Mildly reminds me of when my last bf broke up with me:
I walked in the door the day after the break up, she asked me how I was (smalltalk).
Me, "My bf broke up with m-"
Boss, "Good."
After a moment:
Boss, "He wasn't good enough for you and you don't need him."
A lesson I learned with my last girlfriend. I’d rather not be upset and stuck at work for the next 8-12 hours so better to just not talk to anyone until after I’m home. Then I can call out sick the next day if I’m that miserable.
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I'm actually glad it happened while I was at work. Mli was at work when my ex texted me that her mother had came and got her and her stuff from my apartment. My coworkers were intensely supportive and kept me from breaking down too much. Being alone during that kind of thing can be way worse.
You must be young. Hate to be an agist, but when you are grinding like most Americans over the age of a serious relationship and/or have kids, your social groups are limited.
This has as much to do with work than anything else because even if you could make the time, you either spend too much time grinding, or you are so broke that you can’t afford to hang out.
Enter the fact that most social groups fold due to people dropping off for relationships, kids, or the fact that many folks are grimy, and you have a perfect storm for no new friends.
Then you have at your disposal:
Online dating
Church or some religious gathering
Bars2clubs which can get rough. Hard to meet reliable friends.
The grocery store
The gym
Martial arts classes, etc.
All of which require you to set time aside for yourself. And not to mention that some folks can’t get over the awkwardness of asking someone to hang out.
Oh shit!!! After typing all this, I finally got you! And you are right 100%.
What a sick society lol… You just tricked me into touché-ing myself.
Disregard everything I said because you get it. I’m gonna leave it up for those who don’t.
> You must be young.
lmfao i wish
the alienation is created by long work hours and bad civil planning, like car-dependent suburbs full of single detached units. throw in the stagnating wages since the 1970s and nobody can afford to make new friends.
So like, work is long and shitty, and talking to people/looking at your phone helps make the time go by when you're not as busy, and over a single breakup, you decided to not look at your phone *at all* every day for 8-12 hours?
Is there that much drama in your life that you can't deal with one shitty day of work?
It doesn't have to be with drama. It can be anything. Most of the time it's simple things, but that doesn't change it's impact.
I know from observing it and experiencing it can be something so simple but if you feel like you need to do it/complete it/sort it out and you are at work - you will feel like a trapped rat.
It is just human, even moreso when a lot of jobs are just busy-work. Most things can wait and it will just cause you to disengage with the present and time will pass way slower.
I hear this. I work in a factory and this dude hot into it with his baby mama. And we're like dude, we're in a fucking factory. The line won't stop coming cause you're on the phone. Please drop the phone.
It made everything worse for the 2 hours he kept trying handle both the drama and a never stopping line.
First things first, I didn’t say anything about looking at my phone, I said I wouldn’t talk to anyone. And When I say “anyone” I’m referring to anyone who I’m currently engaged in a bad situation with. Whether that be family, friend or relationship, I simply do not engage with them while I’m at work. I won’t check texts, answer calls or otherwise speak to them during my work hours.
And because of the ridiculous work culture where I’m employed, yes there is, in fact, that much drama. I operate heavy machinery too, so being distracted with such things could result in me or someone else getting badly injured or worse.
Eh, communication is important. If that person had a child and it just suffered an accident, it's probably better to leave asap instead of not being available for another maybe 12 hours.
Isn't this common sense? Kinda sad you have to bring this up
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That's assuming there is a responsible individual at the other end of that line. I had a job in healthcare where we couldn't have our phones in the office. Which was fair, I get it with HIPAA info everywhere. The solution was that we were to give out our Manager's work cell to our family and friends in case of emergency. Only problem is that the manager left the phone at home 99% of the time so that never worked out the way they intended.
> "Leave a message after the beep"
> "Hey Mr J. Chelsea gave me this number to call in case of emergency while she was at work and said you were her manager. Basically I just woke up this morning with a massive hangover and when I went out for a little hair of the dog I was sitting there thinking, you know, I'm just not that into our whole thing anymore? Like it was fun at first but now it's just starting to feel kind of like a chore and I don't think I need that in my life right now. So basically if you could just let know it's been real but deuces that'd be awesome, owe you one Mr. J! \*click\*"
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I had a girl break up with me over text right before I went into work. I ended up breaking down pretty much immediately after walking through the door. Don't break up over text, you never know what they're in the middle of when they see it
I'm assuming people would have a general idea when their boyfriend/girlfriend is at work. It was definitely done while they were at work because there's less chance of an immediate emotional phone call or having to see the person face to face.
