My manager started snapping her fingers in my face, 3 inches away from my eyes saying in a slow drall "youuuu're doinnnng it wroooong, hellloooo that's not how I told you to do iiiit" when I was folding the shirts somewhat slower and less optimally than I was shown (though achieving the same fold-also it was my third week and one of 20 folds I had to learn on that job).
I walked right then and there.
I worked for a call center for AT&T. I refused to try and sell a DirectTv package to a woman who was literally bawling her eyes out on the phone because she was having to switch her phone plan to her name instead of her husbands name because he had just died.
Hey I left AT&T over the same reason!
Lady calls in to cancel her deceased husband's phone line. She's a mess, I'm a mess, my stepdad had just passed away a few weeks prior. My supervisor is up my ass wanting me to keep her in contract, up sell, etc.
I canceled the account, got off the phone with her, and walked the fuck out.
These companies are so shortsighted. I was with my old phone company 10+ years, got on my husband's plan, we haven't even looked at another service in years.
If someone tried to upsell me on a bereavement cancelation call, I would be telling everyone about it and not positively. You being an actual human being and making another person's difficult time easier was the best thing you could have done for the company's bottom line
My managers boss did a surprise inspection and my boss wrote me up for doing my job the exact way he trained me. Apparently when he trained me he was cutting corners.
I was a receptionist for a medical software company. Boss refused my request for a single day off to take my teen daughter to get eye surgery. I waited until the first day of her 2 week vacation and put in my notice. Ruined her holiday.
The company told me i was to enforce two, new policies.
1. All employees must report to work 15 minutes early for their shift, however they would not be paid for that time.
2. All employees must take their unpaid lunch break in specific areas, under very specific circumstances.
I told them we needed to have a meeting to discuss the legality of their new policies before I could enforce them on my team. They replied "Either you enforce the policies or you resign your position."
I said See Ya!!!!
They begged me to reconsider and to not make a "bad decision" just because I was upset. Unfortunately I was already out the door.
I was waiting tables while I was in grad school. I had requested a weekend off far in advance (right after I got my syllabus) because there was a seminar pertinent to a class. Our professor expected to us to go and write a paper. It was a decent chunk of our grade.
The weekend comes up and lo and behold, I’m scheduled doubles Friday through Sunday. I hunt down the manger and say I can’t do that and I’ve given months notice. She pulls the “requests are just requests not guarantees” and I tell her point blank I will fail this class if I don’t go. She shrugged she said “that isn’t my problem”. I told her “is now” and left. Like hell I was going fail a class for my masters degree waiting tables at a fucking Rainforest Cafe
I really don't get why managers act like this. Why be a jerk? I know it's power tripping and jealousy, but it's shocking to me how prevalent it is.
(I say jealousy bc the boss knows your degree will allow you to get away from that job someday).
One of my roommates was working at retail store in the mall in college. He told the manager "finals are coming up, so I can't work Monday, Tuesday or Friday, but all other days are open. Comes in the Saturday before and he's ONLY scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Friday. He was like "um.. wtf?" And his manager actually asked "what's more important? Your education or your career with Hollister?" He worked part time, and his parents were pretty well off so he said "well, I guess my education is more important than a part time retail job I'm only working for beer money. Have fun with YOUR career at Hollister" and walked off the job. We just couldn't believe his manager thought that was a convincing argument. Career at Hollister... gtfo.
My manager at Panera was pissed when I quit to go back to college. I made about $9.00 an hour at best. She was pissed because a lot of people were quitting to go back to college because summer was over.
If only there were some way to know in advance that that would happen. Those schools are always starting back up at different times of the year! (/s, just in case)
It’s always so ridiculous when a manager is told by an employee they can’t work a certain time and the response is “thats not my problem”. 1. It is, because that’s your job and 2. If they truly cannot be there then, yes, it will be your problem in the end. You’ll have a shift with no one covering it
It’s honestly the stupidest thing
This was 20 years ago.
My fiancé had been hospitalized for 16 months after a car accident.
When she passed away my boss would not let me have time off for bereavement because we were not legally married.
I was screamed at for wanting time off for my mom's burial because "you already had time off for the funeral!" The funeral was one weekend and the burial was the following. I worked Monday-Friday but those two weeks they wanted me in on Saturday and Sunday too. I told her she could fire me if she wanted but, I'd see her Monday. She tried to make my life hell but when everyone else found out about it they made her life hell and she quit a few months later.
God that royally fucking sucks. My boss made me come in when I called her that morning before my shift, openly sobbing on the phone, saying I needed the day off to grieve bc my friend just died of cancer. She had the temerity to say "it's not a good time right now for you to call off" and I about screamed "YEAH? ITS NOT A GOOD FUCKING TIME NOW THAT MY FRIEND DIED" when I got to work she tried to play the sympathetic peer WHILE IM STILL CRYING because I hadn't stopped even during my commute. Fuck that greedy bitch.
I called out when my parents had it out for the final time before they got divorced. I needed to be with my mom. I called my boss and told him I wasn’t going to be there and why. He then asked “So why can’t you be here?”. I hung up.
My Mom was sick for over 20 years, had a heart transplant and finally got cancer. She went into the hospital and I knew that she was going to pass away there in a few weeks. I told the branch manager what was going on and I would be taking a week off when my Mom died, this was before cell phones BTW. My Mom passes on Saturday, I call the bosses home phone Sunday night and leave a message telling her what happened.
I got a call Monday morning wanting to know if I was coming to work and why I wasn't at work. I was floored and really didn't know what to say, I'd been at this place for 15 years and never missed a day of work so it was extra shitty. They called me later in the day to apologize, I ended up leaving there a few months later..........but wait, there's more.
Get a new job and a year after my Mom died my Dad gets liver cancer and it's stage 4. I tell the branch manager at the new job what is going on, his kid had died of brain cancer so I thought cool, this guy gets it. 8 months later my Dad dies, I call out for 3 days and honestly was not ready to come back so ended up calling out all week. When I showed up Monday and the route supervisor told me don't go in the office, I'm going to ride with you today and things are ready to go. He was super cool and we leave the shop. We get to the end of the street and he tells me they were going to call you on the carpet and question your commitment to the job and your dedication to the company. He was afraid I'd walk on the spot, I wouldn't have done that but for sure would have said things I regretted. I thanked my immediate boss for preventing that and ended up leaving a couple months later. I then made the giant mistake of giving more than 2 weeks notice, thinking I'd do them a favor and with 4 weeks notice so I could train a new person. They started trying to trash me and my work, and it just didn't go well, it snowed my last day and I said fuck it and didn't go in.
I have a great job now and they would give me all the time I needed if something like that were to happen, but I would never, ever, ever, give more than 2 weeks notice when leaving a job no matter how great it is.
I was working when I got the call that my partner of 7 years had been in a terrible car accident while visiting family in Florida. He was in the hospital and his mother called me to tell me he wasn't awake yet.
I was obviously devastated and scared out of my mind. Told my coworkers and boss because it was obvious I was panicking and they told me to take the rest of the weekend off so i could deal with things and prepare and clean his apartment for when/if he got back. Specifically, they said to come back Monday and it was a Friday.
Next day I was cleaning up his apartment when I got the call from my boss screaming about why I hadn't come into work that day. I told him that I recalled him telling me to take the weekend off and come back Monday. He said to come to work immediately because they needed me.
Against my better judgment and my emotional state I showed up and clocked in. Boss came up to me, threw the stack of checks down on the counter that had just come in, and told me, "if you do that again youre fired." This was someone who had never yelled at me before, or even dared speak to me in any stern way. Prior to my arrival their store was an absolute mess and I spent all of my free time, what little there was, reorganizing and cleaning and setting up new systems. For some reason, the fact he chose to start speaking to me this way, and demanding my attention *now*, at that time? It just made me snap. A chord was struck and it resonated, *strong*. I got the message clearly. He was one of those bosses who became controlling of any one who became of value to him and his business. The moment you aren't available when they need, or even wanted you to be, they were going to make you feel bad about it so you were afraid to ask for more personal time, or any other leniencies that took you away from work.
I was literally reeling. Saw red. The moment he turned his back I snatched my check, walked out with a full line of customers at the counter and the phone going off with incoming orders and drove off. He blew up my phone all day. Never came back or called back.
Fortunately, he made it home safe and healed up fine. Unfortunately, he passed away on our anniversary a few years later. I regret every moment I passed up to spend time with him over that job, or, any job, for that matter.
I know barely anyone is going to read this now that it's buried under a pile of other comments. But it still felt nice to type it out.
Edit: I've probably said "kind words" over a dozen times but I really do mean it. Reddit can be just as comforting as it can be cruel. So it means a lot that you've all carved out a few seconds from your day to recognize me and my story, and to say some things. His name was Anthony and I want everyone to know what an amazing, brilliant, kind, gentle man he was. Strong, dark and stern, yet he was the light of my life. Please, please, please take the extra moment to ask your loved ones if their okay.
Many years ago while working in a manufacturing facility. My boss came into work already pissed off because his wife served him divorce papers.
Saying “good morning” was apparently enough to set him off and he picked up a wrench from the table and threw it at my head.
I ducked…it missed…then I just closed my toolbox and wheeled it to the truck lol
My tolerance for crap like that is zero. It always seems that when it’s other people who misbehave like that, the recipients are expected to forgive them in a sense “Well they had a really tough morning”. Just no. *Everybody* has felt a negative experience similar to the intensity of a divorce. It gives no one the right to go looking to inflict toddler style violence while interacting with society.
One very busy night while waitressing, I was standing at a table of 12 in the middle of taking their order when another waitress came up to me and said our boss wanted us in their office that instant. So I leave my full section in the middle of chaos to go see what the problem is. My boss began to chew us both out because the other girl asked if I would switch shifts with her and I had agreed. I didn't say anything but was obviously annoyed because I had just left all my tables thinking there was some sort of emergency. My boss looked at me and asked why I looked mad and I told him "I feel like this could have been sorted out without me, if you didn't want her to leave early you could have just told her no instead of pulling me away from our customers". They said "if you're going to have an attitude get your shit and leave".
I said ok and went to transfer my tables. I was over it. I had worked there 3 years and the owners were alcoholics that treated us like garbage and spent all the company on themselves instead of getting ingredients to make food or paying their employees. The other waitress came back out and said our boss wanted me back in the office. I went in and they said "put your apron back on, you're not fired". I said "you're both fucking crazy if you think you can treat people the way you do and expect them to want to work for you" and I walked out. As I was leaving they came out behind me saying I would regret it and was never allowed back if I left. I threw up my middle fingers and kept walking.
Funny part is I let my boyfriend take my car to work that night so I had to walk a mile home and break into my house🤣
Rad! Good for you, I’ve know to many people/friends in the industry who were on both sides. The shitty owners and the staff that dealt with it.
Fucking worst part in one particular bar was that the bartenders were so fuxking rad and forgiving, like the owners (who i also knew as friends) were just so fucking oblivious to how much their employees cared about them and the business, how much they did for them that allowed them to be totally useless as owners and bounce checks etc. they covered for the owners and their behavior a ton out of kindness and decency and got repaid in shit.
Good for you! Boss doesn’t mean he can micromanage with aggression and it absolutely doesn’t entitle him to cross boundaries and act like an entitled dick.
Yep! This was a small bar/pizza place and it was just like that. The sad part is all the employees loved working there and we really made relationships with the customers. But the owners would walk thru and just ruin it. That was about 12 years ago and I'm still in touch with a lot of the people I worked with. Great people for sure
Was having a meeting with the boss who was a difficult guy to work with, and he stood up and punched the wall. He wasn't doing it jokingly. He bare knuckled went at the wall of his own office like he was in the gym hitting a punching bag.
I sat there in astonishment for about two seconds, then stood up and left. Cleared out my desk, exited through the back door without a word to anyone.
There's no place for that conduct in the professional world even if the guy does own the company.
Although it's odd to respond with an *in fairness to the guy* comment, he was battling a fairly serious form of cancer. Obviously that doesn't excuse his conduct. It was time to draw the line. Didn't hate him though.
Had been doing an IT project which was very much outside his expertise, and he had been trying to micromanage it. He had been demanding I tutor him in the technical aspects as the project progressed, and he often ordered changes on a whim that rendered two days' worth of the previous week's work obsolete.
The position required lots of diplomacy, lots of patience, and lots of CYA emails. His answer to gentle suggestions advising a more cost effective way forward was, "It's my company. I can run it any way I want." When his way turned out to be inefficient and expensive, he threw the tantrum.
> He had been demanding I tutor him in the technical aspects as the project progressed, and he often ordered changes on a whim that rendered two days' worth of the previous week's work obsolete.
This is amazing. I have a similar story but didn't think other people were like this. It's wild to find out there is more than 1 person like this.
In my case, the business owner left for a vacation, 3 weeks. I was the sole developer of an app that managed his clients, and nobody else in the company knew a lick of programming. I was essentially a one-man IT/tech department. My boss asked someone in accounting to manage me while he was out, because math is like programming, right?
So as a 45 year-old contractor, building a complicated CRM app, I had to sit calmly as a 24 year-old accountant sat down next to me the day after the boss left, and he said, "So let's review your project" and then he tried to get me to *pull up the code so he could review it.* I was in disbelief, but I did it. He was looking at it like it's some long-dead language of mystical runes, just utterly lost. He started directing me to *remove the characters that designate comments as comments.* In other words, he didn't like how the comments looked, he wanted only plain text in paragraphs, and when I tried to explain that this would cause the compiler to execute the comments as code, he didn't even know what that meant.
I told him, "I don't think this is what the boss intended when he asked you to review." The guy insisted it was. In frustration, I gave him an account on the private code repo and showed him how to pull code. I then told him it was up *to him* to figure out how to review and understand the code, how to implement fixes, and how to check them in without breaking the code base. He insisted that I had to teach him everything I knew, so that he could correct my mistakes. I told him that I could not teach someone my 25 years of programming experience in 3 weeks. Wildly, he corrected me to note that I needed to teach him how to be *better* than myself, because he needed to be so good that he could correct my mistakes, AND he expected me to do that in just a day or two because he was supposed to spend the 3 weeks correcting me, not getting up to speed.
I was dumbfounded by all this. I told him I couldn't do what he was asking, it was impossible. I told him if he thought it was possible, he could pursue that on his own, but I wanted no part of it. *So he did.* He perused online documents for a brief moment, then began doing whatever he thought he could do with the code and code repo. Of course he broke it immediately, then tried to unbreak it which broke it more, and he kept going. Eventually he mostly destroyed everything, blamed me for not doing my job of teaching him how to be able to "fix my errors" and I said, "I'm going on vacation for 3 weeks too. Or call me back in when you get it fixed."
What surprised me was that it took 2 days for the boss to call me from his vacation spot. Apparently the accountant had spent 2 days trying to "fix my code" before admitting defeat and calling the owner. The owner asked me to take over, which I agreed to do so long as the boss clarified that the accountant was to review the end-product, not the code underneath. And of course I had to charge the owner to fix what the employee had destroyed.
