What SH*Tshow Did You Leave Behind at Work When You Quit?

[@WayWardWonderer]

Worked at a GameStop for 4 years. The store didn't realize exactly how much I was doing without being asked until I was gone. Not only did I actually bother to clean - the windows, the counters, dust, sweep, vacuum, mop, scrub the toilet and the sink - but I regularly took care of ALL of the trashcans, reorganized the drawers, the shelves and the hooks, I straightened up the stockroom, got the next morning's stock ready for the openers, organized the price changes, left notes regarding anything that the higher-ups wanted done so no one was caught off guard, and I took the time to actually make new cases for the games that were traded in without a case already. 6 months later I was asked to come back as a seasonal, and after 3 weeks I was back to being an overworked, underpaid S.G.A. with the promise of better pay (which hasn't happened) and I'm currently stepping back down to a G.A. so I won't be able to do all those wonderful things during closing procedures anymore. :) Not my immediate boss's fault, he's fighting to get everyone higher pay. It's the higher-ups who won't pay us enough to stick around!

[@largol33t1]

If another job is out there, you should leave. They're just taking advantage of you by making you break your back so they don't have to hire another person.

[@dx1450]

I can just hear all the horrible managers/bosses from these stories saying "nobody wants to work any more..."

[@Roxor128]

Funny how they always leave out the "for me" part of that sentence...

[@BeccaBearSc]

my former GM was like that.. yet I was asking for more than 9 hours a week

[@dreamwolf7302]

So i get what you mean, but i have gone through 9 assistants in 10 months. I work in a Morgue, the assistants job is simply to deliver hard copies of certain documents to the records room (some legal documents cannot be transferred electronically). I never ask for much of anything. Occasionally if i catch them as they head for the cafeteria, i might ask if they can grab me a drink. Current assistant is wonderful, does well, and is definitely here to stay, even if i have to threaten to quit to make them keep her. I already pulled strings to get her a raise, and she gets whatever days off she wants. the previous assistants, all said the same thing before they quit. They made more money when they were working minimum wage jobs and getting food stamps, section 8, and other programs. I've been on those programs. I know how they work, and for some people, its not worth it to have to work a job, pay taxes, and pay full price for rent and food. We could argue about the other factors, but the point i am making, is that there are actually people out there who would rather live off the system, than work anything even remotely difficult. BTW, my assistant, a high school grad working towards a degree in data management, makes 22.50/hr currently, and started at 20/hr, as did all the others.

[@averyjames4623]

“They weren’t a team player”

[@frgmented-dreams6140]

Under an intense conflict with right and wrong, as well as culpability being ambiguous, we should impose more scrunity on owners and managers. Those with power can abuse it versus those who have none. This is not to say that employees are always right. It's just that they have no power and, thus, can be easily exploited.

[@Rainbowdragon2]

A lot of these are the perfect example of "People don't quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses."

[@frozenfiredarknight3764]

"You can't fire me, I quit." 'Good day to you *sir'*

[@johlbenedict4960]

Some of them sound like not the greatest employees either

[@pizzweak580]

​@toilet talibanned You never know, they could have been great employees when they started and ended up not caring after their bosses treated them so poorly

[@thezoehawkingsyoutub]

​@@frozenfiredarknight3764 😊😊😊

[@e2t4th]

My last job, was at a public transit project worth hundreds of millions and the one QA contact they had on site was me, a recent college graduate with no training. Luckily my boss was awesome so I stayed there for 2 years

[@justingardner7927]

I worked for Kroger for six years. They refused to train me outside of front end. Watched people i trained go way ahead. We had two guys one was an alcoholic and the only thing they did was move him to another department. There was another who was a full blown junkie, would shoot up in the bathroom, they refused to take any action, even went as far as paying for him a stint in rehab. He came back started with drugs again. Shooting up in the bathroom, some workers even found his paraphernalia. Still didn't get fired. Finally he freaked out on a manager and got physical. That did it. I wound up going to school for a few years and got a different job. As soon as !y new job started offering me more work I walked in, handed in my uniform and just said I quit and walked away. My boss looked so pissed. I don't care. One of the best choices I made.

[@matts1166]

I was an assistant manager. Our store was pretty old school and the ancient cash register broke, so we got a new one that was all electronic and overkill for our store. My boss (and owner) was pilfering from the sales, resetting the register every day to underrecord sales and pocket $200 a day. Wouldn't bother me, accept I was on commission. That's $3600 out of my pocket per year. I just bought a house and had a kid so I couldn't risk quitting. That cash register? Had an SD memory card slot for record keeping, with free diagnostic program for a PC. For 6 years I recorded every button pushed on the register, with an exact total of how much my boss stole. The day I quit I sent a letter to his business partner, the IRS, and the state department of revenue with USB sticks with all the evidence of undisclosed income of $400,000.

[@cjschlunk5652]

@@matts1166 well done that’s the way to do it 😹😹 not sure if I would have had the patience

[@matts1166]

@@cjschlunk5652 Honestly, it was a combination of patience, and the fact the economy around here sucked. Due to our work schedules and having small kids I needed a job that was close by, no overnights, and flexible hours. I stuck it out until I couldn't.

[@carsonchambers5617]

@@matts1166 man that’s messed up, you definitely did it the right way. If there’s one thing I know, is you don’t fuck around with the irs😂😬 They hit back hard lol.

[@LakeofCrystalclan]

@@matts1166Do you know what happened?

[@gabrielbruce1977]

I left my final job after months of abuse, a meltdown on the clock, and at least a dozen eight-hour shifts with no break and basically no instruction. I still kinda feel bad about the girl I left to run the store alone on christmas eve but I was just... done.

[@HeroSword_P]

If she has any sense she'll quit too and won't suffer alone.

[@lrkeelleby5518]

​@@HeroSword_Påffzg11zzå

[@MissusAnon]

I'm always nice to employees and wish them a good day with a genuine smile on my face... I know the crap they deal with after working grocery for a year. Sometimes one customer being genuinely nice to me was enough to help me through a shift.

[@TheEmpressReborn]

I have permission to tell this story. A friend of mine was a baker at a bagel shop, along with her sister and 2 others. The manager treated the workers like absolute crap. Overtime, working holidays, getting the crap of other people, getting jack squat for it, next to no communication, unreliability on others...the works. The straw that broke the camel's back was when the bakers had to do something that they got permission for from the manager. What that is, no clue, my friend didn't specify. But the manager tried to punish the bakers by cutting their hours. All 4 bakers, including my friend, her sister, and one who was out sick, quit.

[@dazedapparition7845]

I was the assistant grocery manager. 3rd shift stocking and ordering. The grocery manager and I both gave notices. He gave one week notice. I gave 10 day notice. The store manager didn't believe me and said I was just trying get a big raise. I gave the store keys to the customer service manager at the end of my last shift before the store manager got there. She called and asked me what she was supposed to do because she hadn't prepared to replace us.

[@TheJCHarkins2]

Sounds like a "You had time to find someone", "You can do it", or "Not my problem" reply kind of situation

[@ericspecullaas2841]

I would have replied with, "That sounds like a you problem not a me problem" then I would have hung up and blocked that number

[@superdave8248]

It is an old anology. Women trying to guilt trip somebody into doing something that ultimately was their problem.

