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Apr 26, 2019 1:24 PM
RandyJenkins
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gamemythrone
i recently quite my job because my foreman said stay home for a week for an incident, literally when i quite they lost 90k on that job =)
boognish115
Everyone thinks they’re the best employee.
Hazanator
Those who claim to be the best are usually the worst or something like that.
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
Never believe that your importance makes you irreplaceable.
notacobra
Remember that time the guy who believed this applied to him got fired and literally anything happened? Yeah.... me neither.
itmightbeamemorableday
So many times...
WinterGrasp
Yes
6Oh4
Yeah...
officialmemepolice
Nah man, I’ve been noticing imgur taking this turn recently. Honestly the majority of us aren’t good workers but if we all identify like 1/3
officialmemepolice
we are then we get this notion that we are the best. Then the next generation comes in, learning slowly like us and we say this new 2/3
officialmemepolice
generation is lazy and doesn’t understand the value of hard work. Congratulations, we’re the old nagging generation now. Reply your thoughts
verticalbaconsandwich
If they say they're the best employee, they're probably not, half the time they're probably bad mouthing the boss in the break room too.
kwkspectre
If management is that idiotic, it will be a self correcting problem.
IMainReinhardt
Sad truth is most think "i can never be replaced" when the reality is "we've had your possible replacement queued for months*
IMainReinhardt
Unless you are uniquely specialized there is /always/ someone to be the other 'you'
LimyMage918
Based on the kinda people that populate imgur I dont think many of us should be considered best employee
LifeSucksThenYouDie20
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRNNN!!!!!!!!!
Pendragon4459000
If you're good at your job, then you get to do other people's jobs too.
HoboStabWound
In the picture, if the employee was killed and died on the plank he'd weigh the same and the manager wouldn't fall.
AnonKneeMoose
unless the bullet knocks him backwards. Plus, recoil on the pistol might tip the boss. *shrug*
sciencestuffgallery
Unless the employee dies and manages to still be in the standing position, the change in center of mass will cause the manager to fall.
didntreadthetermsofservice
If he dies, he will fall down and stay there forever!
Boxingbud
It's not about doing a good job, it's about being mediocre and staying off the radar.
baronvonbologna
The best employees don’t think of themselves as the best. Huge ego doesn’t equate to work ethic and grit.
beerisgood760
It's funny how many of you actually think you're the "Best Employee" but their can only be one at each workplace. High chance it's not you.
cmfler
r/im40andthisisdeep
nogoat23
I quit my last job.A month later my friend offered me $50 to fix something that had been broken for weeks.A minus should have been a plus...
cixpakabeer
Nailed it
trickkyy
Chances are, it's nobody reading it right now. If you are browsing at 3:00 PM on a weekday, you are likly not the company's best worker
AgathaRogue41
Businesses run hidden agendas = my co often hired so we could be blamed if other's bad ideas fell apart - they keep their jobs they'r idiots
margaretolson
My old office had to hire two people to replace me AND it cost an additional 25 hours a week. I laughed my head off
Graylinfaux
Generally speaking the best employees don't share crap memes like this
Civediamo
There is no chance I am the best employee.
KryptonianRise
All of us are expendable until all of us refuse to work. That’s the whole point of unions
MidnightLibrarian
Having worked in many offices where the 'best employee' left during my tenure? You're forgotten in a month.
DoctorDudeBruh
A month? You mean two weeks lol.
DYLANLEE79
Two of my old jobs tried to get me to come back for years after I quit.
KiloElectronVolt
And honestly, in my experience, it's worked out for the better. New energy, new ideas, and you realize how great they weren't.
itsChuckles
this for pretty much any customer service job. especially Apple.
davemymindisgoingicanfeelit
The ones who come after me will curse my name for years and years to come.
BestAnimeEcchi
after I left my company after working 16 years; i noticed my company immediately put out an ad for 3 job positions in department.
HairyBamBam
This guy gets it.
dhouch
Never worked in a office but when the best employee is also the most skilled their absence resonates for longer than a month
pogdestroyer
My dad works in IT, a job that laid him off almost 10 years ago still to this day asks if he wants to come back lol.
JamesVW
Cool anecdote. Doesn't change anything.
pogdestroyer
Yup
barf1189
This pleases me
stewartm0205
It was all fun and games until upper management learned it cost $20K to recruit a replacement.
banananananananaaa
Here’s the thing about workers: everyone’s expendable.
siler7
Most. Not all. And it depends on whether you mean "can fire them and not get burned alive", or "can fire them and remain successful".
pogon
And the cemeteries are filled with irreplaceable men.
madtellsstories
this is mostly true, but sometimes not. i was a creative chef for a restaurant, after i left they closed down 8 months later.
rando84
They are with time, but plenty of projects & businesses fail because of avoidable staffing failures.
pennyjar
Only for those that see their employees as expenses instead of assets.
tsiatt
Workers are. Their knowledge isn't.
iampurplelungs
Some cost much more than others to replace.
CreepyFreak
Yea I dont think it should be that way
michoacaneno
Only to the degree that they can be replaced
cc90
My boss reminds of this every day. I am not sure why.
jadespider
Not true. guy at my place left 9 months ago, no one left knows what he was doing, shit's falling apart still. same will happen when I go.
neil137
depends on the labor market, some are not.
veryhighatwork
One monkey don't stop the show... But you're never the only show in town
Dopplerfart
MrRidiculous
The experience and specialization isn’t though, may take the new guy a years to get to your level
Gray808
Here’s the thing about employees: they all think they are the best employee
CaptCounterCulture
You a boss because this is actually true.
