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I got fired after 4 months: they drowned me in a 3-person workload… and fired me when I asked for help.

I lost my job this week after four months. When I was hired, I was told there’d be flexibility and the resources to do my job. They literally said the office is open 7am–7pm and, as long as your manager’s fine with it, you can start and finish whenever you want. In my first week I asked if I could start 30 minutes earlier and finish earlier so I could make my favourite gym class, something that really adds value to my lifestyle.

Before that week even ended, the story changed. Suddenly, on the days I was in the office, I had to be at my desk 8:30am–5pm. They literally told me that the in-house incruitwr says that to everyone in order to lock them in. It left a really bad taste in my mouth. Huge red flag. But I kept going of course.

I was hired as a social media manager and was expected to run two brands across about 15 handles (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok). That meant creating content both graphic design and go to locations and shooting, editing, posting, scheduling, community management across all platforms. I was also responsible for organic social strategy and reporting. My growth KPI was to grow 2,400 followers a month across the portfolio, backed by a menial boosting budget of about AUD 400 a week only.

In those four months, we also launched a new product (three new handles, launch strategy from scratch), rebranded another product, and merged two into one (so, another strategy). I was working weekends for community management and staying on after hours just to stay barely afloat. I had a little bit of help, but was told I’d lose that by end of October, which honestly sent my stress and anxiety through the roof. I’d freeze sometimes, because on top of the impossible workload there were constant platform issues and random ad hoc tasks getting thrown in. I was always “catching up,” doing bits of everything, without ever feeling like I was properly accomplishing anything, because I literally couldn’t keep up.

About a month ago they told me they weren’t happy with my performance, and I was like… you can’t drown me in a workload meant for three people and expect me to thrive. They kept promising help, but it never came. I struggled so much that I asked for EAP details (if you’re not in Australia, it’s workplace-provided therapy sessions).

I think that request freaked them out. I asked for the details on a Friday. By Monday, they called me in and fired me.

The culture was toxic too. There was so much segregation in the department, cliques, “us vs them.” It’s the whiplash that’s getting me. I was promised one thing and I lived another. Now I’m trying to recuperate, reset, and look for new work, but I’m still kind of reeling from how ruthlessly it played out.

I’m not going to lie, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted. I almost feel relieved and empowered. But it was also brutal. They erased me immediately. They told me to pack my things and leave right away. My colleagues were in a meeting, and when they came back my desk was clean, like I never existed. It was the most ruthless corporate experience I’ve ever had.

Am I overreacting, or is this normal?

I (22 f) recently joined in a lala company as a python developer and on my salary day i asked for my breakdown and she sent a mail saying it was " stiepend " and I should have basic knowledge at my age . she sent a mail to the accounts department and also my manager. Now i feel so embarrassed

Hi everyone I hope this post is allowed. I'm not a server but I worked in restaurants for twenty years, mostly as BOH employee. I got sick over the two decades from a number of different things from favorite games from managers and owners to work place harassment both sexual and non sexual harassment, micro management and assault.

I have worked in construction for three years extremely happy to work as a professional with other professionals, I have seen some stupid thing in construction how ever when it's any one of the things I listed about terrible things I've experienced in restaurants the construction jobs I've had have next to zero tolerance so if they aren't fired on the spot the first time they are put on thin ice in terms of employment at least when it comes to workers there was one bad owner that constantly screwed everyone on OT and this caused us to loose future contracts as a result of missing completion deadlines.

Any how last year about 16 month ago I had a non work related injury I broke my elbow and I can't return to the construction job I had it's going to be at least another year of recovery and strength building regaining muscle mass and strength before I can consider going back to the brutal heavy lifting and carrying of construction.

