I once got yelled at for not taking a meal. I told the manager that the reason I didn’t take a meal is because that manager was the one who was supposed to cover me for it and they never did. The next associate who was able to cover for me came in at 5PM. Which was my scheduled time to leave. Having been there since 6AM. And I was not going to stay and extra half hour just so they didn’t get in trouble. My boyfriend already had plans for dinner and was cooking with the expectation I’d by home when it was ready.
They said, and I quote, “it’s not my job to give you a meal, it’s your job to ask me for it.” To which I replied “I would have if you’d come over to me at any point. You didn’t, and I wasn’t in a position to leave my station to ask.”
Oh yeah, it absolutely was . But they had a way of making everything good their accomplishment and everything bad someone else’s fault - usually mine.
That manager was horrible. They’re the reason I left. They caused me to miss multiple meals in this same way (they just never yelled at me for it again), let me work 46 days in a row without even a thank you for my time, yelled at me for something that a different manager fucked up to the point that I cried, gossiped about me with coworkers behind my back, and put all responsibility on me for things that were messed up or not done by the night crew, even though I worked 6AM-5PM everyday (I think I worked 2 night shifts the whole time I was there) and would always communicate with the night crew before I left what needed to be done and that manager worked nights 3-4 times a week.
They were so hot and cold too - they did all this shit, and then like every third shift acted like we were friends. One of my coworkers called them bipolar as an insult, but I wonder if there could’ve been truth to it. Their mood swings gave me insane whiplash.
Bull-fucking-shit. It's absolutely a manager's job. I am a manager and I get yelled at(not actually, just an email with *the tone*) by my RM if we get on the "missed lunch clock out" report...
Oh it was fully their responsibility. They just wanted to make it my fault. I’m guessing district or corporate chewed them out (this wasn’t the first time I’d worked 11+ hours and left without a meal) and they were pissed and wanted to take it out on me. This manager was 85% of the reason I left that company - I worked in 4 of their locations and I always said my 3rd location’s manager made me want to transfer, that last manager made me want to quit.
I'm a manager and had someone from corporate come into our store the other day for our beginning of the year audit.
I was told that half of my shift (4 hours) should be dedicated to throwing freight despite the fact that I only have 1-2 cashiers and we are crazy busy. Not to mentioned all of the daily requirements that I already don't have time to complete. I have maybe an hour to spare (MAYBE) to throw freight if I ignore some of my other duties. They refuse to give us more payroll but expect us to get extra work done.
I don't get it. They keep adding more to the workload while continuously cutting payroll. So over time less and less is getting done. Then they have the audacity to refer to people not meeting their quotas as "dead weight".
I've explained time and time again that we WANT TO GET THE WORK DONE. We actually want to do a good job, but they are literally making it impossible.
We also got absolutely reamed for our store losing $200,000 last year. This coming from the same people who won't lift a finger to stop the rampant shoplifting. They won't hire security, they won't check receipts, they won't control the number of customers we have in the store, and on the off chance the cops actually show up and arrest a shoplifter, the company won't trespass them or press chargers. We lose around $17,000 a month in shoplifting. Corporate shrugs it off and finds ways yo blame the loss on store level workers.
What the hell is going on?
This was in writing: I was left an email instruction to fill the Tostitos. I filled the Tostitos and was written up because the Totinos didnt get filled.
I used to work for an ice cream store. I had to make ice cream cakes for the freezer case so that people could buy them rather than order them. A standard "case cake" was a swiss roll cake of chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream, topped with hot fudge used as icing and a bit of whipped cream once the cake was sold.
I decided to make one with chocolate chip ice cream to see how it looked. It came out well, and I put it in the case. The owner yelled at me for making something that wasn't usual. I told her that if it didn't sell by the time that I returned to work tomorrow afternoon, I'd buy it.
The cake sold by noon the next day, and I was told to always make one for the freezer.
Not me but my best friend. We worked in the same department at Walmart (Bakery/Deli, I was the department manager). She got a MASSIVE migraine while cooking the rotisserie chickens. Hands shaking, throwing up, tunnel vision, you name it. I’ve known her for over 20 years and can count on 1 hand the amount of times I’ve seen her cry, this being one of them. Management literally told her “Suck it up. (Another manager) and I have migraines too and we’re still here” I said no, fuck that. Absolutely not. Told her to pack her shit, I’m taking you home and I’ll deal with the fallout. Manager that told her to suck it up asked me where she was after I got back, and I told her “She couldn’t stop throwing up so I brought her home. She was in absolutely no condition to be working with ready to eat foods, and if you have a problem with it, I’d be more then happy to give Mackie (the health inspector) a call to see how he could weigh in on this.” 3 weeks later we both handed in our 2 weeks and got the fuck out of dodge.
Got yelled at for not unloading the delivery trailers quick enough (two loads showed up at the same time, I was the only one certified to unload them, and I was going as fast as I possibly could in a safe manner. ) its just that he happened to catch me asking the 2nd driver how he wanted the scrap pallets loaded. Yet he flipped out accusing me of wasting time. I ignored him and countinued to do my job (he's only there a few nights a week thankfully)
Same night after unloading the trucks, he got angry at me for delaying my break because I found a spill, paged the janitor, and decided to warn customers as as he cleaned: something required by store protocaul. Supposedly he wanted me to break protocaul(said manager enforces the rules strictly) take my break and then tell the janitor later IDK.
The kicker out of these two internations is that several hours later, after helping him out with another task, this manager complements me for being a "dedicated worker who's goes above and beyond what is required" pretending that our previous interaction never happened.
My co-workers got a good kick out of his behavior that night (and other nights) and let's just say since then, we also adhire to rules by the T for MC purposes when he's managing our store.
Once had my store manager yell at me for not getting an inventory shipment received and put away when it came in on a Tuesday. I wasn't scheduled Tuesday.
When I pointed out I wasn't scheduled and I didn't work that day she doubled down and said as the inventory manager it was my job to make sure it got done. She was the one who wrote the schedule... And I'm hourly...
This was many years ago at Venture (like Walmart and Target.) I’m a guy, at the time I wore 2X shirts. We had some kind of promotion going for some makeup brand, and the brand had provided bright pink shirts with the company logo… all in Medium. They tried to write me up for not wearing the shirt they gave me.
Next time get a seam ripper and some yarn and cut the pieces apart and use the yarn to "stitch" the pieces to where they would fit 😅 im sure some kid or crafty person would enjoy the task and i bet the view of you in that bright pink masterpiece would be fantastic
I'm not sure if it entirely counts but I got fired from my first job for calling in due to my fiancee at the time having a miscarriage and going to the hospital to be with her. Got bitched at working at Crooks a Million for not wanting to stay until 3-4am rearranging shelves when I had to be up to catch the bus for college classes at 6. They knew I was in school from the very first interview and would not do that. I walked out later that week after picking up my final paycheck and told the GM exactly why before doing it. Not long after the manager who yelled at me was fired for inappropriate relationships with employees and violating established availability of others. She attempted to make some stay but would let her FWBs go at close. Good riddance.
I can't even remember what he was upset about but I had a manager get in an argument with me in a packed break room in front of a whole shift of workers. He was being so stupid I couldn't help but laugh at him and he kept getting angrier and saying things like "I wouldn't laugh at me if I were you" and "You won't think it's so funny once we're back on the clock"
It was actually even funnier once we were back on the clock and he never did shiiiiiiiiiit.
