What Was Your "Fire Me, I Dare You" Moment? (r/AskReddit)

what's your best fire me i frickin dare you moment from work I was 17 and working part-time at a fast food restaurant someone wrecked the men's restroom shat in the urinal rubbed crap all over the wall the manager came out and told me to clean it I refused she threatened to fire me to which I laughed in her face and told her you can clean it yourself or you can lose an employee and still clean it yourself I don't need this job needless to say I wasn't fired and I didn't clean that up I still laugh thinking about it worked for a newspaper editing and actually putting the paper together arranging it all placing stories and pictures where they need to be titling quoting and sourcing everything I was a one-man team and used an overly complicated system that I figured out how to use really effectively they treated me like crap set impossible deadlines and berated me for not meeting them one day the boss tells me to fully put a paper done by the end of the day gave me no warning I had no articles from the journalists and no photos from photographers it was my job to collect it all from everyone and he wants me to do it in a single day I told him no if he wants it done he has to give me more time he tells me if I don't have it done by the end of the day I'm fired I tell him that this paper can't function without me he tells me I need to take the day off and cool my temper and that he'll do my job for me get a call an hour after I get home that he needs me to come in and do it and I can have as much time as I need promptly quit on that butt hole trick your crappy newspaper best one only took an hour of having to do your job to make them say Frick this worked a job where I was the only one who knows how to take apart clean fix and put all the equipment back together and do the weekly and monthly maintenance had a boss tell me one day that I was doing a poor job and not doing enough and that anyone could do it if I didn't step up I would be fired or else as they had manuals for each piece of equipment so that night I took apart all the equipment weekly and monthly stuff - cleaned them and then just left it apart for them to figure out that morning then I turned off my phone after getting home for the entire day as I had the day off when I turned it back on the next day I saw that I had initially received angry texts ordering me to return and put everything back together to this lasted an hour then text saying I risked being fired then texts begging me to return then more texts trying to compromise with OT then an apology before nothing else for the rest of the day other than that the head boss wanted to see me as soon as I came in the next day came in the next day and over half the stuff was still not put together and what had been put together was put together haphazardly and would need to be taken out again then put back in correctly was immediately asked to be seen by my boss and their boss to explain myself the moment I was seen entering once in the office I told them that if they weren't there to apologize then just fire me then and there or drop it and let me put all the stuff back together they looked at each other and then told me that I could get back to work boss never called me lazy again should have asked for a raise too long I once called in sick to my part-time job at Club Monaco my manager told me that if I couldn't find anyone to cover my shift I was going to be fired so I facetimed her from the errand had the doctor explained to her that I needed an MRI cause they wanted to make sure I didn't have a brain tumor wouldn't be shocked if that [ __ ] manager still fired you when I was 17 I worked a summer holiday job at Pizza Hut I had transferred to my hometown restaurant from my university town restaurant I was there for five weeks and hadn't been paid yet the [ __ ] boss claimed it was because I gave him the wrong employee number I hadn't anyway after five weeks of no pay I rang him on New Year's Eve ie busiest night of the summer and said I wasn't coming to work because I wasn't a volunteer and I wasn't going to work for free he told me if I didn't go to work I may as well not come back as I would be fired I didn't go to work and had a fun New Year's instead then a few days later I called the employment tribunal I'm in New Zealand and told them what had happened they called my [ __ ] boss he then called me offered me my job back and was nice as pie for the rest of the summer you have to be a real [ __ ] boss to think that you can threaten someone as you'll be able to pay for more than a month of labor especially when there's a whole government department just waiting for someone to let them know that their employer is withholding their wages and is only a phone call away ha I worked at an unspecified telecom a few years ago I was a senior manager in charge of programming third level support and production support a business unit bullied through Co changes made by the business side through a side deal with a legacy programmer in the data center circumventing my team QA and production testing that just had to get implemented immediately without going through any testing at all I refused the CIO overruled me 72 hours later phone activations had ground to a halt customers nationwide were screaming and the CIO called phone conference after phone conference demanding timelines for when I was going to get this crap fixed he kept screaming to have members of my team to get on the phone and explain themselves to him I refused finally I snapped and told him that if he wanted me to fix his mistake I would need to get off the frickin phone go to work with my teams and the only reason they hadn't walked out yet was that I was keeping him off their asses but we would all happily go together 24 hours later QA and my team had the Bulls cleaned up and fixed for a cleaner lab this was all to avoid a 24-hour delay for QA production