'Two can play that game...': Overworked hotel employee gets even with upper management following their refusal to accommodate his medical condition

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Sienna Varady
Jan 25, 2024 8:00 PM EST

The business world is cruel. They take great pride in their well-known motto, which emphasizes the value of family and how they treat their staff as one large, happy family. But when the chips are down, who gets pushed aside first? Yes, exactly. Think about that for a moment.

The story that follows is from a dissatisfied hotel employee. At the time of the incident, OP had been managing multiple duties. He drove the shuttle for one of the airline crews and was responsible for loading and unloading the crew's belongings. Everything was going well until OP started to feel as though his wrist injury prevented him from performing manual tasks. As the responsible and accountable employee that he was, OP discussed the matter with his manager and kindly asked to be informed when an administrative post should open up. Matters deteriorated, though, when OP did not receive information once a role was made available. As a result, OP devised a devious plan to exact revenge on upper management for their alleged 'oversight'.

So, if you're interested in learning how OP got even with upper management, read the story below! And when you're done, be sure to check out the story about the tenant who settles the score with his entitled landlord here!

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    "Too bad y'all couldn't accommodate me..."
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    Oh, we're going to be really busy this week? Too bad y'all couldn't accommodate me...
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    TL;DR wrist injury from job, boss won't accommodate, gave her a docs note excusing me from work 2 days before a big event A few years back, I was working at a hotel. My job was the shuttle driver for airline crew, and I also had to load and unload their luggage.
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    About 6 months into the job, my wrist started hurting from handling the loads of bricks that airline crews liked to pack. I ended up having to file a worker's comp claim, but there was no one else to handle the luggage, so I struggled along for a while. I'd asked to be moved to a
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    front desk position, but was offered laundry, which would not have been much easier on my wrist. A couple of months of going to doc appointments and getting MRIS, I finally decided I'd had enough and had a doc write me a note stating that I needed lighter duty. Yeah I
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    should have done that much earlier, but the boss (Beth) wasn't being helpful at all and I knew that would be the end of my working there. In the meantime, a front desk position had opened up, which my boss promptly filled without asking me if I wanted it. I went into her
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    office to ask about this apparent oversight and got some corporate speak in response. A bit of context - the hotel was right next to a major highway. I knew the back roads between the airport and the hotel, so traffic jams on the highway weren't a huge deal to me.
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    When I went into the boss's office to have the above conversation, we were 2 days away from having the President visit the city. That meant that most traffic would come to a standstill, but airline crew still needed to get to their flights. After my boss gave me a thinly
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    veiled, corporate-approved "f_k off", I pulled the docs note out of my pocket. "I'm sorry, I can no longer perform the job of shuttle driver. You've offered me laundry, which won't work, and didn't want to work with me on a front desk position. Have fun in traffic on Thursday!"
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    The shocked Pikachu look on her face was priceless. She called. another manager into the office to try to get me to stay, laundry was mentioned again (get it through your thick skull that laundry will NOT help an overuse injury on my wrist). I simply pointed to the note and said
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    "I can't do anything that will be hard on my wrist. I've asked more than once about front desk, which I'm more than capable of doing, but I guess that's not an option now that Beth filled the position."
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    I heard later from a coworker that Beth herself had to do the shuttle runs that day. I enjoyed my day on the couch and occasionally checked to see how sc wed traffic was.
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    Imaginary-Yak-6487. 12 hr. ago Nice. I had a major p_ ck of a manager at a grocery store I worked while in high school. I was one of many seniors graduating that year but the only one the went to a different
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    school. There were 3 high schools & mine was graduating first. He had put me on the schedule for the night if mine but had me off with the others. I told him I was graduating the night before them. He call me a
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    liar. I said no, I go to A school & they go to B school. He called me a gd liar this time & even a couple of my coworkers told him I didn't go to their school & that I went to A school. He said if I didn't come in then I would be fired.
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    Thing is, my stepdad was really, really good friends with p ck managers boss, who was the district manager. I was really p sed & this is the only time I asked my step dad to pull some strings for me. I was scheduled off &
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    walked the stage. The manager got demoted to an assistant manager & moved to a different location. I saw him once after that & me being a sn t, flipped him off.
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    night-otter 13 hr. ago Excellent work. Closest I've come to that, was actually planned. Teenager, working McDs, going to college. Told them after I graduated High School that July 31, would be my last day.
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    Mid-June the city announced they were expanding the big festival to include the street our store was on. Come the end of the July and I notice I'm on the schedule for the festival,
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    the 1st weekend in August. I talk to the scheduling manager and she facepalms "You are not the only one going off to college and can't work the festival weekend."
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    Ok_Consideration1284. 10 hr. ago edited 9 hr. ago Ha my mom worked at Zellers. She wanted 3 weeks off to attend her grandmothers 100th birthday in August right when the college students
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    were leaving and they said no...minimum wage, she quit. Went to the party and came home to find a
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    persistentsymptom · 10 hr. ago For minimum wage I understand quitting, but 3 weeks for a birthday? Seems like a lot.
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    Radiant_Beyond8471. 11 hr. ago So what other duties did they have you do instead after you showed them the doctor's note?
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    azewonder OP. 11 hr. ago That was the end of working there, the only other position they had open was laundry. Since there were no open positions that I could perform, there was no job for me there.
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    imachillin · 10 hr. ago Oh that is poetic pettiness...and I LOVE IT! So very well done! Too bad you didn't get a photo of managers face when you told her! →
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    BaltimoreBadger23 10 hr. ago • edited 9 hr. ago Well done except that Beth kind of got screwed, but that's not your fault. When you are back you should help her get her revenge. Edit: Beth is the manager, not the front desk worker.
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