Boomer employee who bullied juniors for years gets fired when new employee refuses to back down

We might have encountered that one person at work who believes their way is always the right way. Such employees often insist on doing things their way, regardless of whether it makes sense and sometimes, they get a taste of their own medicine. u/PM_ur_SWIMSUIT, a newly hired night auditor, talked about a similar situation. They mentioned a boomer employee, Bessie, who worked at a hotel for fifteen years as the breakfast attendant and how controlling she could be during her shift. However, it did not last long after the arrival of the night auditor.

"So Bessie has been working at this hotel for fifteen years as the breakfast attendant for the little buffet we have here. If you've ever been to a Holiday Inn Express or a Best Western, you now have a clear idea of what I'm talking about. In all those years, Bessie has been able to bully every night auditor into doing half the breakfast set up before she arrives," the employee started his post.

They further added, "Bessie had them setting out or refilling cold/dry food, condiments, plates, plasticware, and all sorts of other stuff at 3 am. If it wasn't all done when she came in at 4 am, there would be all sorts of yelling, screaming and threats of being fired." Even though Bessie wasn't supposed to be in charge of this stuff, as someone else handled scheduling and ordering, she'd managed to convince everyone otherwise.

Everything was going smoothly for Bessie until the arrival of the new night auditor, who wasn't having any of her bullying. "At no other hotel I've ever worked at in the last 19 years had night audit doing anything like this. So I run it like any other night audit and just make new coffee at 3 am," they wrote. That's when Bessie arrived. "She tried telling me all the stuff I was 'supposed' to do and I told her none of that makes any sense. Leaving food out for three hours before breakfast is hazardous. So is turning on the waffle irons and oven. Just energy waste and fire hazards all over. Bessie tells me I'm being 'too smart' and have to 'watch my tone speaking to elders,'" the new employee added.

As Bessie threw tantrums about lazy young people and outdated complaints, "After that every morning when Bessie comes in she throws her tantrum screaming about how lazy young people are, no one wants to work, all the usual boomer greatest hits," they said precisely. It continued for three weeks, with Bessie getting more and more frustrated. Finally, Bessie decided to pull out the big guns and went straight to the general manager, demanding that either the new auditor get fired or she would quit.

The manager told her, "That's not going to happen. He counters that if she couldn't handle breakfast anymore, she could move over to housekeeping or laundry," which Bessie did not like a bit. "This sent Bessie into a rage, she yelled and then started crying before walking out. Then returning an hour later more composed, speaking to the hotel manager behind closed doors and leaving again crying."

Eventually, Bessie was off the schedule, and Melanie, who usually covered Bessie's schedule, took over the breakfast duties. "Tonight when I clocked in, Bessie was off the schedule, Melanie was on all week for breakfast and second shift told me Bessie was fired," the new auditor concluded their post. People in the comments didn't hold back and shared their experiences. "'Nobody wants to work anymore' comes from someone complaining about having to do their job u/Tha_Real_B_Sleazy. "It honestly pisses me off because boomers will bitch and moan about how 'lazy' millennials and Gen Z are, yet most of the laziest coworkers I've met were boomers," added u/GrandTheftNatto.