Notice how a frightening majority of these stories are lead back to shitty management? Ever go into a store and see an entire staff that looks broken and defeated? That place has the same shitty management that drives hard working people away.
The first shop I worked at had hella shitty management, I had already put in my 2 weeks because I got a better offer from somewhere else, a week into my 2 weeks notice my manager knocked over my Dr Pepper by accident, I just left and never came back.
When i left school at 16 i went and got a job at this small restaurant in my town as a pot washer, Walked in my first night and there were pots and pans piled up from floor to ceiling and all in the sink that was filed with grungy looking water, I asked how long the pots had been piling up and was told 6 days since the last pot washer quit, I took my apron off and said well now it's 7 days, clean them yourself and walked out
My Uncle had passed away and I let them know four days in advance when the funeral was so I could be scheduled off. We're literally walking out the door to go to the funeral and the phone rings. It's the manager where I worked, someone had called in sick so I had to come cover their shift. I reminded him about the funeral and said we were actually walking out the door. He said he didn't care and expected me to get my ass in the store within fifteen minutes. I told him that wasn't going to happen and he replied "well I guess you don't want your job do you". I said "I guess I don't"' and hung up.
@@kaitlyn3168 Yeah same. Reading through the comments I feel like I'm the only one left in 2021 lol. On a side note, OP should have said, "Sure, I'll be there in 15 minutes" and never show up.
I didn't rage quit on the spot but waited the following day. When I worked at McDonald's a customer punched me. The cops told the manager to ban that individual. Well the manager disregarded that. Manager got all in my face. The next day I was scheduled off. I called my old job and asked if they can take me back( they did). Called some lawyers. They didn't want to take the case. The next day went to work as scheduled. Spoke to noone. When it came time for lunch break I clocked out, got in my car, picked up my friend and went to Roadhouse Grill. Only returned to get my last check when the nice supervisor was working.
That's strange, the cops didn't want to arrest a guy? Furthermore the lawyers didn't want to take the case? That's felony assault right there and workplace abuse.
@@kenrose2523 The guy ran out so he was gone by the time the cops got there. Yeah noone wanted to take the case. You're right about workplace abuse and felony assault.
Worked at a local pizza joint. The owner was ok when in a good mood, which he normally was. His wife however was another story. I could fill an entire book of things she did from stealing tips to bullying employees. We always knew if she had been drinking because she would be a bit nicer if she had. I like to do things right. I got a good job offer who wanted me to start right away, but I was insistent that I should give a proper two weeks so that I could still use the place as a reference seeing as I was a good employee to them later in life. But that night at work she was on a rampage. She yelled at me several times, took a good 50$ from the tip jar, kept giving me extra cleaning task in the middle of a rush, then tried to do a "motherly advice" thing, made me run pizzas to the neer by hotels because the taxi company we normally use were too slow that day, and ended it all by telling me that I was good little waitress but just didn't have the talent that she had. It was too much. I came in the next day and announced that this was my last day working here, oh, and I was taking off early before the owner or his wife got there. It was a slow day and a nice shift hanging with my favorite coworkers who were all happy for me and understanding.
I don't know if you're a single mom or had a desperate financial situation but man I would not have put up with that. Thank goodness I'm self-employed.
If a boss's response to you having a serious family issue come up is "You need to be a team player," congrats, you're working for a sociopath. Get out as soon as you can and burn that bridge with an honest-to-God smile on your face before they take you down with them through their rampant incompetence.
The payroll story was the reason I ultimately quit driving for Domino's myself. I used my paid vacation for the first time in 5 years to be in a friend's wedding, cut to the next pay day and I was short $200 I needed to pay for bills and things and was given, "I let the MIT (Manager in training) do it. He's the one that messed up there's nothing we can do." So I took that as my cue to walk out before clocking-in that shift.
I got $2,395.81 back in 1986 from an under-age child labor suit against Domino's (store manager used to have a few of us kids deliver flyers and walk pizzas over to the apartment complex next door or the trailer park behind them and help with dishes at closing all for $10 and a free pizza). The work we did was worth WAY more than that...the lawyers got paid more than we did. I would rather die of starvation in the gutters rather than work at any Domino's ever again.
Friend worked at call center. Had to go to the bathroom. Before she had a chance to pull her pants down, boss was in there screaming at her to get back to work. She immediately quit. Has a much better job now.
I did not actually rage quit on the spot, but I had an offer from another company and was finishing the interview process. During my negotiation for a raise, I was told that "if I want any more I have to start liking the work and stop doing it mechanically" despite my work being some of the best. As soon as I got the confirmation from the other company, I gave my two weeks. The talk with my boss was gold as he had no words to keep me at the company when I was being promised almost double at the new place.
I am with you brother! Interviewing and applying, I applied for one and I really do hope I get it, got several other people asking me to apply to their job listings and its great!
I was a janitor for a drug treatment center. Put up with a lot of riotious druggies and bad attitudes. But what got me was that since the local hospital network started offering free drug treatment, my center wasn't making money or getting new clients. So they started laying folks off. We went from 4 maintenance people and 6 janitors to 1 maintenance person and 2 janitors, one of which was me. I was constantly berated for not being able to do the work of 4-5 people and when they even demanded I drive out to their offsite facility and clean that too since they laid off the person who was to clean it, I had enough. Especially since they once wrote me up for supposedly driving to the facility "in an unsafe way". I just told them to kiss off and went to work for the hospital for 5 bucks an hour more.
