Current Events > Have you ever gotten written up at your work before?

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yup

for not showing up

in my defense, i had a crippling back injury that works insurance company disputed

i won

fuck them

every friend i had from that joint gtfo shortly after they canned me for being "unfit for the job" (still made me EI eligible, yeeeeeeah!)

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Not at my current job but my previous one, I did once or twice. One was a manager fuck up that I got in trouble for but I had no proof of anything, so I just went with it.

bigtiggie23 posted...

I got written up and had to pay what was owed.

That sounds illegal. Literally illegal. A company cannot legally coerce payment from an employee for an honest mistake.

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DuneMan posted...

That sounds illegal. Literally illegal. A company cannot legally coerce payment from an employee for an honest mistake.

Thing is though I live in a right-to-work state, meaning you can be fired at any time for no reason at all. So you really don't complain if you want your job, and owners just lie about what happened. That's how it went down when I did get let go a few years later.
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bigtiggie23 posted...

Thing is though I live in a right-to-work state, meaning you can be fired at any time for no reason at all. So you really don't complain if you want your job, and owners just lie about what happened. That's how it went down when I did get let go a few years later.

document everything good sir/woman. Literally saved my ass multiple times. Get a hard copy of you paying them, which then you can have legal council view and determine if it is illegal or not. Assuming you can afford it.

I got written up once for accidentally hurting myself. I put a staple thru my finger with one of those big air powered staple guns.

The worst part about it was that we're told that if we have an injury we need to report it right away. We can get written up if you try and hide an injury.

I reported it right away and still got written up for "working unsafely"
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Been written up multiple times for being late early in my career.

There have been times when I was supposed to write people up for various things, but I almost always let them off unless it was serious.

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Three times that I can explicitly recall.

Once at my old job for habitually getting to work and clocking in at 9:02-9:05. This probably happened 200+ times before they finally got onto me about it. Well earned.

Another time at my current job for improving a process. Basically didn't follow proper chain of command for that one. Kinda BS write up.

Another time several months after the above write up for missing a quality defect. I probably would have just been warned on that one but the above write up hadn't fallen off so I was elevated to a level 2.

Been clean for almost 3 years now.

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First job, never
Second job, never cuz I got fired. I hated that job anyway.
Third job, one time when both me and my teammate were written up once for not having some files organized.
Fourth job, a lot. First reason is because I shipped out the wrong size item. Second time was because I billed the wrong amount for like 3 months. Third time was because I sent an incomplete order. I quit before they had a chance to fire me.
Fifth job, never.
Current job, once. Got written up because it was impossible to determine who messed up. Though my supervisor did accept full responsibility and insisted he take all the heat, my signature was ultimately on the work so we both got written up.

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Now that I think of it, I technically got a write up at my first job (fast food).

I was closing one night, which I had never done. I explained this to my shift manager and she said it wasnt a problem. She said to break down the broiler and I said that nobody had taught me how, so I only knew how to take two or three pieces apart. She told me that she didnt know either and to just do my best. I did, and that was apparently not good enough.

The next day, my GM called me in to ask for my side of the story. This guy was pretty down to earth but I didnt like to get on his bad side (he had served like 13 years in state prison). He was super chilled out about it, but explained that he basically had to rush to do all the work at 5am, blah blah blah.

I owned the mistake like a grown man and explained that I showed my shift manager what I did and she gave me the OK to go home. Thats where he realized that the night manager literally threw me under the bus because she fucked up.

She technically did write me up, but my GM threw it out. I never had that bitchs back again and she got like 3/10 from me when my GM and every other manager got 12/10.

Payzmaykr posted...

Now that I think of it, I technically got a write up at my first job (fast food).

I was closing one night, which I had never done. I explained this to my shift manager and she said it wasnt a problem. She said to break down the broiler and I said that nobody had taught me how, so I only knew how to take two or three pieces apart. She told me that she didnt know either and to just do my best. I did, and that was apparently not good enough.

The next day, my GM called me in to ask for my side of the story. This guy was pretty down to earth but I didnt like to get on his bad side (he had served like 13 years in state prison). He was super chilled out about it, but explained that he basically had to rush to do all the work at 5am, blah blah blah.

I owned the mistake like a grown man and explained that I showed my shift manager what I did and she gave me the OK to go home. Thats where he realized that the night manager literally threw me under the bus because she fucked up.

She technically did write me up, but my GM threw it out. I never had that bitchs back again and she got like 3/10 from me when my GM and every other manager got 12/10.

Niiice!!!
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Ivany2008 posted...

document everything good sir/woman. Literally saved my ass multiple times. Get a hard copy of you paying them, which then you can have legal council view and determine if it is illegal or not. Assuming you can afford it.

That was over 20 years ago. I have a much better job now, and those owners are no longer in business.
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Depending on the laws in the state, the company could be fined thousands of dollars for not allowing employees to have a minimum length to their meal breaks. So it's not unreasonable to think a large grocery chain would write you up for that.

Just be like the other young drones and glue your eyes to your phone for a full 30 minutes.

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