Can someone explain to me like I'm an idiot, what this whole “write up” and “goes in your file” shit is that I see in so many posts? I sort of understand if you're working at a large, multinational, institutional corporation and plan to be there for 30 years across multiple locations and departments. But for people who work at a local florist or fucking Foot Locker, this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, that people seem to accept this as something to fear. Oh no! Not a “write up”! Not a report put IN MY FILE! How will my career recover from “Barbara” saving a note in a manila folder somewhere where she dramatically chronicled that time I wore ripped jeans to work back in 2019?
Imagine if I yelled at my dog that I was writing him up for shitting in his crate again. That's how stupid this is. I can't believe we haven't normalized laughing at this “consequence” right in our bosses' faces so hard that we pull a muscle and hyperventilate.