Hospitality employee quits after getting duped out of a supervising role, leaving their impatient employer understaffed: 'Good luck filling that role'

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Apr 21, 2024 12:00 AM EDT

If your employer can't wait 72 hours for you to start training for a new position, they have a serious understaffing problem that likely stems from bad management. They'll deny it until they're blue in the face, but management doesn't always know what's best for a company–especially when it comes to the hiring process.

Hospitality industry jobs have a high turnover rate to begin with, but there are always a few loyal employees who stick around to climb the ladder. When management starts to mess with that loyalty, they're going to quickly realize that they're scraping the bottom of the interview barrel to fill other positions. In our next story, one hospitality company really fumbled the re-staffing of a supervisor position. After promising the job to an internal employee, they went back on their word and ended up compounding their short-staffing problem.

Scroll for the entire story of how one guy's stomach bug turned into an 'I quit' situation after getting passed over for a promotion.