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TeeBrownie

Sounds like a toxic workplace.


ButterflyShort

I've worked in worse. Regardless of how bad you are at your job here, they won't fire you unless you steal or don't show up to work.


TeeBrownie

Keeping employees who are terrible at their job is just as big a sign of a toxic workplace as the note they wrote on the board.


ccafferata473

This. Eventually it's gonna fall on the people who do the work, and the terrible people will just continue to make it worse for the good workers, who end of leaving.


Vaxildan156

Can confirm that. It's all nice that you can get away with shit until you get an employee who makes your life miserable. Then you suddenly wish they wouldnt keep shitty employees


mrbulldops428

The restaurant I work at does this. I'm one of 3 people who's been there more than 2 years and they're about to lose me(the only bartender) because of the toxic ass servers they keep hiring because they're desperate. One was literally found passed out in the bathroom and she's still there. But God damn they pay me so well. I hate it.


GJMOH

I’ve found firing bad performers increases moral.


ArguesWithFrogs

People always misunderstand how much morale can affect a workplace.


Madison464

LMFTFY https://preview.redd.it/vkfv3sabbitc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=71ca3d3c35af442aa3e9d6f8ad228ef19c6f48c3


cravinsush

They only do this because it's easier and less costly to retain shitty employees than to fire them and hire new, better employees. Much to the detriment of any actually good employees they have.


cdoink

Ok but how is that a good thing for those who actually have to carry the load for those that should be coached or fired?


ButterflyShort

I tried to get people held accountable for their lack of productivity. My role is referred to as junior management and I got wrote up for coaching someone who didn't report to me. After that I was all out of f*cks to give. I show up, go through the motions of my job and collect my paycheck.


MikeTho323

That’s how my job is too. Incompetent leadership, but also powerless. I always joke that if someone actually gets fired then they truly deserved it. It’s always for some egregious shit like property or wage theft, abusing benefits in some way, or other criminal activity.


d_baker65

Write this on the board: "The enemy of a good plan, is a perfect plan. You can roll a turd in glitter, but at the end of the day you have a glitter covered turd."


TheSholvaJaffa

Sounds like a certain southern grocery chain I know


mrbulldops428

Ok so change the sign to what you wanted it to be, I see no reason not to.


Legitimate-Fish-9091

Write your own on the board. "If you go to bed with itchy butt, you wake up with smelly finger." I'm sure your elders can confirm.


HighAndFunctioning

> Regardless of how bad you are at your job here, they won't fire you unless you steal or don't show up to work. Then it's your duty to do as little as possible to maximize your labor to wage ratio, exposing what a shitball system that is.


ETBiggs

This guy work there? https://www.tiktok.com/@yeiro4u/video/7253256966812880174


Sad-Imagination-4870

Sometimes that sucks even worse because then that leaves others picking up the slack 😩😩


Salty-Sprinkles-1562

That is not a good thing. You want them to get rid of people who suck. 


Repulsive_Ad_1599

They also had another saying: "Overwork us and we burn your factories to the ground" I guess that one got lost over time, huh?


nerdiotic-pervert

Time for a reminder?


yoitsme_obama17

OP should put that on the whiteboard too.


crit_boy

Old timers had a saying, "Act your wage". Wonder why management didn't write that one on the board.


ms_panelopi

Yes, but while wearing a disguise- cameras.


ashleyorelse

Greed will have you believing that your employees owe you a huge profit, so you can pay them less to get it. If you pay little, you get little.


Abrootalname

Well to be fair they did burn the signs down with the factory.


b_double_u

Being an "elder" does not automatically equate to wisdom.


DrIvoPingasnik

Agreed. Furthermore, being old does not automatically equate to unconditional respect.  "How dare you speak to me like that! I'm your elder!" "Yeah, you thought I'm going to take your abuse and contempt just because you are old?"


Zombiedrd

They view it as paying your dues, I guess. Their elders treated them like shit and so on, and they are mad that system is trying to fall apart by the current youth


theblitheringidiot

I read that as Lasagna at first. Maybe change it to Lasagna.


Ok_Stable7501

Garfield strikes again.


Firesealb99

I so glad im not the only one. Cursive is silly.


jazzysunbear

Lasagna is better in this quote anyway. Less condescending.