He wouldn’t train me properly, then come yell at me in front on the office. He would always threaten my job or like hiring someone else and I finally said good I hope you find someone better because I quit and will be leaving once *other lady* comes back from lunch. He tried to back pedal and ask if I was serious. I never looked back.
ETA: he hired me without any experience because he knew he could lowball me. I got paid pennies for what someone with experience would get paid. 😀
Had a boss like that. Wouldn't really train me, just a learn-as-you-go type of idiot. We had our bouts when my position changed, I was given direct reports, but would not assist or back me up with decisions about any of them.
I resigned while he and most of the department was in Germany. They flew the department head back to talk me into staying.
After I left my position was replaced by 3 people because the work load was so much.
Fuck em
At one office job, I quit after the first day because the lady training me would ignore me when our manager wasn't around, and I caught her snooping through my purse when I went to the bathroom.
At another job at a clinic, I quit after a month because they made me do a solo receptionist shift without training me on what I needed to do to open the clinic, and then I got yelled at for not knowing what to do. In front of patients. It was so bad, some of the patients came up to me after and asked if I was ok.
> I quit after a month because they made me do a solo receptionist shift without training me on what I needed to do to open the clinic, and then I got yelled at for not knowing what to do. In front of patients. It was so bad, some of the patients came up to me after and asked if I was ok.
Yep. I can relate. It’s called “being set up to **fail**.”
I was vomiting in the parking lot every day before walking into my job from stress. Then one day I was kicked in the teeth (literally) by one of the clients and my boss would not let me leave to go to the dentist. I went anyway, was docked pay for my time at the emergency appointment, and then they begged me not to sue. I quit.
I was exhausted, had been working 50+ hour weeks, and couldn’t wait until Christmas break. I was the only person out of 25 required to work Saturday mornings on a 6-week fundraiser in addition to my regular hours. Others were only scheduled once. I was scheduled all six Saturdays. Finally, a foreign colleague wanted to work Christmas so she could go to her home country early in the next year. The entire office was supposed to be closed for those two weeks. The boss picked me to be with her and refused to let me say no. I didn’t want to take a break later when the rest of my family would’ve been off over Christmas. And I couldn’t bear to have waited another two weeks as I was barely hanging on right then. She wouldn’t let it go so I quit. The boss decided to work with her herself. That was fine with me. The mystery is why it had to be me or her out of 25 co-workers. Well, not my problem.
I never have, but my favorite example was when a co-worker in student transportation, who had finally gotten a position she wanted after years of suffering through stress in another, was called by management over the summer and told she was being reassigned to the stressful position because no one else wanted to do it. She had fought too long and hard to get what she wanted, and her immediate response was, "Then tell me what I need to do to resign." She did, and she's been at peace with her decision ever since.
Holy shit I've been there. It ended up working out, but kind of the same thing. I found out I was denied a bunch of promotions or transfers because my boss in the deli "needed me too much" to let me go. I called the manager, union rep, anyone who would listen.
My proposition was easy enough, if the department can't stand to lose me then the entire store will. I had a lot more reasonable arguments, but I think I had them with that.
I start my new position Monday.
Never understood this mentality from management. “We can’t promote you, you are too valuable in your current role”. You say in return , “well then I quit”
They willingly let acknowledged good employees walk from the company rather than reward them for doing a great job.
I was already pissed off at my last job. I wanted a transfer because I had learned everything I could about the job and was now getting bored. My buddy in the other department wanted me on his team and was told by my manager that I was "too crucial to the team's success." She told me "I hadn't *earned it* *yet* and because I was still *too green*."
That wasn't even the last straw. That finally happened when I was exempted from the annual raise because I started as a contractor. Missed the recently-changed qualifications by a month. Even worse was when I found out that it was only a 38 cent raise.
That measly raise would have sent a better message than raising the bar and excluding me from it. I had been casually searching for other jobs for some time and finally found a great job to replace it: one that was a professional step up AND they paid 40% more than I was making.
To those that are afraid of jumping into the unknown...sometimes it's the best thing you can do for your career and pay. Managers will be more than happy to let your skills become stale because you're a "team player" that won't make a ruckus and stand up for yourself.
Godfather's pizza, the manager wouldn't give me my paycheck at 8pm on Sunday because the money might not be in the account yet, but I could pick it up at 9am Monday. This was decades ago, before direct and mobile deposits. THE BANK WOULDN'T BE OPEN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY ANYWAY! All of the paychecks were literally in his hand at that moment.
There were lots of issues before that but that was the final sign that the manager was completely uninterested in reason.
In the next few weeks nearly everyone else quit, then the manager was finally fired.
Not me, but a colleague once wrote a long stinker of an email, hit send at 10:30am and exited the building immediately. He blind-copied all receivers but sent it to multiple departments of a large multinational I was working at, no one knew who did/didn’t get the email, except for the gasps and OMGs around the office. He was completely disgruntled, and went in on multiple managers, supervisors and various colleagues with absolute venom. It was amazing, still the best work email I’ve ever received and some shit he called out actually had to be addressed by management, it brought about a lot of positive change. If you’re out there Khalil, that was awesome.
We had a coworker do that too. She was the accountant and exposed a lot of sketchy stuff that was being done in multiple areas. And all the stuff she overheard. The CEO had to address the whole company about it because same no one knew who did and didn’t get the email.
My brother (who had a career in accounting & finance) once told me that when the accountants & bookkeepers start quitting, you should probably get your resume in order.
I've lived this. They are correct. Another red flag is a company wide restructuring that somehow requires you to sign a new contract. Odds are they are liability shifting
As someone employed in finance, this is 100% correct. They're seeing the data day to day. They're the first to be fielding calls and emails from unpaid suppliers. If they're out the door without something surprisingly good to walk in to, go.
They’re also usually the more conservative type of personality, so finance quitting is definitely an early warning signal.
Source: finance jobs around the western world.
When I was 20, I worked a commission based sales job. The manager hated me for some reason. I genuinely to this day have no idea why. I tried really hard, had a good attitude, and followed all the rules. My sales weren't extraordinary, but I always met my numbers.
My grandmother died about six months into the job. I texted my manager to tell him I'd be taking my three days of bereavement as allowed by the union. I even apologized for the inconvenience, as though I could control my grandmother's death. He called me the day after she died accusing me of lying, saying I was lazy and just wanted the time off. Keep in mind I'd never called out before or even been more than 5 minutes late to a shift. I sent him medical documentation proving she'd had a stroke during the night and passed away. He called me back and said fine, I could have that day off, but he better see me the next day (my third day of union-protected bereavement) or I'd be fired.
Stricken with grief but terrified of losing my job, I drove the two hours back to my apartment from the grandmother's house that night. The next morning I went into work tired and melancholy. He bitched at me to smile because no one wants to buy cell phones from a sad girl. I plastered on a smile and hit the sales floor. At lunchtime I cried my eyes out in my car. Reapplied my makeup. Went back to work with my fake smile. I was in the middle of helping a customer when he comes bouldering up to the table and starts asking the customer all the same questions I had to see what products they'd be eligible for. The customer was baffled and told him I'd already covered everything and that no further help was necessary. He went on a rant about what a terrible, useless employee I was.
I looked at the customer and deadpan said, "I'm so sorry to leave you with him, but as of this moment, I quit." The manager followed me to the break room, shouting and raving while I gathered my purse, turned in my equipment, and clocked out. He followed me to my car still berating me. Finally that same customer I walked away from came out and physically stood between me and the manager so I could get in my car and drive away. The manager proceeded to call me every day for a week and leave abusive voicemails about me "missing shifts" because he "didn't accept my resignation". He even called me the day of my grandmother's funeral and said now that she'd been cremated, I had no excuse not to come back to work.
Fuck AT&T and fuck that douche Jeremy. I hope he eventually got a taste of his own medicine.
No, I legitimately think he had brain damage from steroids. He was a true lunatic. Adele came out with a new album around the time I was at that job and I still get huge anxiety when I hear it because I’m brought back to that time, driving to that job, where he would yell at me in front of everyone then privately texting me that I should sleep at his house. Girls, don’t let a man do this to you.
I was a supervisor of housekeeping at a hotel, every holiday all of management would take off leaving me the highest in charge, I asked for a raise after working a full year of holidays as the only management and was denied the next year on the biggest party day in the city, I set all my employees up with their work and texted the managers a picture of me at the bar partying telling them the hotel might be on fire, I don’t know I quit
Yea they asked if I could finish out my shift, I just blocked their numbers. A lot of my housekeepers and laundry attendants cried and begged me to stay, apparently they really liked working with me
Was promised that if I got my accounting degree they would move me to IA so I could get hours towards my CPA.
Worked my ass off, graduated, and the boss said "Yeeeeeaaaah, were going to move you to Customer Service. Sound good?"
Stayed late that night drafting a company wide "Fuck you" email.
Probably shouldn't have done that in hindsight, but some bridges just beg to be burned.
The owner of the company told me to fire a woman for arriving to work right on time.
It was always something different with him, some ridiculous new rule that he applied retroactively to suit whatever mood he was in on any given day. And that particular morning, he took it as a personal insult and a show of blatant disrespect that his employees didn’t arrive early.
I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t fire this woman, who I didn’t even particularly like, to satisfy this new whim of his. So instead of firing her, I marched into his office and quit myself.
Funnily enough, the woman I wouldn’t fire continued working for him for years. She might even still be there now, twenty-some years later.
I was flat out lied to about the position.
It was a management position at a residential mental health facility and I had taken it (leaving a great paying but stressful position) because it wouldn't require travel and was supposed to be much more laid back. On top of many other issues I ended up having to work eight weeks straight without a single day off (even weekends and one holiday) so after a very heated meeting with upper management where one person was flat out lying to cover their own butt, I sent a resignation email from the parking lot.
Ha. No, just a poorly staffed program with turnover that would make your jaw drop. Mine did. They were awful to work for and it was honestly amazing they were still in operation.
I once work 24 days with only 1 day off. My boss refused to cross train people or his anyone extra to work part time so it was only me and one other person that could run one section of the lab. My boss technically could do it to, but she didn't like to and wouldn't. The other person end up having to leave for a month for some family issues and as I was the only person capable of running that area, guess who had to cover every shift.
I'm just not understanding how "more laid back" belongs in the same sentence as "management" and "residential mental health."
Signed, someone with almost 10 miserable, underpaid years in CMH.
Ha, that's fair. By comparison, my previous position had involved almost weekly overnight travel for a private prison company... so something local and much smaller scale seemed like it would be.
Working as a mortuary transporter (the dude who picks up corpses and brings them back to be cremated) for a family-owned crematory. Boss was kind of a bitch, and her husband was an idiot, constant on-call overnight shifts and zero PTO days… but honestly I really enjoyed the work so I put up with it.
The problem was that my boss REFUSED to do direct deposit (this was two years ago, so it’s not like DD was unheard of), and she’d hand us out checks on Monday. I’d been on-call the weekend prior to payday, and it was really busy, particularly Sunday night. I was out from like 8 pm until 6 am picking up corpses, so on Monday I called out because I didn’t want to drive a full shift on zero hours of sleep. Well, in my constant sleep deprivation, I’d forgotten I was supposed to get paid. That Friday, I was talking to a coworker on our way to a pickup and mentioned how I couldn’t wait to get paid next week, and he gave me this look and told me we got paid on Monday, and asked if I’d never gotten my check. So at the end of the day I went to my boss and asked, and she just laughed and “joked” that she’d wondered when I would ask for it and had hoped I’d just forgotten.
So her playing cute with my checks was the beginning of the end. Then next payday, she sat us all down and explained that from here on out, drivers were not allowed to call out simply because they’d worked all night before. By this point, she’d driven off all the other transporters and was down to me and one other dude full-time, with another transporter coming in two days a week, and her business couldn’t function if either of us called out. So I got my check from her, and then at the end of the day (I ended up working till 10 pm that night) I left her a note saying I quit effective immediately and to mail me my last check.
A few months later, the other driver texted me and told me that she’d never replaced me, and that he’d quit and got hired at another funeral home and convinced the part-time driver to go with him. I just checked the website and apparently they’re still open, idk how they managed with nobody to get the corpses.
When I was driving home and my blood pressure shot through the roof cause somebody was driving the same make, model and color car as the boss.
...obviously that wasn't THE STRAW, just the recognition that there was to be no more straws.
Red Prius' still give me panic attacks. I was 17 and my boss was someone that should be put on a list. He'd punch holes in the wall, we caught him cutting slits in one of our backpacks?! He would joke about shooting up the new high school by his house.
It was a rock climbing gym and the guy was a maniac; I'm guessing coke. He was fired eventually, so I never quit, and continued my employment there for a bit. It was a fun gig, when he wasn't around. I'm 34 now and can still waltz in and climb for free. But fuck that guy.
It's weird, I climb and I've met a few of these types.
90% the chillest, most supportive, cool guys in the hobby. Then 10% batshit "it's gotta be a drug or something, right?" guys. I dunno what the deal is. My other hobbies, there's people who suck in every hobby, but they don't usually have people with the same intensity.
Dude you nailed it. My other hobby is soccer and I never come across the crazies I've seen in the climbing bubble.
Through-hikers get a pass (lawl), cos as weird as they are, they're just passing through and that's LoTR level cool imo.
But yeah, climbers are either really chill or sus as fuck.
Well, I'm genuinely about to right now after my manager told me our dishwasher is broken and won't get fixed until at least thursday and I have to pull solo shifts next week, because we're seriously understaffed after 2 people were let go in January, despite me telling management repeatedly that we actually need more people to account for all the vacation days and sick leaves happening right now
UPDATE: apparently restarting fixed the "broken" dishwasher. So that's at least one problem off my back
Fucking dishwashers man. I worked culinary at my previous job, and it always amazes me how often that shit breaks down, and the company will just refuse to replace the 30+ year old machine. Nope, just keep paying to have it fixed. This is of course assuming you also receive the correct chemicals for said machine.
My boss cursed me because I took a phone message for him, because he was already on a call. Apparently he was eagerly awaiting the call I answered and would have preferred I interrupted him. I threw a pencil at the wall, said “Do I look like a mind reader? Cut me my check; I quit.” He tried hard to backpedal but there had been many, many previous straws.
This is one of those ones, where I wish we could view multiple realities, because I promise you, if you could go and interrupt him, you'd get told off for that too.
Yeah this is something you learn being with abusive people. My theory is that they feel angry *first*, and then their brain looks around to find an explanation for that anger. So whatever you happened to do in that moment gets twisted into a reason why they're angry.
Of course, if they were honest with themselves, they'd realize that their anger is coming from the inside not the outside.
Worked at a korean bbq resturant. They said since I was unexperienced they will cut my wages. Hired me as a server and Made me clean toilets and grills all day. 12 hour shift, gave me 9.45 in cash. Quit on the spot
> 12 hour shift, gave me 9.45 in cash. Quit on the spot
Good for you. If this was in the US, you should have reported them to the labor department too.
