Rather than “we’re short staffed tonight,” maybe try “Hey, want to pick up a shift tonight?” The passive aggressive tone kills me lol
Nothing wrong with asking someone if they want to work, but you’ve gotta be ok if they say no when they’re not scheduled
The reason the manager didn’t do that is because this is a screenshot of a fake conversation.
Well, its real because I was the manager!
Oh no, what happened to Buster?
A loose seal
He got blown up a few times, among other things. I don’t think the original survived Mythbusters
He became a druggie unfortunately
i thought that was obvious. I mean the contact name is “manager”… isn’t the point that people wish they would respond like this?
I have had similar conversations with managers in the past, this may be staged but it’s all too real.
Youre a manager. manage to get your ass in there
✏️ downvoted by a manager apparently
lol, who let a manager onto the the fediverse?!
Gotta get that instance mass-defederated ASAP before we have a problem.
You know what’s going to be asked next, so here’s the response:
“Sorry homie, I’ve been drinking”
Actually used this once, and it wasn’t a lie or stretching the truth
Good call, never lie to your boss. Crack open a cold one as soon as the first text comes in
After. Just been drinking after.
“If you need extra hire, a friend is looking for a job, I could get you in touch”
In my restaurant there’s a four drink minimum before you can start cooking or serving customers.
In my restaurant, I make all my female employees withstand uncomfortable sexual advances from me. I have lawsuits out the ass!
I got the least serious bollocking of my life from the manager of the bar I worked in when the exec team of the bar I worked in bought me 12 jagerbombs in a single shift
How much coke was involved?
for us plebs sadly none
12 jagerbombs and no coke is a war crime.
And no maximum?
Most people find their own maximum.
Some find it and just leave it faaaar behind them
Remember this scene in Ratatouille where Colette talks about the sordid pasts of the kitchen staff? Now consider that that was bowdlerized for a kids’ movie, compared to reality.
TIL “bowdlerize” https://www.englishgrammar.org/bowdlerize-means-sanitize-book/
what a prude, that Thomas Bowdler. Shakespeare was too spicy for him!
Shakespeare’s work has a lot of dirty jokes, they’re just made with terminology modern English speakers don’t know or don’t realize was dirty back then.
And some of his lines are overt even to people today, like “What, with my tongue in your tail?” or when he uses a character named Bottom to make a lot of double entendres.
“My grandma died…”
At work, I don’t appreciate implications. It leads to mistakes and misunderstandings. Bad for business.
implications
Or you could just not reply.
That’s what I’ve always done, wait until the shift is nearly over and be like “just saw this, hope it all worked out!”
Yesss, “sorry I just woke up! Did you manage to find someone?”
The … always gets me
Yep, the text is great, but that’s the punchline.
That is the sign of incoming disaster.
It really bugs me that they spell good luck as a single word.
Twice
It’s because they’ve been drinking
Then general lack of empathy on both sides is astounding.
Wishing someone good luck is a show of empathy, not a lack thereof.
I don’t think not volunteering to come in on your day off when your boss hasn’t even asked you to do so yet indicates a “lack of empathy.”
Noooo you always have to be ready to run to your minimum wage job at a moments notice even though your employer will send you out on your ass the very second the numbers start looking red!!
Nobody wants to work anymore a bloo bloo bloo!!1
ikr the worker is literally showing empathy. Personally I wouldn’t even have answered the text unless I needed the money.
They didn’t say that. But it might be empathetic to interpret their message in the obvious way and say, “I can’t cover”.
But that would require this not to be a fake screenshot made up as a joke, because it would ruin the joke.
I know right? Imagine this minimum wage worker not dropping everything to come save the day for his manager who had poor planning and a lack of insight.
Your assumption is that the manager is being paid and treated well by the company. I promise you they are not - they are getting heat from both their leadership and employees. The manager should absolutely have empathy for their employees (and never ask for help in this way), but the fact that you can’t even fathom what the manager is going through lacks of empathy just as much.
Hard to give empathy to someone you never receive it from.
IKR, hense my first comment.
You think workers haven’t tried? You think people are born jaded? The only reason I have no empathy for my manager is because of how many times they have lied to me and taken advantage of my compassion.
Ok, your situation sounds earned.
But generally it goes both ways, you don’t think managers are jaded from being burned by shitty workers?
My point is that everyone, on all sides, could benefit from seeing each other as a bit more human.
Then why is the lack of empathy astounding?
Touche. People are generally pretty shitty - especially to each other.
That is right! They are family and family help each other…