[@Bodycountunknown]

I was painting houses and was denied my birthday off even though my siblings are coming from out of town to visit, I was painting second story window trim when my brother called to ask me why I wasn't home, My boss came by and saw me on the phone and kicked my ladder so naturally I took the trim paint and threw it behind me off the ladder and it splattered all over the homeowners patio and patio furniture. I told him to have fun cleaning it up and never came back.

[@carsonchambers5617]

Boss was lucky you didn’t fall off the ladder sheesh. That’s hell dangerous, and fucked up.😬

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@carsonchambers5617 If it were me, i would have suffered a slip, that i barely recover from enough to slide down the ladder, instead of falling to the ground.

[@rumooooni]

I'm sorry but that's attempted murder..... ain't no way that's normal I would had sued for endangerment/ attempted assault

[@ohokay4663]

Never quit, but got close with this one. Important context: I am Very autistic, have had behavioral/occupational therapy regularly since i was 6, and informed my managers before hand that I am capable of self regulation and will attempt to self regulate where possible. Situations like this happened in the past and other managers were really chill, which is a big part of the reason i didn't quit because finding an entry level job as an autistic employee fucking blows. It's sunday morning rush, i'm overwhelmed, I am absolutely no use up front. My manager asks a coworker to get apple slices- I ask my coworker if we can swap jobs, because going to fill the apple slice container in the nice, cold, quiet freezer sounds like a great way to calm down while remaining productive. Manager throws a bitch fit but lets me do it. It works, I go back to doing my job, more productive than before. Reasonable, right? shit still got done. Manager tells my general manager for the day about it and then GM sends me home *half an hour later* with the excuse of 'if you're going to get overwhelmed at this establishment then you shouldn't work here'. At the establishment where I very clearly informed them of my autism and how it presents in the workplace before I was hired. Where i successfully performed a self regulatory mechanism in the face of severe overstimulation. Where I... did my job? and used the opportunities at my advantage to make sure I could continue doing it? It really is insane how much psychological weight I have to pull just to keep myself functioning in the outside word and how little people seem to notice it. It's weird to work minimum wage when simply being there feels like a thankless job.

[@pearldragonz]

I'll try to give the short version for once. Hired on at a wood mill when I was 25. Work was physically hard but tolerable. Fellow employees were horrible, always mad and uptight cussing me out for everything. My boss was 19, obviously his first time in charge and he only got the job because he had seniority. He developed an ego and liked to throw his weight around. Three days in I hear rumors that during the summer the company works you to death and you never worked the scheduled 40 hours. Supposed to four ten hour days, was actually six tens. During the winter you get laid off or fired. Sure enough on Thursday night they tell us to work a half shift on Friday. Then Friday just before lunch I hear my boss talking about production deadlines that need to be met by Saturday night. I clocked out at lunch and just left.

[@morriganehresman4253]

The last two jobs I quit started a wave of fellow employees walking out. Causing one department at the first job to have almost 90% of the team leave, amd my second job causing everyone but the managers and one other coworker to leave. It wasnt solely just my leaving, but I was the one who took the most shit and would stand up for them

[@LibertarianUSA1982]

I've been fired from a job or two in my life. I don't understand why they want you to sign shit after they fire you. I always refuse and walk out. What are they going to do, fire you again.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

Yup. Fired or quitting, just walk. No twoo weeks Bee Es.

[@TurtleChad1]

This video has been approved by a turtle

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

I’ve seen this comment more than once & get confused. Did I just watch this? Same top comment? I’m accepting it like birds aren’t real.

[@mr.nickols1293]

One day I want to be approved by a turtle

[@AshesAshes44]

@Erin Flick He's a rather speedy turtle, approving meritorious videos. It's possible he travels with the Sasquatch, who also approves videos. Just guessin'

[@Mr.andMrs.Smith_0420]

​@@AshesAshes44 Haven't seen the squatch guy in a while 🤔

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

@@Mr.andMrs.Smith_0420 Because it’s hibernation season, of course.

[@scoutbane1651]

First day as a janitor, only student who worked at that hostel for 1 week before me, my mentor, had a breakdown. Did unpaid overtime and missed lunch just so the work got done in 10h. Next day he didn't show up, and I'd have to on my *second* day on the job instruct 2 foreign women how to do it when I didn't fully get every single detail of where *everything* was yet. But okay, we had 1 more worker, right? Well, 2x as many people were supposed to show up as the previous day, everything full. Double the workload. I already worked 10h the day before. I just walked out f**k that. They illegally didn't even pay me for the 10h I did but w/e idc at least I dont have to work in that shitshow of a hostel.

[@kevinmcguinness9994]

Dang. Sorry you went through that and hope you’re working somewhere better now. I’m a day time Janitor in an office building and I love it. Way better than my old retail job, full time so decent pay plus benefits and PTO after one year.

[@willh1655]

I worked at a Wendys during and after high school. The job started out great, but they moved all the good managers to other stores, and we got some crap replacements. I was really good at my job, so they kept cutting back on the help. I was doing more and more for min wage. I was doing several peoples jobs and even did my assistant managers job while he slept in the backroom. One day I had enough of the crap, so I told Peggy, the only nice, hard worker that ran the register, that I was walking out. I went back a few days later to get my last check and found 6 new employees that replaced me.

[@lazy_panda8771]

Wowwww

[@captainobvious9233]

"The job started out great" It always does... and they always try to fix things that aren't broken and ruin everything.

[@nataliegetchell1849]

Worked at a dog daycare which was great, but the employees/manager were unwelcoming and would talk shit about other employees the minute they were out of earshot. Let an aggressive dog come back after noticing its aggressive behavior and it almost attacked another dog. Another dog got a puncture wound right next to its eye and they didn't take it to the vet until hours later when half the dog's face was swollen and the wound was leaking pus. Didn't really leave a shitshow but I still occasionally get emails from Indeed that they're still looking for someone to fill that position. Can't imagine why they can't keep employees 😐

[@Robynhoodlum]

Don't suppose this was Now Boarding in MN?

[@nataliegetchell1849]

@@Robynhoodlum it was not. For privacy reasons I'm not gonna name it, just to play it safe

[@Robynhoodlum]

@@nataliegetchell1849 Understood. It just sounded like that place (I knew someone who worked there).

[@carsonchambers5617]

Jesus that sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, not sure why they weren’t (hopefully they did)

[@nataliegetchell1849]

​@@carsonchambers5617the owner of the dog that caused the injury would be responsible for vet bills. The owner had access to the cameras, and shockingly they "couldn't tell what happened", so the owners had to pay. In the remaining time I worked there I did not bring my dogs back. I wasn't risking that shit, especially now knowing one has a tumor that would put her at risk if under anesthesia

[@TheGoowolf]

I worked for Safeway as a courtesy clerk at first. I was the kind of person who would take your hours if management didn't listen to you when you requested the day off. Only reason why was because my hours were being cut repeatedly. Funnily enough, my hours were being cut because the people who called for time off weren't being listened to by the Union. So when somebody ask for a day off, the union would pretty much force the company to get the person to work anyway because the person had more seniority over me. Then the union got mad at me because I would offered to take the hours so the person wouldn't have to work on the day they requested off. I got transferred to department cleaning. I started cleaning the bakery department, the seafood and the deli department. The union was trying to screw me over on that too because I needed six hours a day to clean and the union was only letting the company give me four hours to clean each day. I also had to do customer service at the liquor cabinet while I cleaned my departments and I also had to help up front as well. I was doing the job of three different people but the union wouldn't let the company give me the hours I was asking for. I quit that job and a year after I quit I found out that the person they had replacing me had to get limited to the deli department only because he couldn't handle the job. Not only that but people were quitting left and right in the department's because now the departments had to clean their own stuff which gave them less time to do their original jobs. I guess not every Union is great.

