Employee : I quit ! Boss : go ahead and leave. Anyone else wants to join him ? Everyone : *leaves too*

"...I caused a Domino effect at a local big-chain pizza place.." LMAO

27/30.... that chef must've been a good person

4:28 Whoever the hell created that April-fools document has got to be _the maddest lad in history._

not mass firing, but mass quitting. Already wrote this story on another such video. My company got new management, which decided to fire 25% of the people. Our former CEO informed all the workers. 195/200 people quit basicly on the same day. A new company was formed with all the same workers. Within a year we had back something like 90% of our old clients.

One of my old acquaintances (let's call him Theo) was an assistant manager at a local chain of restaurants. He enjoyed the work, and he had built solid rapport with the entire staff there, so they were all a pretty tight-knit group when they were at work. The restaurant manager at his location had quit, so the owner hired some lady off the street (we'll call her Bitch Lady) who was in her mid- to late-20s. The first day they worked together, she walked up to him as he introduced himself and she said "Hi. I hear you're the only one here who knows the closing and opening procedures, so you're going to be opening and closing every day for the next six weeks." He just looks at her and replies "Those are 16-hour shifts. That's 112 hours a week. There's no way I can do that." She simply says "I don't care. You're going to do it." then turns around and walks away. He strongly contemplates quitting, but he didn't want the rest of his crew to suffer without him and he didn't want them all to have to find new jobs, so he decides to tough it out. This gives him practically no time to run errands for basic living while also getting an adequate amount of sleep, but he figures that he'll catch up on all that once the restaurant has a fully functioning management team again. But Bitch Lady didn't make an effort to learn any of the restaurant procedures or get much of any work done, instead leaving Theo to run most of the restaurant by himself while she locked herself in the office "performing manager duties." A little over a week later, Theo returns from his lunch break (i.e. his 30 minute car nap) to find that two of his closing servers weren't there for their shifts. He knew that they both took the same bus line to get to work, so he texts one of them to ask if they missed the bus. Server responds with "Nah man, Bitch Lady fired us for being late because our bus was 5 minutes behind schedule." Theo storms into the manager's office to find Bitch Lady on her phone, and demands to know why she fired them. "They were two of our best workers! Why in the hell would you fire them?" "They were late for their shifts. That's unacceptable." "The bus they take to get here was running 5 minutes late. That's not their fault!" "I don't care." So Theo decides that he's had enough. He walks through the restaurant, informing all of his coworkers of his decision to quit, and every single one of them follows. Bitch Lady begins to throw a fit, saying "But who's going to run the restaurant??" Theo simply tells her, "You can figure it out. That's not our problem anymore." and everyone files out the door. Theo messages the owner, detailing everything that happened, and for the next couple weeks, there's a handwritten sign on the door of the restaurant saying "Sorry, this location is temporarily closed." But then Theo gets a call from the owner, who proceeds to say (and I'm paraphrasing here) "So I looked into everything that happened, got into contact with multiple people, and came to the decision to terminate Bitch Lady's employment. I'm sorry that you and everyone else had to put up with her; she seems competent and reliable when I interviewed her. Now that she's gone, I'm hoping to hire you and everyone else back, if that's okay with you all. And also, if you're willing to accept it, I would like to make you the new restaurant manager at that location." As far as I know, he's still managing that restaurant, and he hasn't had to put up with any more bullshit bosses!

Boss wanted money for vacations. Fired 3 people to cut budgets

Had a 40 hours/week contract, from my 4th week on I was expected to do 60, sometimes even 80 hours. Unlike stated in my contract I was not compensated for any overtime hours. Confronting my manager about it he only said "yeah, I'll work on it" - and for another month: nada. Stopped doing overtime after the third month of not getting paid - was told to "work on my conduct" by my boss - or he would be forced to terminate the contract. I told my boss to "fuck off, let's just cut this short!" - printed my letter of Resign, signed it, copied it, shoved one copy onto my Boss, then slammed into the Owner's office who was in the midst of a meeting with an important customer - dropped the letter on his desk, told him that I expected him to at least have the dignity to honour our contract and pay what he owed me - then left. I was still on the Parking Lot when I saw the delegation of our Customer coming out. One of them saw and approached me, told me they terminated the meeting as well as all Business relations because according to their Policy a company that doesn't even honour Contracts with its own employees is not to be conducted business with - because if they can't honour these small, simple work contracts how are they supposed to honour larger, complicated ones? Met one of my former co-workers last week. Turned out 15 other people quit after me for the same reasons. Multiple lawsuits are in preparation with the estimated costs being so high the Company is likely to not survive through it. The Head Accountant who also quit leaked this information on his last day in Office some months ago - resulting in another 10 people quitting.

The ending to the tech support story was legit one of the top 10 anime plot twists

"I used to work at a pickle factory in Michigan." - now THAT'S the start of a book that I'd love to read!

I used to be a cook in a high end french restaurant in paris, one day this looney bin dishwasher turned owner of the restaurant came in claiming a rat controled him on the same day we had a very intimidating critic coming in, 90% of the staff (including me) quit right then and there.

I *CANNOT* belive that the local goverment at the first post was stupid enough to fire MOST of it's workers, even their skilled workers too!

