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It’s safe to assume that everyone is hoping for a raise at any given moment. According to a 2022 survey, less than one third of workers actually believe that they’re being paid fairly. And low pay is cited as one of the most common reasons for employees to leave their jobs. While most of us are willing to put up with minor frustrations during the workday, we all have our breaking points, especially when we’re suffering for a small paycheck.
Redditors have recently been sharing stories of the moments when they realized they definitely weren’t getting paid enough to put up with their current work arrangements. From being yelled at by their manager to being expected to fix sewage problems, these situations immediately sent workers over the edge. We hope that these stories won’t be relatable to you, pandas. But if they are, it might be time to say sayonara to your current employer!
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#1
Boss said lesbians are a waste of a life because they're not doing their duty to men in bearing children. I'm not even gay but it was more than enough to get me to leave.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Would he say the same about, say, nuns? By his logic, gay men are also a waste of a life, but I suppose that being male elevates them above criticism.
Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
Ah, the miracle of personal bias. /S The whole picture that guy paints is so weird. Is there actually a woman in his life? A "permanent" one? Or more likely #6 on a list of ex wives? Why do women "owe" men children? Could men "owe" impregnations to women? I'd like to simultaneously know/not know by how many women he did *his* "duty".
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Crystalwitch60 1 month ago
Eugh misogyny has NO place in the world let alone the work place , OH and gay people can have kids ffs , they just dint need a man to do it , it’s called ivf ,so boss is also ignorant !
MalayDragon 1 month ago (edited)
IVF still requires a donor s.p.e.r.m, same goes for gay couple both men who want children but don't want to adopt, they're going to require a donor egg and a woman willing to carry that baby to term. Boss is 100% ignorant obviously i'm not arguing that, also not arguing that misogyny has no place in the world. Just clarifying a little oversight. Yes gay couples can have children, but saying that for example a lesbian couple does not need a man to have children is biologically impossible, they physically do not need to have s.e.x with a man to conceive but they certainly need a man to donate s.p.e.r.m.
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CP 1 month ago
There are a lot of people who make that argument in the USA. They claim marriage is for having children only. It is just anti gay marriage rhetoric.
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
And then they play the "No fooling around if it's not for progeny " card, which is equally ludicrous.
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Awenpotato 1 month ago
Dear boss, please tell us why we must continue to reproduce, what is the reason for humans to exist?
Peter Bear 1 month ago
Oh wow, all four of the boss' tires seem to have holes in them, I wonder how that happened...
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#2
I got red in the face yelled at for chatting with my coworker, WHILE we were both fully working and the two of us were among the best performers on the site. Two weeks notice got put in within the week.
Mike F 1 month ago
I go into pearl clutching mode every time they use that pic.
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howdylee 1 month ago (edited)
A good friend/coworker and I used to sit back-to-back to each other (both women.) We could carry on conversations WHILE working. Yet the old men of the office would get up and go stand at each others' desks to have a (non-work related) conversation. Nobody said anything to them, but she and I were split up. Needless to say, we both left that job shortly after for much better jobs! F that place!
Peter Bear 1 month ago
I give back the energy I get. Yell at me, I will yell back, and not give two forks about it. Treat me with respect, I give respect back. It's that simple.
#3
Passed over for promotion then tasked with training up the external hire who got the job, as I was one of the most competent people on the team. Notice was handed in and I walked less than 2 months later.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
Once, I lost a contract, and I was tasked with showing the new team (of indian workers brought in to do the work) how to maintain the system. My mate made a bet with me that I couldn't work this period and leave them with less knowledge than they started with. I pretty much won the bet. They were clueless when they started, and absolutely clueless after listening to me for 4 weeks 😎
Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈 1 month ago
How did you pull that off? I am genuinely curious.
Load More Replies... JoRo 1 month ago (edited)
I have been through this very situation this year. I have worked there for 7 years, introduced multiple new successful initiatives and metrics and engagement are all up year-on-year. Multiple internal awards won (delivering, innovating, team of the year, outstanding performance) and then it was announced they were employing a new 'Head of'. I started looking immediately and am now leaving. Whilst not relevant in my case, it is also the job of the company to develop existing colleagues for succession purposes wherever possible in my opinion (it keeps morale high, is more cost-effective and show investment in people)
Capn Dad 1 month ago (edited)
Was in a similar situation once: boss fired me in favor of his son. I had created the entire customer service dept, and I "trained" sonny boy to do it. A month later boss called me in to help his son, so I "trained" him again. Now they don't have customer service.
Jonas Fisher 1 month ago
You know, I've heard of this kind of thing before, and I don't think a company is wrong for saying that there's a difference between understanding a job and being the best person to DO that job. Knowing where the files are, and what the manager does is a lot different from actually managing people every day. Now, if a company wants to keep people around with that kind of knowledge, they should pay them better and acknowledge them, but this isn't as crazy as these brief summaries make it sound.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Training someone to do a job doesn't mean you're training them to do it right.
To find out how this conversation started in the first place, we got in touch with the Reddit user who invited others to share their work horror stories, MidnightPandaX.
