When All Employees Quit At The Same Time - AskReddit

300 of us walked out a week before Christmas what happened at your work which caused multiple people to all quit at once when I was 16 I worked in the concession stand at a minor-league baseball stadium minimum wage at the time was 5 dollars and 15 cents per hour this job paid $8 and it was always in the evening so it was perfect work for a high school student the only bad thing was her management was terrible the main manager would throw toddler tantrums about once a shift over stupid BS like not ordering enough of a specific beer she did the ordering or running out of precut lemons for tea one night the stadium was running a promotion and it was incredibly busy easily 2 to 3 times the normal volume of customers we were all working our butts off handling multiple roles each with absolutely no downtime although we all cleaned as we worked nobody had a chance to do thorough cleaning for the whole shift because of the neverending horde of hungry baseball fans the manager showed up three to four hours late per usual and throws the biggest tantrum ever over the unswept floor finally she announces listen up you lazy idiots minimal work gets minimal pay everybody is being paid minimum wage tonight because you slobs won't clean up anything both of our bartenders and the barback quit on the spot which caused a chain reaction we all took off our aprons and hats to leave she blocked the exit and was red in the face from screaming so one of the cooks climbed out of one of the big serving windows where we served customers so I did the same and most of the staff followed bear in mind that this all happened in front of like 200 plus customers of course my final paycheck got lost so I had to file a wage theft complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission the company consistently outpaced competing firms and found itself emerging as one of the industry leading agencies this was also a California tech firm so shorts flip-flops beers at lunch getting high on the roof were all rather common but we were rapidly growing and the atmosphere and location made as a hot ticket for talent anyway CFO and CMO cashed out and the CEO decided to totally remodel the company by making it far more corporate on top of all of this they implemented unattainable goals and removed our work from home policy the final straw was they removed our rather generous vacation policy and replaced it with unlimited vacation which was a facade for you can take as much vacation as you want if we approve it like one quarter of the company quit and immediately landed at better jobs also profit tanked I used to work at a McDonald's and we had a terrible manager who hated a lot of people working there everyone else hated him too but no one wanted to call him out on his BS and quit I was the first to do it because I requested two weeks off in August of that year about three months in advance my family likes to plan our summer vacations early on when August came around he had my schedule set up for all of August off except for those specific two weeks there was no way that he could have misinterpreted my request when I got my schedule I stormed into the restaurant called him out on everything and then quit on the spot about two weeks after that I heard from one of my work friends that five other people had enough and quite as well I kind of felt good to be the first I worked at Buffalo Wild Wings for a few years as a line cook two different stores same pay it was the type of work where you ask for a raise and they scoff and say yeah me too anyways I had been pretty dead set on quitting sooner or later our kitchen was very small most people ended up closing four to five days a week with doubles on the weekends while still attending school full-time as it was a college town on Super Bowl Sunday a useless co-worker who ducked out in the bathroom must the shift finally stops showing and in response the managerial staff delegated closing to my pal Jay this dude was a delight to be around hands down the best co-worker ever Jay had told them that due to being a full-time student he no longer wanted to be first and last out 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. 1 a.m. on the weekends they basically told him to go F himself and that they don't have any more shifts for him immediately me and one other cook walked to the office and quit on the spot Buffalo Wild Wings lost 4 cooks on Super Bowl Sunday leaving them with 7 full-time students on the schedule it was a managerial chaos I did landscape construction the cheap owner kept taking bigger and bigger projects while never hiring more help we were all overwhelmed stressed and anxious as hell one of our foremen quit and I followed suit a few days later two more guys quit the next day he was down to three guys for the obscene amount of work he wanted to do of course everything gets way behind schedule but he's convinced it's not his fault at all he went out of business less than a year later I was hired by the new owners to replace the existing manager I was under the impression that he was moving on to another job somewhere so after about four days I asked him where he's headed and if he's excited he just looks blankly at me and says I'm not going anywhere I'm just training you as the assistant manager right the look I gave him must have been a great tip off because he got up and walked into one of the new owners offices after about 30 seconds they were screaming at each other then he just storms out of the office grabs his stuff gives me the finger and leaves over the next few days I'm trying to calm things with the employees they're not faulting me but now have a very bad taste in their mouths about the new ownership over about a 7 to 10 day time period my team shrank from 15 people down to 3 I humbled along with that the best I can while we tried to hire new people but the new owners were offering so little we had trouble finding people after three months or so of that I