Worked at a chain restaurant. There was a change in ownership, and two of my coworkers had previously worked for this owner at another establishment and had nothing but bad things to say (late paychecks, not paying workers what they're owed, anger management issues, etc.). Our entire workforce was college students, with the oldest of us being a 25 year old manager who so happened to be one of those previous employees of this tyrant owner. She suggested that we all quit. Everyone was on board. So, this owner now had a restaurant without a single employee. This meant hiring would be painful as there were no employees to provide any form of training to new applicants. This all happened in September, and the restaurant has yet to re-open for business over a month later! Treat employees like the people they are, and you won't have these problems.
I worked in a library as a library director, and I had been promoted to the position after the previous director was fired (and arrested) for embezzling. I had been working by myself for a week before a new woman was hired. I had warned my boss (the city mayor that didn’t even work in the library) that the new employee was a hazard to not only me, but our patrons as well. Not only was she dangerous, she didn’t actually know how to use a computer or how to properly shelve the books. New coworker decided to flirt with one of the patrons by showing him how she could juggle knives. I walked out, called my boss, and quit, using my two weeks vacation as my two weeks notice. I had just purchased approximately 3000 (yess three thousand) new items for the library that I hadn’t added to the system yet. Library had to shut down for two weeks so the coworker could learn how to use the computers and how to actually use a library. Most importantly, she also had to enter every single one of those items into the system, one by one, with each item averaging from 5-10 minutes to be entered and properly shelved. They ended up having to open the library before having all the new items shelved, and it took her over three months (and several volunteers from other local libraries) to finish the job. And since the other libraries hated that woman, they served the patrons while she had to enter all of the items without anyone helping her. Hopefully this made sense-I’m just had a bottle of wine to celebrate paying off the last of my outstanding credit card debt!!!!!!!!!!!
Things always get interesting at a company when you're one of the veterans with a system in place that actually works. Cue the arrogant new guy or know-it-all freshly hired supervisor that decides to change things up because the old system doesn't work for them. Now imagine half the staff leaving, a skeleton crew has to pull double shifts or stay over, and new hires are basically a revolving door. That's basically what's happening at the restaurant I'm in right now.
Oh god, I know what you mean. I recently came back to a job that I had left a few years ago and a lot of the senior staff is both new, and arrogant. I've been through 2 evolutions in this unit, and this new person does not understand how to run this place.
I worked at a fast food place, got along with my coworkers, had a great manager. One day the manager got moved to a new store so we got a new one. Her first day she walked around moving things so she could find them, despite everyone else. Things got frustrating for me and I quit not long after.
Happened at my job. We had a new person take over my entire department, covering about five locations at the very large company I work for. I later found out she only got the job because she was childhood friends with the CEO’s wife or something like that. She takes over and changes everything that had previously been working fine, just to make things exactly the way she wanted. Ended up f*cking up the whole business. She hemorrhaged money into things we either didn’t need, or into things we already had but she wanted replaced. She also implemented new absurd policies that effectively destroyed employee morale. One of them was what she called an “accountability booster”. I won’t go into too much detail, but think Dwight’s Doomsday Device from The Office. It’s only function was to point out every tiny mistake employees made, so they could be “corrected” (fired). About 90% of the staff quit within a few months of her taking over. I was one of the few to stay, and unsurprisingly she lasted less than a year. After she was gone, the business slowly went back to the way it was. Only a handful of people from my department were still there after she “resigned”. Sorry for the wall of text I just needed to get that out lol
I worked at a fast food restaurant that was opened by a married couple. He would normally hire staff and she took care of finances. I was the only guy in the operation other than him. He routinely would get touchy with the 15-18 year old girls. After asking one of my coworkers if he was too handsy, I was let go. Four months later the wife divorces the guy and takes over the business. Pretty sure I know why.
The problem with doing a skilled job really well, is that most of the time, the idiots in management start to believe that since you make a tough job LOOK easy, it really MUST BE easy. Then they begin to take you for granted and figure since your job is obviously so easy to do, you'll be easy to replace with someone a lot cheaper and they were wrong about the requirements for the job all along. I used to work for a large west coast airport, civil service. My job was construction equipment service and included 30 large backup power generators, airfield X-signs, light plants and a whole lot of other motorized things. I had a good system, was conscientious about keeping up with the work, and got no complaints. That changed with the guy they replaced me with. They began having problems with broken equpment, motors running out of fuel, bulbs not changed, and a whole list of issues. I wasn't there but I'd guess the guy they replaced me with just didn't take the job seriously enough or something, but the work was quite important and somebody not doing a good job could literally involve loss of life, or getting sued into the ground, so more's the pity - for my old bosses, anyway.
My first job at McDonald’s, I was 16/17 at the time and it was a dinner rush I already had a stressful day at school but this dinner rush pushed me to my breaking point. So I was working the front and a line of people start to gather out the door and there are just 2 employees standing there doing nothing while the manager and the cooks are getting stuff done for drive through I’m taking all the orders and no one is getting served I get through the line and my manager started screaming at me cause no one was getting served. I tell her that “there are two people standing there behind me doing absolute jack shit if the food is ready then tell them to start bagging shit and get it pushed out” my actual words to her mind you, and the entire line of people heard me and started laughing their asses off at the manager cause they knew I was right. She then tried to pass some BS that they were helping her so I storm off to behind the store outside to have a smoke and clear my head then I come back and these two people are still standing there doing nothing. The people who are waiting for their orders are still waiting and everyone is running around trying to figure out what’s what and another line forms and goes out the door and my manager starts screaming at me calling me worthless in front of everyone so I literally scream “fuck you cu**” take off my uniform to where I’m only wearing my basketball shorts and my white t shirt and just leave with the store packed with about 30 or so people waiting for food or waiting to order food. Never been back there since that day.
Honestly fuck McDonald’s if anyone in high school is looking for a job never work at McDonald’s or anywhere it’s fast food cause you will save yourself from the amount of stress you will get from working in fast food
@@oliviathompson8046 I think it really depends on the store and their managers. If you get to week two at any new job, and the place is bad, then bail or plan your exit right away. Never pays to stick it out on a job you can't stand. In 2 weeks you will know all you need to know about most companies and that's the time to make the call. Never fall for the trap of thinking a better job isn't possible, but make sure you have an income while you are searching for it.
Why was someone giving you ciggys at 16? That's illegal and that is how you get problems later. I'd stop hanging out with shady ppl who influence you to make bad life choices.
My grandpa passed over Christmas and I almost walked out of my job because my manager was trying to keep me from going to the hospital to see him before he passed. Luckily, the head manager disagreed and I luckily had 2 weeks off to deal with it all. Still don't trust that other manager.
@@fryloc359 Hah, last time I heard that was my Grade 8 principal. Decades after I graduated high school, they were having a retirement party for a teacher at a bar I frequent. I started talking with (and thanking) my guidance counsellor about it after some beers and she was like, "LMAO no, you do probably have some file for all the dumb shit you pulled in high school, but we don't really do anyhting with those." The next week I made an appointment with the same counsellor and asked to see it. Most of it was destroyed, she only had notes about my college choices (which she gave me, she didn't need them for anything) and some notes about what we talked about. The office had nothing immediately available - tens of thousands of students graduate from there, they've likely been shredded by then, or on a 1.44 floppy diskette. But yeah the record is completely useless in the real world.
I worked at tacobell. I was getting crapped on by higher management getting talked to in a disrespectful way, yeld at for no reason to the point customers felt bad for me. One day I snapped it was a dinner rush I clocked out and left. I found out from friends things went down hill after I left. I came back cause I believe in second chances. Once I came back i found out my GM just lost it. We got a new GM and this one was a world class jerk. Me including 4 other quit after the B.S. that was happening. Were all very happy now and we all became close friends. That tacobell store is still going down hill.
I was helping a neighbor lady lower this old couch of hers off the second story I tied it up and secured it right and it not being a big couch I figured everything would go smoothly and it did for the most part Well it gets maybe 3 inches off the ground on the first story and my guide man decided to try and grab the rope and pull it to him him that way causing it to fall the 3 inches or so It didn't break or anything but the neibor lady came up cursing me out and getting in my face and what not Now I was helping her move that stuff because no one else would help her And I did it for free at that So I just packed up my gear and told her to figure it out her damn self It ended up costing her 600$ for movers to lower everything down and move it into her car and help carry everything into her new house After walking off I called up a good lady friend of mine and myself and her spent the rest of the day riding around her town and mine just listening to music and we ended up blazing one up for her late cousin I regret nothing
That KFC story is basically all low paying/minimum wage jobs. They pay you minimum wage and give you four peoples work to do (because they won't hire the other three needed people to do those jobs) and demand you do it in the same amount of time as the one job they are officially paying you for.
That’s literally my job, I work at chic-fil-a and “multitasking” is one of the requirements you just need to have. In other words you’ll be doing 2-3 tasks on top of doing other peoples tasks because we don’t have enough employees (people keep quitting because they’re being overworked)
Recently I ate at a CFA and noticed how the drive through was wrapped around the entire building and lot and thought the same thing; I was surprised it was cleared by the time I was done eating. This location wasn’t open to dine in and only had 1 outside table I managed to get lucky enough to get so that’s probably why there were so many cars
Worked as an aide at a physical rehab/nursing home...was on my feet from the minute I arrived till the minute I clocked out, often missing my lunch break, got unfair work assignments...the level of work they expected from you for the pay you got was mind blowing, was disrespected by more than a few of my co-workers and some superiors. Was fired for poor job performance. I was contacted by a nurse who worked midnight shift a couple of weeks later who filled me in on how everything went to crap on my shift since I left...the thing she said that stuck with me was, "Now that you're gone, those b*tches actually have to do their jobs"...I'm glad this lady told me this, it gave me a sense of closure. 😎👍
I loved being a nurse but the medical field as a whole is a very toxic place. At hire you’re told to never work while sick - especially during flu outbreaks while caring for vulnerable people. Get sick, see doctor, call off, get written up. Show up sick, feeling like crap, to skeleton crew cuz everyone is sick - get written up for not being 3 people/not doing 3 people’s jobs. Never ever tell patients or family members that you can’t meet their every (often ridiculous, or not allowed on ordered diet or activity level) demand because of short staffing. But then there’s a hiring freeze. Efficiency experts following staff counting supplies used - you use repeated amount of x supply for dementia patient who keeps undoing everything you do Seriously, pay and retain better staff, you’ll get better care, get more patients, and get higher insurance reimbursement, so more money for you. Treating staff like crap doesn’t encourage them to work better for you, it just means that no good employees will ever stay. You wind up with bottom of the barrel employees.
20:46 sprouts farmers market is the only job I hated with a burning passion. It definitely ensures the fact I will never work at a grocery store ever again.
I resigned from a moderator position with a notorious media company. This in the midst of a flood of other resignations and people leaving. I left them to deal with the overseas spambots, users who kept evading IP bans, and all the other ways their forum was broken. I don't think they ever brought the forum back, now that I'm thinking about it.
I took a job at a restaurant down the road from my house and the owner would leave me all the clean up from his shift the night before that I was to do while I did the prep to open up each morning. Every dish , pot and pan would need cleaning as well as nothing would be wiped down as far as counters or work surfaces. He finally hadn’t paid us in over a week and when I complained about having to do night shift clean up as well as my opening duties he waited for the restaurant to start to open. At that point the dining room was full and the order board was getting full as well. I was expediting and he and his 14 yr old son stopped to let everyone know that if anyone didn’t like how he did things they could leave because it was his way or the hiway. Knowing he couldn’t do the brunch or lunch shift without me as soon as he got those words out of his mouth I walked off the line taking my apron off. I proceeded to throw it in his face. Punched out my time card and walked out the back door as he screamed “You can’t do that “ . Within the hour the doors were closed and they never opened again. I also was the only one who put in a case with the labour board and got paid when he returned to the country six months later thinking he was in the clear now with people he owed money to. Pretty sure that pissed him off even more lol.
Not a job I took, but a job I considered. There’s a fast food place really close to me and one time whilst standing in line to order, a door alarm goes off. Turns out, a kid about 7 or 8 couldn’t find the way outside and accidentally triggered the alarm. The manager of this place, who is at least in her 30’s, has a complete tantrum. She starts verbally abusing the staff and even threw napkins and other stuff at them. Me and another customer both looked at each other like wtf is her issue. It was a little mistake and the kid didn’t know any better so she gets angry about it and assaults her staff with objects and nasty words. I noped out of thinking to apply there.
Lasted two weeks as a both dishwasher and table busser. Ill never work for the restraunt industry again. These people treated 7.25 an hour with 12 hour shifts and no breaks and no tips like they were doing you a favor. As the table busser/dishwasher, i was expected to set the restraunt up and break the restraunt down. Always at the end of a 12 hour shift the restraunt manager (her daddy owned the business) would always be berating me for not cleaning up (the only expected to do so and to do the enitire restraunt alone) fast enough so she could go home (god forbid she picked up a mop and helped). Well i got my first check at the end of week two and it was short. So i talk to the manager. Hey why is it short? She says "well the count of the silverware from the tables u bussed is off so we deducted the missing utensils from ur check". She gave me this check at close to the start of a very busy shift. I quietly took my shirt off and handed it to her. Strolled thru the restraunt shirtless and out the front door. I remember hearing some BOTH people yelling shit like "o there goes another one" and "who the hell is gonna cover his area not me that job sucks". This was back in like 2017 in florida so u know 7.25 wasnt shit anyway. Edit:the manager was a chick who was younger than me and clearly had never really worked in her life. Nepotism at its finest people
Not me, but my brother worked at The Catch after high school (I believe this was in 2018 or 2019?). They hired him as a busboy, then immediately out him to work in the kitchen, and when the sink broke, they expected him to fix it with nothing but a plunger. From what he’s told me, there were numerous health code violations and people were quitting mid-shift. My brother worked two shifts before quitting. They still haven’t paid him. I’m never eating at The Catch again, and it seems the rest of my family agrees.
I hated working at a grocery store. At least my last manager wasn't terrible. I told her I was done and quit. She said that it's probably for the best since I should go to college rather than work there. I didnt take her advice until after my next job though
My last job was run by a sociopath who would keep changing how she wanted things done, and wouldn't tell me until I'd done it wrong. She also had a history of verbal and even physical abuse of employees. Her chief manager was also a sociopath who would cheat on her fiancee with coworkers and then get them fired afterward. Both real nice girls, in other words. The manager gal frequently made negligent mistakes and got one of us blamed for it since in the boss's eyes she could do no wrong. They read me the riot act one day out of the blue telling me I'm a crappy worker and I can work the rest of the weekend or quit outright. I said I'd finish the weekend. So it's sunday, my last day at this crappy company, and I'm trying to find a way to get through the shift without just walking out. I realize we have a vat of ranch dip in the lunchroom fridge. I also remember that none of our employee lockers are actually locked, and said sociopathic manager girl has a collection of lotions in her locker so she can smell like a Bath and Body Works all day. So I emptied ALL her lotion bottles and filled them with ranch dip. Not only did the joy of that get me through my last day, but I found out later that week that the manager didn't realize what I'd done to her lotions until she'd already slathered it all over her arms and face. She spent the rest of the day smelling like an Applebees salad and was furious. Later that week one of their "yes men" girls got the same treatment and was outright fired after she finished setting up boss lady's side business for her. This gal also happened to be the only computer savvy person in the company besides me, so she changed all the passwords before she left, and nobody could log in to conduct business. So not only were these chicks evil, but stupid as well.
