Grocery store employee posts her salary on social media, manager tries to fire her after uproar: 'Take it down!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 1, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Mediocre managers never quite know what to do when their employees speak their minds and are 100% entitled to do so. 

Here, we have a grocery store employee who posted on social media about the difficulties of making $12.50 per hour as a single mother. It was a difficult and vulnerable post to make publicly for her, but rather than receive sympathy from her manager once she discovered it, instead, her manager took the opportunity to punish the employee for making the post in the first place. Now, nowhere in her contract did it mention that she was not allowed to disclose that information, so the ominous threats that she could be fired for this were ultimately empty.

At the end of the day, those threats didn't matter because the employee already had enough of this nonsense. Keep scrolling below to see how the manager reacted when the employee pulled the rug out from under her boss and quit on the spot. For more stories like this, check out this post about this former employee whose ex-boss needed their help badly.

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  • 01
    "I know managers that make less than you and I'm tired of hearing about it"
    via Eduardo Soares
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    My boss was mad at me for posting online how much I make per hour and threatened to fire me, so I quit.
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    As of yesterday I just quit my job at the grocery store deli that I worked for. I made 12.50 an hour and was talking on Facebook how hard it is to live, especially as a single mom, only making about 450 a week. She texted and said "Take it down! I know managers that make less than you and I'm tired of hearing about it. You're just trying to stir sup."
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  • 04
    I told her I wasn't going to take it down and if management makes less than me, they should be mad too. She then told me that I just need to budget my money better.
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    So I told her that I quit and she had the audacity to be like, "you can at least train your replacement". Then she called me today and demanded that I come to the store to talk about my post and I told her again
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  • 06
    that I quit and hung up on her. Why do these people think that they can just talk to you anyway that they want? There have been other things that have made me want to quit, but this was the last straw.
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    KrylonxBlue 17 hr. ago You made $12.50 an hour and their response was to learn to budget better? About $26,000 per year before taxes is not livable. Are they going to allow you to buy food at a high discount to supplement the extremely low pay? No, they're not.
    via [deleted]
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    You did the right thing. I'm tired of employers acting like the solution is to budget better when in reality the cost of living far exceeds their pay.
    via [deleted]
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    WonderWheeler. 16 hr. ago Live on corn from the feed store maybe. Walk to work. Lose your kids(!)
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    Jacq1987 OP. 17 hr. ago Oh and let's not forget that the store manager doesn't let people have overtime because it comes out of his $70,000 a year bonus check.
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    BigTarget78 16 hr. ago Yeah I left Toys R Us shortly after I found out that part of the reason we were short staffed to the point of massive stress was because managers got bonuses if they came in under their staffing budget.
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    XR171 17 hr. ago Go back as a customer with a shirt that says "I made $12.50 an hour how about you?"
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  • 13
    Jacq1987 OP . 17 hr. ago I love this idea. Fantastic.
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    Sh4d0wMOON - 17 hr. ago Your boss is on your Facebook friend? Unfriended your boss!
    via [deleted]
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    Lrgindypants 17 hr. ago You should have let her fire you. Besides, you are allowed to discuss wages, mostly.
    via [deleted]
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    EatLard 17 hr. ago "Budget better".... That amount of money is not livable anywhere in this country. You don't budget your way out of poverty at $12.50/hr.
    via [deleted]
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    RTMSner - 17 hr. ago Never ever ever ever add people from your work to Facebook. No good will come of it. At the very least you should block your bosses so they can't ever see your stuff.
    via [deleted]
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    EternalReturn8888. 17 hr. ago I thought there was a law about what you say about the workplace online can't be used against you as long as it's true or something like that.
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    Financial-Board440. 13 hr. ago Ehhhh most places have strong social media clauses, but that's more to deter people from sharing "trade secrets"
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    KeyResponsibility167. 17 hr. ago These management types that sold their souls to their masters are priceless. Crunching Pennies and over poor hardworking people to get a bonus. They give loyalty to the corporations and none to the workers.
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