My employees were eating too many fun sized bags of chips so now I make them front the expense of buying their own tools lol

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Not trying to take away from your point at all because this guy is a mega douche, but it’s standard to bring your own tools to work as a mechanic. I think it’s standard in most trades.

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That’s a dumb standard, employer should provide ALL equipment necessary for work.

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I’m sure you’re right, but I’ve not seen that to be true where I live in Europe. That makes absolutely no sense.

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it’s an american thing. tradies often have their own tool collections

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European here, if you’re getting employed, it’s expected that you’re provided with everything necessary to work. Anything else is capitalist exploitation of the workers, and a systematic attempt to keep the impoverished poor.

The only time it’s acceptable to be expected to bring your own tools is if someone is contracting you to do a specific job.

In other words, you don’t need to provide the necessary tools if you’re calling in a plumber to unclog your toilet, but it most certainly is if you’re opening up a plumbing agency and hiring plumbers.

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hiring plumbers

There’s your mistake, you don’t hire the plumbers, you contract them!

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Pretty much just mechanics I don’t know of any construction companies that make the employees buy specialty tools but it also doesn’t make sense to have a half dozen of every specialized tool and also if you own your own tools in construction there’s no reason to not just be an independent contractor.

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That’s the really insane part like, you’re the capitalist here bud! your only “job” is to own the means of production! what the fuck are you even here for if the workers have to pay for everything too? at that point you’re just rentseeking on the garage.

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tbf that is the norm in many garages, and it sounds like it was already the case beforehand, just more strictly enforced after. but its still pretty ridiculous

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My employees were eating too many fun sized bags of chips so I started fucking with the temperature of the workplace

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Dudes gonna be posting in like a month how nobody wants to work anymore

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I assumed the people in the comments would at least be calling him a dick, but nope, someone seriously said he should’ve installed a camera to see who was taking too many bags of chips. Fucking r*dditors.

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I scoured the comments too, to my despair

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Yeah I was in disbelief at the 2k upvotes and concerningly low amount of comments calling him out. That’s not petty revenge that’s a power trip

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The bootlicking is insane, the main takeaway is “yea fuck those workers”

Redditors are the most servile grubs in existence.

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God so much “one guy probably ruined it for everyone else”… Yeah one guy did. The fucking asshole owner!

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I love the part where he’s mad about snacks, so he throws a tantrum and overhauls the whole workplace’s amenities based on his “beliefs”

I know like six of this guy personally

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At least his employees now know the kind of person he really is: he tried to portray himself as some chill guy who will buy them snacks, but in fact he’ll go from zero to Hitler extremely quickly over some chips.

Very good self own that negates the whole point of buying the chips in the first place, lmao.

edit: I can’t emphasize enough how stupid throwing a tantrum over the chips was. How much could they have cost him in a month? He even said they were bought in bulk. Even large corporations realize their refreshment funds are an expense whose point is to keep employees happy (well, to try to placate them with some trinkets or food, at least).

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Local banks and businesses constantly donate to do-nothing charities which they themselves control and then brag about it in the local real estate and car dealership advertisement bundles newspapers even though every penny they give is tax-deductible.

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He literally says it’s a few hundred per year.

Hope every employee walks down the road and fills out an application.

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I have known exactly one good restaurant owner in my life. He cooked free meals for his staff at the end of each night, and the food was excellent. He had two restaurants (one after the other) which were really considered by everyone to be the best in town. Within a few years he had gone out of business and moved away. Dude was far from perfect but the system itself disadvantages those rare capitalists who are not raving lunatic psychopaths.

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And of course the top reddit comments are blaming the workers for being greedy.

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I genuinely thought you must have editorialized the title, but nope, this guy is just that much of a fuckhead, he’s actually proud of what he’s done.

His smug attitude about how nobody will leave over this really bothers me, because I’m pretty sure he’s probably right. So many people would rather keep on working for the devil they know than risk trying out a new job. The lack of a social safety net is the best thing going for small business tyrants.

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I just switched from a contract job to an actual employed position after a year of my boss trying to get cheap labor out of a fresh college grad and not knowing what he’s talking about. Ive had like $200 in my account for like 2 weeks now waiting for my first paycheck, I’d be screwed if my gf wasn’t helping me in the meantime

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I had a job where my boss literally stopped paying us for a month because he couldn’t afford it and I was the only one who quit after 1 missed paycheck. I called to get some tax stuff from them and literally everyone who was there is still working there. People need to be educated on their worth and rights.

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So many nasty bits to this story. Even if someone was taking a bunch of extra chips, why should he care? He can have his own private reserve of chips in his office if that’s the problem.

The whole story reads fake to me but even in the imagination of this borderline sociopath, he’s trying to say that communal goods can’t work because of the workers taking too much. All he ends up proving is that communal goods can’t be relied on when they’re in the hands of the capital owners.

The most telling part of it is how he presents it. He accuses and says someone is lying to him. The real response would be to say something like “Hey maybe someone is taking too many chips, does that bother any of you?” My guess would be no because chips are shit food anyways, but if it did the workers would figure it out amongst themselves.

At my last work we had a Keurig and coffee pods, and people started hoarding pods at their desk because there was never enough. The hoarding was a symptom. Rather than address the underlying issue they stopped providing them all together and sent out a tone deaf email about how it was our fellow workers faults abusing the great company’s magnanimous generosity.

The end of that story - that he’d lug in MASSIVE vending machines and go through the pain of stocking them (it takes like a half hour) for pocket change returns squeezed out of the paychecks he gives to his own employees is just 🦹

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Everything on reddit is the disturbing fake fantasy of a 15 year old loser with chat gpt

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Maybe fake stories of workers shoving their cheap boss in a vending machine should be posted instead? Honestly more enjoyable fantasy

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Or every single worker there agrees that the boss is a dickhead, fuck him, he’s underpaying us everybody take as many chips as they want.

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It would be deserved. I just can’t imagine anyone giving a shit about chips maybe I’m being elitist anti-chipper

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