This happened a few Months ago.
I'm a student and worked as a receptionist with minimum wage in Germany.
The job itself was fine and i liked working there. Well up until we had a switch in Management.
The new Manager seemed pretty incompetent and lazy from the start, no Idea why she got the Position in the first place.
She demanded evenings after work, every month, for “Teambuilding”. Those consisted of tasks she would give us that we had to solve in groups and present to the other group. The tasks were dumb and not really applicable in the real World, but at least we got payed OT so it was fine.
At the end of the last “Teambuilding exercise” she had something to say to me in Front of the Team.
2 weeks earlier a coworker called in sick and i picked up the Phone. I asked If i had to contact the Manager but he told me he already did that, he just called so i could let the next shift know. So far so good, same procedure as always.
Fast forward 2 weeks again. She scolded me in front of the team that I didn't find someone to Cover for his Shift and that they almost Had to Close early because of it. WHY IS THAT MY TASK???
I told her that was never my Task and our previous Manager always did that, as you would think. She was Furious that i dared to talk back lol.
A week later i noticed that my contract was running out at the end of the month, i wanted to quit anyway so that was fine. I called the Manager to tell her, Well apparently she was one step ahead and decided to fire me, the termination of my contract was already on it's way to my adress.
Her reason, “Customers called and filed complains about me”. I pretty much only had regulars and we talked casually so i kinda doubt that.
After she told me i Just laughed a bit and said fine. At the end she even Had the audacity to ask if i could come in the next day for one last shift.
Obviously i declined, some people man…