Today I let 2 of my cleaning clients go because...

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1. shitty message from one complaining half an hour spent scrubbing their limescale crusted shower screen wasn’t long enough.
   I even take a toothbrush to get in the awkward parts. To me it was gleaming. How can I clean a 3 bed house & iron in 2 hours if 1/2 hour on the shower isn’t long enough. They were there so timed me !
   & has I nicked their used cleaning cloths ? I hadn’t.
   £10 ph they can scrub their own shit.

2. customer complained because I hadn’t found the shoe insoles they had asked me to look for whilst cleaning

What has made you leave a job ?

I left a shitty job with controlling narcacist micromanager. Healthcare professional and wasn’t allowed to leave forceps by sharps container to remove needles and scalpel blades.
I should have walked out a couple years earlier - I am ashamed I didn’t.
I am just. In awe of those of you who upped sticks and went !

I was in uni and working pt for my BF father. He was short staffed and I wanted the experience, didn’t really need the money. I found out I was pregnant and BF wanted a termination. I didn’t know what I wanted but wanted to think about it before making a decision. Went into the office the next day and had boss/dad storm at me calling me every name under the and going on about how I was going to ruin his sons life. He screamed at me if I didn’t get rid of the baby I could forget about working for him. I burst out crying and some of the other woman in the office told him he was out of order. I went home and cut all contact with them all. They had made my mind up for me and I was going to have my baby. Sadly Mother Nature had other ideas.

These are appalling. How an earth do they get anyone to work for them?

Good for you OP

flabbymomey oh that’s awful and so sad for you. People are unbelievably cruel. Hope that life has been kinder to you since. 💐

I left a job at a gp surgery because I was shouted and sworn at all day and I dreaded getting up in the morning and going to work.

I walked out of a job in a government benefit call centre, the entitlement of the callers was unbelievable and they’d scream at you and put their kids on the phone and say things like “tell them why they won’t be getting any Christmas presents this year”, there were at least twice as many staff as they actually needed so you were bored out of your mind waiting for something to do, the bureaucracy was beyond belief, there was about 4 weeks of health and safety training before you even found out which department you’d be working in and the wastage was obscene, for example you has to print customer addresses on to sticky labels to send forms out, so they’d use a whole sheet of sticky labels for 1 address and throw the rest of the sheet away.

I walked out of another job because of the business owner bullying me (therefore no one to complain to - small business), generally chipping away at me for months eg I was evil because I was a vegetarian, I had no status in society as I lived with my partner, unmarried...it sounds funny now to write it down but it was constant micro managing and needling at me... I was the only person who could do the job too so I really left them in the shit! Found out she'd done it to others before me (always women) and made customers cry before!

Nannewnannew I really hope they don't exist, it was in the early 2000's. I still find it upsetting when I think about it. The fees were really expensive, so I'm sure the families thought their relatives were being cared for. The other horrible thing was when residents would have lucid moments and would complain to their family about the way they were treated. The manager used to say it was their dementia and they were making stuff up. Just awful.

Company I worked for paid someone specifically to inspect the catch on every fishing boat to decide if they were taking it or not-quality assessment. This guy was getting a good hourly rate as it was unsociable hours. I was a manager and worked all the hours for a shitty salary (20 years ago). Said employee went out on the piss that night and switched his pager off (yes it was that long ago) and my pager was going off all through the fucking night. I was back and forward to the fucking harbour all night. Also had a 6 month old as was just back after maternity leave.
I was half an hour late going in on the morning and my boss made a sarcastic remark.
I very calmly put my bag down and followed him to his office and told what kind of night I'd had. His response was "well boys will be boys". Then sat back in his chair with hands behind his head smirking )I can still see him now!!)
I went downstairs and took my work keys off my key ring and went upstairs and threw them across the desk at him and told him EXACTLY where he could stick his job and walked out.
3 weeks later I got a letter asking "after a period for mature reflection when would I be coming back" I wrote back and said "when hell freezes over" 😂

I hope you told that boss "you mean to say that I do x amount of labels but YOU seem to think I need a fools proof dummy diagram of how to fill one in - duh?!. Cos I don't think I would be nice about it. I'd be diplomatic but in no uncertain words, I'd have told him and he'd know not to do that again. However, one would have to ensure they get it 100% right also lol.

I used to work as a freelance groom and I had to quit working for one client because after asking me to bath her horse for her she then gave me step by step instructions on how to do it including the fact she wanted me to use warm water. I had no issue with this but she then sent me further step by step instructions on how to make warm water which is apparently mixing water from the hot tap and the cold tap... I was literally like really

It was the tip of the iceberg on what a complete control freak she was

I tried to resign from my first ever job, waitressing at a pub run by a woman who was famed for being horrible to her staff. I shouldn’t have taken the job but it was within walking distance which is like gold dust when you live in a village! I admittedly made a couple of mistakes but we had no training and working for her was constantly treading on eggshells. I’d had enough after a couple of weeks (after 2 weeks of her taking over the pub she’d made all 6 of her new waitresses cry) so I very politely told her I didn’t think it was for me and I thought we’d both be better off if I looked for something else. She basically brushed it off, told me I’d be absolutely fine and then about 10 days later told me and another girl that we wouldn’t be coming back tomorrow. I wouldn’t mind if I’d gone really downhill but I’d actually been getting better!

