‘He had to eat a huge loss’: Supervisor belittles an assembly line worker for proof-reading orders, ends up taking a 5x loss of product when his own mistake goes unchecked

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    "OK boss, whatever you say"
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    Classic just get on with the S job. This was from a few years ago while working in an assembly line for food.
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    We used to get orders that we would make up for distribution. For example. 1000 lasagne microwave meals. 800 Bolognese etc. As all the products were perishable we tried not to over fulfil the orders
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    at all as the chances of us being able to place elsewhere was slim due to the time factor. I lead one of the lines and one day I get the order through at 10x its usual volume. I go to speak to the
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    boss to double check and he turns on me. Asks if I am incompetent and tells me just get the done. OK boss whatever you say. We usually process about 4 different lines a day and when he came for his check in around halfway through the shift was when the hit the fan. It was
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    then he realised that there was a mistake and we had over produced the order by 5x at that point. There was nothing he could say but to move on to the next line. He had to eat a huge loss on his figures for waste. It was glorious.
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    Rachel Silver · 20 hr. ago We ran half a day too long on an order when I worked at a plastics company. That product didn't spoil, but we only sold it to one buyer, and we had made enough to supply them for over a year. The boss who Tup got in some because they had to find a place to store it until it got sold.
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    Feather_of_a_Jay - 22 hr. ago ...but of course, YOU are the one that's incompetent. Gotta love those bosses
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    Hermiona1 21 hr. ago Yeah, I work in a bakery and the amount of perfectly edible food we waste (it goes to animal food so I guess it's not technically a waste) is insane. Any time there's a mistake that
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    turns out the product unsellable (which does happen rarely) like putting wrong filling in the muffin it ofc goes in the bin. Very rarely we get to take something home that is wrong, like a couple of times per year.
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    LetsGoBubba6141. 21 hr. ago You should have asked how that incompetency tasted?
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    Previous-Image-8102 11 hr. ago Once I worked at a pizza shop, a huge order came in. 20 minutes later I noticed low activity in the kitchen so I asked where the order was. I was told to not worry about it and that the kitchen has a process and blah blah blah. Then he found the ticket and apologized :).
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    SavvySillybug. 21 hr. ago He had to eat a huge loss I hope everyone got to eat that huge loss! That's a lot of food waste otherwise!
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    heridfel37 3 hr. ago Nope, the boss had to eat it himself. I'm picturing Cool Hand Luke with the eggs, or Bruce Brogtrotter with the cake in Matilda
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    JeannieSmolBeannie 19 hr. ago Always get like that in writing, folks! That way if the boss decides to pin it on you and say you never said anything (gaslight, gatekeep, bad boss), you'll have a way out. CYA policy!!!
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    JBCrux 21 hr. ago *sighs* Some people just don't want to listen when you have something important to say and just want results. Well.. You get what you asked for. However the results may often be more than you bargained for!
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    Overall-Tailor8949 22 hr. ago That was a tasty bit of delicious compliance
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    Tikki_Taavi 21 hr. ago A boss should never be to busy to truly verify an honest question!
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    kay_bizzle 13 hr. ago Hey boss, just to circle back to our earlier conversation, am I incompetent? Did I do good and get the done?

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