Friday, September 18, 2020

Jerk Manager Gets His Comeuppance


Oh man, oh man, to just have been there to witness the look on Tim's face when he realized that due to his public freakout, he was absolutely screwed. Unfortunately, many folks that have muddled through gigs in the service industry have encountered a manager reminiscent of Tim. In this case though, it's deeply satisfying to see that maniacal, egotistical, and straight up toxic manager get it in the end. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/AmbulanceDriver2 • 17h + Join Jackass Manager gets his comeuppance. Entirely too many years ago, I started to work at a fast food company. Let's call it Southern State Not Baked Poultry. Southern State Not Baked Poultry wasn't a bad first job (I was 16) and the assistant manager at that location was my best friend's step-dad, so we took what was tedious and menial and tried to make it fun. He was actually a really good manager, and genuinely cared about the people who worke

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Text - This story is about our store manager. We'll call him Tim. Tim was the exact opposite of our assistant manager. Everything had to be taken seriously. Fun was outlawed. Igenuinely hated working with Tim. Tim was an egocentric, power hungry, petty little man with delusions of grandeur because he was a manager for Southern State Not Baked Poultry.

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Text - Tim's approach to "managing" was to work the employee until they burned out, when they did, fire them and hire someone else. Needless to say, morale when Tim worked was in the garbage. Tim hated that crews would prefer working with Larry instead of him. He hated that crews had fun when Larry was working. He hated that our store's numbers were always better when Larry worked. Mostly, he just hated everyone. But one thing that he absolutely hated was a silly little thing Larry did. If it wa

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Text - A perfect example of what an ass Tim was is this: There was a young woman who due to a variety of stressors, attempted to commit suicide after a particularly grueling shift working with Tim. After she had recovered, she came back for her last paycheck, and Larry was working (not a coincidence - she called the store to find out what day he was working). So Larry sat her down out in the lobby, bought her lunch, brought her last check out, and sat and talked with her for about an hour. It wa

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Text - Well, the next day Tim had come in and hauled Larry into the office. His words (and I can quote them exactly, because the "office" was a tiny little cube with no ceiling - just a place to stash paperwork and a computer) were, "The next time the suicide queen comes in, tell her to do it right next time!"

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Text - So now you have a clear picture of exactly how petty and vindictive this little man was. Here is where the revenge starts. We were scheduled to have the regional and national bigwigs for Southern State Not Baked Poultry come through our area for an annual inspection. Tim had his eyes set on being one of those bigwigs, at least for the region. Why wouldn't he be, he did everything by the book! That automatically made him a good manager (at least in his eyes). Everything had a checklist, an

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Text - Well before the bigwigs got to our store (we knew what day they would be coming) several of us had agreed that on the day they came through, we would all screw up just enough to get Tim to blow his cool. Because our regional manager and the national bigwigs all believed that Southern State Not Baked Poultry was a family company, and that employees were valuable team members. The day in question arrived, and the bigwigs were there for their big tour. Whoops, one of the fryers hadn't had th

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Text - Yelling. Cursing. Throwing things. He actually physically pushed me away from the breading station. In the middle of the lunch rush. While the regional manger and several bigwigs from national stood there. While we had a line several people deep at both cash registers. And a lobby full of people eating. Tim stood there, gulping like a fish. His mouth was moving like he was trying to say something, but no sounds were coming out. The room was absolutely quiet other than the beeping of a fry

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Text - All the color drained from his face, and he bolted to the office cube. The national and regional folks ended up comping everyone's meals that were in the restaurant. Interestingly enough, Tim was not fired. But he was demoted. To assistant manager. Larry was promoted to manager. About 10 years later, I was working at my current job as an EMT. We had just dropped a patient off at the hospital that was across the street from the same restaurant, and my partner was hungry, so we drove across

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Text - The restaurant was empty since it was between lunch and dinner time, and I just couldn't help myself. I stuck my tongue between my teeth and lower lip, and as loud as I could, shouted out "HI, TWIM!" Haven't been back there since, but that was around 12 years ago. I'm willing to bet he's still just the assistant manager there. 6 7 1 1 3.7k I 179 1 Share

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