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once you're duck this i quit story i was in the same position for two years and was actively looking at other positions within the same company bosses knew about it it was just time for a change and to advance my career great opportunity came up and i was offered the position however my current leadership blocked me because i received a promotion six months prior that promotion was literally an automatic email that said congrats you're now level two instead of level one because i had met my sales attainment and completed all my yearly trainings literally an automated email stopped me from getting promoted and bosses said i had to wait another 18 months left that company and went to a competitor doing the same thing for better pay and significantly more support was at a job for three years consistently in the top three of my department in terms of performance asked my supervisor repeatedly if i could be recommended for advancement promotion and he always told me he was trying his best to get me new opportunities found out from a friend in a different department that i'd been considered a top candidate for four different promotions and each time my supervisor had blocked it when i confronted him with this information he told me it was true and he did it because i could never find someone who does what you do without paying them a lot more internally said duck this i quit and found a new job within three months to call my pto and on the day i came back i quit two hours into the day leaving him high and dry at a peak time duck that dude i worked for a company for over a year that was contracted to make deliveries for amazon the vans they equipped us with were terribly maintained and fully unequipped to handle winter weather i worked with the company through their first winter which meant sliding all over the road when it was icy and getting stuck constantly every time we had snow i never had a major accident though i did have two or three close calls where only minor damage was incurred to the van i decided to stick it out through the summer and the weather was obviously much better all summer long they promised us that new and better vans were coming september rolls around no vans october no vans november no vans that month we got our first real snow i got back from my route and immediately put in my notice my boss told me they would be getting new vans by the end of the year i told her that was nice and walked i was 20 and had been working in a call center for just over a year i was promoted to an assistant manager with a new compensation structure that was identical to the other assistant manager basically you got your wage a very small percent of the total office revenue and then 10 of your own revenue from when you worked on the phone my immediate manager and office supervisor gave me this without confirming it with the regional manager who was on a two-month vacation in the dr when i got my first check after being promoted there was no bonus i was told it would be corrected soon when i got my second check after being promoted there was no bonus i was told it would be corrected soon when i got my third check after being promoted there was no bonus and i was told we had to wait for the regional manager to come back and authorize it i was being paid weekly and worked another four weeks under the premise that i would get a lump sum when the regional manager returned the problem was that i sold significantly more than the other office manager the back pay had grown to such a large amount that when the regional manager did return he questioned why the office manager had given me this structure as he considered it to be too much money on my next check there was no lump sum and i was told that they were figuring out a new structure my following shift i stayed home and got a frantic call from the office manager asking me why i wasn't at work i told him i couldn't afford to go to work he said why can't you afford it because i have been getting ripped off for two months call me back when you have my money or don't call me at all never did get paid was working at a restaurant in ambarotn found a better job that actually gave me hours and went in to put my two-week notice was more like a week a few days due to timing of the new gig in out of courtesy i got a lecture about how i could never come back to the company since it wasn't a full two weeks i then suggested politely that that's great let's say today is my last day then was such a relief edit this blew up a bit and it made it to a chive article this happened over 15 years ago should have mentioned that thanks for the silver kind redditer currently in the u.s military was back and forth about re-enlisting for another four years have done nine to this point i have a three-year-old daughter at home who i haven't seen in almost two years for more than three weeks was talking to an officer in my chain of command when i told him my thoughts i had just received orders to remain overseas for an additional two years his exact words were you have already missed two years of her life you can afford to lose two more i went to my command career counselor office that day and signed my intention to separate edit just because some people are confused by wording the officer meant i've already missed two years i could afford to miss two more since i've already know what it's like arrived at the bar to work my shift only to discover that the owners had sacked my manager because there was in their view too much wastage at the time he was recovering from major surgery on his arm he had three young children and an eight months pregnant wife they thought they were losing money because not every drop of beer poor went into somebody's drink which is just a fact of life in a bar and not because their idol torah sun brother father son owner duo kept coming in with his mates and demanding we give them drinks they didn't