'It was a disaster': Retail workers quit and take down an entire store

It's often said that no one will appreciate the job you do until you're gone, and we've yet to see evidence otherwise. It's like being in the driver's seat of a race car; as long as you're driving that car, people will attribute the car's best performance to be owing to the car itself. It's not until you leave the team and another inferior driver takes your seat that people will realize how truly terrible the car is… and that your efforts were making the car appear better than it actually was.

For those reading who aren't fans of motorsport, I'll summarize with this: Your workplace is like a big tank of water that's leaking water out of a massive hole, and you're like a big ol' piece of Flex Tape holding the whole dang place together.

Still, in any case, you'll be long gone before anyone is able to recognize the effect you had, just exactly what happened when these underappreciated retail workers made the decision to split. One of the workers shared their experience with Reddit's r/antiwork workplace discussion community, where community members share their thoughts, stories, and experiences with workplace issues and other employment concerns. In their recounting of events, they shared how their departure marked the end of the organized, well-oiled machine they had been operating and how the decline in the operations of their warehousing management marked the effective end of the store's thriving business.

See their original post and the reactions below. Next, see this worker who discovered the new hire was making more money than them and quit on the spot.

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Posted by Brad Dickson