‘He’s just mad': Employee writes an anonymous Reddit post about an unruly guest, manager who gets bashed in the comments finds it and fires him

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Feb 5, 2025 6:00 PM EST

When it comes to working at a place with long periods of down time and free wifi, it's difficult to stay off the socials. It's pretty standard knowledge to not do anything personal on the company's wifi, especially not on a company laptop or computer, because they can use that against you. If you have a manager or boss who is already out to get you, then you should really avoid being online when you are not supposed to be. Listen, we know it's hard. When you have a job where you find yourself just sitting there twiddling your thumbs until a customer shows up—of course you want to do something like check your IG feed or scroll throw funny videos on the Tok. But try your best to resist. 

 

In the case of this Redditor, it was Reddit itself that was one of his downfalls. That and using the company wifi to look for a new job… LOL Amateur hour, my guy. However, it was a Reddit post that he created that his boss cited when he was telling him why he was being let go "effective immediately." The thing is, he definitely wasn't the only employee going online on the company's dime… 

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    But this employee was already on thin ice. Why? Because he complained about how management allowed a very problematic customer return to their establishment. It's like the set up their employees to be thrown to the wolves. It was frustrating and he took to Reddit to vent. The post was completely anonymous and he actually didn't even write it on the company's computer, but his manager recognized it as him anyways and boy, did it come back to bite him in his backside… Good riddance though!    

  • "My (now ex)boss found my last post in here somehow, and used it as part of his justification to fire me today."

