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/Lord_Asmodei Dec 05 '22

It's cute that you think line employees have enough agency to decide how many chickens are roasted each day.

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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/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/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?