I was allowed a grievance holiday for a dead family member. Came back after a week to a letter stating that I had taken unnotified leave and was summoned into HR for a meeting. It turns out that my manager had never recorded my leave of absence, but went onto holidays herself. I looked for a new job, got the interview, strolled into the office with my resignation letter, my family member's death certificate, and all of the communication between my manager and I, that I sent to my private email about that holiday. HR looked at the paperwork during the meeting and fired my manager on the spot, since it was not her first mistake. I then handed my resignation letter. This was a good moment for me.
My husband was fired for something like that. Only his was for surgery. He couldn't get a doctor's note because the doctor had gone on holiday explained this to his dept.manager manager told him it was taken care he came back, general manager gave him a weird look and said we sent you a letter of termination. 1st off not a phone call, not an email a snail mail. And to the wrong fucking address.
@@EmberQuill at a place where there should be four or five, of course. Oh man this hit me in the feels. Worked in four entirely different fields and by far cooking is the most understaffed.
@@PatrickKellyLoneCoder Not that weird considering the amount of shitty bosses and shitty hours/back breaking work for shitty pay. I've met american cooks who came over to my country simply for better pay and benefits(we have a large shortage of good cooks and waiter/bartenders) and they told me about all the shitty places they worked in the US. So honestly US restaurant industry can blame themselves
@@zorken123 Over here, since at least the 80's there has been a serious problem with "work ethic" meaning ... work yourself to death for a 40 hour salary for a company that's making millions off your work, yet they don't care about you in the slightest. Somehow that's a "virtue". Some self flagellating masochistic nonsense really. Especially when you look up at the bosses, and they aren't making the sacrifices they expect of the little people. SO glad I don't work for any of those toxic companies anymore.
Thing is... If the guaranteed minimum wage is for 30h of work... (or whatever the hour is) and them the boss stretchs it into the weekends without pay difference... he is actually paying less than minimum wage
I was working flat out. My boss was on salary. In my 2 week pay period I had 80 regular hours and 60 overtime hours. Got my paycheck and saw only 10 overtime hours. Went to my boss and he said they would fix it the end of the year. They had a record of screwing people around so I told him I would rather be paid right away.. He said it wasn't possible and then he looked me in the eye and said it would not look good if I was getting paid more then him. When I finished swearing and choking I told the Idiot that I Quit and I wanted my full pay now. I worked processing fish when I left I grabbed a big handful of fish guts opened his car door I got down on my knees and ground the guts into the coils under the seat. That fixed the Bastard
Nothing, NOTHING, is as satisfying as seeing the impotent rage and fear of self-righteous pricks getting their comeuppance. I’d have loved to see how he screamed at her on his way out.
It's pretty clear that most of these stories are fake, but especially that one. What I bet happened is she was fired because she was actually worthless
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst Exaggerated, but not necessarily entirely fake. I worked in a tech support call center for 2 years and I've really seen some shit.
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst I wouldn’t go that far, you’d be surprised to see as to how easily karma works. It works in mysterious ways and when it hits you it hits you like a truck. It’s all just a matter of when it will hit
After 5 years of working at target as the leader of the electronics trainer, just to have outside hire take the position I was aiming for and then she, not knowing the difference between her pubes and an HDMI cable tried to tell me how to run the department in a completely inefficient way. I called osha and cost that specific target $72,000 in fines. I have the osha report proudly displayed on my wall.
Natendo i worked at a Kroger Grocery store and got tired of my manager’s shit so I quit and called OSHA on them for blocking the emergency exit with shopping carts. They had to watch safety videos for like a week.
when Microsoft decided to fire my entire company, we were lucky enough to find out before we'd finished our multi-million project for them. So we said, either give us a reason to finish it, or we're done. We all got 8 months severance pay.
frankly I don't believe firing Ensemble Studios was good for shareholder value. They had literally never sold less than a million copies of any game we'd done, and often much bigger sales were had. It was just for a couple guys stock manipulations, so to hell with Don Mattrick.
Omg when I worked at a popular fastfood chain as a kitchen worker my managers lost my direct deposit slips. When I confronted the general manager she called me a b*tch and went on a rant about things I didn't do. The last thing I did was ask if the kitchen staff was fine without me, took a pin off my hat and threw my uniform shirt at the manager. She tried to stop me. I called HR and got all the managers in deep sh*t because of all the things they did to employees.
I've conducted interviews where we give a skills test as a way to determine if someone actually has the necessary experience or if they were lying on their resume. I feel like cleaning a single cage would be a good way to see if the guy had any veterinary experience whatsoever, but after that it's just weird.
being lazy, after i retired from the navy, i picked up work as a rent-a-cop, minimum wage. i was also certified as armed guard (bring your own gun) which the boss/owner loved. shortest job i ever had. picked up a job as federal guard/military base police dispatcher, at 3 times the wage.
@@CErra310 I worked at a Chinese company repairing desktops and was paid minimum wage. Boss speak to me and told me that I wasn't worth anything more than minimum. Told me that my college education was worthless that the certification I was studying for which was tuned specifically to technical support and computer repair was useless for my job. Found a new job gave him my notice. We negotiated and said that ok I could leave by the end of the week because he needed time to find someone to replace me. I wanted to leave sooner and I didn't want to stay there for two weeks and he agreed. Person that replaces me is the biggest pussy, rich boy looking ass hole you had ever seen. I smiled and labeled everything and wished my boss well. Now in my job the heaviest desktops that you need to work on are about 40 lbs. Had one of them fall onto my finger before when putting it down and split my finger open. I can only imagine how the rich pussy is going to deal with this.
With several of these, if they begged me to come back for training, covering shifts etc. I'd just say "Certainly. No problem. Of course, as an independent contractor, here are my rates and here are the hours I'm available." Pitch it at a level that you know is a bit less than the cost of the havoc you caused and ignore any lower offers.
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reminds me of the "clients from hell" website, where Freelancers share stories of crazy "bosses". "that's when i fired the client."
My mom used to be the entire office staff for a small construction contractor. So, scheduling, billing, taxes, insurance, everything. The owners wife got laid off from her high paying job as an mortgage underwriter, so he decided to save money by laying my mom off. My mom was supposed to explain how things were done before she was replaced. His wife calls, she starts explaining something and she cuts her off with, “No, that’s not how that’s done, blah, blah.” Mom just tells her, okay, I’m glad you know how this all works. The owner had to take over the scheduling, after briefly trying to hire an answering service to do it. He had to hire an outside accountant to handle payroll and taxes. In the end, billing was about all his wife could manage. I imagine he still regrets that.
Quitting the wings place, and then going home to order 200 wings from the same place. Gotta hand it to you, that's the best feeling I could ever feel through a computer.
Worked a job for a supermarket for 13 years, stuck in a rut, moved to new store for last two years, decided to go and filling out Leaving questionnaire, last question "what is the main reason for you leaving" My Reply "most managers here think they are doing a good job running this store, in fact in my opinion they could not run a bath"
"cover your own shift" Pay me enough to bother. Minimum wage employees should not be expected to cover their own shifts. We do not care enough to call 11 Peoples.
Was promised the "better" soft serve ice cream van after it was repaired, didn't get it. Took the one I was driving to the police and had it assessed for roadworthiness it had to be recovered by flatbed towtruck after they finished their evaluation and was deemed complete compulsory write off due to defects , registration was cancelled permanently.
I remember once doing this in my physics class. A little background: I have Autism. There is a special dept in my school for socially lacking children which I went to. They never taught me to use an agenda and as an Autist I could barely plan as it is. This teacher had a policy that you had to write the chemistry lab rules if you forgot your homework, outside of class, where the next homework would be given. Not being used to having to ask my classmates for homework, a vicious cycle started. Forgot homework, had to stay out of class, forgot homework again. After three lessons of asking and negotiating ways I could get the homework without having to contact my classmates who lived far away, I just wrote a letter stating this could not go on like this anymore, left it for him to find and walked out of school. He listened to me after that
@@kevinspee7013 No, I'm saying that Autism isn't an excuse for not planning. From someone with a similar disorder to another. Impairing social function and impairing cognitive function are two different things. I went through a phase where I tried to blame my failures on autism, but it's just not a valid or healthy mindset. Your failures are your own, even through a dumb system. That teacher had a stupid system, but there are no excuses, only poor explanations.