have to pay for quit on the spot went to the manager's sons christening a while later a year or two after that was told the bailiffs had come to visit the bar and left with quite a lot of furniture couldn't have happened to bigger [ __ ] i got an interview offer from vector marketing cutco as a team i went it was a knife presentation the presenter pulled me into the office for a short interview offered me the job on the spot so you expect me to make appointments and travel yes and you want me to pay for my own knives then tell me to sell them to my friends and family for commission yes i'll just get a real job edit here's a short list of lawsuits vector has been involved in in 1994 wisconsin ordered vector to stop deceptive recruiting practices leading the company to temporarily stop recruiting in the state in 2003 a recruit who was successful in a lawsuit against vector for failing to adhere to labor laws in new york co-founded a group students against vector exploitation save in 2008 elisha harris filed a federal class action lawsuit against vector paris alleged that victor violated california and federal labor law by failing to pay adequate wages and illegally coercing employees into patronizing the company the case harris v vector marketing corporation is pending a final settlement approval for 13 us dollar a million before judge edward m chen i lawsuit in 2014 allege that a girl was violently sexually assaulted by one of her customers while working for victor and sued the company for not providing her with adequate training to prevent the situation the company paid a 6.75 million dollars preliminary settlement in 2016 for violations of the fair labor standards act in california florida new york illinois and michigan when workers sued for going and paid for their trainings in september 2017 vector was sued in a class action lawsuit initiated by a division manager who alleged that the company was engaging in unfair labor practices because despite his position he was still classified as an independent contractor thus denying him access to overtime pay according to the suit division managers are the highest ranking class of workers who are not officially classified as vector employees i was a new seuss chef at a country club chef wouldn't let anyone but himself do the ordering his ordering method was to go over a sheet of paper hanging on the line where people wrote down what we were out of not what we were nearly out of but what we were completely out of any time i'd try to add items that we were close to out of on he'd loses it we were constantly out of things one day we had a huge easter breakfast event dippit chef didn't order near enough eggs and we were out of all sorts of other random items i was out front making omelets for members ran out of eggs and stood around for 15 minutes waiting for more while the members became increasingly frustrated then angry went to the back to see chef yucking it up with the fall manager handed him my apron and told him to pound sand was a bad job for less than two weeks edit sues had my annual review after finishing my first year at a retail store and i got a 13 cent per hour raise a co-worker of mine who drunkenly broken into the laundromat grocery store in town to steal beer a few weeks prior got a 14 cent per hour raise and new employees were making 12 cents more to start then i was one year in duck this i quit and duck you under armour edit a lot more comments than i anticipated but here's some more info this was in 2012 to 2013 so a while back our store manager went to a national meeting ended up getting another store manager pregnant not sure if they knew each other prior to that but he left shortly after i did some other it went down with reports by the employees against long-time managers and new managers so some regional or hq exec came in and fired all the managers and they started from scratch very poorly ran over the entire course of my employment there considering the manager who hired me allegedly got fired for sexual harassment or he quit just before that when i left i left to take a job from the ua assistant manager's wife selling shoes at dillards the assistant manager worked for a few months at ua before quitting around the time i did for a lot of similar bs reasons at dillard's i made 11 dollars per hour before commission drove like 10 minutes to work instead of like 30 and had a way more enjoyable experience but still ended up leaving after six months now i work in my field of study while i finish my masters so done with retail forever i hope was volunteering at a local charity shop at the weekend as it turns out most of the non-paid volunteers were conscripted from job seekers or community service or whatever they had to turn up to get their welfare payments etc anyway i'd been there about six months was hard graft at times moving sofas round the shop up and down three floors it was a nice sunny day and i was taking my lunch break out the back sitting on a sofa at the loading bay doors in view of a public car park eating a sandwich with my feet up on the railing all of a sudden some woman who i've never seen before starts swaggling her finger at me like i'm a naughty kid then shouting at me in a disgusting tone get up young man how dare you she kept ranting on i'm like who the hell is this she get conduct slowly i get up and move inside turns out she was the area manager she pissed me off so bad i didn't really have an issue with what she was asking it possibly didn't give a good impression it was the way she was speaking to me i had a problem with i think she thought i was the typical conscript who could be abused without recourse as they had to stay there and take the abuse in order to get their payments some customers in the shop heard how she spoke to me and they backed me up so i knew i wasn't nuts told her she could stick my volunteering and i got the hell out of there never went back made me think why should i give up