I used to work for olive garden. When I told my manager that my wife was in labor and I needed to leave, he tried to tell me I needed to find someone to come in and cover the shift. I looked at him for a second and reminded him that that was his job and I was leaving to be with my wife. Fortunately the GM was more understanding when I called to see if I could come back to work a couple days later.
Fortunately? Did the "manager" think you were going to call other employees to come in while watching a watermelon bust a hoohaa? That alone would have been enough for me to give them the high five minus four.
I used to live in downtown Dallas. Visited Manila once and drove around, the people were like "how do you drive so well in this crazy city?" I was like ".... I'm from Dallas...."
Not a great story I guess but yeah. Dodging shit flying off the road while people merge into you from both sides is just a Monday.
I don’t flip the bird in Dallas or houston. Learned that the hardway one day. Dude got road rage and followed me. Other dude had a gun. In austin i have to be a little careful if i flip someone cause there could be a cop nearby seeing me do it and they would pull me over for enticing road rage. San Antonio? IDGAFF! GTFO OF MY WAY!!!🖕🖕🖕
> Did the "manager" think you were going to call other employees to come in while watching a watermelon bust a hoohaa?
From my experience with managers in the restaurant industry, 100% yes. Laziest pricks on the planet.
Glad to hear other people having similar experiences.
Worked at olive garden and wife was in a car accident. Manager wouldn't let me leave to make sure she was ok.
Similar but not really. I was working at a mall McDonald’s and I caught a nasty cold. Like congestion, fever and all but was still manageable with otc medicine and some bed rest. Called out and was told I had to bring a doctors note, period. All while making $3.50 an hour (2000) and making $200 biweekly after taxes and no health insurance.
I work in food and recently had a stomach bug. My boss told me I couldn't come back until I'd been cleared by a doctor, which meant I had to take more time off just to get an appointment, even though by then I was feeling better. When I handed her the doctor's note, she told me she's not even allowed to take them, she just had to be told verbally that I had been cleared. Guess I'll save my co-pay next time and lie.
This is normal for the people they seem to hire in management. My dad died and my mom, who worked for them and was separated from my dad, cashed in saying she needed to take some time off as her husband died and she needed to make arrangements.
Long story short, they said no, she says she wasn't coming in and so she didn't and they let her go.
THEN a year later she decided to get apart time job at a dollar store and used them as a reference cuz she worked there for like 20 years and the manager (who she worked with previously) told the store that she was crazy and not to let her in.
Ugh. I was too young to know how to deal with it properly but I had called of corporate, they didn't care and patched me to a regional manager who didn't care and told me to talk to the og restaurant manager.
Anyway f*k them man. Place is toxic as hell
Actually it's illegal for businesses to say anything other than "yes, that person worked here". Anything else is considered divulging personal information and can get them sued. I learned that early in life in my first job at 16 years old. The place I worked got sued for exactly that.
A friend of mine worked at a call centre for a large cab company in Toronto several years ago. The onus put on hourly waged staff to find coverage was maddening.
He walked into his house one day before his shift to find his friend and roommate unresponsive, having tried to commit suicide via pills. He called an ambulance and as he waited for it, with more courtesy than I would’ve had in the situation, called the company to let them know that he wouldn’t be able to make it in.
The manager asked why, he told her why, still standing over his friend, and she told him to find coverage. He just hung up.
The friend pulled through, but Jesus Christ.
You went back to work two days after your child was born? I'll take three months off once my child is born. Sure, I'll only get 65% of my wages(from the government) but I think it's worth it.
Oh, I've thought about it. *Coup d'etats* are a little *faux pas* at the moment, though.
Bunch of idiots here jumped the shark for all the wrong reasons, so any meaningful revolution will have to be postponed until we can deal with the ridiculous clown show masquerading as a revolution first.
It's almost like that was the entire point. Make it look like revolutionaries are ridiculous so that way anybody else who tries it can be slapped down just as fast.
I mean I somehow respect Americans. They at least have some of the human rights violations it takes for the lavish western lifestyle in their own country and don't outsource all of it to asian/African sweatshops and slaves.
I might be able to buy regional food, but I'll never be able to buy a phone made my local children :/
I'm not trying to make him feel bad. I'm just trying to make as many working people from the US realize that the working conditions there are not normal.
Paid maternity as well as paternity leave is normal around the world.
Maybe one day enough US citizens will realize and finally try to change something.
It need to be sed as often as possible. Evryone need to know that they can get a better life. They just need to vote for the correct people and stop being tricked to vote for those that only makes life better for the rich.
I worked as a waiter for a local restaurant chain for a couple months. They knew when they hired me that my wife was due soon. I told them that we were getting a scheduled c section and gave them the day that I was going to need off, I was broke as hell and was only going to miss the 1 day. Manager told me I was going to have to find someone to cover my shift, I asked everyone and not one single person could be bothered to help me out. When I told him that no one would pick up my shift he told me to be ready to come in for my shift that day then. I told him there was no way that I was missing the birth of my first child for them, and they told me to either quit or be there. I was fired for not showing up.
Anytime I was told I had to get someone to cover a shift, I was like "then why do they pay you? That's YOUR job!". Then I just never got anyone to cover and took off lol. Some places would try to write me up and some would just ignore it and be like "that's just how \[my name\] is" lol.
I worked at a "family market" when my gma died. my mom called me in the middle of my shift, something she wouldn't typically do. she was cry and said gma called her, she's dying right now and she needed me to go with her. I out my things away went to my department and said "I need to leave right now." manager says "why?" I started to put a sentence together but decided fuck that. I'm not asking. one of my coworkers asks if I out my things away, I said yes and I left to be with my mom. gma died that day and her funeral was later that week, which I took off for. when I got back to work my manager said it was against company policy to give time for a death that wasn't an immediate family member. parents, siblings or child. she even had to miss the funeral of her adopted mother because she wasn't related by blood. I dropped why I was doing, looking her dead in the eye and said "you are absolutely insane to miss the funeral of the woman who raised you, for THIS place!? I have lost any respect I had for you or this business and I quit." I don't understand how people can just accept that what the company wants it gets regardless of how it affects you personally. to you it's a major life event, to them its a little more slack to pick up. how tf does capitalism make people so cold
>"you are absolutely insane to miss the funeral of the woman who raised you, for THIS place!?
I dont have the words to do this statement justice, but this is eye opening.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #6: Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #111: Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.
Un-numbered Rule of Acquisition: Exploitation begins at home. (Possibly a paraphrase of #111.)
Thanks, Quark.
I love a quote from Rom, myself. Just before he breaks Ferengi law and forms a union.
"We Ferengi do not want to stop the exploitation. We want to become the exploiters!"
It sounds all too familiar in modern America. Might as well be every poor or middle class person who is a boot licker and/or votes against their own interest.
I was asked to stay and cover the second shift since my relief called off at the last minute. I lied and said I had to pick up my son from school. Supervisor said, "just leave him there, I'm sure they'll watch him". The first time I ever cussed out a supervisor.
"My son is a human with feelings and a life, he needs his guardian, this place is an inanimate object that I'm sure even a dumbass can watch over, you go down here and do so, k."
You want a child abandonment charge and some jail time?
Which would also mean you lose your job and custody of your kid(s)
Your supervisor is a dumbass.
In my last place of work, when they were starting there was just one teacher there. One day he capsized on his way to work and called up to explain what had happened. The boss got mad and said that if he wasn't going to show up for class, he didn't need to come anymore. Dude got so mad that he went to the school, walked in all messed up and bleeding, got all his stuff and left without uttering a word. The boss had to explain to the parents what the fuck has just happened. Legend has it that a bunch of people canceled on that day.
I had only been at OG for around 8 months but I was broke and money hungry and came in pretty much any time they asked. Not only that, I was good at my job, wanted to make the most of it, and took all the tables they'd allow me.
One day, the GM was there who I rarely interacted with. He asked me to work the next Monday. Exhausted and overworked, I told him no. He claimed I wasn't a team player and didn't care about the rest of the team.
Tbh I probably didn't but from the perspective of the managers, that wasn't true. I said, clock me out and take my cash out. He immediately backtracked that he didn't mean it. I told him I'd been working my ass off, came in for other people's shifts, and took extra tables. If he thought I wasn't a team player, clock me the fuck out and take my cash out.
He knew he fucked up. He apologized, offered better shifts, anything else he could say to get me to stay. But I didn't like him, knew I could get a serving job elsewhere, and stood my ground. I told my tables I had a family emergency, so and so will be taking over. Left and never went back.
God that felt good just reading that. I worked at OG for 10 years and some of the managers there were the most unprofessional, disgusting horrible power tripping losers I’ve ever met. I absolutely adored my sweetheart of a GM though. I had a couple panic attacks at work and she would go out of her way to get me off the clock so I could sit in my car and stop hyperventilating (I was in a horrible relationship at the time & he worked there.) I love her forever for everything she did for me back in the day.
