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30 People Share The Moments When They Realized They Didn’t Care If They Got Fired From Their Workplace
At some point in our lives, there’s bound to come a point when you seriously consider quitting your job. You’ve tried everything—talking to your manager, your local HR rep, shifting your perspective with some positivity, and maybe even meditation—but nothing seems to take away the dread, anxiety, and anger that you feel at work. So you decide to quit.
You see, everyone has a breaking point, and once you reach it, you really don’t care anymore. You have a, “Fire me, I don’t care” attitude. Redditor 12345burrito asked their fellow site users to share the moments that they were so disappointed with their working conditions, they no longer wanted to remain in their position.
Have a read through some of them below and share your own experiences with the very worst jobs you’ve ever been in dear Pandas. What’s your breaking point? Oh, and fear not—there’s always another job out there. Though landing it means we have to approach job interviews with plenty of confidence and avoid shyness.
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#1
My boss tried to tell me I couldn't get a surgery I'd been effectively waiting 5 or 6 years for. She was like "sorry - I've already got 3 people on annual leave for those weeks". I basically said to her "prepare for a 4th - cause I'm either on annual leave or not coming back at all".
Funniest part was - she was in the middle of being replaced by someone else - so I went to her replacement (who would be in charge about 3/4 days before my surgery) and she was aghast and was like "Of course you can have your surgery - we'll make it work!" and that was it.
Isabella 4 years ago
Why ymdo you need annual leave for surgery? This should be paid sick leave! At least it is like this in Europe.
Toast Of Saint Louis 4 years ago
We have paid sick leave and all an insurance for that but you have to put it in ahead of time. You can't just come in the day before or not show up at all. You need to put the time in so someone can cover your work or shift. I have PST (paid sick time) and PTO (paid time off). Only thing I don't like about paid sick time is (our company and not sure about others) that they only give of 56 hours a year for use but on the hand you have can get as much paid time off as you can accumulate. I have a friend who has at least 200 hours of paid time off and that's only because she does call all and is always doing over time. I got 30 to my name and that's because I've had to call off.
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third molar 4 years ago
Some control freaks are assholes. I had a boss who wanted 3 weeks advance notice on when a colleague can start-his paternity leave. Like exact dates.
Random Anon 4 years ago (edited)
I get pissed off reading stories like these. I work with some bosses that treat their staff this way. It takes a lot of restraint not to tell them what I really think of them. It sounds hypocritical I know. But to me, my staff payroll is my priority.
Crissie Laugesen 3 years ago
You have to take "annual leave" for an operation? No sick pay? Must be the USA
James Kershaw 4 years ago
It's more shocking you have to take annual leave for surgery?!it should be paid time off FFS!!
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#2
My dog became very ill quite suddenly and he needed to be put down, I was at work and I asked to leave half an hour early so I could be there for him. I asked my manager and she got annoyed and said there was "no way" and that I should have told her earlier. I said "I'm sorry I didn't realize my dog was going to die" in the most sarcastic way possible then walked away knowing she'd follow me, I then stood at my desk and typed my resignation up infront of her.
She gave me the time off.
No one was going to stop me from being there for my boy.
Wandaluzt 4 years ago
Posted on Reddit 2 years ago. You can't speak to them from a completely different website.
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Amina Hays 4 years ago
I got a call at work saying my dog had been put down after an exploratory surgery found he was riddled with cancer. I told my boss, while in floods of tears, that I had to leave and told him why. He very angrily said he didn't understand why people got so upset about pets, it's only a dog and "fine leave, if you must!" I quit.
Carol Anne Benoit 4 years ago
If employers want to have good people working for them, they need to accept the things that a good person needs to do that doesn't immediately benefit them as an employer. In the end, if you treat people like an asshole, you'll only have assholes working for you.
Patti Vance 4 years ago
i realize that some people don't understand that, to many of us, our pets are family. i was so fortunate that the last place i worked understood this. the day after i my dog died i happened to have a dr's appt. my dr could see something was wrong & asked me about it so i told him. he immediately took out a paper and scribbled a note saying that i needed to have a couple of days off for 'emotional health' & made me call my work from his office to inform them, including having his note. when i got back a couple of days later i noticed my boss had noted on our in/out board i had been out for family bereavement leave which was paid days off.
Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago
I never cry, but I do get incredibly sad, and I agree, animal deaths are hella sad. One of my worst fears.
Load More Replies... Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago
My condolences. Don't let anyone stop you for being there for your family.
Sergy Yeltsen 4 years ago
One of the most disgusting things I've heard. Pets are like family - and are family to some people. I'm very lucky that I could take 2 days compassionate leave when I had to have my cat put down. It's upsetting others don't get this same benefit.
Ella Blackwood 4 years ago
I am so sorry you had to go through that. In one of the most painful moments of your life, she chose to be an uncooperative asshole and you didn't need the extra pressure or stress. I am so sorry for the loss of your baby.
Laura Pantazis 4 years ago
I am fortunate that I am a sole practitioner. When my cat of 17 years was reaching her end of life, I took a week off to spend as much time as I could with her. After she died, I needed another week to work through the grief enough to function again. She was so much more than a cat to me. She was my best friend.
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Lots of people that never owned a pet do not realize that they become part of the family, but this case here, for 30 minutes???
#3
I was 16 and my Step-Dad was in hospital around 5hrs away dying from cancer. I got a phone call at work for about the third time in a couple of months that I needed to get down there ASAP to say my goodbyes, as this could be it. My bosses were all well aware of the situation, one of them was even friends with my Step-Dad. When I rushed out the back to tell them I had to go, this bloke looks at me, a crying, frightened,16yr old girl, and told me I had to stop doing this, and get my priorities right. In a rare showing of assertiveness I looked that d***snap in the eye and told him he was right, and quit on the spot.
Evelína Zlá 4 years ago
What the... I´m not an agressive person but I think I would slap him in the face hearing him say it to someone.
A B C 4 years ago
Right? "Get your priorities straight" is about the most inappropriate thing you could say in that situation.
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OCDRobot 4 years ago
"Get your priorities right"? They were already right thank you very much. Hope he doesn't have a family, because he clearly wouldn't prioritize them over his job.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Or maybe he would. I know at least one person who thinks everything is different if it concerns her.
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Ella Blackwood 4 years ago
What a horrible person to do that to you! I am so glad that you chose your humanity, it was the right thing to do, but the fact that he gave you that ultimatum in the first place was just evil. I really hope that karma came back to bite him in the ass. My condolences for your step-father's passing.
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
I suppose in his eyes, it's not your real dad and you've done it three times in two months? People are odd
Earlier, I’d reached out to career coach Jermaine Murray from JupiterHR to have a chat about what to do and what to avoid at your next job interview if you’ve decided that a change in your career is drastically needed. Jermaine said that we should be willing to highlight our accomplishments and boast about them. It doesn’t help us if we’re being overly humble.
"They humble themselves when they need to be boasting. If you understand why the work that you were doing was important and how it impacts your org (project) then you should be explaining that to the interviewer without holding back. How did you go above and beyond to make sure things worked? What creative ways did you come up with?" Jermaine told Bored Panda earlier. "Show off."
#4
My wife was attacked, was in surgery when I got called about it. I was less than 10 miles away. Got told: Finish the run (9 hours), then go see her, you can't help her anyway.
Parked a Semi/trailer in the back lot of the hospital, told them to page me for the keys.
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
Why downvoting @Charlotte ? Don't people have the right to not understand and ask for help? Seriously?
A B C 4 years ago
Yeah, welcome to BP 🙄 but we at least got Charlotte back to neutral :)
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SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Further details on Reddit: *It took literally 4 years of recovery, but she's is a lot better now. Some things are lost forever (things that require balance), but that is life, she could have been dead so we are grateful for how she is doing. With the job, what my dispatcher did not know was that my wife and the head of HR was friends for years. So, I made a phone call (just to inform her of how her friend was doing, of course). Interesting how things turned out for the dispatcher after that :) Me, I took 8 months off so I could be there for my wife, came back to my old job as if nothing happen.*
Nat Hedley 4 years ago
Bittersweet, but I'm glad the dispatcher got what was coming. Thanks for posting the update.
