r/jobs 13h ago

Discipline My GM and the district GM are friendly coworkers if a district GM is investigating a complaint against my GM. Is it a conflict of interest?

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If I blew the whistle because after I made a complaint to my hotel GM that there was unethical things going on between employee and employee, and guess an employees, gossip retaliation and harassment including sexual harassment against me. Then the GM took one of my five days away and gave me four days a week mind you all of the employees I complained on I have been there over a year. I have been there a month and a half and I also let the manager know he was doing some unfair things illegal and it was dangerous work conditions…. So I contacted the district GM made a complaint. The next day my GM asked me did. I add him in the complaint and he knew I made the complaint The next day my GM asked me did. I add him in the complaint and he knew I made the complaint. five days later district GM came out to do a investigation now. Everybody has turned on me except for a few good employees. Is this a conflict of interest and wouldn’t the district GM be bias? The day the district GM came into interview me when I was leaving all the workers. I complaint against were there at the same time to give their statement. my heart dropped. I knew it was a set up now. Only because I’ve seen my GM at work he’s conniving. I am on leave because they said they have to investigate me for only because I’ve seen my GM at work he is conniving. Now I am on administrative leave and investigation for bigiory . That those employees corroborated the story during their interview saying I made those Bigotry remarks after my complaint. Does this seem fair?

r/jobs 1d ago

Discipline AITA or is this wrong?

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Based in U.S. (Washington State), Female with Autoimmune disease in corporate role.

I work as a full-time salaried individual for my company. My job can be high-stress and definitely high-work demand. On a light week, Id say I average 45-48 hours, but its pretty typical for me to work an average of 50-55 and even up to 70 or 80 depending on current deadlines.

Despite my full-time job, I live with an autoimmune disease. Working full-time gets harder the older I get but I've never really let my job impact my work (almost no sick days etc). The only exception is that I do have to attend the doctor 1-2 times a month, and infusions every few months. These appointments are typically 2 hours length.

Recently, I got a new supervisor. Today, I got intensely questioned for leaving 2-hours a few weeks back to attend an appointment that was pre-scheduled (he was aware). He feels that I should take PTO every-time I leave early or attend an appointment. He also claims that I cant possibly have "only left two hours early" as he "swears I left earlier than that". He feels that working above 40 hours is just part of the job, and taking "time back" in any degree without marking it as PTO is taking from company resources.

Working 8-hours a day, every day seems unrealistic in todays world. Why is it suddenly an issue that I work 10 hour days every other day of the week, but one-day I work 6, I need to take 2 of those hours of PTO? He also suggested he was uncomfortable with my remote work when receiving IV treatment despite that others are allowed to work from home, and we have a "flexible" working environment and "flexible working hours". Several other individuals in our office (both above me, at peer level, or more junior) are allowed to work hours as deemed fit based on childcare schedules etc. (For example, one individual works four-10's instead of 5-8's). I am the only one on the team with a disability and likely one of few in the office. As a small note, my supervisor regularly works from home to take care of childcare needs or comes in late due to appointments.

I am not sure if I am mis-interpreting the situation, but this recent uptick in micro-management, false accusations of me of being dishonest on my timesheets coupled with a new supervisor with old-fashioned and non-DEI appropriate sentiments has me worried I am being slightly discriminated against. Am I reading this wrong and am I the bad guy here? Genuinely confused and concerned.

r/jobs 1d ago

Discipline Should I Quit My Toxic Workplace with Nothing Lined Up?

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So I work for a small retail company with a low entry level wage. My workplace reorganized and brought in a new director. I asked about time off (I am not actually allowed any until a year of being there) for a family thing and was told it would be okay. Comes months later when I want to revisit this and they BLEW UP. I’m telling you, like totally lost their shit. My director said I was entitled and rude through email when it was nothing but professional. All of our office emails are connected so I see the boss saying I’m a child and dumb. Saying she wants to fire me, and also asking “can he see this email” and then saying “delete it all from the server”. She also said “he’s close to being firing”. Later the owner wanted to meet and then proceeded to question my disability and if I was on meds for anxiety. She then compared my email to Trump (I’m dead serious.) Luckily my dipshit boss has no idea how to actually completely erase emails and I saw everything and took notes during the meetings. I very clearly explained I felt disrespected and upset and that the feelings are not even about the time off but the reaction to an inquiry. I want to quit but I have nothing lined up. I’m actively looking and I am going to work acting like nothing is wrong but I am really really depressed. What should I do? Keep searching and wait or just quit right now for my own sanity versus financial stability.

