Have you ever left a job because your boss was a liar and backstabbing?

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Have you ever left a job because your boss was a liar and backstabbing?
 
If you stay long enough they will force you out before you decide to find an other job and leave…
 
I was a cook and I worked for tips, and I had to leave because someone took my job without me being told ahead of time. That ten dollars a week (that is not hyperbole, that is about what I made) was not worth arguing over something like that.
 
One of my first high school jobs was at a movie theater. I found out my boss, the manager, was embezzling and I didn’t want to be anywhere near him or that place after the news of it traveled through the grapevine of the employees and we all found out. I quit immediately after hearing of it, not wanting to be associated with a criminal, and he was arrested that same week.
 
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Have you ever left a job because your boss was a liar and backstabbing?
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Yes, my first full time job was as a cook, a position I held for four years at the same restaurant. Halfway through this tenure, as well as cooking full time, I had taken over the ordering, processing the invoices, and sometimes did the payroll. The place sold several times during my time there and I always got along well with the new owners. The last company who bought us, though, decided I was worth only slightly more than minimum wage so cut my salary but expected me to carry on with all the extra work.

I chose a Friday to leave my key and a letter of resignation in the office, met my friends at the bar across the street, and got plastered for the rest of the afternoon.
 
No. I vet the companies I work for.

If I had somehow unknowingly gone to work for a person with such vices, I would document and escalate through Human Resources.
 
I was a teacher for a year. The district superintendent was misusing federal vocational funds. I reported him and he was fired, but I chose to leave the school district beforehand to stay out of the line of fire from the school board who loved him.
 
When I was a very new nurse we got a new Director who had backstabbed her way to get to the job, then reshuffled everybody’s assignment to less desirable positions.

So I shrugged and left (those were the days when a nurse would get hired on the spot during the interview).

Two years later the corporation that owned that chain of nursing homes went belly up, sold out and the new bosses brought in all their own people to replace all the administrative staff.

Sigh
 
How about if I did the backstabbing? 😒🗡️

One summer in my college years, I worked in unskilled construction labor (unloading supply trucks, cleaning up after the trade workers). I give the boss credit where it is due; he didn’t lie. Right up front, he told the job applicants “We’re paying less than minimum wage. Take it or leave it.” I needed the job, so I took it.

At the end of the summer, I visited the regional office of the US Department of Labor and reported them. They assured me that my name would not be revealed to the employer; there was no need, as the company paid by check and the payroll records could be audited.

A few months later, I got a check in the mail to bring my pay up to minimum wage. I assume all my work mates were similarly compensated.
 
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Sounds like typical Upper Management to me…

My immediate Supervisor is cool though 🙂
 
Unfortunately that does not work in most small or minimum paid jobs. They either don’t have the resources to have HR or are so small there is no real fair resolution.
 
I had a supervisor that had big time narcissistic personality disorder. She would steal to make someone look bad. I could go on about her condition and what I went through for hours.

I have great benefits and a government pension in the works, I wasn’t going anywhere. Instead, I fought her tooth and nail. I gave everything back she gave me after I finally had enough. She ended up leaving, not me. It took a heavy toll on both of us.

It was a learning experience that I apparently needed. I considered therapy for a while afterward. I think most people caught on to her in the end. She left her “perfect job” and came back for another two years. Thankfully I was at another position. She quit again at the end of last year.

If I had to do it all over again, I would read some books and respond differently. I still pray for her occasionally when I read something about praying for an enemy, and she was that, a humdinger of an enemy.
 
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Doing the just thing, assisting those who protect people, is a noble thing. It is never “backstabbing”.
 
For very small companies, it is not difficult to assess their reputation in the local community, to do research before you apply.
 
Not really betrayed, just incompetent. Years ago in high school I had s job at a movie theatre. I was taking summer school phys ed to get it out of the way so I made it very, very, clear that I could not work morning shifts for the first month or so. I get my schedule and there are like 4 morning shifts over the next 2 weeks. I tried reminding them I couldn’t do any of those shifts, and they said they’d change it. They didn’t. I obviously missed a few days that I couldn’t swap with others. 6 weeks later the bosses get mad since I’ve missed a bunch of shifts. We both decide I’m not going to be working there anymore
 
Yup. To me, you work to live, not live to work. Just quit and find another one where you don’t work for a nasty person. There are some great bosses out there, and you’ll be much happier.
 
You are right, of course. I was perhaps a whistle-blower, and a minor one, at that.

Still, it’s significant that most of the workers did not want to blow the whistle because they had agreed to work for the sub-minimum wage offered. They didn’t want to go back on their word, to be thought of as a liar and therefore lose respect. The devil’s logic, I guess.

The Dept. of Labor sees it otherwise. Our consent to work for a sub-minimum wage did not diminish our rights nor prevent the restoration of our just wages.
 
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