People Share The One Moment That Made Everyone At Work Quit On The Spot

Have you ever had a bad day on the job where you just wanted to walk out on lunch or mid-presentation and never come back? Have you ever been so mystified as to how the company you work for could possibly be sustainable because of all the protocols they’re breaking, shortcuts they’re taking and crap they’re getting away with? If you’ve ever fantasized about leaving your job on the spot, and with all your colleagues alongside you,  this goes out to you!

We’ve all been there. Something really unjust happens, changing everything, including the morale of the workplace, that makes you want to get up and leave in a dramatic exit. While some of us have merely thought about it, others have done it! Here’s your chance to live vicariously through their moment of revolt-and what a beautiful moment it can be! It’s true freedom to be able to see the big picture and let go of the restraints and idiotic rules that hold you back. Got a boss who wants to save costs by shutting off the air conditioning; counting roles of toilet paper or-gasp!-not providing free coffee for employees? Oh. No. You. Didn’t.

This is just the beginning of how bad it got for loyal employees who would have stayed on longer had upper management not crossed the line. Or put their employees’ values on the line. Read on for some ridiculous working environments that got so out of hand, a chain reaction of quitting was the only option!

30. Pull A Sleazy Move? We’re Out

“Turned out our owner was keeping the social security money taken from our paychecks. And yes, he was caught.” Rysilk

Another User Comments:
“My god. How much time did he get for that? Also, did you owe on that?” Speakdino

Another User Comments:
“You don’t owe, it’s considered theft of a trust fund by the owner.

He can be charged just like he stole it from the federal government (because he did). Because it’s a trust fund, it pierces the corporate veil and he can be charged personally, regardless of how many shell corps or LLCs are protecting him.

The employee is basically just another victim of the theft.

It’d be like if a retailer stole the sales tax you paid. The government wouldn’t chase you down and make you pay sales tax again.” Jahuteskye

29. Want To Lay Off Your Employees? We’ll Lay Ourselves Off

“They laid off half the company with no warning. This included a gentleman who was less than a year from retirement and had been there for 35+ years.

The company was shocked when half the remaining people abandoned ship shortly thereafter.” Aloretta_Dethly

Another User Comments:
“At my previous (and final) employer, they did a round of layoffs. Now, this is Europe, so you need a reason to fire people with a contract, and they said it was for economic reasons.

So naturally, like rats on a ship, a massive exodus began. Everyone was looking for a new job. Management didn’t expect this, so a month and a half later, they released their Christmas speech, calling for ‘fresh young talent,’ and asking people to ‘stick together like family’ when they fired 30 people just six weeks ago.

Come January, the second wave of the exodus was well underway.” Tar_alcaran

28. Company Doing Well? Great, Let’s Not Keep It That Way!

“The company consistently outpaced competing firms and found itself emerging as one of the industry leading agencies. This was also a California tech firm, so shorts, flip flops, beers at lunch, getting high on the roof were all rather common. But we were rapidly growing, and the atmosphere/location made us a hot ticket for talent.

Anyway, CFO and CMO cashed out and the CEO decided to totally remodel the company by making it far more corporate. On top of all of this, they implemented unattainable goals and removed our work from home policy.

The final straw was they removed our rather generous vacation policy and replaced it with ‘Unlimited Vacation’ which was a facade for ‘you can take as much vacation as you want if we approve it.’

Like 1/4th of the company quit and immediately landed at better jobs. Also, profit tanked.” W8sB4D8s

Another User Comments:
“Unlimited vacation is such a scam.

When a company gives limited vacation time, they have to pay you for days you accrued but didn’t take when you leave the company. Unless they give ‘unlimited’ vacation. In that case, they don’t have to give you ***.

Th*e only time I was ever denied vacation is when I worked for a company with unlimited vacation time.

Eff that.” extra_username

Another User Comments:
“Our company is doing incredible, let’s change everything!” hotstickywaffle

27. Can’t Properly Onboard A New Manager? Watch Your Business Crumble

“I was hired by the new owners to replace the existing manager. I was under the impression that he was moving on to another job somewhere. So after about 4 days, I ask him where he’s headed and if he’s excited. He just looks blankly at me and says, ‘I’m not going anywhere. I’m just training you as the assistant manager, right?’ The look I gave him must have been a great tip-off because he got up and walked into one of the new owner’s office.

After about 30 seconds they were screaming at each other, then he just storms out of the office, grabs his stuff, gives me the finger, and leaves.
Over the next few days, I’m trying to calm things with the employees. They’re not faulting me, but now have a very bad taste in their mouths about the new ownership. Over about a 7-10 day time period my team shrank from 15 people down to 3. I hobbled along with the best I could while we tried to hire new people, but the new owners were offering so little we had trouble finding people.

