'I have cost the company $12. I quit': Employee shamed for scanning food item incorrectly, quits on the spot, managers have to scramble

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    "I quit my job today"
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    I quit my job today Today I quit my job. I mean, I had already lined up something else and accepted another offer, so I was planning to quit by the end of the day anyways, but then management called me into the office.
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    I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's turn back the clock a bit. 2 months ago: management holds a meeting as to why I'm in a bad mood. I explain feeling unwelcome and unappreciated at work. They do nothing in response to this. I mention that other people have recommended they apply to their companies and their response is "that sounds good." (Really making me feel welcome.)
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    1 month ago: Apply for a high level management position I know I won't get due to not having management experience, but curious as to how their process works. Interviewed, but turned down in favor of promoting someone else.
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    2 weeks ago: Apply for a mid-level management position. Am told I will not be getting it during the interview. I reply that there's no way to get management experience without becoming a manager, and their response is to recommend I find management experience, elsewhere.
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    3 days ago: Someone attempts to buy imported alcohol, but it doesn't scan in our system. I do what everyone else does and call for a price check. Turns out, it was a bottle from out of the country that has a foreign code and can't be registered in our system. But we do have the same product, just with local codes that scans just fine.
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    This morning: Clock in for my shift, preparing to leave my things at the end of the day. Called into the office by management, who want to know why an exchange was done on the imported liquor. I explain there wasn't an exchange, a customer wanted to buy it, and that it didn't scan, so we replaced it with the same product with proper labels, and that this was likely a logistics error that one bottle mistakenly ended up in a shipment for here. Am told that's "highly improbable" and that because I
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    sold myfortune · 13 hr. ago NoBoDy WaNtS to work aNyMoRe!!! 653 B Reply Share
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    RainElectric 8 hr. ago This is one of the most satisfying ways to go. I once got fired for costing the company $4. My firing resulted in two others quitting. Your company's going to scrambled over $12. 435 Reply Share
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    OneOnOne6211.5 hr. ago I reply that there's no way to get management experience without becoming a manager, and their response is to recommend I find management experience, elsewhere. I've been looking for my first "real" job and this is the main thing that I keep experiencing over and over and over again. There keep being tons of requirements for experience. How the can I get all these years of experience that you guys want if nobody will Jhire me?! 163 Reply Share
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    FugginOld 12 hr. ago I would have laughed all the way out of the building. 4 155 Reply Share
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    d-cent 11 hr. ago Wait where was the party about lining up another job? 86 Reply Share
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    ReallySmartIn English OP • 11 hr. ago Ah, yes. Prior to all of this, a contracted security company started working with the company. One of the supervisors of the security company saw my work ethic and drive and made repeated efforts to poach me for their company. I finally applied and was interviewed last week and I accepted an offer this morning. 318 Reply Share
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    Thom Kr 8 hr. ago Good for you mate, hope you find what you're looking for
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    arrow2theknee82 4 hr. ago idle Oh no! Not a whole $12! Won't somebody think of the shareholders!!
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    santathe1 7 hr. ago Did they happen to say what should have been done instead?
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    psyche0415 I quit when my corporate job accused me of embezzling $7. I had forgotten the drink coozies for a charity auction basket at home. 3 hr. ago

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