Back at the beginning of the pandemic, we were all emailed saying we were essential workers. Then 15 minutes later we got another email saying we're all getting a 15% pay cut. They lost about 20% of their national workforce.

@rosedavidson8717

4 ай бұрын

What company??

@robertsmalls3513

2 ай бұрын

Honestly that was probably intentional from the company at that point

@ImJusBuba

Ай бұрын

@@rosedavidson8717US Government lol

@cjmunnee3356

22 күн бұрын

​@@ImJusBuba Nah. DOE sent us home for 3 months and gave us full pay the whole time.

Someone falsely accused me of something at my previous job, I went on leave and the investigation found that I was not guilty. To get revenge for my false accusations, I convinced about 1/4 of the staff who were my friends to quit with me on a busy day.

@burnish8670

5 ай бұрын

This just happened to me. I got 6 people out of 15 so almost half to put their 2 weeks in but not stay for those 2 weeks. My ex manager had to cancel their vacation they've tried to get me to come back but I found somewhere way better.

@habituallearner7680

5 ай бұрын

Well done!

@nikkimcdonald4562

5 ай бұрын

I was falsely accused of taking money from the till. My till only came up short when the assistant manager counted it in private ( big red flag , I wasn't allowed to watch the count). I knew he was stealing but the owner didn't believe me. So on the day that I knew we were going to be crazy crazy busy. I didn't show up. I was the only one trained to use their computer register. They only had 2 people trained how to use them and the other girl was out of town . The assistant manager was pissed 😂😂 The owner begged me to come in and promised to "do something about the till situation " of course I didn't believe him. I went by later that day and they were closed. They were closed until the other girl came back ( 2 days). No regrets.

@ZebraFuryGaming

5 ай бұрын

that's crazy!@@nikkimcdonald4562

@fightingblind

2 ай бұрын

​@@nikkimcdonald4562 my first job, I was always coming up $1 or $2 short. Occasionally like $20 short. Didn't really think anything of it. Just kept cash on me to make the till even (not sure if they can legally make you do that now that I think about it) just was afraid of getting in trouble for shorting the till. Later found out that the manager was stealing from the tills and making the employees comp them due to being afraid of trouble.

My old general manager at a laser tag company got fired because our regional manager just didn’t like him. Genuinely had no actual reasons. She engineered a whole smear campaign against him with administration for a year before they finally fired him. Unfortunately for regional manager, the business tanked so bad at the site and so many employee complaint letters came in that she was fired not long after. That’s about when I left. Not even a year later the pandemic almost shut the whole company down. They had to sell off locations including the one in our city. My old GM bought it from them at a loss to them and made it his own personal laser tag arena. It felt so good to watch from the outside.

@nicksshitbro

Ай бұрын

Was this ultrazone?

@HenBasketFireAlarms

27 күн бұрын

This seems like it could be a late 90s/early 00s family movie that was based on a true story. Glad to hear your old GM got not just their job back, but actually bought the damn place

The restaurant story is the perfect example of what we call "one generation kingdom", which is a business that is very successful in the hand of the parents, but then is destroyed (or at least can't be as successful) by the successor... usually their own kids. The reason is simple... educating your successor is actually harder than educating yourself. And educating a successor is also an important step/process that every business owner must do, if they want to have a long lasting family business (unless they are already planning to close the business as soon as they retired). I've watched a tv show where they interviewed a high profile person (iinm, it's one of faber castle higher ups), and he said he told his son to join the company on their own without any of his help and proof his worth before even dreaming to inherit his business.

@misspatvandriverlady7555

2 ай бұрын

If the business is to survive, it must be inherited by the most competent successor, who is probably NOT the owner’s kid! 🤷‍♀️

If I was told that I would only be getting paid for time that is billable, I would only work time that is billable. If they ask me why my paperwork isn't in, I will tell them it is because they aren't paying me to do it, so I wont.

Current one. Work decided to change our ENTIRE TEAMS schedules so ppl no longer have the days off they were counting now...just before Christmas. Im quitting and im sure others will too

@gardenofsn5955

5 ай бұрын

I'm nosey, how are things for y'all now?

@ProdigyAngel33_Nagichan

5 ай бұрын

@@gardenofsn5955 eh ....I'm surviving xD hope you're good!

@gardenofsn5955

4 ай бұрын

@@ProdigyAngel33_Nagichan Thanks! Working towards a promotion, but in the meantime... I'm surviving as well, lol! I hope things improve for you sooner rather than later!

that 2nd one is just heartbreaking. it is very difficult to get funding for rehab type programs, sadly theres no way they could've kept going the way it started; but that is the kind of effort that is needed. not just to help people with stress (which is a big relapse trigger) but the activities and socialization, again more things that often trigger relapses.

@kellharris2491

5 ай бұрын

This. It's so frustrating.

@snewsh

5 ай бұрын

Didn't sound like it was working any better than the other rehab program, tbh.

@terig8974

4 ай бұрын

It sounded unsustainable expensive.

@HellHazAtTheZoo

3 ай бұрын

@@terig8974That’s the problem I heard as well. It sounds like they cared, but it just doesn’t sound financially sustainable.

@mikep9312

Ай бұрын

I can't really emphasize with the guy that much, he talked so much shit as if other rehab programs were just holes in the ground where they stick you in a hole in the ground and make you fend for yourselves, this guy has an extremely narrow scope of rehab facilities.

I own a business run out a small warehouse built on my private land. I have 2 full-time employees, 1 of which is my roommate. I have a "good enough is good enough for me" policy. As long as we have more money coming in than going out at the end of the month (after all expenses such as maintenance, payroll, utility bills, heath and dental, etc.), I call it a success. We've never failed since I started the business 9 years ago with my brother who passed 7 years ago. RIP, Chris.

@GayKermit-._-.

2 ай бұрын

How is this a "mass exodus" story? /genq

@oliverimhoof

2 ай бұрын

@@GayKermit-._-. I don't know what genq means, but the point of the story was that if you, as a small businessman, make your employees happy and pay them well, especially when you can afford to, the employees will work hard to keep their jobs. It wasn't a "mass exodus" story but a "how to prevent a mass exodus" story. I've had the same employee since the beginning and the other started a few weeks after my brother's passing. They're both incredibly skilled craftsmen and I truly appreciate them.