After 3 months or so of that, I started to get fed up and overwhelmed and when the owners started to get on me about missed deadlines I had had it. We were still only at 5 people, 2 of which were brand new and still training. They didn’t allow me to refuse work or push deadlines out, they expected the same output as a 15-person team. So, after my third day in a row of being berated for missing a deadline that was impossible to make, I quit.” eck226

26. Want To Cut Costs? Be Careful Where You Cut

“The owner died and his idiot son took over and decided that the company didn’t make him enough money and started to implement ‘cost-cutting’ measures like turning off the A/C in the building.” Downvotesdarksouls

Another User Comments:
“My work does something similar.

The air is turned off from about 5 pm to 7 am. It takes until noon for the air systems to clear out the overnight moisture and stale air, so we are left with a couple of hours of useful a/c.”  blackday44
Another User Comments:
“As an HVAC guy, this makes me cringe. Without a doubt, your AC system was designed to handle an overnight load and is specified to run efficiently 24/7. Yeah sure, you’ll ostensibly save money on operating costs by shutting it off overnight but you’re going to end up paying more in the long run since things are going to break down faster and will need to be serviced and replaced more frequently.

Actually, that doesn’t make me cringe, more money for me :)”  TatuRed

User Replies:
“He thought it was acceptable because we were allowed to bring in a small fan from home for our desks. He capped the number of rolls of toilet paper supplied for the bathrooms. He removed the fridge, microwave, and water cooler from the break room. He tried to make the receptionist double as the cleaning lady since she ‘just sat around waiting for the phone to ring.’ All office supply requests needed his approval which he didn’t give. The staff all quit within 2 months.” Downvotesdarksouls

25. Tell Us We’re Not Doing Our Job Right? Ok, We Won’t

“When I was 16, I worked in the concessions stand at a minor league baseball stadium.

Minimum wage at the time was $5.15/hr, this job paid $8, and it was always in the evenings so it was perfect work for a high school student. The only bad thing was that our management was TERRIBLE. The main manager would throw toddler tantrums about once a shift over stupid bullcrap like not ordering enough of a specific beer (she did the ordering) or running out of pre-cut lemons for tea.

One night the stadium was running a promotion and it was incredibly busy-easily 2-3x the normal volume of customers. We were all working our ***** off handling multiple roles each with absolutely no downtime.

Although we all cleaned as we worked, nobody had a chance to do thorough cleaning for the whole shift because of the never-ending horde of hungry baseball fans.
The manager showed up 3-4 hours late as per usual and throws the biggest ******* tantrum ever over the unswept floor. Finally, she announces, ‘Listen up you lazy *****! Minimal work gets minimal pay. Everybody is being paid minimum wage tonight because you slobs won’t clean up anything.’

Both of our bartenders and the bar back quit on the spot which caused a chain reaction. We all took off our aprons and hats to leave.

She blocked the exit and was red in the face from screaming, so one of the cooks climbed out of one of the big serving windows where we served customers, so I did the same and most of the staff followed. Bear in mind that this all happened in front of like 200+ customers. Of course, my final paycheck ‘got lost’ so I had to file a wage theft complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission.
Filed the complaint, submitted my clock in and clock out receipts for the week (we got paid weekly) and previous pay stubs to verify my pay rate.

After like 3 weeks, I was contacted by the person handling my claim that my previous employer had mailed me a check for the whole amount I was owed plus a penalty. The check arrived within a few days. The penalty was $25.

Later that year, the same employer refused to provide my W2 for tax filing so I filed a complaint with the IRS and used my pay stubs with a special form to complete my taxes. I don’t know what happened regarding that but that lady’s life imploded for non-work related reasons. She got caught cheating on her husband, then got caught faking cancer for sympathy.” Nevermind04

24. Yell At Everyone? We’ll Show Ourselves Out

“Owners retired, they were literally the greatest people, both very sweet, and kept the place running like a well-oiled machine.

They took pretty good care of us and their restaurant.

When they left, they gave the restaurant over to their nephew who at the time was a busboy/waiter, kind of standoffish, didn’t really interact with us too much, a bit lazy at times, but for the most part, did his stuff and went home. He seemed okay until he got the power of being the owner. He fired four people, including two of the four cooks, and two of the three dishwashers, literally that same day, on a Friday night just before the dinner rush, all because he ‘didn’t like their attitude.’

