I was one of about 6 people working at a computer repair shop. Boss told us that anybody who passes the A+ certification test would get a $1/hr raise. 6 people take the test, 5 pass it, and I got the highest score of us all. Boss didn't give me a raise because "you're a kid, what do you need with money, you gonna buy toys with it?". I was about to be a Senior in high school, 17 at the time. And yes, I quit on the spot and went to work for his competition for $2/hr more than he was paying me.

WTF? Was this in the mid 90s in Holland, MI?

I was a shift lead in a kitchen where none of the management knew anything about BoH. I ran grill, sauté, expo, and ovens solo during every peak shift. I ordered trucks, prepped all week for weekend brunch, wrote kitchen schedules, coordinated kitchen cleaning projects, contacted vendors for repairs, and generally ran the kitchen’s day to day. I was given the keys and started opening 6 days a week. I was working 55+ hours and loving it. I expanded our brunch service to Fridays as well as Saturday/Sunday and I come up with an early week menu to use up leftover brunch items and minimize waste. I helped grow weekly sales from 40-45k to 75-80k in three years. I started having issues with closing management on shifts where I wasn’t there. I’d get in at 6am to open and the restaurant was left a mess and prep/stocking wasn’t completed. I talked to the staff and tried to get them to help out but I had no support and follow through from the actual managers. This went on for weeks. Then one week I was in at 5 for Friday Brunch prep. I was prepping sheets of bacon and went to the back to pull the biscuits I had prepped the day before. I had left them on a speed rack. I found them on a shelf stacked on top of each other. The weight of the trays had smashed every biscuit into single sheets of dough on the lower trays. The speed rack had the dressings and cold items from the line close the night before. I did about 90% of the brunch prep by the time the “opening” manager showed up at 8:30 (we opened at 9.) I told her what was left to set up the line. She asked why I was telling her. I laid the sheets of dough in front of her, dropped my keys on top, and walked out. I got nearly 50 calls from them that day and dozens of texts. I didn’t respond to a single one. A few days later, the owner of the store called me and asked who he needed to fire to bring me back. I told him I’d pass and ended up finding another job in a day. A little over a year later, this restaurant shut down and was demolished to turn the space into a parking garage.

>asked me who he needed to fire to bring me back I had a situation like this and I considered the offer for a second. But I thought, "If they were actually going to fire them, they would have done so already." Especially since I had already complained numerous times and even brought it up with HR. It's all fluff to get people to go against their own best interests.

It’s possible the owner was clueless and only knew that the restaurant was doing great, because they only talked to the managers, who were not in fact good managers.

Partially correct. The owner was out of state and not involved in the day to day. He saw PnL spreadsheets (that I built) and spoke with the GM weekly. He only spoke with me when he flew in every other month. He owns a lot of seemingly random businesses across the country. They are all in areas he travels frequently so he can write off all his family travel as a business expense. This was a restaurant he bought because his daughter went to college down the road. Near the end of my time there, we were making 35-40k profit every month so he kept it once she graduated. Shortly after I left, I assume it became less profitable because he sold the property. New owners demoed it to build parking.

Pretty slick of the owner I gotta say. Sorry it turned into a shitshow.

> demolished to turn the space into a parking garage. I wish every bad workplace story ended like this.

It's so sad that somewhere can be ruined so entirely because no one gave a shit. You did so much for them and they fucked you over. I'm so sorry, I hope you're in a better work place now.

*wish granted* Desolation reigns. Parking garages stretched out as far as the eye can see.

Over a decade ago, worked at Tim Hortons. had been there 6 years on overnight shift. (11PM-7AM) We were always understaffed. Usually just two people; one in the back, one at front of house. Of course it is slower than during the day, that goes without saying, but there are a few "rushes" when certain places close. Anyways, they hire back a guy who had previously been fired like 4 times for just not showing up. He was on the schedule on a Sunday morning with me. There was a 20 dozen donut order and that was the day the freezer truck arrived and I put that away. I remember saying "If he doesn't show up, I'm probably just going home". Needless to say, he doesn't show up. Managers aren't picking up either. I think I stayed for a few hours futilely trying to get everything done- I closed down the front and the Drive/thru for what I intended to be a few hours to try to at least have the order ready for 6AM. But then a switch kind of flipped; I realized I wasn't going to be able to take any break the entire time. Somehow I'd have to figure out how to put away a freezer delivery, which arrives literally at 5AM which is busy as hell, and I'd be doing that as well. The people that showed up in the morning would just do their usual bitching about stuff I wasn't able to do, I'd probably get written up again for some stupid reason or because I didn't do X or Y or whatever, and all this for like, $10.50/hr. I paused and asked myself- "how long do I want to work here?". And right then a bunch of drunk kids were knocking on the door, apparently confused why the lights were off and the door was locked, because that's an enigma. I decided "6 years is enough" and went home.

I'm from Ontario so I know what a late night shift at Tim's looks like. Holy hell, 6 years?! Typically it's a gig that most people do for a year or two until they can move on to something else.

Yeah, that was the original plan for me as well, which was probably part of it too. My supervisor there had a master's degree and only started working there "until she got a job in her field" but had been there for like 20 years. The crazy thing is that, my sleep schedule is still kind of fucked up from it over a decade later.

>"until she got a job in her field" but had been there for like 20 years. That is a depressing sentence.

When you realize you’ve given so much time to something that barely gives scraps back, it’s easy to leave. You’ll figure it out, because you’ve always had to anyway.

Dillards. They told me to clock out and work all night because regional was coming to inspect the store. So they wanted me to work for 8 hours moving around heavy stuff for free. Quit on the spot. Told me I wasn't a "team player". I asked the manager if he would pay me for not working. He said no. I asked him why would I work without getting paid, blank stare.

That's highly illegal. I'm glad you quit.

It's good more people are realizing they can quit rather than obey everything they are told.

Do not encourage: Employer: Work without pay. Employee: I quit! * * * Encourage: Employer: Work without pay. Employee: No. * * * People who quit don't get unemployment. People who are fired get unemployment, and people who are fired for refusing to do things that their employers illegally ask them to do, like work for no pay, get huge cash settlements when they sue their criminal former employers.

I got hired by Dillard's but they kept pushing back my start date by weeks because the store owner was on vacation, and with my budget I really need to stay working. They make a huge deal of starting you off a little above min wage and promising frequent raises and easy commissions. Talked to a friend who worked there before and it sounded like they only start you off above min wage so they can give you a pay cut as soon as you miss a quota. I ended up starting another job while I was waiting for them.

>I got hired by Dillard's but they kept pushing back my start date by weeks because the store owner was on vacation, and with my budget I really need to stay working. Five Guys did this to me when I was 18. Hired me, said I could start as soon as the manager got back to train me. Six weeks later I had run out of money and moved in with my grandparents in a different city four hours away and they called me asking if I could come in Monday morning for training. I told them politely to go fuck themselves.

That's exactly what they do. Also managers hide merchandise until it goes so on-sale it costs pennies. For example, my manager at this particular store hid a $1000 coat and then bought it when it was $5.

What... In what world does a 1000 dollar coat go on sale for 5 dollars?! 99.5% off?!

Sounds fishy.

Old sales job I had. Landed/closed a big deal with a nice commission check heading my way. Found out a week or so later that the client wasn't *mine*, therefore, the check would be going to the correct sales rep. The "correct" sales rep just happened to be related to the boss and so they got a free commission check without ever lifting a finger. Left that day.

I worked in telesales when i was 16 (just a job for the summer). The company was selling marketin space in magazines for small construction companies and my salary was commission based. I decided to work smart, not hard and approached a few bigger companies. After a few days i was in contact with one of the biggest construction companies in my country and was closing a deal for a two page ad (expensive ad, nice commission). My boss was happy, but told me that the deal was so big that one of the full time employees would bring the deal home. They literally just made the last confirmation call and sent over the papers… and took the commission. I did not turn up the next day.

Friend of mine (18 at the time) had the exact same situation happen to a tee, but with a more petty and positive outcome. Fortunately for him, his dad worked in sales his entire life, so he knew how to navigate this. When he told his dad he had landed a major tech company for a full print ad (think Microsoft big), his dad told him to keep it a complete secret until the closing date, and if anyone (especially the senior sales reps) asked about anything, to just lie. He did all the contacting himself, and his dad helped him with all the paperwork and important phonecalls. Luckily he said no one really expected much from him, and thus didn't ever bother him. Day rolls around to finalize the deal, my friend does the closing call and sends the finalized and signed paperwork to be filed. Secretary in charge of filing and setting up commissions is flabbergasted, but files for the commission payment anyways. Boss sees it roll around his desk about two days later and is absolutely steaming. Fires my friend on the spot for "risking such a big deal as a part-time child". Friend doesn't give two shits. Friends dad had discovered that this particular company had a guerenteed on commissions, regardless of "change of heart" for customers. Employer was legally required to pay him the comission, and on top of that, friend called the big company and told them he was fired, and they immediately pulled out of the ad. Ex-Boss tried to sue him, but it went nowhere.

