajinGatomon]

If my boss does stuff like that, he will have my resignation letter on his desk as soon as I get a new position. And then hope he gave Matt the 14 days because otherwise you will not either.

[@kozma8362]

Should have resigned right there. Not only puts the dude in the toilet, but also preemptive of you being fired for some bs.

[@larry01902]

My boss wrote me up once for calling out of work an hour before my shift. The brakes in my car failed on my way to work and my car was smashed into a tree. My boss could not understand why I didn't just have the wrecker taking my car drop me at work.

[@drsiigabb9935]

I have them at work now. You only statt when you get to log on. Not when you have to scan through the turnstiles or after you walk into the building or after you scan through the gates, after you scan through the door or after you get up on the next floor or after you put all your PED in a locker ofr after you scan through the nedlxt door to then walk the length of the building to get to you desk. Takes about 8-10minutes each way from the first entry point to your desk. If you add the walk from the carpark its now 15 each way. 2025 will be work to rule. If its not in my taskings it wont be done

[@StrawberryFieldsNIR]

I suspect "late a couple of times" was just the once. And doofus boss admitted he was "looking for a reason".

[@starbird14]

"excuses" is an excuse for not listening

[@JustARandomSomething]

I was 4 hours late on boxing day, the previous shift had to stay on until I arrived (they got overtime for it), managment didn't tell me off, they didn't even mention it, because they know I don't do it often and it's a one off. More managment should be more considerate

[@harryboyes2812]

Lawsuit time.

[@BluDonHamp]

Is this my former boss? She wrote me in for being late when my car broke down on the freeway. I had to be told by the city to get off of the freeway and into a parking lot. Then I had to be told by AAA to a mechanic. I had receipts for all of it and I was told teachers do not get that kind of leeway.

[@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm]

I would immediately say that I would be working my usual hours and wish the boss good luck in powering through and covering for Matt.

[@johncarter4411]

Matt is better off. I had the best employee that missed her first week of work. She told me their car battery blew up on her husband's face. Now since I didn't know her and we didn't have phones that could send pictures she could only prove it with hospital receipts, but I didn't ask for them, just went by her word. When her husband recovered enough to take care of himself she turned out to be the best employee. Bosses need to realize that life events happen. I once missed a week at a new job as well, I had the Flu two B, was so sick and I did not get fired.

[@WickedParanoid]

"We've got this" Translation: YOU've got this. I ain't doing shit, I'm da boss, yo.

[@marcushinton772]

Been in this sort of situation so many times it just washes over me

[@ZombieWolfe]

"it is important to have reliable transportation"

[@jaymez3461]

Manager is super unprofessional. They should have been the one to be fired. Lol

[@Gr8FullyDead420]

I would’ve told him that there’s no “we” here. YOU’RE gonna power through this cause YOU fired him for a bs reason.

[@AllHailDiskordia]

Maybe we, as a species,should stop glorifying sociopath bosses

[@AlexKingsfallen]

I'd be waiting for the boss in the carpark. Let's see how tough the boss is then.

[@Goosey328]

Ben Askins is why my old manager hates me

[@DragonsREpic]

"Why is no one loyal anymore?"

[@MrDamz]

Then they wonder why the company fails

[@amandaloel1782]

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@wimeatsworld]

Sounds like an excellent boss to not have. The kind that would wonder why you want to take a "holiday" just because your parents died etc.

[@AshleyB0422]

Literally sounds like my partners boss. The man is a drug addict and alcoholic and after 10pm if something pisses him off he loses it on the closest person who doesn't kiss his butt.

[@SarahJohnson-bv2sh]

Like the time I had a tree fall across my driveway. It was 5:30 in the morning. I waited till 7:00 to go to my neighbor's so he could kindly cut up the tree for me. I texted my supervisor a photo. He understood

[@spiderzvow1]

Odd. I don't see a "power through bonus" section on my paycheck so this sounds like ur problem

[@adamwillers6251]

If he was that useless, they'd have to power on through and pick up his shit when he was there to make up for what he wasn't doing

[@CorvoFG]

In the U.K. Matt will be quids in with his unfair dismissal claim. Due process not followed.

[@amandafrazier9724]

As my mother says, "What's this 'we' shit; you got a mouse in your pocket?"

[@mastergargoyle3901]

I'd say no to those extra shifts

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Young me vs. old me. Young me would have stayed. Old me would quit and been _very_ vocal as to why. And yes. Middle aged me did quit a job similarly and was very happy with the result.

[@NightRaydes]

So he's useless that the people working with him freak out that you fired him. Thats how useless he is.

[@AlisonGwynethBrown]

Then they ignore someone late every shift while you are 5 minutes later you are phoned several times as you are usually early

[@KatyCupcakes]

It wasn’t about him being late, that was just to excuse to get rid of him

[@TallyDrake]

Sounds to me like the manager was looking for an excuse to fire the guy. Late twice? He showed up, didn't he, even when his car broke down?

[@boydrid]

The manager not doing extra work isn't surprising. But I had been doing this even before becoming a manager. I will ask someone who has been wanting extra hours before. If they want the hours. But if no one does. Then I know that I have to do whatever extra work is needed. I have found that by asking someone. And not just trying to tell them what I would like them to do. Gets a lot better response from the other workers.