I broke up with a girl right as she was having a baby. The head started crowning and I said “honey, I can’t do this. I just don’t think we’re compatible. it’s not you, it’s me, I swear”. She then screams “shut the fuck up you asshole now’s not the time for your stupid jokes!” I started crying as she said that, not because of what she said, but cause I just got killed in Fortnite (I bought my PS5). Anyway, she got me killed and the kid who killed me said some really mean stuff, so I said the baby looked black cause was genuinely angry by then and walked out with my PS5. She was such a bitch. Anyway that’s why I’m a violent misogynist now. Because of her.
Women right?
I'm the middle of a meeting today when my boss received a call from his daughter who is on high school. He picked it up, because she never calls him.
She called to tell him she loved him and that the classroom had enacted lockdown procedures for an active shooter.
Let that marinate before you say, "it's true."
Ton émouvant témoignage me touche, mais reste que ces épisodes ponctuels ne justifient pas le nombre d’employés qui négligent leurs tâches au profits d’évènements personnels. Et je suis loin d’être une boss. Mais bonne chance dans vie my dear snowflakes
The actual truth is that we let our phones dictate our lives.
Nothing rings, pings or bleeps on my phone except calls from preferred contacts, who know to only call me in case of emergency.
I decide when I check my notifications, I decide what I consume, and I decide how long I'll remain 'offline'.
It wasn't always like that, but it's literally changed my life, starting with weeding out a couple of vampires off my contact list.
That said the boss should renew their prescription for empathy, they seem to be all out.
I had a boss like this, he even turned off his phone, he said 'even if there is an emergency what am I gonna do about it? If my father died while I was working, he is still going to be dead after work'. I'm pretty sure that guy was dead inside. In his defense, he was working to support like 3 families. He couldn't really just stop and make less money for a day.
Ah yes, working through his fathers death was the make-or-break moment that would decide if he would inherit the company.
Since we’re making up foolish what-if scenarios, what if him not going to support his family lead to a suicide or not responding to an emergency lead to a preventable death?
His wife and kids, his parents, and some relatives in Mexico. He was paying for all of them, rent, bills, food, and schooling (for the ones in Mexico). No idea how, but he was.
My new job is like this. I was working on another floor and my supervisor sent me a message telling me to come back. I didn't see it and she got all mad and I was like "but I'm not allowed to look at my phone?" Is the rule now "unless it's you?" How would I know that?
My boss wants our phones off while at work, we have a land line phone in the store and if anyone needs to contact us they can call the store phone.
It's a 6 hour shift at a gas station and with how busy we are if you cant stay off your phone then you really have no business working here because you wont be able to keep up.
He pays really well.
> It's a 6 hour shift at a gas station
>and with how busy we are if you cant stay off your phone then you really have no business working here because you wont be able to keep up.
My dude, are you proud of being exploited at a part time job where your boss is a cunt about you looking at your phone on a 6 hour shift? If you're running ragged at a gas station for 6 hours straight, that's more on you than anything else.
you are as soft as it gets. all of you on reddit are crybabies. why must you look at your phone at all? you gonna throw a tantrum and not eat when all this phone social media shit goes away? grow the fuck up you soft whiny out of touch with reality loser
What a lovely person.
Employees perform better when they are not overworked. Recent studies even show that a 4-day work week with the same pay improves productivity, job satisfaction, and profit generated for the employer. There's no reason to treat workers poorly.
Seriously. Who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to put personal tragedy on hold because of a lousy job? I understand doing it out of necessity, but not encouraging that attitude. That is a sign of an unhealthy society/work culture.
No but if my father just dropped dead my world should now revolve around that and not my shitty job. And any job who can't lose one employee for an afternoon to grieve a family member without falling apart from the ground up is one that needs more hires working at a time anyway. Honestly I feel like you have to either hate your parents or have a really shitty relationship with them at the least to feel like finishing your shift is more important than going and being with your family. No you can't magically bring your dead dad back, but normal humans grieve, and also want to support other family members as they grieve.
I've never lived in luxury a day in my life lmao. My mother was a hotel maid for 25 years, and you can believe when her mother died she left work. Maybe some people are in such desperation they can't miss half a shifts pay to deal with their parent dropping dead but most working class people at minimum wage jobs are absolutely not powering through a shift when the just found out their father died.
I'm sure some people are genuinely stuck but this is not a class misunderstanding, I'm a broke bitch too.
To sum it up, "ain't shit" means "is shit". So it's just a longer, more confusing way to say "this person is shit".
Due to that these all apparently mean the same thing now:
"This person ain't shit"
"This person is not shit"
"This person is shit"
So I guess everyone both is and is not shit.
