"I was in here the same day my child was born." I hate managers like that. Those are the ones that have a miserable life and want everyone else to suffer as they do.
Yeah i agree. When someone tried to justifying that 'if i can do it, you can too' attitude, at least in Singapore, the typical response would be "well good for you" in a sarcastic tone
Jesus don't get me started. I used to have a manager who's solutions were always "okay, let's all come in on Saturday" To anything! Need to finish a couple of orders--come in on Sat We are running low on Paper towels in the bathroom--everybody come in on saturday!
"We are like a family here", "We are team players here". Just some phrases corporate scum use to make you work harder for no extra pay by psychologically manipulating you.
@@macabremage6374 The norm for family businesses is that junior family members get paid bupkis. In the better situations its because everyone shares in the profits, but the parents manage it. In the worse ones, its slave labor by another name.
$349.99 was supposed to be charged to an elderly woman to bypass a Windows Password to look at pictures of her dead husband. $349.99... I hate it here. That man is a legend.
Pro tip: when they do quit, don't debate it. When they quit a couple months after attempting to quit the first time, don't tell them their job sucks and they have to stay bc management doesn't want to fill in bc they hate it that much
But if you are completely replaceable, the company doesn't give a fuck. They can suck you until you quit, then they can find another guy who is willing to take the job.
I mean I'm willing to bet that if this were true, she wasn't doing so intentionally...that and...there's 24 hours in a day to work around. Unfortunately sometimes pesky funerals have you know...been planned by other people that haven't considered the staffing needs of TARGET at that moment.
Women actually can be physically mobile the same day they gave birth. An in-laws grandmother used to tell a story on how after giving birth to one of her daughters, she cleaned her up and laid her in a drawer while she continued farm work right afterwards.
Quit a McDonald's on the spot (surprising, I know). I had just lost my mother on a head on collision 2 days before and was being threatened with being fired if I didn't come in, leave requests were denied (it was Prom Season). We were severely understaffed to the point I was working front register, lobby clean up, drive through, packing my orders (front and drive) amd manning fry station. We kept running out of fries and I was told to stay up front and couldn't get to the walk in for fries. After about 30 minutes into customers waiting on fries, me hollering back for someone to get fries, and the manager standing in the corner watching RUclips, I got tired of waiting, went to go grab a box of fries to fill the hopper, I get body blocked by the manager asking me what I was doing, told him we were out of fries, he told me to drop more and flat out told me "not be a r****d" when I said there weren't any fries in the hopper. He then started to push me toward the front. I took off my apron and threw it over his head telling him to put some fries down himself and walked out. He didn't last another week as manager.
I'm sorry about what happened with your Mother. They definitely should have worked with you to offer bereavement leave instead of doing that. I didn't quit on the spot, but I turned in my shift supervisor position after my boss asked me to tell someone in a wheelchair not to smoke in the shade of a tree near an entryway (this was a security position). I told him to do it himself and informed his boss that I wasn't being paid any extra for the BS, so they could find someone else to run my shift. A week later, my boss told his boss that I walked off of the job, but no one believed him. Karma is fantastic, sometimes.
TO ANYONE READING THIS! when you hear "it isn't a big deal" then it is no problem to meet your requirement. if you hear afterwards "I don't know why you make it such a big deal" then it is a big deal. it doesn't matter if work hours, work conditions or money. when someone says it's not much money then they can happily pay for it! learned it the hard way
@@TheLily97232 after an normal interview for on-site work around my area, i got an contract for a job presented... in this contract my city was listed as "preferred working area" and my main working place was the production facility 350 kilometers away, with attached shift-work. As i pointed that mistake out he replied, "Oh ignore that! at our branch we make our own rules so that clearly doesn't apply to you" "well, if it doesn't apply to me then we can remove that line from the contract." his response: yada yada...why do you make such a big deal about it? for clarification: he could easily threat me with working 350km away to do shift work and i would have to get there with my own car unpaid in my freetime. he had to delete 1 sentence and change the adress from main factory to branch...and i was the one who makes such a big deal about it...
I hope he actually told the elderly women how to fix it and then explained to her how the store tried to scam her and not to come back. otherwise she could've easily just stayed there and gotten svammrd
I was overworked. I got 8 hours with no break and sometimes forced to scarf down food, making me sick, while all other employees and managers got breaks. I actually got so much anxiety from going to work, it made me physically sick. I called in sick one day, they threw a fit, had trouble getting a doctor's note, notified them, threw another fit, so I quit.
same here. I had to work until midnight every shift when I was 15. I literally threw up because of the stress. I had an opened wound that I was expected to wash dishes with too. I just quit and never came back because of the horrible work conditions. they didn't comply with minor labor laws and I could have easily sued them for VERY illegal drugs in the workplace.
Worked at a pizza place and made sure the manager knew I needed to be off one day to go to my Uncle's funeral. We were literally walking out the door when the phone rang. It was the manager saying another worker called out sick so I had to come in. I reminded him about the funeral and told him we were actually walking out the door to go and his response was "well I guess you don't want your job do you" to which my response was "I guess I don't" and I hung up.
Omg that manager makes my blood boil. You told him you were going to a FUNERAL and he had the AUDACITY to imply that coming in for work is more important than a FUNERAL????? That’s got to be one of the most cold, heartless things anyone can do. Good on you for quitting.
The funny thing about the shit bathrooms, it's actually illegal for an employee to clean it, as it's classified as a biohazard. The store is required *by law* to have a professional hazard team clean the waste. In the US at least
@@zorakihyena7392 It's in the OSHA guidelines for removal and cleanup of biohazardous waste. Now, your boss can make you clean a bathroom unless prohibited by contract, but if it's been nuked then no. At that point it's required to have a professional team come in, which is expensive AF so most places try to rely on those who wouldn't know of such things to avoid said cost.
Few to no U.S. retail environments actually comply with this. They bank on the idea that the average employee does not know this fact, nor most of the managers, so if you actually try to pull this, they can play dumb and outright say that you're wrong or lying and try to make you do it anyways.
I quit some crappy smoothie place when i was 17. One of my coworkers (30+) and my manager (30+) were yelling and cussing at me in front of customers because i told the coworker that the smoothies she was making were half empty and the customers were coming back pissed and asking (decently kindly) for the full amount of the product they paid for (these are all military personnel fresh out of basic training). Anyway, manager and coworker started cussing and screaming at me in front of the customers and i took off my hat, work shirt (i had an undershirt on) and clocked out while apologizing to the customers that they had to see that happening (this is because i was the child of a soldier and wasn't about to be disrespectful to them).
I was a housekeeper at a retirement home. There were so many sweet residents and I loved them dearly. There was one 86 year old lady who I met before I started, and she was an absolute angel. I am an alternative style person (piercings, dark hair, heavy make up) and usually elderly people don't like to strike up conversation with me. But this lady was an absolute darling. I always looked forward to cleaning her room, and I'd say hello to her and we'd chat about things whenever I'd see her. One day I was cleaning her room. I had my back to her and she had tried to walk to her dresser. She lost her balance and fell into her dresser, then into a set of shelves. She collapsed on the floor and started moaning out in pain. She was bleeding from her ear and holding her ribs. She was covered in broken glass. I immediately called the med aids and comforted her until they came. It was very traumatic for me. I was new at the job, I had only worked there for about a month and a half. The lady had to go to the hospital and I had to call her son and tell him what happened, which broke my heart. I went to work for two more days, and over those days, I couldn't stop thinking about her. I told my manager and assistant manager that I was struggling dealing with it. My boss had 0% patience for it and flat out said "This stuff happens. You need to get over it. If you want to work here, you have to get over it." No consoling. No compassion. She was hardly upset when I told her about what happened to the woman. It was so incredibly cold. I quit that day.
@@DiscreetHobo Nursing homes are like that... my neighbour works in one and she explained its hard at first (mentally) but you "kind of" get used to it. You really cant be mourning a death for days because depending on the size of the home there could be 1 to multiple deaths each month...
It's kinda funny, y'know? 55-year-old middle managers demand loyalty on one hand and make employees miserable on the other. And then they complain about 'kids these days' having 'no loyalty' AND 'asking for too much'. Can't have it both ways, Boomers. Gotta learn.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 I dont mind being miserable, it's the hypocrisy and entitlement they blame us young people (26 and under) for having that they act and are guilty of I cant fucking stand.
@@Ravenbones Aint' just the 26 and unders, amigo. Everyone under 40 gets shit from middle-manager Boomers who can't figure out how CC and BCC works in emails. A whole lot of systems are gonna fucking crumble once the Boomers experience mass die-offs because they've done precisely nothing to futureproof the economy or the government by preparing Gen X, Millennials, or Zoomers to take over, instead continuing to selfishly cling on to every scrap of power they can seize for themselves.
I’m hoping the pandemic will help businesses realize just how obsessive we’ve become with our careers and ease back a bit. I know all businesses won’t do that, but some have already discussed and are planning for an online/more relaxed approach.
I fail to see the logic here: "We need you on this job, so you HAVE to come in no matter how we treat you! You're quitting? No, come back, I said we need you!"
right! you can end a work contract any time you want if you're being treated horribly. a job I had when I was 15 made me work until midnight every night to clean the entire kitchen by myself. I literally threw up from the stress and just didn't come back after I got a paycheck. they knew they weren't complying with labor laws so they never forced me to come back, but they threatened to revoke my paycheck if I didn't put in a 2 weeks!
@Ruby King I signed a contract that stated if I quit within a 90 day period of starting the job, then I would possibly have my paycheck revoked. its an attempt to stop high staff turnover or some shit, but they never follow through.
About 2 years or so after I left the military, I had a hard time finding employment since I lived in the middle of BFE and no ride. I had to work a dairy queen to make ends meet; was a cook there, and was by far the oldest person there at 25 yrs old. By the way, this happened on my birthday. I came into work at 0900 on a wednesday, the night shift kids didnt bother cleaning the bathroom at all. I went to go clean the bathroom right before I started warming up the grill. Right on the fucking floor was a HUGE DEUCE. Some kid decided it would be funny to take a huge shit on the floor, and nobody from night shift bothered to clean this up. Since I didnt have a ride back home until 8 hours later, I just sat there on the grill cooking food all day long. Obviously I washed my hands after I cleaned that bathroom up, but that was the most disgusting thing Ive ever had to do. After this I quit my job, packed up what little stuff I had and migrated to a homeless shelter in another state just so I could go to college. Now I work on aircraft for a living. Took a single turd to get me here. People are stupid. You hear someone say they would rather aim for the moon and hit the gutter than just aim for the gutter - its the same thing. Find a better analogy.
@Cameron Abba plus I'm fairly sure in most states, it's against the health code for BOH staff in a restaurant to clean bathrooms AT ALL let alone that.
Reading that reminds me of an old Chinese Fart Story. Su Dongpo was a poet and spirtualist who sent a poem to a Zen master/friend saying how the 8 winds could not move me. The Zen Master wrote "Fart" on the poem and sent it back. In his anger he left and ordered a ferry across the river only to get to the Zen Master's House which had a note left on the door. "The eight winds cannot move me One fart blows me across the river."
I worked as a “Mermaid” performer at a resort in Florida. As I was climbing onto the rock platform, a guest reached into the performance pool and snapped my bikini top. I slapped him across the face and told him not to touch me. Later, my boss yelled at me as I was hanging up the mermaid tail backstage before taking my break. He said “Do you know who you just slapped!? That guy is the resort company board president’s brother-in-law! You’d better apologize, or they’ll cancel our performance contract!” I said “Never!”. I explained my side of the story, but my boss wouldn’t hear any of it. I was told “Apologize, or you’re fired!”. I told him “I’ll take ‘Option 3’, I quit!”. I considered suing the resort and the Mermaid performance company but the lawyer I consulted told me that it wasn’t worth the effort.
@@MASTEROFEVIL Unfortunately so. Some idiots told me I was dumb for not suing anyway, but unfortunately it isn’t that easy (especially in Florida). Eventually the contract was cancelled after it happed to one more girl, she complained to the labor board and I think it did get the mermaid performance company in trouble.
The nanny one. I totally relate due to the fact I was a nanny once as well. The worst thing about the job is NEVER the children and ALWAYS the adults who treat you as crap and talk to you like you are the whole family maid. There were times in interviews when I told people that if they expect me to not only watch their children, but play housemaid, I would need to be paid for that work as well. They don't want to pay that and if you are just starting out, be careful about them manipulating you into doing more than what was originally agreed upon.
I've worked as a janitor and did a couple of summers at a sewage treatment plant. So I've literally cleaned toilets and shoveled shit. And very glad I never had to work retail.
I absolutely despise my store manager since she is so two-faced. One moment she acts all friendly and cool, then the next moment she is talking down to you, judging customers behind their backs, yelling at you in front of customers, embarrassing you, and never seeing anyone's side of any situation besides her own. One day I nearly quit after she started yelling at me in the back and essentially calling me an idiot and not listening to my defense for myself when I was doing something entirely correctly, just not how she WANTED it done. It was something that she wanted me to do because she was lazy. Anyway, she was yelling in the break room so loud that customers and my coworkers on the sales floor overheard everything. I was going to argue with her, but after realizing that she listens to no one but herself I simply chuckled in her face and basically just said "whatever" and "whatever you say". Luckily, my coworker at the time knew she was a two-faced b**ch to be honest, and he eventually quit at the end of April. I actually got promoted to first-level manager, which is below assistant manager and store manager, but I still dislike her because she still has this "only whatever I say or do is right" mentality, and she is demeaning to you even if she doesn't understand your reason for something. Her problem is she never listens to reason, she always just believes that she is 100% in the right. I've had coworkers, and even managers from our different retail locations, quit due to her attitude and customers who come in saying she's a b**ch and I completely agree. When I am forced to work with her on the same shift, I have to act fake and pretend to be all friendly because she can literally switch up her mood and personality with the snap of a finger. I would've quit a while ago to be honest since the pay increase for being promoted was only 1 extra dollar per hour (amazing, right??? *sarcasm*) but this is my first job that I've had since literally right after graduating high school. I'm now a 3rd year student in college, so I've worked there for now about 2.5 years, approaching 3 soon. I want to quit, but I don't want to burn any bridges that can possibly help me in the future so when it's my time to go I'll put in my 2 weeks so that I can still get a reference. My Assistant Manager is cool btw, but the environment is always tense when the store manager is there. I'm currently in the process of applying for a new, much better job but until I actually get accepted and get an offer of hire, then I'm not going to quit just yet. Gots to see it through.
@@stopit9280 My boss is also like that, but I quit mine after I bad a mental break down as she went personal and said I had anger issues, even though she's treated me badly and I never once screamed, yelled anything. I also tried to defend myself as she blamed me for a lot of things and didn't listen to me. Especially since I've been trying to fix my anger issues since I was a kid and keeping it fixed, it hurt a lot on the inside. Quit the day before my actual last shift and cried, in front of freaking customers as well as I wanted to help out the other staffs a little bit as they were friendly.
I always quit my jobs on the spot as soon as I know there is a better paying job that hired me. I do not give a notice of intent to resign. It is not as if an employer will give an employee a notice of intent to fire the employee. They will never return the courtesy so why are we obligated to give a notice? I will never give a notice to resign.
Yeah, if you and the company are leaving on good terms, and you had a lot of complicated work, then you might want to make sure everything you were doing is taken care of, but for comapnies like this? No need.
@@KnakuanaRka It is more peaceful to just disappear out of a job than to have employees, management, and clients badgering me to stay. I can think of only three companies that probably went into a panic when I disappeared. But the rest probably just did some extremely minor shifting of employees. Most of the jobs I have had I have only been nothing but an expendable work drone. The three where I was something of importance still survived without me. But when another job was offering way more pay with a lot less responsibility, more freedom, and more benefits than the job where I was very important, I had to leave the old job and start the new job as soon as possible. I was obviously not valued too much if a job with less responsibility, benefits, and much more freedom offered to pay me a lot more than the job were I was considered very important. Thus, I moved on.
I’m glad I don’t live in the US anymore, the way they treat their customer service employees(this includes customers and management/corporate) is awful. In Australia I work at a supermarket and get paid amazing and rarely ever have a bad customer, most of the time it’s a grumpy old lady. Never been yelled at and never been asked to do a terrible job. Thank god.
