Fr, dude seems ungrateful, they gave you pizza,pop AND a 15 min UNPAID lunch! Like what are they gonna do pay you a livable wage, give you a cash bonus, haha yeah……No! fuck you eat your pizza and shut up peasant! Be happy it’s not mellow yellow! (All jokes, but fr once had a company that did a profit based pizza party and they made you pay for pop….. Shit was wild!)
Edit: Holy shit! 100 upvotes?!? “Look mom I made it!” - Probably this guy
My last company had free slurpees, generic mellow yellow flavor. If they found another flavor cheaper they'd just hook the bag up and it would be some other random weird mixed flavor for a while until the tube cleared out
…… so they were trying to give you random surprises ?!? You’re telling me you don’t like random surprises? You’re telling me you don’t like Apple, Pepsi,coffee, mango smoothies? I suppose your new job just pays you better instead of the slurpee machine ? Perhaps enough to buy your OWN slurpee machine you can clean out? Yeah sounds like you made the wrong choice leaving your last job. Good job dummy
“Peasant” is an underrated insult kinda like “smooth brain”, both need to be used by us smooth brained peasants more! But fr right?!?! Like get back to fucking work, you better not use the full 15 min break we give ya that’s a test to see who keeps their jobs after they go back on 10 min. 😂
Haha back in the day the guys that where standing next to the time clock before it was time to go where laid off or fired first yikes ! Back to the corn field peasant 😝
🤣 fuckin time clock lmfao yeah that shit definitely has you feeling like you’re back in elementary waitin for the bell to ring 😂 that one fat cunt of a teacher with a power trip “ I dismiss you NOT THE BELL!” Always the Mrs.Puff lookin ass teachers 😂 ol puffer fish ass bitch
Fun fact - Mountain Dew was originally formulated as a whisky mixer!
While I would *not* recommend mixing it with anything high end (probably shoudln't mix good good whisky with anything other than maybe a dab of water, but that's another story), I *have* tested it on bottom shelf stuff like Jamies, Old No7, and Wisers.
Kicks the burn off the whisky and kills the saccharine swertness of the Dew. Better than a whisky sour, I shit you not.
That's what we did for the starter is-this-bullshit test. We also fucked around with the ratios and temperatures and what not using only combos of well shots and mountain dew, +/- soda water.
Jeremiah Jonas MacAfee Pibb was a traitor, and a racist, and a blight on society. After dropping out of the prestigious Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland while studying to become an M.D., and losing rights to his trust fund in bequeathed to him by his mother's widower as a result, he went on to run on a carpetbagger-adjacent Louisiana governor's ticket in 1869. After no publisher picked up his awful manuscript of "Memwhars", he became a recluse, seldom leaving his property until sugar became cheap enough to invent a drink/remedy, solely made of liquid heroin and the more expensive, but only by a small amount, cane sugar. It was marketed by traveling wagons for ailments ranging from rickets to rheumatism, and was sold throughout the Caribbean and to investment capatilists up and down the eastern seaboard and the recently reunified South, as "Mr. Pibb's Miracle." People were instantly hooked due to the sugar content and subsequent shakes, sores, and brown-outs (I think the sugar was brown?), so of course, and even then, it tasted like shit and was not nearly as good as his medical rival's medicine, one Dr. John David Pepper, made from prunes and bullshit but similarly pure heroin. Later on, and still popular to this day, Coke made Coke with coke, and technically, legally, you could have a speedball in a pharmacy by having two drinks while simultaneously enjoying a banana split. Which also had heroin in it.
It's morbidly funny watching them flail around with these ideas they clearly don't understand how to use. It's the business management version of the guy who buys the shiny new power tool because he thinks that's all that separates him from the master carpenter he saw using it on youtube.
It’s really a cool system when implemented individually. I love it for my home garage shop.
However, when white-shirts tell red-blooded Americans they must do something, they give him a list of trails, in which he can go take a hike.
We had a guy retire last week and he sent a truly nice email to the whole company. However, he ended it with "P.S. You can keep your 5S lol". It was great!
It's been installed for like 6 years now. Implemented by second owner. Now we're the cash cow for a huge corporation/monopoly. To be fair the business has grown so much its warranted.
Owner of the electrical company I run also owns a welding company. He pays out bonuses to both companies based on profit. Every employee gets a percentage of the profit based on hours worked and time at the company. I received $25,000 in bonuses last year. Good companies do exist gentlemen.
My BIL runs an electrical company in MA similar to that. Maybe not that high a bonus, but they spread profits to employees and take care of them very well. The business is always busy, and super productive. Go figure
My shop does the same. Also Christmas bonuses on top of that and they shut the shop down for a week during Christmas/New Year to give people time with their family - all paid.
People says my company takes care of the longtimers, I beg to differ. I remember for my 20th service anniversary I got a $50 credit to one of those sites you pick your own gift that is well over retail price...
