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I hired a new employee to start on Tuesday
He came in on Monday
I fired him on the spot
Can’t follow simple fucking instructions
I hired a guy to start on Monday. He showed up at 8:45.
No Bueno buster, you were expected at exactly midnight because that’s when fuckin Monday starts.
Yep exactly
What an absolute piece of shit coming in 15 minutes early on your scheduled start date.
Yeah. I would have fired them on the spot.
Why?
Because if they came early it means that they not busy enough in their own life.
If life’s not a one big hustle for you, you are not even trying.
(/s just incase)
This reads like it came straight off of linked in. Perfection.
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I know this is sarcasm but the point of the lunatic was that he wanted them to come on Monday, a full day before.
I know you don’t have a laptop or a desk or email yet. Oh, and you’re not in the payroll system, but if you want to stand around all day not getting paid, I won’t stop you.
Assuming this isnt a parody, odds are good the job is a bog standard 40k a year desk job. Also filtering candidates and finding a suitable one takes many peoples’ time, which you are wasting if you have invisible criteria revealed on the persons start date.
You mean a fast paced environment?
Fucking dream for an office. I just got a table a notebook stand and a monitor. I have to carry the keyboard and mouse with me everywhere.
Shit most places do the “open office” thing where you get a third of this space and less privacy. Everyone can hear everyone’s calls.
And people wonder why employees hate RTO
Eh, I like our open office workspace. Our desks are large, we each get drawers, and if anyone needs to make a call, they go to a breakout room. Navigating cubicles sucks, and separate offices aren’t great either.
That said, I’m a developer, so inviting someone over to my desk to look at something is quite common. We also frequently have impromptu 5-min meetings between rows, and we arrange people so those who will likely need those quick meetings are near each other.
It certainly wouldn’t make sense for a call center or something, but it definitely makes sense for a creative, collaborative environment.
And ironically IIRC, this was the vision of the creator of the concept that managers then perverted into the infamous cubicle: a modular and open collaborative environment.
I mean this is a cubicle not an office, but they don’t even give you a designated desk?
Nope. You have to reserve a table and try to coordinate with your coworkers to reserve close. I like go to the office so people already knows the table I usually reserve, but sometimes someone else take out that table and I end in a different floor where the sun reflects on the neighbor building and blast my face all day.
Wow, that’s awful. We have an open office design, and everyone has an assigned desk. We even have a few spares for our remote employees when they visit.
You got a notebook stand?!
I swear HR has a rolodex of dumb filler phrases to put into job ads. The kind that are vague enough that nobody can specifically call them out on it later.
That looks like a dynamic fast paced environment, to me.
Oof, a solo cubical. Haven’t had one of those in like 8 years.
I once had a conversation with a dude in the waiting room at the doctor’s clinic. He said he purposely delayed in-person interviews for up to an hour sometimes so he can “judge” how the applicant reacts and show their dedication to getting the job. I pretty much stopped engaging after he said that. Fortunately I was called up shortly.
Always tell these people that they’re despicable to their face. It’s the only way to change their toxic culture.
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So he’s pissing off all the great candidates who have better options.
Seems that he is confusing desperation for dedication. The only people who are going to wait for an hour are those who have no other choice.
It seems to me that he is really testing their ability to put up with his bullshit more than anything. One of my biggest pet peeves professionally is respect for the time of others.
Wow, that’s terrible. If I’m not there 5 min early to perform your interview, I’ll apologize. Being on-time to something like that just invites time-wasting things like kicking the previous group out of the interview room or whatever.
An interview should be a 2-way deal, I’m representing the company and trying to find a good fit for the role, and you’re trying to decide whether the company is a good fit for you. If I’m late to an interview, I expect any self-respecting candidate to leave after 15 min, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they left after 5. I’m the one looking to fill a role, you’re just here to see if it suits you, so it’s on me to give the good impression IMO.
I was a naive young lad desperately looking for internship. I was waiting for one hour for an interview and then the hiring manager is a short lady with a stern face came to get me. I thought the interview was simple and easy enough but I didn’t get the job. Looking back, it was a power tripping move. However, I probably dodged a bullet because I heard from a colleague in my previous company that the company I tried to get internship in is toxic. The employees there have been working there for twenty years and stick to each other, not talking to new people. It is an old boy’s club basically.
I used to work for someone who would deliberately schedule 5 or 6 people for an interview on the same day and time, then sit and talk on the phone for an hour while everyone waited. She acted shocked when people got up and left.
yeah it honestly makes sense considering that what most job interviews are measuring is the candidate’s willingness to humiliate themselves for the boss
If the agreement says to come in on Tuesday, you’re arguably trespassing when you force your way in in Monday.
It’s called dedication
“Yes, I broke in the office at 4AM in a Sunday but that was only because I’m DEDICATED”
Gotta love the fake power trip stories on LinkedIn. Cringe fest.
Exactly. I’m not a lawyer but I struggle to find the legality of firing someone for showing up early for work. What nonsense.
Depending on where this person is, as long as they weren’t fired for something like their race, or religion, it is legal.
I think that in a lot of the US, firing people because you enjoy it is fine. It’s probably a hobby for some people over there.