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Emma Byrne 4 years ago
Guy's a truck driver, wife got attacked and needed surgery. Guy turned truck around and parked it at the hospital to be with wife after boss said to keep driving.
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Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Is that what the boss would've done if it was his situation? Doubt it.
Ella Blackwood 4 years ago
How awful to put you in that situation! The coldness and heartlessness of some people never ceases to disgust me. What is wrong with them? I am glad you put your wife in front of their sick request. I hope that both of you are doing well now.
#5
Worked at a cancer nonprofit.
Hired a lady who knew about us because her kid had cancer.
Boss wanted me to fire her because she had to come in late or leave early to take her kid to chemo.
I refused. Boss said she'd fire me if I didn't. I told her she could go right ahead. Our CEO said no way.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
The CEO was smart enough to know the 'non-profit' organisation would be doomed if this got out.
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
Imagine working for a CANCER non-profit, and having less than zero empathy when one of your employees’ child has cancer. She wanted to FIRE the woman for taking her child to chemo treatments?? I hope the CEO fired her.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Can you imagine the fallout from what would have been a public relations disaster?
#6
We had a manager that was a prick. It was a sales role and he had no empathy when our sales were flat. He’s get very abusive and threatening.
One day, he was shouting at us and my colleague got pissed off. He was explaining it was one bad week off the back of seven good weeks. You got to expect ups and downs with sales.
The manager just yells louder claiming my colleague is a ‘quitter’ and doesn’t have a winners mindset.
Colleague tells him ‘I’ve had enough of this sh**. I’m done’
Manager screams ‘I want your resignation in writing.
Colleague scribbles a note and gives it to him. Manager had a [bad] reputation and couldn’t recruit. Our sales were even lower with one less person on the team. It ruined his career.
But funnier than that was the short, but sweet resignation note from my colleague. It read…
“Dear Bob. I’m off. F**k you”.
SykesDaMan 4 years ago
Agreed. The photo of Baldwin's character would be more appropriate than Dwight Schrute's.
Load More Replies... Zuila 4 years ago
I worked in telemarketing company (sold magazines) one summer when I couldn't get a job from the field I studied. We had most supportive bosses and brushed off if we didn't make the sales on some days. One unlucky caller was just bad and couldn't never reach the goals. Even then our bosses were really supportive and tried to help her, but she ended up quitting. She was never forced to quit, it was her own decision. I hate sales job, but our company made it almost fun sometimes.
According to Jermaine, our body language and tone of voice are “super important” and we need to aim for behavior and a way to present ourselves that tell our future employers that we’re both “confident and capable.”
"If your body language or tone says otherwise, you destroy the perception of your skills. Once that's gone so are your chances of landing the job," he said that how we’re perceived is essential to landing the job in the first place, as well as for long-term success.
#7
They refused to honor a restraining order.
I chose my safety over my job.
Yettichild 4 years ago
So, you both worked at the same place? Or they just refused to ask the person to leave? I need a bit more context here.
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
Why do you need details? The important parts of the post are concise and clear.
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Obaku the Otaku 4 years ago
I know someone who went through something similar. Got sexually assaulted by a co-worker. Job wouldn't do anything. She got a restraining order, job still wouldn't let him go, or even separate them, so she ended up quitting. 10 years later, i ended up at that job, and he was still there.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
I thought violating a restraining order was a crime? That's what it's for! I would have called the police and had them do something, if the boss wouldn't do it. Not sure how far this tactic would have gone, but it would be worth a try. It would depend on the police officers who came, I think.
Load More Replies... Laura Pantazis 4 years ago
I don't understand this one. It isn't the work that has to honor the restraining order - it is the person who is being restrained. If the person violated the restraining order, then there are serious repercussions. One way for that situation to be resolved would be to enforce the restraining order. Hard for two people to work in the same place when one of them is in jail.
Memere 4 years ago
True, but the employer is notified when an employee has filed a restraining order against someone & they have to make sure the person the RO is against is not allowed any contact. If they both work at the same place, the employer is required to keep them apart, either by transferring one to a different department or different shifts. Not that restraining orders really do any good, most aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Load More Replies... Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
Isn’t it illegal to refuse to honor a restraining order? Not to mention morally bankrupt and without humanity of any kind. Who TF does that?? Every other person at that job should have quit in solidarity because they now know they are not safe at work. Despicable.
Laura Pantazis 4 years ago
The job doesn't have to honor the restraining order, the person restrained does. This is the part I don't understand. If two people worked at the same place, the one being restrained has to leave. If he/she doesn't, there are serious repercussions with the court.
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#8
When after 20 years working my a** off. They started timing our bathroom breaks. I have never been completely and totally done with anything that much before
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
I think explosive diarrhea all over the workplace would teach them a lesson!
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Timing bathroom breaks is a level of petty that I hope I never have to deal with
Deborah B 4 years ago
If you think your employees are hiding in the loo rather than work, you need to assess the work environment - there's an underlying problem which is making work miserable. Long loo breaks is a symptom, and you are also going to see increased absenteeism, and increased staff turnover. Timing loo breaks is going to make the working environment worse, not better. So look at the boss, the customers, the workplace, what rules and proceedures are damaging morale. A fix might be as simple as letting staff play the radio in the workshop, or giving people noise-cancelling headphones in a crowded office.
John Montgomery 4 years ago
It's great point. Too many seem to assume it's never the problem of the company though so they don't even consider it.
Load More Replies... third molar 4 years ago
When incapable ass lickers get promoted to be bosses what else are they going to come up with?
Vorknkx 4 years ago
I remember one of my coworkers (from my previous job) happened to take several bathroom breaks throughout the day that (purely by chance) coincided with phone calls from the central office. In the end of the day someone from the central asked her "Do you have some kind of kidney problem?"
Daria B 4 years ago
At least they considered the possibilities instead of jumping to conclusions and attack her needlessly.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Must be where the “half shat” office chair in another BP post came from.
Joseph Hamilton 4 years ago
I swear I hear about this more and more across blue collar jobs in America.
#9
I was a teacher. I had confided in the school principal that I was struggling with depression but getting treatment. This a-hole (who also happened to be a deacon at my church) proceeds to tell me that depression is a spiritual problem that I needed to solve. I was too shocked and upset to say much of anything then, but I wrote him a letter telling him what I thought of his actions and his “Christianity.” Ultimately cost me my job, but damn it was satisfying and I don’t regret it in the least.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
I went to a school run by nuns. The principle who was a nun and a really horrible person , once told a girl that her depression was all in her head and kept giving her a really hard time for having time off school to go to therapy. She made out that you could only be cured by God and what did she, a teenage girl have to be depressed about. She even made this girl's life hell in school by making snide remarks about her depression in front of the class by saying to the Home Economics teacher "don't let her near the knives, she might use them to slash her wrists." She actually thought she was being funny. A month or so after this the girl didn't turn up for school and we were told that her parents had found her hanging in their garden shed. She was only 15. When I think of how that hypocritical old witch fained sadness and said how depression was a terrible disease it still makes me sick. She was only saying it to save face. It is a pity she wasn't so compassionate before.
DKS 001 4 years ago
christians can be the nastiest people ever - not all. But some are really toxic.
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Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Depression is a serious matter and being a Deacon, he should of been more sensitive.
Tom Susala 4 years ago
the clergy doesn't know a G**Damn thing about the real world and as far as I'm concerned they are USELESS! My experience with 12 years of Catholic has left me with PTSD and a real want to do grave bodily harm to anyone who has the b***s to tell me that my feelings aren't real or my Belief in God is skewed
Seonie 4 years ago
And if this principal was trying to be a decent Christian he would have asked this teacher how he could help and support them instead of mouthing off and being judgmental. One of the main points of Christianity is compassion and love. Although it feels like this is falling by the wayside for some people these days 😕
Obaku the Otaku 4 years ago
I, and 2 of my 3 kids, have autism. Wife's family's pastor told me it wasn't real, and i wasn't christian enough. I told him i was fine with Buddhism and reality, and refused to be near him after that.