He refused to allow people to take a vacation that they’d already requested and gotten confirmed by the original owners.

He would change the schedule randomly without telling anyone and then scream at people when they missed a shift or came in late because of it. He’d refuse to replenish the kitchen until we were literally already out of things, then take forever to put in the orders, he showed up randomly and would drink at the bar, for free of course because he was the owner, and then bring in all his buddies to drink with him. Together they’d get way out of hand and grab at women and try to start fights.
Within the first month of him being the owner, over half the staff had quit, usually walking out literally in the middle of their shifts after being screamed at.

They’d basically throw down their aprons and tell everyone else that they were so sorry but they couldn’t do it anymore. After the last cook, this big dude who usually kept the kitchen laughing and running at a decent pace started crying in the middle of his shift and dropped everything he was doing after the boss came and yelled at him for being too slow and making ‘slop’, walked out. The rest of us just bailed along with him. Four months later the place closed. His aunt and uncle were absolutely furious and devastated that he’d run the business they’d built up for over 30 years into the ground.” fuzzyoctopus97

23. Don’t Respect My Vacation? I’ll Start It Today

“I used to work at a McDonald’s, and we had a terrible manager who hated a lot of people working there.

Everyone else hated him too, but no one wanted to call him out on his **** and quit. I was the first to do it, because I requested 2 weeks off in August of that year, about 3 months in advance (my family likes to plan our summer vacations early-on). When August came around, he had my schedule set up for all of August off except for those specific 2 weeks. There was no way that he could have misinterpreted my request. When I got my schedule, I stormed into the restaurant, called him out on everything, and then quit on the spot.

About 2 weeks after that, I heard from one of my work friends that 5 other people had had enough and quit as well. I kind of felt good to be the first.” Twiliggle

Another User Comments:
“What makes a good manager at these types of places is recognizing that 95% of their minimum wage employees could go get an equal paying job on their lunch break and start that day. Your store isn’t special. The only personnel management you have to do as a GM is to make them want to work there. Do just enough to motivate them to make your store successful and then spend the rest of your energy making it a place they want to work.

Make them happy and they’ll naturally become better employees.” enjoytheshow

22. Don’t Want To Listen To Your Employee? Good Luck On Superbowl Sunday

“I worked at Buffalo Wild Wings for a few years as a line cook. Two different stores, same **** pay. It was the type of work where you ask for a raise and they scoff and say ‘yeah, me too.’

Anyways, I had been pretty dead set on quitting sooner or later, our kitchen was very small. Most people ended up closing 4-5 days a week with doubles on the weekends, while still attending school full time as it was a college town.

On SUPER BOWL ******* SUNDAY, a useless coworker who ducked out to the bathroom most his shift finally stops showing, and in response, the managerial staff delegated closing to my pal J. Dude was a delight to be around, hands down the best coworker ever. J had told them that due to being a full-time student, he no longer wanted to be first in last out (4 pm-12 am, 1 am on the weekends). They basically told him to go **** himself, and that they don’t have any more shifts for him.

Immediately, I and one other cook walked to the office and quit on the spot.

Buffalo Wild Wings lost 4 cooks on Super Bowl Sunday, leaving them with 7 full-time students on the schedule.

It was a managerial **** show.” Abstractpants

21. Take On Bigger Projects With No New Hires? Say Bye To Your Business

“I did landscape construction. The cheap a*s owner kept taking bigger and bigger projects while never hiring more help. We were all overwhelmed, stressed out, and anxious as ****. One of our foremen quit and I followed suit a few days later. Two more guys quit the next day. He was down to three guys for the obscene amount of work he wanted to do.

Of course, everything gets way behind schedule but he’s convinced it’s not his fault at all. He went out of business less than a year later.” apocalypticradish

20. Everyone’s Stealing? Thanks For Quitting For Me!

“I’m the manager of a retail store and I had found out a cashier was ‘stealing’ product by scamming reward card benefits. I came up with a detailed incident report to present to this employee and I was under the assumption it was just her. After I confronted her in a reasonable manner, she freaked out and got really angry and quit on the spot. She was using fake accounts instead of using a customer’s reward card to get herself points and redeem them for product/gift cards.

So the customers weren’t getting the points they are owed which is a headache for me if they notice and complain.
The next day, every other cashier called me and quit and after thinking *** just happened I found out they were all in on it and were using this lady’s fake card on their shifts too. So I’m down 4 cashiers and I have one left. This same day, my last remaining cashier disappeared for twenty minutes. Turns out she was in the bathroom with another employee doing the nasty. She quits because her dad is a cop and she doesn’t want him to find out she got fired for this.

