Oh dear, having a temper tantrum are we?
The unnamed boss, from Chicago, was tipped over the edge when three sales reps gave two weeks notice at the same time, citing ‘better opportunities’ as their reason for leaving.
His response suggests that they might have a point.
He railed against them for not considering their co-workers who now have to work overtime when they have ‘lives outside of this job and CHILDREN’, and complained that he was missing his own kids’ band recital because he has to spend time hiring new staff.
As punishment, he vowed to make anyone quitting from now on work three months notice and spend that time training new employees, as well as docking their hourly wage by $6.
I don’t know how employment contract law works in the USA, but over here, it’s a unilateral variation to contract. The contract is void if the another party doesn’t agree to it. In practice however, people generally can’t afford to up sticks and walk out in protest. The most likely response henceforth is that people will find another job and leave with no notice. In that instance, there’s not much he can do. Dock their notice period? They already worked their notice, and didn’t tell him. Breach of contract? Yes, but as two are playing that game, good luck with that in court. Not that it would be likely for the employer to start suing his employees for walking out. The word gets out and the damage to reputation would be too great.
Some employers seem to think that there is more to the contract of employment than an exchange of time, labour and expertise for money. When you decide to pursue better opportunities, your employer and co workers’ needs aren’t exactly at the top of your considerations and nor should they be. You are paid to work there, not care about their needs.
The employee who posted the email said: ‘I laughed out loud at this email. Holy s***. Luckily I have three jobs and can afford to give my effective immediately notice when I show up tomorrow. Lol.’
I doubt they will be the only one doing it.
There’s a lot to be said for self employment. While you may still encounter such cretins, walking away from them is that much easier.
US employment laws are much weaker than those in most of Europe. In some states you can be fired on the spot for no real reason, you can also walk out without notice. It seems to be the case that, in such places, it is easier to pick up a new job because they can take you on with little risk if it doesn’t work out.
There are lots of similar stories to this one here:
https://www.boredpanda.com/people-work-mass-quitting-reddit/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
About ten years ago I had a call from a prospective rail client. During the initial discussions, it was made clear to me that they expected exclusivity. I was to give absolute loyalty to the company and they were to have exclusive access to my diary. I politely pointed out that as a self-employed contractor, my diary operated on a first-come-first-serve basis. If they wanted to book well ahead to ensure they got the dates they wanted, they were welcome to do so and while I would always present the best interest of the client while working under their name, I was still self employed and therefore a free agent offering the same services elsewhere. They hung up on me.
I speculate the leavers were single men who’d had enough of those with children constantly being excused from doing their job and the singletons having to cover for them
This is likely to increase in future
Anecdote: school to uni summer hols I worked in a 24/7 veg freezing factory. Staff all students as they were inteligent and reliable. When overtime offered, girls Always declined so much so that supervisors stopped asking them.
As an aside, without my MC to get to work I’d never have got the job: 1500-2300 shift as operator of blast freezer. Learned a lot from that job: science, logistics, productivity, efficiency…
…and appreciating staff, after being in blast freezer (-30c) I was allowed 5-10 mins in boiler room
Protective gear: an old parka, ear-defenders and chrome leather gloves – did the job fine
It’s also possible that they didn’t want to work for someone who is irrational, prone to tantrums and is completely lacking in self awareness.
Pcar
Belated but you are spot on. I can recall 20 years ago having a union utilise me as an example of ‘equal pay for equal work’. A couple of Union reps pointed out I was in fact paid more than my female counterpart in nominallly the same role- to which my response was when she started doing either ‘lates’ (2 to 10) or weekends then I’d consider it an ‘equal job’ overall. In fairness my femal colleague didn’t get the shift and weekend working premiums and didn’t mind because her personal circumstances precluded it.
But you are correct – definitely been a shift since the move to ‘flexible hours’ being a ‘right’ rather than discretionary. Hence the increase in automation and the use of robots.
Apologies for being off topic. But also in the US.
Rhode Island: Mandatory Vax or Pay Double Your Income Tax
A bill introduced in the Rhode Island legislature would require every eligible person who resides, works, or pays taxes in the state to take a COVID-19 vaccine.
Anyone who refuses will be fined $50 per month, AND “shall owe twice the amount of personal income taxes as would otherwise be assessed.”
The state will DOUBLE your taxes if you don’t comply.
This also applies to parents who refuse to inject their kids.
Any medical exemption requires the signature of three different doctors, with each document notarized.
But even medical exemptions can be thrown out if a government bureaucrat decides those doctors are wrong.
https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText22/SenateText22/S2552.pdf
They’re not backing down are they? Need for constant vigilance, especially once we work out how to neutralise the COVID shot!
OT but I thought that you might like this story.
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2022/04/woke-ariz-diversity-activists-falsely.html?m=1
I worked at the same place as a single person, a married person, and a married with sprog. I don’t recall any discrimination either way in all that time. Later, when we had paid off our mortgage, I applied to be allowed to work part time and was refused. The reason given was that the workload was too high to allow it. Our department had been understaffed for years and our complaints about it fell on deaf ears. Meanwhile, women in the office would go off on maternity leave, be replaced, then come back and work part time. No staff shortages there of course. I could have played hardball, got the union involved and claimed discrimination but I didn’t want to rock the boat that much. As it turned out I ended up retiring sooner.
All this cock has achieved is to ensure that nobody will want to take those jobs, and that many of his remaining employees also reflect and quit too.