@@jacob9673 Alright first off, I know. I should have learned how to plan way before this. It doesnt change the fact that I informed this teacher about my lack of planning skills ahead of this and he still chose to do nothing with it. In a perfect world I would have started to teach myself how to plan as soon as I saw the problem manifest but even then I couldnt have prevented what happened in reality. I see how you're upset that someone tries to use their 'handicap'/'disorder' to account for their mistakes but the truth is it's not the entire reason why I failed to be a good planner, just the easiest to understand for someone quickly scrolling through comments. Im sorry if I offended you in any way
Bad Jokes I as someone with autism working towards a computer it tech degree in college your ignorance and lack of understanding is truly sad. I don’t use it as a “crutch” hell before I went to semi online school my teachers not all just some of the jerk teachers told my parents that I would never get into college because of who I was. My parents were very active in my rights and a group that advocates for autistic kids rights. Basically lawyers who work pro bono got involved they were getting ready to sue and if I stayed could have because they did not follow the IEP which is a legally binding contract. Worse for them me and my family are friends with our district representative to the state of New Mexico and he was ready to get involved as well because they refused to follow my IEP. Autism is not a crutch I don’t use it as such I use it as a tool to prove these kinds of jerks wrong the original HS I went to told me I couldn’t do it. So I took the first chance to move to the best school in the district because there was an opening. After I moved it was hard as academic standards were higher but I worked through it plus it was just under 80 students to several teachers, HR and a consoler. The thing is that they made accommodations for me and these accommodations were not invasive and did not give me any edge of the other students they also followed through with my IEP my grades jumped up. Now I’m in Arizona studying for my AAS degree in a small college. I’m doing this because I want to and in cosmic way giving the finger to those who said I couldn’t. But without the understanding help and willingness to help of my teachers and counselors and even HR of that school I think I would still be here today but during my time in the first high school I was in I developed early signs of ptsd and my monthly visits to my shrink to turned to once every 2-3 weeks. Still I soldiered on. I’m what you would call high functioning autistic. I’m more aware of world issues politics and what goes on in my area like a normal person is also my rights as a student with autism. Missing class because your teacher is wants you to do something in regards to the agenda which I would have had to do if it weren’t for my IEP. Kevin has more protections and rights because he is different we are but I’m working my way to be as normal as I can be in society eyes but without compromising who i am. To Kevin Work hard, study ,do your best and if you can advocate for yourself. If it weren’t for my parents my second set of teachers and counselor as well as HR I would not be as good as advocating for what I need and who I am today. I wish you both best.
This is a second-hand story I heard from my dad once. The time and place is Philadelphia, in the 60s or 70s. The hero is a lowly city bus driver, with about thirty years in that job. Thirty years, on the same route. Thirty years, driving the same buses up and down the same one street. So one day, out of the blue, this gentleman decides "I've been driving this one route every day for thirty years. Today, I'm going to do something different." On the last scheduled run of the day, at every stop he makes something like the following announcement: "This is the XXX Bus running the length of XX Street. Passengers are advised that upon reaching the last scheduled stop this bus will continue directly to Florida. Any passengers wishing to travel to Florida are welcome to remain on board. Any passengers not wishing to travel to Florida are requested to deboard at the last scheduled stop." He actually did it. Finished his route and drove the bus all the way from Philadelphia to Florida. Apparently several passengers even took him up on the offer. Best combination of "I've been a good person all my life" and quitting in a blaze of glory that I've ever heard.
6:50 "every day is worse than the previous one" That's true for all call centers (I worked at several of them). Customer service is basically a liability to the company (it doesn't generate direct income), and they constantly look to cut corners wherever possible.
2:20 - first thing at a job interview... spot the difference between a *Here is a sample of what you may experience working here do this paper work etc to prove your knowledge* and *Hey your here for a the interview right?... here umm process...this umm sales order...that's just for practice...and we are in no way trying to squeeze some labor out of you for free* 😂😂😂 company wanted me to show them my skills with FedEx manager.... i punched in other information and wrote some notes (basically processed the order but using my own numbers to avoid giving them free labor ) the "test" was to ship via freight..... turns out their head and only person on shipping was ill and unable to return to work...so these guys were processing the orders and expected you to punch in the information and ship their merchandise...as a test... only to not find you qualified for the job...😂😂 a buddy that tried out for the interview gave me a heads up
Back when my uncle was an illegal immigrant from Mexico he was working in a construction job along with a rag tag group of other immigrants. His boss was a scum bag who took advantage of his worker's predicaments by just waving their paycheck over their heads basically paying them whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. Then there finally a tipping point where he refused to pay my uncle and his coworkers for almost 2 months so my uncle and 5 other guys who either had nothing to lose but something to gain or just generally planned ahead before doing this. decided to grab some tools and wait for their boss at his office. Where they then cornered him and threatened him with a long deserving ass kicking with my uncle telling him "look you can call the police or immigration but you're going to pay what you owe." Needless to say my uncle got paid that day and moved in and laid low with another uncle. Before he told me I never thought my uncle was capable of doing something so badass
Best one I have is, a few years ago I was about to come back from a vacation when I realized they had put me to start at a time they knew I couldn't make it and they refused to do anything about it, okay nice working with you. They forgot they'd scheduled me as the only closer for the big sale that weekend, in the shoe department that was at the time, the largest shoe department in my state. I didn't see their call come thru on Friday, but on Saturday I was at my local card shop playing in the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament they hold there, I pull out my phone to keep track of life points and oh look they're calling me... well now they're talking to my voicemail. The parent company went bankrupt 2 weeks later, funny enough. Edit: missing words
The only story I have is this: At a job I had already handed in my month's notice, I got into an accident and was signed off for a couple weeks, when I went back in (for my last 3 days of my notice) I was being written up for having too much time off in a year so I ended up taking the rest of my notice period off sick.
I would have paid to be allowed to sit in on the meeting where the new owners introduced the return of Kelly, the former manager who had so irritated the asshole...
I've been employee, manager, business owner/employer, and it's refreshing to me to hear that employees/prospective employees choose to simply leave without notice when they are treated badly. There's no requirement to accommodate an employer who should not be an employer.
In college, I worked in an Outback Steakhouse, with this manager who was a tyrant. I mean, literally, a tyrant. Public humiliations, especially toward the women. 0 tolerance policies. Hypocrite. Whole nine yards. It was reaching a boiling point. I never got yelled at, because I’m a good boy. But one day, this girl was getting yelled at. She was nice, and didn’t really get yelled at much. But she, the kind woman, had a talent for rap. A natural prodigy. She screamed her head off, getting the whole restaurant’s attention, then roasted the manager’s dead mom, her first and second husbands, her 3 miscarriages, and then told the manager “Everyone here finna quit”. We all left. The manager was left in tears.
Quit my job back in November last year. Grocery store clerk. My hours were getting cut severely and every reminder and hint I dropped at management and my boss about wanting more work was met with silence. So I quit. No 2 weeks notice. No final goodbyes. I just stopped going. Walking out of that store and not looking back is one of the best decisions I ever made. Respect is a two-way street guys. The absolute worst thing you can do to an employee is to treat them as if they are no longer needed or appreciated. Life is far too short to bicker and whine over work. Pursue an occupation that interests you, show people that you care about and are devoted to their needs and opinions. Unless you love everybody, you can't sell anybody.
I got blamed for something not my fault in the same week the new ASM forced me to change how many days off I had a week (from two to one for a part time job) I nearly had a panic attack before my shift and my mom straight up said “want me to drive you to quit” I wrote a one sentence letter of resignation and handed it to the guy who hired me saying “I am no longer working here if you wish to know call me at the number enclosed…. Sorry” I got a call two hours after saying I missed my shift and just said “I don’t work for you guys anymore” and the lady who I knew Sounded annoyed and sad. I got an exit survey and ripped the manager who tried to blame me in it and I guess combined with a ton of people leaving after me that week on his watch he got demoted.