Philip Strickland 4 years ago
I knew a person who knew about someone depression And went up to the front of church and announced to everyone they were sinning and they need to repent I was thinking 'what the f' That was awful of the person who said that
"You can teach someone to be a better coder but it's near impossible to teach them how to be a better person. Recruiters will always value personality first, but technical skills are a very close second," Jermaine told Bored Panda.
"Hiring managers keep that in mind and try to make sure candidates they like can perform competently. Different things contribute to this bar that aren't based on the candidate but the organization's internal ability to support and develop someone. Once those two elements are present a hire will happen.”
#10
I was working at NTW (National Tire warehouse) before it was national tire and battery, and my first day I was scheduled for a 14 hour shift for some reason. About 6 hours into it, I asked my manager when out break time was. He said “what do you mean by break?” I said “a half hour break as mandated by law, and two 15 minute breaks required on top of that, also required by law.” His response was “most people don’t take those here, we have costumers to take care of”
After that, I clocked out and went to Wendy’s to get lunch. I figured f**k these a-holes, go ahead and fire me.
After lunch, I was doing a tire rotation and balance, the manager came out and told me not to balance the back tires if the costumer isn’t watching me. That was the nail in the coffin for me. They paid for that.
I got to talking with some of the longtime employees and they informed me that the sales counter guys (our managers) made commission from every sale and got bonuses every month while we got our minimum wage and raises were rare. I finished my shift and clocked out. Went looking for a new job the next day. Any company like that can go piss off.
So when you go get your tires balanced, watch them.
Blakkur Sverrir 4 years ago
I am a mechanic and once worked for a personal management company who rentet me out to a big garage chain. After 3 days they told me to only check the balance on one wheel, and if thats ok, the other 3 are also. Didn't have a 4th day
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Motorbike mechanic, and so many places don't bother balancing bike wheels, same as many places only spin the wheel once and then add weights, without spinning it a second time to check
Load More Replies... Todd Hunter 4 years ago
Wow, where I live if a shop does bad or shoddy work that contributes to an accident they can be held liable.
Joyce Rogers 4 years ago
I went to a car dealership to have oil changed and tires rotated. I had a skinned place on my front left rim For some reason, the next morning I looked. Skinned rim still on front left. I took it back to the dealership and told them they weren’t rotated. He said they were because it was on invoice. I made him walk out to my car and look at my tires. When he got to the left front, he said that rim is scratched. I said BINGO, ! Now you know how I know they weren’t rotated. I wonder how many tires that happens.
Joyce Rogers 4 years ago
They rotated them for free. Never did service work on my car again.
Load More Replies... Obaku the Otaku 4 years ago
I don't know about other states, but my wife and i discovered that, at least here in Indiana, they are not required to give a break to anyone 18 and over.
Laura Pantazis 4 years ago
Some states fortunately require it. I'm sorry that Indiana does not.
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It's a Tragedy of the Commons type thing with franchises: A crappy garage benefits from the reputation shared with good/adequate ones, and vice versa... unless corporate enforces standards, it all goes down.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Glad to see that the dishonest business was called out by name, most of these are so vague or generalized that you can't tell who the criminals are.
K Witmer 4 years ago
It's really getting so weird on here with people pointing out every single typo. If the person is an ass and can't spell it's funny to correct them, but this constant policing, even though you know it's a typo, is getting strange.
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#11
Working at an important political building. Been there for about a year. Other employee's have been there for decades. 99% of the staff is black, including myself. None of us have ever been written up. New manager shows up. A older white lady with a complex, and starts berating people for not doing their jobs, when they are very clearly doing their jobs as the job is defined. She berates people until they back talk, then fires them for insubordination. She fires ten out of 13 people, all black, and replaces them with white workers. She approaches me and begins berating me. I am onto what she is doing. I do not react. My lack of reaction leads her to tell me I'm being insubordinate, and I'm fired. That was my "I [freaking] dare you" moment, although I did not say it. She fired me. Six months later, she's been fired, her supervisor is fired, and his supervisor has been demoted to the worst position a supervisor can have. A lawsuit has been filed that resulted in about $100,000 in damages to the victims. Bet she won't do that [thing] again.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
There are people who think there is no racism in the US? That's a joke, right?
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LazyPanda 4 years ago
Incredible…is there some playbook they all secretly discuss? My husband is going through the same thing at his government job…like almost exactly as this person describes! New white director antagonizing the majority black workers accusing them of not working well when their supervisors say their numbers are great. When the black workers quit, they hire white, and they’re only promoting and honoring white workers. Better believe they’re getting hit with discrimination charges if they don’t fix it. Not only is it racist, they’re idiots if they think people won’t report them quick for this stuff these days. Living in the wroooong century for that
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
I'm surprised people didn't figure her out before the 3rd person became victim to her racism. It's pretty obvious I would think. Tsk.
Tara Ray 4 years ago
Most racists are idiots though and stupid enough to think they can get away with it. .I had 2 white managers discussing what colour the applicant is and throwing out coloured people or any “funny names”.
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All at the same hotel, all different bosses.
When I refused to put caffeinated coffee beans in the decaf hopper for a "loyalty member" and my new boss insisted I do it because "you will do as the men (meaning he and the guest) have told you, girl".
When I refused to forge signatures of other people on tax documents.
When a boss insisted I deliver a guests room service, because the guest insisted a female deliver it despite knowing the man had previously tried to drag a housekeeper into his room.
When my chefs insisted I serve a meat dish as "vegetarian" because they accidentally cooked the wrong thing and didn't want to fix something else.
A child, probably 12-14, called down to ask for Tylenol for her headache. Her mom wasn't in the room but confirmed it was okay. I had met the kid earlier and noticed several self harm scars. then later I noticed the kid was wearing a heavy long sleeve jacket in the middle of 103° weather and she just seemed off. I went to deliver the medicine. The lights in the room were dark but I thought her sweater sleeves were either stained or magically dip dyed so I held the packet out far enough she had to reach into the hall and her sleeves were wet with blood. My entire leadership team insisted I not "get involved", that no one in the hotel would do anything, and even insisted I leave the hotel with full pay so I couldn't. I left, realized I still had the mom's number from asking about the Tylenol, called the police and gave them the room and mom's number and spent the rest of my shift terrified for the poor girl.
K Witmer 4 years ago
The police literally tell hotel and motel workers to report anything suspicious bc it could be a trafficking victim. I hate people that insist on keeping the peace especially when lives could be in danger
LazyPanda 4 years ago (edited)
Say it again. Peace where even just one person is terrified is NOT peace.
Load More Replies... SoozeeQ 4 years ago
I'm appalled at the hotel, but also surprised that the mother left her self-harming daughter alone.
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 4 years ago
Her mother may not have known. I have a few friends who’ve self harmed (all clean now) and they hide them intensely for fear of consequences
Load More Replies... Billy The Kid 4 years ago
That hotel should of been advertised here so people will be aware not to go there. And that was different bosses too?
Seonie 4 years ago
I took it to mean these incidents were all the shitty things these bosses requested, but it was the thing with the poor kid that was the final straw and made the OP quit. Othwerise it would be a bit weird to quit and keep going back!
Load More Replies... #13
I was elbows deep in an AT&T Unix machine that should've been replaced a decade before, parts strewn all over a desk, when the client came in to see what was taking me so long. Me: You've got three dead fans, one of the power supplies has failed, there's a bad CMOS battery and the video card is glitchy and refusing to allow the machine to POST sometimes. Client: So how long is that going to take? Fifteen minutes? Me, laughing: I can patch things up in a couple hours, but I'm going to have to come back in a few days with new parts. Client: If you can't fix it in the next half hour you're fired. I'll find someone that knows what they're doing. I stood up, grabbed my tools, and started walking. Client: Where are you going? Me: I told'ya how long it would take, and that's longer than a half hour, so I guess I'm fired. My firing lasted about three more steps towards the door.
