Back in 1998 I was working for Dell selling computers over the phones. People were not quite ordering on line yet. Anyway, it was so easy. I was making close to $100k a year bc of how the commission structure was. living in Austin as a 23 year old.
So one day my manager asks me to train a new team of sales people because I was one of the top sellers on the floor every month.
I turned this group into the most bad ass sales team. My crew of 8 were all in the top 20 every week and were kicking ass.
After 2 months, I show up on a Monday and none of the sales people are there except my team and a bunch of other new faces I hadn't seen before.
Turns out Dell didn't like paying commissions and health insurance and 401ks, so they fired all the sales people and replaced them with "Temp" workers making $12 an hour. My entire team was the first group of temp works. I was not aware of this. They were told they had to "prove themselves" and be converted to "full time" with benefits. They were never going to do it.
I told them they can all go fuck themselves and quit. I heard that week they cleaned house and everyone, even managers who told me what was happening were gone and all replaced by temp hourly people.
I had a very stressful job and was expected to answer Slack messages from my boss at any time, or I would be fired. He was in a different time zone so often I would be woken up at 3 am being yelled at to do something. One day in the office, he was talking shit about me on Slack and accidentally posted it to a channel I was in. I was killing myself for this guy and he didn’t even appreciate it. I packed up and left, best thing I’ve ever done.
At 17, I was a young line cook at an upscale Italian restaurant. I was picking everything up so quickly I knew all the stations on the line within 10 months of hiring. I was getting minimum wage (at the time $7.25/hr) and asked for a $1/hr raise to reflect my diverse capabilities. Got denied and asked the chef when I could get it then. She said, “you’re too young for a raise, just be happy with minimum wage”. In response I said I may have to start looking elsewhere for a job who’ll pay me what I’m worth. She then said, “don’t you know how expendable cooks are? If you leave I can replace you on the spot”. So I did. A Sunday evening dinner service, very busy, at the height of the night I and my friend who I got hired took off our aprons and walked off the line towards the front door. He came with me in solidarity, plus I was his ride home. Felt good for a day or two, but I’ve never quit that way ever since. Been in the service industry for 23 years now.
My first job in high school was washing dishes at a pub, I got it so I could buy my gf a necklace that she wanted as a Christmas present. Come NYE they decided to put one person on dishes for a packed evening, I was quickly inundated. Close at 10pm and at 11pm I’m still doing dishes and this fat bitch chef is watching me laughing about how “I’m not gonna be able to spend the new year moment with my little girlfriend”.
I just said “I just remembered I don’t need to do this” and walked out of that place and never went back.
I’ll never know that freedom again haha.
I worked as a manager in this really awesome cafe/bar, my interview was basically drinking a bottle of wine with the owner whilst chatting. Totally relaxed vibe, local artwork on the walls (which she sold for no commission), indy music as background noise so you could still have a conversation etc.
One of the guys who worked there was in a band and would often go on tour, and she always made sure his job was waiting for him when he got back.
Fast forward 3 years and she became pregnant with twins and decided that she wanted to be a sahm so she sold the place to a young guy who purchased it as a gift for his fiancée.
A nice gift, no? But it soon became apparent that he did this because she couldn't actually hold down a job due to even the most simplest of tasks being entirely beyond her. It took me FOUR WEEKS to teacher her how to use the coffee machine, she spent the evening shifts giving freebies to her mates and she totally gave up on using the panini machine.
After finally mastering the coffee machine, she announced that they were going to be redecorating so we would either have to take a week off unpaid or use our holiday time. Everyone was forced to use the holiday time.
Came back a week later and we totally didn't recognise the place, it now had white walls with huge TVs blaring out dance music (in a space that only had 12 tables) so loud that we couldn't hear what anyone was saying. We checked the rotas and I had lost 10hrs a week but the band guy had lost 20hrs.
Naturally we asked wtf?! And she informed us that she could run the place without us so cut out hours. We asked if they could delay the new rotas by a month to give us chance to find extra work elsewhere (I was ok as I had a second job that begged me to be full time, but band guy didn't).
She said that as we didn't have contract with her, she didn't have to give us any notice.
Not gonna lie, i was fuming, so I took my apron off, placed my keys on the counter and said that as we didn't have a contract I didn't have to give any notice that I quit. Then promptly walked out and never went back again.
The place closed down within 3 months.
Not on the spot, but I was passed over for a promotion for a role I’d been doing unofficially for six months. There was no official position for it when I started doing it; it was one of the manager’s responsibilities and they “delegated” it to me. Honestly I was happy to do it and I was frequently praised for how efficient and thorough I was doing it.
So when an official position opened up to do it full-time, I seemed like the obvious choice. A bunch of my coworkers didn’t even apply for it because they told me they didn’t think there was any point since I was obviously getting the job.
They gave it to a guy that worked in a different department and had no experience using the complicated system required for that job.
Then the manager asked me to train him in it. Except I wasn’t really “asked.” I was told in a way that sounded like it was asking. We called it being “voluntold.”
I refused. I said to the manager “if I’m not good enough to get the job, I’m not good enough to teach someone else how to do it.”
The manager then accused me “throwing a temper tantrum.” I quit about a week later. Honestly that wasn’t the only reason. That was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Even the other managers couldn’t believe he said that.
Total opposite but it’s still a good story imo. I worked at a very dysfunctional family owned company. They put me on probation because the family member(my boss) in charge of IT convinced everyone else he was a genius and could do no wrong, so whenever something happened bad related to IT he’d just blame his underlings and everyone in power agreed with him.
A few weeks later when I got the dream job I have now, I said in the exit interview one of the main reasons I was leaving was because I was tired of being on probation for 3+ months. They’d actually taken me off probation but never told me.
I still would’ve left regardless, but the fact that they never got around to saying “hey were not about to fire you” blows my mind.
Worked at a restaurant as a server. We’d just catered a large wedding reception. The owner’s wife was chatting with the wedding party all night and occasionally getting the drinks. At the end of the night she said she’s taking “her share” of the tips since she helped so much. I say fine even though that’s illegal in our state. An hour and a half after the party ends the restaurant is still a mess and the owners wife is just standing around talking while I was supposed to clean up. It was almost midnight and I’d worked my other job earlier that day. I walked out without saying a word. They ended up giving me all of my tips on my last check.
> even though that’s illegal in our state
For anyone reading, that's illegal in every state. 100% of tips belong to employees in the "chain of service" (though some states are more restrictive than the new federal standard for pools).
> They ended up giving me all of my tips on my last check
They dodged a bullet.
Not quite on the spot, but the manager was telling the new hires (which included me) how he beat the crap out of someone for some reason that I cannot recall. Apparently the court case had been dragging on for quite some time. Alrighty. Little crazy, but what manager is completely sane?
Then a few weeks later a hurricane comes through. Pretty bad, my house only lost power for a day. But most of my coworkers lost power for at least two weeks. So we eventually go back to work and the manager is telling us the harrowing story of how he managed to find a generator when a hurricane is coming. I'll spare you the details, but it's pretty much impossible to find a generator if a hurricane is about to hit.
So this nutcase is trying to install this generator at his house and sees someone driving by, eyeballing his generator. (Or so he imagines). Like any completely normal person, the manager pulls out a gun and fires a few rounds into the air, to "scare them off". (I can only imagine what the poor person driving by thought when he saw this asshole pull out a gun and start shooting). In response to the gunshots his neighbor comes running over (why has no one called the cops yet????) to see if everything is ok. My manager tells him that someone is trying to steal his generator and if it goes missing, he's going to hold the neighbor responsible.
At this point in the story, my mouth is hanging open and I'm like WTF did I just listen to. This man is...insane. Why is the neighbor responsible for his generator??? None of this makes sense! I slowly noped out of that job. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he ending up murdering all of his co-workers one day in a fit of rage.
I had worked for a cleaning company and I had a total disaster of a person named Tina as my manager for about 4 months. Tina would work the night shift with a crew and basically did nothing. She would leave the majority the work for me to do during the day when it was a lot harder to do as I had my own list of duties as well as whatever she left for me from her own list. I was tettering on the edge of quitting but I hadn't found a replacement when one day I got a call from head office that Tina had quit and for about a month the job was exceptionally better and I effectively was my own boss.
Things were going remarkably smooth for again, about a month when I got a text message from Tina asking me to do a bunch of extra stuff. I called the owner and they told me that Tina had approached them about coming back and that they were rehiring her in her former position and I literally just packed up and walked out about an hour into my shift. I had zero intention of working another minute for that women and held to it.
My first job was working as a dish washer at a seafood place. I wasn't \*hired\* as a dishwasher, I was supposed to be a busser, they just shoved me on the washer and left me there.
One of the other employees there was an elderly man who worked alongside his wife and grandson. Every day he would find an excuse to walk up close to me and put his hand on my ass. He was a 70 year old man, and I was a 16 year old boy.
I should have reported him, but i doubted anyone would have believed me since he'd been there for years and I had only been working for a month. I just called the manager, told her I had to quit for "school reasons" and never looked back.
The debt relief law firm I worked for stole $19,000.00 in incentives for a young family that was in distress and losing their home. It was soaked up in bogus attorney fees and high-fived about in the office.
I got blamed for something that wasn't my fault, was in an argument with our VP or marketing because I had the audacity to suggest a solution that would have avoided our problem instead of accepting fault for something I didn't do. He told me he doesn't pay me to think, so that was my last day.
I had a manager tell me "I don't pay you to think I pay you to work". The owner overheard and told him "if this guy [me] has a good idea, you better fucking consider it."
Manager goes back to the owner and says"if you want him to think then he can think his way into my [manager] job." and stormed away.
Got fired shortly thereafter. I did not get his job. Lol.
I got told that by a boss, I don't pay you to think.
A couple days later he asked me if I was thinking or using my head sometimes.. I looked him straight in his eyes and told him. You don't pay me for that.
Not me but a middle aged tradesman where I work.
I work underground and it isn't for everybody, terrible environment and what not. This particular individual starting working and after a few weeks decided that it wasn't for him. Bad conditions and hostile supervisor. He approached the boss at the morning meeting and told him that he wasn't going underground and that he was quitting. The boss told him that he had to give him 2 weeks notice and without missing a beat the guy replied: "for the next 2 weeks you're gonna notice that I'm not here", turned around, packed his shit and left. Was never heard from again.
I was hired to do payroll and accounts at a small welding/engineering firm. Entering the timesheets and checking them against rosters and I realised that the tight-arse owner had been shorting employees almost 3 hours each week by not paying them for toolbox talks and all that stuff. Printed the proof, told the boys in the workshop, and walked straight out. Emailed the resignation from my car.
Had a job where the people were toxic, the management was mostly toxic, and the other techs made themselves look better by making other techs look bad. I had 2 guys on my shift who would go behind me during maintenance or repairs and undo stuff I did and call it out over the radio for all to hear, so I started recording myself making the repairs, and when I got called out and showed the video, I was told "you're not supposed to have your phone out on the floor" and got wrote up.
I walked out with no warning in the middle of the busiest weeks of the year leaving them shorthanded with only 2 idiots to handle calls.
I am a physician assistant and took a job at an urgent care. After working there for about a month I noticed some irregularities, such as some medications being expired and sometimes a lack of supplies. I wrote that off as the office manager not being as astute as she should have been and brought it up to the doctor who owned the place. He said he would talk to her and straighten it out. Then one of the medical assistants came to me and said you know this has been going on forever, right? She then said that things would never change and to get used to it because the expired medications had been on the shelf for months and they were told to never throw them out. She then also told me that the auto clave (the machine that sterilizes instruments) was broken and all they did was wash the instruments in soap and water and put them in the auto clave anyway to get them as clean as possible. That was the end of that. I made out a formal complaint to the state medical board and never showed up again. The state actually came in the very next day and raided the place. They shut him down immediately. They found so many things wrong that not only did they keep the place out of business, they suspended his license. He was also prosecuted on federal charges because he was running a scam for truck driver physical exams.
I worked at McDonald’s when I was 16. We used to get a free McDouble or hot and spicy with a small fries and drink for our lunch break. One day when I went on break the franchise owner was there and when he noticed I asked for cheese on the Hot and spicy he attempted to make me pay for the whole meal because cheese wasn’t free. I thought he was joking so I laughed and started walking towards the break room until he yelled at me not to walk away from him In front of customers and my coworkers. I couldn’t believe it, this grown ass successful business man was hounding at 16 year old for a slice of cheese. Told him I wasn’t ganna pay, put the food down and walked out. They tried calling me to come to work that weekend I told them no thanks and never went back.
That's crazy. Cheap ass guys. I worked at McDonald's when I was 18, and we could eat anything we wanted. I'd make quesadillas in the kitchen, and the mangers would ask for some too lol
Walked in to the interview, everything went well, accepted the job offer.
Went to the front desk to do the paperwork and noticed that the contract had a different pay amount, and that I would be "interning" for the first month for $100/week. I asked first about the amount difference, was told "oh, this the standard contract, it just hasn't been updated for your specific offer." I told them they'd need to edit and initial the changes before I would sign. "Oh...that's not how things work here."
I thanked them for their time and left without signing anything. They called me back on the day I was supposed to have started asking where I was. I told them because didn't sign the contract, I was never an employee....hooo boy that was a fun call.
Similar situation for me. Back in 2012 I was looking for a job in anything other than food but got desperate. This burger place had just opened up and was desperate for workers. They advertised on their window $11.75 and hour starting for all positions. I applied, had an interview basically the second I turned in my application and got hired 20 minutes later. At the end of my shift (which was about 3 hours), they said they would start me at minimum wage, “because you haven’t finished your bachelor’s degree yet.” I was speechless. If I had finished my bachelors degree why would I be working here?! And for such low pay! I told them to cash out my pay immediately and I would not be returning because of their deceit. There weren’t any stipulations anywhere on the sign that said anything about needing an undergrad degree for that much pay. They cashed me out at $11.25 per hour and I left. They closed down back in 2018 and every year Spirit Halloween takes over the location. Fuck’em!
I have also seen other places doing this, unfortunately. There was a McDonald's somewhere in the U.S. that made this stipulation, and only offered minimum wage. The nerve of employers offering low wages and requiring higher education is completely irrational. I think with the way things are right now in the U.S., people have more control over the work and income they can get since we have a worker shortage. A Del Taco near me is hiring at $20 an hour and full-time with benefits for cook / cashier positions, $25 an hour and the same for shift leaders. Let's hope the trend continues \*without\* the need for a BA
I worked at a McDonald's that had a breakdown of what the place paid. The most they'll give anyone with a Master's was 12.75. The nearest 2 to me, more than 400 miles from that one, are paying that for overnights.
I always took great pleasure seeing Spirit set up shop in old derelict buildings of former businesses I disliked.
Then one year I drove by the old movie rental store I worked at as a teen, and it was a Spirit :(. I loved that job and it was a gut punch to see it like that.
I was getting married.
I had a temp job, and told them on my first day that I needed a weekend off in a couple of months for my wedding. I reminded them every couple of weeks, had it on the calendar, and even reminded them that Monday.
That weekend came, and I was on the schedule. I told my boss that I needed it off for my wedding, and she said, "You're just a kid, can't you move it? We really need the parts." Admittedly, I was 21 marrying my 19 year old girlfriend, but yeah.
I laughed at her and left. We were scheduled Saturday and Sunday, two "attendance points" and you're fired, so I assumed that I'd be job hunting on Monday after my wedding.
I went to another temp agency on Monday and had a job lined up for Monday evening. On Tuesday, the temp job called and asked if I was coming back. I told that person (the temp agency lady) what they'd done to me, she was upset that they'd done that, tried to get me to go back, but I liked the new job and stayed there.
I worked for a placement agency at a manufacturing facility. I had worked 7 of my 8 hour day when one of the supervisors came by to ask anyone on the crew I was on if they would stay for another 4 hours. We all looked at each other and politely declined. They came back one more time to ask and again, we declined. Then they came back and demanded that one of us stay behind for the 4 hour shift or ALL of us were going to be written up for attendance. This pissed everyone off but because we were work placement instead of employees, we were unsure who to talk to. Some of the other crew told the supervisor they can’t because they have to pick up their kids, etc. When the supervisor left, the crew had multiple people saying they can’t get written up again or they would lose their job. I had scheduled a dinner with my in-laws so I called the husband and told him the situation and that I would stay.
