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Hey everyone, so I had a pretty crazy day at work recently. Here’s the scoop – after reaching out to our union rep about us losing our breaks due to being short-staffed, my boss completely lost it on me. 🤯
Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation before? How did you handle it? Here are a few thoughts and possible solutions I have in mind:
- Stay Calm: It can be tough dealing with a boss who’s upset, but try to stay calm and collected.
- Communicate: Maybe try to have a calm conversation with your boss to clarify your intentions and address any concerns.
- Seek Support: Don’t hesitate to reach out to HR or higher-ups if you feel unfairly treated.
- Evaluate Your Options: If things don’t improve, it might be worth considering other job opportunities.
What do you all think? Any other tips or advice for handling workplace conflicts like this? Let’s chat! 💬 #WorkplaceSupport #ConflictResolution
Your boss is why unions need to exist. You did right. Good job.
Don’t quit. Push back constantly and consistently. Tell everyone what you’re doing also. Since you are willing to quit anyways, you should make HIS life hell. Start to make him miserable that he can’t be a bully anymore. Start by messaging the union about his behavior. Say stuff like I feel threatened. Use words like fear of retaliation. On and on, every day if you can.
You and him becoming the example of what the union will and will not do will go a long way. It might even push him to quit. Or at least stop being a fucking asshole.
Sounds like you should report his behavior to your union rep.
Contact your union rep again. This is retaliation.
Sounds like another text to the union is in order for workplace harassment.
Keep going to your union; that is what they are there for. If they want to be asses for you “siccing” union them, that’s another grievance. They can’t fire you for that. Going to your union is being the ultimate team player, especially short-staffed; you’re protecting your other co-workers, too.
There will be more retaliation. You need to report to the union what happened. Take notes on all future interactions also. There’s a chance they were just venting and nothing big will happen but there’s a better chance of them making your job much worse.
This is retaliation, inform the union. He knew he was in the wrong. None of this is your fault, it’s his for being a shitty supervisor
Call your union rep and complain about harassment.
you should reach out to the union rep and ask about the policy on retaliation and see what happens then
where i work is not union, but a team leader basically did the same thing when a team member reach out to HR to ask a question about our PTO.
the TL was fired immediately. Retaliation and creating a hostile work environment ususly opens them up to lawsuits so companies take it seriously if they are large enough
Bring your union rep with you and redo that meeting. He needs a strip taken off him.
You need to file a grievance for the retaliation.
Also your rep should’ve not brought your name into it, wtf were they thinking telling the boss who brought up the break issue. Rep should’ve left it at “I’ve been informed” and not named names.
Fuck your boss. Be careful though, now you’ve got a target on your back. You need to keep a paper trail and grieve that bastard every time he singles you out. Also, keep your nose clean. Don’t give him a reason, at all, ever.
Contact your union again, say he threatened you. You want it known that it happened in case he tries to retaliate against you by firing you, giving you an increased work load, just generally breathing down your neck now, or anything else.
I’d file a complaint with the union rep about workplace harassment and using that harassment to prevent me from sending things to the union rep.
So that’s retaliation. Document it and report it. Supervisors have been fired for less.
He’s trying to bully you, go back to the union rep and tell him exactly what happened and write up the supervisor. You’ll get your ass covered if he tried to do anything and he’ll be put on notice. The union should ask for his firing.
Go right back to the union and tell them you want to file a complaint about a hostile workplace.
I keep coming across issues with the 15 minute break on this sub. This break was originally instituted by employers during WWII, with free coffee/tea, after employers found out it increased worker productivity. Any company that takes away this break is beyond stupid.
Your boss is about to learn a bunch of painful lessons.
Sounds like you need to text your union rep again
You have a union job with a rep who obviously cares. Do NOT quit. If he fires you, you can really sic the union on him for retaliation and hopefully get a nice payday.
Being on the union means who cares what your boss says.
Be at your station 5 seconds before shift begins, no earlier
Hit that rep with another update.
“Not being a team player” as his actions hurt the team
DO NOT QUIT!
Why in the fuck does he know it came from you? You might have a problem with your union
You are a team player. The team being the union
Contact your union about that interaction as well, and every unpleasant interaction you have with him until he stops being unpleasant.
I call it “death by 1000 cuts” and it works very well.
Sounds like another text to a union rep is in order
Sounds like you should ask your union rep if that qualifies as harassment?
>Somebody help me cause I am an inch away from quitting this hell hole.
You have a union job that appears, from your post, to stand up for the workers. You should stay.
Keep this in mind. less than 10% of American workers have a union job. In the 1950s 30% of workers were members of a union.
This decline in union membership is a leading cause of economic disparity in the U.S.
Instead of ‘quitting this hellhole’, consider using the power of the union to force your employer to …Not be a hellhole.
Just pull out your phone and start recording him berating you to send to your union rep until he gets smacked down hard enough to get it.
You should contact your union about unpaid work requirements related to having people showup 15 minutes early. Really show your boss that you have protection!!!
Call your union rep up and tell him you want to file a complaint for harassment and intimidation. Request that the supervisor not physically be placed near you, or that you be transferred. Tell the union rep that you don’t feel safe around the supervisor and feel threatened.
The supervisor should get in a lot of shit for doing that. You cannot retaliate against someone from raising a workplace complaint to the Union.
Time for a meeting with manager and union rep.
Keep contacting the union. This boss is a POS
This is why they hate unions.
“I’m not to blame for the consequences of management acting unlawfully, and I don’t need to let myself be exploited to be a ‘team player.’ Management tried to solve a problem by stealing its employees’ breaks, in order to gain an unpaid 30 minutes per day of work from us, in clear violation of state law. I will always stand up for myself in such situations.”
Sounds like you need to text the union again, also it’s good you have a union that’s taking care of you.
Saying anything to you is a retaliatory violation and promotion of a hostile work environment which is illegal.
This is one of the functions of a union… To protect workers when their rights are being violated.
The issue here is staff shortages, not you ‘siccing’ the union onto the boss. He’s just pissed that he got caught and with the attitude you describe, he’s probably the reason you can’t get enough staff in the first place. Given that he’s already pissed, keep a diary of your interactions and keep the union informed. This is unlikely to end well, and a record of your interactions might come in handy.
Did your union snitch on you, how do they know your the one that sent the message?
Hostile work environment. Take action against him.
Make a written record of his retaliatory rant and send that to the union. Having evidence of this will make it an absolute nightmare for the company to try and fire you now. The union will be able to call any other reason they come up with to fire you another retaliation attempt. Start keeping your phone set to record audio when in any spaces at work where there would not be an expectation of privacy. Keeping a good evidence log will be the difference between a big payout or not. Most unions love being handed a slam dunk opportunity to flex on employers like this.
Start searching for the new job. What other corners are they cutting?
No you did not sicc the union on him…but you better now.
He can’t harass you for contacting your union rep to inquire about your mandated breaks.
Whoops, that’s another message to the union rep.