She also asked me if she should go to urgent care because she didn’t take her tampon out before they did it and she couldn’t find it. The guy also quit because he ‘didn’t care and was moving anyway.’ I was down to literally managers only.

So the first part is the mass exodus and the last part was just for ‘can you believe this ****?'” PM_ME_UR_CONURES

19. If We Don’t Like It We Can Leave? We’ll Be Careful To Not Let The Door Hit Us On The Way Out

“I was working for a very large IT company before the tech bubble burst and we had a meeting with our ‘new director and the VP.’ They were tired of people complaining about things that should be changed at the job and how they managed people.

So they sat 200 of us down in our auditorium, and the director said she didn’t want to hear any more complaints on how she was running things and if we didn’t like it, then there was the door and that there was no way we’d leave such a great job.

Well, there was a mass exodus and probably close to 50 people left within 2 months.

She and the VP were ‘re-organized’ and given 0 reports, they were gone after a round of layoffs happened shortly after.’ miltondelug

18. Don’t Want To Do Your Job? That’s How You Run A Place Into The Ground

“Worked at a Wendy’s and one of the regional managers started running a store because they couldn’t/wouldn’t find new managers to replace the old ones.

Well, anyways this guy practically ran the place into the ground. Before he started running the store, everyone liked working there as it was a good environment. A few months after, a couple of people quit because of him. And one day I roll in at 9 to help open the store and he comes out to my car as soon as I park (I was 15 minutes early and usually just sat in my car until 9) and tells me, ‘hey I need to to start early because the three openers just quit on me.’
We manage to get the store open and had a number of people from other stores help run the place until the people from the next shift came in.

A couple of days later, I hear the full story of what happened from a coworker. The regional manager is supposed to be at the store at 7 or so, and the openers 30 minutes later. He didn’t actually show up until 8:30. So when the openers, already pissed at being at work really early and not being on the clock, saw the regional manager roll in and knew it was gonna be an awful shift, all decided that they were done with him and just quit right there.

So at least 6 people quit because of him by the time I left the place.

Probably more left after me.” The_RedJacket

17. Take Your Lazy Sales Team To Hawaii? We Won’t Be Here When You’re Back

“I worked at a data-company.

The guys in the sales department messed around all day. They’d literally be in the parking lot drinking beer and racing RC cars. When it came to handling accounts/clients, they frequently gave away free accounts in order to ‘retain’ customers (and make their own sales numbers look good), and somehow they got away with it.

Meanwhile, there were dozens of programmers and database nerds working tirelessly behind the scenes to integrate a bunch of complicated data and make it easy to access via the website.

Yearly holiday announcements come around, and upper management decides to send the entire sales team to Hawaii for an all-expense-paid vacation. When the furious developers asked why they were just taking the sales team, the confused CEO literally said, ‘Well.. I mean… I guess we could ask the sales team to pick one person from each department who helped them the most this year and take them too…’

The programmers/engineers/database people were livid and walked out in droves.” Anonymous

16. Expect Me To Fudge The Paperwork? No Thanks

“Several years ago I worked in a mental health center. We worked primarily with kids. It was time for the center to renew their certification.

Instead of keeping up with everything that needed to be done over the course of 5 years, the proper procedures were ignored.

In this couple of months before recertification, the administration made us sit through a ridiculous amount of training on things that would have been covered in training such as HIPAA laws and identifying child abuse.
Then came our paperwork. Our center encouraged us to do things that aren’t exactly covered by Medicaid or approved through certification. For example, taking kids to the park isn’t allowed, but guess where they instructed us to take these kids so they didn’t disturb the therapists working? I had to go back and edit 5 months worth of documents to get rid of the evidence.

The kicker was that bathrooms were supposed to have a log of when it was cleaned. An administrator perfectly forged the signatures of multiple employees. I don’t think they would have gone through that trouble just for a bathroom log. What else were they forging our signatures on?

The potential risk of being charged with Medicaid fraud was too high for me. I quit as did many others.

I did report them to the authorities. Shockingly they are still in business. I did what I had to cover my a*s.” pandabelle12

Another User Comments:
“Working in healthcare as a therapist, HARD NO no with that place.

They legitimately asked you to commit fraud by changing those records, and the people at the top knew it. Moreover, not providing mandated training isn’t just a whoopsie, it’s an insanely serious violation in most states. The forging of signatures is just the icing on an already illegal, sh*tty cake. I would say report them, but I would hate to see you go down for something you were pushed to do. That being said, I would make sure you have a solid story ready to roll for those records changes. Programs like this eventually get caught if they don’t go out of business, and auditors might find those alterations even years from now.

