Teen worker forces popular pizza place to shut down for days after they refuse boss's demands to make the dough for the week: ‘I laughed and said nah’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 19, 2025 1:00 PM EST

A teen who desperately needs money would pretty much do anything for a job, and many employers know that. They have no problem taking advantage of a teenager's hunger for a summer job, and they would find any way within the law to get as much work as possible out of their youngest employees.

Many teens find themselves working for various fast food chains, which should be an easy enough job. Until the day one comes, when the young workers realize just how much work their employer plans to bestow upon them. And by that point, it's usually too late to look for another summer job.

When the teen in the story below applied to work at a popular pizza place, they didn't expect their boss to demand they work every weekend. Weekends are highly important to many teens, and spending them making pizza dough at a fast-food kitchen was not what the teen imagined. When it became clear that the boss was using the teen's need for a job against him, the teen decided to look for another way to make money. 

After they found one, they decided to quit their job at the pizza place in a way they'll never forget…

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  • Closed a popular pizza place for 2 days

    When I was 151 worked at a very popular pizza place in Canada rhymes with nut.
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  • It was run and managed by a couple college kids that thought they were big stuff running a pizza joint.
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  • I was Congratulations. in-between work and didn't want to work a fast food place but my first choice at the local arena fell through because I had to be 16 to work with certain chemicals and stuff they had for the pool.
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  • Months away but it was a no go. So I bit the bullet and applied. I got the job and was hired for working in the kitchen.
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  • Within a month they wanted me to learn how to make dough. I wasn't for it because that meant I had to come in every weekend at 6am to have dough ready for when they opened at noon.
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  • I said fine I'd learn but I don't want to do it every weekend. I was a kid.
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  • I enjoyed my weekend time and was much happier working weeknights. They assured me I would only have to work 1 weekend dough shift a month.
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  • I said ok great. They got my partner in crime we'll call Scott to agree to the same thing.
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  • We both learned and nailed it. Within 2 weeks of learning we were back to back weekend shifts I worked every Saturday Scott every Sunday going forward.
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  • I went to my boss told her and she laughed. Said too bad. They all thought it was hilarious the group of them.
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  • All servers in their 20's, we were the joke of the pizza joint. They knew we needed jobs and wouldn't quit.
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  • Then I went home one Saturday and my parents said the arena had called and wanted me to come in for another interview.
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  • I went and was told I would be offered the job in 2 weeks the day after my birthday.
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  • I asked if they needed anyone else and they said yes and I told them about my friend Scott and how he worked.
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  • He said to hand in his resume and he'd get it set up. Time for petty revenge.
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  • The next Saturday I went into work and sat around and did absolutely nothing. I drank chocolate milk and hung out in the boths of the restaurant twirling my thumbs.
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  • They showed up for open and I was standing there apron and name tag in hand.
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  • I quit I said. My boss laughed and said whatever we were going to fire you anyways.
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  • Then commented that if it were her she wouldn't have showed up at all and s ed her over not making any dough.
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  • Idiot. I laughed and said nah I hung out all morning and made no dough so you still need to pay me for my shift.
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  • Later. The look on her face was gold. She ended up having to close the store for the day because they had no dough made.
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  • Then to top it off Scott repeated my quitting method the following day. We worked together at the arena for the rest of highschool and told that story fondly.
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