I worked 90 hours a week. Straight pay. No overtime. My wife got pregnant. I told the owner when the baby came he would have to seriously cut my hours. Gave him several months notice. Told him the exact date my wife's maternity leave ended. Reminded him several times. He waited until the end of my shift the day before to tell me he would not cut my hours. I walked out.
Jeezus Christ; I can only imagine how that jerk of a boss thought he pulled the rug out from under you there. IDK what job that is, but no way is it more important than your child, and if the boss refuses to accommodate for that, he can go screw himself. Especially since he clearly knew you wouldn’t agree given how he waited to spring it on you.
Jesus Christ. The story about the boss coming into their private bedroom. I would have gone into work and told the guy from corporate what he did and that I was considering legal action.
I agree wholeheartedly! That’s a MAJOR no-no. That falls directly into the “You should already know, without being told, not to do this” category. I would’ve quit, called corporate, called a lawyer, and shamed the jerk on social media. You do NOT go to an employee’s home uninvited, especially if it’s to yell at them about their job performance. That’s for the workplace, not the employee’s home. If it’s something that can’t wait, then call the employee on the phone, but do NOT go to their home.
Low paying jobs screw people over in so many ways. I totally see why restaurants and retail are struggling right now. They deserve it for decades of poor business practices.
Having recently come off a few months of the crap show called dollar general I see it more than ever; hoped Publix is better next week though I fear they’ll demand too much as well especially for my ASD slowed speed and dislike of bagging which wasn’t avoidable apparently.
I. will not shop specific Grocery Stores because of how badly they treat employees. I drive 30 minutes out of my way, for the last six years. Corporate greed and disposable employees..I don’t support it.
I left McDonald's two months ago because of this bullshit. My last work day landed me in a psychiatric hospital because my nine page notice was also my suicide note and that I had planned to kill myself that day. I don't hate anybody that I worked with, but fuck the fast food industry.
I’m still in Highschool (Senior Year), so I don’t know TOO much about the struggles of life..though, it sounds extremely harsh for everyone. ..I don’t know if I can handle it when I get older.
I quit once I found out my mentor lied to me about how many years I was supposed to assist under him. He told me 3 to 5 years....in reality; assisting for a hair salon is 1 to 1 1/2 years. He basically wanted me to be his glorified shampoo girl, even after I graduated from beauty school. Today was my last day and I don't have any regrets
I think the nail in the coffin was when I said "I've just worked a 31-hour day to hit targets" and my boss laughed and said "Don't be ridiculous, there aren't 31 hours in a day." I handed in my notice, took 3 days of accrued holiday/vacation to celebrate my birthday, and when I logged in on my next day back, they had transferred all of my work to other employees and I just stopped working for them immediately. It was mutual consent more than me walking out, but after 5 years in the job and reaching the second-highest level of promotion in the office, I didn't even get a 'good luck' card like every other person who quit while I was working there. I've been freelance ever since and really can't imagine working as an employee ever again.
What's freelancing like? Is this something that I should pursue or at least think about? I'm asking because ever since I've left my second job, the idea of trying again is just both anxiety and anger inducing because of my how experience with my first and second job would have a pattern of going from 10 out of 10 amazing and could see myself working there until I die to straight up Kitchen Nightmares levels of bad and no longer having the will power to bother with keeping my job. One of my biggest issues with having a job *(at least for me and the others that just need a living in order to both have purpose of some kind and just to survive out in the real world in general)* is how there would be employees that would cause nothing but trouble for me yet whenever I talk to management about it, they would basically shrug and tell me that there's nothing they could do and that they tried everything! Okay, have you tried firing them? I kid you not, half of the time it would be clear that firing these lazy/rude employees would obviously solve this dilemma instead of just transferring them to a different location and basically let those same lazy/rude employees to be someone else's problem. It's just isn't fair for me *(and many others)* to have to deal with 💩 like that! Especially if we're working at a place that heavily relies on employees that are, you know, useful. Yet there are these idiots out there that would work at these places and get away with being lazy/rude either just because or worse case scenario these lazy/rude employees and their families have connections with other companies and could easily sue for something so minimal if their lazy and rude child/children were ever to get suspended or fired.
when I quit my job last year I didn't get a goodbye anything ... my manager even looked me dead in the eye when they said good bye to the others leaving at the same time. I even told him I'd be in to say goodbye (I left during leave). This was a work place were everyone got a good bye morning tea. I had to gate crash one to even get one. I stole a whole bunch of food from it as I left cause fuck them. The only comfort I have is that they had 1/3 of my team quit within a month including the team leader. We all quit for the same reason (manager was the worlds biggest ass)
@@grandenacho8887 idk just find an industry where there's enough demand, don't undersell yourself, keep a diverse customer base so you're not dependent on any one client, and try to hold on to the good ones. I don't spend any money on marketing etc but I have a free blog on Blogger and I'm active on Twitter. When I need to build my order book I reach out to local businesses who might want to hire me. (Sorry it took so long to reply, for some reason I only just saw this. I hope things are better than they were a year ago.)
@@chippy2023 I agree. Employers are quite limited in when/why they can fire people (at least in the UK where I am) there are disciplinary processes to follow etc so if an employee's main fault is attitude/behaviour rather than directly related to not doing their job, it's much harder to sack them for just being a dick. That being said, I can't imagine going back to a workplace after being freelance since 2011. I'd recommend it to anyone who's in an industry where it might be possible. But it's NOT an easy ride, you need to work hard right outta the gate to find enough customers and make enough money to survive, then beyond that it's about building reputation and recognition. Your access to finance (especially mortgages) will be near-zero at first too until you have three years of accounts/taxes filed. (This isn't financial advice, just my personal experience.) It's almost the opposite of a regular job. The first few years are tough because you're building, marketing, trying to stay financially stable, but after that it starts to pay off and if it's a job you enjoy, you should find you enjoy it MORE as time goes on. Plus if there's anything you don't enjoy about it, you can make small changes because you're the one with the control, you're not forced to abandon it completely and find a whole new job elsewhere.
I am of the firm belief that the moment you dread waking up and getting to work (and I mean literally get a knot in your stomach and are borderline crying from not wanting to go) it’s time to find a better job for yourself. Always remember that if you feel bad for leaving they don’t feel bad about replacing you for any reason they see fit and will never give you a two weeks notice. Don’t be afraid to walk away.
I have been there 3 times in my life. By the third time I realized that most of the problem was me not setting boundaries for myself. I was always willing to go the extra mile and since no good deed goes unpunished I was given more to accomplish. I don’t love the job I have now but I have my guardrails I stay between to keep my sanity.
Yep. Wound up quitting Apple Tech Support after 6 months when I spent two weeks getting psychosomatically nauseous to the point of not being able to come into work for two weeks straight because I couldn't stand up from hugging the toilet until I called in sick. Would wake up and literally my first thought was "fuck, I didn't die in my sleep. Now I have to go back there." Was still getting panic attacks just driving past the building for literally a year afterwards.
I quit my job at safeway and got a new job 2 days later. No interview at all. Orientation and then my first day the very next day. It was like a weight was lifted. Edit. Safeway was only giving me 19 hours a week and it was during the middle of COVID.
My sister. The final straw, as they say. Arrived to work to find one employee trying to do everything on her own: Take orders, make orders, run the fryer and grill, restock supplies, and cash out at a busy drive thru restaurant. Meanwhile the two managers who were already there were not attempting to help in any way. They just left the girl to fend for herself. My sister clocked in and tries to get things back on track. The minute she clocked in the other 2 dissapeared into the office. When she confronted one of them later on the chaotic situation she had walked into, his response was to shrug and say, "Whatever." She informed him she was done. She clocked out and went home.
Did a cleaning job at a hospital/clinic. In the summer, they turn off the AC rather early, and it gets really hot and uncomfortable in there. When i was hired, i got on paper, that skirts were allowed. No shorts, but skirts were allowed. Then the district manager started making up fake complaints by staff that my skirts were unprofessional. They weren't. So he said they need to be longer, they were already knee length. So i got some that went below the knee. Then he said the people in radiology and the lab were complaining about my skirts and that i wasn't allowed to wear skirts at all. But i knew the xray and lab techs and i was on friendly terms with all of them. So i knew the manager was full of it. But i started wearing these long flowing loose pants. This was fine... for a couple months. But then i wasn't allowed to wear these anymore because they were too loose. Not that they'd get caught in anything, they were just too loose. Here's the catch, i have an issue where i can't have tight clothing on my arms, legs or near/around my neck. Makes me feel like i'm being suffocated. So I just told them, "you keep changing the dress code on me, even though i got it in writing that i could wear skirts. so wednesday (2 days away) will be my last day." I requested, then demanded a receipt for my badge/ID that i turned in since if i don't turn it in, i don't get my last paycheck and i damn well knew they would have "lost it" between when i turned it in and when it gets recorded into the system. PS, wednesdays were the end of the pay cycle.
@@ARedMagicMarker Agreed. It was many years ago now so i'm over it, but i'll never do that kind of job again. The work is too labor intensive, the pay is WAY too low for what you're doing, and management were jerks. The job had a very fast turn around rate for new hires. I didn't quit the job, i quit the manager. If they had treated me better, i'd have worked there longer.
"They didn't care that we had lives outside the company" Oh, but that's not true - they care very much that you have lives outside the company. And they'll do everything in their power to make sure that such an outside life, will stop.
I was given $74 as a bonus for 6 months of work. Full time 3 year senior position. Nothing crazy but in a manager role. I called them clowns and put my notice in on that day.
One thing I've learned is the less you get paid at a job the more they expect for you to do it sounds weird but I've worked jobs where I was paid $9 an hour as a line cook and had to cook, prep, clean the kitchen and do all the dishes by myself and my every next job as a line cook making $16 an hour I still did does things but I had 2 to 3 more cooks plus servers doing it with me. I made more money doing far less work.
I never realized that until now, but it’s true! I’ve worked food jobs for a buck or two over minimum wage, where I was expected to do tons of stuff, but now I’m getting paid $12 to stand at tables to make sure cardboard figures cut out right.
My dads always said this; for 40 years he’s worked for J&J and at least the last 10+ been a forklift driver; making 30$ regular and up to 45 or 60 on overtime depending on day(60$ sundays) to do according to him as little as possible; honestly the hardest sounding thing he did was stay awake for 16 hour days most every day and even that’s probably easier than basic retail as I’ve seen ESPECIALLY that it show called dollar general; what an awful company to work for.
@@MystMagus It is when I worked in the cleaners' branch of my company which is for people with minor disabilities. this representative came by. he told us a very nice story, to a bunch of people where more than half were immigrants who probably didn't understand it because they couldn't speak the local language and seemed to be very uninterested to learn'. what basically came down to 'we want you guys to work more, harder, and more flexible any questions?' and I asked this 'I understand if it is not in the first year but if we work more, harder and more flexible but will we also receive more pay then?' he bloody blew up and yelled that we should be grateful that we had this job yadayadayada. I was very tempted to say to him 'ya know a simple no would have been fine' but I was worried it might bite me in the butt if I did that. nothing changed by the way.
Anxiety attack at a large fair after several months of being even more depressed than usual just THINKING about going into work. This was after completing a shift where I learned that our department manager, who was on FMLA for the second time this year, came in and shit talked me to a coworker. Same manager would tell me to my face how wonderful I am. I just snapped. After the attack faded, I called my kids' school district and left a message inquiring about a job opportunity, and a few days later put my two weeks in. It took me months before I felt comfortable stepping back in to shop there, and even driving past it I get nervous and feel sick. Retail is rough as is, but the pandemic and a toxic environment broke me. I was there for 10 years and took a huge paycut so I can figure out what I want to do with my life now, but I'm so much happier.
I literally hate it so much how retail workers are treated. You work so fking hard and risk serious mental health issues and physical injuries only to be laughed at by people who are delusional enough to think they are better than someone because of their education or the place they work at. My mom broke her back and had to completely quit working and has to go to rehabilitation and for what. I hate it that some people are forced to do this sht. I hate that this happens and I'm glad you're okay.
That's why you take everyone at work with a grain of salt. (Unless you are really close with them and you really know them). You can be praised one day, and believe that person is really close to you and wants the best, even go out to the Applebee's and get some drinks, and that same someone will sh!t talk you the next. Maybe they are talking smack about you BECAUSE you are so good at your job. Not saying it's your case in this example, but I've seen some utter sh!theels gang up on a sensitive soul and say that such a-such and a so-and-so said something bad about that person, because they knew full well that it would set them off, make them doubt themselves, or screw with them. I've been in organizations where I was among the top performers and was praised a lot, but I'd still hear people saying "I f!@#ing hate her", "eff her", "eff that stuck up b", "eff that c", or "she tries too hard, what's she trying to prove" when I rounded a corner and they thought I was gone. The usual schtick. A few even said under their breath just to point I could hear, "don't eff with me", or "I'm not afraid of you." And I didn't even do anything, I was just milling around and passed them minding my own business. Real wtf-ery stuff. Some of these people got their own personal problems. Some especially psychotic ones would wait for me to come out of the building and all shout in unison at me that "you ain't sh!@#t" like a gang of quarterbacks at a pep rally, and get more enraged when I didn't respond and kept walking. One of them even threw something at me, but I just turned around, gave them a crap-eating grin, and pointed to the cameras. They never did that again. They didn't last a month before they got dropped for making the workplace a toxic funhouse. Crazies gotta work too, so point them out and take their entire existence with the smallest grain of salt ever. Outside of standard work policy, don't believe a word they say. Work is all a big show, and unless you really, really know the people, think of work as an big act, and put on your best show. Always assume there's someone out to trip you up, because there's some real snakes out there. As for talking crap, anyone can crap talk all they want to. Who cares? If someone at work doesn't like you, and talks about you, what are you gonna do? Melt into the floorboards? No. It's the malicious, underhanded slander like someone lying about my times and work hours, benefits, or untrue bad things I said about the big boss. That, and especially not paying me is what would cause me to go off. Pay me what I'm there to do, what I'm worth, follow your rules and guidelines for leave and paid time off, benefits, smile in my face, respect me, don't attack me, or shoot me up in one of your cooperate/office revenge plots, and I'm good. I'll respect you and do the same, but if I work with you, you don't have to like me. It's a very, very nice bonus as I am a big believer in the get-along, peace and love Kumbaya scene, but it's not what we're there for. This is also why I started working for myself. A lot of people have used the utter b.s of office culture life to just branch off and do our own thing. It's amazing how the dregs and slops of toxic people in and outside of the office or establishment are the seeds of new businesses. (and experience with them helps with keeping an eye on said toxic/incompetent people so you avoid hiring bad-blood pukes in the first place). So the work-pukes are good for something at least, even if they're the sole cause of sky-high turn over rates and costing companies millions of dollars in damages by their toxic fumes alone.
Yeah they really don't have a right to complain. These are some of the same a holes that say if you don't like your job quit. Then you quit and now they complain that they can't fill the spot and you are just being lazy. You got to be careful with those retail jobs if you notice a position used to be part or full time and it suddenly converts to a temp spot. It means the management is so entitled that you will wind up doing half the work and people quit a lot before this happened. It also means there being to picky who fills the spot and then they wonder why this country is out of work. Its because there choosing not to hire anyone and setting there standards so high that nobody qualifies for the spot its not the job that's hard. It's the people that make it complicated. Giving somebody a star for being inventory champion is like rewarding a bunch of 5th graders. Its kind of fake give them a raise.
I was working at my shitty retail job and one of my managers calls me up on the private building line and rips into me about my line of customers being too long. I was the only one working up front. I was the only one checking them out. No one else bothered to help me. They were doing jack shit in the back of the store. So, I calmly hung up on her and turned to the (seven) customers patiently wait on in my line and say, “congratulations everyone! I have lost my last fuck. Please take your things and exit the building, you all get free stuff today.”
My first job right out of high school, I got called by my boss because the CFO of the company came in on Saturday and started to lose his mind because the department I was work in was slammed. I made the mistake of check my phone and I said I'd come in and help I show up we weren't bust we only had 5 or 6 totes of scrap to throw in the grinder. The whole area was for the most part clean. I talked to my co worker he said he doesn't know why I was called in. I was there for all of an hour. I said I was going I wasn't needed. Went on with my Saturday was at the local comic book store slinging card board (MTG) boss found where I was walked into the store and proceeded to chew me out because the CFO came back around and lost his mind because I left. So my boss got blasted and so he returned the favor to me. The CFO only last a year. The company told him to get bent.
