People Who Worked For Shady Businesses, Story? (r/AskReddit Top Posts | Reddit Stories)

people who worked for sketchy employers or businesses what was your darkness a timeout moment was homeless and desperate to get back on my feet applied at a sandwich shop in a mall interviewer looked an application looked at me said you go home and change come back we'll put you behind counter see how you do ecstatic me am I hired no we just try you out for little see how you do Lefton did not return in mall a few days later he came over to yell at me about not showing up for work did duck you you didn't hire me you just wanted free labor for a day and not an idiot walked away we went three pay cycles six weeks being told our checks were coming but a bank error had wiped the payroll account and they were working on the loan to cover pay while they got the problem fixed everyone was then paid our full back pay $30 thousand plus in some cases in cash I took it and handed in my two weeks notice the boss then gave me my expected pay for those two weeks in cash and told me not to come back watched my boss grabbed one of my co-workers by the throat and pushed him up against a wall because he was accused of stealing something turned out he didn't steal anything working at a nightclub GM wanted me to fill Grey Goose bottles with mr. Boston vodka to sell to people after they'd been drinking he dropped and shattered a bottle of patron then he wanted to use a strainer to put the glass shattered tequila into an open bottle at the bar I got a below minimum wage check for two weeks I was working my ass off I said go duck yourself after confronting him about the check never came back and they were out of business like two months later my boss asked my to help him commit insurance fraud I was working for a large Ford dealer in ma in the parts department was prone to flooding this day was a flood day my boss walked around gathering up all of the expensive items that we'd been stuck with over the years and threw them into a shopping cart he instructed me to push the cart outside and spray everything down with a hose to mimic flood damage I refused when I wised up and did some research into a state law that my boss claimed required clients to give a certain personal information no such law exists he was literally lying to clients faces and having all of his employees do the same oh and he was scamming the elderly with seemingly no remorse he's currently being sued by elder Laura Turner's in three separate cases my boss asked numerous times to come in on a non-scheduled day and place the hours during the next pay period those hours got denied every time essentially it was free work asked for me to get information on the competition and report to higher-ups boss would forget to inform me of a meeting and tell the higher-ups that I was lazy and didn't want to attempt the final straw I had multiple out-of-state interviews for grad school time off did not get denied but the boss said we expect you to be at work on the days off I requested the request was placed two months prior my boss took away my breaks then drink called me one night for having a cup of tea at the end of a long shift he screamed down the phone at me for 10 minutes I walked out mid shift and never came back during my first shift the manager made me drive a cart thing even though I told him that I never drove anything before and then got mad at me when I crashed it I ended up quitting after three weeks because one of my co-workers kept harassing me about wanting to have a threesome with me and my partner and my manager refused to do anything about it because he's a good kid and wouldn't do that edit spelling was told to pour the water and sediments from core drilling concrete floors in a hospital into the toilets and flush that way when they called the next day we could be hired to replace them worst plumbing company ever I worked at a burger place in college it was casual dining so instead of regular tipping we had a tip jar by the cash registers now the jar was clearly labeled tips and huge capital letters at the end of the night the cashier would count out all the tip money and place it in an envelope that went directly to the owner the owner would take all the tips and keep them for himself he was able to get away with this because he was already paying us minimum wage so tips weren't legally required also his restaurant was walking distance from the college campus if any employees got fed up with this system which many did and quit he had a constant supply of broke college kids looking for part-time work to replace the quitters after a few months of working there I started recognizing repeat customers I felt really bad because many of them would make an extra effort to tip because they thought the money was going to yes the workers there was this kindly retired lawyer who stopped by every week he would tip me extremely generously I couldn't handle the guilt anymore so I politely let him know that the money wasn't actually going to me or any of my co-workers and that I felt bad that he was tipping us under the impression that it was the retired lawyer got extremely angry because I guess there was some pretty serious legal ramifications to what the owner was doing because the tip jar had tips written on it the owner was deceiving the customers the lawyers spoke with the owner directly and called him out on his bull sheet as a solution the owner replaced the sticker that said tips on the tip jar with a picture of the restaurant logo he was still able to keep his tip money but apparently without the legal risk because technically he was not collecting it under false pretenses anymore since that jaw no longer expressly said tips I quit the next day I worked at beachside bar for a little bit last summer and the dude who ran the place was sketchy as dock he told me to do all kinds of shady things that would get any business shut down in a heartbeat he said if someone came to the bar and slit of $20 towards me to not check their ID and serve them regardless he said if I saw a beach cop come by to hide any bottles on the counter down below the well by the drainage grates he dropped a burger