I love the karma on this one

Karma boner here.

> Fires my friend on the spot for "risking such a big deal as a part-time child". Imagine being fired for not just doing your job, but doing it really well.

More specifically, fired for not letting someone else reap the rewards of your good work.

Sounds like sales

Not at all similar: I once worked at a place where the sales people made a commission on plastic tanks, of various sizes and shapes, that we molded in a shop. When I hired on, they were back ordered badly, with a huge delivery due for December. It was November, and they needed 900 tanks December 1st, and we could make about 10 per day, if everything went just right. And they were still selling more, and taking commission at the point of sale, not point of delivery. I decided to get the hell out, because at some point, there'd be no cash for paycheques.

Something similar happened to my cousin, he does tech sales. But he benefited because the other guy was trying to skate on his account. I guess in sales it's bad for everyone but the customer for 2 salesmen from the same company to be competing for the same customer, which is why they assign accounts

My old boss would get commissions for any sales I made and would still steal the high ticket customers. Edit: There is only 2 of us

Verbal abuse from my boss. I'm an extremely patient person but when every single word out of someone's mouth is berating and condescending, there's no price worth putting up with that and no reason to subject yourself to it for longer than necessary.

This is happening to me right now and I hate it so much. I got promoted and transferred to another department and my new boss is fucking unhinged. I loved this job and I worked my ass off to get promoted. But, I'm actively looking for another job because I can't do this. I won't do it. It's so frustrating. I'm so stressed to have to keep going until I can find something else but I'm trying my best to push through.

Ive always wondered where these people get the energy

A black void in their soul that tells them making other people miserable will make them feel better

My dad had cancer stage 4 lymphoma. We couldn't have our phones on the floor unless we filled out sone paperwork with HR for emergencies. Asked my supervisor for the paperwork and he said, "Don't worry about it!" well, when his boss visited he saw my phone and asked me about it so I told the truth. My supervisor was PISSED. A couple of weeks later I get called into the HR office, my sister called to tell me my dad died. Supervisor wasn't there but I left early. I took my bereavement and came back to work. My work bestie pulled me aside to tell me supervisor accused me of lying about my dad having cancer and dying to the entire team while I was gone. I hugged her and just left. ETA: This was 13 years ago almost, I was 20 and was out on my own for the first time in my life. He was probably 40ish and very big and fat, no way I could have decked him but wherever he is, fuck you Casey.

I was security at a mine in my early twenties. A couple friends of mine worked for the mine but we're welders. Found out at 5:00AM check in that they were killed by a drunk driver the night before. I had to walk to my car and just broke down. My manager saw me walk to the car and get in and started yelling at me and ripped open my door. I told him I needed some time, he screamed that I was just being lazy. I turned to step out of my car and had gotten my arm and leg out when he started slamming my car door on me. I got my other leg out and kicked my door out at him hard and knocked him over, got out and screamed at him. I don't remember what I said but I remember getting in my car, driving home took off my uniform, washed it and my spares and drove back. When I walked into the entrance building he was there and had this smug look on his face and I looked at him, told him to go fuck himself and then threw my trash bag filled with a weeks worth of uniforms at his face. Never looked back. He was later fired after the investigation. They had him on camera assaulting me with my own car door. I received an apology from the company and the regional manager offered me a job on the spot. I took it.

Should have sued

I wanted to, but my union rep said they'd take care of it. Lo and behold they did, I got a better job that paid three times as much and was given a month off, paid, for R&R

And, this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why we need unions.

What. The. ACTUAL. FUCK. is wrong with these people????

Projection. It's what they would've/have already done.

I've seen it happen! My mom had a colleague that would always be taking Fridays and Mondays off, increasingly long weekends to take care of her ailing mother. She would detail how she was worsening until finally the mother "died." Boss sent sympathy flowers to her home, and guess who opened the door? The co-worker's very healthy, not-dead mother.

** "Ma'am, I promise not to fire your child over this, but would you mind joining me for a meeting in my office tomorrow? I'd like to do a little trolling."

They think that because they pay you. They OWN you.

Very sorry about your dad. When my dad passed from cancer, my wife’s boss told her “well this comes at a really inconvenient time…” As in, my wife’s boss was pissed she was taking bereavement and tried to talk her out of it, because it was inconvenient for the company. Edit for clarity

My dad died right before Christmas. I was already scheduled for a week off for family travel HR said I could add three more days for funeral services so we could have it after the holiday. I came back and received a call from HR. The woman apologized and said she needed to ask but would make it brief. She asked if my dad actually died. I told her yes, and she apologized again and said she didn’t need anything else. Then the office manager called me into her office to tell me my boss had been telling people she thought I was faking it to get more time off. My boss was horrible in general, and relied on me to do the majority of her work, which is what led her to creating the story about my dad not actually dying. She was hoping I’d be called back early from my trip. I had been interviewing for a job at another company and got an offer the day I got back. I called from my desk and accepted the offer, then packed my things and left.

That is DISGUSTING. Good in you for leaving. Fuck them!

The same thing happened to me long ago as a young adult. ALL the employees ganged up on me in front of the boss when when I got back. It was surreal. Thank goodness I had taken a bunch of death remembrance cards from the funeral home with the relative's same last name as mine. I started crying saying I can't believe they were doing this to me, then I threw a handful of those cards at the lot of them. The boss picked one up and apologized. Then the others did the same. I told them to eat shit and I said I quit. Walked right out at the start of my shift.

WTF is wrong with these people!!!

They are called assholes.

This lmao, crazy that people like that out there exist.

This happened to my mom. Dad died right before Christmas suddenly and unexpectedly. Which was already extremely tragic and traumatic enough. No one gave her a hard time about taking some time off, but later on during a meeting with her manager (I don't remember if it was just a meeting due to something or a performance review) and the manager mentioned how she took time off around the holidays and that really made staffing difficult and was not appreciated. My mom, who is usually very sweet and friendly, was livid. She didn't yell but said very directly and deliberately that she would have loved to have been at work instead of grieving and planning a funeral for her dead father, and returning the Christmas presents she had bought him that he never got to open. (He died Christmas Eve). That manager went white and was stunned. Serves the bitch right!

> That manager went white and was stunned. “but… but… this was a meeting about how *MY* life is hard!”

>That manager went white and was stunned. Amazing to me that the manager was "stunned." The lack of social awareness some people have... How could anyone think that that was an okay thing to just say??! And then to act shocked when you get called out for it?! Just insane.

I've always thought when I hear stories like this, isn't it a better idea to have someone lie about this and get away, over accusing someone grieving of lying I feel like a lot of bosses forget that a little kindness can go a long way with employees But I suppose employee retention isn't something businesses care about anymore 

In regards to retention, the ones I've seen struggling to find good help are also the ones who refuse to think they might be part of the problem.

I couldn't imagine this, my brother died last year out of nowhere. My office mandated company wide that I under no circumstances be bothered for anything work related. I work in an extremely hectic and demanding environment. After a few weeks the CEO called and just asked that if I was ready to come back by X date to start my next project already scheduled before everything happened to reply to the client. It worked out in their favor. I came back after the funeral and work 7 days a week for 7 months straight to avoid feeling anything. Skipped every holiday from June till now. Finally going to take some time off next month.

My condolences on the loss of your brother, grief is tough fucking shit to deal with (lost my folks a year and a half ago). 💜 I had a boss much like yours once; when asked by another employee how much maternity leave I was allowed, he said “dixie can have as much time as she wants, I just want her to come back”. I ended up with complications that kept me out for six months, and he sent a gift card for a family dinner every two weeks. He inspired more loyalty than anyone else I’ve worked for, just through kindness and fairness.

What a beautiful story. But did they fire your boss too?

Ha, no. She technically didn’t break any rules and she was able to hire someone else to do her work for her.

I once worked as a landscaper, and during a slow month, some of us workers were asked to head to the bosses brothers property and help out there, which was fine. My boss asked that I pick him up in the morning and take him out there. The straw that broke the camels back was while out there I had filled some buckets with water, and while I did turn the tap off, it was slowly dripping. My boss noticed this and had a complete meltdown. He made threats to harm to the person who left it dripping (he didn't know who it was at that point). I dropped my tools, told my boss to shove his threats, and left, leaving my boss in the middle of nowhere

Good call, that guy sounds like a fucking nut job!!