I worked for a woman trying to start a restaurant. She was nothing but rude. She blamed me for her bad packing of food, when I pointed out dead bugs in the soap she was like "Those aren't bugs! You're stupid and imagining things!" She insisted on cash only because "those cards are nothing but trouble!" This was like 2009. I left after a night of her telling a large group "Well good help is hard to find but she's fine for now." I just didn't come back and she mailed my last paycheck where she shorted me but oh well. I lasted three weeks. No one lasted longer than that before she had to shut down and give up her "dream."
When the man who got the position i waited for 5 years to open up wanted me to mix an ammonia based cleaner with a bleach based cleaner... directly under the main air intake vent that circulated air in the entire gym i worked at...pretty sure sending homemade mustard gas through the building could have killed/seriously hurt many many people
There's an ancient Chilean saying: "The one that learns the ropes just knows it and the one doesn't know a thing is a boss". It's amazing how many uneducated, evil, stupid or plainly crazy people are hired as bosses.
Lol saw the title and had to click because I just did this. I just worked for months straight (since 1/22) doing 6days per week. I recently asked to go on a 10 day vacation and they approved everything and a few days ago I realized they cut my pto to only 7 days instead of the 10. When I asked them about they said it was because I would be working doubles when I returned and it since wasn’t approved OT they cut the hours. I was literally speechless. I didn’t reply to the emails and deleted all forms of communication and resources connected to the job. I am the area manager and we’re very understaffed so this will be a huge blow to them. I plan on never returning and already found a much better paying job. This will be a HUGE blow to the entire company considering I did literally everything from banking to buying supplies on my own dime when needed. I just felt so disrespected that they did it and didn’t even notify me. I’m still considering filing an official complaint with my states workforce.. but really I just want to be done with this place
I was having a hard time in life. Hormones from being pregnant still lingering, my gma passed away a day earlier, living with two meth heads while trying to raise a newborn, my anxiety was through the roof because of it all...it was a mess. I broke down during my shift but kept trucking. I was silently crying while I stocked a supermarket at midnight. My supervisor was doing his rounds and noticed me so he walked me into his office. When I finally got it all out, I was exhausted. They seemed very concerned and sympathetic. Well, I left the room and went to grab my things to leave for the night. I had to pass the room again but stopped when I heard laughing. I then heard them making fun of me and my big red eyes and my horrible work ethic. That was the first time in the 9 years I was working that I ever did that at work. I was broken. I let them go on for a while before stepping in front of the door and glaring at them. I left and never talked to them again. I was a new hire but so we're 3/4ths of the store. Turnover rate was so high and I finally saw why. Once you see the sympathetic mask fall, you're disgusted by just watching him manipulate the young people there. He was a manipulative asshat. I can work for asshats but only if they're upfront about it. I don't like secretive, gossiping, asshats who hide behind a smile and "we're all friends here" dogma.
Yeah fuck that!! I just had the same experience as you. I broke down at work and it wasn’t even from hormones or a death (but I’ve been there too with the homicide).
My dear friends, the lesson I've learned for working 16 years on the same office furniture manufacturing facility is that the harder you work, the more work is expected of you.
I used to work for a local Pizza place, it was nice staff was friendly, manager was sort of an idiot but not in the bad way. So I had recently found out that I had been growing Polups in my nose, which are basically these growths cutting off oxygen to one nostril and had to get surgery. I tell my boss about it. And he tells me, mind you this guy does NOT have a PHD, that I'll rest for a day, play some video games and be back working. This was after I had to BEG some of my coworkers to take my shift. The day after the surgery when I was in a better headspace, I called up my boss and told him I quit. And now I work for a great store that treats it's employees like people.
Had that one pulled on me once actually had a sinus rupture and had to have immediate emergency surgery managed to call my boss and tell them what was going on he said okay to bring in a note when I could so I fall asleep to wake up to the RGM having left a voicemail to either be to work at my scheduled time or Bring in my uniform I dropped the uniform that afternoon with doctors permission to head home and rest still swollen and barely able to see
I rage quit my job last year. They called me for weeks asking me to come back or asking me to tell them some work related info until I told the boss everyone knew she got her position by sleeping with the owner and that I can post it to the company's social media accounts faster than she could change all the passwords. That was the end of that. Got a government job a couple months later at a much higher rate of pay and I couldn't be happier. She never changed the company's Facebook password ....
I used to work the overnight restocking shift at the local department store. I was working as a summer job so that I had something to do before I went back to college. After the first couple of training shifts, which were during the afternoon, I started to notice some problems with how things were being run at the store. You only get a single 15 minute break and a lunch break where you have to clock out. The shelves were poorly stocked (with many of the items falling down the back of the shelves). Management was nice though. When I went on my first night shift I was put under a woman who had worked there for many years who seemed to look down on me. She would say condescending things to me and often give me cryptic instructions on what I was supposed to do. Her idea of me learning how to do the job was dropping the boxes on the ground for me to put on the shelves rather then just putting them on the shelves herself. The last straw came less than a week later when I saw her talking with one of the shift leads while throwing boxes of food on the ground. This is when it dawned on me that she was actually DROPPING, though it was more akin to throwing, all of the boxes on the ground, which was why some of the products were damaged when I got to them, and the people in charge didn't care. I never worked another shift for them.
I've seen and read secretaries' lives being trampled in similar way - my sister being one if the cases,her boss was so toxic and overreaching she debeloped gastrytis and skin disease out of stress -, and that made me loath administrative work with a passion.
Restaurant as a line cook. Manager was consistently gas-lighting me by saying they asked me for things they never did, making me look bad and forcing me to panic all the time. Last time, they said I didn't drop fries and that they asked 10 minutes prior. I told them "fuck your fries" and clocked out while shoving the fry bag into the hands of someone who was laughing about it. They didn't think I was serious until I was gone for 2 hours. Didn't even call to see if I was okay. Super glad I left.
I was working at a major national retail chain and not making a lot, so I accepted a position with a pilot program for a small crew to work overnight, using hand-held scanners to redo almost all the product signage (the pay was better). What I didn't know was that the scanners worked like crap, we were forced to stop work between 2:00-3:00 am because that's when the corporate systems were taken offline every night, the people printing the signs didn't always send them to the right store, the bar codes on the signs weren't always right, and sometimes we only got half (or less) the signs we were supposed to have. The best part was that we were literally LOCKED IN OVERNIGHT, with no way to get out of the building unless we triggered a major alarm or broke a window. In two weeks I went from "that cool guy who works really hard and is always helpful" to "You and your crew didn't put up a single correct sign, where the hell are you getting them from, why the hell aren't you using the scanners, and what do you think you're doing?" I tried explaining all the things going wrong the 1st time I got a verbal reprimand, and let them know all the crap going wrong with the *experimental* *pilot* *program* the 2nd time. The 3rd time one of the managers started in on me, I stayed silent and went home to get some sleep. I went back to the store that night (about an hour before closing) as scheduled, went straight to the manager's office, and asked if I could change back to a regular daytime part-time schedule. She said "no," and I said "I'm going to have to quit." She said I was required to give notice in writing two weeks in advance so I pulled a blank piece of paper from her office printer, wrote "Effective [date from exactly 2 weeks earlier] I quit," signed it, dropped it on her desk in front of her, and walked out. Got a better-paying job I liked a *lot* more less than 48 hours later.... and I was told the manager was led out of the store in handcuffs by the police a few months later because she'd been taking "samples" of merchandise home.
I had a janitorial job and the supervisor was very meticulous about checking behind your work to see if its done, One day i had just come back from lunch, and went back to my area to resume cleaning, My supervisor was standing there, waiting for me and showed me spots i had missed that i knew i had cleaned up. I immediately got pissed and told him i quit and walked out!
Sky high expectations even though we were short handed, manager told us to work like our pants were on fire several times that week. Frantically ripping boxes open, I tore a chunk out of my fingernail and started bleeding. I'm an adult, I can deal, but I need a bandage so I don't bleed everywhere and get infected. They had no bandages in our first aid kit. I go buy my own bandages and get back to work. Manager takes me to the back and tells me I need to sign this thing; it says we had extra safety training for active shooter. We have not had this training. She refuses to let me leave until I sign it. I go back to work, and hate every moment, and they ask me to stay late and do more work. I'm limping from working ten or twelve hour shifts for weeks. I have about a years worth of expenses in the bank from working overtime because we're so short handed. I clock out, and I never go back.
I was a supervisor at a VRS call center. This is NOT an entry level position. These are ASL interpreters who already have to be way more than competent at their jobs before even adding the computer part. The company had two great managers, but then they decided they couldn’t afford them, so one of the owners decided to become manager without doing the supervisor training. She was (and still is) a horrible worker (and person, but that’s another set of stories). She liked the “fun” work and didn’t like confrontation - except when it came to me and one other person. She would write me up for following policy (that she didn’t know) because her pals didn’t like it when I enforced it. I finally quit one day when she decided to bring her twin boys to work with her. Interpreting is confidential. Not only did we have our professional ethics, but the FCC also had strict policies. The only people allowed in the call center besides us was emergency personnel. We had to close for three hours every evening for the janitors to come in and do their jobs. When she brought the twins in she left them in the foyer, but within an hour they were sitting in the cubicle with her watching as she interpreted it. I was NOT going to be held accountable to the parent company or the FCC. I told her this after she finished interpreting her call and left. I’m glad I haven’t seen her since.
I found one boss so egregiously out of line I had to comment before finishing the video. I can't believe the incredible gall of the boss who had the nerve to go to his employee's home, demand to speak to him and then barge into his BEDROOM and yell at him about a work related issue. I've had more than my share of horrible bosses in my time (after all I formerly worked at Walmart) but none of them have come to my home to rag me out.
When my manager tried having me work on my break time and on my days off, the final straw was when she threatened to fire me if I didn’t come in, I put in my two weeks notice the next day. I would have quit on the spot but I didn’t want to screw over my coworkers whom I actually liked but I still spited the manager by defying all of her rules by listening to music, sitting down when not busy, taking tips from customers, and working out of uniform, wtf was she gonna do, fire me? I don’t think so.
TL:DR - Don't "Request Time Off," "Notify of Absence." Watching these reminded me of something else I had watched, and the realization really helped me. If you are in a job where you get paid time off, or even just regular time off, that you are free to use whenever you want, then it's not a "Time Off Request." It's a "Notice of Absence." And that shifts the balance of power from asking the manager for something, ala a child asking mommy or daddy for something, to telling management something, like an adult speaking with another adult. And this is something no manager wants, because it shows you have a higher view of yourself than they would like, because if you're browbeaten and don't feel like you can make these demands, they can mistreat you as much as they want. Then when you quit, they bitch about you to the other remaining employees. I know it probably doesn't help any of the OP's in these vids, but maybe someone reading the comments will find this and it will help them.
When my manager scheduled me both at the fabric counter and at one of our main return registers (Hobby Lobby), AT THE SAME TIME, and expected me to do both jobs simultaneously is when I immediately began drafting my 2 weeks notice in my head. I needed them as a reference, so I stuck out the two weeks, but I often fantasized about walking out
Good for op in the first story! What kind of manager doesn't pitch in when short staffed or/and overwhelmed? Or at the damn least call in more staff, if the mgr thinks they're too high & mighty to help.👿
I used to work at a Meijers, pushing shopping carts back into the store from the parking lot. It's a thankless job that comes with sunburns, frozen feet, and soggy shoes. Anyways, when I applied for the job, I didn't put on the application that I had epilepsy. They probably wouldn't have hired me if I did. When they did hire me though, when I started my first day, I marched right up to my supervisor and told her about my condition, that I was taking medication for it. Stress is one of the things that commonly cause an epileptic seizure, and I was no exception to that. I worked hard. I rode the bus to or from work, or my bike, depending on the weather (to save money when I could.) After every shift, I came home feeling like walking or raising my arms was just too much to do. But every one to three months, the stress of the job would cause a seizure in the morning. They were so bad that literally every muscle in my body was too worn to move. So I had my brother dial work for me. I told them what happened. Told them I was unable to walk, let alone get out of bed, and that unfortunately I would have to call off on extremely short notice. I hated to do this, because although my job was tough and unforgiving, I liked it. My supervisor would tell me they'd have to "count it against me" because I didn't have any sick days yet. This made me absolutely LIVID. How dare I have to inconvenience you by being paralyzed from an incurable medical condition! I worked 12 hour shifts, holidays, night shift, covered for people who couldn't make it on short notice. More hours meant more money, and I have no problem getting paid more money. I even worked ON CHRISTMAS DAY. It wasn't easy pushing shopping carts through a literal blizzard, and doing it on Christmas hurt a little more, but it was okay. Every time I called off because a seizure basically paralyzed me, each phone call with my supervisor made me feel more angry and bitter than the last. I'd been thinking about it every day. It was in the back of my mind every day and I'd been thinking it over subconsciously. After the last one, my supervisor told me if it happened again she'd have to fire me. So my impatience got the better of me. When I next went to work, I finished my shift, walked to her office, dropped off my employee ID and uniform (if it can be called a uniform) and left a sheet of paper on it, signed by me, stating very abruptly, "I QUIT." The only regret I have is that I didn't have my union rep slap her around with the Americans with Disabilities Act, or volunteer for a shift on Christmas and quit just before my shift started, just to make things very difficult for her. I'm blacklisted from working at Meijers for not giving them two weeks notice, but it's a small price to pay. They're a soulless company, and they acted that way towards me. I REFUSE to work for them ever again, even if they begged me to. I may be easily replaceable over there, but I have my dignity and my morals.
She threatened to throw a knife at me. She then told her boss I was "refusing to cooperate" and "not following directions" - no directions were given. She somehow conveniently forgot about screaming at me, not giving me any directions to follow, and heavily implying I was useless when she told her side of the story. I'm quitting tomorrow.
My manager threatened me with my job when I kept asking her to not change the status on tickets because it prevented them from getting done. She told me there would be "consequences". She was right. I found a new job in 3 weeks, gave her two weeks notice and left. I was the only person who knew the process to get requests through IT. Let's just say... I'm happy.
5:17 Actually, you don't. There is no law or rule that says you have to give someone two weeks notice if you're going to leave your job. Most people just do it as a courtesy so that management can have some time to find a replacement. You are under no obligation to give an employer two weeks notice, you can resign on the spot if you want.
I'm currently job searching because the 24/7 retail store I work at keeps making excuses why I can't leave the overnight shift, even though I've had several discussions with my bosses about switching shifts and moving over to the pharmacy instead. I told them from the start that I was looking to only work overnights temporarily, and only started asking about moving when I realized that the overnights were severely fucking up my mental health. The last straw where I started looking again, after only about 2 months, is when my boss told me that I now have three unexcused absences due to taking the week off after my grandmother died to help take care of my family and give myself time to process everything. Not as bad as some of these stories, but I'm fucking miserable. If anyone has any recommendations for someone looking for full time day or evening shifts with only a high school diploma I'd greatly appreciate it.
If I may suggest, look into seeing if you can get any certifications or licenses that would help boost your credentials past your high school diploma. If you are not interested in getting a degree, in any specific specialty or anything of your interest, then you can actually check into getting a certification or even a license of something you may be interested that would help you to find the job you would love to work. For instance, I actually have my food service certificate not just because I want it to work in food service but also because I like being able to see what the managers or the store clerks see whenever they mess with food or whenever they structure food, but I see it as a customer and it has helped me a lot to understand food service practices in different places I shop. But it has also given me a better idea of why food service safety practices matter and has given me interest and maybe working for a kitchen of a non-profit or even a place where food can be served in a public venue that's not a store or not a restaurant. So just think about maybe looking into a license or a credential that's in the form of a certification that just might pique your interest any type of particular job that would require this license or certification. it's a better alternative than spending shitloads of money for degree you may or may not even respect after a while or may not even use after a while. Just a thought, and many blessings to you in all your endeavors.
Not me, but a friend of mine. It was my junior year of HS, and my friend had been working at a grocery store for around 2 years. She never had any huge event that made her quit, but some of the customer’s attitudes (including one that was kinda creeping on her), managers not being directly rude but very apathetic, and how understaffed they were leading to her basically working a full time job for part time pay while trying to deal with school, lead to her venting to me about the job during lunch A LOT. One day, she was going on about how shitty her last shift was before she looked straight at me and asked “should I just quit?” I just shrugged and said she should do whatever she thought was best (I was never an “advice giver” type, I mostly just let my friends vent to me). She thought about it aloud for a bit, before heading to the girls bathroom to call her manager. She came back with the biggest smile on her face and said that she asked her manager to move her shifts to a more convenient day, they said no, and she literally said “ok. I quit.” Dead silence, followed by pleas and offers that she refused. She seemed way less stressed after, so I guess it was a good choice😁
I worked at Wendy's for 8 months, and most of the time, I had to take out the trash, clean the dining room, make sandwiches, take orders, and grill. The last straw was on New Year's Day, and it was extremely busy, I had no help, and I did literally everything you can imagine. I had quite 3 days later. In fact, at the time of writing this, I quit today.