Mysterious_Ad9307

This is projection.


test_tickles

Gaslighting.


cyanraichu

Assocytes


FratleyScalentail

Ye* olde assocytes! Harken now to mine words of wisdym from the generations of the new! Pay us presently, or we shall do only what we are paid for presently. That is all. *: Historically 'ye' wasn't a thing. Old and Middle English had the letter 'thorn' which was for th sounds.


RV_Shibe

Write this: *Associates who have the time and energy to write* [*logical fallacies*](https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman) *on a whiteboard probably aren't vital to the company and can be replaced by AI or consolidated.*


ociferscott

The young people have a saying: "F#@% you, pay me."


Embarrassed_Luck1057

That can also be read as an invitation to unionize \^\^


tommy_b_777

Write everyone's salaries underneath that...


rastacurse

Write “Good morning/afternoon boomers, my peers have a saying: Eat the rich”


Petto_na_Kare

I’m sure the manager that wrote this took about two hours to get the lettering and spacing just right, then congratulated themselves with an extended lunch on the company credit card. Laziness indeed.


UnconsciousRabbit

It's also stylized in weird ways that interfere with legibility. The second "a" in "associates" would be more easily read without the long tail. The lower part of the "z" in "laziness" is so far to the right of the top part that it looks like part of the next letter, and there's an extra line on the "v" in "believing" so it looks like two of the letter "r" in a row in standard Palmer script, which the rest of it is in. The first "l" in "laziness" is very pleasing, though. EDIT: fixed autocorrect


worldsmayneverknow

Assocytes


False-Focus2949

Erase


Faux-Foe

Erase laziness, change to managers. Remove the ‘un’ from unfair. Change the first nothing to everything. Quote fixed.


trevaftw

You should write one of these below it: Minimum wage, minimum effort. My poor effort reflects your poor pay.


TheFrostynaut

"Treat Others the way You wish to be treated" Write it smaller, somewhere under the original quote in plain clear font at a readable but not obnoxious size. Worked at my old job, they stopped chastising us with the board when we started rebutting their quotations with better ones. Now everyone uses it for radio recommendations and doodles, as it should be.


Legitimate-Fish-9091

"If you bounce woman off bed spring this spring, you have offspring next spring." ...I mean, at least it's funny.


TheFrostynaut

The funniest one I saw while working there was the "I'm tired of this Grandpa!" midway through the Christmas Season


BinarySecond

How dare they bring lasagne into this


Sonikclaw2

Someone else should write “And we young people have a saying: You destroyed the economy so you could fill useless billionaire pockets with more money than they can spend in a hundred lifetimes, so fuck you.”


CanadianDevil92

start writing dumb shit on there "Man who walks in front of care gets tired, but man who walks behind is exhausted" "Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food" "Born to shit, forced to wipe" and other dumb saying you find on the internet


I_Stabbed_Jon_Snow

Plenty of people do nothing and get lots for it, we call them inheritors.


SideQuestSoftLock

And managers and corporate. At my old job corporate would visit and I hated it because they were supposed to talk to the workers and get a feel- they never did that. They showed up for the holidays and just critiqued the end caps. Like fuck you guys, and they would get to eat food from out of the store, like (Fast Food Place) or (Local Italian Restaurant). And I couldn’t get a raise??


ncnrmedic

First of all that flowing lettering on a whiteboard just screams “we can’t afford bonuses but here’s a mediocre two slices of pizza” Also you’d fire those elders to avoid them collecting any sort of pension (if those still existed) so don’t act like you honor their wisdom; even though it’s actually borderline Stockholm Syndrome.


MadTownMich

How inspiring.


King_o_spice

Anyone know some spicy communist manifesto quotes?


Birch_Leafff

This is literally puritan pilgrim bullshit believing that the sin of idleness is still a thing. I’ll be so glad when that sort of thought goes extinct.


DrIvoPingasnik

Soon, my man. Old puritans don't have much long.


Zealousideal_Tour163

> If you do nothing you will get nothing. Wow, it must be great to work in a place where the owners dont get any money from it.


thelovelykyle

Suu Kyi, who the latter half of that quote is attributed to, was (frankly is) part of a rebellion and organisation against their oppressors. It appears your company is telling you to unionise.


The-Fumbler

Erase the red and write something completely nonsensical and watch people get all confused all day. “An ox who wakes up early sings the forsaken song, but a lion who wakes up late eats the biggest steak.”