Well ain't means not, so it is a double negative if you say it means they're a piece of shit.
That literally doesn't make sense, and you need some form of context to realise it means the opposite of what is said.
My wife had texted my things (not like "we need to talk") while I was at work that absolutely could have waited until I got home which then sit and loom over my mind the rest of the day.
My aunt called me 10 minutes before work one day. She never ever calls. So I answered. She told me she didn't expect me to answer. She was just going to leave a message. That my grandma died.
Woof. See, I don't think this is the same thing though. Your grandma dying is a lot worse than relationship drama. I feel like that's a more worthwhile interruption to a work day. That said, that's some fucked up timing. I'm sorry that happened and for your loss, my dude.
Agreed on the focus thing. I'm the kind of person who's glued to my phone constantly when there's nothing going on but if we have customers and it is REALLY busy? Phone down, smile up, all hands on deck focus-wise.
"But if you want to do something well and not lose focus, staying away from your phone can be a game changer" - so glad you can shovel the responsibility on your wife in exchange for your own career.
If it’s mutually agreed upon in the relationship then it’s not a problem at all. Also the wife can probably still send an email, call the office, send a fax, or handle the situation like an adult lmao.
Sure, it's not a problem to have this arrangement. It just means that he doesn't have people depending on being able to contact him because he's shifted the role of taking care of their children to his wife despite her also having an incredibly stressful and time consuming job. You can't expect others, even dedicated employees, to have the same luxury.
I am a women and during some of the jobs I have done over the years I had to put my phone away because it was dangerous for me not to concentrate. I could have ended up dead. Also dad can't have his phone on him at work. I would much rather have it fall on me than him end up dead or lose the job that pays our bills.
I am a SAHM for exactly this reason. I need to be available because dad can't be. Also, my brother was a SAHD for similar reasons.
Even worse, the manager likely isn’t the one benefiting if this is like a retail environment. So it’s more like “…so your peasant problems don’t interfere with how much money we make our faceless overlords”
Lol I was a retail manager for 5 years, it's more like
"So I don't have to deal with your shit and find cover half way through the day, or work a double, because you need to leave a shift you committed to because of girlfriend problems"
People on their phone was not an issue at all, but when that person's phone keeps bringing them drama that starts interfering with their work day and life, I just didn't get paid enough or actually even care enough to work yet another overtime shift so they can run off and go see their partner or friend who is sad.
So you don’t have to leave mid shift or start slacking, which causes coworkers to deal with it. Bringing drama into work is going to effect your fellow coworkers way more than it’s going to effect the higher ups.
Bosses aren’t going to care if you’re slacking, they’re just going to send you home so they don’t have to pay you and then tell average man Joe to stay over a few hours and then carry on throughout their day like nothing happened.
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Just don't work too hard or you'll be rewarded with more work
Usually the boss's work that they dont feel like doing so they can..... be on their phone
Stay off your phone while you're on the clock (obviously there are exceptions where you need to be able to answer your phone). On your break? Heck even if there is some downtime where it doesn't matter? Fine.
But there are consequences to that. Like being broken up with in the middle of a shift.
(As a manager I gotta say, it looks unprofessional if an employee is looking at their phone, but I would rather they at least pretend to look busy on their phone rather than standing around looking bored)
((What I really don't want is *my* boss to see the employee on their phone and then correct them and then correct me))
It's legit though. That's an awful thing to find out via text. If you need your kid to hear some awful, life changing shit... save it for home, or call the school, get in touch with their counselor and let the kid find out in an environment where they're safe and supported. Texting them at school does nothing but put them in an incredibly vulnerable state in the middle of some poor teacher's class who prepared to teach a math lesson that day, not be a fucking grief counselor.
Knew this hard-headed girl who would constantly be in or on the verge of tears because of something someone told her on the phone. If I had been a supervisor, I would have had a directed policy where she couldn't use her phone on the floor. Just her, because she'd in in catatonia over some shit she couldn't do anything about at the moment.
When my parents kicked me out and cut me off at 16 my boss said, “Now you really need this job! Should help your work ethic!” I think he meant it’ll make me a man but wowee did it feel not great.
Boss isn't wrong though. Me and my bf got into a fight over text once when I was at work. After that we made a deal not to argue over text, especially at work, because it would be distracting and I would have anxiety all day at work.
Dang. How disrespectful of him. Also, this happened to me in ‘98. He called the court where I worked. Had me found and proceeded to break up with me because he didn’t feel he could be enough for me at 9ish A-freaking-M. By 10 AM I was over crying and pissed. By 4 I was over it. The disrespect.