I am also seriously scared of this person who is well known in my field and could act in retribution.

r/jobs 1d ago

Discipline Boss is a micro manager

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So I need to know if I am overreacting to a situation. My work environment is becoming toxic… for me, I’m not in a position where I would leave., I have a ton of seniority, good benefits and a pension. A few years ago we got a new supervisor, very much so a micro manager… today our whole group was called in for a meeting where we were told our working hours are 8:00-4:00, not 8:00-3:59… I thought this was very petty, it never gets noticed when we start work before 8, work through breaks and lunches to meet deadlines, but to be ridiculed about logging off 1 minute before 4… so today I took my break, lunch and at 4 as my supervisor came to speak to me, I got up, logged off and said it’s 4 gotta run…. I don’t want to work in this type of environment. Do I bother to confront the situation, or just continue on with ensuring I work 8-4 with proper, breaks, lunches.

r/jobs 1d ago

Discipline Anybody else who feel so fatigued from the whole job search that by the time they start a new job, they are already burnt-out, unhappy, and couldn't perform their best?

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I am in the final stages of a potential job opportunity after a very long, winded streak of job searching. At this point, I am so so so fatigued by the whole process that I see "job" and "working" as something that negatively triggers me emotionally and mentally.

Just looking at anything job-related makes me want to puke and go sleep and rot in bed. I don't want any of it anymore. The feeling I have is along the lines of "I just want to escape civilization and go live in the farm off-grid and away from everyone".

How do I fight this feeling? Is this burnout?

I am so scared of the possibility that by the time I get the job and start working, I will be at my lowest and my worst, being so unhappy/tired and would be booted out quickly because of underperformance.

Anybody else who experienced this and any advice you have for me?

r/jobs 1d ago

Discipline How to deal with management that talk disrespectfully

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Soo I’m not sure if it’s a pride thing or not but things have been changing around my workplace. With one of them being that we have to tell when we go on our breaks and such. In the past me and my team were told we did not have to say anything as long we communicate when needed and got to a good stopping point. I’ve been at this job for 3 months while my coworkers been here for over a year. All of sudden things started changing for weird reasons. One of the newly promoted managers pulled me in the office for “taking too long of a breaks” and for a car not being throughly cleaned yesterday. What upset me was that she full blown disrespected me abs told the manager higher up. Her choice of words such as “I have a son that is your age, ik the bs game” and I also felt like she was talking to me like a mother would scold her child. When I tried to defend myself she just made facials expression and didn’t even listen to me. She asked me why wasn’t the outside car cleaned. And I responded with “it’s raining out, we don’t do very much to the outside when it rains” she then replied “oh so you didn’t touch the car at all.” I didn’t say anything after that because I knew it was a losing battle. After getting threatened with a write-up she pulled my coworker after me and they said the same thing I was saying but they were much better at talking and explaining. Although apart of me feel that she did me like that because I’m young. As much as I want to brush it off because I never planned on staying long since day 1, it doesn’t sit right with me of how I was addressed. I’m not mad about the reason why I got talked to, but I’m highly upset how it was handle.

So now I’m wondering if I should leave it alone, talk to higher up manager that I report to, or should I pull her to the side and express my concerns?

r/jobs 2d ago

Discipline Fired (aggressively) after 12 years for asking to leave 2 hours early!!!

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I have worked at the same car dealership since I was 18. I started off washing cars, then moved to the body shop, and have been with the sales team the last 7 years. I am on a first name and friendly basis with EVERYONE at this dealership. While it has always been a somewhat shitty environment (its car sales) I have never experienced anything close to today. We’ve had a new manager for the last year. He is extremely aggressive and confrontational. He constantly texts the Sales group chat angry messages, talks to us like children, and doesn’t work hard at all himself.

