"What was your final “f*ck you” to a boss you didn’t like?"
Time To Celebrate!!!
"My co-worker bought cake and ice cream for the office."
"Someone asked what we were celebrating.. and he said his last day."- garethrory
Some People Can't Appreciate How Good They Have It...
"I was thinking about quitting but was holding back."
"I scheduled a vacation with three extra days. It was a once-in-a-lifetime type of trip."
"He rejected my vacation request."
"I thought about it for a couple of hours."
"Went to his office and told him 'I'm taking the trip no matter what'."
"The next morning the boss met me at hr and gave me a formal written warning."
"I responded by giving him my 2 week's notice."
"They apologized and tried to convince me not to leave but it was too late."- likn16
I Hate It Here Reaction GIF by CBSGiphyI'm Out!
"I worked at a dry cleaner for a summer."
"Front desk, cash under table type of job."
"I worked 50 hours one week and he told me he'd pay me time and a half for the OT."
"I go into work on payday and my cash envelope is not in the drawer."
"I called him and asked about it and he told me he couldn't pay me for my work yet."
"I kindly informed him that I was taking the money I was owed, and locking up the shop, and left."- DiamondHandDwight
To Think She Didn't Even Notice...
"My boss and I had butted heads a few times after she took over the office."
"After finding a much better job I handed her a list of my job responsibilities, which she asked for because she didn't understand what I did there."
"'This is too much, we'd have to distribute all this to like 4 different people'."
"And I said 'yea' and walked out."
"Spoiler: she didn't do any of that and was fired less than a year later as the office was falling apart."- ijustcomment
Beat Them At Their Own Game
"I gave him a two-hour notice when I quit."
"He had a habit of firing people on the spot when they gave advance notice."- California_Sun1112
homer simpson evidence GIFGiphyThere's A Time And A Place...
"Working retail I quit at the register on Black Friday."
"I had recently gotten another full-time job and was keeping this retail gig because I liked the employee discount and due to my other job this check was pure fun money, all that is to say I didn't need the retail job."
"My store manager comes over at hour 7 of my shift, with chaos and a line 100 people long, and has the nerve to tell me my up-sales (fishing for promo signups, i.e. rewards, credit cards etc) weren't cutting it for how much traffic I was seeing."
"In front of the customers!"
"I already couldn't stand this B so I said, 'You know what you do it, I'm done' and then I apologized to my coworkers on the way out."- GreedoInASpeedo
You Made The Mess, You Clean It Up...
"As far as my life goes it was the sh*ttiest job I ever took."
"Long hours, a lot of crunch, no company vehicle and a lot of travel."
"Every time I'd go to a different site I would get like 20 different phone numbers for the various people I was communicating with."
"Anyway so all of the contacts for these people was on my company phone that was synched up to my personal Gmail (which stored all the phone numbers)."
"At some point management decided my job was redundant and decided to lay me off without notice and without severance."
"First thing I did was wipe my company phone clean before handing it over."
"A few days later they called me asking where all the contact information was stored."
"'Sorry I don't work for you anymore'."- garlicroastedpotato
Season 3 Nbc GIF by The OfficeGiphyNo Man Left Behind...
"I worked hard over the course of a year to get all my former coworkers I cared about new jobs."- stebuu
No Uncertain Terms
"My exit interview when I was asked the reason for leaving."
"I simply said their name and nothing more."- mixologist998
The Game's Up!
"Sent them to the feds for Medicare fraud and they got fined 41.7 mil."
"This issue was important to me because the physicians were actively charting that their patients were at high risk for drug abuse, which was not the case."
"They'd drug test every patient every month who were prescribed opiates."
"The standard for high risk is based on the ORT, which lists things like requested early prescriptions (taking too much meds), prior negative test (likely selling on the street), etc."
"This company used stupid criteria, including but not limited to, drinking caffeinated beverages, being a current or former smoker, to place a patient in the high-risk category."
"All I could think of was how this would impact patients if they were to apply for a job with a need for over-the-top security clearance, or the patient who got in a fender bender and was on pain meds for a month, then ended up in a nasty divorce where their medical records were subpoenaed."
"This kind of sh*t wrecks people's lives, and for what?"
"Greed?"
"Yeah, nah."
"Not on board with that."
"When I 1st reported it to corporate compliance, I was sent home with or without pay (?) because I 'had a bad attitude'."
"After I got home, the HR manager called me."