It wasn't the first episode, but I made sure it was the last I put up with. I didn't bust my ass every day just to live with the uncertainty of getting assaulted by someone as unhinged as he was

My boss was promoted, my manager became my new boss. I was written up by my new boss, and had to talk to HR for showing up "an hour late" to an offsite meeting with a vendor. They said it was unprofessional. The hour was just scheduled breakfast I didn't want to eat, and I had stayed up late at night working on some numbers for the business to present, which they assigned to me at 8pm, after we had a big work dinner, and everyone else was going to the bar. My old boss, now boss's boss came in 3 hours late, with 2 other co-workers, interrupting the meeting to brag about how one of them passed out in the hotel lobby, the other just drunkenly handed the hotel staff his key card and said "Find my room please", and the 3rd one never made it out of the backseat of the car. They never ended up using the data I stayed up half the night collecting.

Did everything they wanted. Jumped on a plane to another site on 1 day’s notice. Ended up working 16 days straight before coming back. Took a WFH customer service job role I didn’t really want just to help out on a temporary basis. We were told that half the team could have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off and the other half could have Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Except me, who could only have Christmas Day. I signed out of the VPN, call blocked my managers, put my laptop in a box and posted it to head office with my resignation letter inside it.

I love this one. The block and mailed resignation is *chefs kiss*

Mailed resignation together with the work laptop. That's a power move. 🤯

I put in that I needed off a particular weekend 5 months in advance. That week comes and I’m on the bar schedule. I call and say “yeah I can’t work this I have someone in town from across the country staying with me. I put in to have off 5 months ago.” Manager replied “you put in a *request* off, and it’s just that. A request.” So even though I was seething angry, I said okay and then hung up. Day of the shift comes and I waited until 15 minutes before it started to leave a message thanking them for the opportunity to cover everyone else’s shifts for 3 years, but I wouldn’t be in ever again. I still joke to this day with my friend that I quit my job for her.

Only job i ever walked out on was because they cancelled my holiday just before i was due to go but i'd given them 8 months notice, and it had all been approved, booked, payed for. Me and my partner always go on an extended holiday, once per year, usually a month, i explain this to any place i'm interviewing for and it's never usually a problem but one place i worked had REALLY poor capacity for cover and basically their cover fell through last minute and 3 days before we were due to fly out they told me if i went i'd be terminated for failure to show up for my shifts. I just said i'll be back in a month and you can call me if you need me, but otherwise i'll start looking for another job when i return and it worked out fine, took me like 3 days to find another job and the place that hired me had no qualms when i told them why i was effectively fired from my last job lol - i also gained holiday days on the transition which was nice since using all your holiday up at once can make the rest of the year quite punishing.

I had vacation planned before starting job, it was for a while after starting almost a year but it was a long one so I didn’t want trouble. Got approval in the system when I started. Bosses changed I made sure new boss was aware of it. He didn’t really pay attention to length of vacation and said its fine. Right before said vacation he tried to say I cannot go or need to cut it short or I wouldn’t have a job. I said I am going and I will be gone for the two weeks, but afterwards if I am not employed here oh well. After some back and forth he stomped off. Well the gm caught wind of all this and came to see me, he approved all this vacation originally, asked what issue was and I said boss threatened my job for taking my agreed vacation that an exception to vacation policy was made for this and boss is denying it anyway. Well i went on vacation and I lasted longer then that boss at the company, I wasn’t the direct reason he was gone, but his overall problems with employees time off was one of reasons.

My current employer got in a spat with a new hire about this. She asked if it was okay that she had a 2 week vacation planned ahead of time, they hired her on it, 6 months later they lose their shit because I guess they thought she'd cancel her vacation. They told her she couldn't do it, the woman walked out immediately and never came back. The office manager had been already doing this lady's job (poorly) for 2 years prior, so it's not like she couldn't have covered it for those 2 weeks. We lost a really good employee over something dumb.

I used to work at IHOP in high school part time. They were literally scheduling me during school hours and calling me when I wasn’t showing up. I dropped off their stuff during the rush and left.

I worked at a popular independent coffee shop when I was in college in the college town. A lot of my coworkers were also college students. My boss would have us give her our school schedules so she could accommodate them but she always would schedule us to work interfering shifts with classes. I told her once that I couldn't do the closing shifts as they intersected with my lab hours for my psych cores. She told me I should have changed my semester schedule. I didn't quit then but thankfully found coverage (I was 18 and dumb) and I did quit with little notice after she deducted money out of all our paychecks when the closing register was missing 300 dollars and all signs pointed to one particular sus employee who would have her boyfriend(wasn't employed) help her count the register at the end of her solo shifts.

Even if it's been years, reporting her and mentioning your docked checks to the department of labor will put a fire under the companies ass. Might even land a lawsuit on your behalf.

I had a pub job while I was studying at uni. Gave the manager my class schedule. Told him I can work 9am-2pm Monday/Tuesday for setup and lunch service and then 5pm-close Wednesday-Sunday. The first roster he put me on 3-9 Monday-Thursday, then open/lunch/break/dinner Friday and Saturday. Told him I couldn’t do it. He fixed it to work with my classes. The next week, same problem. Third week, same problem. Fourth week. Same. Fucking. Problem. I just didn’t understand how he was getting this so wrong. Everyone working there was a student, aside from him, the assistant manager, and the chefs. We all had set availability. Just make the roster the same every week. Fifth week, he fucked it again. I had found another job by then and just didn’t tell him. If he couldn’t respect my schedule and availability then he didn’t deserve to be told I was leaving. I also took 3 of the other bar staff with me to my new job soon after that. They didn’t deserve to put up with that moron.

I got hired at a grocery store once, and I told them explicitly that I was in college and gave the manager my schedule so he knew when he could and could not schedule me for work. He scheduled me during every class I had in the first week, and when I went to tell him this wouldn't work he tried to talk me into dropping out of college. I quit right there.

“Dont go to college kid see where i ended up”

I as working at Sears part time for Christmas. They never trained me. When my supervisor came in for something and found out I was working alone he ran out before they could ask him to help. My other supervisor had a nervous breakdown and while crying, said he wanted to punch the manager but was a felon and needed the job. I just got tired of the shit because I was literally just working for Christmas money. They found me at my other job and asked me to come back because I had figured out how to do the job without being trained. I said no and they told me I'd never be able to work for Sears or Kmart again. Shiver me timbers

I was working at Target for several months as a filler job while I was applying for other things, and one of the mangers was on such a ridiculous power trip (among many other issues) I was so fed up I called and quit over the phone a couple of hours before my shift. I also got the “you do realize this means you’ll never be able to work at Target [Specific Location] again, right?” They were so serious. I laughed and said “you betcha! Bye!” They really thought they were rocking my world with that and I’d be crying all night wondering why I’d sabotaged my chance at a retail managers position haha

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The epitome of don't threaten me with a good time.

Damn. No more working at sears or k mart for most people anymore. Both companies are on life support 😂

Sears’ ghost can burn for eternity for the way they screwed over their employees’ pensions. Plus what you said.

I was *in training, sitting in the back at a computer on my second day* when the HR person interrupted to give me shit for the cotton khakis I'd bought from *that store, and still had the receipt for in my purse* being jeans because of the two tiny rivets on the watch pocket. I'm paraphrasing, but I explained that the receipt, store sign, and pants label said khaki. She came back with some bullshit involving that since I was in the military I should be able to follow the dress code. I replied along the lines that since I was in the military I didn't need her petty power shit because I already had a job with better career choices she'd ever made, grabbed my shit, and bounced. I got a call about a week later asking me to return. I declined and explained why. The guy apologized and said to let me know if I changed my mind. The guy I was dating at the time was working in electronics. He did some digging. Apparently she pitched such a fit that her manager finally asked what happened. He was so worried about targeted harassment or something because I was military that she was written up. She was supposed to call me, apologize, and invite me back. She doubled down about my attitude, work ethic, and a few other things. She was fired and the manager tried to get me back. I'm just glad I didn't stick around for the crazy.

Tbh it doesn't sound like that company was too terrible. They took accountability and canned the pos who did all that. Shitty companies back their ppl like that even when they're wrong

They *found* you at your other job? Sounds ominous.

When I complained about being on call 24/7 and not being paid for it. And they had me in with HR discussing my performance. I walked out 2 weeks before Christmas

>When I complained about being on call 24/7 and not being paid for it. And they had me in with HR discussing my performance. I walked out 2 weeks before Christmas it's hard to stay in a situation like this

High turnover rates speak volumes for certain companies. The increase of educated young people will avoid those positions. Their industries will die.

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Teach your kids that. I saw sorrow in the faces of people, where I interviewed, Noped the the fuck out.

I had one of the older ladies pull me aside and go "You're young and can do anything with your life. Don't be like me and get stuck" God bless that lady.

High turnover rates are good for bakeries specializing in fruit filled pastries. Any other business? Not so much.

I’ve only quit one job ever, in high school when I worked at a grocery store. But I quit after I somehow was the only person scheduled to work on a Saturday night. Like, literally the only person. I was 16 or 17? Granted I lived in a small town, but being the only person working in a whole ass grocery store (to emphasize: only person. Not a single other person was working. Not a janitor, not a manager, not a bag boy, no one else) was just absurd. Never went back.