It isn’t super likely, but it can happen.
Screw that program for trying to abandon the responsibility of properly caring for the kids in their program. Blow the whistle, they earned it, the kids deserved it, and you shouldn’t have your record marked for something they pushed you to do. Moreover, they didn’t give needed training on that stuff until the 11th hour from what you said, so you could potentially make a sound argument that you didn’t realize how problematic what you were doing was.” ColdNotion

15. Can’t Give An Employee A Proper Mention? That Doesn’t Seem Right

“A well-known colleague took his own life and we were told by management via a brief side note in an email about stats at the end of the day.

It caused a lot of upset in the office and quite a few people didn’t return after this. It was a general email about stats and things and added on at the bottom was, ‘We sadly inform you ‘colleague’ took his life on the weekend.’ And that was it.” CromagnonBarbie

Another User Comments:
“I worked at a homeless youth shelter years ago and one of our kids died of an overdose in an alley. He was a really sweet kid who fell through the cracks and was failed by nearly every single adult he’d ever come into contact with. We were trying to change that for him.

They told us through an email. After the email, the shelter staff who provided housing for him were left out of all memorial/remembrance services for him, in favor of the admin staff and counselors, and were treated like our attachment to him didn’t matter. It’s hard enough when it’s an adult you work with, but when it’s a kid…the callousness was just shocking. We all sort of gathered on our own to process our grief and management began to lose some seriously talented and compassionate people that day.” BeBraveShortStuff

14. Take Away What We’re Owed? We’ll Take Away Your Clients

“Canceled all raises and bonuses for everyone except the CEO, his wife (financial and HR), and his son (utterly useless IT) in a year where we have record profits and brought in almost double the clients on top of announcing they aren’t looking to hire more people when we were already overwhelmed.

The good part about it was when the majority of us quit they lost almost every single client shortly afterward to their competitors and the company is now defunct.” CaptainJudaism

13. Come In And Make Stupid Rules? Watch Your Staff Get Whittled Down To Half

“Many years ago in high school, I worked at a movie theater. The place was pretty poorly run from the moment I started there. We never got paid on time and management was basically a bunch of lazy jacka*ses who sat in the office talking all day and never actually did any managing. It would have been hard for things to have gotten any worse but after a couple of months they brought in new management who seemed to want to make it their personal mission to run the theater as poorly as possible.

They first decided to implement a new policy requiring all projectionists to wear ties, despite the fact that projectionists are never seen by the public, not to mention that tiny little detail that the projectionists worked around a giant, rapidly spinning objects that a tie could get caught in. Management refused to reconsider the policy and every single projectionist quit as a result.
Then they decided that the door people (of which I was one), who were always scheduled seven days a week, would now only be scheduled on the weekends, and refused to reassign any of us to concessions on the weekdays so we wouldn’t lose hours.

As a result, almost every single door person quit, including me.

After that, they started imposing impossible cleanliness standards on concessions, things like requiring them to scrape popcorn kernels out of the cracks in the trim behind the popcorn machines. Concessions people were there until 5 AM every night trying to meet their standards-most of them quit as a result.

By my count, the theater went from a staff of about fifty to a staff of about twelve in three weeks. I swung by about a month after I quit and found out that entire management staff had been fired and replaced yet again by an entirely new one, ones who actually seemed to be running the theater properly.

My best guess is that the previous management had been told to whip the theater into shape and they were idiots who had no idea how to effectively do that.” schnit123
Another User Comments:
“Or they were there simply to cut staff, to be the ‘bad guys.’ Now the new managers come in, hire a bunch of people (but fewer than 30), and look like winners to the 12 people that stayed.

Maybe. Sometimes I get suspicious.” skaterrj

12. Have Some Red Tape To Get Around? Just Leave And Come Back

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement contacted the in-house temp service, questioning them about illegal workers. Over 20 people mysteriously disappeared at lunchtime.

A couple of months later most of them were back, with different names.” meer_meer

Another User Comments:
“Back in high school, I interviewed for a payroll job at an orange farm. They needed seasonal office help because they paid their workers every day. At first, I just thought it gave transient and day laborers flexibility for when they choose to work. But few people with little skills and no savings would just walk out on a paying gig-I think the real reason had something to do with dodging immigration.”  4_P-

11. Relocating Without Compensation? I’ll Relocate Myself To A Better Job

“Our company relocated from a small suburb to a large city.