"So I reported her to compliance for attempting to make an hourly staff engage in company business while off the clock and reported her to USDOL wage and hour division."
"She eventually got fired."
"And I got paid for the hours I was sent home."
"At that point, I didn't give a sh*t."
"They pissed me off, they were potentially ruining people's lives with the chart records, and I was being bullied by my employer."
"So I just started firing off chart notes from my desk."
"They eventually locked me out of the system, but by then I'd already found another job and knew I'd sent enough to bury them."
"If faced with the same sh*t again, I'd proceed the exact same way."
"As much as I'd like to have received a cut, at the end of the day I probably helped some patients avoid all kinds of disaster."
"And that's an awesome payout."- Darwina1226
Safety Of Others Over Blackmail...
"Mechanic at a commuter airline."
"Boss wanted me to sign off a plane pre-flight inspection."
"I refused to sign because the plane was not airworthy."
"He told me if I wished to continue working, then I'd better sign."
"My response: 'then I guess I don’t work here anymore'."
"I picked up my tool box and left."
"I did report it to the head of maintenance as well as the FAA."
"I cannot reveal the airline, but rest assured, they have been absorbed by other major airlines several times and are not flying these model of planes any longer."- Griffie
It's always a good idea to stay professional and keep your cool while at work.
But when you're no longer under their employ, nothing should stop you from letting your true feelings be known about a horrible, incompetent, possibly dangerous boss.
Redditor PegBundysBonBons wanted to hear about any job mass exodus people have been involved in. So they asked ex-employees:
"What happened at your work which caused multiple people to all quit at once?"
I once worked at a restaurant where one night the entire back of the house staff just peaced out.
Needless to say, the rest of the shift did not go very smoothly.
Whoops
Melissa Villasenor Oops GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphy"They decided after 6 years it was time to do a drug test. Even lost the CEO in that great idea."
Korvokare
No Show
"The boss went off on a tirade on me for something that wasn’t my fault and I got him to scream 'people like you are expendable pieces in this company and I can replace you tomorrow if I wanted to.'"
"80% of the engineers quit the next day. Simply didn’t show up. Including me."
"From what I know, the entire project folded because my now ex boss couldn’t find people to replace us because no one wanted to do the kind of work he was looking for at the salary he was paying."
richardkim_nyc
Hours Down
"I had worked at a grocery store for about 3 years before moving from Courtesy Clerk (basically bagger + custodian) to Helper Clerk (stocker). The grocery department wanted to save costs on personnel, but couldn't fire anyone or lay anyone off due to the union."
"So they started cutting back hours and literally told us 'when someone quits, everyone else will get more hours.'"
"We were supposed to be 40-hour employees and they had us at 32 hours. 2 people quit and we were down to 24 hours. A third person quit, down to 16 hours. I don't know what their plan was, but they didn't give us more hours as people left."
skribsbb
Bye Felicia...
"Word slipped out that the whole accounting department was being replaced so they all resigned all at once."
Armyofducks94
"My mom's company did that. Decided to outsource all the accounting staff, then was surprised that all the accountants quit, even the ones they wanted to keep on to help transition the books. She was one of the ones they asked to stay, and she refused lol."
Mechfan666
Deep Cuts
Working Work From Home GIF by Bare Tree MediaGiphy"We just had a company wide (except the Directors of course) pay cut of 20% AND a 4 day work week instead of 5. Everyone one including myself are currently looking for work and they will lose their work force oh so quickly."
DkChauncy
Don't mess with people's $$$!!
Liars
Lying The Princess Bride GIF by Disney+Giphy"Promised a bonus at the end of the year. Told everyone they will not be giving out bonuses due to the low company performance."
"Company had a successful year. (Boss was in the middle of building a multi million dollar home, brother in law manager just bought a nice home that year)."
"I quit on the spot. Many others quit soon after."
mariobeans
You're canceled!!
"Canceled all raises and bonuses for everyone except the CEO, his wife (financial and HR), and his son (utterly useless IT) in a year where we have record profits and brought in almost double the clients on top of announcing they aren't looking to hire more people when we were already overwhelmed."
"Good part about it was when the majority of us quit they lost almost every single client shortly afterwards to their competitors and the company is now defunct."
CaptainJudaism
Seattle
"We stopped providing free coffee, and we're so cheap that we sold our coffee maker. This was in Seattle, so a couple of people bought their own coffee makers to put in their cubes. That tripped the breakers several times so it was very disruptive since our computers would shut down. Management then said no coffee allowed in the office at all. We lost four very good engineers."
has-space
Revamp...