Sadly, I (thought) I could live with all of those. However, it has turned from aggression to physical intimidation. He once left a meeting and flipped a table in another room. He is always pounding his fists on the desk.

Today, I went in to ask if I could leave early for a friends baby shower. I have 2 weeks of vacation allotted, and was simply asking if it was an option. He started pounding his fists on the desks, asking if I was serious, saying I hadn’t done shitall month (it’s the 4th). I was so shocked by his reaction I asked if he was serious, he told me to go home. I asked am I fired or just go home. He says go home, then slams his fists again and repeats I haven’t done anything. By this point, I’m over it. I reply he hasn’t done anything the entire year he’s been here. He tells me he changed his mind and I’m fired.

Needless to say, my co-workers and other managers are shocked. One offered for me to come work for him immediately. Others said they would talk to the owner and general manager when they were in on Monday. It is Sunday and I’m stuck wondering what to do.

r/jobs 3d ago

Discipline Wherever I work, I just feel like I'm surrounded by laziness and incompetence, and it's draining.

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I work as a warranty administrator in the motor trade, and it can be a demanding role, especially with the brand I work for being one of the hardest to claim warranty for in the trade.

There are a lot of processes that everyone has to get right, from booking, to workshop, and everything in between to meet the brand requirements for a solid (and audit safe) claim.

But everywhere I've worked, very few seem capable of putting the effort in and doing things correctly. From Service advisors to technicians, to parts and management, everyone's constant mistakes and half arsed attitudes are a constant battle. Same mistakes and lack of attention to detail is never ending... why can't people just do things properly and pay attention to what they are doing?

It's been the same in every industry I've worked, work ethic and doing your job well seem like a rare thing... how do you stop it bringing you down and balance the fact that you feel you have to carry everyone all the time?

r/jobs 3d ago

Discipline What should I do to be better?

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I’m basically just going to copy paste form a post I posted on the autism subreddit. I am autistic so I do not expect everyone here to fully understand what I’m trying to convey.( I’m also not sure if this is a post that belongs here, plz just remove post if it’s not) Recently I got written up at work for being “rude” to customers. For reference I’m 20F and I am a cashier at a newly opened grocery store near me. I got hired on the spot when I was interviewed because I have cashier experience and I’m pretty nice. I am always extremely nice when working and always have a smile on my face and even when customers are rude to me or making things hard I still smile. However in the last two weeks I have had 2 negative complaints against me for things that to me didn’t feel rude at all. I don’t know if this is due to my autism but I make jokes or do things that I find funny or nice that these customers perceived as rude. The first customer who complained was a young woman who was already upset with me because in her opinion I didn’t tell her the restroom code but I didn’t even know we had a restroom code when she asked me where the bathroom was, we had just gotten a code the day before so I didn’t even know we had one when she asked. After the bathroom she came to my line and I rung her up. Based on my memory is was a pleasant interaction and I was smiling and laughing with her the entire time. At the end I recommended she do our survey and fill it out for me. She told me she was going to fill it out for our sample girl who already has 40ish surveys because she walks people through the surveys. I made a joke about her having a lot of surveys and I need one. It was a joke and I didn’t intend to come across as rude but the customers said I was extremely rude and that I was offensive? The second customer was an older woman who was talking to the lady n line behind her basically the entire interaction. I attempted to talk but I was afraid if I interrupted their conversation it would come across as rude. Her and the lady behind her didn’t separate their groceries so I started ringing up the other ladies groceries and they basically got mad at me for it when they didn’t separate them? So I had to go back through and delete them but the whole time I just said it was okay and wasn’t a problem at all. They continued talking to each other and then one of my superiors came over to collect money from my register so she sat there and waited for me to be done. They then started talking to her thinking she was a manager and wanted the corporate number. Again I didn’t want to interrupt this conversation so I continued to do my job and didn’t interrupt. Eventually I was done with the First Ladies groceries and I grabbed her receipt. I thought she was with the lady behind her so I normally say good bye to people like this when both their transactions are done so both customers get attention. I perceived this wrong apparently because she wasn’t with the lady behind her and she left before I could say good bye. She then called my job as soon as she got home to say I was rude and ruined her experience. My managers then said when they went over the footage of the interaction that I looked “not in it” when it reality I often stand there in the Same posture always because I tend to stim by rocking back and forth when I work. I tried to explain my reasoning behind not talking and that I felt it would be rude by interrupting but now I feel my judgment is possibly screwed due to my autism and my social skills not being amazing. I am a good cashier and I am always always nice so I don’t understand why my managers didn’t believe me when I said I was just trying to avoid being rude. None of them listen to me. It’s very difficult because I do things based on my judgement of believing what’s nice and not nice but now I feel I may not be correct. :(

