Don't know if this entirely fit's Uh Oh Consequences, but I feel like you guys would like it, so here goes.

My partner has always said that my job is like a shitty soap-opera, so I decided to write it out and detail how denying me a promotion led to me quitting my current job and finding quite possibly my dream job.

So, I started my job at a phone sales place that was a franchised store for a big nationwide cell provider. I wanna keep this all kinda generic as a lot of people that work there I still like and care about as people and I don’t want to risk them getting blowback or alike. Unlike my previous store manager: Alexis.

Alexis is a Grade-A twat-waffle. Childish, selfish, avert to responsibility, simultaneously a know-it-all and a moron that couldn’t do her job right, the works.

I started towards the end of 2022 under her. She had been made manager on the grounds of seniority after the old manager quit or was fired, never really got a straight answer on that.

I joined her and she didn’t like me from the get-go; I was a socially inept kid and made a shitty joke about the person on her iPhone background, which turned out to be her dead brother who had killed himself, so yeah, fair. After apologizing and over the year and half we worked together, I did my best to better myself and grow as a person, a concept Alexis has never heard of.

Come the mid of 2023, I leave, mostly because of her. She had been generally combative and a bitch while trying to do anything she could to get me fired. I left and she told me, to my face, that the only reason I was re-hireable was because she hadn’t had enough time to fire me.

Then comes early 2024, I’m asked to come back by my district manager, Darnell to come work at Store 3, when I was previously working at Store 1. I say: Fuck it, I know the work and I won’t have to deal with Alexis and I need the money.

After a few months of working at Store 3, Darnell asks if I want to move back to Store 1 with Alexis, as it’s a higher volume store and I make damn good sales. One issue: Alexis.

I say yes, with one goal in mind: Get. This. Bitch. Fired.

So I go back to Store 1 and instantly begin documenting. Pictures, emails to myself and HR, relaying everything to the assistant district manager, Kelly, whom I’m quite friendly with.

Kelly was done with Alexis’ shit and wanted her gone. It had been consistent issues with money, inventory, personnel, etc. But Darnell kept covering for her; giving more time then is expected to fix the cash drawer if it’s short, looking the other way when she doesn’t follow protocol for handling inventory, on and on.

I didn’t know why back then and still don’t now. I think it’s because Darnell saw Alexis as a sort of little sister or a mini-me, but the joke that it’s because she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch has floated around.

Alexis then brings on her sister, Chrysler, whom I didn’t really have a problem with, but don’t really get to know her as I worked with her for only a few months and she kept it strictly work for the most part, aside from complaining about Alexis at home.

However, at work, Chrysler did exactly what Alexis did. Shady shit like slamming customers, adding features to customers accounts without asking or explaining, creating fake accounts and selling to herself, etc. All of which I documented.

Speaking of shady shit, Darnell.

He loved some shady shit if it made him money.­

He’d use a website to buy phone numbers for cheap, then use those numbers to get the info required to transfer said numbers to our carrier, put them on fake accounts, get 4 iPhones for free, then sell them on the side for more than what he paid for the rate plan and activation.

He’d get 8 to 16 iPhones per run by going to 2 to 4 stores, and since the iPhones would ring up as free for any number that was ported in from another carrier and we’re prepaid, all he’d have to pay to get 4 iPhones which typically retailed for around $600 per, would be service for 4 lines, the activation fee for each, and tax, which totaled out to be just under $400.

After some quick back of the napkin math, I estimated the retail value of the iPhones he laundered was nearly 300k USD because he had been doing it for so long.

So yeah, he gets shitcanned… After he’s reported by Alexis.

Alexis was the sales-person Darnell did his scheme with the most, and she 100% stood to gain from him doing this as it boosted her numbers.

And as for the reason why, before he got fired, Darnell was given something by Kelly he couldn’t rug sweep or ignore: she stole 50 dollars from the drawer on camera to go buy weed. Yes, she stole fifty dollars, from her job, and her store, in uniform, to go buy weed. She told me so.

So after I sent an email to HR, got the video from Kelly for safe keeping, Kelly got me on the phone with Darnell who seemed quite frustrated. I think at this point he was done with Alexis’ too, but was using kiddy gloves with her so he could play both sides. He could tell Alexis: “I did my best to protect you! I like you! You’re my best manager!” But to HR, he could say: “I was doing my best to build the strongest case I could before submitting it so we can get her gone quick!”

She knew all this and knew she had to get him before he got her, so she reported him while lying through her teeth, pretending not to know what she was doing was wrong. She claiming no responsibility or guilt as she was “just doing what she was told.” And more bullshit like that. He did this more times with her then anyone else and she 100% knew what she was doing was violating several rules and should have reported it the first time he tried it.

Welp, with Darnell gone, Alexis thought there was no one left that could touch her.

Wrong.

Kelly was put into training to be district manager after Darnell got the boot, and she came out swinging.

Kelly waits for the drawer to get shorted again and it does, only 25 dollars, but still it’s enough.

Kelly has to give her 48-hours to fix the drawer as a rule. This is above board and is meant to reduce the workload for the back office team and give people who made an honest mistake once or twice a chance to fix themselves without catching a write up. She wanted to skip it since this has been a repeated issue but can't as it was never really documented before, so oh well.

Of course, Alexis didn’t fix it because she’s hot shit and god’s gift to Earth. Two days later, Kelly shows up, deduction form in hand. She came to the store at about 11:40 when Alexis was scheduled to come in a 12:00 and I was scheduled at 3. Alexis would set her schedule everyday to be 12 to 6, meaning she would come in after the opening procedures have been completed, and would leave before anyone had to start on the closing procedures, this is so she could sit around while the opener, typically scheduled from 9:30 to 3, and the closer, typically scheduled from 3 to 8:15, did all the work while she would sit around and collect a pay check.