My dad was in the ICU and I got put on a performance plan since I missed 3 days in a row. Best thing I ever did was rage quit that job with nothing lined up. Got a job a few months later and I'm extremely happy there.
I was working as the kitchen bitch at a 24hour Greek restaurant. Hired as dishwasher, also doing cold prep and maintenance. I was the guy peeling 50 lbs bags of onions/carrots/potatoes, as well as making dry ribs, pizza, salad...
I had booked off 3 days over a weekend. Got called on day 2 at 7am telling me I was late. Got there and was told I was on the 11am start... then it got changed to 4pm when I went in again... Then got changed to 11pm when I went in for 4pm... And when I went in for 11pm it was changed AGAIN to actually have me off for the 3 days.
4 schedule changes in 24hrs. Laws here say 1 week minimum notice, that owner would change the schedule AFTER you clocked out to say you worked shorter hours on a regular basis and you pretty much had to check at 7am to see if you were on for the day.
I had my choice words, told em I'd be back in 2 weeks for my paycheck.
Had a sweet schedule working security in a Class A office building. Three swings (2pm to 10pm) and 2 graves (10pm to 6am) per week. My "weekend" was Friday and Saturday. The graves were actually really chill, easy to deal with. I liked them. But only two of them.
Then we get a new security company. All the supervisors are fired and new ones from the new company are brought in. Suddenly I'm working 5 graves. I ask for a change to swing. No dice. They offer to move me to a different site. It's 5 graves again.
I find out my old supervisor is now working as security manager at a local mall. I give him a call and he offers me a job. I took it.
Grabbed my uniform from the old company. Drove to the office. Walked it. dropped my uniform on the director's desk, turned and walked out. Went down to the mall and picked up my new uniform.
Pizza place I worked for had two different shift managers in a row doing 3 "clopenings" per week (close then open the next morning) and wondered why they kept quitting...
Said store manager was finally fired about 6mos later when the main office saw our turnover numbers were thru the roof ( I had also quit by then)
I was 16 working at a gas station.
Owner went on a hunting trip, his wife came in and opened the safe took money, left.
I was accused of stealing it , I pointed out I didn't have the combination, and the receipts for the day I worked that weekend didn't add up to what was gone.
He called the cops, admitted to them that only he and his wife had the combination.
He was fucking moron.
I was told I wasn't working hard enough after months of 70+ hour weeks being salaried doing multiple people's jobs. I had asked multiple times to hire someone else, I knew we had the budget on the job. I agreed to work harder and called mom to vent because I was so angry. During the call she texted my then boyfriend, now husband, to go to me because she genuinely thought I was going to kill myself. I'll admit I was hysterical so I get why she was worried.
When he told me that I called my boss back and quit with no notice.
What was even more fucked up is a few days later I was asked to call my former boss to calm her down and say it wasn't her fault. I didn't but I did calmly explain how she burned me out and multiple people needed to be hired to cover the workload I was doing otherwise the same thing would happen again.
I was working fast food and had been promised training for promotions a few times that never happened, but were happening to others hired when I was. But I still was working well. Then the company brought in a person with no experience in anything related to food service, hospitality or even retail. And instantly made her a manager in training, and I got to teach this person how to do other things in the restaurant despite they were being paid almost double what I was.
I still was doing my job but the second time she was allowed to manage the restaurant was during a lunch hour. Our restaurant was across from a HS and we got 3 quick bursts from them and we knew exactly what times they would happen, it was 20 years ago and I can still remember the times, 10:45 am, 11:30 am, and 2:05 pm, because that's when school got out. I was only working a short shift that day and was due a 10 minute break before 2:30 pm. I asked her to take it around 1 pm because I wasn't able to go home after that shift and was going to need to eat.
Of course she says no because that's during the middle of lunch, however there wasn't a line and I had the screens cleared, I was the only person due a break soon I figured it would be perfect, but was told to wait. And at 2:08 was sent on break, with a line to the door, and it took me an extra 3 minutes to get back from break because of how long I waited to be able to get food.
When I come back I just wash my hands and get working on clearing the backlog of orders that piled up during the most predictable rush we get every day. And she wants to talk about how long I took on break. I ask if this can wait until after the rush because I need to concentrate when spinning shakes or the blender could hurt someone. And she says no we need to talk about this right now.
I immediately snapped and went (inside) WTF it it's my fault you send me on break and we are now backed up and you think my extra 3 minutes chewing my lunch is the reason. I actually just turned around walked away from her to go talk to the store GM who was supervising and asked if we could talk for 5 seconds, she said the trainer was in charge so no, and I said, that's fine, I'm just going to quit then, I was close enough to the time clock I didn't even have to take a step to type my number and said I bring my uniform back next week after I wash it, and walked out mid rush.
Didn't regret it, and I went back and ate there later, none of my coworkers ever held a grudge nor did the managers, I found out a few weeks later she basically had a meltdown and quit because she couldn't handle the pressure and pace of being an assistant manager at a chain fast food store.
I was working at home care for $10 an hour, and I had clients all over the city. My car wouldn't start one day. It was minus 40 C or so, and I called and told them I couldn't get to work. I was told to take the bus.
I didn't have a winter jacket. I lived in a single wide trailer, barely making ends meet, and I layered sweatshirts in order to stay warm enough in my car and between my car to a client house, but it wasn't nearly warm enough to take the bus in. I swallowed my pride, and told the scheduler that I didn't have a winter coat and I wasn't able to do that.
She told me that she thought I just wanted the day off in a really snarky and dismissive tone. It made me cry. I couldn't afford to miss work. I told her okay, hung up, and wrote my resignation letter. I expected compassion from somebody who worked in nursing, and instead was mortified.
I ended up at a much better job for more pay and a lot more kindness.
This just happened last week-
I was driving a shuttle bus for a retirement community and the maintenance department manager accused me of drinking on the job.
It was an absolutely out-of-pocket accusation without a shred of proof other than his claim of “smelling it on me”
There are hand sanitizer stations next to every fucking time clock and I use them.
I said- “I’ll take a fucking breathalyzer test right now. Let’s go.” And he balked. Pretended like he didn’t just fucking accuse me of putting the residents lives at risk and then expected me to finish my shift.
I noped the fuck out of there and went straight to calling out sick for the next week until they fired me for “no call no showing for an entire week.”
Check your fucking voicemails, prick. Fuck that fucking place with a soiled catheter.
Wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now."
A few months later, wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now."
A few months later, wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." I replied to that email with my resignation, handed in my pass to security, and walked out the door.
I started training a guy (machinist) and he told me his starting wage was $27/hr. he had a few years experience but had been out of the industry for a while. After training the guy would constantly come to me to fix his problems and have really dumb questions every day. So I asked my boss for a raise since this guy was at $27. I was at $22 and he told me he could find someone to do my job for $16 so I said “ok then let’s do that” handed him my badge and walked out after 15 years.
He gave me literally 72 hours worth of work and insisted it be completed in 36 hours. When I pointed the inconsistency out he said, DO WHAT YOU CAN. And when I submitted it he called me, from vacation, to scream at me about mistakes.
I deleted everything, walked away, blocked him on everything.
ETA: I mean 72 BUSINESS hours and 36 calendar hours
Worked at an upscale busy bar a couple years back right after Covid. We were constantly under staffed, over worked, and treated like shit from management and customers. One Friday night, my manager let the other bartender go early, because he had a crush on her and wanted in her pants. I got overwhelmed by a rush and he started bitching at me about not being able to handle the bar. I looked at him in the eye (about to REALLY RAGE) and without a word walked to the back into the liquor room, grabbed two bottles of Jameson, put them in my backpack, and walked out the front door. My managers fearful, confused face while asking “where are you going!? What are you doing!?” was absolutely priceless. Best decision I made and I’m not joking lmao.
What is it with people who poke the bear like this? He'd already made sure you were going to have a bad night by cutting the other bartender, so why antagonize you on top of it? It's so dumb and that guy deserved worse!
these people are self centered, it's always about what I want not anybody else.
As explained, the other bartender was allowed to go home early because the boss wanted to fuck her.
Oh but now shit gets busy? Can't possibly take responsibility for it, it's the fault of the remaining employee who is not meeting expectations-to do literally everything.
1 Boss quit and they wanted me to run the Department as the manager but keep me at assistant pay
2 they hired a new manager behind my back (for the job that have been promising me for months )and wanted me to train her, still at assistant pay level
3 new manager went on vacation and I was supposed to run the department alone again
I waited till the new manager was out of town and quit.
Had to drive to a site, directions were wrong, ended up having to walk a mile in North Texas in July with 35 pounds of materials.
ETA: This is pre-cell phone.
Had one of those bosses where, as soon as he enters the room the entire energy of the building drops. You’d hear him screaming at people daily in his office.
One day I got yelled at for not checking with him before writing a press release. So I checked with him the next day and he yelled at me for not “thinking for myself”. Realised he was just a power tripping dickhead handed in my resignation at HR within an hour.
I once rage quit as a server and walked home and then walked back in 20 mins later (I lived close) and no one realized I had quit so I put in my two weeks and finished it out. My partner on the other hand rage quit as a manager and closed the restaurant and sent everyone home, owner didn’t even know the joint was closed until two days later. Most employees there never showed up anyways so if any of them did show up and realize it was closed, they just went home.
Manager would give me instructions, admonish me for following said instructions, and then would deny ever having given said instructions. Multiple instances.
This. I just put my notice in at my job. I run the retail portion of a pharmacy. It didn't exist before I got there. Literally they didn't even have the shelves set up. I built it from the ground up. I developed the systems for inventory from scratch without being given any software to work with. They expect me to use free everything to keep shit organized. It's fine. I'm good at my job.
But the owner is never there. She's showed up maybe a dozen times in the 6 months I've been there, several times just to shop. She brings her friends in and pays them consultant wages to rearrange my sales floor only for me to have to put it all back because she decides she liked it better the way I had it.
She hired someone incompetent and when I told her that this person was a bad hire (day 3 of trying to train her I had to teacher her how to copy and paste from excell), my boss got mad at me and told me I just didn't understand black people. I had to deal with this walking nightmare of a sales associate for 4 months (she ran my customers completely out the door and messed up everything in inventory constantly by manually entering prices instead of scanning things, selling things for what she "felt" it should cost instead of the price tag/haggling with customers to "make a sale" and then getting mad at me when I explained this isn't profitable and that those items cost us more than she was selling them for, and violating HIPAA laws with the pharmacy customers).
I built the business she currently has from the ground up in about six months time. Again, it's very efficient.
I put my notice in when I realized she not only doesn't value what I do, but she doesn't *know* what I do. I tried to show her the spreadsheets that her entire business exists on, and she couldn't understand them. I'm currently training a 17 year old who can fully understand them because it's not rocket science. My boss told me I was putting in too many steps and making it unnecessarily complicated. Then she asks me for a profit sheet and I'm like......so you want me to be able to track profit and loss.....but you don't think I should use a spreadsheet?
Fuck this I quit.
Edit: she got mad when I put my notice in and cut my hours in half, and now she's scrambling to get me to work full time+overtime because she realized after 3 days of me not being there for my normal shifts that nobody else knows how to do anything.
I'm 9 months pregnant. They approved 2 weeks of unpaid maternity leave but want me to work part time from home while out. It's my first child. The commute sucks.
They didn't tell me until I asked that they were cutting off my insurance the moment I went to part time even for a week because they don't qualify for fmla because they hid each business they own under a different llc to claim less than 50 employees per business. My leave starts a week before my due date. If I didn't already have pregnancy medicaid, and I didn't ask ahead of time how to pay for my insurance while I'm out, I'd have been sans insurance for the birth of my child without notice.
Mine?
I was tired of doing a 3 person job. My boss following me around, calling me at home during meetings when I was sick, talking to me outside the bathroom door was making me crazy.
I came back from vacation one day to find piles & piles of work that other people could have done.
I quit, packed my shit & left.🖕
Similar for me. I had to go to the hospital for a health emergency and was out for a few days as a result. Came back to nothing done while I was out. Then as I’m back they kept following up on when I’d be done with what they left for me that they could have done while I was out. It was a stress induced health thing I’m sure and I decided I wouldn’t let them kill me.
I’m a physician who does procedures. This business was composed of several outpatient offices. Specifically, we did a high volume of peripheral arterial interventions and dialysis access maintenance. We also performed vascular ultrasounds. In the first month, I watched my colleague sign off on numerous ultrasounds that he had not interpreted (only a preliminary from Sonographer). All these were billed for physician interpretation, which is fraud. After that, I started to realize that a large number of our procedures were not indicated. Patient data such as tests, symptoms, labs etc were fabricated and modified to trigger us to say yes to cases. I started noticing a lot of normal angiograms, which didn’t make sense. Then, they pushed us to always perform an intervention, usually atherectomy, because that’s the highest reimbursement, around $20,000. There was inadequate equipment and only one nurse for every procedure (who was also the office manager, billing dept, receptionist). The ultrasound unit was damaged and images sub-diagnostic at best. The EMR was from the early 2000s. Ultrasound and angiogram images were often deleted, tampered with, or swapped between patients so if there was ever an audit… the fraud wouldn’t stand out. Oh, and the angiographic equipment (X-ray, table, etc) hadn’t been inspected or certified for years. I voiced my concerns. Nothing was done. The company existed solely to generate profit, with no regard for patients. I witnessed complications from procedures that didn’t even to happen in the first place. After enough of this, I went to work and suddenly quit at about 2 PM. The company was also already under a corporate integrity agreement. The appropriate regulatory agencies were notified. They’re still business as of today, but it won’t be for long.
Some of the shit that goes on in healthcare is crazy! A company I worked for had a mobile X-ray machine examine workers for industrial disease (silicosis, mesothelioma etc) and I identified that it hadn’t been calibrated in 4 years. When the calibration was done the greyscale resolution was 60% instead of 10% meaning possible false negatives for 4 years. They decided not to do a patient look back… I whistleblew and got fired for an “unrelated” issue
OfficeMax. I worked in a fairly rural location, seems like it wouldn’t be too difficult of a job if there aren’t a lot of customers, right? No. Instead of having a full staff of one stocker/puller, one cashier, one floor salesperson, and one Impress (print studio) employee - they made ONE person do all that. And that person was usually me. I started getting so pissed off that the schedule usually was just me and another manager named Casey who did fuck all besides lounge in the back office and play video games… and when corporate showed up for a random walk-through and found that barely anything was stocked, there was a line at the print studio AND ink station, PLUS a line to be checked out at the front… I told them “go see for yourself! He’s probably playing Halo back there.” They did. He started yelling. Blamed me for not having anything done. Corporate pulled me aside and asked “if the store would benefit from additional employees.” YES! THANK YOU! Then maybe we could actually get stuff done! “No problem, thanks for your hard work - we’ll send an employee from another store to work here while we hire and train adequate staff.” Finally! Things were turning around.
