Last year, I took a job with a great salary, so-so benefits that the salary made up for, in a managerial position at a small manufacturing facility. I did NOT do my due diligence and found out after starting the parent company (global, family-owned) was involved in multiple active lawsuits due to their treatment of employees. Matter of fact, there are subs on here devoted to this company. My manager, one of the chief company officers was notorious for cursing everyone out. He would always say, I’m not cussing you, I’m just cussing. It ended up I was putting in 60+ hours a week, the factory itself fell to hell as it was a pure sweat shop, hiring felons and any warm body. We had armed security it was so bad. A large (very large household name) contract was lost. The owners brought a “friend” in from out of state to turn the place around and they failed. One tense morning about 6:30am, I had just walked in to my office (accommodating the owner’s time zone), and got a call from my boss. He proceeded to curse me and ask why the F he had to call me to get me to do my job (make money) blah blah blah. Yelling and ranting. I said “I tell you what, I will save you $XXX right now. I quit”. Flash forward to meetings with HR, the “acting” plant manager, calls from the owners (3 family members as rich as Oprah). No, no, and no. Never looked back but lesson learned. I still google and check to see how the lawsuits are going.

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SysAdmin in a production company.

Get called by production manager angry AF to the production floor "immediately".

Spot the guy completely livid, screaming at the top of his lungs.

Sees me, steps towards me, starts yelling in my face about how tired he is of thealways-broken-IT (I was there for less than a year a that point, we didn't have any issues for over 6 months after I spent my first 3 fixing everything that was fixable and replacing the rest).

I ask "what's broken".

*angrily points at a computer* Network is down ! Sees the network is indeed unavailable, lifts my eyes, look at the Switch stack 30m away, 10m high: everything is shut down.

"Did you do any electrical work today ?" Still screaming manager: Yeah so what ? We blew a fuse hooking a new machine. "Well, maybe you could go check why my switch bay that controls network for 75% of the production floor suddenly died".

He then proceeds to tear a new one to another guy (maintenance/repair/electrician team), when he's done I just ask "So, is screaming at me any use or you're going to apologize ?".

Dude lost it, Im not going to repeat what was said (general subject was how pissed he was to pay guys for doing nothing and that he'd act as he wanted).

I didn't react at all, went back to my office, called my doc, filed for 30 days of medical leave for burnout, found another job.

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It was the end of our fiscal year. I was already over quota, but my VP’s team numbers were short. I had one more deal left to close that would have really helped him. I was doing everything I could since I was already in accelerated earnings and it would have been a nice bump.

But the client’s procurement system was down on the last day. I was on several calls with them that included our VP, and they were adamant that nothing could happen.

Then it’s 9 pm and I’m sitting on my couch and start getting emails about why it hasn’t closed. My director calls me that everyone above him is pissed that I didn’t get it done.

The following week the VP is in town and sits me down and tries to guilt me about it, but I had already closed it by then.

He said I should have done everything possible until 12:00 AM if I was really a team player.

A week later I quit. Said “I’m not the team player you need”, and went on to a much better job.

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Worked in a shoe store on summer vacation between university. My boss was about 10 years older than me and working in the store was her career and she had some ego issues about it whenever I mentioned school.

She used to like to leave work 10 mins before close so she wouldn't have to do closing duties or wait in traffic as the mall emptied, and my reply was always "you're the boss." I didn't care if she left. But she LOVED that, and anytime she said something to flex her muscles she'd go "like you always say, I'm the boss!" So it's 2 weeks before I'm leaving to go back to school and she's making the next week schedule and I say I can't work Friday aft and Saturday but can work Sunday and can work the full next weekend if needed. We were only 5 people total, so we often discussed the schedule together. She said "I wanted to have a BBQ at my house Friday night so I need you to work." I reminded her that I had concert tickets that she knew about so this was just a reminder. She got this glint in her eyes and said "well, I'm the boss, so I'm getting the Friday/Saturday off!" I said "well, I'm going back to school so soon, I guess Thursday will be my last day and I'll just end my time here early.

The look on her face. She flew too close to the sun with taking advantage of the "perks" of being the boss to an easygoing employee. She backtracked immediately. It's been so long I can't remember if I stayed the remaining weeks but I do know I went to the concert.

