Today, while buying paint, I began to help an elderly woman working to lift some heavy boxes. She told me what a nice young lady I was. Then her boss came over, screamed at her for being lazy and fired her. She cried. So did I. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at work, I helped out an employee who was having trouble. I even bought her a bottle of water. After the production manager decided to fire her on the spot, she went out in the parking lot and broke into several cars, including mine. FML
Today, an old lady came to the bank where I worked at to apply for a loan. She obviously didn't qualify for one as she has no income coming in. She looked so pitiful, so I changed a couple of her information so she could. She reported me and I got fired. FML
Today, at my new job, a coworker offered to help me mop the floors since she wasn't busy. I ended up getting written up by my boss for supposedly being too lazy and making other people finish my work. FML
Today, I was at work as a cashier. An old lady unbagged everything I had, and angrily "taught" me how to bag. She put potatoes on her eggs and broke them. She then screamed that I was useless and retarded in front of all my other customers and manager. FML
Today, I was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML
Today, my boss came around to my way of thinking. He called our customers a "bunch of assholes" and to kick them out if they gave me trouble. When a lady began yelling at me for "setting the damn prices too high" I told her to leave. My boss soon bitched me out for being unprofessional. FML
Today, I got in an argument with my boss and I dared him to fire me because he has always said he couldn’t run the shop without me. Turns out he was just being nice all this time, my job could in fact be done by his 14 year-old niece with no training in two thirds the time. Yes, he fired me. FML
Today, I was short shifted at work because one of my employees decided not to show up. Furious, I wrote her up and made predetermined judgments about her. When she came in, I went off on her for being absent and leaving me stuck. She then informed me her mom tried to commit suicide. FML
Today, while I was walking home, I noticed an elderly man in a wheel chair trying to paint his garage so I went over to help. His response was verbal abuse and a slap to the face with a wet paint brush. FML
Today, I assisted my first customer at my first job as a Target cashier. When I rang up this lady's items and gave her the total, not only did she hiss at me and spit in my face, but she also dragged my manager over and demanded that he fire me. He did. FML
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harrypotter955 19
Kick him in the nuts
cr3ativity 15
**** everyone's lives. But really? Just this instance of helping an employee led to said employee's termination? What the serious ****.
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Comments (205)
mackdeezy 22
Sounds like something walmart would do. Im serious, i do believe this was in the contract when i was working there.
bettyboop428 24
Actually, if you are physically incapable of heavy lifting or long periods of standing, Walmart is really great about finding a workable position for you. They are assholes about a lot of things, but this is not one of them.
pink_raindrops 26
They might have a thing about not letting costumers help you in the contract you sign before you start working there. If for whatever reason the OP dropped the heavy paint on themselves, causing injury, while helping the employee the company might be liable and I'm sure that's something they would want to avoid. I think it would be understandable for them to make it clear that it's not ok because it could be dangerous when dealing with heavy objects.
jgriff79 23
They are required to do that under the Americans with disability act.
thehershman24 1
Why would you ever do that to that poor old woman. Your supposed to let the woman do her job and you need to respect the elderly
TellMeWhatsDeath 14
You must be joking.. 1)YOU'RE** 2) That was NOT disrespect. She was helping the poor old lady. 3) You must be an idiot.
DanielleinDC 34
You, sir, are an asshole. I think it IS showing respect to the elderly to help them if they are unable or have trouble performing a task. If an elderly person gets on a bus and looks like s/he needs a seat, I offer my seat. If they decline, no harm, no foul. The elderly woman in question was clearly grateful for the help, and the boss is an asshole for 1) having an elderly employee lifting heavy boxes and 2) firing her for getting help before he found out the facts of the case. And as #46 pointed out, the proper way to handle it would be for the manager to tell the OP that while he appreciates her kindness, he can't have her lifting boxes because of liability issues if she gets hurt and that he will have another employee help the old lady with the boxes or shift the woman to a job that doesn't require lifting.