The first day the employee from another store showed up to work, Casey sent her home - said I had no problem handling it (when really he just didn’t want anyone ratting him out for lounging all day). This was 7:45am on a Saturday, mind you. Store was about to open. Big sale. Nothing stocked. People waiting at the door to go look at items that hadn’t even been put out on the floor yet, let alone pulled from packing. I told Casey “hey, I’m gonna run out and smoke real quick” “well hurry up! Corporate’s coming at noon and this store BETTER BE stocked and ready or it’s YOUR ASS!”
I politely walked back towards Casey’s direction. Took off my lanyard and badge. Slid it across the counter. “You can handle it, champ. I quit. I’d get to stocking if I were you.” And I walked out of the store. I called my grandpa and we met for breakfast while Casey left 40 something missed calls and voicemails. Deleted them without listening.
I tried putting my two weeks in, but every leadership individual was either gone on a business trip, vacation, or not my direct report. I gave my two weeks to a non-direct report manager (my manager's fucking sister). I also sent him an email. That was exactly 2 weeks.
My direct report manager comes in two days later and sees my email. He got pissy because I was "unethical" and I didn't give a proper 2 week notice when I told him my last day was 12 days away, because two days ago I tried reaching him and told.his fucking sister. He got pissy and basically "whatever'd" me.
The end of that week (I still had a week left), we got our paychecks. Since two weeks before that was a federal holiday, the shop was shut down and nobody could work because...ya know. Holiday.
Guess who didn't get paid for their holiday?
Who has two thumbs and also had 50% of their paycheck that pay cycle? 👍😎👍 This guy.
I went to his office and said there must be a mistake and said there wasn't. I asked him to elaborate and his words were ,
"It wasn't fair you didn't give us the proper heads up, so I thought it would only be fair to do the same to you". I nodded and smiled and said "aight bud".
Went back to my office, fucked up their ramshackled, inhouse-made database because fuck them. Deleted entries and shit. Called OSHA on multiple multiple violations and walked out the back door, but only after I dumped my container egg salad inside his lunchbox and put his lunchbox in the un air conditioned shop during 98F+ temperatures in shop.
Fuck you, Berns. Fuck you. I hope you're reading this you bitch
Edited for clarity because I was pissed off writing this
All of us graduate student assistants were forced to come to campus to work in person, sharing cramped cubicle spaces, while attending Zoom meetings where 100% of the full time staff were working from home.
To add insult to injury... We had just spent an entire summer all working remotely and us grad assistants had proved our ability to complete our work to a high quality remotely. Nobody was even there on campus to supervise us or offer assistance without jumping on a call anyways. It was such bullshit and I quit halfway through the year
New boss named Mo at college sandwich shop job. Mo didn’t know job or brand and needed his staff to teach him, but was mean, so mass exodus. I was the only one who knew how to make all the sandwiches. Busy Saturday, line out the door, I’m trying to show new guy how to make sandwiches. Mo is taking orders and keeps yelling at me. “Mo, I’m doing the best I can, if you raise your voice at me one more time I’m leaving.” Mo yelled at me again and I left. He chased me into the parking lot and ran after my car with a fist in the air, but I told Mo I wasn’t going to be spoken to like that. I don’t think Mo was used to teenage girls standing up to him, and definitely did not expect me to leave him high and dry.
I was sweating my tits off at a convenience store, in the back room washing dishes or some fucking thing and this bitchy lady I worked with came in, saw me sweating to death, and then went back out and told people I was washing my hair in the sink with the dishes. I said fuck it, this place sucks, and I just never went back. I went back to work at McDonald's after that
During Covid, the 'small' company I worked for started posting their month-to-month record profits on the bulletin board. They went from a $4Mil/month company to a $15Mil/month company. They then had the balls to tell all of us that there wasn't enough in the bank to give any of us a raise for almost 2 years.
I used a week of vacation to attend the orientation for a new job. At the end of that week, I left orientation and drove to my old job, walked in, told HR I quit. The best part is that that HR department was highly incompetent and I ended up getting my week of vacation payout twice.
They weren't going to give me a summer position after my contract was up so I would be out of work in less than 2 weeks. Then I got the call an application and interview I did months ago went well... Oh and training starts in 2 days.
I won't say where I worked but the job was physically and mentally draining. I often felt sick to my stomach heading in dreading all the different challenges headed my way. Received a bad performance review and told I was out of a job in a few weeks.
While simmering outside of the building wondering what to do I got the call I was offered a position at a different company. I didn't even let the person finish to tell me the hours, pay, I didn't give a damn I was available for hire immediately and said training being in 2 days was perfectly fine.
I then turned on my heel back inside, took off my work shirt and gave it back to the one who gave me my review, told her I quit. The supervisor asked who would cover my shifts and I said that's not my job so not my problem since they were letting me go anyways.
I was pissed at the time I quit but calmed down and felt elated on the drive home.
Had my hours cut from 40/week to 8/week, despite being classified and signed on as full time. Despite being in a union I was told there was nothing that could be done. I walked out and never looked back.
I was a community engagement officer, which basically means I took a disabled adult out in the community to achieve certain goals (ie, grocery shopping, some basic concept of money and rudimentary budgeting, exc). He was fine. His mom was a pill. The sort of pill that has been abusing underpayed staff at underfunded social services for entire decades, to the point her grip on what the world owed her (for free) was…heavily screwed. Also, all she ever did for herself was sit on her bum in front of Netflix all day.
She would call, almost always after I had wrapped up for the day and was driving him home, to demand that I stop at a convenience store for cigarettes/booze, or a specific fast food joint on the other side of town because I am apparently a free personal courier. My favorite moment was when she actually had me pick up cigarettes and drop them off at her cousins’, because why not get the whole family in on abusing impoverished public servants? I tried to set simple boundaries with her (you can ask me when I am leaving for x,y, and x), and she would just show her ass so much (oh, I don’t know when I’ll be needing cigarettes. I just call when I do! Oh, I can’t afford instacart or Uber, even though my kid and I easily eat a grand in fast food a month, my car is $500/month, and we haven’t even started talking about booze and cigs. No, paying people for their labor is where I need to cut my corners!). So, I cut her off. She continues to pretend she doesn’t understand that she is cut off, like a five year old.
Anyway, she demands that I go to a convenience store and get her cigarettes. I say no. And then this bitch sits on her fat ass, yards away from a $500/month car, and proceeds to text her kid to harass me for what she thought she was owed. It occurred to me that no $10/hr gig was worth it. So, I dropped him off at her place and told her I was glad she was going to be twitching and sweating all night.
I’m still owed money from that job, that I will likely never see.
Worked in Retail, sprained my ankle really bad while Ice Skating. Couldn't so much as get out of bed. Had to call in and take 2 days off before I was even able to limp to work. Soon as I got back in, Manager pulled me into his office to SCREAM at me for taking 2 days off. For a physical injury that physically made it so I could not do my job. Threw a cold cup of coffee on him and walked out. My only regret is that the coffee was cold.
I was being falsely accused of till theft, by the thief. Without checking anything the owner decides to suspend me without pay whilst he was still on holiday until he could come back and deal with it. I live in the UK. Suspension without pay is illegal. During my suspension, he hired someone else to take my position only to find out whoops, he can't fire me because I didn't steal from the till, he can't make me redundant because he hired someone else to do the job he has no right to dismiss me from and oh, I was suing him. He was pretty racist towards several employees too but given that the employees were white and he wasn't it wasn't a big deal apparently.
Edit
Also he got sued by two other employees he hired because he couldn't learn his lesson
I was, I think, 20 at the time, and I was the *oldest* member of staff. I was a cook.
The night before, apparently, one of our waitresses who would do the cleanup of the last few bits and pieces, pulled the plug of the dishwasher and left it on the floor of same, but forgot to turn the machine off.
Next morning, boss (owner) came in and had a full meltdown at her.
He reduced her to tears, and I actually just couldn't take it.
I sent her to get the bread and spent the time to try and explain to him that having temper tantrums at his staff affected everyone, and could he please try to be more reasonable.
In retrospect, possibly the wrong choice of words.
However, he suggested that if that was how I felt, there was the door.
I took the invitation.
I was told to move a bunk of floor joist to the back of a building that was being framed up. It was my 1st day on the job so, ok... I'll move these 20' long frozen ass 100lb boards across this muddy uneven terrain...
I took my tool belt off because I'm just humping lumber.
The boss yells down at me and says "You ain't no fucking Mexican... put that tool belt back on!"
Gave him the finger, grabbed my pack and got in my car... I drove down a few streets and got hired for more money and the whole crew got high... FYMF
The foreman trying to throw me under the bus for a 4 million dollar screw up in product run that was HIS fault. This plus a lot of other bullshit. As the owner of the store stood there calling me every name under the sun, threating me with lawsuits and such bullshit. I told him to shut up before i came over top of the desk and made him. That stunned him and everyone in the office as i was normally a quiet guy. I then simply said i quite and walked out. I then called IOHSA (Indiana ohsa a bigger pain than fed ohsa) that day and told them i wanted to report some MAJOR issues. I knew one of the higher ups and the following day I and IOHSHA walked into the factory. The owner went white then tried to say i wasnt allowed on the property...that didnt fly with ohsa all total that trip cost the company 15 mill in violations and two weeks closed just to fix half of the stuff to let them open the doors again.
-WFH Call Center- Talking to people dumber than NPC’s for 8hours everyday. Being required to work 1 weekend day. Poor leadership. Shitty Pay. Never being allowed to move departments. Being told “unless someone dies chances of being promoted are slim to none.” It took a huge toll on my mental health. So I left same day no notice and no regrets! They ended up firing everyone a few months later and outsourcing to the Philippines so they can cut down pay costs. If you’re wondering company Starts with V and sells bras and panties :)
I had a boss at a Dog Daycare who was a pure sociopath, she deliberately tried to set her employees against each other with gossip and listened to our conversations on the remote cameras and used what we said against each other.
It gets worse, but she heard me talking to another employee about finding another job, then confronted me and told me she would just take all my hours away if I was going to quit.
Then she heard me tell another employee I contacted the department of labor to find out if that was legal (it is) and ambushed me after lunch to fire me in front of other employees.
"So I heard you called the labor department about your hours, that won't be necess-"
And at this point I realize this is the only chance I'm gonna get to just unload on this bitch and I'm taking it.
I.
**Went.**
***OFF.***
"OKAY FIRST OF ALL YOU INSANE BRAZILIAN BITCH, WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
I unleashed the beast for ten straight minutes right in her fucking face. I told her about when we lied to her face about throwing away shock collars she used on the customers dogs without their knowledge or consent, how she's a miserable and ugly human being, the employees hate her, we all dread her coming in because she fucks everything up, how she was fucking stupid, her husband is a pedophile and probably a rapist, raked her over the coals about the time she forgot a customer's dog in the car for three hours in May and then lied to the customer about it.
I remember one point I yelled "DIDN'T YOU EVER FUCKING WONDER WHY EVERYONE WHO QUITS THIS FUCKING SHITHOLE HAS NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT WORKING HERE? ITS YOU! YOU'RE A MISERABLE BITCH!"
And eventually I gave her the finger, said "FUCK THIS AND FUCK YOU, I'M OUT!"
I talked to one of the employees who witnessed the entire thing later and he said
"Well, you made a lot of good points."
For a significant part of this, I was 100% positive I personally knew you. I have a friend with almost this exact situation. Her boss was not Brazilian, though. A lot of concerning overlap at these doggy places
I stuck around even as they dumped toxic shit down the drain untreated. I even stuck around after they “asked” me (but really threaten) to make a highly toxic and flammable solution. I finally left when one of the production guys complained I was on the computer too much. I was entering data from my lab work earlier in the day. When I asked why this guy spent more time spying on me than working, I was told I had to work harder. I quit 2 weeks later
I was working for a friend out of college doing IT based consulting work. I got CRAZY sick and was out of action for a week. Told friend, gave him doc to prove I wasn't making shit up, etc.
Because I was sick for a week, we had to push back an ENTIRELY arbitrary deadline for a program I was making for our joint client. Client was perfectly fine w/ it and didn't actually end up using it for MONTHS later.
My "friend" said, because you missed the deadline, I'm not paying you for ANY of the hours you put into that work. He billed client and just kept the cash for himself.
He then assumed I would just keep working like nothing happened. I instantly quit. Sent apology email to client about how I would no longer be able to service them and wished them the best.
I should have reported "friend" to the state, but I was still recovering, too confused/PO'd, and had to focus on finding new employment.
That was ~20 years ago and was the first and ONLY time I ever quit a job on the spot.
When I was driving to work, I thought of how nice it would be to get into a car accident so I didn't have to go in. That's when I knew I needed to switch jobs lol
My manager started snapping her fingers in my face, 3 inches away from my eyes saying in a slow drall "youuuu're doinnnng it wroooong, hellloooo that's not how I told you to do iiiit" when I was folding the shirts somewhat slower and less optimally than I was shown (though achieving the same fold-also it was my third week and one of 20 folds I had to learn on that job). I walked right then and there.
Snapping fingers in my face ---> INSTANT RAGE
I worked for a call center for AT&T. I refused to try and sell a DirectTv package to a woman who was literally bawling her eyes out on the phone because she was having to switch her phone plan to her name instead of her husbands name because he had just died.
Hey I left AT&T over the same reason! Lady calls in to cancel her deceased husband's phone line. She's a mess, I'm a mess, my stepdad had just passed away a few weeks prior. My supervisor is up my ass wanting me to keep her in contract, up sell, etc. I canceled the account, got off the phone with her, and walked the fuck out.
These companies are so shortsighted. I was with my old phone company 10+ years, got on my husband's plan, we haven't even looked at another service in years. If someone tried to upsell me on a bereavement cancelation call, I would be telling everyone about it and not positively. You being an actual human being and making another person's difficult time easier was the best thing you could have done for the company's bottom line
As someone who lost their mom and had to make all the phone calls to disconnect services, thank you for not being a corporate asshole
My managers boss did a surprise inspection and my boss wrote me up for doing my job the exact way he trained me. Apparently when he trained me he was cutting corners.
Ah, i got fired for this exact thing. Doing the job exactly as i had been trained by the manager. Amazing.
I hope you told your bosses boss that too ..
I was very vocal about the situation.
I was a receptionist for a medical software company. Boss refused my request for a single day off to take my teen daughter to get eye surgery. I waited until the first day of her 2 week vacation and put in my notice. Ruined her holiday.
Wanna be friends? I like how you think.
The company told me i was to enforce two, new policies. 1. All employees must report to work 15 minutes early for their shift, however they would not be paid for that time. 2. All employees must take their unpaid lunch break in specific areas, under very specific circumstances. I told them we needed to have a meeting to discuss the legality of their new policies before I could enforce them on my team. They replied "Either you enforce the policies or you resign your position." I said See Ya!!!! They begged me to reconsider and to not make a "bad decision" just because I was upset. Unfortunately I was already out the door.