Caramon
Totally read that as expandable. Yes, yes I am expanding.
MamaJeaux
Same...
penxv
There is always a cost to losing employees. The costs vary in magnitude, however.
KinetoPlay
Okay sure, but there's also a cost in gaining employees and in not changing anything. Stuff just costs.
JustAnotherCynicToo
I love leaving a job, meeting a former coworker a year later, then hearing the place went to shit.
Dopplerfart
BonyCephalopod
In the long term, yes. In the short term, no
agenttwelve
My last job would disagree with you. If there was a body there, it was good enough
BonyCephalopod
So there was no “best employee” then. Anyone would do. Not the same
simplefishy
Did you work in a morgue?
salvationstruth
They think that until they realize it took 4 years to train 1 guy then you laugh as the other companies try to get you
thatguywhohasnoname
If you do it right that guy would be "mentoring" somone who could take his place
illogicalphallusies
Not in civilian life, you hoard knowledge and teach nobody anything to make yourself indispensable, thats how you create job security.
ButtTrumpett
Yep....
ultradongle
I freely tell one of my clients that asks how I fixed the issue because I know they will try it and FUBAR it all up.
BillHubbard
If my employees were to hoard knowledge and not share knowledge they would have a very bad time.
spookyjeff
What are you gonna do about it? Fire the only guy who knows how to fix things?
Sorvadi
Oh my sweet summer child...
Pulsifer
And bosses who are dumb enough to say so out loud are usually shortly very lonely.
marinuchi
Yes everyone is replaceable, but you can't expect to replace certain people with a single turn, or at all for that matter. My point is ...
marinuchi
Certain people should be incentivised to stay.
doggo
Here's the thing about bosses: they're flammable.
AgentOfEarth616
So are businesses
banananananananaaa
Found the millennial
DetectiveSloth
Ya, because "too big to fail" worked REAL well in the recession.
5qr47ch
Found the place where I just wanted to lightly participate.
banananananananaaa
Lol oof that’s a big mood sorry fam didn’t mean to rustle y’all jimmies
GoDownToTheStoreGetSomeViagraAndItllHelpYouGoFYourself
True capitalism would be, if your business can't succeed it deserves to die
LaronX
Found the entitled one.
mmages
Have you heard of Joseph Schumpeter's term creative destruction? That's basically the core of capitalism.
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
You mean any person with more than 3 brain cells?
AgentOfEarth616
Doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Filanwizard
They are not wrong, Businesses are totally expendable. If one dies and there is a demand another takes its place. its how free market works
Filanwizard
Ultimately the customer decides what businesses are worthy of survival.
RickThizzleBeef
Found the moron!
Morpheaus
Is there someway we could lose this one in a pit, or some farm up north?
Dopfisk
Found the Gen Xer.
BoneThatTrombone
Dont assume that you bigot
gooftroop
How do you think capitalism works?
ReaperCDN
LOL "works"
gooftroop
What system would you suggest? Sure capitalism has its flaws, but it's provided us with a lot of amazing things too. Whats the alternative?
n0n53n53
depends on the trade and position. Don't act like you're irreplaceable because you show up to McDs on time and work hard. Also don't assume+
n0n53n53
+ you can replace a guy with 20 years of industry experience who specializes in something that nobody else knows
RealBernieSanders
Nope, still replacable. The people who are actually making a profit don't care if the business goes into debt or goes under.
SmoothOpawriter
I don't think you understand what "replaceable" means.
kilocron
We got a guy at my job that works exclusivly on these old phone systems. The system is so old that even the manufacturer calls him for...
kilocron
advice because no one else knows it. That guy... is irreplaceable. Without him, there is no one that can support that client anymore.
Grudgebearingmidget
can you 'replace' that employee? someone eager for that job position, but do they know everything that goes into that job environment? 1/2
Grudgebearingmidget
After 20+ years of working at X job, the old guys going to know way more of the nuances than a new hire will 8/10.
BonyCephalopod
The best employees are seen as more competent by their management and thus the management piles more work on them
megalodonburi
If you're good at digging holes, you'll be given a bigger spade.
BonyCephalopod
The increased workload leads to burnout. Management wonders why their best employee quit
FormalWareBytes
round we go!
EverybodyLiesAndItsNeverLupus
The only reward for great work is more work.
LegionOfCats
My manager told me that after telling me I didn't get a raise this year. Cool.
Slixxman69
Sucks to cause you can't just tell them to fuck off then leave. Kinda got Bill's and shit to pay :(
234dragoman
Morale of the story is, be lazy and have an easier life.
experiencemike
So what I do to earn max raises (work IT). After each raise I decrease productivity and efficiency and purposely forget to do stuff. 1/2
experiencemike
Then gradually get better and "remember" more and by my next raise I look like I've improved significantly and deserve a substantial raise.
CatNapKing
Does this actually work? This sounds genius, but wouldn't they realize the trend?
experiencemike
No one has caught on for me. Depends where you're at and how your leadership reviews you.
Xalaqia
He creates problems, then solves them in time for the next pay review. Evil genius.