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[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I once went up at a monthly meeting, grabbed the mic out of the General Manager's hand and complained about how he keeps saying how important it is for all the older trade workers to teach the younger workers and how that's not the reality. The GM began going off about family and then I blacked out and said some wild shit.

Ended up having a meeting with the Fairness Committee member (who was just another company management puppet) and a 3.5 hour long meeting with HR who blamed me for everything the entire time.

I spent the next 10 months making friends with Corporate HR while antagonizing management at my company with the hidden support of Corporates HR.

I got fired, told corporate. All eyes were on my company and they were forced to make huge changes all at the cost of the GM's yearly bonus. I sent a complaint to the labour board about a wrongful termination and as soon as it was formally entered, the HR manager was forced into early retirement and gone within a month. I still got my severance plus a little extra for lawyer fees.

The company had to scramble for a new HR manager but that person entered hell and mentally clocked out so the HR department is unable to do their job effectively.

If their idea of family is to play corporate games, then I played corporate games. What an absolutely fucked up mentality to have but those people are dead behind the eyes because they only care about an object called money. Buncha racist, sexist, weird and pathetic beings. I've seen a piece or shit nuture more life and create a more liveable future compared to them.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Just curious, why is it that you say it's not the reality that it's important for older trader workers to teach the younger ones? Isn't that how institutional knowledge is preserved and passed down, and how trades have been learned since time immemorial?

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I was referring to what was happening within our workplace. The older workers refused to teach the apprentices anything. They expected us to just know stuff and treated us like idiot slaves when we inevitably failed. Apprentices were constantly thrown under the bus when something went wrong.

There was a huge knowledge gap between the older and younger workers. Those older guys were years away from retiring and were leaving us younger workers with no knowledge. Knowledge we need to pass our classes and grow as trades people.

The GM's message was meaningless because it was all words but no actual meaning or support for younger workers. He's a petty child who hated younger people and queer people in particular.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I see. That definitely sounds like a toxic work place, but I'm not convinced the manager was at fault for saying it should be otherwise. Then again, I don't know the particular situation, and if the manager had a pattern of being toxic in other ways then I could see the insincerity causing you to snap. It still seems like you focused on the wrong problem though, just from what you've written here.

Also, the young people failing was a reflection of the older generation's failure to adequately train them. I've noticed this a lot with boomers. They're so addicted to their feelings of superiority that they'll sabotage people's progress just so they can continue looking down on them. That phenomenon is at the core of many socioeconomic and political problems today.

[–] confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

Management there enabled the culture of agism, sexism and racism by not addressing the issues. They have a history of this that can be traced to the human rights tribunal in this country. Multiple times. He was the top person in the company. If no one below him is listening, where was I to go to make my complaint? If he cared so much about family, it would not have gotten to that point.

I asked to address the work culture in the company. I didn't just focus on agism, I made sure to speak up about racism, sexism and the unfair treatment of all the contractors working there.

The corporate HR person I was working with saw I was motivated to change the culture and had no interest in money or retribution. She not only supported me but was encouraging me to join an employee representative position that helped employees at a corporate level rather than at a company level. It has a name which I forgot.

I would have taken that position with the intention to be as annoying as possible or make an even bigger statement later. I was going to get fired but I wasn't going to quit and give them the satisfaction of me chickening out first.

I stand by my actions and motivations.

Also, the young people failing was a reflection of the older generation's failure to adequately train them. I've noticed this a lot with boomers. They're so addicted to their feelings of superiority that they'll sabotage people's progress just so they can continue looking down on them. That phenomenon is at the core of many socioeconomic and political problems today.

I agree with all of that because I experienced it first hand. I was often shunned because I never listened to their outdated or blindly ignorant advice and bullied for trying to take the initiative to learn for myself. It took me a while afterwards to understand that being me and doing what I thought was right for myself made them feel threatened enough to lash out at me.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's vital for the young workers and the company, and while the older workers may not like it, it's either paying it forward or it's accepting responsibility associated with higher skill

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

Right, in all likelihood those older workers received mentorship when they were young. But now they want the next generation to pull itself up by the bootstraps. Humanity didn't get where it is today by reinventing the wheel every generation.

And the same old people are probably like "young people today are so incompetent." But they're the ones who were supposed to train them, so that's a reflection of their own incompetence!

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

because in corpo speak this extra responsibility/work they want you to take on rarely comes with extra pay, even though they're posting record profits

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Is "training new employees" a part of the job description? If so, then it's not an extra responsibility.

And for the record, I agree that workers should be fairly compensated for their efforts, that corporate greed is a problem and record profits shouldn't be the highest priority. But if someone has a lot of seniority with the company or years of experience in the trade, then hopefully their pay reflects that difference.

Plus, if young people aren't being mentored by the older generations, then that means they would have to go elsewhere and pay to receive instruction outside of working hours. So that's still extra work, and another way to outsource company expenses to the least financially stable.

[–] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"It's an honor to join the family. I've always been really passionate about not starving"

[–] derry@midwest.social 3 points 21 hours ago

This family? John Bender: [Imitating his Father] Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk.

[Imitating his Mother]

John Bender: You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful.

[Father's voice]

John Bender: Shut up bitch! Go fix me a turkey pot pie.

...

John Bender: I'll bet he bought those for you. I bet those were a Christmas gift. Right? You know what I got for Christmas? Oh, it was a banner fucking year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said, "Hey, smoke up Johnny." 

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

I'm always keeping an eye out for a better family.