0:50 I miss blackout meetings.shit always cracked me up. Can't tell you how many times I was fired or quit to be called an hour later asking me where I was. Sales was fun
*this is probably too much back story but it's how I write, I'm sorry* I didn't exactly quit but I'm transfering to another location. So I work at a "popular" sandwich shop, and I have been there for 2 years. I have seen so many workers come and go, especially people being hired as supervisors on the first day. My store has also been through two managers, not including the present one now. So he was looking for a new supervisor to take the place of the one he fired for so many reasons I agreed with; so I had brought to his attention that I wanted to become a supervisor if he thinks I'm ready for it, having been there 2 years, going to the bank cause he doesn't drive, working all the shifts I can get and covering for anyone who calls out, working overtime, working double shifts, working on my only day off, only calling out twice myself in two years, and doing deliveries with my own car even though our store doesn't deliver. He said "alright if you really want me to, I could start teaching you some things" I said cool and we left it at that. Fast forward three weeks, and no training has been done with me, but the newest guy there (who has a really bad attitude problem and doesn't do well under pressure, especially if ONE customer orders four large sandwiches while we're not busy), is all of the sudden labeled "supervisor" on the schedule. I asked the manager about it, and he's gonna tell me "yeah I just don't think your ready for the position". I cried my heart out on the way home after work I was so hurt and felt betrayed and lied to. For the next schedule and all the schedules after that, even for this week, the two people who call out the most (I'm talking four times a week, sometimes the whole week), got the most hours while I'm stuck at 20-27 hours a week if I'm lucky. Fast forward maybe three weeks and I get a text from him asking if I want extra hours and asking if I was up for working at another location a half hour away from where I live because that store just had three people quit and they are understaffed for the day. I said sure, I really need them.... It was busy as fuck, but I knew my job and I handled it well, I impressed them so much, all of them were saying "you should come work over here", while some were jokingly saying "so your working over here from now on, right?😂" After working over there for about a month or two now whenever they need me and I'm available, I had decided that I liked it there, being appreciated and being seen for all the work I do. So after I asked the manager there if I could actually transfer, he said yes and was really happy about it, telling me that it would be great to have me there because everyone already loves me and I'm a really hard worker. He even said "if we get you transfered, I want to train you for supervisor position" cause we had talked about it and he was really shocked that I wasn't already one.The next day I worked at my store, my manager comes up to me and says, "so ****(his manager) told me to hire more people because your leaving" I said "yup, they like me over there and want me to be a supervisor, they actually see my potential and leadership for the supervisor position. And over there I don't have to deal with supervisors with a bad attitude." He just nodded and had that pikachu meme face (if you know what I mean). After everyone else at that store found out I was leaving, they were all shocked and some were "sad to see me go" telling that they'll "miss me". I'll never forget the proud karma feeling I had when he asked me if I was really leaving
Drove two hours for an interview at an east coast utility company for a mid level management position. I got there, was shown to a private room to wait in for the interviewer, and proceeded to sit there. Exactly 1 hour later, I walked out of the room and told the receptionist I was leaving. She was horrified and started apologizing and trying to get ahold of someone on the phone. I stopped her and said don't bother, this didn't seem like a good fit for me already. She then told me I should swing through the break room on the way out at the very least. I did, and helped myself to a couple donuts and a few cookies, then emptied their entire coffee pot into my travel mug. When their HR called me another HOUR later, I told them I was already halfway home, but thanks for the snacks. Got practically the same job at a another utility company much closer to home a few weeks later. My only regret is that I never did see anyone in person that I could have properly told to go F right off.
Not sure if this qualifies, but..... Had a boss that was a complete jackhole, I was a truck driver and had more experience than all the other drivers there combined. (Almost 2 million professional miles over 24 years.). So one day I get called into office to explain how a truck had been damaged, and what did I run into, and why I had not reported it. I told him I didn't report it because I hadn't run into anything. He proceeds to call me a liar, pulls out my file, and is telling me he's writing an official reprimand for damaging the truck. Before he started writing, I put my fists on his desk and leaned toward him to get his attention. (I'm 6'3" 415 lbs., and could dead lift 585.). I calmly told him, if he wrote me up, not only would I quit on the spot, but, before I left, I would bounce his ass from one end of the warehouse to the other. Didn't get written up, but left on my own accord 3 days later, after interviewing with another trucking company.
When I left my job the hoses used to clean the showers in the locker rooms malfunctioned and flooded the locker room floors... and I randomized the tills
The Comcast Story speaks volumes to me. I worked there as a tech for a little over a year. My boss was an ass. I would be given jobs a litteral hour away from each other and I was berated for not being there at the scheduled time. One day I had a trouble call at a massive retail store and nearly their entire system was ran off our service. It was about 45 minutes away from my previous job. I got a call from my boss chewing me out again. I said fuck it. My boss was about to go on his lunch so I called my then girlfriend to meet me at the office. I just took all my personal belongings out of the van and left a sloppy written notice in the seat with my keys on his desk. I just went home. I have no idea what came of it but I know he got his ass chewed by his boss and the store went at least the rest of that day not able to do anything. Granted it was shitty of me as the store did nothing wrong to me but I couldn't do it anymore. I got a job at (then charter) spectrum about 4 months later and haven't looked back. Basically the same thing now except my boss has the common sense to know that I'm going to be late if I have a 10 to 11 and the other job is an 11 to 12 that is almost an hour away and we simply notify the customer. A good boss makes all the difference. From an employee side, screw Comcast
Call center for sending non commital advisors to businesses turned into a sales rep call center, with targets, pay cuts, and being outed and humiliated if you did not meet the target for the day. 15 other people left that week. Fuck that shit.
My brother went to work at a chicken processing center, quit the second day. When we asked him why he simply repeated the following sentence over and over… “take the chicken put it in the box, take the chicken put it in the box”. 😂
I worked at a cardroom in California as a third-party prop player. TLDR job description: you can't play against the house in a cardroom, so you play against us instead. These places are cesspools, especially on the table game (non-poker) side. Everyone there is a gambling addict that spends every waking hour there. You'd have 6-8 people standing over a Baccarat table that already has 8 people seated, some of them leaning over or reaching across you to place a bet. I felt like a sardine in a can. For their part, the casinos would do everything they could to scam us since their money wasn't on the line and the dealers and floorpeople live on tips, and even if you told your supervisors that dealers weren't following procedure or straight up cheating to help players out, they wouldn't do anything because they were afraid to stand up to casino staff for fear of being replaced by a different company. Did I mention that my shift was 4PM-Midnight, no weekends or holidays off, and we usually had to work overtime because the hiring process was so time-consuming (including getting a badge from the Sheriff's Dept. that cost $500 which the company expected you to reimburse them for) that they never bothered to hire anyone new? There wasn't any one particular "last straw" moment or anything, just a buildup of having smelly, toothless degenerate gamblers climb on top of me and scream in my ears over a period of about four years. When I found a new job, they told me at 12:15 AM that I needed to stay for overtime, at which point I replied that I'm leaving in five minutes whether someone was there to replace me or not. They got someone to sit for me, I clocked out, and pealed out of the casino parking lot.
@@coolchrisj I did! Working in television now. Just got a promotion. I love the work I do and am so glad I don't work in those God-forsaken places anymore.
I worked at a Cabinet Shop in a certain Southwestern, American city, where everything was bad, the pay, the bosses, the working conditions, the hours, and the bad communication. I wanted to give the clowns, a 2 week notice, but I felt that they didn't deserve it. Took lunch and never went back, and left them lots of work!!
Not your usual "blaze of glory" but it said what I was feeling - I managed a retail store for 5 years and on my last day - I just handed my keys and badge to the CS person and walked out the door without a single good by to anybody. Sometimes saying/doing nothing says it all.
We can’t all just quit our jobs in a blaze of glory because we aren’t being treated right. But I appreciate everyone of you who has the ability to walk away and does so when called for. Sends a message to our employers that they can’t treat everyone like shit.
15:14 Quit from a restaurant that makes wings and then ordered 200 wings. I really hope it was from the same restaurant. That may be the most savage example of instant revenge I've ever seen.
I once had an internship via a thrift store for a third party company (for training purposes). They made a contract with a company (for me) that made graphics for phones. The contract was supposed to say that they would hire me on. Instead, they said they would be open to a 6 month internship before they would decide. The internship was supposed to include software training and graphics apprenticing, instead I got stuck with stuffing boxes for 8 hours with no pay. About 4 months in, I found out that they were just using me for free labor and were gonna get rid of me once the 6 month perios was up. One of the coworkers actually rubbed it in my face and gloated how she was planning on making a career out of it. I laughed when she said $15 an hour was her dream job (no benefits). Well one day, a big argument breaks out between the ceo of this small company and his head designer about copyright issues (I'm being really modest here, the company was composed of maybe 7 people tops). The designer says he can't just keep using images off of google and the ceo tells him he can find a new job if he keeps running his mouth. Fast forward a week, and I get a call from my pos manager (who made up the terms of the contract) and told me in a gruff voice not to come in that day "or ever again for that matter". I asked him why, and it turns out the business was in pending litigation for copyright infringement and they fired everyone. I visited that place 6 months later and the building was gone. I wound up getting hired by a Union and started making 30 an hour, plus benefits. I still laugh about that one!
1:15 ...umm forcing you to work through lunch?.... isn't that a violation of labor laws in the United states? 😂😂 you keep the job and then sue the crap out of the manager...
I quit many jobs (like #1 did) n took many ppl with me. One particular hotel I worked at, my boss was fired (change over from new owners), I told her if she gets fired I’d quit n take half this crew w other me. I did quit, and everyone but 1 girl left in a week or so. Hotel had no one to clean the damn rooms. Tip: if u piss off the ppl who clean the rooms, u won’t have a hotel. They ARE the back ones of the business. Just saying ...