@Bahr-im7pn

Ай бұрын

@@oliverimhoof /genq means "genuine question." It was put there so you know they weren't being sarcastic or condescending.

@robinpage2730

4 күн бұрын

Nothing succeeds like success

Heard second hand, and some details are omited to not anger the corporations involved: There was a company who'd put out hiring ads for specific shifts - including a new manager. They had a moderate number of new hires for these shifts (maybe 10 or 15?) and they started training all of them for the job - which because of the somewhat hazardous nature and all the laws surrounding this job, took several weeks. After these several weeks of training, it was revealed that they had not actually been hired for the shifts they'd been told. No, it turned out that there was a kind of shift lottery, and that senior employees got first pick. So everyone who'd just gotten hired and finished training, expecting to be working specific hours, found out that those hours were basically unavailable. All but one of the new hires, INCLUDING the new manager quit that day. Like, don't hire people with the expectation that they'll work specific hours if they won't actually be working those hours??? Seems like comon sense, but no.

Left after my boss freaked out on us in our office. We had a team of only 5 people but should have had 9, 10 including our boss. She flipped out we weren’t getting enough done, and then would move her office into the GM’s old office. She was in charge of hiring people and refused to bring in workers. I was working the equivalent of 3 people on overnights. Eventually had it when I found out they posted the job, with listed pay being 10 bucks over what I was making after 5 years at the job. Confronted boss about it with a few others and was yelled at for discussing our pay and threatening to write us up. I put my 2 weeks in then and never looked back.

@AIopekis

21 күн бұрын

I feel like any time a job tells you not to discuss pay, everyone should immediately discuss pay. Because that means someone (or probably everyone) is getting screwed.

@biggiouschinnus7489

13 күн бұрын

@@AIopekis It is actually illegal to bar staff from discussing pay, so far as I know.

I worked at the Cincinnati Zoo in my early 20's as a cleaner. Well one day some particularly large tourist leaned up or fell against the glass of the Hall of Arachnids and broke a chunk of it off. They didn't say anything and then maybe a half hour later people began reporting "the spiders are loose! The spiders are loose!" I arrive to see my coworkers trying to collect these hand-sized tarantulas that have crawled out into the hallway. Two workers who were already not liking their time there never returned. I later told the new people about this incident and that it's part of our job to collect the spiders if they get out, and one of these new hires was so disturbed that they quit the next day.

@BazilBuildBases

2 ай бұрын

are they so nasty to touch? those dudes looks fluffy..

@geigertec5921

2 ай бұрын

@@BazilBuildBases they're compleatly harmless except if they bite and you have an anaphylactic allergic reaction otherwise the venom is not fatal for most people.

@andreasul2608

Ай бұрын

Wtf did they expect.. you work at a zoo, you work with animals..

@geigertec5921

Ай бұрын

@@andreasul2608 I later learned that one of the ones who I thought quit actually was just working in a different part of the zoo. But she would leave very shortly after due to an unrelated incident involving a scheduling conflicts.

One of the companies I worked about 25 years ago for had little to no health and safety, warehouse full of staff, about 60 people, a couple of the roof lights were out, warehouse manager decided to use the Forklift Truck and a lifting cage so a member of staff could get in with some spare lamps and change the lighting. I'm guessing about 120 feet (the FLT were ultra high rising and fast at that, the manager thought it would be a good idea to pull this stunt of instant rise, scaring our work colleague in the cage. Thing is the extended masts on the FLT's slow down on the last 4 metres and aren't long enough to hit the roof, but they stop about 2 foot from the roof. So our team member changes the first lamp, gives the manager the thumbs up and, the manager, in his power trip infinite wisdom moves to the next, swaying the mast. Team mate changes the next one and again gives the thumbs up. The manger again moves the truck another 10 metres... (Spoiler, this is about to get graphic and I apologise in advance..) There was a supporting steel bar across the roof of the warehouse between the second and third failed light, lower than four foot but higher than the bottom of the cage that our team member was in, what wasn't known at the time was two things, our manager didn't have a Forklift license (here in the UK, legally he wasn't supposed to be using it) and secondly because he'd not had the training, he'd also not secured the cage on the truck. As he travelled forwards on the truck, he'd caught the steel bar, pushing the cage off the forks, and it dropped sideways to the floor, in front of everyone.. We saw this cage smash into the floor and part of it decapitated our team member. 🥺 One thing I will NEVER forget is the scared look on the face of the team member in the cage .. Still haunts me every so often. Out of 60 members of staff that day, 50 of them quit within half an hour, including me. As far as I'm aware, the manager was jailed for gross misconduct and manslaughter and the business never recovered because of that incident. It went under 2 months later, I'm guessing through the compensation people got from having to witness it and the reputation.

Never had a "walk out together" moment, but I worked at a brand new urgent care that was a nightmare. I could tell so many stories. Basically there was this one guy who the higher ups bullied. He was annoying and new but they were just cruel to him. They told me one day how they were planning to fire him and I went and told him. He quit the next day and I think only a week after that I did too, after one of the doctors got into a fight with a patients mom. I told the new hires to get out while they could, and last I heard most of them listened. It truly was a circus.

@JoshSweetvale

5 ай бұрын

That was dumb. It's better to be fired than to quit.

@ntfoperative9432

4 ай бұрын

@@JoshSweetvaleno, it’s better to quit because that looks better on your resume

@JoshSweetvale

4 ай бұрын

@@ntfoperative9432 ...Not sure. Good argument tho.

@AtomicAlchemist

4 ай бұрын

@@JoshSweetvale >It's better to be fired than to quit. Could you explain why?

@JoshSweetvale

4 ай бұрын

@@AtomicAlchemist They're paying the unemployment.

Once was working in santorini Greece, where the house was provided by the restaurant. Mid season half of the kitchen stuff and 2 waiters get a pink eye. After a few days the kitchen stuff is getting worse, and the cheff is almost unable to see anything, so they sit down with the owners and ask the to close down the restaurant for 2 days so they can heal. They fired them on the spot, and expected the waiting stuff to stay and pay everything out of their pockets until they found new kitchen stuff. Everyone quit in the spot. So instead of closing down for 2 days, the closed down indefinetely mid season.

@solarprophet5439

23 күн бұрын

Dunno how it works there, but in the States letting someone work with food while having a highly contagious disease like pinkeye could get a business in a LOT of trouble.