I think that's because Australia not only has employment laws, but actually enforces them quite strictly. There are also unions for almost every job. Employers don't want to deal with either the penalties or the unions, so they attempt to make everything go smoothly for their employees. And since Australia doesn't have that BS known as "tipping", employers are practically forced to pay everyone a living wage, otherwise they'd go out of business from lack of employees.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 Yeah the whole tipping thing sucks. I was shocked in my first job when someone tipped me as I worked in hospitality. He was American and I was so shocked XD Small tip, but still just wow. Meant a lot to me though, but hey, a simple you did great is welcomed too :)
I quit on my first day Interviewed for a server position. Talked about how great it would be and they said I sounded like a perfect fit. I go in first day, they say, "we really need help in the kitchen" Wanting to impress with my ability to do both, no questions asked. Halfway through the day I asked to take a lunch. They said, "normally our line cooks just eat on the job so they don't need breaks" I said, "I'm not a line cook and I'm pretty sure that's against health code" They said, "You're a cook now. You're good at it and we need people in back" I said, " I can see why" and left Red Lobster can finish going out of business any time
The man in the last story is amazing, and I'm sure that that woman is forever grateful that she can see pictures of her deceased husband again. Simple acts like that really show the good in the world. I'm sorry you had to quit your job. God bless you, dude (or whomever you worship). You're a hero.
I worked at a manufacturing company for Toyota. We build full brake systems for various cars. I was a member of the machining section which meant we were responsible for machining the master cylinder. We rotated who worked on a machine line, a wash line, and the anodizer. I was working the anodizer which is directly after the wash line. Basically meaning that I left as soon as wash line finished parts. We were scheduled for 12 hours but if we got our parts done we left. There are two wash lines that split the total number of parts we had to run. Well one day on of the wash lines was shut down due to an issue with a machine. It was down for three days causing us to be very behind on the parts we had to run. This meant that for almost a week I was pulling 12 hour shifts. Two people had quit and due to being absolutely exhausted I wasn't running very fast. I got yelled at by one of the team leaders and basically told him that if he wanted it done faster, that he could do it. I gave him my gloves and walked out. In retrospect for someone who was still living with parents I was making pretty good money, especially since I worked nights. But still fuck that.
When my boss told me I needed to get my priorities in line when I had to go-to the hospital because I had a family member their on their death bed and where about to die. Yep, I left and never came back, when hr called I informed them what had happened and they had the balls to say "we pay you when you are here and you need to be ours during my work hours". I told them oh I'm so sorry for my family choosing to die when I was at work and I would punish my self by never coming back.
I used to work at this chicken strip chain for my first job. Took me 2 years to get a job due to curfew laws in my county. Anyways, so here I am, first job, barely any training, and they have me working just under full time. I’m running the counter, cleaning the front and bathrooms, stocking the drink station, etc. ON MY OWN. When I asked for help, they ignored me in order to maintain “fastest drive threw in the company/Texas” status. There would be like 15 people on drive and the fryers and I’d be drowning in customers and backed up messy tables. The thing that made me quit was, 3 weeks and then fucking up my finals week work schedule later, a mental breakdown from all the stress followed by the fury of a thousand suns at the BS excuse as to why my trainer was always gone and never actually helped me/would lay into me for leaving the till to clean. He was autistic. I gave up on stating I was autistic because no one would hire me otherwise in applications but told my bosses my situation. I was actually LOWER FUNCTIONING than my trainer. Yeah, I called them on their BS and quit over the phone in tears. Screw toxic workplaces.
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. If they weren't giving you proper concessions for your autism, that is considered discrimination based on disability, which the State Human Resources office does not mess around with. Please put in a report, and try to get this place taken down for this
@@ntfoperative9432 imma take that off my Applications going forward now. In the past 6 weeks, i have sent about 60 applications to various positions in my Town. Only 2 have ever asked me to come in for an interview. 1 only because a friend reccomended me...
I was a cashier at a supermarket and there were new owners. During this time I was co-signed on a lease with family, but my family lost their income and didn't care to get a new job. I couldn't do it alone so we got evicted. I found a new place to live but owed the entire rest of the lease value. Anyway, regarding the new owners, It was stated that anyone who had poor credit would no longer be able to run a register. I had trained in every department in the store, but I'd never have been able to advance and might not have been able to keep my job anyway. When I found out I apologized to all the customers in my line, turned, and left.
Had already put in my two week notice. The new store manager of a popular taco chain rearranged the entire stock room for no reason, accused our best worker of somehow stealing from her till when she was the only to use it (she never made mistakes) and generally tried her best to be as difficult as possible. She had a problem with me for some reason (I was friends with literally everyone else there, including the previous manager) and whenever she went out, had her lackie, an obnoxious teenager, ask me loudly, every two minutes what i was doing. Even if i was in front of customers take orders. When she got back I told her i was done immediately and left. Turns out not long after i left, everyone else did too because no one could stand her. Stores owner finally fired her after she was the only one left. Why did it take so long? She was the owners sister in law.
It’s pure poetry Shakespeare would be proud the part where it said no was truly heartbreaking and you did it perfectly with no mistake even though your English isnt good 👍
The manager who said she was at work THE SAME DAY SHE GAVE BIRTH??¿¿?...that is NOT the flex she thinks it is. That is someone who doesn't even respect their own time, let alone the time of others. Big ole yikes. 😬😬
Gotta love when companies think the schedule is some sort of Holy Tome of the Ancients that binds employees with the fetters of Fate, leaving them no choice but to come in, lest they face eternal corporate damnation.
I was actually thinking of quitting because my manager was a pain in the a hole. He was always mad at anyone for some reason. He got fired Monday for punching a computer and breaking it. I have a new manager. He is cool.
Helped open a brand new motel on I-95 close to the Florida line, worked my ass off for six weeks prior to opening. Learned that they were putting in gas clothes dryers in the laundry, which I would have charge of when they opened. I'd been the laundress for another property on one of the islands, so I wasn't a newbie at this, and voiced my concerns about the gas dryers. Was told that they would be fine and could be adjusted if there was a problem. The opening week, sheets and towels were not getting dry, they called in service to adjust the dryers. Next week, same thing. Nothing was drying properly. I even suggested a clothesline until the dryers were up to snuff, and was told that I just needed to do my job, and keep quiet. Six weeks after opening I go in to work one morning and my manager's waiting with a write-up. I'd been leaving linen damp. I explained the entire conversation that I'd had with her several times, citing dryer issues. She got pissed and called me a liar. I needed to sign the write up. I refused. Some back and forth for about ten minutes, and I threw my badge at her and told her to cram it. She said I couldn't leave until I signed the write up, I told her she could stick her write up where the sun never shines, grabbed my purse and booked it. Four days later I picked up my last check, and was short something like $60. I left the motel and drove directly to the owners office and told them they shorted me. Owner asked what happened the day I left and I told him, again citing concerns that dryers weren't working properly. He had not been told about the dryers, as conveniently, the serviceman had always come and gone before I got there every day, or had come on my day off. I never saw him. He cut me a new check, plus $40 for my trouble. Heard later that the gas dryers had been exchanged for electric, because the problem persisted. And that manager was replaced within a month. Something about embezzlement?
This wasn’t the primary reason I took another job, but definitely still up there. I had asked my boss at my last job for a raise for several years now. I was just BARELY above minimum wage; I have been working hard, taking several shifts, worked days no one wanted, and have even worked in other areas of the kitchen (server at a residential community). Nope, no raise because he couldn’t just do it. Meanwhile, three new servers were hired in the next few months, and they all got paid WAY MORE than I was, and none of them had serving experience. I’ll remind you, I had been there for many, many years, and I was still not making what they had gotten upon signing up. So, I searched for a new job, and thankfully got it (caregiving) with excellent benefits, better pay, and better hours too. The real reason I quit was because I couldn’t work with around jack asses I thought were my friends, because I HAD to get away from them, but that’s another story for another time. All I can say is, this new job of mine gave me a raise long before I met my 90-day trial (or whatever it’s called), and that’s great seeing I was already getting paid better than the last one.
Back in the 90s, I first moved to Texas from a much more arid climate. I couldn't bring my car with me even though I was a mechanic at the time. I got a job with a National shop that sold Tires and Wheels. I had been on the job for better part of 2 months, working on the coasta Texas heat and humidity, with no breaks, and not allowed to go into the air conditioned building. I had been at work since 7 A.M. and was supposed to get off at 7 P.M., hot, humid, and no chance to take a break. I was ready to go home. At 6:57 P.M. a ticket for a new set of wheels, tires, and an oil change was dropped on my peg (an assignment queue of sorts). I had at least 10 minutes left to finish up the car I was working on. I finished the car I was working on, cleaned and packed up my tool box, rolled it out to my truck and tossed it in the bed of the truck while the manager and sales associate were screaming at me. I simply looked at them both and said. "Nope, you don't pay nearly enough for me to kill myself.". I got in my truck and drove off.
A couple years ago I worked at Walmart right after I had graduated highschool. One day while stocking the shelf, I felt really sick, went to the bathroom, threw up and nearly passed out. When I went to tell my manager what happened, she said “I don’t believe you, you look completely fine.” I walked out right after that with my cart of stock still sitting out in the shopping center.
Walmart doesn't give a shit about their employees. They ignore OSHA guidelines on the regular and just pay a fee every year as a penalty. The fee is legitimately cheaper than actually following all the rules. To that end, every low-on-the-pole Walmart employee is tagged as expendable. Walmart is the second worst place to work, right after Amazon.
@@macabremage6374 I've had three jobs, and Walmart was the best one I've had. It was a good job. Not perfect, but a lot better than my current job. I didn't feel expendable while I was working there, and I didn't want to quit when I did, but I was moving away to go to college, so I did. Now I'm finished with college and the best job i could find was a fast food restaurant that pays me $3 less per hour. Oh, and no paid breaks, either.
I feel like the dude above me is just one of those accounts that amazon pays to lie about how good their working conditions are even though its a well known fact they are treated like shit, except its Walmart edition
@@tic-tac9323 Naw, I wish I was getting paid. My current job isn't as good. I don't particularly like Walmart as a company. I didn't deny the OSHA violation thing, that may be true. But all of what I said is true, too. Credit where credit is due. Have you worked at Walmart? Maybe you had a worse experience than me.
I had a part time job while at uni (college). Four employees, one idiot boss. He was working hard on his second divorce and we had to hear all about it every lunchtime. Then he started taking it out on us. One guy took a Friday off to help his uncle fix his house. When he got back on the Monday he said he was leaving on pay day because he was going to work for his uncle. The boss was livid and sacked him on the spot and told him to get out. So now there were 3 workers in a 4 job business, no-one else was qualified to do that guy's job and the boss had to pay him 2 weeks' wages to sack him without notice. Then he started in on us, taking that out on us too. It was a Wednesday. Pay day was Thursdays. The next week, on payday, the 2nd guy took his cash paycheck and said he wasn't coming back. The other worker and I just looked at each silently and were very careful to remain silent when the boss came steaming out of his office and started ranting about how we were better off without those ungrateful baskets. Yeah, better off without half the workforce and not able to finish the orders on the bench. The next day, two new workers showed up. Young, unqualified and thrilled at getting a job so easily. When I finished my day's work, I told him he could make up my pay because this was my last day. He was startled. Then the other guy said he was leaving next week so the boss would need to have the cash for that. I passed the place a couple of weeks later and, surprise surprise, there was a sign in the window saying "closed down".
I quit a seasonal part time job at target on my first day. At the interview I had told them I would need an extra 30 minutes to arrive on time everyday since I would be leaving my main job at 6 and therefore wouldn’t be able to start at 6. The interviewer said that would be fine but then I went to the training. There they told us about their strict on time policies and handed us out our schedules where they put me on to start at exactly 6 which is not what I had agreed on at the interview. After trying to get it clarified they gave much so much attitude acting like I was being insubordinate and such and that’s when I realized that everything would probably be like in that store. So I walked in on my first day and handing them back their little scanner thing that they gave me on the first day. I didn’t need that job I just wanted a little extra cash for the holidays
Worked in a PC repair shop, worked my way from part time weekend tech to running the repair shop, all at the same rate of pay as the weekend part time tech (I was out of school at the time and didn't know better). Many excuses as to why I couldn't get a raise, but he told me that business was bad and he didn't have money, then hired a new tech and a couple new salespeople we didn't need that afternoon. I left after the news...
I worked at a BBQ restaurant as a dishwasher which ironically was the hardest job in the building because I'd get scheduled alone alot and be there 2 hours after everyone else already left and it would just be me and the manager until I was finally done.. one really busy night I got overloaded and had got stuck working with someone I already didn't really like and they made a joke about quitting and leaving me to do everything.. 4 people had already walked out on me since I started the job leaving me to do everything alone the manager was an absolute dick who talked down to everyone just because he's never had another job and got to be the manager I only made 8 dollars an hour and had already been thinking of quitting and it was a busy ass night with like 6 different huge piles of dishes so that's when I decided it wasn't worth the pay and left before closing.. the only time I ever got to leave before closing
demonjmh don’t blame u I work as a dishwasher for Chilies bar and grill it was hard lots of dish Pans Friday nights and Saturday nights are busy nonstop
8 dollars an hour" Bro i wouldve walked out of that interview or first day off that job so fast lmao i was a former dishpig i was always alone and that job fucked with me mentally i started to hate the feel of water on my skin i was paid 10 an hour and i honestly salute you for even doing a single second for 8 an hour
This was THE reason I quit my fast food job years ago. I was working two jobs and I worked on weekends, and yet they were putting me two weeks back to back closing at 11pm and washing dishes alone, to then wake up at about 5am to go to my other job. Saw another full week of closing and I was just like "fuck this shit". Being a janitor is 100 times better than being a dishpig
2:08 this really confuses me how she was working when her child was born so is she implying that she was giving birth on the job or am I missing something
Agreed. Giving birth in a Target is nothing to brag about. Either that's what happened, or she was defaulting to some narcissistic formula that ended up not working out.
@Kathryn Moore Not true. My Sister in-Law was forced to do that. She did quit the very night, but she gave birth without the pain medicine (religious reasons I guess) and was cleared for walking. She had no Uthera tears or any complications and still went in. She quit that night because obviously she wasnt strong enough to continue the night shift and had to use maxi pads for the afterbirth still coming out of her. Some businesses still dont care about a woman choosing to have a kid. This was Walmart btw.
I knew I was always going to be ambitious when I was younger, when I finally got a job (age 16) at a popular teens retail store I was SO happy and all my friends were so impressed. Reality sucked however. No team culture, shit management.. and the last straw for me was when they cut my hours so drastically, then tried to make me do ALL the cleaning duties. I did it for 5 minutes before I got annoyed, went to the manager and said: “here you go (the broom) tell Sarah (regional manager) I said bye. The look into their faces. Priceless. Got my things from the staff room and walked out 💁🏻♀️
I worked at a Shoppers Drug Mart for about 6 months. When I was hired, my manager was pregnant. She was always super nice to me, trained me well, and was patient with me. Overall, absolutely fantastic manager. About 5.5 months into my employment she left to have her baby and a manager from a nearby Shoppers took over. First thing she did was slash everyones hours and bring in her crew from her Shoppers and give them our hours. I was at 32/week before, guaranteed Thursday shift with every other weekend off, and she put me on a random 5 hour shift one week and a random 8 hour shift the next week. After a couple weeks of that crap, I was sick of it. I punched in, then went to her office to ask for more hours. She simply said no, so I flipped off my name tag and said I quit and just walked out of her office. I punched out and just chatted with a cashier for a bit and went home. I got a paystub in the mail a couple weeks or so later for my time worked that day, all 0.03 hours.
Worked at this Pub & Grill restaurant (it wasn't a Pub and certainly not a Grill) as a dishwasher. It was my first job ever. But after being treated like shit, and working 3pm to 1am on a school night, every night for the past 4ish weeks i was there, i decided to walk out one night the moment the restaurant closed and never came back.
One time I was working at a Gas Station KFC. Not the best place in the world but it was money. I started to get the hang of the job, making tiny mistakes here and there as a normal human would. Then one day my hours were being cut for absolutely no reason. I shrugged it off since my Manager (let‘s call her Stacy, not her real name) told me that they aren’t usually busy. Soon it went from 4 days, to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Then weekends, then just one day. I noticed this as I kept checking my schedule. I was talking to other co-workers about it, and they said to talk to Stacy....that‘s the thing, when my hours were being cut, Stacy wasn’t there. But when I wasn‘t working, she was there mysteriously. Before I quit I called up KFC and asked what my schedule is, of course Stacy is there, and she told me I had no days to work. I looked at my mother and said I’m done. We drove there, dropped off my uniform, asked for my final check, and stormed out. The funny thing is, they never called me back, never told me what the issue was. After a while I landed a job as a busser in a Chinese restaurant. One of my friends who worked at KFC told me the same thing, her hours were being cut...it was the weirdest shit ever
When your hours start getting cut in fast food, your best bet is to start looking. It means they're looking to drop you for not having work, or anger you enough to quit.
