Micromanager demands employee cover a 13-hour long shift on their day off, employee refuses and quits job on the spot: ‘I can't stand to go in and see their faces’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 29, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

How long is too long for a shift at a job you just cannot wait to be rid of? Obviously, the answer can be even one minute, but if we're talking realistically, how many consecutive hours can you actually take doing a job you cannot stand?

Most people would probably say they manage 6-8 hours of a shift in a terrible job, some have really high work ethics and can maybe endure 10, but there is absolutely no chance any employee out there would agree to 13 hours doing a job they hate, with terrible people and horrible bosses.

That is what drove the employee in this Reddit story to quit on the spot – their boss's demand they cover a coworker's shift from 10 AM to 11 PM, a demand only a crazy person would agree to. Luckily, OP (original poster) is not a crazy person, and they were able to recognize the red flags before it was too late, even if that meant quitting 4 hours before their shift was meant to start.

Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a resident who refused to paint their neighbor's new fence, despite being the one who ruined their old one.

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    "I'm quitting 4 hours before a 13-hour long shift" -
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    Quitting 4 hours before 13 hour shift.
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    Really annoyed with this job right now. We use paycor, and every day i check my schedule and the app itself. Yesterday, got a text asking where i was. It was my off day, and out of nowhere i had a
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    shift at 6 that i was late for. They put in 3 more shifts day of without notice. One of those shifts; being today, is 13 hours long. I agreed to cover a morning shift for a coworker and instead
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    they put me on to 10am- 10:45pm. Now I'm incredibly annoyed and disappointed. I try my best to be an incredibly hard worker, I always show up 15 minutes before my shift, and I
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    always get stuff done effectively and quickly. I was hardly trained when i first started, as i just had to follow my assistant managers around as they did their . Ive
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    felt like a burden from start to current. No one says hello, and no one ever talks to me. My general manager has talked badly about my other coworkers to me,
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    and not too long ago, she talked badly about ME to my coworker right in front of me. She didnt use my name but I know it was about me. I feel really defeated and demeaned. Every shift, my
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    managers sit in the office on their phones. When a line builds up, or when Im closing, i receive no help as i have to listen to them laugh in the office; which is a window and a few steps away from me. I
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    know it's incredibly a holeish of me to quit before a shift but I seriously cant take it. I feel so humiliated and inhuman. I cant stand to go in and see their faces.
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    • FredFnord 2d ago • The down side of ghosting people like this is that invariably the folks you hurt are your coworkers who are called two hours before they take off for their hike or Six Flags trip or expedition to find the BEST CHEESE IN DENVER or
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    whattherever and made to come in, and who don't have the ability to just up and quit because they and their kids are homeless in two weeks without a paycheck.
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    You don't owe anything to the employer, but if you don't like being treated like this then you probably shouldn't be the cause of other people being treated that way, even only once.
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    pothole OP 2d ago When i first started, i was harassed outside of work over social media by a coworker. Hardly any action was taken to protect me. Unfortunately their poor management is not my
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    fault. Its a small town movie theater, and i was doing everything alone each time i worked. If i can do it all alone everyday, so can my phone addicted managers.
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    sarcasmismygame • 2d ago • Feel free to ghost the this is ridiculous. Scheduling you out of the blue on your day off and just tossing out random schedules at their convenience? Yeah, I'd go find something else and walk.
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    xpacean 2d ago • I would go in and confront them. Just go to the manager's office and say they treat you like and you're sick of it. What's the worst that could happen? Either they apologize and you say "it's
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    too late for that, a hole" or they don't apologize and you walk away from them forever. The only downside is the time it takes to drive in.
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    TigerGrizzCubs78 • 2d ago • Find a new job asap
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    MarathonRabbit69 . 2d ago Just miss it and get fired. Collect unemployment. They may challenge on the basis of cause but they will lose the challenge.
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    ntropy2012 ⚫2d ago • No one should ever be made to feel that their job is more important than they are. You were right to quit
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    Where_Stars_Glitter • 2d ago If you have the means to quit, then quit. If you have enough funds to ensure that you don't go broke before you find them off another job, then f and have a nice day.
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    Terrible Analysis_77 2d ago • Go in, clock in. Go to your manager's office and demand huge raise, literally 100% pay increase. Tell them you're not leaving their office until you get it in writing. Get fired, collect unemployment.
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    DirtyPen PalDoug • 2d ago • H Well now lesson learned. No more showing up eairly, no more going beyond, and dint show up to that b
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    SkibblesMom • 2d ago • You don't owe them anything, stay home & enjoy your Saturday.
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    LobsterFar9876 • 2d ago • They deserve it. Why give them any consideration when they have given you none.
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