I work for a company owned by 2 brothers, a small “family oriented” business.
Our Op. Sup. went on a vacation for Thanksgiving and never came back, was later announced he suffered medical problems while in a hospital and unfortunately passed. He was with the company for about 30 years give or take.
Meanwhile, throw back to about 8 months ago, the owners were yelling and throwing fits claiming that they'll fire anyone and everyone if they must, then pointing to our Op. Sup. and saying “Even you!”.
Now they milk his death for charity points to our potential customer's that come from other companies that look to do business. It's disgusting behavior and the only real reason they haven't put someone in his place is because they were paying him a pretty penny, now they just gave the managers more things to look after which in turn made them even harder to work with.
To claim someone is your best friend, work them to death for 13 hour days (A lot of Romanians work here and they all claim that they'd happily work 12 hour days and he was no exception). 40 hours of vacation time, 0 hours of PTO with the inability to call off due to illness. Constantly being yelled at by owners just for them to turn around and act like it's the biggest loss they've ever faced in their entire life. It's upsetting and disgusting to say the least.