Multiple Employees All Quit Their Job At The Same Time, What Happened? (r/AskReddit)

what happened at your work which caused multiple people to quit at once 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 good part about it was when the majority of us quit they lost almost every single clan shortly afterwards to their competitors and the company is now defunct I did landscape construction the cheapest owner kept taking bigger and bigger projects while never hiring more help we were all overwhelmed stressed and anxious as hell one of our four-man 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 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 two 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 two 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 two weeks after that I heard from one of my work friends that five other people had enough and quit as well I kind of felt good to be the first owed uh King boy I worked at Buffalo Wild Wings for a few years as a line cook two different stores same ducting pay it was the type of work where you ask for a raise and they scoff and say you know me too anyways I had been pretty dead set on quitting sooner or later our kitchen was very small most people ended up closing four to five days a week with doubles on the weekends while still attending school full-time as it was a college town on Super Bowl ducking Sunday a useless co-worker who ducked out in the bathroom most the shift finally stops showing and in response the managerial staff delegated closing to my pal Jay dude was a ducking delight to be around hands down the best co-worker ever Jay had told them that due to being a full-time student he no longer wanted to be first and last out 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. 1 a.m. on the weekends they basically told him to go Duck himself and that they don't have any more shifts for him immediately me 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 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 four days I asked him where he's headed and a fees 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 owners offices after about 30 seconds they were screaming at each other then he just storms out of the office grabs his staff gave me the finger and leaves over the next few days I'm trying to calm things with the employees they are not faulting me but now have a very bad taste in their mouths about the new ownership over about a 7 to 10 day time period my team shrank from 15 people down to 3 i hobbled along with that 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 five people two 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 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't take as much vacation as you want if we approve it like one-fourth of the company quit and immediately landed out better jobs also profit tanked and limited vacation is such a scam when a company gives limited vacation time they have to pay you for days you accrued that didn't take when you leave the company unless they give unlimited vacation in that case they don't have to give you [ __ ] the only time I was ever denied vacation is when I worked for a company with unlimited vacation time duck Burt works at a data company the guys in the sales department ducked around all day they'd literally be in the parking lot drinking beer and racing RC cars when it came to handling account / 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 announced 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 to help them the most this year and take them to the programmers engineers database people were livid and walked out in droves gee I wonder why the company tanks restructure of the way we're paid what I used to do involved about 40% client interaction 20% team / co-worker interaction and 40% paperwork and case coordination staff based on what we do that means only 40 percent of the time is technically billable and there are really sticky rules for what is and isn't billable so logically we were being paid on a salary model queue management saying we can only make money for the time we have that is actually billable 1/4 of the department quit 2 of us on the same day I was working for a very large IT company before the tech bubble burst we had a meeting with our new director in 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 around 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 yoked and given zero reports they were gone after a round of layoffs happened shortly after when I was 16 I worked in the concession stand at a minor-league baseball stadium minimum wage at the time was 5 dollars 15 per hour 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 our management was terrible the main manager would throw toddler tantrums about once a shift over stupid [ __ ] like not ordering enough of a specific beer she did the ordering or running out of precut lemons 41 like the stadium was running a promotion and it was incredibly busy easily two to three times the normal volume of customers we were all working our asses 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 neverending horde of hungry baseball fans the manager showed up three to four hours late per usual and throws the biggest ducking tantrum ever over the unswept floor finally she announces listen up you lazy darks 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 barback 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 plus customers of course my final paycheck got lost so I had to file a wage theft complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission 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 plus years the company was shocked when half the remaining people abandon ship shortly thereafter at 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 sue 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 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 what the duck just happened I found out they were all in on it and we're using this latest fake cut on their shifts - so I'm down for cashiers and I have one left this same day my last remaining cashier disappeared for 20 minutes turns out she was in the bathroom with another employee doing the nasty she quits because her dad is a cop and doesn't want to find out she got fired for this and 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 [ __ ] and is retired they were literally the greatest people both very sweet but 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 there 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 [ __ ] 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 vacation that they'd all ready requested and gotten confirmed by the original owners 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 refused 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 bringin 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 rape rings 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 then walked out the rest of us just bailed along with him four months later the place was closed his aunt and uncle were absolutely furious and devastated that he'd run the business they built up for over 30 years into the ground worked out of Wendy's and one of the regional managers started running a store because they couldn't slash 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 most 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 9:00 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 9:00 and tells me hey I need to start early because the three openers just quit on me we managed 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 days later I hear the full story of what happened from a co-worker the regional manager is supposed to be at the store at 7:00 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 Rowland 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 six people quit because of him by the time I left the place probably more left after me 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 five years the proper procedures were ignored in this couple months before recertification 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 five 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 went 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 editing to that I did report them to the authorities shockingly they are still in business I did what I had to cover my ass

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Published: Sun Dec 29 2019