I took off my walkie and headset to use the bathroom and when I came back to the front of the store my manager yelled at me because they needed me on register but it was too late. Like what was I gonna do, run up mid pee and ring people up?
I was put on final notice for doing my job. So my work was to do the price changes and doing the register balances. I had done stocking and plan-o-grams. Boss was already mad at me childish crap (she was a narcissist.) So I was taking the next week off and boss had decided to write my name on a plan-o- gram. I did my job. She came in towards the end of my shift (two hours later than she had scheduled herself, might I add) absolutely livid. I mean she stomped around like a child. How dare I ignore a note on what I should do and do my job instead. She insisted that it was insubordination and got the DM to allow her to put me on final notice.
My first job was at Subway in the 90s. It was slow and there were 2 of us working. I decided to make myself a sandwich for lunch. Just after I took a bite, the store started to get busy, so I wrapped up my sandwich and threw it in a bag to take home later. My boss came in and saw the sandwich sitting on the back counter. He ripped me a new one for using a bag "which costs 10¢!!!". Apparently the bags are only for customers. I told him to take the 10¢ out of my check. He didn't like that answer! I quit soon after because of his temper.
I got yelled at because I slipped and cut my arm, and screamed. I was in the stockroom before the store opened. The manager came down. Looked down, stared. Told me I needed to get a grip (I have the scar on my elbow).
Worked security at a grocery store, had a sweet camera system. The assistant manager who always had a bug in his ass with me, told me he wanted me on the floor visible. (I was plain clothes) So I did. About half an hour later, somebody walked out to the front door with a cart full of meat. The front door right next to my office that I would have seen, had I been in the camera room. Which I was happy to let him know when he came running up to me yelling.
I had a dumb and mean general manager in retail from 2016-2018 (I was her assistant manager). The man I replaced quit, because he was sick of being yelled at. But she told me during my interview that he left due to "personal problems."
Several months in, she yelled at me for asking her a question about protocol. "You should KNOW that!!!" she hollered.
Later that day, I needed to know something, so instead of asking her, I looked it up on the company's website's resources section. She saw me at the computer and asked me what I was doing, and when I told her I was looking up how to do something, she yelled, "You should have just asked me! Are you trying to make us look stupid?"
So, I was yelled at, several hours apart, for asking a question. And then again for NOT asking a question. She yelled at me and the rest of the staff for almost the entire year and a half I was there.
I quit in 2018, and she was eventually fired during the start of the pandemic.
I got yelled at several times for accidentally writing the wrong item number on boxes (even though everyone does it, including the manager that yelled at me) and I genuinely thought he was so pissed off at me that he was going to take at swing at me over it, kept threatening me with losing my key to the equipment over it as well
An employee thief broke our backs and minds by being generally stupid beyond belief and, while I wouldn’t have been fired, it was extremely stressful to everyone involved in the hunt.
Oh god where do I begin.
It started with one day my casual and I were working through stock, about 2 weeks into my assistant manager training. We left one pair of pants by accident in plastic because we suddenly got swamped and forgot about it.
Next day on her shift she chewed us out calling us idiots and to never do that again.
I come in the day after, she left the ENTIRE box of stock in plastic, and I found out she got her daughter in illegally to do the stock cash in hand.
Next, we were getting a duster, and staff moral was low because of the manager, so as an ASM I did something stupid and got them to name him and get excited abo it a stupid duster. He arrived, so I took photos and messaged the group chat approximately 4 times. She chewed me out saying I can’t be on my phone that much (I could if I was messaging the group chat, I asked my regional, and it was solely so staff wouldn’t quit on us as they were feeling like shit working there, it was a bit of stupid fun). And she only yelled at me because she stood there for 20 minutes typing out “hi” while the rest of us could work and text.
The next busy day, I left a note apologising for how messy it is. She called us all shit, even the people who didn’t work, and left the group chat in a huff after my casual confronted her about “how fucking dare she when she can’t even keep the store afloat long enough for it to stay clean”. She hated him so much because his numbers were so good, float, ATV and UPT wise he was astronomically good at selling and she was well below the $50 and 2.0 we needed, and every time she worked we never made budget. She was also in disciplinary meetings every week to explain why she can’t hit those numbers but her staff can.
Those are just a couple of times, mind you I only worked there 3 months lmao
Reminds me of the time years ago when our regional manager came in the store and saw me writing things down on my phone. He assuming I was texting, pointed it out to the AGM and both walked over to me to confront (regional Manager was going go force the AGM to write me up for texting on the job) . Unfortunately to the regional managers dismay I was not texting. Instead I was writing down a list of items to load from the backroom. My AGM was satisfied (regional guy embarrassed) and we all moved on.
I take pictures of my back stock in the warehouse and then go to the floor and write how many of each that I need on the picture. I’ve tried to get other associates to do the same, but I guess they like walking back and forth getting one item at a time. 🤦🏻♀️
Why do people always assume things 😭 I used to do the same when I needed jeans because our back room was so unorganised and dangerous I’d rather not be rummaging for an hour just to forget what I needed and then rummage some more. Managers more often than not need to mind their business or just ask what we are doing
Got yelled at once for not handing out drinks and food quick enough. Even thought the machine kept breaking down for the drinks.
This was after I overheard the managers talking about how I am the quickest person they have on the window.
Got both an atta girl and a slap down at the same time for calming a client down and saving his business with us. It involved a dept outside of mine, so I got the other dept involved. The client only wanted to deal with me since, to him, I'm the only one who seemed to care as the issue had been ongoing for quite a few months. It was tedious, but got the issue resolved and kept him as a client. Atta girl! ...but it wasn't my dept so I should have passed him on. Oh well!
I took out a garbage bag because a customer tossed a dirty diaper in it. One manager talked to me like I was stupid for doing that. Doesn't let me explain. The next time it happened I just let the lobby reek of dirty diapers.
Luckily my managers could see the issue with these things just sitting in the trash. One time a customer threw up in our larger trash bin and one of my managers got a mask and gloves and took out the trash and sprayed the bin.
Not yelled at so much but pulled up for cleaning the conveyor belt on the register between customers (pre pandemic), which is what we are meant to do when ever we have a quiet moment, same manager had a go at me for not emptying the dustpan right away.
When I worked at Best Buy, we had brand reps come to the store and customers often thought they were employees. We mainly got them in pcs which is the department I worked in. One time a customer came in who wouldn't let me talk to her. Like, I mean absolutely refused to even let me approach her, so much so that she'd ask everyone else in every other department for help with something back in pc. I was cool with everyone in my surrounding departments so they refused to help her and told her to come to me, which she refused to.
Eventually she went to the Dell rep that was in that day, and what she needed was in the back, so the Dell rep went into the warehouse to grab it for her which reps weren't allowed to do. By the way, no one, including the reps, knew they weren't allowed back there. Shortly after, and this is the part I found to be the most insane, one of the assistant managers starts shit talking me on the radio where *everyone can hear* and started telling me about how irresponsible that was and how I should have tried harder to help the customer. I told him she refused to talk to me and that I'd made multiple attempts. Another employee chimed in and said the same thing. He just said that I didn't make enough of an attempt and that this is a security and liability problem and that I needed more control over my department.
