Worker Gets Fired for Not Being Able to Attend ‘Cleaning Party’ on 2 Hours’ Notice

There's no shortage of screenshots of infuriating text messages from the worst bosses ever featured on r/antiwork, but one example recently shared by u/L3wdMegumin has a little extra dose of WTF. The text exchange begins with OP's boss seemingly blaming their android phone for the fact that OP wasn't added to an important work-related group text in which the boss apparently demanded that everyone show up to a mandatory "cleaning party." OP explains that they are out of town and can't show up to the meeting. Their boss responds by heavily implying that OP is fired.

Let's just get this straight. If your boss is ever like, "here's two hours' notice to a mandatory meeting in which you do a bunch of free labor for me. Oh, and you're fired if you can't make it," I think it's safe to say you should consider that bullet dodged and find a new job.

Posted by Mel Dawn

“Got fired from my job because I couldn't come to a cleaning party on 2 hour notice” Posted by u/L3wdMegumin

The comment section

“It’s where instead of paying a professional cleaning company to clean your restaurant, you get your employees that rely entirely on tips to come clean for $4 an hour.” said u/kamaainaDOTapp.

“They really do get the peasants with death by a thousand cuts. I keep learning new tactics, and they just keep rolling in. I guess daddy government just allows them to fuck us, so nothing really stopping them.” said u/badnewshabit.

“'Sunday night meeting' sounds like a cult” said u/Quirinus42.

“This. You need to do this. Get this in ‘writing.’” said u/TergeoCaeruleum.

“This. This. This. If they aren’t paying you, they cannot direct your time. I once made a big enemy at a company when they converted salary people to hourly to save money and then had the audacity to try to schedule mandatory lunch and learns and meetings. You were supposed to run to get your lunch and come back to a mandatory meeting that was now unpaid. I wasn’t even on that team and I stood up for them and went to the legal department telling them that I cannot schedule the meeting they requested as it would violate labor laws. It’s either free time or paid time. You can’t mix those.” said u/randomwanderingsd.