If a company doesn’t have to give me two weeks notice before firing me, or give me two weeks severance pay, why do I have to give two weeks notice before quitting?
Dude I’ve quit so many jobs, I don’t know where to start. I’ve had dozens of jobs and only ever been fired once (quit all the others) and the one I was fired from was on a day in which I wasn’t even there (wasn’t even scheduled) and the reason for the firing was union activity - though it’s an “at-will” state meaning that even though we all know why I was fired, they don’t have to state why I was fired and I couldn’t do anything about it. Work is easy to come by if you’re competent, and it’s not worth being treated like shit, so I job-hop hardcore. I encourage people to quit their jobs if they’re having a bad time. You’ll figure things out. I’ll provide you with temp service resources to bridge that gap between jobs if needed. Working-class folks have to stick together!
Realistically, unless you're in a unionized workplace, that doesn't mean much. Of course, I'm of the opinion that every workplace should unionize because fuck bosses, but rich people have done a pretty good job of stirring up anti-union sentiment
Boss at Maax gave me the metaphorical middle finger by putting me back in a position I'd made it clear I couldn't handle. Literally had me running between rooms all day to do the work of a different person in each room
Was in the hospital, pregnant with a kidney infection. I called my manager and told him I was in the hospital. H e texts me asking where I am because I was scheduled for that day. I tell him I'm in the hospital still. He started talking about that being an excuse and I should have called (literally the day after I called the first time telling him EXACTLY where I was) I just said "whatever I'm not coming back" At a much better job now and all the managers are wonderful
I’ve been at my Wendy’s for almost 2 years as a grill and closing worker. Sometimes I have shifts where there’s a flood of customers, or people don’t help me break things down so we can go home on time, or something like that. I clean the grills, usually clean the Frosty machines, filter the fryers, dishes, stock things, make the chili meat, help clean the floors, and meanwhile I’m making sure the sandwich person has plenty of meat/chicken/buns/etc. I do find myself wanting a change sometimes, especially after a stressful shift, but then I remember I’m usually just allowed to put an AirPod in and do my thing, or the crew will go smoke in the back when there’s no customers. It’s one of those “do I leave or do I stay” things. It was 8 bucks an hour when I started, but it’s currently 14. It’s close to home, and idk where I’d go where I could consistently be happy. At least I’m saving up!
I guess mine was almost three months ago and ended on a near-tragic note. I worked at McDonald's for over six years, and was pushed over the edge by how much more shitty customers gotten and the busyness the store gotten that it was taking a serious toll on my mental health. Earlier this year I ended up in a psychiatric hospital for attempting suicide and was diagnosed with both major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. I also became a moderate alcoholic. Being from a conservative city that I'm from, it made me irrationally paranoid about the customers because we attract a lot of blue-collar workers and seniors and given the hostile political climate, I felt very insecure because I'm transgender and Hispanic so it made me insecure. Anyways, I became very suicidal in the days prior and came to work disheveled and though not visible, had permanent marker writing throughout my torso airing my grievances. I done this because my suicide attempt was premeditated and had I been found dead, I would've been hanging naked in my apartment for people to see. Anyways, I wrote on the back of a receipt for my boss that I needed to leave. I don't think he regarded the note, but I changed out of my uniform and left. I left a small suicide note on top of my uniform, which was folded on a table in the lobby which may have been the thing that prevented me from going through with killing myself. I was stopped by police at the bus stop near work to intervene. After spending three days in another psychiatric hospital, I was offered to resign on good terms and that they would recommend me to future employers, but I wasn't pleased that my boss and the owner of the restaurant were deadnaming me. I accepted this offer, but it shown me that the management seen me as a dollar sign than as a person. I was a good employee whom they wanted to become a crew chief, but they were grinding me to what could've been an early grave.
He watched cameras like a hawk and would call me to tell me to do the things I was already doing. I told him i figure with such a close eye he was keeping on my job he was basically doing it for me ; so i punched out and never came back.
I used to have a supervisor who would tell me to do things I already knew to do... that always annoyed the crap out of me. It's like, look, I"m a competent employee, I've been doing this job for years, I know what my next step is and don't need you to tell me. Luckily I wasn't the only person he did that to, so I didn't feel singled out.
I quit my apprenticeship in the second year (switched to a different company to continue, so no lost time, no worries) Thing is I had a really unlucky month. I work inside a hotel and due to Corona, Boss Lady made the decision to lay off all the fulltime staff but three people and the reception staff. We trainees ran that hotel ourselves. So we slaved away every single day, hardcore, doing five jobs at once. One day I was so exhausted I called in sick for two days because I just couldn't anymore. Thing is... I did this on Monday/Tuesday. Saturday my throat began to hurt. I think goddammit, you're going to work, you already were sick. Push through Monday and Tuesday, finally it hurts so much I can't concentrate at all and speaking hurts. Tell my supervisor I can't, I'll be calling in sick for the next days because if I think it is what it is, I'll be sick til at least Friday with tonsillitis. She was already miffed because "How can I already tell her what it is if I haven't gone to the doc yet", accused me through the backdoor of lying. There I was already pissed. Send her a text on Wednesday that it IS tonsillitis like I expected, and I'm sick til Friday but am good to go next week. Friday I get a call from her that I miss by three minutes. Call back 5 times and she doesn't pick up, so it can't be that important. Get another call on Saturday from her that I miss again, so I call back 4 minutes later. She doesn't pick up. Try it again, then send her a text saying "I can't communicate with u if u don't accept my calls" Finally she picks up. Yells at me she has also off-time. That she's not responsible for calling after me to see if I can come in on Monday or not. And chewing me out for not being confused on why I wasn't on the shift plan next week (that already happened once a month before where the thing was just that she didn't know wether to give me the weekend off or not, so I just assumed it was that again) I told her that I don't understand why she is mad, that I told her on Wednesday I'll be good to go next week, and I'll be there. She tells me "Hmpf! Then I expect you PUNCTUAL at 6am on Monday!" *click Cue Sunday, I jerk up from a nightmare and startle the wasp that had made itself comfortable on my hand. Get stung by wasp. I am allergic against wasps. I think "goddammit but u are going to work" so I pull through on Monday with a completely swollen hand hiding it as good as possible. Of course my coworkers notice in the first hour, and my supervisor notices that as well. She gets angry with me, tells md she doedn't want me here like this and to go to the doctor RIGHT NOW. I apologize, tell her I can do work if it's just with one hand. She tells me and I quote "If you don't take your apprenticeship seriously, just tell me, so I can take that into regard when planning the shifts." That was the moment I had an inner meltdown and held back from screaming at her. I had come to work with tonsillitis last week. I came to work with an allergic wasp sting in my dominant hand. And I wasn't taking it seriously?? That was the last straw. I was seething for about ten minutes before the Boss Lady's secretary came around and in my rage, I wished her good morning, then demanded to be released from my contract. She was dumbfounded and by god, it felt so good. Now I work inside a different hotel that is way better and I actually believe I can make the final exam.
Fr. Their lack of self awareness is frightening. It's like that toxic family thing "All we did was constantly shit on you and everything you like doing. Why don't you wanna talk to us?" I guess that's what they mean when they use that "This job is like family" cliché.
They treat people like that because they've gotten away with it for years and they think that's how the workplace should operate. That's why businesses are all in a collective shit fit over the Great Resignation. Instead of understanding that people don't want to work shit jobs for shit wages any more, they just say, "People just don't want to work."
The owner of where I work would complain about kids these days putting in their notice, swearing to work the two weeks then bailing after one day.But, almost every time someone quits, they usually hand in their notice, say they will work the full notice period out, get absolutely bollocked and ridiculed the next day by the owner, usually in front of customers and they never came back to finish their notice. How inconsiderate of them to say they would work out their notice then just not do so. The owner has yet to put together the whole, "going off on people working their notice" causes "them not working their full notice"
I got married in November, my husband and I tried to be flexible so we put it off until January the next year to give a good amount of notice. Our floor manager approved it so we started planning the trip we were gonna go to New York. We were getting close to starting to buy tickets, lodging, tours and all that. But then in Mid December I was called into the floor manager's office and she informed me that they had changed the decision and my vacation time was denied. I was livid. I started doing the bare minimum and stopped being enthusiastic and fun. I finally decided to go to school, and started searching for a new job with more flexible scheduling. I picked a date to put my notice in that would give me 1 week in-between leaving one job and starting the other and we went on our honeymoon then.
@@josepherhardt164 I can imagine them all standing there in a line with their clippers like, "this is what we've been training for! This is the true magic right here, gentlemen/soldiers."
I walked out of a bakery i worked at as pastry chef because i got constantly yelled at for not being able to make the desserts they wanted mindd you they never had the materials and where constantly missing the basics like flour and butter and i already took all the stuff i worked with(spatulas , measuring cups and spoons,my own recipes and my own molds!) Because they didnt provide me with any of ut the day i left i got fed up because i had given them a list every week with things that where running out fast and they never got it and the things they did get they ranted that they where pricey and on that day i had 11 necessary ingredients that weren't available and i basically came to work to try and make sonething out of nothing i got fed up and left i also only managed a good 20 hours in 2 weeks being the only pastry chef and being paid $7.25 Yeah they sucked
Worked as a medical order picker for four days. In those few days, I quickly noticed they had a fairly hostile work environment going on. For example, making a small mistake with your order made management make everyone stay late and watch you fix those mistakes. I'm talking grabbing nine boxes instead of ten, or running out of elastics so you couldn't put one around boxes that needed to stay together but not being allowed the time to get more elastics, or not being able to grab the medicine your order required because it was ten meters out of reach and the only man who was licensed to operate the forklift was having his break. No one was allowed to go home until all mistakes were fixed, so my lovely co-workers shittalked anyone who made them stay later than absolutely necessary, even if it was only one minute. We also only got one ten-minute break while we worked from 8PM-1AM, and it was generally not a fun place to be. After four days of nearly continuous walking, my feet were swollen and had bloody blisters, severe enough to bleed through three pairs of socks. On the fifth day, as I woke up from excruciating pain and tried to get out of bed, I realized that I couldn't stand on my feet anymore. My body flat-out refused. Luckily it was 8AM so I still had four hours to call in sick, but they said I was just making things up and were expecting me to come to work later that day. I told them again that I couldn't walk and was in severe pain so I couldn't be expected to walk for five hours. Again they told me to come in, or I would get an official warning. So I quit on the spot. They said I was being unprofessional, would not write me a recommendation letter, and needed to hand in my work clothes that very same day or possibly be charged with theft. I calmly told them I would email them to arrange for a date and time to hand in my work outfit and politely asked them to never contact me again after that Edit: a typo
Holy shit. That story about the boss walking in the bedroom reminds me of my last job. It was shortly after my father had passed and I was at home sleeping bc I didnt go in til three but apparently they wanted me there at eleven. The district manager sent my best friend, also a shift manager like I was, down the road to my house to wake me up and ask me to work. I did go in but only to yell at my district manager what absolute bullshit that was and what an invasion of privacy it felt like. Satisfying moment, but not why I quit. Worked for them for another two years, I sincerely regret it.
I worked for a local hospital down in dietary. I was the person who'd call you in your room asking what you'd like for your meal. I loved the job tbh, I loved feeling like I was helping people feel better even if it was just a plate of food. However, my manager was a shit person, and my coworker was a complete bully. As in getting in my face and screaming at me for having an opinion bully. I tried to get myself switched to the weekend shift when I knew she wouldn't be working, but all that got me was a sit-down meeting With My Bully. So now she knows she got to me. I still worked there for 4 years cause I loved helping the patients. Through being forced to run heavy carts for hours without a break when we were low on staff (And we always were) to dealing with that Cee U Next Thursday of a coworker to having a manager who would bully and whine and pick at me until I picked up extra hours on my one weekend off. My final nail was finding fleas in the office. At the height of COVID. No Ma'am. I got home, threw my phone on the bed and jumped into the shower fully dressed calling for the husband to grab the Dawn. I put in my 2 weeks the next day.
I remember i worked for a temp agency for a tiny bit where they had me and 8 other employees working on top of a store removing a sign and the styrofoam under the sign all around the building, not for $8 an hour but not only was the pay outrageously low it was ridiculously hot that day and anyone who has ever worked high up they can all tell you the higher you are in the air the hotter it is or colder depending on the weather me and all the other employees all had one request we just wanted water but not only would they allow us to have water they refused to give us any saying they do not provide water and since they couldn't provide us water when it was 113 degrees fahrenheit or about 45 degrees celsius all 8 of us quit and didn't come back no water = no service we should have called osha on them for that bs
I'm very close to doing this. I work at a grocery store and now I'm the only person on maintenance in the evenings. I made a half joke that they'd be screwed without me and manager was pissed off at me. Soon they will see how screwed they'll be when the only person that comes in consistently decides to leave and watch the maintenance department burn down around them.
funny enough, i did put my notice in a week ahead (in our contract we only need to give a week) but i still opted for 2 weeks notice... however, friday night came.. and i was beyond overworked, we all were... but the kicker was, after i yelled at the manager for needing to clean both grills (they should have scheduled.. no... they SHOULD have trained more people to clean the grill)... I felt like i was being unfairly treated... "its in your contract to clean" then why arent the others cleaning it too? "because they havent been trained." (i wasnt trained, i watched someone clean it, then did it the same way.) after our shift ended an hour overtime (store close... nothing was started, short staffed). quit earlier than notice... (i only had 3 days, but i KNEW i was going to be overworked... for their safety of me not having a fit and getting aggressive... or leaving them in the dust ON the day... enough was enough). seriously, DONT overwork your leaving employees, you'll just make them quit sooner. EDIT: 1 more thing, I was literally told outright: "the manager who did the schedule probably saw that 1 person who can clean the grills and.... thats all.." so i said: 'what happened if i called in sick or quit sooner?' "then the managers would have to clean it" (thats poor management.. yes, a manager could do with a little heavy lifting... but if they JUST trained more staff, then they could delegate)
So wasnt an immediate i quit. I used to work dishpit at a 4 star resturant. Id set up the dining room 2 days a week and5 nights a week id close dish down. I was making 9.50 hr and wanted to make 10 hr just more for peace of mind. This was the 2nd time ive worked there. I left the 1st time on very good terms. Im there 7 months and im overdue for a review and a raise. I have a 1-1 talk with the GM about instead of getting the usual .25 raise i get .50 since i never call off, im never late, i stay late without complaints. Was told not a problem. Fast forward a week and our head chef pulls me in to discuss my raise. Its .25. Was told well talk in 3 months when i earn that other .25. The next off day i had i got hired at a warehouse making $11 hr. I told my gm and head chef the next day. That my last day was February 13th .Was chastised for being unprofessional and insulting giving almost no notice days before one of our busiest holidays of the year. I no called no showed the last 3 shifts in response.
@@jasondyrkacz8270 ive not looked back. For my manager to make a stink and be greedy over a damn quarter is petty and the reason why most resturants in my opinion are akin to slave labor with how poorly the staff is paid.
@@unapologeticallyconservati5881 There is an extreme imbalance here that is even beginning to show itself at a national level, people will eventually collectively snap if things contiunue in the current trajectory.
As much as you wanna swing at them you can't, just keep it in the back of your head, when they bring the company to hell, you ask them when you encounter them next time. I heard you brought your work place to hell? And see what their answer is
When starting a job or even before, ask the other employees how they like working there. There will always be lazy people that get treated poorly but if everyone there hates the boss or the job, just keep looking. There are a very few jobs where the boss cares about employees and treats them the way he or she would want to be treated. Look around until you find one of those jobs.
I nearly went into premature labor from stress. First we were told we would have a choice of switching departments, no. Second I found out I got 2 weeks maternity. Yet the other pregnant woman hired same day as me and further along, got 4 weeks. Third was seriously bad luck with the type of calls I got, nothing could have fixed it but it didn't help my building stress levels. Fourth 2 weeks of training, triple new programs, and a massive amount in difference of items I have to be an expert on in a week before taking calls. Fifth and last straw 5 people yelling at me for stuff controlled by outside vendors. No I can't locate and call the exact FedEx truck that dropped of one instead of 2. That's a bank issue not ours. The stress was so bad my unborn baby had a panic attack and at 27 weeks I almost went into labor.
A friend of mines wife worked at a local lumber/hardware store . A regular customer would come in and make sexual references towards her EVERY time he came in . At first , she just ignored it . Then one day he comes in and tries to hand her money to go out with him . She refuses and as she is walking away , he stuffs the money in her back pocket and feels her up telling her there is more where that came from . She turns around , takes the money out of her pocket and throws it in his face and cusses him out and quits and leaves . When she goes to get her final check , they tell her he was just kidding and she needs to apologize to the man and she can even have her job back . She just leaves with her check .