[@michaelpowers6632]

I quit a teaching job because the administration prioritized sports over academics, so I logged team rosters, stats and players that played that were also ineligible by both state and school standards. Then, I reported that to the state. One year later, a former colleague called me and told me the school was audited for playing ineligible kids in sports, and had all of the previous year, and current year trophies confiscated with also a suspension of all the students who played while ineligible to play again for one year. I ruined the morale of that school, because the administration ruined the morale of their staff.

[@JanMaynz]

I left one job after the general manager left. It was super unclear if she was fired or if she quit, but I knew the second I found out she was gone that things were going to fall apart. Turns out I timed it well, as I knew I couldn't handle summer rush but things were slower because of the pandemic... if I had turned in my two week notice when I'd previously been thinking I would, I'm not sure I could've handled the stress from sticking around that long. I was barely keeping myself together on what WAS my last day... But anyway, I was right. Things did get pretty bad, apparently. The assistant manager, while a great guy and good assistant manager, just wasn't cut out for GM. The shift manager who took over things after I left... she was cool while I worked there. Maybe a little stiff at times but whatever. I don't know exactly what happened, but apparently things went VERY wrong under her lead. I'm surprised the place survived, honestly... things were definitely worse than they were under the previous GM's lead. They've got a new GM from out of town, now, and he seems interesting... they do seem to be on the mend!

[@buschtrout1499]

The first job I worked at was McDonald’s. I was probably a year in at this point. My manager had asked me to change the toilet paper in the bathrooms and take the trash out before I clocked out. I put toilet paper in the women’s restroom and went into the men’s but there was a dude in the stall. I figured I’d change the trash in the bathrooms before I changed the toilet paper in the men’s room. After I was done I walked into the men’s room mid flush and the guy came out of the stall. At that point for whatever reason it occurred to me that I shoulda asked if he wanted toilet paper before he was done and my dumbass asked him right there. He just shook his head and went to the sink. I walked into the stall and I shit you not there was a HUGE thick ass shit smear going around the first half of toilet seat. This guy just wiped his own shitty ass with his hand and wiped it all over the toilet. I froze for one second and left immediately as he’s cleaning the shit off his hands. As I was clocking out my manager asked if I had done everything and I told him I did the trashes but forgot to change the toilet paper. He started walking to the bathroom and I bolted the hell out of there.

[@felicitybywater8012]

"We had to punch in and to go.to.the bathroom". That is so petty it has me seriously wondering about that boss's mental health status. If the boss thinks someone is taking too long in the toilet, they can put up a camera facing the bathroom door & get hard evidence on who it is then ask them what's going on. That's far more likely not to stuff up worker morale. Edit: This thread is pretty much the only employee management manual any smart supervisor, manager or business owner will ever need.

[@nemo227]

Most workers in these stories are much too patient and gullible but too many managers are given a title/position but not trained, not properly supervised, not periodically evaluated . . . not actually managers. It's often obvious that they don't know how to manage. I've been a worker, assistant manager, manager, and business owner/operator. I've learned a few things in all that time but, at 84 years old, don't have a need to go back into business (as much as I might like to).

[@ArtieArchives]

People nowadays are much more difficult and entitled

[@nemo227]

@@ArtieArchives Before youtube and the internet we didn't hear about such people except through co-workers and people we knew.

[@taniwha3706]

That's a shame @nemo227 bc you'd probably have an efficient and effective not too mention cheerful work crew in no time. Best wishes to you for reaching 84. May you celebrate many more trips around our sun *peacesign*

[@nemo227]

@@taniwha3706 Thank you for your comment. We developed a good working relationship with our customers. We were a printing business and we all know how computers, inkjets and laser printers have changed the printing industry. I think it's good for society.

[@artfuldodger7838]

I got yelled at like some little kid right on the factory floor. It had been a bad place to work already. This was just the last straw. Walked. 11 other people walked with me.

[@stanford-nf4jk]

My absence is what caused the $#¡+$#0\/\/. I worked at a convenience store. The new boss said I was too organized/efficient when it came to ordering products and that there workflow issues due to our differences in the way we worked blah blah blah. I found out sometime later (from the Lay’s vendor that I’d befriended) that as soon as I was gone, merchandise and then cash started to go missing. Without me around, he thought he could steal to his heart’s content. I felt bad for my former co-workers who were probably accused before he was found out.

[@dx1450]

That's why he said you were too organized & efficient. He wanted it to be haphazard so stuff could go missing and nobody would realize it. Seriously, when has anyone being organized and efficient a bad quality for a workplace?

[@Highyeena]

Honestly the video I needed tonight. My bosses keep sitting outside in their cars 90% of the shift and even when we call for help we either get no response or something like "just fix it." "Just deal with it." Whatever. I don't have the concentration to find a new job right now but damn do I need one -- even 17/hr isn't worth the shit they put me through...

[@Urbannerd112]

I love it when this video gets reposted. These stories are gold.

[@larrysorenson4789]

I resigned from a county governing agency due to what I perceived as overt corruption. I had a ten year record as a consummate professional. Friday at 5:00 I put my letter on the director’s desk. I hand delivered a copy to the County Attorney’s office at 4:00. I knew the neither one of them were working because they ALWAYS took Fridays off. I took a small box with a few things in it and went home. Saturday morning at 7:00 I returned, gathered my remaining stuff, cleaned my now empty office and put my badge and keys in another envelope, slid it under the Director’s door and left. Weeks later a former co-worker told me that Monday morning the director lost his mind. There were meetings in his office with HR and the attorneys. They were terrified that I had sabotaged something (I hadn’t) and copied computer files(I hadn’t) and was wandering around with keys to buildings (I had none). They spent a bunch of money changing locks in our building. He put several locks on his office and a week later had a camera system installed throughout our building that tied into the sheriff’s command center. What was he afraid of? About six months later the newspaper had an article in it about the firing of this Bozo and his assistant director for “contract irregularities”. They had funneled millions of dollars in county projects to their friends by rigging the selection process. They should have gone to jail. About a month after leaving I was offered a great position with our State University. I spent 17 years there before retirement doing great work and saving the University literally tens of millions of dollars while administering over 450 projects.

[@flournoymason8961]

I quit a job after the manager yelled at me. I went to work in another department in the same organization. I heard on the grapevine that my big mouthed manager lost so many employees that they took this osition away from him.

[@pamelaadam9207]

I worked for a branch of a national charity and had created new services for our users, got the funding, etc. We then had a new development officer appointed who made the service managers' life hell, then she had to take on the roll when the manager walked. She made my life hell, especially when my dad died. I went back for a couple of weeks, and she started up again. So I handed in my notice. She pulled services I created, but it backfired as that lost funding. The insoection and registration went from exemplory to having mandatories and given a , low grade. Head office were mad their good rep was in the bin

[@LibertarianEnt]

Oh boy do I have a story here. I was a line cook at a Red Lobster location. Or I was supposed to be. They were using me as a dishwasher (despite the fact that they made $2 more an hour than line cooks) and one day I just decided I had enough and quit. I was the only dishwasher that could work a full time shift, wasn't a minor, and wasn't mentally handicapped. None of the others were there that day. As far as I know they've been shut down for a week at this point.