testing I wish I could say that was the only worst time thanks for protecting your team I have mad respect for leads who do that there's enough madness for everyone to deal with without the unnecessary wrath of management in the mix husband was having his gallbladder taken out and was having complications before surgery I needed to leave early from work for about two hours and my boss threw a fit stating I couldn't leave I told her I had 300 hours of sick time I can use for myself and my husband and if she wanted to push I'd take all of it at once leaving no one but her to do my job she said she'd fire me if I tried I just looked at her and said I have to go LLL send you my DEA's note I wasn't fired I was actually awarded that year for job performance over the first year I worked there I essentially took over most of the tasks in my department which were previously held by other departments and was done badly because of it this led to a massive increase in productivity I then found out I was paid significantly less than what others were making and others in my position across the industry were making so I go to my boss and tell them I had done all this work increasing productivity and I would like to discuss a raise they said no so I work there for another year asking for a raise every now and again until I was offered a job that paid double it didn't start for a couple months so I held on to that job until I was set to submit my two-weeks I asked for a raise again thinking what the heck why not my boss goes off tells me I won't get a raisin says some very colorful things about it it culminated with her telling me if you don't like your pay maybe we should evaluate your future at this company to which I replied already have I took another job and this was your last chance to offer me what I deserve I quit and walked out of that office friends told me that my sudden departure caused a massive back up of work that ended with my manager being fired for it god I can only imagine how awesome it must feel for your boss to say maybe you should evaluate your future here and to be able to say to their face already have by work for RadioShack and always butted heads with the district manager he wanted me to use these ridiculous sales techniques that might work in a big city but were really pushy the year he became our DM I won a contest for best salesman in the whole company out of about 14,000 employees and I did it without being pushy and forcing stuff on people he still tried to get me to use these ridiculous techniques each month when he would visit it after I won the contest I stopped sugarcoating it and would flat-out tell him that stupid I'm not going to do it that way being pushy is the best way to talk yourself out of a sale as a customer when I am approached by those types I will almost always walk away even if I need what they are selling I was a summer teacher at one of those Korean sat prep school at high of us college students for a summer and then promptly worked them to death although I will admit the pay was pretty good and we taught 8:30 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. with an hour lunch we've had homework to grade every evening prep work etc well they were mainly focused on teaching English when I was a math and physics major so they had me teaching Sat math and college prep physics no problem then they decided since I studied physics I should also teach their chemistry class I tried to tell them I didn't know much chemistry but they insisted so I worked my butt off refreshing myself on all of the stuff before I taught it while still teaching another math and physics class one day in the middle of this I got legitimately sick I called in the night before for the rules and told them I couldn't come in I took one day off sleeping in my apartment and then dragged myself in the next day when I show up they pull me aside and say so how do you plan on making up the time for the classes you've missed excuse me well we didn't have anyone to teach your classes so all the kids are behind now you have to make up the time we figured you could just extend your morning class an hour for the first week aka teach over lunch and your afternoon class could then starts an hour early for the next week why didn't you have a sub teach my class than they screwed up they said we don't have a sub well then no I'm not going to skip my lunch because of your guys poor planning will fire you and then you won't get your plane ticket remember us they replied go ahead first I followed the rules and gave you notice I was going to be out second you just told me you don't have a sub for my classes that means if I leave you're going to lose all of those students that I'm teaching that will cost you a lot more than the planet ticket will cost me was 19 and working a minimum-wage job in a shop owner sold the business to a new guy who had never worked in the industry and knew nothing about any of it his first day in charge he decides I look unprofessional and should be wearing a uniform then he decides the uniform should include a fluorescent cap with my name embroidered on it I told him I wouldn't have taken this job if it had included wearing a fluorescent cap with my name embroidered on it but he tells me it's going to be mandatory from now on so I will be sacked if I don't wear it fine by me I'll be leaving for any other job which pays exactly the same but doesn't make me wear a ridiculous hat and I'll take with me my good relationships with all our contractors and suppliers and my knowledge of how the Frick all your equipment actually works wieder he didn't fire me nor was I presented with a spiffy new hat when all the other employees got theirs I did leave about two weeks later though as he was an insufferable [ __ ] faced with a real anger issue and was impossible to work with was very tempted to pop in and visit wearing a cap with my name on but I didn't want him to die from rage I'm