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I like to say, "You're the boss, applesauce." The trick is adding just the barest hint of condescension in the tone.

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Mine just happened on Monday. I manage a team of people, and I’ve always cared about them more than the company I work for. Recently, two of my team members wrote letters to leadership saying they were unhappy with the lack of diversity in the workplace. I advised them to send the letter to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity group, which I’m a part of, and let them advise on how to handle getting the letters to where they need to go.

When the Executive Director found out, he screamed at me. He told me my involvement with that team was “clouding my judgement” and the letters should’ve gone directly to him. A consultant on my team completely threw me under the bus and said if she was involved, the situation would’ve been handled a lot differently.

I told the DEI team about the backlash, and we decided to disband because we don’t want to be a part of this group just so the company can say they have one. I quit the next day.

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Two questions. Why does a company needs a diversity department? And what do they meant by 'not enough diversity in the workplace'?

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I was working at this company for almost 9 years. Started as the receptionist and moved to sales after maybe 3 years. After about a year in sales, I was writing more orders and doing more quotes than anyone else in that department. Of course, because I didn't have " sales experience", I was also the least paid. But that wasn't even the worst part... since NO ONE lasted in the receptionist position, we had a new one every 6 months or so, I had to cover the front desk (with no extra pay or help). Well, I eventually got tired of it, took years, and told my manager as much to which he replied, " you do what we ask you". Guess what? I got my s**t and left. I was able to secure another job two weeks later and now I make 2x (or more) and I'm doing a fraction of the work.

I wish I had left years earlier, but you live and learn...

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I was a systems engineer on quite possibly the worst run contract in the history of the US military (for sec/priv reasons I won't disclose said info but it was at an AF base in the southeast). Our PM was a clueless dipsh*t who "ran" things by mismanaging every aspect of the environment, and throwing everyone under the bus. People from every team quit left and right. I stayed for a while, because frankly it was an easy job and I needed the money. One day he asked me to do something that was completely unrelated to my job and with which I had zero expertise. I explained this quite clearly but was told "ah you'll be fine" and he dipped. I was able to fudge my way through with the help of ol' trusty Google and taking my time. Apparently I took too long, and the PM emailed my company the next day trying to get me canned. My company forwarded me the email. I quit on the spot and walked, and since I was quite literally the only person on shift at that time, he was proper f***ed. Heard he was eventually canned for sinking the ship. Couldn't have happened to a bigger douche.

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Not an “I quit immediately” but kinda close. I was working for a small “family” company as a truck driver. When I wasn’t driving I would help in the warehouse, mostly testing laptops for resale. Picture 4 people sitting around a table mindlessly inspecting and powering up computers for 8 hours straight. If not for music and conversation we would have gone insane. New manager comes in one day and decides we’re too comfortable sitting in chairs doing the job so he’s bringing in standing height benches and now we have to stand. We got into it a bit and he decided he was going to swing his d**k around and send me home for the rest of the week. I was already planning my exit and got my offer and start date for my new job while I was off but I couldn’t start the new job until the week after I came back. My wife told me just to quit and not go back but I didn’t want to miss the weeks pay. I ended up going in and doing nothing all week except driving the truck. I was a complete d**k all week. About 3/4 through the day on Friday I started walking around saying my goodbyes to the people I liked. Went out to my truck and got my uniforms, gathered up everything I had that the company owned and dumped it all on the managers desk. Told him he could go f**k himself. He seemed surprised

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What's wrong with people who believe workers have to be as uncomfortable as possible during work? Every single study shows that healthy and halfway content people are often twice as productive and make much less mistakes. It's incredibly damaging for any company to willfully make their employees uncomfortable. Still people firmly believe it's not real work if you don't hate it enough. I really hate humans

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Was poached for a managing warehouse job with the promise of a substantial raise after 6 months. The company was in startup phase but had amazing profits and potential so I figured I’d give it a try. After 6 months the promise was “still trying to get everything worked out but guarantee you’ll get a big raise at the one year mark”. People were nice and was still paid well so I toughed it out.
At exactly one year to the day I went to see the boss and said “ok it’s been a year, let’s talk about that raise” he said “let’s give it another 6 months and see how the company is doing”
I said no way am I giving even another day unless I see the raise I was promised, they said they couldn’t and kept saying just wait a bit longer. I just told him “sorry I can’t, I quit.” Cue a bunch of promises etc from him but I stuck to my guns and left that day.
From what I heard apparently everyone else was getting wise to their promises and they lost all their key people and within 6 months then they filed for bankruptcy.
Oh and they sent me my last check but they put a stop payment on it, that was a whole other issue I had to get resolved.