Wow, that last one... the real culprits were just as much the corporate management who created a poor incentive program as the cashiers who abused it

When I was a few months out of high school I was looking for my first job when a friend of my sister got me a dishwashing position at a local coffee shop/ bar (they had the coffee station at the front of the store and a big dinning room behind it.) It was a fairly ok job but the people there were really cool and fun to talk to which was great since I had very few friends at the time and after a while my manager asks me if I wanted to move up to better position. I told her that I wanted to move up to being a barista which really surprised them since I was an overweight 6'4" guy with the natural demeanor of an edgy teenager, but to my surprise she went through with it and I was training within the week. I really enjoyed my new position, but after a while both of the dishwashers we had quit very close to each other and being the naive yet helpful kid I was, volunteered to be a dishwasher until they could get a replacement. A week goes by and we get a new dishwasher so now I can go back to my barista job with only a few days as dishwasher. A few weeks after that though I had noticed that they had scheduled me for both barista and dishwasher during the same hours. I brought this up with one of the managers and they told me that it wasn't a mistake and I was supposed to work both stations at the same time making no extra money. The manager apologized and told me that it was the owners that made the schedule. I was already working about 30+ hours a week not including college but now I was working 40+ with no breaks, no days off and days usually ran from 2pm until 1 in the morning because of the giant pile of dishes. I managed to endure it for a week until I finally saw one of the owners there and told them that I can't work both at the same time to which she told me that the schedule wasn't changing and I'd just have to deal with it. I raised hell talking with my coworkers and after talking with them for a while decided to put in my two weeks notice at the start of next week. Monday comes around and I noticed that I wasn't on the schedule but went along with my day like normal only to see someone I had never seen before behind the counter. I asked them politely when they started and they said they were starting today and my mind immediately jumped to replacement. The next day I get a call from my manager and in the most depressed I've ever heard her, told me that I was fired. A couple weeks pass and I've calmed down for the most part and decide to go over to my old job to get a coffee and see how my old coworkers were doing. I walk in and see one of the barista there and start talking them. She proceeds to tell me only 3 of the 30+ people working there were staying and that today was her last day. I have never laughed harder in my entire life at the thought they had gotten exactly what they deserved. To this day I still see a help wanted sign on the front door when I drive past and I get a grin every time I see it. I'm sorry if this was a long story but I felt like I wanted to share. Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a good one.

Former roaming Dunkin Donuts manager 6+ years on the field. 20+ locations in the north eastern area. My job was to train new managers/assistant managers or help evaluate and provide guidance to management when a store wasn't up to company standards. One specific location had a problem with cash shortages in the daily deposit and in each shift. So I took it upon myself to check all the camera footage and all the daily logs, ordering and refund for an entire month to see if it was just a clerical error or if maybe some employees were stealing from their or other registers not signed to them. After I had collected my results I had a sit down with the current manager and assistant manager to discuss what I had found. I showed them footage of EVERY EMPLOYEE taking $10 with multiple angles, freeze frame and drawer transaction history everyday that month. The response was "we told them that then can cash tips in change for dollars at the end of their shift". I had to explain to them that when they allow such thing to happen unsupervised situations like this could happen. I have no problem with them cashing in tips, but the rule of thumb is always to have someone else with the person (usually management) to oversee. So I wrote up everyone including management. So as an "F U" the entire staff and management quit that Friday. However they failed to acknowledge my dedication to my job at the time and felt that it would paint me as the villian and I'd get fired and they'd all get their jobs back. My response was to explain to the franchisee that for the weekend we would have to close while I restaff and train. He told me I had two days. Challenge accepted. Saturday morning I made roughly 50 call for 16 positions and set up 24 interviews with mostly people with prior experience but not all. I had asked if a short notice interview was acceptable most agreed (no experience) some did not but agreed to come in Sunday morning. The store still closed I had done a group interview in the afternoon with the applicants. 12 showed up and I began to evaluate with a "mock" daily scenario. The experienced ones got the hang of it quickly and I spent extra time with the newbies. At the end of the day I had 8 hires and the others I told they can reapply in a few weeks if they were still interested. Sunday same thing with "mock" day and hired 8 more. Monday, I show up at 3am to bake because I was nervous about the bakers and wanted to make sure the muffins and bagels were made on time. They showed up and really impressed me so I let them do their thing while I made up a chart for who will go to which position and who I felt like would be good to stick with a less experienced employee. As the day went on I followed up with everyone to make sure they were knowledgeable about the process and felt comfortable with the pace of the store most were fine some were overwhelmed but I had them switch with others to fight against stress and high tensions. I also stayed until closed to show/teach the closers how to properly close the store for a night (10pm). I did this for a week and felt comfortable enough with the crew to tell corporate to send me management hopefuls and trained them the same. We cleaned every machine. I showed the management how every machine worked, how to take it apart and how to clean/ assemble once cleaning was done. Fast forward a month I was there only to observe and guide if people had questions. We went from being dead last in the district to top 5 of 16. While this was all going on ex employees that quit would come by often and were stunned that I had gotten the store in order so quickly from having no employees to being full staffed in less than a week (not including management). I worked 3am to 10:30pm (closing should only take 30mins if done right) for a month. I got a huge bonus and took 2weeks off before the next store was assigned to me. Thank you for your time.

