Those who quit their job due to their employers asking them to do something which you considered to be morally wrong, whats your story?

I quit a job working at an indoor trampoline place for issues including, but not limited to, the following reasons.

  • It was supposed to be an office management position, but it was suddenly a floor-position and I was actually yelled at for sitting down in the office even just to take my lunch break.

  • The assistant manager title was meaningless because I couldn't actually tell anyone what to do. The GM, who was the cringiest adult woman I have ever met, was convinced that these teenagers were her best friends and I wasn't allowed to 'be mean' to them. It was like Michael Scott and Leslie Knope had a daughter who inherited all their awkwardness and none of the comedic charm.

  • I found out that a 35-year-old manager was sleeping with a 17-year-old employee. Same guy had the same employee work off the clock regularly and then told the GM I was 'overreacting' for telling her she needed to either go home or go clock in. Not surprisingly, the GM was on their side. (Age of consent is 17 in my state, so their relationship wasn't illegal, just really fucking wrong and creepy because this girl was still in high school and living with him, his wife and his/his wife's son.)

  • The 25-30-year-old managers talked freely about buying liquor for the 16-18-year-old employees. Personally, I don't have a problem with underage drinking, but I don't want to work in a place where that's totally condoned. That's more like a neon flashing red sign than a simple red flag.

  • They refused to give me keys until I'd worked there for 3 months, which was reasonable until I learned that they gave all of their teenage employees keys to everything, safe room included. So I had to sit and wait for a teenager to unlock everything for me.

  • A 16-year-old employee confessed to me that he was addicted to codeine syrup. When I brought it to the GM because the kid needed help, she laughed about it like it was a joke.

  • The company policy was all kinds of fucked up on all kinds of levels. They seemed to actively hate their customers and actually forbid me from doing anything extra to make them happy, even if it was free. They got good reviews by paying Yelp for them.

  • Company demanded that the parents tip the employees handling their kid's birthday parties. These people already paid >$200 for a party for their kid, not including cake, pizza and everything else and then they had to pay on top of that for good service, when the employees were already making a standard hourly wage. That would have royally pissed me off if I was a parent. It's the most ridiculous nonsense use of a tipping system I've ever seen.

  • The GM called me into her office and reamed me out for 'impropriety with [male employee's name]'. I had no idea what she was talking about. We had approximately one 10-minute conversation, which somehow convinced the GM that I had sexually harassed him. The guy had tried to hit on me and I, being nervous, just laughed like I had a mental disorder and made a bunch of sarcastic jokes. It was my first time being old enough to be weirded out by a teenager hitting on me. I didn't handle it well, but I definitely wasn't into it. Apparently laughing is sexual harassment, folks. Best watch out. Best part is that I'm a lesbian. Even if I was going to start trying it out with men, I wouldn't start with a skinny teenager who thought he was edgy. To this day, I think the GM suspected that I was gay or found out somehow and made up the whole story just to force me to tell her. She kept demanding 'a reason why [I] couldn't have done it'. I quit right afterwards because forcing someone to come out to you when they haven't even come out to their family is, surprisingly, not fucking cool.

  • The GM would watch everything anyone did on the security cameras, even when she wasn't at work. She lied about there not being a camera in the safe room, which seemed legit because you had to go through the office to get to it anyway, and people would change in there. I later found out there was a camera in there and that she was manually saving all the footage of people changing when I happened to see it on her computer. I deleted what I could, but some pervy woman probably has several video clips of me in a sports bra saved somewhere. I found this out on my way out. I have been outright sexually harassed and propositioned by some men, but this woman out-creeped them all. Yay feminism, I guess.

All of this happened over the course of the worst month ever. It was the job from hell. The EEOC and my state's labor board are fucking useless. They didn't even respond to the complaints I filed. I should have sued, but I hadn't found my confidence yet. Definitely have it now.

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