What if you’re written up at work?

[patpeters]

I wrote "signed under duress" under my signature. Really pissed off the manager but there was nothing she could do. Never got written up again.

[janadeubner]

My manager wrote me up for noncompliance 1st write up telling me 3 strikes and I would be fired. A week or so later I got another write up for the same reason and was told it was the 3rd write up. I asked where my 2nd write up as I never received it. When I sent an email requesting that second write up. I mentioned that I planned to retire early in a few months anyway and I never heard any more about it! We all knew they screwed up. P.S. I had been in a union in an earlier job.

[Sifeus]

Yep. Just wrote "signed under protest" on an attendance write-up.

I'm a teamsters trucker. I'm not operating a 40ton vehicle while I've got a doctor's note and I'm covered in hives.

[LovinglfDesigns]

My friend in a union was suspended for 30 days for hanging up on a customer. The union demanded to hear the call and the customer had clearly said goodbye to my friend before the call ended. It was just a witch hunt. But he got 30 days back pay and a free 30 days off from work. It helps to have a union.

[starsiegeRoks]

Remember, to companies, your not a person, your a resource. Your the same thing as a mule, and when the mule stops being more use than trouble, it gets replaced.

So don't treat companies like they are people, do whatever you can to defend yourself from them, because your just an organic machine part to them.

[Lemurai]

It happened to me once, over “mistaken identity” there was a guy at an old job I had yrs ago that literally looked just like me but was an absolute screw up, when the arguing with management got to a fever pitch about me being adamant that they made a mistake, I just got up and walked out in the middle of it & left the job site, called HR later that day for my check and found another job a week later. I have little tolerance for buffoonery & idiot managers who can’t be managers because they’re literally guided on puppet strings by higher ups.

[babaXIII]

I got a write up in a grocery for telling the new employees what task they could do. We were in a rush and their trainer had gone on break. They were gonna twittle their thumbs for the whole hour when I gave them a couple of things to clean. The manager had been struggling to find the time to get those cleaner. The highest rank employee also agreed with me at the time. The manager obv wasn't there.

Come to learn that the new employees were the manager's daughter and her friend. They complained about me and I got a write up. Oh how I regret ever signing it instead of telling them to go fuck themselves.

That singular incident started a downward spiral, I quit two weeks after and they couldn't find a replacement, the two lazy kids did nothing for a month and got fired, everyone rlse quit within a year the department is now on life support. Used to be open from 7am to 21pm, now only open from 11 to 15 5 days a week and the manager was fired.

They mistreated their employees too often and got what they deserved.

[icebby]

Had a construction boss that almost pushed my ladder off of a 3rd floor roof trying to put a plank up. He said I wasn’t climbing it fast enough. Called OSHA that night and I guess his business couldn’t handle his coke habit AND an OSHA fine.
Don’t be an ass to your workers if you’re doing dumb shit, they have all the information they need to destroy you.

[Myrune]

My best ever was at Wal Mart. I was accused of "Thinking thoughts that could be misconstrued as sexual in nature." Due to the severity of the accusation the district manager was in on the meeting with the store manager. I argued my case a bit, but was getting nowhere. (I was just recently off active duty in the Marine Corps and I'm a big guy and can be very intimidating.) This ass-clown wasn't hearing anything I was saying. Finally, in a fit of shear frustration I said in my best Marine DI voice, "GUESS WHAT I'M EFFING THINKING NOW!!??" The DM spit his coffee out and couldn't stop laughing. The DM asked me to step out of the office for a moment. Less than two minutes later I was called back in by the manager. He apologized and offered me a 50 cent per hour raise if I would not pursue any action against them. (That was a huge raise in those days.) I accepted but left shortly after. No one needs that kind of crap in their life.

[brisbanekilarny]

I was a machine mechanic and some of the machines I worked on were industrial sewing machines. I would work on a machine and adjust it to make it work more efficiently. I would stand next to the person operating the machine and do minor adjustments then leave. I would go work on another machine and return to the previous machine to make sure it was still operating at peak performance. I was written up for watching the person operate the machine. I quit the job and left them without a machine mechanic. I contacted someone that worked there and they had to get a mechanic from the company that made the machines to try and get them to work properly. My supervisor could not get the machine to work properly. What they did not know is that I changed the shape of the loopers so the machine would sew properly.