a speech therapist I work in a skilled nursing facility for the most part they all suck this is no exception but the place I used to work the boss was a scumbag to the extent that the entire rehab staff signed the letter asking to get him fired he was basically forced out I eventually left and came to my current job I swung by the rehab gym and saw his butt sitting in my current boss's office I kind of froze in shock I thought he was interviewing for a job there so I went to the boss at the time and told her flat out that if he got hired I was walking out immediately if she got a stunned look on her face and quickly assured me that he wasn't working there that was my first time drawing a line in the sand like that this was about 5-6 years ago I was the second in charge of our shipping department making $11 an hour the head off shipping had a mental breakdown so I took over while he got help about 3 weeks after he returned the company released him because they didn't like him and I could do the job when they told me they had East him I asked if there were going to be interviews for the job or was the job just mine since I was number two I was told they were looking but I would have a chance to interview once that process started fast-forward about six months and I'm still doing this job that pays around 50k a year for $11 an hour we had some issues with staff turnover and process changes because a warehouse manager thought he knew best and would listen they then tell me there wouldn't be a shipping manager just a shipping lead which would be an hourly position I asked about a raise get told my review is in two months so just wait I wait three months four months then one day after a 14-hour night shift I get a call from the WM telling me I have to come in right now when I get there he unloads on me for things that were beyond my control and mistakes other people made we start yelling and that's when I told him I make $11 an hour doing this job ex boss told me he got paid 50k a year to do but I don't need this crap give me a raise or I won't be back I then went home and back to sleep when I go back to work I'm met by WN and ops manager they appreciate the hard work I've been doing and are putting me on a salary starting at 45 K since X boss was there longer I negotiated up to 48 K nice please use your new title to look for other work just in case they don't sound very competent for the past few years I've worked at one of the nicer restaurants in my small beach town I'm one of the only service that who cares about doing a good and I'm the only one who doesn't take a smoke break every 15 minutes this past summer renew very illegal rule was implemented that if we messed up an order in any way we would be liable to pay for that messed up food I usually didn't have a problem with mess-ups so I didn't bring up the legality of this matter since I make good money and don't want to start fires in places that don't concern me that until I rang in a cherry glaze burger instead of a cherry glaze stake each stylized cg b and c GS in our crappy computer system i fix this with the kitchen but not before they had already started the burger i told my manager she just gave me a disappointed and told me that the rules are the rules I then dived into both federal and state workers rides code and told her she would never see me again if I found any money out of my tips at the end of the night never had a problem fixing an order again was working in a restaurant already knew I was sick but our managers were buttholes and I knew if I called him they'd be extremely pissy showed up to work around 8:00 a.m. by 9:00 a.m. I knew I wasn't gonna last the rest of the day manager still made me stay around 9:30 I was pre bussing my tables and just the sight of half-eaten food pushed me over the edge managed to hold my vomit until I got to the dishwashing area but pooped in a trash can immediately after putting my plates down a co-worker saw me and vouched for me when I went to tell my manager I was leaving for the doctor he said even with a doctor's note if you leave work today you'll be fired I said you have human waste in a kitchen trashcan and haven't even done anything about it it's on camera I'm leaving it showed up for work a few days later and didn't hear anything about it ended up quitting a few weeks later for a job at a couple considerably higher scale restaurant put in my two weeks notice at wildly understaffed job six days later got sick I call around and see if anyone can take my shift no one is available tried to call out that morning crappy manager tries to persuade me to come and even though I am barfing everywhere I noncommittally agree to call in later in the day to see if I am feeling up to coming in anyway call back say I am still sick and will not be coming in manager blows up at me in front of customers being rude as Frick eventually asks what I expect to do about the shift needing to be covered I say I have done everything I am required to and it sounds like a management problem to me hang up and turn my phone off I was elbows deep in an ATM T UNIX machine that should have been replaced a decade before but strewn all over a desk when the client came in to see what was taking me so long , me you've got three dead fans one of the power supplies has failed there's a bad CMOS battery and the video card is glitchy and refusing to allow the machine to post-16 , me laughing I can patch things up in a couple hours but I'm going to have to come back in a few days with new parts come a client if you can't fix it in the next half hour you're fired I'll find someone that knows what they are doing I stood up grabbed my tools and started walking come a client where are you going , me I told her how long it would take and that's longer than a half hour so I guess I'm fired my firing lasted about three more steps towards the door man oh man do I hate bossy people who do not even know how things work worked