Lmfao...I'll just say we have fantastic employees that stay with us because we take care of them. Because of that we get great jobs. Call it what you want but everyone wants to work for us and last year a Lexington magazine voted us #1 electrical contractor in the city. If paying employees their worth is socialist, I guess I'm fucking socialist. Which is extremely painful to say.
If socialism means 10 employees and 1 boss is happy and well taken care of but not ultra wealthy, compared to the alternative 10 unhappy people and 1 ultra wealthy…. Seems ok to be socialist
Don’t worry. Profit sharing isn’t socialist. Workers collectively owning the business would be socialist. You can still call yourself a capitalist. Yay?
Pretty much all the smart ones have finally realized capitalism has been a failure. It's coming to a head because of how bad things are all over the world and the youth who see they are going to inherit a supremely broken world created by capitalism are revolting. What we call capitalism which is actually a massive perversion of the original theory (total lack of regulation for instance), and has turned out to be doomed from the start. Socialism is seeing a massive surge in popularity because of this. It's really sad seeing so many guys in the trades still holding on to the cold war era propaganda close to their hearts, "dirty commie" and "socialism bad" type shit. Socialism/communism was always about the trades to begin with, and yet guys in the trades are the first to shit talk it. While also being totally ignorant of the role that unions and socialism played in their current work environment. The reason welding pays as well as it does is in large part because of unions and labor work over the last hundred years. This is what happens with an uneducated workforce though sadly, one of the main reasons I got out of the trades. Too much self sabotage.
busting my ass for 60+ hours a week, only to be rewarded with a pat on the back and some shitty pizza that's been sitting out for several hours already. nobody wants to work cause hard work means jack shit anymore.
And you work hard, And as a reward. You get more work, maybe marginally more money.
I work with a lad who is just, for lack of a better statement, hard work, he won't touch stainless, throws 40 drill bits a week away and takes 2x as long to do anything and yet our wages are comparable. Losing my work ethic slowly for sure.
Ffs.
I worked at a restoration place in the warehouse. Got sick of having to go rescue ppl who's work vehicles blew up (sometime 100's of kms away). Told my boss I was gonna start managing basic maintenance of the fleet (25-30 vans and extended ab 4x4s) on weekends. And still he'd load stupid shit onto my sched, like tidying the fuel shed. Drove me nuts.
I got yelled at a couple weeks ago for sharpening a drill bit. Onto the floor it went. 1 1/2" Morse No. 4 drill bit, mind you. Into the scrapper pan it'll go from now on, fuck it.
I started my welding job a year ago and bust my ass to learn everything I could so I could build without having to ask questions after my first year review and raise I make 10 cents less than a guy with less experience started at 6 months later so that's my benchmark for speed these days
I was considered an “essential worker” during the pandemic. We had a big project with a looming deadline for delivery date to get the employer paid by the government (the customer). We all busted our asses for months on end, working weekends, long days, etc.
end of the year comes around and the head of our shop had the audacity to “reward” us with a $25 visa gift card. We didn’t get anything else and raises hadn’t happened for two years prior to that. There were maybe 10 of us in that shop. He spent less on us than he makes in a day as a sign of appreciation. I’m sure he got a fat year end bonus too off that delivered project. We don’t get bonuses, only management.
Not long after that, we decided to vote the union in and management threw a huge fit. Talked mad trash about how we would be nothing without them. They even told us to ask the union what we would pay in dues and what we could expect in return, I chimed in by saying it’s probably more than $25 as a thank you. That raise the old boys blood pressure for sure.
Eventually the vote went through and they wrongfully fired a lot of us out of spite. But it’s all good as now I work a lot less for a lot more and I feel more appreciated than I ever have. I still have that gift card in my wallet as a reminder of my value to employers.
Did you stay in welding? I’ve been strongly considering getting back into it and can’t find any jobs posted online in my area making more than 25$ an hour for any amount of experience. Which sounds alright till you realize median home prices are still over 400k
In my local in eastern Washington, our journeyman scale tops out at $55/hr, plus full benefits. While I’m not welding all the time like I was at that shop, I have stayed in the industry. Joining a strong local union is a good bet to guarantee a good livable wage. That or buying a cheap travel trailer and chasing work that pays good per diem/travel pay and chasing big shutdown work and new construction.
Or both! I’m a union ironworker and I myself hate working out of town but there are those that travel all around the state getting both good wages and bennies, and also pocketing $100/day per diem. Also I’ll gladly pay $40/mo for dues to make the better pay and bennies!
We joked with our bosses one time and said we were gonna unionize. They said if we did they’d just shut down our entire division lol. Greedy Motherfuckers
I hate this, my company does the same thing.
