Employee working overtime for 2 weeks quits after boss refuses to acknowledge their effort

An employee (u/kennyr101), who had been working overtime for weeks, decided to quit their job almost immediately after the manager refused to acknowledge their labor.

The ex-worker had been working for a pub for 5 years and once had to work overtime for 2 straight weeks without any breaks. "No days off, no breaks, just quick 5-minute smoke breaks where possible. I was working 16.5 hours a day and was, as you can imagine, exhausted," they wrote. On one of these busy days, the worker was reprimanded by the area manager for requesting extra staff. The ex-employee informed her about the amount of work they had had to cover, but she refused to believe them. "I looked at her in disbelief and said, 'I'm going on my break; I'll be back in 1 hour,' and left the building," they recalled. An hour later, they returned only to see a different area manager. "I walked in, handed over my keys, and said the words 'I quit,' explained why, and walked out," the ex-worker wrote. Moving on, they explained that in their 39 years of career, they had never quit a job on the spot. "I have always given and worked my notice and left in good standing. It's true, people don't quit jobs, they quit managers," they added. The worker left with $3,800 for 2 weeks' work and landed a new job within 48 hours.

Sadly, most employees today report feeling undervalued at the office. In fact, the State of the Employee Experience 2024 report by Cognexo revealed 45% of working professionals feel undervalued by their employers. However, while the ex-worker could gather the courage to quit, most continue with their dead-end jobs, fearing financial insecurity. Meanwhile, reacting to the Reddit story, u/tonysnark81 recalled, "I once walked away from a job with 4 hours' notice. I’d gotten a new job with better pay, guaranteed hours, and much more freedom from oversight. I wrote an absolutely scathing letter of resignation, condemning the manager, district manager, and the entire store staff for the absolutely absurd lack of professionalism in the store. As I’d expected, the letter never made it out of the store. So I emailed it to every single person in the company I could find an email ID. I later heard that the district manager was written up, the store manager and most of the team in my former store were investigated, and the store manager lost her job. I ran into her a few years ago in my current store. She was shocked to see I’m now a senior training store manager and even more pissed when she learned I was in training for a district position. That was one of my more fun days at work."

u/talkingbackagain shared, "The manager will have to explain why her operations tanked after you left, and she'll have to hire 3 to 4 people to replace you; at least 2 of them will quit because 'f*** that job.' A coworker of mine got laid off because his direct manager was also laid off and they were on the same team. The coworker was doing his job; there were no complaints about him. In a deliberately unprofessional act of 'f*** you very much,' which he is very capable of, he wrote the entire chain of command up to and including the CEO, in which he, in great exhausting detail, explained what a complete f***-up that manager [not his direct manager, the guy who fired them] had been, richly documented with evidence. That manager was fired shortly after. Strangely, a few years later, he came back to the company [the manager], but not in a management role. The two guys who got fired became consultants and made serious bank."

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