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Took time off for death of my uncle, a man I considered my second father. He was murdered in prison. My uncle was framed and had all his assets seized when he went to prison. While there the guards watched him die by slowly refusing to provide medical care for a week until he lost consciousness and had to be intubated. He died shortly after.

At the time I was on a two-man team at a Fortune 10 company’s analytics product group. Because he was not my father, mother, sibling, or grandparent I would be provided no bereavement leave. I was also a contractor at that time and was only entitled to 5 days of PTO, most of which I’d already used.

My family being a disorganized mess of people relied on me for planning the funeral. I had asked for a week off to handle this. Most of it unpaid.

Not three days in, I received a phone call from work on my personal cell asking if I could hop on a two hour meeting. Halfway through the meeting, I cracked. When my boss asked why I dropped off I said that I would explain when I returned from being out of office. I spent the next few days back applying to new jobs specifically looking for a manager that respected my boundaries, provided decent healthcare benefits (mental included), and expected nothing more than a 9-5 even if it meant taking a pay cut.

I found that employer relatively quickly. When I put my two weeks in, my old company panicked and the VP had everyone in middle and upper management schedule meetings to have me reconsider. They said it was career suicide. Even offered a 20% raise and Fridays off.

New job paid me 30% more for 50% of the work I used to do. I’ve moved on since then (regrettably) to higher paced work, but my career has done anything but wither away.

Lesson? Don’t ever do contract work. They can fire you at will, force you to work insane hours, and even compel you to change what’s on your LinkedIn to make you less attractive to headhunters. Contract work is for desperate companies looking to hire desperate (or in my case naive) people.

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Scope of work my friend. I'm an interpreter. I set client appointments with end time included. They can ASK if I can stay past end time, but they can't force me to stay. There are a dearth of us, so I'm sure that gives us a little more power. This is even further reason for others to insist on written scope of work.

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My first job was working at a bowling alley for $5.15/hr (minimum wage in 2004) and got a raise after a year and a half to $5.55/hr.

Minimum wage went up to $6.15/hr, I expected to be paid $6.55/hr because I was no longer a "base employee." Got my first paycheck for $6.15 with a note that said "congrats on your new wage!" As if returning me to minimum wage was something to be proud of. I asked him about it and he gave me some spiel about how the law was b******t and he was paying me more so I should be happy about it. I quit on the spot.

That was a very early and quick exposure to the fact that business owners are prone to only looking out for their own bottom line. He saw it as an extra $5 he had to pay me each day and couldn't recognize that it was an insult to make me minimum wage again after literally a tenth of my life at that point putting effort into the job - even if it was technically a raise.

It also taught me to understand that employees will *never* care about that bottom line in the same way the boss does, which eventually made me a better boss because I don't ask them to.

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Yep, my wages did the same thing: f*****g nothing. After two and a half years and four raises, I was suddenly all of 15¢ above minimum wage. The DM stepped in a few weeks later and bumped me up another 50¢, but even with rent control, that still wasn't keeping up with inflation. Signed up with a temp agency a few months later and got placed as a file clerk less than a week later for almost twice what I'd been making.

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I worked for a radio station in a small market. Town was well known for a binge drinking culture. We had to work unpaid events at a local bar all the time (“but you get an open bar tab!” As if that bought diapers for my kid). One Halloween, we had a costume contest. My boss was wasted so I emcee’d it. A pissed off, drunk listener who didn’t win pushed me and security did nothing so I left. She followed me to my car.

My boss called me in on Monday and YELLED AT ME for “leaving the team.” I’d already told her what happened but she was drunk and forgot. I went to my GM about it and he sided with her… and took away my bonus.