I used to work farmers markets. When I started one of the first things that was made clear to me was that everything under the tent, the tent included, was my responsibility. Occasionally we would get people who would volunteer to help (the organization was a 501c3 not for profit) One such volunteer was a woman who was a friend of the owner. (Who I'll call ma'am) She had a discussion with the owner which led her to believe that ma'am wanted the 10th to be set up in a specific way every time. However, on the day that she volunteered she also decided that she was going to take over. In doing so, she repeatedly asked for ridiculous things, such as trying to copy a picture of another setup, which would have left the cookies and the pies in the rain. Anytime I corrected that, by ensuring that the cookies and pies were not out enough to get hit by the rain. After a while it became clear that the cookies and pies would be useless, as the bags and boxes they were kept in we're no longer secure. She started in on me about how I shouldn't have put them out in the rain, and when I pointed out that I've been moving them out of the rain to her at management, and when one of the neighboring stalls agreed with me, she started a shouting match in front of customers. So I left. In the end, I didn't get fired and I didn't quit. But I did stop doing farmers markets, was told that maybe I don't have the temperament.
My nephew quit his job and left a dumpster fire that stink and burned for the longest. He worked in I.T. He left his job because he got screwed out of a promotion that was promised to him. Before he quit he up loaded a virus in the system programming. The company lost 5 contracts and they lost millions of dollars 💵😢 3 days later he got a better job😁😁😁😁😁😁
Yeahhhh this kinda shit is *basically* slave labor. We also have legal slaves! The law that “abolished” slavery said that you can’t use people as slaves UNLESS it’s as punishment for a crime. Our prisons are legalized slavery.
I've posted this before but it belongs here too. Years ago, I worked for an idiot who decided to take his divorce out on his workforce. There were 4 of us. Over the course of a month, we all left, me being the last because I needed that last week of pay. On my last day, he was ranting and raving about the 3 who'd already quit to his brad-new, very inexperienced replacement workers. They were very uncomfortable. Then he turned to me and started berating me. I just stopped and told him he could make up my last paypacket because I was leaving too. He was very angry. He also now had just 2 employees in a business that required 4 employees to run it. I drove past it some .months later and it had closed down. Edit: typoed 2 when I meant 3.
I’ve got a story. So back in Christmas of 19 I started working at a photography studio for the Christmas session. It was crazy but fun. I was about the be rehired for the Easter session when the pandemic hit. Summer comes around and I get a job at 5 below. I liked it there, my boss was really nice. In August my old boss texted me asking if I wanted to come back so I did. I started juggling 2 jobs pretty well other then an emotional brake during the middle of the Christmas rush. This august at 5 below we had a huge manager change and I lost all of the managers including my boss for one reason or another. Most of the new managers where not too bad but the new head boss was a bitch, in forcing rules that never existed, not letting me use sick time when I had really bad migraines that my other boss was aware of, even screwing up my schedule to the point where I was getting less hours between both jobs. I quit right after that but before I left, I was offered a job by the manager of the pet store next to us. She offered me more hours and $2 above my states minimum wage. I took the job and I’ll admit, it’s hard, but fun! My other boss at the studio was told about all this and is basically now having a hissy fit because she can’t call me in whenever anymore and I can’t just ask for shifts to be moved around. I’m planning on going in today and quitting there too since I can’t work both jobs. I work 5 days at the pet store and my other boss tries to drag me in for the other 2 I get off. I’ve had more emotional brakes over the past 2-3 weeks then I’ve ever had in my whole life. I’ve even had a few while at work, having to run to the back room in hopes that no one sees me. I loved working at the studio but I’m not passing up a job where I’m being paid $2 more, get discounts on pet supplies for my guinea pig and get to play with animals for a few extra bucks and a lot of frustration.
You should have called the Department of Labor and Filed a Formal Complaint against the Bitch Boss...It is ILLEGAL to not allow an Employee to use Sick Time for a Legitimate Medical Issue and Migraines are DEFINITELY a Legitimate Medical Issue...
This was in South Africa. First job as an 18 year old: Worked at a Spur, a popular steak restaurant. Before we could be a waiter we had to endure a whole months training 6 days a week from 8am-8pm while not being paid a single cent during training because we weren't actually "working". Finally get my tests done and ready to go and actually do the job. All of the six new waiters each get one table during probation period. We were allowed to keep the tips but wasn't actually paid through the company during that time. Later they realised that was illegal, and paid us. I spent 6 months there. I can't believe I endured it for that long. The owner was so petty the waiters had to pay for their own cleaning rags and mops. The only thing he provided was cleaning chemicals. We had to leave R5 everyday for "lost cutlery and broken plates" which was solely blamed on waiters and made them pay for it. Here's a quick summary: - Every Tuesday you had to come in to collect your paycheck, but before then we had to spring clean the whole store for 4+ hours. You weren't paid for the cleaning. You had to come clean regardless if you're on shift or not. If you didn't clean you didn't get your paycheck. - Beef with two managers. The one male manager shoved me out of the way while I was cleaning the floor with a toothbrush (Usual Tuesday spring-cleaning). Second manager just had it out for me. She spread lies about me and constantly told me how bad I was. She went on leave for two weeks. Suspiciously during those two weeks I made double the amount of tips I usually would (She ran cashdesk and processed all the tips customers APPARENTLY left). When she came back my tips went down again. She was stealing my tips - but obviously I couldn't prove that as customers paid the cashdesk our "tips". If you worked Nightshift you had to wait for ALL staff to finish their sections before being allowed out. Let's say your shift was 5-9 you had to stay until 10 which was closing time so that the managers could check your sections. Sometimes them "checking" your sections took up to two hours as they were cashing up etc. You were not paid for waiting for managers to check your sections. We weren't given any contracts during the timeframe we were working. The day before I decided I was leaving they conveniently threw everyone with contracts as someone probably tipped off the government regarding their shit practices, I refused to sign mine as I wanted my parents to check over it. I informed them I'll have it signed and given to them the next day. I overheard two managers talking to eachother regarding me not signing - the one said he will "sort me out" before shift ends. I didn't give it to them the next day. I told them I was leaving instead. Conveniently another waiter decided to leave on the same day as well which caused a big issue with shifts. Frick you Spur. For any South African reading this, please be nice to your waiters. Please tip them cash in their hands.
I worked at a Wendy's where I quit in 4 weeks bc they had me working 10 hour shifts as soon as I started there and keep in mind I applied for part time bc I was just looking for something while doing my college classes and was on night shift didn't get off until like 3 in the morning everyday and never gave me break. So one day I took upon myself to give me a break after about 5 hours in I went up and clocked for a 20 minute break went to the subway next door and got myself a footlong Buffalo chicken sandwich when the manager came over and told me that she didn't say I could go on break and without a word I got up put my hat and apron down on the table and walked out to my car finished my lunch and went home
I worked at a Wendy’s in high school I never worked 10 hours may be five you should of gotten a break at least they break so many laws they cheated me breaks and I worked over my shift being 16 at the time I could of reported them
After multiple reports to HR about my nasty, toxic coworker, and btw it was other people too, not just me.... I was told to just 'make it work'. She kept lying about interactions... I kept smoothing things over with other colleagues so we could get work done... She continually made the workplace feel miserable, and mainly me. I decided enough was enough. They were upset I resigned and only gave a weeks notice (which was all I needed to give, based on my contract). I've left them to deal with her crap instead of me. Last I heard they approached another worker in the business to do my old job, offered it to her, no actual written job offer - just verbal. I know this person really didn't like the woman I worked with. They finally gave her the paperwork and at the last minute she declined the 'offer'. Moral of the story - noone likes working with toxic people and you can't make them.
I left them three people down, with no spare staff to cover the 5 other shifts I had that week after I spent 8 hours taking abuse from a co-worker who didn't want to do her job. I also told the area manager as I quit, that the reason the kitchen was so badly run is because the chef refused to do their job - aka, hire new people, fire the useless POS that took 3 months of holiday instead of 2 weeks (kept extending her holidays), and hire a decent back up chef that wouldn't serve raw chicken to elderly people, and oh, kept hiring anti-vaxxers who brought the flu into the place that killed a few people (of a team of 8 people, 5 were AV. That's not a co-incidence). I ended up with undiagnosed PTSD from the place, and a several chronic illnesses due to the stress. I have no regrets.
The restaurant stories are so satisfying. I worked as a garde manger for years for a local family owned Italian restaurant and I have so many stories I could write a small book. Severs doing Coke in the bathroom, customers got caught fucking on the stairs. Twice. The owner throwing raw fish at customers. I had a paycheck bounce so the owner could buy a new car to name a few. I had a terminally ill father at home and I had to work to keep a roof over us. Hurricane Irma in 2017 was a blessing in disguise (albeit a very, very fucked up one). My mother's property in South Florida was heavily damaged and she needed help. I used that as my out and put in my notice. I still get dirt / gossip and last I heard they hired a new chef at 70K who ghosted them the day he was supposed to start, next to no staff and the owner is abusing pills. Again and just lost his license. Again. Seriously fuck family owned operations, it's the Wild West of the service industry. They will grind you down into a stump.
My first job was at a small fast food place. I was 16. The general manager treated me horribly. Constantly writing me up, only scheduling me for one 5 hour shift a week, flat out screaming at me and other staff in front of customers, stealing from my register, etc. One day, I had enough and decided to quit. The next time I was scheduled, I showed up at my scheduled time, handed her my uniform and left. The manager at a different fast food restaurant saw her screaming at me and a coworker and offered us both jobs on the spot, which we both accepted. Something about us quitting at the same time motivated everyone else to do the same. Within the week, 12 of the 15 total employees had quit, including one of the assistant managers. They had to shut down for about a month while trying to find new people to work. Fun side story though, not that long after I quit, I saw in the newspaper that the general manager had been arrested. She still had her work uniform on in her mugshot. What was she arrested for? She was a registered sex offender and wasn't legally allowed to work with people under 18. She was mostly hiring 16 year olds. She didn't assault any of the employees or anything, her crime didn't even have to do with children, but in my state part of being a sex offender of any kind is that you can't work around children. But for some ungodly reason, despite being arrested at work, for a crime taking place at work, she didn't lose her job. 4 years later and she's still the general manager of that place, but at least now she only hires 18+ people
Not as cool as the others, but my first job. I was the closing key holder on our Tuesday rush. Normal day, store would make 2k, Tuesday would be 5k to 10k. I got told my raise was taken (had it a year at this point) and my work would be doubled on top of being the only worker on tuesday. (6 people to close that night and i was told no help was coming) Being a dumb 16 year old, I tossed my shirt into the dough maker as it was making dough an left
That auto parts one was similar to my time working at one. It was a part time job for me, but when two assistant managers were fired and arrested for theft and fraud, the district manager told me I needed to step up and help cover the shifts those two idiots used to work. The store manager tried to tell the district manager that I had a fulltime jobs working at a medical center and if push came to shove, I’d quit. District manager told me to do the right thing and man up…so I handed him my keys and walked out.
BUSIEST night in months at restaurant, really slammed- one of few restaurants in the area that still had power during a winter storm, late 90s- HUGE line up at the door, entire sections full, had bills still in my pocket for tables, food waiting to be served...my asshole Restaurant owner was having his usual demented temper tantrum...and screamed at us every time we came into the kitchen. I was not even a waitress, but a hostess, and had filled in for a sick co-worker. I also was the only one authorized for a certain machine, and the only one with a code, besides him, but he had no clue how the machine worked... He used to regularly "fire" us only to call us later to "apologize" and claim we "misunderstood", blamed his being "Italian", as if that is even a thing to use as an excuse. I told him if he ever did that to me again I was DONE. He made two waitresses cry, on waiter was hyperventilating....he freaked at me. I just turned around, got my purse, keys, and coat, and left. Never answered his calls, never looked back. Still friends with 2 former staff to this day. After I left, 2 others eventually did, too 😈😈😈
This is for anyone watching these. Do not work at Books-A-Million. I know we need to consider saving reading and books; but Books-A-Million is not the way to save books. They are terrible; and you will not get help to do your job. I worked for two years: got my hours cut to less than 20 a week, made so little money and still got charged for my student loans, got calls for coming in while in the Army Reserves on station and on duty... in front of my sergeants telling me I needed to come in while I was at the reserve station. I asked for help on my tasks; asked to train other employees and had all kinds of issues juggling tasks by myself and wall after wall of customers making deadlines impossible. If you want a book store job; work a mom and pop store...
I felt good to hear from another guy in the auto repair business quitting in the heat of the moment. Given the times I was ordered to operate an automotive lift that was a death trap, I probably should have done the same at some point, but I was desperate to make money and climb the career ladder. It would be fun to say something in the customer service area, something like "Sorry I can't fix your car. Dickhead boss here expect me to treat your car like intentionally driving without a seatbelt." 32:08 I suppose if I was the only one who had the passwords, I would hold them for ransom. Fine, you want them? $10,000 for this one, $5,000 for that one, and $2,000 for the other one. If you don't pay soon, don't expect me to remember them forever. Also, price subject to change due to Karen's attitude.
@@heartofthewild680 yes and no. It's very illegal to do it that way directly, but if you get a good lawyer they can guide you on how you can get the same result without breaking any laws.
Brand new assistant manager tried to write me up as soon as the store manager left for maternity leave,I was the only other full time manager...handed her my keys and said good luck
I worked at everyone's favorite fast food chain with the big yellow M. You know the one. For half a year, I attempted to hold true to the written schedule only to be asked to leave at least a couple days out of the week by a manager who had brought in coworkers I never recognized during the days. So I requested to go on night shifts. Night shifts are going great, until a girl whose name eludes me so we'll call her Trish transfers onto nights too. Well, we at the store would play a little music and try to have a good time to keep the monotony from getting us too down. It never got in the way of work, customers didn't have to talk over the music, and we were meticulous with money and food prep so as to not let it become an issue. Word gets out to the management, and suddenly I in particular am singled out and taken off night shift, and my hours slashed. Right then and there I wanted to quit, but then my manager talked to me. He said that the district manager had found there was money missing from our store, and that I was the suspect either for stealing money or for mishandling it due to listening to music all shift (mind you, it was the night shift manager playing the music.) I resigned right then and there, and it came out three months later that the previously mentioned girl, Trish, had been stealing money from the registers when she thought nobody was looking. Spoiler alert: The cameras were, DMs just didn't want to check them because they were so convinced they had a culprit. I believe the store lost something like a grand due to this girl (the store made a lot of money, being on the busiest avenue in my city). And all that could have been avoided had they not jumped to conclusions. Since then, most of the staff has moved on and that particular store went severely under due to COVID. I think it's actually an Arby's now. Go figure.
