The year was 2014.. I just graduated undergraduate school and I wanted to take a year off before graduate school. So I got a job at a furniture/appliance rental store… I like being active so I figured this job would allow that without being micromanaged.
The manager of this store seemed like a decent guy at first, but I quickly realized he was “meat head”, short-tempered, steroid abuser, that wore tight shirts… just to paint a picture in your head.
I had no significant issues for the first 2 months or so. The first strike came when I noticed that the manager started making sexual comments to the only female that worked there, which made her quit, rightfully so. She was a great co-worker. (I advised her to do more than that, but she didn’t want to make a bunch of noise so quitting was easier)
2nd strike came a month or so after. I had not missed any work to this point/never came in late/stayed late on multiple occasions.. not saying I was the best employee in the world but I did more than was required. I suffer from migraines and sometimes it makes me throw up. I got a migraine mid-shift one day and threw up at work. Manager told me I need to get “over it” and I couldn’t leave because there was work to be done. Threw up a few more times and he finally told me to leave but I need to go get a doctors excuse… I went home and didn’t go to the doctors because there was no point. Come in the next day without an excuse and he wrote me up… I was mad but didn’t really care because this wasn’t a long-term job anyways..
Third strike came 2 or 3 months after the write up. The majority of my work was delivering furniture/appliances to homes for people, which was never an easy task, but like I said before, I enjoy being active. Went to deliver a large couch to an attic apartment in an old house with very narrow staircases. My co-worker and I get it up the first flight of steps (wasn’t an easy task) and get to the attic steps. We quickly realized it just wasn’t going to fit, plain and simple. We called the manager to explain and he went ballistic… “I worked here for 20 years, blah blah blah, I never failed a delivery, blah blah blah, you guys better find a way, blah blah blah”.. we tried every way possible for another 30-45 minutes and called again. Manager went crazy again.. the buyer could hear him screaming at me… took the phone and told him that it’s not going to fit and hung up. The buyer was apologizing and felt horrible for us. Co-worked and I got back to the store and got written up for “insubordination”.. I laughed.. once again didn’t care.
The final strike… when I agreed to employment I told him that I had a golf trip planned with 7 months in advance and I had to have the week off. Pay or no pay, I didn’t care because it was my annual golf trip. He agreed and I assumed everything was fine. Fast forward 7 months.. time for the golf trip… I reminded him the couple months leading up to this trip as well. Well… he says that we are going to be short-staffed because he is going on vacation (first I’m hearing of this) and we have too many deliveries for me to go on my previously planned golf trip, which was paid for already… I said okay (didn’t care, I was going anyways). I leave for my golf trip and the assistant manager is calling/texting me asking where I am. No response from me because I quit but didn’t feel the need to tell them (I know, kind of a d*ck move). The manager on vacation then starts calling/texting me flipping out. The only response I gave was a beautiful picture of a par 3 hole with the caption “good luck, have a nice life”.