"Tattoo shop owner (who lived in another state) hired some a-hole to come ‘revamp’ the shop. I had been managing for three years at this point, and he just expected me to teach him how to do my job so he could replace me."
"That guy had no clue how to run a shop. Plus the owner had been embezzling money for her drug habit and had blamed the longest-standing artist at the shop for lost revenue."
"Accused him of stealing. I did the books. No one was stealing. She was nuts."
"Anyway, all the artists and I mutinied and left at the same time. F**ked them over good. With that idiot at the helm the shop didn’t last a year after we all left."
ScumBunny
Gross Behavior
Super Bowl Ok GIF by PepsiGiphy"They laid off half the company with no warning. This included a gentleman who was less than a year from retirement and had been there for 35+ years. The company was shocked when half the remaining people abandoned ship shortly thereafter."
Aloretta_Dethly
Some of these companies will never learn.
Do you have any similar experiences? Let us know in the comments below.
Reddit user Tacoma__Crowasked:
"What was the oddest job you’ve had and why?"
Lemons for the Queen doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, honestly.
Weight Ballast
"In small rural town, I (15M) close to 200lbs got a job as a farm Hand expecting to work planting and harvesting."
"I was quite a large athletic lad at the time."
"And I show up for my first day of work and the planting equipment on the back of the tractor was missing some parts."
"So my boss told me to climb atop the planting equipment to make sure it would plant deep enough"
"FML I got hired to be a heavy object, weight, ballast."
"I will never forget my first job as weight"- Logical-Tomato-215
A Google-izer Or Is It Googlee ?
"Googling stuff for people."
"I used to work for kgbkgb, which was this text messaging service where you could text a number, ask any question, and get an answer for $.99."
"This was before smartphones became super huge, so it was a bit of a helpful gimmick back then."
"However, for everyone that we got asking normal questions like movie times, or what restaurants were open near them, or stuff like that, we got A LOT more people asking very stupid things that I would have to Google."
"I have this album of a bunch of weird questions that people sent to us."
"It was an interesting job that helped cover some things when I was in college, but it also had me using Google for a lot of weird sh*t."- -eDgAR-
evan peters google GIF by The Orchard FilmsGiphyOne Day
"I was employed by JC Penney for literally one day."
"I didn't quit, and I wasn't fired."
"That was the term of my employment."
"This was back in 1998 and I was entering my senior year of high school."
"They had a huge sale in the store and they hired dozens of people to cover every department because they were anticipating huge crowds."
"This was not a Black Friday sale, but they anticipated correctly, nonetheless."
"One of the shift supervisors gave me some busy work to start the day, folding shirts or whatever."
"After lunch I was basically asked to walk around from time to time and pick up any knocked over merchandise."
"The last few hours got boring, so one of the other supervisors that I had been chatting with throughout the day invited me to hang out during his break."
"His words were, 'what are they gonna do, fire you?' "
"Good times." - ThePreachingDrummer
Ring
"I was the girl that crawled out of a fake well at a Halloween hay ride once ."
"That was actually pretty fun!"
"Why: I was 14 and after four weeks working Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays all evening I got $150!."
"Under the table of course."- CaseyBoogies
The Ring Movie GIF by Arrow VideoGiphyCorpse Uber
"Transporting deceased people who our county declared John/Jill Does to the proper county or city coroner once they were identified."
"Some obscure state law back in the 80's made it illegal to transport that particular type of dead person while the sun was up."
"Screwed up job, but it paid $15 an hour back in 1985."
"Guess it paid so much because most people were unwilling to do it."
"That was a hell of a lot for a college student to turn down."
"Interesting fact."
"When you hit a bump in the road, with an unprepared corpse, their bodies will gurgle, and sometimes air comes out of their lungs and hits their vocal cords."- Leftstrat
3D Pictures
"When i was a teenager I sold those magic eye pictures at a mall kiosk."
"Y'know the ones you have to stare at for a while till your eyes make out a 3d picture?"
"All day I had to try and help frustrated people try and see the f*cking sail boat."- Reddit
Fancy Title
"My first job was with a temp agency; worked in an accounting office going through boxes of records and making sure there were no staples or fasteners in anything."
"Then the boxes would go to another dept to be scanned onto microfiche."
