re: Your Worst Employer Abuse Stories?

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Worked for a daycare when I was 16 years old that would regularly try to leave me in a classroom alone with 20+ 2 year olds. State regulation required to have two staff members in the room with that many. I pointed this out and they threatened to fire me if I reported it

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I had more students than the legal limit in my 4th grade class. I called to report it to the school board, and the school removed my 3 best students from my classes as punishment.

If you put in notice, and didn’t want to fire people why would you do it?

You could have cost the company big money by saying we are firing you for x reason.

Worked at a law firm in MS. I was packed and ready to leave early for Halloween in. NOLA. Partner comes in my office and says he plans to come in first thing Saturday morning to review all agreements for a closing that wasn’t scheduled for the following Friday. I stayed at the office until 3am getting everything finalized and copied so I miss out on New Orleans. I see the guy on Monday and asked if all was in order and he told me that he didn’t bother to come in over the weekend so he didn’t review anything.

Worked at a go cart track on the beach during summers. I was a track attendant, not a mechanic, but I had been a cart mechanic at another track before. We had 30 or so go carts and a freaking old drunk as a mechanic. Ironically named Dick.

Dick was worthless and the carts were in bad shape. I used to help out occasionally and demonstrated that I knew how to work on carts if they wanted to give me a raise. The asst. manager was another college kid, maybe 2 or 3 years older than me and he was an asshat.

Eventually, I quit the extra work to keep carts going and just did the cart attendant gig. Well, one weekend night with the park packed all the carts, every single one, were down. The asst manager demanded I get to work repairing carts and I said I would for a more $, that $5.00 is for track attendants and not mechanics. He gave me the ultimatum, get turning wrenches or I'm fired. I grabbed my stuff and headed to the front of the park.

Before I get out the gate, the GM stops me and asks if I can get the carts running? I told him I could have at least 10 running in an hour. He asked me to go back and get 10 running and he'd discuss pay after.

I had 10 running shortly and the GM bumped me to $10 an hrs (more than the asst manager) and allowed me to make my own schedule, provided we never went below 10 running carts.

The making the own schedule thing and hourly pay was a bad idea in retrospect. Because if I had a buddy going fishing or a date, I'd haul arse and only work a couple of hours.

Probably some of the most fun summers of my life, though.

I had a year where I got 6 working days off the entire year. And that included working most Saturdays and a whole bunch of Sunday’s. I was asked to take over two project that weren’t going well, and I worked nonstop to get them finished. Got to December and cancelled my vacation around Christmas because I knew we’d be working trying to finish. Asked my boss if I could roll my PTO to the next year since I hadn’t had a chance to get away. Said ok, no problem.

As you can expect, I didn’t get those days back.

Longest year of my life. Work will continue without you there. You’ll never get those moments with your family back. Don’t forget that.

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What's the worst you've been screwed over by an employer?

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My last boss tried to throw a huge project to quote in my lap the afternoon before an 8am bid time (my quote needed to be sent by 7:30am). He was sent the project almost two weeks prior and he sat on it until the day before it was due. He assumed he would do it because of the large size and customer it was for. He had a lot of management experience but wasn't very product savvy. Once he started on it he realized he couldn't do it himself so he forwarded it to me.

I worked on it until 1am, slept for 3 hours, drove to the office and finished it up and sent to the customer. Boss man walks in and asks if the quote is done and I told him yes and don't ever do that again. Funny enough one of my competitors called me a couple days later. Fast forward a few weeks and I handed him my resignation. That company has been a dumpster fire since I left.

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Not abuse but just the stupidity of a former boss. I was stationed in Germany for two years and then Wyoming for my last 2.5 years. I was in Wyoming during 9/11 and later on, a guy I worked with in Germany ended up working with me in Wyoming. He was home on leave during 9/11 so our flight sgt back in Germany calls him at his house in New Mexico and tell him he has been recalled back to work and has 48 hours to report. Only problem was all flights were grounded. He told the flight sgt that he would be on the first flight when they opened them back up.

Flight Sgt told him that wasn't going to work and that he needed to rent a car and drive back. My buddy started laughing thinking it was a joke. Flight Sgt wasn't laughing and went into a tirade when he asked him how could he physically drive across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Most enlisted people when they get that high up in rank actually get dumber if you can believe it.

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my husband's company did something similar, then dropped the requirement all together Had he known this he would not have gotten a vaccine that was rushed through to production like that but he is a long tenured employee and losing his job was not an option.

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I don’t understand. Losing a job to stand up for your principles should ALWAYS be an option…

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I had one boss who repeatedly pulled vacations at the last minute and screwed over the whole family.

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Wait, so you had multiple vacations planned with your family and your boss told you that you had to cancel them and you prioritized your work over your family? You suck