19-year-old fast food worker keeps getting skipped for raise because 17-year-old manager holds a petty grudge against him, so he gets her fired: ‘I had unnecessary amounts euphoria.’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 2, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

We were all teenagers once, right? Remember your first job? You were probably like 15 or 16 and it was probably at some fast-food joint or a silly little franchise shop like Claire's (I was 17 working at American Apparel), right? At the time you were probably thinking it was just the place that caused all the drama! Like, that kind of atmosphere is what made all of your fellow teenage employees argue and date. But now that you're olde, you've grown wiser and know the reality of it all. It was adolescence. Surprise, surprise! Teenagers are dramatic. The only people that might be news too are teenagers. It's the hormones and the fact that we're new to society, at least on a more independent level. 

 

That being said, it's fun to reminisce about those times and that's why there are so many shows like Gossip Girl, Euphoria, or even Skins that are about teen dramas. So we could not read this Reddit post about some teen drama at a fast food restaurant! 

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  • It's your classic case of petty revenge, but the messy teen drama that fills in the blanks is pretty entertaining. Dive into the story below! 

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  • "Got her fired before she could get promoted."

    Me and this person, we'll call her Karen, started working at this fast food. place around same time, I was like 18 at the time she was like 16. I started working there because my friend worked there and he became the GM before getting fired for reasons he
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  • doesn't even know but we did goof off a lot so it's not a total shock. Anyways that led to one of the new guys. who had just turned 21 to become GM which wasn't too bad. Fast forward to around now,
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  • I (19m) started dating this girl "Gina" (17f) who also worked there and the GM as well as some others thought the age gap was weird and I think bc of this they refused to promote me like they said they would and because I was friends with the old GM. I wasn't
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  • too upset I mean it's fast food but I wanted more money and on top of that they decided to promote Karen to a person in charge (a manager that runs shifts but not like the big boss like AM or GM). I thought that made no sense because she's very immature, talks
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  • about getting high all the time like she's cool for doing it (like yeah I smoke too but I don't have any reason to talk about it especially at work), vape in the back where the cameras couldn't see, and most importantly she would talk about her s life at 17
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  • or younger which is wildly inappropriate. I'm pretty sure she was only promoted because she had recently turned 18 and they needed more PICs. On top of that her and the GM, now like 23, started getting really close and not like romantically, but to the
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  • point where they would go to restaurants together at like 4 am ALONE while he had a gf. This was after he was talking about me and my gfs age gap being weird. but whatever. So admittedly I was frustrated with that decision but still didn't really care all too much.
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  • One of Gina's friends started working there, heather, and eventually got promoted over me too because she became such good friends with Karen. Me and Gina talked about how it made no sense because she was new and I was clearly more qualified. Gina
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  • then tells Heather that she's happy for her promotion but it seems like she only got it because she's friends with Karen. Heather then tells Karen who then starts talking sh on me and my gf, but mainly my gf saying "she needs to grow up" which had us both mad
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  • cause this was coming from the w d smoking, s life sharing, pick me girl who messes around on her shifts and plays cards and among us in the midst of a shift. But even then, I still didn't care too much just thought I'd put it behind me and be the bigger person.
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  • Eventually they needed another AM because the higher ups needed more people to take care of the store and stuff so they tried to promote Karen but she's so bad at her job that she failed so instead of saying "promote someone else" the GM said they were just
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  • gonna re-train her which is just stupid. I was really thinking of quitting because I did not want her as my boss and the fact that the GM was so bias towards getting his little discord kitten promoted was me off because it's ridiculous. One day me and
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  • my gf jokingly said we should take a video of her vaping and send it to the Regional Manager (this is the person above the GM who is corporate so they are very about the rules). Vaping in the store at all is a fireable offense but people have gotten in trouble for it
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  • before and only got a slap in the wrist. Jokes turned. into reality as the next we did was get video of her vaping in the back in 4k. The plan was that she would just get demoted or just not become AM as corporate wouldn't like that and they already didn't like
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  • her because of her being so bad at her job. I'm not normally a snitch and I do not care about vaping in the store at all, but I disliked her so much and wanted her demoted so bad that I sent the video to the regional manager with a
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  • whole paragraph of bs saying it's unfair and all that. The Regional Manager responded saying she'd handle it and hearted the message which I thought was funny showing how she wanted something to get her out. A couple days later
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  • she was fired and I had unnecessary amounts euphoria. She suspected we had something to do with it but she doesn't know for sure. Now she works at Walmart and she looks miserable as she's not just doing nothing and getting paid $20 an hour anymore and I love it.
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  • CoderJoe1 Nice, I haven't watched Gossip Girl in a while. Funny_Cat8960 OP lol that's a good one
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  • bravovice You lost me at teenage GMs
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