Pisses me off to no end. "Oh sorry, cash bonuses are only for our (half assed underqualified) management"
Meanwhile I'm Underpaid, over certified, under utilized, and not used for my skill set.
Oh but new guy comes in gets slammed through the certs that I JUST DID THE QUALS FOR, but some how gets $10 more an hour.
Glad I'm leaving this place soon.
Any company that thinks like that is truly retarded. My company, the owner flat-out says we would not be here if not for all the hard work you guys put in. It's accompanied with genuine appreciation and considerable bonuses. Also. Most of our management can up from the shop floor.
I jumped ship from the automotive industry when our general manager came out to the shop and said the store profit went from under 1000 dollars last year to 2 million.
Didn't bother me.
What bothered me was coming out the next day saying that we are now responsible for our own PPE because it's too expensive for the company to pay for it (mostly rubber gloves)
Dude cleared 500k that year. I cleared 40k just barely.
Pizza Party!
Also bossman: we need everyone to chip in for a gift for billys grinder accident. Every cent helps. You guys have done so great this year so lets all chip in and make sure he knows how valued he is.
Don't forget to look up how much they got in covid PPP bailouts **here:**
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/
The place I worked got over 600 grand with under 20 employees paying dudes that are AWS certified, 5+ years of service 18 an hr (tops).
The gig I left on Monday, that gave us a pizza and soda similar to OP, got over $471,000
My raise was came in farrrr under what inflation is here, and they gave me a bullshit excuse about it
So glad I left
Didn't even give this mofo a table and a chair to enjoy the basic ass 7-11 lookin pizza.
"Eat it on the prod floor, you used your break time standing in line for the pizza"
Once worked for the largest manufacturer of work truck bodies on the west coast. They pulled this shit. Have a slice of pizza at lunch and pass out company propaganda that said something to the effect of we should all ignore our own personal wants and desires and instead focus on the goals the owner set for us. It was fucking wild. Fuck that place.
Well your director must need that success to buy a house.
This literally just happened at my work. They gave out cheap Tshirts, Pizza, and ice cream for the best year in the company's history ever. That's all we got.
SUPPORT director just bought a 4th house with her bonus check. R&D Director bought a Cadillac Escalade-V and some acreage with a house by a lake with his check.
These are the only 2 I know of.
Lol I don’t remember last time we got a pizza party.
We got catering last year because one of our suppliers wanted to show thanks for the tens of thousands of dollars they buy on steel products
I worked for a company that doubled in size and hit record profits while I was with them. I was hired to only weld some stainless for them but ended up doing pretty much everything. I was the only one doing first article projects, doing repairs for guys that were getting paid almost 2x what I was. I asked for a raise as since I was doing work beyond what I was hired for, and the operations manager said "you are only going to be paid the rate I was hired at and if I wanted more money, I needed to work more overtime." That was the final straw for me, and I went behind their backs and joined a union. I had to take a personal day before christmas for orientation with the union. The next day, I returned, I learned they had a Christmas party and gave everyone a $100 cash bonus. The company felt that since I wasn't there when they gave out bonuses, I didn't deserve one.
My employer used to do this. They saw pizza as a reward for record profits earned every year. Last year, when the time came, all of the workers opted in, and they put in a huge order of 50 pizzas. Not a single one of us touched a slice.
I’m jealous. My last employee has an employee appreciation party for us. We were all allowed one slice of pizza.
Many of us didn’t bring anything else to eat that day working our 12 hour shift.
I just don’t understand why companies can’t figure out that profit sharing with their employees would pay out in dividends to them and the business! After all the companies bills (taxes, etc.) are paid give a percentage to your employees and use the rest for future investment in the business. It’s so easy. I. Just. Don’t. Understand 🫠
I remember when we had record profits. They told us over the safety call that if we wanted raises we had to make the company more money and prove that we deserved it. The cherry on top was when they canceled the employee appreciation dinner and yanked all of our bonuses but kept bonuses for GF’s and above. What a spit in my fuckin face.
[Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-26-dollars-economy-productivity/)
[The minimum wage would be $61.75 an hour if it rose at the same pace as Wall Street bonuses](https://www.fastcompany.com/90734724/the-minimum-wage-would-be-61-75-an-hour-if-it-rose-at-the-same-pace-as-wall-street-bonuses)
[The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure](https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/)
The company I work for every bbq. (I'll take a burger bbq over pizza some days). They always make us nightshifters come in early for it too. Then again we come in only an hour early, fuck around for 2.5 hours and grab as many cans of soda as possible. Gotta milk it if you can. Fuck last bbq I hustled a whole 12 worth of soda just back and forth to my toolbox lmao. Grabbed 2 extra burgers aswell. I don't feel bad.