"I'd say the reason I made this story was mostly out of curiousity, rather than anything specific," the author shared. "Ask Reddit hasn't had a good question in a good while, so I thought I might ask something that people would genuinely enjoy."
#4
I was a young professional at the time and one of the older partners had me drive his wife to her hair dresser and wait for her to be done, i then had to take her grocery shopping, carry the groceries in and put them away for her and when she told me to vacuum her carpet before i left, i said no. By the time i got back to the office my partner was red in the face and said that if his wife tells me to do something, it is like he was telling me to do something. I told him to write me up, which he did and had HR present it to me that i was insubordinate for not vacuuming his wifes carpet.
I ended up leaving a few weeks later after a lateral move to a more progressive firm. I have that write up framed in my office as it is so ridiculous.
elmortero 1 month ago
Boy, I hope sooo much that "vacuuming his wifes carpet" is not some euphemism :-)
Fraxinus excelsior 1 month ago
Maybe she needed the cobwebs removing. 😉 😉
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I worked at a preschool where my supervisor, who happened to be a good friend of two of the aides, had them spy on me. I decided to turn in my resignation. Before I did, she called me into a meeting with the HR director. While I held the letter behind my back, they said I was being laid off. After the meeting, I ran the letter through the paper shredder, and I was able to collect unemployment insurance! I felt I had gotten even! I did go back to teaching, but I found a job that I loved in a public school. I went from the worst job I ever had to my favorite!
CP 1 month ago
Was there a reason they were spying? I need more information. This alleged spying could be monitoring a person's behavior.
Littlemiss 1 month ago
In my experience it was because I had fulfilled my use and they wanted a 'legal' way to get rid of me. Harassment and gaslighting was how they did it.
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Börje Strömming 1 month ago
Worked at a preschool, guess you missed that even as its the fifth word in the text.. Im guessing reading is something you are new at
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Working in a library, having to deal with parents not understanding that the library is NOT a daycare. Do not leave your kids behind...
Emilu 1 month ago
I think this is a problem for a decent amount of retailers, as well. When I worked in a technology/electronics store, the amount of people that would attempt to leave kids with us watching the TVs whilst they shopped was insane. Fortunately back then it was as simple as saying "we don't babysit; if your kid runs off we're not responsible" to get most people in line. I doubt it'd be the same now. And we're only talking a decade. It's not like I'm 102. (I think?)
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
Yes this happened at the retail store I used to work at, people would leave kids to play in the toy aisles.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 1 month ago
The bank I worked in used to have a child play area so the kids could play while the parents did their banking. They had to dismantle it a few months later because parents would just throw their kids in the play area and then take off for hours to shop in the town. The library I go to now has a sign up saying not to leave kids there alone, but I'm not sure the result is any better. A couple weeks ago, I'm on the computer and some kid and his sister are screaming and running around the front. I look up and there's mommy and daddy, smiling at them. After a few minutes, the kids came to the back where the computers were, running and screaming around the back bookstacks and jogging the computer tables. I finally snapped and told the older child to quit running because this was a library, not a playground. They quit running. Parents today are so useless. They may as well hatch their kids from eggs and then migrate and leave them on their own, for all the parenting they do.
Robin Roper 1 month ago
Many years ago when I was in High School, families would drop their kids off at the movie theater and ask what time the last movie ended. They would then go out with friends or to holiday parties. All the workers knew the parents were looking for a cheap babysitter and guess what, do did the pedophiles. Us 16 year old workers were told by your manager to walk into one of the theaters ever 15 or 20 minutes to make sure the pedos were leaving children alone. Some parents do not deserve their children.
Karl der Große 1 month ago
I worked in casinos for a while. One woman had an adult daughter with developmental disabilities. She would make her daughter go into the restroom and sit on the toilet for hours while she was gambling. We had to review tapes to figure out it was happening. We called CPS because a couple of us insisted that we had to - our head boss was very resistant to getting authorities involved in things.
Peripheral Visionary 1 month ago
CPS should be called for child abandonment. Besides how rude it is to inflict your kids on others, anyone could walk in and take one - how would the staff know to whom each brat belongs FFS?!
Vivian McBride 1 month ago
My favorite was many years ago in retail. Two very active, destructive little boys (under 7) showed up without their parents. They were with us for about half an hour. Mom shows up with a cop. She had "lost" them in the store two doors down from us
We also asked MidnightPandaX if they had any similar stories of their own to share. "I think the only scenario that made me quit like that was when I was taken off the schedule in retaliation for calling in sick at Dominos," they told Bored Panda. "I had to threaten to get the state involved before they gave me my job back, and by that time, I already had a job lined up for me."
#7
There was a girl who I had the biggest crush on ever since we met in kindergarten. She moved away for college, and we got to talking, and I found out she had a crush on me, too. She came back home for a spring break from college and we hung out the entire time. I was scheduled to work (as a cashier at Meijer, for like $7.25/hr) on her last day home. I called and quit so I could spend one more day with her. Worth it.
Purple Gurl 1 month ago
I saw the 'one more day' line and was afraid it was The Notebook all over again
Roni Stone 1 month ago
Best one yet. Although that lesbian hating boss was pretty quittable, too.