@netherwake1

23 күн бұрын

@@solarprophet5439 Its the same here too, but no one was willing to report them. Also firing them for being unable to work, was also against the law.

My TL was fired for "work avoidance" after he threatened legal action upon realizing he was not being paid salary when he should have been. My team wasn't informed of this until halfway through the day. Me and another person on my team put in our two weeks on the spot. Considering the two of us were some of the most efficient employees in our tier, they tried very hard to keep us from quitting.

@ntfoperative9432

4 ай бұрын

Why even bother with the notice?

My mom's final workplace (before she had to retire due to cancer) had a Christmas party that people usually brought their families to. I always enjoyed these parties because they were chill, had amazing turkey, and kids usually got to open a small present. A few of my mom's coworkers did not like her because while she had been there longer than all of them, knew the place inside out, and was a good manager/supervisor, she had terrible people skills. It was her way or the highway, basically, and nobody stopped her because her methods actually got good results and profits. And she hated any kind of disrespect, intentional or not, and was often quite rude herself in retaliation. So these younger folks thought to embarrass her at the party by telling her there wasn't gonna be any kids there so she could leave me at home. They did end up bringing all their kids and I was the only kid not present. My mom was pissed and a few days later, told them off so hard and cussed at them until she got fired by the boss at the time. The coworkers that liked her also liked me because my mom treated the good ones like friends and family and invited them over for dinners sometimes. I was a quiet, sweet, and respectful kid, which netted me a lot of points with her coworkers. So when those a hole coworkers pulled their stunt, a lot of them got angry at them too for doing that to me. They knew I had a hard time getting out of the house and they actually liked having me around for the Christmas parties because they liked to see me happy. So nearly half the workforce quit in solidarity and protest. The place closed down less than a year later due to declining profits. It's a custom autobody shop now.

so i work at an amazon warehouse, during the months of november to march we would hire on temporary workers for a "Cycle 0" basically they would do the same work as Cycle 1(my shift) but for 4 hours instead of 10 and if they wanted too they could transfer to a cycle 1 shift. This year HR sent out a facility wide email to all cycle 0 workers saying none of them would be able to transfer to a cycle 1 shift. this resulted in nearly 80% of all cycle 0 workers just quitting, not all at once but in large groups over the course of a few days. It got so bad HR was forced to backpedal that initial email and tell all the remaining cycle 0s that they could in fact transfer to cycle 1 if they wanted too, while the rest of us were having to pick up the slack caused due to all the ones that quit, we're actually still in the process of replenishing those numbers even 2 weeks later.

Friends story, their pay didn't arive and was given the run around and after 2 weeks in the morning they said "if our pay isn't in our accounts by tomorrow moning, we quit and we will contact our lawyers", no pay and everyone quit and after a quit lawsuit and audit, the company was in MAJOR debt, so to "save a little for the time being" they held back employees pay. That's one of the biggest red flags in any industry, if the employees dosen't get paid on time (or paycheques are starting to look "funny and wrong") AND ESPECIALLY if you are then being given a runaround that just scream stalling tactic, it tells you without saying it literally, that the company is in money troublem, in that case start looking for new employment.

The Grease Monkey story sounds familiar. I had a friend in high school go through that exact scenario, up to and including Six Flags, lol. Wonder if they're the one who posted.

@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if it's just a Colorado thing, but trips to 6 flags was pretty common. I went with my girl scout group, church youth group, and after school groups, when I worked at Sonic in highschool a boss took a bunch of us.

I took a summer job cleaning a hospital a few years back. I had a team with me, but they all sat around and laughed and chit chatted or wondered around the hospital and refused to clean. I did my work and theirs and was exhausted trying to keep up with everything. Especially when we were put into a newly created department where we were supposed to make the hospital look nice for higher ups that were coming for a tour. Also didn't help that they were toxic too. They took advantage of my disability and gaslighted me at every chance and just overall caused problems. Then I got into a major car accident and was injured. I was supposed to be out for two weeks, but came back in one because I needed to pay bills, and I needed a signed form from them to send to my insurance so I could get paid for the week I was out. When I came in, my name was removed from the sign in sheet and the managers acted like I didn't exist. I spent a week of being treated like absolute crap and even getting sent home for "being lazy and not doing my job" when I sat down because I was very dizzy from how much pain I was in from my injury. As soon as I got that form, I walked out. I found out shortly later, that the entire team all quit. They knew they couldn't get away with goofing off anymore because I wasn't there to pick up their slack and they didn't want to work.

@t0m_mcc

2 ай бұрын

Thats terrible. can you report this to the relevant authorities? Even if you feel that you don't have all the "proof", it could cause someone to look into it, create a paper trail that may lead to changes in future

Story 4: succession planning should be very comprehensive. The successor should have the opportunity of working all aspects of the business for a year or two being mentored so that the owners know whether he/she was the right fit. Otherwise, get a professional to take it off your hands.

@sfsin3380

2 ай бұрын

Ya I've seen successions done well and the new owner is always at least a manager who runs the business alone for a few days a week before the transition. What where they think going from dishwasher to owner.

@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951

2 ай бұрын

Yeah maybe just don't go all in betting on just nepotism 😅. Definitely should at least test the waters by letting them "run things" for a bit. Popping in unexpectedly and see how it goes.

@woodside4life

2 ай бұрын

100%. A succession plan based purely on familial ties is ludicrous.

@oliviafox6745

Ай бұрын

I actually saw this in action. A friend and I went to an Italian restaurant. Our waiter was about 20, but proficient (he made fettuccine Alfredo at table). So we got chatting with him. His dad, the owner, had started him with mopping floors and scrubbing the kitchen, then bussing, then as prep chef and now as waiter. His father planned to teach him how to be the maitre d, then the business, like ordering, then how to handle the books and payroll before handing over the business. I thought that was a brilliant way to handle things.

I've worked as a Walmart Online Personal Shopper for almost 9 months now. New hires commonly quit on the first week because of how busy we get regularly. We are always understaffed and it is painfully difficult to get orders out on time. If we somehow and in some way don't have any orders to take out, we can't sit down. If we are doing something that isn't Dispensing and run out of things to do, we do other people's jobs.