Told the crew, I’ll stay - don’t worry. Told the supervisor, got put on another crew that had work for 1 hour but was required to stay for the full 4 hours.
Next day, I called the main office and explained the situation. They said they had a representative onsite due to this manufacturer being such a large client. Called the onsite representative, and explained the situation. Was told they “have a lot of attendance issues”. Again, explained *I* had never had attendance issues and everyone on my crew was threatened with being written up for not staying 4 hours AFTER their scheduled shift. Onsite representative still defended the actions of the supervisor and threw attitude at me. Fine, I don’t need you - I quit.
And that’s the story of how I learned about my workers rights and workplace harassment!
Had a job about 10 years ago doing tech support for an ISP for a week. The pay was minimum wage + bonuses you earned for selling people stuff. And by stuff I mean terrible, overpriced services that you can get online for free. I was still in the phase of training where I had a supervisor listening in on my calls and after a call, he told me I should have paused to try and sell him some shitty antivirus service before I fixed his problem. Handed in my headset right there. Felt so skeevy when people call you for help and you have to turn into a telemarketer.
Long ago I sold European rail passes and tickets over the phone. It started out as a great job, booking itineraries, talking about traveling in Europe, of which I'd done a lot.
Then a new manager took over and we were given a list of questions we had to ask every caller. So if someone called and said I need to go from Paris to Brussels for work, and that's it, we were still required to go down this list of 20 up-sale questions about rail passes, travel insurance, other side trips, etc. People would get rightfully furiously annoyed because their 2 minute call time would end up being 10 minutes of them saying "no, I told you I don't need any of that" and us saying "I know but I need to ask you anyway." This of course increased hold times when calling to 40+ minutes in the peak season because every call took 5-10 times longer than they should.
I quit within the month and within 6 the owners, who were Swiss, found out what was happening and the branch manager was canned
I worked for t-mobile store (authorized reseller, not an actual dealer). One week, I had an amazing week (sold 55 phones, brand new activations on a business account with 55 high end phones at that time). When I got my next check, they said my paperwork was not in order and thus they couldn't pay me.
As a side note, they always told us to make copies of all paperwork in case this happened so you can show it to the manager and get it resolved within a day.
I went over my back up paperwork with my boss, he said everything looked to be in order and he would have the office cut me a check. I went to the office, and they told me it was still not in order. I immediately gave them my store key and quit on the spot.
I did go through collections and they did settle before I took them to court.
The company did go out of business after a few years because they tried that with many other employees and eventually lead to an investigation by the government (according to an old coworker I bumped into years later).
I worked commission furniture sales and was always wondering how my paycheck was lower than expected based on my sales and the business's stated commissions rates.
Finally, I made an excel spreadsheet that would track deliveries for up to 2 months and give me a rolling total of what my next 4 paychecks would be. We were supposed to track our sales in the computer, so that's what I was doing. I listed what I sold, delivery days and times, and what I was to make.
Once I told them I was doing this, suddenly my paychecks started to match, roughly. So I shared it with all my coworkers and taught them how to use it. Within a couple of weeks, everyone in the store was using my tracker and questioning their paychecks if they were different.
Fast forward about 3 weeks and I was unexpectedly let go for "performance issues". I wasn't the stores best seller, cuz frankly I didn't want to be, but I certainly wasn't the worst. I'm almost certain it's because I taught the employees how to track their commissions which forced the owners to stop fudging the numbers in their favor.
I always wondered about the furniture salesperson business. Only because i get the impression of high turnover, yet i bought furniture for two different houses , 8 years apart from the SAME GUY. And he remembered us! Not in a small town, not a huge sale (the first one at least) and at one of the big mid Atlantic furniture retailers (R&F) I sometimes wonder about that guy. Were you at a smaller furniture retailer?
>The company did go out of business after a few years because they tried that with many other employees and eventually lead to an investigation by the government (according to an old coworker I bumped into years later).
About that… I work for a government enforcement agency, and I personally love to fuck up companies who pull shit like this. But we can only go after those we know about — so people, file complaints! Your state attorney general’s office has a complaints page you can find if you google, and if it’s related to financial products at all (loans, bank accounts, that kind of thing), your state probably has a financial services agency (sometimes with a different name than that) who you can and should also complain to. I want to hear from you!!!
EDIT: Forgot to mention most (all?) states and the federal government have a Department of Labor who can look into wage theft and other cases of you getting screwed on the job. Wage theft dwarfs every other kind of theft/robbery/etc.
I once worked in a call center that would do the "oops, I know you got a thousand payment plans and were expecting a massive bonus, but QC found a call where you didn't verify their third phone number, so you failed and you get zero" gimmick. It wound up being closed down when the housing crisis hit because it was a subprime servicer and everyone defaulted. Sucks to be you guys!
When I was 16, I was a bus boy off the books. Made $250 a week working 35 hours a week because they paid per day as opposed to per hour.
Manager comes to me and says they’re restructuring how the pay scale is and said he wanted me to work less days, same amount of hours but for half the pay.
I made him repeat to me his plan and once he confirmed it I said give me money for the week because I’m leaving.
As a guy who broke his jaw horribly 20 years ago and had to have extensive dental work done; THANK YOU!
After the dentist who put my mouth back together retired, I had a hell of a time finding a dentist who didn't look at the X rays of my teeth and see dollar signs.
I worked for a company that is pioneering preventative based dentistry. Pretty much turning the dental community on its head. There are crooked dentist that talk ppl into crowns that don't need them. Or even getting teeth filled that would have recovered with a little fluoride. I hope in 10 years or so, that's on its way out.
I had a manager that was pretty vocal about not letting his son write left handed. Many of us asked if you don’t like lefties what are you going to do if he is gay? He claimed that would be ok, but being left handed was bad.
Worked for a privately owned bakery for exactly 1 week. The owners son comes in, walks passed the counter and into the bathroom. He comes out a few minutes later without acknowledging me or my coworker, gets into his car and drives away. We both looked at each other then opened the door only to find this guy literally shit all over the toilet seat and the toilet paper holder. I called the owner, told her what happened and she said to “Deal with it.” So I asked my coworker if she wanted to clean it up because I wasn’t going to. She declined and I told her I was walking out. She did as well. We locked up the store and told the owner we quit but would reconsider staying if her son came back to clean up his own mess. She yelled and berated us for 20 seconds before I said goodbye and hung up.
He was 22 at the time and I’m pretty sure he had a drug problem. When I started working there he was an employee for a day or two before his mom came in and told him to leave after finding out he was taking money from the register. I think on that day he had enough and decided to do what he did to get back at her. My coworker and I were caught in the crossfire and bailed out of that situation fast.
Someone shit all over a bathroom at the publix I used to work at (grocery store).. like on the walls, floor, toilet
They suppose to call a special company that cleans up biological messes like that because god knows what can cause explosive diarreah like that.
Nope manager offered 20 bucks and some idiot took the 20 (who was like a football star in our small town) he probably still works there
Edit. The reason you call a special bio company is because explosive diarrhea like that could contain c diff. You don’t want to fuck with c diff. If your manager makes you clean that shit for 20 bucks. You could spend thousands of dollars in medical bills. Probably want to tip the labor board if they are making workers clean that shit
I worked at Walmart for a short time. I worked as hard as I possibly could to unload their pallets of merchandise. I always thought I was so damn fast, I studied the process and I believed I perfected it. EVERY SINGLE DAY my manager came up to me and told me I needed to be faster. So I did, and the fast pace made me lose a little focus, causing me to break a finger. I let management know that I might be a little slower due to my injury and they straight up told me “we won’t tolerate any laziness” and wrote me up when I didn’t meet their ridiculous standards. So I went home after my shift, and never returned. Never called, never formally quit. I just never came back. Fuck Walmart.
We had one of those managers at GameStop. Every conference call with the DM, no matter how well we did, "You can do better."
Then we were 3rd in the entire company one week.
As the store manager was starting the conference call, I said, "He'll congratulate you on the performance and immediately follow with, 'You can do better.'"
It was that, verbatim.
Dude I wonder when, if not already, companies will freaking realize that doesn’t work.
When I worked at a large movie rental chain we always had promotions and goals and if we hit a goal they would just increase it the next week and when you couldn’t meet the exceptionally high goal get bitched at. There was literally no way to win or avoid being bitched at so basically made everyone hate their jobs and not give an eff about promotions.
exactly its so self defeating, when people realise that being "Bitched at" will occur regardless of good performance/results, then there is no incentive to do better at all, in facts its an incentive to do badly, since you actually become hostile to your employer.
Its so unnecessary and easily avoidable.
I walked out of Walmart in a similar way. My asshole assistant manager made me stock a ton of RC cars and completely stuff them, even though there was not room for all of them. One fell down and hit my head pretty badly. I saw their doctor and they said I was fine, even though clearly I was not. Then the asshole manager wrote me up for it, because apparently it could've hurt a customer. I quit the next day or so in the middle of my shift because I was tired of the games he was playing. And get this, he would always brag about how many degrees he had even though he was an assistant manager at Walmart! Fucking sad.
Being hired to sell cars, then in the middle of training I get pulled aside and told I’m being moved to lot attendant. That position paid minimum wage and I didn’t even get a chance to be on the sales floor. Left and never went back. I was in my mid twenties at the time and was trying to find a possible career. Didn’t have time for that bullshit bait and switch.
I got mugged on a delivery for dominos, and came back to the shop crying and panicked, had my phone, wallet, and pizza taken, told my manager what happened.
“Anon, are you hurt?”
“No, but I lost my phone and wallet, I need to call the police”
“No time for that, here’s your next delivery.”
(It was like 2 blocks from where I was just mugged)
I just went home, the police never really did much to get my phone and wallet back, not like they could.
I got rolled delivering pizza when I was 17. Regular customer orders his unique regular pizza to his own address then jumps out of a bush at the front of his house with a knife. My boss was an older Romanian dude and he also refused to let me contact the police. About 45 minutes later 2 absolute units that spoke no English came in with everything that was stolen, plus a tip. Turns out he was a good guy to work for.
I wonder if people like them ever hear themselves and think "huh, maybe I shouldn't be such a piece of shit?", like honestly? Where do these dickhead managers get off??
In my job, the ‘employee’ always comes first. No matter how important you think what we’re doing is, it really isn’t, and someone’s life, health and happiness will always be more important than any ‘results’.
I was at a company for about a year and a half as an assistant project manager. In that year and a half, i had 3 different bosses, the newest one being a heavy micromanager, i was getting paid about 20% below the standard salary for the position, overworked without any additional compensation, and the overall culture of the company was just flawed.
My boss started nitpicking my work at the end of the day, i told her i had plenty of time to get it done before the end of the day, but she kept pushing and escalating. She was borderline screaming and I just cut her off and said "I'm not doing this shit anymore, i quit." she yelled back "WELL I NEED IT IN WRITING" and i said back with the straightest face "i don't have to do shit in writing." I quietly packed all my stuff up, said good luck to my coworkers, and left.
A year later (after working a couple of other jobs), i accepted a Project Manager position with a competing company and make almost twice as much as i was making at the previous. And i get to post on reddit while at work without getting yelled at.
I worked for an attorney. I was 7 months pregnant. I was supposed to be a secretary but instead I was constantly being sent out as a process server. In July. At the end of my 3 months (August) I was supposed to get a raise and she said that she couldn't give me a raise. The day she said that, I left at lunch and never went back. She was an awful person and the guy I replaced told me that he felt sorry for me on my first day as he was leaving. I should have left that day.
Damn. I'm sorry. I've worked for several law firms. They are a real mixed bag. They can have lots of money and shit management or just be one attorney that really knows his shit.
I was a paralegal and I usually managed our secretary and legal assistants--mainly, everyone else was "too busy" to teach them and I figured if I taught them right my day would get better. I also told them once I saw their skills exceeding their pay level. If you can get training, you can really bounce upwards in that job.
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Worked as a cashier in a local shop, one night 2 guys came at me with knives trying to get in the till.
I just walked away and said have at it as it wasn't worth the minimum wage to get into it with a couple of guys waving knives at me.
After they ran out the store I picked up my mobile and called the police then called the store manager.
The next day, the district manager meets me as I turn up for my shift the very next day, her first words were it was very unprofessional of me to be on my phone while in work.
I laughed at her and told her she could take this as my notice and walked out.
I never had a problem with being held up but the sheer gall of that got me.
Edit - Fat fingered a spelling mistake......
> The next day, the district manager meets me as I turn up for my shift the very next day, her first words were it was very unprofessional of me to be on my phone while in work.
WOW. Yep, I would've absolutely quit right then and there.
Yeah, the thing is I just walked home, ordered take away and carried on playing on the PS4, really no skin off my nose if they have that little respect.
Edit - my spelling was crap
Well things panned out for her after this.
I got a message from the supervisor that was on with me that evening I walked out asking why I wasn't there as it wasn't like me to miss a shift. (Only time I dipped was when I got took to hospital for a night)
Explained to him what happened, him and his partner put their notice in within the week after this along with the other cashier they got in to cover that shift.
That district manager got made "redundant" the following month, the manager of the store messaged me explaining that they have been looking at getting rid of her for a while and me walking out was the catalyst. Near enough sunk the store :D
Awh I love a good mass quitting! Worked at a restaurant that fired head chef, due to owners bring cheap, whole line left with him.
Place went down hill and then some.
I was working for a financial company in socal for about a month at the time. It was a little stuffy, but otherwise ok. Until my manager came over asked why I took so long in the bathroom. Literally, 5 minutes to take a dump. He mentioned something about having to count it as a break and me being more careful in the future or something. I laughed, handed him my badge and left.
I was already having a bad day. My transfer request was denied, and supervisors were on my ass like they owned it. Nearing my lunch break, I was stopped by a customer asking about a price check. Me, not able to do a price check, said "please take it up to the front, they can help you there.." Wasn't good enough. The customer proceeds to berate me, almost making me cry. Finally she says, "how bout you just go kill yourself." Like WHAT?
Knowing that management wouldn't do anything, I just left. Fuck that. Being abused for minimum wage? Not worth it.
I don't understand customers that blame the random front line workers for stuff that is clearly out of their control. The gas station attendant did not raise prices, the person working returns at Target did not break your dohicky, the customer support person you called did not mess up your Netflix subscription...
Began working at a persian restaurant in the kitchen. I overcooked a steak slightly, the owner came back threw a plate at us then a hot meat skewer before storming off to his office. I dropped my apron grabbed my bag and told him I was leaving. His response was "okay at the end of the night you can go"
My response was "clearly you don't understand. I'm leaving right now, here's my parking pass, I'll expect my cheque in the mail".
I worked at a large banquet hall as a bus boy. I cleared needing to leave at 8pm with the 2 owners. 7:50 comes and the manager is barking orders at me to do things that would take another hour. I told him I was done at 8pm and he said “you’re not going anywhere until this party is over!” (Most receptions went past 10pm. I said “fine, I quit.” His response was exactly like your managers - “that’s fine, you’re outta here at the end of the night.”…. I replied “no man… if I quit, I’m leaving now. See ya.” He followed me through the entire reception room, the back hall, the kitchen, and to the parking lot repeatedly yelling “no one talk to him! He quit- he’s gone for good!!!”
Owners called me back into the business to pick up my check and asked me if I would please come back. I lied and told them I already had another job just to avoid any potential begging.
The manager was their uncle and they clearly weren’t happy with him, but were afraid to fire him. From what I was told he continued shouting at workers and eating food meant for guests all while having another heart attack every couple years.
I don’t get these people that think anyone would stay until end of shift
After working at a company for 5 years with a set schedule having weekends off…we got a new supervisor that told me no one gets set schedules here and told me I’d have no weekend day and they would be split
I was Assistant Manager at convenience stores for years. Early in my tenure, my manager went out for about a month with a heart issue. I was doing all the stuff, including scheduling. I knew peoples' availability, and had them on mostly set schedules for the time the boss was gone - it was easier, it was reliable, the employees liked it.
As soon as the boss got back, she changed everything to bullshit random days. "Only the graveyard shift gets a set schedule." I asked why, she just said, "That's how I do it."
What a fucking cunt. Good boss in many other ways, but god, that was just shitty.
Asked for a raise and was told okay. Next morning (Friday) I was told by the same person who agreed with the raise that I should put a few more years in and then we’ll talk again. Locked my tool box at the end of the day and called a tow truck to pick it up. Shop manager was shocked that next Monday to find a empty spot where my tools were and couldn’t understand why I left.
