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Let’s hear your best “Fuck you, I quit” story

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 25, 2022
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This will be long but thought my donut shop drama would fit well here. TLDR at the end. When I was 22, I worked for a local donut shop that paid me $8 an hour. I’d open the shop, leave at 3, and then go to my nannying job which paid about $12 an hour plus some extra green if you know what I mean. I vastly preferred the nannying job and it was under the table. Then a new owner took over and among other things did not have a single clue about how to keep the business staffed. Many times, I was late to my nannying job because he was scheduling people late or not at all and had to send someone from their other store over to cover. Then one day at 330 I call the owner asking where the next shift is because I need to…

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I’m done! I’m finally gone!

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 25, 2022
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The relentless overtime started as soon as we got back from the Covid shutdown, back in 2020. I thought it would be temporary. It was not temporary. People started leaving. Eventually, they had enough people either leave or get fired on second shift that nobody on that shift knew how to actually do the job, including management. I thought they would move some people around, get some training done, and get right. I thought it was temporary. It was not temporary. They laid off what was left of second shift, and put the other two shifts on 10 hour days. Then, we got bought by another company. I hoped that the new guys would see how poorly everything was being run. I thought things might get better. They did not get better. The new owners gave the job of fixing all the problems to the people who had caused them…

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Happened across some relatable graffiti

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 25, 2022
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“I was exploited as an employee when I was younger so it’s okay for me to do it to you”

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 25, 2022
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I work for a company so small that pretty much none of the legal protections put in place for employees apply to us. Nearly everything I've seen requires 20+ employees and we do not have that. I'm sparing details for some anonymity but we have a big meeting soon and I've just been asked by our CEO to attend the meeting in person (on a day I normally wouldn't come in) and then use my breaks and lunch to check phones. (My everyday job- which I can do perfectly fine from home but still have to come into the office 2/5 days a week.) I told them that I can stay home and handle the phones and zoom into the meeting, or I can come into the meeting, but it's virtually impossible for me to do both. I work from a desktop, don't have a laptop, and honestly don't even…

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