I went to a private middle school with a fairly good reputation, and they were actually good in some aspects (they were the ones who found out about my ADD) but they had a huge problem with bullying. The principal and the teachers did tried to do the best they could, but the school council had their hands ties; one of the things the principal wanted was to expell the bullys that were more violent and/or vicious (a couple of my bullys were on that group) but the council forbbid him to do that because they were a quite bigger group, and the monetary lose of expell them would be bigger that if all of bullied students changed schools. This went for a while, and the year after I went to high school the principal got more agressive with the council, demanding that they do something with the issue, but them, a fairly new teacher (he was the one who teached ethics to my group in the last year) went to the council and told them that if they fired the principal and gave him the job he would keep everything as it was, and they did. The next monday the new principal announced the leave of his predeccesor to a VERY confused school; somebody then called the ex principal (something quite impressive since cellphones were fairly new) to ask him what happened and by lunch EVERYBODY KNEW, and everybody was royaly PISSED. All the teachers where offered a substantial amount of money for staying and keeping quiet about the matter, only one accepted because he had small kids at home and need it the money, but the rest resingned that day, and with them some of the elementary and kindergarden teachers too. That week they lost like 98% of their students because of the issue with the teachers, but mostly it was in retaliation for firing the original principal; even the bullies leaved the school. They eventually got back on bussines, but it's not like in their old glory days

I can only claim partial involvement in my story, but what happened with me set off a rather glorious chain reaction. My first full-time job was as a chemist and lab tech for a small lyophilization (freeze-drying) firm, never more than 50 people there (usually less than 30). The big boss was your stereotypical deeply religious Christian. Sure, at the start of it all, he and the bulk of management was not bad, but maybe I was just ignorant of a lot of thing - it was my first full-time job, after all. I ended up being one of the top employees in the whole firm, not just simply because of stellar performance - which I did have and maintain - but because I was one of the few who was literally keeping the firm running (this would be proved by the end of the story). I watched management and the absolute worst of the employees just do everything they can to drive the good ones out while shielding the bad ones (undoubtedly to make the bad ones even worse), all while spouting what you hear the absolute worst of the religious give. In fairness, not all of management was terrible. One of them actually looked out for me and the other four good ones. To reiterate, we were the ones keeping the firm afloat amid their shenanigans and asshattery. We ensured materials came and went and were of adequate quality, we ran the machines, we maintained the machines, we handled all of the logs, we responded to special requests from clients - really, we were why the firm lasted at all. We occasionally talked about just how awful and stupid everyone else was being, but otherwise, we just focused on our jobs - because we actually cared about the firm, even more than the big boss, who had _founded the firm over 20 years prior._ I get that eventually, the founder might want out, but he should have thought of a way that would not have come around to bite him in the @$$, which is what would happen by the end of this story. Fast forward about five years of me working there, and after new good ones evidently stopped applying, they came after me. At this point, I was more-or-less in charge of the operational side of special orders; my manager dealt with the clients while I dealt with the processing. Management decided to falsely accuse me of threatening workplace violence, claiming that I had talked about coming in with an assault rifle to spray down the place. Obviously, this was total BS, but unfortunately, this was in Texas, and with their right-to-work laws, I had no possible way to stand against them, so I was SOL. It was a devastating way to get forced out. I was out of it, and with my mental state in the immediate wake of it, I did not want to risk driving home right away. Because I chose to sit in my car and try to calm down, which took about two hours before I finally felt like I had done so enough to safely get home, they called the cops on me. To this day, I am convinced that if one of the officers who showed up had not recognized me, known me, amd therefore figured their accusations were false, I probably would have been shot. Either way, the cops let me go without even giving me any sort of warning, which I would not be surprised if it turned out to have pissed off the management. As this was going on, the rest of the good ones learned what they did to me, and to say they were livid would be putting it mildly. All but one of them quit and walked out on the spot, and the last one did not join them because his position frequently had him outside of the firm and away from that pit of vipers and because he wanted to act as a check in case any new good ones somehow came in (spoiler: none did). Oh, and the one good manager quit with them in solidarity, so the whole wing that handled special orders was now effectively completely unstaffed, and because of their outright sh^tty behavior, their main line was barely hanging on by a thread. So by getting rid of me, they effectively tanked their entire criminal enterprise that they were running from the firm (embezzlement was by far the biggest offense they were doing). Without me - and inadvertently thanks to me, us - there to run things, they had to drop their criminality in order to keep any money coming in, which had shrunk to barely a trickle thanks to their actions. Their reputation was well and truly shot with no possibility of resuscitation. This marks the end of any sort of involvement of or from me, but the story does not end here. Fast forward another year, after they somehow figured out a way to limp along, and a massive lawsuit comes in. The last good one suffered a pretty bad workplace injury, one that actually was beyond anything anyone could have done to prevent it. Well, they tried to pull one last criminal act and screwed him out of his worker's comp. Unfortunately for them, his then-girlfriend personally knew an attorney who specialized in worker's comp cases. The two of them took his case to this attorney, who in turn brought in other attorneys who covered various aspects that can be involved in worker's comp (this was how I learned about medical attorneys). The entire legal team that he suddenly found himself with all agreed that they had a slam-dunk case with him. That firm has since gone under, and those attorneys made sure that all of management and those employees - i.e. the ones engaging in those criminal acts - not only faced imprisonment but also had to foot all of the bills, his included, which meant that he never had to pay anything to take them down. Moral of the story: don't be a d^ck, regardless of your position, because you never know when someone is going to castrate you, maybe even put you in the ground, for your behavior.

@konroh2

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a Christian cult. Obviously hard work and virtue pay off, why do you think that you would have been shot? That sounds very unusual.

@GayKermit-._-.

2 ай бұрын

God damn bro quit yapping 😱😠 I ain't reading ALLAT. Can someone give me a TL;DR please?

@CarlosMendez-tn5zi

Ай бұрын

Nah, this story was awesome. Thanks for all the details, I really appreciated the way you wrote it. And please ignore the people that dont have the ability to enjoy a good tale, they sap the spice of life out of the rest of us.