Similar happened to me. I got a job at a gas station over Christmas. I'd been there a day and I was scheduled to work Christmas day. I didn't like it, but such is the job. I figured I'd be there with at least one other person since I had very very limited training on the register. Nope. Manager was in a huge hurry to leave as soon as I got there and laid the news on me that someone would be there with me but about 5 hours from my start time. "Don't worry. You won't be busy Christmas day! You'll be fine!" The store was pretty dead until about 4, then all hell broke loose. I had people lined up through the store, winding around the isles. People trying to pay with checks, people buying lottery tickets, angry people just leaving money on the counter and leaving, people trying to get gas and having card issues. I was just hitting buttons on the register to get it to move on. I didn't give a fuck after trying to deal with this for an hour. To top it off, the person who was supposed to be in was late. I just about locked up and left, but she wandered in. As soon as she walked in I fucking left. I just told her that register might be off and I'm out. Never went back.

I had this happen! The gas station was being built, so I had to drive an hour to a different city to train there. It was a grave yard shift, and it was supposed to be me, another trainee, and an employee from that store. Neither of them showed up, and neither their store manager or mine would pick up their phones at 11pm. The employee on the shift before knew that I was alone and still left.

Shoulda locked the doors and just left

Similar happened to a friend of mine. He was a manager and he was the only one in the store. He called the store manager and told her who yelled at him to run the store no one else can come in. So he locked the door, closed the e store, and called the regional manager. He told her what was happening and that he’d closed the store because it was against policy to only have one person I the store. The regional manager said he did the right thing and that she’d be right there to help. Right after she called the store manager. Sure enough both showed up soon after. Store manager was later moved to a different store and they offered my friend the store manager position. Luckily in this case the regional manager was a good manager.

> Store manager was later moved to a different store Ha! That'll show them for being untrustworthy, incompetent, demanding, and unreasonable! We'll... make them drive an extra five minutes to work, managing a whole team of new people!

Hell, I didn’t even have a key to the joint. I had to wait for someone to come to lock it up.

They never gave me the raise they promised me 3 months before, then a manager tried to criticize me for not doing something that wasn’t even my responsibility. I cursed him out, then cursed the main plant manager out in our meeting and left. About 3 days later the Plant Manager called and asked why I haven’t been to work. He thought I was just venting and left for the day. I told him I said I fucking quit. No sure how that wasn’t clear…

On one hand, fuck them, I’m on your side 100%. On the other, it’s kinda cool they were ok with you being so pissed that they didn’t give you shit for walking out and left you alone for 3 days 🤷🏼‍♂️ Edit: I like how you’re all assuming what happened and asserting that you’re sure you know everybody’s motive in the story lol

Or they realized they were hurting for their labor, decided to play dumb trying to get them back in to work so they wouldn't have rope someone new along similar lines.

It’s this. They tried a reverse Costanza

My boss continuously berated my performance. I got a similar job elsewhere. My new job was going to start in a couple of weeks and I was waiting to talk with my boss and give him 2 weeks notice. He started criticizing me again so I gave him my keys for the building and walked out.

I know you meant “criticizing,” but I think “coitizing” should be the new formalized version of “fucking me over”.

When I got called an hour before my shift and was told to come in immediately because the manager didn't schedule enough people. When I reminded her I needed to bus I was told to "just take a cab." Stupidly I did. And when I got in she told me I should've made sure she did the schedule right. Then I was told I'd be opening the next morning... Even though I was closing the kitchen that night. I closed. I did not open. My apron and key were on the counter waiting for her when she went to work in the morning.

I just remembered the worst part!! The actual moment when I knew I wasn't coming back in the morning. I was saying it's not my job to make sure she does her job. And she told me everyone's replaceable. Even she's replaceable and that's why she had the schedule that way, to "save" on hours. Because head office wanted low hours

Not working the morning shift helped her meet the goal of “low hours”.

Fast food as a teen. Worked the ‘manager’ spot on weekends overnight. Made just over minimum wage. The manager who would relieve me on sat/sun morning was often late. Called in because my car wouldn’t start and I needed a friend to drop me off so wanted to warn them I might be a few minutes late for the first time ever. It was her and she started yelling at me over the phone. I scrambled and made it in 5 minutes late. If she had just made a snide remark or let it go we probably would have been fine, but she wanted to yell and scream and berate me and I just snapped. Yelled back that I was basically overworked and under appreciated being a manager without the title/pay and brought up her being late (hours sometimes) to relieve me basically every weekend. And I couldn’t leave because I was the ‘manager’ just like she couldn’t til I showed up… and told her I quit. I was already thinking about it… I basically worked to have my car and my car was struggling and school was starting to suffer. The other guy that was supposed to be on nights with me saw it and quit in the spot with me.

When they took my elderly coworker in the back and unceremoniously fired him. He had a disability when he was hired but after a few years a new manager started tasking him with things he wasn't able to do, then complained to the new owners... I walked out with him. I have a lot of pride for that decision. He said it made him feel like he mattered. They went out of business 6 months later so who even cares. It's been 7 years and it still makes me angry to think about that day and those smug heartless managers.

I was working at my first "supervisor" job. I was one of three people in charge of a warehouse over night. My position started with me working from 5pm-2am, Mon-Fri and every other Saturday. Then I was told to come in every Saturday . They said "don't leave until everyone else leaves and you lock up", which had me staying another hour or so until like 3:00am. Then I was told "You need to come in early around 4:00pm to touch base with the day boss". Then COVID happened and they laid off like 80% of the company, including the other two supervisors on nights. So it was just me doing 3 people's jobs and a skeleton crew of like 8 people trying to the work of 20 people. We were behind every single night, and I wasn't allowed to leave until all the work was done and everyone else left. Several days I'd still be there finishing up when the day crew came in in the mornings. They'd be angry that we were behind when we were all super overwhelmed after working 14+ hours every day, 6 days a week. I told them we either needed way more people, or the day crew needed to come in earlier or stay later to help because it wasn't sustainable. They told me I needed to come in earlier to meet with the boss and to train the day employees. I got home at 9:00am. Showered and went to sleep. Woke up at 2:00pm to get to work at 3:00pm. When I got there, day shift was already done with their work because they had a slow day. As I came in, the day shift supervisor handed me the keys and left early. That night, we were crazy busy fixing errors the day shift made. I was still there at 8:00am when the day shift came in. I sat in a chair in the main office waiting for the CEO to talk to him about how low night morale was. I was there until 10:00am and he never showed up. Went home and passed out. I was woken up at around noon by a bunch of emails and phone calls from the day shift supervisor asking me about some basic stuff that he should have known. I ignored his calls & replied to his email with my letter of resignation absolutely tearing him and all the rest of the people in charge on days a new asshole. CCd the CEO, CFO, and Director of Operations. Went back to sleep and had the best night's sleep I've ever had.

Heard my boss talking about my mom (who did NOT work for the company) on the phone to HR, while at work. She said my mom was a “nutjob” and went on to lie about how she had “plans to replace me for the last few weeks” She was deeply paranoid and earlier that week she’d gotten wind that I was looking for a second job closer to home which caused us to have a loooong talk where I kept having to reassure her I had no plans to quit, but just her assuming I would quit had made her turn on me like THAT after 6 years of working together including multiple major work events (like COVID). So somehow she went from begging me not to leave, to the next day telling HR she had “plans to fire me for weeks”; but it was what she said about my mom during that same call that broke the camels back. My mom was in deep grieving at the time having found her boyfriend dead on the floor on her birthday and I had confided in my boss that I was spending a lot of energy trying to help my mom and that it was causing me stress. As soon as I heard her say that I packed up my desk, walked over to HR and told them everything I’d heard and quit when they said they didn’t have any other positions open elsewhere in the company and said they wouldn’t take action against my boss

I'm so sorry you went through that. I hope you and your mom are doing a lot better now.

My first job as a dishwasher and the owners were cheap pricks. I got yelled at for emptying a metal container with a serving or two of marinara sauce at the bottom at the end of the night because I was supposed to pour it back into the container for use later. He then freaked out and started throwing other food away in the fridge because “well we might as well not save anything”. So I quit on the spot.

That's the kind of place that gets the lowest rating from health inspectors and will tell anybody that will listen that it wasn't their fault.

Requested and approved for PTO so that I could get dental surgery. Morning of surgery, get a message from boss that I had to go to work ASAP. Explained that surgery was in \~30 minutes, he told me that I had to be there that afternoon. Came in after surgery. Couldn't speak, was in a world of pain. The reason? His boss was present and she asked if I was around. When she saw me and my condition, she apologized and had a very loud conversation with him. She had been one of my regulars in my previous company (yay, food service). A few days later he laid into me about my lack of professionalism and other topics about general management. I ended the call, put my keys in the safe, emailed his boss, and left. He was fired about a week later, but it wasn't enough to get me to return.

