30 Events That Made Everyone Quit Their Jobs At Once.
Job experiences so bad, all the staff walked out at once.
Published 2 years ago
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Boss man told workers hell fire them for discussing wages, someone left a copy of the federal law protecting our rights to discuss wages on his desk, he gathered everyone into his office where he pinned the papers to a wall and shot them with his shotgun and then says anyone who discusses wages will be next. Wel all left and someone called the anonymous police line about a shooting at the place.
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One big team which worked extra shifts and extra long days in the corona times. Government declared a bonus for the personnel. Some got it and others didn't while having the same contracts, responsibilities and also did overtime go help the company. No explanation as to why someone was included or excluded. Some didn't feel like working there after that.
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Landscaping company. We were already stretched to the breaking point because the owner would never hire enough help. Then he decided it was a perfect time to take a new project...over two hours away from where anyone lived. Multiple people quit after this announcement. I stayed for another few days and then quit. A few weeks later, he was calling everyone and begging us to come back because the property owners were furious with him over the work not even being started. I told him I'd already gotten a new job. He swore at me and hung up lol
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They called in a consultant. This guy's "brilliant" idea was to totally switch business models and go from selling one type of product (which we had tons of clients willing to buy and were making great money) to selling a completely different product and turning all of our production staff into salespeople. After the announcement: Day 1: three people left Day 2: four more left Day 3: it was down to me and the two owners, I lasted another week and then left. Company went under in about 3 months.
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Our boss. Multiple issues: trying to make us work while on vacation, underpaying us for car mileages, refusing to help with training, lying about being at the office when she was at home, ect What made us all leave was when she denied leave for our coworker who’s dad had died unexpectedly. She asked for even just one day for the funeral and my boss refused. We covered for our coworker for the week but then all put in our notice. The higher ups finally figured out something was wrong for us ALL to resign and they fired her. They begged us to come back, but if they’re that blind to what’s happening, it’s not worth it.
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I led an IT team that supported a new version of a proprietary application. The team was a mix of corporate employees and contractors. Most of the customers who used out app were located in the Western hemisphere, so while we provided 24x7 support, the vast majority of customer issues were during the typical North American work day. We had a couple of contractors who liked working overnights, so they covered the evenings, and did a handoff every AM. This worked very well. So well, in fact, that our corporate overlords decided that the app should be expanded globally. We noted that the current team couldn't handle the additional support load without more team members. Instead of doing that, management decided that we should just move a bunch of people from the day shift to the night shift. Since no one liked this idea, management implemented a mandatory "rolling" schedule, in which you might work 9-5 one week, and 3-11 the next. There was no predictability, and personal preferences/needs were not taken into account at all. I pointed out to management that this would make our well-seasoned support team unhappy, and would technically violate the contract that the contractors were working under (which specified work hours). Nobody in management thought that this was a problem. I immediately wrote letters of recommendation for everyone on my team, and started applying for other jobs. In about two weeks, I had a better job lined out, and gave my notice. Within about a month, all of the contractors had been moved to other contracts (with different companies) when they reported the contract breach to their handlers, and about a half dozen of the long-serving corporate folks had found other jobs, like I did. Support for the app got moved to India, and my understanding is that the dealers (the people who used the app) staged something of a revolt, and the app had to be shut down and reverted to a previous version that cost the company a lot more money to maintain.
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They hired a manager who was vicious. Then did not stop her behavior. And long term employees just quit one by one. I held on longer than most. At my exit interview, they asked why I was leaving and I just said her name. Finally two years later they let her go but by that time they had an entire turnover of staff.
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Management who came in at noonish, checked some shots then left at 3-4pm announced that all artists would be required to work 12 hour days for the next few weeks because they took on too many contracts at once. A few people said "f**k it" and quit, that cascaded into more and more people quitting since they realized they'd be expected to finish their shots too.