#8
That I’ve never received a review or raise in the 5+ years I’ve been at my current job. When brought up I received blank stares and they questioned my loyalty?
Roni Stone 1 month ago
"Ok, then. So, can I borrow a couple thousand dollars, dad? You know, for "family" stuff."
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Vinnie 1 month ago (edited)
996 (9am to 9pm 6 days a week) sounds effective, but it requires workaholics who have the stamina to work those hours and employers who don't mind losing the occasional worker to burn-out, health problems, su!cide, and just plain quitting to have a social life, hobbies, a family, etc.
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I had a job that didn’t pay us during the holidays. Working a full time job that claimed they “didn’t have the money right now to pay all of their employees”. It was a small “mom and pop” type employer so I get that times were hard but d**n that sucked. We went 3 weeks without a pay check. Caused me to fall behind on rent, car payment and paying back my student loans. I left that place as quick as I could land something else.
Robert T 1 month ago
This was the reason I quit my first proper job. I was just about to sign on the dotted line for a mortgage and went to the MD to ask if everything was okay before I did. He told me yes, all was fine. I had scarcely made one mortgage payment when I was paid in cash for that month (we normally got paid by bank transfer). I resigned and worked out my notice. The company folded quite soon after. Fortunately I walked straight into another job, as my previous manager had been trying to poach me for a while.
Jp@nda 1 month ago
Must've been working there for a long time then to be able to get a mortgage with only having one job
Load More Replies... Awenpotato 1 month ago
No pay = no work If you're too stupid to realise this then you deserve it
arthbach 1 month ago
In civilised countries, people who are permanent members of staff are paid for holidays. It's a legal requirement.
Load More Replies...Finally, we asked the author what they thought of the replies to their post. "I think my favorite story from the thread is the servers which were drowned in sewage," they shared. "I work in IT now, and luckily, I haven't had a scenario like that (and never wish to), but I can just imagine the damage and smell from something like that. Ugh."
#10
Listening to my maga boss rant about politics while we have 3 undocumented employees that he RELIES on to run his business.
Peter Bear 1 month ago
It's not even a lie, just a prediction of the future.
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When I was in college I worked a retail job, I always got stuck on the closing shift. The store had a policy that you needed 2 departments worth of people there with the manager when they locked up the store. My department had the most individual items (lots of small components) so repriced and restocks always took forever, so we were basically always stuck there until the very end (generally about 3 hours after our scheduled clock off because there's always 1 other department that for one reason or another had a very long closing each day).
One day we decided we would work our a**es off getting everything ready so we can leave on time for once, we get to 15 minutes before the normal clock out time and our supervisor goes and gets the manager to do a walk through and ok us to leave. He says there's something wrong, when we ask him what it is he refuses to tell us. We proceed to spend the next hour trying to find anything out of place, and find nothing. Finally once we are the last department not finished he tells us, turns out literally 1 item on one of the end caps wasn't straight (it was slightly crocked). I literally screamed in his face chucked my badge at him and walked out the emergency exit.
Peeka_Mimi 1 month ago
When I worked at Ross Dress for Less I had a manager like that. She was German and we all called her a Notsee. She made that job miserable.
Pyla 1 month ago
My mom worked at Joann's Fabrics for a German woman and she was a full on freak over not letting anyone get even an inch more of a cutting (so a bolt end would have like a scrap that could not get sold), would crawl around on the floor looking for a quarter, grab the coupon out of my mom's hand when she kept one to do cashiering for people who forgot one (Joann's coupons were frequent and legendary for their generosity of using them). My mom eventually quit, but once in the grocery store she ran into a customer who knew her. The lady said "You were the nice one!". We still laugh over that.
Load More Replies... Jp@nda 1 month ago
I had one of these as my first mgr, she was a umm Pepsihead and got off on this type of stuff. Would check our aisles with a ruler while we had to stand at the end and wouldn't tell us what it was if she found something 'wrong," got out as soon as I could, she screamed at me when I gave her my transfer papers
#12
A wiring closet was built on the 1st floor where a bathroom used to be. Guess what was on the 2nd floor above it?
There was a sewage leak from the 2nd floor.
I was the IT guy. They thought it was my problem to clean it up.
#13
Retail jobs, multiple of them. One that really put me over the edge. Guy paid for something on layaway. Once you pay it off you get the item but it's not on site and is shipped in. Out of my control as an associate, out of store managers control too. We did not have the item yet, impossible to get it that minute he wanted it. This guy berated me for 30+ minutes like it was my fault. Store manager was almost zero help. He just let me get yelled at me over and over. I finally got the situation sorted and the dude left without his item. Afterwards I nearly cried in the parking lot sitting in my full motorcycle gear beside my bike. A friend I hadnt seen in years happened to see me and say Hi. Normally I would have talked to him forever. But I was absolutely destroyed by that customer, I basically just said "hey" and that was pretty much the extent of it. That was basically the moment I decided to go back to school, got an internship and worked myself into technology. Retail is FINE 95% of the time but it's the 5% that eats your soul alive. I hope that guy chokes on a rock. .