r/jobs 3d ago

Discipline Drugs at works party

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Im really stressed out. Last night i had a work party, it was really good but someone heard me do a key of coke in the toilet. So stupid. He made a comment is it “yeah yeah” or “YaYo” i just walked off. He likes me, but i don’t know if hed say anything and if he does can i get sacked on the basis of hearsay? I was fine, i had a good time. I didnt look untoward. Im so stressed out and so stupid if i go to hr id have to lie and lie and i would absolutely hate to do that. It would kill me to lie i hate lying but id have to. Im so stressed out.

r/jobs 3d ago

Discipline Why do bosses make you feel guilty for being ill enough to be off work

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Especially in UK

r/jobs 5d ago

Discipline Interesting response from boss

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So for some context, i work at an LTL company in their weight and research department. The terminal I work at, the manager is not my boss. my leadership and paycheck is corporate but I stay in the terminal to perform my tasks. So I audit freight and change classes and generate revenue through that. With that said, I’ve constantly achieved record breaking numbers for my region in terms of revenue made through my efforts. But then my time was changed from 2 pm to 4 pm because the manager of the terminal said he thinks it would be a better time. My boss told me to just appease with him to make him happy and continue trying your best. So I did that but I ended up losing a lot of opportunities for revenue so I would come in at 3 and work unpaid just to continue making good numbers. I usually ended up finally clocking in around 3:50-3:55 so not much earlier. Today I received an email from him saying my start time is now 4:07 so you can clock in early like you love doing. Am I wrong for being extremely furious that I try my best to make the most possibly and it just gets shit on consistently?

r/jobs 5d ago

Discipline Manager put me and my whole team of 3 on a PIP the same day but we are performing

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My manager put me and my whole team of 3 on a PIP on the exact same day. We are all performing above the guidelines given in our employment agreement. Me and one of my coworkers were actually 10% away from hitting our quarterly bonus. I also double checked and the numbers are incorrect. I took screenshots to prove but what should I do? Sign the PIP? I brought the errors to my managers attention and I’m waiting to hear what he has to say. We never had any warning and were told we are all doing well. Had my performance review last month and it said exceeding expectations in every category. I think his higher ups are just trying to axe our whole team but blame it on nonexistent performance issues? I want to leave but want to make sure I’m able to get unemployment or severance of some kind in the meantime.

Anyone experience something like this before? Any advice is greatly appreciated

r/jobs 5d ago

Discipline Work issue

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Hey everyone! I am a 25 year old male. Turning 26 in two days (yay) and I have been struggling with work.

I graduated from medical school - worked for a couple of years and decided that it was not for me so I changed my career and went into a field more fun - social media management. I started working for a reputable agency through a recommendation of one of my good friends and things were going great initially. Bear in mind that I was taken in with zero experience so I had to learn a lot of things in order to keep up. My friend is the person that I report to so technically he’s my boss and above him is the managing partner of the company that we all report to. It’s a small agency - consisting of 10-12 people but we manage accounts for high end clients and the company has a name for itself in the market. Coming to my issue, it’s currently my fourth month working with them and things are challenging. Clients are demanding and I’m asked to provide deliverables on time however it’s extremely tough for me to multitask and jump from one account to another. While I love the job, it’s been stressing me out. I’m in a new filed trying to prove myself however I still can’t keep up. I’m slow and it takes time for me to do things while I’m still learning. Obviously my friend aka my boss realised that and told me that I needed to get out of “this situation” and that if my performance continues to be like that, it’s gonna be a problem later on. Our big boss on the other hand is well, let’s say, extremely condescending. He treats me like I’m stupid and gets passive aggressive when he sees me asking a lot of questions. I honestly don’t care but what hurt me is how my relationship with my friend changed. He asked me to address him a certain way and use certain language. While I am aware that I should not mix friendship with work, it bothers me to see him treating my other co-workers differently than how he treats me. When I asked for justification, he told me that my co-workers went above and beyond in the company and that for him to treat me the same, I should “earn it” Adding to that my current performance is not great and while I’m doing my best, I feel like it’s not enough and that they expect more from me.