at the private medical college in Punjab India they wanted me to falsify patient admissions to get increase grants from gov't I refused they said that I would be fired I was the only resident with specializing in orthopedics I was let go then came surprised checking by gov medical body I was offered three times my monthly pay to attend for one day inspection I asked for five times and they agreed I ditched out at the last moment they lost their recognition of depth of orthopedics with insufficient residents no admission in ortho till next checking that's freaking evil I love it 2004 worked at a municipality department one day the programmers update the work PCs and block pretty much everything and everything no internet at all no authorization for installing anything all games removed from Windows they even removed a calculator function for some reason then the supervisors started moving co-workers around and my entire team was dispersed across a gigantic building for no reason we were the top team in terms of results the supervisors simply hated our guts for some reason but so me and one of the co-workers try to device some way to have communication without having to travel for five minutes each time across the building and down a floor just to get to each other's desk and ask a simple yes-or-no question we do this during our lunch break our supervisor Watson and asks we're doing we explained we are trying to save time and maximize communication and results the supervisor who doesn't like us anyway says we should get back to work and quit trying to communicate through one authorized means okay we simply stop trying to install messenger on our phones one day later the supervisor is looking for my coworker I don't know where he is I say so well then contact him through your messenger program the one you told us to quit installing yes we gave up on that on your orders she tried to get me fired for refusing to obey basic orders I explained the situation to her superior he let me get back to work and told me to ignore her from then on I moved to a better post a few months later because she made my life unbearable from that day on and I finally went and told the upper floor they'll either move me elsewhere or I quit my dog became very ill quite suddenly and he needed to be put down I was at work and I asked to leave half an hour early so I could be there for him I asked my manager and she got annoyed and said there was no way and that I should have told her earlier I said I'm sorry I didn't realize my dog was going to die in the most sarcastic way possible then walked away knowing she'd follow me I then stood at my desk and typed my resignation up in front of her she gave me the time off no one was going to stop me from being there for my boy I was working at a shoe store in a mall and I requested a week and August off for my wedding my manager told me her boss wasn't happy about that and all I said was my wedding is more important than back-to-school sales they didn't fire me I said they just stopped sheduled me and eventually my access to the employee website went away that's called constructive dismissal and is illegal in some circumstances I used to work at a small family-owned grocery store for a few years we got our load in on Mondays and Thursdays and we got passed over one Monday and the distributor said we'd get the missing load in on Thursday so what essentially happened was a double load and my to receiving partners were out sick I was the only person in the warehouse receiving at a time and got to take on 15 plus pallets of groceries that need to hit the shelves immediately I was specifically told to not go up front and to do what I could while the front-end crew cover the aisles and cash registers well a lot of them were either lazy and trained or just putting in their hours so they could pay bills I put in my air burped just one and get to work I'm halfway through the checking in the pallets when I get called up front so I ignore it and continue then I get cooled again so I head up there and get yelled at by a new hire with a bad attitude to do your job and bag for me the customer was a regular and we got along very well and she told me that she was fine and could bag her own groceries between the customer and the fact that I wasn't having it I walked away I had three years and two ranks on her so I didn't give half of a crap and went back to my pallets then I get the newest hotshot manager who replaced the old hotshot manager who replaced the beloved manager who trained basically the whole store in my face about having an air burden on the clock which is allowed as long as you have alia free and said I could be sent home and not come back if I wanted to listen to music so I gestured to the pallets and said go for it these all need to be checked in and broken down have fun I got to keep my air bird in commerce so I had that going for me which was nice never make threats that you can't keep such a simple concept first kitchen I worked in they told me the more jobs I learned the more I'd get paid came in basically knowing all of it anyway it's six months later I had learned every job there except one spot they told me if I learned that spot I'd get a raise I told them I could find a new kitchen I was easily one of the best employees there and that I was told the more I learned the more it'd get paid and I still hadn't been given a raise head chef cracked and gave me a raise I told him fifty cents wasn't enough he was forced to give me another two weeks after that they fired the banquet chef's assistant we had a lot of 300 plus people events and told him to pick his new assistant he immediately requested me I told them I needed another raise I was told no again again I said I'll find a new job came in the next day and put my two weeks in yup found the job that quick wound up making more money in that kitchen than anyone beside the banquet chef in the head chef that's how I