'Today [is my] second and last day': New hire baker saved from a red-flag-filled company when the woman he's replacing warns him about tyrannical, absentee bosses

This baker was in for a wild ride on his first day at a new job after discovering that he was replacing someone in a cursed job position. 

It can be intimidating filling the shoes of the employee who came before you. Whether they were fired or moved on to another job on their own accord, that worker had their special way of doing things before you ever showed up, and learning the ropes can take time, effort, and patience. But imagine if you came into a new job—with sparkles in your eyes and a skip in your step—only to learn that the position you were meant to fill was completely cursed by incompetent management? In fact, for the guy in this next story, the entire bakery was cursed, doomed to fall cycle through employees like yesterday's socks due to terrible, absentee management. 

Somehow, the owners of this business were both insatiable micromanagers and also totally hands off, looping employees in on a rule-free yet still tyrannical workplace that was prepared to implode at any moment. Keep scrolling for this baker's tale of his employment salvation at the hands of the woman he was replacing. 

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