Bye, f*****s.

More radio people should post their stories here. The industry is a joke that treats people like sh**. You guys wouldn’t believe the stories some people have.

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It was a higher end clothing store I dreamt about working at.

Along with other new hires, I went through regular training and a training video. Training was rough. They expected we would be extremely direct with customers and basically fill their carts for them. We picked outfits for customers that *we* wanted to see them in. I was awful at it. But a job is a job, and I was excited about a store discount.

Everything seemed normal until one of the new hires asked me if I knew what we would be getting paid. I realized we weren't even told what the pay schedule would be.

We ended up finding out it was an "internship" with an opportunity of being fully hired at some point. So I am working for free until you decide to pay me? No thanks.

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I am a chef and started a new job as executive Chef for a resort a month before covid shutdown. They kept me on retainer pay for those 6 to 8 weeks which was a great sign for me. Then I got back to work. Just me in the kitchen from 7am to 10pm, not even a dishwasher. 67 days in a row, but that didn't break me. After two(ish) years, with still no help, I had made through my second summer and had just rolled out another seasonal (Fall) menu. The maintenance man casually started a conversation with me about not knowing what to do during shutdown...."Shutdown?"..."Yea, when we close from November to February." Well, f**k me, first I'm hearing of it. After doing some investigating, the f*****g owners told every other employee about a "renovation shutdown" but me in early August. This was the third week of October I found out. When I confronted one of them they said they were scared I'd quit if I knew. So I finished my shift (only because I didn't wanna ruin a wedding) and never came back.

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Guy tried making me stay late for the 99 champions league final when I’d explicitly told him I would be leaving at normal time. It was a commission only job. I was young. When he saw me come back to the office and started giving me loads of s**t up close I just said “ok I don’t work here anymore” and walked out. He was very surprised. Thought he had some power over me or something

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Can someone explain the job and how staying late and commission only factor in?

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I was training a temp who decided to quit, told me the agency promised more than our boss offered after converting to full time ... The reason the boss gave for not offering the "promised" salary was "PrestigiousYoda doesn't even make that much, it wouldn't be fair". I gave notice shortly after.

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I don't understand. Sounds like the boss was trying to be fair to OP. Am I missing something?

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I ran the show for a family education program for about 3.5 years. Handled everything but the money. They refused to switch me from a low hourly to a reasonable salary after asking 3 times. Eventually, about 2 months before our biggest event of the year, I up and quit. Didn't do any planning, just left a list of reasons why the ceo was the worlds worst boss.

When the clients all got to the event, which was barely organized and significantly below the standard id set for the last 3 years, and realized how bad the program was without me there, most opted to not renew their memberships for the following year. The program crumbled and was shut down within 6 months.

F**k you Mike, you chode sucking prick.

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I asked about a deserved promotion and my boss was surprised I'd even considered it. It wasn't being passed over for a promotion that drove me out, but the idea that she found it so farfetched an idea that she acted in shock and surprise that I'd even have the gall to ask.

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When they called me crazy because I told them I would quit if they didn't stop talking down to me.

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How's this for crazy? I quit! 😁

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Worked overnight for 6 years, developed a problem with falling asleep at the wheel (wasn’t getting much sleep due to having to give my diabetic cat regular meals and insulin, plus general trying to sleep during the day). Management was initially willing to work with me on shorter shifts. My manager got let go due to covid cut-backs and her boss temporarily took over the scheduling. We had a call out and he demanded that I work a solo shift (minimum 10 hours). I knew that being told to do this was a death sentence for myself or worse, that I may fall asleep at the wheel and kill someone else. I quit via email 15 minutes before my shift. Had the best sleep of my life and my daily nightmares stopped literally overnight. Last I heard about the manager is that he was let go in another round of cut-backs.