on the floor while grilling it picked it up put the SH HHH finger over his mouth and kept grilling it he would sometimes take deliveries through the back door and tell me I wasn't allowed to be in the back room when he was taking the delivery always hid the boxes away before telling me I could go back in the guy was sketchy as duck and I never got answers for his shadiness the final straw for me was when he back to his car into another car parked in his lot and told me to write a note apologizing for hitting the car and a number to contact for reparations he told me to write down my name and number and that he would pay me back for any money I had to give to the victim I worked there for about 15 minutes after that then left and never came back I worked customer support for a mobile game company I was honest with a disheartened customer who had complained that recent changes had made the game pay2win it had in truth been a glitch with an update I told them as much assurance of the team would be fixing it in the next update but then the game's profits skyrocketed the team kept the glitch and put out a statement describing the change as an intentional one designed to improve the play experience but there was my name plastered all over the game forums claiming the opposite I technically worked for a separate company that provided support for several studios but the studio behind this game was our biggest customer they approached my bosses furious I jeopardized their cash cow and demanded I be fired I promptly became familiar with the underside of the bus as I was gone within the week when I was asked to roll over hours to other part-time employees to have the pay periods to avoid fines despite being understaffed and I myself being part-time as well never work in radio kids what the hell it's what happens when you try to run a company on mostly part-time labor except sales in the three DJ's for six stations twenty nine hours per week max I wish I would have taken that place down for this because it's super illegal well I worked at a tattoo shop the guy and business were legit and my boss was a nice guy at first he had security cameras on which was no big deal to me cause it's not like I was stealing sheet well around Halloween the owner was friends with this bartender chicken she wanted to bartend topless but have a jersey painted on her to look like she had a top on I had no problem with that what I did have a problem with was him calling in his bud as the next betta watch his security footage of him painting this girl while she was naked another time I was working next day I quit he called his Madison because he had security camera footage of an 18 year old girl giving him a bj for a tattoo he was in his 50s I was done after that and the place closed down six months later worked with the mentally disabled and the manager was stealing food and money from them I turned her in to the office she just got yelled at asked to transfer because I couldn't be an assistant to someone who went against my morals turned her into the state as well nothing happened went to a new house under a different director and after a year of being at that house the manager told me I can't transfer to the day program to better fit my needs with hours the ad told me I didn't need her permission so I put in my two weeks at that house and when she found out I was going to their day program she wrote me up for things I didn't do so I would have to stay at the house she managed I left that den never went back I couldn't work with the company that allowed stealing from clients and was petty I worked in a comic book store when I was a kid the owner was a fantastic guy the store was in a strip mall and the guys act the Chinese takeout place at the end owned all the stores this was before everyone used credit cards all the time so the Chinese landlords would come around and collect the rent in cash one of the partners if the takeout came in one day and told us that we couldn't pay in cash anymore it had to be a mail check one of the other Chinese owners have been telling his partners that some of the stores were behind on the rent but he was collecting the cash and then gambling it away I worked with a subcontractor remodeling bathrooms for major stores up and down the East Coast they were considered the best team so got a lot of the jobs my wife was friends with the crew leaders daughter so he brought me along for one summer it turns out they were so good because they would take a lot of drew gusts that allowed them to never sleep they would get a week's job done in a couple days which made for really good money so I stuck around I had to bow out when they started shooting up hero when in the hotel room they would then bring the needles to the hotel management claiming they were left in our room in an attempt to get her a fund for the room to save even more money for themselves first job out of uni was as an Events Manager planning a new event in North Wales worked for 10-12 weeks on the planning and development until I got to the point where I needed to start paying for marketing materials booking contracts deposits etcetera then found out the guy behind the company was trying to get five hundred thousand pound government funding to put the event off funding that was on the basis of like for like spending match funding put my finance requests into the boss who said we don't have any money to spend until we get the funding in I pointed out the funding was on a matched basis he said don't worry we can make it look like we spent our five hundred thousand pounds and get the funding for nothing nope nope nope nope nope doubt of their please create multiple fake accounts to feign popularity of our website please engage in a 1-1 message with every new sign up sign ups weren't an issue there were 1000 s it was the interaction and engagement that the platform struggles with having me act out a script and be interacting with myself so you seem busier than you are no thanks when my boss at the supermarket deli asked me to crawl into the large compact a dumpster to pull out expired meat scrape the expiration dates off of the packages and sell them I was 17 working