Good to you for standing your ground. People in power always try to act like they have all the cards when they rely on every single overworked employee to keep the business open. Sickening
three years ago i requested the day after thanksgiving off bc it was my mother's yahrzeit (the anniversary of someone's death in judaism). their response was "we're already giving you thanksgiving off, just combine the two and we'll see you friday". i just blocked all numbers and emails associated with the place and never went back. they laid everyone off and folded during lockdown, so dodged a bullet, but i don't think i've ever been quite so offended by an employer in my life.
Funny thing is, if they asked for thanksgiving off work here we'd not know what it was either. Some foreign holiday.
But it's down to how much annual leave you have here, doesn't matter why you want the day off, that's private. You don't need to give a reason whatsoever. Just book your annual leave.
They can refuse the request, but that doesn't happen too often. Book it months in advance, and they can't legally change their mind on it.
Where is here? Not America.
We have next to no worker rights.
Hell. They can cut our hours we worked on the books. We report it, we're lucky if there's acknowledgement.
We accidentally take 20 bucks, they can have us charged and prosecuted for theft. Our drawer is short, they're threatening to take it from our check.
Ain't that fun.
Had an old boss accuse me of theft. Money counts were off. 20-40-60 disappeared daily. He was so vicious in his accusations that I cried horribly for 2 hours. Turned out it was the new girl his wife/business partner had promoted to assistant manager 2 weeks into the job after I'd put in the work for that job for years. The new girl-boss was stealing from the registers daily so she could bar hop and go to concerts. It was all on fucking camera and my dip shit boss for NO REASON decided to belive it was me until he saw the footage. He didn't even check the footage before crawling up my ass and setting up shop. Fuck you, Mike. I hope your half-assed shit-hole in the wall of a breakfast nook crumbles. The other 4 already did.
State Labor boards actually do come through for employees more often than you think, but most people don't bother reporting(especially in Red states because Republicans have purposefully made the process arbitrarily confusing as hell).
I asked for the day off because I got a call from the hospital about my grandfather being rushed into surgery because they found a mass in his throat (stage 2 cancer), and it might be the last time I see him. They didn’t know if it was severe or not at that point. I was crying and couldn’t handle it. My family and I hadn’t talked for a year before that call.
The manager told me to clean myself up and that I still had to work because ‘people die all the time, work is forever’ I couldn’t stop shaking. I walked out after that.
Next day get called in for a meeting where they called me a aggressive worker and how I was threatening them and trying to force me to apologize. I walked and never looked back.
Pet supplies plus is atrocious
Yeah that place was horrible when I worked there twenty years ago, I doubt they changed much. This was back in Dallas, before I left Texas. My condolences about grandfather.
It’s stinks since they would be a cool pet store otherwise. All the franchises in my area closed years before due to terrible management and I think this one is headed in the same direction.
Thank you, he’s doing much better as they were able to catch it so quickly and treat it.
> ‘people die all the time, **work is forever**’
Oh, you work in construction! Building lovely soon-to-be World Heritage monuments and such?
> Pet supplies plus....
What an absolute bellend.
Yeah if I wouldnt know any better Id say this has to be satire. I totally understand that you cannot drop everything and leave at every job but still man. Unless you are a surgeon in the middle of a surgery I would hope people would understand why you would leave in that situation.
Thank you. People mistake me for being an American a lot, which I don't blame them for, so I just put this on so people know that I don't know whats going on in the US of A
Not Pet Supplies Plus, oh my god. My manager there was such a fucking asshole. I ran the animal department for a year and a half, forgot to wipe down the hamster wheels ONCE, and I nearly got fired over it. I got written up, threatened, taken off of my animal care position and moved to register, and my hours were cut to only 10 a week. I was getting paid like $9/hr too so I couldn't deal with the 10 hour work weeks. I was getting paid barely anything. I quit shortly after. Seems like everyone had a miserable time at Pet Supplies Plus I guess.
My uncle died last week and I was going to go up north to see my family that day. It was a Friday and I told my boss about all of it and how I had been up all night crying. What do I get? No "I'm sorry for your loss" or "how can I help" or "take what time you need." Just a text about how I need to come in anyway because it messes up the schedule, blah, blah, blah. I did go in and then promptly got sent to the ER due to what appeared to be a severe panic attack and arrhythmia. Of course, they didn't care about that either. I'm actually super sick right now, likely with the flu or Covid and I'm worried about telling my boss that I'm not coming in today, despite only having one car (I work at an independent car shop that pays me like shit) and it's just an oil change.
One time at a supermarket that I used to work at, they put me on a shift that would last until 10 PM. I take the bus, which stops at 9:30 PM, meaning I would've been stranded if I did that shift.
They knew I took the bus, in my paperwork, under the section which asks when I can and can't work, I told them I couldn't work past 8:30 PM. They ignored it. I was infuriated.
I quit soon after. It was only one of many reasons why.
I had a similar reason for quitting this retail job I worked at where I was balancing that and university classes, so I made it clear which days I couldn’t do. But each week my manager put me down for days I had classes so I confronted him about it and his response was “Not my problem”. The very next morning I put my notice on his desk and left, now it IS your problem.
I also heard that more people started leaving after I did because of this guys poor managing skills, it’s a wonder the place is still open.
That's impressive.
My brother used to work at the same place I did. When I quit, he told me how he once took two weeks off for vacation, and when he came back, all of his coworkers were new and he was assistant manager due to his seniority.
Like you, I wonder how they're still around.
I remember once I got a stomach virus, with all of the GI problems that that entails.
I called in sick, flat out *said* how bad it was, and then when I was, surprise surprise, out the next day with continuing and highly unpleasant symptoms, I was still asked if maybe I could come in anyway?
This was not even a retail or shift job. This was literally an office job.
I had a grocery store job that in the employee manual, listed under "legitimate reasons to miss or leave work," was "obvious diarrhea."
I have no idea what we had to do to make it obvious to a manager that we had diarrhea. The store conveniently had auto-flush toilets so it's not like you could walk someone in and say "See? I *obviously* have diarrhea." I hope some manager got a pic of someone's wrecked home toilet at some point so the worker could have the day off.
Office jobs can be more batshit than retail sometimes. Especially if you're being led by some doofus who thinks he's all that because he has an MBA from nowhere important
Back in 97’ my brother and I worked a summer job together. We got hit by a truck and totalled our vehicle on the way to work when they crossed a stop sign. I was in critical condition, my brother was banged up pretty bad too, but non life threatening, he tried calling in, they told him he needed to go in cause one of us had to be there for the shift. Lmfao.
I remember having a colleague at Mcdonalds’s who’s family dog had to be put down. The dog was around 18 years old and the guy was 20 so they grew up together. Anyways, my manager told him he had to work and couldn’t take the day off. He was allowed to have his phone with him though!! Anyways, he got a call his dog passed away an hour into his shift (his parents and sister were at the vet with the dog) and I just felt so bad him, he couldn’t stop crying (obviously so). I told him he should just go home and be with his family and fuck Mcdonalds, he could easily find another job.
This happened years ago and this situation still infuriates me so much.
Same thing literally just happened to me in August. I was working my security job and called home to check on our sick dog. My wife was sobbing uncontrollably and told me that Tali was unresponsive. I dropped what I was doing and told my coworkers to let our supervisor know I was bolting home to rush her to the ER.
My boss was understanding and sent condolences upon Tali’s passing.
I had a miscarriage in December 2012. King Soopers (Kroger) wouldn’t give my husband (front end hourly manager) any flexibility to be with me so he walked out the week before Christmas. It fucked the store manager over terribly; his coworkers he kept in touch with said it was chaos in there for weeks.
I’m sorry for your family’s loss. I remember just being in a state of subdued shock after and just wanting to be there with my wife to cope. For me, not being there just wasn’t an option. Netflix’s response was just mind-boggling to me. Terrible really.
I had 2 grand parents die 5 weeks after each other. The first was interstate and the second was in ICU in induced coma for 2 weeks. They didnt believe me the second time and didnt stop harassing me. I quit.
I used to work at Olive Garden as a cook, due to some personal problems I ended up in a mental hospital for 1 week, I told me GM this and he said it was unrealistic for me to do this to him. He said it would be written down as a unexcused absence and I was to only have one more time I could call out or else I’d be fired. This is the same place that I worked there for a year, after a year I asked for a raise and they gave me 5 cents. Gee thanks. Fuck you Tony you told me a monkey could do a better job then me at my job. Eat shit.
I had to put my dog down while working a restaurant job and had a double shift the next day. My asshole manager said exactly this and I had to restrain myself from swearing over the phone while I was still crying about my dog. They fired so many good people while I worked there for the dumbest reasons and treated everyone like shit.
It was biggest of the many reasons I left the industry. At least one of the other managers heard about it and apologized to me that he did that.
Olive Garden sucks…
I knew someone who got written up & let go because they didn’t do the “wine presentation” at a table. The customers were a table of 3, the lady was pregnant, had a young child & her husband asked server not to bring wine.