King Savage That‘s what I did, landed at a job, pays less, makes me do more work, and I have to deal with an owner who doesn‘t speak good English. Might consider getting a better job once the virus is done
That's common in fast food environments when they want to get rid of someone, but have no legal reason to fire them. They can't just *get rid of you*, so they'll just reduce your hours until you leave or you go below the minimum required on the payroll and the computers terminate you.
Sounds familiar. My wife worked for Target in 2007/8 and was able to make the store's quota in selling the Target credit cards by herself (she was nicknamed the "Red Card Queen"). Due to cuts, her hours got slashed to 10 hours a week (2 hours a day for 5 days). Yeah, that did not last long. She ended up at a gas station before finally securing work at a bank (selling credit cards, business loans and mortgages). Her last job (before she settled to have kids), she had almost closed one loan that would have netted her a $50K bonus, but due to her going on maternity leave, the guy who finished it up took credit for it.
Oof. The IT guy hit hard. Been there, bro. You have my solidarity and my sympathy. Edit: the state siding with that grossly illegal owner for not paying you for all that work got my blood boiling. All I can say is: yup, sounds like America.
Many places force employees in tip positions to share their tips. Which is ridiculous, because bartenders can make their own fucking tips...It's just another way for them to get away with paying employees poverty wages. They can have a full staff making less than minimum wage, all being forced to split tips so they BARELY make a red cent at the end of their shift
I used to work as a security guard in a hotel, pretty shit administrations tho, they hired me for the same day i applied and received a call saying they needed someone ASAP since their other morning shift guard was pretty useless, falling asleep, not complyin instructions, not helping anyone, because also, even tho you are supposed to be just a guard you are also in charge of helping the hotel staff, take trash bags out into the bin, carry packs of water and that kind of stuff, it was ok for me since standing like an idiot all day in the same place was boring, this was in december, so the 24-31 lapse was coming in and there was only 2 guards of us, one for the morning and one for the night so these are 12 hrs + travel to home time, so my day was only, work, get home, dinner, sleep only like 5 hours and go to work again, other guard was a total asshole, arriving late when my shift was over, and going before his was over, so the 24th is close and my day off is on sunday, mind you i only worked there 1 week, and we have to agree on something so we could spend the 24 and the 31 off, so lne would have to cover the others shift a different day, he wanted to get me confused and try to fuck me up so he could take both 24 and 31 off for himself, i told him no and that things were being done my way or he can fuck off, he agrees but by this time im just pissed at him and superiors for being such incompetent idiots, so my day off rolls in mind you i slept almost all day, by night on sunday i called in and said i wasnt going to present there anymore, they immediately called me asking me to pls go so they can find someone else, i said to them "Ok i will ve there, dont worry, only 2 more days so you can find someone" superior was super happy, he hung up, i blocked everyones number and contacts, and went to sleep again and didnt wake until like 1 pm i had about 30 missed calls from supervisor and other 20 from the other guard, i just laughed and kept playing playstation all day, [Dont try me m8, i will fuck you up even more how ya liked that 24+ hour shift
Worked at target. It was my 8th month working there. I was already getting fed up with the new rules they were implementing. Last day( day after a grocery manager told me, "i was going to slow, go home"). I came in, he gave me many tasks that would obviously take more than an hour... in fact 2 or 3 hours to do. I think he wanted me to quit... well i did. I walked out without warning. Literally only job I hated so much that I walked out. Dont work for Target. They dont give a crap about you
Worked a job for three months, left old job on good terms they called me back telling me they had a morning shift and more pay so I took it. Put my two weeks in on a weird part of the pay period, manager asks me why I'm quitting I tell him. Have the next two days off, come back to my schedule revised for 10 days in a row, a couple of splits which was totally not the norm. Ask him why 'because I can'. Try to make it through the week, get to a night shift, when same manager tells me that we're going to pull equipment out and deep clean the next morning I was scheduled. Finished the shift never went back, the best part was the phone call if I'm going to come in.
She was at the store the same day her child was born? Did she adopt that child, or does she mean right before her child was born? Wait... or did she mean she gave birth IN the store? Was somehow the local Target a secret hospital but we didn't know? 🤯 By the way, the way she said it sounded like giving birth for her is super easy, unlike for most mothers out there... since it is so easy for her to pop out a baby, I would be more impressed if she was working in the store on the same day she was born... but oh well, even someone as "great" as her can't do that I suppose.
This showed up in my recommended today. The same day that I quit my job on the spot with zero warning. After over a year of belittling and chastising for no reason other than the boss having an ego to feed. I'm a machinist, firstly, but I also do machine repair, production setup and oversight, increased their production rates by 30-50% on average, supplied all of my own equipment, had zero benefits, ran a CNC lathe and was always on call, every day, every weekend, and could never expect to have holidays off. Was only paid $19/hr. It was only a 6 man shop. There are only two other people in the shop who can program a CNC, and that's the owner and the boss. The owner is planning to retire in the next year or so. They're now probably going to go out of business, while I have a new job lined up with more pay, full benefits and guaranteed overtime, one block away from my old job. I'm taking a vacation to our cabin in a few weeks and will be spending all my free time fishing and shooting at the gun range. Karma is fun.
I worked for Springmasters for a total of one single day. They droppee me off in a neighborhood at 9 am where almost nobody was home, and my airator for lawn care i hauled around, runs out of gas after doing the last of prepaid jobs in the whole area. I had to wait 2 hours for the guy whi dropped me off to come back with a tank of gas, who then gives me shit for eating McDonald's my parents dropped off in that 2 hours. I end up walking around and score one more job for the whole day, and when it came to call for a pick up that night at 10pm, they had me wait another 2 hours, my parents were wondering why i wasn't back home yet. My parents were furious at how I left in the middle of a neighborhood i have no idea where at 11 at night. I gave my parents the number of the asshat who was supposed to pick me up and give me a ride back to the warehouse and ripped into him before i essentially quit. My parents tried to beat the asshole to my location so i could ditch the machine but the asshole finally should up quick for a change and tried to give me shit about my parents getting pissed at him for his shit. I was at the warehouse at 6:30 am, was finally done with their shit at 11:30 Pm. Theyre policy is commission based so i essentially got shafted and wasted a whole day to make them money while i wasn't gonna get paid. Fuck Springmasters, its a fucking joke.
I get hired at a well known bakery at my country. The 1st day I started to work, the executive chef keep asking me about Cordon Bleu’s recipes (because I graduated from Le Cordon Bleu, and their recipes are pretty good). I told her I can’t share because of the policy, and she started to get REALLY mad at me and told me that i’m useless cause she wanted me to work for her just to get the recipes. I was freaking mad and just went out from the kitchen. The 1st day and the last day I worked there.
Begining of the year my boss hired a new guy and from the start all he did was argue and try to start fights, multiple people kept coming up to him with issues about this guy not doing a good job being obstinate, or just plain starting fights one day he called me a fucking idiot so I went off on him Tell ng him he has no right to talk to me like that, boss said he was writing me up for "verbally attacking him" I told him he's a shitty manager and that I quit right there the guy got fired two days later for assaulting someone sending them to the hospital and my boss was told he's never allowed to hire or work in the kitchen again and now has to cashier the "convienet store" where pre made things like salads and sandwiches are sold
I was working at McDonald's as my first job when I was 15. I loved the people there, made good friends with the customers, and was at the top of everything all in the 6 months I worked there. My registers were always accurate and I'd cover other people's shifts if needed. The only thing I hated was one of the store managers that criticized every little thing I did. Another manager promised me a raise without me even bringing it up, but I'm not sure it ever actually came. Bless her heart because I knew she was genuinely trying to keep me there. But I had enough of the other manager and just walked out before he could say anything else to me. Fast forward 2 years and I find out he's transferred to another store for anger issues and then promptly quit.
I walked out of my job at a fast food joint because the manager denied me the only vacation time I had requested in three years because “I wasn’t pulling my weight”. I was the only delivery guy for catering the only one that would wash dishes and the only one with enough mechanical and electrical knowledge to keep the place running. I was paid 7.50 an hour which is min wage in Nevada.
I worked at an AT&T collections center. I don't know what I expected. Being yelled at? Yes. I can handle that. The straw that broke the camels back was one day I had a elderly blind woman on the phone, she didn't know what her verification information was but she owed us a bill. I couldn't tell her the amount owed as she couldn't verify for me. I asked my supervisor what I should do. He asked me to have her feel around the room for her card and feel the numbers to pay an unknown amount to me. I turned my phone off mute and told her to give us a call back when she had someone to assist her. Once I was off the phone he started speaking but I freaked out screaming. Caused a scene out of disbelief that he could be so insensitive to her disability and left. Not my best moment.. They called me the next day asking if I was coming in. I said no.
Bosses can be so devious and mean. I was working late at night because I was the only person who knew how to use the computer. (This was in the 1970s.) One of the attorneys told me to give him my keys so he could go to the other building and "come right back." I said no because not only did you need a key to open the door after hours, you needed a key to get OUT. And my car and apartment keys were on my key ring, and he was just the kind of jerk to "Oops, I forgot." the next day and not come back. I guessed right about him not coming back.
Ah... McD's, my favorite. Worked there for 2-4 weeks (I forget how long) when I was 16. They do that review where they go over your performance and decide whether they want to keep you. Manager goes over and says how I'm meeting all their expectations and how he appreciates the fact I was flexible to work extra hours when they called me in. He honestly was a nice guy, and said they will be adding me to the schedule immediately and they are glad to have me. It threw him off when I ask when I can give my 2 weeks notice. He's shocked and was like, "Why!? Was something wrong? Was I treated unfairly?" I said, "No. I just feel greasy and disgusting every day when I go home, and (without going into details) I can't be a part of the shortcuts they take sometimes and don't want to make someone sick." A few weeks later, I get a job at Arby's... met my, now, wife there, and worked there for 2 1/2 years before going into the Air Force. We've now both retired from the military and moved home... we still consistently eat where we met. In fact, I took my kids there as a reward tonight for getting all their school work done today and helping me clean around the house for the whole rest of the evening without complaint.
One of my most loyal, hardworking employees just quit. I don't even understand. I'm a banquet manager, and we were about to serve a wedding reception. A student supervisor was letting everyone know the instructions for the night and asked if there were any questions. No one said anything and she said, "okay, cool." Well, one particular worker (let's call him Rick) had a tendency to _not_ get it. He often needs clarification and assistance with certain tasks. This was the night the student supervisor sent him to get something for her, but he couldn't find it, so I had to help him. Well, based on all that, I just wanted to make sure he understood the instructions, so right after the staff split up from hearing them, he went to the counter to get his drink and I followed him and said to him quietly, "Did that make sense, Rick?" According to a letter he left on my desk weeks later, that's why he quit. He felt so patronized and underestimated, he just couldn't work for me anymore. Accused me of implying he was dumb and singling him out. Well, I wouldn't say I "singled him out," because it's not like I had to ask the other workers if the instructions made sense. They seem pretty competent: you give them a task, even if it's their first time, and they understand and do just fine, without struggling. Rick is...different than that. I think he's overreacting. He mentioned in the letter that he already had doubts about his brain and struggles with school (example, he had to take LOTS of time with assignments), and apparently my question made things worse: now his grades are slipping because he feels he really is dumb, purely based on what I said. But I can't own that. All I did was ask him if he understood the tasks, because this was a very important night and shift. I even spoke to him in private, not in front of the others. And the truth is the truth: he has a hard time understanding information and tasks. I _really_ don't think I said anything wrong. I think he's just overthinking everything and letting it wipe out his pride. I'm sorry about his grades and insecurity, but it's not my fault. A manager is supposed to check on their employees and their capacity (and limits). So seriously, what did I do wrong?
I moved back to my home country after a year abroad. I moved back with my parents (I was 24) until I I could get settled with a job etc, I love cars so found a job working at a second hand car yard. I signed no contract and the pay was commission only, with no sick or holiday pay. I didn't care because I was making up to $350 per car and would sell 5 cars on a good week. The way it worked, the first salesman to talk to a customer got the commission, even if the customer came back the next day. Anyway, the owner was an absolute prick. He was verbally abusive and would get enraged at the smallest thing. I was there for about 6 months 5.5 days a week without being able to leave the whole day in case a customer would walk in. One time he had this nice European car for sale on ramps. One weekend (he was never there) a man walks in and asks about the BMW on the ramps. He says he has a trade in vehicle and would like to take the car for a spin. I drive it off the ramps and off he goes for a test drive. In the meantime I check out his trade in for an appraisal. I call my boss (the owner of the yard) to check on the value of the trade in. I also say the guy has gone for a test drive. Well my boss goes nuclear. "What the fuck were you thinking letting someone take this car for a test drive but for serious buyers" and "it's not a toy that everyone can play with". I suffer through that rant emotionally scarred. The guy comes back and is keen to buy. I said my boss will be back Monday to give him a price on his car. So Monday the guy comes to the yard, my boss meets him and works out a deal for his vehicle. My boss walks in and says he will split the commission since he closed the deal. He already made money since the cars on the yard were his. I was pissed. About a month later he goes off at me in front of customers, smashes a ruler over his head. I walk out after he leaves the yard with him still owing me $500. I didn't care
I was a receptionist. A coworker was going to complain to my boss about me leaving 30 min or an hour early a couple of times to deal with family responsibilities, since my husband’s shop got in trouble and he had to work more shifts. 1) my boss already knew, 2) she didn’t care as long as someone else was there to man the desk, 3) this worker wasn’t even in the same department as me, 4) anyone conscious with some organization skills can do this job, we’re literally just screening people and guarding a door. I was already constantly on the cusp of quitting since they messed up my pay, the pissed off callers (for things I had nothing to do with), and crying at work twice. Two weeks later, I got a job offer for a better job with benefits. I start tomorrow.
My first job was as a pot washer - I have Cerebral Palsy, and they hated the fact I was slow, they were often making comments about how I was lazy and needed to speed up, my boss even yelled and refused to pay me, it was pretty shit. I wasn't doing anything wrong so they never found grounds to get rid of me, but they'd pushed me down to a once a week slot on saturday. One week, I see a new server there, who tells me she's actually worked there for 6 months and we're both joking about how we could have worked there so long and not run into each other. I get on quite well with her and we have a bit of banter - anyway, when she leaves, I say as a joke "see you in 6 months!" - she found it funny, it was a good day honestly. Anyway, cut to next week, I go in to find they've just removed me from the rotor without telling me. I get really confused when my boss tells me "we were told you weren't coming back!" I figured out another waitress who didn't like me had overheard me saying "see you in 6 months!" - had told my boss and he'd just removed me from the Rotor without notifying me or trying to contact me. I quit on the spot lol. Just had enough of their shit.
I had a job many years ago as a Kitchen Porter ( Dish washer ). The boiss asked me after a short time, about my parents house, it was a B&B and they asked me if I had done any cooking for them, and I said yes, and they asked me if I fancied helping the Chef in the mornings... Of course I will I said. Now that night, I asked my mother if she could show me how to cook English breakfasts ( LOL ) and we wasted tons of her food and were cooking until gone 2am and we had a great laugh. Anyway, in to work I go and for about an hour we were doing fine... I had prepped up most of the stuff and breakfasts started and things were going along nicely and then Mel ( The Chef ) said he is running to the toilet. He buggered off and we never saw him. Annoyingly, he didnt bother coming to do breakfasts for the rest of the week and the boos asked me if I wanted to be the Breakfast chef. Wow, absoluitely I would. So that was it, I was now the breakfast chef... Now I was on my own doing this, there was no KP to help me out as that was me also, but the Waiting on staff were doing their bits to help out and that was great, but then after breakfast, I was then having to setup for Lunch, then during lunch I was KP, then it was clearing up and then prepping for dinner and through that, I was KP Again. I would turn up for breakfast at 6:30 and I would be working all the way through until gone 11pm at night and this was 7 days a week. I asked them to take on extra KP, preferably 2 and have Mel come back for 1 o 2 days a week so Ican have days off. Never happened. After doing this for 3 months non stop, I asked to have a pay rise as I was now a chef and they used the excuse of me not being trained... I continued for about another 2 months and I asked just about giving me some extra as I was on minimum wage yet my average hours each week was 120 The lowest I had was 103 and sure, I was single and living with my parents and hardly spt a penny as I d no time to, I was still hardly saving anything cos I was on such rotten wages. Anyway, I had put up with this about 7 months in total and I said to the mnager that I am not going to continue. If my wages are not doubled ad they dont get extra help, I am leaving. He simply smiled and ignored me. a few days later when my paypacket came, it was still the crappy KP rate and so I simply left. That morning they had 78 in for breakfasts and there was a very important confrence that about 50 of them were there for and the Managers ( Husband and Wife ) were members of, so it definitely made them look like dickheads, and mroe so when I came back that afternoon and confronted him at the bar and gave him the reasons why I have left in front of some of them. I stated that I had worked about 18 hours a day for almost 8 months on Minimum wage and I was done with it. I will be honest, but I loved the job.. It was piss easy as it was a very plush small hotel in rural North Wales
I worked as a cook at a restaurant in a corporate office.There were 4 of us to serve about 500 people in the building.I would stay back after my 2 other coworkers had left and helped my boss with inventory,computer issues,writing emails,and prepping for the next day.I often would work 12 hour shifts a day.Some of those days I was already clocked out.I asked my boss if I could work half day to go to a festival my wife and I were planning on going to.I got the ok.At the beginning of the week leading up to me going I would remind him about it and ask if it was still ok.He said it was.The day of I reminded him that I would be leaving after lunch rush.He back peddles and says I can't leave because it was his wedding anniversary and HE needed to leave to get everything ready.Mind you he bad mouthed his wife ALL the time.He then smirks and says I had no proof that I could take the rest of the day off and upper management would take his side over mine.He left.I stayed back a lot later.Did the dishes and cleaned everything alone.He called me into his office on Monday and accused me of keying his car.He believes it was in retaliation for not letting me leave.He parked next to the CCTV camera and refused to look at the footage.He claimed because I'm a computer whiz I hacked the footage (yes because basic knowledge of how to send an email or rebooting your pc is such a hacker skill).I stood up and dropped my apron in his lap and walked out.Screw you Bob.