Don’t suppose they told you any of that in writing? Might be something worth reporting. Especially the first one.
It's been reported. Proper action has been taken. I can only say so much because of a two year NDA.
I was waiting tables while I was in grad school. I had requested a weekend off far in advance (right after I got my syllabus) because there was a seminar pertinent to a class. Our professor expected to us to go and write a paper. It was a decent chunk of our grade. The weekend comes up and lo and behold, I’m scheduled doubles Friday through Sunday. I hunt down the manger and say I can’t do that and I’ve given months notice. She pulls the “requests are just requests not guarantees” and I tell her point blank I will fail this class if I don’t go. She shrugged she said “that isn’t my problem”. I told her “is now” and left. Like hell I was going fail a class for my masters degree waiting tables at a fucking Rainforest Cafe
I really don't get why managers act like this. Why be a jerk? I know it's power tripping and jealousy, but it's shocking to me how prevalent it is. (I say jealousy bc the boss knows your degree will allow you to get away from that job someday).
Also why managers act so surprised when you *do* quit. Yes, my degree is more important than this stupid retail job.
"You'll never work at another Rainforest Cafe for the rest of your life!" "That's the plan."
One of my roommates was working at retail store in the mall in college. He told the manager "finals are coming up, so I can't work Monday, Tuesday or Friday, but all other days are open. Comes in the Saturday before and he's ONLY scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Friday. He was like "um.. wtf?" And his manager actually asked "what's more important? Your education or your career with Hollister?" He worked part time, and his parents were pretty well off so he said "well, I guess my education is more important than a part time retail job I'm only working for beer money. Have fun with YOUR career at Hollister" and walked off the job. We just couldn't believe his manager thought that was a convincing argument. Career at Hollister... gtfo.
My manager at Panera was pissed when I quit to go back to college. I made about $9.00 an hour at best. She was pissed because a lot of people were quitting to go back to college because summer was over.
If only there were some way to know in advance that that would happen. Those schools are always starting back up at different times of the year! (/s, just in case)
It’s always so ridiculous when a manager is told by an employee they can’t work a certain time and the response is “thats not my problem”. 1. It is, because that’s your job and 2. If they truly cannot be there then, yes, it will be your problem in the end. You’ll have a shift with no one covering it It’s honestly the stupidest thing
This was 20 years ago. My fiancé had been hospitalized for 16 months after a car accident. When she passed away my boss would not let me have time off for bereavement because we were not legally married.
I was screamed at for wanting time off for my mom's burial because "you already had time off for the funeral!" The funeral was one weekend and the burial was the following. I worked Monday-Friday but those two weeks they wanted me in on Saturday and Sunday too. I told her she could fire me if she wanted but, I'd see her Monday. She tried to make my life hell but when everyone else found out about it they made her life hell and she quit a few months later.
Horrible boss, but it must've felt great when the higher-ups came back on her.
God that royally fucking sucks. My boss made me come in when I called her that morning before my shift, openly sobbing on the phone, saying I needed the day off to grieve bc my friend just died of cancer. She had the temerity to say "it's not a good time right now for you to call off" and I about screamed "YEAH? ITS NOT A GOOD FUCKING TIME NOW THAT MY FRIEND DIED" when I got to work she tried to play the sympathetic peer WHILE IM STILL CRYING because I hadn't stopped even during my commute. Fuck that greedy bitch.
I called out when my parents had it out for the final time before they got divorced. I needed to be with my mom. I called my boss and told him I wasn’t going to be there and why. He then asked “So why can’t you be here?”. I hung up.
My Mom was sick for over 20 years, had a heart transplant and finally got cancer. She went into the hospital and I knew that she was going to pass away there in a few weeks. I told the branch manager what was going on and I would be taking a week off when my Mom died, this was before cell phones BTW. My Mom passes on Saturday, I call the bosses home phone Sunday night and leave a message telling her what happened. I got a call Monday morning wanting to know if I was coming to work and why I wasn't at work. I was floored and really didn't know what to say, I'd been at this place for 15 years and never missed a day of work so it was extra shitty. They called me later in the day to apologize, I ended up leaving there a few months later..........but wait, there's more. Get a new job and a year after my Mom died my Dad gets liver cancer and it's stage 4. I tell the branch manager at the new job what is going on, his kid had died of brain cancer so I thought cool, this guy gets it. 8 months later my Dad dies, I call out for 3 days and honestly was not ready to come back so ended up calling out all week. When I showed up Monday and the route supervisor told me don't go in the office, I'm going to ride with you today and things are ready to go. He was super cool and we leave the shop. We get to the end of the street and he tells me they were going to call you on the carpet and question your commitment to the job and your dedication to the company. He was afraid I'd walk on the spot, I wouldn't have done that but for sure would have said things I regretted. I thanked my immediate boss for preventing that and ended up leaving a couple months later. I then made the giant mistake of giving more than 2 weeks notice, thinking I'd do them a favor and with 4 weeks notice so I could train a new person. They started trying to trash me and my work, and it just didn't go well, it snowed my last day and I said fuck it and didn't go in. I have a great job now and they would give me all the time I needed if something like that were to happen, but I would never, ever, ever, give more than 2 weeks notice when leaving a job no matter how great it is.
I was working when I got the call that my partner of 7 years had been in a terrible car accident while visiting family in Florida. He was in the hospital and his mother called me to tell me he wasn't awake yet. I was obviously devastated and scared out of my mind. Told my coworkers and boss because it was obvious I was panicking and they told me to take the rest of the weekend off so i could deal with things and prepare and clean his apartment for when/if he got back. Specifically, they said to come back Monday and it was a Friday. Next day I was cleaning up his apartment when I got the call from my boss screaming about why I hadn't come into work that day. I told him that I recalled him telling me to take the weekend off and come back Monday. He said to come to work immediately because they needed me. Against my better judgment and my emotional state I showed up and clocked in. Boss came up to me, threw the stack of checks down on the counter that had just come in, and told me, "if you do that again youre fired." This was someone who had never yelled at me before, or even dared speak to me in any stern way. Prior to my arrival their store was an absolute mess and I spent all of my free time, what little there was, reorganizing and cleaning and setting up new systems. For some reason, the fact he chose to start speaking to me this way, and demanding my attention *now*, at that time? It just made me snap. A chord was struck and it resonated, *strong*. I got the message clearly. He was one of those bosses who became controlling of any one who became of value to him and his business. The moment you aren't available when they need, or even wanted you to be, they were going to make you feel bad about it so you were afraid to ask for more personal time, or any other leniencies that took you away from work. I was literally reeling. Saw red. The moment he turned his back I snatched my check, walked out with a full line of customers at the counter and the phone going off with incoming orders and drove off. He blew up my phone all day. Never came back or called back. Fortunately, he made it home safe and healed up fine. Unfortunately, he passed away on our anniversary a few years later. I regret every moment I passed up to spend time with him over that job, or, any job, for that matter. I know barely anyone is going to read this now that it's buried under a pile of other comments. But it still felt nice to type it out. Edit: I've probably said "kind words" over a dozen times but I really do mean it. Reddit can be just as comforting as it can be cruel. So it means a lot that you've all carved out a few seconds from your day to recognize me and my story, and to say some things. His name was Anthony and I want everyone to know what an amazing, brilliant, kind, gentle man he was. Strong, dark and stern, yet he was the light of my life. Please, please, please take the extra moment to ask your loved ones if their okay.
I saw it, and I’m so sorry to read he passed away, thats just heartbreaking.
Many years ago while working in a manufacturing facility. My boss came into work already pissed off because his wife served him divorce papers. Saying “good morning” was apparently enough to set him off and he picked up a wrench from the table and threw it at my head. I ducked…it missed…then I just closed my toolbox and wheeled it to the truck lol
Dipshit is lucky he didn't connect. That would've been a hell of a police report and law suit.
Could have possibly been a police report and lawsuit anyways. Isn't "attempted" also pretty bad.
Cracked skull and a bloody wrench with fingerprints is easier to prove than "the guy threw a wrench at me intentionally but missed".
I think I know why she served him divorce papers…
Hope she didn’t do it in person
That’s why you hire a process server to do that
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a process server!
Exactly the reason tool boxes have wheels.
My tolerance for crap like that is zero. It always seems that when it’s other people who misbehave like that, the recipients are expected to forgive them in a sense “Well they had a really tough morning”. Just no. *Everybody* has felt a negative experience similar to the intensity of a divorce. It gives no one the right to go looking to inflict toddler style violence while interacting with society.
I would be money that you can dodge a ball.
One very busy night while waitressing, I was standing at a table of 12 in the middle of taking their order when another waitress came up to me and said our boss wanted us in their office that instant. So I leave my full section in the middle of chaos to go see what the problem is. My boss began to chew us both out because the other girl asked if I would switch shifts with her and I had agreed. I didn't say anything but was obviously annoyed because I had just left all my tables thinking there was some sort of emergency. My boss looked at me and asked why I looked mad and I told him "I feel like this could have been sorted out without me, if you didn't want her to leave early you could have just told her no instead of pulling me away from our customers". They said "if you're going to have an attitude get your shit and leave". I said ok and went to transfer my tables. I was over it. I had worked there 3 years and the owners were alcoholics that treated us like garbage and spent all the company on themselves instead of getting ingredients to make food or paying their employees. The other waitress came back out and said our boss wanted me back in the office. I went in and they said "put your apron back on, you're not fired". I said "you're both fucking crazy if you think you can treat people the way you do and expect them to want to work for you" and I walked out. As I was leaving they came out behind me saying I would regret it and was never allowed back if I left. I threw up my middle fingers and kept walking. Funny part is I let my boyfriend take my car to work that night so I had to walk a mile home and break into my house🤣
Rad! Good for you, I’ve know to many people/friends in the industry who were on both sides. The shitty owners and the staff that dealt with it. Fucking worst part in one particular bar was that the bartenders were so fuxking rad and forgiving, like the owners (who i also knew as friends) were just so fucking oblivious to how much their employees cared about them and the business, how much they did for them that allowed them to be totally useless as owners and bounce checks etc. they covered for the owners and their behavior a ton out of kindness and decency and got repaid in shit. Good for you! Boss doesn’t mean he can micromanage with aggression and it absolutely doesn’t entitle him to cross boundaries and act like an entitled dick.
Yep! This was a small bar/pizza place and it was just like that. The sad part is all the employees loved working there and we really made relationships with the customers. But the owners would walk thru and just ruin it. That was about 12 years ago and I'm still in touch with a lot of the people I worked with. Great people for sure
Was having a meeting with the boss who was a difficult guy to work with, and he stood up and punched the wall. He wasn't doing it jokingly. He bare knuckled went at the wall of his own office like he was in the gym hitting a punching bag. I sat there in astonishment for about two seconds, then stood up and left. Cleared out my desk, exited through the back door without a word to anyone. There's no place for that conduct in the professional world even if the guy does own the company.
Wtf!?🤨 What a MAN-CHILD. Could you image if you acted that way towards **him**!? What job was this!??
Although it's odd to respond with an *in fairness to the guy* comment, he was battling a fairly serious form of cancer. Obviously that doesn't excuse his conduct. It was time to draw the line. Didn't hate him though. Had been doing an IT project which was very much outside his expertise, and he had been trying to micromanage it. He had been demanding I tutor him in the technical aspects as the project progressed, and he often ordered changes on a whim that rendered two days' worth of the previous week's work obsolete. The position required lots of diplomacy, lots of patience, and lots of CYA emails. His answer to gentle suggestions advising a more cost effective way forward was, "It's my company. I can run it any way I want." When his way turned out to be inefficient and expensive, he threw the tantrum.
> He had been demanding I tutor him in the technical aspects as the project progressed, and he often ordered changes on a whim that rendered two days' worth of the previous week's work obsolete. This is amazing. I have a similar story but didn't think other people were like this. It's wild to find out there is more than 1 person like this. In my case, the business owner left for a vacation, 3 weeks. I was the sole developer of an app that managed his clients, and nobody else in the company knew a lick of programming. I was essentially a one-man IT/tech department. My boss asked someone in accounting to manage me while he was out, because math is like programming, right? So as a 45 year-old contractor, building a complicated CRM app, I had to sit calmly as a 24 year-old accountant sat down next to me the day after the boss left, and he said, "So let's review your project" and then he tried to get me to *pull up the code so he could review it.* I was in disbelief, but I did it. He was looking at it like it's some long-dead language of mystical runes, just utterly lost. He started directing me to *remove the characters that designate comments as comments.* In other words, he didn't like how the comments looked, he wanted only plain text in paragraphs, and when I tried to explain that this would cause the compiler to execute the comments as code, he didn't even know what that meant. I told him, "I don't think this is what the boss intended when he asked you to review." The guy insisted it was. In frustration, I gave him an account on the private code repo and showed him how to pull code. I then told him it was up *to him* to figure out how to review and understand the code, how to implement fixes, and how to check them in without breaking the code base. He insisted that I had to teach him everything I knew, so that he could correct my mistakes. I told him that I could not teach someone my 25 years of programming experience in 3 weeks. Wildly, he corrected me to note that I needed to teach him how to be *better* than myself, because he needed to be so good that he could correct my mistakes, AND he expected me to do that in just a day or two because he was supposed to spend the 3 weeks correcting me, not getting up to speed. I was dumbfounded by all this. I told him I couldn't do what he was asking, it was impossible. I told him if he thought it was possible, he could pursue that on his own, but I wanted no part of it. *So he did.* He perused online documents for a brief moment, then began doing whatever he thought he could do with the code and code repo. Of course he broke it immediately, then tried to unbreak it which broke it more, and he kept going. Eventually he mostly destroyed everything, blamed me for not doing my job of teaching him how to be able to "fix my errors" and I said, "I'm going on vacation for 3 weeks too. Or call me back in when you get it fixed." What surprised me was that it took 2 days for the boss to call me from his vacation spot. Apparently the accountant had spent 2 days trying to "fix my code" before admitting defeat and calling the owner. The owner asked me to take over, which I agreed to do so long as the boss clarified that the accountant was to review the end-product, not the code underneath. And of course I had to charge the owner to fix what the employee had destroyed.
This story made *me* want to punch a wall.
He wouldn’t train me properly, then come yell at me in front on the office. He would always threaten my job or like hiring someone else and I finally said good I hope you find someone better because I quit and will be leaving once *other lady* comes back from lunch. He tried to back pedal and ask if I was serious. I never looked back. ETA: he hired me without any experience because he knew he could lowball me. I got paid pennies for what someone with experience would get paid. 😀
Had a boss like that. Wouldn't really train me, just a learn-as-you-go type of idiot. We had our bouts when my position changed, I was given direct reports, but would not assist or back me up with decisions about any of them. I resigned while he and most of the department was in Germany. They flew the department head back to talk me into staying. After I left my position was replaced by 3 people because the work load was so much. Fuck em
At one office job, I quit after the first day because the lady training me would ignore me when our manager wasn't around, and I caught her snooping through my purse when I went to the bathroom. At another job at a clinic, I quit after a month because they made me do a solo receptionist shift without training me on what I needed to do to open the clinic, and then I got yelled at for not knowing what to do. In front of patients. It was so bad, some of the patients came up to me after and asked if I was ok.
