Stupid Boss tricks
 

Here's a new one:
My boss has two hourly employees that have been working in a "temporary supervisor" role for about a year.
He was told to make them permanent salary.
He made them both an offer but it was low-ball and neither agreed to it so far.
The boss is putting pressure on them, saying if they don't accept he'll demote them back to their regular jobs, neither of them care about that.

So, being who he is, he arranged a meeting with him, me, and these two employees.
He opened it up by suggesting that I tell these two how great it is being on salary and working for him.
He wanted me to put pressure on these guys and get them to sign the offer!
Man was that sleazy.
Basically I told the guys the truth, and pissed off my boss in the process.
What did he expect, that I would play that stupid game just to keep him happy? He knows me better than that and I'm pissed that he put me in that position.
Arrrrhhhgggg!

Plus a tard made a lane change this morning into my lane, unfortunately he was right next to me. Smashed up the right front fender on my new truck. Good thing I didn't have a gun ........
His insurance company accepted all responsibility so it'll get fixed and i'll get a rental car, but it'll never be new again and it's a total hassle.
I think I'm going to have a beer or 12 tonight.

Good show of ethics by your boss. Geez....Maybe he should have just...offered more money? Good for you for doing what you thought was right.

Sorry to hear about the truck. It'll get fixed, but, like you said, it'll never be new again. At least the ins. co. isn't giving you the hucklebuck about it. What kinda truck?

The guys that I have working for me in one of our SoCal offices would quit if they were forced to salary. The laws in SoCal for wage workers are so favorable that they make a good majority of their income from OT.

2007 toyota Tundra, only one oil change so far.
How could someone not see that truck in the lane right next to him, the truck is big!

I am supposed to be paid for being on this board?!

At least it wasn't the SC.

Sure, why not, I am I suppose.

Wayne pays me a commission each time I scare someone off the OT Board and back to the Technical BBS.

Pay is important but, according to the consistent research findings, not as important as other working conditions. In my humble view, the integrity (or lack thereof) of management is perhaps the single most important variable. I am currently filling a postion in Sacramento and recall telling the apparent successful candidate yesterday that someone less reliable could offer me double my salary tomorrow and I would decline. The people I work with and for have the utmost integrity. That is how they attracted me, and that is how they keep me here.

No one that works for me, or with me would say that. Truth told we are one miserable company, with outrageous salaries and pay scales. If you drive to the logical conclusion, we are here for the money.

In my business, labor relations, integrity is not optional. If the parties do not already KNOW that your commitments will be met, then they are not going to make any informal agreements with you. And if they are aware that some of your commitments at times do not get satisfied, then they are NEVER going to make any informal agreements with you. It's that harsh. And frankly, most of the players fall into the unfavorable category. Only a few have known, reliable integrity.