I never make it to these threads in time but boi oh boi do I have a good one. I worked in a prison, like a literal prison. Our first Lieutenant was a kind, fatherly type man who was all business. He would come in an hour early (5:00 a.m) would work our 12 hour shift, and then stay WAY longer than scheduled to make sure his and the 2nd lieutenant's (lazy sob woman) paperwork was completed properly. 2nd lieutenant was never on time with her paperwork and often wouldn't do it at all, knowing 1st lieutenant would cover it. When asked why he did this, often staying all the way until midnight / 1 a.m only to come back at 5:00 a.m, he responded "so my work can be recognized, plus I don't want to get phone calls on my days off." The day comes where a beloved captain was set to retire and the warden was taking applications from the lieutenants for the opening captains position. 1st Lieutenant would make a great captain, all the staff agreed, even going so much as applauding him when he announced he turned in his application. Announcements are made that 2nd lieutenant Lazy sob woman will be the new captain. In her first address to the shifts, she thanked them for their support and then railed against all Lieutenants stating "I refuse to stay late. All of you lieutenants had better be doing your work. That goes to you as well 1st Lieutenant." Needless to say we were pissed. Half the shift stood up and walked out of the little dinner. From that point on all of the old guard, old school officers, refused to come into work, getting doctors excuses that would last them indefinitely, and having the sick hours to still get paid. until the sob captain was fired, she refused to get properly searched before entering the facility because her rank was too important (this a huge no no, the president of the u.s could step at that gate and would not be allowed in without a search). Turns out she was friends with the warden's wife and thus connected her way to the position, not counting the old guard that would call in until she was fired, we lost an additional quarter of our shift and several in other shifts due to her piss poor leadership. The agency is still struggling with employment shortages some 3 years later after I left.

I worked at place that was bought by a new firm. The staff was informed that we would all be laid off, but could apply for the same positions at the same office with the new firm. We all took having to re-apply for our jobs as a slight, and none of us liked our jobs anyways. The new firm was convinced that we would all reapply, and that they would have a fully staffed office. Wrong! No one re-applied. Most used being laid off as an opportunity to go on an unemployment-vacation, while others of us got better jobs. Now, that was funny.

When I worked at Domino's we had like 1/3 of our staff quit within 2 weeks because we were basically forced to sign new contracts. They hyped everyone up with promises of a pay raise. It was actually a big pay cut. A pay cut. In 2018. For already low paid workers. I don't know if this came from Domino's Australia corporate, or if this was just the franchise owner being a tight-ass. But that is shady AF. I sometimes had to choose between food and fuel for my car so I could work. Sometimes I didn't eat unless it was a canceled order and I was on close shift. Technically, that's theft and it has to get thrown into the garbage, but fuck that. I wasn't going to work in a kitchen and starve while food got wasted. Corporate policy be damned. Sometimes, depending on who was managing, I'd get to make my own pizza for free to take home. In the end, I was getting more money from unemployment than I was working my ass off doing split/close shifts. Fuck Domino's. I've worked there twice, and I'll kill myself before I go back to that company.

i thought it said mass quilting and I was more than a little puzzled

I took the day off and my whole department got fired for a safety violation! I always implied that I was the brains of the operation.

About 4 years ago now, I worked for a massive telecommunications outsourcing company and we had a major client who contracted us for customer support. Our staff was made up of about 200-300 employees including management staff. Some people complained about certain ways the company treated us but the client was so good to us that it balanced out and overall the pay was great and we enjoyed our work, save for a few bad eggs. One of these bad eggs decided it would be a good idea to violate the NDA by recording footage of the office on his cell phone camera (the client had a strict no cell phone policy as well as an ironclad NDA). Another bad egg was horrifyingly rude to customers and other employees on a daily basis. The client was fed up with these people and told our operations managers to fire them, who h they promptly did, but then the bad eggs went to our company's HR to complain, and since their HR felt the termination was wrongful due to no violation of the company's rules even if they massively pissed off the client. This led to the site manager and operations managers scheming to have these employees have their job back but be out on paid leave until they can figure out how to hide their employment status from the client. They wanted to save their asses because HR would've came down on them if they had listened to the client instead of the company's HR team. Client got wind of the fact that these employees were still employees and decided not to renew the contract, and all ~300 lost their jobs, to which a few people were either moved to different contracts within that company while everyone else said fuck it and left. I have yet to find a job that treated me as well or paid as well since then. A couple of months passed and at my new job, I heard from my supervisor who was also a supervisor at that previous company had mentioned to me that the site manager had taken over a contract for a different high profile client and screwed up almost the exact same way, but this time he didn't walk away unscathed. Serves him fucking right.

Some of the guys tied themselves to the forklift with a harness and went for a high speed roller coaster ride complete with spins and sharp turns around the corner. On camera. They thought nobody ever checks them so they didn't worry about it at the time lol

Not Quite mass firing, just karma. I had a fast food job that I was pretty good at(Whataburger). Got paid $9.80/hr as a shift leader(basically count money and inventory but no power to hire or fire). Our general manager quit due to depression(long story) and upper management hired someone who had never worked there before(her work experience was being a GM of a competitor[Dairy Queen]). Fair enough. Same title, different restaurant, same shit. Until everyone noticed the female favoritism. This girl who quit like 3 times and came back, no-showed many times, walked out a few times got promoted to shift lead and went from $8.50/hr to $12.50/hr. I was like WHAT. I have perfect attendance, never call in, always work OT and this bitch gets paid $3 more than me? They also stuck me, the only male in management, on the night shift which nobody wanted to do. It was the bitch shift. Well, I quit; went to work at a warehouse for like $17/hr never to return to fast food and I learn like 3 weeks later the same GM got fired for female favoritism lol.