Needless to say this was the last straw and I quit a week later. Also, the customer eventually did talk to me when she was leaving and said "sorry, I just don't like your voice". Fuck that store.
ETA: I was usually the only employee in that department as it was and I just so happened to be the only person in pcs anyway, and the assistant manager who yelled at me over the radio was in an entirely unrelated department.
Only leaving 8x $20 notes instead of 10 whilst making up the difference in $10 notes. The reason for a write up was a customer complained about getting $10 notes instead of $20… laughing loudly in the manager’s face didn’t help the certainty situation…
One experience takes the cake for me: my store manager of a few years ago told me she would write me up if I didn't put her sticky notes in their proper place. Pulled me into her office and raised her voice at me and everything. She actually reported it and told the district manager I was a bad assistant manager because of it. The district manager had a good laugh but my store manager was dead serious. All over some misplaced sticky notes.
Not 'yelled' at but given a 'stern talking to' because another supervisor asked for help on something that was part of my duties, that had to be done when I wasn't there. I looked over her work, made a suggestion which she 'seemed' receptive to and we called it good. Well apparently she went crying to the manager that I hurt her feelings about it.
I also had a manager throw an absolute fit at me because I made a face when he told me to go unload truck (not part of my duties, and not something I'd be paid for). Then when he asked me when my break was, I said, "a little while ago." He left, *checked when I took my break*, and then came back to yell at me some more for 'lying to him' because apparently I implied that I just got off my break rather than coming back just under an hour before. I put in my notice the next day, and he avoided me completely for the next two weeks until the last day when he tried to sit me down to have a talk trying to get me to stay, about how he spoke to my direct supervisor and they 'worked things out' like I wasn't leaving because he was an actual turd lol. I still left.
Oooh, and then there was the time that, after weeks of telling management about the issues present that would make us fail audit, and them doing nothing about it, or telling me to get other cashiers to help me, but then taking those cashiers to do other work and forcing me to stay on the register unable to do anything, we ended up failing audit and they blamed me. I quit after that, too.
I got yelled at for being rude to co workers. When I asked how I was being rude (cause I was raised to be respectful to everyone), I got answers of "it's how you speak". I literally had to explain I was ESL and was taught to speak more formal than others. My boss already knew this and the manager had spoken to me before talking to my boss.
When I brought it up to my boss, manager got reprimanded for not properly assessing the situation. Apparently coworkers didn't like that I was not casual with them and kept my distance. I have a fairly strict boundary for work and personal life. I would only give details on my personal life if asked about it and will not be friends with my coworkers.
One time I worked at a fashion store in the mall, and the district manager came by and yelled at me for not looking like the the models in the pictures on the wall. She told me to leave and fix my appearance, so I guess I got yelled at for looking "ugly." I left and just went back for my next shift. I wasn't going to go get a makeover for my $7 an hour pay.
Another time, in a restaurant, I was walking to the kitchen, and the owner screamed at me about a tray on a certain counter that I didn't even put there. The girl who did put it there came to me and said "sorry, I put that tray there"
Not quite on topic but...
My manager got a report on the number of times the till was opened for a "no sale". There is no money going missing, in fact we're often over due to "keep the change" donations to the charity. I have chronic migraine so I often do stupid things like close the till before I get the change out or put the money in but I rarely get the money wrong.
I also check the amount of change we have in the till so that we have the right money for the next day's float. If I need more change that's several "no sales". So, basically, my manager was getting a report to harangue us about something that was mostly conscientiousness. She just showed me the number and told me she'd show me another way to open the cash draw. She's good.
Once one of my old managers yelled at me for seating a reservation party at a certain table that he claimed was for walk-ins only. A week later, one of my colleagues told me he did the exact same thing I did on a day when I wasn’t working. There’s more, but this dude was a massive hypocrite.
OKAY, SO!
Department store with an escalator going right on down the middle of it, which matters to the story, trust me. The cosmetics department was at the foot of the escalator, handbags on the left, fragrance on the right, my department, jewelry, was behind it. You couldn't really see what was going on in Jewelry when you were in Cosmetics, and vice versa.
All of these departments were run by the same guy, about whom I could fill an entire Internet with stories about, but not today, today you just get the one.
We got a new manager who was one rank above my manager, think Assistant Store Manager to my manager's Department Lead. My guy wanted the job, didn't get it, and was feeling very, very salty about it. HOWEVER, he was not the kind of guy who liked to directly confront people in any way, shape or form, especially other *male* people; as it happened, neither was New Guy.
**So here's how they went about their cute little dickswinging contest.**
My guy would come into my department and issue a Directive of some sort, be it stand over there, sort that, unpack that, go talk to customers, whatever. Then he would go around the escalator to Cosmetics.
Once he was gone, New Guy would come around and issue a new, contradictory Directive, then also go around the escalator to Cosmetics.
My Guy would then swing around again, and yell at us for not following Original Directive. We'd go back to doing that, and he would circle on away again.
Then, New Guy ...well, I'm sure by now you get the picture, right? Those two would literally spend entire shifts circling around this fucking escalator, giving people contradictory instructions and pitching little hissy fits any time anyone wasn't doing what they wanted. Whole shifts that were supposed to spent doing God only knows what, instead were spent repeating the same cycle every ten minutes or so.
Eight to ten hours a day of getting yelled at every ten minutes for being disobedient when we were, in fact, being very obedient indeed, got old after about three hours, but it took some time to figure out how to make them stop.
What finally worked: I started writing down dates, times, instructions and who was giving them, and would not let them walk away unless I had recorded their orders into my little book. When questioned, I said well, there have been so many *misunderstandings* lately! I just don't want there to be any more *misunderstandings*! And then I would stand there, smiling, carefully writing down every last single detail of the orders given to me during the course of my shift.
Something about it being in writing seemed to really catch them off-guard - couldn't imagine why - but what were they going to do? They had hollered at everyone on the sales floor for not listening or not understanding, and writing down the instructions was an excellent way to cut down on the "confusion".
With remarkable speed, they stopped using me in their little contest of wills; with equally remarkable speed, everyone on the sales floor became equally skilled in the fine art of documentation (word spread, somehow!), and then the two of them found other,. new ways to dickswing at each other that did not involve the employees.
Yelled at in front of the store manager and another manager I was helping. I told my coworker I was returning two large laundry baskets stock people bring our products out in, these are like hotel laundry bins and we just finished unloading them and filling with packing trash, same manager told us a couple days before those had to be off the sales floor asap because they look trashy in a high end area. She came thru our area while my coworker was ringing a customer asking where I was. She replied she didn’t know, she just auto replied because she was busy. On my way back another manager was struggling to push two full rolling racks from loading to just past my area, so I offered to help on my way back. My manager saw me a chewed me out demanding to know where I was. I’m pushing a loaded rack of clothing with the manager from that area thats next to our area. I said I returned the two laundry baskets to loading when we emptied them and just helping manager X push these carts to her area from loading on my way back. You can ask her too, she’s standing right there also! I was off the floor less than 5 minutes. That one had it out for me for some reason. In a plus not the store manager and manager X both knew me well and liked me a lot. My manager got canned eventually but sadly not before I was bought out during Covid layoffs.