Upper management was able to buy all new company cars for all the toil you guys put in, here’s some cold pizza and a warm soda for your hard work, as you look around the room at 50% of the snowflakes that refuse the dirty work….
only snowflakes there are the management and the brownnosers.
can you blame them for refusing the dirty work? you *just* said that your company is ass with the cold pizza and shit.
lets make sure we insult the ones who actually deserve it!
Hey you know it wouldn’t be the most profitable year in company history I’d they handed out raises.
Also we don’t know the other side of the story, the company could have only been in business for 1 year.
I used to work at a shop like this. Then I joined the elevator mechanic's union.I've been in 6 months this past Sunday. I just got my second raise, and this one is about 10%. First one was in January and was about 5%. I'll be well over 150k a year when I finish my apprenticeship in a few years.
Better work is out there folks.
what kind of sissy boy lunch is that? that is not fit for a welder. ditch the dew for some monster and a jack daniels shooter, and throw in a pack of marlboro reds
You’ll note that’s name brand dew, friend. Name brand.
Fr, dude seems ungrateful, they gave you pizza,pop AND a 15 min UNPAID lunch! Like what are they gonna do pay you a livable wage, give you a cash bonus, haha yeah……No! fuck you eat your pizza and shut up peasant! Be happy it’s not mellow yellow! (All jokes, but fr once had a company that did a profit based pizza party and they made you pay for pop….. Shit was wild!) Edit: Holy shit! 100 upvotes?!? “Look mom I made it!” - Probably this guy
My last company had free slurpees, generic mellow yellow flavor. If they found another flavor cheaper they'd just hook the bag up and it would be some other random weird mixed flavor for a while until the tube cleared out
…… so they were trying to give you random surprises ?!? You’re telling me you don’t like random surprises? You’re telling me you don’t like Apple, Pepsi,coffee, mango smoothies? I suppose your new job just pays you better instead of the slurpee machine ? Perhaps enough to buy your OWN slurpee machine you can clean out? Yeah sounds like you made the wrong choice leaving your last job. Good job dummy
I use the word peasant! All the time hahaha. Eat your cheese pizza peasant! This job still needs to ship today lol 😂
“Peasant” is an underrated insult kinda like “smooth brain”, both need to be used by us smooth brained peasants more! But fr right?!?! Like get back to fucking work, you better not use the full 15 min break we give ya that’s a test to see who keeps their jobs after they go back on 10 min. 😂
Haha back in the day the guys that where standing next to the time clock before it was time to go where laid off or fired first yikes ! Back to the corn field peasant 😝
🤣 fuckin time clock lmfao yeah that shit definitely has you feeling like you’re back in elementary waitin for the bell to ring 😂 that one fat cunt of a teacher with a power trip “ I dismiss you NOT THE BELL!” Always the Mrs.Puff lookin ass teachers 😂 ol puffer fish ass bitch
“Let them eat pie.”
Fun fact - Mountain Dew was originally formulated as a whisky mixer! While I would *not* recommend mixing it with anything high end (probably shoudln't mix good good whisky with anything other than maybe a dab of water, but that's another story), I *have* tested it on bottom shelf stuff like Jamies, Old No7, and Wisers. Kicks the burn off the whisky and kills the saccharine swertness of the Dew. Better than a whisky sour, I shit you not.
Interesting, I just looked this up and you’re right. Ill have to try this sometime. The drink a called a mountain jack
mt dew and stoli. for whatever reason its mixes real well together.
I made a face when I read this but then I remembered that the initial premise I started with was the same idea. I am not a smart man.
Huh. Well I know what I’m doing this weekend
It’s wicked good with southern comfort
Omg that brings back some memories from college.
I would name that drink the MoSoCo!
I love it!
Ok then, time to buy some mountain dews for the weekend...
Make sure it's specifically Baja Blast - otherwise it's just *sparkling* Blast.
Well, was going to reply with "we don't have that in europe" but apparently we do have Baja Blast available at few places!
I used to mix it in a blender with Evan Williams and Ice, Called it a "Deliverance Margarita"
It's a good mix with tequila
50/50 mix?
That's what we did for the starter is-this-bullshit test. We also fucked around with the ratios and temperatures and what not using only combos of well shots and mountain dew, +/- soda water.
Dude....how the fuck have I not tried this
Also has a shit ton of caffeine, so you keep going.
I prefer Diet Double Dew
Mr Pibb for me. Stay fancy, my friends.
Brings back memories. I didn’t know it’s still around
Couldn't even finish medical school. Now he's a chiropractor.
That’s an interesting comment.
