Firefighter Gets Dragged Into Mandatory Work Meeting During Off Hours, Calls In From Active Fire

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    Font - Posted by u/taipan821 21 hours ago 4 3 5 Why did you schedule this call on my off hours? oc s Been reading other stories of virtual meeting shennanigans, thought I will add my own. Day off, attending a hazard reduction burn, so out in the bush with a fire truck, suited up and running around like a happy pyromaniac.
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    Font - I get a phone call from work, I answer and get told I must be present for a virtual meeting scheduled for 10 mins time for a training on a system I already know, as I had been using it for the past 6 months at a venue. I remind them that it is my day off, and my manager speaks with the tone of "do it or you are fired". Alrighty then. First strike, manager is late to their own meeting. The meeting eventually starts and I have connected by my phone and bluetooth earphones, my camera and mic
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    Font - Alrighty then. I stand in a spot where the fire will roar up behind me..somewhat safely..and turn my phone camera and mic on. The rest of the firefighters go nuts with the radio chatter as the people in the virtual meeting see yours truly masked up, full ensemble with the noise of fire roaring up behind him, the sound of the pump and the panicking radio chatter. I then end the call. Manager then begins to franctically ring, as she thinks she has just seen one of her better team members go
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    Human body - grauenwolf - 21 hr. ago "do it or you are fired". Translation: Do you want to quit now or at a time that is maximally inconvenient for me?
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    Font - Theletterkay · 19 hr. ago My husband was injured at work and they kept telling him he needed to talk with the insurance and lawyer people about the incident. He told them to let him know when they get here (speaking at work). They looked confused and told him, no, you have to call them after work because it will take a few hours to sort everything. So he asked what service he uses to submit the overtime required for that. They laughed and said they werent going to pay him for talking on t
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    Font - 818488899414 · 22 hr. ago S Sometimes people just need to accept that 'I can't right now' is legitimate. I received one of 'those' calls from a manager when they didn't accept that I was calling in sick because I was in the hospital. I had a nurse take a picture of me mid-appendectomy and I sent that to them during recovery. I was left alone for the entire 4 weeks off for recovery.
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    Human body - AngryDrnkBureaucrat - 22 hr. ago You better have gotten paid for attending that meeting.
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    Art - ViscountBurrito 21 hr. ago 3 Attend the meeting or get fired? I'll show you FIRED!
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    Font - Dropthebanhammer101 · 18 hr. ago My regional manager called me 3 days post emergency brain surgery while I was still in the hospital asking when I would be back to work. I was a floating manager among 4 pizza huts so I know that inconvenienced him but f ... my left side didn't even work yet from where they removed the mass. Needless to say i never went back.

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