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago (edited)
Packing up the tools works really well. I was working on a client’s power wheelchair in his home. He was sitting in his chair while I sat on the floor trying to fix something, and he kept yelling directly down into my ears. After politely asking him to stop several times, I simply put my tools away, stood up with my tool bag, and said, “George, if you don’t stop yelling at me right now, I’m walking out that door and you’ll have to get another technician to come and see you.” He looked at his hands like a scolded child and said, “I’m sorry.” We got along fine for several remaining years I worked there.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Poor George. Sometimes elderly people are grumpy simply because it is SO HARD to be old and incapacitated when you remember being young and fit. He probably wasn't even aware of his behaviour until you called him up short on it. Good for you for being kind about it.
Load More Replies... #14
My brother and sister in law just lost their son. At birth. They lived down south and I live on west coast. HR said FMLA doesn’t cover sibling emergencies. Just parents and grandparents. I was also two weeks from being off my new hire probation period. I had pto but because I was still in probation period, I couldn’t access it. I told my supervisor I’m leaving for such amount of days and will accept whatever consequences when I get home. I can’t care about that right now.
And I left to be with family . . . Fortunately my supervisor went to bat for me and I got to keep my job
A B C 4 years ago
At least some bosses/supervisors seem to be human after all. That's nice to know.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
And by doing so, have gained a very dedicated employee.
Load More Replies... Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
I was once told by HR that I couldn't take 4 hours out of my family responsibility leave to go to my grandmother's funeral, because family responsibility leave is only relevant to "close family" and grandparents don't count.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Thats out of order! I would of phoned in a sicky.
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My boss once told me that I have to come in to the office the next day, which was a PUBLIC HOLIDAY, because we needed to clear out the office storage unit. He said that we can't afford to take time out of work days for that task.
So I begrudgingly agreed and showed up the next day. When I opened the storage unit it was crammed full of stuff... full of the boss's PERSONAL STUFF. I'm talking boxes full of his old clothes, childhood toys, school projects and textbooks, gardening tools, furniture, sport and gym equipment, construction materials, paintings, etc. TVs.
I was so mad that I quit on the spot.
Daria B 4 years ago
That wasn't a smart boss. I'm sure if he just asked nicely and promised some kind of compensation/reward, he would've got the help he needed.
Mary Bricklin 4 years ago
You know, if I had a boss like that who needed the help and actually asked, I would've helped as well. But manipulating someone into helping them move their personal stuff is not a good thing. OP was right to quit, I think.
Load More Replies... Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Sounds like he got evicted from his apartment and been living in the office. Good choice to quit!
#16
I was arguing with a customer about them not wearing a mask. Manager came, not knowing the story, and started screaming at me (yes, the manager is a Karen). Just because she's so used to doing that every day. I didn't even care at that moment, I just said f**k this, threw my work ID card at her feet and left right then. No regrets.
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
These Karens working to get workers fired - don't they realize there will be no one to make their Buckys if they get them all fired? 😄
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
.....yes, and that they'll have to do the work themselves? (Actually that may teach them a thing or two.)
Load More Replies... Debbie Diskey 3 years ago
Good for your boss those masks are useless. Only a N95 is truly effective
#17
I was on a forklift and two coworkers stopped me to ask where a certain pallet of metal was located. As we were talking one of the shop supervisors came storming up. "WHEN YOU ARE PAGED, YOU WILL RETURN THE CALL." "I didn't hear you page, what do you need?" "YOU HEARD THE PAGE AND YOU IGNORED IT" "I did not hear it. I am sitting on a forklift with the engine running, sitting between two metal shears running, a screaming air compressor and two large punch presses, I. did. not. hear. you." The two guys standing there also said they did not hear a page. So the supervisor turned around and started stomping back to his office. I called after him and said, "What did you need?" He ignored me and kept walking and I said, "It wasn't that important I guess." That made him stop turn around and walk back to me. "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" By this time, I just didn't care, "If you walked all the way out here to find me, then you won't tell me what you wanted, then I guess it just wasn't THAT F***ING IMPORTANT to begin with..." He stood there for 5 or so seconds just staring at me and then stormed away. Never heard another word about it.
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
I bet not. A lot of shop managers are just controlling assholes who try to use intimidation to cover up a lack of ability
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Calypso poet 4 years ago
I worked at a car dealership and the other woman in the office was always paging techs and would get mad they would 'ignore' her. If I needed to talk to someone I would just go to them. And even if people did hear her they did ignore her. She would get so mad because people always called me back after I paged. And IT always responded quickly to my problems. She was an angry woman.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Some people just don’t understand the saying “You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar”, because they keep pouring on so much vinegar you’d think they were jarring pickles.
Load More Replies... Joseph Hamilton 4 years ago
That is precisely the kind of boss I had at a union shop in Indiana. Omg it sounds so much like him and with the same sort of machines around! What a D#CK this guy was
#18
I was working as a software developer and providing second line support, in the hospitality/conferencing industry. I had overheard a colleague trying to provide support for something that was clearly the client IT team’s fault. Later got a call from the client’s MD’s secretary wanting to set up a call with our founder to complain that the problem wasn’t being dealt with. I said “I can’t call him, I’m really sorry, please don’t ask me why. I know our support people are working on it.” Why couldn’t I call the founder? Because his wife had, that day, lost a full term baby - which I obviously couldn’t disclose. Soon after I got a furious call from the client MD himself. His IT team was obviously lying to him about our not returning calls - I had heard the calls being returned. And he just wouldn’t accept that I couldn’t call the founder and couldn’t tell him why. So eventually I just hung up on him.
I told the most senior person around, expecting to be fired on the spot for hanging up on a client. Her reaction: “Oh yeah, he’s not a nice guy: he’s physically attacked me in the past.” Not the outcome I was expecting!
Random Anon 4 years ago
Ideally yeah I wouldn't take on a client like that if I knew in advance. But no one can. When things like that happens, the only option is to bite down and patiently wait out whatever contract we have. It's not ideal but making impulsive calls could put the company into jeopardy and with it the livelihood of the entire staff.
Load More Replies... The Cute Cat 4 years ago
Software developer is a high skilled person. It is just too hard to replace a person in short term period..
Luca Hbmp 4 years ago
Had a similar situation with a notorious difficult client. To make things worse, the call centre used to celebrate achievements about 3 mt, we are talking about 30+ employees screaming over the good results. It was unprofessional to ask us to take the calls when that was going on, since most call centre workers know, customers rarely call us to let us know that day is going so well. Anyway, back to that customer. Was asking for unreasonable request, I want to know the exact time tech will be here, demand a and b. After explaining what I could do for him, he was still not happily and getting increasingly irate. I had no reason to continue the call. So terminate the call. He calls back, gets me again, totally nice until I tell hi he was just on the phone with me, and just called me a horrible human, I replied YOU, calling me a terrible human? YOU?!... Few months of giving grief to techs, agents, managers and even CEO... His address was made "no services available". It was a happy day.
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
Who the hell keeps doing business with a client who has physically attacked an employee?? How do companies like that stay in business?
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
No wonder his own guys were passing the blame, they had to see the guy in person!
#19
I was 17 and working part-time at a fast food restaurant. Someone wrecked the men’s restroom. S**t in the urinal, rubbed s**t all over the wall. The manager came out and told me to clean it. I refused. She threatened to fire me, to which I laughed in her face and told her “you can clean it yourself or you can lose an employee and still clean it yourself. I don’t need this job.”
Needless to say, I wasn’t fired and I didn’t clean that up. I still laugh thinking about it.
B-b-bird 4 years ago
Don't think it's even in line with restaurants hygiene regulations, for an employee who's handling food to clean toilets...
Sasy 4 years ago
You are probably correct that it is not in regulations, but in those kinds of jobs, and the age of the worker, when they hand you a mop and say mop the toilet or clean the sinks and toilets you do. It should be that a cleaning crew comes in and does so at cost of the establishment, but that is not something that will happen. Even in shopping centres the people that collect dirty trays and clean food court area are also the same ones cleaning the toilets.
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Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Hmmm Looks like the manager thought he/she could take advantage of a youngen but it back FIRED!
