Exhausted barista snaps at manager for demanding fresh coffee at the end of every shift: 'As I handed her the coffee I told her I quit'

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    I worked at a cafe in a big shopping centre for a few months between jobs I actually liked. The manager was a nut and liked to throw her weight around.
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    Every evening she'd tell me to clean the coffee machine and get ready to close up. Every evening once I was done, she'd ask me to make her a coffee 'for the road.' I'd have to make it and then clean everything again.
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    I offered to make it for her before I cleaned the machine but she complained that it wouldn't be hot enough.
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    I received a better job offer and was looking forward to one more week before leaving. However, the next night she wanted her coffee after we'd already had to stay back and I definitely wasn't getting paid overtime. Everyone had left 30 minutes before. I had had enough.
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    I took care to spill coffee grounds everywhere, use as many utensils and jugs as I could and just make a huge mess. As I handed her the coffee I told her 'I quit.' The look on
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    coffee I told her 'I quit.' The look on her face was priceless as she realised she'd be the one cleaning up. Worth being poor for a week!
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    PN_Guin. 11 hr. ago If she made you work unpaid overtime this would have been wage theft. Depending on where you live this can
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    be rather expensive for the owners. Expensive enough that the manager would have gotten sacked immediately and you could have had a paid vacation.
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    Dripping Snarkasm 5 hr. ago Serves her right. After all, you were the one with ... (wait for it) grounds for complaint.
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    Adventurous-Skirt-61. 10 hr. ago It's mandatory for employers to pay overtime. I recommend getting an attorney
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    Wotmate01 6 hr. ago The use of shopping centre says to me that this is in Australia. If so, making you work overtime without pay is wage theft, and in some
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    Australian states it's a criminal offence punishable by up to ten years in prison.
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    Master-Breath-821. 4 hr. ago Should threw the coffee at the ground infront of her feet too
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    21_Mushroom_Cupcakes. 32 min. ago You didn't have to do anything for her.
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    Reasonable_Ruin_3760 3 hr. ago ! Love it! Brilliant revenge
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    Equivalent-Salary357. 2 hr. ago And soon half the workforce isn't paying union dues, and the union can't afford legal representation.
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    Eventually, the union is ineffective and more members drop out.
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    I sincerely doubt either of us will change the other's opinions here. I'm too old to 'argue'.
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    I worked in the factory in the 60s with men who told me what they went through to get the union. and why. There's a reason they exist. Best wishes.
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