Employee gets suspended for no reason, stinks up work truck before quitting: 'Before I returned the truck, I release 6 stinky air fresher tags in it'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 13, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

If an employee quits after poor treatment and is then tasked with returning something, do not expect that item to be returned in pristine condition.

This worker had gone through a whole ordeal with her employer after multiple coworkers were let go due to a shortage of hours (yet somehow, they were still always hiring new employees… talk about messy and disorganized!). One week, this employee was taken off multiple shifts and given forced days off with absolutely no advanced warning. She wound up getting a far better job elsewhere during that time and informed her toxic bosses that she was leaving. However, before she officially left, she was tasked with returning her work truck on her own time. Well, she complied but she didn't exactly return it in the best condition. Let's just say they ended up receiving a smellier truck than the one they initially provided. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about an employee who called her bosses out after an innocent mistake.

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  • 01
    "Suspended me for no reason? Ok, I quit. Enjoy the smell in your new truck." SAD 293
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  • 02
    I got word that my office was firing some people and it was due to less hours to go around, funny enough they are still posting on indeed for "new workers". That said my bestie who taught me a lot in the industry, was on the chopping block and was let go. However it wasn't all her fault, she was a "new hire". She fell with the three months probation time.
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  • 03
    Not saying the job was bad but it has been six-seven months since my work bestie left and I was going to leave when she did but the company kept stringing me along with promises of more hours, and a better work truck. So I stayed.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 04
    Last week Friday, one of my foreman told me to my face that the girl beside me was better at her job than me. It hurt my feelings but I moved on. Monday morning my bosses call me and asked "why I wasn't allowed back on that site I was on Friday?" I said I had no clue, but because of that, they took me off the schedule
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 05
    for three-four days. Days off I didn't ask for. They also punished me for a contract that ended a month ago due to me doing something someone senior than me told me to do. Which is not relevant to the story. They lack the communication to tell me I was suspended.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 06
    So I called a friend from an old company yesterday and asked if he was busy with work and he told me he was. I moved over to his company.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 07
    While I did that, I called my other job and told them I quit. They gave me some run around answer and demanded I come in and work for them on Thursday when I wasn't on the schedule, in fact they tried to tell me I was scheduled all week, but they cancelled my shifts before they started (??). Which baffled me, I said no, that I thought they were
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 08
    suspending me since I had all these days off. I proceeded to tell them, I had received an offer and I took it and I would like somebody to pick up my work truck. Since they were so accommodating to me to not tell me about me being suspended.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 09
    They told me to take time out of my personal day to drive to the office and drop it off.
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  • 10
    Now I know they are a good company but their business practices are the . To send a message that they stink... I took 6 "black ice" little air fresher trees, and I stink bombed the work truck. I put one in the rearview mirror, to at least say there
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 11
    was one in there to make it smell nice but it's the other five they will be looking for. That's what will make it stink for a long time to come. know they switch the trucks often so that beast will be making some poor eyes water for months on end. To me the black ice smell gives me a headache.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 12
    I will let you know if my plan works out. my bestie still keeps tabs on people over there so I won't be surprised of how well this turns out.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 13
    TL;DR: work suspends me for no real reason or explanation. I quit but before I returned the truck, I release 6 stinky air fresher tags in it.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 14
    IceBlue 20 hr. ago Why you say they are a good company when they clearly aren't?
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  • 15
    ArkofVengeance . 11 hr. ago A company can be good at what they do, a.k.a. good for the customer, but horrible to employees. A company can also be generally a good company but one department may have a horrible manager that makes that departments employees have a time. There are always nuances, these things don't nessesarily have to be black and white.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
  • 16
    Case_no_292 20 hr. ago Should've left tuna somewhere in the bosses office where he wouldn't find it etc. behind the shelf's
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  • 17
    AmbivelentApoplectic 20 hr. ago So you're punishing your forner coworkers who did nothing wrong while doing nothing to irritate management. Bet you will really be missed.
    via u/thinkpinkhair
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    lapsteelguitar 19 hr. ago Puréed shrimp and fish guts would leave a "better" stench.
    via u/thinkpinkhair

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