'Our turnover rate is through the roof': Entitled boss mocks employee for taking first day off in 10 months, gets instant karma when half of his employees quit

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Isabella Penn
Nov 12, 2023 1:00 PM EST

Ever had a lousy boss or a job that you absolutely hated? Well, imagine working at a place with a jaw-dropping 92% turnover rate. Yup, you heard it right.

Our OP, in ten whole months, took just one, yes ONE day off, and it was actually just a half-day. Why? Well, he had a nasty sunburn that turned into sun poisoning. So, when he informed his boss that he had to bail out in the middle of his shift for a doctor's appointment, his boss couldn't help but chuckle. Sunburn wasn't a good enough reason in his boss's book.

But guess what? When the boss decided to take a few days off of his own, he got hit with a dose of instant karma. When he got back, the workforce had shrunk so much that they couldn't even cover the schedule. No sympathy from us!

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    Laugh at me when I need to leave work early? Good luck running half staffed.
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  • 02
    So I work a security job. I've been here since January and am always on time, I pick up extra shifts, I do my job and stay out of everyone's way. My boss is a total d. Changes procedures on the daily, doesn't give formal training (I was flying by the seat of my a for the first three d
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    months), and throws a fit if god forbid, someone calls in and he needs to cover their shift. There is only one fateful day that I have missed work in 10 months. I had just gotten back from the lake the day before and developed a horrible case of sun poisoning. I had blisters all over
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    my arms and shoulders, a fever, nausea, was so red and swollen I resembled a lobster, not to mention extreme pain. I sucked it up and went to work, but three hours into my twelve hour shift I knew I needed to go see a doctor to get prescription burn cream. My mom is a nurse so she would be able to work me in when I left work.
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    I went to my boss's office and explained I had severe burns and sun poisoning and that I needed to leave to go the doctor at 12. Then I would have worked half my shift and left only 6 hours that needed to be covered. He laughed in my face and said, "you
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    want to leave for a sunburn?" I said once again it was more than just a little redness and showed him the blisters. He blew me off and said a sunburn wasn't a reason to leave work. So I said fine and slammed his door on the way out. Twenty minutes
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    later he comes to my office and says I can leave. I said once again I could stay until 12. He told me that if I could stay until 12 then I could stay the whole day. I threw my radio and keys on the desk and said have a nice day and I left. I went to the doctors and got
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    what I needed. Brought my doctors note in the next day and tried to hand it to him and he said "I don't need it." So after throwing a fit like a child, telling me I can't leave work, and laughing at me, he didn't even want the doctors note.
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    Nothing more was said about it but I still believe it was not handled correctly at all. As I said I had never missed a day until that day, and I have not missed a day since. There was no reason to be an awad about it, especially since it was for a legitimate
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    reason and it was not even a full day, just half a shift. He continues to be an a hole in general about the job. Not a day goes by there isn't a snarky comment about something. Last week he suspended the guy I work with (there's two officers
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    here at all times) so it was just me and the captain. One of us has to be in the office watching cameras at all times. I was the unlucky one stuck in there for four hours while he did god knows what. When he finally gave me a break, I got
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    something to drink and went to the bathroom. Was not even gone 15 minutes and I was told my breaks were "taking too long." Just stupid sh all the time. All this to say, my captain is about to be royally screwed. We run with 8 people, 4 for days and
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    4 for nights, and work a rotating schedule. 2 officers need to be there at all times. Night shift and day shift are both 1 person short right now. I found out yesterday I got hired at a new job, and the officer I'm always scheduled with is going to quit at the same time
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    as me, because he's tired of the bulls too. One of the night shift officers is going out for three months for surgery. So unless he gets new people hired in a hurry, in one week from now, my captain will have one person to work day shift and
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    two people on nights. We haven't even been able to give notice yet because the captain is out "with the stomach bug" so he's in for a awakening when he gets back. You shouldn't have laughed at me, dude. Have fun covering all those empty shifts.
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    Edit: gold! Was not expecting but bless you. Also as far as an update: dearest boss is claiming he's sick and is out for the day. He doesn't have email access when he is not here, but I sent him an email so there's a time stamp and paper trail in
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    case they want to be shady. Hopefully he'll be back in the morning and I'll update with what he says. Edit #2: dearest captain showed up for a few minutes this morning. He went in his office for a few minutes, went straight to his boss's office, then came up to
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    my office. He was surprisingly chill about it, probably because I turned the notice in instead of just up and walking out. He asked if there was anything that could make me stay a little longer and that he wished this was coming at a different time
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    when we weren't so short (that was the point of doing it now Imao) and said they would miss me and that I was always welcome back and how much he appreciated my work. It's too late for flattery now dude. 5 more shifts until I'm free! I know you all
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    were probably hoping for something a little more dramatic, trust me I was too, but that's all I have for now. Also...there's a rumor going around from the site next to ours that uses the same security company that the contract with our site is in danger of not being
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    renewed for another year because our turnover rate is through the roof. So not only will the two of us leaving add to that, it's the best time to leave before our contract runs out and they have to find another site to stick us. Stick ya 92% turnover up your I'm out
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