my free time to help this itch on a fat salary hit her targets i doubt she had a charitable bone in her body i wrote a two-page letter of complaint to the head office but never did send it kind of regret that i had a manager who just didn't like me i don't know why it happened but she couldn't keep it professional and acted as if every mistake i made i had made on purpose just to duck with her meanwhile everyone else told me that they were super happy with me and i was a great worker so she had worked that saturday and when i turned on my pc that monday morning i had about 10 emails from her all with screenshots and rude remarks like why is it so hard for you to follow the rules and how did you not know this while she was the one that trained me duck that it i'm worth way more than that summer job in a downtown scuzzy part of the city retail store repainting the wooden fence around the parking lot the fence wood was a pattern so on an angle you could see through it i was painting the one site and a guy walked up on the other side and started pissing on the other side a stream of piss almost on my head i yelled and said get the hell out of here he continued to piss and then dropped to a squat for a number two got up packed up the paintbrush and paint went inside for a break boss said what are you doing in the fence is not done i said you don't pay me enough to get pissed on i proved to the cio using math that the help desk could not lower its abandon rate to an acceptable point without hiring more people she responded by telling me that my team just didn't have enough discipline and then i got written up i quit the next day and told my team they will replace me with a manager whom the cio will let hire more people i was right started my first job at 15 as a dishwasher for a friend's family's new korean restaurant they were my neighbors my typical work day was 4 p.m to 9 p.m on the clock afterwards i was expected to stay and help close shop and instead of getting paid for those extra three hours i was given a meal for compensation to be fair there are laws prohibiting minors from working too long or too late and honestly i didn't mind it as the food was incredible after about a year i'm now 16 and due to the minimal weight stuff i was expected to work as a waiter bus boy in between dishes fair enough i was getting sick of the same old same old anyways so i came in during the week to start training and since they knew i was already familiar w the menu and whatnot i wasn't a shadow i was just on my own and winging it i made a mistake that is not remembering super salad so i went back upstairs to ask and when i returned with my answer i was insulted by my manager for not taking this seriously enough all right a couple months go by and i'm waiting tables and dishwashing all while being micromanaged by my manager well one weekend the mardi gras parade was being held downtown where the restaurant is located so it could easily be one of our busiest days that year i was scheduled for 4 p.m to 10 p.m but they asked if i'd come in that morning around 8 or so about an hour or two into my new shift there was a mountain of dishes i was being expected to maintain while also waiting tables my manager walks into the back where i am in the dialogue goes like this leif what are you doing washing dishes go ask table six if they need refills yes mom i walk out the back into the front of the store while she's tailgating me and pick up the pitcher of water as i pick it up she asks do you even know what you're doing at this point i'm pretty fed up and kindly respond with yeah i know how to pour water she didn't like that and told me that i need to look at her with respect and that if i didn't like it here i should just leave so i left them with mountains of dishes and thirsty customers know your worth was working 10-12 hours a day at a start-up where my official workouts were 10 a.m to 7 p.m one fine friday i finished what i was doing and shut down my system all ready to go home at 6 45 pm and was told that i cannot leave cause my workouts were 10-7 and i should go back at start to the blank screen for 15 more minutes started going in at 10 and leaving at 7 every day even if it was release day where the production servers were down took me some time to get out of there due to adult life problems but that was the day i unofficially quit edit holy at this blew up to everyone who has morons like these leading you start interviewing switch teams don't give me don't lose sleep over it most importantly keep it together soon you will be out one way or another trust me i have been there cried myself to bed for many many days granted i got really fortunate with my friends helping me but in the end it was my good hard working character along with my skills that finally got me out and it's not worth losing yourself because of such idiots my boss had my crew and i cut corners on a job i was fairly new to the position and took what he said as the way was supposed to get done inspectors then came and checked the job because of an unrelated screw up by another company and in turn found out what we had done boss then blamed the whole thing on me and denied he ever told me to do it it was done spent the the next two days replacing all previous work to the way it should have been boss then told me that he was not going to pay me for the days of work 14 hours each day because i was fixing my duck ups all the while during the two days getting called a ducking idiot and a liar duck you i quit short story boss tried to cut corners got caught blamed it on me then refused to pay me to fix it to try and recoup some of the losses he took i quit working at a tech support call center i put in for a day off for my birthday a month in advance boss forgot to process my request and said i couldn't get it off when i asked about it closer to the date saying something about time off requests being locked due to upcoming trainings those trainings