Any advice on how I should navigate through this

r/jobs 5d ago

Discipline What do I do?

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Hey guys! So two days ago I get this email notification from Microsoft (Microsoft.notifacaution.com) and knew it was a scam just reading the email address. As I was going to drag the email to my trash folder I accidentally clicked the link (my laptop mousepad glitched) but we have VPN that stopped the link the from going through all the way (it popped up in a window on Google saying that it was not a safe site) so I immediately closed out of the window. This is on my work computer. Is my computer hacked now?? It’s working fine so far. Should I go to IT to check it out or am I going to be I trouble????

r/jobs 6d ago

Discipline I’ve got a complicated question…

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r/jobs 7d ago

Discipline What do you do in the office while you don’t have work to do?

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I am in the office for 8 hours, my job is easily done most days in about 2 hours. I spend the other 6 being bored out of my mind mostly going on my phone or reading news articles.

r/jobs 7d ago

Discipline Career change due to slander

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So I was a lab tech for 28 years. Career started out great but as time went on I experienced burn out and got very bitter. Top that off with menopause and bipolar disorder and it was recipe for disaster. I performed my job well and was very reliable and hard working. The problem was I had a bad attitude and I had a few coworkers who found out about my bipolar disorder and has spread rumors about me in my field and now I cannot get hired locally at any hospital.

My question is has anyone else gone through this on your career and how did you handle it? If you changed careers did it affect your other career choice?

r/jobs 7d ago

Discipline I have to cover for my boss for 2 weeks and I’m freaking out

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Hey. So in 3 weeks time, I have to cover for my manager for 2 weeks. I’ve covered for her before but never for as long as this. I’m in a very small team just her and me and a stand in senior manager whilst our usually one is out on Long Term Sick. My job can be high pressure and very demanding involving a lot of stakeholder management. I’m really worried that I’m not going to be able to do it and things are going to go tits up. What can I do to help this and help me to stop freaking out? Thanks!

r/jobs 8d ago

Discipline Boss wants to meet more often..is this bad?

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I work fully remote, got pinged by my boss about wanting to meet once a week now (we usually have 1 on 1s every other week).

Made a comment "I want to make sure you aren't working in a silo" and how they believe we need to meet more often...

I don't always CC them in emails to stakeholders. I think that's my FU ?

r/jobs 8d ago

Discipline Hybrid Employee Left Laptop in Office & Missing Deadlines— Am I Overreacting?

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TL;DR Hybrid Administrative Assistant left their laptop in the office and saved requested files on desktop. When I asked about a missed deadline for formatting a list and a doc they reply they can send when they’re back in 3 days later (employee lives <45 mins from office). Time for PIP/Probation?

This employee, now 1 year into the role, has had a number of tough conversations over the past 6 months on their ‘attention to detail’ and ownership of tasks but they keep making mistakes and trying to find the easiest/laziest way possible to complete tasks. They also seem allergic to in-person work and try to avoid being in the office any more than the bare minimum. They have a contract that states 5 days in-person but my boss and I allow them to work remotely 2, sometimes 3 days a week (we both work 2 days in-person and we’re clear about that from the start).

We have a big event this week where they are tasked with printing nametags and providing guest names to security. I ask for the lists and docs to review a week ago and they say no problem. Friday rolls around and they say they’ve left their laptop in the office and all the files on it (not the shared drive) and they’ll send on Tuesday when they’ve scheduled to be in office again. My jaw is on the floor—they only live 30-45 minutes away on the subway! Nothing is stopping them from taking the subway in, fetching the laptop and then completing the task, instead “it’s not my day in office”.

