'Micromanage me? Go ahead': Fast food workers band together to get micromanaging shift supervisor fired

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    "You might not work here anymore"
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    Micromanage me? Go ahead, you might not work here anymore after though This happened almost a decade ago when I was a freshman in college
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    I was working closing shifts at a fast food restaurant with a giant M for it's logo. I had made decent 'work friends' with most of my coworkers and shift managers. However there was one shift manager that no one liked, we'll call her Tracy. She was the least senior and thought she had better methods for closing than the regular closing managers. Tracy liked to make snide remarks about the other managers, and was making life miserable for
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    everyone by whining to the store manager. She was also lazy as f***. She was put on the closing rotation and we all couldn't stand her. She was always asking the regular employees how to do her manager specific tasks and micromanaging our closing routine. Because Tracy couldn't leave well enough alone we were always late getting out of there. We typically left the building at midnight with the good managers, we never left before 12:30 with Tracy. Store manager wasn't happy about that and told he
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    One night she was scheduled with me and my coworker Jane, pretty much my best friend at work and we also went to the same college.
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    Jane and I decided that we were fed up with her ☐ and would let her really feel the consequences of her 'management' style. We agreed to work as slowly as possible and follow her idiotic methods like mopping the lobby from the front door to the bathrooms and then walking over the newly mopped floor so we weren't dragging 'bathroom germs'
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    all over the lobby. We were there until almost 1:00am and still weren't done when Tracy told Jane and me to go ahead and leave. We left and she stayed. Apparently she stayed for at least another hour or more trying to finish everything. Store manager was *not* happy with her.
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    When I came in the next day everyone was whispering about "what happened to Tracy." I think she was transferred to a different store because I don't remember having to work with her again, but some of the managers who floated between stores still talked about her.
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    Madmustacheman McMordor is what we use to call it when I worked there many years ago 476 Reply Share
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    mattimeomeg OP. YES! It was decent money for a college freshman, but also 217 Reply
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    aquainst1. Yeah, it's called OT and definitely a red flag on the employee expense budget. 247 Reply Share
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    crazyducklady2709. Omg. To start with I honestly thought you were talking about my old horrible manager as Tracy rhymes with her name. She once made a lobby closer redo the entire close at 1am cause she wasn't happy with it. We have a two story dining area. No one liked her at all. 34 Reply Share
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    [deleted]. I had a manager like this at a bowling alley, he denied everyone breaks, refused to train me (when I was put on a shift with him to do training), one day we had a head office visit, and when they left so did he.
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    alex1247 I had a boss that would micromanage. He literally sat there looking at pictures of snowmobiles in his office and would watch the cameras to make sure we were doing everything right. I used to fuel airplanes at an airport.
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    BicklesT Why are they always named "Tracy"? I had a Tracy at my old job. She was an assistant manager who thought she was better than everyone and she made the employees' lives
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    Osmocide I just think it's funny how right below this there's a McD's ad
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    BakedAvocado3. There's 7 people in my department 3 of them (including me) are new, everyone else loves to microgement us. Really makes me love my job more when I'm treated like a ten year old. Can't wait to Jout of this job.

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