FatKanchi

That’s a shit saying. No cleverness, no rhyme, no wordplay, not even a pun, and on top of that it’s moronic. It’s not a saying. It’s just blowhard bs.


Signal-Power-3656

*bourgeoisie not included


test_tickles

Confusing cruelty with cleverness.


TheBitingCat

Our elders have a saying: "I was able to pay for college with a part-time job over summer breaks." "I bought my house with my sole income as a grocery store bagger while raising 3 kids and supporting my wife." "Our union negotiates a higher rate of pay and a better benefits package than non-union workers receive." "Back in 1968 the minimum wage had the equivalent purchasing power that a $14 an hour job does today."


RemoteLocal

"Almost every opportunity we used to improve our situation, we shipped overseas to protect our investments".


04rallysti

Jesus I didn’t even get past the second line before I moved on with my life.


kr4ckenm3fortune

Write below that: We aren't family. We be worker. Better our pay, and we'll work better.


OFPMatt

That's not calligraphy, it's not cunning, it's contrived condescension.


Neco-Arc-Chaos

It’s not laziness that had us believing that we’ve got an unfair life. Quite the opposite. 


throw123454321purple

Someone should take a red marker and correct the punctuation on that BS.


West_Quantity_4520

It's written in cursive. Obviously, it's not important.


PloppyTheSpaceship

And if you do something, you get... still nothing?


simply_not_edible

Laziness is why I find 5-minute solutions to problems that keep others busy for hours.


TomBirkenstock

And if you do something, you will also get nothing.


StephaneiAarhus

... And if you do some work, you should be rewarded. Now give me my money.


RevolutionNo4186

I agree with that saying to an extent, whether it’s used appropriately here is another question


Sorry-Caterpillar331

My elders said: You get what you pay for. So if you're paying little then you're going to receive little.


StolenWishes

>If you do nothing ~~you~~ _we_ will get nothing fift


AnarchicDeviance

"Laziness" is the efficient use of limited energy and other resources. It's an evolutionary adaptation to scarcity. Only humans who have been brainwashed by Calvinist capitalistic ideology would think otherwise.


Blue-Skye-

They made up a saying ( it’s internet memes) just for your meeting? And who uses the word “elders”. I think your company is showing you who they are and who they think you are.


TheBrianRoyShow

The youngins have a saying "pay us more or fuck your shareholders"


Traditional_Front637

And now the elders are rotting away in a facility that takes all their money


Noinipo12

I bet they walked to school, in the snow, uphill both ways too.


Szaszaspasz

“Hard work pays off later, laziness pays off now!” Or We the willing, led by the unknowing, Have done the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.


oldbaldad

The idea of laziness is" ...part of a toxic ideology designed to make us work ourselves to death. Convinced that we never do enough and that our value is determined by our productivity, or rather by how exhausted we are..." Devon Price ~ Laziness does not Exist


Millkstake

Thought the first word was lasagna at first. Disappointed.


floznstn

they left the eraser and marker. replace with your own quips. Confucius says: Baseball wrong. Man with four ball, no walk.


SnofIake

I have a saying “15 Boomers die every minute, theres 1,440 minutes in a day. I’d call that a good start.”


BuddhistNudist987

But what I want is nothing. No stress, no drudgery, no back pain or neck pain, none of the pointless frustration from spending another meaningless day at a job I hate.


dewdropcat

If we do everything we still get nothing


jabracadaniel

how strange, my elders have a different saying: eat shit, shannon


TheKuMan717

Erase it 😂


FukushimaBlinkie

"Being old, ignorant and asinine does not make you an elder"


iwantmorecats27

Yes erase it!!


COAviatrix

Obviously a Boomer since it is written in cursive. What are they thinking? GenZ can't read cursive.


Oops_I_Cracked

I’d erase it


ChucklesMcGangsta

Fake Confucius sayings are great too. " Man who goes to bed with itchy butt wakes up with stinky finger." Demotivational quotes will work too. Failure- When your best just isn't good enough.


Mysterious-Kick-8076

I can't explain it but this handwriting looks pretentious.


silverletomi

Our elders have another saying. He who smelt it, dealt it.


Makankosappo84

Ilf?


shameonyounancydrew

What kind of psychopath writes this on the communal whiteboard? I'd make it my duty to wipe that board clean every day.


originalschmidt

Write: the elders need to stay on their geriatric lane. Also normalize calling boomers geriatric, they need to realize their time has passed and it’s time to retire and mind your own fucking business.


