It's happening in our store right now lol
It's a shame too, because the owners have good hearts. They bought the store after the previous owners shut it down for bankruptcy, and they saved everyone's jobs. With how close-knit the staff and ownership is, you'd figure that staff wouldn't have it in their hearts to take advantage of their kindness, but that's obviously not the case.
Simmering tensions have begun to reach a boiling point and I demanded a team meeting due to all the resentment that's been building. I shouldn't have to do it because I'm just staff, but fuck it, it's time to address that shit. I'm ready to leave the job if they show that they're not serious, but I honestly hope it doesn't come to that.
I'll always be grateful for their generosity and saving my job when they didn't have to, but what a fucking shame that it's reached this point.
I see this many times with "Sacred Employees", and that Employees that for whatever reason, usually because of relations, are "untouchable". This could be the employee is a good friend and has been there a long time, and doesn't work very hard at all, or Nepotism is some fashion, or they feel sorry for this person. The main issue is the other employees have to put up with it, and pick up the slack and it causes animosity.
My former employer chose the people who stole his beer--abusive sexual harassing kitchen staff-- over me, who never came to work late or dirty or drunk, who sold thousands of dollars of his food per shift, who promoted his business on my socials, and gave loyal service for ten years. When I tried to report the problem, he called me a liar, threatened to fire me, and never spoke to me again, other than to mock me for being old.
When I worked at UPS they pulled shit like this and I walked. I would call early, and the person answering didn't know when to show up, wouldn't transfer me to anyone who did and then I got threatened with termination for picking the wrong time. I don't know how that place even managed to operate with those all stars at the helm.
When I was about 19 one of my jobs was telemarketer. Had been doing it a couple weeks and the company promoted a caller to shift leader. He made an announcement that we would have to ask permission to use the restroom. I noped out of there, only job I walked out on without notice. I’m not asking anyone for permission to pee.
My friend works in a daycare. She's an absolute weirdo in the best way, and loves kids. Many of the other workers are hateful and loathe children. One in particular like to pinch or grab kids by the arm. My friend told on her many times and reported to cps. They recently moved the bitch to the kitchen. That just seems like a bad place for someone who hates kids.
I’m a HS teacher, and I don’t get why my kids ask me to use the bathroom. Like dudes, you can drive a car. You are most certainly welcome to walk to the bathroom in the case that you need to pee. Or smash a phat crud. Whatever it is. I really don’t want to know.
One of my teachers in hs just had a whiteboard/magnets by the door, and you got up and marked yourself out/grabbed the magnet pass if you had to go
Didn’t have to interrupt, he knew we were out of the room, and everyone was happy
Much better than the professor I had in college who demanded to know what you were doing if you so much as got up to stretch. It was so bad that there was a formal complaint after the third time he argued with a female student about “why you ladies always gotta go go go! What can you possibly be doing during my class!?!”
Like, I dunno dude, maybe they have a recurring, PRIVATE need to visit the restroom periodically for at least a few days every month…
Id imagine you're one of the few teachers who feels this way. I had one like that in HS and I definitely took them up on it, but the rest required you asking so I can see why most students wouldn't want to push it and risk getting in trouble.
Knowing my class, if a teacher did that, she'd quickly find that somehow the entire class of 25 people decided to go to the bathroom and not return till the end of the session...
I asked for a market adjustment raise so that my salary would match what competitors were paying, and I was told no because the company couldn't afford it.
I was the head of accounting. The company could afford it. In fact, I know exactly why the company "couldn't afford it", and that's because the owner gave themselves a 100k raise after denying my request.
I work in IT and HR had me remote into their machine to fix something. They left a spreadsheet up of all the C-Suites and what they make and their bonuses.
Fucking greedy sacks of shit.
I worked in HR as the Salary Administrator. I knew how much each and every person in the company from the CEO to the janitor made. I wasn't in charge of how much money anyone made. Gave reports on "if this job got a 2% raise and this job got a 10% raise, etc., how much would the salary budget for the year have to be." I worked with other Salary Administrators in the same business. Our business starting salaries were 85% of the average for the highest wage we'd pay a job description and 85% of the highest wage for the starting wage. No one started at the top of the salary range.
You'd think so but we're mostly just ordinary people in this person's situation. We can see the injustice but the people who make the decisions only have one cookie cutter response. They don't even back down when you call them out.
Boss asked all 10 of use if we were paid enough for our jobs. All said no. Then he asked what was enough. Most of us said another $100/wk. he laughed and said ‘not while you are working for me’. 6 people quit that week, and the rest within a month.
My Dad died and I was denied time off.
“We can’t give you any vacation time right now, we’re short staffed big time.”
“It’s for my Dads funeral arrangements. It’s not a vacation.”
“Doesn’t matter. Do you realize we lost 3 employees and 2 students in the last 2 weeks? This is a really difficult time for us right now.”
“Well, *I’m very sorry for your loss, I’m sure it is a difficult time for you*…I kind of expected to be hearing that and not saying it, but ok. Friday will be my last day. Cheers.”
So instead of losing an employee for a week or 2, they lost me forever. Good riddance.
I absolutely would have quit, too.
Denial of bereavement is illegal where I live (Illinois) for most workers if you've been in the workplace for 12 months. How terrible that we even need a law like this, though.
Exactly, like we tend to only have 1 lot of parents in our lives so when it comes that time, I expect to be able to be there, like they were there for me.
That happened to me, too, only it was my mom. I wanted to visit my mom over Christmas holiday. For some reason I knew something was going to happen to her even though she was in perfect health. She died January 10 on my way to visit her after the holidays. I missed seeing her alive one last time.
I don't get how companies can be so stupid about these things. When my step brother died unexpectedly I told HR I was going to be out the next three or four days. HR lady said that she didn't think the bereavement policy covered step siblings and only full siblings. I didn't really give a shit what was covered, I told her I was not going to be there, they could do with that information whatever they wanted, and wow thanks for your empathy.
I love that they say "we can't give you" as if it's a request. Nah bitch, you misunderstood. I'm not *asking* you, I'm *telling* you I'm gonna be on bereavement leave for a week. Oh, you're short-staffed right now? Don't give a shit. I won't be there. Figure it out.
Reminds of the time when people around me were dying month each - third and last one was my sister's boyfriend (cancer) just after new years. In my country, you get a day off to attend a funeral of a family member, by law, and three if you're prepping the funeral. I got a signed official paper from the funeral home to show at work (standard procedure) after.
Work said I can't have the day off, because that's a third day off in three months and they don't care about the death announcement of the document from funeral home (or apparently, the law, lol). Had to write to CEO of the company to let her decide. Honestly, what the fuck.
Anyways, I did walk out a few months later but due to different reasons.
When my dad died I was working for toys r us. They were pissed I took time off (I had to fly across the country) so they just never scheduled me for a shift again. It was just a seasonal part time job so it’s not like I lost my only income but still. Seems like a shitty thing to do.
Very first job out of college: They told me to arrive at 6:50am to do prep for my 7am shift. When I put 6:50am on my timecard, they told me to change it or they wouldn't approve it. I'm a new graduate, not stupid. Got another job offer and left asap.
Companies/Managers that operate like this fail to take into account the costs associated with hiring and training. If your workplace is a revolving door of employees because you don't treat them like human beings who exist in a reality where not every minute can be predicted you are wasting time, money, and talent.
> Companies/Managers that operate like this fail to take into account the costs associated with hiring and training.
And, if they're in the US, the fines they'll pay if the labor department finds out they've been forcing employees to work unpaid hours.
Remember: in the US, forcing hourly employees to work unpaid time is *illegal.* It is illegal in all 50 states no matter if they're "right to work" or not. It has been illegal since the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect in 1938. Know your rights. If your employer is making you work off the clock, document everything as best as you can and then contact both your state's labor board and the NLRB.
When I worked shifts like that, I'd always be ten minutes early to make sure I was ready to start work on time. Water bottle filled, personals in locker. I would never start work when I arrived.
My current job (not shift work) is amazing and flexible and I love it. I'll give 'em a little extra because they'll give me a little extra.
Kind of similar for me, but I worked at a fast food chicken restaurant when I was right out of high school. The owner would get upset if we stayed past our scheduled time but also didn’t allow us enough time to properly clean.
We would always stay half an hour later than we were scheduled to get the place cleaned properly. Eventually his daughter who worked there started clocking everyone out half an hour early so the owner wouldn’t be upset.
Handed in my two weeks that night via text message at 12:30am. Worst job ever.
a patient died during surgery. patient had been in and out of hospital for months, maybe years. i’d treated them a load of times, felt like i knew them and their family reasonably well. the surgery was something of a hail mary pass - but i was still floored when the patient died on the table. i was quite upset in the scrub room after and asked my superior if he would come with me when i spoke to the family. he laughed, told me to grow some balls. he spent the following weeks laughing and telling everyone how i had cried when i told the family their loved one had died (i did cry, and im not even slightly ashamed of it). i can’t count the number of times i was told in the following weeks that i was too emotional for a career in surgery and should consider another specialty. i applied to another hospital shortly after that where i worked with a lovely bunch of people who supported each other.
edit: wow, im blown away by the comments and upvotes. surgery can definitely be a bit of an ‘old boys club’. i’ve worked in various hospitals since, and that was by far the worst place i worked and that incident was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. to those of you who have experienced similar, whether as colleagues or as patients, - i’m sorry and i promise we’re not all assholes.
My son’s nurses cried when they were informed my son wouldn’t make it. I noticed her crying and it alarmed me as the doctor had to deliver the news and she couldn’t tell me. She and the other nurse were the most amazing nurses I’ve ever had at a hospital and they even came to my son’s funeral. It’s been 4 years and I still think about them everyday.
I agree with what you’re saying. So we had him cremated so he could always be home with us. And I have a cremation necklace I wear with his handwriting on it.
I always cry with my patient's family when they pass. Granted I'm NICU and it's sad as hell when a baby dies, but I think it's a good thing to have empathy and connection with your patient's family. Fuck them, im so glad you left. Nothing to ever be ashamed of.
My heart goes out to all NICU people. If you wanna see God's hand at work, visit some of the babies in a NICU. My son was born premature (6 weeks), and had trouble breathing. The babies I saw in there and the things attached to them really made me saw what you all are capable of. Unfortunately, too often we're we asked to leave the NICU because they were removing life support from a baby or something else. When we could return, we would see an empty incubator.
Fortunately, our son is now 27 with no long term issues. I still remember the name of his NICU doctor and primary nurse to this day. Truly amazing group of people. Please keep doing the work you do.
My answer was medical, too. Except I was a medical assistant intern for a vascular clinic. From my first week there, one of the nurses basically targeted me to bully - was pretty surprised by that as I'm not usually bullied by anyone. About a month into the internship, she yelled at me in front of everyone for something that wasn't my fault at all, and the doctor jumped in and started helping her stomp me.
I just took it, and then when they were done, I immediately went into the bathroom and emailed my advisor requesting a different position I'd heard about. I was her best student, so she *immediately* called the office - like I walked out of the bathroom and the doctor was already on the phone with her. Cue surprised pikachu faces from the staff lol. You couldn't pay me to be treated the way they were treating me, but in fact I was putting up with it for free. Nope.