Emilu 1 month ago
Retail can be soul-crushing. I saw someone that I thought was a friend in my store and said "Hi! I haven't seen you in ages! How are you?" and she literally turned around and ignored me, then quickly left. I also had a woman tell me "I hope you can't have children" because I wouldn't accept her return. The main reason I lasted in retail for... about fifteen years, IIRC, is because of the people with whom I worked. I'm still friends with several now, but it's certainly not easy-street. It is, however, a good way to make other options seem viable/plausible/worthy of aiming towards.
Alexandra 1 month ago
What is it with retail? I have never ever witnessed customers treating staff like garbage. If anything, people, in my experience, are always polite and mindful of their manners. Granted, I'm not in the USA, so it might be country-specific, but I wonder how retail staff is treated in other countries.
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Jp@nda 1 month ago
Aahaaa I see what you did there. I had to go back and look for what you meant
Load More Replies... Purple Gurl 1 month ago
There are times when retail will be the best thing-like when you help someone find that perfect gift, or find the last shirt in the size they needed. Other times, it is walking in to clear dressing rooms, and finding out that someone used a $300 silk blouse to wipe themselves down after starting their period, and had also broken open a 10 pack of underwear and left their soiled ones behind.
Peripheral Visionary 1 month ago
Try a call centre job, it's the opposite- fine 5% of the and soul destroying 95% of the time.
#14
There was a piece of equipment in a crawlspace that needed replaced. I opened the door to the crawlspace and saw the device about 50 feet away, through a forest of spider webs.
That piece of equipment is still there, still broken, and won't be replaced.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago (edited)
In Australia, we'd just sub-contract the spiders to fix it...
Sarah Belt 1 month ago
I named my (comparatively tiny) cellar spider Emilia in honor of the great Aussie tradition.
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#15
I worked for a video distance learning program in the 80s-90s. I had a cool job doing some computer graphics and video production, but I also had to recycle hundreds (thousands?) of VHS tapes that had to be de-labeled, and the stickers did NOT come off easily. One day in frustration I just blurted out "can't we hire somebody to do this?!" My boss smiled at me and said "we did.".
Luke Branwen 1 month ago
If it wasn't in their job description (or hidden behind something intentionally vague), then they got duped
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#16
My coworker asked why her emails weren’t being sent and others weren’t receiving them. She was writing them in Microsoft word.
tameson 1 month ago
The number of co-workers I had that could never learn how to attach a document to an email still amazes me. And I've been retired for 10 years.
Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
A coworker of mind retired last year. Sweet guy, but SO inept at certain practicalities. When our computers got an update he called me to ask how you do the @ for an email (I'm guessing the autofill got wiped). I was baffled. If I had that kind of question I'd be embarrased to déath and google it - I'd NOT parade it to anyone I know. And he did it TWICE within about two months. A journalist, by the way, so "research" would pretty much sum up 70% of his job.
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#17
Witnessing my boss having an affair *in the office* with someone. He's married with kids, and the woman is like. Sort of the worst person you can imagine in a workplace (unreliable, irresponsible, unorganized, immature, unprofessional, unkind, the whole shebang). The woman came up to me afterwards and begged me to keep their secret, and my boss couldn't look me in the eye for WEEKS but never brought it up and never apologized to me. Afterwards, the woman tried to get me fired.
WindySwede 1 month ago
Would HR action that? Or you think of the other part than the affair?
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#18
I was told the oily stains on my work shirt were highly toxic dioxins.
In my 20s, went to work replacing the "mung" lines of a plastics plant. We were given yellow rain suits, rubber boots, and face shields and told to power wash the 3 ft diameter pipes, taking the tar-like substances and putting them in special metal barrels for disposal.
When we need to get a new barrel, I had to go to the safety office to sign it out. The dude there freaked out when he saw the tiny black specs on my shirt.
Needless to say, after his explanation of how very very bad this was, I took the barrel over to my supervisor, took off my shirt and put it in the barrel, AS PER SAFETY GUY INSTRUCTIONS. Walked over to my car. Kicked off my boots and jeans and drove away in my underwear.
That was how I quit.
Purple Gurl 1 month ago
I guess I need more context to the tale. What is a mung line? If they7 had slickers, boots and shields, how did he get the muck on him?
Gabriel Camomescro 1 month ago
You had to deposit a thing into a "special metal barrel" and didn't ask questions? Sounds like a you problem TBH.
Matt 1 month ago
Ummm no. If you’re not properly trained for the job and its risks it’s not at all on you.
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When a girl pissed herself while in an interview with me, soaking her chair, the floor and there was so much that we could see her path when she left.
Turns out she had also pissed on all our waiting room couches.
I was told that because I was health & safety rep, I had to clean it up. As H&S rep I had the place closed to be decontaminated. Honestly, eff them.
Emilu 1 month ago
That poor girl, though. I doubt she'd have done it just to annoy the poster. She was probably so embarrassed.
WindySwede 1 month ago
But how could it be pee on *all* the couches as well?
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Worked at a fast casual restaurant as the kitchen manager. Open-line restaurant, and during busy times I would jump on the line with my staff to push food and service.
