When I got laid off during COVID lockdown, my GM had me work almost a full day that included picking up a desk for him and moving 200 sand bags. The desk was one of those comically large U-shaped executive desks that he had gotten off Craigslist, and I had to disassemble it in a second floor office and carry all the pieces down a flight of stairs.
The sandbags were on a pallet on the ground and he wanted them on the rack in a space you couldn't get a forklift, so they had to be hand moved and stacked. He was cracking the whip the entire time because he knew the regional manager was on his way to cut me and he didn't want to have to do any of that labor himself...
I'd be lying if I said I didn't consider behaving the same way this woman did. I was next level angry.
Most of the stuff in the this thread is too situational or vague for me to feel either way about, but I was looking for stuff like this. If a boss knows you're getting fired, and then has you transporting the Sahara by hand one bag at a time or makes you detail the baseboards with a little brush before your shift ends, or idk anything that's not normal and clearly extra then you know for sure it's a fucked up situation, and the kind of thing I would claim to have no clue about if questioned as a possible witness
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u/Super_Honky Jul 12 '25
When I got laid off during COVID lockdown, my GM had me work almost a full day that included picking up a desk for him and moving 200 sand bags. The desk was one of those comically large U-shaped executive desks that he had gotten off Craigslist, and I had to disassemble it in a second floor office and carry all the pieces down a flight of stairs.
The sandbags were on a pallet on the ground and he wanted them on the rack in a space you couldn't get a forklift, so they had to be hand moved and stacked. He was cracking the whip the entire time because he knew the regional manager was on his way to cut me and he didn't want to have to do any of that labor himself...
I'd be lying if I said I didn't consider behaving the same way this woman did. I was next level angry.