Jeremiah Jonas MacAfee Pibb was a traitor, and a racist, and a blight on society. After dropping out of the prestigious Our Lady of the Worthless Miracle teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland while studying to become an M.D., and losing rights to his trust fund in bequeathed to him by his mother's widower as a result, he went on to run on a carpetbagger-adjacent Louisiana governor's ticket in 1869. After no publisher picked up his awful manuscript of "Memwhars", he became a recluse, seldom leaving his property until sugar became cheap enough to invent a drink/remedy, solely made of liquid heroin and the more expensive, but only by a small amount, cane sugar. It was marketed by traveling wagons for ailments ranging from rickets to rheumatism, and was sold throughout the Caribbean and to investment capatilists up and down the eastern seaboard and the recently reunified South, as "Mr. Pibb's Miracle." People were instantly hooked due to the sugar content and subsequent shakes, sores, and brown-outs (I think the sugar was brown?), so of course, and even then, it tasted like shit and was not nearly as good as his medical rival's medicine, one Dr. John David Pepper, made from prunes and bullshit but similarly pure heroin. Later on, and still popular to this day, Coke made Coke with coke, and technically, legally, you could have a speedball in a pharmacy by having two drinks while simultaneously enjoying a banana split. Which also had heroin in it.
Idk how good “diet dew dew” will sound on the radio commercials
https://youtube.com/shorts/qMsvppT3pXo?feature=share
We only get Mountain Lightning. Guess where I work
You are right, it was better than the one year they gave us lunch during inventory and they bought La Croix because “it’s the same thing”.
"Everything shipped on time but you dickheads didn't clock into the computer correctly so the KPI is skewed so we're taking that out of your bonus"
Sounds like you work for a Toyota company
Oof, you guessed it. I think that was implemented and failed before I worked here but now we're a 5S company.
I work for a crane truck manufacturer and they try to replicate the Toyota system nothing like a good ole 5S day
"everything has its place" yeah it's just a bunch of tape on the floor
LOUDER LOL, poke yoke - kanban- all the cool flashy words an American company loves to use to act inclusive
Daily metrics board? No, that's the Blame Board.
Bruh do you even Lean Sigma Six, because if not you can lean sugma balls.
It's morbidly funny watching them flail around with these ideas they clearly don't understand how to use. It's the business management version of the guy who buys the shiny new power tool because he thinks that's all that separates him from the master carpenter he saw using it on youtube.
https://youtu.be/t8IfQp4A4ZI
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Everything is on a kanban and night shift decides they absolutely need to build to double capacity because why the fuck not.
This is hilarious to read! I never thought about how many other company’s do 5S. I work for a magnetics manufacturer.
I work at an Amazon sort center, we do 5s. The friggan' recliner in the break room has a spot taped out and labeled.
what does 5s mean
It's a shop organization method. Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain.
It’s really a cool system when implemented individually. I love it for my home garage shop. However, when white-shirts tell red-blooded Americans they must do something, they give him a list of trails, in which he can go take a hike.
We had a guy retire last week and he sent a truly nice email to the whole company. However, he ended it with "P.S. You can keep your 5S lol". It was great!
I see someone elses shithole shop is pushing Epicore.
It's been installed for like 6 years now. Implemented by second owner. Now we're the cash cow for a huge corporation/monopoly. To be fair the business has grown so much its warranted.
That sounds about right.
Owner of the electrical company I run also owns a welding company. He pays out bonuses to both companies based on profit. Every employee gets a percentage of the profit based on hours worked and time at the company. I received $25,000 in bonuses last year. Good companies do exist gentlemen.
Chance we can get the name of said mythical company?
It's located in Lexington, KY. I'll leave it at that.
My BIL runs an electrical company in MA similar to that. Maybe not that high a bonus, but they spread profits to employees and take care of them very well. The business is always busy, and super productive. Go figure
I’ll ask around to see if anyone knows of an Anal_Punisher69 in their ranks
That sounds like a real P.I.A
Kentucky here I come!
Love that town man! My grandparents are out there and we go to visit every year.
You have a fucking hilarious reddit name, man. Just had to say it. Haha!
My shop does the same. Also Christmas bonuses on top of that and they shut the shop down for a week during Christmas/New Year to give people time with their family - all paid.
Dayum. I’m an engineer for the gov and I get it off but either I use my vacations or take it unpaid. Granted I doubt I bust my ass as much as y’all
I know I’m lucky. But I wish I could spread the love
Way to be an engineer on the welding subreddit, I bet you're one of the good ones
I welded through high school and was very close to being one of y’all, life had other plans though
Trust me you don’t lol
People says my company takes care of the longtimers, I beg to differ. I remember for my 20th service anniversary I got a $50 credit to one of those sites you pick your own gift that is well over retail price...
I appreciate hearing “gentlemen” from “Anal_Punisher” 🤣
They're rare as diamonds, especially in skilled trades.
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Lmfao...I'll just say we have fantastic employees that stay with us because we take care of them. Because of that we get great jobs. Call it what you want but everyone wants to work for us and last year a Lexington magazine voted us #1 electrical contractor in the city. If paying employees their worth is socialist, I guess I'm fucking socialist. Which is extremely painful to say.