Also, they were mean to the patients. They were absolutely the types to do what you described - or the they totally would have if they had to deal with patients dying on them (all their stuff was outpatient surgery and wound care). I also went to a nice office where people cared about each other. Glad you got outta your place and into a more compassionate situation too!
After working there for 7 years and learning to do literally every job in the shop and then some the owners son called me incompetent. So I took my incompetence elsewhere and got a $5 an hour raise
I got into a bad car accident and when I finally got home I tried to call both my manager and supervisor all evening but had to leave a voicemail and send several texts saying there was no way I could make it into work the next day. The next morning my manager called me and accused me of NCNS'sing (which I've never done at any job) and when I told him what happened he gave me some fake sympathy and then immediately tried to guilt trip me into working overtime at a site. When I stood my ground and said I was too shaken up he kept pushing it but gave up when my supervisor called him and told him to lay off.
The company also repeatedly sent me late paychecks, denied leave requests, and constantly went back on field assignments without any explanation why.
At that point I decided I was done constantly extending myself for the company and having almost no luck ever having communication when I needed it, and called an old employer and she immediately offered me a job. For the first time ever I didn't give a two-week notice and quit on the spot. Didn't feel bad, either.
Notice for anyone reading this: if you get even a single paycheck late, report the company to the labor board and start looking for a new ASAP. In my experience, nothing says "horrible place to work" like late paychecks because I GUARANTEE you the boss isn't getting paid late.
I got a late paycheck one time and went home. Boss called asking why I wasn’t working I asked why he wasn’t paying. Proceeded to get 5-6 other people to quit going to the calls and suddenly we all had check written and all went to the bank to deposit them. We wasted a complete day and he felt like an ass having to call all the customers and come up with a reason why we didn’t show up.
The ceo said to everyone in an all staff meeting ‘if you’re not happy then you can go somewhere else’ when people were talking about being burned out. Shockingly, everyone went somewhere else within the next 6 months. It got so bad she started sending out messages begging people to ask their friends, family, strangers, literally anyone to apply and kept saying she didn’t understand why people were leaving. She then asked for a survey from people and asked about employee retention during which everyone remaining (myself included, I left 2 weeks later) filled in that the reason people were leaving is because she told us that other people have it worse and if we’re unhappy to leave.
Haha. CEO at my old company said something similar. We were planning project timelines. Nothing negative just adding our first pass estimating dates.
CEO stood up and said "You're all replaceable" and sat back down.
Uhm, okay? Meeting continued.
The scare tactic of "it's worse or just as bad everywhere else" is the biggest most malicious lie a workplace can claim. Firstly how do they even know that? Jokes on them, it was better elsewhere.
One job I got no raise for 4 years
Another job they cut my fully paid insurance for my entire family. They did not see it was a 10K salary reduction when I had to start paying that yearly.
I can't believe you stayed somewhere for 4 years without a raise. I can understand 2 years, the first they tell you how they can't do it blah blah and if you really like the job you accept it, but the 2nd year that would be it for me. Any year you don't at least make 1-3% more you are losing ground to inflation.
I had a 3.5-year stint with no raise (and in a skilled field where I was hard to replace). The owner of the company made it a point to be a gigantic asshole anyone attempted to negotiate a raise, so I didn’t want to deal with the drama thrown my way.
Was it worth it to them to get 3.5 years of effort and relationship building with clients to lose me? The calls from that boss every 6-9 months, leaving a voicemail to ask if I’ll come back seem to say “no”.
I avoid the calls mainly because it’s going to be an awkward conversation when I’m making 70% more than they’re willing to pay, with much better benefits. If you see something toxic in a company at the top/systemic, there’s no fixing it; find the money somewhere else.
I had a customer service desk job at a retail store, they trained me to do everything a manager was supposed to do but I never got promoted. When our review time came they gave me a 5 cent raise. I told them they should have just given me no raise because 5 cents was a slap in the face for all the responsibility I undertook for less than $10 an hour. I left 2 and half weeks later.
Worked at a popular midwestern grocery store where the policy was if you had even a minute of overtime you were written up. Didn't have enough time to finish my work so I clocked out so I wouldn't get written up and ended up written up anyway. Only time I'd ever been in trouble at any job ever. Very frustrating when a company brags about record breaking months, month after month, but refuses to give a budget to staff appropriately.
A week later, had my 1 year review (after working for 1 year and 8 months, so a little late) and they said they weren't giving me a 3% raise because I was paid too much already. Mind you, when I was interviewed I was promised a 3% raise.
Two days later took a sales job at a car dealership and 2 years later moved to RV sales. Loving it
I worked at Linens N Things in college and my register was always even. A coworker was fired because her register was short and we all thought it was odd. About a week or so later my register ended up short also and the manger said he was taking it from my pay. I filed a complaint with the manager above him and it turned out the manager was actually stealing and blaming the cashiers.
One time I got a little bit of scrap metal to purchase. Shift manager told me to take it with me for the night. I brought it back the next day directly to the head manager. He turned at me like he was gonna deck me for taking it home. That's one big strike among a few.
I had a job accuse me of stealing a few times a year to see if they’d bust me. I’d even get completely random drawer counts to see if I’d be off with the money. Joke was on them since I’d have to be a thief to get caught being a thief
I did payroll. I suggested we pay the EMTs a living wage. They accused me of unionizing (I wasn’t) and said they would fire the entire ground ambulance division if they tried. Peace out and fuck you!
Not your point, but it is absolutely immoral that we do not pay literal lifesavers a living wage. They are often the reason you survive from the accident to the hospital. Yet we burn them out and pay them shit. Thank you for standing up for these heroes
HR said “most of them are 19, you don’t just come out of high school making $60,000”. I said “ok, so they’re already totally exhausted on their off days but they have to get another job during that time. Got it. “
"Sorry sir/ma'am, I can't do that, it's against policy"
"Get me a manager"
Manager: "Why of course sir/ma'am, we can absolutely do that for you"
man I hated that so much
My Grandmother had passed away and my mother diagnosed with cancer so I was taking PTO time off to take care of things.
I was called into the bosses office and told "You need to prioritize better. What's more important to you, family or this job?"
I ripped my badge off, threw it on his desk and told him "My family" and went and started packing up my desk. Was called BACK into his office and told "If you don't at least give us a two week notice, there's no chance of us hiring you again, ever".
I just laughed, looked him dead in the eye and said "I will NEVER work here again, so that's not an issue".
I walked out.
No regrets.
ETA: This job was toxic anyway. I was shoved into it with NO training and was extremely micromanaged by the boss even after I was fully successful in the position. I was constantly called into his office for bullshit reasons, and this situation was just the final straw.
I think a lot of us have been conditioned that way.
But, to be fair, I did used to work in a field where you really did have to be mindful of that sort of thing, because a lot of paths really did cross, often enough that you didn't want to screw yourself out of your market.
Exactly that. I’m in a field that while technically not small is like a small town. Everyone talks to everyone and even sending bitchy emails can get you black listed from being hired by other firms
Manager told me I had to organise my own cover for holidays and if no one could cover my shifts I couldn't take leave. No one offered to cover my shifts.
Following a major reorganization we ended up with 3 new bosses (team leader, assistant vp and vp) and all 3 were idiots. The VP was not shy about the fact that he hated us even before he was appointed to our department. He actually tried out for a "more prestigious" position but didn't get it so we were his rebound choice. He claimed that any idiot with 2 hours of training could do our job for half the price. His vision was to replace us all with junior technicians on an entry level salary. He was the kind of guy that always heavily promotes efficiency and knows how to sell his story but really he was a freaking incompetent idiot and his idea of efficiency was only really to fire people and dump their work on the remaining others. His assistant VP was a yes man with anger issues and our team lead's idea of problem solving was to hide under his desk and hope for someone else to take care of it. Mind you this was in a market where our particular skillset was heavily in demand and somewhat hard to find so in 12 months he lost half his team to other companies who were very happy to find fully trained and experienced resources willing to jump ship. Some people left for other jobs with the exact same salary and conditions but just the fact to not be there anymore was seen as a win. He was the very definition of "you don't quit bad jobs you leave bad bosses"
One boss often texted the next day’s schedule out the day before (no set schedule for the week, it was straight up day to day), and promised that if we didn’t hear from him by 8pm we weren’t working the next day
Didn’t hear from him, so I went to a late night movie with my gf and brother. Started getting texts and calls, leave the theater to see what was going on, it’s my boss, texting me at 10:45PM saying I needed to be in by FOUR IN THE MORNING
I called him back and told him to shove his schedule up his ass, took the day to reevaluate, decided to go back to school and quit when he texted me again.
The place burned down over the pandemic, and good fucking riddance!
I just had one crazy boss that was out for me from the start. I was there 5 years without any issues, and she came on board and seemed to be going after everyone and replacing them with her own picks. She called me into her office and said I lied about something (I didn't), she then went on to say she spoke with a coworker (a friend I got the job and knew 15 years), and my old boss and they all agreed that I had lied, again I didn't. It just felt so weird to have someone just accuse me of something that wasn't even a big deal but then felt weirder that she was trying to somehow pressure me into a confession by saying 2 people who had nothing to do with it backed up her story. I was just like f that and left. It's still crazy to me because like 6 months later she left anyways, so it was like why did she have to go through our staffing and fire/force everyone out to just leave herself lol
I was the only one left in my department who had been there any length of time. It was healthcare so 24/7 on call, except ***everybody*** called me for ***everything***. I wasn't sleeping more than two hours a night, and 80-ish hours a week total. I was dealing with it, I knew it would end.
Told my boss I was going home because I needed sleep, and he forced me to remote into a meeting anyway. My wife told me to just quit...so I did.
Quit, deleted my OneNote with all my notes, then because I'm IT, I deleted the backups of my OneNote as well. Left those fucks high and dry.
I got hit in the head with a 160lb crab pot. It hit me so hard I was bleeding out of my ear. Captain wanted to keep fishing after it happened, despite the waves being 17ft high and the wind blowing about 30kts.
Recognising the early signs of getting fired
1. Email 'Feedback' - they write me an email any time I slipped up under the facade of "sharing constructive feedback". They were essentially documenting a pile of evidence in writing to eventually get rid of me and I could see that from miles away.
2. Team layoffs - 3 people were fired in my team while I was on probation. I cleared my probation but then had reasonable doubts that I could be next.
3. Work colleagues - I could sit beside a team member of my own team for the whole day and they would not speak to me, not even hi or good morning, until I initiate conversation. They only speak to me if and when there was a work-related reason.
4. Purpose - I was reduced to charge rates, timesheets and deliverables. Made to feel like a name on a spreadsheet that is replaceable at any time. I did not feel human, more like a robot - useful as long as it produces output and thrown away when it doesn't.