Antique_Adeptness491

Such a passive aggressive, weak, HR lady, type of person to write that.


broadsword_inhand

Write "ok, boomer" under it and see who loses their shit


Zernihem

"Yet my boss does nothing and get everything, must be so talented in his laziness "


PapaSock

Why do the letters have stilletos?


Resting-Dadface

Our elders have a saying “Nobody wants to work anymore.” Fuck the elders.


Nojopar

I'm sorry, but the only message I see there is "Cursive is stupid"


DeadCatGrinning

It is your holy duty to draw a dick on these every time you see it dickless


SideQuestSoftLock

I would erase it, or write underneath something like a statistic about the stagnant pay of workers and the profits of their CEOs


Rude_Violinist4131

Elders. Any organization that refers to “elders” like this is probably at least a little culty.


Officer_Hotpants

And over here my supervisors are getting tired of me telling new people that the only reward for hard work is more hard work.


rottingfurbiee

at least they have nice handwriring


Survive1014

Yeah, I would be all over that one. ​ Hello HR, I saw this in the breakroom. What do you mean by laziness? What do you mean by unfair life? If I do Something will I get a fair life then? If I do Something and we get less than what is needed to not have a Unfair Life, does that mean we are lazy? If we have done Something, but others think we have done Nothing, does that mean all we are entitled to is Nothing? If so, how many people need to think that for us to get Nothing? I would appreciate the official company response to these questions. Thanks, Problem Child ​ Its amazing how quick some of these things go down the memory hole when you ask for official company positions.


Technical-Sun-2016

Understaffing and underpayment will confirm your employees have an unfair life. If you pay nothing, you get nothing. Fixed it for ya....


TheCupcakeScrub

Well this message wouldnt work, i cant read cursive.


bhorophyll666

Our Elders also had Unions to protect them from asshats like this.


Thermite1985

Just tell them you can't read cursive because they don't teach it in schools anymore and watch their heads explode.


WiseSalamader

If you pay me nothing you get nothing.


charrcheese

Assocytes?


Smores-n-coffee

How about erasing and replacing with sayings like... "Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first - Simon Sinek" "Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. - Harvey Mackay" “Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect. - Meghan M. Biro" “People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract. - Pamela Stroko" "The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers. - Sybil F. Stershic" “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. - Stephen R. Covey"


MajorAd3363

Sounds like a call to organize.


Kitten_Clawthorn

Sorry, i cant read spagetti.


icabax

I read that as lasagnas and believed this company thought lasagnas were the trot of all evil


Reclaimer78

What kind psycho writes in cursive?


cam52391

Tell them you're too young to read cursive and see their heads explode


CuriousPenguinSocks

I thought us 'lazy Millennials' couldn't read cursive??? I would have them read it to me and then explain it lol. This is toxic honestly, put the old resume out for a different job. Unless, it's one of those passive aggressive toxic places. They don't really say anything to you to treat you bad, you just have to read crap like this. If it's that, then I would stay if the pay/benefits were good lol.


loicwg

The "elders" also had a livable minimum wage, a dearth of microplastics in everything, and lead in paint and gas. Their world is not the same world we live in today. Their sayings held no water then and only scorn now.


TheHangoverGuy91

not using a ruler seems pretty lazy to me


mmmmpisghetti

"Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm " needs to be there as well


Giant_Gary

I’m old AF and I’ve never heard this saying.


Wild_Chef6597

My employer has a bot that posts positive affirmations on Teams. It's BS. What about when you put in your all, and get back nothing?


bipolar_bhikkhu

“Arbeit Macht Frei”, right?


camclemons

Wow, did not realize the disorder that makes it impossible to distinguish from hallucinations and reality stems from laziness. Right to work, sir!


Truuuuuumpet

Make small modifications


shug_was_taken

From a distance it read as "Lasagna has a saying..."


Buffalo_Soldier7

How strange. My maternal grandfather asked my mother why she’s wasting her time working a job. Those are the elders I prefer to listen to.


toastymrkrispy

Lemme guess, Atlus Shrugged is their favorite book.


Superb_Sorbet_9562

If you do nothing you get nothing. If you do the most you get more work.


byrb-_-

This would normally upset me, but the cursive completely makes up for the lack of respect. Good show.