Pretty much everyone had to take public transportation to get there. My supervisor was firm in only allowing two work from home days a week. I told him I was exhausted and having one more work-from-home day would make a huge difference, but he wouldn’t budge. I told him I would need a raise, because I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on transportation, and it felt like I had been demoted. He refused.

I was offered another job, and I took it. He was shocked that I was leaving. About a month later, all but the worst employee had either left the company or left his department.” extra_username

Another User Comments:
“My company asked the office what we’d do if they moved our location about an hour away.

We said we’d all quit. They didn’t move.” shaidyn

10. Drug Test For Everyone? The CEO Goes First

Some brilliant ideas are more brilliant in retrospect. Guess that’s what they mean by hindsight is 20/20. Maybe it was their way of weeding out the weakest link?

“They decided after 6 years it was time to do a drug test. Even lost the CEO in that great idea.”  Korvokare

Another User Comments:
“The CEO reports to the board of directors. The board wanted to get rid of the CEO for the cause. Everyone else was collateral.” DeJeR

9. No Christmas? No Employees

“They tried to make us do a third straight 16-hour shift while telling us we were taking too long.

This was years ago as a basic box mover in a courier company. They cut their staff in half and still expected us to do the same amount of work. It got bad enough the head office people came down to supervise us at the end of the shift, we stopped taking any breaks and worked WELL past our hours without overtime. The second day they were there, our immediate supervisor of our team (about 10 of us) asked for the night off next week (Christmas eve and most of us had a family) and the bosses refused, we ALL quit.

Their entire workforce quit in less than ten minutes.
There were three people in the office that morning when the other 300 of us walked out. Most of the other workers were pretty disgusted in how they treated us, enough to pack in their jobs. They called within an hour and offered us all pay rises and actually hiring people to help with the workload. It didn’t help, they already screwed themselves trying to save money on wages so they were never going to make their deliveries. A month earlier, it may have made a difference but a week before Christmas?” Taneatua

8. Take Advantage Of Animals? Not On Our Watch

I worked at the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

The month I was hired on there was a lot of stuff changing because a couple managerial and senior staff were moving on to other things, so it ******turne*d *into *a *** show when a new manager came in. And then the district manager also tried to screw senior staff of their bonuses, EI, etc. But most controversially, it was the new Manager and her bosses who decided that they needed to try and save money. So we stopped spaying and neutering cats and adopted them out that way (real smart idea). She was also told by the District Manager that the SPCA needed more money, so if we got a good purebred dog in off the streets instead of registering it we should take it home, breed it, care for the pups (on our dime, by the way) and then surrender it to the SPCA for some extra income.

They also shut down their grooming facilities (which made them roughly 55% of their income).
What made me quit was that I was hired to replace their tech, but I wasn’t being trained properly because their current tech kept telling me to go clean dog pens or cat rooms instead of showing me how to work the systems properly. After a month of not being trained and me constantly mentioning it to her, I come in one day and find my name omitted from the schedule. The manager’s reasoning? ‘Oh, well you struggled a bit the day you were the only tech, so we dropped you from full time to on-call, we’re going to hire someone else and train them to take over tech.’ Good job! I already knew about 90% of the job by this point, so you’re going to hire someone else and ‘train’ them like I was being ‘trained?’ Anyways, I quit, and everything apparently got really bad after as well.

All in all, they lost 11 employees in about 3 weeks because of negligence, stupidity, etc. 7 other employees and I went to the PetSmart on the other side of town as it was just opening and needed employees, so it wasn’t totally terrible. But the complete mismanagement at that location was terrible. It was just a tip of the iceberg too, some of my co-workers regaled me with more stories of crap that happened shortly after I left.

Just to add a few more details and some of the other crap pulled in that month: Basically, management wanted to save money after I left and they decided to do that by not paying for the shampoo, conditioner and other products in their salon.

They instead told the salon manager to pay for it out of her own pocket. It was the start of the crap for the salon manager that ultimately ended in her being bullied and almost assaulted until they fired her. When she decided to claim unemployment after she was fired, the management denied that she was fired and said she quit under ‘hostile circumstances’ or some such lie. Luckily, she got the position as a salon manager at PetSmart and pretty much the entire client base went there and rendered the SPCA salon null.
Another coworker quit because he was expected to take care of 48 dog kennels and about double that in cat habitats, because they needed to save money so they cut hours, where they had 6 people opening in the morning they only had 3, so my coworker was expected to do a 4 man job in 3 hours.

