I lurk around this sub and love all the stories and posts of peoples run ins with their out-of-touch management. But as a construction worker, I don’t generally come into contact with office people. It finally happened..
My SO and I had applied for a rental, and they needed my work contact to verify my income and all that. No problem. I didn’t lie on the application, I wrote down my gross monthly income as they had asked.
The following week (last week), my superintendent was doing a walk-around and stopped to chat with our crew (Myself, a couple other guys and our foreman). He’s an engineer, has never picked up a tool in his life, and has that “I’m better than you dirty workers” attitude. I could be wrong, but just my opinion.
So he brings up that he got a call about my application. And in front of my fellow workers and foreman, he says “Yeah, and they said you told them you make $_____ per month? Come on” and rolled his eyes with a chuckle.
What he doesn’t know, is that I know how much he makes. And it’s about $70,000 less than I make. Yes, he’s salary blah blah blah, it’s different than working hourly. The fact that he felt the need to call me out (wrongly) in front of others, including saying what I make out loud, really showed me how much management doesn’t respect us who are the ones building things with our hands. Thankfully my foreman had my back and told the Super “Why, that’s pretty accurate, how much did you think he makes?”
I usually avoid conflict, but I was offended and felt disrespected so I came back with “Well why don’t I teach you how to weld and maybe you can make as much as me”
I know it’s not much compared to a lot of the bullshit you all have dealt with, but just a little tale of management being out of touch with their workers and having no problem trying to embarrass and disrespect the people below them.