I was working at our only burgerking in town i was making 7.25 a hour i was written up for not wearing a name tag by the store owner when my manager refused to strait up give me a name tag he belived her before me and wrote me up i quit and didnt even show up for work the next day she quit two days after and the store mysteriously lost 2000 from the register after she quit and the other manager cared so little that the place burned down a month later and the owner sold his share to someone else they offered to hire me back at 8.00 but frik that
Worked for my father at a college job and while I wasn’t head of my department, football maintaince (a branch of his but not his directly) I was the one who made the world go round. My actual boss was the worst boss you can imagine. She broke every rule we had, a few we didn’t know we had but never thought anyone would break them, never worked, admitted she never worked, and committed several sex crimes that would have had a man arrested and imprisoned. She started telling the players very inappropriate things about me and I snapped when a coach heard her say one and laughed. I told him that he should be punishing her and he said it was fine. So I told his boss, about the same thing. Then I announced that I worked for pussies all the way to the top in a very loud voice in a locker room full of players and most of our starters. Like half the team which is around seventy people heard me cuss out the boss for someone we all hated but nobody had the balls to fire. So I quit on the spot and stormed out. That was on a Friday. Games on Saturday. Remember when I said I made the world go round? They spent the next two weeks figuring out how much I had to do to keep up with all the slackers and spent the next two weeks begging me to take my job back until I got sick of it and said yes to shut them up on the grounds that the manager be removed. More of the same BS continues and eventually we get enough people to report her that an official investigation is launched and she gets a restraining order and is threatened with a law suit. Now she just leads tours around campus (a non paid job and not an envied one). Honestly surprised she’s still here all things considered
Regarding the story about the manager who tried denying that person time to see their ailing mother. There is not a single profession on this earth worth placing above family and any boss who feels that way is completely void of life. Good riddance.
Worked as a casual for a postal service as a warehouse worker. I was told I would always be given at least 24 hours notice before a shift, as it was a nightshift gig (written in the contract I signed, too). My manager was a lazy POS and would never call any of the casuals until 30 minutes before he wanted them there IF we were lucky (which btw, casuals made up like 50% of the staff, and they always needed at LEAST one casual every night because they liked to run skeleton crew... because paying a part/full time contract worker is more expensive due to union benefits). One Wednesday night, I was called in at 6:05pm.. asked me to be there for 6:00... sure, I'll jump in my time machine... I said I'd be there for 7:00 (about 45min commute time, and I needed to pack a lunch, got there as fast as I could). He gave me dirty looks until he left at 8:15pm even though he's supposed to supervise the whole shift, usually ending at 2:00-3:00am. Anyways, as me and the rest of the crew finished our shift at 2:15am, the girl I was working with said "see you on Sunday!!". I said "what?". She said our manager said I confirmed being there on Sunday 6-2... and he never said a word to me about it. I told her I hadn't been asked and I have a family event on Sunday, and she said she'd mention that I didn't get notified to our manager. Fast forward to Sunday at 6:35pm. Manager calls. "Hey, we were expecting you at 6:00, and we need you ASAP". As a casual, I don't have to agree to shifts without 24 hours notice as stated in my contract, and since there was NO record of him even trying to ask me to be there for Sunday, I declined the shift. I get a call from the day manager the next day and I explain I never got notified of the shift and had a family gathering that night (not a lie). He said ok, no problem, and to have a nice night (liked this guy waaayy more. He covered for 3 weeks for the night managers vacation once and I knew every shift I had for all 3 of those weeks). Monday night I get a call from the night manager again at 6:20pm, asking why I wasn't there for 6:00 like he asked. I told him I never got notified. He said he was going to write me up, and I laughed and said go ahead, I quit anyway. Needless to say, I ignored all future calls from my night manager. It wasn't until 3 MONTHS later that I got a call from the day manager asking if everything was ok. I told him I quit and I already got a new job about 2 months ago. He said he was sad to see me go, but he understood my frustration. I hope that shitty manager got canned. If he'd stop watching hockey in his office for 30 minutes, he could get people properly scheduled.
Back in college that happened to my friend, twice. Jobs were scarce due to being a small college town, so she couldn't afford to quit. But she would double check to make sure money was in the account before cashing her paychecks.
I one time I was working in a grocery store and after about two days in they demoted to cleaning bathrooms and they lied to me about it. I got upset when I learned the truth and they said they’d give me another chance after the first of the year, but they wanted me to work on Christmas Eve. I told them that if they wouldn’t give me Christmas Eve off, then December 23 was my last day. The manager didn’t understand why after she blatantly lied to me and tried to avoid me when I tried to talk to her about it.
For anyone curious how these sorts of people can be managers in jobs like these...it's honestly because they won't ever find work in another industry, or they're related to someone in the company. If the former, they will have studied those rule and company books to make sure if the managers above them try to fire them, they'll contact HR or the like. If the latter, they'll just be shifted around to 'non-critical' teams/locations/stores in order to keep them working.
I worked at a bakery. One of those small cookie bakeries. My manager knew when she hired me on that I didn't like too much attention on me because I have anxiety and I'm on the autism spectrum, high functioning . I made sure to mention it in the interview. She always put me on the front register when we were busy and would tell me off for being slow to help customers. When there are two registers and needs to be two people helping customers half the time was just me or just one person. We were supposed to rotate every employee because we were trained for all the jobs and ,to my manager, " its easier to train every employee for all the jobs in here.We can't guarantee one employee stays in one place" And yet all the shift managers, assistant manager, the assistant manager's teen step son who was promoted a week after he started to shift manager worked in places they wanted to. Everyone else was put in places they asked to be in. One day I discovered what a fucking panic attack was. I didn't like it. I asked to be put on back cleaning (cleaning the office, bathroom, and a majority of the dishes and floor) because I was good at it and I was away from a crowd......she pulled the "we can't give employees the position they want unless there is a reason". She also required a doctor's note if you had a cold......we worked with food and kids. If you had a fever, feeling sick, sneezing, you had to work unless you puked on the floor and even then she was skeptical. One co worker went on vacation and we found her boyfriend LIVING IN OUR STOCK ROOM for a week. After closing he'd sneak in with a key she gave him. All she was punished for ,as far as I know, was she was fired but was quickly rehired a few months later. That stock room still smelled like shit. I walked out. Just up and quit. My sanity wasn't worth it....despite what my family thinks. 4 years there.
With that bartender one I would have waited for her to come out during the rush and announced the the crowd that I was quitting and why and point out the manager for them to share their complaints with.
