DescentBB

Heres the sitch, my wife started a new job last week.
It is with a large corp. but she is at an entry level position since she has been at home taking care of our three kids for 13 years.

Yesterday her lead gets a phone call from the manager,"Have you been filling out the daily log sheet everyday?" The lead responds ,"No, unless there is a situation, I wait and do them for the week on friday , then fax them to corp. Everyone does it that way."

This is the kicker, the manager says,"Well that is wrong I want them everyday, and I want you to write me 500 sentences ,"I will fill out the daily log everyday and fax it to corperate."I want it by friday."

My wife was astonished, "What?"

So today she found out that with this manager this is a common occurance. In fact there are several of the leads owing her from 500 to a thousand sentences for various transgressions against the letter of corp. rule book policies.

Now I am 36 years old and I told her I would absolutley REFUSE to abide by such a childish, humiliating, insulting request. She agreed wholeheartedly. As it stands now, the day she is asked to do sentences, will be her last day employed there if need be.

What do you all think of a policy like this??

There is no union to report this to? If not then i'd be whole heartedly behind my wife telling the guy to go and swivel. Then i'd sent the story to the local press, who'd lap it up.

likewise. local press.
★■◆● job anyway

★■◆● ya, boss! I'm out.

report her to HR, verbally, email and on paper. it would be even better if HR heard the conversation. facking ridiculous what people get away with these days. people don't need that kind of shiz.

What whuppinboy said. I would get with HR, make sure what my rights were under Corp Policy, then respectfully decline to write the sentences. If HR says Corp Policy allows such requests from management, I would have to think long and hard about working for a company whose management acts in such a childish way.

strange request i know. but if you could get a pic of her, it may make a good forum pic image macro. and make the world a better place

Yeah, what whuppin saud ... If that didn't bring about results I'd have to tell the biutch (and the rest of the company) to kiss my big hairy white @$$.

If it was me, I'd try to work it out with this person first before going to someone else. A polite and respectful refusal to write the sentences would be the first move. By doing this, your wife would be taking a stand, drawing a line in the sand. If the boss caved in, a precedent would be set and your wife would have now earned some respect. Letters and emails to HR or upper management may give her boss the opportunity to later set her up or make her life a living hell. I'd have a one to one with the boss in question first. "I'm sorry, Mr. Boss, writing those sentences is humiliating and I'm not going to do it. However, from now on, I will make and fax the reports daily as you requested."

If the boss further insisted that the sentences be written, your wife could take it up a notch.

i imagine she already did that on the spot the moment the "lines" were requested of her.

"what?... NO!"

roid wrote:i imagine she already did that on the spot the moment the "lines" were requested of her.

"what?... NO!"

I doubt that. If she did, this post would be worded in an "after the fact" manner.

Ask her boss if they are still in HS? If not, then there's no reason to write lines.

If the boss asks her again, have your wife, get up and tell the boss she quits.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. And if this is normal in the company, then I wouldn't want to work there.

punisher wrote:

roid wrote:i imagine she already did that on the spot the moment the "lines" were requested of her.

"what?... NO!"

I doubt that. If she did, this post would be worded in an "after the fact" manner.

perhaps she said that, was given the ultimatum, and then left to have a think about it.

(wow ultimatum is hard to spell, google couldn't even figure out what i wanted)

so, what happened?

UPDATE

As of yesterday my wife is longer employed there.
She sat down with the manager and had it out with here,"I cannot work for a manager I have no respect for, and since you choose such an immature and humiliating way to discipline your employees, I will not be one."
{I was so proud}
Anyways, she went a lot further than that with her, and by the end her point was driven home like a stake in her eye, lol.

Gawd I love that woman!

You just cant let anyone treat you like that, now she is an inspiration to the other employees who were too afraid to say anything, two of them have since refused to do the sentences also.......

I also vote she go to the local paper/press... drive a stake into her other eye. Good chance that the owner of the company has no idea what this manager is doing.

When the press is at his door at 5:00 AM letting him in on the manager's policy, (hence his Company's policy) you can bet that by 8:00 AM that manager is done so well you could stick a fork in her.

Amongst one of the most retarded and belittling managing techniques I've heard of in a while.

YEAH! GO WIFE* GO!


*btw what is the name of this heroine?

nice work!

i would've drivn down there and given him a peice of my fists. three hots and a cot for a month aint too bad.

She may want to tell her story on this site:

http://www.simplyfired.com/