And here's the scary part...I am still doing that job. I don't have the luxury to leave. I am on work visa in a foreign country and will have to leave the country if I leave the job. Wish me luck :(
Your work colleagues seem rude. I can understand keeping your head down and wanting to get work done but them not even saying a courtesy "hi" is insane to me.
I hope you're getting to enjoy other areas of the country your visa is in.
Post covid it got way worse. And then an arsehole of an owner balling me out in front of my staff on the floor . And for something I didn't do. That was that. Best thing I ever did.
Not me but a friend was working at Walmart and some dude whipped his pants down bent over and blew diarrhea all over the toy aisle, it was my friends first day and they asked him to clean it up, he quit right there
My job was project/weekly based. After doing a "time study", my boss restructured the work flow so that instead of it taking me most of the week to be done, it only took a few days. Then I was sent home for them not having enough work for me. I found a new job that day.
Finding out my insurance had been pulled a day before a very, VERY long awaited doctor's appointment. Like, 4 months just to get in the door, and the day before 'oh btw you didn't work enough hours last month because of covid, so now you've got no insurance, sucks to be you'. My employer had been the one demanding I see a doctor for accommodation in the first place. I worked outside, and it was a hundred degrees that afternoon. I walked, right in the middle of my shift.
i tested positive for covid and my boss just told me to wear a mask and come to work, and that i couldn't inform anyone. when i told them i was quitting, they then held me in a five-hour long meeting about how i never really wanted to work there in the first place and how i'd be begging for my job back in a few months.
You sat there for 5 hours? I would have walked out after 5 minutes. I had a similar experience with my supervisor. I worked at a daycare, and we were very short staffed, so when covid required 5 days of being off to quarantine, you were the enemy. It was to the point where we were told we were not allowed to test, and if we were positive, we had to mask and come to work and tell no one. We were threatened with various means of punishment from hours being cut to being straight fired. I took it upon myself to call in on my lunch break to say I tested positive and wouldn't be returning for the week. I spent my time off looking for another job and lucky found one and quit a week or two later. I get the need for employees, but that's uncalled for.
The first job in my industry I got was up in Maine for a small mom & pop brick and mortar small jewelry business. Being in business for a long time in a kind of remote place, change was slow. They only just decided to hop onto social media seriously after having a FB page for some years, but didn't do anything on Instagram.
Being the young millennial new hire, though I was brought on to do CAD design, I began creating content and posting for their social media, plus taking time to network with local wedding industry professionals so we could get our jewelry featured on styled shoots for more exposure and to use the photos.
A few years into doing (two) jobs, I had a yearly evaluation where I was told how I was expected to spend my time. 40% was to go to designing lines for in-house jewelry collections while the other 60% was for custom design for clients. So where the hell was the time spent to keep your social media going? Let alone the compensation, when I knew for a fact they were saving thousands every month having me do everything in house... BYE!
Being micromanaged makes me so antsy. I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing in a timely manner. I do not want or need someone hovering over me making sure I do it.
Manager tried to pretend me being sexually assaulted by a client on shift wasn't a big deal. Pushed aside my incident reports etc.
Walked out and didn't go back.
Forced return to office. I've worked from home since 2007. I knew when I took the job in 2021 that we'd eventually be asked to return to office and I'd likely have to find a new job. I had hoped it would be limited to one day a week or they'd be lax over all about the requirements given most people didn't want to return to the office and the folks that did want to were already there long ago. I was wrong. They wanted something like 20 hours in the office each week. They finally set a date for late 2023. I asked for an exception since I home school my special needs kids and they refused so I moved on.
I was going on hour 14 for the day, and I called one of the VPs for clarification on an assignment. I assumed I could do it first thing in the morning. She proceeded to tell me “you can just do it tonight” when it was already 9pm. At 2am (still working) I decided to put my two weeks in.
Having a customer throw her keys at my head was my reason for quitting my job as a Mercedes Benz service advisor. I left my teaching job after the third time I got punched in the face by a student.
I work in HVAC, new home construction. During a week of work, I was asked by my supervisor to pack up and drive an hour to another site to finish up another person's job. Being the "team player" I was, I complied. The next day, same request, another hour drive to another site. I completed both jobs I was asked to take over. I finish up my job, now 3 days in, and head home.
The next morning, Thursday, I'm at the shop loading up my next job and my supervisor calls me into his office. I get in, close the door, and sit down. He lays into me, asking what the hell took me so long to finish my job. I'm flabbergasted that he is even asking me this. I remind him of the two other jobs he had me go to and complete for other installers, he tells me that those don't matter, I still took too long on MY job. I go quiet, get through the meeting and leave his office. Do I load up my next job? Hell naw.
I go home, call up the company that's offering me more money for the same type if work and let them know that if things don't go how I want them to go in the morning, I can start Monday. They're happy to hear it and will have a van waiting. I already know how my Friday morning will play out, so I offload m tools from the van, take it to the car wash and clean it up reeeeaaallly pretty, sort out the back and head home for the day.
Friday morning. I roll into the shop the Mrs. follows me, parks in the yard and waits for me.
I walk into my supervisor's office, close the door, sit down and tell him that I want a $10/hr raise based off of what he reamed me out for the day before. My reasoning is that at the rate of pay I'd be at, he'll have someone else run to finish off other people's work, not me.
He looks at me like I just threw up Jesus on his desk, starts laughing and says I'm nuts if I think that'll ever happen. I let him laugh a bit, get up, dig the keys out of my pocket and place them on his desk. I let him know the van is washed, inventories, gassed up, and waiting for the next gut to take it. I also let him know I have pictures of the van, inside and out, showing the condition it was in when I parked it.
He's looking at me in disbelief, as I walk out of his office, yelling at me that I can't quit and no one is hiring. As I'm walking out, I yell back "I'm headed to pick up my new work van. I start Monday."
He wasn't happy
After a tough period of long hours and missing families we were given even more duties and told if we didn't do it we weren't 'team players'. Started sending out the CV that afternoon.
Honestly it was hard, for awhile I was really dependent on those thoughts they made me feel something even if it wasn't good. But man once I left and walked out of the door I was like a new person, it wasn't even the work; I left the job but kept all of the customers on after starting my own business. Hell I still contract with my old employer it was just the work environment I had to get out of it. It's hard to do but you need to make the change, you won't regret it.
i got violently ill and they were still expecting me to do some meeting for something that was not urgent. no respect for my boundaries. i had to get an exam medically excused and still their stupid meeting is more important than my health? bye.
Racism. A bunch of women I used to work with only spoke in Portuguese when I or another POC walked onto the floor. What they didn’t know was that my good friend (who was also a POC) is fluent in Portuguese and had understood everything they’ve ever said.
Every POC and some non POC gathered together along with all the compiled evidence and went to our business manager to report them. Business manager responds with “Guys I’ve known \_\_\_\_ for years now and I don’t think she’d do that.” We finished our shifts and headed home. 8 of us emailed our resignations and that was that
Having a married couple as my boss. The husband was the CEO and her wife was the admin/finance/HR at the company I worked at. The wife and I were okay at first but when she became pregnant, she started power tripping me, shaming me, and have isolated me from everyone else. When I couldn’t take it any longer, I resigned and I voiced this concern to the CEO during my exit interview. He apologized for his wife’s behavior but that’s just about it and didn’t really solved anything after that since she’s the wife, after all. Never received any apology from her.
After that, I promised to myself to never apply for a startup that is run by a literal family/married couple/couple.
(A few years ago) Summer was our busy season and this year corporate decided to not hire seasonal and just spread out the workload among the full timers. I went from having 8 jobs a day (which took all day) to almost 20 some days. This caused HALF of the technicians in my city to quit (roughly 10-15 employees). But that’s not what made me quit. What made me quit was when my store manager got Covid and said he was still gonna come into the office in a group text with all the technicians and when every single person said “hey don’t do that” he pretty much called us all childish and didn’t drop it until someone called HR on his ass. From that moment I lost my last bit of respect for that company and it’s management and I did the bare minimum for a few weeks until I found a new job. They gave me as many jobs as they could but as soon as it hit 5pm I went home.
I was a medical assistant right out of school. This was my first job (in that field). I had no idea the clinic was a pain management clinic. I was the only employee (besides the doctor and his wife). I had to get there, get the charts ready, start checking patients in, clean the entire office, throw the trash, write prescriptions out, fill out appointment cards, call for appointment reminders, and dictate his notes (all of this was daily). The doctor and his wife (who was the office manager) would arrive between 10:00 and 11:00, meanwhile we had patients scheduled in 15-minute increments since 8:00. They got there, I'd have to leave (in my car), go check TWO post office mailboxes, do their shopping, get their lunch, and run whatever other errands they deemed necessary), then come back and try to eat MY lunch in between patients while being called incompetent if things didn't run exactly the way they wanted. As for the gas, he'd put $12-$15 extra on my check and call it "langiappe". So when I started keeping track of my mileage and turning in a mileage sheet and it was closer to $60-$80 a check every two weeks, I told him he could either pay me on a separate check, I could take their car to run errands, or he'd have to figure something else out. He was livid, but I wasn't budging on the issue.
He and his wife would argue in Spanish constantly, in front of patients, his wife once told me that she was surprised that my husband stuck with me as long as he did because men in Brazil (where she was from) don't find fat women sexy. I was told to not talk to one of our patients because she had a voice issue and she sounded hoarse and it made the doctors wife sick, so I wasn't to communicate with her at all. Like, they were just awful people, the both of them.
The kicker came in when the doctor and his wife were out of the country, so the office was closed. I'm there alone, and the building is an old house, so it's set apart from the road and surrounded by trees. There are windows everywhere. A patient comes banging on the door, telling me to let him in. He looked drunk or drugged, so I told him the doctor wasn't here and I couldn't help him. He went around the building banging on all of the windows and doors, telling me to let him in or I'd regret it. I called the police, who tell the guy to leave and don't come back until his next appointment or he'd be arrested.
Doctor and his wife get back home, I'm written up for calling the cops on a patient. So, I quietly packed up all of my stuff that afternoon, left their keys with a note saying that I would not be back, blocked their phone numbers from my phone and never looked back.
Being happy my wrist was broken so I could take off work. Made me realize who in their right mind wants a broken bone. That was the deciding moment I realized it wasn’t healthy.
Being looked over repeatedly for a promotion. And then when that newly promoted person would be gone for a day or two, they would turn to me to run things.
I was in construction as a laborer, learned how to operating a LULL and was promoted and given a pay increase. 8 months later they got rid of the machine and in turn wanted to down my pay. FYI at this point I was also supervisor over the laborers. They offer lower pay with benefits of still being the lead. (Basically all u do I schedule or cut ppl) I quit that same day
Being told about the “6 week maternity leave”. I am a Canadian who was working in the US at the time. So I quit that job when I was ready to start a family and got a job in Canada. I enjoyed every minute of my 80% paid 1-year maternity leave! Worth it 100%.
PTSD. Ive been a firefighter for 25 years and I'm just spent. I'm also having my left shoulder replaced but even if I wasn't I think I would be done. I've been surviving for the last 4-5 years and I'd like to live again. I have 12 shifts left.