were two weeks after my birthday posted this a few days ago i used to work for toys r us in the summer it's pretty common for people to purchase those big wooden fort swing sets for their kids the ones that go in your backyard the problem is the box is so big that even a massive truck can't fit it you would literally need to rent a u-haul to get this thing home so it was pretty customary for us to open the box pull the contents out the driver might make 2-3 trips back and forth from their house and eventually they'd get it all home well one of our employees had the bright idea to leave the box perfectly in line with the rest of the boxes now you have to understand that these boxes are about 3 feet wide and 7-8 feet tall you can walk inside them with zero issues instead of disposing of the box which was a task in its own right the employee closed the box back up and left it there only to later return with tons of books from the kids section those small foam chairs that kids sit in while watching tv and some of the candy from the birthday section this employee would sit in here for huge portions of his shift and eat candy read children's books and sleep this probably went on for a few weeks finally one day the manager called him into her office she was livid she was screaming that he was never around that he was going home on his shift and returning later that she was going to fire him unless he could prove he was on site well like a smug jerk who knows his goose is cooked but can technically prove he was there he decided to go out in a blaze of glory and took her and the rest of the managers to his hideaway which he had now dubbed fort keith his name was scott so i never understood that and since i was lucky enough to be there for what happened next i can tell you with perfect memory the events that followed scott opened the door to fort keith and the inside looked like a hobo shelter with a significant amount of merchandise and food wrappers the manager's face turned red and right as she was about to step inside scott put up his hand to stop her and in the best non-verbal duck this i quit moments in history he pointed to the sign he had written in crayon that we know girls aloud i think i nearly had my pants laughing he was immediately terminated and on his way out he had the biggest eating grin i've ever seen truly one of the best moments i've experienced in retail history edit thanks for the gold kind stranger much appreciated colin edit two and a silver award what an excellent friday extra story edit since you guys were so kind as to give me two goals i'm editing this to include another scott story as god as my witness this happened my first interaction with scott didn't really come until i had been there a few months i would see him around but i worked in the boys section action figures lego cars etc and he worked in the back unloading trucks and helping customers with large items to their car you see each other but didn't associate so it's a normal day and i show up for my shift and outside the door are two kids dressed in scouts uniforms selling apples this was sort of a common thing around our area you put a dollar or two into their little jar and take an apple or not it's pretty harmless and i guess the money goes to scouts programs i finish my shift and as i'm leaving i see scott out there talking to these kids i remember this because of the polar opposites of what i was seeing scott was a bit of a dirty punk and wore a black leather jacket that he had bedazzled with tons of spikes and lots of patches pinned on it was the type of jacket that you would smell even before you saw it just gross but the sight of him next to these kids and scouts uniforms was an odd contrast the next day i show up for work and the scouts kids are there again but so scott and that mother ducker is selling his own apples dad for less sweat to god this ducking guy is undercutting the scouts so at first i walk into work confused and i mentioned to someone else's scots selling apples with the scouts and their reply was no he's selling his own apples people are pissed immediately i start laughing i just thought he was being stupid or something honestly i didn't know what to think so out i go on the floor and there's two scout leaders dart full grown men in scouts uniforms talking to the manager i could hear most of it which was basically um we've never encountered this and it wouldn't be so bad but he's scaring the children god damn if this wasn't hilarious well out goes the manager and she brings scott in and all you can hear is him yell then what am i supposed to do with all these apples i don't even like apples as god as my witness scott had talked to the kids the day before thought this was a get-rich-quick apple scheme bought himself somewhere around 50 apples and was undercutting these scouts without even a thought that people were not buying apples but rather supporting the kids in fairness even the manager laughed pretty hard but she was also very confused scott apologized and then promptly tried to return the apples but you can't return fruit so one of the managers said scott if you give me the apples i'll bake a few pies and you can have one great deal right i mean that's making lemonade out of lemons so scott gave her his sack of apples and two days later she shows up with a pie for him honestly it was a nice pie and like the ducking idiot he is he decides that this pie was his lunch doubt the entire pie dart and without sharing a bite he finished that thing in 30 minutes so about two hours later i see him in the back all hunched over with someone rubbing his back and he says is this how johnny appleseed felt every day dark duck man that was a funny thing for him to say in that moment lol when i was a student working as a pizza hut delivery driver in the armpit of va had this dumb policy where they pick one driver a night to do all the dishes you're told to do them in between deliveries but