"I had some fancy title, like 'Accounting Clerk' and was making over $11 an hr., back when min wage was still like $5 and change, so I thought I was living large'."
"A funny part of the story is that I started on a Friday, and came to work in khakis and a polo-Monday I came dressed the same way and got spoke to about dressing professionally because Friday was casual Friday and not normal dress code."
"Lol felt dumb having to wear business attire and a tie when I was in the back in a cubicle pulling staples out of documents."- HalfBeatingHeart
Cutthroat Cookies
"Worked for the girl scouts and ran the cookie sale for a regional area that included a major American city."
"Craziest and most stressful job I ever had."
"It seems all cute and charming until you have 30 furious cookie moms screaming at you in your office at 6:30 AM on a Saturday because the truck carrying 5 pallets of thin mints is stuck in a blizzard."
"I had to break up fist fights between parents because someone 'stole' someone's spot outside of a grocery store. It's cutthroat."
"Anyway that job was decades ago and I still have stress nightmares about it!"- Neither-Copy785
episode 19 GIFGiphyKitty Sitting
"Not a job exactly but one awesome day."
"I used to work in the concrete business."
"We once had a job pouring a slab for residential parking and a neighbor nearby had a kitten just a couple months old."
"It would not stay out of the concrete as you can imagine it thought us picking it up and washing its paws was a game."
"Eventually the boss told me to grab the kitten and go hold it hostage in the truck."
"So I spent the next six hours sitting in the truck with a super friendly kitten sleeping on my chest."
"I got paid to babysit a kitten."- Sectaguy
GiphyKept That Swamp clean
"Swamp Janitor."
"Official title was 'invasive species removal technician' but really I was a swamp janitor. "
"There was this invasive aquatic plant that would completely take over swamps and choke out all the native life, so my job was to go in with a rake and pitchfork and literally just clean up the swamp of this devil plant."
"Some parts were cool, watching eagles fish, seeing turtles come up for air and big fish swimming in the water but a lot of it sucked."
"The plant had sharp seeds that would pierce your skin and your waders."
"You'd get leeches, tics and mosquitos on you all day."
"Physically exhausting with lots of sun."
"You'd have to haul the plant matter to giant compost heaps that were full of snakes, for some reason the snakes liked it."
"It was a unique but grueling job."- UniverseBear
bathroom stall GIFGiphySee the Pyramids Along The Way..."
"Multi-Level Marketing."
"Kid told me about a really cool energy drink company back in high school."
"I wanted money."- 992882
Smooth Operator
"A bank was digitizing their records."
"I got paid to remove staples and creases from paper so all their old records could be scanned without issues."
"10 hours a day, just removing staples and creases."- Both-Grocery-7008
Not The Job, But The Clientele
"I'm a host at a local restaurant and I have met both the most mundane and weirdest people ever."
"My favorite story is that a few months ago I had 3 different people, all men in their 40's to 50's, come in one after another say almost the same thing."
'They all said 'can I get a table for [large number here]'."
'I have to say, they were all in different parties, completely strangers that walked in 5 minutes apart with the same line."- f---thezodiac
Lisa Simpson Restaurant GIF by The SimpsonsGiphyHappy, Despite People Looking Down At You
"Shoeshiner."
"15 year old female and I needed cash."
"Would shine shoes at car washes and country bars, usually made $100-300 a day."
"Oddly fun and met a ton of people, got other odd jobs from businessmen like hostess check in at events and functions."- Starlettohara23
Left Them Feeling Blue
"Got a job through a temp agency working at a scrap metal plant."
"Because I wasn't 18 yet, I couldn't operate most of the heavy machinery or the fork trucks."
"So they put me in a side room and had me siev cobalt."
"So for a while, I would run the positive motion conveyor, which was just a big table hooked to a rotary motor so it made all the stuff on it 'hop' from one side to the other."
"At one end, they hung a 1-ton bag of cobalt over the conveyor."
"At my end, I had a metal grating over a bunch of barrels."
"As the conveyor advanced, the dust fell through into the first barrels."
"My job was to pick the big chunks of cobalt off of the grating and toss them into another set of barrels."
"It was hot and humid, and cobalt dust is blue, so every day I came home looking like a damn smurf."- Hephaestus0308
GiphyPaid To Pillage?
"I (14NB) had a gig exploring abandoned places to take stuff out of there."
"It was interesting."
'I didn't record but I explore abandoned places."
"For my job, it was houses."