wound up getting three raises in a month it's amazing nowadays that you always have two or almost have to jump ship before you get to raise that worth keeping you there I'm sure everyone's had that tyrannical boss who was so drunk with power that everyone hated him and he felt like that was a sign that he was doing a good job right about 20 years ago I was working as a delivery driver at a Pizza Hut and they transferred in a manager who couldn't seem to get along the area supervisor point-blank told me that he was on his last leg and if he caused any problems they were going to let him go I was kind of the lead driver no title or extra pay but I was the one who trained new drivers and for some reason this guy decided I needed to be taken down a notch just Harris to me and was on my crap constantly surely the office told him he needed to adjust his attitude but I'm not sure if this guy was capable anyway one day I told him to freak off I was more valuable to the store than he was and if he really wanted to show who's in charge he should learn how to do his job better he flew into a rage swept a big stack of lids off of a shelf and ordered me to or wash them and put them away I just punched out and went home it was the middle of the afternoon and I was the only driver at the time about 30 minutes later I get a call from the supervisor telling me to come back because they were taking care of things got back just in time to see him sulking off with his termination papers I don't typically take pleasure in other people's pain but he actually felt pretty good I hope he learned his lesson but somehow I doubt it well not really work but still I was an intern at a 3d printer company the manager was a complete piece of sh t on my first week he made a coworker cry because she sent an order to the wrong client she apologized to the customer and he didn't mind she sent the right one afterwards however the manager screamed and yelled at her for the entire week it was a small company and I was sitting next to her at the time but I didn't know how to react to the situation because if I was afraid he would fire me and then I wouldn't pass class well the week after that I made a wrong sketch of an advertisement and he just completely lost his mind he screamed and yelled at me I stood up called my school and said what happened they called the manager and was threatened to take his intern license away I was left alone with my school work after that and he never screamed at any others ever again past the internship belly and he hated my guts after the incident he's sorry if my English is not that great company was doing badly in the 2008 depression they hired an expensive new vice president to let our division who asked me barely one month into sack any two people from my team of software engineers whoever I felt like because she said so as layoffs were necessary to ensure long-term stability or somesuch I steadfastly refused and dead her to fire me instead and the issue really blew up at the time before they could fire any of us so a new contract came along which needed more people to execute than we even had on our rolls they didn't hire anyone new but we had to slog our assess to deliver the project the VP got fired a few months later as she was way too expensive and wasn't adding enough value aircraft technician here working on an air ambulance on a very small island in the middle of nowhere we used to be Tulane licensed aircraft maintenance engineer on this position cause we work 15 days 24 hours schedule but a new company bought our old one and the other guy left for a position closer home and after six months they haven't been able to fill the position and have to send a guy 15 days each month paying flights and hotel that costs 100 200 euros per day cause this is a very expensive and popular holiday place I'm from this island and after lots of years out of home I'm happy to be back they want to lower my salary 30% or get fired cause I get nearly twice what they used to pay he told me to accept or they will put another guy on my position yeah good luck finding Tulane that want to live here when you haven't find one told my boss two weeks in advance that I was taking PTO on Monday and Tuesday she approved it no problem I take the days off and went out of town for a school thing I come back into the office on Wednesday and I'm locked out of my account I talked to the operations manager my boss's boss who was the person who interviewed and hired me to see what's going on he told me that my boss said I disappeared and didn't contact anybody for two days I explained it to him and he said no problem I talked to my boss later in the afternoon and she is furious starts saying how I didn't tell anybody that I was taking PTO and thought I just suddenly quit I don't know what the frick this.b was talking about because I told her two weeks ago that I was going to be out those two days and I have the emails to prove it at this point I was the only person left on my team of four people who were there when I was hired I was already planning on quitting in next month as I had to move for school this B had the audacity to threaten to fire me I said if you feel like you need to let me go for your mistake go ahead ended up working there for another seven weeks before leaving on my terms even got to use the operations manager as a reference for another job the best is when there are written emails proving you are right and they still argue law i was hired on as a part-time assistant manager and then immediately told I would be working part-time at two different restaurants I knew things were shady as soon as they gave me two separate paychecks then less than a month later they had someone go on vacation and needed me to cover their shifts suddenly I was working 80 hours weeks at the end of the pay period I took my checks into the office and asked why I why I wasn't being paid overtime they said that they weren't required