Employee Quits After Being Forced To Work Thanksgiving

Normally, people are given Thanksgiving off, and if you're not, you can usually request it off. Now, we know this isn't the case for all jobs, but in this situation, it was the case.

We all love to take time off to be with family, especially on Thanksgiving and the other holidays around that time. Many of us find ourselves planning vacations to visit family and taking time off for holidays to spend with loved ones.

Many people try to request this time off as early as possible to ensure that no problems arise with getting it approved. As we all know, the earlier, the better, because many people travel or need time off for the holidays.

With this being said, a lot of businesses like to remain open on these holidays to increase their sales, but staffing can be a problem. Because many people travel or request time off for the holidays, many managers find it difficult to schedule a full staff on these days.

That's exactly what happened in this situation, but the worker was forced to work on Thanksgiving despite having asked for time off and receiving approval. Here's a look into this ridiculous story and how the employee quit their job.

Thanksgiving is a time when many people like to request off to spend time with their loved ones instead of working.

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Matt seems to be the boss, and the girl is sharing these screenshots from their conversation the day she quit her job.

As you can see, Matt is saying that he needs her to work, but she responds by stating that she's already approved for that weekend off.

He then proceeds to tell her that he scheduled her on the two days she was approved off.

We admire her stance because she didn't budge at all on working Thanksgiving.

The ultimatum clearly didn't work out as he thought it would.

Matt proceeds to threaten her job and tells her it's non-negotiable. She then responds by saying that she quits and won't be coming to her shift that night either.

People then started commenting on the situation.

This is exactly how we would have responded because he needs to put everything in writing.

NumbSurprise

This is true; there was no negotiation, and he's probably very mad at himself.

grinberB

I'm not sure why bosses ever threaten our jobs because they will always end up with the short end of the stick after we quit.

Possible-Whole45

That's exactly what it was, and I'm glad that we can all see through it.

Bouldaru

Managers just make it so hard on themselves when it comes to scheduling. If you can't schedule, then just don't open. It's a holiday anyway.

Joshbob101

Looks like Matt is going to lose a couple of his employees before he realizes what he's doing wrong.

BasTidChiken

I agree with this 100% because if you don't have a full staff, then just close.

SeraphymCrashing

Yep, you won.

blursed_sponge

He thought that it would encourage her to come in so that she could maintain her job, but it doesn't always work out this way.

Vargoroth

These are both huge problems that we see often in businesses like this.

Captain-Price69

Someone asked for an update, and we are not disappointed at all.

littlehollie

Well, this was an interesting story. Unfortunately, this happens a lot.

After hearing about this situation, I think many of us would have done the exact same thing that she did. Obviously, this boss had this blow up in his face, and it didn't go at all as he had planned.

Ultimately, we can see that the employee obviously didn't mind, and she's content with her decision.