Woman Quits Her Job After Being Constantly Reminded She Can Be Fired Any Moment, Leaves Boss In “Fumes”
The recent report from GoodHire found that 82% of workers across 10 industries say they would quit their jobs due to their manager’s poor behavior, including not being honest, micromanaging, and disrespecting personal time. That doesn’t mean that employees don’t try to suck it up and deal with the toxic management, which doesn’t last for long.
This is what happened to Redditor u/Public_Pressure_4516 who recently shared a story from her job as a teller at a bank. The author was new to keeping a till, so she had difficulty with keeping her register balance. “As if that shame wasn’t bad enough, my supervisor, ‘Mel,’ would remind me that I worked ‘at will’ and they could fire me at any time,” she wrote in a post on the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit.
But one day the opportunity came to quit the job and leave the pressure behind, wrote the Redditor, and she wasted no time thinking. In the end, the supervisor got a taste of her own medicine, so scroll down below to see how the situation evolved.
Recently, a former bank teller shared how she quit her job without notice after the supervisor kept telling her she worked at will and could be fired any minute
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Image credits: Elisa Ventur (not the actual photo)
And this is what people had to say about this whole situation
"At will" employment is yet another reason I would never, ever, move to the US. When I was a child I thought the US was the thing to aspire to. Now I realise they're decades behind Europe in virtually everything. It's like a backwater of civilisation. So glad I'm not American.
I'm glad people are finally criticizing the US maybe it will help us change. We were indoctrinated at such a young age to believe we were the best country in the world therefore we believed the propaganda pushed on us. We're not taught truthful history or truthful facts about other countries if we're taught at all about other places.
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It’s always amazing how people like that get into manager positions. I worked at a restaurant once where we had a manager who loved to bully people. She only really bullied people who didn’t speak english well tho. After 7 yrs and her firing people left and right on a whim, getting managers to leave..etc I having been there 1 yr wrote a letter to corporate detailing her misconduct got 28 people to sign (basically the whole restaurant) and she was gone within 2 weeks after a formal investigation. Karma is a B. The irony was she hired me. :)
It baffles me how anyone still accepts at-will employment laws, why are they still allowed? Please don't try the BS about it giving employees extra freedom, they don't have any more freedom that employees who live in states with proper employment laws have. The only people who benefit from at-will employment are employers.
Hard not to "accept" it when it's the law of the land. No one has a choice.
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"At will" employment is yet another reason I would never, ever, move to the US. When I was a child I thought the US was the thing to aspire to. Now I realise they're decades behind Europe in virtually everything. It's like a backwater of civilisation. So glad I'm not American.
I'm glad people are finally criticizing the US maybe it will help us change. We were indoctrinated at such a young age to believe we were the best country in the world therefore we believed the propaganda pushed on us. We're not taught truthful history or truthful facts about other countries if we're taught at all about other places.
Load More Replies... It’s always amazing how people like that get into manager positions. I worked at a restaurant once where we had a manager who loved to bully people. She only really bullied people who didn’t speak english well tho. After 7 yrs and her firing people left and right on a whim, getting managers to leave..etc I having been there 1 yr wrote a letter to corporate detailing her misconduct got 28 people to sign (basically the whole restaurant) and she was gone within 2 weeks after a formal investigation. Karma is a B. The irony was she hired me. :)
It baffles me how anyone still accepts at-will employment laws, why are they still allowed? Please don't try the BS about it giving employees extra freedom, they don't have any more freedom that employees who live in states with proper employment laws have. The only people who benefit from at-will employment are employers.
Hard not to "accept" it when it's the law of the land. No one has a choice.
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