15+ Employees who got their toxic bosses fired: 'I marched straight to HR to resign and let them know what she was doing'

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    Jenniferinfl I had a boss who was skimming off employee hours at Walmart. I took screenshots of my employees hours on Thursday before the shift started and then screenshots of their hours on Friday that showed that all of them had a couple hours skimmed off their work week. I was a low level manager- he was an upper
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    tier manager. He got fired. I believe his motivations was that he wanted to get promoted and wanted to show that he could get more done in less man hours. Probably would have impacted his bonus too.
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    [deleted] I used to work at a title company and witnessed our department manager forge mortgage documents on a fairly regular basis. So when she went to upper management to throw the entire department under the bus for being behind on recording documents, | marched straight to HR to resign and let them know what she was doing.
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    She was fired and they called me and offered my job back before the week was out.
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    Antistis Worked register at a tour company. I also had a manager who HATED me for some reason. She was probably the bitchiest person I've ever met. Constantly yelled at us for not reason, got on to me about answering questions a new hire had (when I was asked, not her), wrote down I was 30
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    minutes late for a shift when I was 2 minutes late, etc etc. We had a sneaking suspicion that she was taking money from our tills, as she was always the one who counted down the till when someone got fired for stealing cash. I made it a habit to count down every bill when I gave it back to a customer, because we would get pay docked if we were even $1 off. So if a
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    customer had $23 in change, I'd count twenty, one two three in front of them, so I knew I'd given back the right amount. We also had cameras pouring at the registers. Well, one day my GM pulls. me aside and says $20 was missing from my till and they were going to fire me. I straight up told my boss she could look at the cameras, because I counted out all my
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    bills for customers. LO AND BEHOLD. Bitchy bitch was the one who counted down my till and got caught on tape pocketing the money. She was gone by my next shift. LL F you, Jennifer, I won.
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    2beagles I had a job that required my supervisor to be doing evaluations of my cases and charts. She just hadn't, in months. She and my director ordered me and my co-workers to do our own chart audits, fill out the forms, and they would sign off. I was so tired of not having adequate supervision, staff meetings weekly where she yelled at
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    us and invariably someone cried due to the stress and lack of support, and not having been paid enough to do everything I was doing AND their job, I refused. I was told to do it or I would be fired. Nope. So I got fired.
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    On the way out to my car, I called my former director who had moved to another agency. She set up an interview for the next day and I had a new job within 24 hours. She asked me what had happened at that interview. I spilled all the tea. Her sister-in-law was on the board of the previous agency, so she called her and I told her everything, too. Director was fired and
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    supervisor was reprimanded and put on close monitoring. She had k led any chance of promotion and left shortly afterwards, I heard. I was just happy to have jumped ship from that toxic mess. I should have left months earlier.
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    [deleted] Not my story but my mothers, I watched on the side lines as a Teenager. My mothers job was basically a professional fundraiser (I really don't know what else to call it). People came to her for help raise money for nonprofits or other foundations that needed it. This was a long time ago before Social workers were more of a mandatory thing
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    at high schools, my highschool was very poor and did not have one. So my mother took it upon herself to set up a fundraiser to pay the salary of a Social Worker so my highschool could have one. After Raising all the money she went to talk to the Principal who flat out refused to take any of it and said the position just wasn't necessary. My mother was
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    pretty upset and just decided she would donate the money to supplies or something like that. (I honestly have no idea what she did with it, but it did go to some sort of charity.) After a few months, at a Christmas party the Superintendent of all the public schools in the area was at the same party and he struck up a conversation with my mother, after some
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    small talk my mother said that it was such a shame that Principal didn't take the money for the Social Workers position. The superintendent was dumb struck and then told her that he had ordered Principal to find funding for that position and when Superintendent asked him about it he replied with, "no one is interested in that and we just couldn't get the money for it."
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    Needless to say he lost his position and whenever we came back from the Holiday break the school was hiring for his position.
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    IronSorrows He was always slacking off; he'd go and do a 15 minute task, and be gone 2 hours. He'd have to '¦ off early' for a doctors appointment, or a dentist appointment, always with no prior warning and whenever he was obviously bored. This was, mind you, within weeks of the new shop. opening & all of us being hired.