started to get fed up and overwhelmed and when the owners started to get on me about miss deadlines I had had it we were still only at five people two of which were brand-new and still training they didn't allow me to refuse work or push deadlines out they expected the same output as a 15 person team so after my third day in a row of being berated for missing a deadline that was impossible to make I quit I was working for a very large IT company before the tech bubble burst we had a meeting with our new director and the VP they were tired of people complaining about things that should be changed at the job and how they managed people so they sat around 200 of us down in our auditorium and the director said she didn't want to hear any more complaints on how she was running things and if we didn't like then there was the Doran that there was no way we'd leave such a great job well there was a mass exodus and probably close to 50 people left within two months she and the VP were reorganized and given zero reports they were gone after a round of layoffs happened shortly after worked at a data company the guys in the sales department messed around all day they'd literally be in the parking lot drinking beer and racing RC cars when it came to handling accounts and clients they frequently gave away free accounts in order to retain customers and make their own sales numbers look good and somehow they got away with it meanwhile there were dozens of programmers and database nerds working tirelessly behind the scenes to integrate a bunch of complicated data and make it easy to access via the website yearly holiday announcements come around and upper management decides to send the entire sales team to Hawaii for an all-expense-paid vacation when the Furious developers asked why they were just taking the sales team the confused CEO literally said well I mean I guess we could ask the sales team to pick one person from each department who helped them the most this year and take them to the programmers engineers and database people were livid and walked out in droves gee I wonder why the company tanked several years ago I worked in a mental health center we work primarily with kids it was time for the center to renew their certification instead of keeping up with everything that needed to be done over the course of five years the proper procedures were ignored in this couple months before recertification Administration made us sit through a ridiculous amount of training on things that would have been covered in training such as HIPAA laws and identifying child abuse then came our paperwork our Center encouraged us to do things that aren't exactly covered by Medicaid or approved through certification for example taking kids to the park isn't allowed but guess where they instructed us to take these kids so they didn't disturb the therapists working I had to go back and edit five months worth of documents to get rid of the evidence the kicker was that bathrooms were supposed to have a log of when it was cleaned an administrator perfectly forged the signatures of multiple employees I don't think they would have went through that trouble just for a bathroom log what else were they forging our signatures on the potential risk of being charged with Medicaid fraud was too high for me I quit as did many others canceled all raises and bonuses for everyone except the CEO his wife financial and HR and his son utterly useless ID in a year where we have record profits they've brought an almost double the clients on top of announcing they aren't looking to hire more people when we were already overwhelmed good part about it was when the majority of us quit they lost almost every single client shortly afterwards to their competitors and the company has now defunct many years ago in high school I worked at a movie theater the place was pretty poorly run from the moment I started there we never got paid on time and management was basically a bunch of lazy idiots who sat in the office talking all day and never actually did any managing it would have been hard for things to have gotten any worse but after a couple of months they brought in new management who seemed to want to make it their personal mission to run the theater as poorly as possible they first decided to implement a new policy requiring all projectionists to wear ties despite the fact that projectionists are never seen by the public not to mention the tiny little detail that the projectionists worked around giant rapidly spinning objects that at I could get caught in management refused to reconsider the policy and every single projectionists quite as a result they then decided that the door people of which I was one who were always scheduled seven days a week would now only be scheduled on the weekends and refused to reassign any of us to concessions on the weekdays so we wouldn't lose hours as a result almost every single door person quit including me after that they started imposing impossible cleanliness standards on concessions things like requiring them to scrape popcorn kernals out of the cracks in the trim behind the popcorn machines concessions was there until 5:00 a.m. every night trying to meet their standards most of the concession people quite as a result by my count the theater went from a staff of about fifty to a staff of about twelve and three weeks I swung by about a month after I quit and found out that entire management staff had been fired and replaced yet again by an entirely new one ones who actually seemed to be running the theater properly my best guess is that the previous management had been told to hit the theatre into shape and they were idiots who had no idea how to effectively do that our boss had a meeting and announced a new policy that all salaried employees had to work a minimum of 45 billable hours per week because of the increased project load we had I pointed out to a few co-workers that our employment contract specified 37.5 hours per week and that I would be adhering to that