"For my hobby, I did schools, funeral homes, summer camps, hospitals, day cares, etc."- Lonely_Person_1670
Better not have snuck a sip!
"Serving beer when i was 10 years old with my 9 year old friend in the most alcoholic country in the world."- Old-Command-7706
A Sign Of Bad Things To Come.
"So not really a job but when I worked for this restaurant in my home town I got called in on one of my days off."
"I only worked like 3 or 4 days a week, and I was 16 and thought I could use more money."
"So I go in to see about 7 people with my same position there, I was a dishboy, and I was so confused I ask the manager what they needed because they didn't disclose it over the phone."
"They asked me to scrub all the trash cans as if someone else couldn't have done it and it was a very slow day."
They weren't happy about it and just told me I couldn't go home until I did it."
"Now I hadn't even clocked in yet and I was unaware that I could've just left but I was scared of losing my job so I did it and I think I lasted there for another 2 or 3 months before I was like nope I'm done."- nuchiha44
Trash Can GIFGiphyWeird Can Often Be Fun
"Working in an old brick quarry that was now a landfill."
"Collecting and sorting scrap metal for recycling."
"Also operating heavy equipment, a john deere drot and a cat d7 bulldozer."
"Best job of my whole life, so much fun."
"Super dangerous but had a blast 10/10 would do again."- dowend
Okay so we've measured lemons for royalty, been a taxi for dead folks, and been an overpaid staple remover with a fancy title.
You're up, readers.
Got anything that competes with that?
I wish some bosses could hear themselves when they speak. They'd be shocked.
Dumped
I Am Trash GIF by PBS Digital StudiosGiphy"My old shop owner used to have us techs pour coolant down the toilet instead of disposing of it properly. After enough of us raised a fuss he started dumping it in the street himself."
Led_Halen
The Bell
"I used to work at Taco Bell and on the receipt there was a little online survey at the bottom. My manager told me to go through the trashes to find receipts that people had thrown out so that we could fill them out ourselves so our store would get a better rating. I was a stupid 17 year old so of course I did it. We used to give ourselves perfect reviews all the time actually."
ha1fway_decent
On Fire
"Used to deliver pizza for Domino’s on an e-bike. The e-bikes we used had a bunch of wiring underneath the saddles. One day the wiring caught on fire while I was delivering an order, so the fire started burning underneath my bum (also obviously the batteries stopped working so it became very tough to ride the e-bike)."
"Asked the shift manager of that evening if I could get another e-bike to use for the rest of the evening. He told me 'as long as you’re not on fire yourself you’re using this e-bike.' Quit my job shortly after that."
NOOWOFFICIAL
Labor and Delivery
"At the beginning of Covid, most of our pregnant patients were staying at home and not coming to the hospital for minor things such as mild abd pain, UTI, STD checks, etc as they had before because they were scared to come to a hospital. Our census obviously dropped."
"To try to get the census back up, our managers told us that if a patient called asking whether they should come to the hospital or not, we were supposed to just tell them to come no matter what their complaint was, even if it was something that they absolutely did not need to come in for."
"I refused to do this so I’d just transfer any calls to my charge nurse and let them deal with it. Let’s bring an already immunocompromised pregnant patient to the hospital in the very beginning of an unpredictable pandemic for something they don’t really need to come in for, sure. Smh."
okitay
Minted
Eating Fast Tic Tac GIF by The BacheloretteGiphy"I had a boss at a fine dining restaurant that would check to see if all his staff had breath mints and then he would make us buy them and if we didn’t, it would be deducted out of our paycheck."
Relative_Elderberry1
Hospitality bosses can be meglomaniacs. They are obsessed, it's unhealthy.
Not an ATM
Okaay What GIF by ABC NetworkGiphy"Worked at a convenience store and my boss actually asked me if he could borrow $1000 to pay for part of the beer delivery because they wouldn't have enough. Quit not long after that."
baconpoutine89
Mighty Winds
"Used to deliver for Papa John's. One night the weather was cuh-razy, tornado warning and constant lightning/winds. They kept taking orders. The winds were so bad they kept pushing my car out of my lane. One driver was so close to a lightning strike that he was visibly shaken and disoriented when he somehow made it back. They let him sit and recuperate in the manager's office for awhile, but we still had to deliver orders."
No_Extension108
No Thanks...