@bigheart423

Ай бұрын

@@GayKermit-._-. stop being lazy af

@bigheart423

Ай бұрын

this was interesting

So, my current job is probably about to have a decent turnover in my department. I got hired at the end of December, and due to my experience, was made a supervisor on the spot as they needed to fill some gaps. I start, a week later, another supervisor in my department quit. Two weeks in, I'm told by my immediate boss that outside of myself, three more people were hired for our department, and once they were trained well enough, apparently a few people were going to be fired (still have no idea who). Then, another one of the supervisors in my department (there are 4 of us) has been going back and forth on quitting, or sticking through it and hoping they finally respect her boundaries. Issue is, everyone actually wants her to leave because she's a horrible and toxic person. Even I've given up after only a month and a half on giving her the benefit of the doubt, and we're all just waiting for her to quit. Then, one of my favorite coworkers told me he may have to find a new job because every part-time employee's hours are being cut (that time of the year) AFTER they just hired a bunch of new people. Oh, and this girl who just came back from an LOA hasn't shown up to a single shift she's been scheduled for, so she's probably getting fired if she doesn't quit first. Then earlier today, my immediate boss texts our supervisor group chat saying that he's on a final for performance because one of our assistant managers who oversees our department thinks the only way to solve things is by giving out write ups, which my immediate boss doesn't do. So he's also ready to leave. How am I doing? Well, I started this job to have something to pay the bills until I move in August, and don't feel like I should worry about putting too much energy into it. However, I wasn't properly trained, and nothing has been done about it. Plus, the last 4 shifts I worked I had at least one call in, or someone leaving early. 3 of those shifts put me with only 1 of my employees in our entire department... and you need at least 3 people to get the vast majority of your work done, and have been expected to stay late when other people call in. Oh, and I'm constantly having to fight for my availability to be what I asked it to be. Also, with everyone else constantly in a bad mood wanting to leave, it makes me not have a good time at work either, and I'm just... really loving my new job... can't wait for when everyone quits, and I have to do even more work I wasn't properly trained to do while understaffed

It wasn't all at once- it was over the course of an entire week. But two people died- I think it was suicide because they put out mental health pamphlets, which they DIDN'T do when a guy died of old age, so I would say they quit life. I quit without dying.

Changed the commission structure. I was first out the door with my boss right behind me.

I worked at a previously flagship supermarket, that was a big one in my country that got bought out. It was a dead end job and there was a lot of mismanagement and poor managers. A lot of good people worked there too but we're trapped. I walked out after being told I was being moved to a different department as a punishment. I had a verbal argument with the manager. I reported a lot of food safety concerns to the relevant authorities. This store would always know when the health inspector was coming, and put on a good show. The truth was that regular temperature checks were being falsified, and fridges and freezers were routinely dying and not being replaced due to a contract they had to get them repaired if broken. I later heard that this lead to some kind of investigation. The store has been completely renovated and refurbished now and is under new management

I used to work for an online tutoring company that had some great concepts, but terrible management. As problems started becoming more apparent, some tutors started talking and advocating and pointing out the flaws and injustices (low pay, lack of support when students harassed us, no supervisors who spoke languages we tutored in, minimal training, unrealistic expectations of our productivity). Management of course didn't like these problems being highlighted, so they fired about 20-30 people (including me) completely out of the blue -- most of which were well-known, longtime staff who often helped others and were tapped for additional projects (including recent promotions), with no history of performance issues. It was pretty blatant that they were trying to silence critics, and probably another dozen people quit within the week. Sadly there were enough total staff (and enough bootlickers) that it didn't really make an impact, and it sounds like things have only gotten worse since then, so honestly I think they did me a favor kicking me when they did -- I already had a resignation letter drafted and was job hunting, so the severance pay was sweet!

After I put in my 2weeks notice, I found out that my manager was going on vacation on my last week and he tried to convince me to stay another week after my last day….I kindly told him no. After I got my new schedule I saw that he had literally scheduled me another week after my last day. On my last day. I completed my 2 weeks and I never went back after my last day even though I was still scheduled. A former coworker told me later that the store manager had to force my manager to end his vacation early to come back because the last employee left was threatening to quit if they didn’t get someone to help him with the workload

The location I worked at turned out to not be as profitable as the corporation thought it would be, so they did a restructure. The restructure hinged on my over-performance and everything worked well at first, but the corporation wouldn't let us have somebody to do my job on my days off, the head of the management team got furious about this and decided to force me to quit (because nobody at the location had any authority to fire anybody that had to go up the chain) so that they could force corporate to let them hire multiple people. The day I quit 10 other people walked out the door after me because if I wasn't going to work there they didn't want to work there either because they knew their life there would be hell without Me. From what I've heard there was a HUGE investigation and the number one and number two on the management team both got fired and I'm sure things were a nightmare after that. I'm surprised they didn't just close the location down entirely.

I had a particularly nasty remote job with a boss who was very narcissistic, somewhat misogynistic, and would often insult employees if their work didn't fit his non-specific standards. One employee quit on my behalf after he went after me, but it wasn't until paychecks stopped showing up and he verbally harassed one of the newer employees that everyone bailed at once. When I mean everyone, I mean 90% of the employees. By the end of that I think only 3 people stayed on the project

A new manager caused about 15 employees to transfer or quit over the course of about 4 to 6 months.

not a job but still somewhat on brand here, so there was this local place where anybody could come in and do a bit of smithing (you had to provide the materials) the place was free to use and ran exclusively on donations when the owner died he left the place to his son (who had no interest or knowledge in smithing) the first thing the son did was sell all of the power tools cause he just assumed smithing was hitting stuff with a hammer that place closed down due to nobody donating and was bought out by one of my friends, it is now back to being public and has even more tools then before

Not employees but customers. Where I live, there was a gas station that gave you a discount on gas for one of two things. Using debt/cash or getting gas on a weekend; you got double the discount if you used debt/cash and got gas on the weekend. Understandably, this got a lot of customers (though it wasn't always overcrowded). Then this bigger company (not huge though) bought up this gas station and took those benefits away. Needless to say, when the usual customers found this out, they went away. Thankfully, the first gas company, bought another gas station and started giving out the same benefits again. When I found out, I immediately started getting gas there. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. ;)

I can’t believe the old manager flipped that guy off for actually telling him what the owners were doing. That wasn’t op’s fault and they shouldn’t have gotten flipped off

Foreman refused to allow crew to take lunch and threatened to fire anyone who went without permission. I went to lunch at home that day

A lot of us quit when the new head of IT was promoted. Nobody liked her and one of the first things she did was remove the hammer we had labeled “emergency shutoff”

That second one sounds like AOL in the early days. They even had a room lit only by lava lamps, filled with beanbag chairs, soft music... for decompression and even naps. It was called the Oompa Loompa Room. This was in the late '90s, and they had just moved out to, VA when AOL was king. There was a top-notch food court that included a Starbucks.