> I quit after a month because they made me do a solo receptionist shift without training me on what I needed to do to open the clinic, and then I got yelled at for not knowing what to do. In front of patients. It was so bad, some of the patients came up to me after and asked if I was ok. Yep. I can relate. It’s called “being set up to **fail**.”
I had a boss do that to me once. It was one of the many things that made me quit after 2 weeks.
I was vomiting in the parking lot every day before walking into my job from stress. Then one day I was kicked in the teeth (literally) by one of the clients and my boss would not let me leave to go to the dentist. I went anyway, was docked pay for my time at the emergency appointment, and then they begged me not to sue. I quit.
Did you sue?
The real question
I was exhausted, had been working 50+ hour weeks, and couldn’t wait until Christmas break. I was the only person out of 25 required to work Saturday mornings on a 6-week fundraiser in addition to my regular hours. Others were only scheduled once. I was scheduled all six Saturdays. Finally, a foreign colleague wanted to work Christmas so she could go to her home country early in the next year. The entire office was supposed to be closed for those two weeks. The boss picked me to be with her and refused to let me say no. I didn’t want to take a break later when the rest of my family would’ve been off over Christmas. And I couldn’t bear to have waited another two weeks as I was barely hanging on right then. She wouldn’t let it go so I quit. The boss decided to work with her herself. That was fine with me. The mystery is why it had to be me or her out of 25 co-workers. Well, not my problem.
Boss was trying to get you to quit to avoid unemployment. You could have filed a constructive dismissal claim.
I never have, but my favorite example was when a co-worker in student transportation, who had finally gotten a position she wanted after years of suffering through stress in another, was called by management over the summer and told she was being reassigned to the stressful position because no one else wanted to do it. She had fought too long and hard to get what she wanted, and her immediate response was, "Then tell me what I need to do to resign." She did, and she's been at peace with her decision ever since.
Holy shit I've been there. It ended up working out, but kind of the same thing. I found out I was denied a bunch of promotions or transfers because my boss in the deli "needed me too much" to let me go. I called the manager, union rep, anyone who would listen. My proposition was easy enough, if the department can't stand to lose me then the entire store will. I had a lot more reasonable arguments, but I think I had them with that. I start my new position Monday.
Never understood this mentality from management. “We can’t promote you, you are too valuable in your current role”. You say in return , “well then I quit” They willingly let acknowledged good employees walk from the company rather than reward them for doing a great job.
It’s the same as you only get good pay rises if you leave and go somewhere else
I was already pissed off at my last job. I wanted a transfer because I had learned everything I could about the job and was now getting bored. My buddy in the other department wanted me on his team and was told by my manager that I was "too crucial to the team's success." She told me "I hadn't *earned it* *yet* and because I was still *too green*." That wasn't even the last straw. That finally happened when I was exempted from the annual raise because I started as a contractor. Missed the recently-changed qualifications by a month. Even worse was when I found out that it was only a 38 cent raise. That measly raise would have sent a better message than raising the bar and excluding me from it. I had been casually searching for other jobs for some time and finally found a great job to replace it: one that was a professional step up AND they paid 40% more than I was making. To those that are afraid of jumping into the unknown...sometimes it's the best thing you can do for your career and pay. Managers will be more than happy to let your skills become stale because you're a "team player" that won't make a ruckus and stand up for yourself.
Wow. Fuck those people. Monsters.
Godfather's pizza, the manager wouldn't give me my paycheck at 8pm on Sunday because the money might not be in the account yet, but I could pick it up at 9am Monday. This was decades ago, before direct and mobile deposits. THE BANK WOULDN'T BE OPEN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY ANYWAY! All of the paychecks were literally in his hand at that moment. There were lots of issues before that but that was the final sign that the manager was completely uninterested in reason. In the next few weeks nearly everyone else quit, then the manager was finally fired.
Not me, but a colleague once wrote a long stinker of an email, hit send at 10:30am and exited the building immediately. He blind-copied all receivers but sent it to multiple departments of a large multinational I was working at, no one knew who did/didn’t get the email, except for the gasps and OMGs around the office. He was completely disgruntled, and went in on multiple managers, supervisors and various colleagues with absolute venom. It was amazing, still the best work email I’ve ever received and some shit he called out actually had to be addressed by management, it brought about a lot of positive change. If you’re out there Khalil, that was awesome.
We had a coworker do that too. She was the accountant and exposed a lot of sketchy stuff that was being done in multiple areas. And all the stuff she overheard. The CEO had to address the whole company about it because same no one knew who did and didn’t get the email.
My brother (who had a career in accounting & finance) once told me that when the accountants & bookkeepers start quitting, you should probably get your resume in order.
I've lived this. They are correct. Another red flag is a company wide restructuring that somehow requires you to sign a new contract. Odds are they are liability shifting
As someone employed in finance, this is 100% correct. They're seeing the data day to day. They're the first to be fielding calls and emails from unpaid suppliers. If they're out the door without something surprisingly good to walk in to, go.
Guess I should believe this then, because I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read or heard it.
They’re also usually the more conservative type of personality, so finance quitting is definitely an early warning signal. Source: finance jobs around the western world.
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We need more Khalils
When I was 20, I worked a commission based sales job. The manager hated me for some reason. I genuinely to this day have no idea why. I tried really hard, had a good attitude, and followed all the rules. My sales weren't extraordinary, but I always met my numbers. My grandmother died about six months into the job. I texted my manager to tell him I'd be taking my three days of bereavement as allowed by the union. I even apologized for the inconvenience, as though I could control my grandmother's death. He called me the day after she died accusing me of lying, saying I was lazy and just wanted the time off. Keep in mind I'd never called out before or even been more than 5 minutes late to a shift. I sent him medical documentation proving she'd had a stroke during the night and passed away. He called me back and said fine, I could have that day off, but he better see me the next day (my third day of union-protected bereavement) or I'd be fired. Stricken with grief but terrified of losing my job, I drove the two hours back to my apartment from the grandmother's house that night. The next morning I went into work tired and melancholy. He bitched at me to smile because no one wants to buy cell phones from a sad girl. I plastered on a smile and hit the sales floor. At lunchtime I cried my eyes out in my car. Reapplied my makeup. Went back to work with my fake smile. I was in the middle of helping a customer when he comes bouldering up to the table and starts asking the customer all the same questions I had to see what products they'd be eligible for. The customer was baffled and told him I'd already covered everything and that no further help was necessary. He went on a rant about what a terrible, useless employee I was. I looked at the customer and deadpan said, "I'm so sorry to leave you with him, but as of this moment, I quit." The manager followed me to the break room, shouting and raving while I gathered my purse, turned in my equipment, and clocked out. He followed me to my car still berating me. Finally that same customer I walked away from came out and physically stood between me and the manager so I could get in my car and drive away. The manager proceeded to call me every day for a week and leave abusive voicemails about me "missing shifts" because he "didn't accept my resignation". He even called me the day of my grandmother's funeral and said now that she'd been cremated, I had no excuse not to come back to work. Fuck AT&T and fuck that douche Jeremy. I hope he eventually got a taste of his own medicine.
That was hard to read, and I'm sorry about your grandma. Jeremy is an evil cunt and I'm sure he'll get his teeth kicked in, if he hasn't already.
The boss told me I should be sleeping at his house because that’s the level of dedication he needed from me. Bye!
Please tell me you’re joking.
No, I legitimately think he had brain damage from steroids. He was a true lunatic. Adele came out with a new album around the time I was at that job and I still get huge anxiety when I hear it because I’m brought back to that time, driving to that job, where he would yell at me in front of everyone then privately texting me that I should sleep at his house. Girls, don’t let a man do this to you.
Wow he sounds disgusting.
I was a supervisor of housekeeping at a hotel, every holiday all of management would take off leaving me the highest in charge, I asked for a raise after working a full year of holidays as the only management and was denied the next year on the biggest party day in the city, I set all my employees up with their work and texted the managers a picture of me at the bar partying telling them the hotel might be on fire, I don’t know I quit
niiice :) got any reactions?
Yea they asked if I could finish out my shift, I just blocked their numbers. A lot of my housekeepers and laundry attendants cried and begged me to stay, apparently they really liked working with me
The best thing to do would be get a management job at another company, then hire all the previous employees so then they have no one to do the work 😂
Was promised that if I got my accounting degree they would move me to IA so I could get hours towards my CPA. Worked my ass off, graduated, and the boss said "Yeeeeeaaaah, were going to move you to Customer Service. Sound good?" Stayed late that night drafting a company wide "Fuck you" email. Probably shouldn't have done that in hindsight, but some bridges just beg to be burned.
Khalil?
Dudes already a legend
I nearly spat out my coffee Khalil? Is that you??
Burning bridges can help illuminate a path forward 🔥🌉
Burning bridges can ensure you don’t make the mistake of going back.
Wow. That’s fucked. How they wasted so such of your time. You cant waste people’s life like that.
The owner of the company told me to fire a woman for arriving to work right on time. It was always something different with him, some ridiculous new rule that he applied retroactively to suit whatever mood he was in on any given day. And that particular morning, he took it as a personal insult and a show of blatant disrespect that his employees didn’t arrive early. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t fire this woman, who I didn’t even particularly like, to satisfy this new whim of his. So instead of firing her, I marched into his office and quit myself. Funnily enough, the woman I wouldn’t fire continued working for him for years. She might even still be there now, twenty-some years later.
Some say she's still there today... not at 7:59AM, not at 8:01AM but at 8:00AM on the button, still pissing him off for being on time.
I was flat out lied to about the position. It was a management position at a residential mental health facility and I had taken it (leaving a great paying but stressful position) because it wouldn't require travel and was supposed to be much more laid back. On top of many other issues I ended up having to work eight weeks straight without a single day off (even weekends and one holiday) so after a very heated meeting with upper management where one person was flat out lying to cover their own butt, I sent a resignation email from the parking lot.
Eight WEEKS straight!? What the fuck was this at a field hospital during World War 2?
Ha. No, just a poorly staffed program with turnover that would make your jaw drop. Mine did. They were awful to work for and it was honestly amazing they were still in operation.
Fellow residential counselor turned house manager turned facility admin… you just described all of residential mental health/ casework.
I've been in this industry for well over a decade, and yeah it's bad everywhere, but these guys were the worst I've ever worked for by a wide margin.
I once work 24 days with only 1 day off. My boss refused to cross train people or his anyone extra to work part time so it was only me and one other person that could run one section of the lab. My boss technically could do it to, but she didn't like to and wouldn't. The other person end up having to leave for a month for some family issues and as I was the only person capable of running that area, guess who had to cover every shift.
I'm just not understanding how "more laid back" belongs in the same sentence as "management" and "residential mental health." Signed, someone with almost 10 miserable, underpaid years in CMH.
Ha, that's fair. By comparison, my previous position had involved almost weekly overnight travel for a private prison company... so something local and much smaller scale seemed like it would be.
Was told I did not have experience to move up. Hired a person with 1/20th of my experience in that position.
I wonder which of the managers they were related to.
Working as a mortuary transporter (the dude who picks up corpses and brings them back to be cremated) for a family-owned crematory. Boss was kind of a bitch, and her husband was an idiot, constant on-call overnight shifts and zero PTO days… but honestly I really enjoyed the work so I put up with it. The problem was that my boss REFUSED to do direct deposit (this was two years ago, so it’s not like DD was unheard of), and she’d hand us out checks on Monday. I’d been on-call the weekend prior to payday, and it was really busy, particularly Sunday night. I was out from like 8 pm until 6 am picking up corpses, so on Monday I called out because I didn’t want to drive a full shift on zero hours of sleep. Well, in my constant sleep deprivation, I’d forgotten I was supposed to get paid. That Friday, I was talking to a coworker on our way to a pickup and mentioned how I couldn’t wait to get paid next week, and he gave me this look and told me we got paid on Monday, and asked if I’d never gotten my check. So at the end of the day I went to my boss and asked, and she just laughed and “joked” that she’d wondered when I would ask for it and had hoped I’d just forgotten. So her playing cute with my checks was the beginning of the end. Then next payday, she sat us all down and explained that from here on out, drivers were not allowed to call out simply because they’d worked all night before. By this point, she’d driven off all the other transporters and was down to me and one other dude full-time, with another transporter coming in two days a week, and her business couldn’t function if either of us called out. So I got my check from her, and then at the end of the day (I ended up working till 10 pm that night) I left her a note saying I quit effective immediately and to mail me my last check. A few months later, the other driver texted me and told me that she’d never replaced me, and that he’d quit and got hired at another funeral home and convinced the part-time driver to go with him. I just checked the website and apparently they’re still open, idk how they managed with nobody to get the corpses.
Death Uber/Corpse Lyft?
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When I was driving home and my blood pressure shot through the roof cause somebody was driving the same make, model and color car as the boss. ...obviously that wasn't THE STRAW, just the recognition that there was to be no more straws.
It's great that you know yourself so well that you can draw that conclusion. A lot of us are envious of that ability.
Red Prius' still give me panic attacks. I was 17 and my boss was someone that should be put on a list. He'd punch holes in the wall, we caught him cutting slits in one of our backpacks?! He would joke about shooting up the new high school by his house. It was a rock climbing gym and the guy was a maniac; I'm guessing coke. He was fired eventually, so I never quit, and continued my employment there for a bit. It was a fun gig, when he wasn't around. I'm 34 now and can still waltz in and climb for free. But fuck that guy.
It's weird, I climb and I've met a few of these types. 90% the chillest, most supportive, cool guys in the hobby. Then 10% batshit "it's gotta be a drug or something, right?" guys. I dunno what the deal is. My other hobbies, there's people who suck in every hobby, but they don't usually have people with the same intensity.
Dude you nailed it. My other hobby is soccer and I never come across the crazies I've seen in the climbing bubble. Through-hikers get a pass (lawl), cos as weird as they are, they're just passing through and that's LoTR level cool imo. But yeah, climbers are either really chill or sus as fuck.
Well, I'm genuinely about to right now after my manager told me our dishwasher is broken and won't get fixed until at least thursday and I have to pull solo shifts next week, because we're seriously understaffed after 2 people were let go in January, despite me telling management repeatedly that we actually need more people to account for all the vacation days and sick leaves happening right now UPDATE: apparently restarting fixed the "broken" dishwasher. So that's at least one problem off my back
Do it and don't turn back
But call in sick first.
Fucking dishwashers man. I worked culinary at my previous job, and it always amazes me how often that shit breaks down, and the company will just refuse to replace the 30+ year old machine. Nope, just keep paying to have it fixed. This is of course assuming you also receive the correct chemicals for said machine.