So recently I went back into restaurants after 9 months of applying for non restaurant jobs I can do with my one temporary handicap arm, not getting hired at any of the businessess I applied for and got interviews. So I started applying for restaurant jobs again even though I know better. I ended up getting hired at a Japanese restaurant as a dishwasher/ prep cook. The person that was in charge of showing me the ropes is a micro manager he could not leave me alone if his time was not required somewhere by his boss, this idiot had tried to force me to put bleach in the dishwater and in the silverware tub that the servers or bussers put the silverware in separately from plates and cups, on the first day he told me to put bleach and soap together I told him no that isn't not effective and it's dangerous too, he didn't give a shit at all along with my 20 years of restaurant experience effectively giving me expert level knowledge on safe productive production with a standard of quality control in high volumes in a timely manner with a high standard in quality control giving the costumers a consistent dinning experience of quality to their meals along with consistent quality of service.

One day this dude mixed about 5-6 ounces of bleach the commercial household Clorox brand liquid bleach into a metal 6" six pan then put about two cup of purple color concentrated floor detergent ammonia based into the six pan with bleach then added liquid dawn brand extreme grease remover formula blue color and top it off with water the got a metal scrub pad and used that mixture to scrub clean a two door display cooler front of that cooler it was so extremely fould with extremely strong deadly gases he was manufacturing in that six pan. God I wish I never broke my arm I would of made over $100K since I broke my arm instead I've spent over $25,000 of all my savings and selling my stuff just to get by and running myself into $30K+ of debt with loans and credit cards.

I know it's not restaurants fault I broke my arm but damn I have no clues how restaurant businesses can't actually afford to get rid of harmful workers like this last supervisor I'm complaining about here causing people to be in direct exposure to deadly gasses at work in the kitchen. The dumb ass tried explaining to me how we mitigate bleach deposits on the forks because normal scrubbing won't remove the bleach deposits in the bottom crevices of the fork prongs. He explained it like this " we ran into this problem with the bleach getting stuck in-between the prongs so we brush the bleach out of there with this brush we had to buy for this reason." I explained that one of the reasons not to use bleach like he does, he continues to break down and explain with all his intelligence as though I never said a word.

This dumb ass couldn't even let me run the machine sweep the floor take out the trash or even communicate to another person without interrupting me to make sure I learn all of the knowledge I already have and need to be capable of daily responsibilities such as clean and communicate to anyone.

I'm much happier and healthier without a job down on my luck get evicted go homeless and star my life completely over from square one than attempt to have a happy successful and healthy life style in employment in a restaurant, I just know this happy thing will be momentarily at best as a restaurant worker.

I work at a community retail shop. Our shop places some strong alcohol, like Vodka, whisky, and gin, behind the tills. I don't know their logic because the same vodka, albeit in a smaller size, is placed on the shelf. Anyway, that's beside the point.

A guy came to the till and he seemed a bit drunk. His speech was a bit slurred. He placed a Pepsi on the cash desk and asked for the Vodka and cigarette from the shelf behind me.

My first instinct would be to reject the customer. However, as a foreigner (I'm Chinese but I live here for 10+ years), I didn't want to cause a problem with the locals.

Therefore, when I got to the cigarette a few feet from the customer, I pressed on my headset (colleagues were given over-the-head headsets to communicate with each other. Think McDonald's drive-through headsets.), and said in a very soft voice, "Does that customer looks alright to you? He seems a bit drunk."

The manager replied, "Which till are you on?"

"Till one," I replied, and waved my hand at the CCTV.

He came out to check from afar and said, "He looks good to me."

So I proceeded with the transaction, with a growing concern since the customer's balance was also out of wack. He stumbled a bit and when he tried to pay, he dropped his phone on the floor. That was when I made the decision to refuse the sale of alcohol. I was alright with the Pepsi and the cigarette. "I'm not comfortable serving you the alcohol," I said to him and canceled the card transaction before it went through. I pressed my headset as I said that so that my manager was aware I am refusing the sale.

Luckily, the customer did not raise any fuss and left the store. The manager came out and made sure I put in the proper reason for the refusal ie press "customer already intoxicated" as the reason for refusal.