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    I was young and went along with it for a while, my colleague was in her 40s and vaguely knew him anyway, so was not standing for it. She reported him repeatedly to our area manager, who decided to come down to speak to him about it.
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    AM rung in the morning, told him to stay in the shop today, and send one of us out for anything that needed doing. He said he had something to do, but his boss said nope, need you in the shop. Somehow he didn't get the obvious message and went out anyway, the AM came down and he was gone; my manager wouldn't answer his phone all day, AM was POED.
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    At the end of the day when we were closing up, he walked past, posted his keys through the door, and I never saw him again. Didn't even attempt to argue his case.
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    GrumpyScapegoat I used math to prove to their superior how severely my boss had underestimated turnover 3+ years in a row, costing a ton of money and labor issues. One day earlier the boss had screamed at my team until his face went purple, making a huge spectacle in front of the entire floor. The gist was that we were colluding against the company by (a
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    handful of us) electing not to renew our contracts. Came back with graphs and maths, baby. He was demoted and transferred out a couple weeks later. Pro-tip: don't make a grumpy scapegoat out of someone who loves to make excel graphs.
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    Loch NessManster... I had proven myself as a competent management level employee. She on the other hand, showed favoritism, broke rules, set schedules nobody could work and all around didn't give a sh as assistant manager. When the manager
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    left she assumed she was a shoe in, after all she was the assistant manager so why wouldn't she be promoted? We both got called into a meeting the district uppity up, told us both that I was going to be the new manager and she lost her sh. I never saw her again. And quickly after all her relatives that worked there, quit mysteriously.
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    gerry2stitch Was the head chef of a small restaurant that I eventually owned (before my life collapsed, but thats another story). The owner (who was rarely there) suspected the general manager of stealing. On quiet nights if she thought she wasn't asking enough on tips ( place was small enough that on slow nights it was just the two of us working) she would go i
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    to the computer from the managers screen and delete any tables that were paid in cash, pocketing the money. I got suspicious when my food cost numbers would just never add up to what was being sold. So I got
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    ahold of the software compa y than ran out computer system, and it turns out they have a backdoor that even the management can't see that logs every single key stroke. Turns out she had ripped off close to $20000 over a 6 month period. She was asked to leave after that but for some reason the owner didn't bother to press charges.
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    Flahdagal For a while I was a project manager who got moved around from project to project as a "fixer". I was moved to a project where the customer just could not be satisfied, no matter how many people, how much attention, how we bent over for them. Our program's director, who should have been our advocate, would not manage the customer,
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    and instead just hammered his employees to do more more more. People on our team were being let go due to "failure" or quitting outright due to burnout, and he was that he couldn't get good people.
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    Because of my sort of special position as general dogsbody I happened to have the ear of our VP, and this project came up in casual conversation. I mentioned that it seemed funny that if the director was doing his job, how so many employees that we knew by fact and reputation were good employees had "failed". A week later I heard that the director had been let go.
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    And nothing of value was lost.
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    BigMomSloppers Our manager spent her whole shift in the office watching us on camera and if we so much as stopped to talk to each other she'd come out and yell at us to get back to work. She was completely immature. One time I left my water bottle at the front counter and my co worker had to stop her from purposefully throwing it away. She would make up
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    rules on the spot if she didn't like something someone did. I could go on. She was a terrible, unfriendly, hypocritical, mean manager. Honestly, we all just went to the owners and told them everything and how it made us feel. They got HR involved and got her fired and found out she may have
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    been stealing or giving away product. It was such a relief. If you work for a small business, just be honest with the owners if management isn't family.
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    filthy_lucre Advanced through the company through hard work and dedication and slowly began to usurp the boss's duties and responsibilities. Eventually the owner realized what a lazy schmuck the old boss was and "laid him off." A week later I got a new title and a 35% raise.