"I was called to cover for a temp who quit on the spot off hours. I responded that I already was 2 whiskeys in and didn’t want to get into my car to drive to the site. He responded that since I was coherent enough to have a conversation with him I was ok to make the 30 minute drive to the office. I told him I wasn’t about to risk a DUI for him and hung up."
User Deleted
Hell No
"A long time ago I worked at a grocery store. They decided to no longer get the cleaners that came in with special gear to clean out the compactor, presumably to make extra money. The compactor began to stink to high heaven. I'm talking rotten meat, produce etc. So they asked me to climb inside and clean it. I laughed at them and said no."
"I told all my co-workers to say no. One did not listen and went in and cleaned it, he had to go home because he stunk so bad and reeked for days afterwards. There is a reason a specialist comes in to clean it, wears a Hazmat suit and has the machine disconnected with another person standing there making sure no one turns it on."
MorkSal
you'll figure it out
Looking Let Me Think GIF by TipsyElves.comGiphy"Run a nursing home laundry room with no experience and no training. I didn't even know how the machines worked. Industrial laundry machines are not like your home washing machine. The extent of my training was having an under qualified supervisor telling me 'you'll figure it out.'"
rosesforthemonsters
“clean up”
"Worked at a sh**ty college town pizza place that paid me $5/H plus tips under the table. It would get insanely busy on days when there were football games and boss required all hands on deck. 12+ hour days were not uncommon when there was a game."
"I got to the store at 10am (2 hours before opening) and worked until 3am the following day. By the time 2am rolls around and the crowds finally die down and we start closing shop and cleaning up, my boss pulls back the entire front counter (which was on wheels) to reveal dozens of little roaches scattering everywhere."
"He gave me a broom and told me to 'clean up' the roaches. I waited for him to go out back to smoke his cigarette, I took everything from the tip jar, and left. Never went back."
ArtFreek
Shark Bait
"My boss had me put together a remote control inflatable shark in a closet in secret. I work in a sales office with a pretty fun culture (well now I’m mostly remote and it’s actually a lot less fun ). I have no idea where they sound this shark but he had me put it together in the marketing departments closet to surprise everyone."
"It actually was very hard to get together so the most ridiculous part was the amount of actual work I was missing. And had to grab my boss for a 2nd set of eyes like 3 or 4 times."
imlittleeric
Little Floofs...
"Ex boss. He asked me to kill a litter of kittens by throwing them over an embankment. I was driving the front end loader over to a pile of bark chips that we had covered up for quite some time. I pulled back the plastic cover and see a fuzzy grey pile. It turned out to be a fresh litter of kittens (eyes haven't even opened)."
"I phoned it in to my boss and he said that there was no time to help them, and to just toss them over the embankment because we had customers waiting. I scoffed, hung up the phone and immediately called my girlfriend to come pick up the little floofs to take them to the local shelter."
"He's an ex boss for a reason. Honestly I was not surprised that he asked me to do that. The dude was a complete f**king prick. He's confided so much nasty crap to me that I could write a book. I found a picture of the little ones that I took before they were rescued."
PopGunner
'on call'
dance girls GIF by L2MGiphy"Would we like to go 'on call' (for free) if the one person scheduled for the Saturday shift needs help or calls in sick. A weekend away for a team building exercise paid for by ourselves, including travel, accommodation, food & expenses. In our own time. No thank you."
markste4321
4 big jugs...
"My boss at a grocery/retail store told me to pour 4 big jugs of this industrial glass cleaner down the sink drain in one of two public washrooms, they’ve been in the back so many years one chewed through the plastic and melted all the paint off the shelf, honestly don’t know how I didn’t damage my vision with the chemicals in the air, long story short I ended up with a few chemical burns on my arms and hands with not as little as an apology."
IMakeBrew
Keep it Running...
"Worked at Disney World at Space Mountain for 4 months on an internship. Long story short one day we found a LOT of human crap in the waiting line. After we made the appropriate calls to have it cleaned up the supervisor that was there told me not to stop the line and keep the ride running."
"After the supervisor left I immediately called the front of the line and told them to stop letting people in. Same supervisor also told me I 'should have kept the ride running' one day after I hit the e-stop in the unload area because I heard what only could be described as a tank of CO2 breaking open any time I sent a cart through."
Spoonerx2
“ghost”
"To jump into a cardboard compactor to un-jam it."
LoganEpp
"I had a manager who used make fun of me because I emphatically said no to doing this exact thing. Absolutely the f**k I will not. They went on about safe guards and how i wouldn’t get hurt, or I was afraid of the 'ghost' in the compactor. No, but malfunctions do happen, all the goddamn time. No. I won’t do it."