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I worked in a warehouse for about 5 years. I was one of the few people that knew the software. We were bought out by a larger company and I was laid off in the process. The new company ended up only having a warehouse manager and no other employees so they offered me a job. I was more qualified than the manager and I was training him and saving his a*s daily. Nobody wanted to listen to me because of my age and I was pushed around. One day I had to drive around 400 miles making pickups and deliveries because their manager at another location was afraid to drive their 28ft box truck. I was maybe 22 years old being paid $12/hr. That night after dropping the box truck at my home office my work truck got a flat tire on my way home. At this point it’s around 2am. No spare or jack in the truck and nobody wanted to answer their phones. I left the truck on the side of the highway. Went to work the next day to have my a*s chewed out. I went to lunch and called my wife. I left all my s**t there and she picked me up.

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I was an analyst at a Fortune 100 company in a critical role. The role was respected by most people that had an idea of what we did on my team, but the execs just saw us as a "cost" of business, so it was a pressure cooker environment.

Regardless, I busted my a*s and flourished, in a way.

Manager and director put in for a promotion for me, without me asking, after about 1.5 years. VP pulled me in the office, shamed me for only having an AS degree, and told me my generation expects things too quickly and I need to be in the role 3-5 years to even be considered for a promo.

So I tried to stay in company and move to BI. It took about a year to land an interview, due to lack of degree. I Flippin nailed it, though. The BI VP offered me a higher role than I applied for, working with c-level execs at main HQ. I'D "MADE" IT!!!

We worked out salary, move dates, a sign on bonus to help with move, etc. While waiting for final paper offer, my VP found out and had worked at HQ. Called the BI VP's boss (friend of hers), and shut it down. THEN CALLED ME ON MY PERSONAL CELL FROM HER PERSONAL CELL TO BRAG.

I dumped out 200 resumes that week.

They tried to give me that promotion to appease me. MFs offered me 63k for a senior analyst role in one of the biggest and most expensive cities in America. I took the promo.

Then, I took the first decent job that got me out of there.

I had trained half the staff there, and worked with people of all levels in departments all over the company. I told everyone who asked (and some who didn't) why I was leaving.

That VP got retired a few months later. I like to think I played a role in that.

Still have friends from there. Went out with a big group of people last year, a few that I'd never met or known, and one asked me why I left. I told her and she went "wait.. YOU'RE THE GUY THAT HAPPENED TO?!?".

Super satisfying that somebody I had never met had heard my story. It means it spread even after I left.

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This is a somewhat confusing write up. Edit to make clearer and never assume someone knows what an abbreviation stands for. Spell it out the first time.

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I can't do math in my head. not even simple math. Sorry 🤷‍♀️ I worked at a thrift store as a cashier and the customer asked me for a discount on a piece of clothing that had stains. I told her, "I'll have to show this to the manager since I cannot authorize discounts without permission. I'll be right back." I go to the back, manager says "I don't really see any stains but go ahead and give her 20% off." No problem.
Go out there and let the customer know, "we can give you 20% off the ($4.99) item, would you still like to purchase it?"
She asked me how much it would be, I told her I'd have to ring it up on the register and I can get a price.
Then she went off on me, asking me why I can't do simple math in my head, telling me that I'm stupid and making comments about thrift store cashiers and how we are all beneath her and how can they hire people so dumb.
She left the store without buying the shirt.
I was 21, in college, working full time @ $12/hr.
I quit in that moment, feeling stupid for not knowing how to do the discount in my head, but also I was not going to keep being disrespected. This wasn't the first time a customer was rude to me but this was the meanest one so far.

Now that I think about it... why couldn't this customer do the math in their head?

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Okay, since it might help someone here: $4.99 is basically $5. 10% of $5 is 50¢, so 20% of $5 is $1. Ergo, 20% off a $5 item means it costs $4.

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I had been dreading coming into work most days, but after three months on a Sunday evening, I just stared at the ceiling until Monday morning, and after no sleep I walked into work and quit. The amount of relief was immense. I then immediately went and applied to a couple restaurants and served for about a year and a half while I figured out my next move it was a great time.

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23, recent grad, moved back home in the pandemic after graduation working at a restaurant I had worked at since I was 14. Pay was great, head expo $15 an hour plus tips. I was averaging $30-50 an hour depending on the night.

My manager was an ex con, ostentatious a*****e. Bragging about cooking dope as a kid and being from the streets. Kind to act friendly to you but snap on a moments notice. Also took to flirting with the younger female employees despite having a wife and kid.