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Of course an employee who handles food would not be required to clean the bathroom. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. But here’s my question: What the f**k is so wrong with a person that they s**t in a urinal and smear more s**t on the wall? This isn’t the first story I’ve read like this, in posts like this, and I just don’t get it. Even as a baby or toddler, I never grabbed a handful of s**t and smeared it on a wall, and I certainly never have as an adult. So exactly who the f**k does something as disgusting as that? Why? And how the f**k are they able to do it in a public bathroom, and leave without anyone catching them in the act? (Sorry for the F-bombs guys, but this is just so shockingly disgusting.)
Saico Hipe 4 years ago
Wrong. I've worked in over a dozen jobs in foodservice, and I handled food at every single one, and I had to clean the bathrooms at *almost* every single one. In the cases where I did not, it was done by servers/waitstaff. You're living in a dream world if you think the people handling your food aren't the same ones cleaning up your s**t and piss and vomit. I have been that exact person so. Very. Many. Times.
Load More Replies... Ksenia M 4 years ago
was cleaning the bathroom op's job though? Because it's not clear from the story
Max 4 years ago
You need training and special equipment to deal with that kind of sh*t.
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Kathy Buchanan 4 years ago
Nope! They should hire people specially trained in cleaning bodily fluids. Hepatitis, aids etc…no way would I expose myself to that!
Saico Hipe 4 years ago
With what money, though? Restaurants run on a thin profit margin, and it would require a LOT more money than just forcing their underpaid employees to do it. (Those shareholders gotta make their Lamborghini payments, y'know.) If the restaurant is following procedure, they have disposable gloves and a separate mop bucket and bleach for biohazard stuff such as this, but out of the many restaurants that both my partner and I have worked at, only one has ever done that much. Usually it's a matter of handing some teenage kid making minimum wage a bottle of all-purpose cleaner and telling them to use that and the disposable hand drying towels already in the restroom.
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Katherine Boag 4 years ago
A leader only asks people to do things that they are willing to do themselves.
Claudia Gross 3 years ago
That stopped a long time ago, I am still from that mind set... but now it is called delegating, usually by a younger person that never did anything they ask others to do LOL
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Sindy Diaz 3 years ago
i was working at a restaurant and we had a homeless lady go in to use the restroom, as a hostess our job was to keep the restroom clean. well i walked in there after that lady used it and same thing s*** everywhere. told the manager and she had the dishwasher do it and gave him gift cards. no fn way was i going to clean that.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago (edited)
Good for you. I was such a "mouse" when I was 17, I probably would have cleaned it up, crying all the while I was doing it - THEN quit. LOL!
Chris Kline 3 years ago
100% it is absolutely the manager on duty's job to clean that bathroom if it's destroyed like that.
Chris Kline 3 years ago
100% in this situation it is absolutely the manager on duty's job to clean that restroom if it's destroyed like that.
#20
I once called in sick to my part time job at Club Monaco. My manager told me that if I couldn't find anyone to cover my shift, I was going to be fired. So I FaceTimed her from the ER and had the doctor explain to her that I needed an MRI cause they wanted to make sure I didn't have a brain tumor.
Wayne Dorman 4 years ago
It's wrong that if you're genuinely ill you feel awkward for calling in sick.
#21
I work in IT Security. We have a client who I have a very close relationship with. My relationship with them was close enough that I had full permissions to everything. No one else at our company did. We received indications that their network was in the midst of an attack. Someone was moving within the network in a way they should never be. I immediately called the Sr. IT Manager (on public holiday) and said words you never want to hear in IT. "You're about to be hit by ransomware." There was a mutual understanding that I would take any actions necessary, including taking out a core firewalls/switches to stop the spread of an attack. After all my other attempts to stop the attack failed, I resorted to doing exactly that. I took an entire local government network out, sparing the segregated public safety network. The client manager was furious. The Senior IT folks took him aside and laid it out. My response was a subdued "what are you going to do, revoke my permissions?" THankfully it didn't get that far. The post-mortem (they lost a couple low priority servers) indicated that my actions saved the rest of their [stuff] from being stolen and encrypted. Sr. IT staff calmed the manager down.
Rod Egret 4 years ago
That's the down side of working in IT: we are managed by people who do not understand what we do and what we need so they only take decisions based on finance....
Ryan Kargel 4 years ago
That is true in many, if not most, industries. Management experience does not equal experience in the field, but managers forget that.
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Gabi 4 years ago
Anybody pls can translate this story to a level where we, poor non-IT folks would get it...?
Kim Kermes 4 years ago
The IT security expert that posted was the only one trusted by the client to do whatever was needed. They noticed activity on the client's system that meant the system was about to be invaded by someone who would shut it down and make the client pay lots of money to release the system. The expert told the client senior IT manager what was happening, and had to shut down a government network the client ran so as to keep a government network used by the police and fire department running. The manager of the client company, who seems to know nothing about the subject, was explained to by their own IT manager that the client could have lost control of everything in the computers their business depended on. There was a minor loss of equipment and/or data. That's what I got, anyway.
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Anton Stuyling 4 years ago
It is not. Just IT . Most managers just worry about financial results at the expense of everything else
#22
Had a boss who told me I had three days to get a project done. Said project consisted of building 180 displays on pallets. Each display took 40 minutes to build. Doing the math it would have taken five days if I didn’t take any breaks or sleep or eat.
So I told him and explained it was impossible and he responded that I was making excuses. At that moment I didn’t care if he fired me or not.
MTE 4 years ago
I know the feeling, apparently bad supervisores either longer days or possess the ability to slow down time.
Lyn Peverill 3 years ago
I had a boss come down to our work area once, to tell the supervisor to get us working faster and saying it should only take 3 minutes to do a certain job. The supervisor said I will get you to do it and show them how it is done. If you can do it I will make sure they do. He gave the boss the hardest example of what we have to do and timed him. After 30 minutes the boss gave up and said just work as fast as you can lol. We all do it in 15 minutes . That boss never came down complaining after that.
#23
My job was micromanaging the hell out of everyone. They had 3 different softwares that tracked where you were, speed, how much time you were on 1 job for, etc. On my way to get supplies for a job I came across an accident. No one had arrived yet so I pulled over and helped a trapped woman out of her car and tried to calm her and take care of stuff until Medics arrive. I text my boss very quickly that I'm at the scene of a major accident rendering aid and that's why I'm stopped. I was told by boss A to not spend too much time there, as I am on the clock. I ignore him. After medics take over, I take a video of the scene as I leave to prove that there was a bad accident. I was fired for taking the video because it was taken from in the company truck. When they fired me, I smiled. There are 8 people that company in the position I was in. The 2 most experienced quit after that. The others are applying for new jobs.
Shelp 4 years ago
There seems to be a major flaw in understanding of normal human way of thinking with those bosses
Mark Howell 4 years ago
Management is like a cess pit, the biggest t**ds always float to the top ;o))
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#24
Husband was having his gallbladder taken out and was having complications before surgery. I needed to leave early from work for about two hours and my boss threw a fit stating I couldn't leave. I told her I had 300 hours of sick time I can use for myself and my husband and if she wanted to push I'd take all of it at once.. Leaving no one but her to do my job. She said she'd fire me if I tried.. I just looked at her and said I have to go ill send you my Dr's note. I wasn't fired. I was actually awarded that year for job performance. Edit: I didn't take all 300 hours. I just threatened to since I was protected by FmLA. I only took the day off..
Kat 4 years ago
You have sick days limited to certain amount??? In my country, when someone gets sick, smth happens etc, you just take sick leave and National Health Insurance Fund pays you 70% of your salary for as long as you are on a sick leave...
Katinka Min 4 years ago
These are all US Stories. Real first world countries dont have these issues.
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Manny_Flawz 4 years ago
America won't. Certain political groups say that America is a democracy, but it actually has become a Corporatocracy.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Where I work in the UK we get 29 days hols and All full-time employees – except for casuals – are entitled to a minimum of 10 days paid leave per year. Cert has to be produced if it is over 7 days.