The one about sonic really hit home. The old GM of my store was a douche, and I had scheduled wayyyy before my graduation was going to happen that I wanted to be off. He scheduled me anyway and said, "well, you should've told me before I scheduled you," so I showed him the receipts, and he told me to stop being disrespectful, so I said, well, find another carhop.
I gave a month's notice but my decision to quit was a snap one and felt obliged to follow through. This was a hotel that was in a prime city location but financially and organisational culturally failing big time. The higher powers have resorted to illegal yield management practices that I was forced to follow, hence why I had enough. When I left, my department was operating at a loss of $40k a year. a new manager was hired just as I was finishing my last day. I was the longest standing staff member and she and the boss counted on me to handover and teach her everything. That was impossible to go through all operational aspects of the lounge in one day. I heard she didn't last long coz she was not given proper training as a manager. I was also training my replacement over 3 days before I left. I built long standing relationships with our regular guests and apparently stopped staying at the hotel after I left coz no one else was as attentive in service as I was. The general manager was walked off the property by the owners of the hotel because he failed to put the business back in the black within a year.
My previous employer, they had to restart a project from the ground up, that we had invested years into, because I was the last of 2 people who left who knew how the core of it worked. I was also the only person who understood how timezones work with time changes and all... The project is still struggling moving along, and the director I hated that led to me leaving was fired when the owner finally found out he was a fraud.
My last day on a job I took the hand pallet jacks, lifted a big stack of stuff, and backed them up against the wall so nobody could jack them up, and let them all the way down.
I worked at boneyard(restaurant) and I quit when I had enough of being one of two dish washers treated like a robot to work shifts. It was always work opens and closes back to back. They kept schedule like this so that no one works an open to close shift, but when there are only 2 workers you get the idea. I quit on our busiest day halloween boss called and tried to bitch me out when I was at a different job in my first day at what I didn't realize till later that I picked to work at a hell location(I'm at a better location of the same company.) Left them with no closer dish washer on the biggest day for them.
I worked in a hotel. There are a couple things different about me, now, than then. I walked out on the day I was supposed to start back up full-time. I was originally slated for working in the kitchen. Something I LOVE. On Friday my overseeing manager confronted me as I was leaving the kitchen for the day. He said, and I paraphrase, 'I know you hate working in the kitchen, so, I'm going to move you to custodian' He couldn't have been more wrong. I detested the custodian position. He wanted me to go back into it because I was often complimented for how well I cleaned bathrooms. I wouldn't be complemented, directly, people would snidely say, "it's about time they hired someone who can clean bathrooms" as they watched me walk out of the bathroom with my cleaning supplies. There was one individual that would defecate on the wall in the inlet bathroom on the sixth level. Of the 43 to 46 people who worked there, I seem to be the only one that the head manager felt comfortable telling me to clean the walls of that floor. On Monday I walked into the office, handed my key, said I quit, and walked out. Head manager had a panicked/pissed look on his face, second manager had this how dare you look on his, the third manager had a smirk.
9:40, Bet since he WITHHELD Multiple Promised bonuses for NO REASON his lawyer said pay or risk having to pay TRIPPLE. (You could add emotional distress which doubles the amount but if the JUDGE agrees its aggreges he can Double the original amount AGAIN. If he had a brain in his head this is why he paid IMMEDIATELY. )
Years ago I worked at holiday Inn for 1 month. Lol the stories I could tell you about their house keeping manager and 'inn keeper' would make sure you never put your application for a job there,
I worked at a popular Pittsburgh restaurant chain (the one where you *park* your car, then go in and *eat* your food). I was hired as a dishwasher/busperson and was told I would be trained as a server eventually. I hated that job for several reasons: 1. When asked about availability, I told them I wouldn’t be able to work overnight shifts. They said that was fine. They then proceeded to schedule me for several overnights a week. 2. I was expected to fulfill duties that were never communicated to me during my interview OR training, such as unloading shipments, making supply runs in my personal vehicle, using/maintaining equipment I wasn’t qualified to operate, etc. 3. Many of my coworkers were good friends with the manager, so they would get away with things like taking a dozen or more smoke breaks every shift, taking personal phone calls on the floor, etc., while I got berated to no end if I was 30 seconds late coming back from my 15 minute lunch break. 4. I was once accused of stealing money, even though I didn’t have access to any of the registers or the safe. Never did figure that one out. 5. I was never given the server training I was promised. This one actually upset me the most, as it was the original position I applied for. I hated this job for these and many, many more reasons, but I figured it could be worse so I sucked it up for awhile. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was one night I was called and asked to cover an overnight shift. I did. I was a little more than halfway through my shift when my dad called (around 4 in the morning) telling me there was a family emergency and he asked me if I could leave work an hour early. I asked my shift manager who told me it was fine, as it was slow. The next day I worked, I got called in to the general manager’s office and got my butt chewed out for abandoning a shift. I tried explaining to her that it was an emergency, the shift manager on duty approved it (he backed me up on this), and I wasn’t even scheduled in the first place, I was filling in to help them out. She wasn’t responding to any of it and she gave me a formal written warning. I decided that was enough. The next night shift I worked was the night of the Dave Matthews Band concert at a large venue about 15 minutes away, and at the time we were the only restaurant within 30 miles that was open 24/7. I didn’t do a damn thing my entire shift, and I was the only dishwasher on duty. Dishes were piling up, tables needed cleaned, and there was a massive shipment of frozen food that needed checked in and put away. At midnight, right when we were starting to fill up with all the drunk, stoned, and hangry DMB concert goers, I walked into the GM’s office, said “Ron approved me leaving early last week. Have fun tonight. Go f*ck yourself”, and left. I got in my car, blared some Dave at the top of my car’s volume, and sped away. I heard the GM was let go a month later. F*ck you, Linda.
I feel like Retail Managers / Supervisors are the biggest looser in life. They stay in that stagnant position with no life goals, just the whole "this is the best flow of income I have and I'm never leaving" kinda like politicians f**king their employees lives during work. That's why they disrespect people like this.
Also because in most cases there’s little regular employees/associates can do since if they complain to or offend the manager in any way their hours can be tampered with horrifically(ie from 18 hours a week to like 5-6 at my DG job)
Sad, cause it doesn't have to be that way. I've met plenty of team leader and supervisors who were good at their job and got on great with the staff. It's the tough but fair, and never asking someone to do something they wouldn't do themselves, and going in to bat for their workers if something went down.
@@xaorancheshire7908 my wife works at DG, hired in at 15 hours/week, ended up at 50+ hours, then for various reasons became the only employee there for a month or so.
Last August I quit my job as a teacher of English for a small private school in my country. Ever since the pandemic started, inflation went up about 50% here but the school only offered a 10% raise - yet they had doubled their fees. With online teaching still going, they were also demanding a lot of pretty crazy stuff from us teachers. I complained and their answer was "well maybe you should quit". So I did. And before I left, I went through all the computers and took away all the resources I had brought with me. Apparently everyone in the administration was under the impression that all the cool digital things that the English department had, plus the mock tests, media and connections for the international exam program, were somehow provided by the administration themselves. They called me in a panic because parents had already given them money for the exams, and I told them tough luck. I found another job literally two days later.
I quit my first job at 16. Was a movie theater. They decided that giving 17 year olds in highschool supervisor positions was a great idea. This butch supervisor hated my guts. And would be on my ass for everything. I had to take a piss in the middle of my shift (for like 30 seconds) starts flipping out and asking why I disappeared for Soo long (this was the latest thing she did) I was fed up so I just left mid shift. They called and asked why I quit. Told them they have terrible supervisors. This was also during a very busy summer that avatar was out
All jobs I have ever had I have ended without warning. If I am not working out well, I will never get a two week intent to fire me. Thus, I will never give a two week notice of intent to resign my job. Why should I extend a courtesy to an employer that will never be extended to me?
I worked at a rock climbing gym for about 4 months after I got home from school out of the country. Before I even got hired there, I told my boss under no circumstances. Would I be able to work on Saturdays or any Jewish holidays (I'm Jewish), regardless of how much she was willing to pay me. The important part is that she agreed. Key to note, she's also Jewish (by affiliation. Not observant in the slightest). Also important was the fact I told her when I first started working that I don't own a car, so if she ever wanted me to stay late I would need to know that morning before I came in for my shift so I can schedule having a car or getting a ride with somebody (I would drive my mother to work early in the A.M to have her car for my shift). She agreed to that too. Fast forward 3 months into the job, and my hours started getting cut. I asked her a couple of times to please give me more scheduled hours, and she said something along the lines of "I'll work on it". One month after that, I started noticing that instead of giving me more hours she was cutting my hours even more, from four 5-hour shifts a week to two at most if I was lucky. Once I realized that, I knew my time there was limited. A couple weeks later, in the middle of a Bat Mitzvah after party, I asked to speak with her in private about my scheduling. The answer she gave me this time is because she said that I'm lazy and that I'm never willing to stay late when she needed me to, and then I proceeded to reminder about our agreement we had when she first hired me. Seeing as that she couldn't use that as an answer anymore, she pulled the "you're the laziest worker I've ever had" card on me. I asked her to explain and she said every time she saw me I was either on my phone or talking to a coworker. Funny enough, she's only ever mentioned that once to me my entire time there, that was because me and a co-worker had just done back-to-back birthday parties, and when the kids were clearing out of the party room, we took 2 minutes to just take a break and shoot the shit. She happened to walk in at that moment and immediately flipped her shit I'm not saying we have to get back to work ASAP. Not thinking about it, we finished up our conversation and got back to work. Other than that, you could ask any one of my co-workers there. I was one of if not the favorite party lead, and also I was one of the most committed employees there, seeing I was the only one out of high school and willing to work full-time. The rest of my coworkers were a couple of years younger than me and all worked part-time due to school and other academics. So when she called me lazy at the bat mitzvah, I immediately quit on the spot and walked out with only four people left in the entire facility. A few weeks after I quit I found out that one of my older co-workers who was about a year older than me and was doing managerial work but not being paid as a manager, she found out some stuff about the company regarding underage employment and not giving legal breaks to those employees who are underage, and then was offered a $5,000 NDA to leave the company and never speak about it. She happily agreed, and that was that. Or so I thought. From what I heard last, this cow of a woman who made enough money in one holiday season to send her kid to medical school across the world got into so much trouble that she had to sell the gym and move to Greece with her husband who she absolutely hated. I don't know what happened to her, All I know is that the gym is under new ownership. Fuck you Stephanie 😘
I used to work for Burger King my own sister fired me on my day off so I soaked my uniform in gasoline and lit it right in the parking lot and walked away
Ok I actually have 2 stories, both a student job. The first one is when a juice factory told me that they are searching someone to draw CAD files on the computer. Im good in that field so I accepted. They took me in and on the first day of job, after doing some paper work, they took me to a conveyor belt and told me that this is my job. Im confused so i ask what about that CAD thing that you guys told me? And they say: oh we dont need that anymore. I worked behind that conveyor belt (sorting juice boxes and stuff) for that day and at the end of my shift I quit and never come back... The next story is when I started working in this company where they make protection for undersea cables. Boss was an asshole from the start and i could tell that he would get angry really quickly. The guy that showed me around and was "my mentor" was also rude to me for no reason. And the general mood in that factory between workers was..not the best. Its like they would turn to beasts and start eating one another any second now. We only had 1 break. After working there for 8 hours I quit and also never come back...
I don't understand how managers can delude themselves into thinking they can treat everyone who keeps their business alive like total dog**** and not expect them to leave. Especially the ones that are actively breaking the law.
oh i actually i have on for this: i was working at a japanese restaurant, when i first started i was put on the grill and they thought me some of those fancy tricks (they actually make it easier) then i was put into waiting tables to soon be put into dishwashing i didn't actually mind any of those locations, but i wasn't the fastest worker, instead i liked to work precise instead of fast, but most bosses don't get that. so washing the dishes is something that keeps going on and on, and can pile up really quickly when i finally started to get a nice rhytmn they were like, " hey can you also make this small salad dish?" it took a lot of time away and caused me quite a bit of slowdown and the manager was getting mad at it to me, i just shrugged " i work as fast as i can, and i am already struggling with the full dishwashing workload, and you expect me to go faster while doing even more? have fun trying to have all the work done with one less worker" i was actually like the third or fourth that week that had quit and the atmosphere was hurting a lot. since then management has shifted and i don't think that the restaurant is exactly doing well these days
Ego, hubris. Restaurant owners would rather suck and limp along with terrible reputations than improve themselves and draw satisfied customers. MANY people enter into restaurant management assuming that their likes, tastes and needs will also be what their customers want. When they find out they're wrong they get pissed off and decide to "show" the customers. Never ends well. They lose not only their restaurants but also their business reputations, and some continue not to care even then. The restaurant industry is notorious for these kinds of characters.
The small restaurant I work at was sold recently to new owners who dont care at all. They're changing everything and our customers are old fashion and dont like change. They also deduced my pay. But they have no idea how to do my job (my old boss never trained them on that for some reason) and I plan on quitting soon because of my pay. When I leave I dont know how they're gonna train new people my position. They dont even know how to make sweet tea, the restaurants pride!
if you work in retail, it is actually better if you don't get promoted. Because you'll be working more hours, and being more stressed or for maybe an extra 50 cents an hour.
I quit before I even started. I was asked to come back after having my baby if I was ready, to which I was and I was to go back in a weeks time. Find out on the Friday before (I was starting that following Monday) that am only going to help for 2 weeks while "they" the supervisor and 2 family members that all worked in the same place went on Holiday. And after they come back they were planning on telling me I was only covering for 2 weeks and that I wasn't getting my job back after all. She had 2 days to find cover - Impossible, she lost the contract shortly after that. That woman couldn't run a bath.
9:50 Sonic was DANGEROUS. In the middle of lunch rush the cook thought it was a perfect time to drain the deep fryers without telling anyone and I was right next to it.... QUIT and they expected me to cover my shift... actually really bitchy about it... I was not going to get burned for a minimum wage job, and I had another job lined up...
Quit working at a local chain restaurant (Bojangles) in the middle of a lunch rush, as the only cashier, with the line of cars wrapped around the building and down the highway. I bought a gallon of tea and walked 10 miles home cuz I didn’t have a car at the time
14:23, Lack of customer Service ABILITY. RECENTLY met a lovely Short woman BELOW AVERAGE SHORT but don't like the two words use for reference of them. But onto the story. I saw this little woman at Walmart in a Yellow Vest, Meaning Manager... Asked her for help with a issue and was Told she was recently transferred to this store and couldnt help me because she knew NOTHING about how this store dealt with the problem. OK and went back to finish checking out. A BLUE VEST named Karen (No joke her real name) APPEARED and started berating me for being RUDE to the little woman. Only things I said to her was my question and Yes mam, and thank you mam. you wonder why there are so many Karen's and Kevin's in the world? THEIR RECRUITING. She yelled at me for being Nice and Respectful to the little woman and DEMANDED I never act like that again to a Walmart Employee... YES she told me to NEVER be Nice or Respectful to a Employee of Walmart AGAIN. Funny huh. When laughing about it later I called the store manager and told when where and how it happened to manager, he looked it up in the Security cameras to see the woman berating me for being Nice and Respectful to the employee and she was later moved to 3rd shift ONLY. 10pm - 6am work time. Not majorly good but stopped her from having to ask other customers to STOP BEING NICE OR RESPECTFUL TO EMPLOYEES since almost NO ONE shops after midnight except drunks looking for Munchies.