I was told to stand down from a report of a waitress being sexually harassed ay the casino I worked security for. Was told help was on the way, nobody responded, she was to afraid to ever come back to work, and I got an interview there next day, resigned the next Monday after I used all my leave. Fuck MGM National Harbor.
Walked out of McDonald's after working there for seven and a half years last October. It's amazing what happens whenever you hire the worst person imaginable for a management position, someone that routinely curses out both crew and customer, lie to people about raises, promotions, and even how much they're making, and more, and then act surprised whenever all of your best people leave. Put up with that BS for way too long.
Tried to scold me because I had made it WELL known I needed breaks due to medical stuff and got frustrated at getting it pushed to the last possible second (I had come in to help that particular shift. They always give me more hell when I came in to help). I had never worked a job more than 3-4 hours (that was a job at 15, new to workforce) so didn’t understand why I was being scolded for being confused that I couldn’t sit down. My manager gave me absolute hell for it before I worked ANOTHER chaotic shift alone with no break in a swarm of angry customers, and the next day (my off day, I DESPERATELY NEEDED IT) my general manager and owner of the store was mad and passive aggressive at the ONE time I said no to coming in. That pushed me over. I was in extreme pain from not getting a break (I asked during the best times for them and was too willing to wait for them to allow me to sit), overwhelmed by a crowd yelling at me and glaring because they ALWAYS made DT’s food first, and insulted at the fact that they tried to twist it on me when I brought it up TIME AND TIME AGAIN. Loved the pay and the fast food joint but I dipped the hell out with no warning. Assholes.
Pay was shitty as an assistant manager, the drive sucked, I was burnt out and stressed with the job and the company in general, and the icing on the cake was taking my measly bonus check for something out of my control. Told me to step up or step down. I quit instead. If you can't be bothered to pay me at least $14-$15 an hour to be an assistant manager, you aren't worth it.
I was working by myself with a new hire on the night of the Superbowl as a host (male). Everyone had called in other than me (who basically was forced into the shift) I was still pretty new at the job. I'd say probably 3-5 weeks in. Still never worked by myself and here I am, training a new girl. They didn't even call me to let me know that they moved me up to go in at 3pm (instead of 6pm). They call telling me they need me all pissed. I show up. The new girl shows up. 8pm rolls around and my mom calls saying there is an emergency and I have to leave right now (I didn't know what it was at the time). My manager tells me I can't clock out till I finish cleaning the entire restaurant and the bathrooms. So after 20min of cleaning and my mom pulling my manager off to the side. He comes to the back and tells me "listen I know this is some bs for you to just leave, so have a nice night". Yeah man. Never showed up again. The guys a fucking pervert too I swear. Hated him
I worked in the Toy section at TJ Maxx. I made above minimum but was lucky to get more than 4 hours a week. I kept askint for more hours but instead, they hust kept hiring new people. We were still so understaffed that the store was always a mess. Especially my section since the kids would run over while I was working, play with the toys, ask their stupid parents to buy this cheap ass 20 dollar toy. They always said no and the jid never put the toy back where it was supposed to fucking go. The toys weren't selling and kept piling up. Eventually I worked the changing rooms which stoked me since it was a different part of the store and I thought the duty would give me more hours. I had a water bottle so I wouldn't have to take trips to the water fountain. It turned out to be really boring though. The most exciting part was hanging the clothes up that people didn't buy since I was allowed to use my fucking legs. One day I was told I had to stand there for four hours straight. I couldn't take my break. Not even to go to the bathroom. Guess what I did the same day.
Retail does that now. When I was a teen in the early 90s and got a retail job they only hired full time people. But by the mid 2000s, all these places stopped doing that and figured it's cheaper to hire disposable employees for minimum wage and get a bunch of them working 10hrs a week. It has caused a lot of stores to fall into ruin due to incompetent workers. Amazon is laughing all the way to the bank.
Worked as a barista for 4 years. The work sucked, but was tolerable, until we got a new manager who was an outside hire who had no managerial experience, let alone barista experience, but he was a yes man to corporate, so he stayed. No one liked him, and everyone started transferring or quit for a different job. At first I didn’t mind as long as he gave me my space. But once he started claiming I “wasn’t being a team player”. Despite the store always being understaffed, and I had to do the work of 2 baristas everyday. On that same day, I applied, interviewed, and got a new better paying job. The next day I went to work to tell the manager I got a better paying job in 24 hours and I quit.
I was hired to be a 2nd shift supervisor. During the two weeks notice I gave to my previous job, they fired all of my staff. The day I started, they fired the last person. I then had to train four brand new employees on seven machines while maintaining all other duties. The final straw was when they pulled me onto first shift and forced me to be away from my staff, then began writing me up for their inability to complete their jobs because they lost their guidance and trainer.
for the Bartender one what you do is you stand up on the bar and loudly proclaim to the entire bar that you "quit because my manager here after confirming multiple times with me that i can go see my sick mother in hospital has at the last minute decided that i never did any of that and now ya'll have no bartender!"
I had been screwed over for months by every shade of administrative errors imaginable. I had already considered leaving due to these problems but then they tell me they're going to change the employment form company wide at end of year(during a conference switch my boss about the most recent grievous error) which meant my form of employment would be terminated... less than two weeks prior to end of year. Yea fuck off I'm putting call centre work in the pile of jobs I'll only consider if I'm literally dying already. Right up there with Micky Ds and personal assistant work.
I haven't quit yet BUT too many people thinking they are in charge, an over inflated management staff like 6 supervisors for maybe 12 people, too many of them trying to shoot from the hip and see who is the big boss in charge, employees from other stores coming to "show us how its done" as if that's going to fix a crap labor market and the inability to replace employees as well as the lean business model is going to stop our store from hemorrhaging people and motivate an understaffed and overworked restaurant.
I worked for a trucking/courier company as an independent contractor. They used to skim from our commissions. They were just the lowest of the low. We had a dispatcher who knew what he was doing and coordinated the drivers so we would make some great profits, I made $700 on a good day. So they fired him. I never saw a company run by such dirtbags. Since then I always loved the Teamsters.