At my second job, I quit after writing a letter to the HR department reporting my supervisor. I was involved in a car accident but my supervisor did not care. She didn't even bother to ask how I was doing and if I was hurt. A lady from the financial department emailed me that I owed them money and I emailed her back saying I don't owe them anything. My supervisor called me to her office and went off on me. She was saying I will never find another job again and she will make sure to not recommend me for my "attitude". She sent me back to work after that. I called my mom as soon as I got home and she told me to report her . I wrote a letter to the HR department reporting my supervisor, went to HR and explained what happened as soon as I got to work the next morning, picked up my last check, packed up my things and walked right out of there.
Yes, the walk across the street to get a 30% raise DOES really happen in Silicon Valley! I left the company that begins with the letter A and the letter D in a blaze of glory after another " reorganizing " that was their middle finger extension to the employees. I just grabbed my tools and walked out on swing shift, with the message " I quit " on the local printer ( no e-mail, yet ). I met a former co-worker 2 weeks later and he mentioned just how much upheaval my exit caused. Get used to it.
the_punnisher To be a professional, it is expected to give a two weeks notice. There is no reason to be professional to people who act like...that though. If they want to keep great workers, they need to know those workers are not common - the market is saturated with people who have credentials but not skill. Happy that you found a far better career now, pick your price and never sell yourself for less - and always update your worth!
My time at Burger King was horrid, I lasted 2 shifts and 10 minutes of one, I got the job because I was struggling and wanted the extra cash, first day was great just learning the ropes, my second day I closed, I had to do the cooks duties, I was a cashier, if I wanted to leave on time. The next shift after I'm tired because I had an anxiety attack the night before and couldn't sleep, I was tired and stressed, first thing that is said to me when I walk in is "you need to clean up your beard" literally did that morning, got pulled in to the office, was told again, then I get a comment on my attitude, don't want to be there im tired and stressed out, he offers to send me home, so I say see you tomorrow, he then replies ill take you off for the week. Just threw my hat at his desk and quit, next day just threw the shirt on the front counter and left. Fuck burger king.
Employers always seem to forget their business is nothing without employees. My mum was fired from her job as a nurse (She did nothing wrong, but nursing is like, a cesspool of bullying among nurses. The chronic liar wanted to make an example and chose my mum), but she's still on the facebook page and email list. They're always super short staffed. Mystery why.
17:40 I’m pretty curious about stuff too! As of right now, I’m watching some Reddit Stories on UA-cam on my TV and replacing every block in a Villager Outpost in Minecraft with nether blocks cuz I think it looks cool, it’s right by a village, and I just feel like living there. What about you, Curious Cow?
My old man left a job like a legend. Funniest thing was he warned the manager what would happen if wasn't feeling it during his interview. My dad is a mechanic by trade. Guy can fix pretty much anything given enough time and resources. After being let go from his last job due to the boss being a snake (which is an even longer story), my dad decided that he will not be mistreated any manager he works for, because he was the one with the skills, not his boss. During his interview with a local service shop, he told the manager that if he gets yelled at by her and he doesn't have it coming, he would lock up his tool box and wheel right out the door. Well a couple months go by and the manager starts getting on his ass about a job not getting done fast enough. This is in the Rust Belt where every other car is corroded all to hell, so getting breaking loose bolts and other components can take a very long time. Finally he had enough, threw done his tools and asked to speak privately with her. He repeated his warning about what would happen if she yelled at him and made it clear that this would be the last time this would happen. Well she laid off of him, but instead turned her wrath on other the other employees, mostly the oil and tire techs. Most of these guys were high school kids and could do a way better job than what she ever could, so my dad started getting fed up with this toxic environment and started looking for other shops in town to work for. Eventually, he got an interview with tire and service shop down the road who was the biggest competitor of the shop my dad currently worked for. My dad was planning on putting in his two weeks notice, but then his manager went ballistic on one of the poor oil techs and laid into the guy so badly over something that was essentially spilled milk. During his break, my dad called up the rival shop and asked them if they could bring a truck over to grab his tool box and asked if he could start immediately the next day. Rival shop happily obliged. My dad left break, gathered up his tools, threw them in his tool box, locked it up and a minute after he did that the rival shop's truck pulled up. As my dad wheeled his tool box out the door towards the truck, his (former) manager came running out asking him frantically why he was leaving. He basically told her that he was tired of how she was treating her employees and explained to her again of what would happen if wasn't feeling it anymore. He got into his truck and I would say he drove off into the sunset, but it was mid afternoon in the middle of summer, so that cliche didn't happen, unfortunately. He still works for the rival shop and says he's much happier there.
I'd say the best time to quit a job that you hated because of the workers is when it is extremely understaffed, something like you and the managers only and then quit right there, leaving all the work for the manager
That teddy story was awesome. Anyone that speaks to anyone else like that ..employee or no...should never be In a position where they are managing people. Remember folks your managers have a boss too. Complain if they treat you like shit. The further up the promotion the more that shit sticks. HR really have to act on complaints about people who manage others. Because they are meant to be able to do that ie. Manage people. So your complaint carries weight.
I was allowed a grievance holiday for a dead family member.
Came back after a week to a letter stating that I had taken unnotified leave and was summoned into HR for a meeting.
It turns out that my manager had never recorded my leave of absence, but went onto holidays herself.
I looked for a new job, got the interview, strolled into the office with my resignation letter, my family member's death certificate, and all of the communication between my manager and I, that I sent to my private email about that holiday.
HR looked at the paperwork during the meeting and fired my manager on the spot, since it was not her first mistake.
I then handed my resignation letter.
This was a good moment for me.
This made me happy. Thanks for sharing
My husband was fired for something like that. Only his was for surgery. He couldn't get a doctor's note because the doctor had gone on holiday explained this to his dept.manager manager told him it was taken care he came back, general manager gave him a weird look and said we sent you a letter of termination. 1st off not a phone call, not an email a snail mail. And to the wrong fucking address.
@@kewlusername6692 I hope u were able to get something for wrongful termination
"Threw a package of ham through the ceiling and walked out."
I can't even imagine seeing that as a customer. I would have laughed like hell.
Tomb Cross
“Dude, I’ll give you a 20 to do that again while I record it!”
Even if he refuses, he’s getting a 10 from me.
😂💕😂💕😂 that was beautiful 😍😘♥️
I would walk out of there with him
and then, i would never have come back.
I would raise a finger questioningly, stare at it, and go “uhhh...”
"oh, this shift is going to be terrible with just two of us!"
"well, I'd imagine it'd be worse with just one. I quit, Jerry, good luck."
There would be 0 people if i was the last person 😂😂😂😂😂 pretty sure i would leave a note saying " reason bad management"
No, the last is the manager himself.
Of course, given what the redditor said, he pretty much counts as negative 2 workers...
They'll always tell you "cooks are a dime a dozen" when you ask for something. Yet there's always trouble finding a cook to fill the position.
"Cooks are a dime a dozen."
"Then why have you only hired two?"
@@EmberQuill at a place where there should be four or five, of course. Oh man this hit me in the feels.
Worked in four entirely different fields and by far cooking is the most understaffed.
@@PatrickKellyLoneCoder Not that weird considering the amount of shitty bosses and shitty hours/back breaking work for shitty pay. I've met american cooks who came over to my country simply for better pay and benefits(we have a large shortage of good cooks and waiter/bartenders) and they told me about all the shitty places they worked in the US. So honestly US restaurant industry can blame themselves
@@zorken123 Over here, since at least the 80's there has been a serious problem with "work ethic" meaning ... work yourself to death for a 40 hour salary for a company that's making millions off your work, yet they don't care about you in the slightest.
Somehow that's a "virtue". Some self flagellating masochistic nonsense really. Especially when you look up at the bosses, and they aren't making the sacrifices they expect of the little people. SO glad I don't work for any of those toxic companies anymore.
So are restaurants a few a block what is your point?
"You're guaranteed minimum wage"
Yeah, I am guaranteed minimum wage at literally every job, that's why it's called that.
Thing is... If the guaranteed minimum wage is for 30h of work... (or whatever the hour is) and them the boss stretchs it into the weekends without pay difference... he is actually paying less than minimum wage
@@k4zum4s4m4 yup, by the way, isn't doing that kinda illegal anyways? (I mean, if you haven't sign a paper agreeing to it)
I was working flat out. My boss was on salary.
In my 2 week pay period I had 80 regular hours and
60 overtime hours. Got my paycheck and saw only 10 overtime hours. Went to my boss and he said they would fix it the end of the year. They had a record of screwing people around so I told him I would rather be paid right away.. He said it wasn't possible and then he looked me in the eye and said it would not look good if I was getting paid more then him. When I finished swearing and choking I told the Idiot that I Quit and I wanted my full pay now. I worked processing fish when I left I grabbed a big handful of fish guts opened his car door I got down on my knees and ground the guts into the coils under the seat. That fixed the Bastard
Flo Lmao 😂
Brian Peters Did you ever get your overtime pay?