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    Na... I was an intern at a tech company and in a one-on- one/mentorship meeting my boss asked me what skillset I wanted to pursue in the future. I said that I wanted to do backend work (this was a programming internship). He replied and said "Girls aren't smart enough for that type of work, how about we put you on the QA path, you'll do better there". At the time
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    I was so stunned that I just repeated quietly that I wanted to do backend work, the meeting awkwardly ended after that. I always thought that I would be courageous in the face of blatant sexism if it ever happened to me but, instead, I was silent because I was a 23 year-old who really needed that internship to turn into a real job.
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    Fast forward a couple weeks and I was out to lunch with a few co-workers who brought along a lady who had worked at the company for years. She'd been out on contract for a while so I hadn't met her yet. Everyone was talking about the boss and some of the stuff he had done or said to them, mostly just ride things, so I took a chance and mentioned what happened in that meeting.
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    She said she'd take care of it. Within a few days he was fired by the big boss. I went on my first contract doing backend work about a month later and I loved it As I understand it I was not the first person to have serious complaints about him, just the last person.
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    ctruemane Mine is pretty pedestrian, but very satisfying. I was working in a garden centre. I'd been there a long time and was woefully overqualified for the job I'd been doing (and was therefore very valuable in that position - think Ops Manager skills at Admin Assistant position and pay).
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    We lost our Sales Manager one year and corporate hired a new one. Let's call her Flora. She was... a real piece of work. I don't know what her interview looked like but in person she was instantly and constantly ride and strident and mean and curt and dismissive and that attention-seeking brand of lazy where she threw her weight around without cause, talked sh about anyone not in the room, and
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    collected 75% of the credit for 5% of the work. She had some knowledge, I guess, but it's way easier to teach a competent manager how to grow flowers than it is to teach an a hle horticulturist how to be a human being. ANYWAY. For whatever reason, corporate loved her. So she stayed.
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    What with one thing and another, I got another job. This process was slightly accelerated by Flora, but only a little. I'd been looking for some time, mostly waiting for the right opportunity. When I gave my two weeks notice, I got an email the next day scheduling my exit interview with the head of HR.
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    Now. My position didn't get exit interviews. Only managers (and sometimes department supervisors) did. And everyone at my store knew why I was leaving, so there was literally *NO* reason for the Store Manager to pull strings to get me one. And he never said anything about it. But I knew: he set it up so I could tell the head of HR (a man I
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    was very friendly with) that I was leaving because of Flora. And I did. I just just laid into her. I said that Flora was the only reason I was leaving after almost 10 years with the company, during which time I wrote the company's Health and Safety program, trained almost every other person who did my job at other stores, made spreadhseets that got used
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    company-wide, as well as setting audit records that still stand to this day. And all for a few pennies over minimum wage. I said I was going because she was the worst and I couldn't take it any more. I found out later she was let go. I was thanked by most of my old workmates. My Manager never said a word about it to me then, or since. He was a real OG.
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    ASlayerofKings I was working at a gas station. Now this gas station was a dump, tiny place that was getting robbed and occasionally a drive by would sh ot it up, but I was broke and needed the money. I work my first 2 weeks there, payday comes no paycheque. OK fine, sometimes because of how timeliness work out it gets put on the next cheque.
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    Next payday comes, still nothing, so I talk to the owner who tells me he has not been able to add me to the payroll and to check back with him tomorrow and my paycheque should be there. Next day rolls around and so does the boss man who tells me he still hasn't added me to the system but offers to pay me under the table. Counts out a stack of bills. Now here is the thing, I
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    had been keeping track of my hours and he was trying to pay me less than half of what I had earned. So I tell him that he needs to put me into the system and pay me properly and I ask him if the money he is offering has had the tax deducted and tracked. Boss is surprised that I actually want to pay my income taxes. I remind the boss that tax fraud is a thing but he didn't care. I
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    got a little heated and demanded he pay me properly or I would go to the labor board, boss told me to go home and that the labor board won't do anything. So I did, and with a calm fury I proceeded to unleash h on that guy. I walk home and while I do so I call the labor board who immediately email me the forms I need that basically said he either paid me what I was owed or
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    he would be forced to pay me and face some steep. fines. Great. But then I have a thought and I make another call. This time to the CRA, and I let the taxman know everything about him trying to pay me under the table and they were very interested to know. A couple weeks pass, I get finally get my paycheque and I learn from several friends who had all worked there that
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    they received a call asking if he had ever paid them under the table or offered to and assuring them they would not be in trouble if they had accepted. Well of course all of them had been honest and said he had indeed tried to. And that was the last I heard about it until one day a few months down the road I stopped in after noticing a friend of mine was working there. They told me the rest
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    of what happened as they had just been hired when it all went down. My call had started an investigation leading to Tax fraud/evasion charges. But wait, there's more. Turns out it was discovered that those robberies that kept happening were staged to get insurance money. More fraud. Suffice to say the owner was arrested.