Wouldn't consider this a full fledged rage quit necessarily, but a final straw for a job I left recently. I worked at a local pizza parlor in Missouri for a few months. The managers were Ok except for one, and the coworkers were good except for one. Everything was cool until the first day of Passover (a Jewish holiday that lasts for several days, where fasting among several activities were taking place). On top of that, a big moment for my family occured that I had to be there for (my sister was pregnant and my family was the first to know, my sister rushed home from Louisiana on leave from the Marine Corps). I had to frantically call off on 50 minutes notice and got zero response. I thought they would have recieved the message and given my circumstances, would've understanded. Two days pass before I am able to come back in, and so I do just that. I come in like I would've any other day, only to find that I had been eliminated from the schedule and terminated (with no notice) under the idea that I had no communication with the head manager, and that the manager tried to contact me on eight different instances over the two days (keep in mind I had ZERO response in that time). I leave the store pissed off and inform the manager personally that I would be considering legal action for wrongful termination, nepotism, and allowing for the creation of a toxic work environment. The owner offers me reinstatement with no raise, and I kindly tell management and ownership to fuck off. Why would I stay and work for ownership and management that would discard good workers (like me) like trash, but keep the one toxic coworker (verbally berated coworkers, micromanaged, gave new hires no time to learn the job, came in with attitude problems, got passes from the main manager for mistakes that would've gotten us in deep shit, and put his hands on people occasionally) on top of constantly boasting in front of everyone how he was the best one on the job/why people should be like him. What a neglectful piece of work.. So glad I am out of that hellhole, starting an apprenticeship for either an insulators or an ironworkers union... Time for my real work to begin 💪
I was called into the back and lectured. I guess my eyes darted back and forth and they mistook that for rolling my eyes. It was at least the third time they accused me of doing it and I just broke down and left. Only regret is I can't use them as a reference, but eh I don't give a shit. I was tired of being treated like crap by management. Word of advice for Pennsylvania residents: never work for Turkey Hill unless you have good supervisors.
I use to work as like a sells women for candy but it was a program to help kids learn about jobs from 12 to 17. I quite recently because while I was in a hospital for personal reasons, my boss went and told everyone I worked with about it, mind you I was two out of 8 kids in there that were 17, everyone else was 12 or a little older. I called her while she was on speaker phone in front everyone that I quiet and don't appreciate her being a bitch and sharing my private info with everyone without my consent. Regret nothing and this lady tried to ask me to come back twice so she knows she lost a good worker
Tiny Donut when I worked in retail I took off a week to go to inpatient care. The first thing I did when I got there was called my boss to let them know I’d be absent. My boss told me to bring a doctors note when I returned. When I got back I brought in a doctors note from my psychiatrist. A few weeks later my coworkers approached me saying “we knew why you were in the hospital”. “It’s because you were depressed and had been cutting.” My boss told EVERYONE I worked with my medical info. Needless to say I quit that job. Oh and my boss was fired.
On the third day of working for a ma and pa convince store i asked the manager about my pay and he responded "it doesn't matter, you're an unpaid intern for the first week" Walked away and never came back
I tried once working as security in the market, after 2 days of worst job ever (15h/day, realy shitty enviroment, boss was huge ass) and two big, bald and definitively way stronger than me guys asking me to go to toilet next day at 12:00 AM and pretend that i'm not there i just did not appeared there at all anymore.
Believe me I understand the frustration when the job you applied and got hired for is not what was said. To the windows support guy though, man I wish I had that job of fixing washers and dryers though. Hope he found something he likes and/or pays well
I was working for a pizza shop. The owner was Lebanese. Guy was really talkative,kinda touchy-feely also. He was a real tight @$z about time out on delivery/clocking in ect..(he used a tracking program on my phone while we were on deliveries. After about 3 months there..I was just about done with this guy. One day he calls me and asks if I can come in to cover another shift..I said sure. Worked the shift..went home. The next day I was scheduled to be in @10am. My car would not start so I called and told him I'd be a bit late..gotta wait for AAA. I get there and he comes back, starts yelling about how I need to take this seriously because he couldn't deliver orders ..Yada Yada. I just look at him and say "I'm done...I quit. Whatever money you owe me,you can keep it." He asked why..I said I came in yesterday on my day off to help you..and your gonna treat me like this because my car battery died?...Later Dude. Walked out..never talked to the guy again
call centers really suck..i worked at one that would not even take a doctors note from the ER lol told me i had to make up the hours..told them EF off lol
haven't quit yet but i got 0 hours on my schedule for this week. No explanation provided as my boss who made the schedule went on vacation. but im on the verge of up and quitting if the explanation they give me isn't damn good
Bartender story: I'd have smashed every. Single. Glass in there. Then, I'd pour the booze down the sinks and replace with water. Then, while waiting for the surgery to end, I'd write bad reviews all over the internet
These are always entertaining but I really doubt a lot of them actually went down that way. "I was a complete by-the-book-angel" "The mean man/woman was a psycho who did things so terribly that it doesn't even make sense" Source: dude trust me.
Someone's fantasy - being rich.
My fantasy - some managers living in a box on the street due to their shit managering skill
Notice how a frightening majority of these stories are lead back to shitty management? Ever go into a store and see an entire staff that looks broken and defeated? That place has the same shitty management that drives hard working people away.
The first shop I worked at had hella shitty management, I had already put in my 2 weeks because I got a better offer from somewhere else, a week into my 2 weeks notice my manager knocked over my Dr Pepper by accident, I just left and never came back.
They say that you quit your boss, not your employer. A good manager makes so much difference to a job.
When i left school at 16 i went and got a job at this small restaurant in my town as a pot washer, Walked in my first night and there were pots and pans piled up from floor to ceiling and all in the sink that was filed with grungy looking water, I asked how long the pots had been piling up and was told 6 days since the last pot washer quit, I took my apron off and said well now it's 7 days, clean them yourself and walked out
My Uncle had passed away and I let them know four days in advance when the funeral was so I could be scheduled off. We're literally walking out the door to go to the funeral and the phone rings. It's the manager where I worked, someone had called in sick so I had to come cover their shift. I reminded him about the funeral and said we were actually walking out the door. He said he didn't care and expected me to get my ass in the store within fifteen minutes. I told him that wasn't going to happen and he replied "well I guess you don't want your job do you". I said "I guess I don't"' and hung up.