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Oh fun one. Our salon lost our manager to having a new baby and becoming a SAHM. It was sad to see her go. So our DM comes in and says he's hiring from within the salon. He's been looking at our sales , client retention and what not to pick. Meanwhile for a month or so we had no manager. So Becky took the role on and did great. ( We still had paperwork and orders that needed done) She set up a cleaning schedule. She fixed a lot of simple issues that our old manager just didn't see issues with. Our schedule was written out for the entire month . Basically she stepped up and put in a lot of work she didn't get paid to do. Becky also had a really bad back. Was 45 and did hair for 27 years. If anyone needed to manager it was her. Her client list had gone down a bit, but she was still very busy. Tara had worked their six months at this point. And Tara was not a team player. She would put your sales commission on her account accidentally. She would say things like she's paid to do hair not clean. Not to mention, she weight shamed everyone. Skinny fat in between. She found hurtful things to say about everyone. But she would be loud and laugh and be goofy. So we kinda just rolled out eyes and moved on . She was 23 and had a decent client list and remained " busy" . But here's the thing. She wasn't busy. Her friends would come in, hang out and whatever. Sure, she would do a wash and blowdry. But that's $20. No cutting no coloring. When her actual clients came in, she would do their hair and after they left, her and her friends would laugh about them. Our old manager had to tell her if her friends aren't there to get their hair done they don't need to hangout. So DM comes in and sees all these clients / friends waiting on Tara. His dumba*s thinks that Becky overstepped her role and Tara should be managing. The best part. We all looked at each other and started packing our bags. 6 people walked out. Tara crying that this isn't fair she earned this and we are just jealous bit**es. We went as a group and rented spots at a different salon. The old one shut down a month later. Because we take our clients with us. And washing your friends' hair doesn't keep the salon a float.
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we had a really really toxic manager (F 36) who wasn’t fit to be manager, would talk trash on her employees & got banned from working at VS. one time, the store flooded & we were waiting to hear back from her as to when the store was repaired. she had terrible (hardly any) communication, so she didn’t tell half the staff. one full time employee (F 41) stopped by 3 days after reopening & asked why she wasn’t notified. the manager told her “you’re a big girl, you should’ve figured it out yourself”. we all quite like beads falling off a broken necklace after that.
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Boss said that we wouldn't have paid Christmas vacation (after doing it for 5 years), the issue is that he announced it two weeks before Christmas when a lot of people already had travel plans - That and removing Christmas bonuses. A bunch of people quit over that, some I know are job hunting and ready to leave.
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Funny story. Me and a friend worked at a burger king together, both on the same shift, that being 11 - 5. I didn't hate my job as the drive through person, as it was a start for 16 and half year old me. I knew I could be happier, thus I was already on the verge of quitting. My a*****e of a manager only added to my stress, though. To let you know how d***head-y he was, every day he would give us some sort of a sit-rep on, "how he owns this place", and how "you have to listen". One day, at around 3, a customer pulls up to the speaker and asks for a lot. Something like 4 burger and fry combos, one burger without onions and 2 others with extra ketchup. My friend makes the order alongside some coworkers as the customer arrives at the window. She was in her 30's, with black hair and a darker skin tone. She took her food and drove off, yet a couple minutes later she returned. On the speaker she says she got the wrong order. I'm new to this job, so I ask my friend, "What do I do? Her order is wrong." and he responds with, "I don't know, ask the manager.". I walked into his office, where he yelled, "WHAT." I "Well, there's a customer in the drive-through who got her order wrong and wants a refund. What should I do?" I said. He stood from his chair. "UGH! Gimme a second!" I waited by the window for a couple minutes, when he arrived. At this point, the lady was at the window, and she had lost her temper. But, the thing is, when my manager took *one* look at her, he fumed. "This is what we're dealing with, THIS!" He says, pointing at her as if she has three heads. "Another one of you. Your kind never leaves, do they?" He said, obviously remarking on her race. My friend had made her order correct, and was ready to give it back to her, when the manager snatched it and threw it in her car. The lady was understandably upset, but all credit to her, she just drove off only yelling a few swears. Everyone had seen what had happened, but kept quiet. The next day, I had already quit, but for whatever reason, my friend didn't. According to him, almost nobody showed up, because they had all quit. The manager was soon fired after countless reports, and that burger king now has somebody else.
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I'm going to be incredibly vague because certain slugs from my former employer would pick up on this comment in a heartbeat and I'll get nastygram phonecalls... An employee got injured. It was NOT the employee's fault whatsoever. I won't say how they were injured but it was severe. 6 witnesses. One witness was a paramedic, and he tried to intervene. He was stopped, and the employee's husband was called to go in and pick his wife up off the floor, where they had literally just left her. He brought the employee to the ER. While at the ER, the employee found out that the incident report was obstructed and that the visit would be self-pay. An executive a*****e got involved and didn't want the incident report to trigger an OSHA investigation. Every witness was threatened to keep their mouths shut or they'd get fired. 5 quit the same day. Employee never got the incident covered. Whole thing was b******t.