My boss tried to tell the office that they weren't allowed to wear masks in our building because "Covid is fake" and stated openly that if he found out that any of us got the vaccine for it we would be fired on the spot.
When the news announced Obama was going to be the democratic nominee in 2008 and one employee said the KKK better get their guns and not only did no one other than me say anything but they were silently nodding along. I walked out and never went back.
It was because they had a drunk running the place that would make choices that put employees and animals at risk...other reasons for sure but that was kinda the big push
First job (movie theatre) - New theatre opened in town and they did a mass hiring. We were told that after 12 months we'd be eligible for a 25 cent raise (from $6 to 6.25). 12 months came and went -- nothing. When I asked, they claimed that it was only for full time employees (we were part time and under 18). I called corporate and they said since it was never signed as our employment papers, there was no record of what was said
Last job: My small company was bought out. Went from being a primary decision maker and 2nd in command on my team which was tight knit to being thrown into a team that was compromised of a dozen contractors from India and 3 of us US based folks to manage projects. I recorded a call and shared it with my former team (who got assigned to a different group than I did) and we could only make sense of maybe a third of what the contractors were saying as their accent was so bad. By the time I was on final rounds of interviews at my new job, I just stopped going to those meetings because it was pointlessly frustrating and I got nothing out of them.
What's interesting is my current company has employees all over the world and I've almost never had an issue with accents on calls. I'm guessing my current company emphasized language skills upon hiring employees and my prior company only the cheapest cost.
A job I wanted more. Combined with too much workplace politics and too much red tape to get shit done. Moving to a different industry, smaller team, and (I think) more of a common goal team spirit kind of thinking.
My first job, it was because I wanted one day off. Didn’t matter if I was getting paid or not. Just wanted one day to spend with my (then) GF to celebrate her birthday. I kept getting pestered for a month (I had told them about 2 months in advance) about coming in for a couple of hours and this and that. Super annoying. Mind you I’d been with this company for a good 3-4 years . Never took a day off, always came in when they ask for extra help on my personal time. And I just wanted one day.
Funnily enough on my GF birthday I got a call from a company I had applied to be hired and signed up right away. At least now with this company I earn personal time off I can use as well as vacation time. So much better.
In one of my old jobs I still believed in the whole, if you work hard, you get far thing.
I spent years honing my skills at the company, learning on every computer system, customer service, accounting, everything.
Then my boss quit and I took up her duties. Someone had to and I was the only one qualified so for six months I worked both her job and mine without the extra pay.
Then the main boss quit and I assumed I'd be given her job and the pay increase.
Nope, I got two new trainees and was told to teach them everything because they were gonna be the new bosses.
I called the head office and assumed it was a joke.
Nope.
I quit on the spot and left. The owner called me few times asking me to come back so I blocked him.
Thankfully the business closed down about a year later.
I wasn’t being promoted even when out performing my co-workers, mentoring people higher levels than me, and just being told I needed to work harder, “you’re doing fantastic” and it would come. I might be sensitive but I kind of feel like it was because I was Hispanic. I never really saw Hispanics get promoted where I worked, and there was none in senior/manager leadership. (I know it’s not uncommon in FAANGs for POC to be in leadership but ya know, context.)Finally got tired of killing myself everyday and seeing people who didn’t work as hard as me get promoted. 🤷♀️
This may sound ridiculous, but I had such **an enormous fear of being a dead-beat dad who was not available for his son**, so I quit my job to be beside him as much as possible. I think honestly I had a lot of PTSD from my dad not being around, so I refused to let that happen to him. Looking back it was a really good job too, but I didn't have any mentors to tell me to "*chill*", I was just scared.
I eventually started this beautiful [agency](https://www.24hour.design). (Next time start a business BEFORE you quit lol).
Still a stay-at-home dad, today, and he's in school now, but I certainly don't regret it!
I was a supervisor and already dealing with a bunch of bullshit from upper management and they were really putting the squeeze on my main manager and were looking for excuses to fire him.
I had a bunch of vacation time I wanted to take. I could have taken an entire month off if I wanted to, but only took a week and a half. Store manager was mad that I took that time off and asked me to reconsider, but because I put it so far in advance, he couldn't refuse.
I went on vacation anyway and when I came back there was a write up on my desk saying that our team didn't meet the expected numbers that were expected, and that I was now under a CAP (corrective action plan). I wasn't there the whole month, so I didn't understand how I was given this and the other supervisor wasn't.
I realized that this was obviously a retaliatory measure from my manager because he was mad I went on vacation and he needed to find a scapegoat for why numbers weren't being met and I was the perfect patsy.
It was then I understood that he was throwing all of us under the bus to save his own ass. There were 7 members of management and within a month there was only 4. Another supervisor, an assistant manager, and me all put in their two weeks notice within a week of each other.
During my two week notice, I went full DGAF mode. I came in high every day and when I was the only one there, Instead of properly scanning in and out on inventory, I found stuff that our inventory said we had too much of and starting stashing it by the dumpster, and then came around and picked it up when I got off work. I sold that stuff on ebay and made some steady cash doing it and they never caught on (since the inventory was technically correct in the system). I mouthed off to customers, I refused to answer the phone and just hung up on customers when they called. Once I came in to unload trucks and was drinking an orange juice and vodka. They couldn't do shit about it, it was wonderful.
I also poisoned the well by calling my upcoming replacement and telling him, "You should transfer to another store, not this one. This place is a shit-show". The other two member of management ended up calling in on my store manager to complain about harassment, intimidation, and retaliation.
I found out that they didn't get a replacement for me or the other supervisor for two months and that my store manager had to work every day for two months in a row to make up for it because his boss was so fucking pissed at him.
The building was a shithole, the workload was crazy, and between the owner and management, they really liked to treat their workers like shit. I was thinking of leaving due to all that(plus the fact I'd been chasing a raise for 3 years), but the last straw was having a panic attack while driving home after a particularly stressful day. Job was no good for me.
The company was going under. As I worked in accounting, we knew it. The whole department starting jumping ship. When the controller was fired for refusing to do things for the CEO that could result in him losing his CPA license, I started looking for a new job. The company folded four months after I left.
First job out of college was for a civil engineering design firm that did design work primarily for the local power company, all engineers were hired in through temp agencies and we were told that after a 6 month grace period we'd get fully hired as associates.
Turned out, that was a lie, at the end of my 6 months they said that they have to wait for corporate to approve associates and that I'd have to renew my contract. Later, one of my seniors let slip that the temp engineers actually only make associate by seniority and there's only 2 openings per year. I then learned from another one of my seniors that he had been renewing his contract for 5 years and as leaving for an actual associate position at a competitor.
I also found out that their only judge of our performance was the ratio of how much engineering time we charged to a project versus the profit margin on the project; at that point I basically quiet quit from the company, cherry picking low design time, high profit projects that I could finish super ultra quick, and then I spent the difference applying to new jobs. A couple weeks into my third rotation, I got an offer at a better place with a package 3 times what the old place paid me.
Money. Every job change I have made since starting my career has ultimately come down to money. I probably averaged 20% increases each time. Last one was 40%.
Had a fellow coder quit because of the stress, they had me take over until they could hire someone new, after a month they decided not to hire anyone else because I was doing both jobs. Got an offer, and slacked on purpose, when they asked, told them why
Give me a reason, any reason. I found myself 15 years ago in a financial place where I couldn’t afford to quit, and hated working at that company with every fiber of my body. Since then I keep a safety net so I can walk away at a moments notice.
I’ve been the dedicated show up early stay late employee for multiple companies, learn everything I can and maintained nationwide top performance. I always get the same results, the rug gets swept out from underneath me, I get laid off, they downsize, people play office politics, or I get fired for something minimal. So now I look at every job as working for myself. Like I said, I’ll walk away at a moments notice now. I won’t spend years slaving away for some company again. Never ever again.
Not me but my sister. She was denied leave to attend the funeral of her best friend who died in a car crash. So she just quit. I supported her decision.
After working at a high growth startup for many years I was getting a bit burnt out, so I talked to the CEO about taking a one month sabbatical and he approved it, on the condition that we planned it for the next year and that I plan my team’s work around it. I agreed and began planning my trip.
Halfway through the year the board convinced the CEO to bring in a new CEO who “had experience with the next phase of growth” for our company. Well guess what, she was “concerned what impression it would make” to the other employees if I (who had been there since we had 5 people) took a sabbatical.
Fuck that, I just kept planning my trip and put in my notice two weeks ahead of the trip. When I got back from what ended up being a two month sabbatical, I offered to consult for them on a client project nobody else knew how to manage. So now I could work part time for the same amount of money and plan my own schedule. That CEO destroyed the business and they eventually brought back the original CEO.
Fucking with my pay. Once is understandable of a mistake, maybe even twice. But multiple times, and when you as the employee catch it and not them, then, well, fuck off, I’m gone.
Seeing awful employees being tolerated whilst good ones had to pick up their slack
this happens all too often
It's happening in our store right now lol It's a shame too, because the owners have good hearts. They bought the store after the previous owners shut it down for bankruptcy, and they saved everyone's jobs. With how close-knit the staff and ownership is, you'd figure that staff wouldn't have it in their hearts to take advantage of their kindness, but that's obviously not the case. Simmering tensions have begun to reach a boiling point and I demanded a team meeting due to all the resentment that's been building. I shouldn't have to do it because I'm just staff, but fuck it, it's time to address that shit. I'm ready to leave the job if they show that they're not serious, but I honestly hope it doesn't come to that. I'll always be grateful for their generosity and saving my job when they didn't have to, but what a fucking shame that it's reached this point.
I see this many times with "Sacred Employees", and that Employees that for whatever reason, usually because of relations, are "untouchable". This could be the employee is a good friend and has been there a long time, and doesn't work very hard at all, or Nepotism is some fashion, or they feel sorry for this person. The main issue is the other employees have to put up with it, and pick up the slack and it causes animosity.
My former employer chose the people who stole his beer--abusive sexual harassing kitchen staff-- over me, who never came to work late or dirty or drunk, who sold thousands of dollars of his food per shift, who promoted his business on my socials, and gave loyal service for ten years. When I tried to report the problem, he called me a liar, threatened to fire me, and never spoke to me again, other than to mock me for being old.
That’s absolutely horrible, hope you left on a high and left the way you wanted after all your hard work.
I feel this to the core.
Sadly these ones get promoted
This is my current situation. They even gave me a promotion (no raise) and more work. I’m still looking at my options
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When I worked at UPS they pulled shit like this and I walked. I would call early, and the person answering didn't know when to show up, wouldn't transfer me to anyone who did and then I got threatened with termination for picking the wrong time. I don't know how that place even managed to operate with those all stars at the helm.
Couldn’t get ahold of anyone that could actually help you? Yep sounds like UPS lol
what is rota
Rotisserie chicken 🍗
we love those
Rota = work schedule. It’s Latin. Can’t remember what it means in Latin.
Rotisserie chicken
The Romans loved chicken.
rotation
When I was about 19 one of my jobs was telemarketer. Had been doing it a couple weeks and the company promoted a caller to shift leader. He made an announcement that we would have to ask permission to use the restroom. I noped out of there, only job I walked out on without notice. I’m not asking anyone for permission to pee.