If I was in his wife’s shoes, I would say “He tried to get me to cheat on my husband. I don’t care if he was joking, you don’t EVER flirt with a married woman. He should apologize to ME. I quit.”
After being threatened with my job I have said "I was looking for a job when I found this one". Usually followed by doing a 180 with my bird finger held high. It pays to be good at what you do.
Worked in the vehicle spare part shop for 2+ years, I was in charge of packing spare parts and have them shipped out to other states in the country. The company is stingy and doesn't want to buy bubble wrap since it cost money, so I always have to improvise with scraps that comes in via new stock. Did my best to wrap a very fragile part(a long shaft that have electrical plugins) that boss ordered from other shop, it is mean to ship to other state. So I stuffed the box with extra thick cupboard with plastic wrap stuffed in, no bubblewrap cause company is stingy. Along with a warning outside the box that stated that the content is fragile. Weeks later, my boss notified me that local shipping company broke the part and it is coming out of my paycheck. That thing cost 3 months of my salary, ask him is there any other solution, nope, the customer ordered the part refuse to pay for it. So I am the one who bear all the cost. So I tell him I am quitting, give me shit that I am a very important employee. Tell him that if I am important, he wouldn't force all the shit at me, tell him to find other sucker to suffer that shit. Left my work.
A coworker bitched me out and humiliated me in front of a bunch of customers. Made me cry. Corporate said that since she had been there longer than me nothing would be done about it. I simply took off my hat and told the manager to have fun working double shifts and walked out.
I had gotten into trouble for not doing a task correctly, even though I had done it the way I was instructed by my manager but I had made the mistake of not checking that she had updated a piece of equipment when she told me she had. The woman was out to get me, believing that I was after her job, it had been offered to me but I had refused because I did not want to be a manager. I was read the riot act in the office before opening, was not given an official warning and then told me it was over and done with, we would not say anything else about it essentially that what happened in the office stayed in the office. I was setting up the registers for opening, when she let in a new staff member that I had never met before, introduced us and then immediately started berating me again in front of her. I told her to stop, that she had said it stays in the office but as usual she waited til she had an audience to prove her dominance adding that I was glad that this was my last day before I was going on leave and that I sure as hell was not going to be returning from it. At lunch that day I was called for an interview, she actually eavesdropped on my conversation. First few days of my break was offered two jobs,submitting my two weeks notice without having to return. Was not the first to quit on short notice because of this woman, it wasn’t long before she messed up and had no one to lay the blame on. Was given the resign or get fired ultimatum, didn’t even make it through the trial period of her next job.
I worked at a crappy retail job for 5 years barely making more than minimum wage. I still don't know why I wasted so much time and effort into that job. It took having the assistant manager telling me I had to clean the literally shit covered toilet in the men's bathroom to finally break the camel's back. The general manager wrote me up for insubordination and I pretty much went "Fuck it I'm out".
I want "taking the train to Cumberland" to become a new way of saying "quit without notice and left those assholes in the lurch". "After that, I said fuck this and took the train to Cumberland. "
My college counselor messed me up and I had to take a summer class to finish up. I was interviewing for permanent jobs and working the summer job as a green keeper that I had my entire college career. That year they had decided they would clean out a gulley full of poison ivy and wanted to do without killing it. One of the greenskeepers ended up with in hospital with it. So I rolled in after taking a day to interview, and the jealous assistant Super says go weedeat.... I quit on the spot.
I didn’t quit but I built a store from grand opening. I was good at my job and the owner couldn’t work customer service if her life depended on it. She criticized and even threatened to demote me even with rave reviews and I made her the most money. I stepped down and basically said good luck. Still worked there and made my own schedule. I called in all the time, worked part time, and showed up late all the time. Like I said, I made the most money so she basically couldn’t do sh*t. COVID happened and I didn’t go back, she had to sell the business because she couldn’t pay bills. Suck it Jadine
I worked at Tim Hortons for a few months. I was a part timer taking a gap year between high school and college. After 2 months my hours dwindled down to absolutely nothing yet I was still employed by them. I called to ask multiple times if I would be on the schedule that week and I kept getting different answers telling me no. “We cant fit you in this week, sorry Space Dork.” “We’re trying to get you in!” “Not this time.” What the nail in the coffin was my manager saying that she was scheduling the college kids. I was going to apply for a hard to get in college that month. I quit then and there. Ironically a month before the Pandemic started. Happy I left. My coworkers kept telling me I would never get into the college I was applying to. I got in.
I was working as a receptionist when I found out that I needed a total hysterectomy. Surgeon basically had to cut me from belly button to pubic bone. Due to a history of dangerous blood clots, I was ordered to stay home for 6 weeks. Second week into recovery, my boss started calling asking me to come in to "at least answer phones". If I hadn't been a single mother of 3, and having almost zero job opportunities in my area, I would've quit. Closest decent employer was 60 miles one way. Not good with kids still in school.
My story was I was working for an American diner in the UK and I let my manager know of shift that I can't stay past 9pm, like my shift says because my dad was in a car accident and couldn't get me and my last bus is at 9:15pm and I live over an hour away. He ignored my concern and so I payed someone on shift to cover my section, checked out the cash I got that day, gave it to the manager and left. I texted him at the bus stop that I quit
I'm in this current situation with my work. Nothing would bring me more joy than to just walk out one day and never come back. However, I'm trying to have another job lined up before I make such a grand exit.
Worked at jack in the box for 3 mohts and went from 80 hours to less than 7. My boss started gett up my ass about not having a belt and ordered me to get my parents to buy me one. Mind you I am in my 30s and told her I wasn't going to do that. She threatend to send me home if I didn't get one. Ended up using an ethernet cable tied around my waist. The next day she ordered me to lift up my shirt to show her I had a belt before I even had a chance to sit down mind you or take off my coat and back pack. Was half tempted to moon her right then. Instead I contacted our HR department and filed a harrasment complaint over that and told them I was quitting. She also tried to to withhold my last paycheck so I filed a wage theft complaint, and got it the next day. Guess she got demoted from a manager postion at least till the current GM quit as well.
I got horrific food poisoning from drinking the sink water and eating weeks old tres leches cake at the restaurant (they forced me to eat some and proudly stated they "feed it to the customers"). Also had food thrown at me and was refused to clean the blenders between drinks. I quit immediately and they never gave me the other half of my paycheck. I gave up after two months of trying to get those forty bucks from them. I swear they're a money laundering scheme, you cannot tell me otherwise based on how shitty their restaurant has been for years and yet they can hire so many people and stay in business *through* the pandemic.
14:22 I like to imagine that the boss realized what a total douche canoe he was and left you on the payroll for the rest of the year as a way of saying sorry. Especially considering you didn't make a scene or were rude and said "no hard feelings".
I worked 3rd shift in a gas station. My manager lived in the same apartments as me, directly across the breezeway. Dude was a douche. Treated hos wife and pets like garbage. Thank god they didnt have kids. Anyway, I ended up with a stomach bug and went across the breezeway to tell my boss. About the time my boss answered the door, my boyfriend at the time was walking up the stairs with a bottle of liquor. I told my boss i was sick and needed the night off. He told me I wasnt sick and I just wanted to stay home and drink with my boyfriend. I felt nauseous again... Boss told me if I didnt go in that night, not to even bother coming in ever again. I threw up on his doorstep, at his feet and said "Now tell me im not sick" and turned and went back to my apartment. A few mins later dude had hos wife out there scrubbing my vomit. I felt bad about that, she was a really sweet lady.
I was put on a PIP because I didn't kiss my boss's butt like everyone else. During the PIP, I actually did less work as I was looking for a new job and a new place to live while on company time. I just avoided being social with my boss unless it was absolutely necessary. This lasted for 6 months until I was removed from the PIP because my boss said my performance had improved. I had to avoid laughing outloud. I put in my two week notice that same week. My boss tried to ride my butt the last week but I just quit early instead and took the time off to relax between jobs.
I used to work for a well-known warehouse company that sells all their stuff online. Yes, THAT one. I quit my job yesterday after being there 9 years when most people don't' last more than a few months before walking out. There were an assortment of reasons for me leaving, but the last straw was how they liked to subtly manipulate people to make them work harder. It took me almost 4 months to realize that it'd been happening to me when I was wondering why I felt angry all the time lately and why they kept going out of their way to put me in a work area that they KNEW I hated even when they had more than plenty of people to staff it. That's when I recalled a few conversations I'd had with the manager and supervisors of that department. My average pack rate there ranged between 190 and 240 per hour with me usually being at 228. That sounds like a wide range but it almost entirely depended on the work that was available. The rest of that time it depended on whether I'd come in already exhausted, or if I was angry. I'm one of those people that when angry, will dump his aggression into work and burn it off. This had a tendency to give a brief boost to my productivity. You can see where this is going, right? When they inquired as to my slow or fast rates seemingly out of concern at the time (and they sent people that I'd worked with for years and thought I could trust), I'd told them as much. Slow when tired, briefly faster when angry. I added that didn't mind the work itself, what I minded was being in a department that wasn't my original department ALL THE TIME which had been happening a lot lately. Once a week didn't bother me. Twice a week annoyed me, but I could shrug and otherwise get over myself. I thought that telling them that would help me not be there as often, but nothing changed...at first. As we got closer and closer to the holiday season I found myself there more and more often. It had been almost an entire year since the last time i been in my own department for a solid week. They'd had more than enough time to hire and adequately train enough people, yet they didn't. They haven't for years, so I'd expected it. Christmas came and went and there were times we had basically no work, yet there I still was NOT in my own department. One day I'd asked the dude that handled shuffling people from the pick department to others and he told me straight: "Because you're the most requested person." A week later it finally hit me: They were sending me to a place I hated being all the time ON PURPOSE because they KNEW it made me angry. They'd send other people OUT of the department after I got there and would leave me there ALL DAY....because they KNEW it made me angry. They'd schedule me there the same days with the most annoying of their supervisors (the guy loved the sound of his own voice and was on the intercom every 5-20 minutes) because it would re-stoke my cooling temper. They were turning me into a walking ball of stressed-out fury by default ON PURPOSE to make their department more efficient instead of hiring and properly training their people. I left early that day and didn't come to work the next day. My 3 days off went by (40 hours a week, ten hours a day) and I went back on saturday. I went in with the firm decision that if I was put there for the second half of the day I wouldn't care. But, sure enough, not even ten seconds after I grabbed a scanner to get to work picking, the morning manager got my attention and told me to go to the pack department. "NOPE!" I dropped the scanner on the floor, and told him "I've had enough! I QUIT!" I should have quit years ago. Things had been going downhill there for a long time and I don't see them getting any better.
Nurse here: to oversimplify a situation I was told by my boss to commit gross mesical negligence thay could have resulted in permenent injury or death of the patient. I obviously refused, did what I was supposed to, and quit the next morning refusing to show up for my shift that day. (It's not abandonment in that situation. Quitting mid-shift would have been)
Worked a solo shift on a Saturday at Baskin Robbings during high school. Two masked guys came in, spray painted the cameras and proceeded to Rob me at gunpoint. After they took all the money. One leads me to the back and tells me to turn around, get on the ground and close my eyes. I thought i was going to die, my life literally flashed befoe my eyes. When i opened my eyes, i didnt realize how much time i had passed. I called my manager and told him what happened. I tell him that i need to go home because im completely out of it, but he tells me that there isnt anyone else to cover me and i have to finish the shift. I fucken walked out.
My manager forced me resign from a volunteer job I loved when I challenged her on paying me since the job I was doing was 4 steps above a volunteer and I wasn’t getting paid for it. She made it impossible to return after I had been unwell by setting impossible conditions for my return and I resigned in protest and I took 51% of my colleagues with me both paid and volunteer staff for the tourism site I worked at being 153 of them not including me and 154 including me immediately before a major event. Largely because they all resigned in protest.
Not me, but my Mom. My mom used to work at a ER. She started there as a secretary, but over the years she claimed her way up to some sort of management, we could say she was the 3rd in command. After the 4th year of her working there the owner grew a liking to her and the 2nd in command didn't liked that at all(2nd in command is a gold digger and fucked the owner for cash). So she started giving mom a ton more work and it got to the point where she would have nightmares about her job. So we decided to take a vacation, but the 2nd in command wouldnt let her. Got to the point where she screamed at my mom and insulted her, that was on a Friday. So a few days passed and it was Monday, little did anyone knew that mom sent an email quitting her job and the whole ER went to shit. They had to hire 3 employees to do the job mom was doing and they cant even do it right. Right now that place could close any minute now
Lmao at the third shift gas station attendant, because AskReddit is what I listen to between 9pm and 6am every shift. Never met a lunatic I haven't liked. Stoners are the best customers, and drunks hold the best cigarette conversations. It certainly helps that I work at a slow station so I can take my time and enjoy some solitude
my boss even with 2 weeks notice wouldn't allow me to have the day after my older brothers 21st b day party off. he called to tell me this halfway through a solo closing shift. I walked out on the spot and left the store unattended and unlocked without telling him then blocked his number. never got my last week's pay but it was worth.
I could write a whole essay about all the petty reasons i wanted to leave, i can rant about it in detail if anyone wants to hear, but the main reason was that i found out a lot of things they did were extremely illegal. Unfortunately the statute of limitations had passed so i couldn't pursue legal action, but the very next day i wrote a letter of resignation, dropped it off, and walked out. I honestly wish i had done it sooner.
I worked 90 hours a week. Straight pay. No overtime. My wife got pregnant. I told the owner when the baby came he would have to seriously cut my hours. Gave him several months notice. Told him the exact date my wife's maternity leave ended. Reminded him several times. He waited until the end of my shift the day before to tell me he would not cut my hours. I walked out.
Good! That manager was a piece of shit.
Jeezus Christ; I can only imagine how that jerk of a boss thought he pulled the rug out from under you there. IDK what job that is, but no way is it more important than your child, and if the boss refuses to accommodate for that, he can go screw himself. Especially since he clearly knew you wouldn’t agree given how he waited to spring it on you.
if you were here in the states. you could go to the labor board about Family and Medical leave violations
Good for you! 👍
I will understand why some managers act like assholes to their employees
great way to say "that so? well then screw that, no hrs for me all for u hahaha" :D lol
Jesus Christ. The story about the boss coming into their private bedroom. I would have gone into work and told the guy from corporate what he did and that I was considering legal action.
I'd have some serious questions for the roommates in that situation as well!
I would have called cops on him.
Absolutely - call the cops and sue his ass. That is NOT COOL.
I agree wholeheartedly! That’s a MAJOR no-no. That falls directly into the “You should already know, without being told, not to do this” category. I would’ve quit, called corporate, called a lawyer, and shamed the jerk on social media.
You do NOT go to an employee’s home uninvited, especially if it’s to yell at them about their job performance. That’s for the workplace, not the employee’s home.
If it’s something that can’t wait, then call the employee on the phone, but do NOT go to their home.
With how hard I’d probably sue the former boss I probably wouldn’t need these useless roommates
Low paying jobs screw people over in so many ways. I totally see why restaurants and retail are struggling right now. They deserve it for decades of poor business practices.
Having recently come off a few months of the crap show called dollar general I see it more than ever; hoped Publix is better next week though I fear they’ll demand too much as well especially for my ASD slowed speed and dislike of bagging which wasn’t avoidable apparently.
@@xaorancheshire7908 Good luck to you but I think most low paying jobs are about the same. That is why most people dislike them.
I. will not shop specific Grocery Stores because of how badly they treat employees. I drive 30 minutes out of my way, for the last six years. Corporate greed and disposable employees..I don’t support it.
I left McDonald's two months ago because of this bullshit. My last work day landed me in a psychiatric hospital because my nine page notice was also my suicide note and that I had planned to kill myself that day. I don't hate anybody that I worked with, but fuck the fast food industry.
I’m still in Highschool (Senior Year), so I don’t know TOO much about the struggles of life..though, it sounds extremely harsh for everyone.
..I don’t know if I can handle it when I get older.
I quit once I found out my mentor lied to me about how many years I was supposed to assist under him. He told me 3 to 5 years....in reality; assisting for a hair salon is 1 to 1 1/2 years. He basically wanted me to be his glorified shampoo girl, even after I graduated from beauty school. Today was my last day and I don't have any regrets
Best of luck to you in your future endeavors! You deserve better than that.
hats off to u, hope ur doing well now. i hope he steps in dog sh*t or some filth at least some time. lol
Good for you, I wish best of luck to you!!
all hate to the boss but what about the roommate? what he's gonna let ANYONE into the room because they asked for OP and they look mad? the feck?
Hope you're doing well!
