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October 20, 2021, 12:57 pm*
A middle school janitor secretly filmed a meeting with his boss, the principal, who dragged him into her officer to give him an extremely condescending lecture because he left his shift one day eight minutes early after starting his shift early because some fire fighters needed to get into the building. Instead of working off the clock, which is illegal, or forcing the fire fighters to wait outside, he says he clocked in early to help them and then decided to leave his shift a bit early to make up for it, but he didn’t tell his overbearing and rude boss.
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The principal of Webb Bridge Middle School was angry because she apparently needed something from him at the very end of his shift and was unable to find him. The resulting video may be infuriating to people who don’t like being interrupted repeatedly.
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The video starts with the principal asking the janitor, identified only as Jonathan, who his boss is, then moving on to other condescending questions, repeatedly asking him “what time to you think you left?” As Jonathan attempts to answer the latter question, the principal repeatedly cuts him off by asking the same question again in what can only conceivably be a gross act of lording her power over him.
“Did your boss, Susan Opferman, tell you to start your hours early today?” she says after her employee attempts to explain why he left less than 10 minutes before his shift ended.
“I was not supposed to start my hours early today, but, like I was telling you, the fire people had to get inside,” said Jonathan. “They were sitting out there for almost an hour.”
Opferman responded to this by again asking him who his boss is.
This infuriating exchange goes on until finally Opferman says she’ll have to call HR for the extremely minor offense of leaving a shift slightly early. She continues to lecture him and seemingly threaten that he could be fired until he can’t take it anymore and accuses Opferman of ongoing harassment.
“It seems like I’m being picked out,” he says after pointing out that other employees have left their shifts a little early. “Every time Miss Opferman you always picking me out of the bunch. It seems like I’m being harassed because every time I come in here, I’m always in the meetings with you, and you always seem to be yelling and screaming at me, always telling me this, that, and the third, and it’s getting to that frustration point.”
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Opferman repeatedly denies harassing Jonathan and tries to end the meeting there and accuses the janitor of yelling at her, which he is clearly not doing.
After the video blew up online, Jonathan posted a follow-up on YouTube explaining more about what happened and how he was treated by Opferman during his employment. He said he was forced to resign and then barred from getting any other jobs in the school district even though he hadn’t technically been fired, and accused the district of a sustained harassment campaign designed to push him out of his job because he refused to put up with ill treatment.
This video seems to echo an increasing number of screengrabbed text conversations workers are sharing with their awful bosses, showing them quitting after being disrespected and held to absurd standards. Meanwhile, massive strikes are popping up all over the U.S. in what appears to be a widespread new labor movement while record-breaking numbers of people quit their jobs.
As a whole, the workers of America appear fed up with bosses like Susan Opferman.
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*First Published: October 20, 2021, 12:56 pm
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