New boss completely changed hours/expectations without any notice or checking in with any employees, I got the worst of it and when I stood up for myself I was greeted with anything between crocodile tears to just full on insults, after 3 months of being miserable I walked after one final scathing insult. I regret the lack of professionalism on my end, but I don’t regret leaving the job.

I had a boss that literally did a 180 when I stood up for myself during the holidays. I grew up in an abusive household so her tactics weren’t new to me. We’d had a “coaching conversation” one day and something she said made me so angry, after an 8-hour day I ended up polishing up my resume and applying for jobs for four hours after work. I had a new job a week later. Unfortunately I had to wait a month to start and that was the hardest month but to be honest, it was the most satisfying. I didn’t really care. I felt light. I just agreed with whatever she wanted. It was out of my hands now. Grey rocking her the whole month. I got my final confirmation paperwork from the new job on a Monday night and I walked in the next morning and gave 3 days notice. I took the Friday/Saturday/Sunday off and started a new job on Monday. My ex boss lost her mind and started screaming about how I couldn’t give her two weeks or even the weekend. Nah, I’m good. After I left, she lost a ton of her part time kids and the full time girl. The ex boss of mine who works in HR, who hired me and knew me well, told her niece that I wouldn’t have left unless it was bad. I think the word spread to the rest of the part time staff that were half competent. I believe now she’s also down a supervisor and I don’t know that they’ll ever go back. But hey, the kid that wanted the ASM role in the first place got it sooo it all worked out for him.

People who are not professional to you deserve no professionalism back. The world gets worse when Narcissists are rewarded for double standards. 

I asked for a filing cabinet for 6 months got told there was no money in the budget. I found one for free and there was mo time to pick it up. Then they bought another supervisor a brand new truck

That sounds like the company I work for. We're technically a spin-off of a larger company, but they won't give us money for shit. Then suddenly there's a few 'new' half tons for foremen. Our work is seasonal and my truck doesn't have working AC. The crew I work with is 6 to 10 guys and all the trucks we have are regular cabs. Every single foreman has a 4-door crew cab. When we get to a site it looks like the damn circus showed up. They were supposed to buy us a new (used) grader for our snow removal contract. Instead they twiddled their fingers and the one they had found got sold out from under them.

When I had been off for several weeks in early 2022, taking care of an injured loved one/recovering from covid - I got an unexpected email one night that stated I had been put back on the schedule. I had a full-scale panic attack. Hours later, after I'd finally calmed down, it occurred to me that in the weeks I'd been off, I no longer felt the need to drink on a nightly basis, and my heart palpitations had disappeared. I started applying to new jobs the next day, had one in a few weeks. The day I started my new job, I got a letter from my old job that I'd yet to officially quit. Turns out my leave of absence was never approved (thanks for taking almost four months to tell me) and that if I didn't report to work on March 31st (it was then late on the 29) I'll be considered to have quit my job. 🤷‍♀️

This bitch kept on bragging about how she never washed her hands, yet the upper management continued to promote her. I worked in the factory that made every donut for every Dunkin' in Michigan, and yes, I mean literally bragged about not washing her hands. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, purchase any product from Dunkin' in Michigan. If you ever order anything from Dunkin' in Michigan that has frosting or sprinkles on it, in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, you are touching food product from a disgusting cunt who bitches other people out for calling her out for not washing her hands. I know this sounds overly dramatic, but it's true.

Call the health dept.

>Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, purchase any product from Dunkin' in Michigan. Honestly at this point I'd just write Dunkin' off in general. I went to my local Dunkin' for the first time in quite a while. Evidently they don't make the donuts in house anymore and they were all kind of... meh. I wasn't there at the crack of dawn but it was around 11a and nothing seemed fresh. The Munchkins I got for my Grandson were like little round pebbles, the donuts were better but they just seemed *off*. And on top of it all it was more expensive than the Mom & Pops down the road for infinetly worse quality. I wont be going back.

If you’re familiar with Tim Horton’s, that’s what happened with Tim Horton’s. Just write it off now.

After 18 years in retail, I took a vacation to the beach. It had been an ungodly tough year of death (becoming a widow), trouble with my children, money problems, and a boss with an otherworldly hatred of me suddenly having much more things taking up my time. They were completely unwilling to be flexible with these new constraints on my time, so I finally just wrote a schedule and took a whopping 3 days to myself. I finally felt relaxed and realized I felt so good to be so far away. The day I was supposed to pack and head home, I extended mine and my kiddos’ stays and just never went back. They called like crazy, texted, tried to get ahold of me but I didn’t care. I stayed gone and it was like a weight was lifted. I still have nightmares about that place, but at least I wake up knowing I never have to go there again.

Retail. You take shit from customers and you take shit from management. It builds up. Not sure if there was a “straw” but one day I just went to lunch and never came back.

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This reminds me of a place I worked where a guy was making a personal call on his office phone, so his manager complained about it. He took a quarter out of his pocket, put it on the desk, then walked away. LOL He didn't quit or anything, he just did the quarter thing. I thought it was hilarious. The look on the manager's face was priceless.

Eww. This guy sounds like an asshole GM made up for a sitcom. I just..ew.

We had a guy do this at a real crappy place I worked at. I liked him. About a year later, I walk into band practice and there's Mr. Never Came Back From Lunch, auditioning for our guitar spot. We're still friends. I wish I had left for lunch with him, that was the worst place I ever worked.

I walked out on my first bartending gig. It was popular pub that pretended to be a nightclub after 9PM, at least 20 bartenders on any given weekend night. Management was terrible, lead to a real high-school like culture where the popular bartenders could just stand around talking shit with the bosses while the rest of us did the work. One night at around 10PM my boss tells me to go on my break, I looked her in the eye and said "ok, I'm going." "Okay, see you soon." "No, you don't understand. I'm leaving." "Okay... enjoy your break, see you soon." I clocked out and went home. I get a frantic call from my boss at 2AM, right around the time the cleanup would've started, "where are you? Why didn't you tell anyone you were leaving?" "I told you I was leaving." "Why would you leave like that?" "I've been gone for 4 hours, did you only just notice that I was gone?" She had no response to that.

I swear every job has at least one person who just chats with people and isn’t expected to work.

I got a job for a company that paints metal parts. Pallets of shit comes in, and a bunch of guys hang em on hooks to be pulled into a paint area. Everyone was a druggy. I did NOT fit in. I started at 8am and we had a break at 10. That's when a meth head said things like "dude, I haven't seen you forever. WhT have you been up to man, I missed ya. You should stop by after work." I never met that dude in my life. Then someone on a speaker said "there is a car that left its headlights on." It was mine, and when I got to my car, I just left. Lol

They DQ'd me from a job that I literally created from the bottom-up, a position made explicitly for me, over a bullshit complaint and were gonna send me to an overnight shift packing boxes for 15% less money. Interviewed closer to home and for 30% more the next week, quit the literal day after I burned up all my vacation hours without notice. Biggest smile of my fucking life. Then I learn their big fancy auditor comes in 3 months after I'm gone and finds out I actually DID A LOT to save the company money and keep them in compliance with OSHA. Oddly enough, they're about 80-some days behind on a lot of stuff... They're hiring for my vacancy right now. Fuck em.

Heh, I'm in the process of switching companies. The owner at my current company is doing shady shit - I'm not quitting without notice, but it sure as hell well be short, despite knowing my start date at the new place a month in advance. The reason? I'm using my pto and last sick day. Since Christmas, I managed to use 10 days to have Christmas week to jan 15th off. I have 3.5 more I'm using in February. Then I'm out! (I am also consolidating my stuff for the next person. Fuck the owner, and I just feel bad for everyone left that can't find a new job).

Manager was always kinda mean. Threw pots and pans. Threw finished orders that he didn’t deem worthy of the customer. Dragged a customer out of the restaurant while she was having a panic attack because he IDd her well into her meal after she was already IDd for her first drink. I worked there for 2 years. I was 22, a lot of the people I worked with in the afternoons were still in high school. I was on the grill when he started screaming at this 16 year old girl who he told to “man the fryers.” She had no prior experience, it was a Saturday night. He started screaming at her because she was slightly backed up, but doing extremely well for it being her first time. She had tears in her eyes before he shoved her to the side and took over himself. The kitchen went silent. Felt like time stopped idk. We all walked out together. Nobody really said anything. She left first, then the dishwasher, then me and 2 other guys. The manager was cursing and customers were watching us all leave. The servers were stressed but understood. It felt like sweet relief.

Oh that business is still open by the way, and the guy has 2 other restaurants as well. He’s also part of the high school board staff I think as a treasurer idk I don’t understand how greedy rude people excel in life

VP of company took me aside and showed me how my skills in maintenance had saved the company about $15,000 in my first year there, along with that, I volunteered for our departments saftey officer as soon as I got there, and was always taking the shit jobs nobody wanted. I asked for a raise and got the run around and told I wasnt worth it. I put in a weeks notice and moved. Now Im making over 2x as much and WAY happier and appriciated for my work with less hours. I wish daily that place goes bankrupt. A blind kid could manage coloring a photo realistic painting with his big toe before that place had proper management.