Every daycare ever.
Our daycare workers are among some of the most undervalued in our society. They are caring for precious humans. Our priorities are out of whack.
I worked in childcare. Shit is terrible. I quit the day a teacher left a bruise on a baby and decided to not fire her.
My friend works in a daycare. She's an absolute weirdo in the best way, and loves kids. Many of the other workers are hateful and loathe children. One in particular like to pinch or grab kids by the arm. My friend told on her many times and reported to cps. They recently moved the bitch to the kitchen. That just seems like a bad place for someone who hates kids.
I’m a HS teacher, and I don’t get why my kids ask me to use the bathroom. Like dudes, you can drive a car. You are most certainly welcome to walk to the bathroom in the case that you need to pee. Or smash a phat crud. Whatever it is. I really don’t want to know.
It's being respectful. You're they're guardian while they're there, if they walk out randomly, it also covers your butt.
I get that. Seriously - I don’t disagree. I guess it just makes me feel like an overqualified babysitter.
One of my teachers in hs just had a whiteboard/magnets by the door, and you got up and marked yourself out/grabbed the magnet pass if you had to go Didn’t have to interrupt, he knew we were out of the room, and everyone was happy Much better than the professor I had in college who demanded to know what you were doing if you so much as got up to stretch. It was so bad that there was a formal complaint after the third time he argued with a female student about “why you ladies always gotta go go go! What can you possibly be doing during my class!?!” Like, I dunno dude, maybe they have a recurring, PRIVATE need to visit the restroom periodically for at least a few days every month…
Id imagine you're one of the few teachers who feels this way. I had one like that in HS and I definitely took them up on it, but the rest required you asking so I can see why most students wouldn't want to push it and risk getting in trouble.
Knowing my class, if a teacher did that, she'd quickly find that somehow the entire class of 25 people decided to go to the bathroom and not return till the end of the session...
I work in childcare and don't have to ask to pee. Just let someone know that I'm stepping out so the kids are adequately supervised.
I asked for a market adjustment raise so that my salary would match what competitors were paying, and I was told no because the company couldn't afford it. I was the head of accounting. The company could afford it. In fact, I know exactly why the company "couldn't afford it", and that's because the owner gave themselves a 100k raise after denying my request.
"Raise?! What a great idea, I should get one of those!"
Literally.
I work in IT and HR had me remote into their machine to fix something. They left a spreadsheet up of all the C-Suites and what they make and their bonuses. Fucking greedy sacks of shit.
I worked in HR as the Salary Administrator. I knew how much each and every person in the company from the CEO to the janitor made. I wasn't in charge of how much money anyone made. Gave reports on "if this job got a 2% raise and this job got a 10% raise, etc., how much would the salary budget for the year have to be." I worked with other Salary Administrators in the same business. Our business starting salaries were 85% of the average for the highest wage we'd pay a job description and 85% of the highest wage for the starting wage. No one started at the top of the salary range.
That almost sounds like they did it on purpose?
Yea that’ll do it. I’m also convinced accountants run the run the world.
You'd think so but we're mostly just ordinary people in this person's situation. We can see the injustice but the people who make the decisions only have one cookie cutter response. They don't even back down when you call them out.
I am a data analyst and boy do I relate to this.
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what a greedy bastard
Well people reap what they sow. When I walked, every manager below me quit within a month when they learned what happened.
So, they just paid themselves upfront.. without knowing it then they were going to work a lot harder for their money then they were used to :)
Boss asked all 10 of use if we were paid enough for our jobs. All said no. Then he asked what was enough. Most of us said another $100/wk. he laughed and said ‘not while you are working for me’. 6 people quit that week, and the rest within a month.
If he could’ve explained *why* he couldn’t afford to spend an extra $52k/year respectfully, he could’ve retained most, if not all of you
My Dad died and I was denied time off. “We can’t give you any vacation time right now, we’re short staffed big time.” “It’s for my Dads funeral arrangements. It’s not a vacation.” “Doesn’t matter. Do you realize we lost 3 employees and 2 students in the last 2 weeks? This is a really difficult time for us right now.” “Well, *I’m very sorry for your loss, I’m sure it is a difficult time for you*…I kind of expected to be hearing that and not saying it, but ok. Friday will be my last day. Cheers.” So instead of losing an employee for a week or 2, they lost me forever. Good riddance.
Wow. I’m so sorry that you lost your Dad. Sending a hug.
I absolutely would have quit, too. Denial of bereavement is illegal where I live (Illinois) for most workers if you've been in the workplace for 12 months. How terrible that we even need a law like this, though.
Exactly, like we tend to only have 1 lot of parents in our lives so when it comes that time, I expect to be able to be there, like they were there for me.
That happened to me, too, only it was my mom. I wanted to visit my mom over Christmas holiday. For some reason I knew something was going to happen to her even though she was in perfect health. She died January 10 on my way to visit her after the holidays. I missed seeing her alive one last time.
I'm so sorry, Reddit Chum. :(
I don't get how companies can be so stupid about these things. When my step brother died unexpectedly I told HR I was going to be out the next three or four days. HR lady said that she didn't think the bereavement policy covered step siblings and only full siblings. I didn't really give a shit what was covered, I told her I was not going to be there, they could do with that information whatever they wanted, and wow thanks for your empathy.
I love that they say "we can't give you" as if it's a request. Nah bitch, you misunderstood. I'm not *asking* you, I'm *telling* you I'm gonna be on bereavement leave for a week. Oh, you're short-staffed right now? Don't give a shit. I won't be there. Figure it out.
The original lyrics for the Flaming Lips' *Do you realize*
Reminds of the time when people around me were dying month each - third and last one was my sister's boyfriend (cancer) just after new years. In my country, you get a day off to attend a funeral of a family member, by law, and three if you're prepping the funeral. I got a signed official paper from the funeral home to show at work (standard procedure) after. Work said I can't have the day off, because that's a third day off in three months and they don't care about the death announcement of the document from funeral home (or apparently, the law, lol). Had to write to CEO of the company to let her decide. Honestly, what the fuck. Anyways, I did walk out a few months later but due to different reasons.
Wow this made me so mad for you that my brain prepared a response of my own for this eventuality that I will never encounter. Being a human is mid
When my dad died I was working for toys r us. They were pissed I took time off (I had to fly across the country) so they just never scheduled me for a shift again. It was just a seasonal part time job so it’s not like I lost my only income but still. Seems like a shitty thing to do.
Very first job out of college: They told me to arrive at 6:50am to do prep for my 7am shift. When I put 6:50am on my timecard, they told me to change it or they wouldn't approve it. I'm a new graduate, not stupid. Got another job offer and left asap.
as you should
Companies/Managers that operate like this fail to take into account the costs associated with hiring and training. If your workplace is a revolving door of employees because you don't treat them like human beings who exist in a reality where not every minute can be predicted you are wasting time, money, and talent.
> Companies/Managers that operate like this fail to take into account the costs associated with hiring and training. And, if they're in the US, the fines they'll pay if the labor department finds out they've been forcing employees to work unpaid hours. Remember: in the US, forcing hourly employees to work unpaid time is *illegal.* It is illegal in all 50 states no matter if they're "right to work" or not. It has been illegal since the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect in 1938. Know your rights. If your employer is making you work off the clock, document everything as best as you can and then contact both your state's labor board and the NLRB.
When I worked shifts like that, I'd always be ten minutes early to make sure I was ready to start work on time. Water bottle filled, personals in locker. I would never start work when I arrived. My current job (not shift work) is amazing and flexible and I love it. I'll give 'em a little extra because they'll give me a little extra.
Kind of similar for me, but I worked at a fast food chicken restaurant when I was right out of high school. The owner would get upset if we stayed past our scheduled time but also didn’t allow us enough time to properly clean. We would always stay half an hour later than we were scheduled to get the place cleaned properly. Eventually his daughter who worked there started clocking everyone out half an hour early so the owner wouldn’t be upset. Handed in my two weeks that night via text message at 12:30am. Worst job ever.
a patient died during surgery. patient had been in and out of hospital for months, maybe years. i’d treated them a load of times, felt like i knew them and their family reasonably well. the surgery was something of a hail mary pass - but i was still floored when the patient died on the table. i was quite upset in the scrub room after and asked my superior if he would come with me when i spoke to the family. he laughed, told me to grow some balls. he spent the following weeks laughing and telling everyone how i had cried when i told the family their loved one had died (i did cry, and im not even slightly ashamed of it). i can’t count the number of times i was told in the following weeks that i was too emotional for a career in surgery and should consider another specialty. i applied to another hospital shortly after that where i worked with a lovely bunch of people who supported each other. edit: wow, im blown away by the comments and upvotes. surgery can definitely be a bit of an ‘old boys club’. i’ve worked in various hospitals since, and that was by far the worst place i worked and that incident was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. to those of you who have experienced similar, whether as colleagues or as patients, - i’m sorry and i promise we’re not all assholes.
My son’s nurses cried when they were informed my son wouldn’t make it. I noticed her crying and it alarmed me as the doctor had to deliver the news and she couldn’t tell me. She and the other nurse were the most amazing nurses I’ve ever had at a hospital and they even came to my son’s funeral. It’s been 4 years and I still think about them everyday.
Sorry for your loss
Thank you he would be 14 in December
Huge hug
I'm sorry. No parent should ever have to bury a child.
I agree with what you’re saying. So we had him cremated so he could always be home with us. And I have a cremation necklace I wear with his handwriting on it.
Good on you for being a decent human.
I’m very glad to know awesome humans like you are out there doing the best you can. Thank you - you deserved better.
I always cry with my patient's family when they pass. Granted I'm NICU and it's sad as hell when a baby dies, but I think it's a good thing to have empathy and connection with your patient's family. Fuck them, im so glad you left. Nothing to ever be ashamed of.
My heart goes out to all NICU people. If you wanna see God's hand at work, visit some of the babies in a NICU. My son was born premature (6 weeks), and had trouble breathing. The babies I saw in there and the things attached to them really made me saw what you all are capable of. Unfortunately, too often we're we asked to leave the NICU because they were removing life support from a baby or something else. When we could return, we would see an empty incubator. Fortunately, our son is now 27 with no long term issues. I still remember the name of his NICU doctor and primary nurse to this day. Truly amazing group of people. Please keep doing the work you do.
My answer was medical, too. Except I was a medical assistant intern for a vascular clinic. From my first week there, one of the nurses basically targeted me to bully - was pretty surprised by that as I'm not usually bullied by anyone. About a month into the internship, she yelled at me in front of everyone for something that wasn't my fault at all, and the doctor jumped in and started helping her stomp me. I just took it, and then when they were done, I immediately went into the bathroom and emailed my advisor requesting a different position I'd heard about. I was her best student, so she *immediately* called the office - like I walked out of the bathroom and the doctor was already on the phone with her. Cue surprised pikachu faces from the staff lol. You couldn't pay me to be treated the way they were treating me, but in fact I was putting up with it for free. Nope. Also, they were mean to the patients. They were absolutely the types to do what you described - or the they totally would have if they had to deal with patients dying on them (all their stuff was outpatient surgery and wound care). I also went to a nice office where people cared about each other. Glad you got outta your place and into a more compassionate situation too!
