'My boss kept cutting my hours more and more': Sandwich shop employee discovers he's been training the new hire to replace him, cue malicious compliance

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 28, 2024 2:00 PM EST

The fear of getting fired is real. There's no two ways about it. Sometimes, you can be doing everything right, but even the slightest comment or lack of acknowledgment can be quickly misinterpreted. At that point, you often don't go through the process of centering yourself. You often go from zero to one hundred and immediately into panic mode.

However, in some instances, your paranoia about getting fired could have some substance to it. This sandwich worker noticed his hours were getting cut more and more while the new hire he had been training was getting scheduled during some of his prior shift times. Pretty soon it became clear that it was not paranoia; he was getting gradually replaced. Luckily, he was able to remain one step ahead of his boss and he put in his two weeks' notice before he was officially fired.

Keep scrolling below to see how his departure backfired in a major way. For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee who accidentally sent 600,000 emails to thousands of coworkers.

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    You don't want me to work after I put in my 2 weeks okay.
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    So when I was in my early 20s I worked at a well know sandwich franchise. I actually
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    really liked my job and I would open and close, I'd also come in whenever anyone called out because I lived 5 minutes away. One
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    day my boss hires a new person no big deal, except my boss kept cutting my hours more and more and
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    giving them to the new person I went from working 30+ hours a week too working less then 15. Oh and
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    I was training them. So after a few months of my hours getting cut but me still coming in whenever called I
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    put in my two weeks. My boss proceeded too not schedule me a single hour after that. Cue MC one of my coworkers
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    who would call in regularly didn't come in to open the store at 6am I drove by at 11 and it was still dark. My old
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    boss had called me to ask if I could open for her. Nope you didn't want to give me any hours after I put in my two weeks figure it out. Well I
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    drove by that store for a couple weeks and wouldn't you know it was only open half the time.
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    dualcells. 8 hr. ago Training a potential replacement and have your hours cut? That is not cool.
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    Some companies would rather you do not work after having received your notice to quit. +1 for standing up to them.
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    l_btrfly . 7 hr. ago We had a fast food place in my town back in the early 2000s that rarely actually fired anyone. They would just cut their hours down until they quit. Like to less than 10 if they were persistent. It was usually
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    because the person had been around long enough that they were supposed to get a raise, they'd get them to quit and just hire new min wage people.
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    Surprise surprise, they got shut down several times for food safety issues and then went out of business.
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    gamercrafter86 · 7 hr. ago I once had a boss try to cut my hours because they hired someone they wanted to date and used the excuse that I wasn't reliable. So I brought in all of my end of shift receipts (I was a delivery driver and I got a receipt of how many deliveries I did that night as
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    well as my hours) since I started and I got my hours back because they knew I'd bring it to their boss if it didn't change. Needless to say, the new hire only stayed a few months before quitting anyway. It was a weird situation all around.
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    CookiePwnster · 6 hr. ago • Been there. Worked at the overnight pet hotel at a 'well known pet establishment.' My supervisor decided she wanted to step down from her role to work hourly instead of salary
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    (to spend more time at home with her kids, she said). I started slowly losing my hours. to her until I was working maybe 11 a week.
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