I worked in my field of choice with people I liked for 24 years. I retired 8 months ago & still talk to them. It IS possible to enjoy your career. Don't lose hope.
I can't say that I quit out of the blue, but it was because of pettiness. I was passed up for a promotion at my last job. At first, I thought the outside help that was brought in had legit experience and that's why she got it over me. A couple of weeks passed and it became appearant that she didn't. This infuriated me, and I started looking for a new job. I'm now 3 weeks into my new job, and all the weavers are having to pick up my slack.
I worked second shift as a floater for a cleaning company. Basically they’d give me an assignment right before the start of my shift at 5pm and I’d go where they needed me for the day work then go home. But my manager started tapping me later and later with new assignments like I’d do a 6 hour job then go home and she’d call me like hey there’s a 3 hours job I need you to do. One day she said there was nothing for me that day. Cool a day off right? I chilled at home in case she tapped me late again after 9 I was like probably not but then at 11:00pm (my schedule was 5pm - midnight) she called me telling me I needed to drive to an assignment that was a 1 hr drive round trip and took 4 hours to clean. I was literally showered in bed asleep already. I asked her why she didn’t know that assignment needed my help until now, and she didn’t have an answer so I said “no” and she told me I couldn’t say no, I was already tired of being tapped past 8 for assignments that she knew needed help at 4pm so I said “ok then I won’t say no, I’ll say I quit”
my mom quit a job where they just dumped all the work on her, and everybody says that she's keeping the place from catching on fire (she actually was) and an abusive boss made that place a living hell. literally the same day she handed in her 2 weeks notice, the boss was arrested for public intoxication, assault, and resisting arrest.
16:38, its not loosing control if you left her alive in the end. You had a outburst and she Rightfully Deserved to be yelled at for her Poor Performance and for not understanding that she was the reason it was so hard to keep the business OPEN.
I quit two restaurants within six months of eachother, when they were really busy, now both restaurants had many other people quit within months of me quitting, and was told I quit right before it got busy
I had a crew leader who was a pretty cool guy, but had the habit of being late. One daybthe manager told him that if he is going to be late again, he may as well not even come in. A week or so goes by, and she gets a call. "Hi, this is Dave. I'm gonna be late, so I'm just not coming in." I never saw Dave again, but ill never forget that.
Worked at Pizza Hut. Was a cook there. It was Xmas eve or Xmas day (I can't remember). What drove me to spontaneously quit was on that day I was doing almost everything. Yes it wasn't busy but it was the fact that my coworkers were sitting in the lounge area chatting it up and not doing their jobs, while clearly I needed help. That pissed me off but I kept working. What really threw me off the edge was when this 17year old ghetto girl, who acted like she was better than me, while we were cleaning the store that I needed to hurry up cuz she "got family to see". I told her "yea I do too". She then said "I don't care". I snapped. I threw down the Jalapeños (unfortunately they were sealed well and didn't spill out), and started yelling at her. Idk what I said but this girl was so self centered that she seemed to truly not know why I reacted the way I did. Then the manager for that night starts yelling at me and not even knowing why I'm yelling, tells me I don't need to be yelling at people and being disrespectful. Already pissed, that made it worse and I started cussing him out and asking him things like "why should I be respectful to people who don't deserve it?" He eventually threatened to call the cops if I didn't leave (tho I was heading to my car during this yelling). Then I left cuz yea like I wanted to stay there yelling at him.🙄
I worked at well known fast food chain. Teenagers who worked there kept changing my schedule for their own convenience and never asked and just told me I would be working their shift. Plus one regularly stole from the drive thru cash register. The franchise owner was a screamer. One of the girls let her boyfriend (who was not an employee) mess with the cash register and ring up sales, then blamed for me letting the little twit let him do it (no manager around to fix it). I lasted about a month or so. Worked at a chain grocery store deli. Night manager was a screaming, nightmarish carp who reamed out other employees in front of customers (she defined the term "drunk on power"). Idiots allowed to come in and order a pound of shaved ham for her cat.. at 10:55pm when she knew we closed at 11p and we're breaking down the slicers and cleaning up. Call centers are a breeze compared to those places.
@@SassyFrasponduechu No. First place rhymes with McFonald's and the other was a PA chain of grocery stores with good employees and tyrannical night managers that we all loathed (seriously--we all had fantasied about throwing ours off a cliff). Considering the horror stories I hear about Wal Mart, that was a good guess! :)
I worked as a receiver for a hardware store. I was replacing two people, one who had left and one who was promoted to department manager. I told the store owner i couldn't handle it all myself. He told me that there was no one else and I would have to do it alone. Plus help load customer's cars and I couldn't refuse to do this. Plus retrieve merchandise from under the mezzanine (on my knees, in an inch of dust, with no lighting). Then I was told I had to collect all empty boxes from the floor and dispose of them (the store workers were supposed to do this). Then I was told I would have to price-tag every item that came in (which the store workers were also supposed to do). When the lift broke and was not repaired, I had to haul all excess product up the stairs to the second floor warehouse, One on Thursday night, receiving was jammed so full of freight waiting to be priced that I couldn't walk around, there was two thirds of last week's truck still waiting at the dock to be unloaded and another truck due in the morning, and I had had enough. I never showed up for work the next morning, or ever again.
Worked at a Fast food restaurant back when I was 16. Coworkers didnt go to work come morning due to Holiday parties. I was manning basically 3 station then taking off apron to occassionally help taking orders outside. Manager on that shift is a female freshgrad who never worked the kitchen and got Manager post upon entry. She got mad at me cause many people are still on the line and is getting pissed due to pending orders, failing to understand that we're heavily understaffed and starts talking crap on me in front of all of those people saying how useless I was. I said fine then why dont you do this yourself. Took off my appron and left the entire kitchen (Grill, Pantry and back ups) all on her and walked out. The Head supervisor talks to me on the phone that night convincing me to go back to work tomorrow but I said no chance. I wasnt planning on staying too long anyway as I was about to back to school at the end of the break.
everyone says "Wal-Mart" is a horrible place to work for but everyone forgets about THE OTHER "Wal" that's MUCH MUCH worse to work for; Walgreens. I've known at least a dozen people have that worked for Walgreen (including my own mom) and all dozen of them had absolutely terrible experiences working there, most of them were fired or laid of for terrible reasons or because the managers or culture are so toxic. Meanwhile though Wal-Mart is not the best place to work by a long shot, I know far more people that worked for Wal-Mart and at least had an OK experience working for them, especially when compared to the hellhole work experience that is working for Walgreens.
Ugh. I walked out on the deli counter. My useless coworker called off that day leaving me alone. I decided after 5 months of this, it wasn't worth it and walked out.
I worked at a fast food restaurant. I was doing everything a manger should do but I was getting paid less then almost everyone else. I quit and jump into my friends car from the drive through window. He often had me squeal to close and open alone. he had to be there early (I was a key holder) and late because he mostly had high school students so they couldn’t because of school.
I was the best at my job and my boss fired me. Her, her boss and get boss's boss all got fired and they lost the company tons of money. My getting fired got their bottom dollar and cost their reputation in their industry workout me ever lifting a finger.
I worked as a water mitigation crew chief and I was the dude that showed up early, packed and set up the trucks did all the paperwork went out to jobs did demo along with everything else with the job then would stay late and do more paperwork. My "crew" were lazy but the manager couldnt get anyone else qualified because we'll he was a douche. I worked on commission so if a job wasnt completed I couldnt get paid. Well we had a severe storm and 60+ jobs came in we had no equipment and now i had only 1 coworker who never did any real work just showed up and carried bags of debris. I wasnt asked but told i had to be on call 24/7/365 no excuse and that I had to do these jobs even without pay because we had just done a job that took up all the rest of the drying equipment and we had no place to put any garbage. They expected 3 jobs done a day and when its just 1 person with half a helper that just wasnt possible. On top of all this upper management was adding padding to the insurance forms that we didnt do and the paper trail all ended at me being the fall guy. So anyways this storm hits and we get 60 calls and they got mad because we couldnt do the stupid demands they wanted and i finally snapped. I ripped into the GM in the office and told him all the shady shit that his managers did and he said what they were doing was fine so i said fine fuck it I'm gone, collected my tools and walked out. As far as I am aware this forced the project manager and department manager to actually do more than sit on their asses and the sales guys were then forced to give more reasonable offers because before this they said anything to get a sale even if it was not needed at all.
When you go through enough Customer Service shit, you really don't feel bad about telling someone off when they ARE making things worse or expecting the impossible.
TLDR: Was severely understaffed in one position and it happened to be the position I worked, owner did sketchy shit but no one could prove it happened, and other fucked tales. I worked as a busboy at a place for about 6-7 months. The work itself sucked but that wasn't really what made me quit. When I wmsay the ship was sinking, it was the titanic, there was no real saving the cluster fuck that later happened. So for context, the restaurant i worked at needed at least 5 bussers on weekdays, 8 on the weekends so thatyou constantly wouldn't be in the weeds. When I got hired there was 5 on payroll and one of those guys last day was my first. So immediately after that night there was 4. Then my third night someone quit so that brings us to 3. M-W they only had one busser for a floor space that needed 4-5. And it only gets worse. After about 2 months of this they finally hired another busser which brought us back up to 4 bussers but was made as a dishwasher and later quit. Then the "senior busboy" quit and we were down to 2 busser for about 2 weeks. Finally after all that they decided to hire 3 more bussers which brought us to a comfortable 5. (I had friends that worked as bussers at other restaurants and when I say they had it better workload wise, they did.) At this point I wasn't "senior busboy" but still had seniority over 3 of the 4 other bussers and one of them was always out of line and the "senior busboy" had several talks with him. Dude completely ignored the unwritten rule of restaurants/life of "you help me, I help you" and complained about why no one really helped him on a lot of things. Like even the servers wouldn't like pre-bus his "sections" he roamed. The thing that really set me on my way out was when the group of dishwashers we had only 1 of the 4 came to work consistently (that one guy was only there because he needed a job to show a proof of income for a loan and for some reason his own business didn't count). On his off day, the three other dishwashers were in and they all just walked out 3 hours before we closed... on a Saturday. The part that makes it worse is two of them didn't walk out the same time as the first dude, they waited an hour later and they just looked at the dishes pile up for said hour. Luckily we had 5 bussers that day and one off them was a trained dishwasher so he suddenly was in the back the rest of the night with another guy that he had to train on the spot. We had to call the dishwasher who was off in to help us, the bartenders had to kinda help, and like 5 servers had to help because when these guys left, no one noticed and they left about an hour and a half worth of dishes and it only got busier. There's a shitton of more stuff that happened with the owner of the place too. The managers themselves I liked but the owner sucked. Did shady stuff that everyone knew was happening but no one could prove it if they tried to report it. For example there was 3% tip share, 1% went to the bar and the other 2% that usually goes to the cooks, dishwashers, and bussers actually went towards his taxes. Everyone knew about it but no one knew how to prove it. There's so much more but like it was so fucked. Then there was a rat problem. One day, I was scheduled the lunch shift, which made me the only busser there and there was a absolutely foul smell in the server aisle (thats where they preped like salads and drinks.) The manager said "hey find the smell" and after about 15 minutes I eventually came to the conclusion it was coming from a vent. (I did this by somehow climbing up some exposed boards in the wall.) When they had professionals look into it they found a rat worth the WW1 description of "rats the size of cats" and it was so decomposed it literally started morphing into the wood of the ceiling which i didn't know was possible. I also was paid $9/hr which is fairly over restaurant standards, I found out I was supposed to be getting $10/hr with tipshare on top of it but they stopped doing that about 3 months before they hired me. This screwed literally all of the guys because the "senior busboy" was there only a month longer than me so he didn't get that pay either. Anyway if you got this far, I'm sorry for making you read something that was fairly convoluted and probably confusing. Just know there was a lot of shit that happened that shouldn't have.
wasnt malicious but was a laugh. I was promoted to IT manager at my small law firm becuase we were upgrading everything but the power points the cost was 450k. Bosses were happy with the bang i got for those bucks. they set up my IT company for me for free, paid all the fees and everything. after a year the company was building up a loyal client base, law firms i dealt with mostly. Bosses never cared the lawyers knew i worked for competition but were fine with it. Eventually i was going full time for myself, the bosses knew it. After 2 years, i walked into the senior partners office with a new IT Policy, Accounts and IT are the only staff that never work out their notice, the instant a resignation appears, pay them out and change the locks. This was after a bit of hoo har in another firm. Boss said good idea i heard about X, policy approved and signed it. then i handed him my resignation. He laughed when i handed him my keys. YOUR BLOODY WORKING OUT YOUR NOTICE. We hired your company to do our IT remember.
And people can’t understand why businesses can’t get positions filled. These stories are a good example for one of the reasons why.
To say nothing of insultingly low pay like many standard jobs suffer from
"People just don't want to work any more."
I've never had an issue with hard work. I do, however, have an issue with hard work given by asshole higher ups that treat me like shit.
Not just this but more. Managers are the reason why employees quit .
@@bigslappy823
Yeah !
Idk why I can fall asleep to reddit storys like this, there's just something soothing about them.
It's definitely the monotone voice
No lie I fell asleep while in a Zoom class 😂
Sounds like satisfaction of justice to me
I thought i was the only one lol
Same
Worked at a chain restaurant. There was a change in ownership, and two of my coworkers had previously worked for this owner at another establishment and had nothing but bad things to say (late paychecks, not paying workers what they're owed, anger management issues, etc.). Our entire workforce was college students, with the oldest of us being a 25 year old manager who so happened to be one of those previous employees of this tyrant owner. She suggested that we all quit. Everyone was on board. So, this owner now had a restaurant without a single employee. This meant hiring would be painful as there were no employees to provide any form of training to new applicants. This all happened in September, and the restaurant has yet to re-open for business over a month later! Treat employees like the people they are, and you won't have these problems.
YAYYYY!!!!
I worked in a library as a library director, and I had been promoted to the position after the previous director was fired (and arrested) for embezzling.
I had been working by myself for a week before a new woman was hired.
I had warned my boss (the city mayor that didn’t even work in the library) that the new employee was a hazard to not only me, but our patrons as well.
Not only was she dangerous, she didn’t actually know how to use a computer or how to properly shelve the books.
New coworker decided to flirt with one of the patrons by showing him how she could juggle knives.
I walked out, called my boss, and quit, using my two weeks vacation as my two weeks notice.
I had just purchased approximately 3000 (yess three thousand) new items for the library that I hadn’t added to the system yet.
Library had to shut down for two weeks so the coworker could learn how to use the computers and how to actually use a library.
Most importantly, she also had to enter every single one of those items into the system, one by one, with each item averaging from 5-10 minutes to be entered and properly shelved.
They ended up having to open the library before having all the new items shelved, and it took her over three months (and several volunteers from other local libraries) to finish the job.
