‘Bessie the Breakfast Boomer’ has a classic meltdown and gets fired after employee refuses to do her job for her

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 25, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Coworkers can make or break your experience at work.

If you're dealing with an entitled coworker who thinks that everyone should do their job for them, you're in for a real treat. The treat is extra sweet when management does not back them up, and fires them as a result. It's frustrating to witness, especially when cowardly employees are scared to take a stand against their wrath, but all it takes is one employee to fight fire with fire and make everything come to fruition.

The employee in this story is talking about a specific employee in particular, "Bessie the Breakfast Boomer". Bessie constantly makes other employees set out the breakfast buffet at their place of work multiple hours earlier than suggested (and this is also a health hazard). This is supposed to be her job, but all the other employees just do it anyway. The OP has had enough and refused to do her job for her. She has a multiple-day freakout, ending in her own termination. 

Cue the classic: "No one wants to work these days" boomer talk. Bye-bye, Bessie. Scroll to read the entire story.

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    Bessie The Breakfast boomer got fired today and it's all my fault....
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    cue maniacal laughter So Bessie has been working at a "Camptown Inn" for fifteen years as the breakfast attendant for the little buffet we have here.
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    In all those years Bessie has been able to bully every night auditor into doing half the breakfast set up before she arrives. Bessie had them setting out or refilling. cold/dry food, condiments, plates, plasticware, and all sorts of other stuff at 3am. If it wasn't
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    all done when she came in at 4am there would be all sorts of yelling, screaming and threats of being fired. She'd convince the 22 year old's working overnight she had that control when she didn't even manage her department. The sales manager
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    did all the breakfast scheduling and ordering. The houseman was in charge of taking out the kitchen trash. Bessie only had to do half her actual job on any given morning. Until I showed up.
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    The management company that owns the hotel hired me to run night audit at three of their locations. At no other hotel I've ever worked at in the last 19 years had night audit doing. anything like this. Most brands
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    would have night audit make new coffee during the shift and maybe put out any to go bag breakfasts. So I run it like any other night audit and just make new coffee at 3am.
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    When Bessie came in she tried telling me all the stuff I was "supposed" to do and I told her none of that makes any sense. Leaving food out for three hours before breakfast is hazardous. So
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    is turning on the waffle irons and oven at 3am. Just energy waste and fire hazards all over. Bessie tells me I'm being "too smart" and have to "watch my tone speaking to elders".
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    After that every morning when Bessie comes in she throws her tantrum screaming about how lazy young people are, no one wants to work, all the usual boomer greatest hits. Like she's walking around the breakfast pantry and buffet screaming about me as she does her own job.
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    Meanwhile Millenial Melanie who covers boomer Bessie's weekend has no problem with how I operate. She says none of Bessie's rules make sense to her at all either.
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    For three weeks this goes on before Bessie decides to involve the hotel manager. Oh she knows him, she's been here longer than anyone else, she's gonna get me fired..... Now that's where my firsthand knowledge ends and I start working off triple verified gossip.
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    On Tuesday morning Bessie started making demands of the general manager. "He stays or I go" was the opening riff. The GM counters with that if she couldn't handle breakfast anymore she could move over to housekeeping or laundry. Apparently this sent Bessie into a rage, she yelled,
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    and then started crying before walking out. Then returning an hour later more composed, speaking to the hotel manager behind closed doors, and leaving again crying. Tonight when I clocked in Bessie was off the schedule, Melanie was on all week for breakfast, and second shift told me Bessie was fired.
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    Good by messy Bessie, you won't be missed!
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    SUPER SUPER petshopB1986 · 1d ago . I'm an old timer at my property, I learned: never become complacent, never believe for 1 second they won't fire you and don't yell at your fellow staff. If anything be the one they - want to learn from, never the bully.
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    bewicked4fun123 • 1d ago I've never understood people that run to management and tell on themselves that they messed up. I'm a nurse so it's a special kind of stupid when my coworkers do it. I worked NA when I was in school so I lurk around here and read y'all stories 0
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    CraftyAdvisor63... $ 23h ago "Young people are so lazy", sez Lazy- Bessie refusing to do her own work.
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    . mrbulldops428 • 20h ago Ultimatums to your boss DO NOT WORK. Even if you're in the right. The second you give your manager an ultimatum your basically asking them to fire you.
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    Also, as a bartender, I ☐ love it when older people tell me, at work, while I'm currently working, that no one wants to work anymore. It's my favorite thing in the world./s
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    Ozziehall ⚫3h ago Some create their own kingdom in which they become dictators. They reap what they sow.
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