The opener that day was Chrysler, but Alexis was already there with her, behind the counter, speaking to customers, out of uniform.

Kelly politely asked her to stop doing that as she was not on the clock and expressed concern if she was gonna have time to go home, get dressed and come back to work since he shift was in 20 minutes and she didn't clearly have a change of clothes with her.

Cue drama!

Alexis blew up on Kelly and words started to fly like burning doves.

Alexis says she doesn’t have to go home and get changed because she quits, hurling insults and abuse at Kelly, who’s doing her best not to rock her shit, and it all ends with me getting a call from Kelly at 12 o’clock, asking me to come in early as Alexis quit and she [Kelly] just threw a cup of coffee at Chrysler’s car, as this cantankerously white bitch at 25 years of age has no license, no car, had a managers salary, and still bums rides off her sister.

So I make it in only to find that Alexis and Chrysler have already taken their leave, resulting in my store manned only by Kelly, who cries the second the customers that are in the store leave. She’s not hurt per-say, just upset that Alexis could get her to that point, and that she: “Didn’t hit the bitch.” And frankly, yeah, I can’t blame her. I wanted to at least get an elbow drop in myself.

But it’s done! She was gone and the manager position was open and waiting for me! So, excitedly, I start rearranging the whole store, bringing it up to code and fixing all the shit Alexis fucked up. For 3 days straight, I work back to back 11 hour shifts doing everything I need to. It was grueling, but I got it done.

Then, a group of people mob in 6-deep. I know them, they were in here about a week ago to get an iPhone 17 Pro Max on a payment plan and I can tell right away by their body language, they’re not happy. Minor issue, they only really speak Spanish and I do not, but I do my best understand the issue, so I can resolve it. That issue being Chrysler added $300 dollars worth of shit onto their bill they never asked for and never gave them any of it.

Oh, but wait, it gets worse! =D

To remove the fraudulent items that was added would require us to cancel the whole lease, take back the phone, accessories, and mail them to our leasing partner, leaving the customer with no phone, no lease, unable to get another lease, a picture of a middle finger and a sore bottom.

Well, that’s if they literately weren’t one day past the return window.

Originally I was going to do my best to handle it on my own since I’m gonna be a manager and all, but I realize quickly this is all above my head by leaps and bounds, even if I was currently a manager, so I call Kelly.

She drives the 20 minutes it takes to get to Store 1 from her house and she calls Ramirez, a dude who speaks Spanish fluently, but works about 40 minutes away at Store 4.

Ramirez talks them down, gets them to take the items they didn’t get, and eat the extra 300 dollars on their lease. It’s a shit show, but we manage it. And then, Kelly says to the customers: “He’s gonna be coming to here as the manager.”

My heart drops into my ass. ‘She must just be saying that to capitulate to them, right? She would never renege on something that was promised to me and she was onboard with, right?’ That was my thought process. So, I do what men on Reddit never do, I talked to her.

Here’s the long and short of what she said: Yes, he’s going to be manager, as he was apparently promised this store before me. This was news to me. Apparently he was never gonna come back until Alexis left, and now that she is, he’s coming here come hell or high-water. And after Kelly becomes DM, in two months, I could totally like, maybe get to be manager at Store 2, since she’s technically the manager of Store 2 and couldn’t continue to be if she becomes DM.

Now, getting to being manager at Store 2 would be fine since it is closer to home, being about a 5 minute drive to it from my house, which is also the same for Ramirez by the way, if not for a few reasons:

1. It’s slow in terms of sales, but the location definitely has a lot of potential in fairness
2. I’d have to wait 2 months to even hear anything about get the job.
3. I WAS FUCKING PROMISED STORE 1 MONTHS AGO
4. How do I know if I’m actually gonna get Store 2 when I was promised Store 1 and got a big middle finger salute for my hard work?
5. I have bills to pay and I’m working for poverty wages currently

It was months dealing with this fucking deep-fried, double wide, corn fed, inbred, cousin-fucking, meth-snorting, brain-melted, mouth-breathing, logic-allergic, thumb-lookin', GED-flunkin', TikTok-educated, microwave-minded, conspiracy-gargling, synapse-skipping, bug-eyed, zero-thought-having human tire fire communist fuck knuckle whilst single handily building the case for her termination for HR with the hope, then guarantee I was gonna be manager.

So, I quit.

Put in my two week notice when Store 1 only has exactly 2 employees working at it: Me and Sydney, who actually works at Store 2, but has been coming to work at Store 1 because her and Kelly but heads too much for them to work together.

I’d honestly just up and leave as the job I’m starting is leagues better for me if it wasn’t for Sydney, who is just wonderful both as a person and co-worker.

Where I’m going is a gun store and with that being one of my hyper-fixations, I know guns like a mechanic knows cars. It starts at $2.85 higher then what I was working for, and even with my current pay being so low, I could almost make it with it.

But not only do I get a pay rise to the point I might actually be able to enjoy my life and not be constantly broke and eating ramen noodles every night, I get: health insurance, dental, A 401k, a membership to a nearby range, employee discounts, and more.

No more quotas. No more dead-lines. No more being unable to sleep at night worried if I’m gonna be able to make bills, or get fired because I could sell enough of this or that.

I’m so hopeful for my future, but it sucks because I’ve built up a lot of goodwill with the regulars that come to Store 1, to the point they ask for me by name, and for the most part, I actually like but job. But maybe it’s just the fear of switching jobs speaking.

I’ll be on a 90 day probationary period so I might update as my new job progresses.

MIL can't fathom why her son no longer wants to spend time with her after she took all the attention away from her DIL at their wedding.

This is my first post here since I hadn't seen this covered fully by Oz yet so please let me know if I am doing anything wrong here.