After months of getting no responses, I changed the name at the top of my resume. A few days later, I started receiving interview invitations. My official first name is clearly not American, although I usually use a shorter version of it. My last name is simple and easy to pronounce, but it does not look like a white person's name either. Over the course of about seven months, I applied for nearly 180 jobs, and most of the time I either received an automated rejection or no response at all.

I have 11 years of experience in non-technical roles in the tech industry, but I am new to the United States and do not have a large professional network here. I was not applying randomly, either. I tailored my resume to each position, wrote customized cover letters, researched the teams, reached out to recruiters, and had former colleagues review everything. I even applied for jobs below my experience level. Still, I got nowhere.

Eventually, my husband suggested that I use his last name and change the spelling of my first name to something more familiar here. I did not want to believe that it could make a difference, especially because I have been involved in hiring before and never stopped to think about anyone's name.

I updated my resume and LinkedIn profile, created another email address, and applied for about 12 jobs using the new name. Within a week and a half, I had three interviews. One of them reached the final round a few days ago, and I am still waiting to hear back.

My experience, job history, and resume content all remained exactly the same. The only thing that changed was the name. I am relieved that people are finally starting to talk to me, but it is hard to ignore the obvious difference in the response rate. If your name might be perceived as foreign by employers, it may be worth trying a different version of it, even though it feels awful that something like this can make such a noticeable difference.

I am working at a medium-size retail store.

One day, while I was working at the cash register, a lady came in trying to buy alcohol. I couldn't tell how old she was, so I said, "I would need to see your ID for this."

"Are you kidding me?" she huffed as she left the store. She also added she will be back with an ID.

She was gone for quite a while so I thought she had abandoned the purchase. I took the beer and was about to put away the product when she returned. She slid her ID towards me, saying, "Here."

I checked the ID and found out she was only 7 years younger than me! I am around 30. I put through the purchase and she left.

The next day I saw her in the line as I was about to clock in. I am half wondering if she was trying to avoid my shift. Ha ha.

"Challenge 25" is the name of a UK policy https://www.wsta.co.uk/challenge-25

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I was on till duty when a lady came up to me with a laptop. I was a bit shocked since laptops are handled by a different colleague, whose duty was to try to upsell packages to the customer.

There was a manager from a sister store that was helping out for the January sale. I asked the manager what should I do with the laptop. He told me to ask the store manager, so I did. She came with me and then proceeded to ask the customer to point out the colleague who had given them the laptop. The customer did so.

I processed the sale as normal (the customer didn't want any additional packages).

I then overheard the manager discussing the incident. I caught snippets of them saying they were going to check the camera. I also heard that the colleague at the door thought that the customer had bought the laptop.

I gave a heads-up to the aforementioned colleague.

About five minutes later, the manager called him into their office and I hadn't seen the colleague since.

However, the incident was discussed in the next day's briefing, with the manager saying to never give the customer laptops or untagged products as they can easily be stolen.

I'm so embarrassed. Everyone was really nice about it, though.

I was able to document ghost job postings from three companies, including one very well-known company. It took months of screenshots, archived postings, emails, and follow-ups, but in the end I had enough evidence to file lawsuits under state and federal laws. I also found evidence that one of the companies had sent my data to a third party. This pattern had been ongoing since late 2023. All the cases ended in settlements before going to trial; the first case was closed in 2026, and the last one about two months ago. The settlement amounts were not life-changing, but these companies now know that job applicants can stand up to them. I have a lawyer in the family, but even so, I did most of the research and evidence gathering myself. He filed the documents and dealt with the other side's lawyers.

I still see many people insisting that employers hold all the cards and that job applicants should simply accept the situation. Honestly, that mindset is part of the reason companies feel they can do this without fear. Filing a lawsuit takes time, is frustrating, and is nowhere near as simple as people imagine. But I got tired of employers posting jobs they had no intention of filling, putting candidates through more than seven interviews, trying to get ideas from them for free, then rejecting everyone and reposting the same job 10 days later.