policy well about a week later I was laid off due to lack of projects ha I was happy to go and at least two others left voluntarily within the week the job I found next was much better and wasn't run by someone quite so clueless about how to treat people our company relocated from a small suburb to a large city pretty much everyone had to take public transportation to get there my supervisor was firm and only allowing to work from home days a week I told him I was exhausted and having one more work from home day would make a huge difference but he wouldn't budge I told him I would need a raise because I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on transportation and it felt like I had been demoted he refused I was offered another job and I took it he was shocked that I was leaving about a month later all but the worst employee had either left the company or left his department they tried to make us do a third straight 16-hour shift while telling us off we were taking too long this was years ago as a basic box mover in a courier company they cut their staff in half and still expected us to do the same amount of work it got bad enough the head office people came down to supervise us at the end of the shift we stopped taking any breaks and worked well past our hours without overtime the second day they were there our immediate supervisor of our team about ten of us asked for the night off next week Christmas even most of us had a family and the bosses refused we all quit their entire work force quit in less than 10 minutes there were three people in the office that morning when the other 300 of us walked out most of the other workers were pretty disgusted in how they treated us enough to pack in their jobs they called within an hour and offered us all pay rises and actually hiring people to help with the workload it didn't help they already screwed themselves trying to save money on wages so they were never going to make their deliveries a month earlier it may have made a difference but a week before Christmas the only time I ever quit job and went back to it but I only ever quit two jobs owners retired they were literally the greatest people both very sweet but kept the place running like a well-oiled machine they took pretty good care of us in their restaurant when they left they gave the restaurant over the their nephew who at the time was a busboy and waiter kind of standoffish didn't really interact with us too much a bit lazy at times but for the most part did his work and went home he seemed okay until he got the power and being the owner he fired four people including two of the four cooks and two of the three dishwashers literally that same day on a Friday night just before the dinner rush all because he didn't like their attitude he refused to allow people to take vacation that they'd already Requested and gotten confirmed by the original owners would change the schedule randomly without telling anyone and then scream at people when they missed a shift or came in late because of it he'd refused to replenish the kitchen until we were literally already out of things then take forever to put in the orders he showed up randomly and would drink at the bar for free of course because he was the owner and then bringing all his buddies to drink with him together they'd get way out of hand and grab at women and try to start fights within the first month of him being the owner over half the staff had quit usually walking out literally in the middle of their shifts after being screamed at they'd basically throw down their aprons and tell everyone else that they were so sorry but they couldn't do it anymore after the last cook this big dude who usually kept the kitchen laughing and running at a decent pace started crying in the middle of his shift and dropped everything he was doing after the boss came and yelled at him for being too slow in making slop then walked out the rest of us just bailed along with him four months later the place was closed his aunt and uncle were absolutely furious and devastated that he'd run the business they'd built up for over 30 years into the ground worked at a Wendy's and one of the regional managers started running a store because they couldn't or wouldn't find new managers to replace the old ones well anyways this guy practically ran the place into the ground before he started running the store almost everyone liked working there as it was a good environment a few months after a couple of people quit because of him and one day I roll in at 9:00 to help open the store and he comes out to my car as soon as I park was 15 minutes early and usually just sat in my car until 9:00 and tells me hey I need you to start early because the three openers just quit on me we managed to get the store open and had a number of people from other stores help her run the place until the people from the next shift came in a couple days later I hear the full story of what happened from a co-worker the regional manager is supposed to be at the store at 7:00 or so and the openers 30 minutes later he didn't actually show up until 8:30 so when the openers already pissed at being at work really early and not being on the clock saw the regional manager role in and knew it was going to be an awful shift all decided that they were done with him and just quit right there so at least six people quit because of him by the time I left the place probably more left after me the boss went off on a tirade on me for something that wasn't my fault and I got him to scream people like you are expendable pieces in this company and I can replace you tomorrow if I wanted to 80% of the engineers quit the next day simply didn't show up including me from what I know the entire project folded because my now axe boss couldn't find people to replace us because no one wanted to do the kind of work he was looking for at the salary he was paying thanks for listening to radio DTS hit 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Published: Fri Jul 17 2020