TIFU by talking to my boss about something he wanted us to bring to his attention.
I spent my company's $50 thanksgiving giftcard and got a single bag of groceries that was fair from densely packed and far from a varied diet. It was basically all just decent freezer protein and carbs, dumplings and burritos, and not much of either one really. It's a nice gesture to give a little holiday present and all, but this week I got fired for asking them to set a higher minimum price to prevent unpleasant math from striking the same person repeatedly.
Apparently even though they only recently had a serious issue with people refusing to service a client and lying about why they wouldn't do it (they were underbilled by a factor of 3-4) and they had asked us not to hide problems when they're right there and available to talk about them, I was way out of line for telling them how to run their business. Like the results from administering the entire franchise entirely negates the need to take any input of any kind from the people trying to survive on the field work.
Oh it's ok if you get fucked three days a week with a stack of jobs that don't pay for the time it takes to drive to them, let alone the labor and customer time, because sometimes you'll occasionally exceed the advertised earnings on particularly nice jobs. Dude definitely would not have reacted well if I had informed him that the only way we make some customers work is by abject cheating on the work and diagnosing damn near anything as too significant an obstruction to work around.
So apparently there's just zero issue, because the senior staff who tend to get heftier assignments are happy. OK. Yeah cool I'll just 'be happy' when the job is like a daily scratch ticket that determines if you're about to have a horrible day or horrible earnings and you are refusing to listen to the concerns you asked us to share.
Just saying things, it isn't relevant anymore, but goddamn that guy was unthinkingly dogmatic about the typical idiot libertarian interpretation of econ 101 principles. Like if we made ANY CHANGE to any price then a flood of competitors who really do parade about trying to steal our business would suddenly get the clients to quit us for them. In eight months there, I never once encountered anyone that could be described as 'a competitor', and I have never seen or heard of the behavior he claims is a constant threat to our position.
Maybe this should go in r/antiwork or r/tifu or something, either would surely fit the vibe
TL;DR, open door policies are a lie, and personal success does not necessarily indicate a sound worldview on all things. Not even things involving your own livelihood.