I think the nail in the coffin was when I said "I've just worked a 31-hour day to hit targets" and my boss laughed and said "Don't be ridiculous, there aren't 31 hours in a day." I handed in my notice, took 3 days of accrued holiday/vacation to celebrate my birthday, and when I logged in on my next day back, they had transferred all of my work to other employees and I just stopped working for them immediately. It was mutual consent more than me walking out, but after 5 years in the job and reaching the second-highest level of promotion in the office, I didn't even get a 'good luck' card like every other person who quit while I was working there. I've been freelance ever since and really can't imagine working as an employee ever again.
How do you be a good freelancer? I hate living like this under someone else’s shoe chasing a dollar.
What's freelancing like? Is this something that I should pursue or at least think about? I'm asking because ever since I've left my second job, the idea of trying again is just both anxiety and anger inducing because of my how experience with my first and second job would have a pattern of going from 10 out of 10 amazing and could see myself working there until I die to straight up Kitchen Nightmares levels of bad and no longer having the will power to bother with keeping my job.
One of my biggest issues with having a job *(at least for me and the others that just need a living in order to both have purpose of some kind and just to survive out in the real world in general)* is how there would be employees that would cause nothing but trouble for me yet whenever I talk to management about it, they would basically shrug and tell me that there's nothing they could do and that they tried everything! Okay, have you tried firing them? I kid you not, half of the time it would be clear that firing these lazy/rude employees would obviously solve this dilemma instead of just transferring them to a different location and basically let those same lazy/rude employees to be someone else's problem.
It's just isn't fair for me *(and many others)* to have to deal with 💩 like that! Especially if we're working at a place that heavily relies on employees that are, you know, useful. Yet there are these idiots out there that would work at these places and get away with being lazy/rude either just because or worse case scenario these lazy/rude employees and their families have connections with other companies and could easily sue for something so minimal if their lazy and rude child/children were ever to get suspended or fired.
when I quit my job last year I didn't get a goodbye anything ... my manager even looked me dead in the eye when they said good bye to the others leaving at the same time. I even told him I'd be in to say goodbye (I left during leave). This was a work place were everyone got a good bye morning tea. I had to gate crash one to even get one. I stole a whole bunch of food from it as I left cause fuck them.
The only comfort I have is that they had 1/3 of my team quit within a month including the team leader. We all quit for the same reason (manager was the worlds biggest ass)
@@grandenacho8887 idk just find an industry where there's enough demand, don't undersell yourself, keep a diverse customer base so you're not dependent on any one client, and try to hold on to the good ones. I don't spend any money on marketing etc but I have a free blog on Blogger and I'm active on Twitter. When I need to build my order book I reach out to local businesses who might want to hire me. (Sorry it took so long to reply, for some reason I only just saw this. I hope things are better than they were a year ago.)
@@chippy2023 I agree. Employers are quite limited in when/why they can fire people (at least in the UK where I am) there are disciplinary processes to follow etc so if an employee's main fault is attitude/behaviour rather than directly related to not doing their job, it's much harder to sack them for just being a dick.
That being said, I can't imagine going back to a workplace after being freelance since 2011. I'd recommend it to anyone who's in an industry where it might be possible. But it's NOT an easy ride, you need to work hard right outta the gate to find enough customers and make enough money to survive, then beyond that it's about building reputation and recognition. Your access to finance (especially mortgages) will be near-zero at first too until you have three years of accounts/taxes filed. (This isn't financial advice, just my personal experience.)
It's almost the opposite of a regular job. The first few years are tough because you're building, marketing, trying to stay financially stable, but after that it starts to pay off and if it's a job you enjoy, you should find you enjoy it MORE as time goes on. Plus if there's anything you don't enjoy about it, you can make small changes because you're the one with the control, you're not forced to abandon it completely and find a whole new job elsewhere.
I am of the firm belief that the moment you dread waking up and getting to work (and I mean literally get a knot in your stomach and are borderline crying from not wanting to go) it’s time to find a better job for yourself. Always remember that if you feel bad for leaving they don’t feel bad about replacing you for any reason they see fit and will never give you a two weeks notice. Don’t be afraid to walk away.
The two week thing is a courtesy, not a requirement.
I did this before i quit my last job. Havent looked back
I have been there 3 times in my life. By the third time I realized that most of the problem was me not setting boundaries for myself. I was always willing to go the extra mile and since no good deed goes unpunished I was given more to accomplish. I don’t love the job I have now but I have my guardrails I stay between to keep my sanity.
Yep. Wound up quitting Apple Tech Support after 6 months when I spent two weeks getting psychosomatically nauseous to the point of not being able to come into work for two weeks straight because I couldn't stand up from hugging the toilet until I called in sick. Would wake up and literally my first thought was "fuck, I didn't die in my sleep. Now I have to go back there."
Was still getting panic attacks just driving past the building for literally a year afterwards.
I quit my job at safeway and got a new job 2 days later.
No interview at all.
Orientation and then my first day the very next day. It was like a weight was lifted.
Edit. Safeway was only giving me 19 hours a week and it was during the middle of COVID.
My sister. The final straw, as they say.
Arrived to work to find one employee trying to do everything on her own: Take orders, make orders, run the fryer and grill, restock supplies, and cash out at a busy drive thru restaurant. Meanwhile the two managers who were already there were not attempting to help in any way. They just left the girl to fend for herself. My sister clocked in and tries to get things back on track. The minute she clocked in the other 2 dissapeared into the office. When she confronted one of them later on the chaotic situation she had walked into, his response was to shrug and say, "Whatever."
She informed him she was done. She clocked out and went home.
Did a cleaning job at a hospital/clinic. In the summer, they turn off the AC rather early, and it gets really hot and uncomfortable in there. When i was hired, i got on paper, that skirts were allowed. No shorts, but skirts were allowed. Then the district manager started making up fake complaints by staff that my skirts were unprofessional. They weren't. So he said they need to be longer, they were already knee length.
So i got some that went below the knee. Then he said the people in radiology and the lab were complaining about my skirts and that i wasn't allowed to wear skirts at all. But i knew the xray and lab techs and i was on friendly terms with all of them. So i knew the manager was full of it.
But i started wearing these long flowing loose pants. This was fine... for a couple months. But then i wasn't allowed to wear these anymore because they were too loose. Not that they'd get caught in anything, they were just too loose.
Here's the catch, i have an issue where i can't have tight clothing on my arms, legs or near/around my neck. Makes me feel like i'm being suffocated. So I just told them, "you keep changing the dress code on me, even though i got it in writing that i could wear skirts. so wednesday (2 days away) will be my last day."
I requested, then demanded a receipt for my badge/ID that i turned in since if i don't turn it in, i don't get my last paycheck and i damn well knew they would have "lost it" between when i turned it in and when it gets recorded into the system.
PS, wednesdays were the end of the pay cycle.
That's illegal. Should have built a record and gave them hell.
@@ARedMagicMarker Agreed. It was many years ago now so i'm over it, but i'll never do that kind of job again. The work is too labor intensive, the pay is WAY too low for what you're doing, and management were jerks. The job had a very fast turn around rate for new hires.
I didn't quit the job, i quit the manager. If they had treated me better, i'd have worked there longer.
"They didn't care that we had lives outside the company"
Oh, but that's not true - they care very much that you have lives outside the company. And they'll do everything in their power to make sure that such an outside life, will stop.
I was given $74 as a bonus for 6 months of work. Full time 3 year senior position. Nothing crazy but in a manager role. I called them clowns and put my notice in on that day.
One thing I've learned is the less you get paid at a job the more they expect for you to do it sounds weird but I've worked jobs where I was paid $9 an hour as a line cook and had to cook, prep, clean the kitchen and do all the dishes by myself and my every next job as a line cook making $16 an hour I still did does things but I had 2 to 3 more cooks plus servers doing it with me. I made more money doing far less work.
I never realized that until now, but it’s true! I’ve worked food jobs for a buck or two over minimum wage, where I was expected to do tons of stuff, but now I’m getting paid $12 to stand at tables to make sure cardboard figures cut out right.
It is true.
I guess it's an indicator of how much they respect their employees.
My dads always said this; for 40 years he’s worked for J&J and at least the last 10+ been a forklift driver; making 30$ regular and up to 45 or 60 on overtime depending on day(60$ sundays) to do according to him as little as possible; honestly the hardest sounding thing he did was stay awake for 16 hour days most every day and even that’s probably easier than basic retail as I’ve seen ESPECIALLY that it show called dollar general; what an awful company to work for.
@@MystMagus It is when I worked in the cleaners' branch of my company which is for people with minor disabilities. this representative came by. he told us a very nice story, to a bunch of people where more than half were immigrants who probably didn't understand it because they couldn't speak the local language and seemed to be very uninterested to learn'. what basically came down to 'we want you guys to work more, harder, and more flexible any questions?' and I asked this 'I understand if it is not in the first year but if we work more, harder and more flexible but will we also receive more pay then?' he bloody blew up and yelled that we should be grateful that we had this job yadayadayada. I was very tempted to say to him 'ya know a simple no would have been fine' but I was worried it might bite me in the butt if I did that. nothing changed by the way.
Anxiety attack at a large fair after several months of being even more depressed than usual just THINKING about going into work. This was after completing a shift where I learned that our department manager, who was on FMLA for the second time this year, came in and shit talked me to a coworker. Same manager would tell me to my face how wonderful I am. I just snapped.
After the attack faded, I called my kids' school district and left a message inquiring about a job opportunity, and a few days later put my two weeks in. It took me months before I felt comfortable stepping back in to shop there, and even driving past it I get nervous and feel sick. Retail is rough as is, but the pandemic and a toxic environment broke me. I was there for 10 years and took a huge paycut so I can figure out what I want to do with my life now, but I'm so much happier.
I literally hate it so much how retail workers are treated. You work so fking hard and risk serious mental health issues and physical injuries only to be laughed at by people who are delusional enough to think they are better than someone because of their education or the place they work at. My mom broke her back and had to completely quit working and has to go to rehabilitation and for what. I hate it that some people are forced to do this sht. I hate that this happens and I'm glad you're okay.
That's why you take everyone at work with a grain of salt. (Unless you are really close with them and you really know them). You can be praised one day, and believe that person is really close to you and wants the best, even go out to the Applebee's and get some drinks, and that same someone will sh!t talk you the next. Maybe they are talking smack about you BECAUSE you are so good at your job.
Not saying it's your case in this example, but I've seen some utter sh!theels gang up on a sensitive soul and say that such a-such and a so-and-so said something bad about that person, because they knew full well that it would set them off, make them doubt themselves, or screw with them.
I've been in organizations where I was among the top performers and was praised a lot, but I'd still hear people saying "I f!@#ing hate her", "eff her", "eff that stuck up b", "eff that c", or "she tries too hard, what's she trying to prove" when I rounded a corner and they thought I was gone. The usual schtick. A few even said under their breath just to point I could hear, "don't eff with me", or "I'm not afraid of you." And I didn't even do anything, I was just milling around and passed them minding my own business. Real wtf-ery stuff. Some of these people got their own personal problems.
Some especially psychotic ones would wait for me to come out of the building and all shout in unison at me that "you ain't sh!@#t" like a gang of quarterbacks at a pep rally, and get more enraged when I didn't respond and kept walking. One of them even threw something at me, but I just turned around, gave them a crap-eating grin, and pointed to the cameras. They never did that again. They didn't last a month before they got dropped for making the workplace a toxic funhouse. Crazies gotta work too, so point them out and take their entire existence with the smallest grain of salt ever. Outside of standard work policy, don't believe a word they say. Work is all a big show, and unless you really, really know the people, think of work as an big act, and put on your best show. Always assume there's someone out to trip you up, because there's some real snakes out there.
As for talking crap, anyone can crap talk all they want to. Who cares? If someone at work doesn't like you, and talks about you, what are you gonna do? Melt into the floorboards? No.
It's the malicious, underhanded slander like someone lying about my times and work hours, benefits, or untrue bad things I said about the big boss. That, and especially not paying me is what would cause me to go off. Pay me what I'm there to do, what I'm worth, follow your rules and guidelines for leave and paid time off, benefits, smile in my face, respect me, don't attack me, or shoot me up in one of your cooperate/office revenge plots, and I'm good. I'll respect you and do the same, but if I work with you, you don't have to like me. It's a very, very nice bonus as I am a big believer in the get-along, peace and love Kumbaya scene, but it's not what we're there for.
This is also why I started working for myself. A lot of people have used the utter b.s of office culture life to just branch off and do our own thing. It's amazing how the dregs and slops of toxic people in and outside of the office or establishment are the seeds of new businesses. (and experience with them helps with keeping an eye on said toxic/incompetent people so you avoid hiring bad-blood pukes in the first place). So the work-pukes are good for something at least, even if they're the sole cause of sky-high turn over rates and costing companies millions of dollars in damages by their toxic fumes alone.
Yeah they really don't have a right to complain. These are some of the same a holes that say if you don't like your job quit. Then you quit and now they complain that they can't fill the spot and you are just being lazy.
You got to be careful with those retail jobs if you notice a position used to be part or full time and it suddenly converts to a temp spot. It means the management is so entitled that you will wind up doing half the work and people quit a lot before this happened.
It also means there being to picky who fills the spot and then they wonder why this country is out of work.
Its because there choosing not to hire anyone and setting there standards so high that nobody qualifies for the spot its not the job that's hard. It's the people that make it complicated. Giving somebody a star for being inventory champion is like rewarding a bunch of 5th graders. Its kind of fake give them a raise.
I was working at my shitty retail job and one of my managers calls me up on the private building line and rips into me about my line of customers being too long.
I was the only one working up front. I was the only one checking them out. No one else bothered to help me. They were doing jack shit in the back of the store.
So, I calmly hung up on her and turned to the (seven) customers patiently wait on in my line and say, “congratulations everyone! I have lost my last fuck. Please take your things and exit the building, you all get free stuff today.”
Truly the hero we need.
Congrats everyone i lost my last fuck LOOOOL. Without sounding homosexual I love you as a person.
My first job right out of high school, I got called by my boss because the CFO of the company came in on Saturday and started to lose his mind because the department I was work in was slammed. I made the mistake of check my phone and I said I'd come in and help I show up we weren't bust we only had 5 or 6 totes of scrap to throw in the grinder. The whole area was for the most part clean. I talked to my co worker he said he doesn't know why I was called in. I was there for all of an hour. I said I was going I wasn't needed. Went on with my Saturday was at the local comic book store slinging card board (MTG) boss found where I was walked into the store and proceeded to chew me out because the CFO came back around and lost his mind because I left. So my boss got blasted and so he returned the favor to me. The CFO only last a year. The company told him to get bent.
I worked for a woman trying to start a restaurant. She was nothing but rude. She blamed me for her bad packing of food, when I pointed out dead bugs in the soap she was like "Those aren't bugs! You're stupid and imagining things!" She insisted on cash only because "those cards are nothing but trouble!" This was like 2009. I left after a night of her telling a large group "Well good help is hard to find but she's fine for now." I just didn't come back and she mailed my last paycheck where she shorted me but oh well. I lasted three weeks. No one lasted longer than that before she had to shut down and give up her "dream."
When the man who got the position i waited for 5 years to open up wanted me to mix an ammonia based cleaner with a bleach based cleaner... directly under the main air intake vent that circulated air in the entire gym i worked at...pretty sure sending homemade mustard gas through the building could have killed/seriously hurt many many people
Holy shit... was he just a total idiot or what? I thought everyone knows to not mix ammonia with bleach...
Holy hell
There's an ancient Chilean saying: "The one that learns the ropes just knows it and the one doesn't know a thing is a boss". It's amazing how many uneducated, evil, stupid or plainly crazy people are hired as bosses.
WW1 Electric Boogaloo
The CDC would like a word
Lol saw the title and had to click because I just did this. I just worked for months straight (since 1/22) doing 6days per week. I recently asked to go on a 10 day vacation and they approved everything and a few days ago I realized they cut my pto to only 7 days instead of the 10. When I asked them about they said it was because I would be working doubles when I returned and it since wasn’t approved OT they cut the hours. I was literally speechless. I didn’t reply to the emails and deleted all forms of communication and resources connected to the job. I am the area manager and we’re very understaffed so this will be a huge blow to them. I plan on never returning and already found a much better paying job. This will be a HUGE blow to the entire company considering I did literally everything from banking to buying supplies on my own dime when needed. I just felt so disrespected that they did it and didn’t even notify me. I’m still considering filing an official complaint with my states workforce.. but really I just want to be done with this place
Should have kept the emails just incase you ever need them ((always leave a papertrail and evidence))
Wow. They didn’t value you enough
we need an update about this
@@potlach001 One learn so much about HR and procedures reading these comment sections, it's so good.