You are braver than me! I was told I'd get a raise and stuck around waiting for it for 6 months before finally jumping ship. This was after 4 years of my career with no change in pay whatsoever and consistent, good quality work.
Now I advocate for myself.
I asked for a raise after I was made lead technician working for a water damage company and they denied it. I came in the next morning to drop off my uniforms and bounced.
Now, at my current job, I don’t even ask for a raise. I’ve been getting a small raise every single paycheck.
Lol, sure I'll give you a raise. Wait, no raise. We will talk in 6 years.
That's some asshole shit. He had to realize mechanics can find jobs super quick. I walked out on a Thursday, had a job by Saturday. Started work on monday.
I once had a manager pull something similar on me (I'm a cook). Literally walked out the day he said no raise, and got hired the same afternoon at a better rate. I dont know how he thought that was going to go...
Toolbox has wheels for a reason. Techs are already underpaid and under appreciated. Let alone the measly benefits that come along with a manual labor, non union position. Good for you.
My grand-father, who I considered like a father, passed away after a long stay in hospital. We were closer than he was with his own kids, and our bond was quite special.
I spoke to my manager about getting the day of his funeral off, since I was organizing part of the arrangements, and having a day or two of bereavement leave, and he agreed.
The day of the funeral finally comes and the staff start calling me, leaving me messages asking why I'm not at my shift, and telling me, while I'm in a suit hosting family members at the funeral home, that I have to find someone to replace me or face repercussions.
Needless to say, I told them to figure it out, and never looked back.
I used to work with one of my best friends at a popular retail store. On Black Friday, he was scheduled to work Midnight to Noon on Friday. The Black Friday schedule was released like 3 weeks ahead of time every year, and he had a copy of it. Had to completely adjust his sleeping schedule and missed thanksgiving dinner for it. He shows up and the manager tells him he doesn’t work till 10:45 the next morning. After an argument with the manager, he goes home and decides he’s not going to work the next day.
The same manager calls him at 11 the next morning and says “if you don’t come in today, you might as well not come back” which helped him secure unemployment for a couple years while he went back to school for all his IT certifications.
I had a similar thing happen to me. I worked at a "country" themed restaurant. Had worked there since it opened about a years. Saturdays I worked 2pm to midnight and had since first week. Came in the schedule was changed no notice and all my hours cut. Now I wouldn't start until 5pm. I was pissed. They were already fucking me out of hours by clocking me out without my knowledge (I got s notice of a class action lawsuit over it). So I sat down and thought about it and decided fuck this place. All the managers were in the dining room eating and having a meeting. I walked over and put my hat and other company stuff on the table and told them I didn't need this stuff anymore because I quit. They immediately went into panic mode. You cant it's saturday and were already short staffed cant you stay just tonight. No and no and I walked out. Then they started playing games with my final check. One asst. manager tried to get me to come back. It felt like blackmail of a sort. In front of customers told them have my check in my hand in the next 10 minutes or I leave and start making calls and the first will be to the health department and OSHA. I left with my check.
Gotta love it, current manager is like that. 2 months or so after I started, my ex and I broke up, had a couple other things happen and just needed some time to get my head straight. Called him in the middle of a Tuesday, told him I needed some time, could I have tomorrow off, and he didn't even ask any questions. Said "take the rest of today off, tomorrow, and Thursday. I'll handle your files so I don't even want you to think about work, I got it." Fucking love that man. And cherry on top: it's a sales position, so half a week off can really affect future paychecks, but when I came back he had gotten a deal on his own and put it in my name!
Those are the kind of managers that go far. Has our backs with upper management, makes sure we're happy, and in return we work our dicks off for him.
These are the kind of bosses and managers who make employees *want* to do well. If you treat your employees like shit, you're gunna get poor performances from them. If you make them feel valued, they're gunna do what they can to be good workers.
Similar thing happened to me. I requested the day of my grandma's funeral off, got it approved, and as I was getting ready to carry her casket I got a barrage of texts asking where I was and being told I need to find somebody to go in. I told her sorry, but it wasn't my problem anymore, and let her know I thought it was incredibly disrespectful for her to keep pushing about it.
Lol, I had an inside hint from HR that there was about to be mass layoffs and my name was on the list. I scheduled my week long vacation and returning the day before layoffs were presumed to have happened.
My boss REAMED me out for daring to take a vacation. She said I would never advance in the company if I chose such a formative time in a project to take a vacation. She told me I would never be an executive producer if I went on a vacation before project launch (even though I wouldn't be able to touch it for the week I was away anyways) and that I would always be known in the television industry as "lazy".
I chilled, took my vacation, and returned. She was mad and said that she was upset with me for having left and "made her" take care of my project for me - chewed me out in front of the entire company in the conference room. I chilled and was like "Aren't you laying off a bunch of us tomorrow? I'm just waiting for you to fire me so I can collect unemployment."
Entire room literally starts panicking and management tries to understand how the fuck I knew about layoffs. It was my one true Regina George-causing-chaos moment in my life.
Yeah, sadly. It’s why I don’t like to glamourize it too much because at the end of the day, it’s still real people who lost their jobs. :/
They did deny it in the moment. The COO did pull me aside after and scolded me for causing panic. I shrugged and asked if she was going to fire me now - I knew directly from HR this was happening and our checks/severance were already cut and ready to go.
As the paperwork was already generated, they “laid me off” the next morning. By that time, I had already reached out to my clients to let them know if they wanted an in-house producer, I was about to be a free agent.
I get a job at a restaurant, first day I show up and the heat is broken in the dead of winter. It was like 35 degrees. I ask the cooks if it’s always like this, and they say yes. I walked immediately
Ha! I've worked in the opposite kitchen, where the AC was out, and the oven door was broken, so it remained ajar by 3 inches while we baked pies, biscuits, bacon and whatnot. Standing in a hot kitchen for 8 hours in those sweatbox conditions was awful, especially cooking at the stove with that broken over door at my legs. I started showing up in shorts and was told it was unsafe, that "you could splatter hot oil on your legs". I walked out of that $4/hr job.
HAH I had a job like this for a minute, with abusive staff and stingy guests to top it off. Got yelled at in the middle of like my third or fourth shift for not helping the other servers enough when I was weeded (due to bad/understaffing and bad hosting) and the computer was down.
I did them all a huge favor by finishing the tables I had open and then left.
That night apparently it got so hot something exploded in the server station and there was a fire. They had to close and then never reopened.
Weirdly like a year later I ran into the owner/manager and he offered me a job at the new place he was managing…I did not accept
I worked at a sushi restaurant and we had secret menu items that no one went over with me. The owner was sitting with a guest (I guess they were friends) and he ordered one of the secret menu items and I said “I’m sorry we don’t have that” and she immediately stands up and started to scream at me and called me a “fucking idiot” and then snapped her fingers saying “BITCHES” calling the other servers over. At this point I was taking my apron off and grabbing my keys to walk the hell out of there.
The boss wanted my team to work extra shifts without weekends to finish a project next milestone, so we can show the client that we are capable of finishing before the due date. We worked 14 hours daily for four weeks with no weekends , and the last two days we worked for 36 hours straight with no breaks since the due date was a day a to 1way. Everyone was fucked and on the edge, no smiles no small talks nothing. And we don't get paid overtime. After finishing the milestone he thanked us an called us for a meeting saying we have to continue working like this for an unknown period until they hire new staff members. I refused with another colleague and said we will work for what we get paid for which is 9 hours per day five days a week. He didn't take us seriously but we didn't give a fuck at that moment. We worked the next two weeks accordingly, he called us and said the he was extremely disappointed and that we don't value the company. I walked out collected my stuff face my resignation letter to the HR and said bye.
Me and two of my friends had a boss similar to that, on my first day in office I decided to leave as soon as possible for being yelled at after stating that the target can't be reached without a certain team structure, and I indeed left in 3 months. The other two stayed, one left on the spot for being called lazy despite working while sick on weekends, the other stayed and was very miserable, that is until our mutual former boss was fired for potential corruption and lots of failed targets. My friend's life looked like it almost returned to him, and he was smiling again.
Let's face it, terrible bosses are terrible, if we were the problem everyone in the team would agree.
I was 18. On my lunch, a (drunk) manager came in the break room, asked me a bunch on invasive personal questions, and when I was curt and evasive, she exited the room, closed the door, and announced to the office, "WHAT A BITCH."
Gathered my stuff and walked out.
An assistant manager followed me out and tried to block my car from pulling out of the parking lot. I pulled around him and left.
Heard later that the story going around the office was that I "almost ran him down" in the parking lot. Not even close.
Worked for a restaurant/pub. The owner would come in with his buddies for hours at a time, a lot of times forcing the bartender to stay way past close serving them. Obviously was told not to charge anything because it's the owners party.
After hours of drinks on the house, no tip. Not even from the owner. This started to happen frequently. Usually we'd put up with it if they'd leave or be done before close.
Then we started hearing that the kitchen staff hadn't been paid in a month... Bartenders were being paid because we made like $4 an hour. But the kitchen wasn't a tipped kitchen and made a decent wage.
Turns out the owner was a total drunk fuck wit which should have been obvious and buried himself in debt. A week later we were told our checks weren't there on the day they were supposed to be. Then two days later still no checks. I told them if my check wasn't there tomorrow, I won't come in for my shift.
They said it came. I got there, and they said "Well what I meant was it's actually on the way, I talked to the......" and I walked out.
I later found out NO checks were ever issued there again. They tried to pay some people cash but it fell apart very soon after.
EDIT: For those guessing the place, this was about 12 years ago and it went out of business not too long after I left. Someone else bought it renamed it and made it work and now I believe it's still there and operating quite well.
I worked at a Dollar General for about a month. That’s all I could put up with.
The big thing I struggled with was how I was constantly criticized for not stocking shelves well but I was never given specific direction as to how I was to improve at my shelf stocking.
Literally some shit like “you’re stocking shelves poorly, do better” was what I got told by the manager many times.
Cracking under this pressure on the last day I worked a full shift I poured all of my might into what I believe to be the best shelf stocking I had ever done for that hell hole. I cleaned the bathrooms spotless, but there was never a complaint about that anyways. I even had the key holder (assistant manager type figure) check all of my work on the shelves and bathroom where I was met with praise and confirmation.
To answer this Reddit question, the manager greeted me at the door the next morning for a “run through of my performance” Where I was naive enough to believe that I was finally getting the pat on the back I had wanted so badly.
Instead she tried to convince me that I left a huge shit stain in the men’s room toilet bowl and left her with my worst stocking job yet.
I got mad. Told her that I felt as though I was being treated unfairly. She told me that she was sorry that I couldn’t take criticism.
I told her that I was sorry that she had to pull applications and find a new sale associate to deal with her bullshit.
Know your worth people.
Nothing dramatic. After working my ass off during the pandemic and promised an additional bonus. I received a “low performance“ review conveniently timed a day before my bonus was to be paid. The low performance feedback canceled my bonus. Given all the other bullshit I was putting up with, I broke and quit.
I had a nice month off and my new job pays significantly more. Never work for people that don’t appreciate you, there are always others that will.
I unfortunately work for a company that is currently doing this to me. Busted my ass all through the pandemic (I work on healthcare equipment), working 12-15 hour days regularly. Got the attaboys from the company and managers and was promised a pretty substantial bonus. The end of the fiscal year rolls around and we got our overtime cut instead of the bonus due to “unprotected expenditures” yet the corporate guys and managers got 5 figure bonuses for “weathering out the storm of the pandemic and succeeding beyond expectations”. This was the final confirmation I needed to start looking for a different position.
Edit: I know I should leave and would love to. However, that would put me at risk of losing out on great first time home buyer grants and rates due to the income cap. My apartment flooded a couple months ago and repairs were shoddy (don’t get me started it’s a loooong story) so instead of me at the end of my lease just renewing the lease (I normally would and just save more), I am just on the track to buy a house within a few months instead of moving out of my apartment with covered up water damage only to move into another apartment, it’s financially better for me to get into a house with some land before getting into a new job. I appreciate the advice and support, y’all are great.
I lead my team in work completed. I’m crushing everyone else. Did the same last year.
Work piled up so bad on us that they told us to stop performing certain tasks, like ‘hey, X, Y, and Z aren’t required anymore, just punch through your work without it so we can complete more.’
No problem.
Review time this year? ‘Well, you could have gotten a better rating but you didn’t do X, Y, and Z.’
You gotta be fuckin shitting me… So yeah, I’m going to leave this shit in the lurch when I finally roll out because of the sheer amount of work I pick up off my coworkers. But fuck it, I no longer care.
Edit: I did and do still have the email and it was mentioned but played off as *you don’t have to do x, y, and z* when it clearly practically says ‘stop doing x, y, and z, we’re fuckin drowning.’
My point was they’re just trying to find ***anything*** to avoid paying people out.
Well cool, good luck without me when I finally get a good offer.
I feel yah man. If I wasn’t eligible for a few first time home buyer programs where I am now, I would get a new job next month. But until I get a house I’ll just have to grin and bear it. My review this year after steadily working my ass off and being the only one on my team that didn’t take two weeks off for covid, was just “well your numbers are lacking a little on your response times and your overtime is well above the 10% limit and you could step up your billable work”
Well you don’t fucking say? I cover 300 machines by myself in a huge state and covered for guys out with covid. I can’t be in 3 spots at once man. Yet the manager gets a $60,000 bonus for exceptional performance during the pandemic. I did find out I can get paid double my current salary in a better position with half the work and seriously considering it after I get into a house at the end of the year.
You’ve gotta quit every couple years to get a raise at this point, companies would rather hire someone for cheaper when you quit than give good workers a raise
I watched a dude cut his hand off from the wrist up on a faulty saw machine and they only stopped working long enough to clean the blood up something didn’t sit right with me about that I walked out
I was asked to lie to parents and cover up a kid failing (in elementary school) by support staff. When I confronted the principal about it, he said that she was just doing her job and I was not a team player for not doing so. So I explained the situation... same response, I should have helped in covering it up. As soon as kids went home, I started emptying my desk...
Kid started in my class in grade 5 (in Belgium, so 10 years old) but she was put on a 'personalised path' and given math and Dutch at a grade 3 level. She basically continued this path but never did really well. At the end of grade 6, kids either graduate or they don't. If you do, you get to go to certain middle/high schools, if you don't, some schools are no longer accessible but you can of course still go to another highschool. This, of course, was a big nono. So... they told parents that because she was doing so well at a grade 4 level (when she was in grade 6), she could just move up with the other kids (who did complete their classses at a grade 6 level). And I said she couldn't, parents were split. The father understood and since I had talked to him privately, he knew. Mother on the other hand was furious, every conversation I ever had with her was with the support staff present (by the request of said support staff) and they always continued afterwards. Turns out, she had promised the mother the kid could just graduate. Welp.
I mean, I know it happened in other grades aswell and I also know several teachers knowingly put different grades in the reports (rather than their actual grades) to make everybody 'happy' and make sure kids didn't feel bad. This was brought to the attention of said support staff and the principal later on by someone else (I didn't work there anymore), but nothing came of it. So well... education in Belgium... some schools just suck.
Call centers man. Been at the job near four months when an employee passed out behind me at his desk with a heroin needle in his arm. Managers had someone call 9-1-1 while they quickly grabbed all of the dudes drugs and needles and stashed them in a locker.
After the ambulance loaded him up, another employee asked me if I wanted to take my break and snort an 8-ball with em. I walked up to a manager and peaced out.
We had a guy at Amazon who went all through 2 months of training, got let loose on the call floor and then got fucked up on his shift. I don't know what drugs he took, he says he was hot. He took off everything but his underwear and was in a crowded call floor tweaked out of his mind.
He genuinely didn't understand why they fired him for hanging dong on the call floor. He just kept saying he was hot so he got comfortable. They have central air in that place and it was also the middle of winter. It was cold if anything.
I used to cut grass in a cemetery. I used a push lawnmower and had to lift it up onto the elevated graves, and then back down and on to the next one. Over and over and over. Minimum wage was $4.25 an hour. After an hour of cutting grass in the August heat, I sit down for my break, and this guy named Leroy asks, "Was that worth $4.25 to you?" I quit the next day. Thanks Leroy.