Another coworker quit because, again, the low hours meant that *** couldn’t get done on time, so she comes in for morning shift to a mountain of dog and food dishes stacked together with cat litter pans that were not washed meaning none of the animals could be fed and watered properly and the cats had to wait for their litter. That was the day she quit.” Guardian_Isis

Another User Comments:
“Puppies=$$$ in the rescue world. Especially 1/2 breeds. I worked at a large non-profit shelter that would truck in porch puppies from the Appalachian mountains and crank them out at $300 each.

I understand that it brings in revenue to help the other animals, but I think there is a fine line there that many places cross.” brandeenween

Another User Comments:
“Absolutely there are ***y rescues that literally buy puppies at auctions from puppy mills! One auction house said 40% of their revenue comes from rescues! Look into a rescue before you adopt especially if they have purebred puppies!” Positivevybes

7. Fire The Best Manager Ever? We’re On Our Way Out Too

“Years ago I worked at a chain salon (my last ever I swear). There were about 14 of us plus my boss. Half of us were really good, very passionate about what we do, all booked with good clientele.

Our boss was wonderful, didn’t micromanage, etc. She was a big reason that while it was a chain, it didn’t feel like one.

She got fired. The reason given was that she ‘cashed a check at work.’ She bought the product, paid for it with a check, and added an extra 40$ so she didn’t have to find an atm before she went to the bar. She had worked for the company for 5 years, had pulled 3 shops into the highest ranking ones in the district, consistently had shops exceeding their numbers, etc. And just like that, she was fired, and even worse, when I came to work the next day, we weren’t allowed to talk about it.

I texted her and she told me what happened.
We didn’t quit at once exactly, but over the next four months, the top stylists, who brought in 70%~ of the revenue, left. We took our clientele with us and all of us went to smaller, private salons. This was several years ago now but I still keep up with them. We’ve all found our niches in hair, make way more money, and are way happier for it, including my old boss. She’s about to buy the salon she works at. If it didn’t happen, I don’t know when I would have left, to discover I prefer barbering/men’s styling over women’s.

It was a blessing in disguise at the very least.” dogwithaknife

6. Want To Take Me Off The Schedule? We’ll Show Ourselves Off The Property

“I worked at McDonald’s back in high school. I was taking off for college at the end of the summer and put my 2-week notice in so I could get August off and actually enjoy it before I had to move away for school.

The Store Manager decided to just not put me on the schedule anymore, which I discovered on the last weekend I was into work. So instead of having those two weeks, I was just done.

I decided, at lunch rush that day, that if they weren’t going to honor the notice, I wasn’t going to honor the 8-hour shift.
At about noonish, right after the breakfast crew had left, I was done. The thing was, most of the crew that day was also going off to college and saw what the manager had done. So they left with me.

In the middle of the lunch rush, the store was down to the old lady who worked drive-thru, and the manager on duty. That’s it.

The rest of us walked out. 2 cashiers, 3 grill workers.” sm1ttysm1t

5. Want To Take Half My Tips? Here, I’ll Give You A Tip

“I was bartending on the side to augment the *** pay I get as a helicopter flight instructor.

Worked there for two years and I was never late, nor had any disciplinary trouble.

Well, one day I had a cross country flight run longer than it should’ve because I had some maintenance issues. I knew I would be late, so I called and talked to my supervisor to give him a heads up. By the time I made it to work, I was only twenty minutes late.
Well, the owner’s 23-year-old son managed the place and informed me that his new policy was that I would have to surrender half of my tips for the night, as punishment for being late.

I told him that I didn’t think that was very fair, especially since I was only twenty minutes late for a 5-hour shift, and I’d never once been late, and I’d called ahead. He literally said, ‘tough ***, don’t be late.’

I told him to go *** himself and walked out. When I told my coworkers what happened, four other people quit, right on the spot because they’d had enough of the dude’s power tripping bullcrap. Don’t mess with people’s money.” DyslexicsOnFire

4. Mandatory Drug Test? We’re Looking For New Jobs

“We were told we’d all have to take a drug test.” jay5627

Another User Comments:
“Something about drug testing that I find kinda funny.

Got hired at Best Buy = drug test. Got hired at Staples + drug test. Got hired as an assistant teacher in a public middle school = not a single drug test in 9 years. You know why? Because if public schools had a problem with teachers who smoked a little here and there, they wouldn’t have half the employees within a month.” JeffMatthews410

Another User Comments:
“We recently had a corporate meeting regarding policy and workplace changes.

One of the topics was ‘Drug Testing.’

The CEO put that topic in the slide just so he could say, ”We’re not doing this. I don’t want to lose 90% of our employees.