I know this is a year-ish old comment, but I'm sorry for your loss. And good on you.
@@kaitlyn3168 Yeah same. Reading through the comments I feel like I'm the only one left in 2021 lol. On a side note, OP should have said, "Sure, I'll be there in 15 minutes" and never show up.
I didn't rage quit on the spot but waited the following day. When I worked at McDonald's a customer punched me. The cops told the manager to ban that individual. Well the manager disregarded that. Manager got all in my face. The next day I was scheduled off. I called my old job and asked if they can take me back( they did). Called some lawyers. They didn't want to take the case. The next day went to work as scheduled. Spoke to noone. When it came time for lunch break I clocked out, got in my car, picked up my friend and went to Roadhouse Grill. Only returned to get my last check when the nice supervisor was working.
Next time, ask for am ambulance or at least go to the doctors office.
@@jjohnsengraciesmom I did go to the hospital.
That's strange, the cops didn't want to arrest a guy? Furthermore the lawyers didn't want to take the case? That's felony assault right there and workplace abuse.
@@kenrose2523 The guy ran out so he was gone by the time the cops got there. Yeah noone wanted to take the case. You're right about workplace abuse and felony assault.
Worked at a local pizza joint. The owner was ok when in a good mood, which he normally was. His wife however was another story. I could fill an entire book of things she did from stealing tips to bullying employees. We always knew if she had been drinking because she would be a bit nicer if she had. I like to do things right. I got a good job offer who wanted me to start right away, but I was insistent that I should give a proper two weeks so that I could still use the place as a reference seeing as I was a good employee to them later in life. But that night at work she was on a rampage. She yelled at me several times, took a good 50$ from the tip jar, kept giving me extra cleaning task in the middle of a rush, then tried to do a "motherly advice" thing, made me run pizzas to the neer by hotels because the taxi company we normally use were too slow that day, and ended it all by telling me that I was good little waitress but just didn't have the talent that she had. It was too much. I came in the next day and announced that this was my last day working here, oh, and I was taking off early before the owner or his wife got there. It was a slow day and a nice shift hanging with my favorite coworkers who were all happy for me and understanding.
I don't know if you're a single mom or had a desperate financial situation but man I would not have put up with that. Thank goodness I'm self-employed.
motherly advice?
If a boss's response to you having a serious family issue come up is "You need to be a team player," congrats, you're working for a sociopath. Get out as soon as you can and burn that bridge with an honest-to-God smile on your face before they take you down with them through their rampant incompetence.
The payroll story was the reason I ultimately quit driving for Domino's myself. I used my paid vacation for the first time in 5 years to be in a friend's wedding, cut to the next pay day and I was short $200 I needed to pay for bills and things and was given, "I let the MIT (Manager in training) do it. He's the one that messed up there's nothing we can do." So I took that as my cue to walk out before clocking-in that shift.
I got $2,395.81 back in 1986 from an under-age child labor suit against Domino's (store manager used to have a few of us kids deliver flyers and walk pizzas over to the apartment complex next door or the trailer park behind them and help with dishes at closing all for $10 and a free pizza). The work we did was worth WAY more than that...the lawyers got paid more than we did. I would rather die of starvation in the gutters rather than work at any Domino's ever again.
Friend worked at call center. Had to go to the bathroom. Before she had a chance to pull her pants down, boss was in there screaming at her to get back to work. She immediately quit. Has a much better job now.
I really hope that was a female boss. The company would be in enough trouble as it is.
@@darkwulf23 I think it was but cause the boss went into the bathroom yelling at her. Multiple stall bathroom. Friend was super ticked.
I did not actually rage quit on the spot, but I had an offer from another company and was finishing the interview process. During my negotiation for a raise, I was told that "if I want any more I have to start liking the work and stop doing it mechanically" despite my work being some of the best. As soon as I got the confirmation from the other company, I gave my two weeks.
The talk with my boss was gold as he had no words to keep me at the company when I was being promised almost double at the new place.
I am with you brother! Interviewing and applying, I applied for one and I really do hope I get it, got several other people asking me to apply to their job listings and its great!
I was a janitor for a drug treatment center. Put up with a lot of riotious druggies and bad attitudes. But what got me was that since the local hospital network started offering free drug treatment, my center wasn't making money or getting new clients. So they started laying folks off. We went from 4 maintenance people and 6 janitors to 1 maintenance person and 2 janitors, one of which was me. I was constantly berated for not being able to do the work of 4-5 people and when they even demanded I drive out to their offsite facility and clean that too since they laid off the person who was to clean it, I had enough. Especially since they once wrote me up for supposedly driving to the facility "in an unsafe way". I just told them to kiss off and went to work for the hospital for 5 bucks an hour more.
I was working at our only burgerking in town i was making 7.25 a hour i was written up for not wearing a name tag by the store owner when my manager refused to strait up give me a name tag he belived her before me and wrote me up i quit and didnt even show up for work the next day she quit two days after and the store mysteriously lost 2000 from the register after she quit and the other manager cared so little that the place burned down a month later and the owner sold his share to someone else they offered to hire me back at 8.00 but frik that
Worked for my father at a college job and while I wasn’t head of my department, football maintaince (a branch of his but not his directly) I was the one who made the world go round. My actual boss was the worst boss you can imagine. She broke every rule we had, a few we didn’t know we had but never thought anyone would break them, never worked, admitted she never worked, and committed several sex crimes that would have had a man arrested and imprisoned. She started telling the players very inappropriate things about me and I snapped when a coach heard her say one and laughed. I told him that he should be punishing her and he said it was fine. So I told his boss, about the same thing. Then I announced that I worked for pussies all the way to the top in a very loud voice in a locker room full of players and most of our starters. Like half the team which is around seventy people heard me cuss out the boss for someone we all hated but nobody had the balls to fire. So I quit on the spot and stormed out. That was on a Friday. Games on Saturday. Remember when I said I made the world go round? They spent the next two weeks figuring out how much I had to do to keep up with all the slackers and spent the next two weeks begging me to take my job back until I got sick of it and said yes to shut them up on the grounds that the manager be removed. More of the same BS continues and eventually we get enough people to report her that an official investigation is launched and she gets a restraining order and is threatened with a law suit. Now she just leads tours around campus (a non paid job and not an envied one). Honestly surprised she’s still here all things considered
Regarding the story about the manager who tried denying that person time to see their ailing mother. There is not a single profession on this earth worth placing above family and any boss who feels that way is completely void of life. Good riddance.
