‘God forbid I work my scheduled work hours and leave on time’: Worker calls out bosses who take issue with her leaving when her shift ends

Daily Dot ^ | June 10, 2022 | Gisselle Hernandez

[where's_the_Outrage?]

In a viral video, a TikToker shares her frustration with her workplace culture after they repeatedly ask her to stay back when her shift ends. As a cashier, Julia (@jvliabee) says she’s had to deal with constant teasing from co-workers and her bosses about leaving “right on the dot.”

“Why are bosses and even some other co-workers so offended when you try to leave on time?” Julia says in the video. “God forbid I work my scheduled work hours and leave on time.”

She explains she’s baffled that her colleagues don’t seem to understand her life does not revolve around her retail workplace.

“I have a life outside of work and I don't wanna live and breathe and sleep at my job,” Julia says.

The creator shares her grievances about past jobs where they also asked her to stay back up to 40 minutes after her shift was scheduled to end.

“Schedule me that long or I’m leaving when I’m scheduled to leave what is the problem,” she says.

Julia’s video resonated with hundreds of users and has garnered more than 130,000 views.

[Jim Noble]

Labor rights is a huge political issue lying on the ground waiting to be picked up.

GOP position: “If you don’t come in on your day off, don’t come back”

Democrat position: “Bienvenidos, amigos”.

[dgbrown]

France has a law that makes it illegal to force employees to monitor their emails, texts and phone calls after work hours. It’s a little overboard, but I understand why. With cell phones and emails together, the culture is you work 24/7. I’ve told my bosses if there is a real problem, not the daily issues, they can call me. They know I do not read my emails during the “off” hours. I work 50-55 hrs/wk and receive 250-300 emails a day. I need some time to worry about my own crap.

[Celtic Conservative]

“Deeper in the can”?

How florid.

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[EEGator]

I’m sure as a former cop, you never swore and always acted with perfect manners.

[Jim Noble]

Tyrant bosses, little Bidens.

More like, little Romneys.

Anybody here who still has trouble with why normal patriotic Americans, lots of 'em, hate the GOP worse than they hate Democrats needs to read this thread.

[voicereason]

So I’m going to go out on a limb here and defend the person, because technically, she is in the right. But before I get flamed (not that it matters), some context.

I worked in the restaurant business as a cook while going to school after the Air Force, so I am fully aware of the challenges in hourly roles. But since the mid-90’s I’ve been salary in engineering all the way to executive roles where one is never technically “off the clock”.

One of the problems is that yes there are people out there that want to only work the minimum hours, do the minimum, etc. But, if there is a problem with someone not showing up, I have seen far too many instances of supervisors, managers, even up to VP level roles where that attitude is that it isn’t my job as well. So when they can exhibit that attitude, is it any wonder that the hourly workforce doesn’t have a specific attitude?

Plenty of examples, far too many in my experience, of people that have been promoted into positions because of friendships, or even the assumption that just because someone has been doing a certain job for X number of years, they would make a great supervisor/manager/etc. For anyone not familiar with the book, ‘The Peter Principle’ is alive and well. For anyone not familiar, “...observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”: employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.”

Interestingly enough, it is often management that stands to gain from increased output/sales/etc., but also the group that doesn’t often lend a hand, or is more prone to claiming that something, “isn’t their job.”

[Celtic Conservative]

Where I worked it could be anywhere from 25 to 30 years, depending on age. And mine was based on the best 3 years, YTD regardless of pay rate. And I earned every damned penny.

And two classes later it got changed to a 401K.

Most current law enforcement new hires don’t receive pensions anymore.
And if she doesn’t want to work, fine. As long as she doesn’t whine about unfair compensation later.

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[imabadboy99]

Gotta side with the workers on this one.

Employers have shown zero loyalty to their employees. They’d gladly replace every one with a low wage illegal or H1B slave if they could. The neoCON Bush league Repubs support the abuse of the American workers for the fat cats like Romney on Wall St. Trump nationalists support Americans of all stripes on Main St. and quality of life issues.

