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被炒了?你确定吗?好吧。

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My friend's dad, a seasoned mechanical engineer, was the kind of guy who knew his stuff inside and out. He wasn't into corporate fluff, just solving problems. He even ran a small side business, which his employer knew about and approved. Everything was fine until a bigger company took over. New management came in pushing for unpaid overtime and this super-enthusiastic, "American" corporate culture. He wasn't having it. When they realized he was influencing others, they turned hostile. They tried to force overtime (which the union contract forbade) and make him cheer and clap, but he just did it so awkwardly that it backfired. He knew a showdown was coming, so he documented everything. One day, they caught him answering an email for his side business on his work laptop and fired him for "theft of company resources." He just looked at them and asked, "Are you sure you want to do this?" twice, and when they confirmed, he was escorted out. He immediately called his union rep, who shut down the firing because it violated company policy and his side business had been approved, which was easily proved with documentation. Then, he called his lawyer and sent a cease and desist on some patents he owned – nothing major, but enough to cause a headache. He took some time off, and within a week, got two job offers. He declined, but offered his consulting services (at double his old hourly rate). His former colleagues started calling for help, but he directed them to management. Two weeks later, a manager called, and he hung up. The next week, HR offered his job back. He declined, offering to consult at six times his hourly pay (after taxes and costs, of course), which they eventually accepted. He also made them pay for the patents. Three months later, the labor board sided with him, awarding him three months' pay and a two-year severance package, plus lawyer fees. He went back to the company working part-time, consulting for others, and charging his old employer a hefty "arsehole tax." The managers weren't fired, but they were put in a separate group, and the costs of the arbitration and his consulting fees came out of their budget, making them ineligible for bonuses for years. My friend said her dad would often respond to their complaints with a grin and, "What are you going to do? Fire me?"
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ゝ心伤
# 5
I know people like this as my father was an engineer before he retired and he's exactly like this person's father, and would have done the same in the situation below, to the extent I can actually picture the Cringe happening.


They tried to force him to participate in the cheering and clapping by making it mandatory for him to attend and yelling at him to participate and he did but so unenthusiastically that the event turned even more cringe and people started laughing.


Really, REALLY happy he got his revenge, plus higher pay, plus bonuses denied, plus asshole tax. Good for him!
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SneakySnake
# 4
This is what happens when international companies think that their home country rules apply everywhere. I worked in Australia for a US based organization that said you can't take sick days for the first three months (or something like that). At that time in Australia, in that industry, you were awarded your full entitlement of sick leave the day you started as a permanent employee, subject to being required to provide appropriate evidence of illness from a medical practitioner. I had to have my gall bladder out two months after starting, one of the American managers tried to make a thing of it, but was shot down very quickly by the Australian manager.
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MagicWizard2
# 3
I hate company "feel good/team building" bullshit. I'm there to do my job and get paid. I don't mind chatting with my co-workers and being sociable but being expected to participate in the forced "happy times" bothers me.

At a previous job my director liked to do stuff in the evenings so most of the staff could attend. I worked 5am - 2pm and lived 20 miles from the office across the bridge. They'd want to do team building at 5pm and I'd never go. Boss was not happy and wanted to know why so I told her I wasn't going to drive home, drive back and have to pay for the bridge. I also told her I wasn't going to stay there and sit in my cube for 3 hours. I'd go home to spend time with my family and do my personal stuff; I'd already spent 8 hours with my co-workers.
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Amazonian2
# 2
That was amazing. I see a bit of myself in your friend's father. I live in America (state of Georgia) and it annoys the ever-loving fuck out of me about the cheerleading that a lot of corporations do to try to boost employee morale. Especially when there's been some layoffs and it's been announced there would be no raises.

I remember one year during our annual low country boil (large pots of shrimp, sausage, potatoes, onions, and corn, mixed together on a large table covered with newspaper or plastic, seasoned with various spices; omnomnomnom), the CEO got up in front of everybody and said how we've had a great year. We've gotten some new contracts, had a profit of so many million dollars, etc. Both of his daughters worked in the office, one as HR and the other as CFO (chief financial officer; watched money like a hawk). Not many people liked the CFO, and the previous year there had been at least 20 layoffs, we'd gotten a lot of new work in, a lot of people were having to work overtime, but nobody was being paid for it. Recently-passed laws made people like us exempt. Anyways, we're all sitting around, the CEO talks about how the company's doing good, etc., and the CFO just starts cheering and clapping. Meanwhile we're all just golf-clapping or sarcastically clapping. Things did improve a bit the following year, but not by much. I think that was the last time we had our annual low country boils.
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MechWarrior2
# 1
Kinda feels like you stole my story it's very similar but also different haha.

But I don't own patents and I was only 38 but had 20 years site knowledge.

Long and short I wasn't planning to retire at 38 but my side business was running itself, I got two years payout and my wage was already crazy high due to previous managers making sure I was players well enough I never considered leaving.

The main conflict I had with the new company coming in was all the non monitory benefits and perks and flexibility outside of oncall work were getting axed and I was not interested.

I just ignored the new rules and followed my contracts and refused to sign anything new.

Certain HR people and managers that never met me or knee what I do decided to tell me not to come into work if I didn't follow the rules.

They revoked all my key card access to server facilities etc and sent me a letting saying unless I followed the new rules I would not be returning to work.

It took about 2 seconds for my lawyer to get my pay reinstated and less than 2 weeks before they were attempting to get me back. 100s of missed calls, over 1000 emails (I did actually check important emails and had a friend keep me in the loop incase of a real disaster affecting outside companies I actually gave a shit about).

But otherwise I cut them off. Over that period I realized I wanted to not work anymore and just spend more time with my kids.

I also got offered very large amounts of money to contract back. I was tempted.

We claimed that they put me in a situation where I couldn't return to the environment.

I found out they had several instences of fines which are standard for all our contracts if we fail in some way. In twenty years there I never saw any fines issued.

They lost several large contracts not long after as they eventually pushed out my friend and a few others and all the site knowledge was gone and companies that trusted us from before I worked there moved on. They were BIG contracts too.

The company was less than 100 when I joined and after a few mergers and acquisitions by the time I left was over 2500.

Big companies like this need to be very careful. I had documented practically everything but finding it and relating it back and site knowledge over 100s of sites is near impossible to document for.

It can be used as a tool when training someone though.
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