Sunday, September 27, 2020

Awful Manager Gets Outed For Never Actually Working


Nepotism is the worst. This manager had the audacity to violate labor law, hire his mistress (a mistress that never showed up), and rarely be in the store himself. Fortunately, the employee that was suffering underneath the weight of all this laziness, nepotism, and toxicity was able to engineer a pro revenge that successfully spotlighted the manager's ongoing choice to not perform the very job that he was being paid to do. Check out some more revenge drama with this shady boss who lied about their coworkers, and got fired.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/sunnykl • 1y The Bad Grocery Place I've written before about the good grocery store where I worked in high school. We had a couple of bad customers and a lot of senile seniors, but it was well run with a great manager. The one I worked at for one summer in college was The Bad Place. It was 1994 in a chain grocery store with a truly awful manager who was straight out of business school. He was also the regional office director's son, so he was teflon. Anything that we

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Text - Awful paid no attention to people's time constraints. We had a bunch of teenagers there who were attending summer school. He didn't care. He scheduled however he wanted and left us to swap shifts among ourselves. I personally saw him tell one girl she'd have to miss school because he needed her on shift and she couldn't find coverage. Crazy illegal. He didn't care about legalities. Awful's belief was that if the computer would accept it, then it was fine. It was the early days of computer

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Text - Awful was very rarely, if ever, in the store his entire shift. He'd clock in, get the few really important things done, then leave. He'd come back in the middle of his shift to do the bank deposits, then be gone again until it was time to clock out. He assigned all his work to the latest fall guy assistant manager or other random employees. If he was the only manager on duty, he'd leave his badge for overrides on the desk in the office so we could grab it when needed to override register

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Text - I mentioned in a previous post how national was pretty obsessed with mystery shopper reports, and got them directly from the company that did that stuff. We'd get all kind of conflicting instructions because national's edicts based on those and our regional director's policies would differ. Always fun. What I didn't mention was mystery shoppers were trivial to spot. They'd go straight to the bakery to price out a special order cake, then not buy it, complain about the price or ask any of

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Text - My last week at this shit show before I headed back to college, I spotted a blatant mystery shopper complete with note pad. Awful had bugged out shortly after open, the mistress was probably busy banging him, the other assistant manager had been fired for the last colossal screw up, and the only other cashier on shift was at lunch. It was pretty dead as it was late morning, so no big deal. Except that I decided it was time for this shit show to get reported for what it was. When Mystery c

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Text - Somewhere around this time, the other cashier (we'll call her Jenny) got back from her lunch break and I informed her that shit was about to get real. She might want to go home sick if she wanted some cover. Nah, Jenny giggled and wanted a front row seat. Besides, the lunch rush was coming. We had a construction area nearby and a lot of the guys came for the prepared foods for a cheap, hot lunch. We started to get the lunch rush and more of a crowd by the time Mystery made it up to my reg

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Text - Jenny caught on real fast and told me to just go get the badge from the office. Awful Firstname Lastname must be doing the money drop or something. I pointed out to Jenny that was against company policy. She rolled her eyes and told me that's what Awful Firstname Lastname had said to do. Now, where was that override badge? I headed up to the office and made a good show of looking for it. Called down to Jenny asking if she had it. Nope. Jenny abandoned the big order she was ringing up and

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Text - Jenny apologized to the mystery shopper, but she was going to have to get in Jenny's line now. I couldn't void the transaction or login to two registers at once, so I was going to help her pack it up and Jenny would get to Mystery as soon as she could. Now, this is somewhat bullshit. While true as stated, we all knew how to unplug the registers to get them to reset and log us out. It was a dumb hack, but it worked. Thing was, there was almost zero chance Awful or Mystery knew that. Myster

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Text - We apologized profusely to the customers, but explained we had no idea where Awful was. Offered to check in the back. Sent a bagger out to check the lot in case Awful was on a smoke break. No joy. As this fiasco rolled on, we had a lot of very unhappy customers on our hands (and the downright giddy Mystery who stayed to the bitter end). We were demanded to call a manager. We'd tried all Awful's known numbers. Who's above him? Oh, that's regional. We were not allowed to call them. Very str

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Text - Regional took about two hours to get somebody down to the store who could clear the registers. Nobody else in the store had permissions on that system. Awful still hadn't shown up. Regional Dude overrode the registers, but by then the damage was done. We'd missed the whole lunch rush. No hot food was sold. Our metrics for the day were going to be unbelievably shitty. Regional Dude was on the phone frantically trying to figure out how to cover this mess up for his boss (Awful's Father), an

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Text - A few weeks later, an audit team from national came down to investigate. The mystery shopper story hadn't lined up with the computer outage story, and something was obviously hinky. They dug into the books and found all the labor violations for minors working overtime and too early/late. Interviewed the employees and found out about the scheduling during school time problems. Manager absenteeism. No vacation being allowed. Also that the store was constantly short staffed (no shit; people

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Text - I don't know if they covered up all the labor violations or not (probably; that would have caused massive fines). I was too young to know to report them. However, Awful, his father and his mistress all got fired or resigned quietly. The store reportedly went back to being pretty functional after that. Jenny got a better job and left within the year. I never worked retail again. | tl;dr: Awful nepotism hire manager violates labor law, hires his mistress (who never even shows up), and is ra

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