What are some of the worst business practices you’ve seen?

[xiaohuhu]

Hostility towards raises. Rewarding your existing employees is almost always cheaper than hiring new. Ive had a manager that scoffed at a single 3% raise for someone who had no raise for 5 years. Good luck hiring a new person with that experience and for less money. There’s a reason why job hopping gets you more money, and it’s not because hiring new is cheaper.

[FAKerOR]

My husband is an EMT. he got a job offer that paid him $6 more per hour and his boss told him not to take the offer, because he will give him the upcoming promotion when the senior EMT quits.

So my husband did what he said, he didn't take the job offer and waited for the promotion. Then he found out someone else got it and he obviously asked his boss wtf happened.

His boss said "it wasn't guaranteed", he was just putting his name in the hat with a good word to the senior boss. Which obviously wasn't true, but there was nothing my husband can do about it legally (at-will state). So my husband got his paramedic license and now he's going to get even more money. Just gave his two weeks notice.

[RainbowcityDAO]

Any company/service that allows you to sign up using the internet with minimal verification but requires you to either produce ID, bills, proof of address, or show up in person to cancel that service.

if i can set it up via the internet i should be able to cancel using the internet too

[XIYEXIYE]

I used to serve at a restaurant where we wore pagers that buzzed us when a table's food was ready. Good idea right? Well the owners had the policy that you had to immediately go pick up the food no matter what, and that included if you were in the middle of taking another table's order. They said that people "understand" and are cool with it. Of course they weren't though. Every time I stopped taking a table's order and went and got the food, they were totally pissed off. I could not believe the owners did not understand why literally no other restaurant on the planet does it that way.

[Pavel leslie]

I used to serve at a restaurant where we wore pagers that buzzed us when a table's food was ready. Good idea right? Well the owners had the policy that you had to immediately go pick up the food no matter what, and that included if you were in the middle of taking another table's order. They said that people "understand" and are cool with it. Of course they weren't though. Every time I stopped taking a table's order and went and got the food, they were totally pissed off. I could not believe the owners did not understand why literally no other restaurant on the planet does it that way.

I worked in a small boutique hotel with a fine dining restaurant and a gastro pub connected. You had to juggle service and reception all the time. Our hotel director felt it would be appropriate for us to wear a headset to answer calls for the hotel while serving to make sure we didn't lose out on any room sales, stating that the customer would be understand as long as we excused ourselves.

"And here we have some locally sourced braised lamb, served with vegetables grown at a farm located just north... Excuse me for a minute while i answer this call"

[canyouer]

I use the term "business" loosely, but I once did graduate research with a professor who was in the process of trying to get a major auto manufacturer to invest in our lab. They liked us, but wanted an example of some of our work. So rather than directing them to some publications of ours, my professor gave them a zip file containing all of our recent unpublished research, including the basis for a patent application.

My professor was shocked when they just kept it.

[BlackPinker]

I use the term "business" loosely, but I once did graduate research with a professor who was in the process of trying to get a major auto manufacturer to invest in our lab. They liked us, but wanted an example of some of our work. So rather than directing them to some publications of ours, my professor gave them a zip file containing all of our recent unpublished research, including the basis for a patent application.

My professor was shocked when they just kept it.

The owner of a company that I worked for did something similar. We used a couple of different manufacturing facilities each with their own costs and contracts, etc. This fucking dunce just left a folder with printed out cost/price information and notes of the other 2 manufacturing companies at the third one. Art of the deal, baby.

[Cullly]

I heard this one from a friend: She worked at a dog kennelling business that would tour prospective clients through the front of the building and show off how each dog would get its own indoor/outdoor run area and specialized attention, etc. Then when Thanksgiving and Christmas came and they got more bookings then they could accommodate, they set up cages and stacked kennels in a back room and people were paying big dollars thinking that their dogs were in a nice roomy pen while the business crammed as many dogs as they could into these basic cages. It was shameful.

[XUNing]

I heard this one from a friend: She worked at a dog kennelling business that would tour prospective clients through the front of the building and show off how each dog would get its own indoor/outdoor run area and specialized attention, etc. Then when Thanksgiving and Christmas came and they got more bookings then they could accommodate, they set up cages and stacked kennels in a back room and people were paying big dollars thinking that their dogs were in a nice roomy pen while the business crammed as many dogs as they could into these basic cages. It was shameful.

Reminds me of when we kenneled our two dogs we had about 10 years ago or so at an animal hospital. They’d take the two pups and head into where the others were and we’d leave for the 3-4 days we needed. Was infrequent. We couldn’t figure out why it seemed so pricey but being new to kenneling instead of just taking them with us, we didn’t know better. The Bill never said anything except for some unknown fee that they claimed was standard. We boarded them maybe three more times then the fourth time they had a new person handling billing and such. Hands us the invoice and wouldn’t you know it, the pups were being kept in the medical part of the hospital with all the sick dogs for no actual reasons. SO went ballistic on them. Vet tried some bs excuse but even she couldn’t cover the price gouging practice. Too long story shortened, many calls to their main office and going up the chain of command, they refunded every single stay. They closed down maybe a year later due to shady stuff like that that the community didn’t tolerate. Fun times.

[boyptc]

I have a relative that has a high position in a certain company which is likely to extend their service offshore. Said that the employees are important but the way they are treating their employees, it is like they are total slabe to them.

I just don't like what I've seen although a job is a job ans what hurts me most when said that employees are more important than relatives. LOL