Worked as a casual for a postal service as a warehouse worker. I was told I would always be given at least 24 hours notice before a shift, as it was a nightshift gig (written in the contract I signed, too). My manager was a lazy POS and would never call any of the casuals until 30 minutes before he wanted them there IF we were lucky (which btw, casuals made up like 50% of the staff, and they always needed at LEAST one casual every night because they liked to run skeleton crew... because paying a part/full time contract worker is more expensive due to union benefits). One Wednesday night, I was called in at 6:05pm.. asked me to be there for 6:00... sure, I'll jump in my time machine... I said I'd be there for 7:00 (about 45min commute time, and I needed to pack a lunch, got there as fast as I could). He gave me dirty looks until he left at 8:15pm even though he's supposed to supervise the whole shift, usually ending at 2:00-3:00am. Anyways, as me and the rest of the crew finished our shift at 2:15am, the girl I was working with said "see you on Sunday!!". I said "what?". She said our manager said I confirmed being there on Sunday 6-2... and he never said a word to me about it. I told her I hadn't been asked and I have a family event on Sunday, and she said she'd mention that I didn't get notified to our manager. Fast forward to Sunday at 6:35pm. Manager calls. "Hey, we were expecting you at 6:00, and we need you ASAP". As a casual, I don't have to agree to shifts without 24 hours notice as stated in my contract, and since there was NO record of him even trying to ask me to be there for Sunday, I declined the shift. I get a call from the day manager the next day and I explain I never got notified of the shift and had a family gathering that night (not a lie). He said ok, no problem, and to have a nice night (liked this guy waaayy more. He covered for 3 weeks for the night managers vacation once and I knew every shift I had for all 3 of those weeks). Monday night I get a call from the night manager again at 6:20pm, asking why I wasn't there for 6:00 like he asked. I told him I never got notified. He said he was going to write me up, and I laughed and said go ahead, I quit anyway. Needless to say, I ignored all future calls from my night manager. It wasn't until 3 MONTHS later that I got a call from the day manager asking if everything was ok. I told him I quit and I already got a new job about 2 months ago. He said he was sad to see me go, but he understood my frustration. I hope that shitty manager got canned. If he'd stop watching hockey in his office for 30 minutes, he could get people properly scheduled.
Only time I walked out of a job was after my paycheck bounced.... No pay no work
Back in college that happened to my friend, twice. Jobs were scarce due to being a small college town, so she couldn't afford to quit. But she would double check to make sure money was in the account before cashing her paychecks.
When I was 15 and eating at a fast food place I saw a worker sneeze onto the fries.
...but did you die?
Ew!
I one time I was working in a grocery store and after about two days in they demoted to cleaning bathrooms and they lied to me about it. I got upset when I learned the truth and they said they’d give me another chance after the first of the year, but they wanted me to work on Christmas Eve. I told them that if they wouldn’t give me Christmas Eve off, then December 23 was my last day. The manager didn’t understand why after she blatantly lied to me and tried to avoid me when I tried to talk to her about it.
For anyone curious how these sorts of people can be managers in jobs like these...it's honestly because they won't ever find work in another industry, or they're related to someone in the company. If the former, they will have studied those rule and company books to make sure if the managers above them try to fire them, they'll contact HR or the like. If the latter, they'll just be shifted around to 'non-critical' teams/locations/stores in order to keep them working.
I worked at a bakery. One of those small cookie bakeries.
My manager knew when she hired me on that I didn't like too much attention on me because I have anxiety and I'm on the autism spectrum, high functioning . I made sure to mention it in the interview.
She always put me on the front register when we were busy and would tell me off for being slow to help customers.
When there are two registers and needs to be two people helping customers half the time was just me or just one person.
We were supposed to rotate every employee because we were trained for all the jobs and ,to my manager, " its easier to train every employee for all the jobs in here.We can't guarantee one employee stays in one place"
And yet all the shift managers, assistant manager, the assistant manager's teen step son who was promoted a week after he started to shift manager worked in places they wanted to. Everyone else was put in places they asked to be in.
One day I discovered what a fucking panic attack was. I didn't like it.
I asked to be put on back cleaning (cleaning the office, bathroom, and a majority of the dishes and floor) because I was good at it and I was away from a crowd......she pulled the "we can't give employees the position they want unless there is a reason".
She also required a doctor's note if you had a cold......we worked with food and kids.
If you had a fever, feeling sick, sneezing, you had to work unless you puked on the floor and even then she was skeptical.
One co worker went on vacation and we found her boyfriend LIVING IN OUR STOCK ROOM for a week. After closing he'd sneak in with a key she gave him. All she was punished for ,as far as I know, was she was fired but was quickly rehired a few months later. That stock room still smelled like shit.
I walked out. Just up and quit. My sanity wasn't worth it....despite what my family thinks.
4 years there.
With that bartender one I would have waited for her to come out during the rush and announced the the crowd that I was quitting and why and point out the manager for them to share their complaints with.
Got yelled at for giving a customer 25 cents for their change instead of the 23 it said to give. We dont even count pennies in the register
I was told to stand down from a report of a waitress being sexually harassed ay the casino I worked security for. Was told help was on the way, nobody responded, she was to afraid to ever come back to work, and I got an interview there next day, resigned the next Monday after I used all my leave.
Fuck MGM National Harbor.
