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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Quirky-Fix9203 on 2025-06-22 20:03:49+00:00.
When I was 18 my first job was at new ice cream place that’s known for making and mixing their own ice cream in shop, very popular at the time (not sure if they still are I haven’t had it since this incident 11 years ago)
My manager was only two years older then me and everyone that worked in the store was relatively young so you can imagine the politics and the way things where ran, lots of favoritism and what not, I informed my manager four weeks in advance the dates I needed off as I was going on a trip for my birthday, put in the request and got it approved.
Everything went as planned, enjoyed my couple days on vacation and my first day back there was a weird feeling in the air like something was gunna happen, little did I know it was to me. We had a staff meeting the day I got back which seemed to be centered around this new rule that even if we got time off and it was approved we where responsible for making sure our shifts where covered, at this point I KNOW they weren’t talking about me because I gave him FOUR weeks notice that I wouldn’t be here for those three days, the. Akes the schedules a week in advance so he had plenty time to figure it out.
The meeting ends and me and one other person where scheduled to open, I notice that a new person and my manager stayed behind as everyone else left but figured he was training, my shift was going well until about around the time I needed to go to lunch, a family of 6 people piled into the store and I began taking their order, out to the corner of my eye I see my manger in the doorway of the connecting back room giving my the “come here” finger, I apologize to the customers and tell them give. E a sec I gotta grab an ice cream flavor that wasn’t out from the back, I get back there and say what’s up I got a big family I gotta finish then need to clock out for lunch which he saw, what the hell could be that important they he had to interrupt, well it was him firing me for not having those three days covered, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, basically he said I was being let go because even though I had gotten approved for the time off I needed my shifts covered, I didn’t understand why I was even on the schedule to begin with if I had sent in the time off and told him four weeks in advance to avoid this situation in the first place! I knew he had messed up and probably forgot as I had seen him do that in the past, he told me to finish up with the family and I could leave, I was beyond pissed but put on my fake smile and went back to finish helping out the family, and wouldn’t you know it, it was their lucky day! They all got upgraded to extra larges, with any mix in’s completely free! All 6 of them, on the house compliments of my manager who just fired me, I clocked out, collected my tips from that overly happy family and have not been back since. In hindsight I should have probably made a bigger deal cuz he is the one that messed up, but the look on his face when I gave away all that free ice cream and told them to thank him for it was priceless, plus that job sucked