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Interested to hear the shit that goes on at other SMEs. I’ll start with some
My boss is stupid. No idea how he became a boss. Rich perhaps ? The other day he told me his mouse battery died and told me to go buy some batteries. And I complied. Then he scolded me for buying energizer AA batteries. He say I should go mama shop but those cheapskate brand batteries as energizer too powerful, will burn his mouse.
Then the other day he told me to switch off power to the shredder when not using cos the shredder will overheat. Will overheat. When its not in operation.
This place really like army sia, need to turn off the brain
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Netizens’ comments
- Means it’s time for you to find a new boss liao.
My ex-boss in SME used to tell us this “If you need to take emergency leave or mc, you need to inform me at least a day before!”
Me: “How would I be able to do so if the emergency happen that very morning?”
Le boss: “SO HOW COME YOU CAN TAKE ANNUAL LEAVE FOR HOLIDAY MONTHS BEFORE YOUR TRIP?”
A week later I tendered. - Previously at my first job many many years ago, I was doing some work, can’t remember what it was already. My boss told me the work was urgent and need me to complete it fast.
After a while, he came back and said: “you do so slow you might as well go home sleep, I do better”. Guess what? I just went home and the next day didn’t go back. - Mine, or should i say, my partner’s, is so atrocious i didnt believe at first.
He works at this Arts company that hires teachers to go to student’s house to teach. It was initially a nice job…until the boss decided to make an app for teachers. every single student needed to be clocked in and out. This app tracks the location, making it extremely inconvenient for the teachers (e.g. say student and teacher change lesson time to an hour later, teacher have to screenshot the reason for time change, report to a groupchat and admin will change the app system).
It went on to become a $10 fine for every missing clockin/out. Annual bonus took into account the average number of lessons taught per month but forget to realise how teachers sacrificed/cancelled lessons to help the company with their concerts. Some got negative bonus and the highest was around $500.
Recently, the boss put out a policy that all cancelled lesson must be replaced and fees are collected upfront. So if a month has 4 weeks, students will pay for 4 lessons regardless they attend or not. It will be on the teacher to find time to make lesson replacements. It was apparently very difficult for my partner especially after school holidays where he had to replace all lessons. Its was not as easy as replacing as he had to ensure he could fit students and the route to different student’s places is smooth. Some parents got angry at the company and went directly to the boss. The boss pussied out and said “no problem, we will settle for you” and proceeds to refund them.
The worst thing? the boss hired a private investigator to follow fellow teachers that he suspects teaches privately, outside of company. Now, i do understand that its against the company rules and in no way I’m encouraging this. However, i felt it crossed the line of micromanaging.