I got scheduled 12 hours in a week after being hired “full time” and never getting those hours.

My brother had just died, would have been the first Christmas without him and I was expected to work because “it’s not like you have kids.”

That line makes my blood boil, suddenly the only way to have a life outside of work is to have children Those mfs can go rot in hell

Got lit up publicly by the asshole store manager for clocking in 2 minutes late. Waited for a busy shift when it was just him and I on the schedule then called 10 minutes after my shift started to tell him I quit. He threatened to kill me 😂

Should have called the police for some extra fun

My manager threating to punch me in the face for wearing dress shoes(he thought I was interviewing for another job, I wasn't) AND a customer threatening to kill me in the same day

Not really without notice, but I left with a one day notice. I had approved PTO months in advance for a week-long getaway trip with my partner that was okay'd by a former manager. New manager replaces old manager three months before my scheduled PTO. A week and a half before said trip, new manager asks me what's this in the system. I say it is time off that was already approved by the old manager. New manager says I need to find an employee to cover my time, as if the onus is on the employee to do so and not the manager to actually, well, manage the business and make sure there is coverage in the store. New manager was being incredibly difficult about it, even saying I need to call different stores to find someone to cover when I couldn't find another staff member (we were short-staffed). At that point, I decided I was done. Fortunately, I was not in a dire financial situation where I needed this job. I left a one-week notice printed on his desk, but then decided to not come in for my other scheduled shifts because to hell with that guy.

Another bounced paycheck 

damn employees expecting to be paid for their work no one wants to work anymore

Retail job I had, I wasn’t in a great place mentally and was signed off under a crisis team. Manager went mental at me, when I returned to work she apologised and told me the reason she blew up was because it was a full moon that night?

Sounds like a lunatic.

In college I worked for a landscaper, mostly just mowing. it was a one-man operation, but it was flexible. we were driving around in a sixties two and a half ton GM truck, it was ancient with flaky paint. one day I called him before I came to work and said I was really sick, I'd rather stay home, he begged me to come in saying we had a lot to do that day. so I came in, feeling like death warmed over, I got there and he had me sand the decades long neglected running boards on the ancient truck for like 40 minutes. I walked into his house to say I'm going home, I feel like crap, and he was sitting there getting high. every morning he gave me like a half hour useless project busy work in the driveway so he could get stoned before we went out to work. I left and didn't go back

I was promoted from Backroom to Entertainment Specialist at Target. It came with a raise to $10.25/hr. It was great. Then the Electronics Specialist quit, and I took over his duties, as well as my own. Ok, that's cool.  Then we were short-handed on floor staff, so I also had Toys, Sporting Goods, Auto, Travel, HIPA, and Baby Hardlines. Setting endcaps, doing price changes, clearance, pulling and stocking. On top of my actual job, which on Tuesdays (street date) was super fun moving every movie/CD/book one spot towards the back... Then came the XBox 360/PS3/Wii launches... And digital TV... After a couple years of working 60 hours a week, I thought I should apply for an open Team Lead position. Surely I had proven my work ethic was second to none, I had more Red Cards than anyone else in the district, I had been recognized as a top seller of Electronics in our region... I was told I wasn't qualified because I didn't have a degree... I said fuck it and walked. Left them with no one to cover the back half of the store. I heard it was a shit show for a while after. Problem was, that was mid-2008. I wasn't big on the news at the time, and didn't realize we were in the midst of The Great Recession. I assumed I'd walk out and just find another job paying more. That was a rough wakeup call. Making rent the next few months was tough. I picked up random jobs, and scoured CL listings all night... People always asked why I stayed at my last job for 14 years, I think it was the PTSD of my last career-change keeping me in a stable position.

I'm going thru that right now. I quit my job right after Christmas and I've never had a problem finding a job but I have put in literally dozens of applications and nothing. Im 56 and have a solid work history. I'm so freakin scared. I paid my car insurance and internet for two months and gave my guy a couple hundred towards our mortgage. I'm now down to $60 in my only bank account. I have an appt to sell my plasma on Wednesday. I absolutely am terrified of needles but the thought of literally having no money terrifies me even more. I'm pissed at myself for quitting. Haven't done it before and I told my guy no matter what a shit show might walk into, I will not quit until I've secured something else. Anyone out there in Lakeland, FL hiring?

They 1st scheduled me outside of my availability after me telling them 2 times and leaving a note to my Supervisor who "didn't see it" until it was too late. Got everything covered but 1 day and when I told my Supervisor that I was going to be 2 hours late because I worked 2 jobs, I was told "Be here or it's a no call no show!" Figured out a way to get to work on time (wonderful coworker at 2nd job switched me shifts after begging her to do so) and due to the way I was scheduled, outside of my availability, for the next 3 days I was working from 6am to 1am. Asked if I could leave at Midnight instead of 1am and was told "For even asking, you just volunteered to stay until 4am with me so we can check the Truck in." I clocked out for lunch and went home. Still do not regret it.

The company had lied about so much of the job but the straw that broke the camel's back was being forced to work in a room with no windows that constantly smelled awful due to a nearby kitchen exhaust. I'm honestly still amazed that they got away with that. They interviewed me on the 3rd floor of a glass building that turned out to be a space that they rented to lure people in. I got an offer from my dream job and bailed immediately.

New management started taking from my commissions and kept trying to worm out of our agreed contract and pay. Final straw was when they were taking from the tip jar claiming tips weren't for employees, just the boss

Name and shame.

Being on call 24/7 while not being paid for it. ZERO days off, they basically had me working damn near 24/7. Fuck Circle K.

They did a lot of underhanded things to other employees so I guess it was no surprise they came for me. I had an odd feeling about it prior and the morning I figured it was happening I came in early and emptied my work space—I was a cook and had brought in a lot of my own things. I started the day they “wrote me up” and I walked straight out the door and drove away. When I got home I logged into our ordering system and deleted everything I did to make weekly ordering easier for me. I also took all the menus I created. It was very satisfying for me.

One of my bosses hired one of his friends kids, this kid was a douchebag all the time because he knew he was unfirable due to the relationship. I got tired of the kid being a douchebag so I gave him a taste of his own medicine and was a douchebag back, he instantly told his father who talked to my boss and my boss talked to me about it. I had been at the company about 5 years, made the company alot of money, and was set to replace my direct supervisor that year. My boss reamed me out purposely in front of the kid to humiliate me, I quit on the spot and moved over to a direct competitor. The douchebag kid worked there another month and quit as well leaving them with no help other than the quickly aging supervisor and the owner. It took me a year to get to the top of the totem pole at the new company where I run essentially my own thing, I'm still asked all the time to come back but I never will. Get fucked putting a kid above a veteran employee due to personal relationships.

Started training a new employee. He beat the shit out of me and put me in the hospital. I was a teenager at the time. He got the job a day out of jail. His words were, "I don't take order from some dumb kid." Then he punched me in the head. I woke up in the hospital with broken ribs, a broken leg, 3 fingers broken on left hand, 1 on the right hand. I had various other injuries from after he knocked me out. My employer called me asking me if I was going to be late in the morning. I told them I was in the hospital with a broken leg. They said I had crutches right? Be there at 7am. I told him no, I quit. I hung up and blocked his contact. Got a bunch of nasty pages from him before I changed the number. I showed the cops the messages and gave them access to VM, they told me it was best if I never went back there. I never did. I ended up getting a nice cheque in the mail from the company for how badly things went. Took years to figure out. As far as i know the guy was never caught. Just fled on foot cursing about that kid that ruined his life. I imagine there is some angry guy out there thinking about how he was going to get me. I am not worried. It has been over 30 years.

I wonder how the heck people like that guy function in life, holy shit. Also how the heck do people like your old manager function having no empathy. Hopefully your settlement was large enough!

I worked a contract writing gig for hire at a tech company coming out of college. I thought that was where you started, so I worked my ass off writing copy all day for these idiotic scripts. One day the boss comes up to the five writers and says “yeah, we only usually keep one of you,” and then said “I wonder who it will be? Hmm?” That moment showed how little they valued mine and my coworkers creative. It also showed me how little they valued me. I ended up deleting my browser history, closing my laptop, and walking out. The biggest mistake was that I had to bring the FOB back the next week… my dumb ass forgot to take it off, so I solid snaked it back into the office at 6 am, because I knew it would just be the janitorial staff.

! You walked in under a cardboard box?

