When listening to or reading horror stories about work, we often get to hear about insufferable managers who don’t follow the rules they themselves set or who don’t care how bad you feel, you must show up to work. Maybe it is because power can get to one’s head and they forget how to be a decent human being.
A manager that Reddit user Thischick1 told about was really nasty and undeservingly lashed out at a person that didn’t even work at the place anymore. However, what makes the story so satisfying is that the manager got demoted for their unprofessional behavior.
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A Reddit user shared a satisfying story of how a disrespectful manager got deservingly demoted
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The original poster (OP) worked at a chain restaurant while she was studying at college. In that location, they hired managers with no prior experience as it was the restaurant where they would be trained.
The management would change regularly as the trained employees would advance to other locations and new trainees would come in. Weirdly enough, the managers who were absolutely new to their positions were very full of themselves and as Thischick1 put it, “were on a little bit of a power trip.”
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The OP worked at a restaurant which was the management training location
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The former hostess was sick of the work environment and after a year, decided to leave and was lucky enough to find a new job. She put in her two weeks' notice directly to the general manager and went on her merry way with no hard feelings.
But after those two weeks, the OP got a notification with her working schedule at the restaurant. She decided to call the restaurant and warn them that they should schedule someone else because she no longer worked there.
After a year of working there, the OP decided to leave and gave her two weeks' notice
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It seems that the paperwork wasn't done correctly and the Redditor kept getting put in the schedule even though she didn't work there anymore
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The same thing happened after another two weeks and Thischick1 called the restaurant once again. Both times, the manager on duty apologized for bothering her and just ended the conversation there without causing any scene.
As she knew how the work was organized there and how important it was for an employee to come in on time, the OP explained to the manager that she would be abroad, so if this happened again, she wouldn’t be able to call for them to schedule another person in time, which is why she asked them to pay more attention to the actual employee list.
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The third time it happened, she couldn't call the restaurant to tell them they were mistaken again because she was abroad
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It seems that they didn’t listen to her because as Thischick1 was on vacation in Spain, she started getting tons of messages from a new manager at the restaurant who said that she was late for work.
This was the third time it had happened, but the OP was willing to answer the messages and was still patient and polite, explaining that she didn’t work there anymore and it was a mystery to her why she was still being put on the schedule.
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So she got some angry messages from the manager saying she was late for work and would be written up
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Even though the OP explained she didn't work there anymore, she was yelled at over text for being unprofessional, lazy and a brat
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The fact that the OP was no longer an employee somehow didn’t register and the manager started to require her to come in immediately, otherwise she would be written up.
The former employee explained that she was abroad and even if she wasn’t, scheduling problems were not for her to solve anymore. But the feeling of power didn’t let the manager see the situation clearly and she lashed out at Thischick1, accusing her of being lazy and irresponsible for not giving her notice in advance and just leaving the company.
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The woman sent screenshots of the texts to another manager and later learned that the employee was demoted and sent to another location
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This didn’t sit well with the OP and she sent over the screenshots of their conversation to one of the other managers. The most satisfying part is that the rude new manager got demoted and was sent to work in a different location.
Wasn’t this a delightful ‘I don’t even work here, lady’ story? We would like to hear your reactions and any stories that you have, so write them down in the comments!
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