‘Nightmare boss finally terminated’: Tantrum-throwing assistant manager finally gets canned after he pops a bag of hot food next to his coworkers, hardworking employee lands a promotion as a result

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Aug 23, 2025 9:00 PM EDT

You know that one coworker who seems to evade being fired by the skin of their teeth? Yeah, this next story is about a manager like that. The good part? He gets exactly what he deserves after countless tantrums on the job.

Nobody wants to believe that bad people are their actions. At the end of the day, most people have a reason for acting the way they do—this doesn't excuse it, but it provides us all with some much-needed context. In the workplace, though… You have to leave your ego at the door. This applies especially to employees in positions of power because they have the ability to make or break any of their underlings. It's not their subordinate's fault they got broken up with last night, or their food delivery showed up two hours late…

Our deepest and most sincere apologies if this story sounds eerily familiar to one of your experiences in the workforce. Big egos aren't limited to office spaces and corporate ladders—they exist in every corner of the field. This story takes place in a fast-food restaurant, and the manager in question is over 10 years the employee's senior. What happened to respecting our elders?

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  • "He's gone as of today. Gone gone. Banned from the property."
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  • "Nightmare boss finally terminated"

    I (35F) am a shift lead in fast food at a chain that keeps 4 levels of management in each store: GM (40sF), 1st assistant (21M), 2nd assistant (22M), and shift leads (varies from 19F to 47M).
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  • In my current store only the GM and one other shift lead are older than me. This is only partly relevant, as the terminated 2nd assistant manager is 14 years my junior and acts it.
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  • He had frequent tantrums: hitting and punching walls, doors, and boxes. He'd yell at anybody, even customers. Just Thursday night he lit into an employee (18F) until she cried for standing next to him while he was talking to someone else.
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  • Corporate policy is not to argue with a customer over a complaint, don't ask for a receipt, just apologize and replace the food. Pretty simple, right?
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  • Not for this guy, but he'd tell you the sky was pink at midday and have a hissy fit when you pointed out the window at a cloudless blue.
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  • He threw a freshly fried food item at the store cinnamon roll (3rd nicest kid ever, 20M) a few weeks ago. He knocked a cup out of my hand when I tried to quietly
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  • disrupt an argument he was having with an employee (17F) while I was actively taking a customer order in our drive thru. One of the employees (16F) kept asking me why he hated me.
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  • And then this week. Sunday, he popped a bag of hot liquid by slamming his hand down on it while it rested on the prep line.
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  • This ingredient is meant to temp at 190°F (88°C). He was standing next to a shift lead (21F) who was significantly splattered with the ingredient. (She's ok.)
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  • This was finally enough and he's gone as of today. Gone gone. Banned from the property. Anyone who lets him on the property risks termination.
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  • I'm so relieved. Working with him was stressful, even though he spent so much time on the clock just sitting in the office and
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  • messing around on his phone, v. ing, etc. Working without him will be stressful in a different way, but I'm looking forward to it. ETA: my GM just offered me his job 0.0
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  • boost_to_get_through It's always nice when the ride ones finally get what they deserve
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  • UltraPromoman Problem managers/supervisors routinely openly act out. They can get away with it for months, years, or even their entire careers because they're enabled and insulated by HR and or higher management. Regular
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  • employees generally don't have that. kind of protection unless they're in good with HR and higher management. It's likely that his sh only became bad because he offended the wrong person there
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  • River_Elysia The girl splashed with hot food Sunday is kind of a favourite of the regional manager, but also everything above is just since January 10th this year. There's more besides what I listed, I'm sure, but I've only shared what I personally. saw/experienced or have on good authority.
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  • UltraPromoman Exactly my point. Sh like that happens at any job. Problem people, especially managers/supervisors, can literally be doing sh that's criminal and or lawsuit worthy and they still have lots of leash. It's often pretext in terms of why they're held accountable in the minority of instances that they actually are.
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  • cleobaddie10 ' that sounds exhausting. Glad management finally did something about it. No one should have to put up with that cr_p at work, especially in fast food where it's already stressful enough.
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  • 3x5cardfiler The employee was a problem, but the management and corporate culture that allowed him to be there was the real problem.
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