at a tex-mex place and the boss asked me to leave work to do what jobs at his house across the street a couple times first time was just to water his pepper plants second time was to stand on his shoulders and hang his recently deceased aunts many vintage hats on the living room wall took all afternoon with him being a sketchy creep and he didn't even give me a hat I didn't know how to this point or even after I saw his huge bag of coke on the kitchen counter later he opened an ice cream shop on the same block and had me work the counter a couple times by myself with absolutely no training I had to tell every customer that they couldn't have any of the fancy milkshakes or blizzards or whatever he put on the menu b/c I didn't know how to make them gave away free ice cream scoops still didn't leave work that job several months until ihara can finally destroyed all the properties first our paychecks bounced we got paid cash the next day then a week later the electric company turned off the power for not paying the bill I quit the next morning they paid two pounds and 40 pence now are after selling the hob as an apprenticeship I was only given a 12 week contract with them and it took a minimum of 33 weeks before you got paid minimum wage for passing the apprenticeship I didn't mind as it was a summer job where I lived on site and the provided three cooked meals a day the kicker was when I injured my foot while doing a training activity I was stuck Midway up a climbing tower for 30 minutes as the week's went in my foot got worse and I asked to be taken off work activities that worsened it they made me sign a sheet saying that I had a previous foot injury before I started working there I was also accused of bullying my colleague when I asked her if she wanted a cup of tea while the job itself was fun I decided to never work there again edit I should also add that they would only pay us a max of 42 hours a week even though most weeks it would be more like 60 hours worked at a small bakery they were paying me under the tape but also removing taxes from my paycheck and lying about it I hoped out of there when I found out they were also paying several employees below minimum wage under the table and were getting away with it because they couldn't get proper jobs because of criminal records or being mentally handicapped or whatever else when I took the job it was 4:14 an hour then it became 10 an hour a week later then my hours got capped at 20 a week but I was still expected to come as much as needed that's when I quit took them three months to finally pay me 400 bucks for 100 hours of work restaurants can be sketchy as duck asked to recruit for the company at a college campus after an hour there I just felt like I was tricking kids into working for the same shitty company I was working for so I quit right there on the spot faked financials to earn bonuses talking hundreds of thousands also I didn't get any incentive to do it besides not getting fired just happened to me two weeks ago my boss was never around and everyone else quit he pretended to be his wife and told me he was in the hospital and to come get the key so I could work alone I stood in the driveway for two hours while she said I'll let you know where they are his actual wife called me later said she never texted me boss was out smoking crack ductless I'm outta here I went to work for vector marketing which is the people who sell Cutco knives to people in their own home I figured whatever I'll give it a shot I got all the way through training and the guy was like okay now it's time to purchase your own set of knives I had no idea I was supposed to buy my own a net it was Aram LM scam so I said I had to go to the bathroom and left worked a summer for a furniture place that was clearly going under due to mismanagement was informed that we might not get paid going forward as the company was falling on hard times as it closed but we were still expected to work to help out the company in its time of need I have them my two-week notice right then and there ran they berated me for it I once had an interview for a job selling insurance to old people if I didn't sell enough each day I would have to pay them the worst part is that they slapped me with the you don't have enough experience to work here at the end of the interview work on a boat that hold up anchors from another boat and move them to help move the vessel today cable in a river with blisters and lines snapping out of my hands constantly due to incorrectly placed line hauling mechanics I still worked for weeks of 15 hour days every day and it paid well anchors would sometime get fouled in its own cable the last day I saw the captain of the anchored vessel rappel down a line on the bow next to the fouled anchor and then was given a sledge hammer from about 30 feet away my boat was hanging around and watching this guy bash a 2,000 pound anchor in order to uncoil itself from the wire my mouth is completely jaw dropped open he managed to bash it loose uncoil itself violently and come out unscathed then proceeded to climb up a line and continue for three more hours of work port captain was on my boat to understand why guys quit my mouth was dry from it being open for so long I figure the same for everyone else and that's why not much else was that day we docked the boat and I told everyone on my boat I was leaving they only realized I wasn't kidding when I packed my box thank you that for picking up your adults on hours away from home I already knew they were engaging in wage theft of the hourly workers and that they were doing the absolute minimum and or looking the other way when it came to immigration verification after going through their third HR person in 2.5 years they approached me to see if I would be willing to help out in processing and signing off on immigration and HR forms nope an open open open open open I polished up the resume and got a different job a couple months later no way did I want my signature on sheet when I saw other feds came through [Music] you

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Length: 20min 22sec (1222 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 14 2019