to pay overtime because technically I work two jobs I look them in the eye and said this is my two weeks notice for one of my jobs they said they needed someone that worked - are you formally telling me that my employer requires me to keep two separate payrolls so that you aren't required to pay me overtime they said they couldn't afford to pay me overtime and I stood my ground and told them that I would work her maximum of 40 hours per week after a brief back-and-forth they agreed then about a week later another manager had a death in the family they scheduled me for a TR weeks again without ask while the other manager took time off to grieve then one day one of the payroll people came by one of my restaurants and politely asked how are you I said I'm not going to lie I'm a bit stressed about the amount of hours I've been working for the last couple months then she said you should be grateful you are getting paid I immediately told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that told her that of them I told them that if I ever saw scheduled that had me listed for even 41 hours I would walk immediately they met my demands in that they reduced my hours I ended up quiting less than two months later anyways because it's really a shady business I worked at Burger King as a teenager one day the assistant manager who illegally brought her teenage daughter to work to help her out asked me to clean the restrooms it wasn't my normal job but I didn't mind I had a good attitude about it and prepared to go clean the bathrooms I walked into the men's room and discovered that the reason she asked me to do it was because someone crap all over the bathroom smeared fecal matter on the walls the sink the floor the outside of the toilet the toilet was clogged and hand wet used toilet paper inside of it and all over the room it was a complete disaster I walked out of the bathroom went back to the kitchen and told the assistant manager I am NOT cleaning that you can fire me but I'm not cleaning it she sighed heavily and went and got a mop worked at a cancer nonprofit hired a lady who knew about us because her kid had cancer boss wanted me to fire her because she had to come and late to leave early to take her kid to chemo I refused boss said she'd fire me if I didn't I told her she could go right ahead our CEO said no way I got fired from a nonprofit helping veterans with PTSD because I needed time off to deal with PTSD they chalked it up to being too small to have to conform with FMLA leave made me learn real fast everyone involved doesn't give a crap when it's real I was in the military and was trying to take my vacation time before I lost the days they denied my requests four different times and I hadn't had a day off in three months and I was working 1216 hours shifts most days I was beyond done I was teaching some new guys part of the tasks for one job everything was fine I went somewhere else in the hangar to do something else on the plane this quality assurance guy that everyone knew as a pain came in I did my stuff good and he never bothered me so I didn't pay him any attention he started talking to one of the new dudes he then asked to talk to me and pulled me aside he then asked my I hadn't told the new guy about some super obscure caution about water under a grate in the hangar floor something that had nothing to do with our job so it didn't matter he was just being a pain I was over the job and him so I told him listen sergeant keyway I've been denied my leave four separate times and I've been working for three months straight so if you have a problem with the way I taught them write me up I don't give her if and you can stuff it up your a to tell my boss I said that it was a little extreme that I was pushed to the point when I went back and I knew I was in deep because the guy walked out of my shop heads office and I got called right in when I went in there the shop head said I heard what happened out there submit that Daisy want to take leave right now and he'll approve it for you he then told me I could leave that's all I heard about it I was shocked I worked at a terrible retail boutique on college worked my way up to management their pay policies were illegal and the idiot district director they hire staff terribly I worked open to close by myself multiple times I finally locked up in the middle of the day to go take a break once got court tell if I did it again I'd be fired said stop staffing so crappy they did it again I locked up again and a customer called corporate I was fired last LOF was on them because I threatened to sue them for violating employment law longer backstory not for here sure did class-action multi-million dollar settlement getting back lost wages for 1,000 plus employees across multiple states Plus unemployment for me actually what led to a complete life change for me and I wouldn't be as successful now had I just let them continue to abuse me short-term financial pain and scary when you don't know how you will afford food or how to pay bills made it through and definitely worth it not only for me but a lot of people benefited Frick who PKU piece-of-crap you don't deserve to still be in business I've been at the company a long time therefore I know both day and night shift duties in and out are well liked by our clients and in charge of training the new recruits most work for us up to 6 - 12 months before growing tired on the workload or finding that they can't handle the job or just wanted cash enough to study up for something else anyway they are heavily dependent on me my closest boss threatened to fire me for being home one day and drinking beer when I was supposed to be at work two weeks prior I had agreed to do overtime but I wanted a new schedule so I would not miss it I got a new schedule but she had forgotten to fill in that day on it she blamed me for it anyway and said it was grounds for terminating my contract I dared her to do it and see