Christmas Eve rolls around and I’m booked for a double pending relief from the 4:00 shift lead. She’s 19, lives 45 mins away. I show up at 10am, prep, set up the line, and get hit right away. I’m slammed from 11-3 with no relief. Christmas Eve is usually busy during the day but dies off into the evening so I’m thinking I can get to go home.

Around 3:30 I’m taking a “break” which usually meant shoving some fries into my mouth when 4:00 texts me to tell me manager told her to stay home. I dropped everything that I was doing and called him. He goes “she lives far away and it’s Christmas Eve”. I said I’ve worked here for almost 10 years. If you don’t have the balls to tell your employees to come in, consider this my two weeks.

Dude says “alright bet” drives an hour to the restaurant screaming at me because he has to come in on his day off. Says we can handle it in the parking lot. I told him he was a petulant child and walked. They didn’t have an expo and he had to work the line on a slow Christmas Eve shift.

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I was working 60 hours a week in a bar. I'd booked a weekend off four months in advance with the duty manager, when the weekend came I was rotad on. I told the big manager and she said I should've booked it with her, we had an argument about the purpose of management. I went away for the weekend.

When I got back I was scheduled for my contractual minimum of 16 hours which I couldn't afford to live on.

So I'm working and I'm already pissed off. I'm on shift with one dude and one manager. The manager has been sat at a tablet on a break since I arrived an hour ago, he's only supposed to get half an hour and we're busy. He finally stands up and I'm relieved, but he walks over to a till, orders himself some food and sits down again.

I check with the other barman that he's ok with me walking out, and as soon as the manager's food arrives I go up and tell him that he's taking the p**s with his break and with me being only getting 16 hours a week as punishment is become a hostile work environment and I'm leaving. I hand him my fob and leave.

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I'm 3 years into the job.
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It's Friday night around 9pm and I am 5 minutes away from the office to finish my day of deliveries. My boss calls me and informs me at nearly 10pm that I need to do 4 more runs including the airport which is over an hour round trip. I told him sure I will be there soon. I brought all my personal belongings to my car. Took everything owned by the company into his office, placed it down on his desk, and said "I quit" while promptly walking out.

He proceeded to "joke" out loud by saying "you quit?" Is a sarcastic voice. I saw him scramble out the door as I drove away.

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The company I worked for had a "compensation cycle" where your manager would rate your performance on a "bad", "good", "above average" and "beyond" scale. To get a promotion you had to be at least above average for a whole year.

So I tried to do that and talked with someone (a coworker/ friend) about hypothetical improvements to the software we were working with. It was across silos and in my mind would have benefited everyone in the company (internal tools). My manager overheard our conversation, told me to focus only on my job and gave me a bad recommendation.

So I said f**k it and left. Best decision of my life as I'm making 3x what I was making there and even have better benefits.

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1% pay rise, top of pay scale for roll blah blah blah.
Made company some 900k profit. This is before inflation hit 50%+ but we all knew it was on the way.

CEO takes 750,000,000 bonus on top of 70,000,000 salary in the news next day.

Was the final nail. They didn’t even try to keep me. Ended up costing them at least 2m in lost revenue ✌️

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I took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit to decipher what OP meant by roll?? Ohhh they meant to use role not roll..lol 🤦‍♀️

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When I was much younger I worked at Lowes delivering and installing appliances. After working there for 2 years I only got 2 ten cent raises. Jokes on them though, i was supposed to return the old appliances back to the store and put them in a 53' trailer so that they could make some money on them. I sold them to appliance repair shops and would easily take home $400 in cash every week.

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Bragging about stealing from your employer? Good job.

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I was so burned out. It was my first job and they kept scheduling morning and the next day all night. I worked in a large retail store. Anyways I wanted to go to the bathroom so I was leaving and they called me over and over again to open even though there are other people. I think they did that because I was the youngest. Mind you the managers were mean and sharp toned. I was done went on break and quit for good. I did have to awkwardly pick up my paycheck and hear the 'I'm disappointed.' I'm like Idc. I'm over this place. Lol moved on from retail.

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I was working part time at Kroger as a meat cutter for somewhere around minimum wage so I was looking around for another job.