I was having a hard time in life. Hormones from being pregnant still lingering, my gma passed away a day earlier, living with two meth heads while trying to raise a newborn, my anxiety was through the roof because of it all...it was a mess. I broke down during my shift but kept trucking. I was silently crying while I stocked a supermarket at midnight. My supervisor was doing his rounds and noticed me so he walked me into his office. When I finally got it all out, I was exhausted. They seemed very concerned and sympathetic. Well, I left the room and went to grab my things to leave for the night. I had to pass the room again but stopped when I heard laughing. I then heard them making fun of me and my big red eyes and my horrible work ethic. That was the first time in the 9 years I was working that I ever did that at work. I was broken. I let them go on for a while before stepping in front of the door and glaring at them. I left and never talked to them again. I was a new hire but so we're 3/4ths of the store. Turnover rate was so high and I finally saw why. Once you see the sympathetic mask fall, you're disgusted by just watching him manipulate the young people there. He was a manipulative asshat. I can work for asshats but only if they're upfront about it. I don't like secretive, gossiping, asshats who hide behind a smile and "we're all friends here" dogma.
That's horrible. I hope you're in a better life situation now.
Jesus christ!
Yeah fuck that!! I just had the same experience as you. I broke down at work and it wasn’t even from hormones or a death (but I’ve been there too with the homicide).
My dear friends, the lesson I've learned for working 16 years on the same office furniture manufacturing facility is that the harder you work, the more work is expected of you.
In some jobs, the more you kiss ass the more secure your job is, and it doesn't matter how badly you do it.
I used to work for a local Pizza place, it was nice staff was friendly, manager was sort of an idiot but not in the bad way. So I had recently found out that I had been growing Polups in my nose, which are basically these growths cutting off oxygen to one nostril and had to get surgery. I tell my boss about it. And he tells me, mind you this guy does NOT have a PHD, that I'll rest for a day, play some video games and be back working. This was after I had to BEG some of my coworkers to take my shift. The day after the surgery when I was in a better headspace, I called up my boss and told him I quit. And now I work for a great store that treats it's employees like people.
Didn't it feel great when you could breathe out of that nostril again!?!?! For me it was all the sinus cavities on the right side of my face/skull.
Had that one pulled on me once actually had a sinus rupture and had to have immediate emergency surgery managed to call my boss and tell them what was going on he said okay to bring in a note when I could so I fall asleep to wake up to the RGM having left a voicemail to either be to work at my scheduled time or Bring in my uniform I dropped the uniform that afternoon with doctors permission to head home and rest still swollen and barely able to see
I rage quit my job last year. They called me for weeks asking me to come back or asking me to tell them some work related info until I told the boss everyone knew she got her position by sleeping with the owner and that I can post it to the company's social media accounts faster than she could change all the passwords. That was the end of that.
Got a government job a couple months later at a much higher rate of pay and I couldn't be happier.
She never changed the company's Facebook password ....
Oh, shit... Tea could be spilled,😏 and someone may need a roll of Brawny. 🤣
Bro if you do it, you are an absolute legend, either way you are though
I used to work the overnight restocking shift at the local department store. I was working as a summer job so that I had something to do before I went back to college. After the first couple of training shifts, which were during the afternoon, I started to notice some problems with how things were being run at the store. You only get a single 15 minute break and a lunch break where you have to clock out. The shelves were poorly stocked (with many of the items falling down the back of the shelves). Management was nice though. When I went on my first night shift I was put under a woman who had worked there for many years who seemed to look down on me. She would say condescending things to me and often give me cryptic instructions on what I was supposed to do. Her idea of me learning how to do the job was dropping the boxes on the ground for me to put on the shelves rather then just putting them on the shelves herself. The last straw came less than a week later when I saw her talking with one of the shift leads while throwing boxes of food on the ground. This is when it dawned on me that she was actually DROPPING, though it was more akin to throwing, all of the boxes on the ground, which was why some of the products were damaged when I got to them, and the people in charge didn't care. I never worked another shift for them.
12.20 "My boss showed up at my home and bust into my bedroom to bitch me out about calendar displays."
What in the actual holy fuck!?
That's just asking for an ass whooping.
Castle doctrine would work very well here.
@@anonmouse15 was thinking the same thing.
I've seen and read secretaries' lives being trampled in similar way - my sister being one if the cases,her boss was so toxic and overreaching she debeloped gastrytis and skin disease out of stress -, and that made me loath administrative work with a passion.
@@anonmouse15absolutely
Restaurant as a line cook.
Manager was consistently gas-lighting me by saying they asked me for things they never did, making me look bad and forcing me to panic all the time.
Last time, they said I didn't drop fries and that they asked 10 minutes prior. I told them "fuck your fries" and clocked out while shoving the fry bag into the hands of someone who was laughing about it.
They didn't think I was serious until I was gone for 2 hours.
Didn't even call to see if I was okay. Super glad I left.
i am glad the company i worked at isnt like this😮i feel so lucky
I was working at a major national retail chain and not making a lot, so I accepted a position with a pilot program for a small crew to work overnight, using hand-held scanners to redo almost all the product signage (the pay was better). What I didn't know was that the scanners worked like crap, we were forced to stop work between 2:00-3:00 am because that's when the corporate systems were taken offline every night, the people printing the signs didn't always send them to the right store, the bar codes on the signs weren't always right, and sometimes we only got half (or less) the signs we were supposed to have. The best part was that we were literally LOCKED IN OVERNIGHT, with no way to get out of the building unless we triggered a major alarm or broke a window. In two weeks I went from "that cool guy who works really hard and is always helpful" to "You and your crew didn't put up a single correct sign, where the hell are you getting them from, why the hell aren't you using the scanners, and what do you think you're doing?" I tried explaining all the things going wrong the 1st time I got a verbal reprimand, and let them know all the crap going wrong with the *experimental* *pilot* *program* the 2nd time. The 3rd time one of the managers started in on me, I stayed silent and went home to get some sleep. I went back to the store that night (about an hour before closing) as scheduled, went straight to the manager's office, and asked if I could change back to a regular daytime part-time schedule. She said "no," and I said "I'm going to have to quit." She said I was required to give notice in writing two weeks in advance so I pulled a blank piece of paper from her office printer, wrote "Effective [date from exactly 2 weeks earlier] I quit," signed it, dropped it on her desk in front of her, and walked out. Got a better-paying job I liked a *lot* more less than 48 hours later.... and I was told the manager was led out of the store in handcuffs by the police a few months later because she'd been taking "samples" of merchandise home.
I had a janitorial job and the supervisor was very meticulous about checking behind your work to see if its done,
One day i had just come back from lunch, and went back to my area to resume cleaning,
My supervisor was standing there, waiting for me and showed me spots i had missed that i knew i had cleaned up.
I immediately got pissed and told him i quit and walked out!
Sky high expectations even though we were short handed, manager told us to work like our pants were on fire several times that week. Frantically ripping boxes open, I tore a chunk out of my fingernail and started bleeding. I'm an adult, I can deal, but I need a bandage so I don't bleed everywhere and get infected. They had no bandages in our first aid kit. I go buy my own bandages and get back to work. Manager takes me to the back and tells me I need to sign this thing; it says we had extra safety training for active shooter. We have not had this training. She refuses to let me leave until I sign it. I go back to work, and hate every moment, and they ask me to stay late and do more work. I'm limping from working ten or twelve hour shifts for weeks. I have about a years worth of expenses in the bank from working overtime because we're so short handed. I clock out, and I never go back.
Refusing to let you leave until you sign something kind of sounds like kidnapping. I would not have signed it if I knew it was false.
Sounds sketchy as hell not letting you leave until signing
I was a supervisor at a VRS call center. This is NOT an entry level position. These are ASL interpreters who already have to be way more than competent at their jobs before even adding the computer part. The company had two great managers, but then they decided they couldn’t afford them, so one of the owners decided to become manager without doing the supervisor training. She was (and still is) a horrible worker (and person, but that’s another set of stories). She liked the “fun” work and didn’t like confrontation - except when it came to me and one other person. She would write me up for following policy (that she didn’t know) because her pals didn’t like it when I enforced it. I finally quit one day when she decided to bring her twin boys to work with her. Interpreting is confidential. Not only did we have our professional ethics, but the FCC also had strict policies. The only people allowed in the call center besides us was emergency personnel. We had to close for three hours every evening for the janitors to come in and do their jobs. When she brought the twins in she left them in the foyer, but within an hour they were sitting in the cubicle with her watching as she interpreted it. I was NOT going to be held accountable to the parent company or the FCC. I told her this after she finished interpreting her call and left. I’m glad I haven’t seen her since.
I found one boss so egregiously out of line I had to comment before finishing the video. I can't believe the incredible gall of the boss who had the nerve to go to his employee's home, demand to speak to him and then barge into his BEDROOM and yell at him about a work related issue. I've had more than my share of horrible bosses in my time (after all I formerly worked at Walmart) but none of them have come to my home to rag me out.
When my manager tried having me work on my break time and on my days off, the final straw was when she threatened to fire me if I didn’t come in, I put in my two weeks notice the next day. I would have quit on the spot but I didn’t want to screw over my coworkers whom I actually liked but I still spited the manager by defying all of her rules by listening to music, sitting down when not busy, taking tips from customers, and working out of uniform, wtf was she gonna do, fire me? I don’t think so.
TL:DR - Don't "Request Time Off," "Notify of Absence."
Watching these reminded me of something else I had watched, and the realization really helped me. If you are in a job where you get paid time off, or even just regular time off, that you are free to use whenever you want, then it's not a "Time Off Request." It's a "Notice of Absence." And that shifts the balance of power from asking the manager for something, ala a child asking mommy or daddy for something, to telling management something, like an adult speaking with another adult. And this is something no manager wants, because it shows you have a higher view of yourself than they would like, because if you're browbeaten and don't feel like you can make these demands, they can mistreat you as much as they want. Then when you quit, they bitch about you to the other remaining employees. I know it probably doesn't help any of the OP's in these vids, but maybe someone reading the comments will find this and it will help them.
When my manager scheduled me both at the fabric counter and at one of our main return registers (Hobby Lobby), AT THE SAME TIME, and expected me to do both jobs simultaneously is when I immediately began drafting my 2 weeks notice in my head. I needed them as a reference, so I stuck out the two weeks, but I often fantasized about walking out
…you don’t need a reference for a minimum wage job. Don’t let anyone ever convince you of that. Employers are disposable, too.
Good for op in the first story! What kind of manager doesn't pitch in when short staffed or/and overwhelmed? Or at the damn least call in more staff, if the mgr thinks they're too high & mighty to help.👿
Happens alot
I used to work at a Meijers, pushing shopping carts back into the store from the parking lot. It's a thankless job that comes with sunburns, frozen feet, and soggy shoes. Anyways, when I applied for the job, I didn't put on the application that I had epilepsy. They probably wouldn't have hired me if I did. When they did hire me though, when I started my first day, I marched right up to my supervisor and told her about my condition, that I was taking medication for it. Stress is one of the things that commonly cause an epileptic seizure, and I was no exception to that. I worked hard. I rode the bus to or from work, or my bike, depending on the weather (to save money when I could.) After every shift, I came home feeling like walking or raising my arms was just too much to do. But every one to three months, the stress of the job would cause a seizure in the morning. They were so bad that literally every muscle in my body was too worn to move. So I had my brother dial work for me. I told them what happened. Told them I was unable to walk, let alone get out of bed, and that unfortunately I would have to call off on extremely short notice. I hated to do this, because although my job was tough and unforgiving, I liked it. My supervisor would tell me they'd have to "count it against me" because I didn't have any sick days yet. This made me absolutely LIVID. How dare I have to inconvenience you by being paralyzed from an incurable medical condition! I worked 12 hour shifts, holidays, night shift, covered for people who couldn't make it on short notice. More hours meant more money, and I have no problem getting paid more money. I even worked ON CHRISTMAS DAY. It wasn't easy pushing shopping carts through a literal blizzard, and doing it on Christmas hurt a little more, but it was okay. Every time I called off because a seizure basically paralyzed me, each phone call with my supervisor made me feel more angry and bitter than the last. I'd been thinking about it every day. It was in the back of my mind every day and I'd been thinking it over subconsciously. After the last one, my supervisor told me if it happened again she'd have to fire me. So my impatience got the better of me. When I next went to work, I finished my shift, walked to her office, dropped off my employee ID and uniform (if it can be called a uniform) and left a sheet of paper on it, signed by me, stating very abruptly, "I QUIT." The only regret I have is that I didn't have my union rep slap her around with the Americans with Disabilities Act, or volunteer for a shift on Christmas and quit just before my shift started, just to make things very difficult for her. I'm blacklisted from working at Meijers for not giving them two weeks notice, but it's a small price to pay. They're a soulless company, and they acted that way towards me. I REFUSE to work for them ever again, even if they begged me to. I may be easily replaceable over there, but I have my dignity and my morals.
She threatened to throw a knife at me.
She then told her boss I was "refusing to cooperate" and "not following directions" - no directions were given. She somehow conveniently forgot about screaming at me, not giving me any directions to follow, and heavily implying I was useless when she told her side of the story.
I'm quitting tomorrow.
There is an incredible amount of freedom being an at-will employee.
Only when you aren't brainwashed into believing the opposite of that by grind culture. "Just come in an hour earlier" "just stay a few hours later"
Such as the freedom to be fired for no reason at any time.
@@anonmouse15 good, uncertainty pushes you to diversify.
My manager threatened me with my job when I kept asking her to not change the status on tickets because it prevented them from getting done. She told me there would be "consequences". She was right. I found a new job in 3 weeks, gave her two weeks notice and left. I was the only person who knew the process to get requests through IT. Let's just say... I'm happy.
5:17 Actually, you don't. There is no law or rule that says you have to give someone two weeks notice if you're going to leave your job. Most people just do it as a courtesy so that management can have some time to find a replacement. You are under no obligation to give an employer two weeks notice, you can resign on the spot if you want.
I'm currently job searching because the 24/7 retail store I work at keeps making excuses why I can't leave the overnight shift, even though I've had several discussions with my bosses about switching shifts and moving over to the pharmacy instead. I told them from the start that I was looking to only work overnights temporarily, and only started asking about moving when I realized that the overnights were severely fucking up my mental health. The last straw where I started looking again, after only about 2 months, is when my boss told me that I now have three unexcused absences due to taking the week off after my grandmother died to help take care of my family and give myself time to process everything. Not as bad as some of these stories, but I'm fucking miserable. If anyone has any recommendations for someone looking for full time day or evening shifts with only a high school diploma I'd greatly appreciate it.
If I may suggest, look into seeing if you can get any certifications or licenses that would help boost your credentials past your high school diploma. If you are not interested in getting a degree, in any specific specialty or anything of your interest, then you can actually check into getting a certification or even a license of something you may be interested that would help you to find the job you would love to work. For instance, I actually have my food service certificate not just because I want it to work in food service but also because I like being able to see what the managers or the store clerks see whenever they mess with food or whenever they structure food, but I see it as a customer and it has helped me a lot to understand food service practices in different places I shop. But it has also given me a better idea of why food service safety practices matter and has given me interest and maybe working for a kitchen of a non-profit or even a place where food can be served in a public venue that's not a store or not a restaurant. So just think about maybe looking into a license or a credential that's in the form of a certification that just might pique your interest any type of particular job that would require this license or certification. it's a better alternative than spending shitloads of money for degree you may or may not even respect after a while or may not even use after a while. Just a thought, and many blessings to you in all your endeavors.
You said pharmacy, maybe you can apply for pharmacy at a different store and transfer?
Not me, but a friend of mine. It was my junior year of HS, and my friend had been working at a grocery store for around 2 years. She never had any huge event that made her quit, but some of the customer’s attitudes (including one that was kinda creeping on her), managers not being directly rude but very apathetic, and how understaffed they were leading to her basically working a full time job for part time pay while trying to deal with school, lead to her venting to me about the job during lunch A LOT. One day, she was going on about how shitty her last shift was before she looked straight at me and asked “should I just quit?” I just shrugged and said she should do whatever she thought was best (I was never an “advice giver” type, I mostly just let my friends vent to me). She thought about it aloud for a bit, before heading to the girls bathroom to call her manager. She came back with the biggest smile on her face and said that she asked her manager to move her shifts to a more convenient day, they said no, and she literally said “ok. I quit.” Dead silence, followed by pleas and offers that she refused. She seemed way less stressed after, so I guess it was a good choice😁
I worked at Wendy's for 8 months, and most of the time, I had to take out the trash, clean the dining room, make sandwiches, take orders, and grill. The last straw was on New Year's Day, and it was extremely busy, I had no help, and I did literally everything you can imagine. I had quite 3 days later. In fact, at the time of writing this, I quit today.