[@jeremygarcia5520]

1. I was 13 and a dishwasher and worked there a month I never got paid so I came in one day and before I left I threw all the dishes out 2. I worked for a rat poison company and a line operator I would package 1000s a day. Last day I pushed hundreds of blocks onto the ground

[@gladiammgtow4092]

Employees Don’t Quit Their Jobs, They Quit Their Bosses

[@alla3732]

Tbh If im honest every teen should work one of these "shit" jobs to realize life isn a dream after school, but school is the dream before life

[@darthmadeus]

My previous job was great. I loved the people, I loved the work, I loved the location, etc. I just hated the scheduling BS. We were contractors that worked with school systems, so many times when they needed a job done, they meant they needed it done last month. But school systems are notoriously slow when scheduling shit, so I understood and knew it was the industry. One guy I worked with, who worked as hard as three guys, quit for a better job, leaving a skeleton crew. I left a few months after, leaving a lazy fucker and another hard-working guy, and the manager. Lazy guy was fired, they brought it a replacement. Hard working guy left a few months later. So now they only have the manager and a newbie. It's a shit show. IDK how they're surviving, but my new job opportunity was too good to pass up.

[@neilusdin2389]

20:34 ALESTORM REFERENCE! Nice choice there, OP.

[@KKSuited]

Right at age 21, I worked at our local tire plant. I operated a rubber mill, which took large amounts of rubber and milled it into sheets from which tires could be cut. Those sheets would go down a conveyor and hang on rods while going through a car wash type of process. There were differing types of rubber, some more fragile and crumbly than others. I worked there for several months, and I would consistently get stuck with rubber that would fall apart while hanging in the car wash. Although I was still new, I had more experience than several people in my department. However, every day I checked my assignment, I was stuck with this shitty rubber. I had cleaned out that wash several times when the rubber would inevitably fall apart. Thousands of pounds of rubber that was roughly 150°F in a hot and humid environment. One particularly hot day (average temperature in front of a mill was well over 110°F.), I was fed up with constantly being shut down to clean the wash out. New guys were running the good rubber, and they essentially were able to sit at their machines and watch it run, while I spent hours each day working my ass off. I had already planned to quit when I was told that the assignments wouldn't be changed. So when that machine inevitably went down, with the rubber falling off into the floor of the wash, I let it pile up. A good 10k+ lbs or more of rubber. I let it go until someone came to "inform" me that the wash was backed up. I laughed and said yeah it is. And walked out. Enjoy that boys.

[@randomgaming9445]

25:50 everything described here is wage theft. Employers must pay you for your time, this includes using the bathroom. Lawsuit gold, and an attorney would tell you to get everything documented.

[@D.LeeFrey]

In 2016, after the original GM died from heart complications, the owners, looking to build a new hotel about 6 miles away, sold the property to a couple in New Jersey. I only saw them once (about 2 months before they officially owned the hotel), and the only 2 reasons I stayed on was 1. A good job I was looking at didn’t hire me, so I at least still wanted to have a job. 2. I was being promoted to an assistant manager, which meant a pay bump and a little more responsibility. I didn’t know the nightmare I had walked into. At times I was staying until 11 am to not only to take care of the breakfast hours, but cleaning and putting things away, but also at times I was the only one taking care of the pool, public area trash, supplies (especially since one time the hotel didn’t pay their food vendor), hiring went terrible (when I left, there was only 2 housekeepers/laundry people that were there close to a year and 2 college kids working the desk who had very little experience). The GM herself wasn’t doing me any favors. She would leave almost every weekend to go visit her parents a few hours away in NYC, one day during a decent snow storm, she had to decided to drive to the house the owners bought her instead of stay at the hotel, and not tell me until about 30 minutes before the start of the shift. 1 time I had gotten sick during my shift, and told her I couldn’t work for part of that weekend (I told her I was sick, which didn’t really matter to her cause she was in NYC and didn’t want to drive back. I told her I’m just short of heading to the hospital, and only then did she drive back). By the time I was “fired”, I was down to 2 more days of my two weeks notice. I had just gotten done with my shift when she texts me she hasn’t received the night audit reports to send to the owners. I tried again using the same email she gave me, still nothing. I told her either it’s something wrong with the internet at the hotel or with her laptop, and that the morning front desk person is seeing me send it to her twice. She then says if I’m going to be disrespectful, that she doesn’t need me for the final 2 days. Less than 6 weeks later, she gets fired for pretty much running the property into the ground. As it is, the hotel still is nowhere near where it was at its peak.

[@dennissvitak148]

I worked for XPO Logistics, in Hazelwood, Missouri, for 114 days in 2018, before I stomped out. During this time, I had four...FOUR days off, total, and worked over 2000 hours. My average work week was between 80 and 110 hours. Right before I was hired, ALL the supervisors and managers (five total) were fired, and I was hired. No other new hires for three months. So, essentially, I did the work of FIVE people, for almost three months. Was I compensated? Oh yeah...and I wondered why the offer was so high, at the time.

[@danieldavis9449]

While working as an electrician, the boss told me and my helper to take our lunches up in the aerial lift and not come down until quitting time. As we were instructed to do, we took our lunches. We also made every connection wrong. Different phases together, hots and neutral wires together. We refer to this as making a rainbow in every box. Also, cutting the wires too short to be repaired. When lunch time came, we came down from the ceiling after working in every junction box. The boss asked why we came down. The day was not over. We looked at him and said it was quitting time. The job was a dumpster fire. We were just a drop in the bucket as to what they tried. The cost overrun for the job was 3 times more than the original price.

[@CandyHatsuneWolff]

5:16 I agree with the shift lead that safety comes first. But if it was so important, why didn't she just do it herself? When I was a supervisor if something was that urgent and crucial and everyone else was busy I'd go take care of it. Reasonable to ask the grill cook once, not to guilt trip them!

[@dx1450]

When the grill cook has 30 steaks going all at once, it's best to tell someone else to clean up the mess or do it yourself. He's handling the money makers.

[@CheshireCad]

@@dx1450 - And, more importantly, something that could easily become a fire hazard if left unattended.

[@carsonchambers5617]

@@CheshireCador potential food sickness from undercooked meat lol.

[@girlywench]

My best one is my first Adult Job. It was in a small bakery literally across the road from my house. I was there for 3 years and then the owners sold... I was the only employee not fired. I worked 12 hour days 6 days a week. Regulars would walk in and I'd have their usual on the counter by the time they got to me. The new owner kept doing the "oh so you need a drink with that? A sweet? Extra sauce for your pie? (paid of course)" I tried to explain to her that she was alienating our regulars and she gave me a condescending speech about how she knew what she was doing. I walked in, the next day, put my key on the counter (my one day off) and walked out. She ran after me screaming, asking why I wasn't at least giving notice, and i just laughed and kept walking They closed a couple of months later. Couldn't even sell it because it went downhill so fast.

