Worked for a company that mainly had begun to hire friends of family, family, or friends of family friends: essentially 45% of the company, a small office of no more than 20, represented people he personally knew. One could argue, maybe nobody applies, however, my boss only answered less than 50% of applications and often pulled resumes of people with little to no experience against people he knew with the same level of experience.
These friends and family members were given preference on shifts, and largely came to make the established employees feel as if their talents and abilities didn’t matter. When confronted with this he let managers, such as myself interview them, however when me or another lead would object he’d argue we needed bodies, or that really we had no choice.
Add to this a lax call out policy, people could show up or not, could harass other employees as they wanted and essentially be unprofessional…the whole place resembled a frat house more than a place of work, with none of the benefits of the actual frat house.
I was let go for exceeding my authority as a lead for saying I felt my boss wasn’t doing his job properly, forcing leads to work 50+ hours to cover the short fall, for not training, coaching and holding meetings. They eventually even moved me away from all the other managers towards the employees, even argued I was trying to lead a revolt and walk out.
How are companies allowed to do this? They get so much latitude in deciding your fate and there is no onus on them to do the right thing, at all?