Me. I was hired as a dishwasher at a restaurant downtown. Buses stopped at midnight, but I was guaranteed I’d be off in time for the last bus

I was scheduled to start on a Friday night, starting at 6, I was told the first shift was a training shift and shorter than usual. 

I get there and they tell me “hey there’s supposed to be 3 dishwashers, but one guy was at 2 months but didn’t show up, and the other guy got pulled to prep chef tonight.”

Im busting a*s, the head chef comes by during lunch, I ask what’s the plan for when I’m gone at 12 “what do you mean? The shift is 6pm-2am?”. He strings me along most of the night saying he’ll get me a ride home with someone that lives on my side of town. “one way or another we’ll get you home” 

At 1130 I go to him “hey so who’s driving me home”, “oh I couldn’t find anyone that lives on your side of town. You’ll have to cab or something”, “cool”. 

And I walked out and never came back. Lol.

-retaliation- , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

A coworker was sitting with our three bosses and 4 employees in a conference room meeting, she said: “This is the most disorganized and toxic work environment that I have been in, thanks for nothing because you should be thanking me for tolerating this job, and to you three”, (the employees including me) she said, “I feel sorry if you stay but you should leave too, they are not paying us that well anyway “, she got up and left, I left a week and half later and she is one of my best friends to this day.

Respect ACC! .

CrowFriendlyHuman , fauxels / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

A woman I was training for a supervisor role at my previous job quit before lunch the first day.

I began the supervisor training and she said “I wasn’t hired as a supervisor, I was hired as an account manager”. I contacted my boss asking if there was a mixup with the training schedule, but there was not. Apparently they hired her as an account manager then downgraded her without letting her know. When she met with HR they said “strategic moves” had to be made for optimization. She quit on the spot.

I quit shortly after that because the company was up to other shady stuff.

showe1lj , Yan Krukau / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

At the door before he even got clocked in. He parked in front of the building in customer parking and in a handicapped spot. When he was asked to park around back in employee parking, which was actually closer to where his job was, he lost his s**t, went on a rant about his freedoms and that he wasn’t working anywhere that made employees use the servants entrance. Pretty sure he heard the laughter erupt when he stormed out.

bluecheetos , Nothing Ahead / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I quit the day before i started. Accepted a job at x amount of pay. The day before I was to start they called me and said “we didn’t know you went to nursing school with some of our workers and we told them what you’d be making hourly and they threatened to quit unless we pay you $3hr less than what was agreed upon”

I beg your pardon? F**k riiiight off.

ifyoubugher , Karolina Kaboompics / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I had an interview and was told the salary was X. I was offered the job but I was informed a mistake had been made and the salary was a fair chunk less than I’d been told at the interview. I replied “No problem, when do I start? Tomorrow at 8am? Great, see you then”.

I put their number on silent, didn’t show up and those time wasting muppets kept calling me for far longer than I ever would have imagined well into the following week..

Amphibian_Upbeat , Sora Shimazaki / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Didn’t quit but walked out and waited for the aftermath.
I was hired as a Production manager for a winery. Bottling, warehouse, maintenance. The first day of work was the first day of shelter in place due to Covid. Hr rep did my induction from her home. I was on site. Provided her with scanned copies of my documentation and she asked me to sign paperwork. It showed 15K less than my agreed to salary. I forwarded my signed offer letter and she said it was incorrect. I told her I would not sign.
The estate manager was offsite in Paris, was not a US citizen, and was stuck there due to Covid protocols.
I informed the HR rep that I was leaving and would not be returning. Within a couple of hours I received a call from the Estate Manager apologizing for the mistake and asking me to return the next day. I explained that I was reluctant to return to a company that tried to change terms after agreement. He ended up offering me an additional 10k and I returned. The HR Rep the next day was not the same person as before.

Napaandy , RDNE Stock project / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I guess me. 

A college retail job, I showed up the first day and they said there was a mixup about how much they were able to pay me vs. what they had told me on the phone. 

It ended up being slightly less per hour than I was making at my current job, instead of slightly more. Luckily I hadn’t quit the current job yet. 

I said I was only staying on if they could give me the rate agreed upon…they called or pretended to call somebody, came back and said there’s nothing they could do. 

Welp, sorry it didn’t work out. I think I got a paycheck for the exactly 1 hour of standing around talking about it that we did. .

Orange_Kid , Pavel Danilyuk / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I once saw my new coworker quit during their lunch break on their first day. They went out for lunch and just never came back. Turns out, they ran into an old friend who offered them a job on the spot, doing something they actually loved. We all laughed about it later, saying they must’ve had the shortest commute from new hire to ex-employee ever!

XLustyGirlX , MART PRODUCTION / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I started as food prep for a steakhouse while on a semester off from college. Got there a few minutes before my scheduled start at 7. Manager showed up at 7:40 to open the doors.

