Categories
Antiwork

Manager tried to give exit interview, I refused, was asked to leave.

Longtime lurker first time poster, sorry for the long ass post So I quit my job over the summer to start a business with my brother, took some time off in between, and a good friend contacted me and asked if I could come help out. He manages a quick lube place, and his techs all up and quit one day(painfully obvious why now.) He got in touch and said he would start me at what I was making at my previous job and said it was even negotiable. He said I was worth that much and more but that he couldn’t do much better than that because of the position. I knew it was kind of an entry level position so I was fine with the cap. I mulled it over for a few days and signed on as a temporary thing. One thing led to another and the…


Longtime lurker first time poster, sorry for the long ass post So I quit my job over the summer to start a business with my brother, took some time off in between, and a good friend contacted me and asked if I could come help out. He manages a quick lube place, and his techs all up and quit one day(painfully obvious why now.) He got in touch and said he would start me at what I was making at my previous job and said it was even negotiable. He said I was worth that much and more but that he couldn’t do much better than that because of the position. I knew it was kind of an entry level position so I was fine with the cap. I mulled it over for a few days and signed on as a temporary thing. One thing led to another and the business with my brother fizzled out because I was dedicating myself to this job for now. Kind of sucked but I figured, oh well I’ll do this for a bit and find something else down the road more permanent. It was good for a while, he hired some other techs and we were getting the shop going again. I noticed pretty quickly that it was a pretty toxic place and that’s probably what the previous mutiny was about. I started looking a bit for something else, and was waiting to here back about a new opportunity at my previous employer. The longer I was there the more the other techs were getting fed up/offended by his verbal abuse/sporadic moods. It was getting really bad, I had to get out. I found another job and put in my notice. He pulled me aside today and said we had some paperwork to do, I said what kind of paperwork and followed him to the back room. He hands me some exit interview paperwork and I said what’s this? He says just standard stuff for corporate. I said shouldn’t someone who’s not my direct supervisor conduct the exit interview? He says no, that’s not how this works, to which I replied well that just seems grossly inappropriate to me, shouldn’t hr do this? He said I am hr, I said no you’re the manager, just because there isn’t a specific “hr” position doesn’t mean there isn’t another more appropriate person to do this at the dealership. It went straight down the gutter from there. He told me how he knew I would be a pain in the ass and not just walk away gracefully, to which I replied I couldn’t live with myself if I let you treat people this way knowing I may be able to change it. He started telling me all the favors he did for me when I was out of work, (he begged me) as if I hadn’t voluntarily left my former employer, (on fantastic terms, in fact the hr rep that conducted my exit interview said if I was ever in need of a job in the future, she had heard nothing but the best, and would absolutely recommend me
for a rehire) trying to say I wasn’t worth what he paid me(I didn’t even negotiate, he started at my current pay rate) I just couldn’t wrap my head around how many absolute bullshit contradictions to past statements, that I knew were flat out fallacies, he was spewing. I got sick of going back and forth as to why it was inappropriate so I walked out of the back room to try to go back to work. He followed me and I kept saying this is why it’s inappropriate for you to do the interview. It serves no purpose for the company going forward if they’re not airing out grievances, be it of outgoing employees or current to, a neutral party. I started getting a little loud because I had said that same thing literally a dozen times or better at that point. He got louder and then said I was causing a scene. I said I was trying to go back to work until my two weeks was up. He said I needed to leave, so I said are you firing me, and he said no you’ve already submitted your resignation, to which I replied, correct which is effective on the 17th, if you wish for me to leave before that date, you are terminating my employment. He said that’s not how that works and I said I think that’s exactly how that works, you’re confused. That went back and forth for another ten minutes and I got sick of his childish shit and said that’s fine I’ll be back later to get my box. When I went back he asked me if I was still being a dick, I said if being honest makes me a dick then I guess so, he said so yes, and I said if you say so I spose🤷‍️ I got my shit and said I would like to amend the date on the exit interview that says my last day is the 17th, he looked at me blankly and said what? So I reiterated that he made me leave on this day which is not the last day of my employment per the terms of my resignation, and that I would like that paper to reflect that even if I wasn’t competing his white wash of an exit interview, so I wrote on it that he asked me to leave on this date and wrote it down next to my signature and took a picture of it and left, but not before he told me to go fuck myself…again! What a great boss!!caught him edit my hours down from just over 40 to just under, lest he suffer the consequences of them paying me time and a half for less than one tenth of one hour. Just petty thing after petty thing, with someone who I have been friends with for almost 20 years. Ya think ya know a person…
Tl;dr longtime friend asked(begged)me to help him fill a spot in his shop, turns out he’s a giant asshole to his employees. Stuck it out for a bit, found something else, put in my two weeks, he tried to give me the exit interview and I had some shit I wanted to air out but not to him, to have it white washed. He got pissy, tried to make me leave before my final day without actually firing me and said that I was incorrect, in that that’s not how that works. accused me of ripping of his time clock and not working/making too much money. kinda just wanted to vent, kinda curious if I’m due unemployment for a couple weeks, kinda wonder if it’s worth pursuing the clock times legally for such a low offense? Anyone got some advice?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.