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    TLDR: gas station owner tries to pay me under the table less than half of what he owed me, fires me when I insist on being paid properly. Owner ends up arrested for tax and insurance fraud
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    Pentacostal-Haircut She was hired as a new director. Didn't know much of anything about what she claimed she did. The straw that broke the camel's back was when she stated her boss would sign anything she put in front of him because he didn't know what it was. Oops!
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    NoctheMighty Proved he didn't know how to do his job and was just passing my work off as his
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    eat_potatoes Not my manager, but I got a project manager who worked with my team fired when it was obvious he didn't understand the business domain and put no work into understanding it or even breaking down the problems with the team.
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    During a stakeholder meeting, we were asked about the gameplan for tackling the project, he spewed some nonsense, and I asked what the actual plan was in detail. When he tried to come up with BS to explain that the problem is very complex and there is no clear path to building the project, that sealed his fate.
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    halftone84 Not fired, but moved stores and demoted. He posted publicly on his Facebook asking "why so many of his staff have mental problems" ... He also posted a few weeks before that, that he was "having a cheeky snow day" and skipping work.
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    I reported it myself. Considering I had been on a final written warning for breaking the "social media policy", I don't see why he shouldn't be either.
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    DefiantEmpoleon I reported him to HR for committing fraud when I quit, they started an investigation that led to him being fired.
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    floydfan My boss had been with the company for around 25 years and was getting very complacent. He would show up around 9am, leave for lunch about 11:30, get back around 1:30 and then sometimes leave by 2 or 3pm for the day. It's not like no one noticed this behavior, but they wanted to put him in a position where there was a spotlight on him so he
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    could either get with the program or they would get rid of him. So I was transferred out of that department because I was the one who was doing all the work. Anyway, a year later, the situation didn't improve. So they let him go. and gave me his job.
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    Don't get me wrong, I didn't get him fired, he did that all by himself. But I knew what the plan was and I didn't share the details with him because I knew how much he made and I wanted the promotion and raise to go along with it.
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    memikeme I quit. I went through everything in my exit interview. How my reviews were always sh so she didn't have to give me a raise, but that I had emails telling me how great that same work was throughout the year.
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    How I was "written up" because someone heard me say something mean. She couldn't tell me what it was, because she wouldn't repeat it. HR never heard anything about it. She also did that write up by herself, instead of with another member of management per the company handbook.
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    She also told me to work 80 hours a week just because she wanted me to order that I should find a new job. I refused to and then I got a new job within the week send turned in my 2 weeks. I also talked about how she threatened my job, because I found out about her and a few other people changing reports to get them all of their bonuses.
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    I got to meet with everyone about the sh she was pulling. Except for the people that were in on the editing of reports. I met with the COO, CFO, VP of HR, and all of the legal team. After I left she was immediately moved to a new dept and then let go within 3 months. Also the people that were changing reports were either let go or demoted.
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    I do feel bad for leaving that job though. Within the year that department was fully let go. So my friends all lost their jobs.
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    LostBabyBear Hotel manager, my hotel was undergoing a full renovation. During this time both my managers were putting in less than 30 hrs a week, and I was racking up 70+ doing their jobs as well. I'm ambitious and knew it would look great on my resume so was happy to bust my a •
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    2 months in i started to notice things going missing like furniture, funds allocated by corporate to offset LoR were not used, and just general bullshitery. Found out both my managers were pocketing the 20k in discretionary funds allocated to us when I overheard a conversation in the back office. Reported them to corporate and an investigation was launched.