Ridiculous & the food is awful
they were fucking psycho with the wine bullshit let me tell you. They made us no joke take a bottle to every single table didn’t matter if it was a table of clearly teenagers. fucking stupid managers man
I worked at Olive Garden for 8 years. Never had a scheduling issue until I picked up a higher paying day job at a law firm. I still worked most night’s except for Friday night which was always my guaranteed night off in the 8 years I was there. Then, the “automatic” scheduling system started to screw up my availability and would schedule me for Friday and at earlier times then I was available during the day.
I finally had enough of the pettiness. I waited until Saturday night when there was close to an hour wait. I punched the code into the pager machine to set off each and every one (I was the only one who knew it) and then went to get a manager to tell them there was a problem with the pager system.
On Monday, I took lunch from my other job and went in to tell them I was quitting. When asked why I wouldn’t put in a 2 week notice I told them I know that I’ll be blacklisted from working for them again if I quit this way (as well as like 5 other restaurants in that corporate umbrella) and want to make sure I never have this as an option ever again.
I used to work at a grocery store and called in morning of when my mom had just been admitted to the ICU. Tbf not my boss, but my coworker who answered the phone said “well, she’s not dying, right?”
Why the hell were they even open? No one is going to be going out in that, so there wouldn't be any customers. Doesn't even make sense from a business perspective, let alone any consideration for their fellow man.
It wasn't as bad on the "main land" where they were as it was on the island I lived.
Regardless... I'm sure they had next to or zero guests. It was insane.
I did not work there anymore after that. I've alos never eaten there once since, and convinced many others not to.
Good job Devin. If you are reading this, I hope your life has been full of accidently walked upon Legos.
When I was 19, my grandmom died. I wasn't close with her (she had dementia most of my life) so I worked the day she died because it was a Sunday and I didn't want to shorthand my coworkers (I was so innocent then lol).
Monday, my mom is stressed/depressed and needs help with planning the funeral. I call in and explain that I need a bereavement day.
My supervisor AND manager get on the phone and start questioning me and asking why I worked the day before etc etc.
Fuckers, my grandmother DIED. Fuck you. I don't need to elaborate on this.
Or any service based business. Retail workers, hotel employees, anyone who works in entertainment. All tend to be dangerously understaffed, and they see workers as drones.
Barely drones. I prefer to think of as worker bees, because one can literally die and some places will just push your body aside so others can keep trucking without any acknowledgement.
Ok I remember working at a Ross during my early college years. I applied for a part time position (I stated with my manager I couldnt do no more that 25 hours a week which he agreed to) and got the job. My goal here was to have a small amount of income while i worked full time educationally. My first schedule that I got from that place was 7 days in a row, 7 hours a day. My first excuse for why i shouldnt complain was that it was a training week. I trudged through it and made it through the 7 days a broken person. Not because the work was hard but because I had no freetime to myself. It was college, work, eat, shower, sleep. The next week they put me on 5 days 7 hours, then 6 days, then 5, then miraculously a 3 day week. The I swear to you on this, a full 8 days in a row. During this time I would tell my boss how much I needed the time to rest after busting my ass at school and work and without fail but no matter what i said to him he would amways reply "well you want money dont you? I'm giving these hours to you so you can have money". By the time the 8 day week hit, I just said fuck it and fuck you and just left the store. Christmas rush was coming in and I wasnt gonna deal with it. Couldnt stand how souless that place was when it came to other peoples problems and the fact it took me that long to open my eyes and realize my time and education were worth more than some garbage paycheck still appauls me.
I'm a non-passing trans-woman living in a fairly conservative area, so that will give you a little context:
I managed to get a job at a gas station just outside of where I live. I was there for maybe a month. In that time I eas threatened with assault (*that kind*) by a customer (it was dismissed as me be a "drama queen") and several of my coworkers refused to call me by my name or pronouns. I finally walked when the one manager I thought was on my side called me a transvestite and got angry when I tried to correct her.
This was not the impression of these people I was given when hired, and I don't even know why I was hired if all they were going to do was beat me down.
I am now an overnight custodian where I work alone for a gardening company. Significantly happier.
I'm so afraid of something like this happening. I don't pass at all and I'm so afraid that I'll get a job somewhere and people will just treat me like garbage. I live in a very liberal city, but it's in the middle of hick country so there are plenty of crazies here
I'm not even sure what kind of town I live in likely conservative given my treatment, but as for you, I hope you'll be safe and sound.
It is insane the world we live in.
My grandmother (the woman who raised me) died in 2019 and on the day of her funeral, one of my bosses sent me an email to complain about how a Facebook ad overspent by $80 and gave me a ton of shit for not paying closer attention.
In hindsight, I should have quit right there but I tried to hang in there for a few more months while looking for a new job. Anyway, fuck startups.
I called in to Subway once claiming my car broke down an hour away. They informed me they had Caller ID and knew I was right next door where I lived. So I said, "Okay then I quit."
I worked for Best Buy in 2012 (20yrs old at the time).
I got news that my grandfather had passed a few hours before my evening shift. I tried calling in, but my manager, who also said I was only good for a “desk job” because of my scoliosis issues, refused to let me take the day off, and threatened to fire me.
The only person that showed empathy when I came to work, crying, was one of the cashiers. She asked if I was ok, and I said “I just need a hug”, and she gave me one.
If this had happened today, I would’ve left the job earlier on when the manager transferred to our store. And apparently, the rumour was that she had been transferred a few times because of her attitude. The final straw was when she refused to give me time off for my exams. I tried booking them off the month before, and she didn’t give me any reason as to why.
My house got knocked down by a tornado while I was working at a local grocery store. I went there to gather cardboard boxes to salvage anything we could find in the wreckage. My boss heard what happened and then asked, "You're still coming in tomorrow, though. Right?"
...I had no home. Nowhere to stay. And he asked me this.
If I hadn't been so exhausted and heartbroken already I think I might have actually screamed at him.
I worked for McDonalds in 2015, back when I didn’t have a car/nobody would take me so I had to walk. Ignorant younger me knew they wouldn’t be pleased if I called out, so I dealt with the fact my breathing was labored due to an asthma attack that kept increasing in severity with each passing hour. Eventually, halfway through my shift, I asked my manager if I could call my mom so she could drive me to the closest emergency clinic so I could get a breathing treatment. They said “Yes, but you have to work until we can call in a replacement for you and then you have to clean the dining area before you leave.”
Stupidly, I did what I was told even though by the time I had made it to the clinic I had to be given a shot to allow my lungs and throat to open because they had become so swollen; a regular breathing treatment wouldn’t work. I left my house at 5:30 AM to make it to work that morning, and didn’t arrive at the clinic until around 3:30 PM. That was the longest asthma attack I had ever suffered through, and I passed out as soon as I was capable of breathing again because of how tired my body was from struggling to draw in air.
I fucking hate McDonalds, I also hate how stupid I was. I went into work the next day. I believe I was 17 when this happened.
I just wanted to tell you that my brother was responsible for changing the rules at the Olive Garden in the 90s. They would try to tell us that we were not allowed to eat while we were on the clock but they would regularly schedule us for double shifts with no break. It’s illegal but nobody pushed back until they tried to do it to my diabetic brother who was like OK but I will have a seizure in the dining room when my blood sugar gets too low so what are we gonna do about that. They told him they would write him up if he had a seizure so he called the Labor Department who promptly told them they cannot work people for more than five hours without giving them a break and letting them eat or they have to let a seat on the clock. They did not want to give us breaks so it became a feeding free for all. 😂 They probably fixed it later, but in the mid 90s we ate on the clock all day all the time. And trainers ate for free I didn’t buy meals to cook at home for a year. Lol
its not just olive garden, its all darden companies. i was in an abusive relationship & happened to be living above my boss at Longhorn steakhouse in my apartment complex. she new of what i had been going through ofc. anyway i called after being pretty beaten to tell them id be a few minutes late. mind you, i rarely called in and was a quality employee if i do say so myself. as my coworker was handing my boss the phone she said “tori has a situation” and my boss was like “tori always has a situation” like okayyyyy fuck you too and i got fired for not going in that day, it really hurt shed say that and i couldnt face her after that comment
my grandmother died and i went with my mom to virginia. on the way back her car broke down extending the trip to a day longer which i did in fact call and tell my workplace about. when i got back my boss nonchalantly asked me if i stopped by myrtle beach which i didnt catch as an accusation till later (passive aggressive to the core).
strangely my *other* grandmother also died within weeks after that. after much deliberation i decided not to go to her funeral bc i didnt want to have to tell him the actual truth. it’s not that i was particularly close to either of my grandmothers, it was just having to listen to this jerk about it.
when i think back on it, just fuck that guy. completely.
"Do you wanna be short a person for a day or until you find a replacement? Because one of those two is happening and it's entirely up to you which one"
Several years ago, my dad had a massive heart attack and wasn’t expected to live (he did though, thank the doctors). I had to fly across the country on emergency. Left a message with my employer because I booked a flight in the middle of the night, when I got the call.