Company was trying to squeeze profits and the GM started cutting my prep cook staff early, leaving me with more work (I was salaried). Was happening every day for months. Longer hours, no extra pay.
One day I’m on the line during a rush helping push service. Owner of company is sitting with his son in a table right in front of. Son is 18, just graduated high school. The owner handed his son the keys to a Jimmy John’s franchise as a graduation gift. Kid had never worked a day in his life.
And it hit me, that all these extra hours, and penny pinching, and labor cost for the last year, just went into the hands of this pimple faced dude who has probably never bagged his own lunch. This was 5 years ago.
I quit the next day. Told myself I would never work a job where my wage was not directly tied to my effort and performance. Got into sales.
Made $150k last year in a LCOL area. Coming up on 1 year in the house I bought with my fiance. Getting married in June.
#21
There were multiple moments that made me realize I definitely wasn’t getting paid enough getting yelled at, insulted, and even reprimanded for asking why I had to make up hours as an exempt employee just because I went to a medical appointment.
But the breaking point was when my boss, who was also an attorney, advised a client to hide money from the local tax department to avoid a lien. That’s the kind of thing that can get us disbarred, and yet it was treated like nothing.
The next day, I left a three-page resignation letter on his desk and my coworkers’ desks and walked out before he even got to the office. By the end of the summer, the rest of my coworkers followed and left the firm too.
#22
Cleaning bodily fluids for $7.25 an hour.
#23
About 26 years ago I was working at a video store and a customer threw change at my head when I had to validate her birthday. My boss had to stop me from punching her in the face.
My appendix blew up two days later and I lost the job anyway. Boss didn’t care that I was having a medical emergency so I walked through the door via an ER. About a year later, his store was taken over by Blockbuster. Karma.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Happy ending! The business was saved by being taken over by Blockbuster.
#24
I worked for a construction company where they paid me every week. Then switched to every other week. Then the pay checks started bouncing. I started cashing my pay checks immediately after I received them. One day the owner called me in and questioned why I was cashing my paychecks and questioned me if I this was just a job or a career blah blah blah. I told him what I do with my paycheck is none of his business. Two days later I was laid off. Kept me from having to quit and I got unemployment.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 month ago
What was he expecting OP to do with their paychecks if not cash them?
Mike F 1 month ago
Boss wanted somebody else's check to clear and OP beat them to the punch.
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#25
Highly unprofessional co-worker had the balls to complain to me because I'd been at home recovering from a life-threatening crash, which apparently was inconvenient for him. Management did nothing about it.
I don't work there any more. I did not in fact get paid enough, as my next job included a significant raise. I made it clear why I was leaving when I did.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
"I'm sorry, I wasn't made aware that you are now signing my paycheck."
#26
I was a QA tester for a video game.
I submitted a critical bug for a piece of content made by a designer for an expansion to our MMO. That designer came over from across the building to yell at me, saying my bug was invalid. I didn't argue. I didn't do anything when they closed the bug as invalid. I didn't complain to my boss. Some co-workers came to see if I was ok.
A few weeks later they were having a public reveal on a test server where people could try out the content for free for like 3 days. This designer's content was the first level of the expansion content and because it was broken, players couldn't access anything.
I swung by her desk and saw her with her head in her hands as the lead producer and senior producer were standing over her.
About 2 months later she was laid off.
Our team had this weird tradition where if someone was fired or laid off people who didn't like them would collect their name tags. It was sort of a trophy to say "I outlasted this person." Some people would also grab the name tags to "protect them" from someone else keeping it as a trophy. It started with our boss at his previous game studio, and he brought it to our company. It was a very weird and macabre tradition that largely existed because layoffs were frequent. I tried to avoid it as much as I could because I felt it was a little infantile.
But I made sure that I collected her name tag when she was laid off.
#27
After being denied a raise after being told I was one of the best employees they had I was asked to help load the owners 17 year old daughters car that he was borrowing because his was in the shop. That car was a brand new Porsche Cayenne.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
To them you were one of the "best" employees precisely because you were so underpaid.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
Every time I hear 'you are doing a great job, just have more confidence in yourself' after asking for more support, I want to quit. The only reason I didn't was because I waned to get maternity leave out of them. Just found out two weeks ago they will give me 12 leave, but all of it is unpaid! (I am certain my first contract said I got 6 weeks at least paid, but I've lost it) Now it's too late, because I am pregnant so won't get leave from any other job if I'm lucky enough to be hired before then. I will be quitting when the government leave payment is up!
#28
Was working maintenance at a hotel once upon a time. Had to pull out a steam cleaner to remove poop smears from a mattress. Did I do it? Yes, because no one else would. Did I clock out, go home and shower, and never come back? Also yes.
Moving Enigma 1 month ago
Yeah, I think I'd have clocked out BEFORE removing the p**p not afterwards lol.
