'You can say goodbye to your bonus this month': Mechanics pressured to prioritize extra work, CEO takes away their bonuses, they band together for revenge

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    World - "You want us to adhere to the company hierarchy? Sure!"
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    Font - So you want us to adhere to the company hierarchy? Sure M OC So I work as a mechanic in a sewage treatment plant, it's a very laid-back job. In fact three out of eight hours was spent not working. I know that it sounds like of we were a bunch of freeloaders but it's just because the tasks we perform are simple and we do our best to do them ASAP.
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    Font - Anyway, the hierarchy in our plant is quite complicated but the most important thing is that as a part of a mechanical department, our only supervisor on site is our master (at least I think that's the English translation lol). Both plant manager and plant master are not our supervisors, yet they (as well as other workers) asked us to carry out some jobs for them, which we gladly agreed to do, even despite most of them being out of our range of duty. You know, welding racks back together,
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    Font - Now is the right time to address the tense situation we had with the plant master, he is best buddies with the manager, usually blaming all the shortcoming of his team on us, stuff like something not being cleaned (sic!), stuff that's not a mechanical failure, stuff that's simply not important enough, or stuff that's beyond our competencies and should be taken care by a specialist company. He also had this very annoying habit of rummaging through our tools, taking parts and using our mach
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    Font - But then he dropped the bomb, he had the list of all our old tasks that were left unfinished (the list wasn't that long btw, about 8 things, 3 of which were outside of our competencies) and said that the manager and CEO will be waiting in the conference room to give us a lecture and to take away our bonuses.
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    Font - The meeting went very roughly, it started with the CEO saying "you can say goodbye to your bonus this month", then proceeded to give us a lecture about the importance of our tasks. Then he kept blabbering about us "threatening" our master (plant master being the only supposed witness) etc. etc.
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    Font - When the CEO was talking about possible solutions, the plant master did the worst calculation of his life. He proposed "adhering to the company structure and proper workflow". Well, we didn't want to oppose, since we knew what that means.
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    Font - We talked this over with our master, now everytime the plant manager/master want us something to be done we reply with "we don't take jobs in the corridors", "we have our jobs to do, sorry", "we cannot afford to leave what we're doing, we have it planned for today" or "does our master know about this? We cannot do anything without him ordering it to be done".
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    Font - By now no one has been to our workshop for four weeks. No extra jobs. No side-jobs. Nothing. Only two tasks a day, that usually take 30mins each with the team of five. And it's all by the book, we definitely respect the company structure and have a proper workflow, focusing on our tasks.
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    Font - P.S. most of the backlogs were also due to stuff breaking down, which is mostly due to a faulty infrastructure. Most of the pipes are clogged with sedimentation from PIX/PAX and require thorough cleaning/rebuilding... But I guess it's cheaper to simply replace a pump which had to push the same amount of sewage through pipes that have narrowed by two times at this point. Those poor pumps. And yeah, the pipework and technology is the responsibility of the plant master and plant manager.
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    Rectangle - FairyFountain. 3 days ago I love it when higher-ups screw themselves over 626 Reply Share
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    Font - czokoman OP. 3 days ago I hate this guy, he is the "know all, do all" type of guy. I remember that he once took a shovel out of his workers hands and started diggin the hole himself because "he knows how to do it right"... One more quick story:
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    Font - Due to the dangers involved in this line of work, our company has a strict "work in pairs" policy. And so it happened that I was the only one on the shift this day and he stormed our workshop and started blurting about a macerator that broke down. I simply looked at him and said "I'm very sorry to hear that. I'll note that down, bye!" Honestly made my day 607 Reply Share
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    Font - da_kink >When the CEO was talking about possible solutions, the plant master did the worst calculation of his life. He proposed "adhering to the company structure and proper workflow". Well, we didn't want to oppose, since we knew what that means. +1-3 days ago The only thing i'm missing here is "Could you please put that in writing". Awesome when people shoot themselves in the foot. 195 Reply Share
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    Font - PLACE czokoman OP. 3 days ago Fortunately, we don't need that in writing. We actually broke the company's policy by doing tasks not ordered by our master. So yeah, it already IS in writing :D 174 Reply Share
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    Font - comedy ER 3 days ago Enjoy your next bonuses! +2.
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    Font - o Chaosmusic 3 days ago +3. still the plant master always told us that his tasks were more important and to just leave what we were doing for some other day. Should have gotten this in writing so when you got called into that meeting you would have had paper trail covering. Sorry we didn't do those other tasks, as you can see plant master [sounds like a DC comics villain] said his tasks took priority over all others.

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