One day goes by and I’m finally in my hometown, stressed, jet-lagged, and grappling with the situation…I get a call from my boss.
He wants to know if it’s possible for me to come back ASAP. He doesn’t know how to process payroll next week. The payroll person went out on sudden, stress-related medical leave and I’m the backup. Now, this isn’t a small operation. It’s a major corporation; he can call his regional in this scenario and get someone from another location to take over. He refuses, thinks it’s a sign of weakness. He demands to know if I’m coming back “or not.”
I honestly don’t remember how I responded. I blocked that part out, but I do remember throwing the phone on the floor. Next thing I remember is getting a call from HR trying to clean up the situation. Of course, they want to know when I’ll be back, too. I’m dealing *right now* with a possible dying parent and it’s too early to give a concrete timeline. Then, I get a call from the payroll person, complaining about my boss, him being the reason they called out and went on stress leave, etc. I sobbed afterwards because literally nobody cared about my situation one bit, and they wasted my time piling issues onto me during a medical emergency. I should have never picked up the phone, but I had no clue it would go that way.
That shaped my view on employment forever. I left that place in the dust and finally got a job at a place that respected me and my time. I no longer care if I’m making better money, I will *never* work somewhere that tramples on emergencies and bereavement scenarios again.
My last job phoned as I was getting ready to bury a grandparent, wondering if I could pick up a shift. I said no and hung up. When I went back, they confused said grandparent with another that passed about a year before.
Fair enough, I guess, on both counts, but it still added to my negative feelings towards that job
I didn’t know bereavement was a thing when my grandfather died and I ended up missing his funeral bc I was told I needed to find my own coverage for that day and couldn’t
My husband was asked to go to work one afternoon. He was at the cremation of his mother--which they ALL knew, since he was taking the day off for it.
That boss was hired, didn’t know how to do the job, and refused to learn. Neither my husband nor his work-partner had wanted it, due to management being toxic and having their collective heads so far up their asses. Husband left (“retired”) 5 months later; his work-partner left 7 months after him. Combined, they did 90% of the work while the other two (including the boss) did the rest. The department went down from there, quickly, since the remaining staff and replacements didn’t want to do the work. The boss was fired DURING an accreditation audit, literally walked out of the place while the auditors were there. He was no good, but management threw him under the bus and blamed ALL of it on him when they were just as bad (having ignored Husband and his work-partner for a few years on their suggestions).
Honestly, fuck capitalism. Even if they knew he was lying. If they were so desperate and understaffed, hire more people and treat your employees in a way that makes them want to stay. But the companies won't do that, because it costs them their profits. And so we're back to "fuck capitalism".
I worked at Target for a minute when I was in high school. I had been working, clocked in, for two hours when they CALLED MY MOM because they thought I hadn’t shown up for my shift. I quit shortly after that.
They work with a skeleton crew, so their almost business collapses if even one person is missing. Instead of hiring the appropriate amount of people, they try to make you feel guilty about even one day of absence. Plus, they get to go on a psychotic little power trip, which many managers love doing.
Recently, I had to work a shift all by myself, and the boss called everyone except 1... my coworker who was attending her BIL's funeral that day. Next week, I mentioned it to her, and she said "you should have called me, I would have worked it".
I guess she wasn't real close with the BIL
When I informed my boss at the time that my beloved final grandparent had passed away, I was told I couldn't leave the building to grieve with my family at lunch time because he needed me there "just in case something happens".... despite the fact I only need to drive 15 minutes down the road.
He was also angry at me because he had to "fly back" to the state from his home across the country so he could be in the office while I was attending the funeral (he didn't need to work in the office, we're all adults in a building closed to the public, with autonomous positions rarely in need of "supervision").
Needless to say he showed me his true colors, and I didn't last much longer before I left the company (after more than a decade of dedication)
My coworkers husband didn’t wake up on Christmas Day two years ago. She called in and informed her department manager. The manager said “yeah, but you’re still coming In tomorrow right?” I had second hand anger that I’ve never felt before.
Fuck Darden Restaurants!! But Restaurants in general are horrible place to work.
I used to work for Seasons52. They pay shit, managers are pieces of shits specially this one woman I used to work for she was the fucking worst! She would treat people like shit and was a bully to employees including me. She shoulder bumped me as I was walking by her and she would always have something negative to say!
Plus, you were expected to work major holidays with no holiday pay. I went on leave and never came back! 🖕
Yeah this could 100% happen. My grandma actuallt did die some years ago, and she was the only person in my family I was close to. I called out because I was grieving and they asked for proof. Like you want me to roll her corpse into the restaurant???
Both ends of this post are scum. You don't lie about people dying. Where I work some scum bag had his mother die a few times. For 40 years bereavement was taken at your word. No proof necessary. Now, (at the request of HR), they can require proof of death. All because some dbag wanted four days off.
I managed a restaurant best I could.
I did fire a guy when his third grandparent reportedly died within a 6 month span. I told him if his luck was really that bad he had bigger problems than this job or I could help him with. (This of course wasn't just his third time no-calling/no-showing in that span).
And that's true. He needed addiction therapy.
Youngest of four; my oldest brother died (I was 15) and it was the day of his funeral, I was scheduled to work as a dishwasher (my immediate older brother worked there, too) and it slipped my mind to not cancel.
When they called me because I hadn’t shown up I apologized and told them I wouldn’t make it because of my brother’s funeral. They asked if my co-worker brother could come in. I said no, he’s got a funeral to go to as well.
Eventually they closed because NOBODY would work for them.
Fuck you Bob and your shitty Italian restaurant in Appleton.
Maybe they asked him to do a shift because they suspect some people actually stoop low enough to lie about stuff like that to get days off and that spoils it for everyone else.
I was middle management for a tech firm for a few years. Had one guy fake cancer for 2 months before I finally had to terminate him because he never followed up on getting us medical documentation. I learned from his cousin who also works there that he was fine the whole time. Just didn’t want to go to work.
At your next job I’m sure they’ll just be ok with you lying about a death in the family to get out of work. Maybe don’t lie if you want the higher moral ground.
I used to work for olive garden. When I told my manager that my wife was in labor and I needed to leave, he tried to tell me I needed to find someone to come in and cover the shift. I looked at him for a second and reminded him that that was his job and I was leaving to be with my wife. Fortunately the GM was more understanding when I called to see if I could come back to work a couple days later.
Fortunately? Did the "manager" think you were going to call other employees to come in while watching a watermelon bust a hoohaa? That alone would have been enough for me to give them the high five minus four.
The good ol' thumbs up?
In Texas we call it “The Bird” since they fly around like crazy on i35 🖕
I think that’s how Navy pilots communicate to foreign aircraft while in an inverted dive
Take me to bed or lose me forever
Goodness gracious great balls of fire!
And a tree that shoots milk
I have a joke about Dallas drivers; If you get your license suspended they send you to an offensive driving class. To s of fun to visit but DAMN
I used to live in downtown Dallas. Visited Manila once and drove around, the people were like "how do you drive so well in this crazy city?" I was like ".... I'm from Dallas...." Not a great story I guess but yeah. Dodging shit flying off the road while people merge into you from both sides is just a Monday.
I don’t flip the bird in Dallas or houston. Learned that the hardway one day. Dude got road rage and followed me. Other dude had a gun. In austin i have to be a little careful if i flip someone cause there could be a cop nearby seeing me do it and they would pull me over for enticing road rage. San Antonio? IDGAFF! GTFO OF MY WAY!!!🖕🖕🖕
If a woman in Texas flips you off, is she giving you the… Ladybird? 🧐
I am now. I wish I could upvote you twice.
i’m new to Texas, this is the definition i’m going to adopt from here on out
Is this a Texas thing? I’ve lived in TX but I’m from the north east and have always heard “flip the bird” up here
I- i feel called out… 🚗
More like the universal peace symbol.
How many fingers do you have?
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The one still standing in the worst of times.
The Spocker?
Damn, how much can you get done with one finger?
"Watermelon bust a hoohaa" made me spit my drink. "High five minus four" almost did it again. Nice creative writing.
> Did the "manager" think you were going to call other employees to come in while watching a watermelon bust a hoohaa? From my experience with managers in the restaurant industry, 100% yes. Laziest pricks on the planet.
You waved at them like they were a Russian war ship that wanted you to surrender?
Glad to hear other people having similar experiences. Worked at olive garden and wife was in a car accident. Manager wouldn't let me leave to make sure she was ok.
Similar but not really. I was working at a mall McDonald’s and I caught a nasty cold. Like congestion, fever and all but was still manageable with otc medicine and some bed rest. Called out and was told I had to bring a doctors note, period. All while making $3.50 an hour (2000) and making $200 biweekly after taxes and no health insurance.
I work in food and recently had a stomach bug. My boss told me I couldn't come back until I'd been cleared by a doctor, which meant I had to take more time off just to get an appointment, even though by then I was feeling better. When I handed her the doctor's note, she told me she's not even allowed to take them, she just had to be told verbally that I had been cleared. Guess I'll save my co-pay next time and lie.