kurodansei 16
Woah chill 90% sure this is sarcasm we're dealing with here.
hawright 13
Perhaps I'm being the asshole here, but most jobs specify whether or not the job requires weight lifting. With the facts presented, one cannot determine if the boss is this terrible person or if he needed to fire her because she was consistently not doing her job. Money is always the bottom line and I wouldn't pay someone that doesn't do their job.
lalalalala2010 3
I highly doubt an elderly women would be hired for jobs requiring lifting from the get-go if a random bystander like OP can tell she is having a hard time doing so.
heliraptor 13
Well, there's really no way to know if she was doing her job or not, but if you want to look at it from a business pov, wouldn't it be a good thing that she was getting some help? Her work would be getting done faster, and the boss wouldn't have an extra person to pay for it. And on the heavy lifting subject, jobs nowadays are harsh. The good ones are few and far between. I know a girl that's 18 years old, no taller than 5'2 or 5'3, and she works as a package handler at UPS. Which involves lifting packages up to 75 pounds, which is probably more than double her body weight. Why? Because she lives on her own and has bills to pay. There's no easy she could do it on her own, but the bigger guys at the plant get the really big ones got her. Why? Because people help people, it's what we do. I'm not sure where this post of from or if their economy is as bad as ours, but jobs in America are hard to come by, people are taking what they can get. And maybe this woman just wasn't doing her work, or maybe she just didn't sleep well the night before, but I don't think she was the one in the wrong here.
beehardxcore 26
75 pounds is double her weight? I call bullshit.
iShanny 13
If the job did, in fact, REQUIRE heavy lifting, then it begs the question: Why hire her in the first place?
heliraptor 13
83, I meant half, that was my bad. Thanks.
Carmstro 13
83, even if that wasn't a mistake, ever heard of an exaggeration? I got the point. Take a seat.
etchsanity1 11
Maybe the boxes weren't her job ? I have had experiences where people are hired for one dept or position and will wander around working but never doing what they were hired for. For all we know she wasn't fired because getting help was being lazy or causing her to not do her job, perhaps she was being fired because she was avoiding her actual job or position after all an accountant or sales agent etc is usually paid more than the box boy.
heliraptor 13
Agreed, I wish OP could have been a bit more specific. I mean either way though, the boss was still an ass for yelling at her like that. She still deserved to be treated respectfully. On a completely unrelated note, please tell me that that's a real tattoo, because it's ******* awesome, haha.
etchsanity1 11
Lol not to thread jack yeah it's a real piece but to let you down a bit it's being removed too limiting in the workplace where I live at. I love the tattoo but I want a job I can make a career out of and support a family on one day.
heliraptor 13
Ah, bummer /: but it's perfectly understandable, a very good reason indeed. Good luck with the removal, and the job search! You're right though, done with the threadjacking, sorry everyone.
docscientist 10
You totally missed the point, 18, and I hope you're never a boss with an attitude like that.
vbmg152 19
Elderly? Or older than you?
TellMeWhatsDeath 14
I'm pretty sure it said elderly..
Rogersmoonshine 7
Soul-less employers... You gotta love 'em... 9_9;
_krystallynn_ 11
or you could just hate them because they're shitsacks.
daniel_dd31 13
It's people like her boss that make everyone hate there lives.
brackaman 18
There are lives over there? Awesome! I was down to my last one in Mario.
lalalalala2010 3
This is not only FML but also highly disturbing... Is there a more senior manager person you can talk to or maybe call the corporate number for the store?
simoncat 11
No. No. No. You were doing the good deed. The boss is an asshole. Please tell me you left the paint and bought it elsewhere. Write a letter to their corporate headquarters and DEMAND the boss be reprimanded and the elderly woman be rehired. Things like this are all too common and we need to stand up for the good things and punish the wrongdoers.
lilhellian 27
I get the feeling the boss wanted a reason to fire her.. Simply to hire a friend or something...
darth_luke 8
She's much better off at another job..