I'm in management at a national chain. I tell young folks all the time that it's not a career store to work at.

Im a nurse and used to work for a company doing medical utilization management reviews, insurance use our reviews as one of the basis for approval of coverage/hospitalization/continual hospitalization. The company raised the quota by 30% and refused to consider this as overtime, previous was 18 cases/day(Er, ward and icu cases mixed) for 8hours work. The company raised the quota to 25 cases and everyone took 9-14 hours depending on the complexity of cases for review... For the 8 HOUR work! Many people quit... 3 months later they wanted to raise the quota to 32 cases, this is when me and almost all of my team and many others quit. Dont get me wrong, we can rush it and the time but a bad or improper review will literally be a cause for denial of coverage by the insurance! Especially when it comes to admission and especially ICU admission cases that take longer to make admissions and hospitalization utilization reviews for.

The substitute teacher story at the end reminded me of a sub story from my school district as a kid. The school district and at least one of the principals would string along subs who were trying to get their teaching credentials. The district wasn't actually doing anything to help them, just making empty promises so that the subs wouldn't move on to other jobs or sub at other districts. Nobody had the agreement in writing, so the school district got away with claiming that they made no such promises. My dad and my friend's mom were two of those subs. Most of the subs eventually moved on, and when they did they rarely came back to sub in that district again.

There's a limit to what people will put up with. If that line is crossed everything could come crumbling down. The only power an employer has over you is your desire to continue. If that desire is gone so is the power.

Fun fact, you can actually find the 9ther side of the story that starts at 9:29 somewhere online, the manager that was being replaced told what happened to him, feel bad for the new manager since he wasnt aware of what was happening and got shit for it

pretty impressive how you can drive so well with the words in your way

Story 2: OP is so classic. Loves the shrimp scampi and massage lifestyle. No concept of how it's paid for or what they owe other people in return. The quintessential entitled neo-hippie.

I worked at a small chain of family owned businesses for 19 years, until the owner sold it rather abruptly. Then it got bought out in a hostile take over, six months later, by a company that didn't even pretend to care about us and forced us to sign a contract that isn't legally enforceable in this state. Most of the experienced people, myself included, refused to sign and went to work at our previous local competition, who was happy to get a full crew of extremely experienced people.

Christ that rehab one basically gave us their life story.

Story 4 sounds like an episode of Bar Rescue.

not me but a bunch oof Hobby Lobby workers quit when they wouldn't give Covid pay or even time off. California wasnt happy about it.

@nikkimcdonald4562

5 ай бұрын

Hobby Lobby is a trash company.

I worked for a little 5 person startup that was bought by a slightly larger company. Our office manager was also the HR director and as it turned out had some "issues" to put it politely. She started accusing us of all sorts of petty offenses, and management being offsite was buying it. We sent an email to the president explaining what was going on and asking for guidance on what to do. He flies out and reads us the riot act saying "this is the way it is going to be, anyone that doesn't like it can leave". We left, all of us. Except for one person that was fired for some trumped up charge. He contested it, they had zero evidence and couldn't even find his employment contract. Needless to say he won and they had to settle. Place was out of business a few months later. Pity, it had been a company with some real possibilities.

I am 1 of 3 people who quit our fast food job in one night. I was a breakfast=morning manager because that was when I could get a ride to and from work since, at the time, I didn't have a car or license. I got scheduled for closing shifts for a month in the middle of winter. I was walking over a mile in the snow at the end of the first covid lockdown every night as a 25-year-old female. needless to say the situation got really old very fast, and one night, I and the other closing members quit at the end of our shift. I left my keys and store property in the office and walked home in the snow for the last time.

I got fed up with being called useless at work so I quit. In the week following me quitting a dozen people also quit and shortly after that another 10+. The only reason some of them stuck it out so long was because I did so much work that they had it easier. After I left the work was overwhelming and they couldn't take it.

Worked for a freelance company that was going to implement an AI editing program that we could proofread, but for far, far less than we were usually paid to write. We were also going to get a change in payment schedules, and pretty much half the team walked out after it was clear management was more concerned with blindly riding the coattails of AI than actually paying their workers a decent wage.

I wish I could add to these stories cause I worked in situations like this. It reaaaalllyyy sucks.

The day before a holiday weekend. All the higher up didn't come in or left early. The poor secretary can out after lunch and said the company left her no check because they had no money. Felt so sorry for her. We're not mad at her. But about 30min later toolboxes, and offices were cleaned out. Everyone left did even lock the place up.

At my old job (fixing small 35-45lb machines), within 2 months of me being let go after my shift got removed from existence, pretty much everyone else also left, I still have no idea what the breaking point was because I found the job to be extremely relaxing and pretty easy for what they paid us

When I was stationed in Germany I was pet of a very small unit. 90 men. We got new top brass the whole way, within 6 months we had a whole new command. The new guys were all fresh promotions and they were all chasing the next rank and filling their resumes out with disciplinary and organising ops. For 2 years we put up with the bs and then we deployed. Futon that deployment the treatment of the lower ranks was so bad that 53 people signed the paperwork and got out the military a formal investigation was launched and the OC resigned

I worked for a Native American organization that supported social services, and because we specialize with working for our own communities, Most of our clientele was Native American. But then they started firing all the Native American workers, And replacing them with non-natives so a bunch of us were getting fired, left and right. Now I work for another native American organization that is outshining the last one.

Its illegal to change pay after the fact. Go to the Department of Labor to get your money, you dont have to quit. Document everything.

I got that treatment while driving for FedEx. When I transferred station to be closer to home, they were perfectly willing to destroy drivers mental health to please the customers

Worked for a soda company as a vendor. In one day they changed it so that instead of working 5 days on and two off, we went to 7 days on with 2 days off which rotated to 8 days on with 4 off. Plus our pay went from hourly to commission.

I worked at Kmart while in high school. I loathed recovery. Recovery was when you cleaned up all the isles, and put anything that didn't belong in the department into a shopping trolley. I was consistently given the worst areas, with no time to do my job. I remember being told that I was, and I quote "Fucking Useless" and that was what drove me away. Ironically, quit and became a baker. The amount of abuse I experienced from 10 decades was not just verbal byt also physical, and I still have burns from cast iron being pushed against my skin.