The one at target sounds alot like my time at home depot. I told them a week ahead I was going to NC to attend a funeral and they wrote me up for each day I didn't show.
Not an employee story, but this was the most surreal situation I ever encountered in a store. Thanksgiving, early 90s, I was driving to my father's house. It's a 4 hour drive, and shortly after setting g out, the selector buttons on my cheap car stereo decides to give. It's stuck on "cassette" but I can't do anything but eject or start and stop. I only have bunch of CDs. I stop at a radio shack and get a portable player with the cassette adapter. The cashier is swearing into his phone as he gets the device from a locked cabinet, all the while arguing that he can't stay, he needs to be at his folks home, it's not his shift, etc. Finally, with a "F**I This place", he hangs up. He looks at me as I stand there quietly. " I'll give you 500 bucks to run the store for me. " he states. I explain I have no retail experience and wouldn't know how to begin, and why would you even ask a random customer you don't know from Adam such a thing, he shrugs, says "your right." He demagnatizes the CD player package, hands it to me, the walks out the door, gets into his vehicle, and drives off. and that's how I got a $200 disc player for free.
First day on the job at McDonalds,the shift was changing and this woman came up to the counter and started yelling about missing something and then dumped her bag over onto the counter drink and all. I sat my hat down calmly and walked away.
I know, not me but a friend, Steve. Nothing dramatic, but Steve and his best friend at the time, Yong, used to work at a Ryan's in the early 80's. They did kitchen prep, and on this particular day, they were to spend all of their time shucking oysters, since there was some oyster special going on. Both guys had already cut and poked themselves multiple times with their knives, because they are trying to move at lightning speed. So Steve and Yong are already hating life at the moment. Steve needs to go to the bathroom, so he takes a brief break. He goes to the employee bathroom, but it is occupied, so he walks out into the dining room to go to the men's room. There is something about the sight of the gluttonous masses stuffing their faces like hogs and barking demands at the other Ryan's staff members that absolutely turns Steve's stomach. He walks back into the kitchen and tells Yong that is he is quitting and going to the arcade. Yong immediately takes off his apron, and they collectively quit on the spot. They spent the rest of the night enjoying being teenagers.
Pinned-by-water-pallet guy DID press for injury, right? Right? Because, y'know, his place of business was so far out of line with OSHA restrictions that HE COULD HAVE DIED! They were honestly lucky he didn't die, cuz that'd be a MUCH bigger deal.
I used to work CVS overnights roughly 15 years ago. At the time I was working ~36 hrs/wk for them (because they refused to give me fulltime) from 10pm-7am while attempting to do fulltime classes during the day (really wasn't my choice). All but one of my shifts was with the same overnight supervisor. This supervisor who worked nights fulltime, worked days fulltime somewhere else and had heart issues. Almost every shift with him for 6 months he threatened to fire me, basically for doing my job as expected or with too much energy. This went on until one night I fully went off on him in front of a customer. Flat out told him "6 months of this, over what? Can you even explain to me why you're threatening my job? No? Then since you seem to want me gone so badly, this is me leaving." Went out to smoke and calm down in the pitch black of midnight for an hour with nowhere to go before he came out and begged me to come back and forget it ever happened. I told him to go f himself.
I worked for FedEx. I could honestly write for days about all the stuff that happened while I was there. I wasn't a delivery driver, I worked in the warehouse as a package handler. I could honestly write for days about all the stuff that happened while I was there. I worked at the very end of the warehouse with about 3-4 other people. They were all very friendly, at first. The job was advertised that I would be making 15 dollars an hour. I was only making the minimum wage of 12 an hour. After talking to my other coworkers and eventually management, I found out that they put that on the ad to try to get people to apply for peak season. Which was Thanksgiving and Christmas. That was my first grievance.The work was incredibly physically demanding, and I would have to wake up at 12am to 3am. I was most times by myself at the very end, where we had large metal cages set up to hold packages, as the trucks could not fit into that far section of the warehouse. I also have sciatica and horrible leg and lower back pain and I was at times lifting packages that were 150-200 pounds at a time, by myself. That was the second grievance I had. The third was the petty drama. Two of my coworkers were ALWAYS getting into verbal altercations. It was usually one sided, however, as the other person was a 60 something year old man. The person that kept starting the drama had a history of starting petty drama, talking WAY to loud, and getting people into trouble. I was no exception. By the third month I was getting called into the office to "testify" on different fights these two others had gotten into. The loud one would pressure me and coach me into what to say, what not to say etc. At one point, I and several others were called into the office to talk to the BIG HR lady over a phone conference. It took 2 hrs for everyone to get called back. I was one of the last ones. After finally getting called in and explaining that I didn't know too much, as I was always at the end of the line and couldn't always make out what was being said, I also gave my opinion and testimony of several other petty ass incidents. I kid you not, the loud mouth waited out in the parking lot for me, and as SOON as I made my way out of the security gate, he began questioning me. By that point, I had had enough of the BS. That was the final straw. I quit shortly after, and on good terms. I was asked to work the following Monday, which I did. After that, I was done. I shit you not, after not coming in BECAUSE I QUIT, they called me asking where I was. I didn't respond. The whole thing was rediculous.
at my first job the head manager would basically say that he was leaving to go and withdraw money from the bank. he would never come back because he decided to go out surfing. he couldn't be touched due to his position(according to the other managers). he also wen't 5k over payroll in a month and had to start cutting peoples hours. on top of all of this i let him know that i was going back to school soon. the first month of school he literally didnt put me on the schedule for an entire month. this man hardly gave a shit and was basically an ass to anyone would questioned him. he would only act like a responsible individual whenever someone from corporate would come down and check to make sure everything was running smoothly.(btw i worked at a trampoline part and most of the time i was the only one in the back and i would have to watch 20-40 kids at a time and i wasnt allowed to sit down for a split second)
I love these videos because I have a hard time standing up for myself, but then when I see how bad other people are treated and how they react, I can go hey yeah! It is bad to be treated that way! You should be angry when people do that kind of thing! It’s just like a nice little reminder because it’s hard to say that about yourself but when you see it happened to other people you know
With my current job I officially reached the point where I dont give a damn. My son was born a few days ago, they tried to call me in and I told them my girl was in labor so Im not coming in. Fast forward to beginning of the week and everyone is going around saying I lied. Boss himself passively says it was clearly a lie and "Need to grow up and be here at work". To me but directly to us all. I want to fucking quit. This region is terrible to work for.
I wish I had been able to answer the reddit question. I once worked at a job as the IT manager for a small start-up company. One of the four owner partners of the company came to me to ask to lock two of the other owners out of the system. I said I can't do that because they are owners but if you can show me a good reason I will show you how to do it yourself. The person then proceeded to show me documentation that the male President and female CFO, who it turns out was a former escort, were embezzling the IRS 940 and 941 withholding funds to run an escort service on the side. The person showed me the "secret" phone bills and the ads in the local paper matching the bills and the cancelled checks. As he locked out their accounts I typed a resignation letter, printed it twice, signed both copies, had him sign both and walked out the door.
didn’t quite in the spot but had a very aggressive and horrible manager that would causally make fun of me for being the new guy at tacobell. I remember my first day of working as a cashier, she fired an employee on the spot for arguing with one of the female cooks and told him to clock out. I never been more terrified of a manger in my life, she was very arrogant and had a very aggressive tone to both costumers and employees alike and she had no respect for anyone. I complaint to my supervisors multiple times but it was very clear she didn’t care nor was she bothered by the fact that one of her employees was complaining about her out of all people. So i quite after a few short months. The worst part was that i honestly liked working their, the team were amazing and just great people to talk to. I took my job serious and yet they always found a way to always make me laugh. I will never forget how great they were but maybe i might need to grow tuffer skin and deal with horrible managers.
The worst place I have ever worked was Best Buy. I picked up a part time job in their appliance section to make extra Christmas cash. I worked my day job from 8-5. I then went in at Best Buy from 6-closing. Now my main job was a good one. So I wasn't used to having a micromanaging bs job like Best Buy. After a month working there I was pulled into the office. The manager said that she is very concerned that I have the lowest sales for the month and I am not selling extended warranties. She told me that if I want to make a career working for Best Buy, I need to come up with a strategy to sell more. I really pissed her off when I told her that there just are not many people who are looking to buy appliances at night 😂 She angrily said that I need to then stand in front of the department and start talking to people to push product and make sales... At this point I was thinking wow, I am fortunate to have a really good job during the day. My day job at the time was a level 2 senior technician for almost a million dollars worth of production print equipment. I took the Best Buy job because my wife just had a baby, money was tight, and I wanted us to have a good Christmas. But anyway, I knew this job wouldn't last much longer. Knowing the answer, I asked her if I got commissions for selling appliances and extended warranties? She said no, you only receive hourly pay. I asked her then what is the incentive to stand out there and push the product on people? 😂😂😂 She said that is your job and I am not liking your attitude right now. I told her my job is to assist people who come in the department wanting to buy something... She then said that she will be watching my numbers and will have another sit down in two weeks. I think it was two or three days later I just said the hell with it. I didn't say a word to anyone, just punched out and left.
Worked at a McD's during high school for 2 yrs. Moved 60-miles away to a bigger town with my dad after parents divorced, needed a job right away. Went to a McD's walking distance from the house. Hired me in at minimum wage, even though I was making like 25-cents more at my previous McD's (yeah, I know, but I was a teen). Hiring manager told me he'd try me out and if I would work out, he'd get me the higher salary. In McD's if you work out ok, you get called in on days off, asked to come in early/work later etc. Those that don't get scheduled for 4 hours a week until you just quit on your own. I got almost full time hours right away because I knew my stuff. First payday came, and I talked to the manager and asked him about the promise of higher salary. He just told me they couldn't afford the higher pay. I took off my apron and walked out. BTW, 25-cents per hours is just a lousy $10 per week.
I worked for these two spoiled guys who really wanted to be big-shot bosses. Anywho, I turned in my assignment for the month and they said it will be a while until they payed me, so I started a new assignment. So three weeks pass, I still hadn't been payed and I was having two sausages with ketchup for lunch and logged into Facebook - I see my bosses going on rides in Las Vegas and posting the videos. I quit, I didn't care, I was just so angry to see them having the time of their lives.
Walked out of a chef job last year. Helped to open it under a previous head chef and worked myself to the bone, barely saw my friend, never had a weekend off. New head chef comes in and changes the menu and culture, it suddenly becomes incredibly stressful. My team wins the biggest prize in soccer and I miss the parade as my first time off (a full month, including a music festival) started a day after it. It caused a huge breakdown, working 5/6 days a week for 7 months, and the whole city being involved in a massive celebration thst I couldn't be a part of. If I wasn't off for a month after that I wouldn't have gone back. A few months later I'm starting to feel angry and depressed in my job. 2 of the chefs are joking about me killing myself as I make an order wrong. I turn around and punch a fridge, breaking my hand. I'm off for a month. I come back for a week but feel even worse. Eventually we have 300 people booked on a Saturday night and I'm already behind on prep, and walk in after having a massive anxiety attack pretty much all day. I pull my boss aside and tell him I can't do it any more and walk out. I'm now back in McDonald's, happy and hoping to get my own place this year. For too long I measured success in terms of the quality of job I was perceived to have, but I'd rather flip burgers and be happy than make incredible pan-Asian food and be miserable any day of the week.
11:27 Yeah, I used to work as a manager for a Verizon retailer and they way they do these surveys after a call/transaction are ridiculous. They're worded as asking for feedback about Verizon as a whole, yet reflect directly on you as the employee, and could cause you to lose pay or bonuses if the customer doesn't give a rating of at least 9/10. Never once in my experience did they overturn the results of a survey. So glad I don't work for them anymore.
I worked for a hospital for 4 years in the dietary department. I loved the job cause even if it was a small thing, it felt like helping people who were already having a bad day. Food is something that can easily make someone feel better, or feel like they have a little control in their situation. I loved the job, but my managers were horrible, one of my coworkers was an abusive bully, and another was bipolar who refused to take their meds. Even with all this, I stayed for 4 years, and well into Covid. It was the fleas in the office that were my breaking point. Fleas. In a hospital. That was my Nope! moment.
"I was in here the same day my child was born."
I hate managers like that. Those are the ones that have a miserable life and want everyone else to suffer as they do.
Yeah i agree. When someone tried to justifying that 'if i can do it, you can too' attitude, at least in Singapore, the typical response would be "well good for you" in a sarcastic tone
Jesus don't get me started. I used to have a manager who's solutions were always "okay, let's all come in on Saturday" To anything!
Need to finish a couple of orders--come in on Sat
We are running low on Paper towels in the bathroom--everybody come in on saturday!
That’s every Target manager. I swear I was having traumatic flashbacks when I heard that line.
@@yippykiay13 I hate Target, I can relate!
How the hell you give birth and and go to work the same day
"We are like a family here", "We are team players here". Just some phrases corporate scum use to make you work harder for no extra pay by psychologically manipulating you.
Any workplace that says "family" or "team players" expects you to work extra hard and extra long without proper compensation or recognition.
That sounds like a very American thing. I work for a supermarket chain in Australia and get treated very well by corporate.
@@philippeh3904 yes
Bingo
@@macabremage6374 The norm for family businesses is that junior family members get paid bupkis. In the better situations its because everyone shares in the profits, but the parents manage it. In the worse ones, its slave labor by another name.
that last guy got my full respect. i just can't stand it when people try to trick elderly people. i really hate it
$349.99 was supposed to be charged to an elderly woman to bypass a Windows Password to look at pictures of her dead husband. $349.99... I hate it here. That man is a legend.
SniperKH Her husband died and that manager was ok with charging her 350 bucks ?!?!??!! He is heartless and cruel e
geek squad and other lame themed tech repair shops are all full of crap like that.
How do you bypass the password tho
There's a guy called kitboga that acts elderly, only to scam scammers who call him / he calls them
Treat your employees right and they won't quit. If you don't treat them right, don't be surprised when they quit
Pro tip: when they do quit, don't debate it. When they quit a couple months after attempting to quit the first time, don't tell them their job sucks and they have to stay bc management doesn't want to fill in bc they hate it that much
@@Amy-nl7sf that too
It’s insulting especially when these manger think they can say anything to their employees and expect no reactions
Pffft, as if billion dollar corporations care about employees quitting... they'll just employ and exploit new ones
But if you are completely replaceable, the company doesn't give a fuck. They can suck you until you quit, then they can find another guy who is willing to take the job.
"I was at work in the store the same day my child was born."
No you weren't.
Like she wants the person to believe "Well I just shat my baby in half a second and resume my shift"
I mean I'm willing to bet that if this were true, she wasn't doing so intentionally...that and...there's 24 hours in a day to work around. Unfortunately sometimes pesky funerals have you know...been planned by other people that haven't considered the staffing needs of TARGET at that moment.
"hey can you cover me for a few minutes? I need to go to the bathroom..."
Women actually can be physically mobile the same day they gave birth. An in-laws grandmother used to tell a story on how after giving birth to one of her daughters, she cleaned her up and laid her in a drawer while she continued farm work right afterwards.
RaiseTheRoof
Yeah, but you’ll probably prefer to rest.
