'It was the sweetest revenge I had ever seen': Sandwich shop employee quits on the spot, delivers uniform back to manager with "no excuses"

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 4, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

At some jobs, there is no winning solution to the boss's problems. It's often an issue that management has, then insists on passing down to their workers. This malicious compliance story is a great example of that dynamic. 

This person shared that as a college student, they needed a new gig, and found one with a manager who was "one of the biggest Karens you have ever met." Off to a great start! As a new employee, this person was swamped. While Karen was changing the procedures, it meant that this worker now had to stay hours past closing time. 

Clearly, the Karen manager was given a bunch of tasks to complete at closing time, but she wasn't given enough employees to make it happen. It puts a lot of pressure on an employee when they're told to close the store by 8:30, with no exceptions. They'll find themself staring at a crazy messy kitchen, and they know that if they leave it that messy, they'll anger the openers. Plus, you can't just leave things like sandwich scraps overnight. The only positive aspect of that will be all of the happy roaches and mice who will have a delectable meal overnight. No, trying to close a restaurant by yourself while under pressure to clock out at a certain time is frustrating. At least this person got back at their irritating manager!

Next up, this neighbor wouldn't stop tattling to the HOA… all because she could see her neighbor's boat from her yard. 

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    'Karen boss desperately needed my uniform back the next day: "No excuses!""
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    Karen boss DESPERATELY needed my uniform back the next day "NO EXCUSES!" (III revise and edit this later this was written at 3 am before i slept for the night, its hastily written within about 5 minutes)
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    Ok so, a little backstory first. I am a 20 yr old college student full time and doing 23+ hours a week on top of classes to make ends meet. I live paycheck to paycheck and have a car i am/was paying off. I use to work at a mcdonalds in my home town but since i moved to live on campus which was 45 minutes away from my old job and i wasn't willing to make the commute. So i decided
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    to apply (and got accepted) to a small sandwich shop 10 minutes from my college which was a blessing. It started out great plenty of hours, easy work, fast days. Till the old manger decided to switch stores. The new manager was one of the biggest Karen's you have ever met. Like bad and when i say bad i really mean it. She completely changed
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    the procedures and made thing so much worse. And when id have to stay over sometimes 2-3 hours after closing shed burst in the next day yelling screaming at the top of her lungs "STOP STAYING LATER YOU HAVE TO BE OUT BY 8:30 WE WONT PAY YOU FOR ANY TIME PAST THEN!". I had no choice because the list she gave me to do to close the store alone every night
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    may i add was extremely time consuming especially with no help i was expected to stop serving at 8 and do 5 peoples worth of work in 30 minutes. It simply wasnt doable. Hearing i wasnt going to be paid for time i worked time i spent making sure everything was done on the list before i left otherwise id be fired for not doing all of it would go
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    unpaid, as well as id be fired if i stayed longer then 8:30. There was no winning. On top of that the moment management switched they decided they were "giving people to many hours" and cut me to only 3 hours a week! That went on for 4 weeks till I decided enough was enough $45 work weeks wasnt even worth putting in the time and effort to even show up.
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    So on one of my weekends i was with my parents off campus i was due to work that day, 3 hours of course my only day that week. I was shopping near said sandwich shop (its located inside a walmart). My mom and i were discussing for the last week how should just quiet since it seems they are trying to fire me without saying they are firing me wanting me to leave on my own so they
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    wouldnt need to fill out paperwork. Right then and there I decided, know what f*** this job and f*** my entitled Karen boss. I sent her a text that i quiet on the spot and to not expect me to come in that night for my shift. She text me back ranting about how since im not giving her a 2 week notice ill never be able to work at one of those sandwich shops again at that point i didnt
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    care. I already had to give up my brand new car of only 4 months cuz i couldnt pay my loan and insurance, it was a nice car to a white shimmery 2016 hyundai senata, i loved that thing. I told her at some point that week id try to get the brand new uniform that funny enough they had just gave to me the week prior a whole 3 1/2 months after i started working there. But i warned her my
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    classes run till right before closing i didnt know when id be able to do so. She text back in what i could only imagine the snarkiest tone possible "NO I REALLYYYY NEED THAT UNIFORM BACK TOMORROW!" I told her im sorry but that may not be possible due to my school schedule and im not willing to ditch a class to drop off a few pieces of clothing. She said "NO
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    YOU WILL BRING IT BACK TOMORROW DONT EVEN TRY TO LIE TO ME YOU WERE SEEN IN STORE THE DAY YOU QUIT! NO EXCUSES!" Ok then :) she said no excuses. I didnt wanna go into a argument with her over it. And knowing she herself would be closing that day and my classes ended at 8 exactly i happily complied.
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    I made sure id arrive right as she was closing the lock on the gate. I was bringing the clothes in my reusable shopping bag i had no throw away bags and since she cant take and claim my bag as her own i was just going to give her the clothes one piece at a time. Knowing she would have to carry them out of the store juggling them back home made me happy.
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    When it came time to deliver my uniform to her all the stars seemed to align perfectly i arrived at 8:30 caught her on the way out with the outfit not even in a reusable bag to begin with. As a extra touch of sweet unplanned irony it was raining outside, hard rain the sidewalks i guess were extra slippery and muddy cuz on my way in i slipped and landed chest first into the mud i was mostly spared tho,
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    because the clothes were there to break my fall and absorb most of the filth. Dropping off the muddy loose clothes seeing her reaction watching her stomp her feet wrench in disgust holding the clothes 10 feet away from her body huff and puff marching out of the store in pure shock and disbelief. she didnt even have words for me. It was the sweetest revenge i had ever seen. This did
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    mean i had to buy a whole new set of clothes and change in the walmart bathroom but it was all worth it to see her reaction in the end. After i had returned to my dorm that evening i sent her a text saying simply "enjoy:)" and i blocked her number. Safe to say karma really did pay out on my end.
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    Andy Kaufman MTMouse Cutting your hours to 3 hours a week opens you up for unemployment. If this was recent, you should apply for unemployment. Her bosses won't be happy.
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    Professional_Pen1273 My husband was fired from an auto parts store because he applied for work as a mechanic at a dealership. He didn't know that the owners were friends so his boss found out about it.
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    His boss fired him right away and asked for his uniforms back immediately. His mom had put them in the washing machine so they were still full of soap. So he went home, got them from the washer and he slapped those wet clothes on the parts counter! Boss was I. Oh well.
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    Daddy_Needs_nap-nap "You'll get the uniform when I pick up my final check, what I do on my free time is absolutely none of your business!"
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    tpb772000 3 hours a week? Thats like gas to and from work. I know not everyone needs to go to college, but dam does college teach you how to really save every single dollar.
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    Strong_University_14 Go into the shop regularly and be THAT customer to her!
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