'I will never give notice again': Company revokes all worker's earned PTO after they give notice

The relationship between an organization and its workers is built upon trust. Once that trust is betrayed by a worker/workers, it's completely fair that the organization loses faith in those individuals. However, when the organization betrays the trust of one of its workers, it's only going to be natural for them to lose confidence in the organization. That's an important thing for employers to realize; if you do things like not honor accrued leave for an employee, other employees are going to find out. This is going to completely destroy the morale of your remaining team members and ensure that they don't give you any notice when they decide to leave as well. So, in this roundabout way, it's actually a good business decision to front the cost of something such as paying out leave. It's a cost of doing business, and maintaining trust, even with your departing employees, will only serve to help you in the long run.

A disgruntled worker shared this experience to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, claiming that their employer had refused to honor their accrued PTO once they handed in their notice. They had thought that they were doing the correct and honorable thing by giving their notice to their employer but felt that this had just come back to bite them.

'We are deeply saddened': Complete Karen leaves 1-star review after telling staff that they were "heroes," gets wrecked by the owner

Being hailed as a hero only to be slandered from a safe distance: what a quintessential retail experience… 

While the people who won't hesitate to yell in your face are always the first ones who come to mind, there is a second type of person who has a deep anger buried deep inside of themselves, yet they remain so conflict averse that they will happily greet you with a smile to your face. It's only once your back is turned that they drive the knife in deep and twist.

When I worked retail, we had a customer experience like this: the guy was insisting on using a payment method that we didn't support, and even when we explained that we'd never been able to accept that method, he refused to relent. Despite this, everything seemed to be well and good, we genuinely tried to be as friendly and supportive as possible, and despite his insistence, there was never a hint of anger or frustration. 

Once he had left, he left us the most barbaric 1-star review, which launched into a tirade about how we had been mocking and cynical toward him. It's the most shocked I ever was by such a review; usually, they were easier to predict than that. To this day, I wonder if my actions and mannerisms were being taken the wrong way.

It turned out he worked for the company that the payment operated through, so the fact that he had gotten it so wrong must have been particularly embarrassing for him.

Back to the matter at hand: This Karen hailed these retail workers as heroes after they caught a fraudulent transaction on their card. Despite the fraudster having everything required to release the product, they refused as they had spotted some red flags. 

For more, check out this: 'Please don't come back': Karen destroyed by business owner after leaving 1-star review

 

'Ex-boss texted me a few days [later]': Boss begs employee to cover shifts after firing them

Being unexpectedly fired from a job has a brutal finality, leaving you feeling lost, with little direction and wondering what will come next. 

Well, as it turns out, sometimes that next thing is your recently-ex boss calling and begging you to cover for your recently-ex coworkers when they go on leave. Why not? You're perfect for the task. Heck, you were doing the job yourself until very recently! From the boss's point of view, it's hard to see how anyone might have an issue with this proposal! 

After their boss had sufficiently rubbed salt in the wound, Redditor u/Ok-Character3000 took to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit to share their experience, detailing the circumstances that led to their firing and the events that took place after. Commenters were dumbfounded and made their thoughts heard, ripping the employer apart.

Read on for the story below. Next, check out this new manager who was made redundant after giving absurd orders.

'Sorry, Ma'am. I can't overrule my boss': Entitled patient insists on ignoring supervisor

Imagine making your own doctor visit longer on purpose. Some people get so convinced that they're right that they just turn off their ears and refuse to hear otherwise!

This person shared their story to r/TalesfromRetail, though it does take place at the doctor's office where the OP and their supervisor worked. The OP shared that their supervisor is quite young, which some patients take to mean that she's not actually a supervisor. 

In the comments, people applauded the petty nature of the story, while other shared their own tales of mistaken customers insisting they're right. Then, this guy sent their boss 119 emails, firing one off every few minutes. Why? Because their boss insisted! 

'AITA for getting a better haircut than my friend?': Woman divides friend group over bizarre accusations that her new hairdo makes her an 'attention seeker'

This friend group sounds utterly exhausting to be around. 

Friend groups can form at any point in life — during high school or college, at an activity you participate in, or even in the workplace. Friendships also evolve over time. Some people just start to rub you the wrong way, or you find that your differences have changed so much that you don't even have anything in common anymore. This person sounds like she's outgrowing her own friend group — they sound petty and exhausting to spend time with! 

In the comments, people advised the OP to find some new people to spend time around. Others noted that it sounds like her friend group might be influencers, and that most people don't act like that. After all, how could she blame her for just influencing her very own decision? 

After that, this safety inspector worked autonomously until a new boss arrived and tried to micromanage them… but not for long. 

'If you don't pay your bills, you don't get to keep your stuff': Credit company serves as petty revenge messenger to man's cheating ex wife; they tow and repossess her car

Karma always seems to find a way, whether it's directly through a person you wrong, or in a roundabout kind of way that is a little less obvious. One man took to r/pettyrevenge to share the time his cheating ex-wife got her car repossessed and towed by a credit company that had been attempting to locate her for quite some time. He had married her young after she had gotten pregnant, and she had continuously cheated on him, to the point where he filed for divorce.

In the divorce, she had asked for their car, which he gladly gave her. Unfortunately for her, she couldn't actually pay for said car, so she was super behind on payments. That's where the credit company comes in… having no idea where she was (she was one busy beaver), they continuously contacted him, until he'd had enough.

Scroll down to read the detailed account of events. And if we've learned anything from this, it's 'don't cheat on people', which should actually just be a given. For more stories like this one, here is a tyrannical boss who told her employee to 'print out the internet' (what?), which the employee did (what again?) — ending up in 2 big stacks of paper that the employee stuffed her boss's room with (some more whattt?).

'I work for my dad': Customer tries to name-drop owner to strong-arm cashier, cashier is owner's son

Anyone who has worked retail or otherwise dealt with customers knows all too well that customers generally will try anything and everything to get their way. This includes (but is not limited to) quoting irrelevant pieces of legislation, being generally aggressive, hurling insults, demanding a manager, and name-dropping the owner (or some other executive.) In the case of name-dropping, if you actually bother to bother the person whose name is being dropped, they'll usually have no idea who the customer is. If they do, their exasperation will reveal exactly how they feel about that customer.

This customer got more than they bargained for when they tried to shame the customer service person they were dealing with and strong-arm them into giving them some parts for free by name-dropping the owner of the business and claiming that the owner would have done the deal so they obviously "Didn't know him.'" Well, the customer service person happened to be the owner's son, so it turns out they knew him pretty well.

This story was shared by Redditor u/eightballwitch on Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit today, where it has received quite the reception. Keep reading to see screenshots of the original Reddit thread. For more, check out this server who let a couple stay late after closing and learned the hard way how entitled they were.