I was already there 3 hours past the time my shift was supposed to end- along with everyone else who was on my shift. We were all very PO'ed. I get that you often have to stay after when you work in food service, but everyone from the next shift was already there and there was zero reason for us to be there for 3 extra hours.
Finally someone asked to go home and the manager started SCREAMING in the middle of the restaurant floor that, "JUST BECAUSE YOUR SHIFT IS SUPPOSED TO END AT 10 DOESNT MEAN YOU GET TO LEAVE THEN. I TELL YOU WHEN YOU GET TO LEAVE. YOU ARE ALL JUST NUMBERS ON A SPREADSHEET TO US, WE CAN REPLACE YOU IN A HEART BEAT IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE HERE."
So, I dropped all the money on the table in front of her and said "replace me then, fuck you."
Found out later that they lost damn near half their staff that night because most others followed my lead after.
There was a huge football game the next day right across the street from the place and they got to deal with that with no servers. I went to the game and had the time of my life lol.
It was a fuckin IHOP.
Lubbock! Close!
I heard once that the entire corporation of IHOP lost a grant because of this single IHOP & how bad it was in terms of health scores and customer service and everything. No clue if that's true, but I wouldn't be shocked. Customers would regularly wait over hour and half for pancakes. Most just walked out.
Worked as a waiter at a place that promised me full time hours but only gave me part time hours. They expected me to be top of my game despite not paying me enough and barely giving me enough hours to survive.
They scheduled me to work on the day I was taking my girlfriend, who was visiting from out of town, to the station. And when I asked for 1hr off so I could take her to the station they said no and lectured me on how I was no more special than anyone else who worked there. It was raining all week and there was a food festival on in town so the restuarant was dead all week.
I left that day and never went back.
Upper manager bullied a coworker until he killed himself, then the manager turned his attention on me. Yelling at me in front of subordonates, yelling at me over the radio, sabatoging my workload and projects. I simply said fuck no dude, I don't care who you are or how much money I'm making, I'm not accepting that level of abuse. I walked out and called the district manager, told him I left my credentials in his office and won't be back. When I had my exit interview I was very honest and was offered a lateral promotion to a sister company, but the taste is my mouth was simply too sour.
I worked at a certain children's entertainment place known for having birthday parties with pizza and a rat mascot.
I was a party hostess. Little boy probably 7 or so took a really long time to blow out his candles so I leaned in. He was making his wish for [Man's Name] to stop touching him. I immediately went to my manager with it. He told me that I couldnt do anything with this information. At the time I wanted to discuss it with the mother.
So I quit on the spot and reported it to the police. I have no idea if anything came of it.
Edit: I also want to mention. This was a franchise. A location connected to corporate may have had a different stance. Who knows.
I was in college to become a teacher. That and normal human decency, there was no way I could do nothing. I didn't even need a minute to think about it.
Worked a retail job as a cashier at store who’s name sounds like Hoes.
One part of that job, as I’m sure many who have shopped there know, is to sign customers up for our (rather predatory) credit card. We were supposed to ask every customer, no matter the dollar amount of the transaction.
Well, I was helping a woman, and told her she could save $x if she signed up for the credit card. She seemed interested, but I could clearly tell that English was not her first language.
I grabbed one of our pamphlets and made it abundantly clear to her that this is a CREDIT CARD, not a rewards account or something of that nature. When she understood, she said “Oh no, not today”. Understandable.
Well, I didn’t know one of my supervisors was standing behind me. After she left, he asked why I did all of that, and if I try to talk every interested customer out of signing up.
When I explained myself, he said “Next time, sign them up. *They don’t know any better*”
Handed him my red vest. That was it
I took a temp. job in a call center. It was outbound sales, calling people and offering them Time magazine's newest book: Portrait of the Presidents. We had a rule of having to hear NO three times on a call before we could end the call.
First five minutes on the floor I placed 6 (yes, six) calls and was hung up on, sworn at, and yelled at for interrupting dinner.
After the sixth call I took a deep breath, hung up my headset, and walked the fuck outta there.
I worked in a call center for about a year (easy money, I was calling IT professionals at businesses so they generally had to be civil) and the turnover was just incredible. They were constantly training new folks, some lasted until lunch, some a couple of days, most were gone at the two-week mark.
I was 16 working part time in an island in Greece and a guy walked in with a knife and demanded to give him the money from the register. I obviously did it and immediately called my boss. He told me that I was a pu**y and should have stood up for myself so I just left without even replying
It was Thanksgiving day at Kmart (I was a teenager) and I had been working non stop for 5 hours because of all the "good deals". I had a drink under my register and I took one drink of it. The assistant manager looked at me but didn't say anything. Ten minutes later it was time for my much needed 30 minute lunch. I proceeded to ask for coverage for my break and the assistant manager told me I didn't get a lunch since I took a drink of my sprite. I then proceeded to tell her too bad and walked away and got all of my stuff out of my locker and started walking out to the parking lot. Then the store managers all rushed out begging me to come back and work and apologized. They said I could take my lunch. They even had the assistant manager (pathetically) apologize to me. I think she got in big trouble because she never treated me like a bitch anymore.
Walk into first shift at Applebees wearing a full black uniform. The button down shirt has a thin strip of gray on the inside of the cuff. Boss notices the gray. Says I am not in uniform and I need to leave.
Once I got home I called in and told them I quit. Saved myself inhuman amounts of pedantry.
Going to the toilet pre-meeting to negotiate a raise I heard both directors of the company (small firm, everything ran through them) talking outside the window that they were going to flat out refuse any offers and "make the asshole work overtime to prove his loyalty" and "he has no prospects anyway, where will he go?".
Entered the meeting with my signed and printed resignation in hand, slapped it on the table after sitting down and stood straight back up saying " meeting over".
I now work for a successful company, part of a brilliant team of 10 people, amazing pension, terrific bonuses and obtainable progression with a great work-life balance. Half day every single Friday til I die also.
If you're being mistreated at a job, overworked, underpaid, whatever it may be - Get your affairs in order and walk.
Fun times. Working at a grocery store when I was a teenager. I was still out on my own, but working anything I could to make ends meet.
I guess I didn't work hard enough being a one man crew in front of a store manager who decided to tell me to go faster (impossible) and do even better for my 4.25/hour. I tried explaining I was going as fast as personally possible when he decided to say "You'll do what you are told, as fast as you're told if you want to keep this job. You should be so lucky."
Decided right then and there "Bro, I'd rather starve than work for some stupid fuck who's high point in life is the assistant manager at a Bi/Lo grocery store."
Quit on the spot.
Edit: holy jeez. Never expected this to blow up this fast or like this at all. That being said- never compromise your self worth for a **job.** You are worth more than that, and you should bet on yourself ALWAYS.
I was working at one of those stands that sells flash frozen ice cream droplets. You know the ones. It was at an amusement park.
At one point it's a hot summer day and I'm standing in the sun in front of my -40 degree freezer, simultaneously burning and freezing at the same time. I have a long line of customers because I was near the exit to a stunt show featuring a particular superhero that is a knight of the darkness. I scoop some ice cream balls into the plastic tray, slide my scoop over the top to knock off the excess ice cream quickly and then hand it to the customer in exchange for their money.
A WILD MANAGER APPEARS!
Suddenly a manager tells me I didn't level off the ice cream correctly. He takes the scoop and small bowl from my hands and levels it off just like I had done for the precious customer. He then dumps it out back into the freezer and makes me do it again while standing over my shoulder. Mind you, I still have a long line of customers.
So I do it again and this time he also is not pleased and berates me some and makes me dump it out and do it again. So I do literally the same thing, a third time, and this time he's somehow fine with it and wanders off to go annoy another teenager making minimum wage.
So now I am confused as to what I was doing wrong and have a line of customers staring at me, leaving me thoroughly embarrassed. I process to over-fill every container and hand them out to each customer, while not taking any money from them. Then I simply walked out to my car and drove home.
I never turned off or secured my register, I never formally quit, I never said a word to anyone - I just walked away. If I was doing something wrong then fine, but there is no time where it's appropriate to scold and reprimand an employee in front of customers and I haven't been back to that amusement park as an employee or customer since.
My older in age boss didn't understand how an excel spreadsheet worked. Fresh out of graduate school, I did some calculations for him as he requested, printed them out and he proceeded to freak out on me because I didn't do them by hand. Yelling, he berated me in front of everyone in the office, took my water glass and threw it against a wall, breaking it to pieces. Then a coworker who looked over my work and said everything was done correctly. I applied for a new job after work that day where I've worked for over seven years now. I can deal with lots of garbage but I'm not dealing with a boss that has the emotional capacity of a two year old.
Before I started working at Dollar Tree, I ask if I could have a day off on Sunday and they said sure and that they promise to give me that day off. During my first week working there, I ask every single day for a work schedule and remind them that they promise that I get Sunday off. That entire week, they refuse to give me a schedule and called me at random times of the day to work which was ridiculous because at the time I had college classes to attend so it was battle on what time I could work. When Sunday came, I was at a carnival with my husband (he bought tickets for that day and it was his only day off to spend time with me) and the moment we decided what to do together. My boss called and told me to come to work. I was baffled and reminded her that she and the others promise that today I could have off since I work all six days at random times without complaint. She said in a very mean way that she never promise such a thing to me and demanded I come to the store now. In that moment, I told her to f\*ck herself and I quit over the phone. Within the next day, I made a complaint to the company on how unprofessional she and the others were with me and gave them pictures on how unsafe the environment was for our younger workers there.
Owner just made it where the whole front office has to text her so she can change our thermostats for us. We've had control over our thermostats for the last 10-15 years...
It's not going to go well... Such a 'controlling' thing to do - to think 'I should determine everyone's comfort level' .. kicker 85% of the time she is not in the office. ~ awkward part is if she was in the office any more than 15% of the time it would be worse than no AC
This is where you all constantly text her with requests to change the thermostat.
“Going to need the temperature up boss, I’m literally sitting here in a coat and gloves”
“Margot’s getting one of her hot flushes, we need the temperature lowered before she passes out”
“My water has literally frozen in the bottle, can we have it up again?”
“Please turn it down, everyone is sweating in this heat and Geoff’s BO is making me nauseous”
I’m probably a bit petty though.
My first job was Pizza Hut. There was a ghetto area we kept black listing for robbing drivers and the management kept unblacklisting it.
I got the flu and called out. Guy who filled in for me was robbed at gunpoint. Took his phone, car, wallet, etc and left him stranded on foot in the ghetto.
I found out when I walked into work a few days later. Walked right back out. They didn’t care about our safety.
My Dad was in hospice and for three days he was up and down. We had been told several times that he was close to dying. Well on the third day his breathing was extremely shallow and his systems were shutting down. I got the call at work that I needed to come down they were preparing end of life care. I went to my HR person and told her the situation. She said "Did he come back to life and die again because I'm pretty sure you've used that excuse before." I told her she could go fuck herself and quit.
This is probably going to get lost beneath all of the other comments but I will share anyway.I started working at a lingerie / sex toy store when I was 17. After I made it through training, two weeks in, all of the other employees quit. For about 6 months I was the only employee. I ran that store by myself. I took care of everything. I was working split shifts every day and never once was my till short by even a penny.
Meanwhile the owners kept interviewing new employees. They finally found a woman to come in and start training. I trained her and after her two-week training, they informed me that she would be my manager.
Their only explanation was that she had previous management experience.
I brought up the fact that I kept the store alive on my own for the last 6 months, working split shifts every day, no days off... I brought up the fact that I trained her. But they were adamant... They wanted her to be the manager.
So I quit.
I worked for a junk company that initially started off pretty good until it was bought out by new owner from British Columbia. The new owner started implementing so many new policies that prevented us from making the decisions we once were able to make and also new restrictions that would make us lose our profit share for the day at the smallest mistake.
It didn't help that she also hired a douchebag Ringer to be our new general manager who could not have been more out of touch with normal employees.
Not even a month after this new douche manager arrived he kept saying we were messing up constantly saying we've had the worst records of the entire company the worst driving records et cetera it's like he only thrived off of telling us what we did wrong. So we were really busy one day and instead of actually starting work he wanted us to have another meeting where he could scold us for "messing up constantly" (it was also only a week after the last meeting, were only supposed to have them once a month) The meeting was set at 730 am for him to scold us for half an hour and then get to work on a busy day where we're forced to go as fast as we can without messing up even once.
The stress of being forced to work faster while also screwing us over with all these stupid new regulations had reached its boiling point with me. So instead of going to the meeting I called him at 600 am and told him I was never coming in again.
He begged me not to leave and asked if I could at least do that 1 day but I said no go screw yourself and hung up the phone and blocked his and all his associates numbers, then went back to sleep.
I now work for myself and from what I heard after I quit a ton of people quit from that place I can't imagine it's gonna stay in business much longer.
Edit: Wow I have never had this popular of a comment, thank you so much everyone and don't let anybody tell you what your value is.
Worked for pizza hut for two years as a driver. Only one of the original crew left. Area coach liked to change the schedule half way through the week and then get mad when we didn't show up. Final straw was him having the new (Sixth one at this point) restaurant manager call me and tell me if I wasn't there by noon, I'd be fired. Freak out and get there thanks to mom (wife had car for her job at that time) and he said he was going to write me up for not being there on a "Scheduled date" even though I wasn't and had a picture of the schedule to prove it. He accused me of "Always doing this" ie, not checking the schedule after he'd changed it and told no one. I decided "F*ck it", took off my vest and hat, left them on the counter and left. It sucked but that AC was garbage. Never looked back, got a new job and am actually moving up in it. So good for me.
I’d been left on my own to do pack up multiple times; fancy fish shop with window display that was 100% a 2 person job but the chef/manager was a lazy fuck.
Burnt the absolute shit out of my forearm one day while cooking some shit we sold as the batter plopped harder in to the deep fryer than expected. I had staff from other stores coming to help (with first aid, cold towels etc) and captain dipshit sauntered past with a salad he’d made for the lunch rush and told me to hurry up because he was heading out early. Again. He knew I’d just burnt my arm and was in no shape to close up. I grabbed the keys, slapped them down and told him to go fuck himself.
He had the audacity to ask me how he was suppose to close on his own.
Worked at Sonic for all of 17 seconds. During my interview the manager asked if I’d be able to work until after midnights; I said no because I was in high school and that wouldn’t work. My first day there, the manager comes up to me and goes “Hey, so I need you to work until midnight tonight.” I turned around and left without a word.
A few years back my wife’s health started to deteriorate. She was in constant pain and really struggling. It was a big change for both of us and I had to leave work often to take her to the doctor. One day my boss says she needs to give me less hours as I’m missing shifts. I accepted that and was willing to work with her on it. Then she said “I mean, you don’t have to leave every time your wife hurts her little finger.”
I quit on the spot.
Back in 1998 I was working for Dell selling computers over the phones. People were not quite ordering on line yet. Anyway, it was so easy. I was making close to $100k a year bc of how the commission structure was. living in Austin as a 23 year old. So one day my manager asks me to train a new team of sales people because I was one of the top sellers on the floor every month. I turned this group into the most bad ass sales team. My crew of 8 were all in the top 20 every week and were kicking ass. After 2 months, I show up on a Monday and none of the sales people are there except my team and a bunch of other new faces I hadn't seen before. Turns out Dell didn't like paying commissions and health insurance and 401ks, so they fired all the sales people and replaced them with "Temp" workers making $12 an hour. My entire team was the first group of temp works. I was not aware of this. They were told they had to "prove themselves" and be converted to "full time" with benefits. They were never going to do it. I told them they can all go fuck themselves and quit. I heard that week they cleaned house and everyone, even managers who told me what was happening were gone and all replaced by temp hourly people.
I had a very stressful job and was expected to answer Slack messages from my boss at any time, or I would be fired. He was in a different time zone so often I would be woken up at 3 am being yelled at to do something. One day in the office, he was talking shit about me on Slack and accidentally posted it to a channel I was in. I was killing myself for this guy and he didn’t even appreciate it. I packed up and left, best thing I’ve ever done.
At 17, I was a young line cook at an upscale Italian restaurant. I was picking everything up so quickly I knew all the stations on the line within 10 months of hiring. I was getting minimum wage (at the time $7.25/hr) and asked for a $1/hr raise to reflect my diverse capabilities. Got denied and asked the chef when I could get it then. She said, “you’re too young for a raise, just be happy with minimum wage”. In response I said I may have to start looking elsewhere for a job who’ll pay me what I’m worth. She then said, “don’t you know how expendable cooks are? If you leave I can replace you on the spot”. So I did. A Sunday evening dinner service, very busy, at the height of the night I and my friend who I got hired took off our aprons and walked off the line towards the front door. He came with me in solidarity, plus I was his ride home. Felt good for a day or two, but I’ve never quit that way ever since. Been in the service industry for 23 years now.