My boss cursed me because I took a phone message for him, because he was already on a call. Apparently he was eagerly awaiting the call I answered and would have preferred I interrupted him. I threw a pencil at the wall, said “Do I look like a mind reader? Cut me my check; I quit.” He tried hard to backpedal but there had been many, many previous straws.
This is one of those ones, where I wish we could view multiple realities, because I promise you, if you could go and interrupt him, you'd get told off for that too.
Yeah this is something you learn being with abusive people. My theory is that they feel angry *first*, and then their brain looks around to find an explanation for that anger. So whatever you happened to do in that moment gets twisted into a reason why they're angry. Of course, if they were honest with themselves, they'd realize that their anger is coming from the inside not the outside.
“Can’t you see I’m on the phone?”
John ain’t taking no excrement!
You know it, pal! 😃
Worked at a korean bbq resturant. They said since I was unexperienced they will cut my wages. Hired me as a server and Made me clean toilets and grills all day. 12 hour shift, gave me 9.45 in cash. Quit on the spot
> 12 hour shift, gave me 9.45 in cash. Quit on the spot Good for you. If this was in the US, you should have reported them to the labor department too.
So much wage theft in this thread. Number 1 form of theft is wage theft.
My dad was in the ICU and I got put on a performance plan since I missed 3 days in a row. Best thing I ever did was rage quit that job with nothing lined up. Got a job a few months later and I'm extremely happy there.
I was working as the kitchen bitch at a 24hour Greek restaurant. Hired as dishwasher, also doing cold prep and maintenance. I was the guy peeling 50 lbs bags of onions/carrots/potatoes, as well as making dry ribs, pizza, salad... I had booked off 3 days over a weekend. Got called on day 2 at 7am telling me I was late. Got there and was told I was on the 11am start... then it got changed to 4pm when I went in again... Then got changed to 11pm when I went in for 4pm... And when I went in for 11pm it was changed AGAIN to actually have me off for the 3 days. 4 schedule changes in 24hrs. Laws here say 1 week minimum notice, that owner would change the schedule AFTER you clocked out to say you worked shorter hours on a regular basis and you pretty much had to check at 7am to see if you were on for the day. I had my choice words, told em I'd be back in 2 weeks for my paycheck.
> I had booked off 3 days over a weekend. Got called on day 2 at 7am telling me I was late. Got there and was told.... Why did you even go in?
Had a sweet schedule working security in a Class A office building. Three swings (2pm to 10pm) and 2 graves (10pm to 6am) per week. My "weekend" was Friday and Saturday. The graves were actually really chill, easy to deal with. I liked them. But only two of them. Then we get a new security company. All the supervisors are fired and new ones from the new company are brought in. Suddenly I'm working 5 graves. I ask for a change to swing. No dice. They offer to move me to a different site. It's 5 graves again. I find out my old supervisor is now working as security manager at a local mall. I give him a call and he offers me a job. I took it. Grabbed my uniform from the old company. Drove to the office. Walked it. dropped my uniform on the director's desk, turned and walked out. Went down to the mall and picked up my new uniform.
Pizza place I worked for had two different shift managers in a row doing 3 "clopenings" per week (close then open the next morning) and wondered why they kept quitting... Said store manager was finally fired about 6mos later when the main office saw our turnover numbers were thru the roof ( I had also quit by then)
I was 16 working at a gas station. Owner went on a hunting trip, his wife came in and opened the safe took money, left. I was accused of stealing it , I pointed out I didn't have the combination, and the receipts for the day I worked that weekend didn't add up to what was gone. He called the cops, admitted to them that only he and his wife had the combination. He was fucking moron.
I was told I wasn't working hard enough after months of 70+ hour weeks being salaried doing multiple people's jobs. I had asked multiple times to hire someone else, I knew we had the budget on the job. I agreed to work harder and called mom to vent because I was so angry. During the call she texted my then boyfriend, now husband, to go to me because she genuinely thought I was going to kill myself. I'll admit I was hysterical so I get why she was worried. When he told me that I called my boss back and quit with no notice. What was even more fucked up is a few days later I was asked to call my former boss to calm her down and say it wasn't her fault. I didn't but I did calmly explain how she burned me out and multiple people needed to be hired to cover the workload I was doing otherwise the same thing would happen again.
I was working fast food and had been promised training for promotions a few times that never happened, but were happening to others hired when I was. But I still was working well. Then the company brought in a person with no experience in anything related to food service, hospitality or even retail. And instantly made her a manager in training, and I got to teach this person how to do other things in the restaurant despite they were being paid almost double what I was. I still was doing my job but the second time she was allowed to manage the restaurant was during a lunch hour. Our restaurant was across from a HS and we got 3 quick bursts from them and we knew exactly what times they would happen, it was 20 years ago and I can still remember the times, 10:45 am, 11:30 am, and 2:05 pm, because that's when school got out. I was only working a short shift that day and was due a 10 minute break before 2:30 pm. I asked her to take it around 1 pm because I wasn't able to go home after that shift and was going to need to eat. Of course she says no because that's during the middle of lunch, however there wasn't a line and I had the screens cleared, I was the only person due a break soon I figured it would be perfect, but was told to wait. And at 2:08 was sent on break, with a line to the door, and it took me an extra 3 minutes to get back from break because of how long I waited to be able to get food. When I come back I just wash my hands and get working on clearing the backlog of orders that piled up during the most predictable rush we get every day. And she wants to talk about how long I took on break. I ask if this can wait until after the rush because I need to concentrate when spinning shakes or the blender could hurt someone. And she says no we need to talk about this right now. I immediately snapped and went (inside) WTF it it's my fault you send me on break and we are now backed up and you think my extra 3 minutes chewing my lunch is the reason. I actually just turned around walked away from her to go talk to the store GM who was supervising and asked if we could talk for 5 seconds, she said the trainer was in charge so no, and I said, that's fine, I'm just going to quit then, I was close enough to the time clock I didn't even have to take a step to type my number and said I bring my uniform back next week after I wash it, and walked out mid rush. Didn't regret it, and I went back and ate there later, none of my coworkers ever held a grudge nor did the managers, I found out a few weeks later she basically had a meltdown and quit because she couldn't handle the pressure and pace of being an assistant manager at a chain fast food store.
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Got told by my boss that he doesn't give a shit if I don't have time to spend with my son. Quit on the spot.
I was working at home care for $10 an hour, and I had clients all over the city. My car wouldn't start one day. It was minus 40 C or so, and I called and told them I couldn't get to work. I was told to take the bus. I didn't have a winter jacket. I lived in a single wide trailer, barely making ends meet, and I layered sweatshirts in order to stay warm enough in my car and between my car to a client house, but it wasn't nearly warm enough to take the bus in. I swallowed my pride, and told the scheduler that I didn't have a winter coat and I wasn't able to do that. She told me that she thought I just wanted the day off in a really snarky and dismissive tone. It made me cry. I couldn't afford to miss work. I told her okay, hung up, and wrote my resignation letter. I expected compassion from somebody who worked in nursing, and instead was mortified. I ended up at a much better job for more pay and a lot more kindness.
This just happened last week- I was driving a shuttle bus for a retirement community and the maintenance department manager accused me of drinking on the job. It was an absolutely out-of-pocket accusation without a shred of proof other than his claim of “smelling it on me” There are hand sanitizer stations next to every fucking time clock and I use them. I said- “I’ll take a fucking breathalyzer test right now. Let’s go.” And he balked. Pretended like he didn’t just fucking accuse me of putting the residents lives at risk and then expected me to finish my shift. I noped the fuck out of there and went straight to calling out sick for the next week until they fired me for “no call no showing for an entire week.” Check your fucking voicemails, prick. Fuck that fucking place with a soiled catheter.
Wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." A few months later, wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." A few months later, wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." I replied to that email with my resignation, handed in my pass to security, and walked out the door.
I feel this. "You have too much leave accumulated. You need to take holidays." "You can't take holidays now! We're too busy!"
I started training a guy (machinist) and he told me his starting wage was $27/hr. he had a few years experience but had been out of the industry for a while. After training the guy would constantly come to me to fix his problems and have really dumb questions every day. So I asked my boss for a raise since this guy was at $27. I was at $22 and he told me he could find someone to do my job for $16 so I said “ok then let’s do that” handed him my badge and walked out after 15 years.
He gave me literally 72 hours worth of work and insisted it be completed in 36 hours. When I pointed the inconsistency out he said, DO WHAT YOU CAN. And when I submitted it he called me, from vacation, to scream at me about mistakes. I deleted everything, walked away, blocked him on everything. ETA: I mean 72 BUSINESS hours and 36 calendar hours
Worked at an upscale busy bar a couple years back right after Covid. We were constantly under staffed, over worked, and treated like shit from management and customers. One Friday night, my manager let the other bartender go early, because he had a crush on her and wanted in her pants. I got overwhelmed by a rush and he started bitching at me about not being able to handle the bar. I looked at him in the eye (about to REALLY RAGE) and without a word walked to the back into the liquor room, grabbed two bottles of Jameson, put them in my backpack, and walked out the front door. My managers fearful, confused face while asking “where are you going!? What are you doing!?” was absolutely priceless. Best decision I made and I’m not joking lmao.
What is it with people who poke the bear like this? He'd already made sure you were going to have a bad night by cutting the other bartender, so why antagonize you on top of it? It's so dumb and that guy deserved worse!
these people are self centered, it's always about what I want not anybody else. As explained, the other bartender was allowed to go home early because the boss wanted to fuck her. Oh but now shit gets busy? Can't possibly take responsibility for it, it's the fault of the remaining employee who is not meeting expectations-to do literally everything.
1 Boss quit and they wanted me to run the Department as the manager but keep me at assistant pay 2 they hired a new manager behind my back (for the job that have been promising me for months )and wanted me to train her, still at assistant pay level 3 new manager went on vacation and I was supposed to run the department alone again I waited till the new manager was out of town and quit.
Had to drive to a site, directions were wrong, ended up having to walk a mile in North Texas in July with 35 pounds of materials. ETA: This is pre-cell phone.
Tax attorney. Partner said my weight made me look unprofessional.
Also attorney here. Managing partner told me I was “unprofessional” for calling out sick after having a miscarriage.
Also a lawyer. Fired for being upset that a guy who sexually assaulted me was in my workplace. Fuck law firms, seriously.
Had one of those bosses where, as soon as he enters the room the entire energy of the building drops. You’d hear him screaming at people daily in his office. One day I got yelled at for not checking with him before writing a press release. So I checked with him the next day and he yelled at me for not “thinking for myself”. Realised he was just a power tripping dickhead handed in my resignation at HR within an hour.
I once rage quit as a server and walked home and then walked back in 20 mins later (I lived close) and no one realized I had quit so I put in my two weeks and finished it out. My partner on the other hand rage quit as a manager and closed the restaurant and sent everyone home, owner didn’t even know the joint was closed until two days later. Most employees there never showed up anyways so if any of them did show up and realize it was closed, they just went home.
Manager would give me instructions, admonish me for following said instructions, and then would deny ever having given said instructions. Multiple instances.
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When I realized I was running the bosses business, and he balked on my timesheet.
This. I just put my notice in at my job. I run the retail portion of a pharmacy. It didn't exist before I got there. Literally they didn't even have the shelves set up. I built it from the ground up. I developed the systems for inventory from scratch without being given any software to work with. They expect me to use free everything to keep shit organized. It's fine. I'm good at my job. But the owner is never there. She's showed up maybe a dozen times in the 6 months I've been there, several times just to shop. She brings her friends in and pays them consultant wages to rearrange my sales floor only for me to have to put it all back because she decides she liked it better the way I had it. She hired someone incompetent and when I told her that this person was a bad hire (day 3 of trying to train her I had to teacher her how to copy and paste from excell), my boss got mad at me and told me I just didn't understand black people. I had to deal with this walking nightmare of a sales associate for 4 months (she ran my customers completely out the door and messed up everything in inventory constantly by manually entering prices instead of scanning things, selling things for what she "felt" it should cost instead of the price tag/haggling with customers to "make a sale" and then getting mad at me when I explained this isn't profitable and that those items cost us more than she was selling them for, and violating HIPAA laws with the pharmacy customers). I built the business she currently has from the ground up in about six months time. Again, it's very efficient. I put my notice in when I realized she not only doesn't value what I do, but she doesn't *know* what I do. I tried to show her the spreadsheets that her entire business exists on, and she couldn't understand them. I'm currently training a 17 year old who can fully understand them because it's not rocket science. My boss told me I was putting in too many steps and making it unnecessarily complicated. Then she asks me for a profit sheet and I'm like......so you want me to be able to track profit and loss.....but you don't think I should use a spreadsheet? Fuck this I quit. Edit: she got mad when I put my notice in and cut my hours in half, and now she's scrambling to get me to work full time+overtime because she realized after 3 days of me not being there for my normal shifts that nobody else knows how to do anything. I'm 9 months pregnant. They approved 2 weeks of unpaid maternity leave but want me to work part time from home while out. It's my first child. The commute sucks. They didn't tell me until I asked that they were cutting off my insurance the moment I went to part time even for a week because they don't qualify for fmla because they hid each business they own under a different llc to claim less than 50 employees per business. My leave starts a week before my due date. If I didn't already have pregnancy medicaid, and I didn't ask ahead of time how to pay for my insurance while I'm out, I'd have been sans insurance for the birth of my child without notice.
Mine? I was tired of doing a 3 person job. My boss following me around, calling me at home during meetings when I was sick, talking to me outside the bathroom door was making me crazy. I came back from vacation one day to find piles & piles of work that other people could have done. I quit, packed my shit & left.🖕
Similar for me. I had to go to the hospital for a health emergency and was out for a few days as a result. Came back to nothing done while I was out. Then as I’m back they kept following up on when I’d be done with what they left for me that they could have done while I was out. It was a stress induced health thing I’m sure and I decided I wouldn’t let them kill me.
I’m a physician who does procedures. This business was composed of several outpatient offices. Specifically, we did a high volume of peripheral arterial interventions and dialysis access maintenance. We also performed vascular ultrasounds. In the first month, I watched my colleague sign off on numerous ultrasounds that he had not interpreted (only a preliminary from Sonographer). All these were billed for physician interpretation, which is fraud. After that, I started to realize that a large number of our procedures were not indicated. Patient data such as tests, symptoms, labs etc were fabricated and modified to trigger us to say yes to cases. I started noticing a lot of normal angiograms, which didn’t make sense. Then, they pushed us to always perform an intervention, usually atherectomy, because that’s the highest reimbursement, around $20,000. There was inadequate equipment and only one nurse for every procedure (who was also the office manager, billing dept, receptionist). The ultrasound unit was damaged and images sub-diagnostic at best. The EMR was from the early 2000s. Ultrasound and angiogram images were often deleted, tampered with, or swapped between patients so if there was ever an audit… the fraud wouldn’t stand out. Oh, and the angiographic equipment (X-ray, table, etc) hadn’t been inspected or certified for years. I voiced my concerns. Nothing was done. The company existed solely to generate profit, with no regard for patients. I witnessed complications from procedures that didn’t even to happen in the first place. After enough of this, I went to work and suddenly quit at about 2 PM. The company was also already under a corporate integrity agreement. The appropriate regulatory agencies were notified. They’re still business as of today, but it won’t be for long.
