Manager Stands Up For His Employees, Protects Them From Corporate Poppycock, Gets Fired

u/Durncha posted this story about his experience with a bad employer this week on r/antiwork. 

u/Durncha is a true leader. A true leader stands up for their team. They protect those under them from the baloney of the big boys upstairs. 

 

In an effective organization, they'll act as a translator, a conduit that helps pass information in both directions. And, when pressure pushes downwards, they won't pass it on or let you-know-what flow downwards. They'll act as a barrier and interpret communication to their team in the most effective way. Then, when something needs to be communicated upwards, the same principle applies. 

 

In an ineffective organization, this doesn't happen. Communication flows in one direction and pressure continues pushing down harder and harder on the manager until they either cave and become a "yes man" (-doing whatever they're asked without question). That or they take a stand for their team one too many times and get fired for it.

 

The second option of the second scenario applies in u/Durncha's story. Unfortunately, u/Durncha was pushed out for standing up for their employees one too many times. There's no way their boss just happened to be looking at the store's clock in sheets at that exact moment. The coincidence is too great. They were looking for a reason... no, they had been instructed by their boss to find a reason to fire u/Durncha. 

 

This just happened to be that reason. 

Kudos to u/Durncha for doing the hard yards of standing up for their team. We need more actual leaders like this in the world.

CEO Tells App Development Team to "Go Work Somewhere Else" if They Want to Work From Home, So They Do

The general landscape of the modern work environment necessitates a greater amount of flexibility from employers than it ever has. As u/R_Jay101 puts it in the comments of this post, "The WFH pandora's box has been opened and there is no closing it."

So, when the CEO of u/Icerman's company insisted that the app development team work from the office, without exception, there was bound to be some trouble. He sealed the deal when he had the misfortune of uttering "If you want to work from home, go work somewhere else" which prompted an exodus of developers doing exactly that.

Out of Control Waitress Hits Aggressively on Woman's Husband, Gets Fired, Woman is Blamed

This week u/throwraWaitress109 posted on the /r/AmItheA$$hole subreddit, asking for advice on a situation that had come up with her and her husband after they went to a restaurant for a night out on his birthday.

Throughout the evening, and during the meal, the waitress had been blatantly hitting on her husband. Taking it to levels that made her very uncomfortable.

When asked to stop the waitress just smirked. So u/throwraWaitress109 went home and left a bad review, ultimately leading to the waitress being fired.

Her family thinks she is in the wrong for not just letting it go. What's your take on the situation?

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For more trouble in marriage paradise... Check out this idiot husband who wanted to cancel a prenup that he insisted on when he discovered his wife was making more than he was!

Freaky Old Religious Albums That Have Less And Less Context Every Day

Times change, but album jackets stay the same. There was an era when what America wanted was dudes in suits singing about God, as well as family bands featuring women with the largest hair that you ever did see. For quit a few of these people it feels like the whole religious aspect was more of a stepping stone to get their ventriloquism careers off the ground, but how can we judge? it's not like you see us putting in the time to learn how to drink a glass of water while making a doll tell people they're going to hell.

People Are Sharing the "Things That We Pretend We Need to Be Addicted to" and I Need to Go Home and Rethink My Life

This week u/Morticiar posed the question on Reddit:

"What is an addiction society pretends is a necessity?"

Annnnnd it's probably time that we, as a society, have a bit of a think about the things that we take for granted that are actually just major addictions of ours.

Entitled Parent Bullies Kids Off Playground, Wonders If They're In The Wrong

The answer is yes. This is one of those interactions that feels like it should have a record scratch moment. One of those brief slices in time where everything stops, you look down at the children who you've made cry for no reason other than your own convenience, and you wonder to yourself, "how did I get here?" That's something a normal person would think. But not this entitled parent. They just went full bore. For another class act, here's the neighbor who couldn't understand why their neighbor wasn't completely silent.

Ohio Turnpike Reveals New Snowplow Names, They Are Perfect

It's something we've known since the cultural tipping point that was the naming of "Boaty McBoatface." While democracy can have its issues when it comes to efficiency in governance, it is absolutely the best method humanity has ever devised for naming infrastructure-maintaining heavy equipment. The results came in and these are the names of the snowplows used by the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission.