Employee Quits Her Job, A Few Weeks Later A New Hotshot Manager Tries To “Fire” Her, Gets Demoted
When listening to or reading horror stories about work, we often get to hear about insufferable managers who don’t follow the rules they themselves set or who don’t care how bad you feel, you must show up to work. Maybe it is because power can get to one’s head and they forget how to be a decent human being.
A manager that Reddit user Thischick1 told about was really nasty and undeservingly lashed out at a person that didn’t even work at the place anymore. However, what makes the story so satisfying is that the manager got demoted for their unprofessional behavior.
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A Reddit user shared a satisfying story of how a disrespectful manager got deservingly demoted
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The original poster (OP) worked at a chain restaurant while she was studying at college. In that location, they hired managers with no prior experience as it was the restaurant where they would be trained.
The management would change regularly as the trained employees would advance to other locations and new trainees would come in. Weirdly enough, the managers who were absolutely new to their positions were very full of themselves and as Thischick1 put it, “were on a little bit of a power trip.”
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The OP worked at a restaurant which was the management training location
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The former hostess was sick of the work environment and after a year, decided to leave and was lucky enough to find a new job. She put in her two weeks’ notice directly to the general manager and went on her merry way with no hard feelings.
But after those two weeks, the OP got a notification with her working schedule at the restaurant. She decided to call the restaurant and warn them that they should schedule someone else because she no longer worked there.
After a year of working there, the OP decided to leave and gave her two weeks’ notice
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It seems that the paperwork wasn’t done correctly and the Redditor kept getting put in the schedule even though she didn’t work there anymore
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The same thing happened after another two weeks and Thischick1 called the restaurant once again. Both times, the manager on duty apologized for bothering her and just ended the conversation there without causing any scene.
As she knew how the work was organized there and how important it was for an employee to come in on time, the OP explained to the manager that she would be abroad, so if this happened again, she wouldn’t be able to call for them to schedule another person in time, which is why she asked them to pay more attention to the actual employee list.
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The third time it happened, she couldn’t call the restaurant to tell them they were mistaken again because she was abroad
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It seems that they didn’t listen to her because as Thischick1 was on vacation in Spain, she started getting tons of messages from a new manager at the restaurant who said that she was late for work.
This was the third time it had happened, but the OP was willing to answer the messages and was still patient and polite, explaining that she didn’t work there anymore and it was a mystery to her why she was still being put on the schedule.
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So she got some angry messages from the manager saying she was late for work and would be written up
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Even though the OP explained she didn’t work there anymore, she was yelled at over text for being unprofessional, lazy and a brat
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The fact that the OP was no longer an employee somehow didn’t register and the manager started to require her to come in immediately, otherwise she would be written up.
The former employee explained that she was abroad and even if she wasn’t, scheduling problems were not for her to solve anymore. But the feeling of power didn’t let the manager see the situation clearly and she lashed out at Thischick1, accusing her of being lazy and irresponsible for not giving her notice in advance and just leaving the company.
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The woman sent screenshots of the texts to another manager and later learned that the employee was demoted and sent to another location
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This didn’t sit well with the OP and she sent over the screenshots of their conversation to one of the other managers. The most satisfying part is that the rude new manager got demoted and was sent to work in a different location.
Wasn’t this a delightful ‘I don’t even work here, lady’ story? We would like to hear your reactions and any stories that you have, so write them down in the comments!
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I gave my notice once and the reply was "I don't accept that". After a bit of discussion I left it at "well you can accept it or not but after my notice is up I won't be coming in to work anymore". I got a call later that day saying I needed to be off the premises by end of business and never set foot there again. She was a bitch of a boss that one!
Assuming you had another job lined up, I hope you took a two week vacation and collected unemployment. Pretty sure the business that fired you has to pay for it, although I'm not sure how that works when you've just put in notice.
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Nope, just because you quit, doesn't mean you don't work there anymore, LOL. 8 am on a Sunday, I get a phone call from former boss telling me to get back to work. Yes, he knew I had quit and left town a few weeks before. Luckily, it was easy to tell him, "I landed another job, sorry" and move on.
I've worked private contract security for about 4 years now. One of my first field supervisors was possibly the worst person to entrust with any sort of responsibility and actually bragged in a meeting about showing up to the house of a guard and threatening him if he didn't report for his next shift after the guy had quit. Honestly wish that was his biggest flaw.
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I had this experience once. The small company I worked for ran out of work, so I wasn't getting any hours. So that's more than a week of no money. The boss told me he would lay me off formally but dilly-dallied around getting the unemployment paperwork filed. So two more weeks of no money. Then the usual 6 week wait until the first unemployment check came, making 9 weeks with no income. A few months later I found a new, better job and was there when the old boss phoned me at work. Having gotten my number somehow, he told me to rush back to start on a project he'd picked up. When I told him I'd moved on and gotten a new job, he demanded that I come in on weekends and evenings to work on his stuff. HA HA HA HA - no.
By the way... if you are making less than your "account" with unemployment allows you, you can still file even while you are working, part-time for example. So if you account shows $145/week, and you are only making $125/week part-time, you should file while you look for other work. Unemployment wants people working FULL-TIME. Also, be aware that employers who offer work like what you describe may want you to be an "independent contractor," not on wage, and not only will you have to pay more at tax time, but ICs cannot collect unemployment.
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After I've been promoted at my job, at the ripe old age of 21, I called my dad. He congratulated me, then told me something I'll never forget: "Now that you have been put in a position of power, I will get to see what kind of a person you really are." I'm happy to say, I never pulled rank.
Lol no, she should have said if I'm fired do I get unemployment now?
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Six months after giving notice and moving on peacefully, I received a text from a friend asking, “Why are you refusing to (perform certain tasks)?” The reason I left that job was a lack of work, training, and ethics. I was content to just quietly walk away, but now everyone knows because they couldn’t keep their mouths shut. They haven’t been able to hire anyone decent, and now it’s public knowledge how they treat people.
I received a text from a friend asking, “Why are you refusing to (perform certain tasks)?” A friend, really? And they didn't know you had quit? C'mon.
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I would probably be swearing like a sailor or maybe take legal action if I can. This is absolutely ridiculous. It's like an incompetent cyberbully that won't let me sleep. As a redditor I get far too many of those.
How are people so dense? My boss fired near the start of the pandemic. After a few weeks of showing up to work during the shutdown when he was illegally open I refused to continue coming in. I thought it would be just for a few weeks to finish up a few projects (which was still wrong but I didnt want to lose my job) but after I finished he gave me all of my coworker's projects to do bc she wasnt coming in AND he was scheduling new projects. "Well I cant afford to close right now." Not my problem dude. I told him I wasnt coming back until after the shutdown was over. He fired me. And then when the shutdown was lifted asked me if I was coming back. Uh no??? You fired me so I got another job. Tf was I supposed to do wait around at home for months for you to come to your senses? This was April 2020 and he still hasnt sent me my final paycheck.
Report him for theft. Get a lawyer, report to state labor board, and nail his marbles to the tabl e
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Demoted........why does she get to keep a job seriously there are people that would do the job better(worse too) looking for jobs but no they don't wanna fire the quantifiable asshat
It's "the Peter Principle" - people get promoted up to their level of incompetence. They do well at one level, so they get promoted, then don't perform at the next level. Rather than move them back to the job they were good at, they stay in limbo in the job they don't perform adequately.
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I used to work for a place that when you gave your two weeks notice, they would tell the person to just leave immediately. So, the inevitable happened. When anyone decided to take a different job, they didn't tell management until the last day they decided to work.
Yes, you were being honorable, the boss was not "because he didn't have to." So I guess the solution is, give your notice responsibly, and have your bags packed beforehand. This also applies to the new job, which always asks, "How soon can you start?" You should be prepared to say "ASAP" because if you build in transition time they could hire someone else who CAN start ASAP. It's a dog-eat-dog world, my friend. Welcome to capitalism.
Load More Replies... First mistake of this piece is assume Reddit posts are newsworthy. Or anything close to reality for that matter. I was a very frequent Reddit user and part of a big downvote farming community. Most of what you see on Reddit isn't REAL for one reason or another. Not saying this story is false, but to call it newsworthy is a LONG stretch. Slow news week I guess.
I never thought I would defend managers, but right now in our country they are often raw recruits who have inherited a godawful mess when the previous managers walked off the job, just like the employees who jump from job to job, need retraining, don't get it, etc. Easy to blame managers for everything, esp. if you don't have to work for a living....
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I once had an ex-coworker come knocking at my door to tell me the District manager insisted, I work that night. At a job I had left six months prior.
Not a job, but an apartment leaving situation: back in 1996, I was moving from a city next to Detroit back to my home city in northern lower MI. Landlord, who was also a lawyer, put it in the lease that he was to receive minimum 60 day notice of intent to vacate. I wrote out, then handed in, my notice 80 days ahead, and had it signed by the person in the apartment complex office that day. The day I was packing up the van to move out, landlord came to the apartment all angry and huffed that I hadn't given enough notice, and I owed him a month's rent. I showed him my signed copy of the 80 day notice---and he was the one who had signed it, the lying cretin! He just stomped off back to the office, nasty man.
Some people are delusional. I've quit a 9 to 5 office job because the boss sent me an email at 10pm, a text at 10:05pm asking why I hadn't reply to the email and then another email/text combo at 7am asking if "the spreadsheet" was ready; so I did reply to the email saying "you know what, I quit, effectively immediately. I'm not on call 24/7". He went absolutely bananas but nothing he could do, as I wasn't even obligated to give notice, I was there for just over 5 weeks. A couple of day passed and a former manager (from the job before this one - company was dissolved so we all lost a job but remained friends) said she got a call from unhinged boss, demanding her to "discipline" me for leaving 😆 she reply "wtf do you want me to do, she doesn't work for me you muppet, and I'm glad she left your company, good day!"
My daughter's first job was fast food (fairly recently) they wouldn't release the next week's schedule until 8-10pm the night before the new schedule started. It was absurd but she put up with it for a while. Final straw was one night she waited until 10pm to finally see her schedule for the next week , we see that it says she doesn't work again for 3 days, the next to she logs back on and it says she was supposed to be there that morning! They changed it in the middle of the night. She quit. 2 weeks later she gets a text from a coworker asking her where she has been. Apparently they kept putting her on the schedule , even though she not only quit , but hadn't shown up for any of those days. Fast forward another couple weeks and she gets an email teller her she is fired.
I had a bad experience at a restaurant I worked at back in 1999. I worked at this other restaurant down the street for two years, where 99% of the employees were African-American. I had no problems there (except with the GM but that's another story), and I left and worked at another restaurant about a mile down the street; I was there for maybe a couple of months when we got a new manager from another location and he asked me, "You worked at [restaurant name here]?" I said, "Yeah." And he replied, "What's it like working with a whole bunch of N-words?" And I replied, "Better than working here." And I quit right then and there. A week later I came back for my last paycheck and he said he couldn't give it to me until I signed a form saying I was being fired. I never heard of such a thing. But I wanted away from that racist redneck before I punched him in the face and so I signed it and left. I laughed all the way home 'cause I signed it "Mickey Mouse".
First time is understandable. Paperwork gets lost, mistakes happen. Second time irritating. Third time I would have gone nuclear. Contact her boss, the GM or CEO, and threatened to sue for harassment.
OP is way more considerate than I would have been. I never would have called them the first time around and just let them figure it out on their own.
Love the effort you put into writing this piece. Takes a lot of talent to copy paste a story you find, huh.
Why is this here? And suspicious that she didn't include the screenshots she allegedly took.
This whole "Great Resignation" thing gives the lie to the practice of "at-will" employment, meaning that the boss can fire you without notice but you can quit without notice... disloyalty is rewarded with disloyalty... but chaos ensues... employees started playing musical jobs in our town, and where I started as a new employee off the street a month ago now, the place has been chaos. As I hear it, all the experienced managers quit last summer and new people moved over from another employer they had just quit, and they had to learn the job from scratch. It's a big store with a print shop and the only place of its kind within 30 miles. Big customer base. We are trying to figure out how to do things, how to get equipment to work, while customers are lined up. It's all hands on deck when they could be getting to other tasks around the store. It is UNCONSCIONABLE that the previous employees were allowed to just quit without notice, without providing any transition or training!!! Thanks!!
"Allowed to just quit without notice" LOL. Unless they'd signed contracts, how exactly are you going to stop them?
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I gave my notice once and the reply was "I don't accept that". After a bit of discussion I left it at "well you can accept it or not but after my notice is up I won't be coming in to work anymore". I got a call later that day saying I needed to be off the premises by end of business and never set foot there again. She was a bitch of a boss that one!
Assuming you had another job lined up, I hope you took a two week vacation and collected unemployment. Pretty sure the business that fired you has to pay for it, although I'm not sure how that works when you've just put in notice.
Load More Replies... Nope, just because you quit, doesn't mean you don't work there anymore, LOL. 8 am on a Sunday, I get a phone call from former boss telling me to get back to work. Yes, he knew I had quit and left town a few weeks before. Luckily, it was easy to tell him, "I landed another job, sorry" and move on.
I've worked private contract security for about 4 years now. One of my first field supervisors was possibly the worst person to entrust with any sort of responsibility and actually bragged in a meeting about showing up to the house of a guard and threatening him if he didn't report for his next shift after the guy had quit. Honestly wish that was his biggest flaw.
Load More Replies... I had this experience once. The small company I worked for ran out of work, so I wasn't getting any hours. So that's more than a week of no money. The boss told me he would lay me off formally but dilly-dallied around getting the unemployment paperwork filed. So two more weeks of no money. Then the usual 6 week wait until the first unemployment check came, making 9 weeks with no income. A few months later I found a new, better job and was there when the old boss phoned me at work. Having gotten my number somehow, he told me to rush back to start on a project he'd picked up. When I told him I'd moved on and gotten a new job, he demanded that I come in on weekends and evenings to work on his stuff. HA HA HA HA - no.
By the way... if you are making less than your "account" with unemployment allows you, you can still file even while you are working, part-time for example. So if you account shows $145/week, and you are only making $125/week part-time, you should file while you look for other work. Unemployment wants people working FULL-TIME. Also, be aware that employers who offer work like what you describe may want you to be an "independent contractor," not on wage, and not only will you have to pay more at tax time, but ICs cannot collect unemployment.
Load More Replies... After I've been promoted at my job, at the ripe old age of 21, I called my dad. He congratulated me, then told me something I'll never forget: "Now that you have been put in a position of power, I will get to see what kind of a person you really are." I'm happy to say, I never pulled rank.
Lol no, she should have said if I'm fired do I get unemployment now?
Load More Replies... Six months after giving notice and moving on peacefully, I received a text from a friend asking, “Why are you refusing to (perform certain tasks)?” The reason I left that job was a lack of work, training, and ethics. I was content to just quietly walk away, but now everyone knows because they couldn’t keep their mouths shut. They haven’t been able to hire anyone decent, and now it’s public knowledge how they treat people.
I received a text from a friend asking, “Why are you refusing to (perform certain tasks)?” A friend, really? And they didn't know you had quit? C'mon.
Load More Replies... I would probably be swearing like a sailor or maybe take legal action if I can. This is absolutely ridiculous. It's like an incompetent cyberbully that won't let me sleep. As a redditor I get far too many of those.
How are people so dense? My boss fired near the start of the pandemic. After a few weeks of showing up to work during the shutdown when he was illegally open I refused to continue coming in. I thought it would be just for a few weeks to finish up a few projects (which was still wrong but I didnt want to lose my job) but after I finished he gave me all of my coworker's projects to do bc she wasnt coming in AND he was scheduling new projects. "Well I cant afford to close right now." Not my problem dude. I told him I wasnt coming back until after the shutdown was over. He fired me. And then when the shutdown was lifted asked me if I was coming back. Uh no??? You fired me so I got another job. Tf was I supposed to do wait around at home for months for you to come to your senses? This was April 2020 and he still hasnt sent me my final paycheck.
Report him for theft. Get a lawyer, report to state labor board, and nail his marbles to the tabl e
Load More Replies... Demoted........why does she get to keep a job seriously there are people that would do the job better(worse too) looking for jobs but no they don't wanna fire the quantifiable asshat
It's "the Peter Principle" - people get promoted up to their level of incompetence. They do well at one level, so they get promoted, then don't perform at the next level. Rather than move them back to the job they were good at, they stay in limbo in the job they don't perform adequately.
Load More Replies... I used to work for a place that when you gave your two weeks notice, they would tell the person to just leave immediately. So, the inevitable happened. When anyone decided to take a different job, they didn't tell management until the last day they decided to work.
Yes, you were being honorable, the boss was not "because he didn't have to." So I guess the solution is, give your notice responsibly, and have your bags packed beforehand. This also applies to the new job, which always asks, "How soon can you start?" You should be prepared to say "ASAP" because if you build in transition time they could hire someone else who CAN start ASAP. It's a dog-eat-dog world, my friend. Welcome to capitalism.
Load More Replies... First mistake of this piece is assume Reddit posts are newsworthy. Or anything close to reality for that matter. I was a very frequent Reddit user and part of a big downvote farming community. Most of what you see on Reddit isn't REAL for one reason or another. Not saying this story is false, but to call it newsworthy is a LONG stretch. Slow news week I guess.
I never thought I would defend managers, but right now in our country they are often raw recruits who have inherited a godawful mess when the previous managers walked off the job, just like the employees who jump from job to job, need retraining, don't get it, etc. Easy to blame managers for everything, esp. if you don't have to work for a living....
Load More Replies... I once had an ex-coworker come knocking at my door to tell me the District manager insisted, I work that night. At a job I had left six months prior.
Not a job, but an apartment leaving situation: back in 1996, I was moving from a city next to Detroit back to my home city in northern lower MI. Landlord, who was also a lawyer, put it in the lease that he was to receive minimum 60 day notice of intent to vacate. I wrote out, then handed in, my notice 80 days ahead, and had it signed by the person in the apartment complex office that day. The day I was packing up the van to move out, landlord came to the apartment all angry and huffed that I hadn't given enough notice, and I owed him a month's rent. I showed him my signed copy of the 80 day notice---and he was the one who had signed it, the lying cretin! He just stomped off back to the office, nasty man.
Some people are delusional. I've quit a 9 to 5 office job because the boss sent me an email at 10pm, a text at 10:05pm asking why I hadn't reply to the email and then another email/text combo at 7am asking if "the spreadsheet" was ready; so I did reply to the email saying "you know what, I quit, effectively immediately. I'm not on call 24/7". He went absolutely bananas but nothing he could do, as I wasn't even obligated to give notice, I was there for just over 5 weeks. A couple of day passed and a former manager (from the job before this one - company was dissolved so we all lost a job but remained friends) said she got a call from unhinged boss, demanding her to "discipline" me for leaving 😆 she reply "wtf do you want me to do, she doesn't work for me you muppet, and I'm glad she left your company, good day!"
My daughter's first job was fast food (fairly recently) they wouldn't release the next week's schedule until 8-10pm the night before the new schedule started. It was absurd but she put up with it for a while. Final straw was one night she waited until 10pm to finally see her schedule for the next week , we see that it says she doesn't work again for 3 days, the next to she logs back on and it says she was supposed to be there that morning! They changed it in the middle of the night. She quit. 2 weeks later she gets a text from a coworker asking her where she has been. Apparently they kept putting her on the schedule , even though she not only quit , but hadn't shown up for any of those days. Fast forward another couple weeks and she gets an email teller her she is fired.
I had a bad experience at a restaurant I worked at back in 1999. I worked at this other restaurant down the street for two years, where 99% of the employees were African-American. I had no problems there (except with the GM but that's another story), and I left and worked at another restaurant about a mile down the street; I was there for maybe a couple of months when we got a new manager from another location and he asked me, "You worked at [restaurant name here]?" I said, "Yeah." And he replied, "What's it like working with a whole bunch of N-words?" And I replied, "Better than working here." And I quit right then and there. A week later I came back for my last paycheck and he said he couldn't give it to me until I signed a form saying I was being fired. I never heard of such a thing. But I wanted away from that racist redneck before I punched him in the face and so I signed it and left. I laughed all the way home 'cause I signed it "Mickey Mouse".
First time is understandable. Paperwork gets lost, mistakes happen. Second time irritating. Third time I would have gone nuclear. Contact her boss, the GM or CEO, and threatened to sue for harassment.
OP is way more considerate than I would have been. I never would have called them the first time around and just let them figure it out on their own.
Love the effort you put into writing this piece. Takes a lot of talent to copy paste a story you find, huh.
Why is this here? And suspicious that she didn't include the screenshots she allegedly took.
This whole "Great Resignation" thing gives the lie to the practice of "at-will" employment, meaning that the boss can fire you without notice but you can quit without notice... disloyalty is rewarded with disloyalty... but chaos ensues... employees started playing musical jobs in our town, and where I started as a new employee off the street a month ago now, the place has been chaos. As I hear it, all the experienced managers quit last summer and new people moved over from another employer they had just quit, and they had to learn the job from scratch. It's a big store with a print shop and the only place of its kind within 30 miles. Big customer base. We are trying to figure out how to do things, how to get equipment to work, while customers are lined up. It's all hands on deck when they could be getting to other tasks around the store. It is UNCONSCIONABLE that the previous employees were allowed to just quit without notice, without providing any transition or training!!! Thanks!!
"Allowed to just quit without notice" LOL. Unless they'd signed contracts, how exactly are you going to stop them?
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