Boss Feels ‘Disrespected’ And ‘Disappointed’ After Exhausted Employee Of 4 Years Hands In His Notice
Recently, a story went viral on the Antiwork subreddit about an employee who just quit his customer service job.
“I put in my 4 weeks notice yesterday at my manager’s office and sent it to him per email as well, since he mostly works from home now,” the Redditor ComoElFuego wrote in a post which amassed 22.2k upvotes and 1467 comments.
It turns out his manager was far from impressed with his employee quitting, so he messaged him via Whatsapp to try and convince him to stay. “I feel like I just broke up with a crazy ex,” the Redditor wrote after saying how the manager started pressuring him, making fun of him, and even calling him disrespectful.
Read the full story below, and let us know what you think of it in the comments!
One employee shared how his manager called him ‘disrespectful’ and mocked him for wanting better work conditions after he handed in his resignation notice

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Soon after posting the original story, the author added a couple of edits to clarify the situation
Image credits: ComoElFuego
Many people expressed their support for the author in the comments
It’s so funny how it’s So DiSrEsPeCtFuL for an employee to give 4 weeks notice, yet I got zero warning when I was laid off from my job of 10 years.
So... I see this type of behaviour continues - and thanks to posts like these - it's finally coming to light!!! This kind of behaviour is... abhorrent (from the manager). I feel for this person. Since when was it okay to do things like shame your employees for providing sufficient (or in this case, it looks like MORE than sufficient) notice? I had a manager once grab my arm and SHAKE me asking "WHAT is going ON?" - regarding my resignation notice that I gave after I had already tried to talk to them about mistreatment, favouritism, and the fact that there was this *very suspicious trend* of me ONLY getting shifts shortly after telling them "I have second job"...but during the time when I really needed them (and said as much)... there just **HAPPENED** to be noooo shifts available... at all.
I was a new RN and had just bought my first house. My then Asst Mgr assigned me to work on my day off which also the day of my closing. I did not show up because she knew the deal. She then attempted to discipline me for not showing up. I called my union rep and the issue was dropped. I then decided that I would leave the job I loved but hated that racist nordic BITVH!!! When I turn in my resignation she had the nerve to tell me I couldn't quit because I just bought a new house. I calmly
told her I not only did I have Bread and Butter but I had Jelly too and I wasn't her problem anymore.
Load More Replies...Managers like this need to gtfo. The hypocrisy blows my mind. When I quit my last job, the boss said that "They didn't want to stand in the way if people felt they could better themselves somewhere else". I guess he thought I was bluffing to try to get a raise. Cue the shocked Pikachu face when I told him that it was good to know that and that my last day was in 1 week.
Sounds a lot like my first job. Long shift, constantly understaffed hence not enough days off, and a manager who just dismisses every complaint because "your job isn't that hard" or "there is nothing that can be done". When I resigned I was told I wasn't going to find anything better. Unsurprisingly, it was a lie - my following workplaces had some issues(who doesn't), but nowhere near this level of insanity, and no other place affected my mental health that much.
This is beautiful! Quiting a job that treats u like dung is so freeing! I remember when my brother told me about the time he quit his job years ago. 10 loyal months as a cashier/doorgreater with a $6 bridge tole each way and about a 10 mile round trip on his bike. Well....in the dead of New York winter they decide to make him get the carts from the lot. They demoted him to outdoor work, in the dead of winter, after he biked 5 miles there...and as an added topper, cut his pay by .50 cents. Don't sound like a lot...but it was more than enough for him to say f-it! The next day he went into work early, but before that, he stopped into the bakery about a block away first. Y'see, the day B4 he had ordered a special cake. He popped in B4 his shift to pick up the cake, brought into work, walked into his bosses office, dropped off the cake, opened it up for him and said "Have a great fking day! I quit! As far as I'm concerned, you deemed me useless to the company when you decided to cut my...