And since the other libraries hated that woman, they served the patrons while she had to enter all of the items without anyone helping her.
Hopefully this made sense-I’m just had a bottle of wine to celebrate paying off the last of my outstanding credit card debt!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations! You've earned it!
I hope you used Experian to boost your credit score. I'm glad your out of debt also.
Please tell me that bimbo got fired.
Lol sounds like a malicious compliance to me. And under the circumstances, and a well deserved one at that. Congrats! Good luck to you in the future.
How do you "not know" how to shelve books?😅😅
Things always get interesting at a company when you're one of the veterans with a system in place that actually works. Cue the arrogant new guy or know-it-all freshly hired supervisor that decides to change things up because the old system doesn't work for them. Now imagine half the staff leaving, a skeleton crew has to pull double shifts or stay over, and new hires are basically a revolving door. That's basically what's happening at the restaurant I'm in right now.
Oh god, I know what you mean. I recently came back to a job that I had left a few years ago and a lot of the senior staff is both new, and arrogant. I've been through 2 evolutions in this unit, and this new person does not understand how to run this place.
I worked at a fast food place, got along with my coworkers, had a great manager. One day the manager got moved to a new store so we got a new one. Her first day she walked around moving things so she could find them, despite everyone else. Things got frustrating for me and I quit not long after.
Happened at my job. We had a new person take over my entire department, covering about five locations at the very large company I work for. I later found out she only got the job because she was childhood friends with the CEO’s wife or something like that. She takes over and changes everything that had previously been working fine, just to make things exactly the way she wanted. Ended up f*cking up the whole business. She hemorrhaged money into things we either didn’t need, or into things we already had but she wanted replaced. She also implemented new absurd policies that effectively destroyed employee morale. One of them was what she called an “accountability booster”. I won’t go into too much detail, but think Dwight’s Doomsday Device from The Office. It’s only function was to point out every tiny mistake employees made, so they could be “corrected” (fired). About 90% of the staff quit within a few months of her taking over. I was one of the few to stay, and unsurprisingly she lasted less than a year. After she was gone, the business slowly went back to the way it was. Only a handful of people from my department were still there after she “resigned”.
Sorry for the wall of text I just needed to get that out lol
I worked at a fast food restaurant that was opened by a married couple. He would normally hire staff and she took care of finances. I was the only guy in the operation other than him. He routinely would get touchy with the 15-18 year old girls. After asking one of my coworkers if he was too handsy, I was let go. Four months later the wife divorces the guy and takes over the business. Pretty sure I know why.
He was getting handsy with the 15-18 girls? I wonder if he was charged with sexual harassment and possible child grooming.
Hope the slap was heard around the neighbourhood
The problem with doing a skilled job really well, is that most of the time, the idiots in management start to believe that since you make a tough job LOOK easy, it really MUST BE easy. Then they begin to take you for granted and figure since your job is obviously so easy to do, you'll be easy to replace with someone a lot cheaper and they were wrong about the requirements for the job all along.
I used to work for a large west coast airport, civil service. My job was construction equipment service and included 30 large backup power generators, airfield X-signs, light plants and a whole lot of other motorized things. I had a good system, was conscientious about keeping up with the work, and got no complaints. That changed with the guy they replaced me with. They began having problems with broken equpment, motors running out of fuel, bulbs not changed, and a whole list of issues. I wasn't there but I'd guess the guy they replaced me with just didn't take the job seriously enough or something, but the work was quite important and somebody not doing a good job could literally involve loss of life, or getting sued into the ground, so more's the pity - for my old bosses, anyway.
My first job at McDonald’s, I was 16/17 at the time and it was a dinner rush I already had a stressful day at school but this dinner rush pushed me to my breaking point. So I was working the front and a line of people start to gather out the door and there are just 2 employees standing there doing nothing while the manager and the cooks are getting stuff done for drive through I’m taking all the orders and no one is getting served I get through the line and my manager started screaming at me cause no one was getting served. I tell her that “there are two people standing there behind me doing absolute jack shit if the food is ready then tell them to start bagging shit and get it pushed out” my actual words to her mind you, and the entire line of people heard me and started laughing their asses off at the manager cause they knew I was right. She then tried to pass some BS that they were helping her so I storm off to behind the store outside to have a smoke and clear my head then I come back and these two people are still standing there doing nothing. The people who are waiting for their orders are still waiting and everyone is running around trying to figure out what’s what and another line forms and goes out the door and my manager starts screaming at me calling me worthless in front of everyone so I literally scream “fuck you cu**” take off my uniform to where I’m only wearing my basketball shorts and my white t shirt and just leave with the store packed with about 30 or so people waiting for food or waiting to order food. Never been back there since that day.
Honestly fuck McDonald’s if anyone in high school is looking for a job never work at McDonald’s or anywhere it’s fast food cause you will save yourself from the amount of stress you will get from working in fast food
@@oliviathompson8046 I think it really depends on the store and their managers. If you get to week two at any new job, and the place is bad, then bail or plan your exit right away. Never pays to stick it out on a job you can't stand. In 2 weeks you will know all you need to know about most companies and that's the time to make the call. Never fall for the trap of thinking a better job isn't possible, but make sure you have an income while you are searching for it.
Why was someone giving you ciggys at 16? That's illegal and that is how you get problems later. I'd stop hanging out with shady ppl who influence you to make bad life choices.
This was probably a long time ago, when cigarettes werent so looked down upon. @dewolf123
My grandpa passed over Christmas and I almost walked out of my job because my manager was trying to keep me from going to the hospital to see him before he passed. Luckily, the head manager disagreed and I luckily had 2 weeks off to deal with it all. Still don't trust that other manager.
I always think it's funny how managers will be like, “you'll regret quitting this job forever”
Like bro this is a grocery store?
Or they talk about your "permanent record"
😂😂😂
@@fryloc359 Hah, last time I heard that was my Grade 8 principal. Decades after I graduated high school, they were having a retirement party for a teacher at a bar I frequent. I started talking with (and thanking) my guidance counsellor about it after some beers and she was like, "LMAO no, you do probably have some file for all the dumb shit you pulled in high school, but we don't really do anyhting with those." The next week I made an appointment with the same counsellor and asked to see it. Most of it was destroyed, she only had notes about my college choices (which she gave me, she didn't need them for anything) and some notes about what we talked about. The office had nothing immediately available - tens of thousands of students graduate from there, they've likely been shredded by then, or on a 1.44 floppy diskette.
But yeah the record is completely useless in the real world.
Managers who say that will badmouth you to all future employers doing a reference check.
@@HarmonyEdge So don't use them as a reference, seems pretty simple.
I worked at tacobell. I was getting crapped on by higher management getting talked to in a disrespectful way, yeld at for no reason to the point customers felt bad for me. One day I snapped it was a dinner rush I clocked out and left. I found out from friends things went down hill after I left. I came back cause I believe in second chances. Once I came back i found out my GM just lost it. We got a new GM and this one was a world class jerk. Me including 4 other quit after the B.S. that was happening. Were all very happy now and we all became close friends. That tacobell store is still going down hill.
19:45 "I got a sceptic infection" Gets and infection. Takes medicine. Infection: "I doubt that stuff is going to do anything!"
For anyone that's curious, the "Frick you with a fricking anchor" song is Fucked With An Anchor by Alestorm.
I love that someone else recognized this
I was helping a neighbor lady lower this old couch of hers off the second story
I tied it up and secured it right and it not being a big couch I figured everything would go smoothly and it did for the most part
Well it gets maybe 3 inches off the ground on the first story and my guide man decided to try and grab the rope and pull it to him him that way causing it to fall the 3 inches or so
It didn't break or anything but the neibor lady came up cursing me out and getting in my face and what not
Now I was helping her move that stuff because no one else would help her
And I did it for free at that
So I just packed up my gear and told her to figure it out her damn self
It ended up costing her 600$ for movers to lower everything down and move it into her car and help carry everything into her new house
After walking off I called up a good lady friend of mine and myself and her spent the rest of the day riding around her town and mine just listening to music and we ended up blazing one up for her late cousin
I regret nothing
That KFC story is basically all low paying/minimum wage jobs. They pay you minimum wage and give you four peoples work to do (because they won't hire the other three needed people to do those jobs) and demand you do it in the same amount of time as the one job they are officially paying you for.
And they're wondering why people aren't going back to work in these places.
Fr, half those guys work less then a week before quitting
That’s literally my job, I work at chic-fil-a and “multitasking” is one of the requirements you just need to have. In other words you’ll be doing 2-3 tasks on top of doing other peoples tasks because we don’t have enough employees (people keep quitting because they’re being overworked)
After just being fired from a DG that basically did that too I feel it even more. What a scummy place it is to work with such weaselly management
Recently I ate at a CFA and noticed how the drive through was wrapped around the entire building and lot and thought the same thing; I was surprised it was cleared by the time I was done eating. This location wasn’t open to dine in and only had 1 outside table I managed to get lucky enough to get so that’s probably why there were so many cars
Worked as an aide at a physical rehab/nursing home...was on my feet from the minute I arrived till the minute I clocked out, often missing my lunch break, got unfair work assignments...the level of work they expected from you for the pay you got was mind blowing, was disrespected by more than a few of my co-workers and some superiors. Was fired for poor job performance. I was contacted by a nurse who worked midnight shift a couple of weeks later who filled me in on how everything went to crap on my shift since I left...the thing she said that stuck with me was, "Now that you're gone, those b*tches actually have to do their jobs"...I'm glad this lady told me this, it gave me a sense of closure. 😎👍
I loved being a nurse but the medical field as a whole is a very toxic place. At hire you’re told to never work while sick - especially during flu outbreaks while caring for vulnerable people. Get sick, see doctor, call off, get written up. Show up sick, feeling like crap, to skeleton crew cuz everyone is sick - get written up for not being 3 people/not doing 3 people’s jobs. Never ever tell patients or family members that you can’t meet their every (often ridiculous, or not allowed on ordered diet or activity level) demand because of short staffing. But then there’s a hiring freeze. Efficiency experts following staff counting supplies used - you use repeated amount of x supply for dementia patient who keeps undoing everything you do Seriously, pay and retain better staff, you’ll get better care, get more patients, and get higher insurance reimbursement, so more money for you. Treating staff like crap doesn’t encourage them to work better for you, it just means that no good employees will ever stay. You wind up with bottom of the barrel employees.
20:46 sprouts farmers market is the only job I hated with a burning passion. It definitely ensures the fact I will never work at a grocery store ever again.
Yep
I resigned from a moderator position with a notorious media company. This in the midst of a flood of other resignations and people leaving. I left them to deal with the overseas spambots, users who kept evading IP bans, and all the other ways their forum was broken.
I don't think they ever brought the forum back, now that I'm thinking about it.
I took a job at a restaurant down the road from my house and the owner would leave me all the clean up from his shift the night before that I was to do while I did the prep to open up each morning. Every dish , pot and pan would need cleaning as well as nothing would be wiped down as far as counters or work surfaces. He finally hadn’t paid us in over a week and when I complained about having to do night shift clean up as well as my opening duties he waited for the restaurant to start to open. At that point the dining room was full and the order board was getting full as well. I was expediting and he and his 14 yr old son stopped to let everyone know that if anyone didn’t like how he did things they could leave because it was his way or the hiway. Knowing he couldn’t do the brunch or lunch shift without me as soon as he got those words out of his mouth I walked off the line taking my apron off. I proceeded to throw it in his face. Punched out my time card and walked out the back door as he screamed “You can’t do that “ . Within the hour the doors were closed and they never opened again. I also was the only one who put in a case with the labour board and got paid when he returned to the country six months later thinking he was in the clear now with people he owed money to. Pretty sure that pissed him off even more lol.
Not a job I took, but a job I considered. There’s a fast food place really close to me and one time whilst standing in line to order, a door alarm goes off. Turns out, a kid about 7 or 8 couldn’t find the way outside and accidentally triggered the alarm. The manager of this place, who is at least in her 30’s, has a complete tantrum. She starts verbally abusing the staff and even threw napkins and other stuff at them. Me and another customer both looked at each other like wtf is her issue. It was a little mistake and the kid didn’t know any better so she gets angry about it and assaults her staff with objects and nasty words. I noped out of thinking to apply there.
DAMN!! That bitch is crazy😂😧
You dodged a nuke of headache and possibly health damaging stress.
lol dodged a bullet there bro holy moly...
My guess is stories like this are what helped spur on "The Great Resignation".
Your guess is correct.
Lasted two weeks as a both dishwasher and table busser. Ill never work for the restraunt industry again. These people treated 7.25 an hour with 12 hour shifts and no breaks and no tips like they were doing you a favor. As the table busser/dishwasher, i was expected to set the restraunt up and break the restraunt down. Always at the end of a 12 hour shift the restraunt manager (her daddy owned the business) would always be berating me for not cleaning up (the only expected to do so and to do the enitire restraunt alone) fast enough so she could go home (god forbid she picked up a mop and helped). Well i got my first check at the end of week two and it was short. So i talk to the manager. Hey why is it short? She says "well the count of the silverware from the tables u bussed is off so we deducted the missing utensils from ur check". She gave me this check at close to the start of a very busy shift. I quietly took my shirt off and handed it to her. Strolled thru the restraunt shirtless and out the front door.
I remember hearing some BOTH people yelling shit like "o there goes another one" and "who the hell is gonna cover his area not me that job sucks". This was back in like 2017 in florida so u know 7.25 wasnt shit anyway.
Edit:the manager was a chick who was younger than me and clearly had never really worked in her life. Nepotism at its finest people
Not me, but my brother worked at The Catch after high school (I believe this was in 2018 or 2019?). They hired him as a busboy, then immediately out him to work in the kitchen, and when the sink broke, they expected him to fix it with nothing but a plunger. From what he’s told me, there were numerous health code violations and people were quitting mid-shift. My brother worked two shifts before quitting. They still haven’t paid him.
I’m never eating at The Catch again, and it seems the rest of my family agrees.
If you've never burned a bridge you've never stood up for yourself.
I hated working at a grocery store. At least my last manager wasn't terrible. I told her I was done and quit. She said that it's probably for the best since I should go to college rather than work there. I didnt take her advice until after my next job though
My last job was run by a sociopath who would keep changing how she wanted things done, and wouldn't tell me until I'd done it wrong. She also had a history of verbal and even physical abuse of employees. Her chief manager was also a sociopath who would cheat on her fiancee with coworkers and then get them fired afterward. Both real nice girls, in other words. The manager gal frequently made negligent mistakes and got one of us blamed for it since in the boss's eyes she could do no wrong. They read me the riot act one day out of the blue telling me I'm a crappy worker and I can work the rest of the weekend or quit outright. I said I'd finish the weekend.
So it's sunday, my last day at this crappy company, and I'm trying to find a way to get through the shift without just walking out. I realize we have a vat of ranch dip in the lunchroom fridge. I also remember that none of our employee lockers are actually locked, and said sociopathic manager girl has a collection of lotions in her locker so she can smell like a Bath and Body Works all day. So I emptied ALL her lotion bottles and filled them with ranch dip.