A common labor tactic of 3rd tier auto suppliers - especially those working with plastics - is to "bank" overtime instead of paying it. So if you end up with less than a 40 hour work week, you could use those hours to bring your paycheck back to 40. There are several problems here. First it's a federal law that overtime is paid time and a half (150% of base pay). So the company was swapping 1.5x for 1x pay. Second, all this was done without official records... so there's no proof that such overtime existed. All "official" books show 40 hours and never an hour more. So a company would regularly make banked hours disappear and you would have to fight them for it. Which brings you to the attention of management. Once they know you as a fighter, they would like to get rid of you. Any excuse will do. And once you are fired, laid off, quit, for any reason - you lose ALL "banked" hours. This happens all the time in and around 150 miles of Detroit. Unions and OSHA are primarily interested in 1st and 2nd tier suppliers. So nobody really watches these smaller producers. And they pretty much ride roughshod over all their employees.

Long time ago I used to work for a Taco Bell in a metro area. Worked my way up became a manager, me and the store manager got along great, and our crew LOVED working for us (we all partied and hung out after work regularly) but he finally decided to move on. New Female SM replaced him, total dumbass, but she wanted to show she meant business so she fired me over a trifle (one of my employees forgot to save some beans in a pan one night and it had to be thrown out the next morning... total loss ~ 5 bucks). Staring at her dumbfounded I said are you kidding me? to which she replied yes... told her how Fing dumb she was, and threw my hat in her face. 3 people left with me on the walk out leaving just one person and her for lunch rush. The store lost so many employees they ended up CLOSING the location down a month later because they couldn't recover.

The mass resignation that occured because of an april fools joke, omegalul.

I can't believe they were stupid enough to get rid of the mandatory gratuity for the dave and busters

Lol I’m unemployed so jokes on you

“I caused a domino effect at a local big chain pizza place. The pizza place I worked at wasn’t a full-service restaurant...” Are you telling me that you caused a Domino effect at Dominos Pizza? Edit: Thank you for the highlight and the likes! It made my day!

I have one. My dad works as an IT guy and used to specialize in some form of customer service and worked with clients a lot. He was basically at the top of the food chain, anything someone else did not want to do came to him. He had been working at that position for years with the same pay, and not long ago, he gave up. He asked his boss for raises multiple times, but never got them. Finally, he quit and his boss pleaded for him to come back. And when that didn't work, an avalanche happened. Multiple other top guys decided they waited too long for a raise of any sort and quit. The company is still up, but it will take a while to recover from that.

I missed that reddit but i got one. I work tech as a security engineer. Ever since my company started converting thier top support analysts to "tier 2" engineers peopke have been leaving in droves. Basically its the same exact job. You get a paltry pay bump but still have to work an assigned hourly schedule. You just dont get paid overtime anymore for staying later.

Mine was simple, the retirement home I worked for got taken over by a new company, so they drug tested all their current employees... a couple weeks later we were severely under-staffed, myself (dish washer) and my aunt (cook) were the only that survived the kitchen crew firing, several CNAs and a few CMAs were canned, took over a month to get new people that could pass a piss test.

I actually feel bad for the owner who got excommunicated from the jehovah's witnesses, unless he had fired people for the same reason. Sounds like they were acting pretty culty.

This is the first time I heard people mass Quitting because the owners were Excommunicated for being swingers.

"Domino effect" "local big-chain pizza place" haha Domino get it

The owner buys way more shit than he will ever sell so some people got fired because they could no longer afford to keep us employed, that's the jist of what they said when we got fired. (fired 3 of us who were in receiving and basically left all of our jobs to one guy, who I kept in contact with and said he struggled so much without help) . His son who works there too got a brand new truck the next week.

The fibre optic one is kinda suspect. Cables get dug up all the time, is the crew just expected to never make mistakes? Do they not insure the cabling?

In college I stocked shelves early in the morning at a Dollar Tree. The store was horribly run by the manager and the stock supervisor could hardly put sentences together, his brain was pretty fried. Staffs from other Dollar Tree stores from the area literally had to come to our store and show our management how to do incredibly simple things like rotating stock or how to lay out the back room. They had food going bad without ever going out to the floor and there was product piled to the ceiling in the back room because everything was so inefficiently situated. This happened three times in the 2 months I worked there. On my last week before school started up again the stock supervisor and store manager got into an insanely loud fight in the front of the store. Profanities from both and a few items thrown. The stock supervisor basically quit (I don't know if he actually said 'I quit' but it was understood). The manager kept going off, even after the stock supervisor left, telling us all a bunch of confidential stuff like how a bunch of his wages were being garnished and how he shit his pants in the store more than once while going through withdraws. That night the former stock supervisor had a heart attack. He didn't die, but a day or two later word came down that he was going to sue, but that was the last info I got as an employee. A couple weeks later I went in to the store and didn't see a single face I recognized. One of the guys I worked with also worked at a restaurant that was far too fancy for me to actually eat there, but I went and got like one appetizer just so I could talk to him. Apparently, after the big blowup, the regional manager talked to the other managers who had come to help my store to figure out what to do. The only good thing they could say about out store was that it was very clean so they fired literally everyone, except the overnight cleaning crew.

Boss: I'll fire my best employee, what can be wrong? Literally 90% of the remaining staff: Idk u tell me

My work recently just fired 19 people in less than a week due to a supervisor finding a “Meth” spoon that in all reality upon second glance was an old spoon covered in limescale from extensive water exposure. Long story short, a bunch of people got fired over failed tests due to weed, because a supervisor doesn’t know what limescale looks like.