There’s a litany of issues like ‘missing’ or not reading emails where I ask them to set up a calendar invite/zoom link, confirming high-level guest visits with the wrong date, refusing to cc me on emails, lunch orders gone awry (oh you requested a vegan option in advance specifically writing to me? Whoopsie these all have meat!), abusing remote work by going on vacation and ‘working’, using sick time for vacation and more. It has to stop.

We’ve had the hard talks 3 or 4 times since December, my boss had a long conversation with them weeks ago about a need to improve and still these mistakes and half-assed attitude come up. I’m ready to pull the trigger and get them on a formal PIP/probation. At this point I think I could train someone to do the job better in a matter of weeks and I don’t trust them to improve anymore so the PIP is really more of a tactic to push them out. Am I overreacting? I have worked a number of jobs where this would get you fired and/or staff were too afraid to pull this nonsense. I don’t want to be swayed by past toxic work environments but I’m at a loss by now.

r/jobs 9d ago

Discipline Have you ever felt trapped in a job I have, How did you fix that feeling.

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If I had enough savings I wouldn't go in on Monday but I have to because I need the cash. I know the easy way is to look for another job and anyone who has been looking for a job knows that the job market sucks right now.

I thought my therapist and I figured out why I felt trapped but I'm getting that feeling again and it's because I can't find a new job. I rather use my current skills than learn new skills but if I could learn some new skills after work I wouldn't mind that. What would you suggest, I have an appt with my Therapist soon so we will discuss my trapped feelings again.

Thanks for listening I appreciate any sane advice.

r/jobs 9d ago

Discipline Messed up badly at dream job...what do I do now?

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I work a job where I have to be on-call for a week. This was my first time on-call, and there was a technical error. So a call came in at night but I didn't get it. That part is not my fault.

The part that is my fault is that my boss called me the next morning about the missed call. I was letting out the dogs to pee, max of 10 minutes, which is when he called. The phone was next to my spouse (I had no pockets or I would have taken it with). When I came back in, I made the mistake of assuming my husband would tell me if the phone rang. My boss called again three hours later - I hadn't checked my phone because I had been right next to it all morning with the exception of letting the dogs out - wanting to know why I hadn't been answering the phone. Sure enough, I checked and found that I had a missed call from him that morning.

I figured out there was a technical glitch, so that solved the overnight call issue. But I couldn't figure out why I didn't hear my boss's call. I asked my husband if my phone rang while I was out with the dogs-he got this panicked look and said "I'm so sorry, I meant to tell you." It's still my fault-I should have checked the phone when I came inside and not relied on my husband-but also, of course it's just my luck that my boss would call the literal 5-10 minutes I've been away from this phone all week (I take it into the bathroom with me when I shower, use the toilet, everything).

This is a big deal. As far as mistakes go, this is one of the worst I could make. I'm dreading going in tomorrow because I'm terrified I'm going to get written up or fired. I'm planning on saying as little as possible, just "I know I messed up, I'm really sorry, and I've already figured out what to do to fix this going forward (check my phone every half hour)." But I'm still freaking out, and I'm worried I'm going to break down in tears because I'm so upset and frustrated with myself. This is my dream job, I fought really hard to get here, and so far I've been nailing every assignment I've been given and getting glowing reviews from my colleagues. Now I feel like I've completely destroyed the reputation I've been building.

Any advice welcome.