Story 3 I'm pretty sure what the manager was intending to do with paying everyone less is illegal

To understand the mentality throw yourself into the typical American Highschool. Lot of low-level management positions have people that never matured past there.

I was a shift leader at Arby's, my first big job, and my mother was sending me money to go to school. I asked for certain days off so I could go to class at night. The owner and regional manager said I was wasting my time and her money going to school. Luckily I found a better job for my schedule soon after.

#2 reminded me of a crazy story i heard somewhere, i think it was in a book by Scott Adams. a manager took his team to a Laser Tag place... and he BLATANTLY CHEATED AT THE GAME! and he was SURPRISED that morale took a nosedive after that!

Had a guy at my first job at a bottle redemption place cry to the owner that I “wasn’t doing any work” and I was asking why I wasn’t getting anymore hours and the owner said “well are you going to actually work?” And that he hired me as a favor. I got mad and said “if you feel that way I quit” few years later I went back to that redemption center with some cans and asked my old female co worker what happened since I quit. she said the owner fired the dude because he did nothing but smoked weed outside the place, and I think he stole money (might be wrong on the stealing money bit) owner believed a man child who was always late over a motivated 17 year old kid who bought a bike just to be able to ride to work every day. Ive waited in below zero temperatures in the winter time for the owner to open because he and the one other person with the door key was late most days.Now I’ve been in the military for 5 years and it’s way better than that crap show of a first job.

The story about the good owners and then the business change because of management. I really think we've seen the last of a breed of store owners, or business folk that did a good profit margin but not scam people, the kind that worked hard along side their employees and don't have that "owner" attitude. It's been awhile now but my old apartments had an owner who kept rent at a rate for which the apartments were affordable for the 2 bdrm. Once she died her sons turned to a management company and not only does rent soar every other month but no there was no upgrade. Same 2bdrm was at 450.00 in 2012 and 6 months after management took over it was 725.00 for previous tenants and the new renters were charged 1100.00

I worked a gov job and we had a 6’4” 350lbs guy decide he was trans and started to dress in very inappropriate female attire (im talking halter tops and short skirts) at a place where everyone wears business suits. For those of you that don’t know the power level pyramid in the gov goes like this: black woman>white woman>any other ethnic woman>black man>any other ethnic man (me being Asian)>white man. This “girl” decided she was black (was actually white) and announced how oppressed she was as a woman of color and was fired the same day.

At my first job ever (at a grocery store) I was a young teen and working as a bagger (eg grunt worker). One evening the TWO registers we had open (only 4 people in the store, those two, the manager, and myself) and suddenly both cashiers quit because it had been hours and they couldn't take a break or go to the bathroom due to the lines. That left just me and the manager, so she threw me on a register with no training and we worked down the lines. I was a cashier from that day forward while I was an employee there!

9:57 kinda weird for him to be mad at op? If anything they saved him longer delusions.

Our corporation decided to lower the wages of our chefs, from their tips. The tips were still being pulled from servers. The chefs make near minimum wage, and losing tips, without even discussing it with them, made them all very upset: 7 out of 8 of them walkout out mid-dinner, leaving 1 and a manager. We had to close for the night, only to rehire them with the same pay anyhow.

the rehab one 😢

Would have loved to have seen the school district in the final story's reaction to the subs all choosing to never return. A part of me thinks they didn't learn until it was time to hire subs again & the people that they did hire were never informed what happened since everyone was pissed they were only hired thanks to nepotism. So because of this the school is likely panicking cause their reliable subs aren't returning so they need new ones & there's a likelihood other subs were warned so who knows. Probably didn't go down like that but either way the school is going to have to rush thanks to this.

Years ago i was working at a dispensary when it just became legal. The owner would bully staff over small things, and the thing that made most if not all of us to quit was when he asked the female staff if theyd be ok with working in a bikini or similarly revealing clothing. He had to hire all new staff and when asked what they were told what happened to us we were "let go due to poor performances" 😂

The weirdest bit about story 4 is that I remember the OP mentioning somewhere(in an update or comments, maybe in the thread were it was talking about mass quietings & firings) that the nephew was given training & I think they did try to prepare him but it all fell apart after he took over

Bit of a weird story here: I was on holidy at the time and when I returned my whole department had quit except for the team manager and another coworker who was kind on an inofficial team leader. When I asked what happened I heard versions of basically 2 stories: A) the company would be shutting down that department anyways so they quit before they got fired and I should have done the same ob B) they were wanting to restructure business and therefor reduce workforce and move the employees to different jobs and likely change job descriptions for those who stay in the department to fit the new direction they are going to. I guess the truth is somewhat in the middle, but something I know for a fact is that one person who was recently hired from a company that merged with ours was the person who started rumors about the department closing and everybody losing their job and I assume in reaction to that management made a statement about restructuring and asked people if they would still want to stay which lead to a mass exodus. I still work in the company and actually in a much better position than before so I'm really glad I was on vacation and not part of all of that. Also we are currently rebuilding the department in a new and changed structure and new processes and mostly new employees, which makes me believe that restructuring was the original plan, not getting rid of the emplosees.

Job had State hit them up because they weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing, blamed it all on our department (even though it had nothing to do with us, it was a nursing issue). My boss was a good guy; becides being the manager he also was a coach of his sons' sports + some other sports. Him leaving before dinner was normal so he could go do those things or just help his wife and sons out in general, and we were all fine with it. The building owner insisted one week that people would be forced to deep clean the kitchen and they were there until like midnight (keep in mind the actual dietary workers werent allowed to do this because she didnt want to pay us any more money!). The boss had a tournament he had to go to out of town so he said he couldn't make it on such short notice. One day after the deep clean he came in and got called to a meeting. He got ripped in two verbally by the building manager for not being able to come. He stated that "his family is more important then what should have not needed to be done anyway, and i certainly wasnt gettong paid for it". Got fired on the spot. Left without a word to the rest of us, and the only reason we knew was because the nurses heard and told us. They had the bright idea of putting the other building's manager in charge of us, and she knows absolutely nothing on how to run it and was extremely hostile towards all of us. One by one, she'd piss off one of us and they'd quit. I decided to because i was already only at the job still because i liked it; i had to commute like 20 mins because we moved from the city it was in to a town somewhat a bit out. It was becoming worse, as she kept cutting people's hours and my pay did not justify how much Uber cost to get there (if there was anyone out at all to begin with!). Considering i was the one they pretty much had do everything and my other coworker also is thinking about leaving ...

