Ok.
My work went under new management this year.
The shifts are 10 - 4 or 4 - 10. You get an automatic 30 minute reduction from each shift for a break.
There's no written rule about taking breaks. You just take them when you can, and everyone else argrees that its ok, and they help cover whatever you were doing.


So I take a break the other day. As usual, I go in the arcade next door. Connected to the building I work at. 5 second trip to get back in the cafe if I'm needed.


My boss stops by the cafe for whatever reason. See's im not there. Heads over to the Arcade, I've taken breaks there before.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?"
And so on. Won't get into all the details because it would be pointless. But after lots of yelling and BS, I get demoted and changed from night to morning (Morning being when she's actually around).

Here's a little fact: The only reason she was able to open and run this place this year, on time and as effeciently as we are doing, is because of me. The only returning worker from last year. With the new management went a total employee wipe. I've been running this place for the past two years basically acting as an assistant manager. I do more than the basic fast food type business employee. I order/check stocks of food. I deal with complaints, fix broken registers and machines. Etc. I can do it all.

So the place will be in trouble with out me. That's just the way it is, and I hate to say it because I'm so modest.

I could talk to the owners of the resort and all the other higher ups since I'm on much better terms with them than this new manager. But no. Screw that. Give me crap and I'll give you crap back.


I just quit. She offered to put me back on nights. Not good enough. Offered to talk to me about a raise. Not good enough. GOODBYE.

Still going to work there for about a week before I call it good. Still need to get a new car pass so I can get on the resort with my new car, still need to say goodbye to all my freinds there etc. Still need to steal a box of blue poweraids. (This stuff rocks!)

Talk about a bad case of PMSing on her part. Uhg.

Just thought I'd share... I needed to get this out. Again. Already ranted to my old boss, a bunch of freinds and figured I'd go online
Post you're bullcrap work stories that resulted in getting fired or quiting.

Eh...I give people second chances...if she offered all of that I would have taken it up.

But that's too bad they're that way to you...but you should know how stressfull managers are. Probally isn't her fault really. /shrug

Dunno.

Here's what she does.
Make each weeks schedual.
Check stock/Order food.
Make sure people arn't screwing around.

Seeing as how I used to do the schedual and keeping people in check everday, and help out with the stock and ordering, I can say her job is not the least bit stressful or hard.
She gave me crap for no reason, and now I'll screw her over with it. She tried chaning the fryliters oil. Spilt the whole thing TWICE. Doesn't know how to do anything. Her rules make no sense tying in any kind of effeciency. It's her way or the high way.
And it's the highway for me.

Okay, that makes sense.

My freshman year of college, I got a job at a youth sports camp that my college put on over spring break for little kids and would then carry on into the summer. Now, my school's spring break was not at the smae time as this camp. It was the week before and after Easter to coincide with elementry school spring breaks. When I interviewed for the job, they said the hours were extremely flexible, they knew that the collge students had class and so on, so I thought it was going to be great.

The first week was great. My schedule was such that I was working when I didn't have class. However, the second week, my schedule comes out and hlaf my shofts are scheduled when I have class. I go to my boss and tell her that I have class durring these shifts and I can't work at that time. She asks me if I can just skip the classes and I say no because I'm not willing to miss my classes being that I have mid terms and such. She tells me she'll reschedule my shifts. Come Monday, I'm still scheduled to work on the shifts that I can't work. No worries, they were on Thursday and Friday, More than enough time to solve the problem. Go to my boss again and we have the same discussion, again.

In the end, my schedule was never fixed and my boss called and asked why I didn't show up for work for some shifts and I tell her that I had class at those times. After all, we had talked about it more than once. Then, she asks me about another shift I missed. I look at my schedule and don't know what she's talking about because it's not on my schedule. She tells me that I was supposed to work at that time and I tell her that I was never told about my schedule having changed. She tells me about a staff meeting Monday morning that I had told her that I couldn't make due to having class at that time. She rambles on about not wanting employees who can't make their shifts and a buch of other bull****, so I proceed to tell her that I quit because the so called flexible schedule that was advertised wasn't happening.

The next week, I wrote a nice letter to the department head (my boss' boss) touting the poor management skills of the people running the camp, their inability to keep their employees informed of their work schedules, not informing employees of schedule changes, and how they expected me to work when I had class. I got a call back from the guy and he offered me my job back, but I pretty much said screw it.

I ended up getting a better job for the summer anyway, so it worked out.

God, I hope I get financially stable enough so I can leave my job when it starts getting bad. In my mind there's nothing more satisfying then flipping an annoying boss the bird prior to yelling profanity at him.

I would have taken the raise with an apology. rofl...you're too stuck up about it. She offered to make it up for you take the money and be a businessman about it.

Got hooked up with a new job that pays more and gives me more hours and is a much more professional place.. I'll go with that one. :p

But yes, I am a stuck up dink.

Pft, I'd do what makes business sense and I guess you did so I'd do the same thing. Thought you were going to look for a job still, that'd be a no no :p

I used to work at a bar when i was 14, which I'm pretty sure was illegal anyway. They wanted me to work till 2 am at one point (but it only got as bad as 12am), plus the waitresses never tipped me after 3 months or so of working there. They didn't forget, they were just being b***es. My manager was the nicest guy, but everyone else that worked there were jerks. The entire kitchen staff smoked way to much pot, they didn't know left from right. They always made mistakes and blammed it on the bus kids. The bar tender used to tip me like $20 a night, but he got fired because he gave his friend a drink for free or something. So, one waitress used to get fired like every other night, and somehow she'd cry enough to get re-hired. She KNEW she'd get taken back. So we have a nice but easy to fool manager, no tips, late late nights, waitresses that back stab people, don't tip, and act like all around jerks, pot head kitchen staff that couldn't find there freaking feet, my only tips left got fired, and the ciggarete smoke. So I quit my $6.75 an hour job and got a job at a bakery about 10 mins away where everyone is nice, the job is 10 x easier then my previous job, the latest I work is 7:30pm and I make $7.50 an hour and $11.25 on weekends and holidays. (Plus I get to take home freaking cakes and muffins and all this other good crap every night :P)

Add to that list "dealing with people out to 'screw her over'" and you'll understand how tough that job can be.

Soon, I'm going to have a really interesting story to tell about my work. I'm going to have to wait a while, though. Stay tuned Will post a new thread at that time.

I should probably add that before you go quit your job, it's a *really* good idea to secure a new one first. Not necessarily take a second job before you leave, but take all the steps up to getting it.

Actually, no. We deal with this. She's the one getting screwed over if, but we deal with the people. She does nothing to interact with the customer. I know this is just life and you'll have bosses like this, but I'm not the type of person who puts up with this type.

aren't you self-employed? so would this be a 'I fired myself today..." story?

Not sure, but I think he might be talking about *you*.

Yea I figured he might be after I posted.

My point is - she created that problem. What she did to me was totaly uncalled for and she knows it. She is on a power trip, and everyone who currently works for her knows this, and many of her past employees have quit because of this. This is just her. She can't help it, but it screws her over

She's totaly unprofessional.

We have an air hockey table at work. My boss and I play about 5 games a day.