[ginzingtonschnizer]

I had a boss try and pull this on me once. I refused to sign it and they said they would fire me. I told them that was okay. I do about 85% of the work because I had lazy co workers at the time. They gave up and left me alone after that. Telling them how being jobless would make getting my cdl easier since the state would pay for it if I was jobless really put a defeated look on their faces.

[johnfoote]

I've literally been written up for cleaning my station. Management then turned around a week later and threatened to write me up for not cleaning my station. But they also refused to rescind my 1st write up.

[WayToVibe]

You do NOT have to sign a wright up. You absolutely CAN talk them out of it. I've done it twice. BOTH times I wrote on the paper that I was signing a "false accusation under duress of both petty and financial retaliation by a manager who wants me to quit - because he's mismanaging the hours and hired too many people with workday availability and now needs to get rid of one- and so that I can't receive unemployment." Both times the papers found their way into the trash can instead of my personnel file. Emails get lost so write your side of the story on the front of the write up BEFORE you sign it. Don't let them get a signature until your voice is heard. Let them know you're keeping a copy for your records should you need to contact a lawyer. When my manager asked what I'd need a lawyer for I responded with, "That's really up to you, isn't it?"

[Vegeta]

I’ve been a union organiser for years and this is the exact same advice that we give here in Australia.

Maybe in my next conversation with a member I would just forward this video to them haha save me a 20 minute conversation 😂

[AmyFutch]

In college when I worked at Payless our new manager wrote us up for not finishing inventory and stocking, Even though we were short a person and incredibly busy that day. Then she wrote us up again for not informing her that we hadn't finished the task, even though we left a written note. She went on the whole day about how we had to tow the line and if there were any missteps we would be fired. We both turned in our two week notice the next day. The other two girls that worked at the store had submitted their two-week notice a few days before us. She was there for less than a month and all four of us quit. 😬

[Bbbmurr]

"Sorry I'm not going to sign something I disagree with"

[roseq]

Supervisor turned manager (later on) tried to write me up for something the entire team (including herself) was doing. She had HR rep there as a witness. I refused to sign anything. I said “if you write me up, I expect the rest of the team to get one as well….plus HR rep is your best friend; you two party religiously after hours….this can’t possibly be a conflict of interest” … HR lady was fired after I reported her to the VP for retaliation (for something else).

[chaospuppy]

There were 2 occasions I nearly got a write-up(Both at Taco Bell). One was when I "missed a shift" on the 3 day vacation I gave 3 months notice for (and reminders nearly every shift I worked after that because I was excited and couldn't shut up about it) When I got that call I may or may not have hung up on him(the GM) after telling him tough luck, I wasn't even in the same state at that point. I then got a text from the shift manager saying not to worry about it. I learned later she chewed him out for even trying when literally everyone saw me turn in the time off request(he was claiming I never turned in one, not my fault he was a slob. I took pictures of every single request off after that, because he also had a habit of ignoring my therapy appointments. Don't even get me started on when I was trying to go to college, I had to drop out partially because of that job) the other time, the district manager tried to write me up for insubordination because I wouldn't bare handed hand her a sanitizer rag(I refused to sign it and went on lunch instead). When I came back from lunch she'd done a complete 180 cuz she cleaned the GM's desk and found my dr's note.(Kinda wish I'd acknowledged the write-up, I bet I could've had a case) I quit that job 2 months later.
One of the last straws was being forced to get on my hands and knees to scrub a drink cart (by the DM) while I had a dr's note explaining that I needed accommodations for a knee injury. I could barely walk afterwards.
Don't work fast food kids, it'll drain you of everything you have and spit you out with nothing to show for it except medical problems.

[ThisWhiteGuy]

Lmfao I worked at mideviel times and was supposed to be written up 5 or 6 times because another employee was upset with me. One time he dented a wall and said I did it with a chicken. I never once signed a write up or was officially reprimanded for anything. This was also a job where I was hurt and they let me work high af on percs.

[nittinillz]

Sheeeit, I'm not signing anything and STILL submitting resumes and applications at other jobs. Once they get petty like that, it usually never stops until you're fired or forced to quit.