'Don't wanna give me a new contract? Fine': Employee quits job after boss refuses to make them an official manager

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 6, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

After twelve years working at a retail store, this employee finally got the chance to become a manager. It's a career accomplishment that is a big stepping stone for many people. Especially when working in retail, stepping up to be a manager is a sign that you've put hard work and lots of time into your job, and now your employer thinks you have the skillset to manage others. 

For this person, though, their company wanted them to act like a manager, but didn't really want to treat them like one. First, they had the OP, u/Garfish-woosh, jump through lots of hoops, meaning they had to do hours worth of training without additional pay. The employee did this for six whole months until they were finally allowed to be called a manager. But they did have some issues that arose from their new contract, which they ended up using for their own benefit in the end. 

People in the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit loved this tale, and numerous commenters left their own hilarious tales in the comments below. Check it all out down below. After that, take a peek into the secret lives of random strangers on the internet with these anonymous confessions. 

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  • 01
    Font - 'When you want to become a manager, they make you fly through 1000 hoops, do a whole bunch of training and do the job for 6 months without any extra pay' ANLAY
    via Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash
  • 02
    Font - Don't wanna give me a new contract? Fine I'll stick to the terms of the contract I do have. So I used to work for a large retailer in the UK. I worked there for 12 years in total and ended up as a manager. When you want to become a manager they make you fly through 1000 hoops, do a whole bunch of training and do the job for 6 months without any extra pay. I did all of this and was finally officially signed off as a manager.
    via u/Garfish-woosh
  • 03
    Font - After I was officially given a job I got my pay rise but was never given a new contract. I asked multiple times for a new contract and was fobbed off each time. Fast forward about 9 months and another large retailer started hiring lots of managers and was poaching a whole bunch of staff. I applied for one of these jobs as they were offering £8k more than I was currently on but for the same job.
    via u/Garfish-woosh
  • 04
    Font - I got the job and went to hand in my notice. Managers have to give 4 weeks notice whereas General Assistants only have to give a week. So I decided that I would follow the exact terms on my contract and provide them with a weeks notice rather than the 4 weeks they wanted.
    via u/Garfish-woosh
  • 05
    Font - Suffice to say that they were not happy with that and I got called into an office to ask why I had only given 1 weeks notice. I explained that per the terms of the last contract that I signed with them that is all that I was required to give. They were really not happy but there really wasn't anything that they could do about it.
    via u/Garfish-woosh
  • 06
    Font - Also my wife says Hi, she wanted me to say hi to whoever I was texting, I said I was writing a Reddit post and said to say hi to Reddit for her.
    via u/Garfish-woosh
  • 07
    Font - Hattix Haha, my brother did this exact thing. They trained him up, gave him the extra £, but never re- did his contract, so he never got the other benefits (mostly mileage and medical). His notice period didn't change from 2 weeks to 8 weeks. So when he handed in his notice a year and half later (unrelated reasons), they said it was 8 weeks. He asked them to show him that in his contract, and they went all quiet.
    via u/Hattix
  • 08
    Font - brianbrianbrian · Now for OP, this was funny. But for your brother? A year and a half without benefits? That's a lot of missed compensation. Would've raised more of a stink over that. Well, actually, maybe depends on their business; for me, that would be a lot.
    via u/brianbrianbrian
  • 09
    Font - harrywwc +3. it's nice when work contracts work in your favour, and you can stick it to the bossman. and g'day from Sunday evening to OP's missus
    via u/harrywwc
  • 10
    Font - Runaway492 Hey I'm about to do this too! Mine was supposed to go from 1 month to 3 months notice but they only gave me the pay increase notice that states "all T&Cs from the original contract remain the same" even when I asked for the new contract. Also, I am their legal team and they didn't listen... so well done you. Also, also, hi OPs wife!
    via u/Runaway492
  • 11
    Font - timhortonsghost This will get buried, but I'm a lawyer and was once negotiating a new employment contract with the then current CEO of a client's company (who wanted more pay, benefits, etc). CEO held out and refused to sign last and final porposal, which was generous, and included 6 months of severance.
    via u/timhortonsghost
  • 12
    Font - Negotiations leave bad taste in clients mouth, and by total coincidence some issues pop up with CEO in the months following the rejection of the contract. Client can't uncover enough to terminate for cause, but go ahead and terminate CEO in a "we're going in another direction" type manner. CEO gets zero severance because they never signed the updated employment contract (and they clearly would have been entitled to it had they just signed it). It was one of the most astonishing examples o
    via u/timhortonsghost
  • 13
    Font - Post script: CEO hires lawyer who sends letter demanding severance. We reply with copy of former CEO's email to the board expressly rejecting last contract proposal and never hear from lawyer again.
    via u/timhortonsghost
  • 14
    Font - Right_Hour I'm a contractor and last contract renewal they did last year, I snuck in a reciprocity for 0 days notice. Already used it once, when my client's manager was power tripping and busting my b Is over some benign s. I just took off my badge mid conversation and handed it to him. He was at a loss and had to backtrack really fast. Never had a problem since then :-)
    via u/Right_Hour
  • 15
    Font - Asmodai79 I done something similar as a sub contracted software Engineer. I was working on a s project for a s client. I had been working 5 hours a day OT, away from home at an office where all the employees hated us and made sure we knew it.
    via u/Asmodai79
  • 16
    Font - Late in the day as I'm getting ready to finish up so I could get some dinner and maybe see the sun we all get an email, saying the agency and client had negotiated new contracts. Min 30 hours a week OT at our regular hourly rate, comping the client 90 mins extra a day and working Saturdays for at least 6 months. About 4 weeks prior we had signed new contracts which were like our old but cut our notice period from a month to a week.
    via u/Asmodai79
  • 17
    Font - I hit reply all, said nope, I'm sticking with my old contract. Then I went back to the hotel and got myself a beer and a curry and put my feet up. Next day I was dragged over the coals and was quite ped. I was driving back home to my house and GF, f king raging at the whole thing when I get a call out of the blue. Local company needs a dev ASAP. I interview the next morning and am hired by lunchtime. And they are literally across the hall from the agency.
    via u/Asmodai79
  • 18
    Font - I gave my weeks notice that day. It was a long weekend, and I had already booked 3 days off the next week. I worked one more day for the agency and left them up s creek. It was very satisfying.
    via u/Asmodai79
  • 19
    Font - Say WeirdSysAdmin I once gave a 6 week notice and when I asked for a reference in the future, he told me no because I somehow left them in a bind. They didn't even post my job until over a year later. But I also live in an at will state in the US so they could have fired me for no reason at all. I'll never understand poor management.
    via u/WeirdSysAdmin
  • 20
    Font - HappyMeatbag I asked multiple times for a new contract and was fobbed off each time. Bureaucratic nonsense like this is one of the reasons it was so easy for a competitor to poach employees, but your former employer probably never learned that. Good riddance.
    via u/HappyMeatbag

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