If a company doesn’t have to give me two weeks notice before firing me, or give me two weeks severance pay, why do I have to give two weeks notice before quitting?
Companies would complain that resigning employees can't be replaced easily.
@@jasondyrkacz8270I would counter that with the fact that most people can’t easily find another job.
😂😂🙌@@pauldavis9387
Dude I’ve quit so many jobs, I don’t know where to start. I’ve had dozens of jobs and only ever been fired once (quit all the others) and the one I was fired from was on a day in which I wasn’t even there (wasn’t even scheduled) and the reason for the firing was union activity - though it’s an “at-will” state meaning that even though we all know why I was fired, they don’t have to state why I was fired and I couldn’t do anything about it. Work is easy to come by if you’re competent, and it’s not worth being treated like shit, so I job-hop hardcore. I encourage people to quit their jobs if they’re having a bad time. You’ll figure things out. I’ll provide you with temp service resources to bridge that gap between jobs if needed. Working-class folks have to stick together!
Thanks for the stories. If you're in the US hostile work environment is illegal
Still happens a lot tho
So what? Doesn't change reality.
The problem is that "hostile" is up to interpretation
Realistically, unless you're in a unionized workplace, that doesn't mean much. Of course, I'm of the opinion that every workplace should unionize because fuck bosses, but rich people have done a pretty good job of stirring up anti-union sentiment
Oh, and be sure to tell any hiring managers that they fired you for refusing to perform sexual favours.
I was one of only 3 managers at a sonic, I got covid and they still told me to come in, I quit then and reported them to DHEC :)
Boss at Maax gave me the metaphorical middle finger by putting me back in a position I'd made it clear I couldn't handle. Literally had me running between rooms all day to do the work of a different person in each room
There was mold prep, mold repair, clean room, printer room, output line. It's been months since I left, so I'm sure I'm forgetting something
@@djt08031996 Sounds like he was setting you up to fail just to get rid of you.
I gave a couple of my retail jobs a 2 day notice instead of 2 week. When you can be replaced by a teenager you just don’t care anymore
Was in the hospital, pregnant with a kidney infection. I called my manager and told him I was in the hospital. H e texts me asking where I am because I was scheduled for that day. I tell him I'm in the hospital still. He started talking about that being an excuse and I should have called (literally the day after I called the first time telling him EXACTLY where I was) I just said "whatever I'm not coming back"
At a much better job now and all the managers are wonderful
I’ve been at my Wendy’s for almost 2 years as a grill and closing worker. Sometimes I have shifts where there’s a flood of customers, or people don’t help me break things down so we can go home on time, or something like that. I clean the grills, usually clean the Frosty machines, filter the fryers, dishes, stock things, make the chili meat, help clean the floors, and meanwhile I’m making sure the sandwich person has plenty of meat/chicken/buns/etc. I do find myself wanting a change sometimes, especially after a stressful shift, but then I remember I’m usually just allowed to put an AirPod in and do my thing, or the crew will go smoke in the back when there’s no customers. It’s one of those “do I leave or do I stay” things. It was 8 bucks an hour when I started, but it’s currently 14. It’s close to home, and idk where I’d go where I could consistently be happy. At least I’m saving up!
Do what ever makes you happy.
Keep it up!
I guess mine was almost three months ago and ended on a near-tragic note. I worked at McDonald's for over six years, and was pushed over the edge by how much more shitty customers gotten and the busyness the store gotten that it was taking a serious toll on my mental health. Earlier this year I ended up in a psychiatric hospital for attempting suicide and was diagnosed with both major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. I also became a moderate alcoholic.
Being from a conservative city that I'm from, it made me irrationally paranoid about the customers because we attract a lot of blue-collar workers and seniors and given the hostile political climate, I felt very insecure because I'm transgender and Hispanic so it made me insecure.
Anyways, I became very suicidal in the days prior and came to work disheveled and though not visible, had permanent marker writing throughout my torso airing my grievances. I done this because my suicide attempt was premeditated and had I been found dead, I would've been hanging naked in my apartment for people to see.
Anyways, I wrote on the back of a receipt for my boss that I needed to leave. I don't think he regarded the note, but I changed out of my uniform and left.
I left a small suicide note on top of my uniform, which was folded on a table in the lobby which may have been the thing that prevented me from going through with killing myself. I was stopped by police at the bus stop near work to intervene.
After spending three days in another psychiatric hospital, I was offered to resign on good terms and that they would recommend me to future employers, but I wasn't pleased that my boss and the owner of the restaurant were deadnaming me. I accepted this offer, but it shown me that the management seen me as a dollar sign than as a person. I was a good employee whom they wanted to become a crew chief, but they were grinding me to what could've been an early grave.
I am a FTM and have similar experience while working
Just about all management sees employees as a dollar sign rather than a person.
I was with you in the first half ngl
He watched cameras like a hawk and would call me to tell me to do the things I was already doing. I told him i figure with such a close eye he was keeping on my job he was basically doing it for me ; so i punched out and never came back.
I used to have a supervisor who would tell me to do things I already knew to do... that always annoyed the crap out of me. It's like, look, I"m a competent employee, I've been doing this job for years, I know what my next step is and don't need you to tell me. Luckily I wasn't the only person he did that to, so I didn't feel singled out.
@@dx1450 I wasn't singled out either. I just don't want somebody over my shoulder at all times.
@@improvisedchaos8904 Your boss: Now I have to actually go in and do it myself.
I quit my apprenticeship in the second year (switched to a different company to continue, so no lost time, no worries)
Thing is I had a really unlucky month. I work inside a hotel and due to Corona, Boss Lady made the decision to lay off all the fulltime staff but three people and the reception staff. We trainees ran that hotel ourselves. So we slaved away every single day, hardcore, doing five jobs at once.
One day I was so exhausted I called in sick for two days because I just couldn't anymore.
Thing is... I did this on Monday/Tuesday. Saturday my throat began to hurt. I think goddammit, you're going to work, you already were sick. Push through Monday and Tuesday, finally it hurts so much I can't concentrate at all and speaking hurts.
Tell my supervisor I can't, I'll be calling in sick for the next days because if I think it is what it is, I'll be sick til at least Friday with tonsillitis.
She was already miffed because "How can I already tell her what it is if I haven't gone to the doc yet", accused me through the backdoor of lying. There I was already pissed.
Send her a text on Wednesday that it IS tonsillitis like I expected, and I'm sick til Friday but am good to go next week.
Friday I get a call from her that I miss by three minutes. Call back 5 times and she doesn't pick up, so it can't be that important.
Get another call on Saturday from her that I miss again, so I call back 4 minutes later. She doesn't pick up. Try it again, then send her a text saying "I can't communicate with u if u don't accept my calls"
Finally she picks up. Yells at me she has also off-time. That she's not responsible for calling after me to see if I can come in on Monday or not. And chewing me out for not being confused on why I wasn't on the shift plan next week (that already happened once a month before where the thing was just that she didn't know wether to give me the weekend off or not, so I just assumed it was that again)
I told her that I don't understand why she is mad, that I told her on Wednesday I'll be good to go next week, and I'll be there. She tells me "Hmpf! Then I expect you PUNCTUAL at 6am on Monday!" *click
Cue Sunday, I jerk up from a nightmare and startle the wasp that had made itself comfortable on my hand. Get stung by wasp. I am allergic against wasps.
I think "goddammit but u are going to work" so I pull through on Monday with a completely swollen hand hiding it as good as possible. Of course my coworkers notice in the first hour, and my supervisor notices that as well.
She gets angry with me, tells md she doedn't want me here like this and to go to the doctor RIGHT NOW. I apologize, tell her I can do work if it's just with one hand.
She tells me and I quote "If you don't take your apprenticeship seriously, just tell me, so I can take that into regard when planning the shifts."
That was the moment I had an inner meltdown and held back from screaming at her. I had come to work with tonsillitis last week. I came to work with an allergic wasp sting in my dominant hand. And I wasn't taking it seriously??
That was the last straw. I was seething for about ten minutes before the Boss Lady's secretary came around and in my rage, I wished her good morning, then demanded to be released from my contract.
She was dumbfounded and by god, it felt so good. Now I work inside a different hotel that is way better and I actually believe I can make the final exam.
My boss comes to my house to yell at me is getting his ass kicked. My time is my time. Luckily I got great bosses.
The amount of times bosses treat their employees like shit and then feel "sidelined" & have no idea why they quit is worrying
Fr. Their lack of self awareness is frightening. It's like that toxic family thing "All we did was constantly shit on you and everything you like doing. Why don't you wanna talk to us?"
I guess that's what they mean when they use that "This job is like family" cliché.
They treat people like that because they've gotten away with it for years and they think that's how the workplace should operate. That's why businesses are all in a collective shit fit over the Great Resignation. Instead of understanding that people don't want to work shit jobs for shit wages any more, they just say, "People just don't want to work."
The owner of where I work would complain about kids these days putting in their notice, swearing to work the two weeks then bailing after one day.But, almost every time someone quits, they usually hand in their notice, say they will work the full notice period out, get absolutely bollocked and ridiculed the next day by the owner, usually in front of customers and they never came back to finish their notice. How inconsiderate of them to say they would work out their notice then just not do so.
The owner has yet to put together the whole, "going off on people working their notice" causes "them not working their full notice"
I got married in November, my husband and I tried to be flexible so we put it off until January the next year to give a good amount of notice. Our floor manager approved it so we started planning the trip we were gonna go to New York. We were getting close to starting to buy tickets, lodging, tours and all that. But then in Mid December I was called into the floor manager's office and she informed me that they had changed the decision and my vacation time was denied. I was livid. I started doing the bare minimum and stopped being enthusiastic and fun. I finally decided to go to school, and started searching for a new job with more flexible scheduling. I picked a date to put my notice in that would give me 1 week in-between leaving one job and starting the other and we went on our honeymoon then.
"I was off to Basic Training in a month's time."
**Is a guy with waist-long hair.**
Me: "Uh-oh."
Well, every now and again the intake barbers need a recruit that _actually needs_ a haircut, y'know?
@@josepherhardt164 I can imagine them all standing there in a line with their clippers like, "this is what we've been training for! This is the true magic right here, gentlemen/soldiers."
@@ARedMagicMarker "Just like the simulations!"✂️✂️✂️
Maybe he donated
Me like - 😍🤩 - WOW - beautyfull - and I'm a hairdresser - wuld cray to cut such pretty long hair.
I walked out of a bakery i worked at as pastry chef because i got constantly yelled at for not being able to make the desserts they wanted mindd you they never had the materials and where constantly missing the basics like flour and butter and i already took all the stuff i worked with(spatulas , measuring cups and spoons,my own recipes and my own molds!) Because they didnt provide me with any of ut the day i left i got fed up because i had given them a list every week with things that where running out fast and they never got it and the things they did get they ranted that they where pricey and on that day i had 11 necessary ingredients that weren't available and i basically came to work to try and make sonething out of nothing i got fed up and left i also only managed a good 20 hours in 2 weeks being the only pastry chef and being paid $7.25
Yeah they sucked
Bakery constantly out of flours? Geeze Louise...
Worked as a medical order picker for four days. In those few days, I quickly noticed they had a fairly hostile work environment going on. For example, making a small mistake with your order made management make everyone stay late and watch you fix those mistakes. I'm talking grabbing nine boxes instead of ten, or running out of elastics so you couldn't put one around boxes that needed to stay together but not being allowed the time to get more elastics, or not being able to grab the medicine your order required because it was ten meters out of reach and the only man who was licensed to operate the forklift was having his break. No one was allowed to go home until all mistakes were fixed, so my lovely co-workers shittalked anyone who made them stay later than absolutely necessary, even if it was only one minute. We also only got one ten-minute break while we worked from 8PM-1AM, and it was generally not a fun place to be. After four days of nearly continuous walking, my feet were swollen and had bloody blisters, severe enough to bleed through three pairs of socks. On the fifth day, as I woke up from excruciating pain and tried to get out of bed, I realized that I couldn't stand on my feet anymore. My body flat-out refused. Luckily it was 8AM so I still had four hours to call in sick, but they said I was just making things up and were expecting me to come to work later that day. I told them again that I couldn't walk and was in severe pain so I couldn't be expected to walk for five hours. Again they told me to come in, or I would get an official warning. So I quit on the spot. They said I was being unprofessional, would not write me a recommendation letter, and needed to hand in my work clothes that very same day or possibly be charged with theft. I calmly told them I would email them to arrange for a date and time to hand in my work outfit and politely asked them to never contact me again after that
Edit: a typo
Holy shit. That story about the boss walking in the bedroom reminds me of my last job. It was shortly after my father had passed and I was at home sleeping bc I didnt go in til three but apparently they wanted me there at eleven. The district manager sent my best friend, also a shift manager like I was, down the road to my house to wake me up and ask me to work.
I did go in but only to yell at my district manager what absolute bullshit that was and what an invasion of privacy it felt like. Satisfying moment, but not why I quit. Worked for them for another two years, I sincerely regret it.
I worked for a local hospital down in dietary. I was the person who'd call you in your room asking what you'd like for your meal. I loved the job tbh, I loved feeling like I was helping people feel better even if it was just a plate of food. However, my manager was a shit person, and my coworker was a complete bully. As in getting in my face and screaming at me for having an opinion bully. I tried to get myself switched to the weekend shift when I knew she wouldn't be working, but all that got me was a sit-down meeting With My Bully. So now she knows she got to me.
I still worked there for 4 years cause I loved helping the patients. Through being forced to run heavy carts for hours without a break when we were low on staff (And we always were) to dealing with that Cee U Next Thursday of a coworker to having a manager who would bully and whine and pick at me until I picked up extra hours on my one weekend off.
My final nail was finding fleas in the office. At the height of COVID. No Ma'am.
I got home, threw my phone on the bed and jumped into the shower fully dressed calling for the husband to grab the Dawn. I put in my 2 weeks the next day.
worked at a pizza place when I was 15 as a dishwasher. they had me working until 11:30 pm every night ALONE. $8 an hour? no thanks
I remember i worked for a temp agency for a tiny bit where they had me and 8 other employees working on top of a store removing a sign and the styrofoam under the sign all around the building, not for $8 an hour but not only was the pay outrageously low it was ridiculously hot that day and anyone who has ever worked high up they can all tell you the higher you are in the air the hotter it is or colder depending on the weather me and all the other employees all had one request we just wanted water but not only would they allow us to have water they refused to give us any saying they do not provide water and since they couldn't provide us water when it was 113 degrees fahrenheit or about 45 degrees celsius all 8 of us quit and didn't come back no water = no service we should have called osha on them for that bs
I'm very close to doing this. I work at a grocery store and now I'm the only person on maintenance in the evenings. I made a half joke that they'd be screwed without me and manager was pissed off at me. Soon they will see how screwed they'll be when the only person that comes in consistently decides to leave and watch the maintenance department burn down around them.
The one story where the boss went to the person's home and into their bedroom, I would have to see if I could take legal action against them.
funny enough, i did put my notice in a week ahead (in our contract we only need to give a week) but i still opted for 2 weeks notice...
however, friday night came.. and i was beyond overworked, we all were... but the kicker was, after i yelled at the manager for needing to clean both grills (they should have scheduled.. no... they SHOULD have trained more people to clean the grill)... I felt like i was being unfairly treated...
"its in your contract to clean"
then why arent the others cleaning it too? "because they havent been trained." (i wasnt trained, i watched someone clean it, then did it the same way.)
after our shift ended an hour overtime (store close... nothing was started, short staffed). quit earlier than notice... (i only had 3 days, but i KNEW i was going to be overworked... for their safety of me not having a fit and getting aggressive... or leaving them in the dust ON the day... enough was enough).
seriously, DONT overwork your leaving employees, you'll just make them quit sooner.
EDIT: 1 more thing, I was literally told outright: "the manager who did the schedule probably saw that 1 person who can clean the grills and.... thats all.."
so i said: 'what happened if i called in sick or quit sooner?'
"then the managers would have to clean it" (thats poor management.. yes, a manager could do with a little heavy lifting... but if they JUST trained more staff, then they could delegate)
So wasnt an immediate i quit. I used to work dishpit at a 4 star resturant. Id set up the dining room 2 days a week and5 nights a week id close dish down. I was making 9.50 hr and wanted to make 10 hr just more for peace of mind. This was the 2nd time ive worked there. I left the 1st time on very good terms. Im there 7 months and im overdue for a review and a raise. I have a 1-1 talk with the GM about instead of getting the usual .25 raise i get .50 since i never call off, im never late, i stay late without complaints. Was told not a problem. Fast forward a week and our head chef pulls me in to discuss my raise. Its .25. Was told well talk in 3 months when i earn that other .25. The next off day i had i got hired at a warehouse making $11 hr. I told my gm and head chef the next day. That my last day was February 13th .Was chastised for being unprofessional and insulting giving almost no notice days before one of our busiest holidays of the year. I no called no showed the last 3 shifts in response.
