Comments by "Rich B" (@richb1576) on "The CRAZIEST Job Quitting Stories You Will Ever Hear - Don’t Try These Yourself" video.

  1. Nothing so creative as these people. Back in the 90s I was managing restaurants and had been working in restaurants for over 20 years. I was getting burned out and was thinking about just chucking it all and finding a different line of work. There were 3 managers and a few supervisors who were trained to open and close so there was always somebody to cover days off and vacations without issues until the owners decided they did not want to pay front line hourly workers 2 dollars extra an hour to be supervisors. This left opening and closing duties to be performed only by managers. So we said we needed to hire at least 1 more manager. Owners said no. 3 was enough. So we went on like that for about a month and then one of the other managers quit. That left only 2. We decided that we would work M-F. He would open every day. I would close every day. Then one of us would work all day Sat. And the other would work all day Sunday and we would switch that as well. The owners said they would hire a third soon. This went on for a month. One Friday night one of the owners came in to do a check on the place and I asked him how the search for a third and hopefully a fourth manager was going. He said oh we decided since you two were doing so well we would not hire a third and we never had plans to hire a fourth. I asked him if he was kidding. He said no. I then asked him if he knew how to close the restaurant. He said of course he did. It’s his restaurant. I started this place he told me and I can do everything in here. Good I said. I Quit. Have fun running your restaurant. Oh and don’t bother calling the other manager. He’s on vacation until the end of next week. I was gonna work doubles to give him time with his family so now you can call the other owners and figure out how to cover your manager shifts this weekend next week and next Saturday. I handed him my keys as hes telling me im making a mistake and he will make sure everybody knows how I quit. Ill never get a job again. I just went in back and grabbed my stuff and left. Later that night I get a call from the other manager. They called him up and wanted him to come in and close because I quit. I said yea I quit. They have no plans on hiring another manager. He said he figured as much. Then he said they threatened to fire him if he did not stop his vacation and come run the store. He told me he said well then I quit too. Lol Turns out he had another job lined up and was waiting for them to offer him the job before he told me. That place went out of business less than a year after that. I felt bad for all the employees but the owners were not worth working for after they decided to cut pay and manpower to save money
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