The story about Teddy was the best karma I've ever seen.
Nothing, NOTHING, is as satisfying as seeing the impotent rage and fear of self-righteous pricks getting their comeuppance. I’d have loved to see how he screamed at her on his way out.
It's pretty clear that most of these stories are fake, but especially that one. What I bet happened is she was fired because she was actually worthless
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst Exaggerated, but not necessarily entirely fake. I worked in a tech support call center for 2 years and I've really seen some shit.
Be careful who's toes you step on on the way up the ladder. They might be connected to the ass you have to kiss on the way down.
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst I wouldn’t go that far, you’d be surprised to see as to how easily karma works. It works in mysterious ways and when it hits you it hits you like a truck. It’s all just a matter of when it will hit
After 5 years of working at target as the leader of the electronics trainer, just to have outside hire take the position I was aiming for and then she, not knowing the difference between her pubes and an HDMI cable tried to tell me how to run the department in a completely inefficient way. I called osha and cost that specific target $72,000 in fines. I have the osha report proudly displayed on my wall.
Natendo i worked at a Kroger Grocery store and got tired of my manager’s shit so I quit and called OSHA on them for blocking the emergency exit with shopping carts. They had to watch safety videos for like a week.
😭
when Microsoft decided to fire my entire company, we were lucky enough to find out before we'd finished our multi-million project for them. So we said, either give us a reason to finish it, or we're done. We all got 8 months severance pay.
Wow your team threatened MS, got a severance package, and live to tell the tale? This is gold!
@@Joekool88 It wasn't the first time either. Thanks to the deal, we got huge severance, Robot Entertainment was born, and MS got Halo Wars.
Well done. Stand up to big bullies!
frankly I don't believe firing Ensemble Studios was good for shareholder value. They had literally never sold less than a million copies of any game we'd done, and often much bigger sales were had. It was just for a couple guys stock manipulations, so to hell with Don Mattrick.
Well don
Omg when I worked at a popular fastfood chain as a kitchen worker my managers lost my direct deposit slips. When I confronted the general manager she called me a b*tch and went on a rant about things I didn't do. The last thing I did was ask if the kitchen staff was fine without me, took a pin off my hat and threw my uniform shirt at the manager. She tried to stop me. I called HR and got all the managers in deep sh*t because of all the things they did to employees.
Loved the story with Teddy and Kelly.. just loved it.
"Your school or your career". Since when is a busser a career? If that was the case he wouldn't have been in school to begin with! lol
How are you going to call someone in for a job interview and expect them to do work without hiring them? What is this non sense.
I've conducted interviews where we give a skills test as a way to determine if someone actually has the necessary experience or if they were lying on their resume. I feel like cleaning a single cage would be a good way to see if the guy had any veterinary experience whatsoever, but after that it's just weird.
They werent actually gonna hire him, they wanted free work.
Kelly and Teddy story.
Teddy: "Why do I hear Boss music?"
Kelly: 😀 "It's because I'M the Boss."
"Look at me, I am the captain now."
Teddy: you’re fired
Kelly: *no u*
Working for minimum wage as a mechanic isn't even rent for their tools.
How is being garunteed minimum wage even an argument? Might as well work at Walmart of McDonalds with that logic.
@@aria5614 doing what you like I guess? but that shouldn't be a reason for a skilled tech to work minwage
being lazy, after i retired from the navy, i picked up work as a rent-a-cop, minimum wage. i was also certified as armed guard (bring your own gun) which the boss/owner loved. shortest job i ever had. picked up a job as federal guard/military base police dispatcher, at 3 times the wage.
Ikr?
@@CErra310 I worked at a Chinese company repairing desktops and was paid minimum wage. Boss speak to me and told me that I wasn't worth anything more than minimum. Told me that my college education was worthless that the certification I was studying for which was tuned specifically to technical support and computer repair was useless for my job. Found a new job gave him my notice. We negotiated and said that ok I could leave by the end of the week because he needed time to find someone to replace me. I wanted to leave sooner and I didn't want to stay there for two weeks and he agreed. Person that replaces me is the biggest pussy, rich boy looking ass hole you had ever seen. I smiled and labeled everything and wished my boss well. Now in my job the heaviest desktops that you need to work on are about 40 lbs. Had one of them fall onto my finger before when putting it down and split my finger open. I can only imagine how the rich pussy is going to deal with this.
With several of these, if they begged me to come back for training, covering shifts etc. I'd just say "Certainly. No problem. Of course, as an independent contractor, here are my rates and here are the hours I'm available." Pitch it at a level that you know is a bit less than the cost of the havoc you caused and ignore any lower offers.
reminds me of the "clients from hell" website, where Freelancers share stories of crazy "bosses".
"that's when i fired the client."
And each time they hesitate, raise your rate.
My mom used to be the entire office staff for a small construction contractor. So, scheduling, billing, taxes, insurance, everything.
The owners wife got laid off from her high paying job as an mortgage underwriter, so he decided to save money by laying my mom off.
My mom was supposed to explain how things were done before she was replaced. His wife calls, she starts explaining something and she cuts her off with, “No, that’s not how that’s done, blah, blah.”
Mom just tells her, okay, I’m glad you know how this all works.
The owner had to take over the scheduling, after briefly trying to hire an answering service to do it. He had to hire an outside accountant to handle payroll and taxes.
In the end, billing was about all his wife could manage. I imagine he still regrets that.
Shame lol
Your mom is amazing and underappreciated, treat her well
@@Shakera... I do my best. By coincidence, she’s here with me on vacation in Brazil now lol.
Quitting the wings place, and then going home to order 200 wings from the same place. Gotta hand it to you, that's the best feeling I could ever feel through a computer.
Never met Kelly but so happy for her. That must have been an epic payback time
"You're fired"
*pulls out reverse Uno card*
"No you are"
no u
@@patrickaizpurua9468 no u
@@CFox_ no u
@Egg Gaming Pro no u
All of you, you're fired.
Worked a job for a supermarket for 13 years, stuck in a rut, moved to new store for last two years, decided to go and filling out Leaving questionnaire, last question "what is the main reason for you leaving"
My Reply
"most managers here think they are doing a good job running this store, in fact in my opinion they could not run a bath"
Roses are red
Taxes are mandatory
“Redditors who quit their jobs in a blaze of glory
What’s your story”
Roses are red
Minimum wage guarantee
Longer hours for same pay
McDonald's is hiring
I love you, Kyle.
"cover your own shift"
Pay me enough to bother.
Minimum wage employees should not be expected to cover their own shifts.
We do not care enough to call 11 Peoples.
Its like they always say "pay minimum wage, expect minimum effort."
The Comcast one... I'm Canadian, and even I know why their vans get parking tickets. 😂
Most hated company in America
@@ionthegravity2 around the world
@@halo3rat_709 in the solar system.
@The Lone Longma in the material realm.
@@robotbjorn4952 On all planes of existence.
Teddy: 😡
Kelly: 😒
*Some time passes*
Kelly: 😊
Teddy: 😦
I fecking love this. The chef at the wings restaurant- yes!
Kelly Johnson- hell yea!!
When he quit the wing joint he should have added an extra touch and went out to the road and put up a sign. "ALL WINGS . . . HALF PRICES!!!!"
It would be better for the restaurant to shut down for the day at this point.
If a company pays you minimum wage, they're basically just saying "If I could get away with paying you nothing, I would"
Damn Kelly. Good move.
Was promised the "better" soft serve ice cream van after it was repaired, didn't get it. Took the one I was driving to the police and had it assessed for roadworthiness it had to be recovered by flatbed towtruck after they finished their evaluation and was deemed complete compulsory write off due to defects , registration was cancelled permanently.
Guy i knew line cook getting chewed out by a chef finally snaped took all the tickets and dumped them in a fryer then walked out
I remember once doing this in my physics class. A little background:
I have Autism. There is a special dept in my school for socially lacking children which I went to. They never taught me to use an agenda and as an Autist I could barely plan as it is.
This teacher had a policy that you had to write the chemistry lab rules if you forgot your homework, outside of class, where the next homework would be given. Not being used to having to ask my classmates for homework, a vicious cycle started. Forgot homework, had to stay out of class, forgot homework again. After three lessons of asking and negotiating ways I could get the homework without having to contact my classmates who lived far away, I just wrote a letter stating this could not go on like this anymore, left it for him to find and walked out of school. He listened to me after that
As someone with Autism working on a degree in chemical engineering the idea that it could affect your academics is absurd.