LOL, if I worked at a company where the management came out and said "there will be no bonuses or raises for software engineers because we're not a software company and it's not our main line of business", I would immediately ask if management and the executives were going to also get no bonuses or raises since they're not a management company. Then I'd quit on the spot and encourage everyone else to do the same. And yes, I realize that I am PROFOUNDLY lucky that I ended up in a profession where we can do this sort of thing since software engineers can get good jobs anywhere with no notice. It honestly feels bad at times when I see how poorly others are treated and where they put up with so much because they know if they quit it would be really difficult to find a similar or better position.

That is one thing an employer should not do on April Fool's day, claim changes with employee pay, joke or not.

At my job, we announced Diablo Immortals

My dad (may he rest in peace) was the heart and soul of his company (he worked in roofing and stuff). Management was getting pretty corrupt, supplies the employees needed were all denied, the company forced everyone to buy second-rate phones, the managers personally insulted employees when they didn't see their way (my dad included, he would have quit that day but he didn't because my mom needed surgery money and she was and always has been his top priority) and they all the managers made really terrible business decisions that basically sunk the company chunk by chunk into the water. When my dad resigned, others did as the week went by, dad was friends with so many people in the company so the fact that he left due to how he was treated left a big impression. The security guards, his fellow workmates, sanitation, almost everyone resigned or quit from the company.

Be me Be working at a lumber mill Boss hires arsonists inb4 mass firing

I work for a restaurant supplier as a delivery driver(30ft truck). A year or two before I joined, at another location, the whole driver crew walked in on the logistics chef and handed in their notices. Chef went on medical leave, came back and was made logistics chef of the newest location where I later started. Didn't surprise me when I was told. Guy was former military and thought he could still order people around

I had given notice at my job at a bank which at first, wasn't a very big deal. I was pretty depended on, but we had hired a summer intern who could at least cover hours while the newer employees could learn my roles. But suddenly, we lost this intern. A smaller branch had claimed her because they only had a teller staff of 3 people, and they fired them all. My supervisor was mega pissed, and management was completely silent as to why. We tried to poke and prod through our systems, assuming it was some kind of fraud or theft they worked together to commit, but we couldn't find anything. I eventually learned that the staff consisted of 1 man, and 2 women. Both women had a thing for the man, who was their supervisor. The one woman slept with him, video tapped it, and showed the other woman the video, in an attempt to be a catty bitch. But the other woman wasn't going to take this sitting down... so she ALSO slept with him and video tapped it, and showed the first girl as well. This situation apparently escalated to the point where it got their manager's attention, and they all got fired. From what I know, my supervisor is still pissed about the whole thing, but I was sworn to secrecy, so I took that with me when I left.

My dads boss once fired everyone for a day because he couldn't find something he misplaced and was mad about

The amount of effort this guy put in to this video plus the surplus of ads really tells you a lot about these channels

April 1 really is an excellent day to see whether or not your crew will swallow a draconian policy, isn't it?

The last story is a prime reason why you shouldn't reward results without checking the methods. At my work place, there's been several cases like this where a guy gets an insane amount of stuff done on paper, but upon closer inspection the way it was handled just caused a lot more hustle elsewhere. One we correct these mistakes - lo' and behold... similar results to everyone else, if not even significantly worse.

really wouldn't have mattered it the fiber optic line was clean cut, it's fiber glass. either way that's a huge and expensive damage and repair. I'm wondering how low those teeth were at, as it should have been in a duct. one time during a plot replacement, the crew sunk an auger into a fiber optic line in a duct. this fed a main street in a small city. the damage ended up 250k.

Okay a lot of these were sad, but the Jehovah's Witnesses one was pretty funny because of how it caught me so off guard

Let me tell you a story about theft, nepotism, greed. I wish i had known about this askreddit earlier I might have been able to make it into the video. Be me 18 and getting a job at a Local Sonic Drive-in. Now in Michigan there are hardly any at the time, so it was quite a popular place to go to. I started working there as a car hop, getting paid 4 dollars a hour and would make tips to cover the difference of minimal wage. Now it being a drive-in the most you were tipped was abuot the left over change if people paid with cash. There was no option on receipts to tip with your card. The owner of this franchised fast food place employed a khaldean lady who had hired her brother as a manager for a second location. the lady who shall be known as the GM hired her entirely family to work the second location. The second location was far busier than the first one and needed backup one time while i was working at #store number 1. So i put my tip cup in the safe and had asked the manager that night to lock it up in there. Traveled to the second location and worked there, it was weird and i was often yelled at because i wasn't speaking neo-arabic. But i did the best i could and survived the shift and went home that night. Next morning I went back to work at my store [#1] I opened the safe to notice my tips were gone. There was about 50 dollars in singles that I kept in my jar incase i needed to make change on the regular fast for cars and about 100$ in coins. Management did not like going into drawyers or opening safes to make change and it was much faster if we just took care of it ourselves. I checked the security camera to see the opening manager take my jar. Take out my tip money and count it on the table before pocketing it all. I called the store owner about 5 times before he answered. The owner replied with "call the gm she'll handle it". Not happy with how he talked to me i called the GM. She drove down and saw it herself, but she wasn't fired. she continued to be a manager that i had to work with for 3 months after that. During those 3 months we had a manager shortage and the GM decided to hire her cousin who had never worked in a restaurant as manager. He brought in his nephew to work at the sonic as well. he was 11. So now i have to share my tips with this 11 year old kid who isn't doing anything. We were still short on managers and i had been working here for about 8 months. Things were pretty bad and i was passed over for a management opportunity being the only person not in highschool or really bad morning cook. A second management position was passed over to a 11th grader. who was still attending highschool however would skip school to open the fast food place. Now you might be asking what else would make everyone quit. Well I found out during the winter that the GM wasn't paying minimum wages to employee's who received tips. During the entire season of winter I worked full time 42 hours a week, I made 70 dollars in tips. I called the GM demanding I get paid for lost wages. She didn't care and told me to F off. I called the owner after and he brushed me off as well. I told every employee that worked there about this that none of us were making wages that should be paid. I also got ahold of the employee records for the past 4 years and called all of them informing what has happened. Every single person quit that day. a few years later i'm working at a speedway gas station and see the same manager who had stolen from me and the general manager together getting out of a car. they came inside to pay for gas. I called them theives and told them to fuck off and get out of my store in front of a several people. They tried to pay at the pump after but I kept turning it off. Fuck you jewish brad millionaire who owned the place. Fuck you nanette stealing from me. Fuck you Gm whose name i can't remember :P