Not only did the joy of that get me through my last day, but I found out later that week that the manager didn't realize what I'd done to her lotions until she'd already slathered it all over her arms and face. She spent the rest of the day smelling like an Applebees salad and was furious.
Later that week one of their "yes men" girls got the same treatment and was outright fired after she finished setting up boss lady's side business for her. This gal also happened to be the only computer savvy person in the company besides me, so she changed all the passwords before she left, and nobody could log in to conduct business. So not only were these chicks evil, but stupid as well.
Replacing overpriced lotions with ranch dip. You absolute legend ✨✨✨
I used to work farmers markets. When I started one of the first things that was made clear to me was that everything under the tent, the tent included, was my responsibility.
Occasionally we would get people who would volunteer to help (the organization was a 501c3 not for profit)
One such volunteer was a woman who was a friend of the owner. (Who I'll call ma'am)
She had a discussion with the owner which led her to believe that ma'am wanted the 10th to be set up in a specific way every time. However, on the day that she volunteered she also decided that she was going to take over. In doing so, she repeatedly asked for ridiculous things, such as trying to copy a picture of another setup, which would have left the cookies and the pies in the rain. Anytime I corrected that, by ensuring that the cookies and pies were not out enough to get hit by the rain.
After a while it became clear that the cookies and pies would be useless, as the bags and boxes they were kept in we're no longer secure.
She started in on me about how I shouldn't have put them out in the rain, and when I pointed out that I've been moving them out of the rain to her at management, and when one of the neighboring stalls agreed with me, she started a shouting match in front of customers. So I left.
In the end, I didn't get fired and I didn't quit. But I did stop doing farmers markets, was told that maybe I don't have the temperament.
My nephew quit his job and left a dumpster fire that stink and burned for the longest. He worked in I.T. He left his job because he got screwed out of a promotion that was promised to him. Before he quit he up loaded a virus in the system programming. The company lost 5 contracts and they lost millions of dollars 💵😢 3 days later he got a better job😁😁😁😁😁😁
Holy fucking shit. Isn't that borderline if not outright illegal lol
Okay… and then he definitely got arrested, right???? There’s no way he didn’t get arrested.
Here in Australia I thought slavery in America was eliminated but now I see it's still alive and well just poorly disguised.
Smfh jeeezus crust...
Saying that from Australia is ironic in multiple ways
America, land of the free, home of the slave!
Yeahhhh this kinda shit is *basically* slave labor. We also have legal slaves! The law that “abolished” slavery said that you can’t use people as slaves UNLESS it’s as punishment for a crime. Our prisons are legalized slavery.
I've posted this before but it belongs here too.
Years ago, I worked for an idiot who decided to take his divorce out on his workforce.
There were 4 of us. Over the course of a month, we all left, me being the last because I needed that last week of pay.
On my last day, he was ranting and raving about the 3 who'd already quit to his brad-new, very inexperienced replacement workers. They were very uncomfortable. Then he turned to me and started berating me. I just stopped and told him he could make up my last paypacket because I was leaving too.
He was very angry. He also now had just 2 employees in a business that required 4 employees to run it. I drove past it some .months later and it had closed down.
Edit: typoed 2 when I meant 3.
I’ve got a story. So back in Christmas of 19 I started working at a photography studio for the Christmas session. It was crazy but fun. I was about the be rehired for the Easter session when the pandemic hit. Summer comes around and I get a job at 5 below. I liked it there, my boss was really nice. In August my old boss texted me asking if I wanted to come back so I did. I started juggling 2 jobs pretty well other then an emotional brake during the middle of the Christmas rush. This august at 5 below we had a huge manager change and I lost all of the managers including my boss for one reason or another. Most of the new managers where not too bad but the new head boss was a bitch, in forcing rules that never existed, not letting me use sick time when I had really bad migraines that my other boss was aware of, even screwing up my schedule to the point where I was getting less hours between both jobs. I quit right after that but before I left, I was offered a job by the manager of the pet store next to us. She offered me more hours and $2 above my states minimum wage. I took the job and I’ll admit, it’s hard, but fun! My other boss at the studio was told about all this and is basically now having a hissy fit because she can’t call me in whenever anymore and I can’t just ask for shifts to be moved around. I’m planning on going in today and quitting there too since I can’t work both jobs. I work 5 days at the pet store and my other boss tries to drag me in for the other 2 I get off. I’ve had more emotional brakes over the past 2-3 weeks then I’ve ever had in my whole life. I’ve even had a few while at work, having to run to the back room in hopes that no one sees me. I loved working at the studio but I’m not passing up a job where I’m being paid $2 more, get discounts on pet supplies for my guinea pig and get to play with animals for a few extra bucks and a lot of frustration.
You should have called the Department of Labor and Filed a Formal Complaint against the Bitch Boss...It is ILLEGAL to not allow an Employee to use Sick Time for a Legitimate Medical Issue and Migraines are DEFINITELY a Legitimate Medical Issue...
This was in South Africa.
First job as an 18 year old:
Worked at a Spur, a popular steak restaurant.
Before we could be a waiter we had to endure a whole months training 6 days a week from 8am-8pm while not being paid a single cent during training because we weren't actually "working".
Finally get my tests done and ready to go and actually do the job.
All of the six new waiters each get one table during probation period.
We were allowed to keep the tips but wasn't actually paid through the company during that time.
Later they realised that was illegal, and paid us.
I spent 6 months there. I can't believe I endured it for that long.
The owner was so petty the waiters had to pay for their own cleaning rags and mops.
The only thing he provided was cleaning chemicals.
We had to leave R5 everyday for "lost cutlery and broken plates" which was solely blamed on waiters and made them pay for it.
Here's a quick summary:
- Every Tuesday you had to come in to collect your paycheck, but before then we had to spring clean the whole store for 4+ hours. You weren't paid for the cleaning. You had to come clean regardless if you're on shift or not. If you didn't clean you didn't get your paycheck.
- Beef with two managers.
The one male manager shoved me out of the way while I was cleaning the floor with a toothbrush (Usual Tuesday spring-cleaning).
Second manager just had it out for me. She spread lies about me and constantly told me how bad I was.
She went on leave for two weeks. Suspiciously during those two weeks I made double the amount of tips I usually would (She ran cashdesk and processed all the tips customers APPARENTLY left).
When she came back my tips went down again. She was stealing my tips - but obviously I couldn't prove that as customers paid the cashdesk our "tips".
If you worked Nightshift you had to wait for ALL staff to finish their sections before being allowed out.
Let's say your shift was 5-9 you had to stay until 10 which was closing time so that the managers could check your sections.
Sometimes them "checking" your sections took up to two hours as they were cashing up etc.
You were not paid for waiting for managers to check your sections.
We weren't given any contracts during the timeframe we were working.
The day before I decided I was leaving they conveniently threw everyone with contracts as someone probably tipped off the government regarding their shit practices, I refused to sign mine as I wanted my parents to check over it. I informed them I'll have it signed and given to them the next day.
I overheard two managers talking to eachother regarding me not signing - the one said he will "sort me out" before shift ends.
I didn't give it to them the next day.
I told them I was leaving instead. Conveniently another waiter decided to leave on the same day as well which caused a big issue with shifts.
Frick you Spur.
For any South African reading this, please be nice to your waiters. Please tip them cash in their hands.
I worked at a Wendy's where I quit in 4 weeks bc they had me working 10 hour shifts as soon as I started there and keep in mind I applied for part time bc I was just looking for something while doing my college classes and was on night shift didn't get off until like 3 in the morning everyday and never gave me break. So one day I took upon myself to give me a break after about 5 hours in I went up and clocked for a 20 minute break went to the subway next door and got myself a footlong Buffalo chicken sandwich when the manager came over and told me that she didn't say I could go on break and without a word I got up put my hat and apron down on the table and walked out to my car finished my lunch and went home
I worked at a Wendy’s in high school I never worked 10 hours may be five you should of gotten a break at least they break so many laws they cheated me breaks and I worked over my shift being 16 at the time I could of reported them
After multiple reports to HR about my nasty, toxic coworker, and btw it was other people too, not just me.... I was told to just 'make it work'. She kept lying about interactions... I kept smoothing things over with other colleagues so we could get work done... She continually made the workplace feel miserable, and mainly me. I decided enough was enough. They were upset I resigned and only gave a weeks notice (which was all I needed to give, based on my contract). I've left them to deal with her crap instead of me. Last I heard they approached another worker in the business to do my old job, offered it to her, no actual written job offer - just verbal. I know this person really didn't like the woman I worked with. They finally gave her the paperwork and at the last minute she declined the 'offer'. Moral of the story - noone likes working with toxic people and you can't make them.
I left them three people down, with no spare staff to cover the 5 other shifts I had that week after I spent 8 hours taking abuse from a co-worker who didn't want to do her job.
I also told the area manager as I quit, that the reason the kitchen was so badly run is because the chef refused to do their job - aka, hire new people, fire the useless POS that took 3 months of holiday instead of 2 weeks (kept extending her holidays), and hire a decent back up chef that wouldn't serve raw chicken to elderly people, and oh, kept hiring anti-vaxxers who brought the flu into the place that killed a few people (of a team of 8 people, 5 were AV. That's not a co-incidence).
I ended up with undiagnosed PTSD from the place, and a several chronic illnesses due to the stress.
I have no regrets.
The restaurant stories are so satisfying. I worked as a garde manger for years for a local family owned Italian restaurant and I have so many stories I could write a small book. Severs doing Coke in the bathroom, customers got caught fucking on the stairs. Twice. The owner throwing raw fish at customers. I had a paycheck bounce so the owner could buy a new car to name a few. I had a terminally ill father at home and I had to work to keep a roof over us. Hurricane Irma in 2017 was a blessing in disguise (albeit a very, very fucked up one). My mother's property in South Florida was heavily damaged and she needed help. I used that as my out and put in my notice. I still get dirt / gossip and last I heard they hired a new chef at 70K who ghosted them the day he was supposed to start, next to no staff and the owner is abusing pills. Again and just lost his license. Again.
Seriously fuck family owned operations, it's the Wild West of the service industry. They will grind you down into a stump.
My first job was at a small fast food place. I was 16. The general manager treated me horribly. Constantly writing me up, only scheduling me for one 5 hour shift a week, flat out screaming at me and other staff in front of customers, stealing from my register, etc. One day, I had enough and decided to quit. The next time I was scheduled, I showed up at my scheduled time, handed her my uniform and left. The manager at a different fast food restaurant saw her screaming at me and a coworker and offered us both jobs on the spot, which we both accepted. Something about us quitting at the same time motivated everyone else to do the same. Within the week, 12 of the 15 total employees had quit, including one of the assistant managers. They had to shut down for about a month while trying to find new people to work.
Fun side story though, not that long after I quit, I saw in the newspaper that the general manager had been arrested. She still had her work uniform on in her mugshot. What was she arrested for? She was a registered sex offender and wasn't legally allowed to work with people under 18. She was mostly hiring 16 year olds. She didn't assault any of the employees or anything, her crime didn't even have to do with children, but in my state part of being a sex offender of any kind is that you can't work around children. But for some ungodly reason, despite being arrested at work, for a crime taking place at work, she didn't lose her job. 4 years later and she's still the general manager of that place, but at least now she only hires 18+ people
That sounds like a Wendy’s they hire just about any one
Not as cool as the others, but my first job. I was the closing key holder on our Tuesday rush. Normal day, store would make 2k, Tuesday would be 5k to 10k. I got told my raise was taken (had it a year at this point) and my work would be doubled on top of being the only worker on tuesday. (6 people to close that night and i was told no help was coming)
Being a dumb 16 year old, I tossed my shirt into the dough maker as it was making dough an left
Did your shirt jam up the dough maker??
@@devontaenash409 that was the goal. I didn't stay long enough to actually see it happen
That auto parts one was similar to my time working at one. It was a part time job for me, but when two assistant managers were fired and arrested for theft and fraud, the district manager told me I needed to step up and help cover the shifts those two idiots used to work. The store manager tried to tell the district manager that I had a fulltime jobs working at a medical center and if push came to shove, I’d quit. District manager told me to do the right thing and man up…so I handed him my keys and walked out.
BUSIEST night in months at restaurant, really slammed- one of few restaurants in the area that still had power during a winter storm, late 90s- HUGE line up at the door, entire sections full, had bills still in my pocket for tables, food waiting to be served...my asshole Restaurant owner was having his usual demented temper tantrum...and screamed at us every time we came into the kitchen. I was not even a waitress, but a hostess, and had filled in for a sick co-worker. I also was the only one authorized for a certain machine, and the only one with a code, besides him, but he had no clue how the machine worked...
He used to regularly "fire" us only to call us later to "apologize" and claim we "misunderstood", blamed his being "Italian", as if that is even a thing to use as an excuse. I told him if he ever did that to me again I was DONE.
He made two waitresses cry, on waiter was hyperventilating....he freaked at me.
I just turned around, got my purse, keys, and coat, and left.
Never answered his calls, never looked back.
Still friends with 2 former staff to this day.
After I left, 2 others eventually did, too
😈😈😈
This is for anyone watching these. Do not work at Books-A-Million.
I know we need to consider saving reading and books; but Books-A-Million is not the way to save books.
They are terrible; and you will not get help to do your job. I worked for two years: got my hours cut to less than 20 a week, made so little money and still got charged for my student loans, got calls for coming in while in the Army Reserves on station and on duty... in front of my sergeants telling me I needed to come in while I was at the reserve station.
I asked for help on my tasks; asked to train other employees and had all kinds of issues juggling tasks by myself and wall after wall of customers making deadlines impossible.
If you want a book store job; work a mom and pop store...
I felt good to hear from another guy in the auto repair business quitting in the heat of the moment. Given the times I was ordered to operate an automotive lift that was a death trap, I probably should have done the same at some point, but I was desperate to make money and climb the career ladder. It would be fun to say something in the customer service area, something like "Sorry I can't fix your car. Dickhead boss here expect me to treat your car like intentionally driving without a seatbelt."
32:08 I suppose if I was the only one who had the passwords, I would hold them for ransom. Fine, you want them? $10,000 for this one, $5,000 for that one, and $2,000 for the other one. If you don't pay soon, don't expect me to remember them forever. Also, price subject to change due to Karen's attitude.
I think holding the passwords for ransom might be illegal, and you’d likely get sued for it at the very least.
@@heartofthewild680 yes and no. It's very illegal to do it that way directly, but if you get a good lawyer they can guide you on how you can get the same result without breaking any laws.
Brand new assistant manager tried to write me up as soon as the store manager left for maternity leave,I was the only other full time manager...handed her my keys and said good luck
Id like to hear the same story but from the other employees who were there to clean up their mess.
I worked at everyone's favorite fast food chain with the big yellow M. You know the one. For half a year, I attempted to hold true to the written schedule only to be asked to leave at least a couple days out of the week by a manager who had brought in coworkers I never recognized during the days. So I requested to go on night shifts. Night shifts are going great, until a girl whose name eludes me so we'll call her Trish transfers onto nights too.
Well, we at the store would play a little music and try to have a good time to keep the monotony from getting us too down. It never got in the way of work, customers didn't have to talk over the music, and we were meticulous with money and food prep so as to not let it become an issue.