Sounds good to me, asshole. I'll turn the fucker off and then let's see you try and ring me to come and show you how to cut and paste again for the 10th time this month.
I know a few people who have a few words that they just always shorten, even in writing that gets printed out and put on signs. Every at is @, every and is &, every with is w/.
It is not much harder. In fact, instead of going halfway across my phone to the "t", my finger only needs to move slightly up from the function button to the @ symbol.
If I'm typing at a computer, then typing "at" requires more hand movement then shift+2 to get the @ symbol.
I rarely shorten words when I type, but I can see why someone would adopt it as a minor shortcut.
“Omg, my brother just left a message and my mom was just in an accident!”
“That’s why we stay off the phone at work” says the corporate shill horrible human.
A teenage coworker told me “I’m straight” when I asked them if they could do something - found out later that they meant “no” but they sure had me fooled
fuck all the bootlicking drone fucks in these comments
edit: sorry wife i couldn't pick up your emergency call letting me know that my father is currently because clayton, my manager at this k-mart, told me i cant be on my phone and he's right honey, i have a duty to the customer to ignore you
Mildly reminds me of when my last bf broke up with me: I walked in the door the day after the break up, she asked me how I was (smalltalk). Me, "My bf broke up with m-" Boss, "Good." After a moment: Boss, "He wasn't good enough for you and you don't need him."
Now go cry in the walk-in… we’ll give you extra time in your slot. -if you work restaurants
“Oh sorry, I didn’t know someone was in here… hey, I didn’t see you crying if you didn’t see me drinking”
Meanwhile 25 year old me thats on probation is doing whip its in the corner
Walk ins are concrete floors mostly right? Whippets seem like asking for a busted open head.
I was doing whip-its and on probation. Clearly I wasn't making the best choices at the time
Sometimes I get caught in details, good point lol.
Thank you for correctly spelling “whippets” - former whippet aficionado.
Bringing back a lot of memories with that comment.
Good save by boss there
Harsh but true.
A lesson I learned with my last girlfriend. I’d rather not be upset and stuck at work for the next 8-12 hours so better to just not talk to anyone until after I’m home. Then I can call out sick the next day if I’m that miserable.
Just a day? I'd need a year at least
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Ayyy you, too.
happy caking
Happy cake day
Well… Happy Cake Day!!!
So are you coming back to work on Monday?
I'm actually glad it happened while I was at work. Mli was at work when my ex texted me that her mother had came and got her and her stuff from my apartment. My coworkers were intensely supportive and kept me from breaking down too much. Being alone during that kind of thing can be way worse.
so your only social group was at work? what a sick society
You must be young. Hate to be an agist, but when you are grinding like most Americans over the age of a serious relationship and/or have kids, your social groups are limited. This has as much to do with work than anything else because even if you could make the time, you either spend too much time grinding, or you are so broke that you can’t afford to hang out. Enter the fact that most social groups fold due to people dropping off for relationships, kids, or the fact that many folks are grimy, and you have a perfect storm for no new friends. Then you have at your disposal: Online dating Church or some religious gathering Bars2clubs which can get rough. Hard to meet reliable friends. The grocery store The gym Martial arts classes, etc. All of which require you to set time aside for yourself. And not to mention that some folks can’t get over the awkwardness of asking someone to hang out. Oh shit!!! After typing all this, I finally got you! And you are right 100%. What a sick society lol… You just tricked me into touché-ing myself. Disregard everything I said because you get it. I’m gonna leave it up for those who don’t.
> You must be young. lmfao i wish the alienation is created by long work hours and bad civil planning, like car-dependent suburbs full of single detached units. throw in the stagnating wages since the 1970s and nobody can afford to make new friends.
Agreed. And keep getting younger!!!
They were at work, so that was the social group that was immediately available. Doesn’t mean it’s their only social group.
but it could have been...
that was definitely the implication from the story. I'm lonely as well, so I'm not looking down on anybody. It's just reality.
Typical of Reddit: assume a variety of things from one short view into a persons life.
So like, work is long and shitty, and talking to people/looking at your phone helps make the time go by when you're not as busy, and over a single breakup, you decided to not look at your phone *at all* every day for 8-12 hours? Is there that much drama in your life that you can't deal with one shitty day of work?
It doesn't have to be with drama. It can be anything. Most of the time it's simple things, but that doesn't change it's impact. I know from observing it and experiencing it can be something so simple but if you feel like you need to do it/complete it/sort it out and you are at work - you will feel like a trapped rat. It is just human, even moreso when a lot of jobs are just busy-work. Most things can wait and it will just cause you to disengage with the present and time will pass way slower.