I have one of these. Where I work there was an entire crew of about 8 people goofing off a little. Normally the boss would just come in and tell everyone to get back to work. But he asked 1 guy if they was on break..he replied, we are always on break. The boss walked into one of the office rooms and came back out and fired everyone.

Worked as a mental health tech at a residential treatment facility. Basically we were the people who took care of violent individuals with severe mental deficiencies. The kind of people who would cave your skull in because they forgot to go to the bathroom and soiled themselves. After our first founded allegation of abuse, these people called wolf on the daily so it was definately a major outlier, upper management decided to install camera's throughout the residences. We honestly didnt care at first. But the thing is the cameras were not finding abuse, cause there was none, instead they were being used to micromanage. Caught looking at your phone to time the laundry, write up. Left a client with another staff to aid a crisis situation, write up. Doze off for 5 minutes doing your 3rd overnight double shift in a row because management drove off all the overnight techs, you guessed it write up. Many of our most reliable staff left within a week and several left mid-shift just adding to the chaos. Within a month we went from 18 staff a shift to 5, for 2 buildings. At the end of 3 months There were only 2 regulars left on my shift and the rest were getting pulled from other units.

"I worked at a Dave and Busters in a fairly low income area" Top 10 horror stories.

When i was 17 i worked for the carnies and for 2 weeks i didnt get payed. because of " Unknown reasons" and then my dad made me demand the boss that i get my money, ( i was a shy 17 year old so i really didn't want to but i did) and when i asked my boss why i wasent getting any money, he told me i had a " bad attitude " Needless to say my dad sued him for the money he owed me and also gained another few grand on top of that since you cant pull shit like that, to this day i still dont really understand the whole situation but yea.

"Gather round children and let me regal you with a tale of retail misery and woe..." _Text is full of errors and mistakes_

"My company has had a pay freeze for over 7 years"... So why don't you quit and move on with the others?

5:30 a 1024 count international cable? Yea. That’s your career, buddy 🤦🏾‍♂️

Community hotbox in the freezer, fry and grill cooks on acid, supervising manger drunk and high taking a nap in his car

Back at my elementary school, anything containing caffeine was banned, to every core teacher quit other then my teacher... He switched to tea and energy drinks

Wait, so THAT'S what caused that mass internet outage on the east coast. I had heard about a Fiber Optic cable getting severed and it caused this huge service outage all along the Eastern coast. Damn.

Company I used to work for had a contract for a sales/support team for major computer company’s website. Some brilliant higher up thought it would be good to move the contract to their out of country offices with out informing the client. When the client found out, they created their own in house support team, pulled the entire contract from the company and cost about 100 employees to be either terminated or moved to another team and the higher up was moved to an entry level position.

A welding shop I used to work for got new management, who immediately decided we had too many staff and announced they would be firing 30% of everyone. Although by my personal count it was more like 50%-60%. This of course meant me and everyone else who was left was getting worked into the fucking ground doing 6 day weeks and 12 hour shifts to get projects done. They then shut down the plant for a week for maintenance, but refused to pay us or allow us to take it as vacation. They then told us they were dissolving the night shift and moving everyone to day shift, meaning we got paid less. Me and about the remaining half of the welding team quit within a couple of weeks.

About 4 years ago, I once worked at a small family owned Korean BBQ place in the city, which was run by the owner, his wife, and their son who was the head chef. When I first started we were in the red and unless we could take advantage of the holiday season and make like 5x the normal income made in a month between Nov and Dec, they'd be forced to shut down by the start of the new year. We managed to work our asses off for those 2 months and ended up making more than we needed. And what did the owners do to reward our hard work? They fired all of us. 10 waiters/servers, including myself, and 5 or so chefs were all let go. And we were all immediately replaced by an all Korean staff. When I tried to asked the owner why, he said that we were all caught on camera stealing food and money from the store. The place ended up closing down around Christmas that same year. I actually ran into one of my old co-workers from back then, a 40 year old chef who spoke Korean, last year while shopping. Turns out a few days after I tried talking to the owner, he went in to ask him and got the same story. But before he left he overheard him talking with his son. Apparently the owner was glad to be rid of us since he thought that non-Koreans making and serving Korean food was the reason why the business almost failed, and that because of the timing they got to keep most of the profit from the holiday season. The place ended up closing down the year they fired us around Christmas time. Neither of us were sure if they closed due to bad business or if someone took them to court for what they did to us, but they deserve it. The whole experience gave me a bad impression of asians as a whole and I didn't really get over my bias against them for a few years. I still don't fully trust Koreans, but nowadays I don't really trust people in general so at the very least I'm inclusive about my prejudice.