@@jacob9673
You mean to say that I could have found a way to get the homework anyway?
@@kevinspee7013 No, I'm saying that Autism isn't an excuse for not planning. From someone with a similar disorder to another. Impairing social function and impairing cognitive function are two different things. I went through a phase where I tried to blame my failures on autism, but it's just not a valid or healthy mindset. Your failures are your own, even through a dumb system.
That teacher had a stupid system, but there are no excuses, only poor explanations.
@@jacob9673
Alright first off, I know. I should have learned how to plan way before this. It doesnt change the fact that I informed this teacher about my lack of planning skills ahead of this and he still chose to do nothing with it. In a perfect world I would have started to teach myself how to plan as soon as I saw the problem manifest but even then I couldnt have prevented what happened in reality. I see how you're upset that someone tries to use their 'handicap'/'disorder' to account for their mistakes but the truth is it's not the entire reason why I failed to be a good planner, just the easiest to understand for someone quickly scrolling through comments. Im sorry if I offended you in any way
Bad Jokes I as someone with autism working towards a computer it tech degree in college your ignorance and lack of understanding is truly sad.
I don’t use it as a “crutch” hell before I went to semi online school my teachers not all just some of the jerk teachers told my parents that I would never get into college because of who I was. My parents were very active in my rights and a group that advocates for autistic kids rights. Basically lawyers who work pro bono got involved they were getting ready to sue and if I stayed could have because they did not follow the IEP which is a legally binding contract.
Worse for them me and my family are friends with our district representative to the state of New Mexico and he was ready to get involved as well because they refused to follow my IEP.
Autism is not a crutch I don’t use it as such I use it as a tool to prove these kinds of jerks wrong the original HS I went to told me I couldn’t do it. So I took the first chance to move to the best school in the district because there was an opening. After I moved it was hard as academic standards were higher but I worked through it plus it was just under 80 students to several teachers, HR and a consoler. The thing is that they made accommodations for me and these accommodations were not invasive and did not give me any edge of the other students they also followed through with my IEP my grades jumped up.
Now I’m in Arizona studying for my AAS degree in a small college. I’m doing this because I want to and in cosmic way giving the finger to those who said I couldn’t.
But without the understanding help and willingness to help of my teachers and counselors and even HR of that school I think I would still be here today but during my time in the first high school I was in I developed early signs of ptsd and my monthly visits to my shrink to turned to once every 2-3 weeks. Still I soldiered on.
I’m what you would call high functioning autistic. I’m more aware of world issues politics and what goes on in my area like a normal person is also my rights as a student with autism.
Missing class because your teacher is wants you to do something in regards to the agenda which I would have had to do if it weren’t for my IEP. Kevin has more protections and rights because he is different we are but I’m working my way to be as normal as I can be in society eyes but without compromising who i am.
To Kevin
Work hard, study ,do your best and if you can advocate for yourself. If it weren’t for my parents my second set of teachers and counselor as well as HR I would not be as good as advocating for what I need and who I am today. I wish you both best.
This is a second-hand story I heard from my dad once.
The time and place is Philadelphia, in the 60s or 70s. The hero is a lowly city bus driver, with about thirty years in that job. Thirty years, on the same route. Thirty years, driving the same buses up and down the same one street. So one day, out of the blue, this gentleman decides "I've been driving this one route every day for thirty years. Today, I'm going to do something different." On the last scheduled run of the day, at every stop he makes something like the following announcement: "This is the XXX Bus running the length of XX Street. Passengers are advised that upon reaching the last scheduled stop this bus will continue directly to Florida. Any passengers wishing to travel to Florida are welcome to remain on board. Any passengers not wishing to travel to Florida are requested to deboard at the last scheduled stop."
He actually did it. Finished his route and drove the bus all the way from Philadelphia to Florida. Apparently several passengers even took him up on the offer. Best combination of "I've been a good person all my life" and quitting in a blaze of glory that I've ever heard.
Isn't that thievery though?
@@colejosephalexanderkashay683 Yes it is, and I'm sure he was fired and charged, but stilll...
6:50 "every day is worse than the previous one"
That's true for all call centers (I worked at several of them).
Customer service is basically a liability to the company (it doesn't generate direct income), and they constantly look to cut corners wherever possible.
I worked at one once. Never again.
Kelly story is pure poetic justice, love it. *Chef Kiss*
2:20 - first thing at a job interview... spot the difference between a *Here is a sample of what you may experience working here do this paper work etc to prove your knowledge* and *Hey your here for a the interview right?... here umm process...this umm sales order...that's just for practice...and we are in no way trying to squeeze some labor out of you for free*
😂😂😂 company wanted me to show them my skills with FedEx manager.... i punched in other information and wrote some notes (basically processed the order but using my own numbers to avoid giving them free labor ) the "test" was to ship via freight..... turns out their head and only person on shipping was ill and unable to return to work...so these guys were processing the orders and expected you to punch in the information and ship their merchandise...as a test... only to not find you qualified for the job...😂😂 a buddy that tried out for the interview gave me a heads up
Ship it to a friend
Back when my uncle was an illegal immigrant from Mexico he was working in a construction job along with a rag tag group of other immigrants. His boss was a scum bag who took advantage of his worker's predicaments by just waving their paycheck over their heads basically paying them whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. Then there finally a tipping point where he refused to pay my uncle and his coworkers for almost 2 months so my uncle and 5 other guys who either had nothing to lose but something to gain or just generally planned ahead before doing this. decided to grab some tools and wait for their boss at his office. Where they then cornered him and threatened him with a long deserving ass kicking with my uncle telling him "look you can call the police or immigration but you're going to pay what you owe." Needless to say my uncle got paid that day and moved in and laid low with another uncle. Before he told me I never thought my uncle was capable of doing something so badass
Best one I have is, a few years ago I was about to come back from a vacation when I realized they had put me to start at a time they knew I couldn't make it and they refused to do anything about it, okay nice working with you. They forgot they'd scheduled me as the only closer for the big sale that weekend, in the shoe department that was at the time, the largest shoe department in my state. I didn't see their call come thru on Friday, but on Saturday I was at my local card shop playing in the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament they hold there, I pull out my phone to keep track of life points and oh look they're calling me... well now they're talking to my voicemail. The parent company went bankrupt 2 weeks later, funny enough.
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The only story I have is this:
At a job I had already handed in my month's notice, I got into an accident and was signed off for a couple weeks, when I went back in (for my last 3 days of my notice) I was being written up for having too much time off in a year so I ended up taking the rest of my notice period off sick.
I would have paid to be allowed to sit in on the meeting where the new owners introduced the return of Kelly, the former manager who had so irritated the asshole...
That. Is. Amazing.
I've been employee, manager, business owner/employer, and it's refreshing to me to hear that employees/prospective employees choose to simply leave without notice when they are treated badly. There's no requirement to accommodate an employer who should not be an employer.
In college, I worked in an Outback Steakhouse, with this manager who was a tyrant. I mean, literally, a tyrant. Public humiliations, especially toward the women. 0 tolerance policies. Hypocrite. Whole nine yards. It was reaching a boiling point. I never got yelled at, because I’m a good boy. But one day, this girl was getting yelled at. She was nice, and didn’t really get yelled at much. But she, the kind woman, had a talent for rap. A natural prodigy. She screamed her head off, getting the whole restaurant’s attention, then roasted the manager’s dead mom, her first and second husbands, her 3 miscarriages, and then told the manager “Everyone here finna quit”. We all left. The manager was left in tears.
"Farted in the overhead."
Such a 'Peter Griffin' thing to do.
Well, what do you expect when they grind your gears like that?
Quit my job back in November last year. Grocery store clerk. My hours were getting cut severely and every reminder and hint I dropped at management and my boss about wanting more work was met with silence. So I quit. No 2 weeks notice. No final goodbyes. I just stopped going. Walking out of that store and not looking back is one of the best decisions I ever made. Respect is a two-way street guys. The absolute worst thing you can do to an employee is to treat them as if they are no longer needed or appreciated. Life is far too short to bicker and whine over work. Pursue an occupation that interests you, show people that you care about and are devoted to their needs and opinions. Unless you love everybody, you can't sell anybody.
I got blamed for something not my fault in the same week the new ASM forced me to change how many days off I had a week (from two to one for a part time job) I nearly had a panic attack before my shift and my mom straight up said “want me to drive you to quit” I wrote a one sentence letter of resignation and handed it to the guy who hired me saying “I am no longer working here if you wish to know call me at the number enclosed…. Sorry” I got a call two hours after saying I missed my shift and just said “I don’t work for you guys anymore” and the lady who I knew Sounded annoyed and sad. I got an exit survey and ripped the manager who tried to blame me in it and I guess combined with a ton of people leaving after me that week on his watch he got demoted.