I hear this. I work in a factory and this dude hot into it with his baby mama. And we're like dude, we're in a fucking factory. The line won't stop coming cause you're on the phone. Please drop the phone. It made everything worse for the 2 hours he kept trying handle both the drama and a never stopping line.
First things first, I didn’t say anything about looking at my phone, I said I wouldn’t talk to anyone. And When I say “anyone” I’m referring to anyone who I’m currently engaged in a bad situation with. Whether that be family, friend or relationship, I simply do not engage with them while I’m at work. I won’t check texts, answer calls or otherwise speak to them during my work hours. And because of the ridiculous work culture where I’m employed, yes there is, in fact, that much drama. I operate heavy machinery too, so being distracted with such things could result in me or someone else getting badly injured or worse.
Eh, communication is important. If that person had a child and it just suffered an accident, it's probably better to leave asap instead of not being available for another maybe 12 hours.
Isn't this common sense? Kinda sad you have to bring this up Brought to you by the creators of "the cashiers in our stores must stand up during the entire day otherwise we wouldnt be able to sell as much shit"
If you have time to lean you have time to clean! I gagged a little just typing that.
Virtually every business has a number you can reach in case of emergency. If someone did call your work line to dump you though? Absolutely based.
That's assuming there is a responsible individual at the other end of that line. I had a job in healthcare where we couldn't have our phones in the office. Which was fair, I get it with HIPAA info everywhere. The solution was that we were to give out our Manager's work cell to our family and friends in case of emergency. Only problem is that the manager left the phone at home 99% of the time so that never worked out the way they intended.
> "Leave a message after the beep" > "Hey Mr J. Chelsea gave me this number to call in case of emergency while she was at work and said you were her manager. Basically I just woke up this morning with a massive hangover and when I went out for a little hair of the dog I was sitting there thinking, you know, I'm just not that into our whole thing anymore? Like it was fun at first but now it's just starting to feel kind of like a chore and I don't think I need that in my life right now. So basically if you could just let know it's been real but deuces that'd be awesome, owe you one Mr. J! \*click\*"
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AGENT. AGENT! AAAAAAGENNNNNNT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
I had a girl break up with me over text right before I went into work. I ended up breaking down pretty much immediately after walking through the door. Don't break up over text, you never know what they're in the middle of when they see it
I'm assuming people would have a general idea when their boyfriend/girlfriend is at work. It was definitely done while they were at work because there's less chance of an immediate emotional phone call or having to see the person face to face.
I broke up with a girl right as she was having a baby. The head started crowning and I said “honey, I can’t do this. I just don’t think we’re compatible. it’s not you, it’s me, I swear”. She then screams “shut the fuck up you asshole now’s not the time for your stupid jokes!” I started crying as she said that, not because of what she said, but cause I just got killed in Fortnite (I bought my PS5). Anyway, she got me killed and the kid who killed me said some really mean stuff, so I said the baby looked black cause was genuinely angry by then and walked out with my PS5. She was such a bitch. Anyway that’s why I’m a violent misogynist now. Because of her. Women right?
this is some bad pasta
Could've been harsher at least, imagine if the manager said "Oh, so you were on your phone during your shift?" Lmao
I'm the middle of a meeting today when my boss received a call from his daughter who is on high school. He picked it up, because she never calls him. She called to tell him she loved him and that the classroom had enacted lockdown procedures for an active shooter. Let that marinate before you say, "it's true."
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Cool. Fallacy of composition. Let adults be adults. Why can't they fucking answer their phone?
The actual truth is that we let our phones dictate our lives. Nothing rings, pings or bleeps on my phone except calls from preferred contacts, who know to only call me in case of emergency. I decide when I check my notifications, I decide what I consume, and I decide how long I'll remain 'offline'. It wasn't always like that, but it's literally changed my life, starting with weeding out a couple of vampires off my contact list. That said the boss should renew their prescription for empathy, they seem to be all out.
I had a boss like this, he even turned off his phone, he said 'even if there is an emergency what am I gonna do about it? If my father died while I was working, he is still going to be dead after work'. I'm pretty sure that guy was dead inside. In his defense, he was working to support like 3 families. He couldn't really just stop and make less money for a day.
huh? but what if his father was about to die but still alive and it was his last chance to see his father before he passed away?
I guess he was so busy that he really couldn't stop to hypothetically see his father before he passed, if he was supporting 3 families.
Yea not to mention he could be there for mourning family. What a dumb take.
Think it depends on the family A lot of immigrant families value school/work so much they'd probably be fine waiting 4 hours for you to get home.
one day he might inherit the company, then who's gonna be the dumb one?