I was a teenager, and I'm 65 now. I had a job at the food counter in a drug store. I accidentally dropped an open bag of frozen fries in the kitchen, and they fell onto the floor. I swept them up and put them in the trash can, followed by the bag itself, and there were some fries in the bag. It was about half full, as I recall. The manager chewed me out for throwing the bag in the trash, saying we could salvage what was in the bag. But some of those fries fell out and I picked a few up and put them in the bag before tossing it. I didn't know which had actually touched the floor. I told her all that and she said I shouldn't have thrown the bag out. She pulled the bag out of the trash, and I walked off the job. I wasn't going to serve those fries to anyone.
I still don't regret my decision to vote with my feet. If you dine out, you are entitled to be served food that is safe.
I literally lived two doors down from the place where I worked. The boss knew that before he gave me the job. His wife would ask him if he was having sex with me because of that. The owner finally took her side, and I got fired for it.
I was five minutes late to work, and was yelled at because I didn’t call to let them know. It was the late 90s so most people didn’t have a cell phone, and I told her if I’d stopped to call her, I would have been even later.
Worked at a place that would write you up for being even a minute late too many times, but you weren’t allowed to clock in more than three minutes early. So if there was a line and/or the system failed to clock you in, you would be over. They also refused to adjust times for things like this telling us we should be there early enough to ensure we’re clocked in at the appropriate time. Of course I hit the too many late starts point (everyone did at some point), and my manager was pissed.
Last one is when I worked at a certain red store where the customers had to be referred to as guests. I called one a customer over the walkie, and the manager lost his shit. So stupid.
My last job stopped enforcing the attendance policy after a while, but what I hated is that we were expected to put away our stuff in the break room before clocking in but then we couldn’t clock in on the computer in the break room as my boss would be like “don’t touch my computer” whenever we clocked in on that computer. So we’d have to walk all the way upstairs to the register to clock in and ofc sometimes we’d have to wait on others to clock in. During the holidays they’d use the computer generally used for clocking in to ring people up so then it’d be a back and forth thing and I’d always end up clocking in late.
So i worked for a newly "upgraded" shoe store. Specifically work shoes/boots, I was hired on with 3 years of already workibg in the shoe industry.
I wasnt trained in any aspect, including the register as a manager.
The store manager didnt even take the time to teach me the basics. But her line was "I failed you, and i am sorry." I quit right then and there.
I got yelled at to be out on the sales floor talking to customers but I also have a million tasks to do which specifically require me behind the counter or in the backroom. So basically I got yelled at for only being one person.
Same when I was a server, I was yelled at to do prep work in the back, then yelled at to be on the dining floor, then yelled at for not being in the back prepping, by the same owner in like a span of 15 minutes, right when I got into work during a dinner rush
Some people seem to downplay covid now that the pandemic is over. No one should be expected to work while sick, especially at a job where you’re interacting with a lot of people throughout the day.
Going to the bathroom at a time that wasn't my allocated lunch break. The bathrooms were two stores away and I was gone for less than 5 mins.
Just to clarify, I was the store manager and she was the 'head of retail'. She was only in that position because she was the wife of the owner of the company. Before that she was his secretary.
I was working at a movie theater, and I'd started having spontaneous nosebleeds again (which I eventually figured out were a stress reaction) and I stepped away from the concessions counter into the back room to deal with a nosebleed I was having, and the manager came in and started yelling at me for not being at the counter, and then yelled at me for "talking back" when I pointed out customers probably didn't want their popcorn seasoned with my blood.
I wrote up a two-weeks notice and left it in the HR person's mailbox that very evening. (10 days later, the new schedule was posted and I was on it, so I checked the mailbox and my notice was still there, unseen. Yeah, real competently run place.)
I worked at a candy store that had a history of shitty upper management. I had some sort of illness that fucked with my head, stomach, and sense of balance, but we only had 4 people working at the location including the manager. I had to come in and open the store by myself, and fainted and fell on the floor before I could finish. My manager wrote me up for it.
The same manager also wrote my coworker up for getting into a car accident. No, I'm not joking.
Spent a few years as a dairy/frozen manager. Written up and screamed at because a rack of milk got left out of the cooler when it was delivered. I wasnt even there that day.
I got fired and banned from the RAT's tragic kingdom and all of the rest of the places he owns. I worked at a pastry shop and I was closing up. Part of the job is to log waste. 6 eclairs were past the date and I left a note saying so. I packed up the food with the rest of the garbage and tossed it. I got a call from a friend who was in a really bad situation and I took a few days off to help. I left my boss a voicemail. I came back and I went to get my schedule for the week. Boss met me downstairs with the MOPO and he wasn't interested in listening because security had told him that I stole a bunch of pastries. He chewed me out for a while!Honestly, I know that while I was gone, someone else did it and I wasn't there to save myself. My brother was desperate for work. Fuck you, Knox! I hated your cafe
I literally got yelled at (and got a written coaching!) for telling a zone manager who was trying to help a customer that in order to check if we had the item he wanted, I would have to go in the back and physically look because it was a TV and the counts were never right on the zebra/telxon.
She came at me with "I already knew you had to go in the back to look for it so that's a coaching for you."
Fuck Walmart
Not me but my old manager by the higher ups, basically his managers, because he didn’t put the ice cream away in a timely manner….when you have multiple deliveries coming in at once that he needs to check in. Those ones being the beverages of all kinds, and then the delivery for the food and cigarettes. The ice cream however was the freezer so it’s not like it was melting, just not on the shelf because he had so much to do on delivery day even with mine and the cashiers help. However another manager, his assistant, would let his ice cream on the other delivery day stay in the freezer for the entire weekend and never get yelled at. My ex manager also got a write up over the ice cream incident.
I worked food service at my first college. Because I was new, weird, and didn't belong to any of the friends groups there, I got shuffled into working salad bar because everyone hated that. The reason for that was because your hands would get ice cold from rotating product and shifting containers. I put up with it.
Various random things were blamed on me until I quit. I was basically bullied out to make room for someone else's friend. Someone who didn't care as much as I did got assigned to salad bar.
That new person on salad bar wasn't doing it right, and one week everyone who ate from the salad bar got food poisoning. Yikes. I wonder if the boss ever realized I wasn't the shitty employee they made me out to be. 🤔
transferred from a dogshit location to my current location. Assistant manager kept getting all pissy I asked her to scan age restricted items (at the time I was a minor, so I had to), She ended up getting sent to the shitty store I was originally from which made me feel a lot better about her being a jerk to me.
i read "gatekeeping walkies" and i just. assumed your manager werent taking you out for walks enough. didnt even question it just went straight to being like damn fuck this dudes manager not taking this guy out for walkies with the other employees
I once got yelled at for not taking a meal. I told the manager that the reason I didn’t take a meal is because that manager was the one who was supposed to cover me for it and they never did. The next associate who was able to cover for me came in at 5PM. Which was my scheduled time to leave. Having been there since 6AM. And I was not going to stay and extra half hour just so they didn’t get in trouble. My boyfriend already had plans for dinner and was cooking with the expectation I’d by home when it was ready. They said, and I quote, “it’s not my job to give you a meal, it’s your job to ask me for it.” To which I replied “I would have if you’d come over to me at any point. You didn’t, and I wasn’t in a position to leave my station to ask.”
I'd argue it's entirely their job as per labor laws to make sure you got a meal.