I don’t care if you do it on your own time, but make sure you come to work sober and ready to work.’

And sure enough, 90% of us let out a sigh of relief.” Lily_Loud_Cat

3. Want To Bypass Important Procedures? I Won’t Be Renewing My Contract, Thanks

“I worked at a deep underground mine. The mine had always had ‘issues due to the geology wanting to collapse.’ Think lumps the size of houses falling. The geotechnical engineers stated the mine was not safe. Management disagreed (not geotechnical). At the same time, the mine was cost-cutting so they had no serviceable rescue chambers (little steel boxes that are your lifeline when things go bad).

Then, the mine rescue was abandoned (the only people who can get you out when the worst happens). These were not popular.

My last straw came when I parked up in a ‘very safe area’ to go and do an inspection on foot. I had gone about 30ft around the corner when heard the bang. Got back to my car to now find a boulder about 25 X 30 30 ft on top of it. My car was now flattered to 6 inches thick, about 30 seconds after I had just sat in it. Oh, and then realizing, yes, OK, the procedure is to head for a rescue chamber.

Report major incident. Await rescue. Except, we had no rescue chamber, and even if we did, we had no one to do the rescue. Decided nope.

Though time in Congo (DRC) was worse, it was odd as it was more of a gradual realization of ‘oh feck’ than the more sudden ‘oh ***.’ At the end of the contract, 11 of 33 of us dead. The company asked if would consider another contract. I deferred.” Verystormy

2. Take Away Coffee In The Office? You Can Expect A Riot

“We stopped providing free coffee, and we’re so cheap that we sold our coffee maker. This was in Seattle, so a couple of people bought their own coffee makers to put in their cubes.

That tripped the breakers several times so it was very disruptive since our computers would shut down. Management then said no coffee allowed in the office at all. We lost four very good engineers.” has-space

Another User Comments:
“Management then said no coffee allowed in the office at all. Who could possibly think this kind of policy would fly. That’s unreal. Sounds like the grounds for a **** riot.” therealjerseytom

Another User Comments:
“No coffee allowed in the office at all … if there is one way to get rid of your technical workers it is that.” rdrum

1. Deny Me Visiting My Sick Daughter In The Hospital? I’ll Tear You A New One

“My first week at a fancy restaurant waiting tables (we needed 2 weeks of training and pass a written exam on the food, wine pairing, etc, first.).

It is an immensely popular restaurant, even though its quite pricey, so tips are good. Good enough that it can support a family if you had some experience, were friendly and had a few regulars.

On my second night there, it was a Friday night dinner service. Rules were you could choose your own shifts during the week (day/night etc.) but Friday nights were all-hands-on-deck. It was the busiest night of the week, and although it did feel cluttered at times because of all the waitstaff being present, it was still mandatory.
One of the more senior waiters, +-35m, got a call from his wife just before the busy dinner service.

Their daughter had taken ill and was rushed to a hospital around 2km from the restaurant. Seeing as it was Friday night, and all the other waitstaff were there, he asked the manager if he was allowed to be excused to attend to his daughter as he had divided his tables amongst 3 of us. This wouldn’t have been a problem, we were, if anything, overstaffed that night because of the fellow new recruits like me.

The manager, who was always a bit of an idiot (who would throw tantrums at the slightest/most petty grievances) denied him the leave. He warned that if he were to leave his post that night, he would be fired without any chance of appeal.

The waiter, who was unaware of the nature of the condition begrudgingly continued his shift. We weren’t allowed to be on our phones during peak times (the manager would keep them in his office) and he only checked in with his wife at around midnight. His daughter had had a brain aneurysm and passed at around 10:30. He had been denied the opportunity to say goodbye to his only daughter.
Distraught, he rushed to the manager’s office and delivered the most bone-chilling, harrowing emotional *** you to the manager. His cries were heard throughout the restaurant, everyone heard. Everyone cried in sympathy, even restaurant patrons.

He resigned on the spot, along with 80% of the waitstaff and me. We all accompanied him to the hospital and tried our best to comfort him and his wife before leaving them to grieve together.

I never went back and didn’t even collect my tips for the night. I don’t know if everyone who walked out together stayed that way, I heard that management reached out to some of the more senior staff to try and get them back, but I certainly was never going to show my face there again. I also heard that shortly afterward, a new manager was appointed.

I never learned if the b*stard was fired, or resigned.”  jeen1991

A mass exodus for real! One event that sets off everyone to quit in unison. One user said it, “Don’t mess with people’s money.” No kidding! Ever quit on the spot? Anyone ever quit with you? Tell us everything!