This is from a long while back, about…15 years or so I guess. I worked for Subway at the time, I was in college and they were willing to work around my school schedule and let me do some homework on the evening shift when we were slow, so it worked out pretty well. The franchise owners were fairly nice but very uninvolved, and relied on and trusted the store assistant manager to know what was going on. This was fine when I first started, and I was working towards taking the assistant manager job as the one that hired me was going to be retiring finally and we all wished him well. The owners knew I wanted the job and was taking on extra responsibility and training for it, and the degree I was going for at the time (and eventually got) was Culinary Arts & Hotel Restaurant Management. But, instead a woman that had never worked at our store got the job suddenly, and we found out later she was the daughter of a family friend. She was actually qualified on paper, but I was of course bothered that I had been passed up but I let it go and just continued to work. I had gone up from 9/hr to 14.50/hr in the process of taking on responsibilities and a master key to the store so I could open/close/do money drops and bank runs, so I was still fairly happy and making decent money at the time with few financial obligations.
Slowly though it became obvious that she wasn't as competent as she needed to be, constantly messing up the scheduling, not taking into account people's availability and requests for time off that had been approved by the owners, or even sometimes by herself. It became such a problem that two months after she started making schedules, I approached the owners about it and offered to make the schedules, something I was definitely skilled enough to do. They considered it and declined, for now, and spoke to the assistant manager and told her that she needed to address the issue or I would potentially take that responsibility over. She didn't take this well, and learned that I had been going for her job before she got it. From then on she was very short with me, and borderline rude. I heard from coworkers she was telling them to stop going to me with issues or questions, and that she seemed upset with me and saw me as a threat to her job. She started scheduling me when I had classes and tests, changing my schedule after it was posted and trying to write me up when I of course did not show up to shifts I had no idea she'd changed, and I had to start taking pictures of the schedules and my requests off.
It all came to a head when I got concert tickets for me and my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) to go see Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, and Nickelback (in their early days, only had like 2 albums out, and Breaking Benjamin just had put Phobia out), I put in notice for the two days I needed for the trip to Chicago, concert, overnight, and drive back. She scheduled me anyway after the owners approved it. I found someone to cover for me, notified her and the owners, and went on my trip. After hours on the road, right when I had stepped into the hotel room the night of the concert, I get a call from the assistant manager. She informs me that she's fired my cover and I will need to either find another cover or be there for my shift the next morning to open. I tell her I am in Chicago, the concert goes after midnight and even if I left right after I would be late to open, and I wasn't doing it anyway. We went in circles about it, me telling her I don't have people's numbers to call, and that was her responsibility anyway, not mine. I'd covered my shift and she'd fired my cover, I was already out of town and simply not capable of making it in, it was not my issue.
I end up hanging up and turning off my phone. I turned it on in the morning to calls from my MOTHER! She had called my mother, my emergency contact, and harassed her all night about me! I was livid, I cut out Chicago trip short and drove back and made it in for a 'closing shift' that my mother had said she would relay to me was 'now mandatory' for me to make. I made it, and spent the shift preparing my coworkers for my departure. Nothing was prepped, nothing was cleaned, and I left a three page note to the owners a out the situation, all her violations of OSHA and health code violations, and left my uniform on the prep table and walked out in my shoes and underwear so I wouldn't have to return to turn them in. I locked up and slid the master key under the back door, and never looked back.
About couple years later I ran into the husband franchise owner at McDonald's, where I was a Crew Trainer going for management (never got it, another story there of being lied to and used, of course) and he apologized, informed me that manager had been fired a couple months ago, and asked if I would still be interested. I declined, I made the same money with less responsibility now and didn't want to return to Subway anyways.
Thought this group might find that story amusing.