[@girlywench]

I can't believe I lasted 6 weeks. Smh. Probably also going to leave my current job soon, as my Work Wifey is handing in her 1 week notice tomorrow (she's basically the general manager and everything is about to burn down)

[@somniencemusic5401]

I was working g at sonic drive in and one of the new coworkers was trying to start arguments with me. I got so pissed when he started bowing up to me, that I just walked out. My friend who was the manager told me it was probably good that I was leaving because of how bad that place was. The guy bowing up to me got arrested and is currently in jail for pulling out a gun around children. My friend ended up leaving a month after me.

[@drain6390]

Can relate. Sonic Manager here, I fell and got hurt and got whiplash + a concussion because there was a massive grease puddle in the lobby because night shift didn't clean up the night before. Went to the hospital, was told it was filed under workmans comp. Okay, no big deal. Month or so later, got a bill for around 2k for an MRI... That was supposed to be covered under workmans comp. Told district manager, they said it was covered. Gave them the bill. Next month, another bill. Asked again, they told me it was covered. This went on for another 2 months, until I quit because I called out ONE day because I had flu - like symptoms (this was when covid was at it's peak) and they said "it was job abandonment". I told them I had called well over 2 hours before my shift and that I would be turning my clothes in. So I did. A month later, got another bill in the mail from the hospital, this time with a notice that it'd go to collections. Naturally, contacted the district manager, who promptly blocked my number. Okay. So I text the district SUPERVISOR. Told him, if this isn't resolved by the end of this week, I'm getting my lawyer. Almost within a minute I got a text back telling me not to jump to conclusions and that'd he'd send the workmans comp agent my way. He did. Resolved in a day. 10/10 company wouldn't recommend eating or working there.

[@KWitt-cc9bd]

I went to work at a building supply store as a second job. I was hired to work in the cash office and had to be at work by 5 am on Saturday and got a few hours on Sunday. I counted all of the cashier drawers from the night before and prepared new drawers for that evening. I noticed that there was always one or more drawers that were wrong. After a few weeks I was told that when I got to a drawer that was wrong, I should cancel the count and wait to see if another drawer was wrong and try to use a overage on one drawer to make up a shortage on another. All off the record. The aim was for the record to appear as error-free as possible even though lots of errors were actually being made. So I was to correct everyone else’s mistakes or take the blame myself. Oh, and after about 3 or 4 hours I was to leave the cash office and work a register , a completely different job. All of this for just $13.50/hr. When I realized how shady the cash office was I quit. Who needs that kind of stress on a part-time job?

[@kikidevine694]

I was a property manager in a posh part of London. I quit and I may have been aware of an egregious planning violation on an apartment in a listed building owned by a prominent landowner. I also knew that the leaseholder was a partner in the real estate firm I quit from.

[@SiriusXI]

I left a job for a way better opportunity after being screwed over at my last employer, when I left from what I’ve heard is they went to shit and are overwhelmed. Shoulda given me a raise lol

[@donkink3114]

I was working as a temp in factories when I first moved to Cleveland Ohio when at one assignment I clocked in and started to walk to the curtained doorway (truck sized) when a forklift with the forks way too high off the floor drove blindly through and skewered the guy in front of me right through the abdomen. You can imagine the horror, I immediately turned around walked back to the clock and clicked out....learned later the forklift driver was drunk on the job. Never went anywhere near that place again in all the years I lived in Cleveland

[@carsonchambers5617]

Jesus poor dude. Guessing he didn’t make it?😬😞 The funess of industrial jobs.

[@extraram896]

Old job as a dishwasher/kitchenhand at a local restaurant for over a year; been overworked for ages and had to put up with a lot of inexperienced front of housers treating me like shit, but put up with it because I could throw my weight around due to seniority. Meanwhile, we're getting way too busy for me to handle by myself and I'm begging for an extra part-timer, because the casuals we brought in were unreliable and became noshows - one in which walked out in the middle of a shift and left me to pick up all the slack. Then comes the day when we're getting all the functions thrown at us, because two of the other restaraunts the owner of this place I worked at had to close due to poor sales. Because of that, we'd be expected to have to work all throughout christmas and wasn't going to be getting our expected end of the year break until well until the middle, or even at the end, of January. We'd usually close on Christmas Eve and reopen a week or two into the new year, but we were expected to work on days we were looking forward to be spending with families. And the kicker of all this? They brought in a bunch of hires from these other restaurants to come work with us, but the kitchenhands that had as much experience as me? They let them go, because they were told we 'could cope with who they had'. I put in a week's notice in the middle of December when I found that out. Not two week's. One week. God knows what happened, as I'd moved into the city by the time I made that decision, but I came into that place a year later to have a look around and the place is now under new management. Part of me really likes to feel responsible for that in some way, which warms the cockles of my cold heart. Don't be a dick to your dishies.

[@Snicketbar]

Was working for a place that made and sold those little sandwiches you get at gas stations and out of vending machines. When hired, I was told it was local and it would be very rare to work more than 8 hours. On my 1st day, I worked 14 hours a state over And was paired with a guy who barely spoke English and smelled really bad. 2nd day smelly man went out of his way to smell even worse somehow because he was offended that I commented on it. Thursday I tossed the smelly man the keys and told him to pound sand. Called my boss and told him I quit. Asked me to explained and told him what happened. He apologized and asked if I'd reconsider. Told them I might if I work with someone else and then it was actually only 10 hours in the local area like I was told. He said he couldn't do that. So, I just left.

[@captainobvious9233]

Years ago I was Assistant Manager at Dominoes. It sucked. Unreliable staff, one hour commute to the store, a lot of doubles, etc. One Friday, I was due off at 4PM with a recently hired Assistant Manager coming in to take over the shift. I had a pounding headache and could not wait till 4 rolled around so I could leave. At 4PM, right on the tic, the phone rings and it's the new AMs 'Mother' saying that her daughter wasn't coming in because she had a doctors appointment. I was fuming and wanted to ask, "Why are you calling me now?!" or, "Well, she'll need a doctors note!" or something along those lines. However, the moment the 'mother' said she wasn't coming in, the other lines all lit up at once. Flustered I just said, "Uh... O.K..." And quickly put all the lines on hold and went back to the first line.... and of course the piglet on the phone starts ordering half the menu. I was like a volcano about to explode... here I was, about to leave and in a matter of seconds I have to stay 4 hours later AND I'm suddenly getting slammed. Aside from the drivers, I was the only person working inside the store. The Store Manager (A young 20ish year old woman) would be in at 5.) I was still busy when the Manager showed up at 5. Did she see that I was busy and jump int t o help me right away? Nope! Instead, she starts yelling about me about a half eaten pizza in the back room. It was from an order that was cancelled. Eating food that was cancelled or never picked up was very common, so I was confused to what her problem was. "It's from a canceled order, I let the drivers have it!" I said., flabbergasted. She then went on a rant about how I was going to be paying for it, bla bla bla, all while I am at the make-line making orders. I just had it and without a word, took off my apron and walked out. However, later on, the Area Manager called me to figure out what was going on. After hearing my side of the story, he was totally on my side and didn't want me to quit. I ended up being transferred to a different store, much closer to home.