0:50 I miss blackout meetings.shit always cracked me up. Can't tell you how many times I was fired or quit to be called an hour later asking me where I was. Sales was fun
*this is probably too much back story but it's how I write, I'm sorry*
I didn't exactly quit but I'm transfering to another location.
So I work at a "popular" sandwich shop, and I have been there for 2 years. I have seen so many workers come and go, especially people being hired as supervisors on the first day. My store has also been through two managers, not including the present one now. So he was looking for a new supervisor to take the place of the one he fired for so many reasons I agreed with; so I had brought to his attention that I wanted to become a supervisor if he thinks I'm ready for it, having been there 2 years, going to the bank cause he doesn't drive, working all the shifts I can get and covering for anyone who calls out, working overtime, working double shifts, working on my only day off, only calling out twice myself in two years, and doing deliveries with my own car even though our store doesn't deliver. He said "alright if you really want me to, I could start teaching you some things" I said cool and we left it at that. Fast forward three weeks, and no training has been done with me, but the newest guy there (who has a really bad attitude problem and doesn't do well under pressure, especially if ONE customer orders four large sandwiches while we're not busy), is all of the sudden labeled "supervisor" on the schedule. I asked the manager about it, and he's gonna tell me "yeah I just don't think your ready for the position". I cried my heart out on the way home after work I was so hurt and felt betrayed and lied to. For the next schedule and all the schedules after that, even for this week, the two people who call out the most (I'm talking four times a week, sometimes the whole week), got the most hours while I'm stuck at 20-27 hours a week if I'm lucky. Fast forward maybe three weeks and I get a text from him asking if I want extra hours and asking if I was up for working at another location a half hour away from where I live because that store just had three people quit and they are understaffed for the day. I said sure, I really need them.... It was busy as fuck, but I knew my job and I handled it well, I impressed them so much, all of them were saying "you should come work over here", while some were jokingly saying "so your working over here from now on, right?😂"
After working over there for about a month or two now whenever they need me and I'm available, I had decided that I liked it there, being appreciated and being seen for all the work I do. So after I asked the manager there if I could actually transfer, he said yes and was really happy about it, telling me that it would be great to have me there because everyone already loves me and I'm a really hard worker. He even said "if we get you transfered, I want to train you for supervisor position" cause we had talked about it and he was really shocked that I wasn't already one.The next day I worked at my store, my manager comes up to me and says, "so ****(his manager) told me to hire more people because your leaving" I said "yup, they like me over there and want me to be a supervisor, they actually see my potential and leadership for the supervisor position. And over there I don't have to deal with supervisors with a bad attitude." He just nodded and had that pikachu meme face (if you know what I mean). After everyone else at that store found out I was leaving, they were all shocked and some were "sad to see me go" telling that they'll "miss me". I'll never forget the proud karma feeling I had when he asked me if I was really leaving
Of course Com Cast vans always gets parking tickets, the cops have to deal with their crappy internet connections like the rest of us
9:30 omg that's EXQUISITE
Drove two hours for an interview at an east coast utility company for a mid level management position. I got there, was shown to a private room to wait in for the interviewer, and proceeded to sit there. Exactly 1 hour later, I walked out of the room and told the receptionist I was leaving. She was horrified and started apologizing and trying to get ahold of someone on the phone. I stopped her and said don't bother, this didn't seem like a good fit for me already. She then told me I should swing through the break room on the way out at the very least. I did, and helped myself to a couple donuts and a few cookies, then emptied their entire coffee pot into my travel mug. When their HR called me another HOUR later, I told them I was already halfway home, but thanks for the snacks. Got practically the same job at a another utility company much closer to home a few weeks later. My only regret is that I never did see anyone in person that I could have properly told to go F right off.
My workplace is toxic and I can't take it anymore....I work from home 🤪
Have you tried running away from home? ;)
I love how curious cow looks at me while I'm making homemade burger
I love the Kelly one. Hell yeah girl, I'm here for you 😭😭😂
Last one was SAVAGE and AMAZING😂
Not sure if this qualifies, but.....
Had a boss that was a complete jackhole, I was a truck driver and had more experience than all the other drivers there combined. (Almost 2 million professional miles over 24 years.). So one day I get called into office to explain how a truck had been damaged, and what did I run into, and why I had not reported it. I told him I didn't report it because I hadn't run into anything. He proceeds to call me a liar, pulls out my file, and is telling me he's writing an official reprimand for damaging the truck. Before he started writing, I put my fists on his desk and leaned toward him to get his attention. (I'm 6'3" 415 lbs., and could dead lift 585.). I calmly told him, if he wrote me up, not only would I quit on the spot, but, before I left, I would bounce his ass from one end of the warehouse to the other.
Didn't get written up, but left on my own accord 3 days later, after interviewing with another trucking company.
Curious Cow, well...allegedly, I'm working.
"Redditors who..."
Literally the first post: NoT mE bUt ...
When I left my job the hoses used to clean the showers in the locker rooms malfunctioned and flooded the locker room floors... and I randomized the tills
The Comcast Story speaks volumes to me. I worked there as a tech for a little over a year. My boss was an ass. I would be given jobs a litteral hour away from each other and I was berated for not being there at the scheduled time. One day I had a trouble call at a massive retail store and nearly their entire system was ran off our service. It was about 45 minutes away from my previous job. I got a call from my boss chewing me out again. I said fuck it. My boss was about to go on his lunch so I called my then girlfriend to meet me at the office. I just took all my personal belongings out of the van and left a sloppy written notice in the seat with my keys on his desk. I just went home. I have no idea what came of it but I know he got his ass chewed by his boss and the store went at least the rest of that day not able to do anything. Granted it was shitty of me as the store did nothing wrong to me but I couldn't do it anymore.
I got a job at (then charter) spectrum about 4 months later and haven't looked back. Basically the same thing now except my boss has the common sense to know that I'm going to be late if I have a 10 to 11 and the other job is an 11 to 12 that is almost an hour away and we simply notify the customer. A good boss makes all the difference. From an employee side, screw Comcast
The glorious woman who was 'just a secretary' is a hero!
"What's more important, school or your career?"
Ah yes I care SO much about this career working at Outback.
Call center for sending non commital advisors to businesses turned into a sales rep call center, with targets, pay cuts, and being outed and humiliated if you did not meet the target for the day. 15 other people left that week. Fuck that shit.
I’m listening to reddit stories and making tattoo designs for my portfolio, curious cow!
The curious cow caught me in the act of eating pepperoni and a plain tortilla lol
"What's more important school or your career"? Are you shitting me? 🤣
15:16. That last line is hilarious. I fucking lost it!
Imagine getting so mad you throw a package of fucking ham through the ceiling.
I am going to quit my job in a blaze of glory
*Grabs Molotov*
My brother went to work at a chicken processing center, quit the second day. When we asked him why he simply repeated the following sentence over and over… “take the chicken put it in the box, take the chicken put it in the box”. 😂
I worked at a cardroom in California as a third-party prop player. TLDR job description: you can't play against the house in a cardroom, so you play against us instead. These places are cesspools, especially on the table game (non-poker) side. Everyone there is a gambling addict that spends every waking hour there. You'd have 6-8 people standing over a Baccarat table that already has 8 people seated, some of them leaning over or reaching across you to place a bet. I felt like a sardine in a can. For their part, the casinos would do everything they could to scam us since their money wasn't on the line and the dealers and floorpeople live on tips, and even if you told your supervisors that dealers weren't following procedure or straight up cheating to help players out, they wouldn't do anything because they were afraid to stand up to casino staff for fear of being replaced by a different company.
Did I mention that my shift was 4PM-Midnight, no weekends or holidays off, and we usually had to work overtime because the hiring process was so time-consuming (including getting a badge from the Sheriff's Dept. that cost $500 which the company expected you to reimburse them for) that they never bothered to hire anyone new?
There wasn't any one particular "last straw" moment or anything, just a buildup of having smelly, toothless degenerate gamblers climb on top of me and scream in my ears over a period of about four years. When I found a new job, they told me at 12:15 AM that I needed to stay for overtime, at which point I replied that I'm leaving in five minutes whether someone was there to replace me or not. They got someone to sit for me, I clocked out, and pealed out of the casino parking lot.
Get a real job
@@coolchrisj I did! Working in television now. Just got a promotion. I love the work I do and am so glad I don't work in those God-forsaken places anymore.
Loogaroo good for you
I would like to applaud the "just a secretary" lady.
I worked at a Cabinet Shop in a certain Southwestern, American city, where everything was bad, the pay, the bosses, the working conditions, the hours, and the bad communication. I wanted to give the clowns, a 2 week notice, but I felt that they didn't deserve it. Took lunch and never went back, and left them lots of work!!