One time I was working a low tier minimum wage job and things were harder than usual so I quit and insulted my boss.
Walked out of McDonald's after working there for seven and a half years last October. It's amazing what happens whenever you hire the worst person imaginable for a management position, someone that routinely curses out both crew and customer, lie to people about raises, promotions, and even how much they're making, and more, and then act surprised whenever all of your best people leave. Put up with that BS for way too long.
Tried to scold me because I had made it WELL known I needed breaks due to medical stuff and got frustrated at getting it pushed to the last possible second (I had come in to help that particular shift. They always give me more hell when I came in to help). I had never worked a job more than 3-4 hours (that was a job at 15, new to workforce) so didn’t understand why I was being scolded for being confused that I couldn’t sit down. My manager gave me absolute hell for it before I worked ANOTHER chaotic shift alone with no break in a swarm of angry customers, and the next day (my off day, I DESPERATELY NEEDED IT) my general manager and owner of the store was mad and passive aggressive at the ONE time I said no to coming in. That pushed me over. I was in extreme pain from not getting a break (I asked during the best times for them and was too willing to wait for them to allow me to sit), overwhelmed by a crowd yelling at me and glaring because they ALWAYS made DT’s food first, and insulted at the fact that they tried to twist it on me when I brought it up TIME AND TIME AGAIN. Loved the pay and the fast food joint but I dipped the hell out with no warning. Assholes.
Pay was shitty as an assistant manager, the drive sucked, I was burnt out and stressed with the job and the company in general, and the icing on the cake was taking my measly bonus check for something out of my control. Told me to step up or step down. I quit instead. If you can't be bothered to pay me at least $14-$15 an hour to be an assistant manager, you aren't worth it.
9:05 they called you maid to be intentionally shitty. You picked it up
The team player speech annoys me
It's standard "Manager Speak" for shifting the blame off of them and onto you.
I was working by myself with a new hire on the night of the Superbowl as a host (male). Everyone had called in other than me (who basically was forced into the shift) I was still pretty new at the job. I'd say probably 3-5 weeks in. Still never worked by myself and here I am, training a new girl. They didn't even call me to let me know that they moved me up to go in at 3pm (instead of 6pm). They call telling me they need me all pissed. I show up. The new girl shows up. 8pm rolls around and my mom calls saying there is an emergency and I have to leave right now (I didn't know what it was at the time). My manager tells me I can't clock out till I finish cleaning the entire restaurant and the bathrooms. So after 20min of cleaning and my mom pulling my manager off to the side. He comes to the back and tells me "listen I know this is some bs for you to just leave, so have a nice night". Yeah man. Never showed up again. The guys a fucking pervert too I swear. Hated him
Sorry I can't work my printer is out of ink. Too bad for you jerk boss.
I worked in the Toy section at TJ Maxx. I made above minimum but was lucky to get more than 4 hours a week. I kept askint for more hours but instead, they hust kept hiring new people. We were still so understaffed that the store was always a mess. Especially my section since the kids would run over while I was working, play with the toys, ask their stupid parents to buy this cheap ass 20 dollar toy. They always said no and the jid never put the toy back where it was supposed to fucking go. The toys weren't selling and kept piling up. Eventually I worked the changing rooms which stoked me since it was a different part of the store and I thought the duty would give me more hours. I had a water bottle so I wouldn't have to take trips to the water fountain. It turned out to be really boring though. The most exciting part was hanging the clothes up that people didn't buy since I was allowed to use my fucking legs. One day I was told I had to stand there for four hours straight. I couldn't take my break. Not even to go to the bathroom. Guess what I did the same day.
Retail does that now. When I was a teen in the early 90s and got a retail job they only hired full time people. But by the mid 2000s, all these places stopped doing that and figured it's cheaper to hire disposable employees for minimum wage and get a bunch of them working 10hrs a week. It has caused a lot of stores to fall into ruin due to incompetent workers. Amazon is laughing all the way to the bank.
Worked as a barista for 4 years. The work sucked, but was tolerable, until we got a new manager who was an outside hire who had no managerial experience, let alone barista experience, but he was a yes man to corporate, so he stayed. No one liked him, and everyone started transferring or quit for a different job. At first I didn’t mind as long as he gave me my space. But once he started claiming I “wasn’t being a team player”. Despite the store always being understaffed, and I had to do the work of 2 baristas everyday. On that same day, I applied, interviewed, and got a new better paying job. The next day I went to work to tell the manager I got a better paying job in 24 hours and I quit.
I was hired to be a 2nd shift supervisor. During the two weeks notice I gave to my previous job, they fired all of my staff. The day I started, they fired the last person. I then had to train four brand new employees on seven machines while maintaining all other duties. The final straw was when they pulled me onto first shift and forced me to be away from my staff, then began writing me up for their inability to complete their jobs because they lost their guidance and trainer.
for the Bartender one what you do is you stand up on the bar and loudly proclaim to the entire bar that you "quit because my manager here after confirming multiple times with me that i can go see my sick mother in hospital has at the last minute decided that i never did any of that and now ya'll have no bartender!"
They took my red stapler
I had been screwed over for months by every shade of administrative errors imaginable. I had already considered leaving due to these problems but then they tell me they're going to change the employment form company wide at end of year(during a conference switch my boss about the most recent grievous error) which meant my form of employment would be terminated... less than two weeks prior to end of year. Yea fuck off I'm putting call centre work in the pile of jobs I'll only consider if I'm literally dying already. Right up there with Micky Ds and personal assistant work.
I haven't quit yet BUT too many people thinking they are in charge, an over inflated management staff like 6 supervisors for maybe 12 people, too many of them trying to shoot from the hip and see who is the big boss in charge, employees from other stores coming to "show us how its done" as if that's going to fix a crap labor market and the inability to replace employees as well as the lean business model is going to stop our store from hemorrhaging people and motivate an understaffed and overworked restaurant.
I worked for a trucking/courier company as an independent contractor. They used to skim from our commissions. They were just the lowest of the low. We had a dispatcher who knew what he was doing and coordinated the drivers so we would make some great profits, I made $700 on a good day. So they fired him. I never saw a company run by such dirtbags. Since then I always loved the Teamsters.
