This Story Proves Why You Shouldn’t Threaten to Fire a Work Who Is Already Going to Quit

You want some advice?

If you know an employee is going to leave, don’t make them want to leave even earlier than their planned exit.

But some people never learn…

Take a look at this story about a grocery store worker who got pushed to the edge…

Threaten my job when I’m already quitting? Have fun with no workers.

“I work at a well know huge grocery store in the bakery/deli.

I’ve been in the general area now for 3 years, been in management and recently stepped down this year to focus on college. In early July I turned in my letter of resignation letting them know that August 13th would be my last day.

It’s now about mid July now and we’ve got an audit going on. Basically everything has to be perfect, they ask you questions about your job, everything has to be on code etc.

Up till this point we’ve been having an issue with staffing because instead of hiring employees full-time they hire everyone part time, I am the only full time employee in my department. Because of this, there’s never enough people to work and they’ll schedule 4 people working 3 or 4 hour shifts one night and then the next one person will be closing alone the entire night, usually me.

I’m fine with that, I enjoy working alone but this night was extra stressful with all the extra work I had to do because of the audit.

I was all alone the night in question, and working a shorter shift than usual. We tend to close the deli around 8 p.m and have 2 hours to clean up. I was scheduled till 8:30 p.m and spoke to my managers about it and got permission to close at 5 so I could take a lunch break and have 2 hours to close up. My managers also said that I would be sent someone around 7:30 p.m to help me close on time.

Around 7 p.m a woman comes up to the meat slicers asking for some sliced meet, I tell her I’m sorry but we are closed for the night. She b**ches me out for a moment, complains that she comes here every other night and we are always open and I explain to her that we are low on staffing and I’ve already cleaned the slicers for the night and she leaves.

About 5 to 10 minutes later my assistant manager walks up and asked me what the problem was. She had gone to management and demanded we slice her the meat. I explained the situation and his response was to berate me for closing the deli down early and tell me to help her and just clean it again. “Just stop being difficult.” Is what he said.

After slicing her some meat we ended up being out of a different kind and she walked out of the store leaving everything behind and meaning I had created more cleaning for nothing. I was pi**ed.

I took a walk to cool down and went to find my buddy who was supposed to come over at 7:30 p.m and ask when he was coming over. When I found him he told me he wouldn’t be able to come over because the assistant manager had come over and given him a long list of stuff to do for the rest of the night.

That pi**ed me off even more.

I found the assistant manager and was like dude wtf and reiterated that I was leaving at 8:30 p.m and needed assistance and he told me to once again stop being difficult and just to get it all done. I told him there was no way I was getting it done in time and said that my schedule says I leave at 8:30 so I’m leaving at 8:30, regardless of how much is left to do.

I guess he hadn’t gotten the memo that I was quitting soon and so, in response, he tells me that if I can’t do my job well enough that maybe I should start looking for another job. That was my breaking point.

After 3 years of working with s**tty management and their backward ways I decided I didn’t need to do it anymore.

I told him ok, found some of my favorite coworkers and told them goodbye and it was nice working with them and walked out. Haven’t gone back since.

They failed their audit, 6 other employees in my general area quit shortly after time due to most of them traveling out for college. The rest are planning on leaving as well. As far as I know the entire area is f**ked up. Hope the manager got his a** chewed out but I doubt it.

I’ve reported some of the managers there for serious issues (telling me they were too busy to help women whos lives were being threatened in store, retaliation, threatening to fire people if they didn’t work overtime causing someone to lose Medicare and ration their insulin and be hospitalized for a few weeks) and they never went anywhere.

F**k that place.”