My GF is a pool cleaner and once got written up for sending a customer a picture of dead pigeons that were in their yard.
The customer called the office screaming that she sent the pictures “to be mean.”
Turns out these people had pest control out on their property to “remove” all the frogs because the frogs were “keeping them awake at night”, and the birds took the bait instead.
Because our write ups are just incident reports. Like, if a shitty Karen went nuclear on a staff member, we do create a incident report. But anybody reading this will absolutely go, “fucking Karen strikes again” and it absolutely won’t reflect badly on the employee.
That stuff builds up over years so that when management decides they want you out, HR has years and years of in writing marks against you to demonstrate that it’s not wrongful termination.
In the last firm I was at, we got written evaluations twice a year. I never recall anybody ever getting a single positive phrase about them as a person or an employee. They were always one hundred percent negative.
I got promoted three times despite my God awful evaluations.
But when I crossed the wrong person, all those years came out and I had been an unacceptable employee for the duration of my time there.
Fortunately, my direct manager gave me the heads up so I was able to get another job before they were able to drop the hatchet. I never had to sign anything, never had to acknowledge anything, refused an exit interview, and scored an additional month’s pay plus my annual profit sharing.
My GF is a pool cleaner and once got written up for sending a customer a picture of dead pigeons that were in their yard.
The customer called the office screaming that she sent the pictures “to be mean.”
Turns out these people had pest control out on their property to “remove” all the frogs because the frogs were “keeping them awake at night”, and the birds took the bait instead.
Yes, these folks were filthy rich and entitled.
What does “written up” mean?
Because our write ups are just incident reports. Like, if a shitty Karen went nuclear on a staff member, we do create a incident report. But anybody reading this will absolutely go, “fucking Karen strikes again” and it absolutely won’t reflect badly on the employee.
That stuff builds up over years so that when management decides they want you out, HR has years and years of in writing marks against you to demonstrate that it’s not wrongful termination.
In the last firm I was at, we got written evaluations twice a year. I never recall anybody ever getting a single positive phrase about them as a person or an employee. They were always one hundred percent negative.
I got promoted three times despite my God awful evaluations.
But when I crossed the wrong person, all those years came out and I had been an unacceptable employee for the duration of my time there.
Fortunately, my direct manager gave me the heads up so I was able to get another job before they were able to drop the hatchet. I never had to sign anything, never had to acknowledge anything, refused an exit interview, and scored an additional month’s pay plus my annual profit sharing.
It was beautiful.
Usually it means a mark on your work record, pretty much like getting an F on a paper or something.
There is no such thing a work record, a company record maybe, but beyond that balls.
Just paperwork so the whales in the office feel like they do something.
It means nothing when you live in a “at will” employment jurisdiction.
In the past, (or in a union contract) employers had to prove they had “just cause” to fire you. This would be documentation of cause.