Article created by: Vėja Elkimavičiūtė
The only thing worse than a toxic workplace is staying in a toxic workplace, but like frogs in boiling water, we often don’t notice the “heat” until someone points it out or, finally, some final incident pushes us over the edge.
So one person asked the internet to share the reason they left or were fired from their last job. From idiotic management to unsafe working conditions, netizens responded with a host of stories. We also got in touch with career coach Daphne Gomez to learn more. So get comfortable, pour yourself another cup of coffee, and get scrolling. Be sure to comment your thoughts and upvote your favorites.
I got my dream job the following week.
Started a job as security for a gate at a nuclear power plant, enjoyed it, was working 40 hours a week. Showed up every day, didn’t complain. Then they fire 3 people for no reason and make me start working 80 hours a week mandatory. I was making tons of money but was struggling to find time to buy groceries since I worked until late at night.
Boss starts micromanaging every little thing while I’m working 16 hr days. Then they wanted me to start training people, said I’d get a 2 dollar an hour raise for doing it, that never happened. Then I had some car issues and I couldn’t come in one day. I had to go to Autozone and buy a replacement part. I got the problem solved and was good to go the next day. I never missed a day in six months. My boss called every car shop in town (allegedly), and said that I was lying. I bring the part that I replaced in to show her. She says that’s not enough proof and that no one in town said they sold me that part. She wrote me up and then said I might be fired or I might not, and I’ll know at the end of the week. I said okay and she asked me if I was coming in tomorrow morning and I said sure.
Next day I slept in and never showed up, apparently there were trucks backed all the way up the road for 4 hours since I didn’t show up to open the gate. Boss texts me saying I’ll be criminally charged for not showing, I just ignored it so she called me everyday for about a week. I never answered. Found out later that she went on a power trip and fired the people I trained because I “taught them wrong” then replaced them with her relatives. This is the person guarding your energy infrastructure America!
Change in management. First day on the job, new manager said “what is it that you do all day, because nothing ever seems to get done”
Should have taken the 6 weeks of holidays that I was owed that day but didn’t.
Within a year of my finally leaving, I was replaced by 4 people
I took early retirement to get away from the micromanagement that was endemic throughout the company from the top down. I now work part-time for a lot less money, but somewhere where I’m appreciated and looked after. My mental and physical health has improved beyond measure.
My father was hired in the same company.
When on working sites he talked to me like his ”kid” and spoke to other people about me like i was still a child…
It ruined every single relationship i had with other workers, i was looked on as a child when i was 20 years old, all respect from the boss was down the drain and i just had no voice anymore…
I had to go..
Father of the year
Use to never understand people when they said “new manager so I left”. Use to think they were overreacting.
Last job I quit because new management. Now I understand what they were saying.
I was teaching high school social studies. Had a difficult heart episode (had previous heart attack) and my friends at school who visited every day in the ICU, convinced me it was time to retire. That was 4 years ago. They were right. I love being retired.
I was a teacher. My vice principal yelled in my face in front of a student. A combination of other factors had built up over time and made me hate teaching, but that was the straw that broke my back at that place. After that, I walked down to the principal’s office and told him I intended to resign.
Right now, I’m in the process of changing careers, but I’m far happier than I was as a teacher. I’m glad I left when I did.
My last employer, of 32 years, had shrunk from 3,000 employees to ~200. I’d earned above average reviews for many years, then my boss gave me a below average one. That was the writing on the wall for me. Things were getting worse and worse, bad attitudes all around. I just got fed up, gave my two weeks notice. I’d told them for years that they’d miss me when I was gone. Well, I left, they started calling, asking me to come back. Sorry! I’m retired.
Boss reduced employee salaries 30%, all but his wife and kid, who also worked for the company. That was after taking his extended family on a 12 day vacation.
Had a Zoom meeting in which I was told that my department’s work was eventually going to be outsourced to India. They said “it could be six months from now, it could be a year, it could be two years,” and offered me a buy-out if I didn’t want to wait, so I jumped.
The other esthetician constantly left the room, products, brushes, etc absolutely disgusting. All brushes and products should be sanitized and wiped down after every single client. She would also come in blasted off of whatever pills she decided to take that day. Police followed her once. Boss wouldn’t fire her bc she didn’t want to get audited again by the IRS since she committed tax fraud during Covid. Not losing my license over a trashcan of a spa and incompetence
The site supervisor asked me to fraudulently sign training documents for an upcoming audit from corporate because nobody knew how to do their job.
I was burning myself out and losing my mind when they brought in a new system and what would have taken me 5mins to do on the old system now took me an hour. Department was understaffed and when I asked to get more help they refused. Needless to say, I left and they hired seven people to replace me.
Was being scheduled literally 13 hours a week. Most days I’d come in at 930 and leave at 11. Brought up to my service manager multiple times “ hey you only gave me one shift this week. Can’t afford daycare with only one shift” he’d say he forgot and sometimes give me a pity shift. Went to the GM she did nothing. I was tired of doing them the favor of coming in to open (cause they didn’t want to) and then not being given any serving shifts in return
My janitorial job was easy enough before and even going into the pandemic, but once they had to fire another dude for refusing to get vaccinated, they gave me a good portion of his job on top of what I already was doing, and didn’t seem to feel like replacing him. I was struggling to keep up.
On top of this, I requested off to visit friends for Christmas and they waited until the last minute to give me a yes or no, making my plane ticket cost a lot more than it needed to. That was kind of my last straw among a bunch of other things.
I should add that I had to fight for the right to quarantine during the time when we didn’t have a vaccination ready, and people in close contact with covid positive people like myself were being given an automatic recommendation to take a week or so of (I forget the exact number). Their stance was if I’m not personally testing positive, I would be fired for not showing up. no exceptions. I was just trying to be safe, for myself and others.
I had to get the state involved to even get them to allow it.
In addition to that, my boss had a history of lying, framing people to make them look like they were doing worse than they were, I could name a bunch of others that quit for the same reason. I didn’t want to quit, parts of my job was almost too easy, but she crossed the line a few too many times with me to stay.
I told a regular customer who always acts like an idiot exactly what I thought of him. Unfortunately it turns out he is an investor in that business. I was sick of that job anyway. Just got a higher paid one closer to my house. I actually saw him today. As soon as he saw me he scuttled off to drink somewhere else.
They wanted me to send all my private information through Gmail. Just in a regular email. No security measures, no contract for pay, nothing. So I started doubting if they were real. Go out to the place where they were located. Owner yells at me and starts cussing me out. I said stop this and walked out. They were super shocked.
I was unappreciated. My boss would only seem to critique us. Never any appreciation. He’d leave for a weekend vacation and come back complaining about something we didn’t do. While we were spending the entire weekend doing something he asked to make sure was done, and still helped customers, and one of the days was on the higher end for sales. I also worked there for three years and never got a raise. He also asked me to take on more responsibility, but never told me specifically how to do that.
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