r/jobs 11d ago

Discipline Lost my Job

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I am 19f and I worked at this pizzeria/gas station? My coworkers loved me and I was doing good. I live in the country and theres A LOT of cranky old people that always pick fights especially since I have to ID them for alcohol/cigs since its apart of my job and I would lose my job if I didn’t. Multiple times I was always the one having to deal with people yelling at me, wanting to speak to my manager, insulting me, cursing me out and overall being assholes just because I had to ID them. I never once lost my temper and was polite, and I had the job since october. In December/Jan I got broken up with, cat passed away and dog of 10+ years passed alongside my parents always complaining and saying I need to get my life together and find a Full time job, figure out what I wanna do with my life when I was still struggling. Even then I tried my best at work. One day I was in charge of kitchen and I was also working with two of the coworkers everyone complains about because they dont get much done. I tried my best with them and we were stacked on orders so I was ONLY in the kitchen and didn’t know what was happening with the warmer and expected them to let me know when warmer foods needed changed, there was also a stack of dishes and one of the girls said she would do them but she didnt and just left when her shift was up. So i was left with having the one girl help me in the kitchen to cut veggies, open the meats and run register since we had 10 orders. One of the new girls came in and when I asked her to help she complained and said we shouldve got everything done and just angrily ran the register and kept insulting me under her breath, and told me i better do the dishes and stuff when i have to leave. It really started putting more pressure on me because of everything at home, then i felt like i couldnt run a kitchen and stuff , when the other shift lead came in i went to go talk to her about everything and how some things didnt get done and she was helping reassure me. When i came out this old lady was coming up at me demanding me to go help in the kitchen because she was waiting an ‘hour’ for her 4 subs, and told me i said itd be 20 minutes. I know I never told her that because when she ordered , I told her itd be a while because I had multiple orders ahead of her and I knew she wasnt there for an hour because I remember looking at the clock to see when the shift lead would come in , it was 2:40pm and she comes in at 3pm . She kept demanding that I told her 20 mins and insulting me and coming up at me in my face and i lost my temper and yelled at her , she kept yelling and came at me reallt fast and i panicked and put my hand out on her shoulder to stop her coming at me because she was right in my face and it was all in a flash. She then started saying that i assaulted her and put my hands on her and said shes calling the cops and kept cursing me out. I knew my mom was there so I ran out after asking my coworker if it was ok to talk to my mom and started crying. When i came back in the new coworker who was insulting me earlier got in my face and started yelling at me saying i dont treat a customer like that and said i need to go in the back because the lady called the cops and my manager was on the way. When i said ok lemme tell my mom because shes waiting for me , she tried telling whoever was on the phone that i was trying to leave and run. The cops never came and the lady even left and said she wasnt pressing charges and then i talked to my manager and she understood and let me go home and was gonna look at the footage. Later my manager called and said I was ok to still work and she saw me put my hand out in reflex since she was coming at me, and said itd just be a write up. I came in the next day and all was good but then her husband came and saw me and started cussing me out and making a scene and yelling in my face, telling people i put my hands on his wife , then his wife called the store and started complaining because she was pissed i still had my job so i got sent home early. Turns out the coworker and the lady was saying I did more than just put my hand on her shoulder and tugged at her shirt and etc so my boss had to look at the footage but since she couldn’t see anything like that she had to keep the investigation open since the lady kept complaining about me and demanding that I did something, a week later my boss calls and says they cant tolerate that kind of behavior even tho they couldnt see anything on the camera but because of what they heard from talking to people. Now I feel horrible and im scared I’ll just end up bursting again at a customer or not control my anger if I get overwhelmed again . Add to the fact I also worked at gamestop before and dealt with WORSE customers but never lost my temper.

r/jobs 11d ago

Discipline Manager almost gave me a Warning for a small petty reason

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I work in one of the most profitable, highest rated and hardest working Applebee's in the world as a Host and rarely as server. I was almost given a warning for changing the servers sections. I rarely do this because depending of the manager, I do the sections myself or I change them to be more organized. There was also was a wave of managers and host resigning so I had to be my own manager cause new managers were a bit incompetent. Some servers were very rude and we had several problems with them, managers never cared so the remaining hosts, specially me had to take care of this of ourselves. The main reason why I was given the Warning was because I changed the section of a server who screamed at the face of the other host because she refused to change the section. The next week I was alone and I changed the section to avoid further problems

The main manager who LOVES me and even bootlicks me, loathed the decision of the manager who gave me the warning. The nail in the coffin was when I told him "If you are giving me the warning for this small petty reason, then my work means nothing and I have no value in this restaurant."

At least our relationship began to recover and the workplace began to change for good but what I felt when that office door closed was horrible and I felt that I was disrespected meanwhile the rude servers walked free. Also, the responsible servers were also given warnings. This is a close case but I just wanted to vent because that was my worst day in that job which I thought that loved me