that's impossible when you're constantly getting orders others are supposed to help out throughout the night of course nobody did i was left with about three hours of washing dishes at around 1am i had two finals the next day and was going through really bad family problems at the time i got so frustrated that i just walked out drove home and had an absolute mental breakdown due to all the stress that had been piling up didn't say a word to anybody never went back to this day i feel absolutely awful i left the manager with all that work to do though she was kind of itch anyways still feel ashamed that i just walked away from hard work rather than deal with it edit wow thank you for the support people i didn't expect this to get much attention at all also for those wondering i was a student at cnu in newport news one of the three armpits of va pt minimum wage job at a philly cheesesteak restaurant in a strip mall while i was trying to stack cash before a vacation i cooked for two days while stavros screamed at me for taking too long using too much meat and for not letting the steam cook the skin off my arms he apparently felt no pain and would demonstrate how little scorched human skin hurt him so naturally i should also have that level of pain tolerance for being burned i endured this until the third day he handed me a shovel when i clocked in and told me to clean up the dumpster it was crawling with maggots to the point where the whole pile of filth laying around the outside of the dumpster just wriggled and crawled like one giant organism i walked back in and handed him the shovel told him i wasn't going to do that he flipped his it and yelled a lot but that was a hard pass for me apologized to the other crew working that day and bounced that noise i've since wondered how much money it would take before i would have dug in and handled the mess maybe 500 in cash under the table probably one thousand dollars before i would do it happily dollar sign 5.15 hr dollar sign 4.25 hr dollar sign 3.85 hr in 1998. was not getting it done though edited for correct min wage at the time i worked at a movie theater for about two years when star wars seven came out which was hectic enough but we also have to work holidays there so i was working on christmas day when i was informed via radio that one of the theaters had a mess to be cleaned when i arrived i found a pile of a grown man's head on the ground i put down my broom and walked out i never even told them why i left didn't feel like i needed to justify that i got to write up for cussing to the air when everyone else did it regularly supervisor was just mad that the inventory part of my job get him caught doing bullet and when i called hr i was told the only reason i still have a job is because my parents work there and anyone can do my job so i told her i guess you guys don't need me then act up my it and left a few months later i caught up with a few former co-workers and apparently the company lost two huge contracts because the inventory department couldn't keep up had to hire three people to cover what i did in 30 hours a week and the supervisor was fired after he was caught stealing a large amount of product entire pallets at a time started dating a guy that one of my co-workers liked he was a regular customer she started doing things like spitting in his food telling my boss i wasn't working writing her name on the checklist of our side work and acting like she did everything and i did nothing and she stole 100 from my drawer and the boss wanted me to pay for it didn't believe me because she was friends with a girl i walked out on the spot like a couple months later they caught her stealing again on camera and fired her also the guy is my husband now i i was at my dream job building high performance corvettes there were a lot of downsides not w-2 no benefits long hours you break it you buy it then they introduced efficiency measurement where if you were not fast enough you had to work saturday to make up for it measuring efficiency and custom work leads to corner cutting and in general is impossible as its custom then i had to push the shop owner's car in to fit some things it took me two hours to wrap up the car i was working on push it out move to other cars get the forklift started and get the car in it didn't have a motor yet all not chargeable all not my fault all supposed to be made up on saturday i quit the next day worked at a big box office store on my first week i got held up by a train and was five minutes late by the time i had gotten there the manager had blown up my phone 15 calls but since it was winter and i had a big wool coat on plus a sweatshirt i didn't feel my phone go off i got a lecture when i walked in and all morning he kept looking at me like i had killed his pet about two hours later i got called into the office for a write-up i went in and was very calm about the whole thing he kept saying i should show more remorse i told him if five minutes was getting me a write-up in the lecture plus being told i obviously don't care since i'm not remorseful enough he could keep the job worked in a greek restaurant owners spoke very little english once i was making that satsuki and the owner started talking to his wife behind me in greek then his daughter joined in eventually the owner got my attention and started off talking to me in greek with his daughter translating it gradually went from talking to yelling both of them one in greek the other in english about how i'm ducking up that satsiki this went on for about five minutes i'm just standing there listening to this not being able to get a word in until i just snapped shut the duck up they surprising stopped looking at me like i just killed their goldfish yeah i quit and i just walked out the chef followed who went to a local bar and drank and talked about how ducking nuts they were [Music] you

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Published: Mon Feb 01 2021