Word gets out to the management, and suddenly I in particular am singled out and taken off night shift, and my hours slashed. Right then and there I wanted to quit, but then my manager talked to me. He said that the district manager had found there was money missing from our store, and that I was the suspect either for stealing money or for mishandling it due to listening to music all shift (mind you, it was the night shift manager playing the music.)
I resigned right then and there, and it came out three months later that the previously mentioned girl, Trish, had been stealing money from the registers when she thought nobody was looking. Spoiler alert: The cameras were, DMs just didn't want to check them because they were so convinced they had a culprit. I believe the store lost something like a grand due to this girl (the store made a lot of money, being on the busiest avenue in my city). And all that could have been avoided had they not jumped to conclusions.
Since then, most of the staff has moved on and that particular store went severely under due to COVID. I think it's actually an Arby's now. Go figure.
The one about sonic really hit home. The old GM of my store was a douche, and I had scheduled wayyyy before my graduation was going to happen that I wanted to be off. He scheduled me anyway and said, "well, you should've told me before I scheduled you," so I showed him the receipts, and he told me to stop being disrespectful, so I said, well, find another carhop.
I gave a month's notice but my decision to quit was a snap one and felt obliged to follow through.
This was a hotel that was in a prime city location but financially and organisational culturally failing big time. The higher powers have resorted to illegal yield management practices that I was forced to follow, hence why I had enough.
When I left, my department was operating at a loss of $40k a year.
a new manager was hired just as I was finishing my last day. I was the longest standing staff member and she and the boss counted on me to handover and teach her everything. That was impossible to go through all operational aspects of the lounge in one day. I heard she didn't last long coz she was not given proper training as a manager. I was also training my replacement over 3 days before I left.
I built long standing relationships with our regular guests and apparently stopped staying at the hotel after I left coz no one else was as attentive in service as I was.
The general manager was walked off the property by the owners of the hotel because he failed to put the business back in the black within a year.
My previous employer, they had to restart a project from the ground up, that we had invested years into, because I was the last of 2 people who left who knew how the core of it worked.
I was also the only person who understood how timezones work with time changes and all... The project is still struggling moving along, and the director I hated that led to me leaving was fired when the owner finally found out he was a fraud.
My last day on a job I took the hand pallet jacks, lifted a big stack of stuff, and backed them up against the wall so nobody could jack them up, and let them all the way down.
I worked at boneyard(restaurant) and I quit when I had enough of being one of two dish washers treated like a robot to work shifts. It was always work opens and closes back to back. They kept schedule like this so that no one works an open to close shift, but when there are only 2 workers you get the idea. I quit on our busiest day halloween boss called and tried to bitch me out when I was at a different job in my first day at what I didn't realize till later that I picked to work at a hell location(I'm at a better location of the same company.) Left them with no closer dish washer on the biggest day for them.
Funny how the manager can't mop the floor
I worked in a hotel. There are a couple things different about me, now, than then. I walked out on the day I was supposed to start back up full-time. I was originally slated for working in the kitchen. Something I LOVE. On Friday my overseeing manager confronted me as I was leaving the kitchen for the day. He said, and I paraphrase, 'I know you hate working in the kitchen, so, I'm going to move you to custodian' He couldn't have been more wrong. I detested the custodian position. He wanted me to go back into it because I was often complimented for how well I cleaned bathrooms. I wouldn't be complemented, directly, people would snidely say, "it's about time they hired someone who can clean bathrooms" as they watched me walk out of the bathroom with my cleaning supplies. There was one individual that would defecate on the wall in the inlet bathroom on the sixth level. Of the 43 to 46 people who worked there, I seem to be the only one that the head manager felt comfortable telling me to clean the walls of that floor.
On Monday I walked into the office, handed my key, said I quit, and walked out. Head manager had a panicked/pissed look on his face, second manager had this how dare you look on his, the third manager had a smirk.
9:40, Bet since he WITHHELD Multiple Promised bonuses for NO REASON his lawyer said pay or risk having to pay TRIPPLE. (You could add emotional distress which doubles the amount but if the JUDGE agrees its aggreges he can Double the original amount AGAIN. If he had a brain in his head this is why he paid IMMEDIATELY. )
Years ago I worked at holiday Inn for 1 month. Lol the stories I could tell you about their house keeping manager and 'inn keeper' would make sure you never put your application for a job there,
… go on….
_All these horror stories, and yet some companies can't seem to figure out why there is a worker shortage going on now._
I worked at a popular Pittsburgh restaurant chain (the one where you *park* your car, then go in and *eat* your food). I was hired as a dishwasher/busperson and was told I would be trained as a server eventually. I hated that job for several reasons:
1. When asked about availability, I told them I wouldn’t be able to work overnight shifts. They said that was fine. They then proceeded to schedule me for several overnights a week.
2. I was expected to fulfill duties that were never communicated to me during my interview OR training, such as unloading shipments, making supply runs in my personal vehicle, using/maintaining equipment I wasn’t qualified to operate, etc.
3. Many of my coworkers were good friends with the manager, so they would get away with things like taking a dozen or more smoke breaks every shift, taking personal phone calls on the floor, etc., while I got berated to no end if I was 30 seconds late coming back from my 15 minute lunch break.
4. I was once accused of stealing money, even though I didn’t have access to any of the registers or the safe. Never did figure that one out.
5. I was never given the server training I was promised. This one actually upset me the most, as it was the original position I applied for.
I hated this job for these and many, many more reasons, but I figured it could be worse so I sucked it up for awhile. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was one night I was called and asked to cover an overnight shift. I did. I was a little more than halfway through my shift when my dad called (around 4 in the morning) telling me there was a family emergency and he asked me if I could leave work an hour early. I asked my shift manager who told me it was fine, as it was slow. The next day I worked, I got called in to the general manager’s office and got my butt chewed out for abandoning a shift. I tried explaining to her that it was an emergency, the shift manager on duty approved it (he backed me up on this), and I wasn’t even scheduled in the first place, I was filling in to help them out. She wasn’t responding to any of it and she gave me a formal written warning. I decided that was enough. The next night shift I worked was the night of the Dave Matthews Band concert at a large venue about 15 minutes away, and at the time we were the only restaurant within 30 miles that was open 24/7. I didn’t do a damn thing my entire shift, and I was the only dishwasher on duty. Dishes were piling up, tables needed cleaned, and there was a massive shipment of frozen food that needed checked in and put away. At midnight, right when we were starting to fill up with all the drunk, stoned, and hangry DMB concert goers, I walked into the GM’s office, said “Ron approved me leaving early last week. Have fun tonight. Go f*ck yourself”, and left. I got in my car, blared some Dave at the top of my car’s volume, and sped away. I heard the GM was let go a month later. F*ck you, Linda.
"If I looked like a fricking TARDIS" lmao
I feel like Retail Managers / Supervisors are the biggest looser in life. They stay in that stagnant position with no life goals, just the whole "this is the best flow of income I have and I'm never leaving" kinda like politicians f**king their employees lives during work.
That's why they disrespect people like this.
Also because in most cases there’s little regular employees/associates can do since if they complain to or offend the manager in any way their hours can be tampered with horrifically(ie from 18 hours a week to like 5-6 at my DG job)
Sad, cause it doesn't have to be that way. I've met plenty of team leader and supervisors who were good at their job and got on great with the staff. It's the tough but fair, and never asking someone to do something they wouldn't do themselves, and going in to bat for their workers if something went down.
@@xaorancheshire7908 my wife works at DG, hired in at 15 hours/week, ended up at 50+ hours, then for various reasons became the only employee there for a month or so.
Last August I quit my job as a teacher of English for a small private school in my country. Ever since the pandemic started, inflation went up about 50% here but the school only offered a 10% raise - yet they had doubled their fees. With online teaching still going, they were also demanding a lot of pretty crazy stuff from us teachers. I complained and their answer was "well maybe you should quit". So I did. And before I left, I went through all the computers and took away all the resources I had brought with me. Apparently everyone in the administration was under the impression that all the cool digital things that the English department had, plus the mock tests, media and connections for the international exam program, were somehow provided by the administration themselves. They called me in a panic because parents had already given them money for the exams, and I told them tough luck. I found another job literally two days later.
I quit my first job at 16. Was a movie theater. They decided that giving 17 year olds in highschool supervisor positions was a great idea. This butch supervisor hated my guts. And would be on my ass for everything. I had to take a piss in the middle of my shift (for like 30 seconds) starts flipping out and asking why I disappeared for Soo long (this was the latest thing she did) I was fed up so I just left mid shift. They called and asked why I quit. Told them they have terrible supervisors. This was also during a very busy summer that avatar was out
All jobs I have ever had I have ended without warning. If I am not working out well, I will never get a two week intent to fire me. Thus, I will never give a two week notice of intent to resign my job. Why should I extend a courtesy to an employer that will never be extended to me?
I worked at a rock climbing gym for about 4 months after I got home from school out of the country. Before I even got hired there, I told my boss under no circumstances. Would I be able to work on Saturdays or any Jewish holidays (I'm Jewish), regardless of how much she was willing to pay me. The important part is that she agreed. Key to note, she's also Jewish (by affiliation. Not observant in the slightest). Also important was the fact I told her when I first started working that I don't own a car, so if she ever wanted me to stay late I would need to know that morning before I came in for my shift so I can schedule having a car or getting a ride with somebody (I would drive my mother to work early in the A.M to have her car for my shift). She agreed to that too. Fast forward 3 months into the job, and my hours started getting cut. I asked her a couple of times to please give me more scheduled hours, and she said something along the lines of "I'll work on it". One month after that, I started noticing that instead of giving me more hours she was cutting my hours even more, from four 5-hour shifts a week to two at most if I was lucky. Once I realized that, I knew my time there was limited. A couple weeks later, in the middle of a Bat Mitzvah after party, I asked to speak with her in private about my scheduling. The answer she gave me this time is because she said that I'm lazy and that I'm never willing to stay late when she needed me to, and then I proceeded to reminder about our agreement we had when she first hired me. Seeing as that she couldn't use that as an answer anymore, she pulled the "you're the laziest worker I've ever had" card on me. I asked her to explain and she said every time she saw me I was either on my phone or talking to a coworker. Funny enough, she's only ever mentioned that once to me my entire time there, that was because me and a co-worker had just done back-to-back birthday parties, and when the kids were clearing out of the party room, we took 2 minutes to just take a break and shoot the shit. She happened to walk in at that moment and immediately flipped her shit I'm not saying we have to get back to work ASAP. Not thinking about it, we finished up our conversation and got back to work. Other than that, you could ask any one of my co-workers there. I was one of if not the favorite party lead, and also I was one of the most committed employees there, seeing I was the only one out of high school and willing to work full-time. The rest of my coworkers were a couple of years younger than me and all worked part-time due to school and other academics. So when she called me lazy at the bat mitzvah, I immediately quit on the spot and walked out with only four people left in the entire facility. A few weeks after I quit I found out that one of my older co-workers who was about a year older than me and was doing managerial work but not being paid as a manager, she found out some stuff about the company regarding underage employment and not giving legal breaks to those employees who are underage, and then was offered a $5,000 NDA to leave the company and never speak about it. She happily agreed, and that was that. Or so I thought. From what I heard last, this cow of a woman who made enough money in one holiday season to send her kid to medical school across the world got into so much trouble that she had to sell the gym and move to Greece with her husband who she absolutely hated. I don't know what happened to her, All I know is that the gym is under new ownership.
Fuck you Stephanie 😘
I used to work for Burger King my own sister fired me on my day off so I soaked my uniform in gasoline and lit it right in the parking lot and walked away
🤣🤣🤣 fuck yes
Those places are horrible anyways
Bruh lmao cringe
My older sister was the assistant manager
Probably not a video I should be watching as it’s giving me ideas 😂
My dad left the laundry mat messed up by messing up the wires, he was the only one that knew how to fix them
Ok I actually have 2 stories, both a student job.
The first one is when a juice factory told me that they are searching someone to draw CAD files on the computer. Im good in that field so I accepted. They took me in and on the first day of job, after doing some paper work, they took me to a conveyor belt and told me that this is my job. Im confused so i ask what about that CAD thing that you guys told me? And they say: oh we dont need that anymore. I worked behind that conveyor belt (sorting juice boxes and stuff) for that day and at the end of my shift I quit and never come back...
The next story is when I started working in this company where they make protection for undersea cables. Boss was an asshole from the start and i could tell that he would get angry really quickly. The guy that showed me around and was "my mentor" was also rude to me for no reason. And the general mood in that factory between workers was..not the best. Its like they would turn to beasts and start eating one another any second now. We only had 1 break. After working there for 8 hours I quit and also never come back...
I don't understand how managers can delude themselves into thinking they can treat everyone who keeps their business alive like total dog**** and not expect them to leave. Especially the ones that are actively breaking the law.
oh i actually i have on for this:
i was working at a japanese restaurant, when i first started i was put on the grill and they thought me some of those fancy tricks (they actually make it easier)
then i was put into waiting tables to soon be put into dishwashing
i didn't actually mind any of those locations, but i wasn't the fastest worker, instead i liked to work precise instead of fast, but most bosses don't get that.
so washing the dishes is something that keeps going on and on, and can pile up really quickly
when i finally started to get a nice rhytmn they were like, " hey can you also make this small salad dish?" it took a lot of time away and caused me quite a bit of slowdown and the manager was getting mad at it to me, i just shrugged
" i work as fast as i can, and i am already struggling with the full dishwashing workload, and you expect me to go faster while doing even more? have fun trying to have all the work done with one less worker"
i was actually like the third or fourth that week that had quit and the atmosphere was hurting a lot.
since then management has shifted and i don't think that the restaurant is exactly doing well these days
Ego, hubris. Restaurant owners would rather suck and limp along with terrible reputations than improve themselves and draw satisfied customers. MANY people enter into restaurant management assuming that their likes, tastes and needs will also be what their customers want. When they find out they're wrong they get pissed off and decide to "show" the customers. Never ends well. They lose not only their restaurants but also their business reputations, and some continue not to care even then. The restaurant industry is notorious for these kinds of characters.
The small restaurant I work at was sold recently to new owners who dont care at all. They're changing everything and our customers are old fashion and dont like change. They also deduced my pay. But they have no idea how to do my job (my old boss never trained them on that for some reason) and I plan on quitting soon because of my pay. When I leave I dont know how they're gonna train new people my position. They dont even know how to make sweet tea, the restaurants pride!
if you work in retail, it is actually better if you don't get promoted. Because you'll be working more hours, and being more stressed or for maybe an extra 50 cents an hour.
I quit before I even started. I was asked to come back after having my baby if I was ready, to which I was and I was to go back in a weeks time. Find out on the Friday before (I was starting that following Monday) that am only going to help for 2 weeks while "they" the supervisor and 2 family members that all worked in the same place went on Holiday. And after they come back they were planning on telling me I was only covering for 2 weeks and that I wasn't getting my job back after all. She had 2 days to find cover - Impossible, she lost the contract shortly after that. That woman couldn't run a bath.
