'I'm practically doing your job': 25-year-old cashier belittles manager, gets "super fired"

This cashier is breaking both the spoken and unspoken rules of his cashier job by bothering the managers, making everyone else give him the side-eye. 

We all make some faux pas here and there in the workplace, especially as the new person. Live and learn, right? In your first weeks and months at the job, you're still learning the ropes. You don't know everyone, you barely know how to do your job, and you certainly don't know who's your friend and who's totally untrustworthy. These first few weeks are crucial to learning how to succeed at your particular workplace. Who do you report to officially, and who do you report to in practice? Who should you be super serious with, and who can you be a little goofy around? You'll find out as you go. 

This worker made the serious mistake of being extremely impolite to a vice manager at his store, and it seems like, from start to finish, his retail tenure was filled with mistakes. His coworker, who shared the shocking tale, shares that he was hired during a rush, meaning that he might not have been the best choice for the job in the first place. He totally skipped a big chunk of orientation time, and since the company took him at his word, he literally lied his way into the job! They were so desperate to find workers that they didn't properly vet them, and that leads to instances like this one. 

I don't know about you, but if I lied my way into a job, I'd probably be on my best behavior. But John here took the opposite approach: he started telling actual managers that they didn't know how to do their jobs! 

As you can imagine, that kind of jaw-dropping impoliteness didn't go over well with either his fellow workers or the managers. The audacity of this dude to think that he could get away with such sass is truly stunning. That's just the tip of the iceberg, though. Keep reading to check out this person's full account of what happened. They then checked in 2 weeks later with an update, and whew, it's quite the read! I want to hope that John learned his lesson, but with an attitude like that, I can't imagine he has any more managerial opportunities coming his way any time soon. 

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