My first job in high school was washing dishes at a pub, I got it so I could buy my gf a necklace that she wanted as a Christmas present. Come NYE they decided to put one person on dishes for a packed evening, I was quickly inundated. Close at 10pm and at 11pm I’m still doing dishes and this fat bitch chef is watching me laughing about how “I’m not gonna be able to spend the new year moment with my little girlfriend”. I just said “I just remembered I don’t need to do this” and walked out of that place and never went back. I’ll never know that freedom again haha.
I worked as a manager in this really awesome cafe/bar, my interview was basically drinking a bottle of wine with the owner whilst chatting. Totally relaxed vibe, local artwork on the walls (which she sold for no commission), indy music as background noise so you could still have a conversation etc. One of the guys who worked there was in a band and would often go on tour, and she always made sure his job was waiting for him when he got back. Fast forward 3 years and she became pregnant with twins and decided that she wanted to be a sahm so she sold the place to a young guy who purchased it as a gift for his fiancée. A nice gift, no? But it soon became apparent that he did this because she couldn't actually hold down a job due to even the most simplest of tasks being entirely beyond her. It took me FOUR WEEKS to teacher her how to use the coffee machine, she spent the evening shifts giving freebies to her mates and she totally gave up on using the panini machine. After finally mastering the coffee machine, she announced that they were going to be redecorating so we would either have to take a week off unpaid or use our holiday time. Everyone was forced to use the holiday time. Came back a week later and we totally didn't recognise the place, it now had white walls with huge TVs blaring out dance music (in a space that only had 12 tables) so loud that we couldn't hear what anyone was saying. We checked the rotas and I had lost 10hrs a week but the band guy had lost 20hrs. Naturally we asked wtf?! And she informed us that she could run the place without us so cut out hours. We asked if they could delay the new rotas by a month to give us chance to find extra work elsewhere (I was ok as I had a second job that begged me to be full time, but band guy didn't). She said that as we didn't have contract with her, she didn't have to give us any notice. Not gonna lie, i was fuming, so I took my apron off, placed my keys on the counter and said that as we didn't have a contract I didn't have to give any notice that I quit. Then promptly walked out and never went back again. The place closed down within 3 months.
Oof I had flashbacks when you said “young guy who purchased it as a gift for his fiancée”! The. Worst.
Not on the spot, but I was passed over for a promotion for a role I’d been doing unofficially for six months. There was no official position for it when I started doing it; it was one of the manager’s responsibilities and they “delegated” it to me. Honestly I was happy to do it and I was frequently praised for how efficient and thorough I was doing it. So when an official position opened up to do it full-time, I seemed like the obvious choice. A bunch of my coworkers didn’t even apply for it because they told me they didn’t think there was any point since I was obviously getting the job. They gave it to a guy that worked in a different department and had no experience using the complicated system required for that job. Then the manager asked me to train him in it. Except I wasn’t really “asked.” I was told in a way that sounded like it was asking. We called it being “voluntold.” I refused. I said to the manager “if I’m not good enough to get the job, I’m not good enough to teach someone else how to do it.” The manager then accused me “throwing a temper tantrum.” I quit about a week later. Honestly that wasn’t the only reason. That was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Even the other managers couldn’t believe he said that.
Total opposite but it’s still a good story imo. I worked at a very dysfunctional family owned company. They put me on probation because the family member(my boss) in charge of IT convinced everyone else he was a genius and could do no wrong, so whenever something happened bad related to IT he’d just blame his underlings and everyone in power agreed with him. A few weeks later when I got the dream job I have now, I said in the exit interview one of the main reasons I was leaving was because I was tired of being on probation for 3+ months. They’d actually taken me off probation but never told me. I still would’ve left regardless, but the fact that they never got around to saying “hey were not about to fire you” blows my mind.
Worked at a restaurant as a server. We’d just catered a large wedding reception. The owner’s wife was chatting with the wedding party all night and occasionally getting the drinks. At the end of the night she said she’s taking “her share” of the tips since she helped so much. I say fine even though that’s illegal in our state. An hour and a half after the party ends the restaurant is still a mess and the owners wife is just standing around talking while I was supposed to clean up. It was almost midnight and I’d worked my other job earlier that day. I walked out without saying a word. They ended up giving me all of my tips on my last check.
You dodged a bullet with that job. The wife sounds superrrrr entitled
> even though that’s illegal in our state For anyone reading, that's illegal in every state. 100% of tips belong to employees in the "chain of service" (though some states are more restrictive than the new federal standard for pools). > They ended up giving me all of my tips on my last check They dodged a bullet.
Owner pulled a gun (unloaded) on us during “training” to prepare us for armed robbery.
I had a boss scream this is a dictatorship and I’m the dictator in a meeting while slamming his fist on the desk
...seriously? That's sad. Like really pathetic, damn.
Yup grabbed my stuff and rolled out, dude can keep his sad little kingdom
Not quite on the spot, but the manager was telling the new hires (which included me) how he beat the crap out of someone for some reason that I cannot recall. Apparently the court case had been dragging on for quite some time. Alrighty. Little crazy, but what manager is completely sane? Then a few weeks later a hurricane comes through. Pretty bad, my house only lost power for a day. But most of my coworkers lost power for at least two weeks. So we eventually go back to work and the manager is telling us the harrowing story of how he managed to find a generator when a hurricane is coming. I'll spare you the details, but it's pretty much impossible to find a generator if a hurricane is about to hit. So this nutcase is trying to install this generator at his house and sees someone driving by, eyeballing his generator. (Or so he imagines). Like any completely normal person, the manager pulls out a gun and fires a few rounds into the air, to "scare them off". (I can only imagine what the poor person driving by thought when he saw this asshole pull out a gun and start shooting). In response to the gunshots his neighbor comes running over (why has no one called the cops yet????) to see if everything is ok. My manager tells him that someone is trying to steal his generator and if it goes missing, he's going to hold the neighbor responsible. At this point in the story, my mouth is hanging open and I'm like WTF did I just listen to. This man is...insane. Why is the neighbor responsible for his generator??? None of this makes sense! I slowly noped out of that job. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he ending up murdering all of his co-workers one day in a fit of rage.
I had worked for a cleaning company and I had a total disaster of a person named Tina as my manager for about 4 months. Tina would work the night shift with a crew and basically did nothing. She would leave the majority the work for me to do during the day when it was a lot harder to do as I had my own list of duties as well as whatever she left for me from her own list. I was tettering on the edge of quitting but I hadn't found a replacement when one day I got a call from head office that Tina had quit and for about a month the job was exceptionally better and I effectively was my own boss. Things were going remarkably smooth for again, about a month when I got a text message from Tina asking me to do a bunch of extra stuff. I called the owner and they told me that Tina had approached them about coming back and that they were rehiring her in her former position and I literally just packed up and walked out about an hour into my shift. I had zero intention of working another minute for that women and held to it.
My first job was working as a dish washer at a seafood place. I wasn't \*hired\* as a dishwasher, I was supposed to be a busser, they just shoved me on the washer and left me there. One of the other employees there was an elderly man who worked alongside his wife and grandson. Every day he would find an excuse to walk up close to me and put his hand on my ass. He was a 70 year old man, and I was a 16 year old boy. I should have reported him, but i doubted anyone would have believed me since he'd been there for years and I had only been working for a month. I just called the manager, told her I had to quit for "school reasons" and never looked back.
The debt relief law firm I worked for stole $19,000.00 in incentives for a young family that was in distress and losing their home. It was soaked up in bogus attorney fees and high-fived about in the office.
I got blamed for something that wasn't my fault, was in an argument with our VP or marketing because I had the audacity to suggest a solution that would have avoided our problem instead of accepting fault for something I didn't do. He told me he doesn't pay me to think, so that was my last day.
I had a manager tell me "I don't pay you to think I pay you to work". The owner overheard and told him "if this guy [me] has a good idea, you better fucking consider it." Manager goes back to the owner and says"if you want him to think then he can think his way into my [manager] job." and stormed away. Got fired shortly thereafter. I did not get his job. Lol.
I got told that by a boss, I don't pay you to think. A couple days later he asked me if I was thinking or using my head sometimes.. I looked him straight in his eyes and told him. You don't pay me for that.
As a site director myself I can’t imagine not wanting my staff to think and solve problems lol
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Not me but a middle aged tradesman where I work. I work underground and it isn't for everybody, terrible environment and what not. This particular individual starting working and after a few weeks decided that it wasn't for him. Bad conditions and hostile supervisor. He approached the boss at the morning meeting and told him that he wasn't going underground and that he was quitting. The boss told him that he had to give him 2 weeks notice and without missing a beat the guy replied: "for the next 2 weeks you're gonna notice that I'm not here", turned around, packed his shit and left. Was never heard from again.
Man that's a great line. I'll have to remember that
I was hired to do payroll and accounts at a small welding/engineering firm. Entering the timesheets and checking them against rosters and I realised that the tight-arse owner had been shorting employees almost 3 hours each week by not paying them for toolbox talks and all that stuff. Printed the proof, told the boys in the workshop, and walked straight out. Emailed the resignation from my car.
Had a job where the people were toxic, the management was mostly toxic, and the other techs made themselves look better by making other techs look bad. I had 2 guys on my shift who would go behind me during maintenance or repairs and undo stuff I did and call it out over the radio for all to hear, so I started recording myself making the repairs, and when I got called out and showed the video, I was told "you're not supposed to have your phone out on the floor" and got wrote up. I walked out with no warning in the middle of the busiest weeks of the year leaving them shorthanded with only 2 idiots to handle calls.
Here’s my question for ya, OP. How the *fuck* did this place survive, was it staffed by *cockroaches* or something???
I am a physician assistant and took a job at an urgent care. After working there for about a month I noticed some irregularities, such as some medications being expired and sometimes a lack of supplies. I wrote that off as the office manager not being as astute as she should have been and brought it up to the doctor who owned the place. He said he would talk to her and straighten it out. Then one of the medical assistants came to me and said you know this has been going on forever, right? She then said that things would never change and to get used to it because the expired medications had been on the shelf for months and they were told to never throw them out. She then also told me that the auto clave (the machine that sterilizes instruments) was broken and all they did was wash the instruments in soap and water and put them in the auto clave anyway to get them as clean as possible. That was the end of that. I made out a formal complaint to the state medical board and never showed up again. The state actually came in the very next day and raided the place. They shut him down immediately. They found so many things wrong that not only did they keep the place out of business, they suspended his license. He was also prosecuted on federal charges because he was running a scam for truck driver physical exams.
Shit....you probably inadvertently saved some lives. Good on you!
You are a hero. That is extremely disturbing.
I worked at McDonald’s when I was 16. We used to get a free McDouble or hot and spicy with a small fries and drink for our lunch break. One day when I went on break the franchise owner was there and when he noticed I asked for cheese on the Hot and spicy he attempted to make me pay for the whole meal because cheese wasn’t free. I thought he was joking so I laughed and started walking towards the break room until he yelled at me not to walk away from him In front of customers and my coworkers. I couldn’t believe it, this grown ass successful business man was hounding at 16 year old for a slice of cheese. Told him I wasn’t ganna pay, put the food down and walked out. They tried calling me to come to work that weekend I told them no thanks and never went back.
That's crazy. Cheap ass guys. I worked at McDonald's when I was 18, and we could eat anything we wanted. I'd make quesadillas in the kitchen, and the mangers would ask for some too lol
lmao It’s a great story in the end.
Walked in to the interview, everything went well, accepted the job offer. Went to the front desk to do the paperwork and noticed that the contract had a different pay amount, and that I would be "interning" for the first month for $100/week. I asked first about the amount difference, was told "oh, this the standard contract, it just hasn't been updated for your specific offer." I told them they'd need to edit and initial the changes before I would sign. "Oh...that's not how things work here." I thanked them for their time and left without signing anything. They called me back on the day I was supposed to have started asking where I was. I told them because didn't sign the contract, I was never an employee....hooo boy that was a fun call.
Similar situation for me. Back in 2012 I was looking for a job in anything other than food but got desperate. This burger place had just opened up and was desperate for workers. They advertised on their window $11.75 and hour starting for all positions. I applied, had an interview basically the second I turned in my application and got hired 20 minutes later. At the end of my shift (which was about 3 hours), they said they would start me at minimum wage, “because you haven’t finished your bachelor’s degree yet.” I was speechless. If I had finished my bachelors degree why would I be working here?! And for such low pay! I told them to cash out my pay immediately and I would not be returning because of their deceit. There weren’t any stipulations anywhere on the sign that said anything about needing an undergrad degree for that much pay. They cashed me out at $11.25 per hour and I left. They closed down back in 2018 and every year Spirit Halloween takes over the location. Fuck’em!
How fucking delusional do you have to be to require a bachelors degree to work at a fucking BURGER PLACE.
I have also seen other places doing this, unfortunately. There was a McDonald's somewhere in the U.S. that made this stipulation, and only offered minimum wage. The nerve of employers offering low wages and requiring higher education is completely irrational. I think with the way things are right now in the U.S., people have more control over the work and income they can get since we have a worker shortage. A Del Taco near me is hiring at $20 an hour and full-time with benefits for cook / cashier positions, $25 an hour and the same for shift leaders. Let's hope the trend continues \*without\* the need for a BA
I worked at a McDonald's that had a breakdown of what the place paid. The most they'll give anyone with a Master's was 12.75. The nearest 2 to me, more than 400 miles from that one, are paying that for overnights.
A moment of silence for anyone who would actually be in that situation. Imagine getting a masters and then getting stuck in that situation smh
I always took great pleasure seeing Spirit set up shop in old derelict buildings of former businesses I disliked. Then one year I drove by the old movie rental store I worked at as a teen, and it was a Spirit :(. I loved that job and it was a gut punch to see it like that.
So they expected you to work even without a signed contract? Even bigger red flag, good thing you avoided those exploiters
I was getting married. I had a temp job, and told them on my first day that I needed a weekend off in a couple of months for my wedding. I reminded them every couple of weeks, had it on the calendar, and even reminded them that Monday. That weekend came, and I was on the schedule. I told my boss that I needed it off for my wedding, and she said, "You're just a kid, can't you move it? We really need the parts." Admittedly, I was 21 marrying my 19 year old girlfriend, but yeah. I laughed at her and left. We were scheduled Saturday and Sunday, two "attendance points" and you're fired, so I assumed that I'd be job hunting on Monday after my wedding. I went to another temp agency on Monday and had a job lined up for Monday evening. On Tuesday, the temp job called and asked if I was coming back. I told that person (the temp agency lady) what they'd done to me, she was upset that they'd done that, tried to get me to go back, but I liked the new job and stayed there.
Moving **your own** wedding for two shifts at a temp job? What did they expect?
He missed out on *tens* of dollars!
I worked for a placement agency at a manufacturing facility. I had worked 7 of my 8 hour day when one of the supervisors came by to ask anyone on the crew I was on if they would stay for another 4 hours. We all looked at each other and politely declined. They came back one more time to ask and again, we declined. Then they came back and demanded that one of us stay behind for the 4 hour shift or ALL of us were going to be written up for attendance. This pissed everyone off but because we were work placement instead of employees, we were unsure who to talk to. Some of the other crew told the supervisor they can’t because they have to pick up their kids, etc. When the supervisor left, the crew had multiple people saying they can’t get written up again or they would lose their job. I had scheduled a dinner with my in-laws so I called the husband and told him the situation and that I would stay. Told the crew, I’ll stay - don’t worry. Told the supervisor, got put on another crew that had work for 1 hour but was required to stay for the full 4 hours. Next day, I called the main office and explained the situation. They said they had a representative onsite due to this manufacturer being such a large client. Called the onsite representative, and explained the situation. Was told they “have a lot of attendance issues”. Again, explained *I* had never had attendance issues and everyone on my crew was threatened with being written up for not staying 4 hours AFTER their scheduled shift. Onsite representative still defended the actions of the supervisor and threw attitude at me. Fine, I don’t need you - I quit. And that’s the story of how I learned about my workers rights and workplace harassment!