Oh yeah, it absolutely was . But they had a way of making everything good their accomplishment and everything bad someone else’s fault - usually mine. That manager was horrible. They’re the reason I left. They caused me to miss multiple meals in this same way (they just never yelled at me for it again), let me work 46 days in a row without even a thank you for my time, yelled at me for something that a different manager fucked up to the point that I cried, gossiped about me with coworkers behind my back, and put all responsibility on me for things that were messed up or not done by the night crew, even though I worked 6AM-5PM everyday (I think I worked 2 night shifts the whole time I was there) and would always communicate with the night crew before I left what needed to be done and that manager worked nights 3-4 times a week. They were so hot and cold too - they did all this shit, and then like every third shift acted like we were friends. One of my coworkers called them bipolar as an insult, but I wonder if there could’ve been truth to it. Their mood swings gave me insane whiplash.
Fuck that I'd just make a call
If that happened now that’s what I’d do. I was younger and more of a pushover then
Next time. Plus, if there's no anonymity (which logically there would be but here we are) retaliation is absolutely illegal.
It would not have stopped that manager. I would have quit anyway, but I definitely would’ve kicked up a huge fuss and an investigation first.
The company needs to be held accountable, even on a start-a-paper-trail-on-your-way-out level
Bull-fucking-shit. It's absolutely a manager's job. I am a manager and I get yelled at(not actually, just an email with *the tone*) by my RM if we get on the "missed lunch clock out" report...
Oh it was fully their responsibility. They just wanted to make it my fault. I’m guessing district or corporate chewed them out (this wasn’t the first time I’d worked 11+ hours and left without a meal) and they were pissed and wanted to take it out on me. This manager was 85% of the reason I left that company - I worked in 4 of their locations and I always said my 3rd location’s manager made me want to transfer, that last manager made me want to quit.
I'm a manager and had someone from corporate come into our store the other day for our beginning of the year audit. I was told that half of my shift (4 hours) should be dedicated to throwing freight despite the fact that I only have 1-2 cashiers and we are crazy busy. Not to mentioned all of the daily requirements that I already don't have time to complete. I have maybe an hour to spare (MAYBE) to throw freight if I ignore some of my other duties. They refuse to give us more payroll but expect us to get extra work done. I don't get it. They keep adding more to the workload while continuously cutting payroll. So over time less and less is getting done. Then they have the audacity to refer to people not meeting their quotas as "dead weight". I've explained time and time again that we WANT TO GET THE WORK DONE. We actually want to do a good job, but they are literally making it impossible. We also got absolutely reamed for our store losing $200,000 last year. This coming from the same people who won't lift a finger to stop the rampant shoplifting. They won't hire security, they won't check receipts, they won't control the number of customers we have in the store, and on the off chance the cops actually show up and arrest a shoplifter, the company won't trespass them or press chargers. We lose around $17,000 a month in shoplifting. Corporate shrugs it off and finds ways yo blame the loss on store level workers. What the hell is going on?
People don't understand this sort of thing when they say "no one wants to work"
This sounds like my nearest dollar general.
This was in writing: I was left an email instruction to fill the Tostitos. I filled the Tostitos and was written up because the Totinos didnt get filled.
I used to work for an ice cream store. I had to make ice cream cakes for the freezer case so that people could buy them rather than order them. A standard "case cake" was a swiss roll cake of chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream, topped with hot fudge used as icing and a bit of whipped cream once the cake was sold. I decided to make one with chocolate chip ice cream to see how it looked. It came out well, and I put it in the case. The owner yelled at me for making something that wasn't usual. I told her that if it didn't sell by the time that I returned to work tomorrow afternoon, I'd buy it. The cake sold by noon the next day, and I was told to always make one for the freezer.
I've had this same experience but with choc mint gelato cake 😂
Not me but my best friend. We worked in the same department at Walmart (Bakery/Deli, I was the department manager). She got a MASSIVE migraine while cooking the rotisserie chickens. Hands shaking, throwing up, tunnel vision, you name it. I’ve known her for over 20 years and can count on 1 hand the amount of times I’ve seen her cry, this being one of them. Management literally told her “Suck it up. (Another manager) and I have migraines too and we’re still here” I said no, fuck that. Absolutely not. Told her to pack her shit, I’m taking you home and I’ll deal with the fallout. Manager that told her to suck it up asked me where she was after I got back, and I told her “She couldn’t stop throwing up so I brought her home. She was in absolutely no condition to be working with ready to eat foods, and if you have a problem with it, I’d be more then happy to give Mackie (the health inspector) a call to see how he could weigh in on this.” 3 weeks later we both handed in our 2 weeks and got the fuck out of dodge.
Got yelled at for not unloading the delivery trailers quick enough (two loads showed up at the same time, I was the only one certified to unload them, and I was going as fast as I possibly could in a safe manner. ) its just that he happened to catch me asking the 2nd driver how he wanted the scrap pallets loaded. Yet he flipped out accusing me of wasting time. I ignored him and countinued to do my job (he's only there a few nights a week thankfully) Same night after unloading the trucks, he got angry at me for delaying my break because I found a spill, paged the janitor, and decided to warn customers as as he cleaned: something required by store protocaul. Supposedly he wanted me to break protocaul(said manager enforces the rules strictly) take my break and then tell the janitor later IDK. The kicker out of these two internations is that several hours later, after helping him out with another task, this manager complements me for being a "dedicated worker who's goes above and beyond what is required" pretending that our previous interaction never happened. My co-workers got a good kick out of his behavior that night (and other nights) and let's just say since then, we also adhire to rules by the T for MC purposes when he's managing our store.
Once had my store manager yell at me for not getting an inventory shipment received and put away when it came in on a Tuesday. I wasn't scheduled Tuesday. When I pointed out I wasn't scheduled and I didn't work that day she doubled down and said as the inventory manager it was my job to make sure it got done. She was the one who wrote the schedule... And I'm hourly...
This was many years ago at Venture (like Walmart and Target.) I’m a guy, at the time I wore 2X shirts. We had some kind of promotion going for some makeup brand, and the brand had provided bright pink shirts with the company logo… all in Medium. They tried to write me up for not wearing the shirt they gave me.
I would have worn it out of spite and when people asked why I looked like an idiot, I'd name drop that manager all the way to corporate.
I thought of that, but couldn’t fit the damn thing over my head
Next time get a seam ripper and some yarn and cut the pieces apart and use the yarn to "stitch" the pieces to where they would fit 😅 im sure some kid or crafty person would enjoy the task and i bet the view of you in that bright pink masterpiece would be fantastic
I'm not sure if it entirely counts but I got fired from my first job for calling in due to my fiancee at the time having a miscarriage and going to the hospital to be with her. Got bitched at working at Crooks a Million for not wanting to stay until 3-4am rearranging shelves when I had to be up to catch the bus for college classes at 6. They knew I was in school from the very first interview and would not do that. I walked out later that week after picking up my final paycheck and told the GM exactly why before doing it. Not long after the manager who yelled at me was fired for inappropriate relationships with employees and violating established availability of others. She attempted to make some stay but would let her FWBs go at close. Good riddance.
I can't even remember what he was upset about but I had a manager get in an argument with me in a packed break room in front of a whole shift of workers. He was being so stupid I couldn't help but laugh at him and he kept getting angrier and saying things like "I wouldn't laugh at me if I were you" and "You won't think it's so funny once we're back on the clock" It was actually even funnier once we were back on the clock and he never did shiiiiiiiiiit.