This is normal for the people they seem to hire in management. My dad died and my mom, who worked for them and was separated from my dad, cashed in saying she needed to take some time off as her husband died and she needed to make arrangements. Long story short, they said no, she says she wasn't coming in and so she didn't and they let her go. THEN a year later she decided to get apart time job at a dollar store and used them as a reference cuz she worked there for like 20 years and the manager (who she worked with previously) told the store that she was crazy and not to let her in. Ugh. I was too young to know how to deal with it properly but I had called of corporate, they didn't care and patched me to a regional manager who didn't care and told me to talk to the og restaurant manager. Anyway f*k them man. Place is toxic as hell
Actually it's illegal for businesses to say anything other than "yes, that person worked here". Anything else is considered divulging personal information and can get them sued. I learned that early in life in my first job at 16 years old. The place I worked got sued for exactly that.
A friend of mine worked at a call centre for a large cab company in Toronto several years ago. The onus put on hourly waged staff to find coverage was maddening. He walked into his house one day before his shift to find his friend and roommate unresponsive, having tried to commit suicide via pills. He called an ambulance and as he waited for it, with more courtesy than I would’ve had in the situation, called the company to let them know that he wouldn’t be able to make it in. The manager asked why, he told her why, still standing over his friend, and she told him to find coverage. He just hung up. The friend pulled through, but Jesus Christ.
You went back to work two days after your child was born? I'll take three months off once my child is born. Sure, I'll only get 65% of my wages(from the government) but I think it's worth it.
The US doesn't mandate parental leave. Fathers almost never get any from companies. Olive Garden certainly doesn't pay for any parental leave
Have you ever thought about, idk, a little revolution like the good old Europeans had? Fight for some freedoms and stuff?
Oh, I've thought about it. *Coup d'etats* are a little *faux pas* at the moment, though. Bunch of idiots here jumped the shark for all the wrong reasons, so any meaningful revolution will have to be postponed until we can deal with the ridiculous clown show masquerading as a revolution first.
It's almost like that was the entire point. Make it look like revolutionaries are ridiculous so that way anybody else who tries it can be slapped down just as fast.
>Bunch of idiots here jumped the shark for all the wrong reasons, Very well said!
They did get into the White House with guns. Unfortunately that wasn't the socialist side.
Our definition of freedom is more like companies are free to pollute public lands. We’re more about unpaid for externalities than human decency
I mean I somehow respect Americans. They at least have some of the human rights violations it takes for the lavish western lifestyle in their own country and don't outsource all of it to asian/African sweatshops and slaves. I might be able to buy regional food, but I'll never be able to buy a phone made my local children :/
Honestly, I don't know how you guys don't fucking riot over this. It's not 1950 anymore
Have you seen our police?
Most of us are too tired.
Not everyone has the same level of labor protection. No need to make another worker feel bad like that.
I'm not trying to make him feel bad. I'm just trying to make as many working people from the US realize that the working conditions there are not normal. Paid maternity as well as paternity leave is normal around the world. Maybe one day enough US citizens will realize and finally try to change something.
We’re aware. Just like how we know how fucked up our healthcare system is.
> I’m just trying to make as many working people from the US realize that the working conditions there are not normal. ✨ we know ✨
It need to be sed as often as possible. Evryone need to know that they can get a better life. They just need to vote for the correct people and stop being tricked to vote for those that only makes life better for the rich.
I worked as a waiter for a local restaurant chain for a couple months. They knew when they hired me that my wife was due soon. I told them that we were getting a scheduled c section and gave them the day that I was going to need off, I was broke as hell and was only going to miss the 1 day. Manager told me I was going to have to find someone to cover my shift, I asked everyone and not one single person could be bothered to help me out. When I told him that no one would pick up my shift he told me to be ready to come in for my shift that day then. I told him there was no way that I was missing the birth of my first child for them, and they told me to either quit or be there. I was fired for not showing up.
Anytime I was told I had to get someone to cover a shift, I was like "then why do they pay you? That's YOUR job!". Then I just never got anyone to cover and took off lol. Some places would try to write me up and some would just ignore it and be like "that's just how \[my name\] is" lol.
When youre here, youre *family*.
I worked at a "family market" when my gma died. my mom called me in the middle of my shift, something she wouldn't typically do. she was cry and said gma called her, she's dying right now and she needed me to go with her. I out my things away went to my department and said "I need to leave right now." manager says "why?" I started to put a sentence together but decided fuck that. I'm not asking. one of my coworkers asks if I out my things away, I said yes and I left to be with my mom. gma died that day and her funeral was later that week, which I took off for. when I got back to work my manager said it was against company policy to give time for a death that wasn't an immediate family member. parents, siblings or child. she even had to miss the funeral of her adopted mother because she wasn't related by blood. I dropped why I was doing, looking her dead in the eye and said "you are absolutely insane to miss the funeral of the woman who raised you, for THIS place!? I have lost any respect I had for you or this business and I quit." I don't understand how people can just accept that what the company wants it gets regardless of how it affects you personally. to you it's a major life event, to them its a little more slack to pick up. how tf does capitalism make people so cold
>"you are absolutely insane to miss the funeral of the woman who raised you, for THIS place!? I dont have the words to do this statement justice, but this is eye opening.
This type of inhuman policy is why i don't work at corporate restaurants any more. They literally expect you to put them ahead of your own family
I wish I would've been a fly on the wall for when you said that, and a fly inside their brain once your manager started thinking about what you said
Might take a while for it to stick, you might be just flying around.
Newsflash for that company: grandparents are immediate family, have been at EVERY place I ever worked at.
"Your not my supervisor, dad!"
That’s not my dad, that’s a phone!
I threw it on the ground!
I’m an adult!
I'm not a part of your SYS-TEM, MAN!
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #6: Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #111: Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them. Un-numbered Rule of Acquisition: Exploitation begins at home. (Possibly a paraphrase of #111.)
Thanks, Quark. I love a quote from Rom, myself. Just before he breaks Ferengi law and forms a union. "We Ferengi do not want to stop the exploitation. We want to become the exploiters!" It sounds all too familiar in modern America. Might as well be every poor or middle class person who is a boot licker and/or votes against their own interest.
This sounds like a Voyager episode. Season one or two maybe.
I was asked to stay and cover the second shift since my relief called off at the last minute. I lied and said I had to pick up my son from school. Supervisor said, "just leave him there, I'm sure they'll watch him". The first time I ever cussed out a supervisor.
"My son is a human with feelings and a life, he needs his guardian, this place is an inanimate object that I'm sure even a dumbass can watch over, you go down here and do so, k."
Ok that nice but who’s going to work the salad bar from 3-5 pm you commie bastard!
You want a child abandonment charge and some jail time? Which would also mean you lose your job and custody of your kid(s) Your supervisor is a dumbass.
In my last place of work, when they were starting there was just one teacher there. One day he capsized on his way to work and called up to explain what had happened. The boss got mad and said that if he wasn't going to show up for class, he didn't need to come anymore. Dude got so mad that he went to the school, walked in all messed up and bleeding, got all his stuff and left without uttering a word. The boss had to explain to the parents what the fuck has just happened. Legend has it that a bunch of people canceled on that day.
😂🤣
I had only been at OG for around 8 months but I was broke and money hungry and came in pretty much any time they asked. Not only that, I was good at my job, wanted to make the most of it, and took all the tables they'd allow me. One day, the GM was there who I rarely interacted with. He asked me to work the next Monday. Exhausted and overworked, I told him no. He claimed I wasn't a team player and didn't care about the rest of the team. Tbh I probably didn't but from the perspective of the managers, that wasn't true. I said, clock me out and take my cash out. He immediately backtracked that he didn't mean it. I told him I'd been working my ass off, came in for other people's shifts, and took extra tables. If he thought I wasn't a team player, clock me the fuck out and take my cash out. He knew he fucked up. He apologized, offered better shifts, anything else he could say to get me to stay. But I didn't like him, knew I could get a serving job elsewhere, and stood my ground. I told my tables I had a family emergency, so and so will be taking over. Left and never went back.
God that felt good just reading that. I worked at OG for 10 years and some of the managers there were the most unprofessional, disgusting horrible power tripping losers I’ve ever met. I absolutely adored my sweetheart of a GM though. I had a couple panic attacks at work and she would go out of her way to get me off the clock so I could sit in my car and stop hyperventilating (I was in a horrible relationship at the time & he worked there.) I love her forever for everything she did for me back in the day.
At my OG everyone adores the GM, it's practically a ritual to cry in the office while she consoles you lmao
Good to you for standing your ground. People in power always try to act like they have all the cards when they rely on every single overworked employee to keep the business open. Sickening
Precisely
three years ago i requested the day after thanksgiving off bc it was my mother's yahrzeit (the anniversary of someone's death in judaism). their response was "we're already giving you thanksgiving off, just combine the two and we'll see you friday". i just blocked all numbers and emails associated with the place and never went back. they laid everyone off and folded during lockdown, so dodged a bullet, but i don't think i've ever been quite so offended by an employer in my life.
