Sunday, February 14, 2021

Employee Walks Out, Gets a Promotion


After dealing with a nightmare manager trying to force an impossible shift, this employee just said screw it and went home. Luckily, someone else saw the situation for what it was and actually made things right. It's rare but sometimes a higher up is actually sensible, like this cool CEO who fired a VP who pulled rank.

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Text - Posted by u/SGCanadian 17 hours ago Gets fired, ends up with promotion instead oc L This story comes from when I used to work for a global big box store that may or may not start with a "W". As an aside they also aren't known for how well they treat staff either... TL;DR at bottom. At the time this happened I worked in the store room unloading trucks and bringing stock to the floor to be stocked by the overnight crew. Our shift at the time was 330pm-12am. Our store manager made it clear t

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Text - I knew this night was going to be bad the moment I arrived. We had 6 workers scheduled, yet 2 called in sick including the shift lead. This meant that I was put in charge as I had the most experience and the dayshift managers all loved me cause I worked my butt off. I then checked our delivery scheduled and it showed 2 semi trucks both with over 2000 items each that needed to be unloaded. In addition to another truck that was expected to have 20+ pallets of stock. This meant we had over 4

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Text - Needless to say the shift sucked. We didnt get our first break until almost 10pm. And around 7pm the system dropped about 350 items that needed to be scanned out of the overstock bins (and there were almost 200 bins we would need to search for this stuff. As the shift lead the fact we were so behind was my fault. Definitely didn't have anything to do with being overworked with unachievable time targets. So the overnight managers arrived at 1030pm and one of them went ballistic and yelled

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Text - So here's where the compliance comes in (to a point). 12am comes around and the manager refuses to let us leave (doors get locked with keys only managers have and alarms are set). One of the 4 of us is a college student and has an exam at 8am so they let him go. 1230am rolls around and we start to leave, again not allowed to leave by manager. Keep in mind overtime is not allowed, and after 1230 we were in overtime. One of the 3 remaining of my crew has childcare issues so they let him lea

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Text - Manager: Where are you going? Are you done? Me: Nope. Still about 20 pallets to go out and about 80 overstock items to be picked from the bins. Manager: Go back and finish, you can't leave. Me: I'm already 2.5 hours into O/T, I'm going home. Manager: Do we need to go into the office and talk about your poor attitude and lack of work ethic? Me (pissed off at this point): Screw you Manager, I'm going home. Manager: Don't come back, you're fired. Me: Have fun exppaining to Store Manager why

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Text - I then left and went home. About 5ish hours later (8am), I get a phone call from the store. It's the Store Manager and he wants to talk to me. Can I come in for a meeting at noon? I say sure I'll be there. I get to the store just before noon and get escorted into the Store Managers office by one of the Day Managers. SM: I hear you had some overtime last night. Care to explain why? Me: Explains everything that happened above. SM: So you left at 3am? Me: Yes. SM: And Manager said you were f

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Text - SM: He isn't allowed to do that. What you told me matches what the other night manager said happened. As a result Manager is being moved to dayshift for retraining. You also are not fired. We need a new overnight stock room lead, and I'd like to offer it to you. It comes with a $1/hr nightshift bonus, and a $1/hr raise. Me: I'll take it! (I had been trying for this position anyway). When do I start? SM: You start tomorrow night if you want.

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Text - Me: Great, thank you Store Manager. I then went home and told my family who were quite happy with the turn out. Especially my mom who also worked at the store and was rather pissed about what happened. TL;DR Over Night manager forces me to work overtime, contrary to company policy. Fires me when I leave because I'm fed up. Store manager moves Night manager to dayshift to be retrained. Store Manager blocks me being fired. I get moved to nightshift and promoted to Overnight Stockroom Lead w

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