#29
I was working at Target at guest service, I had been at Target for almost 5 years and was about done with that job anyway. This was back when pre-paid phones were popular. Girl who looked barely old enough to drive brings an ATT phone and prepaid card to guest service to buy. We sold both cards to load minutes on cell phones and we also sold cards for pay phones. Once they were activated they couldnt be returned and they were not interchangeable. I used to work electronics and knew this. I called back to electronics to verify if she had the right card and he said yes so I sold her the phone and the card.
I opened the next morning and around 10 or so I took my break. I come back to the girl pointing at me screaming "thats him! thats the guy!" Im looking around like w*f is going on?! Apparently she did buy the wrong card and when she came to return it and they told her she couldnt she got her parents. Her dad was completely hammered at 10:30 in the morning and acting like a belligerent. He starts telling me that I stole $50 dollars from his daughter and I was paying her back. As if I somehow was doing this for kicks just to mess with her or making money off of a scam. The mother accused me of being a pothead. Now if they would have been nice about the whole thing the store manage would have ate the $50 and gave them a store credit to buy the right card but since they were acting like the way they were he had security escort them out.
I was not about to get yelled over a $50 phone card and had my fill of dealing with the public and put my notice in the next day. I think I worked 2 more days and never went back. I still have nightmares when I walk in that place hearing walkie talkies and calling for backup to the registers.
#30
When I was told I had to go to an employers house on weekends and do personal pc work...that wasnt in my job description as an IT person. I worked at a law firm in IT department.
I got sick of the one on one hand holding.
#31
District manager visited the Blockbuster I worked at and asked us how many super expensive 20 dollar a month rent unlimited video games subscriptions we'd sold. I was happy to ring people up and give them feedback and advice on movies to watch, but I'm not conning them into a bad deal. He breathed down my neck and basically was forcing me to ask every customer if they wanted to be on it, so I just quit then and there. This same guy also took all our clocks off the wall when he arrived so they wouldn't "distract" us. No way I'm gonna sit there and take that kind of condescension.
This is an old story from the 2000s of course, when I was young.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
As I recall, we had wristwatches even way back in the 2000s, so the clock removal was kind of pointless.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
I've noticed now hardly anyone wears a wristwatch. I've worn one since junior high.
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#32
Private school... They let another teacher steal my professional learning materials and pass them off to the staff as his own... When I called admin on the issue, they were silent...
I wrote a 20+ page policy document for admin on how we could transition the staff to online teaching at the beginning of COVID (timelines, resources, training needed, rationale for everything)... They ignored my email, said nothing to me, but two weeks later started (poorly) putting my plans into play...
When I raised concerns about how they were handling staff mental health supports and student success during COVID, they threatened to fire me three times in two weeks...
I started looking for a job immediately, and got out about a year later. Post-COVID the school is on the verge of financial collapse because they've prioritized profits over education and the quality of the people they're hiring AND the student's they've accepted has slipped year over year. I'm making 50% more working in the public system.
GalPalAl 1 month ago
Smh. Typical of what we as a country have become where Greed really is good for the people who are stealing money while the rest of us watch helpless
Jp@nda 1 month ago
But they blame us, the average American like it's our fault and we're proud of it or something. Sorry I cannot afford to move my entire life and family across the world
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#33
My company is no longer giving raises to employees who make more than a certain amount above the base pay, but don't worry, they appreciate our experience and expertise. Additionally, 6 people left and they didn't hire a single person to replace them🙄.
#34
My boss wouldn’t let us leave to eat lunch. Instead he would bring bologna and bread and have us eat that. I got tired of it and bounced.
#35
Worked as a contractor for the federal government issuing COVID-19 payments, pandemic isolation, helping on myGov, Centrelink, Medicare payments during lockdown (also getting vax stats on the QR code app).
A guy asked for help with updating QR code to reflect vax status. I clearly explained what to click on the different pages. He asks if I can just do it for him, if he gives me his username and password. I explain no because it has 2 factor authentication and I wouldn’t receive the number. He says “well I’ll just read it to you over the phone”. I say “no, if I were to log into your account as you, it would be considered identity theft, the federal tech people in Canberra would recognise my IP logging into a myGov account, not mine and my manager would be notified. I’d lose my job in approximately 20 minutes after doing what you wanted.” He replies “So.. Can’t you just help me?”.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
Eliminating an unworkable strategy and explaining why is helping. An example of a workable strategy would be, say, doing your own job.
Huddo's sister 1 month ago
You could never pay me enough to work for Centrelink or any of those other systems! Mind you some that do work for them are pretty rude, but I know they do deal with a lot of people like the guy mentioned.
#36
I took a job as a receptionist. Pay wasn't great and there were no benefits, but the interviewer stressed work-life balance as they have three receptionists, so it should be ok for one to leave early as needed. Well it turned out that by "leave early," she meant "leave right at 5:00 rather than waiting for any stragglers to leave." I missed many of my daughter's cross country meets, but was determined to make it to her league championship meet. We came back from lunch at 2:00, so I asked if I could just be off the rest of the day instead, to have time to change and travel to where the meet was. The office manager made me pull up Google maps and calculate to the minute what time I'd need to leave the office to go directly to the meet, and made me work up to that minute. So much for work-life balance.
