So I just remembered this one. Few years ago I moved to the opposite side of my country. I got a job at a restaurant/hotel/musical venue, but since the location is in the butthole of nowhere not much was happening. EXCEPT, the month after I started work, there is a huge music festival going on.. and guess which venue is the star?!! That’s right! So I was normally working 5 days on, 3 days off. It was pretty sweet. So, I get asked to work during festival. Absolutely no problem!! But the festival falls on my 3 day off time. Ok, no problem. I can rest when I’m dead as long as I get overtime and some time off afterwards. Festival comes around, it’s absolutely mental!! Understaffed and underprepared, we smash the weekend with our amazingness! First day: 14 hours, second day: 12 hours and third day 10 hours. All on 150% fuel mode, after working 6 days straight on 12 hour shifts (14-15 hours if you counted cleaning and driving to and from work, and I also covered one shift from a coworker). You get the jazz! Basically, I was utterly exhausted. Monday rolls around, I was promised day off but no, I need to show up. I can’t even function, and the boss dude makes up some menial tasks to “keep me busy”, knowing full well how insane the weekend was. I cannot function properly from exhaustion so I basically do the bare minimum of what he asked, and mind you, we only had like 4 customers that day, and on normal days when it wasn’t busy I would deep clean the entire bar or the floors and so on. Next day, as he expected me to just jump into my normal shifts without any time off, my body gave in and I called in sick.
I was literally ill, but he still got angry and asked me for doctor’s note. It was 8:30 in the morning, my shift started at 10:00. I agreed. At 9:30 when he called again and asked for the doctor’s note, he fired me when I hadn’t already received it. I was so tired, that I said fine and proceeded to sleep for basically two whole days! Later I found out that him firing me resulted in him being fired by his best friend who owned the place, because I had been such a good employee, and he wasn’t allowed to fire me because of it. This dude did it anyway because I wasn’t an underage girl he could slither around, but that’s a whole different story! This one is about my entitled asshole of a boss who got fired by his best friend for firing me. The business went under shortly after. I wonder why.. I gave my doctor’s note when I went to pick up my papers two days later, he looked embarrassed af. It was one of the most satisfying moments of my life.