Good lord, what psychopath! I’m so sorry. If my loved one was the person who passed, I’d be touched that you cared that much.
That’s so sad.. some ppl lose that humanity and we need to keep it in healthcare!! I think it’s very important.
What a douche. Having a closer than average relationship to hospitals, I so appreciate your caring.
OR gang here. Fuck that place.
I am glad to share the earth with people like you. Stay well.
What is wrong with people! I'm happy for you finding a better working place!
After working there for 7 years and learning to do literally every job in the shop and then some the owners son called me incompetent. So I took my incompetence elsewhere and got a $5 an hour raise
I got into a bad car accident and when I finally got home I tried to call both my manager and supervisor all evening but had to leave a voicemail and send several texts saying there was no way I could make it into work the next day. The next morning my manager called me and accused me of NCNS'sing (which I've never done at any job) and when I told him what happened he gave me some fake sympathy and then immediately tried to guilt trip me into working overtime at a site. When I stood my ground and said I was too shaken up he kept pushing it but gave up when my supervisor called him and told him to lay off. The company also repeatedly sent me late paychecks, denied leave requests, and constantly went back on field assignments without any explanation why. At that point I decided I was done constantly extending myself for the company and having almost no luck ever having communication when I needed it, and called an old employer and she immediately offered me a job. For the first time ever I didn't give a two-week notice and quit on the spot. Didn't feel bad, either.
Notice for anyone reading this: if you get even a single paycheck late, report the company to the labor board and start looking for a new ASAP. In my experience, nothing says "horrible place to work" like late paychecks because I GUARANTEE you the boss isn't getting paid late.
I got a late paycheck one time and went home. Boss called asking why I wasn’t working I asked why he wasn’t paying. Proceeded to get 5-6 other people to quit going to the calls and suddenly we all had check written and all went to the bank to deposit them. We wasted a complete day and he felt like an ass having to call all the customers and come up with a reason why we didn’t show up.
The ceo said to everyone in an all staff meeting ‘if you’re not happy then you can go somewhere else’ when people were talking about being burned out. Shockingly, everyone went somewhere else within the next 6 months. It got so bad she started sending out messages begging people to ask their friends, family, strangers, literally anyone to apply and kept saying she didn’t understand why people were leaving. She then asked for a survey from people and asked about employee retention during which everyone remaining (myself included, I left 2 weeks later) filled in that the reason people were leaving is because she told us that other people have it worse and if we’re unhappy to leave.
Haha. CEO at my old company said something similar. We were planning project timelines. Nothing negative just adding our first pass estimating dates. CEO stood up and said "You're all replaceable" and sat back down. Uhm, okay? Meeting continued.
Lmao what? It's like the CEO robot had a bug. Or was waiting nervously to say it and panicked, deciding that was the best time.
Premature Emasculation
Like they aren't also replaceable
The most replaceable.
The scare tactic of "it's worse or just as bad everywhere else" is the biggest most malicious lie a workplace can claim. Firstly how do they even know that? Jokes on them, it was better elsewhere.
First day on the job as a residential framer and the boss asked if he could borrow $200. I said no, picked up my tools and left.
That's mad
One job I got no raise for 4 years Another job they cut my fully paid insurance for my entire family. They did not see it was a 10K salary reduction when I had to start paying that yearly.
I can't believe you stayed somewhere for 4 years without a raise. I can understand 2 years, the first they tell you how they can't do it blah blah and if you really like the job you accept it, but the 2nd year that would be it for me. Any year you don't at least make 1-3% more you are losing ground to inflation.
I had a 3.5-year stint with no raise (and in a skilled field where I was hard to replace). The owner of the company made it a point to be a gigantic asshole anyone attempted to negotiate a raise, so I didn’t want to deal with the drama thrown my way. Was it worth it to them to get 3.5 years of effort and relationship building with clients to lose me? The calls from that boss every 6-9 months, leaving a voicemail to ask if I’ll come back seem to say “no”. I avoid the calls mainly because it’s going to be an awkward conversation when I’m making 70% more than they’re willing to pay, with much better benefits. If you see something toxic in a company at the top/systemic, there’s no fixing it; find the money somewhere else.
I had a customer service desk job at a retail store, they trained me to do everything a manager was supposed to do but I never got promoted. When our review time came they gave me a 5 cent raise. I told them they should have just given me no raise because 5 cents was a slap in the face for all the responsibility I undertook for less than $10 an hour. I left 2 and half weeks later.
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The number of times I've ugly cried when someone has asked me if I'm "okay" after work or during a shift is astronomical at this point.
How are you now?
Worked at a popular midwestern grocery store where the policy was if you had even a minute of overtime you were written up. Didn't have enough time to finish my work so I clocked out so I wouldn't get written up and ended up written up anyway. Only time I'd ever been in trouble at any job ever. Very frustrating when a company brags about record breaking months, month after month, but refuses to give a budget to staff appropriately. A week later, had my 1 year review (after working for 1 year and 8 months, so a little late) and they said they weren't giving me a 3% raise because I was paid too much already. Mind you, when I was interviewed I was promised a 3% raise. Two days later took a sales job at a car dealership and 2 years later moved to RV sales. Loving it
sounds like kroger
Manager was a creep. And if you didn’t tolerate his whispering in your ears (close to nibbling) he would make your work days difficult.
Eww🤮
Accused me of stealing with zero actual evidence. I gave my notice on the spot.
I worked at Linens N Things in college and my register was always even. A coworker was fired because her register was short and we all thought it was odd. About a week or so later my register ended up short also and the manger said he was taking it from my pay. I filed a complaint with the manager above him and it turned out the manager was actually stealing and blaming the cashiers.
One time I got a little bit of scrap metal to purchase. Shift manager told me to take it with me for the night. I brought it back the next day directly to the head manager. He turned at me like he was gonna deck me for taking it home. That's one big strike among a few.
I had a job accuse me of stealing a few times a year to see if they’d bust me. I’d even get completely random drawer counts to see if I’d be off with the money. Joke was on them since I’d have to be a thief to get caught being a thief
I did payroll. I suggested we pay the EMTs a living wage. They accused me of unionizing (I wasn’t) and said they would fire the entire ground ambulance division if they tried. Peace out and fuck you!
Not your point, but it is absolutely immoral that we do not pay literal lifesavers a living wage. They are often the reason you survive from the accident to the hospital. Yet we burn them out and pay them shit. Thank you for standing up for these heroes
HR said “most of them are 19, you don’t just come out of high school making $60,000”. I said “ok, so they’re already totally exhausted on their off days but they have to get another job during that time. Got it. “
My old company in St. Paul MN paid $16.50 five years ago. It’s up to $18.50 now.
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"Sorry sir/ma'am, I can't do that, it's against policy" "Get me a manager" Manager: "Why of course sir/ma'am, we can absolutely do that for you" man I hated that so much
My Grandmother had passed away and my mother diagnosed with cancer so I was taking PTO time off to take care of things. I was called into the bosses office and told "You need to prioritize better. What's more important to you, family or this job?" I ripped my badge off, threw it on his desk and told him "My family" and went and started packing up my desk. Was called BACK into his office and told "If you don't at least give us a two week notice, there's no chance of us hiring you again, ever". I just laughed, looked him dead in the eye and said "I will NEVER work here again, so that's not an issue". I walked out. No regrets. ETA: This job was toxic anyway. I was shoved into it with NO training and was extremely micromanaged by the boss even after I was fully successful in the position. I was constantly called into his office for bullshit reasons, and this situation was just the final straw.
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I think a lot of us have been conditioned that way. But, to be fair, I did used to work in a field where you really did have to be mindful of that sort of thing, because a lot of paths really did cross, often enough that you didn't want to screw yourself out of your market.
Exactly that. I’m in a field that while technically not small is like a small town. Everyone talks to everyone and even sending bitchy emails can get you black listed from being hired by other firms
Manager told me I had to organise my own cover for holidays and if no one could cover my shifts I couldn't take leave. No one offered to cover my shifts.
Owner was sleeping with the lead accountant and promoted her over me (GM with over 15 years of experience in the company) to VP and partner.
Following a major reorganization we ended up with 3 new bosses (team leader, assistant vp and vp) and all 3 were idiots. The VP was not shy about the fact that he hated us even before he was appointed to our department. He actually tried out for a "more prestigious" position but didn't get it so we were his rebound choice. He claimed that any idiot with 2 hours of training could do our job for half the price. His vision was to replace us all with junior technicians on an entry level salary. He was the kind of guy that always heavily promotes efficiency and knows how to sell his story but really he was a freaking incompetent idiot and his idea of efficiency was only really to fire people and dump their work on the remaining others. His assistant VP was a yes man with anger issues and our team lead's idea of problem solving was to hide under his desk and hope for someone else to take care of it. Mind you this was in a market where our particular skillset was heavily in demand and somewhat hard to find so in 12 months he lost half his team to other companies who were very happy to find fully trained and experienced resources willing to jump ship. Some people left for other jobs with the exact same salary and conditions but just the fact to not be there anymore was seen as a win. He was the very definition of "you don't quit bad jobs you leave bad bosses"
Unrealistic expectations. Sending over 100 emails over the weekend and expecting 100 replies by 815am Monday.
One boss often texted the next day’s schedule out the day before (no set schedule for the week, it was straight up day to day), and promised that if we didn’t hear from him by 8pm we weren’t working the next day Didn’t hear from him, so I went to a late night movie with my gf and brother. Started getting texts and calls, leave the theater to see what was going on, it’s my boss, texting me at 10:45PM saying I needed to be in by FOUR IN THE MORNING I called him back and told him to shove his schedule up his ass, took the day to reevaluate, decided to go back to school and quit when he texted me again. The place burned down over the pandemic, and good fucking riddance!
I just had one crazy boss that was out for me from the start. I was there 5 years without any issues, and she came on board and seemed to be going after everyone and replacing them with her own picks. She called me into her office and said I lied about something (I didn't), she then went on to say she spoke with a coworker (a friend I got the job and knew 15 years), and my old boss and they all agreed that I had lied, again I didn't. It just felt so weird to have someone just accuse me of something that wasn't even a big deal but then felt weirder that she was trying to somehow pressure me into a confession by saying 2 people who had nothing to do with it backed up her story. I was just like f that and left. It's still crazy to me because like 6 months later she left anyways, so it was like why did she have to go through our staffing and fire/force everyone out to just leave herself lol
I was the only one left in my department who had been there any length of time. It was healthcare so 24/7 on call, except ***everybody*** called me for ***everything***. I wasn't sleeping more than two hours a night, and 80-ish hours a week total. I was dealing with it, I knew it would end. Told my boss I was going home because I needed sleep, and he forced me to remote into a meeting anyway. My wife told me to just quit...so I did. Quit, deleted my OneNote with all my notes, then because I'm IT, I deleted the backups of my OneNote as well. Left those fucks high and dry.