Oh, the Kelly and Teddy story was pretty glorious
Not your usual "blaze of glory" but it said what I was feeling - I managed a retail store for 5 years and on my last day - I just handed my keys and badge to the CS person and walked out the door without a single good by to anybody. Sometimes saying/doing nothing says it all.
Its amazing that people get used to just taking and taking and then it becomes normal. They seem to get a bit of a shock when you just do your job.
We can’t all just quit our jobs in a blaze of glory because we aren’t being treated right. But I appreciate everyone of you who has the ability to walk away and does so when called for. Sends a message to our employers that they can’t treat everyone like shit.
"Fires the guy who tried to fire him, then quits"
Absolute LEGEND
15:14 Quit from a restaurant that makes wings and then ordered 200 wings. I really hope it was from the same restaurant. That may be the most savage example of instant revenge I've ever seen.
I once had an internship via a thrift store for a third party company (for training purposes). They made a contract with a company (for me) that made graphics for phones. The contract was supposed to say that they would hire me on. Instead, they said they would be open to a 6 month internship before they would decide. The internship was supposed to include software training and graphics apprenticing, instead I got stuck with stuffing boxes for 8 hours with no pay. About 4 months in, I found out that they were just using me for free labor and were gonna get rid of me once the 6 month perios was up. One of the coworkers actually rubbed it in my face and gloated how she was planning on making a career out of it. I laughed when she said $15 an hour was her dream job (no benefits).
Well one day, a big argument breaks out between the ceo of this small company and his head designer about copyright issues (I'm being really modest here, the company was composed of maybe 7 people tops). The designer says he can't just keep using images off of google and the ceo tells him he can find a new job if he keeps running his mouth. Fast forward a week, and I get a call from my pos manager (who made up the terms of the contract) and told me in a gruff voice not to come in that day "or ever again for that matter". I asked him why, and it turns out the business was in pending litigation for copyright infringement and they fired everyone. I visited that place 6 months later and the building was gone. I wound up getting hired by a Union and started making 30 an hour, plus benefits. I still laugh about that one!
1:15 ...umm forcing you to work through lunch?.... isn't that a violation of labor laws in the United states? 😂😂 you keep the job and then sue the crap out of the manager...
I just realized that during this quarantine shit is that my job is not bad at all.
I quit many jobs (like #1 did) n took many ppl with me. One particular hotel I worked at, my boss was fired (change over from new owners), I told her if she gets fired I’d quit n take half this crew w other me. I did quit, and everyone but 1 girl left in a week or so. Hotel had no one to clean the damn rooms. Tip: if u piss off the ppl who clean the rooms, u won’t have a hotel. They ARE the back ones of the business. Just saying ...
Lol Karma got to "Teddy"!
At my second job, I quit after writing a letter to the HR department reporting my supervisor. I was involved in a car accident but my supervisor did not care. She didn't even bother to ask how I was doing and if I was hurt. A lady from the financial department emailed me that I owed them money and I emailed her back saying I don't owe them anything. My supervisor called me to her office and went off on me. She was saying I will never find another job again and she will make sure to not recommend me for my "attitude". She sent me back to work after that. I called my mom as soon as I got home and she told me to report her . I wrote a letter to the HR department reporting my supervisor, went to HR and explained what happened as soon as I got to work the next morning, picked up my last check, packed up my things and walked right out of there.
I once called a job saying I’m resigning my position effective immediately. Then I hung up and left it there.
Yes, the walk across the street to get a 30% raise DOES really happen in Silicon Valley! I left the company that begins with the letter A and the letter D in a blaze of glory after another " reorganizing " that was their middle finger extension to the employees. I just grabbed my tools and walked out on swing shift, with the message " I quit " on the local printer ( no e-mail, yet ). I met a former co-worker 2 weeks later and he mentioned just how much upheaval my exit caused. Get used to it.
the_punnisher
To be a professional, it is expected to give a two weeks notice.
There is no reason to be professional to people who act like...that though.
If they want to keep great workers, they need to know those workers are not common - the market is saturated with people who have credentials but not skill.
Happy that you found a far better career now, pick your price and never sell yourself for less - and always update your worth!
My time at Burger King was horrid, I lasted 2 shifts and 10 minutes of one, I got the job because I was struggling and wanted the extra cash, first day was great just learning the ropes, my second day I closed, I had to do the cooks duties, I was a cashier, if I wanted to leave on time. The next shift after I'm tired because I had an anxiety attack the night before and couldn't sleep, I was tired and stressed, first thing that is said to me when I walk in is "you need to clean up your beard" literally did that morning, got pulled in to the office, was told again, then I get a comment on my attitude, don't want to be there im tired and stressed out, he offers to send me home, so I say see you tomorrow, he then replies ill take you off for the week. Just threw my hat at his desk and quit, next day just threw the shirt on the front counter and left. Fuck burger king.
You know it’s gonna be good when the title says “quit your job in a blaze of glory”
"You're fired!"
"OK."
"Wait, he can't fire you"
*goes back in*
"You can't fire me! You're fired!"
*Sends guy packing*
"Also, I quit!"
Employers always seem to forget their business is nothing without employees. My mum was fired from her job as a nurse (She did nothing wrong, but nursing is like, a cesspool of bullying among nurses. The chronic liar wanted to make an example and chose my mum), but she's still on the facebook page and email list. They're always super short staffed. Mystery why.
Calls OUTBACK a career. ROFLMAO, Trailer must be a mansion to that guy.
Dude, the one where they were sitting on the counters? He should have tossed a fryer full of hot oil at them
17:40 I’m pretty curious about stuff too! As of right now, I’m watching some Reddit Stories on UA-cam on my TV and replacing every block in a Villager Outpost in Minecraft with nether blocks cuz I think it looks cool, it’s right by a village, and I just feel like living there. What about you, Curious Cow?
My old man left a job like a legend. Funniest thing was he warned the manager what would happen if wasn't feeling it during his interview.
My dad is a mechanic by trade. Guy can fix pretty much anything given enough time and resources. After being let go from his last job due to the boss being a snake (which is an even longer story), my dad decided that he will not be mistreated any manager he works for, because he was the one with the skills, not his boss. During his interview with a local service shop, he told the manager that if he gets yelled at by her and he doesn't have it coming, he would lock up his tool box and wheel right out the door. Well a couple months go by and the manager starts getting on his ass about a job not getting done fast enough. This is in the Rust Belt where every other car is corroded all to hell, so getting breaking loose bolts and other components can take a very long time. Finally he had enough, threw done his tools and asked to speak privately with her. He repeated his warning about what would happen if she yelled at him and made it clear that this would be the last time this would happen. Well she laid off of him, but instead turned her wrath on other the other employees, mostly the oil and tire techs. Most of these guys were high school kids and could do a way better job than what she ever could, so my dad started getting fed up with this toxic environment and started looking for other shops in town to work for. Eventually, he got an interview with tire and service shop down the road who was the biggest competitor of the shop my dad currently worked for. My dad was planning on putting in his two weeks notice, but then his manager went ballistic on one of the poor oil techs and laid into the guy so badly over something that was essentially spilled milk. During his break, my dad called up the rival shop and asked them if they could bring a truck over to grab his tool box and asked if he could start immediately the next day. Rival shop happily obliged. My dad left break, gathered up his tools, threw them in his tool box, locked it up and a minute after he did that the rival shop's truck pulled up. As my dad wheeled his tool box out the door towards the truck, his (former) manager came running out asking him frantically why he was leaving. He basically told her that he was tired of how she was treating her employees and explained to her again of what would happen if wasn't feeling it anymore. He got into his truck and I would say he drove off into the sunset, but it was mid afternoon in the middle of summer, so that cliche didn't happen, unfortunately. He still works for the rival shop and says he's much happier there.
I'm smoking a cigarette at 4 in the morning while enjoying these stories and a glace a coca cola :)
I'd say the best time to quit a job that you hated because of the workers is when it is extremely understaffed, something like you and the managers only and then quit right there, leaving all the work for the manager
Guaranteeing minimum wage is never a benefit. Its depressing that the company has so little to offer, they list a federal requirement.
That teddy story was awesome. Anyone that speaks to anyone else like that ..employee or no...should never be In a position where they are managing people. Remember folks your managers have a boss too. Complain if they treat you like shit. The further up the promotion the more that shit sticks. HR really have to act on complaints about people who manage others. Because they are meant to be able to do that ie. Manage people. So your complaint carries weight.
Kelly Johnson lived the dream of everyone who has worked under a shitty boss lmao.
Hi curious cow, I'm braiding my hair and now my shoulders hurt