Generally yes. There are some financial remedies possible in this sort of case if the employee did anything reasonable for the new job. Like, if they quit an old job they wouldn’t otherwise have or moved, they would have a potential case, since there was no actual reason they were immediately fired. If they didn’t already have a job and didn’t move, they’d probably be SOL unless they live in like California.
they’d probably be SOL unless they live in like California
Ah, but then they’d probably have cancer anyway.
Sounds like the employee dodged a bullet there.
Wood chippers for all the bosses.
Would have, if it were real. Hiring people is a bitch. You don’t ditch people because they’re not psychic psychos.
Yeah, show up a day early to your office job, and find out that they don’t have the system set-up for you to be there. Then go home, while everyone there thinks you got the start day wrong.
And have to go through three months of "yeah, remember? he’s the idiot that came in a day early?
yeah, the office in joke
This is toxicity manifest.
It’s also a made-up story to make people think the poster is HUSTLE PRIME
Why censore the account name? They put it out publicly to be shared.
Many places where content is posted would remove this because it contains “personal information” regardless of it being shared publicly or not.
Hillariously, I’ve tried this a few times. Either security wouldn’t let me in, or I couldn’t clock-in … no matter what, they didn’t pay for the time, or at least not the whole shift.
(vs OOP): Sure, encourage me to realize you aren’t worth working for before you have any idea what I can really do.
Showing up a few minutes early to work could make sense, but showing up a day early? WTF? Why would someone possibly tell you to start work on Tuesday unless there was some reason Monday intentionally wouldn’t work? I mean ffs, either you won’t be in the system, keys aren’t ready, your friggin co-workers may not be ready, no desk… And you want to show up a friggin day early and make someone babysit you on top of their regular job?
Honestly? Didn’t expect to get paid(this isn’t an entitlement thing from a peon perspective, so get that outta your head) and figured I had nothing better to do that day. Otherwise, I could sit-around and listen to my roommates bitch about how they didn’t really believe I got a new job, they think I should never have left my old one, or go somewhere(library? mall? zoo? bar?) where their words would echo in my head anyways.
All but one of these places, the start date was worked more around my schedule than theirs. There have also been a few places that weren’t ready for me to do anything on the date they said they would-be, or the “start-date” was nothing more than an hour of filling out paperwork.
Why wouldn’t I take the opportunity to potentially knock that out early on a day that is more convenient to me for whatever reason? My energy levels are all over the place, so whenever I have plenty and an opportunity to use it properly, I gotta strike while the iron’s hot.
I am a manager and have onboarded several people, and it would be extremely weird for someone to come in a day early. I generally expect the first week or two to mostly be learning how things work, and I’ve already set up how that’s going to work, which includes finding the relevant people to help you out. If someone comes in early, that would be inconvenient for me, because now I need to either find something for them to do, or take time away from my schedule to give them a tour or something. I suppose I could take you to HR to get your bank details entered or whatever, but that’s about it.
Please don’t show up on a day you’re not expected to be working unless that’s something you’ve discussed prior to the start date (i.e. Tuesday will definitely work, but if it turns out I can come in on Monday, should I?). If you show up early on your first day, I’ll just have you start on the paperwork and whatnot and I’d probably let you leave early to reward you for your punctuality (first days always suck, and you’re helping it suck less). That said, more than 30 min early is probably pushing it, since there’s a good chance I’m not even in yet.
Exactly, especially if you say start on Tuesday instead of Monday, why would you not just assume there was some reason for not having you start on Monday?
No worries, I was talking 15+ years ago.
Yeah, my response was more related to being expected to show up a day early and how much hassle that would legitimately cause in a general sense. In specific situations it obviously works out just fine. If you have a sense that they would be ready and interested in getting a head start, sure… But to say ‘start on Tuesday’ instead of scheduling for Monday, and then having even a sense of disappointment that they didn’t show up on Monday is beyond ridiculous.
Yeah, I wasn’t addressing it from moron OOPs side. A word about how I should have/could have shown up even an hour earlier, and I’ll be blunt with any of them; If it doesn’t warrant a call, text or e-mail, its insulting to even bring it up, they are debasing only their own dignity by doing so.
Reminds me of the Team Fortress 2 Expiration Date animation.
Spy: Final Question… You have a dinner date for seven… what time do you arrive?
Scout: Seven. A.M. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, I gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30…
Spy: You’re ready.
Scout: Really?
Spy: No. Everything you just said was insane… and, we are out of time. Congratulations. You’re a failure.
My employee came for his pay check. I fired him on the spot. I don’t respect people who only work for money.
My employee kept trying to take time off to attend his brothers wedding. Mom and I were distraught for months. We were his family now, and our only work son would betray us like this?
I hope this is Ken Chang or what’s his name.
Considering the name is censored, doubt it
I love how far he leans into the satire.
Here’s the problem: my posts are not satire. Groundbreaking philosophy can sometimes feel like satire because it is so avant-garde and interesting.
What’s next? I have to sit at the back of the bus because those are the “Satire Seats”? My children have to go to the specific “Satire School”? This is segregation at its finest.
Ken M is who you’re referring to I believe.
No there’s a specific satire account on Linked in.
We’re all Ken Chang on this blessed day
GOOD point
It’s not Ken anything. It’s some British guy named Jack Frimston.
I think it’s up to you to decide whether or not this is supposed to be satirical. I’m on the side of thinking it’s not.
Why is it blurred? I don’t get why people try protect scummy companies.