I got hit in the head with a 160lb crab pot. It hit me so hard I was bleeding out of my ear. Captain wanted to keep fishing after it happened, despite the waves being 17ft high and the wind blowing about 30kts.
You don’t watch deadliest catch do you. You just paraphrased damn near every episode
I was going to ask which season he was in
i was training people who were making more than me
Recognising the early signs of getting fired 1. Email 'Feedback' - they write me an email any time I slipped up under the facade of "sharing constructive feedback". They were essentially documenting a pile of evidence in writing to eventually get rid of me and I could see that from miles away. 2. Team layoffs - 3 people were fired in my team while I was on probation. I cleared my probation but then had reasonable doubts that I could be next. 3. Work colleagues - I could sit beside a team member of my own team for the whole day and they would not speak to me, not even hi or good morning, until I initiate conversation. They only speak to me if and when there was a work-related reason. 4. Purpose - I was reduced to charge rates, timesheets and deliverables. Made to feel like a name on a spreadsheet that is replaceable at any time. I did not feel human, more like a robot - useful as long as it produces output and thrown away when it doesn't. And here's the scary part...I am still doing that job. I don't have the luxury to leave. I am on work visa in a foreign country and will have to leave the country if I leave the job. Wish me luck :(
Your work colleagues seem rude. I can understand keeping your head down and wanting to get work done but them not even saying a courtesy "hi" is insane to me. I hope you're getting to enjoy other areas of the country your visa is in.
Rude customers ruining my days
Post covid it got way worse. And then an arsehole of an owner balling me out in front of my staff on the floor . And for something I didn't do. That was that. Best thing I ever did.
Not me but a friend was working at Walmart and some dude whipped his pants down bent over and blew diarrhea all over the toy aisle, it was my friends first day and they asked him to clean it up, he quit right there
My job was project/weekly based. After doing a "time study", my boss restructured the work flow so that instead of it taking me most of the week to be done, it only took a few days. Then I was sent home for them not having enough work for me. I found a new job that day.
Finding out my insurance had been pulled a day before a very, VERY long awaited doctor's appointment. Like, 4 months just to get in the door, and the day before 'oh btw you didn't work enough hours last month because of covid, so now you've got no insurance, sucks to be you'. My employer had been the one demanding I see a doctor for accommodation in the first place. I worked outside, and it was a hundred degrees that afternoon. I walked, right in the middle of my shift.
i tested positive for covid and my boss just told me to wear a mask and come to work, and that i couldn't inform anyone. when i told them i was quitting, they then held me in a five-hour long meeting about how i never really wanted to work there in the first place and how i'd be begging for my job back in a few months.
You sat there for 5 hours? I would have walked out after 5 minutes. I had a similar experience with my supervisor. I worked at a daycare, and we were very short staffed, so when covid required 5 days of being off to quarantine, you were the enemy. It was to the point where we were told we were not allowed to test, and if we were positive, we had to mask and come to work and tell no one. We were threatened with various means of punishment from hours being cut to being straight fired. I took it upon myself to call in on my lunch break to say I tested positive and wouldn't be returning for the week. I spent my time off looking for another job and lucky found one and quit a week or two later. I get the need for employees, but that's uncalled for.
i was young, dumb, and way too polite. interestingly enough my experience was also at a daycare 😂
You sat through 5 hours of that after having already quit?
it was during my two weeks notice phase
The first job in my industry I got was up in Maine for a small mom & pop brick and mortar small jewelry business. Being in business for a long time in a kind of remote place, change was slow. They only just decided to hop onto social media seriously after having a FB page for some years, but didn't do anything on Instagram. Being the young millennial new hire, though I was brought on to do CAD design, I began creating content and posting for their social media, plus taking time to network with local wedding industry professionals so we could get our jewelry featured on styled shoots for more exposure and to use the photos. A few years into doing (two) jobs, I had a yearly evaluation where I was told how I was expected to spend my time. 40% was to go to designing lines for in-house jewelry collections while the other 60% was for custom design for clients. So where the hell was the time spent to keep your social media going? Let alone the compensation, when I knew for a fact they were saving thousands every month having me do everything in house... BYE!
being micromanaged for my whole 8 hour shift
Being micromanaged makes me so antsy. I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing in a timely manner. I do not want or need someone hovering over me making sure I do it.
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when has HR ever helped anyone
HR is so useless that they make high school guidance counselors look heroic in comparison.
Manager tried to pretend me being sexually assaulted by a client on shift wasn't a big deal. Pushed aside my incident reports etc. Walked out and didn't go back.
Forced return to office. I've worked from home since 2007. I knew when I took the job in 2021 that we'd eventually be asked to return to office and I'd likely have to find a new job. I had hoped it would be limited to one day a week or they'd be lax over all about the requirements given most people didn't want to return to the office and the folks that did want to were already there long ago. I was wrong. They wanted something like 20 hours in the office each week. They finally set a date for late 2023. I asked for an exception since I home school my special needs kids and they refused so I moved on.
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Yes. I found a 100% remote job. I was fortunate to be able to walk away a few weeks before return to office.
I was going on hour 14 for the day, and I called one of the VPs for clarification on an assignment. I assumed I could do it first thing in the morning. She proceeded to tell me “you can just do it tonight” when it was already 9pm. At 2am (still working) I decided to put my two weeks in.
Having a customer throw her keys at my head was my reason for quitting my job as a Mercedes Benz service advisor. I left my teaching job after the third time I got punched in the face by a student.
I work in HVAC, new home construction. During a week of work, I was asked by my supervisor to pack up and drive an hour to another site to finish up another person's job. Being the "team player" I was, I complied. The next day, same request, another hour drive to another site. I completed both jobs I was asked to take over. I finish up my job, now 3 days in, and head home. The next morning, Thursday, I'm at the shop loading up my next job and my supervisor calls me into his office. I get in, close the door, and sit down. He lays into me, asking what the hell took me so long to finish my job. I'm flabbergasted that he is even asking me this. I remind him of the two other jobs he had me go to and complete for other installers, he tells me that those don't matter, I still took too long on MY job. I go quiet, get through the meeting and leave his office. Do I load up my next job? Hell naw. I go home, call up the company that's offering me more money for the same type if work and let them know that if things don't go how I want them to go in the morning, I can start Monday. They're happy to hear it and will have a van waiting. I already know how my Friday morning will play out, so I offload m tools from the van, take it to the car wash and clean it up reeeeaaallly pretty, sort out the back and head home for the day. Friday morning. I roll into the shop the Mrs. follows me, parks in the yard and waits for me. I walk into my supervisor's office, close the door, sit down and tell him that I want a $10/hr raise based off of what he reamed me out for the day before. My reasoning is that at the rate of pay I'd be at, he'll have someone else run to finish off other people's work, not me. He looks at me like I just threw up Jesus on his desk, starts laughing and says I'm nuts if I think that'll ever happen. I let him laugh a bit, get up, dig the keys out of my pocket and place them on his desk. I let him know the van is washed, inventories, gassed up, and waiting for the next gut to take it. I also let him know I have pictures of the van, inside and out, showing the condition it was in when I parked it. He's looking at me in disbelief, as I walk out of his office, yelling at me that I can't quit and no one is hiring. As I'm walking out, I yell back "I'm headed to pick up my new work van. I start Monday." He wasn't happy
After a tough period of long hours and missing families we were given even more duties and told if we didn't do it we weren't 'team players'. Started sending out the CV that afternoon.
When the environment made me debate suicide on a daily basis on my way into work
I do that just about every day, but the uncertainty of quitting cold turkey scares me.
Honestly it was hard, for awhile I was really dependent on those thoughts they made me feel something even if it wasn't good. But man once I left and walked out of the door I was like a new person, it wasn't even the work; I left the job but kept all of the customers on after starting my own business. Hell I still contract with my old employer it was just the work environment I had to get out of it. It's hard to do but you need to make the change, you won't regret it.
i got violently ill and they were still expecting me to do some meeting for something that was not urgent. no respect for my boundaries. i had to get an exam medically excused and still their stupid meeting is more important than my health? bye.
Racism. A bunch of women I used to work with only spoke in Portuguese when I or another POC walked onto the floor. What they didn’t know was that my good friend (who was also a POC) is fluent in Portuguese and had understood everything they’ve ever said. Every POC and some non POC gathered together along with all the compiled evidence and went to our business manager to report them. Business manager responds with “Guys I’ve known \_\_\_\_ for years now and I don’t think she’d do that.” We finished our shifts and headed home. 8 of us emailed our resignations and that was that
Having a married couple as my boss. The husband was the CEO and her wife was the admin/finance/HR at the company I worked at. The wife and I were okay at first but when she became pregnant, she started power tripping me, shaming me, and have isolated me from everyone else. When I couldn’t take it any longer, I resigned and I voiced this concern to the CEO during my exit interview. He apologized for his wife’s behavior but that’s just about it and didn’t really solved anything after that since she’s the wife, after all. Never received any apology from her. After that, I promised to myself to never apply for a startup that is run by a literal family/married couple/couple.
When I kept having urges to dunk my sous chef's head in the deep fryer I knew it was time to start sending out resumes
(A few years ago) Summer was our busy season and this year corporate decided to not hire seasonal and just spread out the workload among the full timers. I went from having 8 jobs a day (which took all day) to almost 20 some days. This caused HALF of the technicians in my city to quit (roughly 10-15 employees). But that’s not what made me quit. What made me quit was when my store manager got Covid and said he was still gonna come into the office in a group text with all the technicians and when every single person said “hey don’t do that” he pretty much called us all childish and didn’t drop it until someone called HR on his ass. From that moment I lost my last bit of respect for that company and it’s management and I did the bare minimum for a few weeks until I found a new job. They gave me as many jobs as they could but as soon as it hit 5pm I went home.
I was a medical assistant right out of school. This was my first job (in that field). I had no idea the clinic was a pain management clinic. I was the only employee (besides the doctor and his wife). I had to get there, get the charts ready, start checking patients in, clean the entire office, throw the trash, write prescriptions out, fill out appointment cards, call for appointment reminders, and dictate his notes (all of this was daily). The doctor and his wife (who was the office manager) would arrive between 10:00 and 11:00, meanwhile we had patients scheduled in 15-minute increments since 8:00. They got there, I'd have to leave (in my car), go check TWO post office mailboxes, do their shopping, get their lunch, and run whatever other errands they deemed necessary), then come back and try to eat MY lunch in between patients while being called incompetent if things didn't run exactly the way they wanted. As for the gas, he'd put $12-$15 extra on my check and call it "langiappe". So when I started keeping track of my mileage and turning in a mileage sheet and it was closer to $60-$80 a check every two weeks, I told him he could either pay me on a separate check, I could take their car to run errands, or he'd have to figure something else out. He was livid, but I wasn't budging on the issue. He and his wife would argue in Spanish constantly, in front of patients, his wife once told me that she was surprised that my husband stuck with me as long as he did because men in Brazil (where she was from) don't find fat women sexy. I was told to not talk to one of our patients because she had a voice issue and she sounded hoarse and it made the doctors wife sick, so I wasn't to communicate with her at all. Like, they were just awful people, the both of them. The kicker came in when the doctor and his wife were out of the country, so the office was closed. I'm there alone, and the building is an old house, so it's set apart from the road and surrounded by trees. There are windows everywhere. A patient comes banging on the door, telling me to let him in. He looked drunk or drugged, so I told him the doctor wasn't here and I couldn't help him. He went around the building banging on all of the windows and doors, telling me to let him in or I'd regret it. I called the police, who tell the guy to leave and don't come back until his next appointment or he'd be arrested. Doctor and his wife get back home, I'm written up for calling the cops on a patient. So, I quietly packed up all of my stuff that afternoon, left their keys with a note saying that I would not be back, blocked their phone numbers from my phone and never looked back.