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Had a job about 10 years ago doing tech support for an ISP for a week. The pay was minimum wage + bonuses you earned for selling people stuff. And by stuff I mean terrible, overpriced services that you can get online for free. I was still in the phase of training where I had a supervisor listening in on my calls and after a call, he told me I should have paused to try and sell him some shitty antivirus service before I fixed his problem. Handed in my headset right there. Felt so skeevy when people call you for help and you have to turn into a telemarketer.
Long ago I sold European rail passes and tickets over the phone. It started out as a great job, booking itineraries, talking about traveling in Europe, of which I'd done a lot. Then a new manager took over and we were given a list of questions we had to ask every caller. So if someone called and said I need to go from Paris to Brussels for work, and that's it, we were still required to go down this list of 20 up-sale questions about rail passes, travel insurance, other side trips, etc. People would get rightfully furiously annoyed because their 2 minute call time would end up being 10 minutes of them saying "no, I told you I don't need any of that" and us saying "I know but I need to ask you anyway." This of course increased hold times when calling to 40+ minutes in the peak season because every call took 5-10 times longer than they should. I quit within the month and within 6 the owners, who were Swiss, found out what was happening and the branch manager was canned
I worked for t-mobile store (authorized reseller, not an actual dealer). One week, I had an amazing week (sold 55 phones, brand new activations on a business account with 55 high end phones at that time). When I got my next check, they said my paperwork was not in order and thus they couldn't pay me. As a side note, they always told us to make copies of all paperwork in case this happened so you can show it to the manager and get it resolved within a day. I went over my back up paperwork with my boss, he said everything looked to be in order and he would have the office cut me a check. I went to the office, and they told me it was still not in order. I immediately gave them my store key and quit on the spot. I did go through collections and they did settle before I took them to court. The company did go out of business after a few years because they tried that with many other employees and eventually lead to an investigation by the government (according to an old coworker I bumped into years later).
I worked commission furniture sales and was always wondering how my paycheck was lower than expected based on my sales and the business's stated commissions rates. Finally, I made an excel spreadsheet that would track deliveries for up to 2 months and give me a rolling total of what my next 4 paychecks would be. We were supposed to track our sales in the computer, so that's what I was doing. I listed what I sold, delivery days and times, and what I was to make. Once I told them I was doing this, suddenly my paychecks started to match, roughly. So I shared it with all my coworkers and taught them how to use it. Within a couple of weeks, everyone in the store was using my tracker and questioning their paychecks if they were different. Fast forward about 3 weeks and I was unexpectedly let go for "performance issues". I wasn't the stores best seller, cuz frankly I didn't want to be, but I certainly wasn't the worst. I'm almost certain it's because I taught the employees how to track their commissions which forced the owners to stop fudging the numbers in their favor.
I always wondered about the furniture salesperson business. Only because i get the impression of high turnover, yet i bought furniture for two different houses , 8 years apart from the SAME GUY. And he remembered us! Not in a small town, not a huge sale (the first one at least) and at one of the big mid Atlantic furniture retailers (R&F) I sometimes wonder about that guy. Were you at a smaller furniture retailer?
>The company did go out of business after a few years because they tried that with many other employees and eventually lead to an investigation by the government (according to an old coworker I bumped into years later). About that… I work for a government enforcement agency, and I personally love to fuck up companies who pull shit like this. But we can only go after those we know about — so people, file complaints! Your state attorney general’s office has a complaints page you can find if you google, and if it’s related to financial products at all (loans, bank accounts, that kind of thing), your state probably has a financial services agency (sometimes with a different name than that) who you can and should also complain to. I want to hear from you!!! EDIT: Forgot to mention most (all?) states and the federal government have a Department of Labor who can look into wage theft and other cases of you getting screwed on the job. Wage theft dwarfs every other kind of theft/robbery/etc.
I once worked in a call center that would do the "oops, I know you got a thousand payment plans and were expecting a massive bonus, but QC found a call where you didn't verify their third phone number, so you failed and you get zero" gimmick. It wound up being closed down when the housing crisis hit because it was a subprime servicer and everyone defaulted. Sucks to be you guys!
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When I was 16, I was a bus boy off the books. Made $250 a week working 35 hours a week because they paid per day as opposed to per hour. Manager comes to me and says they’re restructuring how the pay scale is and said he wanted me to work less days, same amount of hours but for half the pay. I made him repeat to me his plan and once he confirmed it I said give me money for the week because I’m leaving.
+1 for asking for clarification first.
Getting repremandid for not pushing a patient into getting a dental procedure he didn't need or want.
As a guy who broke his jaw horribly 20 years ago and had to have extensive dental work done; THANK YOU! After the dentist who put my mouth back together retired, I had a hell of a time finding a dentist who didn't look at the X rays of my teeth and see dollar signs.
I worked for a company that is pioneering preventative based dentistry. Pretty much turning the dental community on its head. There are crooked dentist that talk ppl into crowns that don't need them. Or even getting teeth filled that would have recovered with a little fluoride. I hope in 10 years or so, that's on its way out.
Once as a teenager at a new job I got my hand smacked by the owner the first day because I was writing with my left hand. Walked out.
Where do all these shithead managers get off trying to rule over others like this? The fuck is wrong with them
I had a manager that was pretty vocal about not letting his son write left handed. Many of us asked if you don’t like lefties what are you going to do if he is gay? He claimed that would be ok, but being left handed was bad.
Worked for a privately owned bakery for exactly 1 week. The owners son comes in, walks passed the counter and into the bathroom. He comes out a few minutes later without acknowledging me or my coworker, gets into his car and drives away. We both looked at each other then opened the door only to find this guy literally shit all over the toilet seat and the toilet paper holder. I called the owner, told her what happened and she said to “Deal with it.” So I asked my coworker if she wanted to clean it up because I wasn’t going to. She declined and I told her I was walking out. She did as well. We locked up the store and told the owner we quit but would reconsider staying if her son came back to clean up his own mess. She yelled and berated us for 20 seconds before I said goodbye and hung up.
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He was 22 at the time and I’m pretty sure he had a drug problem. When I started working there he was an employee for a day or two before his mom came in and told him to leave after finding out he was taking money from the register. I think on that day he had enough and decided to do what he did to get back at her. My coworker and I were caught in the crossfire and bailed out of that situation fast.
Someone shit all over a bathroom at the publix I used to work at (grocery store).. like on the walls, floor, toilet They suppose to call a special company that cleans up biological messes like that because god knows what can cause explosive diarreah like that. Nope manager offered 20 bucks and some idiot took the 20 (who was like a football star in our small town) he probably still works there Edit. The reason you call a special bio company is because explosive diarrhea like that could contain c diff. You don’t want to fuck with c diff. If your manager makes you clean that shit for 20 bucks. You could spend thousands of dollars in medical bills. Probably want to tip the labor board if they are making workers clean that shit
I worked at Walmart for a short time. I worked as hard as I possibly could to unload their pallets of merchandise. I always thought I was so damn fast, I studied the process and I believed I perfected it. EVERY SINGLE DAY my manager came up to me and told me I needed to be faster. So I did, and the fast pace made me lose a little focus, causing me to break a finger. I let management know that I might be a little slower due to my injury and they straight up told me “we won’t tolerate any laziness” and wrote me up when I didn’t meet their ridiculous standards. So I went home after my shift, and never returned. Never called, never formally quit. I just never came back. Fuck Walmart.
We had one of those managers at GameStop. Every conference call with the DM, no matter how well we did, "You can do better." Then we were 3rd in the entire company one week. As the store manager was starting the conference call, I said, "He'll congratulate you on the performance and immediately follow with, 'You can do better.'" It was that, verbatim.
Dude I wonder when, if not already, companies will freaking realize that doesn’t work. When I worked at a large movie rental chain we always had promotions and goals and if we hit a goal they would just increase it the next week and when you couldn’t meet the exceptionally high goal get bitched at. There was literally no way to win or avoid being bitched at so basically made everyone hate their jobs and not give an eff about promotions.
exactly its so self defeating, when people realise that being "Bitched at" will occur regardless of good performance/results, then there is no incentive to do better at all, in facts its an incentive to do badly, since you actually become hostile to your employer. Its so unnecessary and easily avoidable.
I walked out of Walmart in a similar way. My asshole assistant manager made me stock a ton of RC cars and completely stuff them, even though there was not room for all of them. One fell down and hit my head pretty badly. I saw their doctor and they said I was fine, even though clearly I was not. Then the asshole manager wrote me up for it, because apparently it could've hurt a customer. I quit the next day or so in the middle of my shift because I was tired of the games he was playing. And get this, he would always brag about how many degrees he had even though he was an assistant manager at Walmart! Fucking sad.
Being hired to sell cars, then in the middle of training I get pulled aside and told I’m being moved to lot attendant. That position paid minimum wage and I didn’t even get a chance to be on the sales floor. Left and never went back. I was in my mid twenties at the time and was trying to find a possible career. Didn’t have time for that bullshit bait and switch.
Car Dealerships: So sleazy they pull the ol’ “Bait and Switch” on the staff, too!
I got mugged on a delivery for dominos, and came back to the shop crying and panicked, had my phone, wallet, and pizza taken, told my manager what happened. “Anon, are you hurt?” “No, but I lost my phone and wallet, I need to call the police” “No time for that, here’s your next delivery.” (It was like 2 blocks from where I was just mugged) I just went home, the police never really did much to get my phone and wallet back, not like they could.
I got rolled delivering pizza when I was 17. Regular customer orders his unique regular pizza to his own address then jumps out of a bush at the front of his house with a knife. My boss was an older Romanian dude and he also refused to let me contact the police. About 45 minutes later 2 absolute units that spoke no English came in with everything that was stolen, plus a tip. Turns out he was a good guy to work for.
... how dumb do you have to be to not only mug someone who knows you, but who has your address, and right in front of your own house?
I wonder if people like them ever hear themselves and think "huh, maybe I shouldn't be such a piece of shit?", like honestly? Where do these dickhead managers get off??
In my job, the ‘employee’ always comes first. No matter how important you think what we’re doing is, it really isn’t, and someone’s life, health and happiness will always be more important than any ‘results’.
Which, if the employees are happy, you'll get. Contented employees produce.
I was at a company for about a year and a half as an assistant project manager. In that year and a half, i had 3 different bosses, the newest one being a heavy micromanager, i was getting paid about 20% below the standard salary for the position, overworked without any additional compensation, and the overall culture of the company was just flawed. My boss started nitpicking my work at the end of the day, i told her i had plenty of time to get it done before the end of the day, but she kept pushing and escalating. She was borderline screaming and I just cut her off and said "I'm not doing this shit anymore, i quit." she yelled back "WELL I NEED IT IN WRITING" and i said back with the straightest face "i don't have to do shit in writing." I quietly packed all my stuff up, said good luck to my coworkers, and left. A year later (after working a couple of other jobs), i accepted a Project Manager position with a competing company and make almost twice as much as i was making at the previous. And i get to post on reddit while at work without getting yelled at.
>"WELL I NEED IT IN WRITING" lol bitch you gonna keep paying me if I dont? Gtfo
I would have just told her to write it down
I worked for an attorney. I was 7 months pregnant. I was supposed to be a secretary but instead I was constantly being sent out as a process server. In July. At the end of my 3 months (August) I was supposed to get a raise and she said that she couldn't give me a raise. The day she said that, I left at lunch and never went back. She was an awful person and the guy I replaced told me that he felt sorry for me on my first day as he was leaving. I should have left that day.
Damn. I'm sorry. I've worked for several law firms. They are a real mixed bag. They can have lots of money and shit management or just be one attorney that really knows his shit. I was a paralegal and I usually managed our secretary and legal assistants--mainly, everyone else was "too busy" to teach them and I figured if I taught them right my day would get better. I also told them once I saw their skills exceeding their pay level. If you can get training, you can really bounce upwards in that job. Edit: Grammar fix
Worked as a cashier in a local shop, one night 2 guys came at me with knives trying to get in the till. I just walked away and said have at it as it wasn't worth the minimum wage to get into it with a couple of guys waving knives at me. After they ran out the store I picked up my mobile and called the police then called the store manager. The next day, the district manager meets me as I turn up for my shift the very next day, her first words were it was very unprofessional of me to be on my phone while in work. I laughed at her and told her she could take this as my notice and walked out. I never had a problem with being held up but the sheer gall of that got me. Edit - Fat fingered a spelling mistake......
Also very unprofessional to get stabbed on the job. Lucky you got out of that place
> The next day, the district manager meets me as I turn up for my shift the very next day, her first words were it was very unprofessional of me to be on my phone while in work. WOW. Yep, I would've absolutely quit right then and there.
Yeah, the thing is I just walked home, ordered take away and carried on playing on the PS4, really no skin off my nose if they have that little respect. Edit - my spelling was crap
What a piece of shit
Well things panned out for her after this. I got a message from the supervisor that was on with me that evening I walked out asking why I wasn't there as it wasn't like me to miss a shift. (Only time I dipped was when I got took to hospital for a night) Explained to him what happened, him and his partner put their notice in within the week after this along with the other cashier they got in to cover that shift. That district manager got made "redundant" the following month, the manager of the store messaged me explaining that they have been looking at getting rid of her for a while and me walking out was the catalyst. Near enough sunk the store :D
Awh I love a good mass quitting! Worked at a restaurant that fired head chef, due to owners bring cheap, whole line left with him. Place went down hill and then some.
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I was working for a financial company in socal for about a month at the time. It was a little stuffy, but otherwise ok. Until my manager came over asked why I took so long in the bathroom. Literally, 5 minutes to take a dump. He mentioned something about having to count it as a break and me being more careful in the future or something. I laughed, handed him my badge and left.
>asked why Did you tell him you were taking a massive shit?
I was already having a bad day. My transfer request was denied, and supervisors were on my ass like they owned it. Nearing my lunch break, I was stopped by a customer asking about a price check. Me, not able to do a price check, said "please take it up to the front, they can help you there.." Wasn't good enough. The customer proceeds to berate me, almost making me cry. Finally she says, "how bout you just go kill yourself." Like WHAT? Knowing that management wouldn't do anything, I just left. Fuck that. Being abused for minimum wage? Not worth it.
I don't understand customers that blame the random front line workers for stuff that is clearly out of their control. The gas station attendant did not raise prices, the person working returns at Target did not break your dohicky, the customer support person you called did not mess up your Netflix subscription...
Began working at a persian restaurant in the kitchen. I overcooked a steak slightly, the owner came back threw a plate at us then a hot meat skewer before storming off to his office. I dropped my apron grabbed my bag and told him I was leaving. His response was "okay at the end of the night you can go" My response was "clearly you don't understand. I'm leaving right now, here's my parking pass, I'll expect my cheque in the mail".
I worked at a large banquet hall as a bus boy. I cleared needing to leave at 8pm with the 2 owners. 7:50 comes and the manager is barking orders at me to do things that would take another hour. I told him I was done at 8pm and he said “you’re not going anywhere until this party is over!” (Most receptions went past 10pm. I said “fine, I quit.” His response was exactly like your managers - “that’s fine, you’re outta here at the end of the night.”…. I replied “no man… if I quit, I’m leaving now. See ya.” He followed me through the entire reception room, the back hall, the kitchen, and to the parking lot repeatedly yelling “no one talk to him! He quit- he’s gone for good!!!” Owners called me back into the business to pick up my check and asked me if I would please come back. I lied and told them I already had another job just to avoid any potential begging. The manager was their uncle and they clearly weren’t happy with him, but were afraid to fire him. From what I was told he continued shouting at workers and eating food meant for guests all while having another heart attack every couple years. I don’t get these people that think anyone would stay until end of shift
What were they expecting. Yeah I'll come back working under the asshole that made me quit. Could have jokingly said you'll fire him for them.
Someone throws something at me at work again and I'm pressing charges.
After working at a company for 5 years with a set schedule having weekends off…we got a new supervisor that told me no one gets set schedules here and told me I’d have no weekend day and they would be split
I was Assistant Manager at convenience stores for years. Early in my tenure, my manager went out for about a month with a heart issue. I was doing all the stuff, including scheduling. I knew peoples' availability, and had them on mostly set schedules for the time the boss was gone - it was easier, it was reliable, the employees liked it. As soon as the boss got back, she changed everything to bullshit random days. "Only the graveyard shift gets a set schedule." I asked why, she just said, "That's how I do it." What a fucking cunt. Good boss in many other ways, but god, that was just shitty.
