Psycho Managers Make Things Hard
“Burger King.
This one manager (who kept reminding everyone he was so hot because he had a diploma in business):
He would roster teenage girls to close the restaurant, alone. This is midnight (sometime later) when we were usually hit with wasted and rowdy people after a night out.
He gave me shifts during school hours (I was 16 and in high school), or try to have me work till midnight during the week ‘because he’s trying to run a business and I should be grateful for a job.’ He went crazy when I told him school would always take priority over my job, and it’s how his predecessor sold me the role.
An older employee (late 40’s?) slipped and badly hurt her back.
She was crying in the lunch room in pain. The manager kept yelling at her to get up and back to work because we were busy. In the end, I told her to go home and I did her shift – he went off at me because he didn’t authorize it, and therefore wasn’t going to pay me.
Eight people quit in two weeks, including me.
The restaurant fell to pieces and they moved this guy to another restaurant. I was offered a pay raise and a promotion when I quit, but alas, it was too late and I went to work in a toy store (best job ever!).”