I interviewed at an independent market and told the meat manager at the interview that I could only work days. I had been fired the year before for not entirely clear reasons from a similar kind of place. I wasn't ready to give up my s****y but dependable job at Kroger just yet and they don't allow you to request day shifts (or really any kind of permanent schedule).

So anyway, I told him no hard feelings if he can't accomodate that (it's just sort of the nature of grocery stores, you usually get stuck with the night shift as a new hire) but that's just what I'm looking for. He told me it wouldn't be a problem.

And then every week, when he posted the schedule, I would have 1-2 night shifts. I would point it out, he would say he forgot and he'd fix it. This went on for almost two months.

So Memorial Day weekend, we're crazy busy, he posts the schedule, I immediately stop what I'm doing to check it. Four nights, one day. I pull the sheet down and chase after him. He doesn't even say anything, just cross the four nights off and walks away.

I walked into the back, dropped my apron and went right out the back door. It was a beautiful summer day. I had a very nice chat with the store owner about the weather and holiday plans and then went home.

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Last job I quit I quit because I constantly had to operate a whole dock by myself, and I mean completely by myself. I had to check BOLs and scan all items, stage incoming and outgoing materials, put away incoming stuff, load and unload trucks all on my own. I'm talking about 50+ foot trailers too 12+ trucks a night. Finally had enough and just jumped off my forklift mid-unloading a truck and quit on the spot...They had a rough day on the dock that day since they had to call 3 people from other areas in the plant to do my job.

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Worked in a hotel doing AV work, was told by boss we wouldn't get yearly raises. I was working 60 hour weeks on a 30k salary, I quit 1 month after his announcement of 0 raises or bonuses

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I had "I quit" moments at a couple of jobs.

1 was after months of the manager harassing me and making my life a living hell by accusing me of sexual and romantic relations with coworkers (which never ever happened), threatening to fire me because I was sick for 1 DAY after working there for almost a year without missing a single day, and there were definitely some other things... he started following me to the bathroom. I proceeded to have a PTSD and anxiety-fuelled breakdown, realized he was slowly killing me, and I quit.

After working at a place for 5 months and being yelled at and berated by coworkers constantly where I'd sit in the corner and cry and contemplate life, 1 of them told me I should just quit... so I did. After I quit, the boss asked me why, I told him what I'd been going through, and they got in trouble. XD So, a small win there. ;)

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my raging alcoholic egomaniac boss emailed me at noon on a saturday telling me the report i wrote for him (on which only he was listed as the author) was a disaster, even though all of his suggested improvements were objectively wrong. he told me i should check into alcoholics anonymous (and the irony was definitely lost on him) because nobody could possibly do such bad work sober. he also demanded an immediate response and apology (again, at noon on a saturday).

i saved the email as a pdf and still get a good laugh out of it every once in a while. it's 9 pages long, sprinkled with random words bolded/highlighted/in all caps, riddled with grammatical errors, and just all around an absolute joke.

that guy is a multimillionaire. have never personally met someone less deserving of his success.

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Name and shame.

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I worked at a place for 15 years and for years I was just overworked and underpaid. Finally I started advocating for myself, and I was told your raise is coming, we’re hiring help, your raise is coming, we’re hiring help, your raise is coming, we’re hiring help. They did finally bring in some help and the people who hired her never asked me what we needed or anything they just brought somebody in and she was completely incompetent but she was another set of hands. Then after about two months, they decided to let her go. Still no raise and back to where I was two years prior, I said I’m done.

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Managing an auto parts store. Worked way too many hours because my assistant was with the company long than I had been alive and didn't respect me. My boss did nothing to help as I wrote him up, my assistant would b***h to my boss and I'd have a talking to. Had another guy who had been there 16 ish years who was lazier than s**t. Then he started to get health issues. Got approved for FMLA and got worse. Never knew if he was coming to work or not until the day of. I had documentation for him getting points non fmla time. Had him on his final written and some how HR lost everything. This was the 4th HR group in the 9 years I worked at this place. Those were angering issues but the icing on the cake was how they handled my mom's passing. Because my assistant was worthless I still had to stick around and get a schedule done for next 2 weeks. I went home to see her for a few days, she passed. Went back to work for a day, even though I shouldn't have then off for a week after that. There's more details of stupid s**t prior. And then... when i put in my week and half notice my boss came down to talk to me in person. He asked what I wanted and I told him. He laughed at me when I said how much money I wanted as a base salary. Said you think highly of yourself? I made that store a powerhouse for them. Now I work for a customer who I serviced and everyone tells me how they want me back even 3 years later.

