Their employee handbook policy told me that any event booked within 48 hours requires my approval. I received notification on my phone at 1 pm on Thursday that I was booked for an event on Saturday 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. (their first act as my employer is to break one of the most prominent rules. WTF?) I immediately text the manager (who works remotely three timezones away) to tell him I was booked inside 48 hours without my approval (because I figured my Saturday schedule was free, I had just committed to a substitute teacher training which btw, pays waaaay more), he tries to argue that he had entered me in that morning, but that doesn't explain the discrepancy of it showing up on my employee calendar until 1 p.m. (FYI, this is for my first unsupervised shift after three days of training at the axe throwing business). This doesn't bode well. I try to compromise, tell him that I would be willing to take an evening shift. Apparently the other employee candidate I had trained with had never signed his final paperwork (he must have listened to his premonitions a little more closely than I had mine). Long story short, management never figured out a compromise or accepted responsibility, so I just sent an email tendering my resignation. No big loss, since it pays shit and offers sporadic and super infrequent hours. I'll probably make more during my Saturday substitute teacher training than I would have for the whole month combined at the axe throwing gig.
Throwing axes for free during the training was nice though. You know it's bad though when the people training you tell you that they're probably going to leave soon because the bullshit is a lot to keep up with.
TLDR: Manager breaks employee handbook policy with me on first day of work. I try giving him a chance by offering a compromise. He does not budge. I tender my resignation by email the same day.