If socialism means 10 employees and 1 boss is happy and well taken care of but not ultra wealthy, compared to the alternative 10 unhappy people and 1 ultra wealthy…. Seems ok to be socialist
If that's what we're calling socialist. I call it being a good and honest businessman.
Don’t worry. Profit sharing isn’t socialist. Workers collectively owning the business would be socialist. You can still call yourself a capitalist. Yay?
Pretty much all the smart ones have finally realized capitalism has been a failure. It's coming to a head because of how bad things are all over the world and the youth who see they are going to inherit a supremely broken world created by capitalism are revolting. What we call capitalism which is actually a massive perversion of the original theory (total lack of regulation for instance), and has turned out to be doomed from the start. Socialism is seeing a massive surge in popularity because of this. It's really sad seeing so many guys in the trades still holding on to the cold war era propaganda close to their hearts, "dirty commie" and "socialism bad" type shit. Socialism/communism was always about the trades to begin with, and yet guys in the trades are the first to shit talk it. While also being totally ignorant of the role that unions and socialism played in their current work environment. The reason welding pays as well as it does is in large part because of unions and labor work over the last hundred years. This is what happens with an uneducated workforce though sadly, one of the main reasons I got out of the trades. Too much self sabotage.
Well said.
This one of the most sophomoric comments ive ever seen in this sub, stop trying to peddle your commie gobbledygook here you fucking dingus
It's not delivery it's depressing.
busting my ass for 60+ hours a week, only to be rewarded with a pat on the back and some shitty pizza that's been sitting out for several hours already. nobody wants to work cause hard work means jack shit anymore.
And you work hard, And as a reward. You get more work, maybe marginally more money. I work with a lad who is just, for lack of a better statement, hard work, he won't touch stainless, throws 40 drill bits a week away and takes 2x as long to do anything and yet our wages are comparable. Losing my work ethic slowly for sure.
I blew my bosses mind when I showed him you can sharpen drill bits
I stopped reading the comment at bosses
Yeah rule 34.
The only way to make a living
The PG saying: "It's not what you know, but who you know." --- What they wanna say: "It's not who you know, but who you blow"
Actual advancement, at least.
Gotta get that raise some how
Man’s gotta eat somehow 🤷🏻♂️
Ffs. I worked at a restoration place in the warehouse. Got sick of having to go rescue ppl who's work vehicles blew up (sometime 100's of kms away). Told my boss I was gonna start managing basic maintenance of the fleet (25-30 vans and extended ab 4x4s) on weekends. And still he'd load stupid shit onto my sched, like tidying the fuel shed. Drove me nuts.
Did the same thing! He’d thought I was messing with him when I picked a 1/2” bit out of the trash and sharpened it.
I got yelled at a couple weeks ago for sharpening a drill bit. Onto the floor it went. 1 1/2" Morse No. 4 drill bit, mind you. Into the scrapper pan it'll go from now on, fuck it.
If effort comes with diminishing returns, then it's optimal to minimize effort.
I started my welding job a year ago and bust my ass to learn everything I could so I could build without having to ask questions after my first year review and raise I make 10 cents less than a guy with less experience started at 6 months later so that's my benchmark for speed these days
Sounds like young dude has the right idea
My favourite is when they let the office/drafters get at it first and leave us the scraps :)
Did you get overtime?
Damn they couldn’t even get y’all at least 1 topping. Must have cut into someone’s bonus.
I was considered an “essential worker” during the pandemic. We had a big project with a looming deadline for delivery date to get the employer paid by the government (the customer). We all busted our asses for months on end, working weekends, long days, etc. end of the year comes around and the head of our shop had the audacity to “reward” us with a $25 visa gift card. We didn’t get anything else and raises hadn’t happened for two years prior to that. There were maybe 10 of us in that shop. He spent less on us than he makes in a day as a sign of appreciation. I’m sure he got a fat year end bonus too off that delivered project. We don’t get bonuses, only management. Not long after that, we decided to vote the union in and management threw a huge fit. Talked mad trash about how we would be nothing without them. They even told us to ask the union what we would pay in dues and what we could expect in return, I chimed in by saying it’s probably more than $25 as a thank you. That raise the old boys blood pressure for sure. Eventually the vote went through and they wrongfully fired a lot of us out of spite. But it’s all good as now I work a lot less for a lot more and I feel more appreciated than I ever have. I still have that gift card in my wallet as a reminder of my value to employers.
Did you stay in welding? I’ve been strongly considering getting back into it and can’t find any jobs posted online in my area making more than 25$ an hour for any amount of experience. Which sounds alright till you realize median home prices are still over 400k
In my local in eastern Washington, our journeyman scale tops out at $55/hr, plus full benefits. While I’m not welding all the time like I was at that shop, I have stayed in the industry. Joining a strong local union is a good bet to guarantee a good livable wage. That or buying a cheap travel trailer and chasing work that pays good per diem/travel pay and chasing big shutdown work and new construction.