Overnights
come again over it GIFGiphy"I stock overnight at Walmart. The average speed 1 pallet of goods takes to stock is roughly an hour and a half for the dairy section when you work on it by yourself. My boss asked for it to be done in 20 minutes."
XarumeR
Disgusting...
"I worked at an independent retailer. The owner pocketed a lot of money and never wanted to spend anything. We had a massive rat infestation. Instead of getting help my boss had me create a position just for wiping rat pee and crap off of beer six backs before being put out."
BusConfident1756
Mascots
"Dress up in an animal mascot costume and snowboard down a slope because the usual guy had got messed up drunk the night before and they were worried he was going to vomit inside the costume again. I’d never been on a snowboard in my life."
FormalMango
I hate bosses. Except the ones here on this website.
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Curious to hear from Disney fans online, Redditor Calm-Internet6926 asked:
"You now own disney, what is the first thing you do?"
Let's Get This Straight
"Disney the company or the frozen body?"
– federicoaa
"The company."
– Calm-Internet6926
These Redditors would meet these oft-requested demands if they held a high position.
Park Operations
"Lower cost of admission, bring back free parking at Disney resorts for guest staying on property, bring back free fast passes, raise cast members wages and get to work on deal to bring all Marvel characters to Disney World."
– Shrfleen
Righting A Wrong
"Pay all the authors they owe money to."
– blackcatmog
Addressing The Economic Impact
"After paying all the authors, let’s also stop Disney from being the biggest supporter of California’s Proposition 13, which freezes Disney’s property taxes at their 1975 levels, forcing new home owners to subsidize the taxes that Disney and other corporations would have to pay."
"Disney is one of the major reasons housing is unaffordable for young families in California."
– Ghost_Portal
Make Walt Disney World More Enjoyable
"Reduce park prices, reinstate extra magic hours for park hotel guests."
– Shepherdude
"Definitely lower price of admission. There is a very large number of families who can not afford to take their children to experience the magic and that's really sad. Also agree with bringing back the extended hours."
– Jazzlike-Process-382
A Most Magical List
- "Bring back Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as part of the core Mickey Mouse crew."
- "Bring Kingdom Hearts to the Disney parks"
- "Pull our licenses from all the video game companies and license them out to studios with good track records with stipulations that as long as they continue making high reviewing games, they can continue using the license"
- "Revive ToonTown Online"
– Podunk_Boy89
These creative endeavors may elevate the company's popularity.
Movie Attraction
"Make a Emperor’s New Groove ride. I have no idea where I’d even put it, but we’re doing it."
– missnikkibabyyy
Popular Gaming Experience
"Bring back Club Penguin."
– Rocket-kun
"It’s already back. It’s called Club Penguin rewritten and you can access it on browser."
"I would argue it’s better than before, because you don’t need a membership to buy clothes now. So you don’t have to be a naked penguin for being poor in real life."
"They even have a cool pirate event going on now."
– UndeadCollegeStudent
The Live-Action Treatment
"I've no ideas and just remake every classic they've produced. Ohh wait."
– CasualScrolls
Imagine This
"I’d let imagineering create original rides as well. Not everything has to be based off an existing property, their job description literally has the word 'imagine' in it."
– DrewCrew62
The studios could benefit from these requests.
Passing The Torch
"Sell it to someone else. I have no idea what I'm doing and some extra money wouldn't hurt."
– dado950
Return To An Art Form
"Hand drawn animation."
– shevmc
"YES. 2D animation holds up so well. Disney animation from 20 years ago still looks incredible. But now all 3D animated movies will look outdated in a couple of years with how hyper realistic everything is. Even more stylistic 3D styles just don’t do it for me. Personal opinion of course, 3D artists are exceptional. I just wish hyperealism wasn’t the goal."
– bing-no
An Old Favorite
"Release Star Wars Christmas Special on Disney Plus."
– VR-052
If I owned Disney, I would focus on improving the guest experience at the theme parks.
First, I would increase the minimum wage of cast members, who have faced many challenges in running a safe and smooth operation at the parks throughout the pandemic–the main challenge being dissatisfied guests.
I would also have the Disneyland resort bring back the highly-missed Peoplemover scenic attraction that was destroyed by a poor replacement in the late 90s that left their Tomorrowland looking like a sad shell of its former self.
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