Ancsuri 4 years ago
We have 15 sick days every year that is payed 70% of your wages, after that you get 60%, maximally for a year
Jessica Aubé 4 years ago
After what ? You can just keep calling in sick ?? And not get fired ? .. I don’t get it .. if I called in 15 times a year for being sick id be disciplined or fired .. let alone being allowed more than that AND getting paid for it .. I get one paid a year and we’re allowed to take ten days. That’s it
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Kerstin Fransen 4 years ago
Sick time? How can you save up hours for that? Like, if you're sick you're sick. It's not like vacation days which you can plan lol.
A B C 4 years ago
Why are you getting downvoted, and by whom? US-Americans that don't want to admit their "healthcare" is crap?
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Random Anon 4 years ago
Oh America, you just replaced one big tyrant from centuries ago with an army of little napoleans in the modern times.
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
So, if you left early for that one day after she told you not to, she would FIRE you? Because that makes sense. “If you take one day off, I will fire you. Then you won’t be here at all, and I’ll have to do all the work. So, take that!” Dafuq??
#25
My first quitting story - My boss told me that we were going to spend our breaks doing mandatory Zumba, and I told her I was going home.
Shelp 4 years ago
WTF?! In what degenerative fairies-world do the boss live to think it would be a good idea? Is that one of those stupid "team-building" projects that only builds defiance towards the boss?
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
Imagine if it was one of those trust-falling exercises that day? And the OP decided to let the boss fall on the floor that day instead?
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Breaks are your own time so making something mandatory during breaks is illegal.
Tim Haight 4 years ago
If you doing something that is work related on a break. its f*cking work.
Gabi 4 years ago
Reminds me of my job at a mountain hut where we had to play cards with boss and wife EVERY EVENING. Regardless how tired we were, how much we wanted ti gi ti bed, or for a walk, or just have some for ourselves. As soon as work was done, we had dinner and then in half an hour the mandatory card games.
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
I want to do Zumba, but I don't want to do it at the gym...or at home... or alone... I know!!
zims 4 years ago
A very high-intensity dance done to hip-hop. It's a workout fad that's been around for a while.
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Glynn Reid 4 years ago
A break is a time allotted for you to get away from the job, relax, take on sustenance and recharge your batteries. In my job, on my break I can go home, walk the dog and sit on the toilet reading the paper if I feel like it. Zumba? WTF? Oh, UK based. My breaks are unpaid and my time is my own to do as I please as long as I'm back on time.
#26
When I was 17 I worked a summer holiday job at Pizza Hutt - I had transferred to my home town restaurant from my University town restaurant. I was there for 5 weeks and hadn’t been paid yet. The dickhead boss claimed it was because I gave him the wrong employee number. I hadn’t. Anyway after 5 weeks of no pay I rang him on New Years’ Eve (ie busiest night of the summer) and said I wasn’t coming to work because I wasn’t a volunteer and I wasn’t going to work for free. He told me if I didn’t go to work I may as well not come back as I would be fired. I didn’t go to work and had a fun New Years instead. Then a few days later I called the Employment Tribunal (I’m in New Zealand) and told them what had happened. They called my dickhead boss. He then called me, offered me my job back and was nice as pie for the rest of the summer.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Kiwi here: they most definitely would have been paid it, at a minimum :)
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#27
I used to work in fast food when I was 18. We would be rostered alone, no lunch breaks or bathroom breaks because we couldn’t leave the store. No training. School kids would have to work closes until 12am on school nights. He made us serve expired seafood and deli meat. The last straw for me was when I got a call on a Monday screaming at me because the store wasn’t clean and it was obviously my fault even though my last shift was on the Thursday (and I left the store spotless). Multiple people and shifts had occurred since I had even worked but I somehow got the blame. After that call I emailed him saying I quit and blocked his phone number. His store closed down now a few years ago too.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
With expired meat and seafood being served, it’s no wonder. The Health Department should’ve closed him down sooner. Hope you reported what you knew about stuff like that.
Obaku the Otaku 4 years ago
I managed a convenience store, where the parent company owned 4 other stores, one of which my wife worked at. That store had gotten a new manager who, to put it mildly, had a thing for me, so she treated my wife like crap. Their grocery truck ran on a Wednesday, which my wife had off, as well as that Thursday. When my wife came back on Friday, the manager yelled at her, asking why the truck wasn't put up. After she wouldn't listen to my wife, my wife called me, crying, asking if she could quit. I told her yes, then called my boss, who came to my store and we talked about it, and i was basically told to get over it and do my job.
#28
My Dad just had a heart attack the night before so I came in that morning to tell my Boss what happened. (I had something to give back to a colleague that's why I didn't do it on the phone) This was inventory day at Costco, the day that everyone had to work. All Directors, assistant directors, Supervisors... had to be there too.
The Assistant Director told me he would see what he could do for me. This is when I told him: "I'm not asking for permission, I'm telling you I'm leaving." And I left.
I worked there for a couple of miserable years after that.
DKS 001 4 years ago
powerful words to keep in your assertiveness toolbox "I'm not asking for permission..."
Anna McHugh 4 years ago
I like the idea of an 'assertiveness toolbox'. I needed one of those when I started work ten years ago after two waste-of-time PhDs.
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 4 years ago
One of the reasons I got fired was because my boss was so bad everyone considered me the boss. A young guy who rarely missed work texted me at 2am to let me know he was heading to the ER, his dad was having chest pains. So I told him I hoped everything was ok, my dad survived a heart attack, don't worry about work but keep me posted. 2 days later boss noticed a zero on the work board for the day that guy missed and asked why. They're supposed call him. When I told him, he just gave me a dirty look and walked out and I yelled after him "His dad is OK just in case you were wondering." I recently found out that boss died in December, he wasn't very old. I can't say I didn't smirk when I found out. He was not a good person.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
My father passed at work on a Monday. I took my sister's call and calmly went back to work. A colleague had to tell me to go home. On the other hand, a free lance employer got upset when I took a planned trip east to drive my mom to her grandson's wedding - they were still making changes to the software I was trying to document (using hot links for the first time) and didn't have a backup plan.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
to be fair that's a rude response toa someone who was trying to figure out a solution
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Personally I think that was rude. He did say he would try and sort it, you could have been more polite in your insistence.
#29
I worked a Burger King as a teenager. One day, the assistant manager, who illegally brought her teenage daughter to work to help her out, asked me to clean the restrooms. It wasn’t my normal job but I didn’t mind. I had a good attitude about it and prepared to go clean the bathrooms. I walked into the men’s room and discovered that the reason she asked me to do it was because someone [feces] all over the bathroom. Smeared fecal matter on the walls, the sink, the floor, the outside of the toilet. The toilet was clogged and hand wet, used toilet paper inside of at and all over the room. It was a complete disaster. I walked out of the bathroom, went back to the kitchen and told the assistant manager “I’m not cleaning that. You can fire me but I’m not cleaning it.” She sighed heavily and went and got a mop.
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
This is the second story in this article where a men’s bathroom at a restaurant had feces smeared on the walls, the sink, etc. WTF kind of animals are going into these restaurants and using the restroom?? There is NO excuse for that. People are disgusting pigs.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Probably addicts and/or very angry men. Like the apes, if they could throw their feces at other people, they probably would. Some human males behaviours aren't that far from their hairy cousins. LOL!
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StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
Why is it that the stories of feces smeared everywhere always involves the men's toilets? Between this and all the demand for a**l sex these days, it seems so many men are fascinated with sh*t. Rather odd!
Saico Hipe 4 years ago
Er, a**l sex shouldn't involve feces, unless you intentionally want it to. And the interest in (or love of) it by no means extends only to men.
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Willowbilly 3 years ago
That’s nasty, infectious stuff. Time to call the professional hazmat guys.
#30
When I was ordered to carry a 250kg kitchen board into a house.
We had special carts for that but due to lack of maintenance ours had 2 flat tires, we called the boss about it and he ordered us to lift it ourselves, 250kg, 2 people, he even acted surprised that we called first and didn't just carry it immediately.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Two big men used a harnessed strap to exchange my old and new fridges, probably 250 lb, or less than half that weight, and they were sweating in February.