They also demanded a hell of a lot of work considering the pay. I thought I'd just be answering phones and scheduling appointments, but any time there was a lull we were supposed to be running reports, poring over records for mistakes, etc. And there were rarely lulls-- usually the phone was ringing, I was trying to reach another staff who wasn't answering her phone, and I had two people in front of me with questions-- so when things actually got quiet for a sec I wanted to actually catch my breath. Nope, gotta go through these 400 postcards and make sure they're correct before we mail them! It was way too much for the pay, but the Google maps incident was my breaking point. .
Peripheral Visionary 1 month ago
Being a receptionist is as bad as a call centre job. I was having to tell lies all day long to cover for people who were dodging calls and not wanting to talk to their clients. Whenever you hear so&so is not available or "in a meeting", it's probably a lie.
#37
Getting yelled at by my boss for telling him not to use a tool (that didn't belong to him) in a way that would break it. I walked away after that.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago (edited)
I watched an engineer break an $8k measuring tool after I warned him, basically, that he wasn't qualified to use it. He didn't like that. He really didn't like the "Next time, listen to the toolmaker." he got when I was walking out of the metrology lab. Ruined his quarterly budget, and he got wrote up.
#38
Mechanical engineer. Global company:
I had to digitally sign a document one day.
It took 6 software programs and 1.5 hours to digitally sign, print, email.
I left that day. Never went back. Never looked back. Ghosted them. Started my own business. Best decision of my life.
Peripheral Visionary 1 month ago
Sounds like Air Canada. I quit before I got to training because of bull c**p exactly like this. It took two days and two hours each day to e-sign their fococta offer letter. The content also changed both days
#39
Got a new sales and engineering manager that had been with the company for decades that did not understand when a customer buys a larger amount of a product, the unit price goes down.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
That sounds like a combination in Hell Industries.
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It’s not an insane story but I applied for an estate agent job with the company purple bricks (who at the time went into liquidation but were bought by another company for £1 to clear debts and stay afloat). I had a total of 3 days training, roughly 4 hours a day for the first two days and then 30 minutes on the third. Purely PowerPoint presentations.
The day after this the guy (my boss) pretty much said okay good luck! Handed me about 100 property keys and gave me a phone, to which my first responsibility was to apologise to all their clients for being kept in the dark due to high staff turnover.
Needless to say I told my boss I wasn’t prepared enough for what I threw myself into and quit the next day.
#41
I kept getting tasked with that’s that are soooo not my job and I made less money than a new hire even though I’ve been there for 10 years. Some examples being I am a trainer, can do every job there, handle scheduling and payroll, can drive CDL and do yard jockey and route driving etc but I was by far the lowest paid person there. Like the new hire who only does one thing in the warehouse made $5 more per hour. I’d also be the person who would get sent to other plants to help fix their problems or introduce and teach the new systems.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Sometimes you work for less money because you'll work for less money.
#42
20 years old, needed money so bit the bullet and became a custodian to more than double my pay and have health insurance, vacation and sick time. Even with all the junk I had to deal with as a custodian it was worth it than working minimum in retail. The part that made me quit was dealing with the bitter old lead who wanted nothing more that to be miserable and make others miserable.
#43
I'm a very small and short female and my boss asked me to move about 1000 pounds of candles by myself. I ended up collapsing on the ground because of how much pain I was in after trying to move the candles.
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
This needs more context. Was physical lifting in the job description or not.
What do you think ?
Emilu 1 month ago (edited)
My best few are from working in retail. Naturally. #1: A manager wanted me to join him and his wife in a threesome. The manager was later 'asked' to resign because he was essentially stealing. He'd have been fired otherwise. He got off easy. #2: In continuation to my comment above, I had a woman tell me that she "hope(d) I couldn't have children" because I wouldn't accept her return. I went out to the back room to cry; I was a teenager and not used to dealing with shit like that. My then-acting manager then proceeded to come back from somewhere, apologise to the woman for me being rude and process her return. #3: Also happened when I was a teen; I had a wanker come in and steal something. I tackled him to the ground but he eventually got away, even though he was flashing his manties as a result (heh). Again, I was a loser and started crying. There was an old couple in the store at the time and they asked me if he was my BF. I just said no and asked them to leave.
azubi 1 month ago
In principle, it's none of my business how you choose to describe your younger self, but if I leave this “loser” comment unchallenged, I fear that others will think it's appropriate to describe people in this way when they break down after a***e. So please don't be so hard on yourself and, above all, don't be so hard on others. Perpetrators are perpetrators; victims are not losers.
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Littlemiss 1 month ago (edited)
My boss is in the closet. She and her gf pretend to 'just be friends' who share a bed, she credit cards, life for over 20 years etc. Though if told she's a lesbian she has physically attacked people and beaten them black and blue. Then she turns around and preaches about the Bible and goodness. I get long sermons daily about the Bible, how fantastic her beliefs are and she is one of the least loyal, most disgustingly biased, thieving, crooked and conniving people I know. Her and her gf put on this act and so many people fall for it. If only they knew the truth.