Wouldn't consider this a full fledged rage quit necessarily, but a final straw for a job I left recently.
I worked at a local pizza parlor in Missouri for a few months. The managers were Ok except for one, and the coworkers were good except for one. Everything was cool until the first day of Passover (a Jewish holiday that lasts for several days, where fasting among several activities were taking place). On top of that, a big moment for my family occured that I had to be there for (my sister was pregnant and my family was the first to know, my sister rushed home from Louisiana on leave from the Marine Corps). I had to frantically call off on 50 minutes notice and got zero response. I thought they would have recieved the message and given my circumstances, would've understanded.
Two days pass before I am able to come back in, and so I do just that. I come in like I would've any other day, only to find that I had been eliminated from the schedule and terminated (with no notice) under the idea that I had no communication with the head manager, and that the manager tried to contact me on eight different instances over the two days (keep in mind I had ZERO response in that time). I leave the store pissed off and inform the manager personally that I would be considering legal action for wrongful termination, nepotism, and allowing for the creation of a toxic work environment. The owner offers me reinstatement with no raise, and I kindly tell management and ownership to fuck off. Why would I stay and work for ownership and management that would discard good workers (like me) like trash, but keep the one toxic coworker (verbally berated coworkers, micromanaged, gave new hires no time to learn the job, came in with attitude problems, got passes from the main manager for mistakes that would've gotten us in deep shit, and put his hands on people occasionally) on top of constantly boasting in front of everyone how he was the best one on the job/why people should be like him.
What a neglectful piece of work.. So glad I am out of that hellhole, starting an apprenticeship for either an insulators or an ironworkers union... Time for my real work to begin 💪
I was called into the back and lectured. I guess my eyes darted back and forth and they mistook that for rolling my eyes. It was at least the third time they accused me of doing it and I just broke down and left. Only regret is I can't use them as a reference, but eh I don't give a shit. I was tired of being treated like crap by management.
Word of advice for Pennsylvania residents: never work for Turkey Hill unless you have good supervisors.
I use to work as like a sells women for candy but it was a program to help kids learn about jobs from 12 to 17. I quite recently because while I was in a hospital for personal reasons, my boss went and told everyone I worked with about it, mind you I was two out of 8 kids in there that were 17, everyone else was 12 or a little older. I called her while she was on speaker phone in front everyone that I quiet and don't appreciate her being a bitch and sharing my private info with everyone without my consent. Regret nothing and this lady tried to ask me to come back twice so she knows she lost a good worker
Tiny Donut when I worked in retail I took off a week to go to inpatient care. The first thing I did when I got there was called my boss to let them know I’d be absent. My boss told me to bring a doctors note when I returned. When I got back I brought in a doctors note from my psychiatrist. A few weeks later my coworkers approached me saying “we knew why you were in the hospital”. “It’s because you were depressed and had been cutting.” My boss told EVERYONE I worked with my medical info. Needless to say I quit that job. Oh and my boss was fired.
On the third day of working for a ma and pa convince store i asked the manager about my pay and he responded "it doesn't matter, you're an unpaid intern for the first week"
Walked away and never came back
I tried once working as security in the market, after 2 days of worst job ever (15h/day, realy shitty enviroment, boss was huge ass) and two big, bald and definitively way stronger than me guys asking me to go to toilet next day at 12:00 AM and pretend that i'm not there i just did not appeared there at all anymore.
Believe me I understand the frustration when the job you applied and got hired for is not what was said. To the windows support guy though, man I wish I had that job of fixing washers and dryers though. Hope he found something he likes and/or pays well
I was working for a pizza shop. The owner was Lebanese. Guy was really talkative,kinda touchy-feely also. He was a real tight @$z about time out on delivery/clocking in ect..(he used a tracking program on my phone while we were on deliveries. After about 3 months there..I was just about done with this guy. One day he calls me and asks if I can come in to cover another shift..I said sure. Worked the shift..went home. The next day I was scheduled to be in @10am. My car would not start so I called and told him I'd be a bit late..gotta wait for AAA. I get there and he comes back, starts yelling about how I need to take this seriously because he couldn't deliver orders ..Yada Yada. I just look at him and say "I'm done...I quit. Whatever money you owe me,you can keep it." He asked why..I said I came in yesterday on my day off to help you..and your gonna treat me like this because my car battery died?...Later Dude. Walked out..never talked to the guy again
The Perfect Frameing
call centers really suck..i worked at one that would not even take a doctors note from the ER lol told me i had to make up the hours..told them EF off lol
So is it me or did that hotel Manager set up the 19yo for a sex date
Everybody here leaving their jobs
Me: you guys have job to quit
Their as opposed to there
haven't quit yet but i got 0 hours on my schedule for this week. No explanation provided as my boss who made the schedule went on vacation. but im on the verge of up and quitting if the explanation they give me isn't damn good
Bartender story: I'd have smashed every. Single. Glass in there. Then, I'd pour the booze down the sinks and replace with water. Then, while waiting for the surgery to end, I'd write bad reviews all over the internet
Call center jobs omg never again
8 cent paycheck.
What the fuck goes on in call centers? Like 60% of the "I quit my job on the spot" stories come from a call center
8 cent cheque lol, i would fucking frame that, the paper its printed on costs more
So many of these rage quits are in reactions to actual crimes. I hope they got unemployment.
These are always entertaining but I really doubt a lot of them actually went down that way.
"I was a complete by-the-book-angel"
"The mean man/woman was a psycho who did things so terribly that it doesn't even make sense"
Source: dude trust me.
Fuck baja fresh. Me and the cook kept getting into it. When he suggested that I wasnt mexican enough too work here I quit and we ran that fade.
the perfect framing
at least half of these are repeats
When my supervisor told me it was my wife’s job to take care of my at the time 4 month old baby
Wow these bosses suck .
You mean puparazi.
Oof
Bruh
Special ed
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Wow am so early
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