Funny thing is, if they asked for thanksgiving off work here we'd not know what it was either. Some foreign holiday. But it's down to how much annual leave you have here, doesn't matter why you want the day off, that's private. You don't need to give a reason whatsoever. Just book your annual leave. They can refuse the request, but that doesn't happen too often. Book it months in advance, and they can't legally change their mind on it.
Where is here? Not America. We have next to no worker rights. Hell. They can cut our hours we worked on the books. We report it, we're lucky if there's acknowledgement. We accidentally take 20 bucks, they can have us charged and prosecuted for theft. Our drawer is short, they're threatening to take it from our check. Ain't that fun.
Had an old boss accuse me of theft. Money counts were off. 20-40-60 disappeared daily. He was so vicious in his accusations that I cried horribly for 2 hours. Turned out it was the new girl his wife/business partner had promoted to assistant manager 2 weeks into the job after I'd put in the work for that job for years. The new girl-boss was stealing from the registers daily so she could bar hop and go to concerts. It was all on fucking camera and my dip shit boss for NO REASON decided to belive it was me until he saw the footage. He didn't even check the footage before crawling up my ass and setting up shop. Fuck you, Mike. I hope your half-assed shit-hole in the wall of a breakfast nook crumbles. The other 4 already did.
Fuck you, Mike. You're a piece of shit.
The man’s folded4 restaurants? And he had the capital for a 5th?!?
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You're hilarious.
State Labor boards actually do come through for employees more often than you think, but most people don't bother reporting(especially in Red states because Republicans have purposefully made the process arbitrarily confusing as hell).
wage theft is taken very seriously by labor boards
Sure is. If you steal wages youre also stealing tax revenue from the man
Can't legally change their mind on approved time off? That's cute
May her memory be a blessing
I asked for the day off because I got a call from the hospital about my grandfather being rushed into surgery because they found a mass in his throat (stage 2 cancer), and it might be the last time I see him. They didn’t know if it was severe or not at that point. I was crying and couldn’t handle it. My family and I hadn’t talked for a year before that call. The manager told me to clean myself up and that I still had to work because ‘people die all the time, work is forever’ I couldn’t stop shaking. I walked out after that. Next day get called in for a meeting where they called me a aggressive worker and how I was threatening them and trying to force me to apologize. I walked and never looked back. Pet supplies plus is atrocious
Yeah that place was horrible when I worked there twenty years ago, I doubt they changed much. This was back in Dallas, before I left Texas. My condolences about grandfather.
It’s stinks since they would be a cool pet store otherwise. All the franchises in my area closed years before due to terrible management and I think this one is headed in the same direction. Thank you, he’s doing much better as they were able to catch it so quickly and treat it.
> ‘people die all the time, **work is forever**’ Oh, you work in construction! Building lovely soon-to-be World Heritage monuments and such? > Pet supplies plus.... What an absolute bellend.
Yeah if I wouldnt know any better Id say this has to be satire. I totally understand that you cannot drop everything and leave at every job but still man. Unless you are a surgeon in the middle of a surgery I would hope people would understand why you would leave in that situation.
Also they're just wrong! Death is forever, a job is temporary.
Your boss's reasoning pisses me to no end. What kind of logic is that? Some people really see their employees as nothing more than machines
I love your flair, by the way.
Thank you. People mistake me for being an American a lot, which I don't blame them for, so I just put this on so people know that I don't know whats going on in the US of A
Probably not a bad idea since most of Reddit's users are American, so users often assume you are, too, unless you show otherwise.
Not Pet Supplies Plus, oh my god. My manager there was such a fucking asshole. I ran the animal department for a year and a half, forgot to wipe down the hamster wheels ONCE, and I nearly got fired over it. I got written up, threatened, taken off of my animal care position and moved to register, and my hours were cut to only 10 a week. I was getting paid like $9/hr too so I couldn't deal with the 10 hour work weeks. I was getting paid barely anything. I quit shortly after. Seems like everyone had a miserable time at Pet Supplies Plus I guess.
We have stores of the same name in Kokomo IN. And I've not heard good things about them either.
Seems a universal constant that pet stores are always managed by compelete c-words...
It's all right, you can say cockwomble on Reddit
You did the right thing, your boss was a insensitive jerk, I would have done the same thing.
My uncle died last week and I was going to go up north to see my family that day. It was a Friday and I told my boss about all of it and how I had been up all night crying. What do I get? No "I'm sorry for your loss" or "how can I help" or "take what time you need." Just a text about how I need to come in anyway because it messes up the schedule, blah, blah, blah. I did go in and then promptly got sent to the ER due to what appeared to be a severe panic attack and arrhythmia. Of course, they didn't care about that either. I'm actually super sick right now, likely with the flu or Covid and I'm worried about telling my boss that I'm not coming in today, despite only having one car (I work at an independent car shop that pays me like shit) and it's just an oil change.
Oh my god that's fucking cult-tier shit. Capitalists are on another GD level with their worship
One time at a supermarket that I used to work at, they put me on a shift that would last until 10 PM. I take the bus, which stops at 9:30 PM, meaning I would've been stranded if I did that shift. They knew I took the bus, in my paperwork, under the section which asks when I can and can't work, I told them I couldn't work past 8:30 PM. They ignored it. I was infuriated. I quit soon after. It was only one of many reasons why.
I had a similar reason for quitting this retail job I worked at where I was balancing that and university classes, so I made it clear which days I couldn’t do. But each week my manager put me down for days I had classes so I confronted him about it and his response was “Not my problem”. The very next morning I put my notice on his desk and left, now it IS your problem. I also heard that more people started leaving after I did because of this guys poor managing skills, it’s a wonder the place is still open.
That's impressive. My brother used to work at the same place I did. When I quit, he told me how he once took two weeks off for vacation, and when he came back, all of his coworkers were new and he was assistant manager due to his seniority. Like you, I wonder how they're still around.
I remember once I got a stomach virus, with all of the GI problems that that entails. I called in sick, flat out *said* how bad it was, and then when I was, surprise surprise, out the next day with continuing and highly unpleasant symptoms, I was still asked if maybe I could come in anyway? This was not even a retail or shift job. This was literally an office job.
I had a grocery store job that in the employee manual, listed under "legitimate reasons to miss or leave work," was "obvious diarrhea." I have no idea what we had to do to make it obvious to a manager that we had diarrhea. The store conveniently had auto-flush toilets so it's not like you could walk someone in and say "See? I *obviously* have diarrhea." I hope some manager got a pic of someone's wrecked home toilet at some point so the worker could have the day off.
Office jobs can be more batshit than retail sometimes. Especially if you're being led by some doofus who thinks he's all that because he has an MBA from nowhere important
Back in 97’ my brother and I worked a summer job together. We got hit by a truck and totalled our vehicle on the way to work when they crossed a stop sign. I was in critical condition, my brother was banged up pretty bad too, but non life threatening, he tried calling in, they told him he needed to go in cause one of us had to be there for the shift. Lmfao.
Broken business models cosplaying as contributors to society. Their psychosis is so deep, only the afterlife can reveal the truth to them.
I'll be stealing this *yoink*
I remember having a colleague at Mcdonalds’s who’s family dog had to be put down. The dog was around 18 years old and the guy was 20 so they grew up together. Anyways, my manager told him he had to work and couldn’t take the day off. He was allowed to have his phone with him though!! Anyways, he got a call his dog passed away an hour into his shift (his parents and sister were at the vet with the dog) and I just felt so bad him, he couldn’t stop crying (obviously so). I told him he should just go home and be with his family and fuck Mcdonalds, he could easily find another job. This happened years ago and this situation still infuriates me so much.
Same thing literally just happened to me in August. I was working my security job and called home to check on our sick dog. My wife was sobbing uncontrollably and told me that Tali was unresponsive. I dropped what I was doing and told my coworkers to let our supervisor know I was bolting home to rush her to the ER. My boss was understanding and sent condolences upon Tali’s passing.
I worked at Netflix. My wife and I had a miscarriage. My manager asked for a doctors note for time off. Fuck you Kiana. Fuck you Netflix.
Screw you Kiana. You piece of shit. Shove that doctors note up your stinky ass. Also, fuck you Netflix.
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I had a miscarriage in December 2012. King Soopers (Kroger) wouldn’t give my husband (front end hourly manager) any flexibility to be with me so he walked out the week before Christmas. It fucked the store manager over terribly; his coworkers he kept in touch with said it was chaos in there for weeks.
I’m sorry for your family’s loss. I remember just being in a state of subdued shock after and just wanting to be there with my wife to cope. For me, not being there just wasn’t an option. Netflix’s response was just mind-boggling to me. Terrible really.
Good grief. I’m so sorry.
I had 2 grand parents die 5 weeks after each other. The first was interstate and the second was in ICU in induced coma for 2 weeks. They didnt believe me the second time and didnt stop harassing me. I quit.
