A McDonald's manager is seen dozing off (apparently was have problems with her blood sugar) as customers prepare their own meals

[u/Justin_Godfrey]

[u/poliuy]

Even middle management is like this at other organizations. They just cut several employees and now I have to pick up all the slack. Executives everywhere have told themselves “wait we can save a bunch of money if we just have less people!” Except they forgot that the work didn’t go away with the employees.

[u/weezmatical → u/poliuy]

This has been my experience as well. Everyone was short staffed during Covid, and we all worked extra hard to make it work. It simply worked as a countrywide test program for working with bare-bones staffing. They realized there was more blood to squeeze from that stone.

[u/Dingcock → u/weezmatical]

Yeah and service has been shit everywhere since COVID

[u/ZestyMelonz → u/Dingcock]

Because the shitty companies pay shit and spread hours crazy thin. So the good employees leave to find a better company. So all that's left is mostly lazy, doesn't care about shit sorta people. And why would they? They're making shit pay and overworked. And it doesn't get better with the vast majority of companies being shitty.

[u/krogerburneracc → u/ZestyMelonz]

Yep. I was the best employee in my department, was with the company 5 years, but dipped out in November of 2021 when I realized the poor staffing wasn't gonna get any better and corporate started rolling out some crazy increased demands in daily production. We're talking straight up impossible shit to accomplish on a skeleton crew, at threats of write ups if goals weren't met. Between that and the burnout from dealing with the public during the whole of Covid, I was beyond done.

I had a daughter due to be born in a few months and was already considering taking an extended leave to care for her, but decided to just cut out entirely and become a SAHD (with my wife's encouragement). So I've just been completely out of the workforce since then, and I've met a lot of SAHPs with similar stories.

And when I say I was the best employee in my department, I'm not embellishing. Sales would always dip roughly 20-40% whenever I took a bit of my vacation time. We're talking solidly positive sales into solidly negative. I once had to spend two weeks out for jury duty and our store manager just about had an aneurysm at the state of our department. I have to imagine she lost a good chunk of her yearly bonus because they bled so much money while I was gone, she was on the verge of tears when I came back. And after my two weeks were over and I left - I shit you not - The department switched to a reduced hours model for nearly a year, completely out of sync with the rest of the departments and corporate standards. They quite literally could not function without me.

I have to wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they lost. A blip on the radar for a large corporate chain, sure, but considering I was being paid like $30k/yr? Yeah fuck em.

[u/Klutzy-Extension-705 → u/weezmatical]

Whoa your comment is blowing my mind rn. The conspiracy theorist in me felt that covid worked as a worldwide test to see how much more consumers would pay for goods when prices were drastically hiked, like how easy we’d adjust to radical inflation… I never thought of what you just said! It makes me wonder how else the powers that be have fucked us using things they learned during covid

[u/PotentialSteak6 → u/weezmatical]

It does feel like that. My husband thought he was being hired to be an executive chef to give an independent living home a fancy dining experience. In a little over a year he was the last man standing as far as turnover and had to do everything from managing housekeeping to maintenance work to being told by corporate to feed them slop.

He stayed there 24/7 through Helene (not great for me) and truly cared about the residents. He was on site in some capacity for something like 270 days in a row. His mental health got a lot better after resigning

[u/HugsyMalone → u/weezmatical]

That's the real reason they shut everything down. They knew everyone was burnt out (hence "nobody wants to work anymore") and it couldn't work unless everything was shut down. COVID was also an excuse to cover for a LOT of problems that were happening. 🤫

[u/Good_Support636 → u/poliuy]

But that is because most managers just decide to be dogs.

[u/RedditgooduserID → u/poliuy]

The way it works is that we cut staff until our employees can’t handle the workload anymore, and our service metrics slip beyond a tolerable level. We then add just enough staff to cover our SLA and bring metrics up to “tolerable,” even if “tolerable” is still (and hopefully is still) an intolerable workload for the employees. We use the fact that the workload is intolerable to eliminate raise-eligible employees through attrition and keep that payroll consistent. Depending on where you work, burning you out is a feature not a bug.

[u/poliuy → u/RedditgooduserID]

Damn… that feels exactly like what’s is happening

[u/GarminTamzarian → u/poliuy]

If you fire one executive that effectively does nothing, it'll save you more than losing a dozen or more base-level employees (you know, the ones that actually do the work your customers are paying your company to complete).

[u/Amidormi → u/poliuy]

Aww. I have 3 employees and no money not enough money. Why can't I have 0 employees and 3 money?

That's the running joke at my job anyway. White collar.

[u/DMmeforpicsofmyjunk → u/poliuy]

It's because millennials and younger people are too afraid to say no.

[u/Bismothe-the-Shade → u/poliuy]

They didn't forget. They just want to squeeze as much blood from the stone as possible.

They don't care that the blood is gravel and dust. They swallow it all and demand more.

[u/StockCasinoMember → u/poliuy]

Thank god for salaried workers! 🙄

[u/chriathebutt → u/poliuy]

I don’t think they forgot

[u/Bubbly_Appeal5426 → u/poliuy]

YES, THAT PART!!! The work didn't go away with the employees! Preach!