[@dreamwolf7302]

I was the only Psych Staff at a VA hospital for 18 months. People kept quitting, and if they tried to transfer anyone from another wing, they would threaten to quit. A single NP, covering a 60 bed psych unit was NEVER EMPTY. We couldnt keep beds empty, and had a waiting list so long, that some of the veterans waiting to be admitted, would be dead and gone from old age, long before their name came up. And i ran it alone. For 18 months. I was locked into a Salary Exempt contract, i was working 140 hour weeks (yes, 140 hours out of a 160 hour week, i was working 10 hour shifts, with 2 hours between each shift, for me to nap, and shower) Because of the nature of my contract (i should have read the whole thing, or had a lawyer go over it for me) there was a lot of crap hidden in innocuous places, such as 'party B will be charged with criminal medical neglect if they fail to arrive for schedule shifts without securing coverage, tucked into a paragraph that was 99% about proper hygiene, and viral safety protocols, so if i called out, seeing as i had no way to get coverage, i would be terminated, and charged (and yes the contract was legal at that level) I started having seizures, passing out on my feet, hallucinating, all from lack of sleep. I was required to give 12 weeks notice of my intent to not renew my contract, or lose the entirety of my 401K (again legal because of the crap they pulled with the contracts) I gave my notice, and they tried to charge with a dozen kinds of malpractice to get my licensing revoked. I went before the medical licensing board, and when they learned that i was running on 4 hours of 'rest' a day, and not even leaving the hospital because i couldnt be gone that long, they lost their shit, and suspended my medical license for 5 months, for mandatory recovery, with an evaluation to be given after that period to ensure i was fit to tend to patients. That 5 months was paid, because the VA hospital violated dozens of laws, regulations, and protocols. I could have killed people, by accident, and because they threatened my entire career, not just my job, to keep me working, it was considered 'under duress' violation of the medical practice laws i had violated by not resting properly and coming into work when sick. I now work in Pathology, as a proper doctor, and my patients are all dead people. Its been several years now, and i STILL suffer from the effects of long term sleep deprivation. I know of a number of colleagues, who are still seeing the same kind of crap at VA hospitals everywhere. The VA sucks, not just for the veterans who rely on it, but for the staff, who are locked into horrific conditions, and could lose their jobs if they help patients without approval.

[@thegimpygamer]

As a vet I feel your pain. We can tell the staff is overworked. We can see the burnout. We served in warzones and know what the signs are. The VA shouldn't even exist. Vets should simply get a insurance card and be sent to civilian doctors.

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@thegimpygamer My mother was an Army Nurse, and served at a Base hospital in the middle east during Desert Shield. My Stepfather, who is retired, trained Explosives Detection Canines for the Army. I love helping Veterans, and i hated leaving my job because i had good relationships with most of my patients. Its really hard to get the trust of a Psych patient, and my leaving set back their treatment by months, if not years.

[@kingofburnttoast]

I didn't actually quit, but i had a night where i walked out of a massive shit show of a shift during a dinner service at a hotel restaurant. Basically, it was during COVID times, and we had lost loads of staff that weren't rehired following furlough. But the higher ups kept pushing for bigger and bigger lunch and dinner services, going up to the hundreds for each service. yet we simply didn't have the manpower to handle it. Sheer madness. if any mistake tripped us up during any service, it would take the rest of the shift to catch up. But one dinner shift stood out more than any other. We had a packed house, nearly 110 covers. And the manager also had the insane idea to squeeze in a wedding reception amongst it all. Which meant that no matter whatever tickets we had that were coming through, the wedding took priority. What followed was a domino effect the likes of which I have never ever seen before, with everyone in the kitchen just throwing food out without any knowledge where it was going, so food was just sitting out on the pass getting toasted, whilst customers were getting understandably furious, everyone was just running around trying to figure out what the hell was happening, and the manager was frantically trying in vain to salvage a fucked service. I just looked at the shouting, burning, fiery mess that was in front of me, took a look at the clock. Saw that it was technically the end of my shift, and stormed out of the place. One of my co-workers saw me, asked me where i was going. To which I said something along the lines of "I'm fucking done with the shit! You sort it out!!!" As I was walking home, i started receiving texts from my manager. Not angry texts. But begging me to not leave, since i was one of the few people that worked my ass off and got results. I did come back in, and everyone was shocked, since they'd honestly thought i had quit right on the spot. And my manager wasn't angry with me. In fact she wanted to know if the two of us were ok. And honestly, we were. Because the way I saw it, she was in a hopeless situation that she had no way of improving. She knew that a lot of resentment from the team was directed at her for the mess we were all in. But she never took out any anger on anyone else, and always tried to do what was best. It's just that it never amounted to much because her instructions from her bosses were always unrealistic, but she couldn't say no. So I stuck with it for a while......but I know well enough that no one would've blamed me if i never came back after that night

[@Regnart_Seht]

"Show up to work or update your resume." "My resume is current. I'll begin circulating it before i leave for my approved vacation."

[@6stringstorulethemall967]

Buffalo Wild Wings. Thats it

[@YoungIroh]

Not a heat of the moment but my now ex job recently cut hours and we got a new boss that's changing everything. Had this happen before with a prior job and everyone jumped ship so I'm doing that early before I'm doing double the work for the same pay

[@anniemysweet2085]

when i quit my job after 4 years of massive overtime and constant BS there was only one person trained to do my job and he was doing a 6 month stint in jail. the swing shift workers were not trained and could only finish the little bit of work day shift didnt get done

[@dubliners0999]

I had a boss who was notoriously "frugal" and treated family members who worked for him like GOLD (with free lunches, promotions, higher pay, etc.) and then treated non family members like trash (overworked, no free lunches, low pay). I was actively looking for a job and when I gave notice, five other non-family members also quit. It was BEAUTIFUL. I went by several weeks later, and he and his wife were struggling to do 3 or 4 jobs themselves. Hey, I felt bad for the wife, but it was karma. Weirdly, I even wrote an article about how small businesses could be more professional and was paid to have it published in a magazine. (And if you're googling it, it was published years ago in print and under my real name, not my YT name...)

[@chadroberts5099]

Bad managers and management practices are the only reason I have ever left a job. You may know how to manage a job, but if you don’t know how to manage people, then you should not be in a management position. The last job I absolutely hated, started off being a place I looked forward to showing up for everyday. They brought in a manager from another state who is a friend of a higher up. He had no patience for his employees, liked to belittle, cuss, and scream at us. Everyone was working hard just to avoid being treated like crap. However, that didn’t work. We all basically quiet quit, and forced him to start firing people. Everyone that I worked with have moved on from the company. I hear that there is a revolving door in the area I used to work.

[@kanaancross317]

I quit a job at a casino counting money, when I left I quit because of one person who kept making false claims and starting rumors, all because they wanted my full time position I was in, there was only one problem I was the only one who was properly trained to do my job, mostly because people quit the position quickly because they couldn’t handle showing up for work at 2am, and the only person who was there longer than me had to have all her work double checked by me every day, a week after I quit I got several calls asking me to come back and I would be working with the same idiot who was starting the rumors. I told them the only way I would come back was if she was gone, that wasn’t going to happen as she was the girlfriend of the new managers son, so they asked if I would be willing to come in and train her and the new staff. I said no and hung up.

[@thelegionisnotamused8929]

I didn’t. I left it better than when I started. I cleaned up areas that had never been cleaned. I itemized all serialized items into a single format. I ensured the boss knew where everything was as well as some best practices I recommend. I left because of a toxic coworker and did not want to stay to feel an obligation towards the business. I value my labor and also decided that my labor would be better spent elsewhere for more return on my labor. In essence, I hold no ill will towards my employer, I feel I gave an honest days work for an honest days wages, however due to personality differences and my experience felt I could likely my labor was worth more.

