I worked at Office Depot April 2025 and resigned in early August.
People were leaving. Some guy had worked for OD for 20 years and the Assistant Manager kind of wanted to kick his ass and he quit. Another Assistant Manager with 10 years left.
My hours went from 9 to 12 hours a week, which I was fine with, to 27, 21. It was good except I never had a weekend or two days off in a row. I was getting burnt out and I told the manager this but he did not really seem to care.
Well, this miserable crippled hobbit came back to work and it was atrocious just being around her.
At work I had ChatGPT make a selfie of me at the counter with space aliens behind me.
She responded in the group chat saying, ‘Is this what you’re doing instead of working?’
The other Assistant Manager, who was awesome, said, ‘Hey, don’t pay her any mind. She’s just miserable and misery loves company. The General Manager probably doesn’t care and that’s who really matters.’
Well, the next day I called in sick through text and the GM replies, ‘When you get back we have to talk to you about your work performance.’ I texted back saying I am giving my two weeks notice and that he’ll have it in writing when I return. He said not to bother and took me off the schedule.
I was being paid $16 an hour and I thought that wasn’t enough to put up with a miserable assistant manager and a GM who really doesn’t have your back. One of the worst work experiences I ever had, I have had many way better jobs in the past.
that really sucks
what’s wrong with people
They’re miserable.
They slowly fell into the hole known as misery. Drawn in by others.
For a time, they managed. But with each time, less and less.
After a time the quicksand got too strong.
Now that they’re deep in the hole, they draw others in. Some people do it unintentionally and some very intentionally. As always, most are in the middle of those two extremes.
Most think that if their lives are miserable, yours can (or even should) be, too.
Some vent their anger on others without even noticing, while others take a more active gratification from it.
Whatever the case may be, miserable people are the worst employees. As in, they do the most damage to their employer, regardless of size.
They’re the literally the ‘bad apples’. They’re themselves of low performance. But the true problem is they spread their misery to others - some faster and some slower, but all do.
miserable crippled hobbit
As politely as the internet allows, maybe you could think about choosing different wording to communicate the sentiment.