Kate Jones 1 month ago
I used to work in a convenience store in a bad neighborhood and we didn't have a public bathroom- which we were grateful for. My DM was there one day and this guy came in and needed to use the bathroom. i tell him no (our bathroom was near all of our product storage and safe/money), but the DM let him in the locked area to go ahead. He's in there for like 20 minutes and the DM leaves. Finally the guy came out of the bathroom and knocked a bunch of stuff over because he was so wasted. When I go to the bathroom i see he literally pooped on the floor and smeared it all over the walls. He left a needle on the floor as he was clearly doing d***s while he was in there. I called my DM because i wasn't going to be cleaning it. He was like 'you're the store manager that's your job'. I told him i worked in a place with no public bathroom and he choose to override me. so either he can come back and clean it or he needs to send corporate cleaners to come and clean it. I quit soon after.
R Dennis 1 month ago
When I was 17, I was a dishwasher and also cleaned the restaurant. Someone hadn't made it to the toilet and left the evidence (and their underwear) on the floor in a stall. I sat in the dining room for about 30 minutes trying to decide whether to handle it or quit...
Chich the witch 1 month ago
Had a job in school at an income tax centre. Kind of mindless work, you got peoples returns, looked through to see all the forms were included and then put them in a specific order after which they were sent on to the people who assessed them. About 50 of us working in a large room. The supervisor was this scrawny mousy man in his 40s who treated us like we were in kindergarten, No talking, raise your hand to go to the loo etc. Near the end of the shift he would stand up on a desk in the middle of the room looking at his watch with his arm raised and yell at anyone who got up before the absolute last second when he dropped his arm. I lasted about a week. Got a nasty letter saying I would never work in government again. Went on to work in Gov't, ending up as manager of a department for 26 years so f**k you mouse man..
Emilu 1 month ago (edited)
My best few are from working in retail. Naturally. #1: A manager wanted me to join him and his wife in a threesome. The manager was later 'asked' to resign because he was essentially stealing. He'd have been fired otherwise. He got off easy. #2: In continuation to my comment above, I had a woman tell me that she "hope(d) I couldn't have children" because I wouldn't accept her return. I went out to the back room to cry; I was a teenager and not used to dealing with shit like that. My then-acting manager then proceeded to come back from somewhere, apologise to the woman for me being rude and process her return. #3: Also happened when I was a teen; I had a wanker come in and steal something. I tackled him to the ground but he eventually got away, even though he was flashing his manties as a result (heh). Again, I was a loser and started crying. There was an old couple in the store at the time and they asked me if he was my BF. I just said no and asked them to leave.
azubi 1 month ago
In principle, it's none of my business how you choose to describe your younger self, but if I leave this “loser” comment unchallenged, I fear that others will think it's appropriate to describe people in this way when they break down after a***e. So please don't be so hard on yourself and, above all, don't be so hard on others. Perpetrators are perpetrators; victims are not losers.
Load More Replies... Littlemiss 1 month ago (edited)
My boss is in the closet. She and her gf pretend to 'just be friends' who share a bed, she credit cards, life for over 20 years etc. Though if told she's a lesbian she has physically attacked people and beaten them black and blue. Then she turns around and preaches about the Bible and goodness. I get long sermons daily about the Bible, how fantastic her beliefs are and she is one of the least loyal, most disgustingly biased, thieving, crooked and conniving people I know. Her and her gf put on this act and so many people fall for it. If only they knew the truth.
Kate Jones 1 month ago
I used to work in a convenience store in a bad neighborhood and we didn't have a public bathroom- which we were grateful for. My DM was there one day and this guy came in and needed to use the bathroom. i tell him no (our bathroom was near all of our product storage and safe/money), but the DM let him in the locked area to go ahead. He's in there for like 20 minutes and the DM leaves. Finally the guy came out of the bathroom and knocked a bunch of stuff over because he was so wasted. When I go to the bathroom i see he literally pooped on the floor and smeared it all over the walls. He left a needle on the floor as he was clearly doing d***s while he was in there. I called my DM because i wasn't going to be cleaning it. He was like 'you're the store manager that's your job'. I told him i worked in a place with no public bathroom and he choose to override me. so either he can come back and clean it or he needs to send corporate cleaners to come and clean it. I quit soon after.
R Dennis 1 month ago
When I was 17, I was a dishwasher and also cleaned the restaurant. Someone hadn't made it to the toilet and left the evidence (and their underwear) on the floor in a stall. I sat in the dining room for about 30 minutes trying to decide whether to handle it or quit...
Chich the witch 1 month ago
Had a job in school at an income tax centre. Kind of mindless work, you got peoples returns, looked through to see all the forms were included and then put them in a specific order after which they were sent on to the people who assessed them. About 50 of us working in a large room. The supervisor was this scrawny mousy man in his 40s who treated us like we were in kindergarten, No talking, raise your hand to go to the loo etc. Near the end of the shift he would stand up on a desk in the middle of the room looking at his watch with his arm raised and yell at anyone who got up before the absolute last second when he dropped his arm. I lasted about a week. Got a nasty letter saying I would never work in government again. Went on to work in Gov't, ending up as manager of a department for 26 years so f**k you mouse man..
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