Short-Staffed
Me and a friend both worked at a small neighborhood liquor store. The store was always short-staffed. The manager would call me or my buddy and demand we come in for a shift on days we weren’t scheduled. This happened very often.
My buddy got diagnosed with leukemia and had to quit. Less than a week later they “forgot” to pay me. When the manager called me into work (a shift I wasn’t scheduled for) I said I would only come in if they paid me what I was owed.
The manager said I was being “difficult” and “immature” and fired me over the phone. The owner got so mad at the manager for firing one of their only employees, he fired her. In the span of a week, they lost over half of their workforce.
I went into the store the next week to pick up my final pay cheques, the owner (who was forced to work behind the till at this point) offered me my job back with a $0.25/hr raise. I said no. Story credit: Reddit / jsmys