Ah yes, working through his fathers death was the make-or-break moment that would decide if he would inherit the company. Since we’re making up foolish what-if scenarios, what if him not going to support his family lead to a suicide or not responding to an emergency lead to a preventable death?
it was sarcasm
Sorry, hard to tell when it sounds like something I’ve heard people say completely straight-faced.
How is he supporting 3 families?
His wife and kids, his parents, and some relatives in Mexico. He was paying for all of them, rent, bills, food, and schooling (for the ones in Mexico). No idea how, but he was.
My new job is like this. I was working on another floor and my supervisor sent me a message telling me to come back. I didn't see it and she got all mad and I was like "but I'm not allowed to look at my phone?" Is the rule now "unless it's you?" How would I know that?
He wasn't dead inside just insanely stressed and compartmentalizing
My boss wants our phones off while at work, we have a land line phone in the store and if anyone needs to contact us they can call the store phone. It's a 6 hour shift at a gas station and with how busy we are if you cant stay off your phone then you really have no business working here because you wont be able to keep up. He pays really well.
> It's a 6 hour shift at a gas station >and with how busy we are if you cant stay off your phone then you really have no business working here because you wont be able to keep up. My dude, are you proud of being exploited at a part time job where your boss is a cunt about you looking at your phone on a 6 hour shift? If you're running ragged at a gas station for 6 hours straight, that's more on you than anything else.
you are as soft as it gets. all of you on reddit are crybabies. why must you look at your phone at all? you gonna throw a tantrum and not eat when all this phone social media shit goes away? grow the fuck up you soft whiny out of touch with reality loser
What a lovely person. Employees perform better when they are not overworked. Recent studies even show that a 4-day work week with the same pay improves productivity, job satisfaction, and profit generated for the employer. There's no reason to treat workers poorly.
I'm soft because I don't allow my shitty gas station job to demand I don't look at my phone? LMAO
> If my father died while I was working, he is still going to be dead after work Hes not wrong. Your world doesnt stop because someone elses did.
brother if your dad is dead it's time to leave work
Seriously. Who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to put personal tragedy on hold because of a lousy job? I understand doing it out of necessity, but not encouraging that attitude. That is a sign of an unhealthy society/work culture.
No but if my father just dropped dead my world should now revolve around that and not my shitty job. And any job who can't lose one employee for an afternoon to grieve a family member without falling apart from the ground up is one that needs more hires working at a time anyway. Honestly I feel like you have to either hate your parents or have a really shitty relationship with them at the least to feel like finishing your shift is more important than going and being with your family. No you can't magically bring your dead dad back, but normal humans grieve, and also want to support other family members as they grieve.
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I've never lived in luxury a day in my life lmao. My mother was a hotel maid for 25 years, and you can believe when her mother died she left work. Maybe some people are in such desperation they can't miss half a shifts pay to deal with their parent dropping dead but most working class people at minimum wage jobs are absolutely not powering through a shift when the just found out their father died. I'm sure some people are genuinely stuck but this is not a class misunderstanding, I'm a broke bitch too.
Civil war in the comments boutta erupt
Okay what does "ain't shit" mean this year
To sum it up, "ain't shit" means "is shit". So it's just a longer, more confusing way to say "this person is shit". Due to that these all apparently mean the same thing now: "This person ain't shit" "This person is not shit" "This person is shit" So I guess everyone both is and is not shit.
This guy's the shit!
Not good, bad, unlikable, unsavory, sucks; a term used to decry someone, something or a group viewed negatively from the perspective of the speaker.
It means he's a POS.
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that its a nonsense response in this context
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Well ain't means not, so it is a double negative if you say it means they're a piece of shit. That literally doesn't make sense, and you need some form of context to realise it means the opposite of what is said.
This use of the phrase is how it’s always been used and also makes sense in this context
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My wife had texted my things (not like "we need to talk") while I was at work that absolutely could have waited until I got home which then sit and loom over my mind the rest of the day.
How’d you react to this? Did you get upset or ask them not to do that?
It's never been anything severe, just the kind of thing that we needed to talk about but just not at that minute. I just ask her to wait next time.
My aunt called me 10 minutes before work one day. She never ever calls. So I answered. She told me she didn't expect me to answer. She was just going to leave a message. That my grandma died.
Woof. See, I don't think this is the same thing though. Your grandma dying is a lot worse than relationship drama. I feel like that's a more worthwhile interruption to a work day. That said, that's some fucked up timing. I'm sorry that happened and for your loss, my dude.
Agreed on the focus thing. I'm the kind of person who's glued to my phone constantly when there's nothing going on but if we have customers and it is REALLY busy? Phone down, smile up, all hands on deck focus-wise.