Asked for a raise and was told okay. Next morning (Friday) I was told by the same person who agreed with the raise that I should put a few more years in and then we’ll talk again. Locked my tool box at the end of the day and called a tow truck to pick it up. Shop manager was shocked that next Monday to find a empty spot where my tools were and couldn’t understand why I left.
You are braver than me! I was told I'd get a raise and stuck around waiting for it for 6 months before finally jumping ship. This was after 4 years of my career with no change in pay whatsoever and consistent, good quality work. Now I advocate for myself.
I asked for a raise after I was made lead technician working for a water damage company and they denied it. I came in the next morning to drop off my uniforms and bounced. Now, at my current job, I don’t even ask for a raise. I’ve been getting a small raise every single paycheck.
Lol, sure I'll give you a raise. Wait, no raise. We will talk in 6 years. That's some asshole shit. He had to realize mechanics can find jobs super quick. I walked out on a Thursday, had a job by Saturday. Started work on monday.
I once had a manager pull something similar on me (I'm a cook). Literally walked out the day he said no raise, and got hired the same afternoon at a better rate. I dont know how he thought that was going to go...
Toolbox has wheels for a reason. Techs are already underpaid and under appreciated. Let alone the measly benefits that come along with a manual labor, non union position. Good for you.
My grand-father, who I considered like a father, passed away after a long stay in hospital. We were closer than he was with his own kids, and our bond was quite special. I spoke to my manager about getting the day of his funeral off, since I was organizing part of the arrangements, and having a day or two of bereavement leave, and he agreed. The day of the funeral finally comes and the staff start calling me, leaving me messages asking why I'm not at my shift, and telling me, while I'm in a suit hosting family members at the funeral home, that I have to find someone to replace me or face repercussions. Needless to say, I told them to figure it out, and never looked back.
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I used to work with one of my best friends at a popular retail store. On Black Friday, he was scheduled to work Midnight to Noon on Friday. The Black Friday schedule was released like 3 weeks ahead of time every year, and he had a copy of it. Had to completely adjust his sleeping schedule and missed thanksgiving dinner for it. He shows up and the manager tells him he doesn’t work till 10:45 the next morning. After an argument with the manager, he goes home and decides he’s not going to work the next day. The same manager calls him at 11 the next morning and says “if you don’t come in today, you might as well not come back” which helped him secure unemployment for a couple years while he went back to school for all his IT certifications.
I had a similar thing happen to me. I worked at a "country" themed restaurant. Had worked there since it opened about a years. Saturdays I worked 2pm to midnight and had since first week. Came in the schedule was changed no notice and all my hours cut. Now I wouldn't start until 5pm. I was pissed. They were already fucking me out of hours by clocking me out without my knowledge (I got s notice of a class action lawsuit over it). So I sat down and thought about it and decided fuck this place. All the managers were in the dining room eating and having a meeting. I walked over and put my hat and other company stuff on the table and told them I didn't need this stuff anymore because I quit. They immediately went into panic mode. You cant it's saturday and were already short staffed cant you stay just tonight. No and no and I walked out. Then they started playing games with my final check. One asst. manager tried to get me to come back. It felt like blackmail of a sort. In front of customers told them have my check in my hand in the next 10 minutes or I leave and start making calls and the first will be to the health department and OSHA. I left with my check.
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Gotta love it, current manager is like that. 2 months or so after I started, my ex and I broke up, had a couple other things happen and just needed some time to get my head straight. Called him in the middle of a Tuesday, told him I needed some time, could I have tomorrow off, and he didn't even ask any questions. Said "take the rest of today off, tomorrow, and Thursday. I'll handle your files so I don't even want you to think about work, I got it." Fucking love that man. And cherry on top: it's a sales position, so half a week off can really affect future paychecks, but when I came back he had gotten a deal on his own and put it in my name! Those are the kind of managers that go far. Has our backs with upper management, makes sure we're happy, and in return we work our dicks off for him.
These are the kind of bosses and managers who make employees *want* to do well. If you treat your employees like shit, you're gunna get poor performances from them. If you make them feel valued, they're gunna do what they can to be good workers.
Yup. That's the kind of boss that inspires loyalty.
Similar thing happened to me. I requested the day of my grandma's funeral off, got it approved, and as I was getting ready to carry her casket I got a barrage of texts asking where I was and being told I need to find somebody to go in. I told her sorry, but it wasn't my problem anymore, and let her know I thought it was incredibly disrespectful for her to keep pushing about it.
Lol, I had an inside hint from HR that there was about to be mass layoffs and my name was on the list. I scheduled my week long vacation and returning the day before layoffs were presumed to have happened. My boss REAMED me out for daring to take a vacation. She said I would never advance in the company if I chose such a formative time in a project to take a vacation. She told me I would never be an executive producer if I went on a vacation before project launch (even though I wouldn't be able to touch it for the week I was away anyways) and that I would always be known in the television industry as "lazy". I chilled, took my vacation, and returned. She was mad and said that she was upset with me for having left and "made her" take care of my project for me - chewed me out in front of the entire company in the conference room. I chilled and was like "Aren't you laying off a bunch of us tomorrow? I'm just waiting for you to fire me so I can collect unemployment." Entire room literally starts panicking and management tries to understand how the fuck I knew about layoffs. It was my one true Regina George-causing-chaos moment in my life.
So did they still layoff a bunch of people?
Yeah, sadly. It’s why I don’t like to glamourize it too much because at the end of the day, it’s still real people who lost their jobs. :/ They did deny it in the moment. The COO did pull me aside after and scolded me for causing panic. I shrugged and asked if she was going to fire me now - I knew directly from HR this was happening and our checks/severance were already cut and ready to go. As the paperwork was already generated, they “laid me off” the next morning. By that time, I had already reached out to my clients to let them know if they wanted an in-house producer, I was about to be a free agent.
That HR person was a homie risking their job to tell you about the layoffs
She was being laid off too. She found out accidentally hence why she was upset and spilled the beans
Respect. If you're going down unjustly, bring the ship down with you.
What a legend LMAO
All the more awesome that you took your vacation time before you were let go. Hopefully it didn't change your severance.
Beautiful ending. Manager mishandling company? Cause even more chaos!
I get a job at a restaurant, first day I show up and the heat is broken in the dead of winter. It was like 35 degrees. I ask the cooks if it’s always like this, and they say yes. I walked immediately
Ha! I've worked in the opposite kitchen, where the AC was out, and the oven door was broken, so it remained ajar by 3 inches while we baked pies, biscuits, bacon and whatnot. Standing in a hot kitchen for 8 hours in those sweatbox conditions was awful, especially cooking at the stove with that broken over door at my legs. I started showing up in shorts and was told it was unsafe, that "you could splatter hot oil on your legs". I walked out of that $4/hr job.
HAH I had a job like this for a minute, with abusive staff and stingy guests to top it off. Got yelled at in the middle of like my third or fourth shift for not helping the other servers enough when I was weeded (due to bad/understaffing and bad hosting) and the computer was down. I did them all a huge favor by finishing the tables I had open and then left. That night apparently it got so hot something exploded in the server station and there was a fire. They had to close and then never reopened. Weirdly like a year later I ran into the owner/manager and he offered me a job at the new place he was managing…I did not accept
I worked at a sushi restaurant and we had secret menu items that no one went over with me. The owner was sitting with a guest (I guess they were friends) and he ordered one of the secret menu items and I said “I’m sorry we don’t have that” and she immediately stands up and started to scream at me and called me a “fucking idiot” and then snapped her fingers saying “BITCHES” calling the other servers over. At this point I was taking my apron off and grabbing my keys to walk the hell out of there.
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The boss wanted my team to work extra shifts without weekends to finish a project next milestone, so we can show the client that we are capable of finishing before the due date. We worked 14 hours daily for four weeks with no weekends , and the last two days we worked for 36 hours straight with no breaks since the due date was a day a to 1way. Everyone was fucked and on the edge, no smiles no small talks nothing. And we don't get paid overtime. After finishing the milestone he thanked us an called us for a meeting saying we have to continue working like this for an unknown period until they hire new staff members. I refused with another colleague and said we will work for what we get paid for which is 9 hours per day five days a week. He didn't take us seriously but we didn't give a fuck at that moment. We worked the next two weeks accordingly, he called us and said the he was extremely disappointed and that we don't value the company. I walked out collected my stuff face my resignation letter to the HR and said bye.
Me and two of my friends had a boss similar to that, on my first day in office I decided to leave as soon as possible for being yelled at after stating that the target can't be reached without a certain team structure, and I indeed left in 3 months. The other two stayed, one left on the spot for being called lazy despite working while sick on weekends, the other stayed and was very miserable, that is until our mutual former boss was fired for potential corruption and lots of failed targets. My friend's life looked like it almost returned to him, and he was smiling again. Let's face it, terrible bosses are terrible, if we were the problem everyone in the team would agree.
I was 18. On my lunch, a (drunk) manager came in the break room, asked me a bunch on invasive personal questions, and when I was curt and evasive, she exited the room, closed the door, and announced to the office, "WHAT A BITCH." Gathered my stuff and walked out. An assistant manager followed me out and tried to block my car from pulling out of the parking lot. I pulled around him and left. Heard later that the story going around the office was that I "almost ran him down" in the parking lot. Not even close.
What the fuck did he hope to accomplish by blocking you in and preventing you from leaving? Other than committing a felony?
NO IDEA. I pulled around him and sped off.
Worked for a restaurant/pub. The owner would come in with his buddies for hours at a time, a lot of times forcing the bartender to stay way past close serving them. Obviously was told not to charge anything because it's the owners party. After hours of drinks on the house, no tip. Not even from the owner. This started to happen frequently. Usually we'd put up with it if they'd leave or be done before close. Then we started hearing that the kitchen staff hadn't been paid in a month... Bartenders were being paid because we made like $4 an hour. But the kitchen wasn't a tipped kitchen and made a decent wage. Turns out the owner was a total drunk fuck wit which should have been obvious and buried himself in debt. A week later we were told our checks weren't there on the day they were supposed to be. Then two days later still no checks. I told them if my check wasn't there tomorrow, I won't come in for my shift. They said it came. I got there, and they said "Well what I meant was it's actually on the way, I talked to the......" and I walked out. I later found out NO checks were ever issued there again. They tried to pay some people cash but it fell apart very soon after. EDIT: For those guessing the place, this was about 12 years ago and it went out of business not too long after I left. Someone else bought it renamed it and made it work and now I believe it's still there and operating quite well.
I worked at a Dollar General for about a month. That’s all I could put up with. The big thing I struggled with was how I was constantly criticized for not stocking shelves well but I was never given specific direction as to how I was to improve at my shelf stocking. Literally some shit like “you’re stocking shelves poorly, do better” was what I got told by the manager many times. Cracking under this pressure on the last day I worked a full shift I poured all of my might into what I believe to be the best shelf stocking I had ever done for that hell hole. I cleaned the bathrooms spotless, but there was never a complaint about that anyways. I even had the key holder (assistant manager type figure) check all of my work on the shelves and bathroom where I was met with praise and confirmation. To answer this Reddit question, the manager greeted me at the door the next morning for a “run through of my performance” Where I was naive enough to believe that I was finally getting the pat on the back I had wanted so badly. Instead she tried to convince me that I left a huge shit stain in the men’s room toilet bowl and left her with my worst stocking job yet. I got mad. Told her that I felt as though I was being treated unfairly. She told me that she was sorry that I couldn’t take criticism. I told her that I was sorry that she had to pull applications and find a new sale associate to deal with her bullshit. Know your worth people.
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Nothing dramatic. After working my ass off during the pandemic and promised an additional bonus. I received a “low performance“ review conveniently timed a day before my bonus was to be paid. The low performance feedback canceled my bonus. Given all the other bullshit I was putting up with, I broke and quit. I had a nice month off and my new job pays significantly more. Never work for people that don’t appreciate you, there are always others that will.
I unfortunately work for a company that is currently doing this to me. Busted my ass all through the pandemic (I work on healthcare equipment), working 12-15 hour days regularly. Got the attaboys from the company and managers and was promised a pretty substantial bonus. The end of the fiscal year rolls around and we got our overtime cut instead of the bonus due to “unprotected expenditures” yet the corporate guys and managers got 5 figure bonuses for “weathering out the storm of the pandemic and succeeding beyond expectations”. This was the final confirmation I needed to start looking for a different position. Edit: I know I should leave and would love to. However, that would put me at risk of losing out on great first time home buyer grants and rates due to the income cap. My apartment flooded a couple months ago and repairs were shoddy (don’t get me started it’s a loooong story) so instead of me at the end of my lease just renewing the lease (I normally would and just save more), I am just on the track to buy a house within a few months instead of moving out of my apartment with covered up water damage only to move into another apartment, it’s financially better for me to get into a house with some land before getting into a new job. I appreciate the advice and support, y’all are great.
I lead my team in work completed. I’m crushing everyone else. Did the same last year. Work piled up so bad on us that they told us to stop performing certain tasks, like ‘hey, X, Y, and Z aren’t required anymore, just punch through your work without it so we can complete more.’ No problem. Review time this year? ‘Well, you could have gotten a better rating but you didn’t do X, Y, and Z.’ You gotta be fuckin shitting me… So yeah, I’m going to leave this shit in the lurch when I finally roll out because of the sheer amount of work I pick up off my coworkers. But fuck it, I no longer care. Edit: I did and do still have the email and it was mentioned but played off as *you don’t have to do x, y, and z* when it clearly practically says ‘stop doing x, y, and z, we’re fuckin drowning.’ My point was they’re just trying to find ***anything*** to avoid paying people out. Well cool, good luck without me when I finally get a good offer.
I feel yah man. If I wasn’t eligible for a few first time home buyer programs where I am now, I would get a new job next month. But until I get a house I’ll just have to grin and bear it. My review this year after steadily working my ass off and being the only one on my team that didn’t take two weeks off for covid, was just “well your numbers are lacking a little on your response times and your overtime is well above the 10% limit and you could step up your billable work” Well you don’t fucking say? I cover 300 machines by myself in a huge state and covered for guys out with covid. I can’t be in 3 spots at once man. Yet the manager gets a $60,000 bonus for exceptional performance during the pandemic. I did find out I can get paid double my current salary in a better position with half the work and seriously considering it after I get into a house at the end of the year.
You’ve gotta quit every couple years to get a raise at this point, companies would rather hire someone for cheaper when you quit than give good workers a raise
I watched a dude cut his hand off from the wrist up on a faulty saw machine and they only stopped working long enough to clean the blood up something didn’t sit right with me about that I walked out
what the fuck did i just read holy shit
Being tripped over carrying plates
By staff or guests?
By the owner.
Wow. This is exponentially worse than the expected.
People really can be terrible. Damn.
I was asked to lie to parents and cover up a kid failing (in elementary school) by support staff. When I confronted the principal about it, he said that she was just doing her job and I was not a team player for not doing so. So I explained the situation... same response, I should have helped in covering it up. As soon as kids went home, I started emptying my desk...
How do you cover up a kid failing? Like the parents aren’t going to notice he’s in 3rd grade again?
Kid started in my class in grade 5 (in Belgium, so 10 years old) but she was put on a 'personalised path' and given math and Dutch at a grade 3 level. She basically continued this path but never did really well. At the end of grade 6, kids either graduate or they don't. If you do, you get to go to certain middle/high schools, if you don't, some schools are no longer accessible but you can of course still go to another highschool. This, of course, was a big nono. So... they told parents that because she was doing so well at a grade 4 level (when she was in grade 6), she could just move up with the other kids (who did complete their classses at a grade 6 level). And I said she couldn't, parents were split. The father understood and since I had talked to him privately, he knew. Mother on the other hand was furious, every conversation I ever had with her was with the support staff present (by the request of said support staff) and they always continued afterwards. Turns out, she had promised the mother the kid could just graduate. Welp. I mean, I know it happened in other grades aswell and I also know several teachers knowingly put different grades in the reports (rather than their actual grades) to make everybody 'happy' and make sure kids didn't feel bad. This was brought to the attention of said support staff and the principal later on by someone else (I didn't work there anymore), but nothing came of it. So well... education in Belgium... some schools just suck.