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The restaurant I worked at wasn’t taking COVID seriously during the heart of the pandemic. They were violating their own social distancing measures and expecting everyone to simply be okay with it. On top of that, we were grossly understaffed and expected to provide the same quality of service as a fully-staffed restaurant. We just got burnt out and all just so happened to have found new jobs within two weeks of each other.
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For one job. I quit after 4 years. Was going to be denied a pay raise that I was supposed to have. Put the entire management staff in shock. A week later over half the staff quit because they we’re being blamed for what management was screwing up. The district manager came in and wanted to know what the hell was going on. They finally admitted I had pretty much running the place while they were sleeping and calling in. She fired all but one person and promptly promoted the crew leader who I had trained as the new assistant manager. Sadly the damage was done and they were bought out less than a year later by another company because they sank their profits after I left. Linch pin.
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The drain on the roof plugged. Ice built up. Roof collapsed, killed some. Everyone else quit. Luckly, I was on the roof top during the accident. We were safe up there, and our settlement was higher then those bellow. Well, not more then those who died, but more then those under the falling roof. No, I can't give details. Part of the settlement.
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Private company (1924-1988) single owner dies of old age. Family sells Connecticut based company to French corporation. French company says we are moving you guys 500 miles north to New Hampshire. You can move yourself at your own expense, and have equivalent pay for 1 year after which it may be readjusted. They were expecting about 125 people to relocate with them; they got 3. They got desperate, but in the end all they could get was people promising to stay until the Connecticut site closed, for an additional 6-month bonus at the end. (I took this, I was the last one, signing papers with HR on the loading dock and driving away with a few nice checks.)
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I worked at a supermarket once, and we had to count EVERYTHING in the store. Horribly long day but we were gonna get through it. We were not provided anything even though we had to work all day. As a person (at the time) under 18 I was only allowed to work 7 hours with a 30 min break. I worked 10 hours with a 10 min break (very illegal). It was supposed to be from 8 am to 9 pm at the latest. We ended op starting at 7 am to 6 am the next morning. A lot of laws were broken and we were not compensated for working through the night. 5/7 of us left within the month.
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It was my first "adult job" and I very intelligently like the person i am.... worked for an MLM. Now obviously we were all stupid enough to continue working there for long periods of time. About 5 months in we had to start going door to door in much nicer neighborhoods than we were used to resulting in much less sales and much less money for all of us. But that wasnt why everyone quit of course because we just had to "work harder" and be "better salesman". So a month goes by and one of the newest workers discovered a website called devil corp. This website explained in detail what an MLM was, the way they use people and fool them, and many actual company names that participated- our company being one of them. Anyways he showed it to a buunch of people, mostly all the new or lower level sales people. Now I was the only one in the group of people that left that was actually a "higher level" not truly in pay or anything like that but by title because I had people who I had hired that worked under me and i was beginning to form my own "team". Anyways yeah he showed me the website and I wanted to wait until at least the end of the week to quit but I couldn't even muster the strength to go in the next day. Next thing i know I was taken out of the company group chat we had along with almost 2 dozen other people. What a time it was. Unfortunately no other people in higher positions left, which did make me sad for some of them truly. Have a lot of them on snapchat n they all doin the same bs, very sad especially since literally all of them are at least 2 yrs older than me. Truly a shame. Half of em still live all together in one of our bosses apts. Wild. It aint even a nice apt.
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Owner slowly phased out giving us our tips from online orders and me my money for delivery fees. I kept track of it all and last year confronted him that he owed the employees about 11k$ in tips and 5400$ in delivery fees for me. (Tips and delivery fees were from the start of 2016 to Jan 30th 2022.) He exploded at me and said tips were off the table because it costs to much to run the restaurant. I asked about my delivery fees and told him how much he owed just me, fired me on the spot. When I went back into the restaurant to get my hoodie, I gave the cooks all the information I kept track of and left. Apparently they left just before dinner rush started. Learned my lesson, don't for a Greek...
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