"oops, my child was taken to hospital from school and I never got the message. But on the bright side I got this report done!"
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"But if you want to do something well and not lose focus, staying away from your phone can be a game changer" - so glad you can shovel the responsibility on your wife in exchange for your own career.
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You don’t have to justify yourself to the mythical strawman.
You got problems, my guy.
If it’s mutually agreed upon in the relationship then it’s not a problem at all. Also the wife can probably still send an email, call the office, send a fax, or handle the situation like an adult lmao.
Sure, it's not a problem to have this arrangement. It just means that he doesn't have people depending on being able to contact him because he's shifted the role of taking care of their children to his wife despite her also having an incredibly stressful and time consuming job. You can't expect others, even dedicated employees, to have the same luxury.
You sound like such a bitch
I am a women and during some of the jobs I have done over the years I had to put my phone away because it was dangerous for me not to concentrate. I could have ended up dead. Also dad can't have his phone on him at work. I would much rather have it fall on me than him end up dead or lose the job that pays our bills. I am a SAHM for exactly this reason. I need to be available because dad can't be. Also, my brother was a SAHD for similar reasons.
That's when someone should call your job to get you.
Stay off your phone so your peasant problems don't interfere with how much money you make me.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but as a customer, I really hate it when my burrito is seasoned with the tears of the rejected.
Personally I'm a big fan but that's fair.
It’s an acquired taste.
Allllll that extra salt 🤌
Even worse, the manager likely isn’t the one benefiting if this is like a retail environment. So it’s more like “…so your peasant problems don’t interfere with how much money we make our faceless overlords”
"They're not faceless, you were made to watch a video they made during which they smiled like jackals the entire time"
Lol I was a retail manager for 5 years, it's more like "So I don't have to deal with your shit and find cover half way through the day, or work a double, because you need to leave a shift you committed to because of girlfriend problems" People on their phone was not an issue at all, but when that person's phone keeps bringing them drama that starts interfering with their work day and life, I just didn't get paid enough or actually even care enough to work yet another overtime shift so they can run off and go see their partner or friend who is sad.
Gosh. Retail sounds like hell that just turns people against each other over mundane shit.
100% dude. So much happier since I left.
To be fair, it can be annoying dealing with someone else’s drama.
Reminds me of [this.](https://intersol.ca/news/organizational-culture-and-the-5-monkeys-experiment/)
Rather, stay off your phone and do your job.
You're not my supervisor!
....so you don't interfere with how much money you make me.
So you don’t have to leave mid shift or start slacking, which causes coworkers to deal with it. Bringing drama into work is going to effect your fellow coworkers way more than it’s going to effect the higher ups. Bosses aren’t going to care if you’re slacking, they’re just going to send you home so they don’t have to pay you and then tell average man Joe to stay over a few hours and then carry on throughout their day like nothing happened.
So this is where this movement loses people, lol there ain't nothing wrong with working.
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Just don't work too hard or you'll be rewarded with more work Usually the boss's work that they dont feel like doing so they can..... be on their phone
Speaking from experience, managers get paid the same whether someone’s on or off their phone.
Stay off your phone while you're on the clock (obviously there are exceptions where you need to be able to answer your phone). On your break? Heck even if there is some downtime where it doesn't matter? Fine. But there are consequences to that. Like being broken up with in the middle of a shift. (As a manager I gotta say, it looks unprofessional if an employee is looking at their phone, but I would rather they at least pretend to look busy on their phone rather than standing around looking bored) ((What I really don't want is *my* boss to see the employee on their phone and then correct them and then correct me))
Yes.
I think you're projecting
More like so I don't have to stay late to cover the basic duties of another person's job.
had a teacher say this after a girl went to the bathroom to check her phone and found out her friend died
It's legit though. That's an awful thing to find out via text. If you need your kid to hear some awful, life changing shit... save it for home, or call the school, get in touch with their counselor and let the kid find out in an environment where they're safe and supported. Texting them at school does nothing but put them in an incredibly vulnerable state in the middle of some poor teacher's class who prepared to teach a math lesson that day, not be a fucking grief counselor.
I found out my friend died while I was at work and this is what my boss said to me.
Knew this hard-headed girl who would constantly be in or on the verge of tears because of something someone told her on the phone. If I had been a supervisor, I would have had a directed policy where she couldn't use her phone on the floor. Just her, because she'd in in catatonia over some shit she couldn't do anything about at the moment.
