'The general manager was inundated with complaints': Inexperienced boss cuts hours, files complaint with HR after boss yells at her

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    Font - Karen cuts the weekend hours and then gets MC with the boss. S OC So I have read similar things here before but thought i would share my story. Karen (my previous post was partially about her as well) was a manager of all the small departments like Reception, security, stores, company records, IT etc. What I know about Karen is this. She left school at 15-16 worked in a supermarket. Got a job at our firm as a front desk receptionist for about two years before been promoted to the managers
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    Font - Our company worksite has about 300 workers, 80 support staff (Karen is in charge), some technical departments and management. Karen who is quite young and not very educated runs the second biggest department (lots of small departments). I was the union delegate and one Friday about 4pm a bunch of staff come to me and tell Karen is cutting weekend hours for the support staff in a money saving bid. I tell them not to worry as they are all contracted to work 8 hours and the firm must pay you
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    Font - Come the weekend and chaos reigns. Support staff are only working four hours as instructed and production grinds to a slow pace without the support staff. Monday morning at 9am the union rings the general manager to ensure that staff will be paid for 8 hours even though they were instructed to work 4 hours only. Apparently, the general manager was also inundated with complaints from the weekend managers about lack of support staff causing production delays. Karen gets yelled at big time b
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    Font - Karen however called her company director friend who informs Karen by been yelled at, that breached the firms work safety rules. Karen lodges a complaint with HR. Karen is put on six weeks paid leave and the manager gets a warning. All the staff who worked 4 hours got paid 8 hours.
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    Font - Wildeyewilly +1. Karen is put on six weeks paid leave Wtf? She got the sweetest part of the deal!
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    Font - ▸ [deleted] Karen sounds incompetent. I hate nepotism
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    Font - Miss Design Diva +2. Karen is put on six weeks paid leave this should have never happened! She should have been fired for her blatant screwup that based on how long she'd been "working" in that role, she should have seen coming from a mile away! This person is a classic example of "Failing Upwards". I mean she essentially got a 6 week paid vacation, doesn't sound like a punishment to me.
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    Product - Oncewasaworker OP +3. It happened more than once. She once told 40 was half of 100
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    Font - TeakingMac Karen is put on six weeks paid leave Poor Karen. How will she ever learn?
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    Rectangle - jpl77 +2 So Karen F's up and gets 6 week vacation? Not much of an MC. Glad y'all got paid.
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    Font - YankeeWalrus +3. Usually when you promote your high school dropout niece into a management position, you find someone else to do all the duties she is undoubtedly too incompetent and inexperienced to handle.
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    Font - KirbyDingo +1. Hopefully, she will screw up once more after her "vacation". And then be shown, unceremoniously, to the door.
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    Font - eighty_more_or_less +1 at least you had six weeks of peace and quiet.
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    Font - Twinborne Sounds like a case of Karen getting a win, Support getting a win, and Management getting a kick up their backside.
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    Font - SawkeeReemo +1. Soooo... how can I get put on paid leave? How is that supposed to be a ing punishment? "You f ed up, Karen. Here's six weeks of PTO so you can think about what you've done." If ing wish someone would give me six weeks paid to do nothing! ↑ 1 Reply Share Oncewasaworker OP +3. She was put on leave for been yelled at. This was against company policy. It was four plus long years of just the most ridiculous events.
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    Smile - CoderJoe1 +3. FUBAR, all the way around.

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