Quit a McDonald's on the spot (surprising, I know). I had just lost my mother on a head on collision 2 days before and was being threatened with being fired if I didn't come in, leave requests were denied (it was Prom Season). We were severely understaffed to the point I was working front register, lobby clean up, drive through, packing my orders (front and drive) amd manning fry station. We kept running out of fries and I was told to stay up front and couldn't get to the walk in for fries. After about 30 minutes into customers waiting on fries, me hollering back for someone to get fries, and the manager standing in the corner watching RUclips, I got tired of waiting, went to go grab a box of fries to fill the hopper, I get body blocked by the manager asking me what I was doing, told him we were out of fries, he told me to drop more and flat out told me "not be a r****d" when I said there weren't any fries in the hopper. He then started to push me toward the front. I took off my apron and threw it over his head telling him to put some fries down himself and walked out. He didn't last another week as manager.
I'm sorry about what happened with your Mother. They definitely should have worked with you to offer bereavement leave instead of doing that.
I didn't quit on the spot, but I turned in my shift supervisor position after my boss asked me to tell someone in a wheelchair not to smoke in the shade of a tree near an entryway (this was a security position). I told him to do it himself and informed his boss that I wasn't being paid any extra for the BS, so they could find someone else to run my shift. A week later, my boss told his boss that I walked off of the job, but no one believed him. Karma is fantastic, sometimes.
@@GlidingZephyr he got arrested three days later for assault after me and another co worker reported him, but the past is in the past
@@businessweasel9425 Good. He deserved what he got.
Business Weasel worst manager i ever saw
How can one man be that dumb? What, did he think more frys woulf just magically appear in the hopper
TO ANYONE READING THIS!
when you hear "it isn't a big deal"
then it is no problem to meet your requirement.
if you hear afterwards "I don't know why you make it such a big deal"
then it is a big deal.
it doesn't matter if work hours, work conditions or money. when someone says it's not much money then they can happily pay for it!
learned it the hard way
this is an underrated comment
I don't get it. Can you give an example ?
@@TheLily97232 after an normal interview for on-site work around my area, i got an contract for a job presented...
in this contract my city was listed as "preferred working area" and my main working place was the production facility 350 kilometers away, with attached shift-work.
As i pointed that mistake out he replied, "Oh ignore that! at our branch we make our own rules so that clearly doesn't apply to you"
"well, if it doesn't apply to me then we can remove that line from the contract."
his response: yada yada...why do you make such a big deal about it?
for clarification:
he could easily threat me with working 350km away to do shift work and i would have to get there with my own car unpaid in my freetime.
he had to delete 1 sentence and change the adress from main factory to branch...and i was the one who makes such a big deal about it...
That last one tho. Mans an absolute hero
That got to me big time. I hate people who take advantage of others especially seniors.
Because that is what heros do
@@s70driver2005T
True
I hope he actually told the elderly women how to fix it and then explained to her how the store tried to scam her and not to come back. otherwise she could've easily just stayed there and gotten svammrd
I was overworked. I got 8 hours with no break and sometimes forced to scarf down food, making me sick, while all other employees and managers got breaks. I actually got so much anxiety from going to work, it made me physically sick. I called in sick one day, they threw a fit, had trouble getting a doctor's note, notified them, threw another fit, so I quit.
I don’t blame you that sounds like hell aka my job😂
same here. I had to work until midnight every shift when I was 15. I literally threw up because of the stress. I had an opened wound that I was expected to wash dishes with too. I just quit and never came back because of the horrible work conditions. they didn't comply with minor labor laws and I could have easily sued them for VERY illegal drugs in the workplace.
+Hope :) I was in nearly the same boat as you.
I didn't get any breaks either
@@tori5532 Why didn't you?
Worked at a pizza place and made sure the manager knew I needed to be off one day to go to my Uncle's funeral. We were literally walking out the door when the phone rang. It was the manager saying another worker called out sick so I had to come in. I reminded him about the funeral and told him we were actually walking out the door to go and his response was "well I guess you don't want your job do you" to which my response was "I guess I don't" and I hung up.
Nice
Fuckin niiice
Respect. Family comes first over a job
Omg that manager makes my blood boil. You told him you were going to a FUNERAL and he had the AUDACITY to imply that coming in for work is more important than a FUNERAL????? That’s got to be one of the most cold, heartless things anyone can do. Good on you for quitting.
The funny thing about the shit bathrooms, it's actually illegal for an employee to clean it, as it's classified as a biohazard. The store is required *by law* to have a professional hazard team clean the waste.
In the US at least
Do you have a source? Cause if so, if that's what they made me do at my old job...
@@zorakihyena7392 It's in the OSHA guidelines for removal and cleanup of biohazardous waste. Now, your boss can make you clean a bathroom unless prohibited by contract, but if it's been nuked then no. At that point it's required to have a professional team come in, which is expensive AF so most places try to rely on those who wouldn't know of such things to avoid said cost.
Few to no U.S. retail environments actually comply with this. They bank on the idea that the average employee does not know this fact, nor most of the managers, so if you actually try to pull this, they can play dumb and outright say that you're wrong or lying and try to make you do it anyways.
@@macabremage6374 well this is good to know, putting this into my brain file of "Laws i very much need to know"
The real question is how the fuck can someone shit like that?
I quit some crappy smoothie place when i was 17. One of my coworkers (30+) and my manager (30+) were yelling and cussing at me in front of customers because i told the coworker that the smoothies she was making were half empty and the customers were coming back pissed and asking (decently kindly) for the full amount of the product they paid for (these are all military personnel fresh out of basic training). Anyway, manager and coworker started cussing and screaming at me in front of the customers and i took off my hat, work shirt (i had an undershirt on) and clocked out while apologizing to the customers that they had to see that happening (this is because i was the child of a soldier and wasn't about to be disrespectful to them).
Did any of them take your side?
Responsible of you to apologize to the customers. God thank we have people like you :)
I was a housekeeper at a retirement home. There were so many sweet residents and I loved them dearly. There was one 86 year old lady who I met before I started, and she was an absolute angel. I am an alternative style person (piercings, dark hair, heavy make up) and usually elderly people don't like to strike up conversation with me. But this lady was an absolute darling. I always looked forward to cleaning her room, and I'd say hello to her and we'd chat about things whenever I'd see her. One day I was cleaning her room. I had my back to her and she had tried to walk to her dresser. She lost her balance and fell into her dresser, then into a set of shelves. She collapsed on the floor and started moaning out in pain. She was bleeding from her ear and holding her ribs. She was covered in broken glass. I immediately called the med aids and comforted her until they came. It was very traumatic for me. I was new at the job, I had only worked there for about a month and a half. The lady had to go to the hospital and I had to call her son and tell him what happened, which broke my heart. I went to work for two more days, and over those days, I couldn't stop thinking about her. I told my manager and assistant manager that I was struggling dealing with it. My boss had 0% patience for it and flat out said "This stuff happens. You need to get over it. If you want to work here, you have to get over it." No consoling. No compassion. She was hardly upset when I told her about what happened to the woman. It was so incredibly cold. I quit that day.
Hope that lady is okay
I agree with the manager.
@@alvarorubenvera5915 fuck is wrong with you?
That's pure evil
@@DiscreetHobo Nursing homes are like that... my neighbour works in one and she explained its hard at first (mentally) but you "kind of" get used to it. You really cant be mourning a death for days because depending on the size of the home there could be 1 to multiple deaths each month...
Work culture has gotten so toxic
It's kinda funny, y'know? 55-year-old middle managers demand loyalty on one hand and make employees miserable on the other. And then they complain about 'kids these days' having 'no loyalty' AND 'asking for too much'. Can't have it both ways, Boomers. Gotta learn.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 I dont mind being miserable, it's the hypocrisy and entitlement they blame us young people (26 and under) for having that they act and are guilty of I cant fucking stand.
@@Ravenbones Aint' just the 26 and unders, amigo. Everyone under 40 gets shit from middle-manager Boomers who can't figure out how CC and BCC works in emails. A whole lot of systems are gonna fucking crumble once the Boomers experience mass die-offs because they've done precisely nothing to futureproof the economy or the government by preparing Gen X, Millennials, or Zoomers to take over, instead continuing to selfishly cling on to every scrap of power they can seize for themselves.
I’m hoping the pandemic will help businesses realize just how obsessive we’ve become with our careers and ease back a bit. I know all businesses won’t do that, but some have already discussed and are planning for an online/more relaxed approach.
Narc culture.
I fail to see the logic here:
"We need you on this job, so you HAVE to come in no matter how we treat you! You're quitting? No, come back, I said we need you!"
right! you can end a work contract any time you want if you're being treated horribly. a job I had when I was 15 made me work until midnight every night to clean the entire kitchen by myself. I literally threw up from the stress and just didn't come back after I got a paycheck. they knew they weren't complying with labor laws so they never forced me to come back, but they threatened to revoke my paycheck if I didn't put in a 2 weeks!
@Ruby King I signed a contract that stated if I quit within a 90 day period of starting the job, then I would possibly have my paycheck revoked. its an attempt to stop high staff turnover or some shit, but they never follow through.
Hahaha
Once you leave a job that should be the end of it. They can't force you to stay that's illegal
About 2 years or so after I left the military, I had a hard time finding employment since I lived in the middle of BFE and no ride. I had to work a dairy queen to make ends meet; was a cook there, and was by far the oldest person there at 25 yrs old. By the way, this happened on my birthday. I came into work at 0900 on a wednesday, the night shift kids didnt bother cleaning the bathroom at all. I went to go clean the bathroom right before I started warming up the grill. Right on the fucking floor was a HUGE DEUCE. Some kid decided it would be funny to take a huge shit on the floor, and nobody from night shift bothered to clean this up. Since I didnt have a ride back home until 8 hours later, I just sat there on the grill cooking food all day long. Obviously I washed my hands after I cleaned that bathroom up, but that was the most disgusting thing Ive ever had to do. After this I quit my job, packed up what little stuff I had and migrated to a homeless shelter in another state just so I could go to college. Now I work on aircraft for a living. Took a single turd to get me here. People are stupid. You hear someone say they would rather aim for the moon and hit the gutter than just aim for the gutter - its the same thing. Find a better analogy.
@Cameron Abba plus I'm fairly sure in most states, it's against the health code for BOH staff in a restaurant to clean bathrooms AT ALL let alone that.
Reading that reminds me of an old Chinese Fart Story. Su Dongpo was a poet and spirtualist who sent a poem to a Zen master/friend saying how the 8 winds could not move me. The Zen Master wrote "Fart" on the poem and sent it back. In his anger he left and ordered a ferry across the river only to get to the Zen Master's House which had a note left on the door.
"The eight winds cannot move me
One fart blows me across the river."
I worked as a “Mermaid” performer at a resort in Florida. As I was climbing onto the rock platform, a guest reached into the performance pool and snapped my bikini top. I slapped him across the face and told him not to touch me. Later, my boss yelled at me as I was hanging up the mermaid tail backstage before taking my break.
He said “Do you know who you just slapped!? That guy is the resort company board president’s brother-in-law! You’d better apologize, or they’ll cancel our performance contract!” I said “Never!”. I explained my side of the story, but my boss wouldn’t hear any of it. I was told “Apologize, or you’re fired!”. I told him “I’ll take ‘Option 3’, I quit!”. I considered suing the resort and the Mermaid performance company but the lawyer I consulted told me that it wasn’t worth the effort.
Sadly your attorney was right. I hope they lost the contract
@@MASTEROFEVIL Unfortunately so. Some idiots told me I was dumb for not suing anyway, but unfortunately it isn’t that easy (especially in Florida). Eventually the contract was cancelled after it happed to one more girl, she complained to the labor board and I think it did get the mermaid performance company in trouble.
@@princessmarlena1359 At least some karma get them
@@MASTEROFEVIL YES! Karma is awesome that way!
@@princessmarlena1359Idiots like that it's only a matter of time.
The nanny one. I totally relate due to the fact I was a nanny once as well. The worst thing about the job is NEVER the children and ALWAYS the adults who treat you as crap and talk to you like you are the whole family maid. There were times in interviews when I told people that if they expect me to not only watch their children, but play housemaid, I would need to be paid for that work as well. They don't want to pay that and if you are just starting out, be careful about them manipulating you into doing more than what was originally agreed upon.
I quit my job 2 days ago, and my mental health hasn't been this great in years. Fuck retail.
I've worked as a janitor and did a couple of summers at a sewage treatment plant. So I've literally cleaned toilets and shoveled shit. And very glad I never had to work retail.
I absolutely despise my store manager since she is so two-faced. One moment she acts all friendly and cool, then the next moment she is talking down to you, judging customers behind their backs, yelling at you in front of customers, embarrassing you, and never seeing anyone's side of any situation besides her own.
One day I nearly quit after she started yelling at me in the back and essentially calling me an idiot and not listening to my defense for myself when I was doing something entirely correctly, just not how she WANTED it done. It was something that she wanted me to do because she was lazy.
Anyway, she was yelling in the break room so loud that customers and my coworkers on the sales floor overheard everything. I was going to argue with her, but after realizing that she listens to no one but herself I simply chuckled in her face and basically just said "whatever" and "whatever you say".
Luckily, my coworker at the time knew she was a two-faced b**ch to be honest, and he eventually quit at the end of April.
I actually got promoted to first-level manager, which is below assistant manager and store manager, but I still dislike her because she still has this "only whatever I say or do is right" mentality, and she is demeaning to you even if she doesn't understand your reason for something. Her problem is she never listens to reason, she always just believes that she is 100% in the right.
I've had coworkers, and even managers from our different retail locations, quit due to her attitude and customers who come in saying she's a b**ch and I completely agree.
When I am forced to work with her on the same shift, I have to act fake and pretend to be all friendly because she can literally switch up her mood and personality with the snap of a finger.
I would've quit a while ago to be honest since the pay increase for being promoted was only 1 extra dollar per hour (amazing, right??? *sarcasm*) but this is my first job that I've had since literally right after graduating high school. I'm now a 3rd year student in college, so I've worked there for now about 2.5 years, approaching 3 soon. I want to quit, but I don't want to burn any bridges that can possibly help me in the future so when it's my time to go I'll put in my 2 weeks so that I can still get a reference.
My Assistant Manager is cool btw, but the environment is always tense when the store manager is there.
I'm currently in the process of applying for a new, much better job but until I actually get accepted and get an offer of hire, then I'm not going to quit just yet.
Gots to see it through.
@@stopit9280 My boss is also like that, but I quit mine after I bad a mental break down as she went personal and said I had anger issues, even though she's treated me badly and I never once screamed, yelled anything. I also tried to defend myself as she blamed me for a lot of things and didn't listen to me.
Especially since I've been trying to fix my anger issues since I was a kid and keeping it fixed, it hurt a lot on the inside.
Quit the day before my actual last shift and cried, in front of freaking customers as well as I wanted to help out the other staffs a little bit as they were friendly.
I’m about to do that now
I always quit my jobs on the spot as soon as I know there is a better paying job that hired me. I do not give a notice of intent to resign. It is not as if an employer will give an employee a notice of intent to fire the employee. They will never return the courtesy so why are we obligated to give a notice? I will never give a notice to resign.
Yeah, if you and the company are leaving on good terms, and you had a lot of complicated work, then you might want to make sure everything you were doing is taken care of, but for comapnies like this? No need.
@@KnakuanaRka It is more peaceful to just disappear out of a job than to have employees, management, and clients badgering me to stay. I can think of only three companies that probably went into a panic when I disappeared. But the rest probably just did some extremely minor shifting of employees. Most of the jobs I have had I have only been nothing but an expendable work drone. The three where I was something of importance still survived without me. But when another job was offering way more pay with a lot less responsibility, more freedom, and more benefits than the job where I was very important, I had to leave the old job and start the new job as soon as possible. I was obviously not valued too much if a job with less responsibility, benefits, and much more freedom offered to pay me a lot more than the job were I was considered very important. Thus, I moved on.
I’m glad I don’t live in the US anymore, the way they treat their customer service employees(this includes customers and management/corporate) is awful. In Australia I work at a supermarket and get paid amazing and rarely ever have a bad customer, most of the time it’s a grumpy old lady. Never been yelled at and never been asked to do a terrible job. Thank god.
I think that's because Australia not only has employment laws, but actually enforces them quite strictly. There are also unions for almost every job. Employers don't want to deal with either the penalties or the unions, so they attempt to make everything go smoothly for their employees. And since Australia doesn't have that BS known as "tipping", employers are practically forced to pay everyone a living wage, otherwise they'd go out of business from lack of employees.
Sucks to be me, I guess
Which supermarket?
Coles never wants me so I might try Woolworths.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 Yeah the whole tipping thing sucks.