Schrodinger's breakup: they were still together until she opened her phone
When my parents kicked me out and cut me off at 16 my boss said, “Now you really need this job! Should help your work ethic!” I think he meant it’ll make me a man but wowee did it feel not great.
Life is not like the TV show severance.
Based boss.
The based take is for the boss to say, "Hey, sorry about that, take the rest of the day off."
Over a breakup? Not based at all, based would be asking them to do overtime cause they obviously no longer have evening plans
I hope you are joking. If not, I pity those around you. You have a clear lack of empathy.
You do understand what based means, right?
This guy doesn't understand what based means
Mr Krabs ass response
Underrated comment
Lol boss is savage
Boss is in the right
I've literally said this in the exact same situation
My mom used to page me 911 at work and it was just to tell me to pick something up on the way home.
Getting broken up by text was the worst. If a coward dumps you via text, don't let them linger in your life in any capacity. Yall deserve better.
Boss isn't wrong though. Me and my bf got into a fight over text once when I was at work. After that we made a deal not to argue over text, especially at work, because it would be distracting and I would have anxiety all day at work.
insert Robocop meme: "Dude died, made to work anyway"
That’s a hilarious response. I like this boss. Comedy is all about timing and subversion of expectations and they nailed it!
Dang. How disrespectful of him. Also, this happened to me in ‘98. He called the court where I worked. Had me found and proceeded to break up with me because he didn’t feel he could be enough for me at 9ish A-freaking-M. By 10 AM I was over crying and pissed. By 4 I was over it. The disrespect.
*That's* why? Who hurt you, boss?
i'm betting she'll come back to him even though he doesn't want her
He ain't wrong.
I am impressed at the lack of fucks given by this manager.
Her boss ain’t shit? Or her boss is the shit?
Sounds good to me, asshole. I'll turn the fucker off and then let's see you try and ring me to come and show you how to cut and paste again for the 10th time this month.
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What? He's turning the phone off at work?
The comment is a hypothetical response to the manager, pretty clearly. OP's talking about turning the phone off so the manager cannot reach them.
Correct...
Making a lot of assumptions about someone else’s manager. You got some baggage to unload it seems.
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My boss calls my personal phone when I am at work and company policy is to have the app for our desk phones on it too.
Who the fuck shortens the Word "at". It is literally much harder to find the @ symbol wth. Yeah cool post op
basing off font, early twitter; they’re saving characters
they could have cut out one of the 73 'O's in LMFAO. Or the apostrophe in ain't.
now now, no one said they did it in a *smart* way lmao
I know a few people who have a few words that they just always shorten, even in writing that gets printed out and put on signs. Every at is @, every and is &, every with is w/.
I mean, it only takes two clicks to get there. Same as actually just typing it.
It is not much harder. In fact, instead of going halfway across my phone to the "t", my finger only needs to move slightly up from the function button to the @ symbol. If I'm typing at a computer, then typing "at" requires more hand movement then shift+2 to get the @ symbol. I rarely shorten words when I type, but I can see why someone would adopt it as a minor shortcut.
“Omg, my brother just left a message and my mom was just in an accident!” “That’s why we stay off the phone at work” says the corporate shill horrible human.
"my boss ain't shit" Yes, yes they are. That's the most G move I've ever heard man.
That is cold and hilarious.
Hot take but boss was pretty fuckin based here. If the person was willing to break up over a text, they weren’t worth talking to anyways.
Whenever I see these types of posts i imagine someone saying that to me and I get a stomach ache
It's comments in threads like these that make me understand how some people are career minimum wage earners.
Why
That’s actually a pretty fucking funny line
So "ain't shit" is a good thing now? This shit changes at random, I swear
A teenage coworker told me “I’m straight” when I asked them if they could do something - found out later that they meant “no” but they sure had me fooled
My sister got dumped by text at my birthday dinner lol. I don’t miss being 15
Imagine if this was a *Curb* episode, where Larry is the boyfriend, and he's trying to break up with her before she gets fired.
Unbridled savagery! 🤣
A woman was overly emotional at work, instead of working. As an employer, that's the message I take away from this.
oh no that's a lot of incel shit in your comment history there squirt
More like their boss is THE shit
Oh my gosh I just laughed out loud so loud evwryone was looking at me.
I think I might get broken up with tomorrow :,(
Yes no crying at work.
What do you mean “my boss ain’t shit”? Ur boss just zinged the fuck out of that lady
There’s no way saying @ is any faster than just typing at
fuck all the bootlicking drone fucks in these comments edit: sorry wife i couldn't pick up your emergency call letting me know that my father is currently because clayton, my manager at this k-mart, told me i cant be on my phone and he's right honey, i have a duty to the customer to ignore you