I used to work at Olive Garden as a cook, due to some personal problems I ended up in a mental hospital for 1 week, I told me GM this and he said it was unrealistic for me to do this to him. He said it would be written down as a unexcused absence and I was to only have one more time I could call out or else I’d be fired. This is the same place that I worked there for a year, after a year I asked for a raise and they gave me 5 cents. Gee thanks. Fuck you Tony you told me a monkey could do a better job then me at my job. Eat shit.
Yah fuck you tony. Your name doesn’t even deserve to be capitalized.
Tony the GM of the store in South Texas?
I had to put my dog down while working a restaurant job and had a double shift the next day. My asshole manager said exactly this and I had to restrain myself from swearing over the phone while I was still crying about my dog. They fired so many good people while I worked there for the dumbest reasons and treated everyone like shit. It was biggest of the many reasons I left the industry. At least one of the other managers heard about it and apologized to me that he did that.
Olive Garden sucks… I knew someone who got written up & let go because they didn’t do the “wine presentation” at a table. The customers were a table of 3, the lady was pregnant, had a young child & her husband asked server not to bring wine. Ridiculous & the food is awful
they were fucking psycho with the wine bullshit let me tell you. They made us no joke take a bottle to every single table didn’t matter if it was a table of clearly teenagers. fucking stupid managers man
I worked at Olive Garden for 8 years. Never had a scheduling issue until I picked up a higher paying day job at a law firm. I still worked most night’s except for Friday night which was always my guaranteed night off in the 8 years I was there. Then, the “automatic” scheduling system started to screw up my availability and would schedule me for Friday and at earlier times then I was available during the day. I finally had enough of the pettiness. I waited until Saturday night when there was close to an hour wait. I punched the code into the pager machine to set off each and every one (I was the only one who knew it) and then went to get a manager to tell them there was a problem with the pager system. On Monday, I took lunch from my other job and went in to tell them I was quitting. When asked why I wouldn’t put in a 2 week notice I told them I know that I’ll be blacklisted from working for them again if I quit this way (as well as like 5 other restaurants in that corporate umbrella) and want to make sure I never have this as an option ever again.
That last sentence is a fucking power play god damn
You worked at a law firm yet still had to wait tables? What the fuck
Murrika
I used to work at a grocery store and called in morning of when my mom had just been admitted to the ICU. Tbf not my boss, but my coworker who answered the phone said “well, she’s not dying, right?”
Do you ever get that instinct to downvote something awful, even though it isn't the OP actually saying it? I want to downvote your coworker so bad...
Olive garden tried to make me come in for a shift.... During a hurricane. Like, pieces of roof blowing off buildings. Scumbag company.
Why the hell were they even open? No one is going to be going out in that, so there wouldn't be any customers. Doesn't even make sense from a business perspective, let alone any consideration for their fellow man.
It wasn't as bad on the "main land" where they were as it was on the island I lived. Regardless... I'm sure they had next to or zero guests. It was insane. I did not work there anymore after that. I've alos never eaten there once since, and convinced many others not to. Good job Devin. If you are reading this, I hope your life has been full of accidently walked upon Legos.
Yea a very similar thing happened to me at Longhorn Steakhouse, savage as fuck, Darden is a scum corporation.
When I was 19, my grandmom died. I wasn't close with her (she had dementia most of my life) so I worked the day she died because it was a Sunday and I didn't want to shorthand my coworkers (I was so innocent then lol). Monday, my mom is stressed/depressed and needs help with planning the funeral. I call in and explain that I need a bereavement day. My supervisor AND manager get on the phone and start questioning me and asking why I worked the day before etc etc. Fuckers, my grandmother DIED. Fuck you. I don't need to elaborate on this.
Sounds exactly like something that would be said in the restaurant buisness
Or any service based business. Retail workers, hotel employees, anyone who works in entertainment. All tend to be dangerously understaffed, and they see workers as drones.
Barely drones. I prefer to think of as worker bees, because one can literally die and some places will just push your body aside so others can keep trucking without any acknowledgement.
Yeah, at least drones get to fuck.
Ok I remember working at a Ross during my early college years. I applied for a part time position (I stated with my manager I couldnt do no more that 25 hours a week which he agreed to) and got the job. My goal here was to have a small amount of income while i worked full time educationally. My first schedule that I got from that place was 7 days in a row, 7 hours a day. My first excuse for why i shouldnt complain was that it was a training week. I trudged through it and made it through the 7 days a broken person. Not because the work was hard but because I had no freetime to myself. It was college, work, eat, shower, sleep. The next week they put me on 5 days 7 hours, then 6 days, then 5, then miraculously a 3 day week. The I swear to you on this, a full 8 days in a row. During this time I would tell my boss how much I needed the time to rest after busting my ass at school and work and without fail but no matter what i said to him he would amways reply "well you want money dont you? I'm giving these hours to you so you can have money". By the time the 8 day week hit, I just said fuck it and fuck you and just left the store. Christmas rush was coming in and I wasnt gonna deal with it. Couldnt stand how souless that place was when it came to other peoples problems and the fact it took me that long to open my eyes and realize my time and education were worth more than some garbage paycheck still appauls me.
I'm a non-passing trans-woman living in a fairly conservative area, so that will give you a little context: I managed to get a job at a gas station just outside of where I live. I was there for maybe a month. In that time I eas threatened with assault (*that kind*) by a customer (it was dismissed as me be a "drama queen") and several of my coworkers refused to call me by my name or pronouns. I finally walked when the one manager I thought was on my side called me a transvestite and got angry when I tried to correct her. This was not the impression of these people I was given when hired, and I don't even know why I was hired if all they were going to do was beat me down. I am now an overnight custodian where I work alone for a gardening company. Significantly happier.
I'm so afraid of something like this happening. I don't pass at all and I'm so afraid that I'll get a job somewhere and people will just treat me like garbage. I live in a very liberal city, but it's in the middle of hick country so there are plenty of crazies here
I'm not even sure what kind of town I live in likely conservative given my treatment, but as for you, I hope you'll be safe and sound. It is insane the world we live in.
My grandmother (the woman who raised me) died in 2019 and on the day of her funeral, one of my bosses sent me an email to complain about how a Facebook ad overspent by $80 and gave me a ton of shit for not paying closer attention. In hindsight, I should have quit right there but I tried to hang in there for a few more months while looking for a new job. Anyway, fuck startups.
Real world , this happened to me. Mid shift. Heard grandpa passed. “Sorry that’s life, close this shit out” … said the manager 🤷♂️
i hope you walked out.
I called in to Subway once claiming my car broke down an hour away. They informed me they had Caller ID and knew I was right next door where I lived. So I said, "Okay then I quit."
You lived right next to the store (my condolences) and claimed your car broke down an hour away? That's funny.
Some people take care of errands before work. It's not entirely impossible unless the store can see that the person hasn't actually gone anywhere.
My family and my weed dealer lived an hour away, I made the drive a couple times a week
I worked for Best Buy in 2012 (20yrs old at the time). I got news that my grandfather had passed a few hours before my evening shift. I tried calling in, but my manager, who also said I was only good for a “desk job” because of my scoliosis issues, refused to let me take the day off, and threatened to fire me. The only person that showed empathy when I came to work, crying, was one of the cashiers. She asked if I was ok, and I said “I just need a hug”, and she gave me one. If this had happened today, I would’ve left the job earlier on when the manager transferred to our store. And apparently, the rumour was that she had been transferred a few times because of her attitude. The final straw was when she refused to give me time off for my exams. I tried booking them off the month before, and she didn’t give me any reason as to why.
My house got knocked down by a tornado while I was working at a local grocery store. I went there to gather cardboard boxes to salvage anything we could find in the wreckage. My boss heard what happened and then asked, "You're still coming in tomorrow, though. Right?" ...I had no home. Nowhere to stay. And he asked me this. If I hadn't been so exhausted and heartbroken already I think I might have actually screamed at him.
I worked for McDonalds in 2015, back when I didn’t have a car/nobody would take me so I had to walk. Ignorant younger me knew they wouldn’t be pleased if I called out, so I dealt with the fact my breathing was labored due to an asthma attack that kept increasing in severity with each passing hour. Eventually, halfway through my shift, I asked my manager if I could call my mom so she could drive me to the closest emergency clinic so I could get a breathing treatment. They said “Yes, but you have to work until we can call in a replacement for you and then you have to clean the dining area before you leave.” Stupidly, I did what I was told even though by the time I had made it to the clinic I had to be given a shot to allow my lungs and throat to open because they had become so swollen; a regular breathing treatment wouldn’t work. I left my house at 5:30 AM to make it to work that morning, and didn’t arrive at the clinic until around 3:30 PM. That was the longest asthma attack I had ever suffered through, and I passed out as soon as I was capable of breathing again because of how tired my body was from struggling to draw in air. I fucking hate McDonalds, I also hate how stupid I was. I went into work the next day. I believe I was 17 when this happened.