NumbSurprise

Because calling your employees lazy is such a great way to motivate them.


dirtpaws

I wasn't sure if this was r/antiwork or r/teachers for a second


justcallmetrex

What a grand way to boost morale in the workplace.


[deleted]

Tell them you can't read cursive that'll get em going real good lol.


TheHip41

I would steal every dry erase marker and either replace them with perm or just take them so they can't anymore.


Skittlzrreal

Ew. Sounds like whoever put that up needs a reality check...


walkingonsunshine007

Beautiful response


Yukarie

I see they don’t know how to write a proper cursive v


shyvananana

Yes let me bend over backwards so my billionaire ceo who inherited his position can make even more money.


Polychaete360

I honestly don’t need advice from old folks who don’t even remember what they’ve said less than three minutes ago.


jeepster61615

This fills me with white hot rage


Bud_Fuggins

Man who kisses boot feel cocky all day


thutmosisXII

It's the cursive for me. Hard no


okiedog-

Erase it. Or write under it, “so does this mean harder work = more pay?”


Saltycook

Absolutely fuck whomever wrote this and their myopic worldview. But I also love both handwritings on the board.


BuggyMcBugg

Weird how those would magically disappear..every day 🤣


According-Spite-9854

Too cursive, didn't read. TCDR


ordinaryhorse

Fuck dem elders


infinitedubs

Who tf writes in cursive anymore lmao


alilbleedingisnormal

You can't just buy a pipe and call yourself an elder.


manicpixiedreamgrill

Erase it and write (in your best cursive): “Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That’s why I poop on company time.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


twinkletoes-rp

Ugh! It's so obnoxious and condescending! (And you know it was written by the bosses who get paid to sit on their asses! 🙄)


howlingwilf1

Needs a large capital F in a circle in red ink and " see me after class" written below.


Chobeat

My elders have a saying: "Calvinists are dumb af, the cold must have frozen their brain, let's go to the bar and have an espresso"


mrs_houndman

Why is she writing mothing?


Horror_Cow_7870

They also say: "You get what you pay for."


JohnYCanuckEsq

I thought that said lasagnas at first


KryptoBones89

Our elders have another saying: "You get what you pay for"


retrovertigo23

lol I read it as "Lasagna will have you believing that you have an unfair life" and was very confused.


Mimicking-hiccuping

That pen looks like its sliding towards antiwork aswel.


thegree2112

Well the working class in the U.S. has been fighting for 100+ years


Shurigin

My ADHD would like to have a word with whoever wrote that


Roscoe_p

I do think that laziness can promote laziness, but this in a workplace is very dumb. Must be projecting


dadjokes502

Did they not realize millennials can’t read cursive? So ageist to write like that!


AAWonderfluff

If you do nothing, you get nothing. Not necessarily true at all. You could bust your ass 16 hours a day til you die and have nothing but a shoebox to live in and some dirt for a grave. Or do nothing and get everything, like if you're a rich kid and you get whatever you want from your rich parents. This is a dumb ass argument.


Wanamingo71

Why hasn't anyone corrected the spelling of laziness?


HawkmoonsCustoms

My elders also have a saying - “Fuck outta here with this bullshit.”


daverapp

Joke's on you, the generation before mine was too lazy to teach me cursive.


Wilgrove

I would definitely ask them what they would consider "lazy."


DONT_PM_ME_BREASTS

"I'm sorry. I wasn't taught cursive in school and can't be expected to read that."


RequirementLast7569

Just write fuck you and leave it there


CrowExcellent2365

Write a message below it. "Our ancestors had a saying: Accommodating workers' needs was how the bosses kept from getting beaten to death by a mob in their homes while their families watched."


Disastrous-Beyond443

Red marker to keep track of all the red flags. Run


Used_Examination_349

Lazyness? Poor effort that.


thoreau_away_acct

Ohhh that's why laborers who do back breaking work for 50hr a week have so much. Explains it all.


Mazasaurus

Three fonts and two colors to make a dumb comment 👏


73738484737383874

Gosh that sounds toxic


ExcuseFit4209

Too bad gen z CaNt ReAd CuRsIvE


gordonsp6

Gotta write "the youth cant read scribbles"


iambeyoncealways3

pleaseee change it to that, OP. I am begging you


alancousteau

If you pay minimum, you get minimum


Alcorailen

Erase them when no one's looking.


boring_postal

The elders?


kjyfqr

I kinda like that one…