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    2 days later on a Friday I had been put on suspension for misconduct by our district manager, and Monday 9am I was told To clean out my office. I was burnt out at this point so took it as a victory, filed a retaliation lawsuit (district manager conducts the investigation with corporate) and moved states. 6 months later everyone is getting fired, charged have been
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    pressed on 2 managers. I'm back here eating popcorn, sad that I was great at my job but can never work for that company again
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    whateverbutalsod... I told supervisors that my direct boss was stealing so much product and time from the store. I knew it. Her stories didn't add up, she was never helping us on the floor, always in her office, would take 1.5 hour lunch breaks and not clock out, leave early, tell me she was coming in early when the store didn't open until 9 (which I knew was sh
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    because she didn't have a store key). I told them for about 8 months. No one followed up on it. I didn't get her fired, per se, but I basically made her unable to get rehired or not able to use us as a reference. I got promoted to her position after she left, and I found thousands of dollars worth of empty
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    boxes shoved in the back of her desk drawers. I'm sure she was taking cash from the register, too. POS.
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    Purple Unicorn Was honest about why my work was behind/accounts were going down the crapper. I was escalating things to him and he wasn't doing anything. They weren't fired, but they "volunteered" to be demoted to a non- managerial position
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    k_chaney_9 I had a boss at Papa John's that was a total to all of his employees. I'd seen him throw pizzas, pizza cutters, oven trays, you name it. He'd also cuss out employees whether or not there were customers in the store. I even caught him re- dating expired food so he could still use it. After he fired me I decided to file a
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    complaint with corporate and they did an investigation and then fired him. He had just been promoted to training general manager received general manager of the year and won a free cruise to the Bahamas and they striped that sh away from him so fast. It felt really great.
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    DoctahSawbones I got the second in command fired. She would talk big sh to anyone in my section of the business. She claimed to know how to run the area. She didn't. Alright, story time! She wanted me to prep for the six o'clock rush. It was two thirty in the afternoon. I told
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    her I would get to it as I was stocking the back room while we had some quiet. At about four, she started harassing me to prep for the rush, and since she had been buying my coworker to put her till away, I snipped at her that I would get it done in ten minutes.
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    A mistake, since it takes seven minutes to prep the gravy and cheese, among other things, when we only have two microwaves. Needless to say, it took longer than ten minutes. Lo and behold, the winner has come to gloat! Not only that, she decided to check the temperature of this stuff. Fine, it's still heating up and all.
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    She yelled at me that it was all too cold and promptly threw it out. I nearly snapped. I can't imagine that punching a four foot ten person would look very good on my resume. I went to the large storage room to cool down for a bit. I come back to find out that the dumba put plastic back in the steam table, where we're only supposed to put metal containers.
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    Since, y'know. Plastic melts. I swiftly remove it and dump the gravy into a metal container, putting the plastic into the sink. I move to the front to find her yelling at my coworker for using my till.
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    I move forward and ask what the issue is. I told her she could use my till, since she had been ordered to pack her till up for the day. She yelled at me. Again. I was practically vibrating. Another manager noticed and pulled me away for a bit, bringing me upstairs where the customers can't go. I promptly burst into tears.
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    After probably half an hour of blurry cleaning, I had sobered up enough to return to my area. A shift change had happened while I was gone, so I had a different coworker this time. I find out from this coworker that in the half hour I was gone, she had put plastic into the steam table again.
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    I can't imagine that replacing the steam table would be too cheap. She'd also been harassing this coworker as well. So here we are, nearing the end of my shift. It's about five thirty, and it's starting to get busy. We're not ready, because of our stuff out. threw all I sigh.
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    And hand in my two weeks on my next shift. I hear from my coworkers later on that she had been fired, mostly because of the evidence that I had given the manager that brought me upstairs. HR had a blast with that one.
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    Your-local-dealer My mother got this done. She worked for a starting company and her boss really needed her help, because the boss wanted my father to invest (he owns a couple of companies). My mother would get a job as a second rank CEO, right under the women she got fired. In fact,
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    the boss kept treating her like sh so she told my father. My father told the other investors and all 3 of them cancelled the deal. They set up the same kind of company with my mom as only CEO. All people who worked for that former boss, left and began working at the new company.

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