Worked 10 hours, no break, because when ai was supposed to go on break they needed help washing dishes, and my break was “delayed”.

Saw one coworker dump a bunch of cut lettuce into an unwashed sink that had just had raw meat in it. Dropped a carrot on the floor while shredding them for salads and the MANAGER picked it up and tossed it straight into the shredder.

Finished my day, went across the street to the Wendy’s where I used to work, was hired immediately, and started there the next day.

The steakhouse closed a year later.

Jef_Wheaton , Creative Vix / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Our previous timekeeper was going to resign so they hired a new guy. Guy comes in for his first day, realized how big the company is and without proper training or handover he was just expected to do it immediately. Dude never came back the next day. Everyone panicked coz there was no timekeeper and pay day is 2 days away.

prettyisabellaxoxo , Christina Morillo / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

45 minutes into her first Dunkin donuts shift. I was showing her what buttons to press on the cream and sugar dispenser when she suddenly said, “I can’t do this.” And she walked out and started walking 5 miles home. The local bus passed by ten minutes later.

Yeah, I don’t know. She had something going on with her personal life for sure.

Chazkuangshi , Andres Ayrton / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I was a trainer (“Learning Ambassador”) at an Amazon fulfillment center when COVID hit. Nearly half of my coworkers quit before my next week began. Until I transferred to a different facility 3 months later, every week involved training dozens of new hires, and most of them would quit sometime between day 1 lunch and the end of their first week. It was nuts.

voopa , Thom Gonzalez / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

When I worked at the nursing home, the maintenance/housekeeping supervisor quit without notice. Two weeks later they hired this guy who supposed managed the maintenance department at a 400 bed facility. We had a two hours long meeting with this guy where he was telling us how he was going to whip the place into shape and how he was going to do this, that, and the other. Had us voicing all of our grievances, he was taking notes, etc.. He really seemed like a gung-ho type of dude. He left the facility on his lunch break that day and never came back.

rosesforthemonsters , Yan Krukau / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

I asked for a raise when I realized my job was about 5 positions in 1. When my boss tried to get my raise approved, she was denied. She told the big bosses that I would walk if this wasn’t approved and they literally said “oh well.”

I got my dream job the following week.

freejazzacidjazz , Annie Spratt Report

Started a job as security for a gate at a nuclear power plant, enjoyed it, was working 40 hours a week. Showed up every day, didn’t complain. Then they fire 3 people for no reason and make me start working 80 hours a week mandatory. I was making tons of money but was struggling to find time to buy groceries since I worked until late at night.
 
Boss starts micromanaging every little thing while I’m working 16 hr days. Then they wanted me to start training people, said I’d get a 2 dollar an hour raise for doing it, that never happened. Then I had some car issues and I couldn’t come in one day. I had to go to Autozone and buy a replacement part. I got the problem solved and was good to go the next day. I never missed a day in six months. My boss called every car shop in town (allegedly), and said that I was lying. I bring the part that I replaced in to show her. She says that’s not enough proof and that no one in town said they sold me that part. She wrote me up and then said I might be fired or I might not, and I’ll know at the end of the week. I said okay and she asked me if I was coming in tomorrow morning and I said sure.
 
Next day I slept in and never showed up, apparently there were trucks backed all the way up the road for 4 hours since I didn’t show up to open the gate. Boss texts me saying I’ll be criminally charged for not showing, I just ignored it so she called me everyday for about a week. I never answered. Found out later that she went on a power trip and fired the people I trained because I “taught them wrong” then replaced them with her relatives. This is the person guarding your energy infrastructure America!

Wildcardium , Collin Report

Change in management. First day on the job, new manager said “what is it that you do all day, because nothing ever seems to get done”

Should have taken the 6 weeks of holidays that I was owed that day but didn’t.

Within a year of my finally leaving, I was replaced by 4 people

arkofjoy , Damir Kopezhanov Report

I took early retirement to get away from the micromanagement that was endemic throughout the company from the top down. I now work part-time for a lot less money, but somewhere where I’m appreciated and looked after. My mental and physical health has improved beyond measure.

floydie1962 , Huy Phan Report

My father was hired in the same company.
When on working sites he talked to me like his ”kid” and spoke to other people about me like i was still a child…
It ruined every single relationship i had with other workers, i was looked on as a child when i was 20 years old, all respect from the boss was down the drain and i just had no voice anymore…
I had to go..

Father of the year

ImTheJewbacca , Yibei Geng Report

Use to never understand people when they said “new manager so I left”. Use to think they were overreacting.