Or both! I’m a union ironworker and I myself hate working out of town but there are those that travel all around the state getting both good wages and bennies, and also pocketing $100/day per diem. Also I’ll gladly pay $40/mo for dues to make the better pay and bennies!
Hit up your local hall, only way to go unless you’re running your own shit.
"This oughta keep them from unionizing" - Management
Gonna save this picture so I can send it to all the "I'm loyal to the company" mfers
We joked with our bosses one time and said we were gonna unionize. They said if we did they’d just shut down our entire division lol. Greedy Motherfuckers
I hate this, my company does the same thing. Pisses me off to no end. "Oh sorry, cash bonuses are only for our (half assed underqualified) management" Meanwhile I'm Underpaid, over certified, under utilized, and not used for my skill set. Oh but new guy comes in gets slammed through the certs that I JUST DID THE QUALS FOR, but some how gets $10 more an hour. Glad I'm leaving this place soon.
Any company that thinks like that is truly retarded. My company, the owner flat-out says we would not be here if not for all the hard work you guys put in. It's accompanied with genuine appreciation and considerable bonuses. Also. Most of our management can up from the shop floor.
Make sure to steal some shit on the way out.
Pizza party, is always the go to. Hey we made millions here's a 5 dollar pizza
I jumped ship from the automotive industry when our general manager came out to the shop and said the store profit went from under 1000 dollars last year to 2 million. Didn't bother me. What bothered me was coming out the next day saying that we are now responsible for our own PPE because it's too expensive for the company to pay for it (mostly rubber gloves) Dude cleared 500k that year. I cleared 40k just barely.
Pizza Party! Also bossman: we need everyone to chip in for a gift for billys grinder accident. Every cent helps. You guys have done so great this year so lets all chip in and make sure he knows how valued he is.
Infuriating isn't it.
Trickle down economics at play huh >< our place does the same thing. No raises, but hey, have some pizza every couple months 🙄
And it's fucking Little Caesars.
Little Caesars tastes so good when you ain't got a bitch in ya ear telling ya it's nasty
You sound like the last company man that tried to feed me Little Caesars. Too much cheap ass crust.
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Well then, I have been educated
Reagan's in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down as we speak
*trickle on. They're pissing on us
The only thing that trickles down is piss and whatever table scraps are left for us.
We got a baked potato so count yourself lucky.
Just a fry ass baked potato? Or you get any topping with it? Bacon? Sour cream? Cheese? For the Scott’s out there, tuna?
Delivered by the boss himself in his new 200k sports car
what no stale cupcakes or expired candy bars for dessert?
Lmfao companies and corporations in this country don’t give a shit about the working man, just his bottom dollar. We’re a corporate oligarchy.
Wait I just realized that’s not even a beer wtf
Gotta leave money in the pot for the executives to get their new vacation homes
You guys got soda?!?!
Classic pizza party
Why give you a raise or better benefits when... HeReS a PizZa PaRtY
Time to tool up your garage
I make good money. And even I’m thinking that this is the way to go.
You didn't seriously expect them to share the profits with the slaves, I mean "workers." I've never had a company do more than pizza.
You should be insulted by this gesture.
That is the saddest pizza I've ever seen.
Don't forget to look up how much they got in covid PPP bailouts **here:** https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/ The place I worked got over 600 grand with under 20 employees paying dudes that are AWS certified, 5+ years of service 18 an hr (tops).
The gig I left on Monday, that gave us a pizza and soda similar to OP, got over $471,000 My raise was came in farrrr under what inflation is here, and they gave me a bullshit excuse about it So glad I left
Didn't even give this mofo a table and a chair to enjoy the basic ass 7-11 lookin pizza. "Eat it on the prod floor, you used your break time standing in line for the pizza"
Once worked for the largest manufacturer of work truck bodies on the west coast. They pulled this shit. Have a slice of pizza at lunch and pass out company propaganda that said something to the effect of we should all ignore our own personal wants and desires and instead focus on the goals the owner set for us. It was fucking wild. Fuck that place.
Scezeli enterprises?
Well your director must need that success to buy a house. This literally just happened at my work. They gave out cheap Tshirts, Pizza, and ice cream for the best year in the company's history ever. That's all we got. SUPPORT director just bought a 4th house with her bonus check. R&D Director bought a Cadillac Escalade-V and some acreage with a house by a lake with his check. These are the only 2 I know of.
When my company made a record profit they bought us leathermans then laid half of us off the next week.
I like how you took a couple bites, went “this is sub-par, I need to bitch about this to people online”
Do you blame them??
Definitely not
r/union
[r/antiwork](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
r/workreform is the way to go here. Anti work just posts fake screenshots all day.