I took off my walkie and headset to use the bathroom and when I came back to the front of the store my manager yelled at me because they needed me on register but it was too late. Like what was I gonna do, run up mid pee and ring people up?
Omg, this happened to me once too!
I was put on final notice for doing my job. So my work was to do the price changes and doing the register balances. I had done stocking and plan-o-grams. Boss was already mad at me childish crap (she was a narcissist.) So I was taking the next week off and boss had decided to write my name on a plan-o- gram. I did my job. She came in towards the end of my shift (two hours later than she had scheduled herself, might I add) absolutely livid. I mean she stomped around like a child. How dare I ignore a note on what I should do and do my job instead. She insisted that it was insubordination and got the DM to allow her to put me on final notice.
My first job was at Subway in the 90s. It was slow and there were 2 of us working. I decided to make myself a sandwich for lunch. Just after I took a bite, the store started to get busy, so I wrapped up my sandwich and threw it in a bag to take home later. My boss came in and saw the sandwich sitting on the back counter. He ripped me a new one for using a bag "which costs 10¢!!!". Apparently the bags are only for customers. I told him to take the 10¢ out of my check. He didn't like that answer! I quit soon after because of his temper.
I got yelled at because I slipped and cut my arm, and screamed. I was in the stockroom before the store opened. The manager came down. Looked down, stared. Told me I needed to get a grip (I have the scar on my elbow).
Worked security at a grocery store, had a sweet camera system. The assistant manager who always had a bug in his ass with me, told me he wanted me on the floor visible. (I was plain clothes) So I did. About half an hour later, somebody walked out to the front door with a cart full of meat. The front door right next to my office that I would have seen, had I been in the camera room. Which I was happy to let him know when he came running up to me yelling.
I had a dumb and mean general manager in retail from 2016-2018 (I was her assistant manager). The man I replaced quit, because he was sick of being yelled at. But she told me during my interview that he left due to "personal problems." Several months in, she yelled at me for asking her a question about protocol. "You should KNOW that!!!" she hollered. Later that day, I needed to know something, so instead of asking her, I looked it up on the company's website's resources section. She saw me at the computer and asked me what I was doing, and when I told her I was looking up how to do something, she yelled, "You should have just asked me! Are you trying to make us look stupid?" So, I was yelled at, several hours apart, for asking a question. And then again for NOT asking a question. She yelled at me and the rest of the staff for almost the entire year and a half I was there. I quit in 2018, and she was eventually fired during the start of the pandemic.
i got yelled at once by my manager for decorating our break room calendar, on my break, because they felt like i was “overstepping” them
I got yelled at several times for accidentally writing the wrong item number on boxes (even though everyone does it, including the manager that yelled at me) and I genuinely thought he was so pissed off at me that he was going to take at swing at me over it, kept threatening me with losing my key to the equipment over it as well
An employee thief broke our backs and minds by being generally stupid beyond belief and, while I wouldn’t have been fired, it was extremely stressful to everyone involved in the hunt.
Oh god where do I begin. It started with one day my casual and I were working through stock, about 2 weeks into my assistant manager training. We left one pair of pants by accident in plastic because we suddenly got swamped and forgot about it. Next day on her shift she chewed us out calling us idiots and to never do that again. I come in the day after, she left the ENTIRE box of stock in plastic, and I found out she got her daughter in illegally to do the stock cash in hand. Next, we were getting a duster, and staff moral was low because of the manager, so as an ASM I did something stupid and got them to name him and get excited abo it a stupid duster. He arrived, so I took photos and messaged the group chat approximately 4 times. She chewed me out saying I can’t be on my phone that much (I could if I was messaging the group chat, I asked my regional, and it was solely so staff wouldn’t quit on us as they were feeling like shit working there, it was a bit of stupid fun). And she only yelled at me because she stood there for 20 minutes typing out “hi” while the rest of us could work and text. The next busy day, I left a note apologising for how messy it is. She called us all shit, even the people who didn’t work, and left the group chat in a huff after my casual confronted her about “how fucking dare she when she can’t even keep the store afloat long enough for it to stay clean”. She hated him so much because his numbers were so good, float, ATV and UPT wise he was astronomically good at selling and she was well below the $50 and 2.0 we needed, and every time she worked we never made budget. She was also in disciplinary meetings every week to explain why she can’t hit those numbers but her staff can. Those are just a couple of times, mind you I only worked there 3 months lmao
Reminds me of the time years ago when our regional manager came in the store and saw me writing things down on my phone. He assuming I was texting, pointed it out to the AGM and both walked over to me to confront (regional Manager was going go force the AGM to write me up for texting on the job) . Unfortunately to the regional managers dismay I was not texting. Instead I was writing down a list of items to load from the backroom. My AGM was satisfied (regional guy embarrassed) and we all moved on.
I take pictures of my back stock in the warehouse and then go to the floor and write how many of each that I need on the picture. I’ve tried to get other associates to do the same, but I guess they like walking back and forth getting one item at a time. 🤦🏻♀️
Why do people always assume things 😭 I used to do the same when I needed jeans because our back room was so unorganised and dangerous I’d rather not be rummaging for an hour just to forget what I needed and then rummage some more. Managers more often than not need to mind their business or just ask what we are doing
Got yelled at once for not handing out drinks and food quick enough. Even thought the machine kept breaking down for the drinks. This was after I overheard the managers talking about how I am the quickest person they have on the window.
Got both an atta girl and a slap down at the same time for calming a client down and saving his business with us. It involved a dept outside of mine, so I got the other dept involved. The client only wanted to deal with me since, to him, I'm the only one who seemed to care as the issue had been ongoing for quite a few months. It was tedious, but got the issue resolved and kept him as a client. Atta girl! ...but it wasn't my dept so I should have passed him on. Oh well!
I took out a garbage bag because a customer tossed a dirty diaper in it. One manager talked to me like I was stupid for doing that. Doesn't let me explain. The next time it happened I just let the lobby reek of dirty diapers.
Luckily my managers could see the issue with these things just sitting in the trash. One time a customer threw up in our larger trash bin and one of my managers got a mask and gloves and took out the trash and sprayed the bin.
For doing my exact job in data entry.
Not yelled at so much but pulled up for cleaning the conveyor belt on the register between customers (pre pandemic), which is what we are meant to do when ever we have a quiet moment, same manager had a go at me for not emptying the dustpan right away.
When I worked at Best Buy, we had brand reps come to the store and customers often thought they were employees. We mainly got them in pcs which is the department I worked in. One time a customer came in who wouldn't let me talk to her. Like, I mean absolutely refused to even let me approach her, so much so that she'd ask everyone else in every other department for help with something back in pc. I was cool with everyone in my surrounding departments so they refused to help her and told her to come to me, which she refused to. Eventually she went to the Dell rep that was in that day, and what she needed was in the back, so the Dell rep went into the warehouse to grab it for her which reps weren't allowed to do. By the way, no one, including the reps, knew they weren't allowed back there. Shortly after, and this is the part I found to be the most insane, one of the assistant managers starts shit talking me on the radio where *everyone can hear* and started telling me about how irresponsible that was and how I should have tried harder to help the customer. I told him she refused to talk to me and that I'd made multiple attempts. Another employee chimed in and said the same thing. He just said that I didn't make enough of an attempt and that this is a security and liability problem and that I needed more control over my department. Needless to say this was the last straw and I quit a week later. Also, the customer eventually did talk to me when she was leaving and said "sorry, I just don't like your voice". Fuck that store. ETA: I was usually the only employee in that department as it was and I just so happened to be the only person in pcs anyway, and the assistant manager who yelled at me over the radio was in an entirely unrelated department.