9:50 Sonic was DANGEROUS. In the middle of lunch rush the cook thought it was a perfect time to drain the deep fryers without telling anyone and I was right next to it.... QUIT and they expected me to cover my shift... actually really bitchy about it... I was not going to get burned for a minimum wage job, and I had another job lined up...
Quit working at a local chain restaurant (Bojangles) in the middle of a lunch rush, as the only cashier, with the line of cars wrapped around the building and down the highway. I bought a gallon of tea and walked 10 miles home cuz I didn’t have a car at the time
“Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.” -Harvey Dent
guy in the steakhouse could have also just trashed the 20-30 meats and then cleaned up. but i suspect there was prior stuff that caused them to quit
I would have taken my time with the mop and let all that meat burn to a crisp.
14:23, Lack of customer Service ABILITY. RECENTLY met a lovely Short woman BELOW AVERAGE SHORT but don't like the two words use for reference of them. But onto the story. I saw this little woman at Walmart in a Yellow Vest, Meaning Manager... Asked her for help with a issue and was Told she was recently transferred to this store and couldnt help me because she knew NOTHING about how this store dealt with the problem. OK and went back to finish checking out. A BLUE VEST named Karen (No joke her real name) APPEARED and started berating me for being RUDE to the little woman. Only things I said to her was my question and Yes mam, and thank you mam. you wonder why there are so many Karen's and Kevin's in the world? THEIR RECRUITING. She yelled at me for being Nice and Respectful to the little woman and DEMANDED I never act like that again to a Walmart Employee... YES she told me to NEVER be Nice or Respectful to a Employee of Walmart AGAIN. Funny huh. When laughing about it later I called the store manager and told when where and how it happened to manager, he looked it up in the Security cameras to see the woman berating me for being Nice and Respectful to the employee and she was later moved to 3rd shift ONLY. 10pm - 6am work time. Not majorly good but stopped her from having to ask other customers to STOP BEING NICE OR RESPECTFUL TO EMPLOYEES since almost NO ONE shops after midnight except drunks looking for Munchies.
I worked in my field of choice with people I liked for 24 years. I retired 8 months ago & still talk to them.
It IS possible to enjoy your career. Don't lose hope.
I can't say that I quit out of the blue, but it was because of pettiness. I was passed up for a promotion at my last job. At first, I thought the outside help that was brought in had legit experience and that's why she got it over me. A couple of weeks passed and it became appearant that she didn't. This infuriated me, and I started looking for a new job. I'm now 3 weeks into my new job, and all the weavers are having to pick up my slack.
I worked second shift as a floater for a cleaning company. Basically they’d give me an assignment right before the start of my shift at 5pm and I’d go where they needed me for the day work then go home. But my manager started tapping me later and later with new assignments like I’d do a 6 hour job then go home and she’d call me like hey there’s a 3 hours job I need you to do. One day she said there was nothing for me that day. Cool a day off right? I chilled at home in case she tapped me late again after 9 I was like probably not but then at 11:00pm (my schedule was 5pm - midnight) she called me telling me I needed to drive to an assignment that was a 1 hr drive round trip and took 4 hours to clean. I was literally showered in bed asleep already. I asked her why she didn’t know that assignment needed my help until now, and she didn’t have an answer so I said “no” and she told me I couldn’t say no, I was already tired of being tapped past 8 for assignments that she knew needed help at 4pm so I said “ok then I won’t say no, I’ll say I quit”
“I asked him if I looked blue, if I looked box shaped, if I’m a fucking TARDIS?”
I’m using this
15:20 OP was able to build a group of regulars DESPITE their Ass-Holish Attitude BECAUSE they knew how to make a GOOD cup of Coffee...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
my mom quit a job where they just dumped all the work on her, and everybody says that she's keeping the place from catching on fire (she actually was) and an abusive boss made that place a living hell. literally the same day she handed in her 2 weeks notice, the boss was arrested for public intoxication, assault, and resisting arrest.
16:38, its not loosing control if you left her alive in the end. You had a outburst and she Rightfully Deserved to be yelled at for her Poor Performance and for not understanding that she was the reason it was so hard to keep the business OPEN.
I quit two restaurants within six months of eachother, when they were really busy, now both restaurants had many other people quit within months of me quitting, and was told I quit right before it got busy
I had a crew leader who was a pretty cool guy, but had the habit of being late. One daybthe manager told him that if he is going to be late again, he may as well not even come in. A week or so goes by, and she gets a call. "Hi, this is Dave. I'm gonna be late, so I'm just not coming in."
I never saw Dave again, but ill never forget that.
Worked at Pizza Hut. Was a cook there. It was Xmas eve or Xmas day (I can't remember). What drove me to spontaneously quit was on that day I was doing almost everything. Yes it wasn't busy but it was the fact that my coworkers were sitting in the lounge area chatting it up and not doing their jobs, while clearly I needed help. That pissed me off but I kept working. What really threw me off the edge was when this 17year old ghetto girl, who acted like she was better than me, while we were cleaning the store that I needed to hurry up cuz she "got family to see". I told her "yea I do too". She then said "I don't care". I snapped. I threw down the Jalapeños (unfortunately they were sealed well and didn't spill out), and started yelling at her. Idk what I said but this girl was so self centered that she seemed to truly not know why I reacted the way I did. Then the manager for that night starts yelling at me and not even knowing why I'm yelling, tells me I don't need to be yelling at people and being disrespectful. Already pissed, that made it worse and I started cussing him out and asking him things like "why should I be respectful to people who don't deserve it?" He eventually threatened to call the cops if I didn't leave (tho I was heading to my car during this yelling). Then I left cuz yea like I wanted to stay there yelling at him.🙄
I worked at well known fast food chain. Teenagers who worked there kept changing my schedule for their own convenience and never asked and just told me I would be working their shift. Plus one regularly stole from the drive thru cash register. The franchise owner was a screamer. One of the girls let her boyfriend (who was not an employee) mess with the cash register and ring up sales, then blamed for me letting the little twit let him do it (no manager around to fix it). I lasted about a month or so. Worked at a chain grocery store deli. Night manager was a screaming, nightmarish carp who reamed out other employees in front of customers (she defined the term "drunk on power"). Idiots allowed to come in and order a pound of shaved ham for her cat.. at 10:55pm when she knew we closed at 11p and we're breaking down the slicers and cleaning up. Call centers are a breeze compared to those places.
Sounds like you worked at Wendy’s and wal mart
@@SassyFrasponduechu No. First place rhymes with McFonald's and the other was a PA chain of grocery stores with good employees and tyrannical night managers that we all loathed (seriously--we all had fantasied about throwing ours off a cliff). Considering the horror stories I hear about Wal Mart, that was a good guess! :)
when the guy said glazier my brain went to donuts lol.
I worked as a receiver for a hardware store. I was replacing two people, one who had left and one who was promoted to department manager. I told the store owner i couldn't handle it all myself. He told me that there was no one else and I would have to do it alone. Plus help load customer's cars and I couldn't refuse to do this. Plus retrieve merchandise from under the mezzanine (on my knees, in an inch of dust, with no lighting). Then I was told I had to collect all empty boxes from the floor and dispose of them (the store workers were supposed to do this). Then I was told I would have to price-tag every item that came in (which the store workers were also supposed to do). When the lift broke and was not repaired, I had to haul all excess product up the stairs to the second floor warehouse, One on Thursday night, receiving was jammed so full of freight waiting to be priced that I couldn't walk around, there was two thirds of last week's truck still waiting at the dock to be unloaded and another truck due in the morning, and I had had enough. I never showed up for work the next morning, or ever again.
Worked at a Fast food restaurant back when I was 16.
Coworkers didnt go to work come morning due to Holiday parties.
I was manning basically 3 station then taking off apron to occassionally help taking orders outside.
Manager on that shift is a female freshgrad who never worked the kitchen and got Manager post upon entry.
She got mad at me cause many people are still on the line and is getting pissed due to pending orders, failing to understand that we're heavily understaffed and starts talking crap on me in front of all of those people saying how useless I was.
I said fine then why dont you do this yourself. Took off my appron and left the entire kitchen (Grill, Pantry and back ups) all on her and walked out.
The Head supervisor talks to me on the phone that night convincing me to go back to work tomorrow but I said no chance. I wasnt planning on staying too long anyway as I was about to back to school at the end of the break.
everyone says "Wal-Mart" is a horrible place to work for but everyone forgets about THE OTHER "Wal" that's MUCH MUCH worse to work for; Walgreens. I've known at least a dozen people have that worked for Walgreen (including my own mom) and all dozen of them had absolutely terrible experiences working there, most of them were fired or laid of for terrible reasons or because the managers or culture are so toxic. Meanwhile though Wal-Mart is not the best place to work by a long shot, I know far more people that worked for Wal-Mart and at least had an OK experience working for them, especially when compared to the hellhole work experience that is working for Walgreens.
Ugh. I walked out on the deli counter. My useless coworker called off that day leaving me alone. I decided after 5 months of this, it wasn't worth it and walked out.
I worked at a fast food restaurant. I was doing everything a manger should do but I was getting paid less then almost everyone else. I quit and jump into my friends car from the drive through window. He often had me squeal to close and open alone. he had to be there early (I was a key holder) and late because he mostly had high school students so they couldn’t because of school.
These companies need to learn about the 13th Amendment
I was the best at my job and my boss fired me. Her, her boss and get boss's boss all got fired and they lost the company tons of money. My getting fired got their bottom dollar and cost their reputation in their industry workout me ever lifting a finger.
The job I left to retire was turning into a sh** show without my help.
I worked as a water mitigation crew chief and I was the dude that showed up early, packed and set up the trucks did all the paperwork went out to jobs did demo along with everything else with the job then would stay late and do more paperwork. My "crew" were lazy but the manager couldnt get anyone else qualified because we'll he was a douche. I worked on commission so if a job wasnt completed I couldnt get paid. Well we had a severe storm and 60+ jobs came in we had no equipment and now i had only 1 coworker who never did any real work just showed up and carried bags of debris. I wasnt asked but told i had to be on call 24/7/365 no excuse and that I had to do these jobs even without pay because we had just done a job that took up all the rest of the drying equipment and we had no place to put any garbage. They expected 3 jobs done a day and when its just 1 person with half a helper that just wasnt possible. On top of all this upper management was adding padding to the insurance forms that we didnt do and the paper trail all ended at me being the fall guy. So anyways this storm hits and we get 60 calls and they got mad because we couldnt do the stupid demands they wanted and i finally snapped. I ripped into the GM in the office and told him all the shady shit that his managers did and he said what they were doing was fine so i said fine fuck it I'm gone, collected my tools and walked out. As far as I am aware this forced the project manager and department manager to actually do more than sit on their asses and the sales guys were then forced to give more reasonable offers because before this they said anything to get a sale even if it was not needed at all.
When you go through enough Customer Service shit, you really don't feel bad about telling someone off when they ARE making things worse or expecting the impossible.
TLDR: Was severely understaffed in one position and it happened to be the position I worked, owner did sketchy shit but no one could prove it happened, and other fucked tales.
I worked as a busboy at a place for about 6-7 months. The work itself sucked but that wasn't really what made me quit. When I wmsay the ship was sinking, it was the titanic, there was no real saving the cluster fuck that later happened.
So for context, the restaurant i worked at needed at least 5 bussers on weekdays, 8 on the weekends so thatyou constantly wouldn't be in the weeds. When I got hired there was 5 on payroll and one of those guys last day was my first. So immediately after that night there was 4. Then my third night someone quit so that brings us to 3. M-W they only had one busser for a floor space that needed 4-5. And it only gets worse. After about 2 months of this they finally hired another busser which brought us back up to 4 bussers but was made as a dishwasher and later quit. Then the "senior busboy" quit and we were down to 2 busser for about 2 weeks. Finally after all that they decided to hire 3 more bussers which brought us to a comfortable 5. (I had friends that worked as bussers at other restaurants and when I say they had it better workload wise, they did.) At this point I wasn't "senior busboy" but still had seniority over 3 of the 4 other bussers and one of them was always out of line and the "senior busboy" had several talks with him. Dude completely ignored the unwritten rule of restaurants/life of "you help me, I help you" and complained about why no one really helped him on a lot of things. Like even the servers wouldn't like pre-bus his "sections" he roamed.
The thing that really set me on my way out was when the group of dishwashers we had only 1 of the 4 came to work consistently (that one guy was only there because he needed a job to show a proof of income for a loan and for some reason his own business didn't count). On his off day, the three other dishwashers were in and they all just walked out 3 hours before we closed... on a Saturday. The part that makes it worse is two of them didn't walk out the same time as the first dude, they waited an hour later and they just looked at the dishes pile up for said hour. Luckily we had 5 bussers that day and one off them was a trained dishwasher so he suddenly was in the back the rest of the night with another guy that he had to train on the spot. We had to call the dishwasher who was off in to help us, the bartenders had to kinda help, and like 5 servers had to help because when these guys left, no one noticed and they left about an hour and a half worth of dishes and it only got busier.
There's a shitton of more stuff that happened with the owner of the place too. The managers themselves I liked but the owner sucked. Did shady stuff that everyone knew was happening but no one could prove it if they tried to report it. For example there was 3% tip share, 1% went to the bar and the other 2% that usually goes to the cooks, dishwashers, and bussers actually went towards his taxes. Everyone knew about it but no one knew how to prove it. There's so much more but like it was so fucked.
Then there was a rat problem. One day, I was scheduled the lunch shift, which made me the only busser there and there was a absolutely foul smell in the server aisle (thats where they preped like salads and drinks.) The manager said "hey find the smell" and after about 15 minutes I eventually came to the conclusion it was coming from a vent. (I did this by somehow climbing up some exposed boards in the wall.) When they had professionals look into it they found a rat worth the WW1 description of "rats the size of cats" and it was so decomposed it literally started morphing into the wood of the ceiling which i didn't know was possible.
I also was paid $9/hr which is fairly over restaurant standards, I found out I was supposed to be getting $10/hr with tipshare on top of it but they stopped doing that about 3 months before they hired me. This screwed literally all of the guys because the "senior busboy" was there only a month longer than me so he didn't get that pay either.
Anyway if you got this far, I'm sorry for making you read something that was fairly convoluted and probably confusing. Just know there was a lot of shit that happened that shouldn't have.
I actually enjoyed your story
wasnt malicious but was a laugh.
I was promoted to IT manager at my small law firm becuase we were upgrading everything but the power points the cost was 450k. Bosses were happy with the bang i got for those bucks. they set up my IT company for me for free, paid all the fees and everything.
after a year the company was building up a loyal client base, law firms i dealt with mostly. Bosses never cared the lawyers knew i worked for competition but were fine with it.
Eventually i was going full time for myself, the bosses knew it.
After 2 years, i walked into the senior partners office with a new IT Policy, Accounts and IT are the only staff that never work out their notice, the instant a resignation appears, pay them out and change the locks. This was after a bit of hoo har in another firm. Boss said good idea i heard about X, policy approved and signed it. then i handed him my resignation.
He laughed when i handed him my keys.
YOUR BLOODY WORKING OUT YOUR NOTICE. We hired your company to do our IT remember.