Continued... cut my pay and make me work in the snow after knowing what I go thru to get here. With that being said-kiss my @$$!!!" And he walked out! The cake, however, said "GO F**K A TOASTER! I QUIT!!!" Boss move!!!
Load More Replies...How the F**k has the USA survived into the 21st century with employment attitudes like this?
We have an absolute terror of being labeled as lazy or as taking anything we didn't work our fingers to the bone for. They teach it very young, except to the children of wealthy people. Those kids are taught if you're poor it's because you just don't want to work. The young adults in this country today are flying the middle finger to all of that. I think the unofficial aristocracy we have here is starting to get nervous.
Load More Replies...I agree with jesssongbird! Copy all your managers responses and forward to his supervisor and HR with claims of harassment, unprofessionalism and disrespect and make sure they go into your employee file and keep copies for future reference in case they try and give you a bad reference in the future. And keep all further communications going to all said departments and request they go into your employee file and keep all copies. You might be able to break your contract since this is harassment and unacceptable for a work environment.
I used to work as a training manager for a transportation company (private rides). I regularly put in 14+ a day and at least once a month slept at the office because I was too tired to drive home. Things escalated when the company withheld checks for two weeks because they were floundering, but when my CEO (an arrogant, pompous, git of a man) called me literally 134 times over the course of 10 days that I was on emergency family leave (both my wife and I had a family member passing on each side of our family at the same time, was supposed to be no calls) and he even called me back after I told him I was attending and speaking at my aunts funeral. Needless to say, as soon as I was back in town I dropped off my company car, my keys, and cleaned my office. Then, as I courtesy I let him know I was leaving. He spent three days trying to get me to stay, particularly after he sent a company wide email bashing me for leaving (as training manager, and his current stand in for head of HR I knew
*continued* everyone, and had personally trained over 75% of the drivers in positions under management level.), this resulted in an exciting and dramatic mass exodus from the company. Over night he lost the entire HR department, all but one manage (6 lost in total) every supervisor/shift lead (12 there) and 75 percent of the regular drivers (45 drivers). The part that killed the company was them going from having all but 3 of their cars (most still being paid on) assigned to drivers, to a quarter of them over night. Then there was the issue of harassment and backed pay that went unpaid for every driver until we went to court (that company faced a lawsuit from each of us). And the fact that I had all the training programs on my personal lap top as I'd been the one designing and implementing those programs. To end this lengthy tale, our company went bankrupt within a months time, sold for a tenth of its previous valuation (most of which went to paying lawsuits)
Load More Replies...It’s so funny how it’s So DiSrEsPeCtFuL for an employee to give 4 weeks notice, yet I got zero warning when I was laid off from my job of 10 years.
So... I see this type of behaviour continues - and thanks to posts like these - it's finally coming to light!!! This kind of behaviour is... abhorrent (from the manager). I feel for this person. Since when was it okay to do things like shame your employees for providing sufficient (or in this case, it looks like MORE than sufficient) notice? I had a manager once grab my arm and SHAKE me asking "WHAT is going ON?" - regarding my resignation notice that I gave after I had already tried to talk to them about mistreatment, favouritism, and the fact that there was this *very suspicious trend* of me ONLY getting shifts shortly after telling them "I have second job"...but during the time when I really needed them (and said as much)... there just **HAPPENED** to be noooo shifts available... at all.
I was a new RN and had just bought my first house. My then Asst Mgr assigned me to work on my day off which also the day of my closing. I did not show up because she knew the deal. She then attempted to discipline me for not showing up. I called my union rep and the issue was dropped. I then decided that I would leave the job I loved but hated that racist nordic BITVH!!! When I turn in my resignation she had the nerve to tell me I couldn't quit because I just bought a new house. I calmly
told her I not only did I have Bread and Butter but I had Jelly too and I wasn't her problem anymore.