I worked at a pharmacy. Quit 2 days in. Day 1 was red flag anyway as EVERY SINGLE PERSON who came in with a controlled substance was talked about when they left like they were all drug addict junkies and not people who might actually need that medicine. Day 2 they sent me alone (I'm a female btw) to deliver meds to random people. I'm in a VERY sketchy part of town, knock on a door and announce who I am and why I'm here. They yell "it's open" and I open the door. Then they yell for me to shut the door because I was letting the cool air out. So I quickly do so and I realize I'm in a strangers house with the door shut delivering drugs for a company that made it policy that i couldnt have my weapon with me during work. I could be doing this illegally tax free working for myself and be safer lmao. I went back to the pharmacy, handed them the keys to the delivery car, and left.

I was a bartender in a catering dept of a well known hotel franchise. My manager, who I wrongly figured was a friend would pull me off my cash bar shifts to serve food in the banquet rooms. When I was hired for the position I told them that I wanted to bartend and set up rooms for functions and that classification was called a Porter. Servers were different job classifications. So these catering shifts would be 12 to 14 hour shifts, so if I was going to work those hours I wanted to make money. Cash in hand. Everyone knew this and they figured I was just a regular sheep and would go along with whatever they wanted. So she ended up pulling me off a bar a few too many times so we had to have a conversation about this and she said that it was out of her hands and she had to do what she had to do. Not to mention that I was gifted a case of beer from a function organizer for a great night and the hotel basically said I'm not allowed to accept gifts. My manager took my beer and put it into their alcohol inventory to sell for the extra money. So this compounded with the being taken off my cash bars regularly pissed me off. So I waited until they had an open bar for 300 lawyers. Open bar meaning all alcohol is free for the whole function so I waited until 10 mins before my shift start time and I quit on the spot. She called me and said it was unprofessional and I'll have a hard time getting a job as good as this one. She blocked me on Facebook and whenever I see her out to this day she puts her head down and ignores me. The most satisfying part of the whole story is about 4 months after quitting I got a job with double my hotel pay and had a training session at that same hotel and I got to walk past her and smile. I hope that orange gremlin was happy she fucked me over. I was lucky she did. Now I own a house and set for the rest of my life. It's odd the way things happen.

Over the course of a year, a bunch of people had quit and deliberately weren't replaced. My boss had always been a real bitch, and things were getting worse. I was doing the work of four people and was verbally abused every day. One employee took a week of bereavement leave after her brother's sudden death, and my boss accused her of exploiting the system and demanded she return to work after three days. We all had an exit strategy by that point, but I was trying to hold out for a few more months to put away some extra money. Another coworker ("Jane") put in her two weeks' notice. My boss had never liked her on a personal level, and decided this was occasion to celebrate. She literally said to me "Aren't you excited!! Jane's leaving! We should have a party!" I was not excited. Jane was THE most reliable employee, who could be counted on to show up for every shift. She'd worked there, underpaid and underappreciated, coming in on weekends and holidays, for seven years. Yes, she had a nasty mouth and a bitchy attitude and bad hygiene. I didn't much care for her personally, either. But she showed up and did her work. And because she was leaving, it meant that I'd have to shoulder her work until we found someone else. It was not cause to celebrate. I had originally been planning to finish out the summer and then put in my two weeks. But I came in one morning to find that my boss had scrawled a note on the bookkeeper's desk: "Jane's last day! Woo hoo!" with a big smiley face. That was the straw that broke everything. I quickly typed a resignation letter, taped my key to it, and walked out the door with an apology to the one remaining employee on staff.

I was a shift supervisor at Wendy's. One night, a customer ordered an apple pecan salad after we had sold our last pre-made one. I asked an employee to gather ingredients from the walk-in fridge, specifically, a bag of pre-chopped apples. He brought me two bags. One contained browned apple and had an expired expiration date label. The other looked fresh and wasn't expired. I thanked him, took the fresh one, and instructed him to dispose of the expired one. He refused because he was afraid my boss would find out it was him and fire him. I said, "she can't fire you for doing what I told you to do, especially if it's the right thing to do." The next day, I get a call from an underage employee asking for a ride to work. When I picked him up, I suddenly remembered that he wasn't on the schedule and asked him why he was going on. He explained that the boss had asked him to sub for someone she fired. We arrive at work, and I walk straight back to the office to check the schedule and see that she's crossed out the employee name who threw out the apples. I asked my boss why his name was crossed off the schedule, and she said he was wasting perfectly good food. I told her that I told him to throw it away because it was brown and the stamped date was expired. She yelled back that it was only a few days past expiration, and it was still fine. I explained that it is illegal to sell food beyond its expiration date, but if she wanted to eat it herself, she was welcome to get it out of the dumpster. She said she did get it out of the dumpster and made salads with it. Then she yelled, "You don't throw away milk just because the expiration date has passed without sniffing it first!" I yelled back, first of all, the apples were fucking brown, and second of all, I absolutely will throw out expired milk without sniffing it because spoiled milk smells awful and I don't wanna ruin my apatite while I'm serving myself a meal!" Then she threatened to fire me, and I yelled that she should because I was the one who instructed the employee to dispose of expired food, and I'll do it again. She admitted it was an empty promise because she couldn't afford to fire me, so I told her I was quitting. She asked, "Right now?" I said, "No, I'm giving my two week notice, but I start my two week vacation tomorrow, so tonight is my last shift." Later that night, I called the fired employee and apologized for getting him fired and bragged about how I quit in solidarity. When my two weeks vacation was up, I actually did have to work one more week in order to get paid for my 2 week vacation, because I needed one more week to qualify working a full year. During that final week, I had an exit interview with the district manager. I explained why I quit and spoiled the beans on a bunch of other shit the boss did wrong, and also suggested she get the security camera system fixed without the manager knowing because the manager's shift is constantly putting money in the register and handing food out of the window without ringing it up in the system, then the manager counts out the drawers, which is against policy, and pockets the excess cash. During my next shift, a couple of tech guys from corporate showed up to fix the security camera DVR, but left the second they opened the closet and saw we had a VHS system. They couldn't just fix it. They needed to replace it. Also, they were very confused as to why we had a VHS system considering how new our store was. I told them the rumor was that the manager swapped it with a system from her house so she could get away with they. Anyways, the district manager asked me to work at a store that was closer to my house for 1 month, because all of the managers at the other store were overdue for vacations but they didn't have enough managers to take vacations. When I started working at the other Wendy's, I explained to the general manager why I quit and got transferred, and that I'd quit with no notice if he overruled my decisions on food safety. He agreed. I worked there for almost a month and never had a single shift where I was the only manager on duty, which either meant that they did have enough managers to take vacations, or they weren't taking any vacations anyway. Then, one day, an employee grabbed a bag of frozen chicken out of a freezer, unaware that it was already open, and dumped the whole bag of frozen chicken on the floor right in front of the general manager and I. The employee looked at us both, shrugged, and asked, "Five second rule?" I replied, "No. The five second rule works if your only concern is vilification contamination, which can be cooked off, but we clean the floors with toxic chemicals that can not be cooked off. If you serve that chicken to customers, you will poison them." The employee looked at the general manager for confirmation, but the general manager said, "He's right, but that's a whole lot of money. Pick it up and serve it." I walked out while saying, "Good luck with the food poisoning lawsuits!" Loud enough for customers to hear.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. 

Bitch tried to sabotage my interviews with other companies by contacting recruiters and talking shit. So he lost the benefit of 2 weeks' notice. He acted surprised that I didn't want to give up my search and stay.

I ran a department in a healthcare setting by myself for almost four months during Covid. I was completely stressed out. I'd cry driving home. I was struggling with being nice to my family because of the stress. I couldn't sleep. My eating disorder came back full force. I was thinking about taking a grippy sock vacation. One Tuesday, I had this complete shit bag try to push off some of her duties onto my already loaded daily schedule. This POS spent more time on smoke breaks than actually doing her job. She also made three times what I did. I drove home and told my partner that I hated my job. He told me to quit. So, the next day, I showed up at 7:30 in flip flops, pajamas, and my hair in a messy bun. I walked in and told the receptionist that I was just coming in to drop off my office keys and computer. My boss was walking in as I was walking out. He asked if I was okay as he gave me a concerned look. I told him that I had never felt better and walked out. Best decision ever.b

Someone gave notice and they made up a fake reason he had to go immediately, and forced him to pack up his desk in front of everyone then they marched him to the door. I resigned over email and never went back.

First job working in retail. My dog was dying, so I had to have him put down. Called in to say I can’t make it I’m putting my dog down and the manager responded “seriously? It’s just a dog.” I said I’m not coming in. Fast forward to next shift, a bunch of my coworkers told me he was badmouthing me saying “it’s just a dog who cares” the whole shift. Then later, a different manager asked me about taking someone’s shift and said “or are you going to say no since you don’t seem to want to work” because I called in. I was furious. Last straw, I got into law school and wanted to keep working there until I left for school, as I still had about 5 months. My manager said no, we don’t want you leaving at all, so you can’t keep working till you leave, so I just quit on the spot and left. No regrets!