In 2009 Staples decided to use the excuse of the housing bubble (something Staples was never affected by because they didn't invest in any housing or land purchases) to fire all of the long term successful full time employees that had actual raises (you know like $1-2 raises back when that was possible because companies actually cared about their employees) and instead of keeping us the board of Staples decided to give themselves all raises and the CEO got a raise of 400% which meant he was only there for 2 more years and retired a millionaire.

I work at a major jean store. Our New York location was caught watching netflix and the entire store was fired. That was hilarious to me

Not gonna lie thought it said mass flirting

Our company picked up approximately 3 additional "customers" to do projects for. I work for a company that builds mass quantities of computer servers. Google, Uber, Amazon, etc. Lots of people started quitting. The workload became too much. We basically doubled, possibly tripled our work load. No raises. No promotions. No new hires. Just basically, "ok guys we got a shit ton of work, time to work overtime every single day with the added work on Saturdays." And those were forced on us. Personally, I didnt necessarily care about the extra workload cause my position requires me to mostly sit at a desk throughout the day. But a lot of my coworkers do mostly physical labor. And it was just too much for them. You expect that if your company brings in an additional millions, possibly billions of dollars, they would maybe give out better bonuses and raises. Each server we build cost approximately between $100,000 - $750,000. But nope. This has been going on for the past year and some few months. Bonuses were a joke. A mere 200 dollars and less from what some coworkers told me. No raises have been given out. Its just very poor managment. Bunch of greedy individuals.

13:34 "With one week to spare before to spare before the biggest shopping day of the year" Someone had a stroke.

College went bankrupt. Entire faculty and staff lost jobs

2008, way into the housing bubble, the luxury cabin rental company I worked for was struggling. I was at school early on the day, received several messages that I needed to come in, and my best friend told me 'I don't think this is good. I have a horrible feeling.' I went in and all of my department (QA), 1/2 housekeeping, and a 1/3 maintenance were made redundant. Within three months the company was sending letters to potentially rehire but I had already heard that they had lost 2/3 of their listings and could barely keep guests in a cabin all night (giving refunds and comped hotel rooms). Nope, never looked back

Wal-Mart gave a 1 dollar raise then cut a quarter of the employees in about a year 85% of the senior associates. Left in the next 6 months

I worked in a mcdonalds when i was much younger. I was their overnight cook. Back then there was 4 people on the line with the manager. The one night i had booked off months before b/c it was my birthday. I checked it when i left THAT MORNING. At some point someone switched the schedules so i would be in. They called my home, nope i was down at the bar (there was 4 around my resturaunt) so they kept calling me till i picked up. By this time i was smashed b/c st patties day. I wobbled in at about 1130 pm, the store was a disaster and said fuck this. The night staff left, and half the morning staff quit when they walked in. I checked later, it was the new idiotic store manager. Labor board had a field day

Dont mind me. Im just your obligatory unoriginal "cant be fired/quit because I dont have a job" joke like all the rest of the comments in this comment section. It would be unnatural to give a comment like this a thumbs up since everybody is doing it.

Corporate made us go to virtual meetings, asked us what we would like in an attempt to boost morale, asked us who we would like as our new chief on the floor, and promised new improvements to retain staff. Next quarterly meeting, there was little to no food like they promised and we were not getting paid to attend despite it being mandatory and during work hours. They raised our pay to only 5 cents, and the 1 person that 90% of us recommended for the job, did not get it. During these developments, 5 people quit in 1 week.

I died when at 6:56 he said "...i didn't care. I was no longer under her tyranical rule...." He makes it sound like he worked under Joffrey Barathian from Game of Thrones lol

I wouldn't say mass quitting. But when I quit my old job 2 people left with me. There wasn't very many people there to begin with and losing 3 people was almost a fourth of the people working there. After watching the vid, my story is a bit applicable to the 'domino effect.' Me walking out of my job still has lasting effects on the business. I was one of the few people who were good at their job. The store protected the shitty employees because of favoritism and treated me like shit but always worked me because I'm a good worker and I met the quotas. When I quit that changed. Someone walked out over a petty reason and tried to come back but said no to him because when I was struggling for money because of my ill advised decision, I should have waited to find a new job first, I asked to return and they said no. To avoid a lawsuit they had to tell him he couldn't come back either, because I'd have a legitimate discrimination lawsuit against them if they did. They really liked this guy so it pissed them off he had to stay 'fired.' A girl and a guy who caused a shitload of drama there quit because the girl knew every hated her and the guy went to get a better job and he knew he'd be fired eventually by corporate (he was a manager). My friend came back from her vacation and didn't go back there because she was pissed I quit and my other friend moved to my current job until he quit this one. Two people who were dating each other moved to a different state and the only associate better at their job than me was promoted to replace the manager who quit. So my old job lost a shit load of people. The problem is, people who replaced everyone were shit at their job or quit due to the bullshit I didn't explain that the GM did (fun fact, the GM eventually got fired and escorted out by the police, so karma hit her hard).This caused a HUGE issue with my old job because they used up all their hiring tokens and couldn't hire anyone for 3 months. They essentially lost 80 percent of their staff and couldn't hire people because everyone they hired bailed because of the GM being horrible at her job. 2 years later my friend who stayed in touch with people there told me that since I left they haven't had a month where people met the quotas. I didn't cause MOST of this but causing 3 people to quit when they couldn't hire new people caused a lot of issues. The best part is if I waited it out my old job's issues would have been solved. The people who caused drama there quit, the GM got fired, and my best friends would be working with me.

