After being told I wasn't driving business enough (despite never being provided capital to run social events or what have you) I asked what I could, considering the circumstances, do to drive business; the response was "I don't know but you better figure it out."

This came immediately after my area manager wrote me up twice at once. One was legitimate- Kind of, I could have dug through my archived emails to prove him wrong as I always keep them, but didn't feel like it at this point. And the other was a stretch in my opinion; my cell phone was lost and I got a new one, but the one they sent me had phone jack issues, so I had to send it back and as a result I am currently awaiting its return (sorry for the previous sentence, anger dictates a disregard for grammar in me). As a result of not having a phone or not being able to run out and afford multiple phones at once, I was written up for it.

I'll note I'm a general manager, so I get it, I SHOULD have a phone but being written up for it even though the employee handbook doesn't address this, seems a bit much. It's an ambiguous topic until it's written in that employee handbook in my opinion.

When presented with the second, phone write up (or lack thereof), I was told that if I didn't sign it I could hand over my keys on the spot. Which kind of ties into me thinking he messed up and wrote this thing up before checking the handbook. Both of these write ups came with a concluding statement of, "I'm really only doing these to cover my ass," Either way, I had enough.

So I called him up this morning, told him to come to the store immediately. When he should I up I tossed him the keys, gave him the safe combo and told him "good luck- you'll need it." Jumped in my car and rolled out.

The look on his face was priceless.