Karen Lawyer 4 years ago
A ton is 2000 lbs. So I think you mean a quarter ton.
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Karen Lawyer 4 years ago
When my new bed was delivered that box weighted over 200 lbs and I can still see the UPS guy tossing it around like it was nothing.
#31
Worked at a job for over eight years. Was promised a promotion if I stayed when I was about ready to look for something else. Was called into the office down the road a bit to be informed they were bringing in an ex employee who had quit a year or two before for the job I was promised. I had heard a rumor of this and had already made my decision. The boss looked shocked when I said I quit. I punched out and left. Simple but sweet.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
This is confusing. Thought OP was called into the office of another company "down the road", but I guess they mean "later on".
Memere 4 years ago
He probably worked at one location of the company & had to go 'down the road' to the actual, office location to talk to HR. I've worked at warehouses where the actual office personnel were in a different building.
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Was head cook at the restaurant I worked for. My manager had me come in on Super Bowl Sunday by myself, with a broken foot. Didn't even try helping me but insisted I pick up the pace on grilling corn, frying chips, making all of the hot foods such as beans/meats, etc. She would get mad and yell at me for walking slow to each of the stations. I looked at my coworker and said "if she keeps b****ing, I'm going home." She ran around the corner saying she heard me call her a b***h and told me to leave, so I said bet, dont bother calling me in or scheduling me. [Screw] Freebirds, idgaf lmao.
#33
Was working 3 jobs one being a full time position but wanted to help the stores through the holidays. Specifically asked one store that I had been working for over a year through three store managers to only schedule me on Thanksgiving if was an emergency. She scheduled me anyways along with enough other people to handle the rush. This came after multiple occasions where I would show up 3 hours before opening to unpack the shipment and had no one to let me or the shipment into the store so I ended up having to waiting in the back hallway (mall store) guarding a few $1000 dollars of merchandise. Day before Thanksgiving I asked to take my 10 minute break so I could eat something. No customers in the store at the time. Same manager who repeatedly bailed on me refused to let me take it so I decided screw this and said I'm taking it. If I'm done I'm done. Sure enough they said I was done so I cleaned out my locker, carried my things two doors down to my higher paying job and got the go ahead to clock in early. So I worked the same amount of hours I would have for more money.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
The sad part is that even when things get worse after you leave, most supervisors can't put two and two together to understand it was you who made a difference.
#34
Company was doing badly in the 2008 depression. They hired an expensive new Vice President to lead our division who asked me barely one month in to sack any 2 people from my team of software engineers whoever I felt like because she said so as layoffs were necessary to ensure long term stability or some such. I steadfastly refused and dared her to fire me instead, and the issue really blew up at the time. Before they could fire any of us though a new contract came along which needed more people to execute than we even had on our rolls. They didn’t hire anyone new but we had to slog our assess to deliver the project. The VP got fired a few months later as she was way too expensive and wasn’t adding enough value.
Shelp 4 years ago (edited)
Those useless leeches like the VP are the reason why wages are so low
Katinka Min 4 years ago
No, the fish always stinks from the head. VPs cash in on the system but it is created by CEOs/boards who are under pressure from shareholders.
Load More Replies... Katinka Min 4 years ago
Well, she promised she'd lower cost - i.e. firing people - and thus justify her wage. When she didn't "add enough value", she was sacked.
third molar 4 years ago
We get to refuse to being fired and slog for months. The winners life of software engineers!! I feel ya!
#35
Serving customers non stop for 6 hours straight as work was caught out by demand, finally had someone cover me but my manager couldn't understand why I hadn't taken my lunch already and accused me of lying about needing one grrr
Mary Bricklin 4 years ago
Sounds like OP had to work 6 hours straight before someone would cover them for their break. Their manager didn't believe them that no one would cover for them on their break.
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Worked at a car rental place. It was common practise to put in a special contract number when a middle eastern customer came in so the priced get jacked up to stupid amounts and a special insurance gets put in. I dont earn any commission on that rental, instead some other guy who knows some arabic middlemen and who is a big name in the company gets the commission. So our station did not use the contract a single time, we earned alot of commission and get stupid amounts of tips cause the prices were liel 50% cheaper then everywhere else. So we also took alot of customers away from other stations. So i had meeting with some higher ups from the company, they wanted to know how much many the customers really paid, why we didnt put in any special contracts, screamed around. They wanted me and everybody involved kicked out but couldnt really do anything because technically we didnt break anything in our work contract, i mean, you cant put in my contract „If you have a arabic customer jack the price up, they have money“, imagine the [hell] and PR disaster if that would come to light. So i told the big boss (one position under the CEO) that i dont wanna talk to them anymore and im going home now. He then told me that i cant just leave, i still have my shift to do cause im the only one that can work at the counter for the next 3 hours until the night shift comes. I just told them „Ok... i dont care, at least now you have a real reason to fire me“ and went home.
#37
My job told me since they fired the other supervisor I was just going to have to do his job from now on. My original job was insane now they expected me to double that with no compensation. Well it got old real fast and we had a seriously busy day and I decided I was done, I let $1,000,000+ of shipments sit in a trailer back in the corner and and told all my guys thanks for the hard work our day is done. I quit that day and the next day I got a call with them freaking out about all the money they lost, I just hung up on the boss and never looked back.
ThoughtsAreNotFacts 4 years ago
Was up last night seriously contemplating quitting my job. Still not sure what I'm going to do but seeing all these posts this morning is interesting timing. Living in the US, losing health insurance is the main reason I've stayed this long.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Many Americans forget they have the ACA (nicknamed Obamacare) to fall back on. Believe me, it’s not as expensive as some people try to say it is, because it’s based on your income—-just yours, not your entire household’s. I went on it as a grad student working as a graduate assistant, which is a contract job without benefits. It was incredibly cheap, as my income was low—-graduate assistants where I live only get paid about $10/hr. It was also a tiny fraction of what it would’ve cost my husband to add me to his work policy. If you’re not working, you have no income, so it would be cheap. Waaaay cheaper than COBRA, or getting added to your spouse’s or parents’ policies, that’s for damn sure. The policies offered, even the cheapest options, are comparable to those offered by employers. Plus they’re name brand, like Blue Cross, Kaiser, etc, and not some shitty fly by night off-brand no one’s ever heard of, that just might close up shop and not pay out with no notice. What I’m saying is that sticking to a job you f*****g despise, for no other reason than the insurance, isn’t necessary anymore.
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Seabeast 4 years ago
My better half had a job like that once. They hired him to do a specific set of tasks and then kept piling on more and more tasks once he was hired because they were too cheap to hire enough people. He couldn't keep up, got fired, and felt a great sense of relief walking out. The company went belly-up not too long after that.
#38
Owner of the company was avoiding the meeting where I get my raise. I waited over two weeks. Finally told my Supervisors I'm walking out the door if they don't fix this. They told me to go talk to him. I told them they were the Supervisors and it was their job to do that, not mine. I'm in an understaffed position at a job that is very difficult to fill. If I left then the rest would have gone too. They knew that.
#39
Working at a kids day summer camp. Kid punched me in the crotch and I tried my hardest to have him removed from the program. He was a nuisance to everyone. His dad was a middle school principal and the mom believed he was an angel. They would frequently come in and lecture the employees because it was never their kids fault, and the director of the program was so owned by different people in the school district that she wouldn’t even defend her staff. One of the leads guaranteed that they would protect me but I was so furious I didn’t even care. If they had fired me I would have shrugged and flipped them the bird. I had another job anyway that I worked in the evenings.
#40
I was working at a shoe store in a mall and I requested a week in August off for my wedding. My manager told me her boss wasn’t happy about that and all I said was “my wedding is more important than back to school sales.” They didn’t “fire” me, per se, they just stopped scheduling me and eventually my access to the employee website went away.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Which probably took longer than it had to, since you already quit anyway and couldn’t have cared less.
What do you think ?