    About 2 weeks ago, I made a post in here about my boss letting a problematic guest return to our property. Long story short, she was a nightmare, made 4 separate cases. against us to Corp customer service, including one where she (falsely) called me ar cist. When she finally checked out, we were all supposedly in the same camp of "good riddance" only for her to check back in 3 weeks later, and our GM let her with just "a chat with her about some ground rules".
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  • Anyway, cut to today, and I come in for my shift and am being told I'm being let go, effectively immediately. The reason, "excessive use of the back office computer for non-work related reasons". The examples cited were some Google searches, logging into my personal email (literally just twice), and (this one is on me and a little dumb admittedly) browsing Indeed and other job sites (since the incident above, I went from mildly unimpressed with the job to actively looking for more work).
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  • None of the things are in anyway , although one particular Google search does kinda look sketchy (a guest and I were chatting and after our conversation I was curious "are there any studios in Atlanta, GA" but it was that search and that's it, no farther digging down that rabbit hole, no links clicked or actual accessed). material
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  • Was I a little dumb for doing the job stuff on the office computer, sure. Was the one Google search also kinda dumb to do there, sure. But the kicker is, he quoted the post about the bad guest and how "you can't be sharing information about our guests" even though no information in that post could in anyway identify her or us or our property except to anyone who already knows the situation. But the real kicker, I never actually logged in to reddit on any computer in the building.
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  • So him knowing about that post means either he or someone else who works there is on this sub, recognized the post for what it was, and if not him. then they told him about it. So yeah, I'm unemployed as of today, which is mildly upsetting because it's a very weak reason to let someone go overall, particularly a manager, at least without warning. It's a small, <90 room
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  • property, and in January there are whole nights where we have single digit arrivals. It was a very casual "do your job and we won't ask questions about your down time" vibe, and I know for a fact one of the desk employees brings his own tablet and sets it up at the front desk to do his own stuff while he sits there.
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  • But apparently my using an official work machine was too egregious? Nah, he's just mad because in that post, a bunch of people called him out for being a bad manager, and now his feelings are hurt because strangers who have no idea who he is think he's bad at his job. Oh well, c'est la vie. Thank you for listening to my rant. Back to the intensified job hunt.
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  • SkwrlTail And some folks wonder why this sub has a "no names, no identifying information" policy. Sorry to hear you got let go. S ks, but maybe you can find something better. Always remember: never ever ever use work computers for anything other than work. Use your phone or even a laptop, but the minute gou use the work computer for anything, you're risking getting hosed. Even something innocent like varieties of pickles or something.
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  • Rafterman2 I would go further and say never use your work wi-fi, even with your own device. Corporate IT can see that sh. Turn off your wi-fi and use your cell connection. Even with a VPN, I would be leery of using work wi-fi. NixonsBack87 OP This might be what happened, to be honest. Although we are a franchise, so I doubt corp IT was actually involved, but very possibly the IT team for our management company.
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  • DaneAlaskaCruz Wow, that s ks. I remember reading your previous post and didn't see anything salacious or cause for any concern for your property, which is still unknown and not identifiable. However, sounds like they looked for everything that could possibly work as justification to fire you and listed them all just to make a weak and flimsy case. Your boss is probably browsing the sub and reading this now so let it be known: you s k, dude. You're pathetic and you've risen at your hotel to the
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  • NixonsBack87 OP 6h ago Thank you for the well wishes, yeah it was a pretty interesting property..they were getting by with a literal skeleton crew, including me as Guest Services Manager covering 5 desk shifts a week, and absolutely no extra staff or flexible availability from the ones we had, because they either already worked 40 hours themselves, or were only available 2 specific shifts a week and never outside those. It got to be so bad, I tried to make an arrangement with one of the other de
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  • This was something I ran by her, asked her if it was OK and told her in no way was she being pressured, if she wasn't fully ok doing it I wouldn't even bother scheduling it. She said yes, and then the first time it came up she called off the Monday AM, then put in requests off for the next 2 weekends I would've tried it. So I asked her again if she was OK doing it, and said I'd be fine if not, I'm just checking because you said you were, and she said no that's fine, you can keep doing it. And so
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  • Soliterria . 2h ago If it makes you feel any better my friend, I got fired at the end of a shift back in October out of absolutely kingnowhere and the only "reasoning" I got was "Things weren't getting done that needed to be." does that mean? Audit always got done, all my cleaning tasks always got done, trash was done as needed (I worked audit in a small town so rarely would there be trash overnight unless it was an office can I'd used), made reservations whenever needed, dealt with all the OTAs
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  • Double-Resolution179 You didn't login via their computers... but did you ever login on your own device in a place that would be seen on CCTV? Just wondering if they were creeping on you using your phone. Either that or simply like other hotel staff, they too post/read here and it's coincidence. Tbh though it sounds like they were looking for a reason and you gave them one. Doing job searches and a google for studios (even without actually looking at 'stuff) would lead me to think you were checke
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  • NixonsBack87 OP Yeah, like I said, the job searching was dumb, as was that Google search, although that was purely a spur of the moment "huh I wonder" deal. But I also was checked out by that point, between being burned by the scheduling forcing me to work every weekend (something the other 2 managers absolutely didn't do, h l it was rare for them to make it to 5 on Friday), burned by my boss saying he'd teach me one of the duties he'd mentioned in hiring and then finding he relegated that to so
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  • Tasty_Lingonberry121 So, you broke company policy (by using work computer for personal use. Now you want us to tell you your manager is out of line. Wish you well on your next job. I would advise to follow THEIR rules.
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  • NixonsBack87 OP No, my manager was out of line two weeks ago. Here, theyre not technically out of line, although they're being unfairly selective with the application of the line, since I know for fact I'm not the only one using the work computers for personal use. For example, one of our Night Auditor's logins were autosaved to Crunchyroll, which was in the history of the computer, it popped up the second I typed the letter "c" into google. NixonsBack87 OP But I guess Night Auditors should get
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  • Active-Succotash-109 If you used the work computer they can see everything you do on it. For the Reddit on your own device they must have seen the post and figured it out. In the future really identifiable situations should wait a while (year or 2) or just I coworker (or friend in the industry) told me about... and then allude to it being in a completely different state or country (they came for skiing when your a golf destination) change everything that narrows down your identity without alteri
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