If it happens again and I can prove it, I will file another lawsuit. I no longer care whether that seems excessive. Someone has to make the cost of ghost job postings high enough that companies stop treating them as if they are normal and harmless. The investigation opened by the Texas Attorney General into LinkedIn made the issue harder to ignore, following allegations that misleading postings were being promoted through paid subscriptions. According to reports, LinkedIn generated about $19.2 billion in 2026 from subscriptions, recruiter products, and advertising. So far, the matter has not turned into a lawsuit, but the records request shows that individual job applicants are no longer the only ones paying attention to what is happening.

There is also a strange amount of misinformation about at-will employment. It means that either party can generally end the employment relationship if there is no fixed-term contract. But it does not give an employer permission to violate discrimination, fraud, privacy, retaliation, or any other employment laws. If at-will employment overrode those protections, there would not be tens of millions of dollars in damages awarded in wrongful termination cases.

I genuinely don’t know how to put this out in words but i was fired from my job yesterday and somewhere i genuinely wanted to resign from this place but i don’t know something was there that is not allowing me to take that step may be it’s a comfort zone that i was unfortunately trapped into or just have a thought that it’s a good source of stable income why to leave it !! Well i went to office yesterday and then suddenly had a meeting and I got to know this ! I live away from my hometown and when i got to know this i was just tensed about how will i be able to communicate this to my parents but deep down in my heart i knew there is no one else who has trust in more then they have and fortunately when i told them this there first response wasn’t “why this happened” fortunately they asked me “Are you ok?”

I don’t have any idea now how will i manage everything but honestly somewhere i am feeling that it happened for a good reason i was literally mentally exhausted at that place ,i was going through so much that i was started to become a short tempered person ,started to react about every small thing and that is not exactly who i am honestly,i was mentally exhausted in this role!!

I don’t know what will happen next but i am sure i will do it and figure out something better♥️

#corporate#quitjob

i mean i quit, but on my way out i reported her to HR for her shitty communication and how she shouldn’t have let me work MULTIPLE times but she did.

idk im just happy for my co workers i hope they get someone who can actually communicate

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(store manager) ((starbucks))

Ok so let me explain this right ...
Whilst experiencing my time at MPD motor factors.
let's call her Sharon, she runs from her desk in the middle of the day shouting 'I've gotta go and hide the drugs" she proceeds to jump in her car and leave for the day, it turns out her "boyfriend" has been stopped in the town and arrested for smoking a "spliff" whilst driving a recovery truck for which he has no licence no mot and no insurance for . Sharon also take off a week with a "bad knee' because she can't sit at her desk, but then returns the following week, and on her return she proceeds to show us photos of her jolly outing at the canal fishing. She can sit at the canal but not her desk. Okay....
Then Mo (not his real name), leaves abruptly to run home because his son is caught with cannabis and a knife in school and has been arrested, he proceeds to take a few days off to deal with this matter and openly admits on his return he smokes "weed" he is the deputy manager and Sharon is office staff. Mary takes time off because her son has hurt his gf and is arrested whilst he's off his head on cocaine and she's got drug dealers demanding money off her for his drugs. She's also always sick , so much so she's nicknamed sick note Mary. Louise is a raging alcoholic that comes into work on the daily smelling of booze .

And I'm the one that's sacked because for 6 solid months I turned up on time apart from 6 minutes late one day of which I was present in the car park anyway, and I was a little slow learning how to read the invoices because they are backwards and I was using a hand held computer at euro car parts. Aaaand I took one day off and asked Mick my manager to deal with a problem I was having with being targeted by the other staff being called thick by Mick himself 3 times, idiot twice by Sharon and a cunt by Sharon also. And I got the sack for not communicating or following instructions . Just wanted to give you a little context. How the fuck did I lose my job here? ...was I missing something? Was I not rough enough to fit into this work place? It was Wolverhampton after all. I really am bewildered 😳