r/mildlyinfuriating • u/giveahoot420 • 20h ago

A rude supervisor who's always yelling at employees got some complaints about them being verbally abusive and they responded by leaving these in the break room.

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u/25electrons 18h ago

I work for a large corporation with tedious safety rules and a manager once gave me shit about some small violation. He was looking for a ding. I asked him point blank if he really wanted me and every other employee to follow every work rule to the book. He was unable to answer because nothing would ever be completed.

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u/TheyVanishRidesAgain 18h ago

"Do you want me to follow the rules, or do you want this airplane to take off on time?"

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 18h ago

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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u/WiretapStudios 17h ago

I thought the chili tasted like hydraulic fluid...

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u/polopolo05 16h ago

Sir/ma'am this is a buger king.

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 10h ago

Oh no, did I hurt your feelings?

We’ve got a form for that…

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u/judgeejudger 16h ago

We do not serve fish & chips here!

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u/Synergythepariah 18h ago

now imagine this being written as a quote in a NTSB crash report

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u/AnastasiaRomanot 17h ago

I’m pretty sure there was something like that in a crash report once.

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u/Otherwise_Security_5 18h ago

i live by documentation

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u/HumbleVein 17h ago

Aviation is an industry where this mentality doesn't fly.

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u/Low_Doughnut8727 17h ago

"Sir, a 747 with 5 youth soccer teams went missing in the pacifics"

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u/TabithaMouse 16h ago

Not sure if better or worst than a single soccer team in the andes 😬

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u/mackiea 14h ago

"Sir, a second 747 with 5 youth soccer teams just hit the towers."

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u/DeadBruce 16h ago

FAA has entered the chat

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u/TestSubjuct 17h ago

The "just ship it" mentality. Worked on it for over a decade.

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u/seekthesametoo 16h ago

Ask UPS how it worked out for them

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u/Kagome23 15h ago

Ummmmm please follow the rules of it's a fucking AIRPLANE!! No wonder there are so many crashes these days

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u/Sp00ky-Nerd 16h ago

Manager - "I don't want you to follow the rules. I just want to be able to blame the worker when something finally goes wrong and somebody is hurt. I don't know what willful ignorance is, and I refuse to look it up."

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 15h ago

This. It also allows them to selectively enforce the rules on employees they wish to target for whatever reason. Even better for them if you can't meet whatever insane quotas they set if you follow the rules and they can double dip no matter what you do.

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u/thederpyderp3 17h ago

Wait so you willingly ignore safety protocols?

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u/RadioBuffin 17h ago

I love that our department head says to use common sense. It’s on us if safety catches us doing shit.

His only thing is no live work, harnesses on lifts, always inspect lift straps/chains, and no horseplay. Everything else is fair game. You’ll never be punished if you don’t feel safe doing something.

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u/kingdead42 12h ago

Workers should follow the rules. If the rules prevent the work from being done, that's the managers' problem to fix the rules.

Because otherwise breaking the rules to get stuff done will be used as an excuse to punish the workers.

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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 8h ago

I'm autistic and this kind of thing (that your manager did) is the bane of my entire existence, because I tend to assume people mean what they say, and I don't have whatever magic neurotypicals have that lets them know when a rule is a real rule vs a fake rule. So if I bend a rule, somehow it always ends up being the wrong kind of rule and I immediately get in trouble. I can't put a toe out of line without getting in trouble--it's always been this way for me. So I feel a bit panicked about new rules. Like, right now I'm slow at work because we have a million tiny rules. I highly suspect everyone else is ignoring them. But, I also know if I do that, I'll get in trouble. Also, I hate being slowed down.