Month: March 2022
“Just don’t tell OSHA.”
My job has us working on open levels going up several stories. So from each floor you can look down between the grating and see the ground floor. To be fair we are explicitly told that if we walk past a certain point to reach product it is a fireable offense because there is a risk of falling. On the night shift this apparently happened recently. “We don't know the current state of the individual” is what they told us, which I take as they are either life-changingly injured or dead. Naturally OSHA has to come in and do an audit when something like this happens. An executive was at our warehouse and pulled aside one of the workers who was going to be interviewed by OSHA and told them to straight up lie, saying they don't have us do certain things while working, when in reality if we DIDN'T…
I work in f&b management for a ski resort and I had a performance issues with an employee. I prefer not to involve HR and work out our issues between manager and employee because I'm more supportive of workers than upper management and most adults are capable of working things out between themselves once they understand each person is coming from. The employee decided that they wanted to file a complaint against me to HR, which I can only assume was an attempt to get me “in trouble”. During our meeting(which was not going the way he planned), the employee turned to the HR rep and said “It feels like you're on his(my) side and not the me as the employee.”. I was shocked. No fucking shit that the company is backing their manager over an employee that works one day a week. Now, due to his dumb-fuckery, he lost…