[@larsharris]

I am normally amazed at how NICE customer service folks are. “I have this question. I am being charged this amount. Can you tell me why? …. Ok that seems wrong, I know it’s not your fault.. but I am not going to pay that, since I never requested, used…. How can we correct this?” “Realize I am not mad at you, would it help if I use some 4 letter words? “Darn, UFta, days, dogs, cats”. “Is that enough 4 letter words?”

[@jonathanbrightwell272]

Not me. But I worked at a body shop five years ago that sucked. Rhymed with Baliber bollison. And one dude got so fed up with the bullshit that he took this one car 100% apart. The seats doors, all panels, the trunk, console EVERYTHING. Threw away all the screws nuts and bolts and hid parts around the entire property. Then. Packed up his shit and left. That car was there forever while we tried to figure out where to get the missing parts and find everything he hid. I left a month later for another shop. That place sucked. But damn did he quit epically. I just stopped showing up.

[@IAmStillNotMatthew]

My father died last year so I had to get a job, since university social scholarship wouldn't have been enough. I get hired for a manufacturing company, officially helping set up manufacturing for orders. So.. get email forwarded to me, order material, so on. In reality I was also the occasional delivery driver and I also had to keep an eye on manufacturing, even though that would have been a different position. ~5 months in the guy who trained me got fired... noone knew why. So I went through and made sure companies knew I'm the only one who they can contact. Customer fucks up documentation, project manager doesn't notice it, I order the parts needed based on the documentation, during assembly it turns out it's wrong, first person the project manager blames is me... A few months later I get blamed for something being fucked up in manufacturing, how it's so expensive and if I know how much money that is.. I was making like 600€ a month through the whole time I worked there. Turns out one of the machinists messed up and that's why it was wrong. "Oh, alright then, Matt put documentation and material out" Manufacturing is slow, there aren't enough parts to assemble whatever the hell that thing was, I get blamed for fucking up. I call the design engineer asking what name he used on the documentation, because I can't find it, I get yelled at that the project manager told him that project is not needed yet... 20 seconds of yelling later I can finally tell him that I just got called incompetent for those parts not being manufactured yet. He puts the phone down, 15 seconds later project manager gets a call from design engineer. " I get sent to pick up parts for one of the projects that the designer fucked up, the parts are 2+ hours away and an hour in I get a call from the pm where am I and why I haven't gotten back yet. I get sent out to the post office to send mails about.. I don't fucking know, I don't even care and to pick money up from the company card. Of course company card has no money, so I call back that there is no money, they call another colleague to get money on that card, I get blamed by the pm for being slow right in front of one of the accountants who sent me out to get money and.. she said nothing. Ever since the guy who trained me got fired I kept being told they are looking for a person, since this is a "two man job", for over half a year they've been "looking" for an "extra person", had people coming in with like 10 years of experience asking for like 25% above minimum wage only, once those people left the pm was going on about how "much" money they want. They find one person finally around late May. on May 31 I'm told I'm no longer needed and that I'm ""FIRED"", effective immediate. Now.. this is Europe and this being my first proper job, not being through a student job contractor where either party can freely go "alright, see you never". It was a common agreement that my contract is over, since this way I can be out the door right away, no, firing period and whatnot. I was still asked to work June 1-2, which I'm still not paid for, but it was my own stupidity going back in out of "well they said that'd be needed". The guy they hired started next Monday and.. he didn't go back on Tuesday, I still see their recruitment ad on the internet. EDIT: Considering I got a phone call from one of the stores they buy material from like 3 weeks ago about NON-PAYMENT from my previous job I'm not so suprised about their view on how much they deem "too much salary"

[@SplitFinn]

Brewery I worked at for 4 years went through 5 staff members in 10 months after I left. Saw on social media today that they're folding the business. Feel really vindicated leaving and indulging in a fair bit of schadenfreude tonight.

[@billsalvey]

Clients don't come first your employees come first, if you take good care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

[@matthewvalentyn751]

I left an empowered group of teenagers who knew how to collectively report bad behavior to HR. It was only a mess for the management team that weren't acting right though.

[@dragonstooth4223]

I was the fourth person to quit from my team in a month (a third of my team including the team leader quit within a month of each other and of the remaining people half of them were within a year of retirement) and I left them with a guy who can barely type to take care of the job. A job I was super stressed at and struggling with. He couldn't do the field work due to disability. They got in someone else, I haven't heard good things since. but I'm so much happier :) we all quit for the same reason ... manager from hell who will be there for another 5 years because that will be when he retires. The bosses from horrible bosses had nothing on this guy. Funny thing was this manager looked exactly like the Dean from Community but sadly he was just horrible as a boss unlike the quirky Dean. This is how horrible this guy was ... I was staying out of an issue he started but I almost lost a job opportunity as a result of this guys horrible attitude making the potential boss think it was me. Luckily everything came from the manager's email, not mine, so I still got the job ... eventually

[@explosive_shart9405]

I found a job once where I was to sell ADT home security or something and they said it was like $500 a week. Then on day one they say it's 100% commission based and me and the guy next to me just look at each other and sigh. Around lunch time we both said " ok we were lied to about pay and not going to deal with this." Where we were trying to sell door to do was about a mile from my home so we walked there and had to ride a bike 6 miles back to the office where our cars were. The guys in the company vehicle said they wouldn't take us back to our cars until like 8 p.m.

[@scottydawg1234567]

27:37 As someone really deep into the Doctor Who rabbit hole right now, I about laughed my butt off.

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Can't say, or they'll sue me into oblivion...

[@RoundShades]

20:38 eyy Alestorm! Right on matey!

[@kittikats]

The cook at the steak house story - how dumb is that supervisor? 1) kitchen don't clean anything but the kitchen as they go / end of night. It's a food safety and cross contamination issue 2) mid shift they are COOKING. Pulling them out to clean is going to ruin the food which means they have to cook everything again and ruins the profit margin. 3) customers are going to be ticked from getting overcooked food and/or having to wait for it cooked properly

[@j.tgrooms]

Good evening guys

[@XperimentorEES]

Does anybody else find it concerning most of these stories fall into either food and construction?

[@lax9586]

Alot of these remind me of working at subway as a teenager. It was ass and I would have quit if they had not fired me for not using gloves when I made my employee meal. The store was already closed and we were breaking down every thing for cleaning so I was like wtf.

[@blakevanity1838]

Yeah this one is on you

[@michaelbujaki2462]

20:40 The song is by Alestorm if you want to look it up.

[@MrChristianDT]

A lot of people refuse to work for us because we don't pay as much as other places & almost all of our work is part time, so you can imagine a ton of people quit on us out of nowhere. Because of this, I thought I was the only stock person we had left for a week at a store that requires us to have about 4 or 5 to maintain normal functionality. Turns out the second to last one hasn't quit, he just lives approx. 15 miles away & lost his ride, so now he has to walk... I am not sure why he is choosing to live this way, either...