Some kid threw a rock at one of our tanks.

We had an incident at our warehouse near Denver, right around the time weed became legal. One of the employees failed a random and snitched on everyone (multiple layoffs). Other employees had to travel there and pick up the slack until they replaced the people who got fired.

“I used to work at a pickle factory” lmao idk why that’s so funny to me

Not me, but my cousin. She was the manager of a bar in town, did all their large party catering, was head cashier, and did the books. The owner is a human dumpster fire who contributes nothing and comes in once a month to reap the rewards. Crystal's boyfriend (now husband) worked there as head chef and they made a good team. All the staff liked them. Then, Steve met Karen, daughter of Skeletor and Anna Nicole Smith, and Karen didn't like Crystal because she doesn't take shit from ANYONE. Karen said something Karen-y and Crystal told her where to put it. Karen got all mad and huffed off to tattle to Steve. Steve, who is Whipped©, fired Crystal and gave Karen her job. When Crystal left, so did 80% of the staff, including the whole kitchen. Just "went out back for a smoke break" and dipped. Karen is not used to labor of any kind and caught the Nope Train to Fuckthatistan in two weeks. Crystal and her husband moved to Oregon and she's working steady hours at another restaurant/bar down there. She loves her new job. The bar is dead but it doesn't know it yet. There's a new gimmick every night (food and drink specials, karaoke, local musicians, theme nights, etc) but the parking lot is never that crowded anymore and the local radio stations have found other places to host their sports game viewing parties. I give it another year, maybe.

If I was told to work more than 10 hours on black Friday I would've just walked.

I worked for a big name pickle place. We used to get two weeks off during the Christmas holiday and everyone would file for unemployment to cover for it. Well, the state eventually found out quite a few were still claiming benefits long after returning to work. One employee had managed to claim $20,000 over the years and quickly retired to move out of state when he heard what was going to happen. A few weeks later as employees arrived for their shifts, security lined everyone up, went through IDs, and walked everyone out that had been on the list. All in all just over 200 people got canned for it.

So I started working at a club that I'd visited before many times. I came in, worked, took a day off, and when I came back everyone was GONE. Apparently there had been many meetings about "morale" and everyone had been basically put on notice weeks back to start smiling and performing better. When I showed up, being the perfect smiling dancing happy showgirl, it made everyone else look so bad, they were all fired. It was me and 3 other girls, one waitress, no bartender, no host, one bouncer, and armed security for the next few days.

Whenever a Jehovah's Witness comes by I'm going to tell them I got excommunicated because I love that seeeeeex.

That last story was giving hard GameStop flashbacks...

4:27 Senior manager troll: “Dude, this is gonna be so fucking funny.”

Trusted employees enough to run business as an absentee owner, I moved to an outer island. They could make their own hours (manufacturing jobs, no real "boss"), they each had their own quota's to meet, each worked independently, as if they had their own business to run. Can't ask for more freedom than that. Caught them falsifying reports, they thought I couldn't add. They sent in a bogus report Friday morning, I called and asked if they were absolutely sure this report was accurate, trying to give them a chance to come clean, they all said yes. Called my accountant, booked a flight, went straight to my office, cut out paychecks, and shut the business down that same day. Never looked back. Life is so much easier without employees.

Um, how can contracts just be randomly changed? Don't contracts require negotiation and both parties agreeing ( signing ) a document to be binding? Amazing how many stories feature crazy owners, and clueless managers. Especially managers, most of these type of stories it seems like someone outside of a group/department/company/etc gets hired for a top position, without being in any way qualified for that position and just fuck things up. Fun stories to hear about, but so happy I haven't run into any of these situations IRL...yet

I feel like 6:00 works at Domino's hence the "Domino effect" pun and Domino's is also a chain pizza place thats take out or delivery

That last one honestly won the entire thing. How does a company fire all their employees right before the *biggest blowout holiday of the year*

I heard that another center of my job had a bunch of people go on an unauthorized strike. Every single one was fired but was told to stay till their replacements were trained.

I may or may not have caused an office wide overwatch tournament didn’t get fired but my boss was pissed

6:07 buddy I'm about to quit my job at the pizza hut I work at. I doubt 9.25 an hour could keep the lights on make sure I dont starve and get my meds

The best buy one at the end, I worked for best buy during this magazine shenanigans, and our manager started signing us up for them to help with numbers. Fine I expected one time deal cancel and be done? Nope, Signed up, canceled and the continued to get signed up every day that we came in. Finally one day I got charged for the subs I thought I had canceled... I was fed up... I emailed corporate and the magazine subs company anonymously and explained that I'm tired of being taken advantage of for the benefit of numbers. After internal investigations, our two managers for the front were let go. I hated those magazine subs... We signed so many employees up for them in order for them to cancel just so we could hit our numbers and not be yelled at. The company got nearly 100% of the subscription fee and so they loved the pure profit the offer promised...

At a local nonprofit Hospital that I used to work at until I just had to ethically leave went through a huge reduction. They went through multiple departments asking us managers to let go of a specific number of staff. Then almost the entire HR was let go with almost no notice. 20+ employees in total reduced from a local hospital (which we were averaging more patients per week than we ever had), and the VP's and CEO gave themselves a 30% pay increase. Essentially they fired employees to give themselves a raise. Way to steal from your community. I had to leave that place.

Not making enough money.