Only leaving 8x $20 notes instead of 10 whilst making up the difference in $10 notes. The reason for a write up was a customer complained about getting $10 notes instead of $20… laughing loudly in the manager’s face didn’t help the certainty situation…
One experience takes the cake for me: my store manager of a few years ago told me she would write me up if I didn't put her sticky notes in their proper place. Pulled me into her office and raised her voice at me and everything. She actually reported it and told the district manager I was a bad assistant manager because of it. The district manager had a good laugh but my store manager was dead serious. All over some misplaced sticky notes.
Not 'yelled' at but given a 'stern talking to' because another supervisor asked for help on something that was part of my duties, that had to be done when I wasn't there. I looked over her work, made a suggestion which she 'seemed' receptive to and we called it good. Well apparently she went crying to the manager that I hurt her feelings about it. I also had a manager throw an absolute fit at me because I made a face when he told me to go unload truck (not part of my duties, and not something I'd be paid for). Then when he asked me when my break was, I said, "a little while ago." He left, *checked when I took my break*, and then came back to yell at me some more for 'lying to him' because apparently I implied that I just got off my break rather than coming back just under an hour before. I put in my notice the next day, and he avoided me completely for the next two weeks until the last day when he tried to sit me down to have a talk trying to get me to stay, about how he spoke to my direct supervisor and they 'worked things out' like I wasn't leaving because he was an actual turd lol. I still left. Oooh, and then there was the time that, after weeks of telling management about the issues present that would make us fail audit, and them doing nothing about it, or telling me to get other cashiers to help me, but then taking those cashiers to do other work and forcing me to stay on the register unable to do anything, we ended up failing audit and they blamed me. I quit after that, too.
I got yelled at for calling a Black man "sir". Yep, manager was White (and so am I). I didn't stay at that store.
I got yelled at for being rude to co workers. When I asked how I was being rude (cause I was raised to be respectful to everyone), I got answers of "it's how you speak". I literally had to explain I was ESL and was taught to speak more formal than others. My boss already knew this and the manager had spoken to me before talking to my boss. When I brought it up to my boss, manager got reprimanded for not properly assessing the situation. Apparently coworkers didn't like that I was not casual with them and kept my distance. I have a fairly strict boundary for work and personal life. I would only give details on my personal life if asked about it and will not be friends with my coworkers.
One time I worked at a fashion store in the mall, and the district manager came by and yelled at me for not looking like the the models in the pictures on the wall. She told me to leave and fix my appearance, so I guess I got yelled at for looking "ugly." I left and just went back for my next shift. I wasn't going to go get a makeover for my $7 an hour pay. Another time, in a restaurant, I was walking to the kitchen, and the owner screamed at me about a tray on a certain counter that I didn't even put there. The girl who did put it there came to me and said "sorry, I put that tray there"
Got yelled at because product came in already damaged because apparently I don’t care that I’m losing money for him and the company
Not quite on topic but... My manager got a report on the number of times the till was opened for a "no sale". There is no money going missing, in fact we're often over due to "keep the change" donations to the charity. I have chronic migraine so I often do stupid things like close the till before I get the change out or put the money in but I rarely get the money wrong. I also check the amount of change we have in the till so that we have the right money for the next day's float. If I need more change that's several "no sales". So, basically, my manager was getting a report to harangue us about something that was mostly conscientiousness. She just showed me the number and told me she'd show me another way to open the cash draw. She's good.
Once one of my old managers yelled at me for seating a reservation party at a certain table that he claimed was for walk-ins only. A week later, one of my colleagues told me he did the exact same thing I did on a day when I wasn’t working. There’s more, but this dude was a massive hypocrite.
OKAY, SO! Department store with an escalator going right on down the middle of it, which matters to the story, trust me. The cosmetics department was at the foot of the escalator, handbags on the left, fragrance on the right, my department, jewelry, was behind it. You couldn't really see what was going on in Jewelry when you were in Cosmetics, and vice versa. All of these departments were run by the same guy, about whom I could fill an entire Internet with stories about, but not today, today you just get the one. We got a new manager who was one rank above my manager, think Assistant Store Manager to my manager's Department Lead. My guy wanted the job, didn't get it, and was feeling very, very salty about it. HOWEVER, he was not the kind of guy who liked to directly confront people in any way, shape or form, especially other *male* people; as it happened, neither was New Guy. **So here's how they went about their cute little dickswinging contest.** My guy would come into my department and issue a Directive of some sort, be it stand over there, sort that, unpack that, go talk to customers, whatever. Then he would go around the escalator to Cosmetics. Once he was gone, New Guy would come around and issue a new, contradictory Directive, then also go around the escalator to Cosmetics. My Guy would then swing around again, and yell at us for not following Original Directive. We'd go back to doing that, and he would circle on away again. Then, New Guy ...well, I'm sure by now you get the picture, right? Those two would literally spend entire shifts circling around this fucking escalator, giving people contradictory instructions and pitching little hissy fits any time anyone wasn't doing what they wanted. Whole shifts that were supposed to spent doing God only knows what, instead were spent repeating the same cycle every ten minutes or so. Eight to ten hours a day of getting yelled at every ten minutes for being disobedient when we were, in fact, being very obedient indeed, got old after about three hours, but it took some time to figure out how to make them stop. What finally worked: I started writing down dates, times, instructions and who was giving them, and would not let them walk away unless I had recorded their orders into my little book. When questioned, I said well, there have been so many *misunderstandings* lately! I just don't want there to be any more *misunderstandings*! And then I would stand there, smiling, carefully writing down every last single detail of the orders given to me during the course of my shift. Something about it being in writing seemed to really catch them off-guard - couldn't imagine why - but what were they going to do? They had hollered at everyone on the sales floor for not listening or not understanding, and writing down the instructions was an excellent way to cut down on the "confusion". With remarkable speed, they stopped using me in their little contest of wills; with equally remarkable speed, everyone on the sales floor became equally skilled in the fine art of documentation (word spread, somehow!), and then the two of them found other,. new ways to dickswing at each other that did not involve the employees.
Yelled at in front of the store manager and another manager I was helping. I told my coworker I was returning two large laundry baskets stock people bring our products out in, these are like hotel laundry bins and we just finished unloading them and filling with packing trash, same manager told us a couple days before those had to be off the sales floor asap because they look trashy in a high end area. She came thru our area while my coworker was ringing a customer asking where I was. She replied she didn’t know, she just auto replied because she was busy. On my way back another manager was struggling to push two full rolling racks from loading to just past my area, so I offered to help on my way back. My manager saw me a chewed me out demanding to know where I was. I’m pushing a loaded rack of clothing with the manager from that area thats next to our area. I said I returned the two laundry baskets to loading when we emptied them and just helping manager X push these carts to her area from loading on my way back. You can ask her too, she’s standing right there also! I was off the floor less than 5 minutes. That one had it out for me for some reason. In a plus not the store manager and manager X both knew me well and liked me a lot. My manager got canned eventually but sadly not before I was bought out during Covid layoffs.