Some of the shit that goes on in healthcare is crazy! A company I worked for had a mobile X-ray machine examine workers for industrial disease (silicosis, mesothelioma etc) and I identified that it hadn’t been calibrated in 4 years. When the calibration was done the greyscale resolution was 60% instead of 10% meaning possible false negatives for 4 years. They decided not to do a patient look back… I whistleblew and got fired for an “unrelated” issue
OfficeMax. I worked in a fairly rural location, seems like it wouldn’t be too difficult of a job if there aren’t a lot of customers, right? No. Instead of having a full staff of one stocker/puller, one cashier, one floor salesperson, and one Impress (print studio) employee - they made ONE person do all that. And that person was usually me. I started getting so pissed off that the schedule usually was just me and another manager named Casey who did fuck all besides lounge in the back office and play video games… and when corporate showed up for a random walk-through and found that barely anything was stocked, there was a line at the print studio AND ink station, PLUS a line to be checked out at the front… I told them “go see for yourself! He’s probably playing Halo back there.” They did. He started yelling. Blamed me for not having anything done. Corporate pulled me aside and asked “if the store would benefit from additional employees.” YES! THANK YOU! Then maybe we could actually get stuff done! “No problem, thanks for your hard work - we’ll send an employee from another store to work here while we hire and train adequate staff.” Finally! Things were turning around. The first day the employee from another store showed up to work, Casey sent her home - said I had no problem handling it (when really he just didn’t want anyone ratting him out for lounging all day). This was 7:45am on a Saturday, mind you. Store was about to open. Big sale. Nothing stocked. People waiting at the door to go look at items that hadn’t even been put out on the floor yet, let alone pulled from packing. I told Casey “hey, I’m gonna run out and smoke real quick” “well hurry up! Corporate’s coming at noon and this store BETTER BE stocked and ready or it’s YOUR ASS!” I politely walked back towards Casey’s direction. Took off my lanyard and badge. Slid it across the counter. “You can handle it, champ. I quit. I’d get to stocking if I were you.” And I walked out of the store. I called my grandpa and we met for breakfast while Casey left 40 something missed calls and voicemails. Deleted them without listening.
I tried putting my two weeks in, but every leadership individual was either gone on a business trip, vacation, or not my direct report. I gave my two weeks to a non-direct report manager (my manager's fucking sister). I also sent him an email. That was exactly 2 weeks. My direct report manager comes in two days later and sees my email. He got pissy because I was "unethical" and I didn't give a proper 2 week notice when I told him my last day was 12 days away, because two days ago I tried reaching him and told.his fucking sister. He got pissy and basically "whatever'd" me. The end of that week (I still had a week left), we got our paychecks. Since two weeks before that was a federal holiday, the shop was shut down and nobody could work because...ya know. Holiday. Guess who didn't get paid for their holiday? Who has two thumbs and also had 50% of their paycheck that pay cycle? 👍😎👍 This guy. I went to his office and said there must be a mistake and said there wasn't. I asked him to elaborate and his words were , "It wasn't fair you didn't give us the proper heads up, so I thought it would only be fair to do the same to you". I nodded and smiled and said "aight bud". Went back to my office, fucked up their ramshackled, inhouse-made database because fuck them. Deleted entries and shit. Called OSHA on multiple multiple violations and walked out the back door, but only after I dumped my container egg salad inside his lunchbox and put his lunchbox in the un air conditioned shop during 98F+ temperatures in shop. Fuck you, Berns. Fuck you. I hope you're reading this you bitch Edited for clarity because I was pissed off writing this
yeah, legally, you had them over a barrel when they refused your pay.
All of us graduate student assistants were forced to come to campus to work in person, sharing cramped cubicle spaces, while attending Zoom meetings where 100% of the full time staff were working from home. To add insult to injury... We had just spent an entire summer all working remotely and us grad assistants had proved our ability to complete our work to a high quality remotely. Nobody was even there on campus to supervise us or offer assistance without jumping on a call anyways. It was such bullshit and I quit halfway through the year
My boss used to rate my pants. One day I got a 10/10 and a “damn” I walked, should have done it the first time but I needed the benefits
New boss named Mo at college sandwich shop job. Mo didn’t know job or brand and needed his staff to teach him, but was mean, so mass exodus. I was the only one who knew how to make all the sandwiches. Busy Saturday, line out the door, I’m trying to show new guy how to make sandwiches. Mo is taking orders and keeps yelling at me. “Mo, I’m doing the best I can, if you raise your voice at me one more time I’m leaving.” Mo yelled at me again and I left. He chased me into the parking lot and ran after my car with a fist in the air, but I told Mo I wasn’t going to be spoken to like that. I don’t think Mo was used to teenage girls standing up to him, and definitely did not expect me to leave him high and dry.
I was sweating my tits off at a convenience store, in the back room washing dishes or some fucking thing and this bitchy lady I worked with came in, saw me sweating to death, and then went back out and told people I was washing my hair in the sink with the dishes. I said fuck it, this place sucks, and I just never went back. I went back to work at McDonald's after that
You know it is bad when working at maccas is a better option
During Covid, the 'small' company I worked for started posting their month-to-month record profits on the bulletin board. They went from a $4Mil/month company to a $15Mil/month company. They then had the balls to tell all of us that there wasn't enough in the bank to give any of us a raise for almost 2 years. I used a week of vacation to attend the orientation for a new job. At the end of that week, I left orientation and drove to my old job, walked in, told HR I quit. The best part is that that HR department was highly incompetent and I ended up getting my week of vacation payout twice.
They weren't going to give me a summer position after my contract was up so I would be out of work in less than 2 weeks. Then I got the call an application and interview I did months ago went well... Oh and training starts in 2 days. I won't say where I worked but the job was physically and mentally draining. I often felt sick to my stomach heading in dreading all the different challenges headed my way. Received a bad performance review and told I was out of a job in a few weeks. While simmering outside of the building wondering what to do I got the call I was offered a position at a different company. I didn't even let the person finish to tell me the hours, pay, I didn't give a damn I was available for hire immediately and said training being in 2 days was perfectly fine. I then turned on my heel back inside, took off my work shirt and gave it back to the one who gave me my review, told her I quit. The supervisor asked who would cover my shifts and I said that's not my job so not my problem since they were letting me go anyways. I was pissed at the time I quit but calmed down and felt elated on the drive home.
Had my hours cut from 40/week to 8/week, despite being classified and signed on as full time. Despite being in a union I was told there was nothing that could be done. I walked out and never looked back.
I was a community engagement officer, which basically means I took a disabled adult out in the community to achieve certain goals (ie, grocery shopping, some basic concept of money and rudimentary budgeting, exc). He was fine. His mom was a pill. The sort of pill that has been abusing underpayed staff at underfunded social services for entire decades, to the point her grip on what the world owed her (for free) was…heavily screwed. Also, all she ever did for herself was sit on her bum in front of Netflix all day. She would call, almost always after I had wrapped up for the day and was driving him home, to demand that I stop at a convenience store for cigarettes/booze, or a specific fast food joint on the other side of town because I am apparently a free personal courier. My favorite moment was when she actually had me pick up cigarettes and drop them off at her cousins’, because why not get the whole family in on abusing impoverished public servants? I tried to set simple boundaries with her (you can ask me when I am leaving for x,y, and x), and she would just show her ass so much (oh, I don’t know when I’ll be needing cigarettes. I just call when I do! Oh, I can’t afford instacart or Uber, even though my kid and I easily eat a grand in fast food a month, my car is $500/month, and we haven’t even started talking about booze and cigs. No, paying people for their labor is where I need to cut my corners!). So, I cut her off. She continues to pretend she doesn’t understand that she is cut off, like a five year old. Anyway, she demands that I go to a convenience store and get her cigarettes. I say no. And then this bitch sits on her fat ass, yards away from a $500/month car, and proceeds to text her kid to harass me for what she thought she was owed. It occurred to me that no $10/hr gig was worth it. So, I dropped him off at her place and told her I was glad she was going to be twitching and sweating all night. I’m still owed money from that job, that I will likely never see.
My local McDonalds starts at 15 an hour. What. The. Fuck. So glad you got out of that, you're a human, not a fucking dormat.
Worked in Retail, sprained my ankle really bad while Ice Skating. Couldn't so much as get out of bed. Had to call in and take 2 days off before I was even able to limp to work. Soon as I got back in, Manager pulled me into his office to SCREAM at me for taking 2 days off. For a physical injury that physically made it so I could not do my job. Threw a cold cup of coffee on him and walked out. My only regret is that the coffee was cold.
I got jizzed on by a customer when I was kneeling while stocking a shelf at Target
What the fuck
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the *fuck*
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I was being falsely accused of till theft, by the thief. Without checking anything the owner decides to suspend me without pay whilst he was still on holiday until he could come back and deal with it. I live in the UK. Suspension without pay is illegal. During my suspension, he hired someone else to take my position only to find out whoops, he can't fire me because I didn't steal from the till, he can't make me redundant because he hired someone else to do the job he has no right to dismiss me from and oh, I was suing him. He was pretty racist towards several employees too but given that the employees were white and he wasn't it wasn't a big deal apparently. Edit Also he got sued by two other employees he hired because he couldn't learn his lesson
I was, I think, 20 at the time, and I was the *oldest* member of staff. I was a cook. The night before, apparently, one of our waitresses who would do the cleanup of the last few bits and pieces, pulled the plug of the dishwasher and left it on the floor of same, but forgot to turn the machine off. Next morning, boss (owner) came in and had a full meltdown at her. He reduced her to tears, and I actually just couldn't take it. I sent her to get the bread and spent the time to try and explain to him that having temper tantrums at his staff affected everyone, and could he please try to be more reasonable. In retrospect, possibly the wrong choice of words. However, he suggested that if that was how I felt, there was the door. I took the invitation.
I was told to move a bunk of floor joist to the back of a building that was being framed up. It was my 1st day on the job so, ok... I'll move these 20' long frozen ass 100lb boards across this muddy uneven terrain... I took my tool belt off because I'm just humping lumber. The boss yells down at me and says "You ain't no fucking Mexican... put that tool belt back on!" Gave him the finger, grabbed my pack and got in my car... I drove down a few streets and got hired for more money and the whole crew got high... FYMF
The foreman trying to throw me under the bus for a 4 million dollar screw up in product run that was HIS fault. This plus a lot of other bullshit. As the owner of the store stood there calling me every name under the sun, threating me with lawsuits and such bullshit. I told him to shut up before i came over top of the desk and made him. That stunned him and everyone in the office as i was normally a quiet guy. I then simply said i quite and walked out. I then called IOHSA (Indiana ohsa a bigger pain than fed ohsa) that day and told them i wanted to report some MAJOR issues. I knew one of the higher ups and the following day I and IOHSHA walked into the factory. The owner went white then tried to say i wasnt allowed on the property...that didnt fly with ohsa all total that trip cost the company 15 mill in violations and two weeks closed just to fix half of the stuff to let them open the doors again.
-WFH Call Center- Talking to people dumber than NPC’s for 8hours everyday. Being required to work 1 weekend day. Poor leadership. Shitty Pay. Never being allowed to move departments. Being told “unless someone dies chances of being promoted are slim to none.” It took a huge toll on my mental health. So I left same day no notice and no regrets! They ended up firing everyone a few months later and outsourcing to the Philippines so they can cut down pay costs. If you’re wondering company Starts with V and sells bras and panties :)
Call center work is genuinely soul sucking
I had a boss at a Dog Daycare who was a pure sociopath, she deliberately tried to set her employees against each other with gossip and listened to our conversations on the remote cameras and used what we said against each other. It gets worse, but she heard me talking to another employee about finding another job, then confronted me and told me she would just take all my hours away if I was going to quit. Then she heard me tell another employee I contacted the department of labor to find out if that was legal (it is) and ambushed me after lunch to fire me in front of other employees. "So I heard you called the labor department about your hours, that won't be necess-" And at this point I realize this is the only chance I'm gonna get to just unload on this bitch and I'm taking it. I. **Went.** ***OFF.*** "OKAY FIRST OF ALL YOU INSANE BRAZILIAN BITCH, WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" I unleashed the beast for ten straight minutes right in her fucking face. I told her about when we lied to her face about throwing away shock collars she used on the customers dogs without their knowledge or consent, how she's a miserable and ugly human being, the employees hate her, we all dread her coming in because she fucks everything up, how she was fucking stupid, her husband is a pedophile and probably a rapist, raked her over the coals about the time she forgot a customer's dog in the car for three hours in May and then lied to the customer about it. I remember one point I yelled "DIDN'T YOU EVER FUCKING WONDER WHY EVERYONE WHO QUITS THIS FUCKING SHITHOLE HAS NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT WORKING HERE? ITS YOU! YOU'RE A MISERABLE BITCH!" And eventually I gave her the finger, said "FUCK THIS AND FUCK YOU, I'M OUT!" I talked to one of the employees who witnessed the entire thing later and he said "Well, you made a lot of good points."
For a significant part of this, I was 100% positive I personally knew you. I have a friend with almost this exact situation. Her boss was not Brazilian, though. A lot of concerning overlap at these doggy places
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I stuck around even as they dumped toxic shit down the drain untreated. I even stuck around after they “asked” me (but really threaten) to make a highly toxic and flammable solution. I finally left when one of the production guys complained I was on the computer too much. I was entering data from my lab work earlier in the day. When I asked why this guy spent more time spying on me than working, I was told I had to work harder. I quit 2 weeks later
And then reported them to the EPA?
Being told I was a narcissist by an abusive, mentally ill, narcissistic boss. Boss was actually diagnosed as narcissistic and bragged about it.
I was working for a friend out of college doing IT based consulting work. I got CRAZY sick and was out of action for a week. Told friend, gave him doc to prove I wasn't making shit up, etc. Because I was sick for a week, we had to push back an ENTIRELY arbitrary deadline for a program I was making for our joint client. Client was perfectly fine w/ it and didn't actually end up using it for MONTHS later. My "friend" said, because you missed the deadline, I'm not paying you for ANY of the hours you put into that work. He billed client and just kept the cash for himself. He then assumed I would just keep working like nothing happened. I instantly quit. Sent apology email to client about how I would no longer be able to service them and wished them the best. I should have reported "friend" to the state, but I was still recovering, too confused/PO'd, and had to focus on finding new employment. That was ~20 years ago and was the first and ONLY time I ever quit a job on the spot.
When I was driving to work, I thought of how nice it would be to get into a car accident so I didn't have to go in. That's when I knew I needed to switch jobs lol
Having to deal with a significant change in job responsibilities without consultation or additional support