For only the second time in my 30 years on this planet, I have quit my job.
I was managing the busiest (and employers flagship) ski/bike rental store and one other smaller location in the resort town where I reside. During peak season I oversaw these two locations with upwards of 27 staff. I don’t really feel like getting into a big long backstory as there was just so much buildup to get to this point. Micromanagement, mental health issues being blatantly ignored, illegitimate disciplinary write-ups, daily power trips and the list goes on.
The nail in the coffin for me was having what I perceived (and so did every other store manager I asked) as a completely reasonable vacation request denied. Then promptly being berated (on two separate occasions) by my direct superior for “having the audacity” to ask for the time off.
I had to cancel my last planned vacation (in March) due to a flu putting out half of my staff and there not being enough people to properly operate my stores without myself being present. After reminding my manager of this I was told I could take time off “in October.” In the very next sentence he informed me he was taking the next couple weeks off, his third multi-week vacation since December.
As a result I put in my two weeks and today was the last day. From what I have heard the current plan going forward is to have my assistant manager take over my duties with the new designation of “acting manager,” but without the pay rise that comes with it. He has been arguing his case for said pay bump and confided in myself and my teams supervisors that he was likely to quit as well if this ended up being the course of action. My supervisors followed suit and said if the two of us were gone they were not sticking around to deal with the fallout.
We’ll see what ends up happening, I feel like my ASM has got some leverage to use here, but it all could have been avoided had my vacation request simply been approved.