Last job I quit because new management. Now I understand what they were saying.

jabberZ911 , Marten Bjork Report

I was teaching high school social studies. Had a difficult heart episode (had previous heart attack) and my friends at school who visited every day in the ICU, convinced me it was time to retire. That was 4 years ago. They were right. I love being retired.

baz1954 , Marcelo Leal Report

I was a teacher. My vice principal yelled in my face in front of a student. A combination of other factors had built up over time and made me hate teaching, but that was the straw that broke my back at that place. After that, I walked down to the principal’s office and told him I intended to resign.

Right now, I’m in the process of changing careers, but I’m far happier than I was as a teacher. I’m glad I left when I did.

Weary_Cartographer_9 , Feliphe Schiarolli Report

My last employer, of 32 years, had shrunk from 3,000 employees to ~200. I’d earned above average reviews for many years, then my boss gave me a below average one. That was the writing on the wall for me. Things were getting worse and worse, bad attitudes all around. I just got fed up, gave my two weeks notice. I’d told them for years that they’d miss me when I was gone. Well, I left, they started calling, asking me to come back. Sorry! I’m retired.

darrellbear , Alex Kotliarskyi Report

Boss reduced employee salaries 30%, all but his wife and kid, who also worked for the company. That was after taking his extended family on a 12 day vacation.

abby_normally , Karolina Grabowska Report

Had a Zoom meeting in which I was told that my department’s work was eventually going to be outsourced to India. They said “it could be six months from now, it could be a year, it could be two years,” and offered me a buy-out if I didn’t want to wait, so I jumped.

Keefer1970 , Cojanu Alexandru Report

The other esthetician constantly left the room, products, brushes, etc absolutely disgusting. All brushes and products should be sanitized and wiped down after every single client. She would also come in blasted off of whatever pills she decided to take that day. Police followed her once. Boss wouldn’t fire her bc she didn’t want to get audited again by the IRS since she committed tax fraud during Covid. Not losing my license over a trashcan of a spa and incompetence

bbyuri_ , Raphael Lovaski Report

The site supervisor asked me to fraudulently sign training documents for an upcoming audit from corporate because nobody knew how to do their job.

Porkchop998 , Cytonn Photography Report

I was burning myself out and losing my mind when they brought in a new system and what would have taken me 5mins to do on the old system now took me an hour. Department was understaffed and when I asked to get more help they refused. Needless to say, I left and they hired seven people to replace me.

SkyUniverseExplorer , Tim Gouw Report

Was being scheduled literally 13 hours a week. Most days I’d come in at 930 and leave at 11. Brought up to my service manager multiple times “ hey you only gave me one shift this week. Can’t afford daycare with only one shift” he’d say he forgot and sometimes give me a pity shift. Went to the GM she did nothing. I was tired of doing them the favor of coming in to open (cause they didn’t want to) and then not being given any serving shifts in return

KelsBells0415 , Simon Abrams Report

My janitorial job was easy enough before and even going into the pandemic, but once they had to fire another dude for refusing to get vaccinated, they gave me a good portion of his job on top of what I already was doing, and didn’t seem to feel like replacing him. I was struggling to keep up.

On top of this, I requested off to visit friends for Christmas and they waited until the last minute to give me a yes or no, making my plane ticket cost a lot more than it needed to. That was kind of my last straw among a bunch of other things.

I should add that I had to fight for the right to quarantine during the time when we didn’t have a vaccination ready, and people in close contact with covid positive people like myself were being given an automatic recommendation to take a week or so of (I forget the exact number). Their stance was if I’m not personally testing positive, I would be fired for not showing up. no exceptions. I was just trying to be safe, for myself and others.

I had to get the state involved to even get them to allow it.

In addition to that, my boss had a history of lying, framing people to make them look like they were doing worse than they were, I could name a bunch of others that quit for the same reason. I didn’t want to quit, parts of my job was almost too easy, but she crossed the line a few too many times with me to stay.

KyleRM , Mike Cox Report

I told a regular customer who always acts like an idiot exactly what I thought of him. Unfortunately it turns out he is an investor in that business. I was sick of that job anyway. Just got a higher paid one closer to my house. I actually saw him today. As soon as he saw me he scuttled off to drink somewhere else.

nothingbeatagoodshit , Studio Republic Report

They wanted me to send all my private information through Gmail. Just in a regular email. No security measures, no contract for pay, nothing. So I started doubting if they were real. Go out to the place where they were located. Owner yells at me and starts cussing me out. I said stop this and walked out. They were super shocked.

mexicanitch , Solen Feyissa Report

I was unappreciated. My boss would only seem to critique us. Never any appreciation. He’d leave for a weekend vacation and come back complaining about something we didn’t do. While we were spending the entire weekend doing something he asked to make sure was done, and still helped customers, and one of the days was on the higher end for sales. I also worked there for three years and never got a raise. He also asked me to take on more responsibility, but never told me specifically how to do that.

WatermelonAF , Christian Erfurt Report