This issues is a crystal clear distinction between Bush League neoCONS and Main Street Trump Republicans.

[Jim Noble]

..where employment and a paycheck is a NOT a birthright as many here in this country seem to see it..

This is a political forum. A lot of people here still believe in elections, and THEREFORE develop concepts around how people vote.

This is not r/best employee stories

[Celtic Conservative]

Sure it was, but why pass up a chance to be droll?

😁

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[9YearLurker]

https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/nypd-cops-on-pace-to-quit-retire-in-record-numbers/

[TheDandyMan]

And I don’t owe them my talents if they don’t prove to ME that the company is willing to make the arrangement worth my time. Because time is the one thing nobody can get back, nobody can buy, and nobody can give you.

I refuse to get bent over by my employer. Big companies usually expect you to go above and beyond, but don’t even pretend to offer the same dedication they expect of the employees. “Voluntary unpaid overtime is part of our culture!” Well sorry chumps, I guess I’m from a different culture. Embrace diversity and don’t even try to call me outside my hours unless the building is on fire or somebody died.

[Celtic Conservative]

(Sure I did)

Edit function.

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[Theoria]

That’s also why large corporations don’t care about education in America. They will simply outsource or import workers.

[alexander_busek]

Thing is, having a good work ethic won’t protect you in any way from being the victim in a layoff, downturn, job obsolescence, or even a crappy boss. But your own dedication and performance is something YOU can control. If things do go south, you can at least be satisfied you did all you could to improve the bottom line from an employee perspective, and that if they don’t need you, it wasn’t because you gave them less than what they needed. There are very few things in life you have complete control over, but your dedication to doing a job correctly and your persistence in getting it done is one of them.

I agree, in principle. But...

I had a job in a big American corporation for 21 years. Was in a small team with more or less the same coworkers during that time. At our biweekly team meetings, the team manager always insisted that I present an Excel spreadsheet itemizing my individual projects, tasks, expected time of completion, etc.

No matter how I structured it, something was always wrong. "Too detailed!" "Not detailed enough!" "Tasks should be listed by priority!" "Tasks should be listed by ETA." Etc.

You get the idea. Always niggling.

One favorite tactic was for him to ask, out of the blue, for details about one of approx. 25 different projects. I suspect he deliberately chose the most-boring projects. So I'd have to speak extemporaneously about them.

I'm sure the info I gave went in one ear, and out the other.

Sometimes, even the other team members would join in on making "useful suggestions." Would I please include a hyperlink in each line to the relevant sub-folder, etc.?

The other team members had slightly differently structured jobs, enabling them to make maybe a single entry or two. If asked to explain something, they would mumble something, and the boss was usually satisfied.

About two years before my tenure at that company ended, we got a new boss. He instantly changed the biweekly meeting to bimonthly ones. And when he saw my first spreadsheet, he said that, in the future, it would be sufficient if I would list only "problem projects."

I agree with you: You CAN control your own dedication and performance. In the scenario above, I probably COULD have presented a crappy spreadsheet two or three times in a row, by which time my boss would have probably thrown up his hands and given up on trying to ride roughshod over me / trying to "break my spirit."

My point is that, if you have a crappy boss (one who underappreciates your excellent work, or even delights in tormenting his underlings), this can seriously impact the level of satisfaction you derive from your work.

In the case at hand, all I had to do was "grin and bear it" for one hour every two weeks. But others might have worse experiences.

Regards,

[Celtic Conservative]

A lot of them are using my former agency as a resume’ enhancer until they can get into an agency with retirement bennies.

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[rlmorel]

What makes you think I haven't enjoyed my life? What makes you think I am a slave? What on Earth makes you think I am a chump?

I am the luckiest man I know, and I don't say that lightly, because I know some accomplished and lucky people.

But I don't know anyone who has lived as great a life as I feel I have been able to live.

