'Ummm you fired me?': Teenager gets fired for missing a shift to attend a funeral, then their desperate ex-manager begs them to return a month later

Your first job creates a lasting impression on your work life. You learn valuable lessons like how to clock in, be on time, and deal with customers, and although we whittled away our first few paychecks on useless purchases, these worthwhile grains of wisdom stuck with us. What you never expect to learn at your first job, however, is how to garner the expectations of a compassionless, soulless manager.

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

It's usually around the time of your second or third job that you learn about terrible management, but in our next story, a young teenager learns some quick lessons about foolish management and the ‘eff around and find out’ stage of shift scheduling. After calling out of a few shifts to attend a funeral abroad, u/sciencelover12345 was fired immediately. Talk about a terrible display of human empathy…
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However, the truly shocking part of this story is that after OP was fired, the manager audaciously begged them to return. Scroll for the entire silly story that makes us all reminiscent of our own first jobs and how lucky we were not to have a manager like this.
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