Rakjell Hanwell 4 years ago
I once worked in a daycare and a suicide took place, literally in our sandbox. No joke. Person jumped from a nearby roof. Total mess. They refused to close the daycare for that day because they were more worried about the parents being upset that they could not bring their kids than the children's psychological wellbeing. I had to stand in front of the corpse and block the view with a towel until the police arrived. They also refused to let me talk to the psychological helpers that arrived later, because someone had to watch the kids while they talked to them and I was a man, so apparently it wasn't necessary. I quit two days later.
Shelp 4 years ago (edited)
That's horrible. I'm so sorry for you. And the children. And the person who jumped.
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Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Quit a perfect job because of office politics plus I grew tired of working with other people’s inflated egos.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I've been at my job for 29 years and am currently in the market for a change because of this very reason!
Load More Replies... Shelp 4 years ago (edited)
It seems that business schools do more harm than good to the managers' understanding of how humans work
the redqueen 4 years ago
Ya know, it seems like 90% of the time, the "management require a degree jobs", are filled by people that have absolutely no clue what they're doing. A friend of mine would tell me stories that blew my mind, about the huge factory he worked for. They cannot keep employees, and can't figure out why. The fact they can go across the road and make 4$ more an hour at a fast food joint, with air conditioning and hella better benefits has not even crossed managements mind. How can you manage, what you have no clue about? They mass hire cheap labor, spend money training them, most quit-repeat cycle. They waste thousands of dollars repeatedly training new hires, when if they would just pay a good wage, the quality of workers would improve, wouldn't always quit, and the new higher wage would be offset by the thousands of dollars saved every month on training classes. Production would go up, you have happy employees-I could go on. No common sense.
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Sky Render 4 years ago
I really should have quit after they decided to violate the ADA and not make reasonable accommodations, but the final straw was when they told me that they were going to force me to go back to the office to work. In the middle of a pandemic. When they knew I lived with someone who was critically vulnerable. In hindsight, I think they wanted me to quit...
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Not me, but my husband. He'd been with the company for *years*, the star employee, but the CEO's pal didn't like being told he had to wait his turn, so the CEO screamed at my hubby in front of a few dozen people. Hubby came home, drank half a bottle of wine, asked me what he should do, and I said, "Same thing I said the last two years: Quit." So he did. And he's now much happier, doing similar work, for better pay, without being screamed at. no regrets.
Artoonist Corine 4 years ago
I once worked at a great job but the owner knew nothing of how to do my job. I paid the bills, the employees - all the office work, PLUS the artwork. I went to work EARLY on a Monday - I was excited to get to work (I loved working there like I said). What I found was Post-It notes EVERYWHERE saying "pay this", "file this", "complete this". It wouldn't have bothered me but the notes were so condescending and the papers that said "File this" were in a bin marked "TO FILE". I walked out before anyone else made it in that day. Never went back. I may have been a knee-jerk reaction but I found an even BETTER paying job that I love just as much.
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
I worked at a large billing services company over a decade ago. My mom had just had a mastectomy from cancer and could not lift anything per doctors orders. I told my supervisor that I would need time off to help her and he literally laughed at me and said it was quarterlies and nobody gets time off. Needless to say, I turned around, walked to Human Resources and asked them if they were aware of FMLA law. I have never seen anyone scramble so fast to unscrew a situation. The best part.... I quit that job a little while later and before I could get out of the building, an onsite contractor offered me a job paying more with better hours. Nothing sweeter than saying good morning to your old boss as you walk buy in the same building with another companies shirt on.
Patti Vance 4 years ago
i had to retire early due to disability but i really did like my job. retirement was unexpected bc i had had surgery on my ankle that went horribly wrong due to unknown allergy to metal & subsequent infection. i even returned to work in a wheelchair w/literally pus oozing out until it got to the point that i had to stay home for self care. got called into meeting & told that even w/dr's order i needed to return to work. i left mtg, went to hubby in car & thought about this. hubby's job required him to have ability to make/print out documents on the road so he had the ability to allow me to write out my resignation letter, print it out, & roll my happy ass back into the meeting. they were surprised but were really upset when they found out i could resign w/full retirement immediately as they thought they were going to either screw me out of it or force me back to work.
Rakjell Hanwell 4 years ago
I once worked in a daycare and a suicide took place, literally in our sandbox. No joke. Person jumped from a nearby roof. Total mess. They refused to close the daycare for that day because they were more worried about the parents being upset that they could not bring their kids than the children's psychological wellbeing. I had to stand in front of the corpse and block the view with a towel until the police arrived. They also refused to let me talk to the psychological helpers that arrived later, because someone had to watch the kids while they talked to them and I was a man, so apparently it wasn't necessary. I quit two days later.
Shelp 4 years ago (edited)
That's horrible. I'm so sorry for you. And the children. And the person who jumped.
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Quit a perfect job because of office politics plus I grew tired of working with other people’s inflated egos.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I've been at my job for 29 years and am currently in the market for a change because of this very reason!
Load More Replies... Shelp 4 years ago (edited)
It seems that business schools do more harm than good to the managers' understanding of how humans work
the redqueen 4 years ago
Ya know, it seems like 90% of the time, the "management require a degree jobs", are filled by people that have absolutely no clue what they're doing. A friend of mine would tell me stories that blew my mind, about the huge factory he worked for. They cannot keep employees, and can't figure out why. The fact they can go across the road and make 4$ more an hour at a fast food joint, with air conditioning and hella better benefits has not even crossed managements mind. How can you manage, what you have no clue about? They mass hire cheap labor, spend money training them, most quit-repeat cycle. They waste thousands of dollars repeatedly training new hires, when if they would just pay a good wage, the quality of workers would improve, wouldn't always quit, and the new higher wage would be offset by the thousands of dollars saved every month on training classes. Production would go up, you have happy employees-I could go on. No common sense.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 4 years ago
I really should have quit after they decided to violate the ADA and not make reasonable accommodations, but the final straw was when they told me that they were going to force me to go back to the office to work. In the middle of a pandemic. When they knew I lived with someone who was critically vulnerable. In hindsight, I think they wanted me to quit...
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Not me, but my husband. He'd been with the company for *years*, the star employee, but the CEO's pal didn't like being told he had to wait his turn, so the CEO screamed at my hubby in front of a few dozen people. Hubby came home, drank half a bottle of wine, asked me what he should do, and I said, "Same thing I said the last two years: Quit." So he did. And he's now much happier, doing similar work, for better pay, without being screamed at. no regrets.
Artoonist Corine 4 years ago
I once worked at a great job but the owner knew nothing of how to do my job. I paid the bills, the employees - all the office work, PLUS the artwork. I went to work EARLY on a Monday - I was excited to get to work (I loved working there like I said). What I found was Post-It notes EVERYWHERE saying "pay this", "file this", "complete this". It wouldn't have bothered me but the notes were so condescending and the papers that said "File this" were in a bin marked "TO FILE". I walked out before anyone else made it in that day. Never went back. I may have been a knee-jerk reaction but I found an even BETTER paying job that I love just as much.
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
I worked at a large billing services company over a decade ago. My mom had just had a mastectomy from cancer and could not lift anything per doctors orders. I told my supervisor that I would need time off to help her and he literally laughed at me and said it was quarterlies and nobody gets time off. Needless to say, I turned around, walked to Human Resources and asked them if they were aware of FMLA law. I have never seen anyone scramble so fast to unscrew a situation. The best part.... I quit that job a little while later and before I could get out of the building, an onsite contractor offered me a job paying more with better hours. Nothing sweeter than saying good morning to your old boss as you walk buy in the same building with another companies shirt on.
Patti Vance 4 years ago
i had to retire early due to disability but i really did like my job. retirement was unexpected bc i had had surgery on my ankle that went horribly wrong due to unknown allergy to metal & subsequent infection. i even returned to work in a wheelchair w/literally pus oozing out until it got to the point that i had to stay home for self care. got called into meeting & told that even w/dr's order i needed to return to work. i left mtg, went to hubby in car & thought about this. hubby's job required him to have ability to make/print out documents on the road so he had the ability to allow me to write out my resignation letter, print it out, & roll my happy ass back into the meeting. they were surprised but were really upset when they found out i could resign w/full retirement immediately as they thought they were going to either screw me out of it or force me back to work.
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