I have been relatively healthy, gone places, seen things, done things, married the love of my life, spent days in the sun, flown a helicopter, sailed in ocean, stood on the bow of an aircraft carrier in heavy seas, walked the jungles of the Philippines and seen the great Shinto temples of Japan, climbed on the Great Pyramids in Egypt, seen the orange-tiled rooftops of Dubrovnick, rode a camel in the desert, galloped a horse through a meadow in the Shenandoah Mountains, walked alone down far roads in foreign countries, and have randomly driven the roads of this once great country at my own pleasure and direction just for the joy of seeing it existed.

And now, my great and enjoyable pleasure is laying in a hammock, watching the sun go down from my little quarter acre lot in a Garden of Eden backyard, watching and listening to the birds, while smoking my pipe. That may not be fun, interesting, or enjoyable to some, but it means the world to me.

I am getting close to the end of my life, and I don't regret one single moment of it, even the stupid and inconsiderate mistakes I have made, because they only strengthen my resolve to do better and not repeat them.

But all those things in my life didn't just happen. I had to work to make them happen, and sacrifice to make them happen. Work is sacrifice. I drag myself out of bed every single morning at 5 AM often after getting to bed after midnight, and though I would rather sleep, and might not be feeling completely up to working, do it anyway, because there is value in sacrifice and effort.

I don't give a hoot about corporate America, and with what I went through over the last year with my employer with vaccine mandates, I don't feel the same way about my employer and haven't for a few years since we were merged with an ultra-leftist organization that holds the reins of power.

But I care about the department I am in, I care deeply about the people in it who treat me with deference and great respect if not affection, and most of all, I care about my ability to do my job in the best way it can be done and, in the end, deliver the best and safest care to patients.

It isn't WORK and a paycheck that makes it possible.

It is ME that has made work and a paycheck possible.

And that attitude is what makes this all possible. All "this" isn't a mansion on the coast. It is a dinky little 1962 cheaply constructed ranch on a quarter acre of land in a thickly populated development of lookalike ranches with a six year old car in the driveway.

And it has all been a conscious choice. We MADE the decision decades ago to live within our means. We MADE the decision not to buy a big house on a big plot with lots of expensive furniture in it. We MADE the decision to save as much of what we made, and pay our debts and eliminate them. We don't have fancy clothes. we don't wear expensive jewlery. We don't have boats, ski mobiles, or a second property somewhere else. We MADE those decisions.

And no amount of working or not working for a crappy company, boss, or co-workers made those choices for us. We MADE those decisions ourselves.

[TheWriterTX]

My middle child graduated high school in 2020. He took time between high school and starting college to have a major operation and deal with an incurable medical condition.

One of the effects of this condition is that working past 8 hours (standing on your feet and running around the entire time) can be physically painful. He’s good up until 8 hours but it really starts to hurt come hours 9, 10, and 11. I raised him to be a conscientious and hard worker, but since his system does not produce enough corticosteroids, it puts a lot of wear and tear on him. He’s not being a lazy snowflake, it is something he has endured his entire life.

He made his employer aware, but often got stuck doing extra hours because the folks scheduled to replace him wouldn’t show.

He asked for fewer shifts so as to not put so much wear and tear on his body. They scheduled him for more shifts because he was reliable and often did the job of 2 people.

The employer needed more people, so they offered $250 signing bonuses and a higher hourly wage, while not rewarding the people who stuck it out with them through COVID.

Finally, after saving several thousand dollars while covering his bills (phone, car insurance, gas, etc.), he asked if he could quit his job. He was afraid we would be disappointed in him. I told him to take the summer off, rest and heal, and prepare for college in the fall.

He gave his employer almost a month to find his replacement. They still griped on his way out.

There are lots of clean cut, hard-working young people out there who wouldn’t think of taking a dime from you register. Don’t abuse them or over-work them and they will stay. Treat them like they are easily replaced and they will replace you as their employer.

[lowbridge]

Yes it did.

[9YearLurker]

Who can argue with a Celctic Conservative cop with a soft spot for cats?