I was working at this place, it was this work training thing, anyway the super was talking to us (about 15of us) about health and safety, the wall on our right smashed apart by a roll of barbed wire the size of a forklift that got away from someone in the next building, I was told 3 out of 20 stayed

I was sacked mid week,over night out of nowhere. 3 months later ran into a co worker was told 5 others quit that friday(over half the team) Was told,if they sacked you what chance did we have? Was never so validated,proud and happy😂😂😂😂

"Not management enough" actually you are never management enough for this not to happen to you. The higher up you get the lesser your protections against such things become. You might get a golden parachute or have other niceties in your contract, but there is no law protecting you from being gone within the hour above a certain level of responsibilities.

Pay was not coming through correctly, I hadnt been paid for 2 pay cycles as was the rest of my team, when the pay finally came through it was at a super low rate way lower than what was agreed upon. We all had to claim holiday hours for money only to be informed I had none as the company had "used my holiday hours to account for my higher pay rate" myself and my team had been paid at minimum wage so we were confused an enraged, I was straight on the phone to accounts demanding answers and recieved only excuses, next was our boss who demanded we stay where we are and work, we all left our posts, cleared all group chats, shredded paperwork and didnt look back

not my story but my mom's (which is sort tbh) The school my mom is a librarian at got a new principle, and she was the WORST the school has seen. First she made my mom remove all the fun things that were in the library, then removed one whole shelf to have more room for tables and so my mom needed to resort the books. But that is not all, ever since the principle came, MULTIPLE TEACHERS HAD QUIT.. I heard from my mom it was chaotic trying to find long term substitutes. Sadly, for the kids at least, my mom is quitting. The kids loved my mom and it is kinda sad having their favorite librarian quit.

Once we had 5 chefs + 1 dishwasher walk-out together, because our corporate company took away their increased wages -> minimum wage + tips. They rehired them the following day after the restaurant negotiated pay (corporate didn’t fix that).

my neighbor did hire an ex-cons to his business and did not pay them after a first month. his business was burned down twice, as a result. each time he got a hefty insurance.

I don't follow the drama, I just show up to an empty workplace. More than once I've had to be hastily reassigned due to entire departments quitting en masse. I can usually stand abuse for a few weeks before quitting.

company "we're only paying on billable work" employee's - "Stuff the paperwork on anything. Company "why is none of the normal work getting done ?" employees - "Don't get paid to do anything that isn't billable.. So not doing anything that isn't billable. That's managements job now. That is how that works. You employ someone else to do the grunt work that isn't billable and you pay them out of pocket. Also no takebacks on the billable hours policy."

I was driving for DoorDash and GrubHub in 2020 and I went to pick up an order at a Burger King. Loooong drive-thru line. Enough that I was considering taking myself off the order. But then I saw four clearly angry workers talking outside and wondered if I was about to witness a mass walkout like these. But then a couple of them walked back in as the line started moving. Funny thing though, I was at that location again two weeks later. Yeah, it had one of those hand written "Closed due to short staffed" signs on the door. So I guess that didn't hold too long😂

Fast food company store (not a franchise) - the store manager was away for medical reasons and one of the supervisors was doing her best keeping the store going. I wasn't there this day but it was going through the geapevine that the district manager was there for a visit and at one point he grabbed her by the collar and said 'if you cant do your job why are you wearing this shirt?' Yeah - a lot of people quit shortly after, myself included.

A local factory that runs food production 24 hours on production and packing lines, early after re-starting in the pandemic, found that because of an increase in staff sickness absence (wonder why? - oh, they kept catching covid, so perhaps they should improve ventilation and personal protection instead of banning effecting masks???), they did not appear to have enough staff on continuously to keep production going on all 3 lines. They seemed to be short of about a third of staff. So some manager came uo with the brilliant idea that instead of 3 shifts of 8 hours during the 24-hr period, they would have 2 shifts of 12 hours, because it uses 1/3rd less staff, right? But nobody seems to have noticed that if the same staff just change their shifts, but still on average only do 36 hours per week, you still need same number to cover all shifts, not one third less - a management math failure. Anyway, they did consult staff, who almost universally obected, but went ahead with the change anyway. They did not consider that the longer shifts would be more tiring, but also, crucially, impossible for staff with children, etc, as it is a small town, with no childacre to cover silly shift times. As a result, most of the staff quit, some walking out mid-shift! And Manager did not even bother to try to entice them back by offering 8-hour shift system on any of the production/packing lines. What stubbornness.

4:31 Story 4. The nephew went power crazed. 5:35 and 5:49 the former staff did the right thing by leaving. 6:04 that's awful. 12:10 Story 9 basically.

Story 9: Sounds like someone isn't paying enough.

2:39 rehabs run out of money if they are doing it right... they are removing customers after all

@ff-pj3de

2 ай бұрын

The horrors of for-profit health care

@rebeccaconlon9743

2 ай бұрын

@ff-pj3de it's the same with state funded too, no one wants to be the one to fire people for working themselves out of work

At my old job we did 24 hour 5 days a week on rotating 8 hour shifts, the company had the bight idea to go 24/7 so we would loose most of our weekends. Well a lot of ataff had kids and needed the weekends for looking after them so A THIRD OF THE STAFF LEFT. They were all the older experienced ones, it was so bad they didn't have the numbers to make it work so weekends never became a thing, production basically stopped and is still a slow mess now two years later. Also opinional over time for working a Saturday is almost alway refused, they can only get the numbers for that once every two month's

I will say that aquatherapy does help. It helps, so please help to keep it available for therapy! (My mom was informed that this service might be discontinued in some areas, and that service had helped her a lot!)

The school that my kids went to was the same way about sub.teachers if you were a good sub they wouldnt hire you ecause they didnt want to lose you,would only hire you if it was to fill a mid-year shortage or you were good buddies with the administration

2nd story, that rehab format seemed to work well, is there another rehab place like it.

Djees story 2 sounded like my mom explaining a 2 sec thing but taking 5 min to elaborate on details..

The great depression