Load More Replies...Managers like this need to gtfo. The hypocrisy blows my mind. When I quit my last job, the boss said that "They didn't want to stand in the way if people felt they could better themselves somewhere else". I guess he thought I was bluffing to try to get a raise. Cue the shocked Pikachu face when I told him that it was good to know that and that my last day was in 1 week.
Sounds a lot like my first job. Long shift, constantly understaffed hence not enough days off, and a manager who just dismisses every complaint because "your job isn't that hard" or "there is nothing that can be done". When I resigned I was told I wasn't going to find anything better. Unsurprisingly, it was a lie - my following workplaces had some issues(who doesn't), but nowhere near this level of insanity, and no other place affected my mental health that much.
This is beautiful! Quiting a job that treats u like dung is so freeing! I remember when my brother told me about the time he quit his job years ago. 10 loyal months as a cashier/doorgreater with a $6 bridge tole each way and about a 10 mile round trip on his bike. Well....in the dead of New York winter they decide to make him get the carts from the lot. They demoted him to outdoor work, in the dead of winter, after he biked 5 miles there...and as an added topper, cut his pay by .50 cents. Don't sound like a lot...but it was more than enough for him to say f-it! The next day he went into work early, but before that, he stopped into the bakery about a block away first. Y'see, the day B4 he had ordered a special cake. He popped in B4 his shift to pick up the cake, brought into work, walked into his bosses office, dropped off the cake, opened it up for him and said "Have a great fking day! I quit! As far as I'm concerned, you deemed me useless to the company when you decided to cut my...
Continued... cut my pay and make me work in the snow after knowing what I go thru to get here. With that being said-kiss my @$$!!!" And he walked out! The cake, however, said "GO F**K A TOASTER! I QUIT!!!" Boss move!!!
Load More Replies...How the F**k has the USA survived into the 21st century with employment attitudes like this?
We have an absolute terror of being labeled as lazy or as taking anything we didn't work our fingers to the bone for. They teach it very young, except to the children of wealthy people. Those kids are taught if you're poor it's because you just don't want to work. The young adults in this country today are flying the middle finger to all of that. I think the unofficial aristocracy we have here is starting to get nervous.
Load More Replies...I agree with jesssongbird! Copy all your managers responses and forward to his supervisor and HR with claims of harassment, unprofessionalism and disrespect and make sure they go into your employee file and keep copies for future reference in case they try and give you a bad reference in the future. And keep all further communications going to all said departments and request they go into your employee file and keep all copies. You might be able to break your contract since this is harassment and unacceptable for a work environment.
I used to work as a training manager for a transportation company (private rides). I regularly put in 14+ a day and at least once a month slept at the office because I was too tired to drive home. Things escalated when the company withheld checks for two weeks because they were floundering, but when my CEO (an arrogant, pompous, git of a man) called me literally 134 times over the course of 10 days that I was on emergency family leave (both my wife and I had a family member passing on each side of our family at the same time, was supposed to be no calls) and he even called me back after I told him I was attending and speaking at my aunts funeral. Needless to say, as soon as I was back in town I dropped off my company car, my keys, and cleaned my office. Then, as I courtesy I let him know I was leaving. He spent three days trying to get me to stay, particularly after he sent a company wide email bashing me for leaving (as training manager, and his current stand in for head of HR I knew
*continued* everyone, and had personally trained over 75% of the drivers in positions under management level.), this resulted in an exciting and dramatic mass exodus from the company. Over night he lost the entire HR department, all but one manage (6 lost in total) every supervisor/shift lead (12 there) and 75 percent of the regular drivers (45 drivers). The part that killed the company was them going from having all but 3 of their cars (most still being paid on) assigned to drivers, to a quarter of them over night. Then there was the issue of harassment and backed pay that went unpaid for every driver until we went to court (that company faced a lawsuit from each of us). And the fact that I had all the training programs on my personal lap top as I'd been the one designing and implementing those programs. To end this lengthy tale, our company went bankrupt within a months time, sold for a tenth of its previous valuation (most of which went to paying lawsuits)
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