how long we could stay in business worked for an online marketing firm doing sayo reports and optimization this was my first job so I didn't understand the concept of start working slow sir you have room to improve well I was working at 100% and doing well one week my girlfriend of four years broke up with me and I was taking it roughly I was kind of scatterbrained and slowed down a little bit I told my boss this and he was like okay we'll try not to stay like this for long so three days go by and I'm better and working 100% again so like a week later he calls me in and says I need you to do almost all of your co-workers work because you're better at it than he isn't he's gonna do something else now sure I'll do my best but I can't make any promises I'll get it all done so I'm now working two people's jobs in the time of one I finish one in three stroke for other work em and then get called into his office he's claiming I flicked him over and I slowed down for too long so I say fire me then I tired of doing all this extra crap and I promise you need me well I got fired two weeks later he calls me up and asks me to come back says he can't do all of the work I tell him good maybe you won't treat your employees like crap next time went out of business like a month later that's a good but ending a manager threatened to fire me because I wouldn't make some system changes that would have led the company very open to a cyber attack I had recorded a phone call between the manager and I where I explained the risk and that we needed someone more senior to sign off on that risk before I would make the change he swore at me and told me just to frickin do it which was all captured on the recording he didn't know I was recording at the HR meeting where he was going to effectively fire me I insisted on bringing representation and at the time the policy said I could bring whoever I wanted so I chose his boss the meeting starts the mank just cites insubordination et Cie and I just sat there when they eventually said we are giving you formal notice I just asked are you sure he replied yes my representative his boss at this point had said nothing it was at this point I played the recording I was asked to leave the room I was called back 15 minutes later apologized at given a pay rise and informed that the manager will no longer be working on this client site or any client site we supported when I worked in environmental remediation I had a similar thing happened the answer is always just no what's your state regulation and if you illegally recorded someone it's not something your boss will be excited to hear about just know your state my 22nd birthday I was working at a bookstore in the King of Prussia Mall my college girlfriend of four years had broken up with me earlier that night it was around 7 to 8 p.m. of a busy weekend night when I noticed a pretty awful smell I glanced over at my manager working the other register and could tell he smelled it too but we continued to power through a line of antsy customers once we cleared the line a woman came up to me red-faced and laughing in shock and embarrassment she said she had walked into one of the aisles to find a girl about 8 years old taking a crap on the I looked over at the manager who clearly had heard as well and said Dave you can go ahead and fire me but I'm not cleaning that up I believe that fesses counts as a biohazard and you legally need to be trained have the correct equipments to clean it up not me but my dad so he was delivering catering to an office one day and the receptionist obviously flicked up she was yelling at him in front of her bosses saying that he was too late on time with proof and that the order was wrong when it wasn't she was making such a big issue of it and then said she was going to report him to his manager and get him fired sir my dad said see if I care and gave her the number she called and my dad picked up because he is not the manager but the owner everyone in that room was laughing at her sorry for formatting on mobile I hate people who refute actual proof like that I ordered IT 412 you ordered it 4-3 here is the email you sent me here see it says 3:00 p.m. no you are still wrong somehow freaking infuriates me that people can just ignore evidence like that used to work at a liquor store with two extremely unreliable people who love drama both of them got into dog measuring contests with the manager and quit on the spot leaving me and a skeleton crew to manage the rest of the crazy summer season the rest of the crew spent a good portion of their shift sitting on pallets doing coke in the bathroom and or drinking on the job so I was the go-to employee suddenly comparatively to the two drama queens I was a very well behaved employee but I would sometimes take my tips and pop over to the coffee shop next door while on the clock one time I stepped back into the store right as the manager came into the other entrance I just stood there and looked at her she kind of shrugged helplessly and let me do it for the rest of the summer , and let me do it for the rest of the summer but as soon as that 22nd of September rolled around she was like flick that noise working retail I was department manager over six departments with no backup including electronics I also ran return desk on my own and was one of two front-end managers one day I was asked to clean the restroom I asked why our janitor couldn't do it they said they were busy I listed off my responsibilities and said I'm the busiest one in here they insisted I humored the ID and went to take a look and that's when I saw it the women's restroom the floor was covered in urine but none of the toilet said overflowed one however had a literal pile of crap that went at least eight inches past the toilet seat and there was crap all over the counters walls and other toilets I said back on the radio nope not doing this this is where I draw the line not my job she came to the