'I quit. It wasn’t even an hour after I clocked in': Undervalued employee gets reprimanded for costing the company $12, he costs them more by quitting

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 10, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Sometimes, the only way to properly explain yourself to your micromanaging employer is by sticking to your principles. This employee had actively been trying to gain management experience over the years but was repeatedly denied the opportunity, which already left them feeling undervalued, under-appreciated, and underpaid.

Matters were made worse after the employee, who was working checkout at the store, noticed an error when scanning a customer's item. They replaced the item with something similar, rescanned it, and everything seemingly was good to go. This situation was brought up by management down the road. Clearly, this boss was grasping at straws for reasons to reprimand their employee. When the manager demanded to know why the employee cost the company $12, the employee finally had the epiphany that there was absolutely nothing they could do to stop this guy from finding excuses to demean him. Thankfully, he had another opportunity lined up, so he was in the position to be able to quit on the spot.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more, check out this post about this Karen employee and her coworker's malicious compliance.

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    I quit my job today Today I quit my job. I mean, I had already lined up something else and accepted another offer, so I was planning to quit by the end of the day anyways, but then management called me into the office.
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    I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's turn back the clock a bit. 2 months ago: management holds a meeting as to why I'm in a bad mood. I explain feeling unwelcome and unappreciated at work. They do nothing in response to this. I
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    do nothing in response to this. I mention that other people have recommended they apply to their companies and their response is "that sounds good." (Really making me feel welcome.)
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    1 month ago: Apply for a high level management position I know I won't get due to not having management experience, but curious as to how their process works. Interviewed, but turned down in favor of promoting someone else.
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    2 weeks ago: Apply for a mid-level management position. Am told I will not be getting it during the interview. I reply that there's no way to get management experience without becoming a manager, and their response is to recommend I find management experience, elsewhere.
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    3 days ago: Someone attempts to buy imported alcol, but it doesn't scan in our system. I do what everyone else does and call for a price check. Turns out, it was
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    a bottle from out of the country that has a foreign code and can't be registered in our system. But we do have the same product, just with local codes that scans just fine.
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    This morning: Clock in for my shift, preparing to leave my things at the end of the day. Called into the office by management, who want to know why an exchange was done on the imported liquor. I explain there wasn't an exchange,
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    a customer wanted to buy it, and that it didn't scan, so we replaced it with the same product with proper labels, and that this was likely a logistics error that one bottle. mistakenly ended up in a shipment
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    for here. Am told that's "highly improbable" and that because I did not do my "due diligence" I have cost the company $12. I quit. It wasn't even an hour after I clocked in.
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    sold_myfortune 13 hr. ago NoBoDy WaNtS to work aNyMoRe!!!
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    RainElectric 8 hr. ago This is one of the most satisfying ways to go. I once got fired for costing the company $4. My firing resulted in two others quitting. Your company's going to scrambled over $12.
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    OneOnOne6211 5 hr. ago I reply that there's no way to get management experience without becoming a manager, and their response is to recommend I find management experience, elsewhere.
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    I've been looking for my first "real" job and this is the main thing that I keep experiencing over and over and over again.
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    There keep being tons of requirements for experience. How the can I get all these years of experience that you guys want if nobody will j hire me?!
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    FugginOld 12 hr. ago I would have laughed all the way out of the building.
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    d-cent 11 hr. ago Wait where was the party about lining up another job?
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    ReallySmartInEnglish OP . 11 hr. ago Ah, yes. Prior to all of this, a contracted security company started working with the company. One of the supervisors of the security company
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    saw my work ethic and drive and made repeated efforts to poach me for their company. I finally applied and was interviewed last week and I accepted an offer this morning.
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    Thom_Kr 8 hr. ago Good for you mate, hope you find what you're looking for
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    arrow2theknee82 4 hr. ago. idle Oh no! Not a whole $12! Won't somebody think of the shareholders!!
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    santathe1 7 hr. ago Did they happen to say what should have been done instead?
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    psyche0415 3 hr. ago I quit when my corporate job accused me of embezzling $7. I had forgotten the drink coozies for a charity auction basket at home.
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