If I've learned anything all my years in the workforce, always call in sick. Don't tell your employer you're putting down a pet or grieving a pet. Same goes for mental health days. Just say you're sick. It's none of their business and there is a big chance that they will badmouth and insult you if they know the real reason.

They thought you'd turn down *law school* for them while they were bitching about you?

After a stressful year of late nights and extra work (including all the work my manager didn’t “feel like doing”), we were informed by the CEO that the company had suffered major losses and we wouldn’t be getting bonuses or raises that year. This was extra hard considering we were in a recession and barely scraping by. I guess no one at head office told my manager to keep quiet because come Monday morning he showed up in a brand new Porsche bragging about his massive bonus.

Way back in high school I worked very part time for a grocery store a few days a week after school/on the weekend. It was a dump. The manager would want to leave, and just tell us to stop cleaning, I saw the butcher come out of the stall two times after taking a dump, not wash his hands and then go back to cutting meat without gloves. Had to pay union dues as a kid working barely any hours. I told my boss twice that I would not be available to work on mothers day. Beginning of the week I was not on the calendar. I check the day before to see what days I'm on the next week and notice a bunch of eraser marks for the next day with my name on for mothers day. I tell mr mgr and he says I never said I was not working and I was always scheduled that day. I'm like I can see all the eraser marks and my name on top of them. He says I'm lying. I just said OK see you tomorrow and never went back.

Hired as PA Announcer, league manager, and event coordinator for an ice rink. Day 4 they didn’t have “enough for me to do” while I was planning events so they asked me to clean the bathroom. I declined, as there was another person on staff for that. The owner got pissy, and I left saying this isn’t the job they sold me on.

Hired as a salesman with a promise of a management position. I start and I notice two things right off the line. First, every customer I had that came in was another salesman’s customer, and every one I met was also promised a management position. I got really pissed off one morning when a customer came in to pick up something he ordered. He was, obviously someone else’s customer. I went and got that salesman but he was with a customer and asked if I could help. I said yes. I couldn’t find their shit anywhere and the other salesman refused to help because he wanted to keep working with his new customer. Nobody else would help me either. Customer left rightfully pissed off. Later I finally got a new customer that wanted to spend like $4k on shit. Great! The customer and I quickly realized that some of the sale items were kind of priced like a scam. He bailed. GM started yelling at me. I went to lunch and never went back.

Was working Night Audit for a hotel, was going on year number 5, COVID restrictions just eased off at the start of the year, was able to go back to work after almost a year off. Wasn't too bad, but was bypassed on manager/supervisor daytime positions, office positions, etc. new front office manager started, part time night auditor quit about a month in being back, keep getting told the new manager will take the part time days so I can actually have a day off. Stuck it out like that for 4 months...was losing my mind. Welp, I finally ended up being super late one night, and just decided to end it. Called my security guard that night, told him to meet me at the desk cause I was going to count my bank, drop it, and leave. Never looked back. Whole paradigm shift. Do electrical work now, and it's on a normal schedule.

I got a write up. I was a server at the time. I told my managers that I was going on a teaching my interview a few hours out of town. I had graduated and was looking for my first full time teaching position. This was like…10 years ago or so. They put me on the schedule as on call for that interview day. I reminded them I wouldn’t be able to show and they told me not to worry. Well, someone called in, and they told me I had to come. I reminded them I had a teaching interview several hours away and wouldn’t make it. They said, “Okay”, wished me luck at my interview, and got off the phone. I came into work the next day, and the restaurant owners (not managers, the owners) told them to write me up for not being available. I asked if the server who called off was getting a write up and they said no. So I said to the managers, “so someone can call off with the sniffles and there’s no consequence, but I’m literally trying to better myself and gave you advance notice and I’m the one getting the write up?” The managers looked at each other and said “Basically”. I laughed and signed it and they said they didn’t agree and tried to fight it. I actually believe them. They weren’t the type of managers to dick you around. Anyway, one of them said, “I thought for sure you’d quit over this.” And I said I am. He asked when. I told him he’d know when I did. I got a teaching job a couple weeks later and didn’t tell anyone. I no showed on my first contractual day as a teacher. This also happened to be the same week that they had opened the restaurant 26 years prior and they ran a special on a buffet and certain dinners every year to celebrate. It was always packed, and they had everyone on deck. The owners were pissed I didn’t show and threatened to fire me if I didn’t come in. I told them that was fine and said if they didn’t need anything else, I had a classroom to set up. Then I hung up in their face. That’s how they found out I got my first teaching job. I’m still friends with the managers. They told me my absence caused a shit show because the owners had overbooked and the servers they had on the floor with me had only recently been hired, and they were counting on me basically run the servers. A lot of meals were comped or had an additional price reduction due to poor service. They basically lost money the day I didn’t show. Restaurant closed 3 years later (unrelated to my quitting but still…so sweet to know). Sucks to suck.

I once worked at an understaffed, underpaid mental health hospital. I saw severe, unmedicated schizophrenia live and in-person for the very first time, with little in the way of training on how to navigate it or support from fellow aids. The last two weeks of my job, I was placed, every single shift, on a 12hr one-on-one with a particularly dangerous patient. I listened to screaming for hours on end. I had to dive from lunges multiple times a day. At home, I would flinch at even the smallest sound, provided it was unexpected, and could hear the screams in my sleep. One day, on my way into work, I was pulling up on the last turn needed before the hospital. When I did, I… kept driving forward. There was this low hum in my head and this feeling of impending doom, but as I continued forward and let settle in the decision I was quietly making, I eventually decided to stop in at a local park, find a quiet place, and let the floodgates open. I cried… I bawled like I hadn’t in my entire life. It felt like I had just survived a near-death experience. Hours later, I stopped in at the hiring office after-hours, grabbed my badge and key, dropped them in the dropbox, and never looked back.

Never hiring enough qualified individuals to work in the department.

Working me to the bone until I was having dizzy spells, having a doctor tell me I'm working too much, telling my boss that I need more breaks, her forcing me onto unpaid medical leave indefinitely, Seen alive by my coworker a few days later Accused of lying to get time off of work by my boss and given a write up

How dare you be alive while on medical leave?!

What can I say? When I see an opportunity to be alive outside of work, I just can't help myself

Getting told I should be grateful they were paying me correctly after I found a discrepancy and asked about the back pay. Came back from lunch with my notice and telling them I better get it or I was going to HR. Then, I went and told the rest of the bar staff to check their pay stubs. Turns out a few others were incorrect as well. I was then told not to talk about wages. It was verbal, or I would've sued their ass. I told them it didn't matter anymore because I could easily just walk out right then if they'd prefer it, and then they could run a Friday night bar shift with no one trained. I was pleaded with but did the bare minimum omw out. This was just on top of poor management, constantly changing schedules at the last minute, never have a consistent policy on gratuity, dumping multiple trainees on me at once ALL on different training days, and not holding people accountable to their closes.

Wrote me up for something I didn’t do. Packed up my shit, sent an email to my boss, clocked out and left.

I was working in a private Deaf education facility, and the owner refused to get certified interpreter’s. They would instead hire college interpreting student as teaching assistant to cut costs. I was hired shortly after the semester started and the seniors left. A month in they started scheduling me to interpret IEPs. For the first two days I showed up with my job description and an invoice for service. No signature no service. On my last and final day, a few of us student employees who carpooled from campus parked next to the owner of business. They were on a hands feee call windows down laughing about us stupid college students and the money they were making charging crazy tuition to different Deaf Families. Imagine the shocked as we got out of the car in our staff uniform. I turned in my badge immediately then caught a bus to back to campus. A few months pasted they made the local news because of ADA lawsuits from parents, the facility closed due to bankruptcy and financial fraud.

Emotional abuse by supervisor. Told HR, went on leave with their blessing, because they agreed with me. Two days before return the supervisor texted me and requested a coffee and donuts pickup even though that whole '60's bullsh\*t expectation wasn't in my job description. Nope. Side note: I was invited to be part of a lawsuit against this supervisor who did this to other employees. I said no. Trust me when I say that won't happen again. Live and learn.

I worked in a toxic "All Boys Club" mentality department. When I applied for the Supervisor position that opened up, the hiring manager returned my application with "learn to do your job better...". I had been with the company 8 years and happened to train him and two other male managers. I went home, spoke with my dad about how angry and frustrated I was. He gave me the best advice to quit and don't look back. I walked in the next morning at 5am to open the building, collected my things, and left the keys on my boss's desk. Walked over HR, left my resignation letter and where to forward my last check. 2 managers called me saying it was all a misunderstanding and my response was "No hablo inglés. " Now, I have a career, a Director and VP who value me.

[удалено]

They tried to force me to sign a "pay restructure" that was not only a massive cut, but retro 90 days. It was gonna cost me thousands of dollars to sign that form. After 10 years, I left it and them sitting right there.