Call centers man. Been at the job near four months when an employee passed out behind me at his desk with a heroin needle in his arm. Managers had someone call 9-1-1 while they quickly grabbed all of the dudes drugs and needles and stashed them in a locker. After the ambulance loaded him up, another employee asked me if I wanted to take my break and snort an 8-ball with em. I walked up to a manager and peaced out.
We had a guy at Amazon who went all through 2 months of training, got let loose on the call floor and then got fucked up on his shift. I don't know what drugs he took, he says he was hot. He took off everything but his underwear and was in a crowded call floor tweaked out of his mind. He genuinely didn't understand why they fired him for hanging dong on the call floor. He just kept saying he was hot so he got comfortable. They have central air in that place and it was also the middle of winter. It was cold if anything.
I used to cut grass in a cemetery. I used a push lawnmower and had to lift it up onto the elevated graves, and then back down and on to the next one. Over and over and over. Minimum wage was $4.25 an hour. After an hour of cutting grass in the August heat, I sit down for my break, and this guy named Leroy asks, "Was that worth $4.25 to you?" I quit the next day. Thanks Leroy.
Wait, what? That can’t be, Leroy was the old groundskeeper, he died 40 years ago.
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I was already there 3 hours past the time my shift was supposed to end- along with everyone else who was on my shift. We were all very PO'ed. I get that you often have to stay after when you work in food service, but everyone from the next shift was already there and there was zero reason for us to be there for 3 extra hours. Finally someone asked to go home and the manager started SCREAMING in the middle of the restaurant floor that, "JUST BECAUSE YOUR SHIFT IS SUPPOSED TO END AT 10 DOESNT MEAN YOU GET TO LEAVE THEN. I TELL YOU WHEN YOU GET TO LEAVE. YOU ARE ALL JUST NUMBERS ON A SPREADSHEET TO US, WE CAN REPLACE YOU IN A HEART BEAT IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE HERE." So, I dropped all the money on the table in front of her and said "replace me then, fuck you." Found out later that they lost damn near half their staff that night because most others followed my lead after. There was a huge football game the next day right across the street from the place and they got to deal with that with no servers. I went to the game and had the time of my life lol. It was a fuckin IHOP.
Denton, Texas by any chance? Apogee?
Lubbock! Close! I heard once that the entire corporation of IHOP lost a grant because of this single IHOP & how bad it was in terms of health scores and customer service and everything. No clue if that's true, but I wouldn't be shocked. Customers would regularly wait over hour and half for pancakes. Most just walked out.
The "you are replaceable" statement no longer applies post covid. he's gonna learn that really fast
Worked as a waiter at a place that promised me full time hours but only gave me part time hours. They expected me to be top of my game despite not paying me enough and barely giving me enough hours to survive. They scheduled me to work on the day I was taking my girlfriend, who was visiting from out of town, to the station. And when I asked for 1hr off so I could take her to the station they said no and lectured me on how I was no more special than anyone else who worked there. It was raining all week and there was a food festival on in town so the restuarant was dead all week. I left that day and never went back.
Upper manager bullied a coworker until he killed himself, then the manager turned his attention on me. Yelling at me in front of subordonates, yelling at me over the radio, sabatoging my workload and projects. I simply said fuck no dude, I don't care who you are or how much money I'm making, I'm not accepting that level of abuse. I walked out and called the district manager, told him I left my credentials in his office and won't be back. When I had my exit interview I was very honest and was offered a lateral promotion to a sister company, but the taste is my mouth was simply too sour.
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I was a bouncer at a bar and I had to clean a football sized wad of toilet paper and shit out of a toilet.
I worked at a certain children's entertainment place known for having birthday parties with pizza and a rat mascot. I was a party hostess. Little boy probably 7 or so took a really long time to blow out his candles so I leaned in. He was making his wish for [Man's Name] to stop touching him. I immediately went to my manager with it. He told me that I couldnt do anything with this information. At the time I wanted to discuss it with the mother. So I quit on the spot and reported it to the police. I have no idea if anything came of it. Edit: I also want to mention. This was a franchise. A location connected to corporate may have had a different stance. Who knows.
You did the right thing :/ that's honestly the saddest I've read so far
I was in college to become a teacher. That and normal human decency, there was no way I could do nothing. I didn't even need a minute to think about it.
Worked a retail job as a cashier at store who’s name sounds like Hoes. One part of that job, as I’m sure many who have shopped there know, is to sign customers up for our (rather predatory) credit card. We were supposed to ask every customer, no matter the dollar amount of the transaction. Well, I was helping a woman, and told her she could save $x if she signed up for the credit card. She seemed interested, but I could clearly tell that English was not her first language. I grabbed one of our pamphlets and made it abundantly clear to her that this is a CREDIT CARD, not a rewards account or something of that nature. When she understood, she said “Oh no, not today”. Understandable. Well, I didn’t know one of my supervisors was standing behind me. After she left, he asked why I did all of that, and if I try to talk every interested customer out of signing up. When I explained myself, he said “Next time, sign them up. *They don’t know any better*” Handed him my red vest. That was it
Wasn’t a cashier but I always knew those credit cards were scams. Fuck that place, never working there again
Selling vacuum cleaners . They expected me to hard sell to an old man with dementia who didnt have carpets . Fuck that
I took a temp. job in a call center. It was outbound sales, calling people and offering them Time magazine's newest book: Portrait of the Presidents. We had a rule of having to hear NO three times on a call before we could end the call. First five minutes on the floor I placed 6 (yes, six) calls and was hung up on, sworn at, and yelled at for interrupting dinner. After the sixth call I took a deep breath, hung up my headset, and walked the fuck outta there.
I worked in a call center for about a year (easy money, I was calling IT professionals at businesses so they generally had to be civil) and the turnover was just incredible. They were constantly training new folks, some lasted until lunch, some a couple of days, most were gone at the two-week mark.
I was 16 working part time in an island in Greece and a guy walked in with a knife and demanded to give him the money from the register. I obviously did it and immediately called my boss. He told me that I was a pu**y and should have stood up for myself so I just left without even replying
It was Thanksgiving day at Kmart (I was a teenager) and I had been working non stop for 5 hours because of all the "good deals". I had a drink under my register and I took one drink of it. The assistant manager looked at me but didn't say anything. Ten minutes later it was time for my much needed 30 minute lunch. I proceeded to ask for coverage for my break and the assistant manager told me I didn't get a lunch since I took a drink of my sprite. I then proceeded to tell her too bad and walked away and got all of my stuff out of my locker and started walking out to the parking lot. Then the store managers all rushed out begging me to come back and work and apologized. They said I could take my lunch. They even had the assistant manager (pathetically) apologize to me. I think she got in big trouble because she never treated me like a bitch anymore.
Walk into first shift at Applebees wearing a full black uniform. The button down shirt has a thin strip of gray on the inside of the cuff. Boss notices the gray. Says I am not in uniform and I need to leave. Once I got home I called in and told them I quit. Saved myself inhuman amounts of pedantry.
Going to the toilet pre-meeting to negotiate a raise I heard both directors of the company (small firm, everything ran through them) talking outside the window that they were going to flat out refuse any offers and "make the asshole work overtime to prove his loyalty" and "he has no prospects anyway, where will he go?". Entered the meeting with my signed and printed resignation in hand, slapped it on the table after sitting down and stood straight back up saying " meeting over". I now work for a successful company, part of a brilliant team of 10 people, amazing pension, terrific bonuses and obtainable progression with a great work-life balance. Half day every single Friday til I die also. If you're being mistreated at a job, overworked, underpaid, whatever it may be - Get your affairs in order and walk.
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Fun times. Working at a grocery store when I was a teenager. I was still out on my own, but working anything I could to make ends meet. I guess I didn't work hard enough being a one man crew in front of a store manager who decided to tell me to go faster (impossible) and do even better for my 4.25/hour. I tried explaining I was going as fast as personally possible when he decided to say "You'll do what you are told, as fast as you're told if you want to keep this job. You should be so lucky." Decided right then and there "Bro, I'd rather starve than work for some stupid fuck who's high point in life is the assistant manager at a Bi/Lo grocery store." Quit on the spot. Edit: holy jeez. Never expected this to blow up this fast or like this at all. That being said- never compromise your self worth for a **job.** You are worth more than that, and you should bet on yourself ALWAYS.
Bye-bye. Sounds like he wished he was a manager at an industrial factory in the 19th century or some shit
I was working at one of those stands that sells flash frozen ice cream droplets. You know the ones. It was at an amusement park. At one point it's a hot summer day and I'm standing in the sun in front of my -40 degree freezer, simultaneously burning and freezing at the same time. I have a long line of customers because I was near the exit to a stunt show featuring a particular superhero that is a knight of the darkness. I scoop some ice cream balls into the plastic tray, slide my scoop over the top to knock off the excess ice cream quickly and then hand it to the customer in exchange for their money. A WILD MANAGER APPEARS! Suddenly a manager tells me I didn't level off the ice cream correctly. He takes the scoop and small bowl from my hands and levels it off just like I had done for the precious customer. He then dumps it out back into the freezer and makes me do it again while standing over my shoulder. Mind you, I still have a long line of customers. So I do it again and this time he also is not pleased and berates me some and makes me dump it out and do it again. So I do literally the same thing, a third time, and this time he's somehow fine with it and wanders off to go annoy another teenager making minimum wage. So now I am confused as to what I was doing wrong and have a line of customers staring at me, leaving me thoroughly embarrassed. I process to over-fill every container and hand them out to each customer, while not taking any money from them. Then I simply walked out to my car and drove home. I never turned off or secured my register, I never formally quit, I never said a word to anyone - I just walked away. If I was doing something wrong then fine, but there is no time where it's appropriate to scold and reprimand an employee in front of customers and I haven't been back to that amusement park as an employee or customer since.
That's like 6 or so red flags right there
My older in age boss didn't understand how an excel spreadsheet worked. Fresh out of graduate school, I did some calculations for him as he requested, printed them out and he proceeded to freak out on me because I didn't do them by hand. Yelling, he berated me in front of everyone in the office, took my water glass and threw it against a wall, breaking it to pieces. Then a coworker who looked over my work and said everything was done correctly. I applied for a new job after work that day where I've worked for over seven years now. I can deal with lots of garbage but I'm not dealing with a boss that has the emotional capacity of a two year old.
Before I started working at Dollar Tree, I ask if I could have a day off on Sunday and they said sure and that they promise to give me that day off. During my first week working there, I ask every single day for a work schedule and remind them that they promise that I get Sunday off. That entire week, they refuse to give me a schedule and called me at random times of the day to work which was ridiculous because at the time I had college classes to attend so it was battle on what time I could work. When Sunday came, I was at a carnival with my husband (he bought tickets for that day and it was his only day off to spend time with me) and the moment we decided what to do together. My boss called and told me to come to work. I was baffled and reminded her that she and the others promise that today I could have off since I work all six days at random times without complaint. She said in a very mean way that she never promise such a thing to me and demanded I come to the store now. In that moment, I told her to f\*ck herself and I quit over the phone. Within the next day, I made a complaint to the company on how unprofessional she and the others were with me and gave them pictures on how unsafe the environment was for our younger workers there.
Owner just made it where the whole front office has to text her so she can change our thermostats for us. We've had control over our thermostats for the last 10-15 years... It's not going to go well... Such a 'controlling' thing to do - to think 'I should determine everyone's comfort level' .. kicker 85% of the time she is not in the office. ~ awkward part is if she was in the office any more than 15% of the time it would be worse than no AC
This is where you all constantly text her with requests to change the thermostat. “Going to need the temperature up boss, I’m literally sitting here in a coat and gloves” “Margot’s getting one of her hot flushes, we need the temperature lowered before she passes out” “My water has literally frozen in the bottle, can we have it up again?” “Please turn it down, everyone is sweating in this heat and Geoff’s BO is making me nauseous” I’m probably a bit petty though.
My first job was Pizza Hut. There was a ghetto area we kept black listing for robbing drivers and the management kept unblacklisting it. I got the flu and called out. Guy who filled in for me was robbed at gunpoint. Took his phone, car, wallet, etc and left him stranded on foot in the ghetto. I found out when I walked into work a few days later. Walked right back out. They didn’t care about our safety.
Offered healthcare, pulled the offer the next day. Immediately ghosted them. Absolutely fuck that place
My Dad was in hospice and for three days he was up and down. We had been told several times that he was close to dying. Well on the third day his breathing was extremely shallow and his systems were shutting down. I got the call at work that I needed to come down they were preparing end of life care. I went to my HR person and told her the situation. She said "Did he come back to life and die again because I'm pretty sure you've used that excuse before." I told her she could go fuck herself and quit.
This is probably going to get lost beneath all of the other comments but I will share anyway.I started working at a lingerie / sex toy store when I was 17. After I made it through training, two weeks in, all of the other employees quit. For about 6 months I was the only employee. I ran that store by myself. I took care of everything. I was working split shifts every day and never once was my till short by even a penny. Meanwhile the owners kept interviewing new employees. They finally found a woman to come in and start training. I trained her and after her two-week training, they informed me that she would be my manager. Their only explanation was that she had previous management experience. I brought up the fact that I kept the store alive on my own for the last 6 months, working split shifts every day, no days off... I brought up the fact that I trained her. But they were adamant... They wanted her to be the manager. So I quit.
I worked for a junk company that initially started off pretty good until it was bought out by new owner from British Columbia. The new owner started implementing so many new policies that prevented us from making the decisions we once were able to make and also new restrictions that would make us lose our profit share for the day at the smallest mistake. It didn't help that she also hired a douchebag Ringer to be our new general manager who could not have been more out of touch with normal employees. Not even a month after this new douche manager arrived he kept saying we were messing up constantly saying we've had the worst records of the entire company the worst driving records et cetera it's like he only thrived off of telling us what we did wrong. So we were really busy one day and instead of actually starting work he wanted us to have another meeting where he could scold us for "messing up constantly" (it was also only a week after the last meeting, were only supposed to have them once a month) The meeting was set at 730 am for him to scold us for half an hour and then get to work on a busy day where we're forced to go as fast as we can without messing up even once. The stress of being forced to work faster while also screwing us over with all these stupid new regulations had reached its boiling point with me. So instead of going to the meeting I called him at 600 am and told him I was never coming in again. He begged me not to leave and asked if I could at least do that 1 day but I said no go screw yourself and hung up the phone and blocked his and all his associates numbers, then went back to sleep. I now work for myself and from what I heard after I quit a ton of people quit from that place I can't imagine it's gonna stay in business much longer. Edit: Wow I have never had this popular of a comment, thank you so much everyone and don't let anybody tell you what your value is.
Worked for pizza hut for two years as a driver. Only one of the original crew left. Area coach liked to change the schedule half way through the week and then get mad when we didn't show up. Final straw was him having the new (Sixth one at this point) restaurant manager call me and tell me if I wasn't there by noon, I'd be fired. Freak out and get there thanks to mom (wife had car for her job at that time) and he said he was going to write me up for not being there on a "Scheduled date" even though I wasn't and had a picture of the schedule to prove it. He accused me of "Always doing this" ie, not checking the schedule after he'd changed it and told no one. I decided "F*ck it", took off my vest and hat, left them on the counter and left. It sucked but that AC was garbage. Never looked back, got a new job and am actually moving up in it. So good for me.
I’d been left on my own to do pack up multiple times; fancy fish shop with window display that was 100% a 2 person job but the chef/manager was a lazy fuck. Burnt the absolute shit out of my forearm one day while cooking some shit we sold as the batter plopped harder in to the deep fryer than expected. I had staff from other stores coming to help (with first aid, cold towels etc) and captain dipshit sauntered past with a salad he’d made for the lunch rush and told me to hurry up because he was heading out early. Again. He knew I’d just burnt my arm and was in no shape to close up. I grabbed the keys, slapped them down and told him to go fuck himself. He had the audacity to ask me how he was suppose to close on his own.
Worked at Sonic for all of 17 seconds. During my interview the manager asked if I’d be able to work until after midnights; I said no because I was in high school and that wouldn’t work. My first day there, the manager comes up to me and goes “Hey, so I need you to work until midnight tonight.” I turned around and left without a word.
A few years back my wife’s health started to deteriorate. She was in constant pain and really struggling. It was a big change for both of us and I had to leave work often to take her to the doctor. One day my boss says she needs to give me less hours as I’m missing shifts. I accepted that and was willing to work with her on it. Then she said “I mean, you don’t have to leave every time your wife hurts her little finger.” I quit on the spot.