Screwing with people's money is professional?
@@jasondyrkacz8270 ive not looked back. For my manager to make a stink and be greedy over a damn quarter is petty and the reason why most resturants in my opinion are akin to slave labor with how poorly the staff is paid.
I am surprised that workplace violence (employees on managers/bosses/owners) is not a lot higher.
Jail is a thing you know, and even if you don't go to jail, good luck going up against a corporate company's team of lawyers.
@@unapologeticallyconservati5881 There is an extreme imbalance here that is even beginning to show itself at a national level, people will eventually collectively snap if things contiunue in the current trajectory.
As much as you wanna swing at them you can't, just keep it in the back of your head, when they bring the company to hell, you ask them when you encounter them next time. I heard you brought your work place to hell? And see what their answer is
@@unapologeticallyconservati5881 I don't think beating up your boss would be looked at worse than child molestation in jail or prison.
@@JackParsons. I don’t disagree.
When starting a job or even before, ask the other employees how they like working there. There will always be lazy people that get treated poorly but if everyone there hates the boss or the job, just keep looking.
There are a very few jobs where the boss cares about employees and treats them the way he or she would want to be treated. Look around until you find one of those jobs.
Great advice.
I nearly went into premature labor from stress. First we were told we would have a choice of switching departments, no. Second I found out I got 2 weeks maternity. Yet the other pregnant woman hired same day as me and further along, got 4 weeks. Third was seriously bad luck with the type of calls I got, nothing could have fixed it but it didn't help my building stress levels. Fourth 2 weeks of training, triple new programs, and a massive amount in difference of items I have to be an expert on in a week before taking calls. Fifth and last straw 5 people yelling at me for stuff controlled by outside vendors. No I can't locate and call the exact FedEx truck that dropped of one instead of 2. That's a bank issue not ours. The stress was so bad my unborn baby had a panic attack and at 27 weeks I almost went into labor.
A friend of mines wife worked at a local lumber/hardware store . A regular customer would come in and make sexual references towards her EVERY time he came in . At first , she just ignored it . Then one day he comes in and tries to hand her money to go out with him . She refuses and as she is walking away , he stuffs the money in her back pocket and feels her up telling her there is more where that came from . She turns around , takes the money out of her pocket and throws it in his face and cusses him out and quits and leaves . When she goes to get her final check , they tell her he was just kidding and she needs to apologize to the man and she can even have her job back . She just leaves with her check .
If I was in his wife’s shoes, I would say “He tried to get me to cheat on my husband. I don’t care if he was joking, you don’t EVER flirt with a married woman. He should apologize to ME. I quit.”
After being threatened with my job I have said "I was looking for a job when I found this one". Usually followed by doing a 180 with my bird finger held high. It pays to be good at what you do.
Worked in the vehicle spare part shop for 2+ years, I was in charge of packing spare parts and have them shipped out to other states in the country. The company is stingy and doesn't want to buy bubble wrap since it cost money, so I always have to improvise with scraps that comes in via new stock. Did my best to wrap a very fragile part(a long shaft that have electrical plugins) that boss ordered from other shop, it is mean to ship to other state. So I stuffed the box with extra thick cupboard with plastic wrap stuffed in, no bubblewrap cause company is stingy. Along with a warning outside the box that stated that the content is fragile.
Weeks later, my boss notified me that local shipping company broke the part and it is coming out of my paycheck. That thing cost 3 months of my salary, ask him is there any other solution, nope, the customer ordered the part refuse to pay for it. So I am the one who bear all the cost. So I tell him I am quitting, give me shit that I am a very important employee. Tell him that if I am important, he wouldn't force all the shit at me, tell him to find other sucker to suffer that shit. Left my work.
A coworker bitched me out and humiliated me in front of a bunch of customers. Made me cry. Corporate said that since she had been there longer than me nothing would be done about it. I simply took off my hat and told the manager to have fun working double shifts and walked out.
I had gotten into trouble for not doing a task correctly, even though I had done it the way I was instructed by my manager but I had made the mistake of not checking that she had updated a piece of equipment when she told me she had. The woman was out to get me, believing that I was after her job, it had been offered to me but I had refused because I did not want to be a manager. I was read the riot act in the office before opening, was not given an official warning and then told me it was over and done with, we would not say anything else about it essentially that what happened in the office stayed in the office.
I was setting up the registers for opening, when she let in a new staff member that I had never met before, introduced us and then immediately started berating me again in front of her. I told her to stop, that she had said it stays in the office but as usual she waited til she had an audience to prove her dominance adding that I was glad that this was my last day before I was going on leave and that I sure as hell was not going to be returning from it. At lunch that day I was called for an interview, she actually eavesdropped on my conversation. First few days of my break was offered two jobs,submitting my two weeks notice without having to return.
Was not the first to quit on short notice because of this woman, it wasn’t long before she messed up and had no one to lay the blame on. Was given the resign or get fired ultimatum, didn’t even make it through the trial period of her next job.
I worked at a crappy retail job for 5 years barely making more than minimum wage. I still don't know why I wasted so much time and effort into that job. It took having the assistant manager telling me I had to clean the literally shit covered toilet in the men's bathroom to finally break the camel's back. The general manager wrote me up for insubordination and I pretty much went "Fuck it I'm out".
Unless they provide training and protection, any company that tries to force you to do it can clean that crap with their tongues and toothbrushes.
I want "taking the train to Cumberland" to become a new way of saying "quit without notice and left those assholes in the lurch".
"After that, I said fuck this and took the train to Cumberland. "
My college counselor messed me up and I had to take a summer class to finish up. I was interviewing for permanent jobs and working the summer job as a green keeper that I had my entire college career. That year they had decided they would clean out a gulley full of poison ivy and wanted to do without killing it. One of the greenskeepers ended up with in hospital with it. So I rolled in after taking a day to interview, and the jealous assistant Super says go weedeat.... I quit on the spot.
I didn’t quit but I built a store from grand opening. I was good at my job and the owner couldn’t work customer service if her life depended on it. She criticized and even threatened to demote me even with rave reviews and I made her the most money. I stepped down and basically said good luck. Still worked there and made my own schedule. I called in all the time, worked part time, and showed up late all the time. Like I said, I made the most money so she basically couldn’t do sh*t. COVID happened and I didn’t go back, she had to sell the business because she couldn’t pay bills. Suck it Jadine
I worked at Tim Hortons for a few months. I was a part timer taking a gap year between high school and college. After 2 months my hours dwindled down to absolutely nothing yet I was still employed by them. I called to ask multiple times if I would be on the schedule that week and I kept getting different answers telling me no. “We cant fit you in this week, sorry Space Dork.” “We’re trying to get you in!” “Not this time.” What the nail in the coffin was my manager saying that she was scheduling the college kids. I was going to apply for a hard to get in college that month. I quit then and there. Ironically a month before the Pandemic started. Happy I left. My coworkers kept telling me I would never get into the college I was applying to. I got in.
I was working as a receptionist when I found out that I needed a total hysterectomy. Surgeon basically had to cut me from belly button to pubic bone. Due to a history of dangerous blood clots, I was ordered to stay home for 6 weeks. Second week into recovery, my boss started calling asking me to come in to "at least answer phones". If I hadn't been a single mother of 3, and having almost zero job opportunities in my area, I would've quit. Closest decent employer was 60 miles one way. Not good with kids still in school.
My story was I was working for an American diner in the UK and I let my manager know of shift that I can't stay past 9pm, like my shift says because my dad was in a car accident and couldn't get me and my last bus is at 9:15pm and I live over an hour away. He ignored my concern and so I payed someone on shift to cover my section, checked out the cash I got that day, gave it to the manager and left. I texted him at the bus stop that I quit
I'm in this current situation with my work. Nothing would bring me more joy than to just walk out one day and never come back. However, I'm trying to have another job lined up before I make such a grand exit.
Worked at jack in the box for 3 mohts and went from 80 hours to less than 7. My boss started gett up my ass about not having a belt and ordered me to get my parents to buy me one. Mind you I am in my 30s and told her I wasn't going to do that. She threatend to send me home if I didn't get one. Ended up using an ethernet cable tied around my waist. The next day she ordered me to lift up my shirt to show her I had a belt before I even had a chance to sit down mind you or take off my coat and back pack. Was half tempted to moon her right then. Instead I contacted our HR department and filed a harrasment complaint over that and told them I was quitting. She also tried to to withhold my last paycheck so I filed a wage theft complaint, and got it the next day. Guess she got demoted from a manager postion at least till the current GM quit as well.
It is interesting that your former supervisors and managers realize how much you did for their company after you leave.
I got horrific food poisoning from drinking the sink water and eating weeks old tres leches cake at the restaurant (they forced me to eat some and proudly stated they "feed it to the customers"). Also had food thrown at me and was refused to clean the blenders between drinks.
I quit immediately and they never gave me the other half of my paycheck. I gave up after two months of trying to get those forty bucks from them.
I swear they're a money laundering scheme, you cannot tell me otherwise based on how shitty their restaurant has been for years and yet they can hire so many people and stay in business *through* the pandemic.
14:22 I like to imagine that the boss realized what a total douche canoe he was and left you on the payroll for the rest of the year as a way of saying sorry. Especially considering you didn't make a scene or were rude and said "no hard feelings".
I worked 3rd shift in a gas station. My manager lived in the same apartments as me, directly across the breezeway. Dude was a douche. Treated hos wife and pets like garbage. Thank god they didnt have kids. Anyway, I ended up with a stomach bug and went across the breezeway to tell my boss. About the time my boss answered the door, my boyfriend at the time was walking up the stairs with a bottle of liquor. I told my boss i was sick and needed the night off. He told me I wasnt sick and I just wanted to stay home and drink with my boyfriend. I felt nauseous again... Boss told me if I didnt go in that night, not to even bother coming in ever again. I threw up on his doorstep, at his feet and said "Now tell me im not sick" and turned and went back to my apartment. A few mins later dude had hos wife out there scrubbing my vomit. I felt bad about that, she was a really sweet lady.
I’ll never work retail again. Work in a factory and make over 3 times more. Will be marking over 4 times more shortly.
Retail is absolute hell and never pays enough. On top of that, 90% of your coworkers will be shit people/workers.
I was put on a PIP because I didn't kiss my boss's butt like everyone else. During the PIP, I actually did less work as I was looking for a new job and a new place to live while on company time. I just avoided being social with my boss unless it was absolutely necessary. This lasted for 6 months until I was removed from the PIP because my boss said my performance had improved. I had to avoid laughing outloud. I put in my two week notice that same week. My boss tried to ride my butt the last week but I just quit early instead and took the time off to relax between jobs.
I used to work for a well-known warehouse company that sells all their stuff online. Yes, THAT one.
I quit my job yesterday after being there 9 years when most people don't' last more than a few months before walking out. There were an assortment of reasons for me leaving, but the last straw was how they liked to subtly manipulate people to make them work harder. It took me almost 4 months to realize that it'd been happening to me when I was wondering why I felt angry all the time lately and why they kept going out of their way to put me in a work area that they KNEW I hated even when they had more than plenty of people to staff it.
That's when I recalled a few conversations I'd had with the manager and supervisors of that department. My average pack rate there ranged between 190 and 240 per hour with me usually being at 228. That sounds like a wide range but it almost entirely depended on the work that was available. The rest of that time it depended on whether I'd come in already exhausted, or if I was angry. I'm one of those people that when angry, will dump his aggression into work and burn it off. This had a tendency to give a brief boost to my productivity.
You can see where this is going, right?
When they inquired as to my slow or fast rates seemingly out of concern at the time (and they sent people that I'd worked with for years and thought I could trust), I'd told them as much. Slow when tired, briefly faster when angry. I added that didn't mind the work itself, what I minded was being in a department that wasn't my original department ALL THE TIME which had been happening a lot lately. Once a week didn't bother me. Twice a week annoyed me, but I could shrug and otherwise get over myself. I thought that telling them that would help me not be there as often, but nothing changed...at first. As we got closer and closer to the holiday season I found myself there more and more often. It had been almost an entire year since the last time i been in my own department for a solid week. They'd had more than enough time to hire and adequately train enough people, yet they didn't. They haven't for years, so I'd expected it. Christmas came and went and there were times we had basically no work, yet there I still was NOT in my own department. One day I'd asked the dude that handled shuffling people from the pick department to others and he told me straight: "Because you're the most requested person."
A week later it finally hit me: They were sending me to a place I hated being all the time ON PURPOSE because they KNEW it made me angry. They'd send other people OUT of the department after I got there and would leave me there ALL DAY....because they KNEW it made me angry. They'd schedule me there the same days with the most annoying of their supervisors (the guy loved the sound of his own voice and was on the intercom every 5-20 minutes) because it would re-stoke my cooling temper. They were turning me into a walking ball of stressed-out fury by default ON PURPOSE to make their department more efficient instead of hiring and properly training their people.
I left early that day and didn't come to work the next day. My 3 days off went by (40 hours a week, ten hours a day) and I went back on saturday. I went in with the firm decision that if I was put there for the second half of the day I wouldn't care. But, sure enough, not even ten seconds after I grabbed a scanner to get to work picking, the morning manager got my attention and told me to go to the pack department.
"NOPE!" I dropped the scanner on the floor, and told him "I've had enough! I QUIT!"
I should have quit years ago. Things had been going downhill there for a long time and I don't see them getting any better.
Nurse here: to oversimplify a situation I was told by my boss to commit gross mesical negligence thay could have resulted in permenent injury or death of the patient. I obviously refused, did what I was supposed to, and quit the next morning refusing to show up for my shift that day. (It's not abandonment in that situation. Quitting mid-shift would have been)
Worked a solo shift on a Saturday at Baskin Robbings during high school. Two masked guys came in, spray painted the cameras and proceeded to Rob me at gunpoint. After they took all the money. One leads me to the back and tells me to turn around, get on the ground and close my eyes. I thought i was going to die, my life literally flashed befoe my eyes.
When i opened my eyes, i didnt realize how much time i had passed. I called my manager and told him what happened. I tell him that i need to go home because im completely out of it, but he tells me that there isnt anyone else to cover me and i have to finish the shift.
I fucken walked out.
My manager forced me resign from a volunteer job I loved when I challenged her on paying me since the job I was doing was 4 steps above a volunteer and I wasn’t getting paid for it. She made it impossible to return after I had been unwell by setting impossible conditions for my return and I resigned in protest and I took 51% of my colleagues with me both paid and volunteer staff for the tourism site I worked at being 153 of them not including me and 154 including me immediately before a major event. Largely because they all resigned in protest.
Boss looked me in my eyes and said he’s training my replacement. Look forward to getting a new 30$ an hour job at a bank here shortly.
Not me, but my Mom.
My mom used to work at a ER. She started there as a secretary, but over the years she claimed her way up to some sort of management, we could say she was the 3rd in command. After the 4th year of her working there the owner grew a liking to her and the 2nd in command didn't liked that at all(2nd in command is a gold digger and fucked the owner for cash). So she started giving mom a ton more work and it got to the point where she would have nightmares about her job. So we decided to take a vacation, but the 2nd in command wouldnt let her. Got to the point where she screamed at my mom and insulted her, that was on a Friday. So a few days passed and it was Monday, little did anyone knew that mom sent an email quitting her job and the whole ER went to shit. They had to hire 3 employees to do the job mom was doing and they cant even do it right. Right now that place could close any minute now
The one with the boss coming into their room is BONKERS.
Lmao at the third shift gas station attendant, because AskReddit is what I listen to between 9pm and 6am every shift. Never met a lunatic I haven't liked. Stoners are the best customers, and drunks hold the best cigarette conversations. It certainly helps that I work at a slow station so I can take my time and enjoy some solitude
my boss even with 2 weeks notice wouldn't allow me to have the day after my older brothers 21st b day party off.
he called to tell me this halfway through a solo closing shift. I walked out on the spot and left the store unattended and unlocked without telling him then blocked his number. never got my last week's pay but it was worth.
Thought I'd end up on one of these when I started my job a year and 2 months ago..still there smh 😭
I could write a whole essay about all the petty reasons i wanted to leave, i can rant about it in detail if anyone wants to hear, but the main reason was that i found out a lot of things they did were extremely illegal. Unfortunately the statute of limitations had passed so i couldn't pursue legal action, but the very next day i wrote a letter of resignation, dropped it off, and walked out. I honestly wish i had done it sooner.