I was shocked in my first job when someone tipped me as I worked in hospitality. He was American and I was so shocked XD
Small tip, but still just wow. Meant a lot to me though, but hey, a simple you did great is welcomed too :)
I quit on my first day
Interviewed for a server position. Talked about how great it would be and they said I sounded like a perfect fit. I go in first day, they say, "we really need help in the kitchen" Wanting to impress with my ability to do both, no questions asked. Halfway through the day I asked to take a lunch. They said, "normally our line cooks just eat on the job so they don't need breaks" I said, "I'm not a line cook and I'm pretty sure that's against health code" They said, "You're a cook now. You're good at it and we need people in back" I said, " I can see why" and left
Red Lobster can finish going out of business any time
The man in the last story is amazing, and I'm sure that that woman is forever grateful that she can see pictures of her deceased husband again. Simple acts like that really show the good in the world. I'm sorry you had to quit your job. God bless you, dude (or whomever you worship). You're a hero.
I worked at a manufacturing company for Toyota. We build full brake systems for various cars. I was a member of the machining section which meant we were responsible for machining the master cylinder. We rotated who worked on a machine line, a wash line, and the anodizer. I was working the anodizer which is directly after the wash line. Basically meaning that I left as soon as wash line finished parts. We were scheduled for 12 hours but if we got our parts done we left. There are two wash lines that split the total number of parts we had to run. Well one day on of the wash lines was shut down due to an issue with a machine. It was down for three days causing us to be very behind on the parts we had to run. This meant that for almost a week I was pulling 12 hour shifts. Two people had quit and due to being absolutely exhausted I wasn't running very fast. I got yelled at by one of the team leaders and basically told him that if he wanted it done faster, that he could do it. I gave him my gloves and walked out. In retrospect for someone who was still living with parents I was making pretty good money, especially since I worked nights. But still fuck that.
Alec Rizer hear that
When my boss told me I needed to get my priorities in line when I had to go-to the hospital because I had a family member their on their death bed and where about to die. Yep, I left and never came back, when hr called I informed them what had happened and they had the balls to say "we pay you when you are here and you need to be ours during my work hours". I told them oh I'm so sorry for my family choosing to die when I was at work and I would punish my self by never coming back.
I would have said "my priorities are just fine" , then left
I used to work at this chicken strip chain for my first job. Took me 2 years to get a job due to curfew laws in my county. Anyways, so here I am, first job, barely any training, and they have me working just under full time. I’m running the counter, cleaning the front and bathrooms, stocking the drink station, etc. ON MY OWN.
When I asked for help, they ignored me in order to maintain “fastest drive threw in the company/Texas” status. There would be like 15 people on drive and the fryers and I’d be drowning in customers and backed up messy tables.
The thing that made me quit was, 3 weeks and then fucking up my finals week work schedule later, a mental breakdown from all the stress followed by the fury of a thousand suns at the BS excuse as to why my trainer was always gone and never actually helped me/would lay into me for leaving the till to clean.
He was autistic.
I gave up on stating I was autistic because no one would hire me otherwise in applications but told my bosses my situation. I was actually LOWER FUNCTIONING than my trainer.
Yeah, I called them on their BS and quit over the phone in tears. Screw toxic workplaces.
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. If they weren't giving you proper concessions for your autism, that is considered discrimination based on disability, which the State Human Resources office does not mess around with. Please put in a report, and try to get this place taken down for this
Hear that on workplaces. Sadly in my region, thats all thats hiring
@@ntfoperative9432 imma take that off my Applications going forward now.
In the past 6 weeks, i have sent about 60 applications to various positions in my Town.
Only 2 have ever asked me to come in for an interview. 1 only because a friend reccomended me...
I was a cashier at a supermarket and there were new owners. During this time I was co-signed on a lease with family, but my family lost their income and didn't care to get a new job. I couldn't do it alone so we got evicted. I found a new place to live but owed the entire rest of the lease value. Anyway, regarding the new owners, It was stated that anyone who had poor credit would no longer be able to run a register. I had trained in every department in the store, but I'd never have been able to advance and might not have been able to keep my job anyway. When I found out I apologized to all the customers in my line, turned, and left.
That's illegal. Your credit score has nothing to do with running a cash register.
@@macabremage6374 May have been illegal, but a minimum wage store clerk can't afford legal fees.
Had already put in my two week notice. The new store manager of a popular taco chain rearranged the entire stock room for no reason, accused our best worker of somehow stealing from her till when she was the only to use it (she never made mistakes) and generally tried her best to be as difficult as possible. She had a problem with me for some reason (I was friends with literally everyone else there, including the previous manager) and whenever she went out, had her lackie, an obnoxious teenager, ask me loudly, every two minutes what i was doing. Even if i was in front of customers take orders. When she got back I told her i was done immediately and left. Turns out not long after i left, everyone else did too because no one could stand her. Stores owner finally fired her after she was the only one left. Why did it take so long? She was the owners sister in law.
apolgy for bad englsh
I was at my fathers funral when I get news
“go to electonic boat”
“ *no* “
What a great story, you should write books
Beautiful.
Damn I got tears in my eyes
It’s pure poetry Shakespeare would be proud the part where it said no was truly heartbreaking and you did it perfectly with no mistake even though your English isnt good 👍
MMgamer :) need ppl like al you guys
The manager who said she was at work THE SAME DAY SHE GAVE BIRTH??¿¿?...that is NOT the flex she thinks it is. That is someone who doesn't even respect their own time, let alone the time of others. Big ole yikes. 😬😬
Gotta love when companies think the schedule is some sort of Holy Tome of the Ancients that binds employees with the fetters of Fate, leaving them no choice but to come in, lest they face eternal corporate damnation.
Most tremendous explanation I’ve ever heard 😆
“I was at work the same day my child was born.” Now you and I both know that’s bullshit Diane.
I used to go to a Chinese food restaurant and the wife of the couple that owned it came into work the same day she had a baby at 4:00 AM.
I was actually thinking of quitting because my manager was a pain in the a hole. He was always mad at anyone for some reason. He got fired Monday for punching a computer and breaking it.
I have a new manager. He is cool.
Manager leaving with the dude was hilarious.
Helped open a brand new motel on I-95 close to the Florida line, worked my ass off for six weeks prior to opening. Learned that they were putting in gas clothes dryers in the laundry, which I would have charge of when they opened. I'd been the laundress for another property on one of the islands, so I wasn't a newbie at this, and voiced my concerns about the gas dryers. Was told that they would be fine and could be adjusted if there was a problem. The opening week, sheets and towels were not getting dry, they called in service to adjust the dryers. Next week, same thing. Nothing was drying properly. I even suggested a clothesline until the dryers were up to snuff, and was told that I just needed to do my job, and keep quiet. Six weeks after opening I go in to work one morning and my manager's waiting with a write-up. I'd been leaving linen damp. I explained the entire conversation that I'd had with her several times, citing dryer issues. She got pissed and called me a liar. I needed to sign the write up. I refused. Some back and forth for about ten minutes, and I threw my badge at her and told her to cram it. She said I couldn't leave until I signed the write up, I told her she could stick her write up where the sun never shines, grabbed my purse and booked it. Four days later I picked up my last check, and was short something like $60. I left the motel and drove directly to the owners office and told them they shorted me. Owner asked what happened the day I left and I told him, again citing concerns that dryers weren't working properly. He had not been told about the dryers, as conveniently, the serviceman had always come and gone before I got there every day, or had come on my day off. I never saw him. He cut me a new check, plus $40 for my trouble. Heard later that the gas dryers had been exchanged for electric, because the problem persisted. And that manager was replaced within a month. Something about embezzlement?
good on the owner for not being a douche
This wasn’t the primary reason I took another job, but definitely still up there. I had asked my boss at my last job for a raise for several years now. I was just BARELY above minimum wage; I have been working hard, taking several shifts, worked days no one wanted, and have even worked in other areas of the kitchen (server at a residential community). Nope, no raise because he couldn’t just do it. Meanwhile, three new servers were hired in the next few months, and they all got paid WAY MORE than I was, and none of them had serving experience. I’ll remind you, I had been there for many, many years, and I was still not making what they had gotten upon signing up.
So, I searched for a new job, and thankfully got it (caregiving) with excellent benefits, better pay, and better hours too. The real reason I quit was because I couldn’t work with around jack asses I thought were my friends, because I HAD to get away from them, but that’s another story for another time. All I can say is, this new job of mine gave me a raise long before I met my 90-day trial (or whatever it’s called), and that’s great seeing I was already getting paid better than the last one.
Back in the 90s, I first moved to Texas from a much more arid climate. I couldn't bring my car with me even though I was a mechanic at the time. I got a job with a National shop that sold Tires and Wheels. I had been on the job for better part of 2 months, working on the coasta Texas heat and humidity, with no breaks, and not allowed to go into the air conditioned building. I had been at work since 7 A.M. and was supposed to get off at 7 P.M., hot, humid, and no chance to take a break. I was ready to go home. At 6:57 P.M. a ticket for a new set of wheels, tires, and an oil change was dropped on my peg (an assignment queue of sorts). I had at least 10 minutes left to finish up the car I was working on. I finished the car I was working on, cleaned and packed up my tool box, rolled it out to my truck and tossed it in the bed of the truck while the manager and sales associate were screaming at me. I simply looked at them both and said. "Nope, you don't pay nearly enough for me to kill myself.". I got in my truck and drove off.
A couple years ago I worked at Walmart right after I had graduated highschool. One day while stocking the shelf, I felt really sick, went to the bathroom, threw up and nearly passed out. When I went to tell my manager what happened, she said “I don’t believe you, you look completely fine.” I walked out right after that with my cart of stock still sitting out in the shopping center.
Walmart doesn't give a shit about their employees. They ignore OSHA guidelines on the regular and just pay a fee every year as a penalty. The fee is legitimately cheaper than actually following all the rules.
To that end, every low-on-the-pole Walmart employee is tagged as expendable. Walmart is the second worst place to work, right after Amazon.
@@macabremage6374 I've had three jobs, and Walmart was the best one I've had. It was a good job. Not perfect, but a lot better than my current job. I didn't feel expendable while I was working there, and I didn't want to quit when I did, but I was moving away to go to college, so I did.
Now I'm finished with college and the best job i could find was a fast food restaurant that pays me $3 less per hour. Oh, and no paid breaks, either.
I feel like the dude above me is just one of those accounts that amazon pays to lie about how good their working conditions are even though its a well known fact they are treated like shit, except its Walmart edition
@@tic-tac9323 Naw, I wish I was getting paid. My current job isn't as good. I don't particularly like Walmart as a company. I didn't deny the OSHA violation thing, that may be true. But all of what I said is true, too. Credit where credit is due. Have you worked at Walmart? Maybe you had a worse experience than me.
Joseph Brandenburg management makes or breaks it. Sounds like you had a good manager 🤘
I had a part time job while at uni (college). Four employees, one idiot boss. He was working hard on his second divorce and we had to hear all about it every lunchtime. Then he started taking it out on us.
One guy took a Friday off to help his uncle fix his house. When he got back on the Monday he said he was leaving on pay day because he was going to work for his uncle. The boss was livid and sacked him on the spot and told him to get out. So now there were 3 workers in a 4 job business, no-one else was qualified to do that guy's job and the boss had to pay him 2 weeks' wages to sack him without notice.
Then he started in on us, taking that out on us too. It was a Wednesday. Pay day was Thursdays. The next week, on payday, the 2nd guy took his cash paycheck and said he wasn't coming back.
The other worker and I just looked at each silently and were very careful to remain silent when the boss came steaming out of his office and started ranting about how we were better off without those ungrateful baskets. Yeah, better off without half the workforce and not able to finish the orders on the bench.
The next day, two new workers showed up. Young, unqualified and thrilled at getting a job so easily.
When I finished my day's work, I told him he could make up my pay because this was my last day. He was startled. Then the other guy said he was leaving next week so the boss would need to have the cash for that.
I passed the place a couple of weeks later and, surprise surprise, there was a sign in the window saying "closed down".
I quit a seasonal part time job at target on my first day. At the interview I had told them I would need an extra 30 minutes to arrive on time everyday since I would be leaving my main job at 6 and therefore wouldn’t be able to start at 6. The interviewer said that would be fine but then I went to the training. There they told us about their strict on time policies and handed us out our schedules where they put me on to start at exactly 6 which is not what I had agreed on at the interview. After trying to get it clarified they gave much so much attitude acting like I was being insubordinate and such and that’s when I realized that everything would probably be like in that store. So I walked in on my first day and handing them back their little scanner thing that they gave me on the first day. I didn’t need that job I just wanted a little extra cash for the holidays
Worked in a PC repair shop, worked my way from part time weekend tech to running the repair shop, all at the same rate of pay as the weekend part time tech (I was out of school at the time and didn't know better). Many excuses as to why I couldn't get a raise, but he told me that business was bad and he didn't have money, then hired a new tech and a couple new salespeople we didn't need that afternoon. I left after the news...
youre bragging about being in a retail store after giving birth? wow *slow clap*
I worked at a BBQ restaurant as a dishwasher which ironically was the hardest job in the building because I'd get scheduled alone alot and be there 2 hours after everyone else already left and it would just be me and the manager until I was finally done.. one really busy night I got overloaded and had got stuck working with someone I already didn't really like and they made a joke about quitting and leaving me to do everything.. 4 people had already walked out on me since I started the job leaving me to do everything alone the manager was an absolute dick who talked down to everyone just because he's never had another job and got to be the manager I only made 8 dollars an hour and had already been thinking of quitting and it was a busy ass night with like 6 different huge piles of dishes so that's when I decided it wasn't worth the pay and left before closing.. the only time I ever got to leave before closing
demonjmh don’t blame u I work as a dishwasher for
Chilies bar and grill it was hard lots of dish Pans Friday nights and Saturday nights are busy nonstop
8 dollars an hour"
Bro i wouldve walked out of that interview or first day off that job so fast lmao i was a former dishpig i was always alone and that job fucked with me mentally i started to hate the feel of water on my skin i was paid 10 an hour and i honestly salute you for even doing a single second for 8 an hour
@@chickenstrips7263 Whenever someone does dish, I always try and make sure someone else does it after we close. Dish sucks, I like it. But, it sucks.
This was THE reason I quit my fast food job years ago. I was working two jobs and I worked on weekends, and yet they were putting me two weeks back to back closing at 11pm and washing dishes alone, to then wake up at about 5am to go to my other job. Saw another full week of closing and I was just like "fuck this shit". Being a janitor is 100 times better than being a dishpig
Worked dishwasher at one job shit was hell. A fun job just shit people and shit pay.
2:08 this really confuses me how she was working when her child was born so is she implying that she was giving birth on the job or am I missing something
Agreed. Giving birth in a Target is nothing to brag about. Either that's what happened, or she was defaulting to some narcissistic formula that ended up not working out.
Probably meant she gave birth to her child and came in right afterwards while the baby was in the nursery.
Probably adoption or surrogacy. Not every mom delivers their kids.
@Kathryn Moore Not true. My Sister in-Law was forced to do that. She did quit the very night, but she gave birth without the pain medicine (religious reasons I guess) and was cleared for walking. She had no Uthera tears or any complications and still went in. She quit that night because obviously she wasnt strong enough to continue the night shift and had to use maxi pads for the afterbirth still coming out of her. Some businesses still dont care about a woman choosing to have a kid.
This was Walmart btw.
You've got it backwards I think. She was working that day and gave birth that night.
I knew I was always going to be ambitious when I was younger, when I finally got a job (age 16) at a popular teens retail store I was SO happy and all my friends were so impressed. Reality sucked however. No team culture, shit management.. and the last straw for me was when they cut my hours so drastically, then tried to make me do ALL the cleaning duties. I did it for 5 minutes before I got annoyed, went to the manager and said: “here you go (the broom) tell Sarah (regional manager) I said bye. The look into their faces. Priceless. Got my things from the staff room and walked out 💁🏻♀️
I worked at a Shoppers Drug Mart for about 6 months. When I was hired, my manager was pregnant. She was always super nice to me, trained me well, and was patient with me. Overall, absolutely fantastic manager.
About 5.5 months into my employment she left to have her baby and a manager from a nearby Shoppers took over. First thing she did was slash everyones hours and bring in her crew from her Shoppers and give them our hours. I was at 32/week before, guaranteed Thursday shift with every other weekend off, and she put me on a random 5 hour shift one week and a random 8 hour shift the next week.
After a couple weeks of that crap, I was sick of it. I punched in, then went to her office to ask for more hours. She simply said no, so I flipped off my name tag and said I quit and just walked out of her office. I punched out and just chatted with a cashier for a bit and went home. I got a paystub in the mail a couple weeks or so later for my time worked that day, all 0.03 hours.
