When I was finishing up college, I got a graveyard shift waitressing job at a casino to support myself. I let my boss know up front when she hired me that I was a student first, and as long as she respected my availability I would work the hardest-to-cover shift every day that I came in. It was good money, and I did exactly as I said I would. I even picked up holidays for other employees cuz I wanted that sweet sweet holiday pay, the tips were amazing, and it's not like I had school on the holidays.
After about a year of this, it became apparent that my boss was sort of a bitch as well as a big time power tripper. She tried pulling some bullshit like demanding we all show up to meetings with <48 hours notice (typical "this could have been an email" stuff). A couple times these meetings even interfered with my school schedule, but I did my best to make it work. Well, eventually she did this and it directly interfered with my plans to view an apartment with my partner at the time, not only that but I ended up getting her notification less than 24 hours before the meeting because I worked graves and went to school full time and therefore didn't constantly check my email every hour. I politely let her know I couldn't make it because I had a preexisting commitment and I didn't have enough time to reschedule it, then I simply didn't go to the meeting.
Two days passed and I got called into her office. She called me a liar for saying I got the message at the last minute, and then she told me I needed to come to work when I was supposed to be there. I respectfully informed her that I wasn't lying, and reminded her that I had other real life obligations and couldn't put everything on hold for last minute meetings at a job I'm only working to put myself through college. Shocker, she didn't like that. She also wasn't used to it since most of her employees were immigrants and depended on their jobs to keep their visas. She couldn't push me around the same way. She developed a vendetta against me.
Months went by, and I dealt with a lot of toxicity and verbal abuse. Finally my last semester of school rolled around, and I let her know about the changes to my class schedule. Over time she'd made it harder and harder to adjust to this. At first, all I'd had to do was tell her my schedule. Then she wanted a printout of my schedule the following semester. This time around she wanted an official schedule from the registrar. I sent her an unofficial copy of my transcript instead, because I didn't want to drive all the way to my campus before I had to. She did not like this. She chewed me out.
Around this time I had split up with the person I had moved in with, and had started dating a man who worked surveillance at the same casino I was working at (that man is now my fiancee). She also hated him for many of the same reasons; he respected himself, wouldn't be bullied, and didn't kiss her ass. We were pretty open about our relationship, and even greeted her together at the company Christmas party. Apparently it took her and her lickspittles a good long while to figure out what we were flaunting for all to see, but when she did figure it out she fired him for fraternizing despite there being no policy in place to prohibit it.
I did not like this.
She also decided to stop respecting my school schedule, and notified me of this by calling another ridiculous meeting in which she publicly shamed me for being lazy, sitting down and talking to other coworkers (at this point I had stopped sitting or chatting with anyone any time I wasn't on break despite others being permitted to do so because she had already been accusing me of these things), and then informed everyone that we were all replaceable and she didn't care if we were students, had kids, or were trying to partially retire; we had to come in to work what we were scheduled for. She said she just didn't understand why no one wanted to work. She also took the time to put me on blast in a meeting with surveillance saying that I was trying to manipulate my now fiancee into helping me steal from the casino, and that I was using him.
So when she posted my schedule for the week I started classes, and none of my coworkers picked up the one graveyard shift I couldn't work, I simply worked until the day before classes started, then dropped off my badge and letter of resignation, played one hand of blackjack (I'd never gambled there before), tipped my dealer a fattie, and left forever. On my way out a coworker who had refused to pick the shift up for me begged me to stay, but I just shrugged and said that I'd already dropped my card, and that kind of help would have been a lot more usefull a week prior. I heard from those who still worked there that the boss went full nuclear when she found out I'd quit, and started getting very paranoid that others would do the same without notice to the point that she actually fired an army reservist before he could quit. It still warms my cockles to think of how many rent free hours I lived in her head. Shortly after this, they had to stop offering service after 11pm because i was gone, other unhappy employees left as well, and then the pandemic forced them to close. They have since reopened in a new location.
I fully plan on sending her an RSVP to our wedding, except the only checkbox on her card will be;
NO
TlDr; boss was rude, disrespectful, expected me to prioritize my waitressing gig over my academics, fired my boyfriend and told everyone I was using him, and told me I was lazy and replaceable. Then when I quit without notice to prioritize my academics it mentally fucked her up and majorly interfered with the functioning of the business. Now my boyfriend is my fiancee, and we're inviting her to the wedding but in a snarky way.