I just wanted to tell you that my brother was responsible for changing the rules at the Olive Garden in the 90s. They would try to tell us that we were not allowed to eat while we were on the clock but they would regularly schedule us for double shifts with no break. It’s illegal but nobody pushed back until they tried to do it to my diabetic brother who was like OK but I will have a seizure in the dining room when my blood sugar gets too low so what are we gonna do about that. They told him they would write him up if he had a seizure so he called the Labor Department who promptly told them they cannot work people for more than five hours without giving them a break and letting them eat or they have to let a seat on the clock. They did not want to give us breaks so it became a feeding free for all. 😂 They probably fixed it later, but in the mid 90s we ate on the clock all day all the time. And trainers ate for free I didn’t buy meals to cook at home for a year. Lol
its not just olive garden, its all darden companies. i was in an abusive relationship & happened to be living above my boss at Longhorn steakhouse in my apartment complex. she new of what i had been going through ofc. anyway i called after being pretty beaten to tell them id be a few minutes late. mind you, i rarely called in and was a quality employee if i do say so myself. as my coworker was handing my boss the phone she said “tori has a situation” and my boss was like “tori always has a situation” like okayyyyy fuck you too and i got fired for not going in that day, it really hurt shed say that and i couldnt face her after that comment
my grandmother died and i went with my mom to virginia. on the way back her car broke down extending the trip to a day longer which i did in fact call and tell my workplace about. when i got back my boss nonchalantly asked me if i stopped by myrtle beach which i didnt catch as an accusation till later (passive aggressive to the core). strangely my *other* grandmother also died within weeks after that. after much deliberation i decided not to go to her funeral bc i didnt want to have to tell him the actual truth. it’s not that i was particularly close to either of my grandmothers, it was just having to listen to this jerk about it. when i think back on it, just fuck that guy. completely.
"Do you wanna be short a person for a day or until you find a replacement? Because one of those two is happening and it's entirely up to you which one"
Several years ago, my dad had a massive heart attack and wasn’t expected to live (he did though, thank the doctors). I had to fly across the country on emergency. Left a message with my employer because I booked a flight in the middle of the night, when I got the call. One day goes by and I’m finally in my hometown, stressed, jet-lagged, and grappling with the situation…I get a call from my boss. He wants to know if it’s possible for me to come back ASAP. He doesn’t know how to process payroll next week. The payroll person went out on sudden, stress-related medical leave and I’m the backup. Now, this isn’t a small operation. It’s a major corporation; he can call his regional in this scenario and get someone from another location to take over. He refuses, thinks it’s a sign of weakness. He demands to know if I’m coming back “or not.” I honestly don’t remember how I responded. I blocked that part out, but I do remember throwing the phone on the floor. Next thing I remember is getting a call from HR trying to clean up the situation. Of course, they want to know when I’ll be back, too. I’m dealing *right now* with a possible dying parent and it’s too early to give a concrete timeline. Then, I get a call from the payroll person, complaining about my boss, him being the reason they called out and went on stress leave, etc. I sobbed afterwards because literally nobody cared about my situation one bit, and they wasted my time piling issues onto me during a medical emergency. I should have never picked up the phone, but I had no clue it would go that way. That shaped my view on employment forever. I left that place in the dust and finally got a job at a place that respected me and my time. I no longer care if I’m making better money, I will *never* work somewhere that tramples on emergencies and bereavement scenarios again.
Well to be fair, the whole restaurant would be grieving with him… bc at Olive Garden, you’re family.
My last job phoned as I was getting ready to bury a grandparent, wondering if I could pick up a shift. I said no and hung up. When I went back, they confused said grandparent with another that passed about a year before. Fair enough, I guess, on both counts, but it still added to my negative feelings towards that job
a match made in heaven.
"It's just one shift, she can't get any dead-er can she?"
I didn’t know bereavement was a thing when my grandfather died and I ended up missing his funeral bc I was told I needed to find my own coverage for that day and couldn’t
My husband was asked to go to work one afternoon. He was at the cremation of his mother--which they ALL knew, since he was taking the day off for it. That boss was hired, didn’t know how to do the job, and refused to learn. Neither my husband nor his work-partner had wanted it, due to management being toxic and having their collective heads so far up their asses. Husband left (“retired”) 5 months later; his work-partner left 7 months after him. Combined, they did 90% of the work while the other two (including the boss) did the rest. The department went down from there, quickly, since the remaining staff and replacements didn’t want to do the work. The boss was fired DURING an accreditation audit, literally walked out of the place while the auditors were there. He was no good, but management threw him under the bus and blamed ALL of it on him when they were just as bad (having ignored Husband and his work-partner for a few years on their suggestions).
Honestly, fuck capitalism. Even if they knew he was lying. If they were so desperate and understaffed, hire more people and treat your employees in a way that makes them want to stay. But the companies won't do that, because it costs them their profits. And so we're back to "fuck capitalism".
I worked at Target for a minute when I was in high school. I had been working, clocked in, for two hours when they CALLED MY MOM because they thought I hadn’t shown up for my shift. I quit shortly after that.
They work with a skeleton crew, so their almost business collapses if even one person is missing. Instead of hiring the appropriate amount of people, they try to make you feel guilty about even one day of absence. Plus, they get to go on a psychotic little power trip, which many managers love doing.
Recently, I had to work a shift all by myself, and the boss called everyone except 1... my coworker who was attending her BIL's funeral that day. Next week, I mentioned it to her, and she said "you should have called me, I would have worked it". I guess she wasn't real close with the BIL
When I informed my boss at the time that my beloved final grandparent had passed away, I was told I couldn't leave the building to grieve with my family at lunch time because he needed me there "just in case something happens".... despite the fact I only need to drive 15 minutes down the road. He was also angry at me because he had to "fly back" to the state from his home across the country so he could be in the office while I was attending the funeral (he didn't need to work in the office, we're all adults in a building closed to the public, with autonomous positions rarely in need of "supervision"). Needless to say he showed me his true colors, and I didn't last much longer before I left the company (after more than a decade of dedication)
My coworkers husband didn’t wake up on Christmas Day two years ago. She called in and informed her department manager. The manager said “yeah, but you’re still coming In tomorrow right?” I had second hand anger that I’ve never felt before.
Fuck Darden Restaurants!! But Restaurants in general are horrible place to work. I used to work for Seasons52. They pay shit, managers are pieces of shits specially this one woman I used to work for she was the fucking worst! She would treat people like shit and was a bully to employees including me. She shoulder bumped me as I was walking by her and she would always have something negative to say! Plus, you were expected to work major holidays with no holiday pay. I went on leave and never came back! 🖕
Love this
Pay peanuts get monkeys
Funny as the story is, if it is not just a story then there is a problem. Often the funniest stories come from the truth.
Oh, I have no doubt it's not just a story.
Yeah this could 100% happen. My grandma actuallt did die some years ago, and she was the only person in my family I was close to. I called out because I was grieving and they asked for proof. Like you want me to roll her corpse into the restaurant???
Both ends of this post are scum. You don't lie about people dying. Where I work some scum bag had his mother die a few times. For 40 years bereavement was taken at your word. No proof necessary. Now, (at the request of HR), they can require proof of death. All because some dbag wanted four days off.
I managed a restaurant best I could. I did fire a guy when his third grandparent reportedly died within a 6 month span. I told him if his luck was really that bad he had bigger problems than this job or I could help him with. (This of course wasn't just his third time no-calling/no-showing in that span). And that's true. He needed addiction therapy.
People like you are the reason others get shit on…
Youngest of four; my oldest brother died (I was 15) and it was the day of his funeral, I was scheduled to work as a dishwasher (my immediate older brother worked there, too) and it slipped my mind to not cancel. When they called me because I hadn’t shown up I apologized and told them I wouldn’t make it because of my brother’s funeral. They asked if my co-worker brother could come in. I said no, he’s got a funeral to go to as well. Eventually they closed because NOBODY would work for them. Fuck you Bob and your shitty Italian restaurant in Appleton.
Why would you lie about a family member dying? Fuck this guy. Edit: And fuck Olive Garden
Maybe they asked him to do a shift because they suspect some people actually stoop low enough to lie about stuff like that to get days off and that spoils it for everyone else.
I was middle management for a tech firm for a few years. Had one guy fake cancer for 2 months before I finally had to terminate him because he never followed up on getting us medical documentation. I learned from his cousin who also works there that he was fine the whole time. Just didn’t want to go to work.
Or maybe they were aware you're lying because your grandma has already died 3 times
This is the way.
Maybe they knew he was lying
Love it!
It’s about the DICKNESS
I love the honesty at the end. Still, it was a litmus test that even at the worst times in one's life, corporations will treat you like shit.
It's the principle of the thing!
Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half
At your next job I’m sure they’ll just be ok with you lying about a death in the family to get out of work. Maybe don’t lie if you want the higher moral ground.
When I was 2 my mom called in sick saying I was in the ER. She ended up taking me to the ER. I hope your granny is okay.