front she L insisted I had to that it was part of my responsibilities as Co front end manager to assist in any way I said you're just an assistant manager you sit back in the office all day and aren't out here doing anything you do this she said we need to go to the office now I said if you're going back there to write me up you might as well just freakin fire me I'm not doing this and that's final in the end they found someone else the janitor who had like 15-20 minutes left of their break owner of the company was avoiding the meeting where I get my raise I waited over two weeks finally told my supervisors I'm walking out the door if they don't fix this they told me to go talk to him I told them they were the supervisors and it was their job to do that not mine I'm in an understaffed position at a job that is very difficult to fill if I left then the rest would have gone too they knew that told my supervisors sort manager and safty about severe issues at work broken equipment act they didn't do anything told the Union they didn't do anything either reported the issues for several months nothing said frickert and called Osher instead of filing grievances and my supervisor freaked out and asked if I call them told him straight up yes you're dang right I did he threatened to fire me I told him about the whistleblower act and how that would be the stupidest decision he has ever made told him to please do it because I would ascend chillie win the fantasy 5 I may not make a million but I guarantee you I will get a good 200k never had any issues at work Sims if you get her next time don't warn them just let them do it I worked retail in college and was a really valuable employee because I worked in three departments including loss prevention which was really hard to get good people in one of my not LP shifts my depth had cleaned bathrooms and the closing duties rotation I go in and clean the men's room and it's mostly fine I go to clean the women's room and it looks like someone has literally thrown a crap grenade in the handicap stall there's a line about three feet up the wall where everything below the line is covered in a fine layer of crap spray I notes out of that we had no special equipment like not even gloves and told the store manager he needed to hire someone he went on a huge rant for ten minutes and people gathered to watch him yell at the end I told him I could get a job at any other stores at this shopping center and I wasn't cleaning that up then I signed out and I left I called in my manager the next day to check my schedule and everything was fine crap bullet dodged I guess wasn't physically at work but it was on the phone day before my mom is feeling bad calling me at work and giving me updates I finally convinced her she needs to go to the ER and I tell her to stay put and that I will be there soon to take her of course she insisted that I stay at work but whatever that's my mom I'm freaking taking her to the air bTW mom has history of bad health and issues and whatnot I tell my direct manager I'm leaving and she's like fine whatever make up the hours fine next day and my mom is still not great that it's fine I got to her meds but they still need to run other tests so I decide to stay home with her and take care of her and run errands medical related stuff for her I call out leaving a message with our customer service desk but soon after I get a call from a manager of a different department we'll call her cm asking why I called out I tell her I need to take care of my mom CMO what's wrong with her I'm sure she'll be fine at home Neah no I left early yesterday to take her to the air and she's still weak cm continues to try and convince me my mom is fine and I need to come in by give in and tell her all the details cm is unrelenting and finally finished with a cherry on top I'm sure your mom would rather you have a job to come back to hum well know be you don't know my mom you don't know her health you don't know anything I know you're a mom so that's surprising as heck fetus eh I hope your children find themselves in that situation with a crap manager and I hope they use the same ideals Urich reaching I answered her we'll see but I can go out and get another job I can't go out and get another mom I'm staying home today to take care of my mom she said something about seeing me the next day in an attempt to end the convo and say bye so I said yay we'll see how she's doing said goodbye and hung up felt great cause I'm normally a pushover but not when it comes to my mom I held firm and kept my composure so she couldn't really say I was rude or anything either but she was PII ionized I loved reading this one I'd also do anything for my mom great on you for standing up for yourself three I was working in the service industry and one of my customers ordered something that had since been reworked on the menu I could tell he didn't like it but didn't want to complain I told my manager exactly that and she got mad at me because he didn't actually complain she yelled at me about how I couldn't know what he was thinking so I asked her to just go talk to the guy and if I was wrong she could fire me you'll never guess exactly what the guy said to her she didn't look me in the eye for over a month this was the second time something like this happened with her I brought a PowerPoint into my last jobs performance review that basically ended with I know how much I'm worth either pay me more crap or find some other butthole to do all of the work of five people I intended for it to come off as a half joke because me and my boss were pals but he thought it made sense so he fought to get me a raise you have been spotted by the money pigeon comment gimme gimme and he will bless you with good fortune like' and subscribe' magnet in person

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Id: Z6Jb6_3Dp3s

Length: 48min 26sec (2906 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 20 2020