I work at one of those orange apron DIY stores, I overheard a few of the managers discussing the bosses pay in their office, I overheard it from the break room as they seemed disgruntled.
Turns out the guy makes almost 70k a year.
He comes in for maybe 4 hours at a time, and always early in the morning so he misses peak business hours and gets the rest of his day off.
Genuinely not a very nice man, drags his staff through the shit. He doesn't understand why no one respects him and why we have such a high turnover of staff.
When he gets asked questions he just doesn't know the answers to them because he's never on the shop floor to learn them. Honestly sack that man and spread that money across your staff.
We have a stupid system where you get a “note” everytime you're off unwell, it starts off at stage 1, then 2 and finally 3, if you reach stage 3 you get get called into a meeting with HR to discuss your time off, I assume this is to stop people taking time off.
A colleague needed to drive his wife to hospital, got the greenlight from a manager, he was gone maybe an 1½ hours tops. When he came back the boss made him fill out the form and was moved to stage 2.
Sorry for the rant, it's just ridiculous.