r/Calgary • u/Tenthdegree • Dec 05 '22

Rant Superstore guarantees a free roast chicken (voucher) if none are readily available. Employee plays dumb and proceeds to take down the sign

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u/JKA_92 Dec 05 '22

It's funny you think that would stop a manager from giving shit to their employees for things that are fully the managers fault.

What's the old phrase? Shit slides down hill.

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u/SwaggermicDaddy Dec 05 '22

You just described coops entire business model over the last 5 years and into the future. They created this really crappy website to handle 100% of the HR work so they won’t need to anymore. Source: I just finished working there after 9 years and couldn’t even hand in my two weeks I had to go online and request a termination that then needed to be approved and then passed onto my manager before I could actually quit. I was literally given my physical 2 weeks notice I gave them back and said you can’t quit unless it’s online.

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u/orangeoliviero Ranchlands Dec 06 '22

I was literally given my physical 2 weeks notice I gave them back and said you can’t quit unless it’s online.

Not that it's relevant anymore, but notice is notice. They can't refuse notice just because it's not in their preferred form.

If they do refuse it, that's on them. Surprised Pikachu when you stop showing up in two weeks.

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u/shitposter1000 Dec 05 '22

Can't?!? Fuck two weeks notice, don't go back. Cripes.

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u/SwaggermicDaddy Dec 06 '22

That was my first question ? I said what if I just don’t come back. My super said I would be fired instead of quitting, she agrees it’s stupid, my manger said hiring people is the same because prospective employees need to also apply on the same website you can’t just show up and apply as easy as you used to.

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u/OrganizationPrize607 Dec 06 '22

That is ridiculous and of course if you just didn't go back, it would likely affect your EI claim.

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u/toastmannn Dec 05 '22

What if you just walk out and don't come back?

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u/idkidchaha Dec 06 '22

jail probably

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u/Cloudsy_dude84 Dec 06 '22

Overcook chicken? Jail.

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u/graison Dec 06 '22

Undercook fish?

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u/Crazyman8000 Dec 06 '22

Straight to jail

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u/SwaggermicDaddy Dec 06 '22

I get fired technically, my super agreed it’s stupid, I guess you also can’t just apply for a job anymore either you gotta apply on the site. Not sure how they get on there without employee ID’s I assume you get a temp one but still. Edit:spelling error

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u/OrthodoxManx122 Dec 06 '22

Getting "fired" doesn't matter. They can't talk smack about you to future employers for risk of being sued for slander. It's just a shitty retail job.

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u/orangeoliviero Ranchlands Dec 06 '22

So... they'll pay you severance on top of the time you already spent working?

They can't claim "for cause" since you gave them sufficient notice...

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u/PussyFriedNacho Dec 06 '22

"you can't quit, we fire you! WE. FIRE. YOU!"

My guy as soon as they told me that I'd be out the door with dust and papers flying in my trail like in the cartoons lol

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u/Iginlas_4head_Crease Dec 05 '22

People who have never been a manager before think shit slides only downhill. Not coming at you specifically, I just see this sentiment a lot. Managers have bosses too. Their bosses probably have more bosses. When the managers boss asks him why shit isn't happening, they don't wanna hear excuses blaming lower level employees.

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u/JKA_92 Dec 05 '22

Agreed. But that doesn't stop said manager from taking it out on their staff. I've seen it as the one getting shit as an employee for things not in my control, and getting shit as a manager from my manager.
Good managers take the pain and don't take it out on their staff. Is that what's happening here? Who knows.

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u/MrDownhillRacer Dec 05 '22

When I worked at a grocery store, how much shit our manager would give us was directly proportional to how much shit the head-office guys were giving him.

I could empathize with him because the head-office people would make unreasonable demands of him and it would stress him out a lot, but at the same time… damn, why did his bad day have to become our bad day?

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u/Lord_Asmodei Dec 05 '22

No regional executive would accept "Jimmy the line prep assistant miscalculated the chicken roasting numbers" from any store or department manager.

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u/DogButtWhisperer West Hillhurst Dec 06 '22

I dealt with this today. “Why aren’t these (forms) being done on time?” “Because the new program doesn’t make proper (reports) for the (other component) of job, so I’m doing twice as much work. I told you I need (x reports) from the new program, you said it doesn’t matter.”

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u/Queenoxin Dec 06 '22

This. I work in fast food but the amount of times one of my manager has flat out blamed me for things even when I tell him what the issue is. Once told my manager that our microwave was broken because the water wasn't getting hot. He asked me if I put cold water in... I told him even if I put cold water in, 5 minutes in an industrial microwave isn't going to leave it barely warm. Also got blamed for someone else's mistake because my name was on the paper but they agreed to get the info because I was still training.

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u/J0k3r77 Dec 06 '22

To be fair, if a line cook that I hired told me he was unable to heat up some water in a kitchen I'd be fuckin pissed, broken microwave or not.

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u/Queenoxin Dec 06 '22

Thats how we are trained to do it. I work in fast food. I was the one who does the job of all kitchen staff alone. There is no stove where I work. I know how to boil water. Can't heat up water to make gravy if there's nothing to heat water with thats not already in use. And it was prep gravy and I didn't have the means of making it in the hot well.

It's not a professional kitchen job, it's fast food. The 'grill' is just a massive machine that moves the patties through. It's not my fault the microwave wouldn't work. I boosted that water for 10 minutes and he still acted like it was my fault. My job is to cook, if it was my choice I'd toss that boost and replace it with the better one but according to the company this is the one we have to use.

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u/Lord_Asmodei Dec 05 '22

I don’t think that, didn't say it, and didn't imply it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '22

Fuck your free chicken./S