'My manager insists I turn my camera and mic on': Boss insists employee join video call on their day off, fired-up employee shows up with shocking background

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    Font - '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.'
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    Font - Why did you schedule this call on my off hours? S OC Been reading other stories of virtual meeting shennanigans, thought I will add my own.
  • 03
    Font - 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.
  • 05
    Font - 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 are off because of the noise, the other firefighters are having a chuckle at my expense. Then my manager insists I turn my camera and mic on, otherwise they will mark me as absent. Alrighty then.
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    Font - 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.
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    Font - 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 up in flames. They never scheduled training on my days off after that, jumped ship to a competitor two months later.
  • 08
    Font - grauenwolf +3 "do it or you are fired". Translation: Do you want to quit now or at a time that is maximally inconvenient for me?
  • 09
    Font - 818488899414 +2. 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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    Font - AngryDrnkBureaucrat You better have gotten paid for attending that meeting.
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    Font - ViscountBurrito +1. Attend the meeting or get fired? I'll show you FIRED!
  • 12
    Font - sixaout1982 Threatening to fire someone if they don't work on their day off should be illegal in any civilised country
  • 13
    Font - BioShockerInfinite "It's my day off and you are scheduling this without any notice so I won't be attending the meeting for those reasons." "Attend the training or you will be fired." "I won't be attending, so just let me know when my last day is."
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    Font - SteamKore Got pulled into a meeting at a funeral, everyone... except the host... was more than happy to say hi to my boss at the time, It's weird, my boss wasn't with the company very long after that.
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    Font - miki_cat Smart. Had a big boss of my dept demand I zoom in for a freaking HOLIDAY party zoom thing (that no one wanted to do) while I was on vacation. The second I clicked no to the invite she sends a Lync msg asking me why I will not be able. Me: I'm taking vacation Boss: you can call in, it's a zoom call.
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    Font - Me, No, I'll be hiking, so no. After few more tries, I screenshot this and send to my supervisor and ask her to kindly explain (again) to the Boss that civil service staff (also union) does not call in to zoom meeting while out for vacation/sick leave. Supervisor set her straight and Boss never tried that s again.
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    Font - BioRules Had a much milder version of this recently. I start work at 830, one of our managers schedules our quarterly meeting at 8, but made the meeting 10 mins before it started. When only one person shows up he then asks where I am, and is told I'm not online yet. He cancels the meeting for another time, and messages me about being on time for meetings in the future.

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