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i got a job at a laundromat when i was 17. i didn't know what my ss number was at the time and my boss said "that's fine, just memorize the last four digits so you can sign in to the system" and i was like alright. First shift, I come in, the lady I was working with (pretty sure it was his wife) asked me what my full ss number was and i said i don't know, i only know the last four digits. then she calls up my boss and hands the phone to me and he proceeded to scream at me about how he told me to have it memorized in full when he 100% did not. so I texted him that i quit the next day lol.

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I would have even quiet easy to come the next day with the ss number written on a piece of paper. But seeing the reaction of that douche boss, he probably dodged a bullet.

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I was working for this small company, they did not keep their word (agreed pay rise after 6mo) and behaved chaotically. I had to stay that as I had no unemployment allowance (EU, you need to work at least 2 years to be eligible - I was working for a year only since my last unemployment) and I actually learned quite a lot which helped me to land much better jobs.

Anyways, we had a problematic client (consultant job) where the sales guy promised things that I couldn't deliver. My boss sent a meeting invite at 17:30 for the next day at 8:30. I worked either from 8 to 17 or 9 to 18 depending on whether I went for a run in the morning - we had to be in the office from 9-15, rest of the hours was up to you. So as it happens he sent the invite when I wasn't working and the other day I came to the office at 9. They were kinda expecting you should be checking your emails outside working hours, while paying 20-30% than other companies (it was a senior position)
We had the meeting later in that day (the sales guy wasn't in the office also) and boss just got angry with the overall situation, threw his notebook on the ground and started screaming at the both of us, saying "I schedule a meeting and you don't come" among other things. During his angry fit my mind just switched to f**k this mode, I quit in two weeks when I had a new job offer.

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I was depressed working on a production line for 8 years with nobody speaking English around me, 1 day I was just staring into the abyss in a complete daze and supervisor walked up to me and asked if I was crying I wiped the tears off my face and just walked out didn't say I quit or goodbye to anyone

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It never occurred to this person to try to learn some of the languages the people around were speaking? Even a few words?

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Working as a bus driver and at pizza hut, what was supposed to be part time. I was scheduled everyday except Sunday. Boss never bothered to think I was working at or almost at 40 hours driving a school bus, and then another 20-30 there each week. Get up at 5am for bus driving. Split shift meaning it was 5-8am, 11-1pm and 2-5:30pm. Then to pizza hut from 6-10 or 11pm, rinse repeat and continue. All my free time was spent sleeping constantly.

I had an incident at the bus job that got my brain going, however being that sleep deprived means it took my brain a good 2 weeks to fully process my thoughts. I was about to take another 2 orders one night, and just went "what am I doing? I'm so f*****g tired" told my shift manager I quit, and then left after cashing out.

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Worked at a grocery store in the grocery pick up department. Our store switched milk distributors and that company was behind on their orders so we didn’t get milk for nearly a week. But because it impacted our ability to fulfill orders, we grocery store employees were blamed for not having milk on the shelf. Yes they blamed us grocery store employees for an independent companys problems. I was done. I knew I could never “win” and they would always blame us and tell us we weren’t good enough or working hard enough.

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When our district manager walked in and started yelling at me because my name tag had popped off and we were super busy so I hadn’t fixed it (mind you he refused to let me put it on my hat even tho somebody higher up than him was okay with it. My chest made it pop off easier) but two other people that day were in things that were so wrong they should have gone home to change (the wrong shirt and another had unsafe shoes on)

This was after months of him nonstop being overly critical of me because he didn’t agree that family should work together even though he was just a fill in dm (our regular one had taken leave because she was very sick at the time) and our franchise owner was completely okay with it because he had several stores where family worked together.

I set my headset on the counter said I’m not doing this today and walked out.

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