Adam Chromý's Blog, page 25

Please fire me. I worked at my job for over ten years. My mother was dying from cancer and both my...

Please fire me. I worked at my job for over ten years.  My mother was dying from cancer and both my boss said, “I hope you will inherit enough to quit,” and my coworker added, “Then I can get your job.”

Please fire me. My female manager was going around telling all the employees, “If I’m bitchy today...

Please fire me. My female manager was going around telling all the employees, “If I’m bitchy today it’s because I’m on my period.” 

Please fire me. I work at a drugstore. I keep a coupon folder under my register and offer to use...

Please fire me. I work at a drugstore. I keep a coupon folder under my register and offer to use coupons whenever customers make purchases that I know I have coupons for. I live in a military town and figured this was a small way I could give back to service members who don’t make much. I’ve saved some customers as much as 50-75% on their purchases. Over the three years I’ve been doing this, I’ve received 26 calls to corporate by customers thanking me for doing this. I have not received any incentive or reward for doing this, but I do it because I want to.

Last week a regular customer, who I regularly apply coupons to her weekly purchases, came in and made a $12 purchase. I had no coupons for her items. She called corporate and complained because I did not offer her any coupons. I was counseled for an hour by my manager and also received a 20 minute lecture from my district manager, and am now under consideration for disciplinary review. I may lose my job for not having had any coupons to save this woman money on a $12 purchase. 

I was also told to stop offering coupons to other customers because of this. 

Red band trailer for “Unfinished Business.”What...

Red band trailer for “Unfinished Business.”

What would you do after you got fired or quit?

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Please fire me. I took it upon myself to be proactive and request my paid vacation so my wife, my...

Please fire me. I took it upon myself to be proactive and request my paid vacation so my wife, my newborn son and I can visit family for Thanksgiving. Because of a management change the request I made 2 MONTHS ago was never processed and therefore not approved. The closest family we have is about 8 hours away and can’t do anything now.

Please fire me. When on my lunch break, my manager insisted that I “stop reading that trash” (George...

Please fire me. When on my lunch break, my manager insisted that I “stop reading that trash” (George Orwell’s 1984) so I could “focus on my real job” which was frying chicken.

Please fire me. My supervisor told a temporary coworker to cover my ten minute break. When I came...

Please fire me. My supervisor told a temporary coworker to cover my ten minute break. When I came back, I saw a customer walking out with 3 xbox ones that he didn’t pay for, because the temp gave them to him without ringing them up first. I was blamed by the boss the next day, “you told a temp to cover your break, are you insane?!” When I explained that my shift supervisor was responsible, she denied all responsibility.

Please fire me. My boss yells at me for not doing her job for her when she turns up drunk. I am a...

Please fire me. My boss yells at me for not doing her job for her when she turns up drunk. I am a support worker for mental health. 

Please fire me. My boss has just finished teaching an improvized Blowjob 101 seminar - complete...

Please fire me. My boss has just finished teaching an improvized Blowjob 101 seminar - complete with drawings, I kid you not - in the kitchen area. All I did was ask for a straw for my soda.

Please fire me. A customer made a scene in front of my boss and co-workers about how she “lost all...

Please fire me. A customer made a scene in front of my boss and co-workers about how she “lost all faith in our store ad will never shop with us again” because she found ONE of the 4 items she bought from us for $3 cheaper at another place. It was my first week there.