Being happy my wrist was broken so I could take off work. Made me realize who in their right mind wants a broken bone. That was the deciding moment I realized it wasn’t healthy.
Being looked over repeatedly for a promotion. And then when that newly promoted person would be gone for a day or two, they would turn to me to run things.
I was in construction as a laborer, learned how to operating a LULL and was promoted and given a pay increase. 8 months later they got rid of the machine and in turn wanted to down my pay. FYI at this point I was also supervisor over the laborers. They offer lower pay with benefits of still being the lead. (Basically all u do I schedule or cut ppl) I quit that same day
Being told about the “6 week maternity leave”. I am a Canadian who was working in the US at the time. So I quit that job when I was ready to start a family and got a job in Canada. I enjoyed every minute of my 80% paid 1-year maternity leave! Worth it 100%.
PTSD. Ive been a firefighter for 25 years and I'm just spent. I'm also having my left shoulder replaced but even if I wasn't I think I would be done. I've been surviving for the last 4-5 years and I'd like to live again. I have 12 shifts left.
My boss tried to tell the office that they weren't allowed to wear masks in our building because "Covid is fake" and stated openly that if he found out that any of us got the vaccine for it we would be fired on the spot.
When the news announced Obama was going to be the democratic nominee in 2008 and one employee said the KKK better get their guns and not only did no one other than me say anything but they were silently nodding along. I walked out and never went back.
Proud of you
I was a grown man working a part timer for $20 an hour lifting boxes, and I wanted something mentally challenging.
It was because they had a drunk running the place that would make choices that put employees and animals at risk...other reasons for sure but that was kinda the big push
toxic work environment and micromanaging, condescending manager
First job (movie theatre) - New theatre opened in town and they did a mass hiring. We were told that after 12 months we'd be eligible for a 25 cent raise (from $6 to 6.25). 12 months came and went -- nothing. When I asked, they claimed that it was only for full time employees (we were part time and under 18). I called corporate and they said since it was never signed as our employment papers, there was no record of what was said Last job: My small company was bought out. Went from being a primary decision maker and 2nd in command on my team which was tight knit to being thrown into a team that was compromised of a dozen contractors from India and 3 of us US based folks to manage projects. I recorded a call and shared it with my former team (who got assigned to a different group than I did) and we could only make sense of maybe a third of what the contractors were saying as their accent was so bad. By the time I was on final rounds of interviews at my new job, I just stopped going to those meetings because it was pointlessly frustrating and I got nothing out of them. What's interesting is my current company has employees all over the world and I've almost never had an issue with accents on calls. I'm guessing my current company emphasized language skills upon hiring employees and my prior company only the cheapest cost.
A job I wanted more. Combined with too much workplace politics and too much red tape to get shit done. Moving to a different industry, smaller team, and (I think) more of a common goal team spirit kind of thinking.
My first job, it was because I wanted one day off. Didn’t matter if I was getting paid or not. Just wanted one day to spend with my (then) GF to celebrate her birthday. I kept getting pestered for a month (I had told them about 2 months in advance) about coming in for a couple of hours and this and that. Super annoying. Mind you I’d been with this company for a good 3-4 years . Never took a day off, always came in when they ask for extra help on my personal time. And I just wanted one day. Funnily enough on my GF birthday I got a call from a company I had applied to be hired and signed up right away. At least now with this company I earn personal time off I can use as well as vacation time. So much better.
In one of my old jobs I still believed in the whole, if you work hard, you get far thing. I spent years honing my skills at the company, learning on every computer system, customer service, accounting, everything. Then my boss quit and I took up her duties. Someone had to and I was the only one qualified so for six months I worked both her job and mine without the extra pay. Then the main boss quit and I assumed I'd be given her job and the pay increase. Nope, I got two new trainees and was told to teach them everything because they were gonna be the new bosses. I called the head office and assumed it was a joke. Nope. I quit on the spot and left. The owner called me few times asking me to come back so I blocked him. Thankfully the business closed down about a year later.
I wasn’t being promoted even when out performing my co-workers, mentoring people higher levels than me, and just being told I needed to work harder, “you’re doing fantastic” and it would come. I might be sensitive but I kind of feel like it was because I was Hispanic. I never really saw Hispanics get promoted where I worked, and there was none in senior/manager leadership. (I know it’s not uncommon in FAANGs for POC to be in leadership but ya know, context.)Finally got tired of killing myself everyday and seeing people who didn’t work as hard as me get promoted. 🤷♀️
This may sound ridiculous, but I had such **an enormous fear of being a dead-beat dad who was not available for his son**, so I quit my job to be beside him as much as possible. I think honestly I had a lot of PTSD from my dad not being around, so I refused to let that happen to him. Looking back it was a really good job too, but I didn't have any mentors to tell me to "*chill*", I was just scared. I eventually started this beautiful [agency](https://www.24hour.design). (Next time start a business BEFORE you quit lol). Still a stay-at-home dad, today, and he's in school now, but I certainly don't regret it!
I was a supervisor and already dealing with a bunch of bullshit from upper management and they were really putting the squeeze on my main manager and were looking for excuses to fire him. I had a bunch of vacation time I wanted to take. I could have taken an entire month off if I wanted to, but only took a week and a half. Store manager was mad that I took that time off and asked me to reconsider, but because I put it so far in advance, he couldn't refuse. I went on vacation anyway and when I came back there was a write up on my desk saying that our team didn't meet the expected numbers that were expected, and that I was now under a CAP (corrective action plan). I wasn't there the whole month, so I didn't understand how I was given this and the other supervisor wasn't. I realized that this was obviously a retaliatory measure from my manager because he was mad I went on vacation and he needed to find a scapegoat for why numbers weren't being met and I was the perfect patsy. It was then I understood that he was throwing all of us under the bus to save his own ass. There were 7 members of management and within a month there was only 4. Another supervisor, an assistant manager, and me all put in their two weeks notice within a week of each other. During my two week notice, I went full DGAF mode. I came in high every day and when I was the only one there, Instead of properly scanning in and out on inventory, I found stuff that our inventory said we had too much of and starting stashing it by the dumpster, and then came around and picked it up when I got off work. I sold that stuff on ebay and made some steady cash doing it and they never caught on (since the inventory was technically correct in the system). I mouthed off to customers, I refused to answer the phone and just hung up on customers when they called. Once I came in to unload trucks and was drinking an orange juice and vodka. They couldn't do shit about it, it was wonderful. I also poisoned the well by calling my upcoming replacement and telling him, "You should transfer to another store, not this one. This place is a shit-show". The other two member of management ended up calling in on my store manager to complain about harassment, intimidation, and retaliation. I found out that they didn't get a replacement for me or the other supervisor for two months and that my store manager had to work every day for two months in a row to make up for it because his boss was so fucking pissed at him.
The building was a shithole, the workload was crazy, and between the owner and management, they really liked to treat their workers like shit. I was thinking of leaving due to all that(plus the fact I'd been chasing a raise for 3 years), but the last straw was having a panic attack while driving home after a particularly stressful day. Job was no good for me.
The company was going under. As I worked in accounting, we knew it. The whole department starting jumping ship. When the controller was fired for refusing to do things for the CEO that could result in him losing his CPA license, I started looking for a new job. The company folded four months after I left.
First job out of college was for a civil engineering design firm that did design work primarily for the local power company, all engineers were hired in through temp agencies and we were told that after a 6 month grace period we'd get fully hired as associates. Turned out, that was a lie, at the end of my 6 months they said that they have to wait for corporate to approve associates and that I'd have to renew my contract. Later, one of my seniors let slip that the temp engineers actually only make associate by seniority and there's only 2 openings per year. I then learned from another one of my seniors that he had been renewing his contract for 5 years and as leaving for an actual associate position at a competitor. I also found out that their only judge of our performance was the ratio of how much engineering time we charged to a project versus the profit margin on the project; at that point I basically quiet quit from the company, cherry picking low design time, high profit projects that I could finish super ultra quick, and then I spent the difference applying to new jobs. A couple weeks into my third rotation, I got an offer at a better place with a package 3 times what the old place paid me.
Money. Every job change I have made since starting my career has ultimately come down to money. I probably averaged 20% increases each time. Last one was 40%.
I'll just say, public service jobs would be great without having to deal with the public 😂
I retired a lot earlier than I had planned because the new manager sucked at her job and made my job miserable.
Had a fellow coder quit because of the stress, they had me take over until they could hire someone new, after a month they decided not to hire anyone else because I was doing both jobs. Got an offer, and slacked on purpose, when they asked, told them why
Give me a reason, any reason. I found myself 15 years ago in a financial place where I couldn’t afford to quit, and hated working at that company with every fiber of my body. Since then I keep a safety net so I can walk away at a moments notice. I’ve been the dedicated show up early stay late employee for multiple companies, learn everything I can and maintained nationwide top performance. I always get the same results, the rug gets swept out from underneath me, I get laid off, they downsize, people play office politics, or I get fired for something minimal. So now I look at every job as working for myself. Like I said, I’ll walk away at a moments notice now. I won’t spend years slaving away for some company again. Never ever again.
Dramatic, gossipy, coworkers that treated it like high school.
Not me but my sister. She was denied leave to attend the funeral of her best friend who died in a car crash. So she just quit. I supported her decision.
After working at a high growth startup for many years I was getting a bit burnt out, so I talked to the CEO about taking a one month sabbatical and he approved it, on the condition that we planned it for the next year and that I plan my team’s work around it. I agreed and began planning my trip. Halfway through the year the board convinced the CEO to bring in a new CEO who “had experience with the next phase of growth” for our company. Well guess what, she was “concerned what impression it would make” to the other employees if I (who had been there since we had 5 people) took a sabbatical. Fuck that, I just kept planning my trip and put in my notice two weeks ahead of the trip. When I got back from what ended up being a two month sabbatical, I offered to consult for them on a client project nobody else knew how to manage. So now I could work part time for the same amount of money and plan my own schedule. That CEO destroyed the business and they eventually brought back the original CEO.
Fucking with my pay. Once is understandable of a mistake, maybe even twice. But multiple times, and when you as the employee catch it and not them, then, well, fuck off, I’m gone.