9:49 now i am uncontrollably laughing this response was just amazing, hope you (and all other people who shared their stories) find a good job ^-^
Worked at this Pub & Grill restaurant (it wasn't a Pub and certainly not a Grill) as a dishwasher. It was my first job ever. But after being treated like shit, and working 3pm to 1am on a school night, every night for the past 4ish weeks i was there, i decided to walk out one night the moment the restaurant closed and never came back.
One time I was working at a Gas Station KFC. Not the best place in the world but it was money. I started to get the hang of the job, making tiny mistakes here and there as a normal human would. Then one day my hours were being cut for absolutely no reason. I shrugged it off since my Manager (let‘s call her Stacy, not her real name) told me that they aren’t usually busy. Soon it went from 4 days, to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Then weekends, then just one day. I noticed this as I kept checking my schedule. I was talking to other co-workers about it, and they said to talk to Stacy....that‘s the thing, when my hours were being cut, Stacy wasn’t there. But when I wasn‘t working, she was there mysteriously. Before I quit I called up KFC and asked what my schedule is, of course Stacy is there, and she told me I had no days to work. I looked at my mother and said I’m done. We drove there, dropped off my uniform, asked for my final check, and stormed out. The funny thing is, they never called me back, never told me what the issue was. After a while I landed a job as a busser in a Chinese restaurant. One of my friends who worked at KFC told me the same thing, her hours were being cut...it was the weirdest shit ever
When your hours start getting cut in fast food, your best bet is to start looking. It means they're looking to drop you for not having work, or anger you enough to quit.
Looking for a new job, I mean.
King Savage That‘s what I did, landed at a job, pays less, makes me do more work, and I have to deal with an owner who doesn‘t speak good English. Might consider getting a better job once the virus is done
That's common in fast food environments when they want to get rid of someone, but have no legal reason to fire them. They can't just *get rid of you*, so they'll just reduce your hours until you leave or you go below the minimum required on the payroll and the computers terminate you.
Sounds familiar. My wife worked for Target in 2007/8 and was able to make the store's quota in selling the Target credit cards by herself (she was nicknamed the "Red Card Queen"). Due to cuts, her hours got slashed to 10 hours a week (2 hours a day for 5 days). Yeah, that did not last long. She ended up at a gas station before finally securing work at a bank (selling credit cards, business loans and mortgages). Her last job (before she settled to have kids), she had almost closed one loan that would have netted her a $50K bonus, but due to her going on maternity leave, the guy who finished it up took credit for it.
Oof. The IT guy hit hard. Been there, bro. You have my solidarity and my sympathy.
Edit: the state siding with that grossly illegal owner for not paying you for all that work got my blood boiling. All I can say is: yup, sounds like America.
Sounds like human history to me.
Boss told me I was fired. I got so mad that I quit.
You fucked up. If you're fired, they have to pay you unemployment. If you quit, they don't.
Macabre Mage /woosh
@@macabremage6374
i think that was a joke.
Ah yes
"What the h*** did they expect you to do?? Just die up there?"
I'm sorry but that is hilarious.
4:10 wait what? why the hell would the waiter/ress have to tip the bartender of the main bar of the establishment they work for?
Highly illegal, but some places think they can make them do it. Basically, should have told them to screw off and then reported them.
Many places force employees in tip positions to share their tips. Which is ridiculous, because bartenders can make their own fucking tips...It's just another way for them to get away with paying employees poverty wages. They can have a full staff making less than minimum wage, all being forced to split tips so they BARELY make a red cent at the end of their shift
I used to work as a security guard in a hotel, pretty shit administrations tho, they hired me for the same day i applied and received a call saying they needed someone ASAP since their other morning shift guard was pretty useless, falling asleep, not complyin instructions, not helping anyone, because also, even tho you are supposed to be just a guard you are also in charge of helping the hotel staff, take trash bags out into the bin, carry packs of water and that kind of stuff, it was ok for me since standing like an idiot all day in the same place was boring, this was in december, so the 24-31 lapse was coming in and there was only 2 guards of us, one for the morning and one for the night so these are 12 hrs + travel to home time, so my day was only, work, get home, dinner, sleep only like 5 hours and go to work again, other guard was a total asshole, arriving late when my shift was over, and going before his was over, so the 24th is close and my day off is on sunday, mind you i only worked there 1 week, and we have to agree on something so we could spend the 24 and the 31 off, so lne would have to cover the others shift a different day, he wanted to get me confused and try to fuck me up so he could take both 24 and 31 off for himself, i told him no and that things were being done my way or he can fuck off, he agrees but by this time im just pissed at him and superiors for being such incompetent idiots, so my day off rolls in mind you i slept almost all day, by night on sunday i called in and said i wasnt going to present there anymore, they immediately called me asking me to pls go so they can find someone else, i said to them "Ok i will ve there, dont worry, only 2 more days so you can find someone" superior was super happy, he hung up, i blocked everyones number and contacts, and went to sleep again and didnt wake until like 1 pm i had about 30 missed calls from supervisor and other 20 from the other guard, i just laughed and kept playing playstation all day, [Dont try me m8, i will fuck you up even more how ya liked that 24+ hour shift
I snapped and i dont even have a job yet •_•
Megan Louise trueee me 2
I snap everyday.
Cause today there are literally 1000 shitty joba and 1 good job
Worked at target. It was my 8th month working there. I was already getting fed up with the new rules they were implementing. Last day( day after a grocery manager told me, "i was going to slow, go home"). I came in, he gave me many tasks that would obviously take more than an hour... in fact 2 or 3 hours to do. I think he wanted me to quit... well i did. I walked out without warning. Literally only job I hated so much that I walked out. Dont work for Target. They dont give a crap about you
Worked a job for three months, left old job on good terms they called me back telling me they had a morning shift and more pay so I took it. Put my two weeks in on a weird part of the pay period, manager asks me why I'm quitting I tell him. Have the next two days off, come back to my schedule revised for 10 days in a row, a couple of splits which was totally not the norm. Ask him why 'because I can'. Try to make it through the week, get to a night shift, when same manager tells me that we're going to pull equipment out and deep clean the next morning I was scheduled. Finished the shift never went back, the best part was the phone call if I'm going to come in.
She was at the store the same day her child was born? Did she adopt that child, or does she mean right before her child was born? Wait... or did she mean she gave birth IN the store? Was somehow the local Target a secret hospital but we didn't know? 🤯
By the way, the way she said it sounded like giving birth for her is super easy, unlike for most mothers out there... since it is so easy for her to pop out a baby, I would be more impressed if she was working in the store on the same day she was born... but oh well, even someone as "great" as her can't do that I suppose.
It is possible for a woman to go to a store and give birth later that day and it is possible for a woman to go into labor while shopping.
This showed up in my recommended today. The same day that I quit my job on the spot with zero warning. After over a year of belittling and chastising for no reason other than the boss having an ego to feed. I'm a machinist, firstly, but I also do machine repair, production setup and oversight, increased their production rates by 30-50% on average, supplied all of my own equipment, had zero benefits, ran a CNC lathe and was always on call, every day, every weekend, and could never expect to have holidays off. Was only paid $19/hr. It was only a 6 man shop. There are only two other people in the shop who can program a CNC, and that's the owner and the boss. The owner is planning to retire in the next year or so. They're now probably going to go out of business, while I have a new job lined up with more pay, full benefits and guaranteed overtime, one block away from my old job. I'm taking a vacation to our cabin in a few weeks and will be spending all my free time fishing and shooting at the gun range. Karma is fun.
YOU HAVE TO COME IN, YOU'RE ON THE SCHEDULE
lmao
I worked for Springmasters for a total of one single day. They droppee me off in a neighborhood at 9 am where almost nobody was home, and my airator for lawn care i hauled around, runs out of gas after doing the last of prepaid jobs in the whole area. I had to wait 2 hours for the guy whi dropped me off to come back with a tank of gas, who then gives me shit for eating McDonald's my parents dropped off in that 2 hours.
I end up walking around and score one more job for the whole day, and when it came to call for a pick up that night at 10pm, they had me wait another 2 hours, my parents were wondering why i wasn't back home yet. My parents were furious at how I left in the middle of a neighborhood i have no idea where at 11 at night. I gave my parents the number of the asshat who was supposed to pick me up and give me a ride back to the warehouse and ripped into him before i essentially quit. My parents tried to beat the asshole to my location so i could ditch the machine but the asshole finally should up quick for a change and tried to give me shit about my parents getting pissed at him for his shit.
I was at the warehouse at 6:30 am, was finally done with their shit at 11:30 Pm. Theyre policy is commission based so i essentially got shafted and wasted a whole day to make them money while i wasn't gonna get paid.
Fuck Springmasters, its a fucking joke.
I get hired at a well known bakery at my country. The 1st day I started to work, the executive chef keep asking me about Cordon Bleu’s recipes (because I graduated from Le Cordon Bleu, and their recipes are pretty good). I told her I can’t share because of the policy, and she started to get REALLY mad at me and told me that i’m useless cause she wanted me to work for her just to get the recipes. I was freaking mad and just went out from the kitchen. The 1st day and the last day I worked there.
man the grocery store about the bathroom had me in tears 🤣
Begining of the year my boss hired a new guy and from the start all he did was argue and try to start fights, multiple people kept coming up to him with issues about this guy not doing a good job being obstinate, or just plain starting fights one day he called me a fucking idiot so I went off on him Tell ng him he has no right to talk to me like that, boss said he was writing me up for "verbally attacking him" I told him he's a shitty manager and that I quit right there the guy got fired two days later for assaulting someone sending them to the hospital and my boss was told he's never allowed to hire or work in the kitchen again and now has to cashier the "convienet store" where pre made things like salads and sandwiches are sold
I was working at McDonald's as my first job when I was 15. I loved the people there, made good friends with the customers, and was at the top of everything all in the 6 months I worked there. My registers were always accurate and I'd cover other people's shifts if needed. The only thing I hated was one of the store managers that criticized every little thing I did. Another manager promised me a raise without me even bringing it up, but I'm not sure it ever actually came. Bless her heart because I knew she was genuinely trying to keep me there. But I had enough of the other manager and just walked out before he could say anything else to me. Fast forward 2 years and I find out he's transferred to another store for anger issues and then promptly quit.
*THEY STOPPED SNAPPING, AND STARTED CLAPPING*
I walked out of my job at a fast food joint because the manager denied me the only vacation time I had requested in three years because “I wasn’t pulling my weight”. I was the only delivery guy for catering the only one that would wash dishes and the only one with enough mechanical and electrical knowledge to keep the place running. I was paid 7.50 an hour which is min wage in Nevada.
I worked at an AT&T collections center. I don't know what I expected. Being yelled at? Yes. I can handle that. The straw that broke the camels back was one day I had a elderly blind woman on the phone, she didn't know what her verification information was but she owed us a bill. I couldn't tell her the amount owed as she couldn't verify for me. I asked my supervisor what I should do. He asked me to have her feel around the room for her card and feel the numbers to pay an unknown amount to me. I turned my phone off mute and told her to give us a call back when she had someone to assist her. Once I was off the phone he started speaking but I freaked out screaming. Caused a scene out of disbelief that he could be so insensitive to her disability and left. Not my best moment.. They called me the next day asking if I was coming in. I said no.
Bosses can be so devious and mean. I was working late at night because I was the only person who knew how to use the computer. (This was in the 1970s.) One of the attorneys told me to give him my keys so he could go to the other building and "come right back." I said no because not only did you need a key to open the door after hours, you needed a key to get OUT. And my car and apartment keys were on my key ring, and he was just the kind of jerk to "Oops, I forgot." the next day and not come back. I guessed right about him not coming back.
Ah... McD's, my favorite. Worked there for 2-4 weeks (I forget how long) when I was 16. They do that review where they go over your performance and decide whether they want to keep you. Manager goes over and says how I'm meeting all their expectations and how he appreciates the fact I was flexible to work extra hours when they called me in. He honestly was a nice guy, and said they will be adding me to the schedule immediately and they are glad to have me. It threw him off when I ask when I can give my 2 weeks notice. He's shocked and was like, "Why!? Was something wrong? Was I treated unfairly?" I said, "No. I just feel greasy and disgusting every day when I go home, and (without going into details) I can't be a part of the shortcuts they take sometimes and don't want to make someone sick." A few weeks later, I get a job at Arby's... met my, now, wife there, and worked there for 2 1/2 years before going into the Air Force. We've now both retired from the military and moved home... we still consistently eat where we met. In fact, I took my kids there as a reward tonight for getting all their school work done today and helping me clean around the house for the whole rest of the evening without complaint.
6:34 that's when you got to say something smart like "so did you have any money last week?"
One of my most loyal, hardworking employees just quit. I don't even understand. I'm a banquet manager, and we were about to serve a wedding reception. A student supervisor was letting everyone know the instructions for the night and asked if there were any questions. No one said anything and she said, "okay, cool." Well, one particular worker (let's call him Rick) had a tendency to _not_ get it. He often needs clarification and assistance with certain tasks. This was the night the student supervisor sent him to get something for her, but he couldn't find it, so I had to help him. Well, based on all that, I just wanted to make sure he understood the instructions, so right after the staff split up from hearing them, he went to the counter to get his drink and I followed him and said to him quietly, "Did that make sense, Rick?" According to a letter he left on my desk weeks later, that's why he quit. He felt so patronized and underestimated, he just couldn't work for me anymore. Accused me of implying he was dumb and singling him out. Well, I wouldn't say I "singled him out," because it's not like I had to ask the other workers if the instructions made sense. They seem pretty competent: you give them a task, even if it's their first time, and they understand and do just fine, without struggling. Rick is...different than that. I think he's overreacting. He mentioned in the letter that he already had doubts about his brain and struggles with school (example, he had to take LOTS of time with assignments), and apparently my question made things worse: now his grades are slipping because he feels he really is dumb, purely based on what I said. But I can't own that. All I did was ask him if he understood the tasks, because this was a very important night and shift. I even spoke to him in private, not in front of the others. And the truth is the truth: he has a hard time understanding information and tasks. I _really_ don't think I said anything wrong. I think he's just overthinking everything and letting it wipe out his pride. I'm sorry about his grades and insecurity, but it's not my fault. A manager is supposed to check on their employees and their capacity (and limits). So seriously, what did I do wrong?
I moved back to my home country after a year abroad. I moved back with my parents (I was 24) until I I could get settled with a job etc, I love cars so found a job working at a second hand car yard. I signed no contract and the pay was commission only, with no sick or holiday pay. I didn't care because I was making up to $350 per car and would sell 5 cars on a good week. The way it worked, the first salesman to talk to a customer got the commission, even if the customer came back the next day. Anyway, the owner was an absolute prick. He was verbally abusive and would get enraged at the smallest thing. I was there for about 6 months 5.5 days a week without being able to leave the whole day in case a customer would walk in. One time he had this nice European car for sale on ramps. One weekend (he was never there) a man walks in and asks about the BMW on the ramps. He says he has a trade in vehicle and would like to take the car for a spin. I drive it off the ramps and off he goes for a test drive. In the meantime I check out his trade in for an appraisal. I call my boss (the owner of the yard) to check on the value of the trade in. I also say the guy has gone for a test drive. Well my boss goes nuclear. "What the fuck were you thinking letting someone take this car for a test drive but for serious buyers" and "it's not a toy that everyone can play with". I suffer through that rant emotionally scarred. The guy comes back and is keen to buy. I said my boss will be back Monday to give him a price on his car. So Monday the guy comes to the yard, my boss meets him and works out a deal for his vehicle. My boss walks in and says he will split the commission since he closed the deal. He already made money since the cars on the yard were his. I was pissed. About a month later he goes off at me in front of customers, smashes a ruler over his head. I walk out after he leaves the yard with him still owing me $500. I didn't care
I was a receptionist. A coworker was going to complain to my boss about me leaving 30 min or an hour early a couple of times to deal with family responsibilities, since my husband’s shop got in trouble and he had to work more shifts. 1) my boss already knew, 2) she didn’t care as long as someone else was there to man the desk, 3) this worker wasn’t even in the same department as me, 4) anyone conscious with some organization skills can do this job, we’re literally just screening people and guarding a door. I was already constantly on the cusp of quitting since they messed up my pay, the pissed off callers (for things I had nothing to do with), and crying at work twice. Two weeks later, I got a job offer for a better job with benefits. I start tomorrow.
My first job was as a pot washer - I have Cerebral Palsy, and they hated the fact I was slow, they were often making comments about how I was lazy and needed to speed up, my boss even yelled and refused to pay me, it was pretty shit.
I wasn't doing anything wrong so they never found grounds to get rid of me, but they'd pushed me down to a once a week slot on saturday. One week, I see a new server there, who tells me she's actually worked there for 6 months and we're both joking about how we could have worked there so long and not run into each other. I get on quite well with her and we have a bit of banter - anyway, when she leaves, I say as a joke "see you in 6 months!" - she found it funny, it was a good day honestly.