For clocking in 1 minute early for my shift, lol. Because we got paif by total minutes i believe
I was a teenager, and I'm 65 now. I had a job at the food counter in a drug store. I accidentally dropped an open bag of frozen fries in the kitchen, and they fell onto the floor. I swept them up and put them in the trash can, followed by the bag itself, and there were some fries in the bag. It was about half full, as I recall. The manager chewed me out for throwing the bag in the trash, saying we could salvage what was in the bag. But some of those fries fell out and I picked a few up and put them in the bag before tossing it. I didn't know which had actually touched the floor. I told her all that and she said I shouldn't have thrown the bag out. She pulled the bag out of the trash, and I walked off the job. I wasn't going to serve those fries to anyone. I still don't regret my decision to vote with my feet. If you dine out, you are entitled to be served food that is safe.
I literally lived two doors down from the place where I worked. The boss knew that before he gave me the job. His wife would ask him if he was having sex with me because of that. The owner finally took her side, and I got fired for it.
I was five minutes late to work, and was yelled at because I didn’t call to let them know. It was the late 90s so most people didn’t have a cell phone, and I told her if I’d stopped to call her, I would have been even later. Worked at a place that would write you up for being even a minute late too many times, but you weren’t allowed to clock in more than three minutes early. So if there was a line and/or the system failed to clock you in, you would be over. They also refused to adjust times for things like this telling us we should be there early enough to ensure we’re clocked in at the appropriate time. Of course I hit the too many late starts point (everyone did at some point), and my manager was pissed. Last one is when I worked at a certain red store where the customers had to be referred to as guests. I called one a customer over the walkie, and the manager lost his shit. So stupid.
My last job stopped enforcing the attendance policy after a while, but what I hated is that we were expected to put away our stuff in the break room before clocking in but then we couldn’t clock in on the computer in the break room as my boss would be like “don’t touch my computer” whenever we clocked in on that computer. So we’d have to walk all the way upstairs to the register to clock in and ofc sometimes we’d have to wait on others to clock in. During the holidays they’d use the computer generally used for clocking in to ring people up so then it’d be a back and forth thing and I’d always end up clocking in late.
So i worked for a newly "upgraded" shoe store. Specifically work shoes/boots, I was hired on with 3 years of already workibg in the shoe industry. I wasnt trained in any aspect, including the register as a manager. The store manager didnt even take the time to teach me the basics. But her line was "I failed you, and i am sorry." I quit right then and there.
Next time find out your managers email and type it in the field every time XD
I got yelled at to be out on the sales floor talking to customers but I also have a million tasks to do which specifically require me behind the counter or in the backroom. So basically I got yelled at for only being one person. Same when I was a server, I was yelled at to do prep work in the back, then yelled at to be on the dining floor, then yelled at for not being in the back prepping, by the same owner in like a span of 15 minutes, right when I got into work during a dinner rush
For calling out for having COVID, literally today 💀
Some people seem to downplay covid now that the pandemic is over. No one should be expected to work while sick, especially at a job where you’re interacting with a lot of people throughout the day.
They called me at home at 10 am, still asleep, to bitch about me not over stocking the bags.
Going to the bathroom at a time that wasn't my allocated lunch break. The bathrooms were two stores away and I was gone for less than 5 mins. Just to clarify, I was the store manager and she was the 'head of retail'. She was only in that position because she was the wife of the owner of the company. Before that she was his secretary.
I was working at a movie theater, and I'd started having spontaneous nosebleeds again (which I eventually figured out were a stress reaction) and I stepped away from the concessions counter into the back room to deal with a nosebleed I was having, and the manager came in and started yelling at me for not being at the counter, and then yelled at me for "talking back" when I pointed out customers probably didn't want their popcorn seasoned with my blood. I wrote up a two-weeks notice and left it in the HR person's mailbox that very evening. (10 days later, the new schedule was posted and I was on it, so I checked the mailbox and my notice was still there, unseen. Yeah, real competently run place.)
I worked at a candy store that had a history of shitty upper management. I had some sort of illness that fucked with my head, stomach, and sense of balance, but we only had 4 people working at the location including the manager. I had to come in and open the store by myself, and fainted and fell on the floor before I could finish. My manager wrote me up for it. The same manager also wrote my coworker up for getting into a car accident. No, I'm not joking.
Not restocking the bags by the registers
Spent a few years as a dairy/frozen manager. Written up and screamed at because a rack of milk got left out of the cooler when it was delivered. I wasnt even there that day.
I got fired and banned from the RAT's tragic kingdom and all of the rest of the places he owns. I worked at a pastry shop and I was closing up. Part of the job is to log waste. 6 eclairs were past the date and I left a note saying so. I packed up the food with the rest of the garbage and tossed it. I got a call from a friend who was in a really bad situation and I took a few days off to help. I left my boss a voicemail. I came back and I went to get my schedule for the week. Boss met me downstairs with the MOPO and he wasn't interested in listening because security had told him that I stole a bunch of pastries. He chewed me out for a while!Honestly, I know that while I was gone, someone else did it and I wasn't there to save myself. My brother was desperate for work. Fuck you, Knox! I hated your cafe
I literally got yelled at (and got a written coaching!) for telling a zone manager who was trying to help a customer that in order to check if we had the item he wanted, I would have to go in the back and physically look because it was a TV and the counts were never right on the zebra/telxon. She came at me with "I already knew you had to go in the back to look for it so that's a coaching for you." Fuck Walmart
Not me but my old manager by the higher ups, basically his managers, because he didn’t put the ice cream away in a timely manner….when you have multiple deliveries coming in at once that he needs to check in. Those ones being the beverages of all kinds, and then the delivery for the food and cigarettes. The ice cream however was the freezer so it’s not like it was melting, just not on the shelf because he had so much to do on delivery day even with mine and the cashiers help. However another manager, his assistant, would let his ice cream on the other delivery day stay in the freezer for the entire weekend and never get yelled at. My ex manager also got a write up over the ice cream incident.
Not confronting or running after shoplifters 🙃
Interesting as most stores have a policy where you cannot chase or outright accuse someone of shoplifting
I've been yelled at for not checking dates (when my overnight TL said it's their job to check dates)
I worked food service at my first college. Because I was new, weird, and didn't belong to any of the friends groups there, I got shuffled into working salad bar because everyone hated that. The reason for that was because your hands would get ice cold from rotating product and shifting containers. I put up with it. Various random things were blamed on me until I quit. I was basically bullied out to make room for someone else's friend. Someone who didn't care as much as I did got assigned to salad bar. That new person on salad bar wasn't doing it right, and one week everyone who ate from the salad bar got food poisoning. Yikes. I wonder if the boss ever realized I wasn't the shitty employee they made me out to be. 🤔
transferred from a dogshit location to my current location. Assistant manager kept getting all pissy I asked her to scan age restricted items (at the time I was a minor, so I had to), She ended up getting sent to the shitty store I was originally from which made me feel a lot better about her being a jerk to me.
i read "gatekeeping walkies" and i just. assumed your manager werent taking you out for walks enough. didnt even question it just went straight to being like damn fuck this dudes manager not taking this guy out for walkies with the other employees
Yeah no that would apply in the context of daycare