1. I was a project manager at a software company. My boss was about 40ish, but as I was barely 20 he seemed very old (haha). We had 2 famous conversations, both in open plan office and yes, everyone heard of course. One was when he said he "deserves respect because he is older" and I automatically replied that "because your parents fucked sooner I don't think so". I still have no idea how he didn't fire me then and there. I would have deserved it. I'd never say something like that now. And the second was the day I resigned. We had an argument over work as we couldn't agree on how to do something. And he said "well, if you don't like it you can quit!". And in about 30 seconds I did just that. He didn't believe me and thought I was joking, but when I scribbled I resign on a piece of paper he was genuinely surprised.

ANother time I resigned because the account manager left and I was doing that work too for many months and I had the great pleasure to consolidate the account and try to get circa £1m in from old invoices. After months of negotiations with the Client I managed to get in about 3/4. This was end of November. My boss got a great 5 digit bonus and I got a Thank you for your hard work card for Xmas. I was told I'd get about 10% of what I manage to bring in (as it was already written off and no-one thought that any of it is recoverable).

Oh forgot my favourite one a few years back. Got a contract at a digital agency as a PM. Went in Monday, boss showed me the couch as they had no space for me. No computer either, or anything basically. I had my laptop with me. Around 2pm someone comes over asks what I'm doing on the couch all day. I told her that I was waiting for someone to tell me who my manager is. Boss disappeared after chowing the couch and no HR person, nobody knew who I was and why I was hired.
So thin woman starts telling me that there is X process, which could be made better. I asked if she wanted me to look into it and she said yes. Fine, give me names to talk to and I'll be on my merry way.
Next day I interviewed ppl in the office I was supposed to and then started looking for this woman to discuss. No luck. Wednesday midday I finally found her and started to discuss what I found. She started screaming at me in front of about 15 ppl about what an idiot I am and why was I even contracted and I should just fuck off (her words). I just had to laugh and walked off. Invoiced them 3 days of course. I still don't understand the whole thing to be fair.

Left a bar job because the manger had a go at me for not selling enough shots.

He told me ‘you’ve got tits, use them to our advantage’ urgh.

I made up my mind to quite a job when my bullying manager smirkingly asked if I knew the father of my child (yes I did). I left with a compramise agreement and enough money to start a new business. He later developed a rather unpleasant disease and I think it was perhaps karma coming around.

You don't need that shit, leave.

I have one person I 'employ' a casual gardener, he has made such a difference to my life, he decides what he needs to do.

Some people just don't deserve to be in a position of power.

This was a top hospital in the Uk ...
There were cockroaches on the desk in traps every morning , one of the senior managers wrote things on the whiteboard such as ‘ they are all a bunch of idiots ‘, people screamed at colleagues regularly , the finance department could not tell ever whether an invoice had been paid ( huge fraud was subsequently discovered) and this is just the top of the iceberg... I left and just to reassure you none of the staff I talk about went anywhere near any patients - just as well !

because your parents fucked sooner I don't think so

math anxiety really: shower doors, cleaning of, I use either Mr Muscle or Asda Shower Cleaner - spray and leave on after shower - miraculous results! But once a month I start some kind of row with OH, manipulate an apology and get him to do a thorough shower and bathroom clean with the Karcher! Splendid tool (?) but somewhat heavy for my limp wrists!

I left an 'events coordinator' job when I was asked to go outside of the venue in the evening and walk the streets of Soho asking for peoples email addresses. And the agreed wage (£9.50 p/h) had gone down to minimum wage at the time about £6 p/h for the first 12weeks while I was training. Bye.

@FrozenMargarita17 was that members of the public shouting at you, or practice staff? Presumably it was the patients not the GPs?!!

I had a boss in my first job (privately owned architects office) who used to put all the wastepaper bins in the safe overnight, and go through them in the morning before anyone came in. He also used to go through our drawers. He was a real prude so I always made sure there were tampons scattered about in my drawer

plenty of snotty tissues in the bin, I hope.

I previously worked at a place where the company doctor advised, if you had a cold, tissues should be put in a large envelope during the day, and at the end of the day, the envelope sealed and put in the bin. Avoided the risk of cleaners handling them.

I'm going to resign from my admin job tomorrow.. Its actually quite a nice admin job. The issue is that admin wasn't mentioned at all on the job description or at the interview. I thought I was signing up for something entirely different. Its been a pretty dire 6 months.