[@nolongeramused8135]

Back in the late 90s I was working at a factory had been purchased by a competitor a few months earlier, and my annual performance review wasn't happening. Couple months go by and I'm having a meeting with the VP who informs me that I'm not only not getting a review and a raise, he's my new boss. OK, fine. I head out to the parking lot, call up a recruiter I'd worked with previously, and told him to get me a new job. Had an interview arranged within 30 minutes, and put in my two week notice. Last day there some guy shows up from our new corporate overlords, demands an office, and explains that he's actually running things now while the CEO and VP are shitting themselves in a panic. In less than two hours the new guy is at my desk asking what it will take to keep me on. Me: "Double my pay and that fat fuck gets marched out by the end of the day." New boss: "Does it have to be today?" Found out later he was gone in about 90 days.

[@danajessop2835]

I taught my boss to do my job before I left. There was no one else that knew how to do part of my job. I wasn't fired, I went on disability.

[@nerissaangel5200]

First one sounds like she worked for Dollar General lol

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Christmas Eve and New Years Eve aren't holidays.

[@PyrotheFlareon]

Sounds like the boss in the last story just set herself up with a Bus Factor of 1, but is now somehow limping along with a Bus Factor of 0...

[@micheleperkins1956]

"Am I blue? Am I box shaped? Am I a tardis?" My fangirl just geekgasmed.

[@Schproemftell]

When i quit my last job they had to readjust their opening hours for 5 months to about half of the usual Instead of 11:00 to 22:00 they only could open from 15:00 to 21:00 because they dont have the needed work force

[@hansthebeast9740]

I worked for a company called Hoffman engineering in the early 90’s. The beginning of NAFTA. They had planned on moving the line I worked on down to Mexico. Lots of special equipment. So they wanted to get a million $ in inventory banked before they shut down to move the stuff. I was the only guy grinding for 3 welders. I walked out and it pushed back there move day by 6 months.

[@uss-dh7909]

Based 90s American.

[@SSGT529]

Worked as a welder and a cook at chilis Got flashed (welding injury) and tried to call in… they didn’t LET me 2 days later was Friday night and I started to prepare the line went out back for a smoke and just left They were already 2 people short

[@dianecheney4141]

Oh man. My supervisor had been harassing me hard. Even HR was trying to get him to back off. But he was like a pit bull. It was like he was determined to punish me for every disappointment and frustration in his life. The company called to do an exit interview and I told them they already knew why I quit and they could have been more proactive. Anyway. This guy had been a supervisor for twenty years. He worked graveyard and his wife worked day shift. Anyway that gave him the choice of retiring early or getting fired. He retired. I was so traumatized that it never occurred to me to sue the company for the harassment. Anyway the entire company shut down after about five more years

[@CertifiedForkLiftOperator69420]

one took a shit in my supervisors locker when he fired me cause i didnt have liable transportation cause my truck was in the shop for a week getting a engine and transmission replace after i hit a rock while driving behind a semi. my gf (now wife) worked 45mins away so between her clocking out and then traffic.. took about an hour to pick me.. soo after a week really the weekend i was getting my truck back he fired me. even though was never late. the type to show up 30mins early for work. i get ready, then i go sit in the break room chat with some of the truck drivers who taking their break while shift changes.. ill eat a snack so on. never started drama, never complained. never gotten into trouble. i kept to myself so on.. soo when he told me i was fired for some bs reason.. i said ok, walked into the locker room.. went to this locker. took a fat massive forbidden chocolate tootsie roll in his locker all over his shoes too. since its a locker room. they cant put cameras in there. or was too cheap. but yeah. i got the message screen shot of him discovering his treat.

[@ericweaver1731]

Oh boy, the stories that I would like to tell but can't.

[@davidchurch3472]

Feel sorry for the guide : I was once instructed by a Hospital Manager to break the speed limit and drive a 1 hr 24 minute journey (I measured and calculated it using the signed speed limits) in less than 40 minutes using a vehicle belonging to the Local City Council. I just told her NO, that is illegal.

[@Ducklesworth]

I worked at an olive garden as a dishwasher. Folks don't eat at olive garden. Our rinser on the machine broke and they dragged in a garden hose that we wire tied to the machine. We had sewage back up into he machine and black mold growing om all the stainless steel equipment. The whole dishpit quit mid shift after we let dishes stack up up 2 hours into Saturday dinner rush we walked out stepped off property and smoked a bowl. We busted our asses daily and sewage in the pit was the lat straw

[@NeedlessExposition]

All these stories make it clear that people who get even a little bit of power will proceed to abuse it thoroughly

[@twinkiebcproductions2939]

At 3:04, I feel like I recognize this. There is a place called Campus Cookies at Virginia Tech that has an owner named Scott that has a reputation for doing things like that. I wonder if that's the same guy

[@Suusleepy]

Technically my boss fired me, but it's still great I worked at a small store I really loved, it was my first job and everyone was amazing and the stuff there was good, plus it had a butcher department. One day I rang my older sibling up on one of the two registers and took a few things off so I could pay the next day for them. This is technically stealing but I both intended to and did eventually pay for everything (And plus like 20 bucks). The next day me and my coworker went in pretty early and it was raining and we were late so we took a Lyft. After getting there I was pulled in and shown the tape, I admitted I intended to pay the 40 bucks back that day when I got paid. The boss, who had been there for about a year in oldest store in the area after the newest generation of their family wanted to sell it and did eventually. This was just after Thanksgiving, a long, painful time for a butcher shop. After he told me to go I just shrugged and left to go tell the coworker I went in with, the Produce Manager, and my older Sibling. They pitched shit and ended up arguing before leaving with me and calling our mom, a small woman with chronic pain and disabilities who struggled to stand sometimes, but also was the single hardest worker there by a wide margin and had been the manager for about a year and had worked there for almost 5, she also immediately quit along with a friend of ours who only worked there for gas money. Currently the only people working in the front are three women over 50, one of which stole $100 worth of uniform sweaters in front of the bank manager and my sibling, immediately "Got covid" for a week, then eventually only paid $50, and talked about anti-medicine hoax stuff so much we got reviews about it and repeatedly said she was the manager despite not having any official title. Honestly talking about that woman makes me so mad, she "Worked Wine" but stayed on the register all day and would tell people to bring her stuff to stock nearby instead of getting it herself, and would wait until we closed and only then work on the wine, even then she would take up to an hour and didn't have a key forcing the back manager to stay back despite him working open to close some days

[@NightReaper879]

Been working at a restaurant for 1 whole year without a single cent of a raise. New guys come in that have been there all of 2 months and manager pulls them aside for an eval and raise I quit right then and there had a job after 2 days they wanted to match my pay there and I told them to shove it

[@silentopinion]

Walmart deli. My coworkers were lazy and only did things half assed when it came to cleaning and often left when they weren't supposed to. I couldn't bring it up to management because there were ones who came from the same part of the world, so they wouldn't have gotten in trouble. I had enough and left. I wasn't going to picking up their slack.

[@michaelodonoghue7464]

I spent My last week at work simply squirrelling out the last of the Office Supplies I wanted to take with Me and then on Friday afternoon, I simply said “See you Monday”, but for the next 3 Months of My tenure, I simply didn’t return to the Office. Then a fortnight after My separation date, I simply rang the Office and told them to deliver My Desk to Me, because by a quirk of circumstance, the Commonwealth Government supplied Desk, had actually been issued to Me and was now considered to be 100% Mine. So whilst some people got Flowers when they left, I got a Desk; which 25 years later, I am still using and is as serviceable today as it was the day I got it, some 28 years ago.

[@UncleSam13]

That first story sounds a lot like complaining about every retail job.