Anyway, cut to next week, I go in to find they've just removed me from the rotor without telling me. I get really confused when my boss tells me "we were told you weren't coming back!"
I figured out another waitress who didn't like me had overheard me saying "see you in 6 months!" - had told my boss and he'd just removed me from the Rotor without notifying me or trying to contact me.
I quit on the spot lol. Just had enough of their shit.
I had a job many years ago as a Kitchen Porter ( Dish washer ). The boiss asked me after a short time, about my parents house, it was a B&B and they asked me if I had done any cooking for them, and I said yes, and they asked me if I fancied helping the Chef in the mornings... Of course I will I said.
Now that night, I asked my mother if she could show me how to cook English breakfasts ( LOL ) and we wasted tons of her food and were cooking until gone 2am and we had a great laugh.
Anyway, in to work I go and for about an hour we were doing fine... I had prepped up most of the stuff and breakfasts started and things were going along nicely and then Mel ( The Chef ) said he is running to the toilet.
He buggered off and we never saw him.
Annoyingly, he didnt bother coming to do breakfasts for the rest of the week and the boos asked me if I wanted to be the Breakfast chef.
Wow, absoluitely I would.
So that was it, I was now the breakfast chef...
Now I was on my own doing this, there was no KP to help me out as that was me also, but the Waiting on staff were doing their bits to help out and that was great, but then after breakfast, I was then having to setup for Lunch, then during lunch I was KP, then it was clearing up and then prepping for dinner and through that, I was KP Again.
I would turn up for breakfast at 6:30 and I would be working all the way through until gone 11pm at night and this was 7 days a week.
I asked them to take on extra KP, preferably 2 and have Mel come back for 1 o 2 days a week so Ican have days off.
Never happened.
After doing this for 3 months non stop, I asked to have a pay rise as I was now a chef and they used the excuse of me not being trained... I continued for about another 2 months and I asked just about giving me some extra as I was on minimum wage yet my average hours each week was 120 The lowest I had was 103 and sure, I was single and living with my parents and hardly spt a penny as I d no time to, I was still hardly saving anything cos I was on such rotten wages.
Anyway, I had put up with this about 7 months in total and I said to the mnager that I am not going to continue. If my wages are not doubled ad they dont get extra help, I am leaving. He simply smiled and ignored me.
a few days later when my paypacket came, it was still the crappy KP rate and so I simply left.
That morning they had 78 in for breakfasts and there was a very important confrence that about 50 of them were there for and the Managers ( Husband and Wife ) were members of, so it definitely made them look like dickheads, and mroe so when I came back that afternoon and confronted him at the bar and gave him the reasons why I have left in front of some of them.
I stated that I had worked about 18 hours a day for almost 8 months on Minimum wage and I was done with it.
I will be honest, but I loved the job.. It was piss easy as it was a very plush small hotel in rural North Wales
I worked as a cook at a restaurant in a corporate office.There were 4 of us to serve about 500 people in the building.I would stay back after my 2 other coworkers had left and helped my boss with inventory,computer issues,writing emails,and prepping for the next day.I often would work 12 hour shifts a day.Some of those days I was already clocked out.I asked my boss if I could work half day to go to a festival my wife and I were planning on going to.I got the ok.At the beginning of the week leading up to me going I would remind him about it and ask if it was still ok.He said it was.The day of I reminded him that I would be leaving after lunch rush.He back peddles and says I can't leave because it was his wedding anniversary and HE needed to leave to get everything ready.Mind you he bad mouthed his wife ALL the time.He then smirks and says I had no proof that I could take the rest of the day off and upper management would take his side over mine.He left.I stayed back a lot later.Did the dishes and cleaned everything alone.He called me into his office on Monday and accused me of keying his car.He believes it was in retaliation for not letting me leave.He parked next to the CCTV camera and refused to look at the footage.He claimed because I'm a computer whiz I hacked the footage (yes because basic knowledge of how to send an email or rebooting your pc is such a hacker skill).I stood up and dropped my apron in his lap and walked out.Screw you Bob.
21:15 I don't even know how to but you're a Hero. Sad that people prey on Elderly.
The one at target sounds alot like my time at home depot. I told them a week ahead I was going to NC to attend a funeral and they wrote me up for each day I didn't show.
Not an employee story, but this was the most surreal situation I ever encountered in a store.
Thanksgiving, early 90s, I was driving to my father's house. It's a 4 hour drive, and shortly after setting g out, the selector buttons on my cheap car stereo decides to give. It's stuck on "cassette" but I can't do anything but eject or start and stop. I only have bunch of CDs.
I stop at a radio shack and get a portable player with the cassette adapter. The cashier is swearing into his phone as he gets the device from a locked cabinet, all the while arguing that he can't stay, he needs to be at his folks home, it's not his shift, etc.
Finally, with a "F**I This place", he hangs up.
He looks at me as I stand there quietly.
" I'll give you 500 bucks to run the store for me. " he states.
I explain I have no retail experience and wouldn't know how to begin, and why would you even ask a random customer you don't know from Adam such a thing, he shrugs, says "your right." He demagnatizes the CD player package, hands it to me, the walks out the door, gets into his vehicle, and drives off.
and that's how I got a $200 disc player for free.
First day on the job at McDonalds,the shift was changing and this woman came up to the counter and started yelling about missing something and then dumped her bag over onto the counter drink and all. I sat my hat down calmly and walked away.
That moment when it's 3 am and you're watching this and you're mom walks in just like
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Excive bruh this man probably just got grounded and you correcting his spelling
@@untildawn9328 that isn't even correct. Like, really 😑
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I know, not me but a friend, Steve. Nothing dramatic, but Steve and his best friend at the time, Yong, used to work at a Ryan's in the early 80's. They did kitchen prep, and on this particular day, they were to spend all of their time shucking oysters, since there was some oyster special going on. Both guys had already cut and poked themselves multiple times with their knives, because they are trying to move at lightning speed. So Steve and Yong are already hating life at the moment.
Steve needs to go to the bathroom, so he takes a brief break. He goes to the employee bathroom, but it is occupied, so he walks out into the dining room to go to the men's room. There is something about the sight of the gluttonous masses stuffing their faces like hogs and barking demands at the other Ryan's staff members that absolutely turns Steve's stomach. He walks back into the kitchen and tells Yong that is he is quitting and going to the arcade. Yong immediately takes off his apron, and they collectively quit on the spot. They spent the rest of the night enjoying being teenagers.
Pinned-by-water-pallet guy DID press for injury, right? Right? Because, y'know, his place of business was so far out of line with OSHA restrictions that HE COULD HAVE DIED! They were honestly lucky he didn't die, cuz that'd be a MUCH bigger deal.
1:42 - I know you politely told them to duck off, but what were the exact words?
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I used to work CVS overnights roughly 15 years ago.
At the time I was working ~36 hrs/wk for them (because they refused to give me fulltime) from 10pm-7am while attempting to do fulltime classes during the day (really wasn't my choice).
All but one of my shifts was with the same overnight supervisor. This supervisor who worked nights fulltime, worked days fulltime somewhere else and had heart issues.
Almost every shift with him for 6 months he threatened to fire me, basically for doing my job as expected or with too much energy. This went on until one night I fully went off on him in front of a customer. Flat out told him "6 months of this, over what? Can you even explain to me why you're threatening my job? No? Then since you seem to want me gone so badly, this is me leaving."
Went out to smoke and calm down in the pitch black of midnight for an hour with nowhere to go before he came out and begged me to come back and forget it ever happened. I told him to go f himself.
I worked for FedEx. I could honestly write for days about all the stuff that happened while I was there. I wasn't a delivery driver, I worked in the warehouse as a package handler. I could honestly write for days about all the stuff that happened while I was there. I worked at the very end of the warehouse with about 3-4 other people. They were all very friendly, at first. The job was advertised that I would be making 15 dollars an hour. I was only making the minimum wage of 12 an hour. After talking to my other coworkers and eventually management, I found out that they put that on the ad to try to get people to apply for peak season. Which was Thanksgiving and Christmas. That was my first grievance.The work was incredibly physically demanding, and I would have to wake up at 12am to 3am. I was most times by myself at the very end, where we had large metal cages set up to hold packages, as the trucks could not fit into that far section of the warehouse.
I also have sciatica and horrible leg and lower back pain and I was at times lifting packages that were 150-200 pounds at a time, by myself. That was the second grievance I had.
The third was the petty drama. Two of my coworkers were ALWAYS getting into verbal altercations. It was usually one sided, however, as the other person was a 60 something year old man. The person that kept starting the drama had a history of starting petty drama, talking WAY to loud, and getting people into trouble. I was no exception. By the third month I was getting called into the office to "testify" on different fights these two others had gotten into. The loud one would pressure me and coach me into what to say, what not to say etc. At one point, I and several others were called into the office to talk to the BIG HR lady over a phone conference. It took 2 hrs for everyone to get called back. I was one of the last ones. After finally getting called in and explaining that I didn't know too much, as I was always at the end of the line and couldn't always make out what was being said, I also gave my opinion and testimony of several other petty ass incidents. I kid you not, the loud mouth waited out in the parking lot for me, and as SOON as I made my way out of the security gate, he began questioning me. By that point, I had had enough of the BS. That was the final straw. I quit shortly after, and on good terms. I was asked to work the following Monday, which I did. After that, I was done. I shit you not, after not coming in BECAUSE I QUIT, they called me asking where I was. I didn't respond. The whole thing was rediculous.
at my first job the head manager would basically say that he was leaving to go and withdraw money from the bank. he would never come back because he decided to go out surfing. he couldn't be touched due to his position(according to the other managers). he also wen't 5k over payroll in a month and had to start cutting peoples hours. on top of all of this i let him know that i was going back to school soon. the first month of school he literally didnt put me on the schedule for an entire month. this man hardly gave a shit and was basically an ass to anyone would questioned him. he would only act like a responsible individual whenever someone from corporate would come down and check to make sure everything was running smoothly.(btw i worked at a trampoline part and most of the time i was the only one in the back and i would have to watch 20-40 kids at a time and i wasnt allowed to sit down for a split second)
I love these videos because I have a hard time standing up for myself, but then when I see how bad other people are treated and how they react, I can go hey yeah! It is bad to be treated that way! You should be angry when people do that kind of thing! It’s just like a nice little reminder because it’s hard to say that about yourself but when you see it happened to other people you know
With my current job I officially reached the point where I dont give a damn. My son was born a few days ago, they tried to call me in and I told them my girl was in labor so Im not coming in. Fast forward to beginning of the week and everyone is going around saying I lied. Boss himself passively says it was clearly a lie and "Need to grow up and be here at work". To me but directly to us all.
I want to fucking quit. This region is terrible to work for.
It's the last story for me😉 like.. a.. boss.. good on you
I wish I had been able to answer the reddit question. I once worked at a job as the IT manager for a small start-up company. One of the four owner partners of the company came to me to ask to lock two of the other owners out of the system. I said I can't do that because they are owners but if you can show me a good reason I will show you how to do it yourself. The person then proceeded to show me documentation that the male President and female CFO, who it turns out was a former escort, were embezzling the IRS 940 and 941 withholding funds to run an escort service on the side. The person showed me the "secret" phone bills and the ads in the local paper matching the bills and the cancelled checks. As he locked out their accounts I typed a resignation letter, printed it twice, signed both copies, had him sign both and walked out the door.
didn’t quite in the spot but had a very aggressive and horrible manager that would causally make fun of me for being the new guy at tacobell. I remember my first day of working as a cashier, she fired an employee on the spot for arguing with one of the female cooks and told him to clock out. I never been more terrified of a manger in my life, she was very arrogant and had a very aggressive tone to both costumers and employees alike and she had no respect for anyone. I complaint to my supervisors multiple times but it was very clear she didn’t care nor was she bothered by the fact that one of her employees was complaining about her out of all people. So i quite after a few short months. The worst part was that i honestly liked working their, the team were amazing and just great people to talk to. I took my job serious and yet they always found a way to always make me laugh. I will never forget how great they were but maybe i might need to grow tuffer skin and deal with horrible managers.
The worst place I have ever worked was Best Buy. I picked up a part time job in their appliance section to make extra Christmas cash. I worked my day job from 8-5. I then went in at Best Buy from 6-closing.
Now my main job was a good one. So I wasn't used to having a micromanaging bs job like Best Buy. After a month working there I was pulled into the office. The manager said that she is very concerned that I have the lowest sales for the month and I am not selling extended warranties. She told me that if I want to make a career working for Best Buy, I need to come up with a strategy to sell more.
I really pissed her off when I told her that there just are not many people who are looking to buy appliances at night 😂
She angrily said that I need to then stand in front of the department and start talking to people to push product and make sales... At this point I was thinking wow, I am fortunate to have a really good job during the day. My day job at the time was a level 2 senior technician for almost a million dollars worth of production print equipment. I took the Best Buy job because my wife just had a baby, money was tight, and I wanted us to have a good Christmas.
But anyway, I knew this job wouldn't last much longer. Knowing the answer, I asked her if I got commissions for selling appliances and extended warranties? She said no, you only receive hourly pay. I asked her then what is the incentive to stand out there and push the product on people? 😂😂😂 She said that is your job and I am not liking your attitude right now. I told her my job is to assist people who come in the department wanting to buy something... She then said that she will be watching my numbers and will have another sit down in two weeks.
I think it was two or three days later I just said the hell with it. I didn't say a word to anyone, just punched out and left.
That last one though, like how heartless can you be that you want to charge someone 350 just so she can see photos of her husband like really?!
Worked at a McD's during high school for 2 yrs. Moved 60-miles away to a bigger town with my dad after parents divorced, needed a job right away. Went to a McD's walking distance from the house. Hired me in at minimum wage, even though I was making like 25-cents more at my previous McD's (yeah, I know, but I was a teen). Hiring manager told me he'd try me out and if I would work out, he'd get me the higher salary. In McD's if you work out ok, you get called in on days off, asked to come in early/work later etc. Those that don't get scheduled for 4 hours a week until you just quit on your own. I got almost full time hours right away because I knew my stuff. First payday came, and I talked to the manager and asked him about the promise of higher salary. He just told me they couldn't afford the higher pay. I took off my apron and walked out. BTW, 25-cents per hours is just a lousy $10 per week.
I worked for these two spoiled guys who really wanted to be big-shot bosses. Anywho, I turned in my assignment for the month and they said it will be a while until they payed me, so I started a new assignment. So three weeks pass, I still hadn't been payed and I was having two sausages with ketchup for lunch and logged into Facebook - I see my bosses going on rides in Las Vegas and posting the videos. I quit, I didn't care, I was just so angry to see them having the time of their lives.
Walked out of a chef job last year. Helped to open it under a previous head chef and worked myself to the bone, barely saw my friend, never had a weekend off. New head chef comes in and changes the menu and culture, it suddenly becomes incredibly stressful. My team wins the biggest prize in soccer and I miss the parade as my first time off (a full month, including a music festival) started a day after it. It caused a huge breakdown, working 5/6 days a week for 7 months, and the whole city being involved in a massive celebration thst I couldn't be a part of. If I wasn't off for a month after that I wouldn't have gone back. A few months later I'm starting to feel angry and depressed in my job. 2 of the chefs are joking about me killing myself as I make an order wrong. I turn around and punch a fridge, breaking my hand. I'm off for a month. I come back for a week but feel even worse. Eventually we have 300 people booked on a Saturday night and I'm already behind on prep, and walk in after having a massive anxiety attack pretty much all day. I pull my boss aside and tell him I can't do it any more and walk out. I'm now back in McDonald's, happy and hoping to get my own place this year.
For too long I measured success in terms of the quality of job I was perceived to have, but I'd rather flip burgers and be happy than make incredible pan-Asian food and be miserable any day of the week.
11:27 Yeah, I used to work as a manager for a Verizon retailer and they way they do these surveys after a call/transaction are ridiculous. They're worded as asking for feedback about Verizon as a whole, yet reflect directly on you as the employee, and could cause you to lose pay or bonuses if the customer doesn't give a rating of at least 9/10. Never once in my experience did they overturn the results of a survey. So glad I don't work for them anymore.
I worked for a hospital for 4 years in the dietary department. I loved the job cause even if it was a small thing, it felt like helping people who were already having a bad day. Food is something that can easily make someone feel better, or feel like they have a little control in their situation. I loved the job, but my managers were horrible, one of my coworkers was an abusive bully, and another was bipolar who refused to take their meds. Even with all this, I stayed for 4 years, and well into Covid. It was the fleas in the office that were my breaking point. Fleas. In a hospital. That was my Nope! moment.