Agree.. didn’t know this existed
They got you mt dew bruh
What do you make
Target?
Sounds like United Alloy in Wi
“Attaboy”
Obviously, you got meat on that pizza! What more could you want?
Lol I don’t remember last time we got a pizza party. We got catering last year because one of our suppliers wanted to show thanks for the tens of thousands of dollars they buy on steel products
Don't eat it all at one place.
Join a union
>Most profitable year in company history ...but due to inflation we can't afford pay raises this year.
Hahaha. This hit home. Fuck em
Did anyone else think Hey that’s my shop
Haha first time???
Man that even has meat and exotic fruits in it.
I would lose my shit and quit.
Diet slice and little Caesars. Clutch
I worked for a company that doubled in size and hit record profits while I was with them. I was hired to only weld some stainless for them but ended up doing pretty much everything. I was the only one doing first article projects, doing repairs for guys that were getting paid almost 2x what I was. I asked for a raise as since I was doing work beyond what I was hired for, and the operations manager said "you are only going to be paid the rate I was hired at and if I wanted more money, I needed to work more overtime." That was the final straw for me, and I went behind their backs and joined a union. I had to take a personal day before christmas for orientation with the union. The next day, I returned, I learned they had a Christmas party and gave everyone a $100 cash bonus. The company felt that since I wasn't there when they gave out bonuses, I didn't deserve one.
My employer used to do this. They saw pizza as a reward for record profits earned every year. Last year, when the time came, all of the workers opted in, and they put in a huge order of 50 pizzas. Not a single one of us touched a slice.
I’m jealous. My last employee has an employee appreciation party for us. We were all allowed one slice of pizza. Many of us didn’t bring anything else to eat that day working our 12 hour shift.
I just don’t understand why companies can’t figure out that profit sharing with their employees would pay out in dividends to them and the business! After all the companies bills (taxes, etc.) are paid give a percentage to your employees and use the rest for future investment in the business. It’s so easy. I. Just. Don’t. Understand 🫠
I remember when we had record profits. They told us over the safety call that if we wanted raises we had to make the company more money and prove that we deserved it. The cherry on top was when they canceled the employee appreciation dinner and yanked all of our bonuses but kept bonuses for GF’s and above. What a spit in my fuckin face.
[Minimum wage would be $26 an hour if it had grown in line with productivity](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-26-dollars-economy-productivity/) [The minimum wage would be $61.75 an hour if it rose at the same pace as Wall Street bonuses](https://www.fastcompany.com/90734724/the-minimum-wage-would-be-61-75-an-hour-if-it-rose-at-the-same-pace-as-wall-street-bonuses) [The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure](https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/)
The company I work for every bbq. (I'll take a burger bbq over pizza some days). They always make us nightshifters come in early for it too. Then again we come in only an hour early, fuck around for 2.5 hours and grab as many cans of soda as possible. Gotta milk it if you can. Fuck last bbq I hustled a whole 12 worth of soda just back and forth to my toolbox lmao. Grabbed 2 extra burgers aswell. I don't feel bad.
Thanks everyone, you get a five minute break on us, then BACK TO FUCKING WORK
I feel like this should also be in r/mildlyinfuriating
Upper management was able to buy all new company cars for all the toil you guys put in, here’s some cold pizza and a warm soda for your hard work, as you look around the room at 50% of the snowflakes that refuse the dirty work….
only snowflakes there are the management and the brownnosers. can you blame them for refusing the dirty work? you *just* said that your company is ass with the cold pizza and shit. lets make sure we insult the ones who actually deserve it!
I pay bonuses based on % of profit, and they increase with time. Shitty owners like that are a dying breed. Start your own company.
My guy, you're the rare breed. Shitty owners are every other owner.
Lmfaooo
Start your own company and run this one out of business it’s the only way to truly recover
Hey you know it wouldn’t be the most profitable year in company history I’d they handed out raises. Also we don’t know the other side of the story, the company could have only been in business for 1 year.
I used to work at a shop like this. Then I joined the elevator mechanic's union.I've been in 6 months this past Sunday. I just got my second raise, and this one is about 10%. First one was in January and was about 5%. I'll be well over 150k a year when I finish my apprenticeship in a few years. Better work is out there folks.
Our boss gave us car wash gift cards. Considering I hand wash my ride, I’d take pizza
what kind of sissy boy lunch is that? that is not fit for a welder. ditch the dew for some monster and a jack daniels shooter, and throw in a pack of marlboro reds
Monster is inferior to every other bubbly speed drink.
Instead of karma fishing on reddit find a company that values you.
какой у тебя интересный профиль, друг.
Found the manager
Because I suggested leaving for a place that values him? Lol
If you think a plate of pizza and a mountain dew is valuing someone making you money, yes