Co-workers With No Respect

I noticed that you said your boss ASKED you if you would close. Did you have the option of saying NO? Seems to me he couldn't force you to stay if you don't want to. At my place of work I turn down offers to stay late all the time. I am under no obligation to stay if I don't want to. If I was in your position I would have told him that I need a lunch break long enough to either go home and grab something to eat or run to the bank for money for a meal or whatever. Failing that I would have gotten someone to bring me some food and drink...spouse, friend, sibling etc. There are always options. As far as the co-worker who quit, well, you shouldn't judge them for that. I'm sure they had their reasons for quitting. As one response pointed out, maybe they quit/fired. You don't know all the details of the situation. Also, you are assuming that the co-worker wanted to hurt the boss or the company. Maybe that didn't even enter into the picture. Maybe they knew the boss wouldn't care but it gave them a sense of satisfaction nonetheless.

That sure is a very annoying situation. Didn't your boss offer you a free meal for taking double shift?

no, i don't think it is right to do that. i think it is a lack of respect but i would also say that these days, it would seem that a lot of people only think about themselves. by not giving notice, they are also hurting themselves because the boss may not give them a very good recommendation.

No I do not do so, I have respect for my co-workers even though we are not so close, I still respect each as individual, I will feel badly if I do so, anyway I think if the person is nasty I will do it to her anyway.

I agree with you, people should give a 2 weeks notice! What I would've done is, telling your boss the situation, that you don't have money or lunch because you didn't plan to stay for all day. Maybe he could have lent you a few bucks, and you give it back tomorrow. It is true that is not your boss' fault, but it's not yours either, and if you are staying five hours more than you should, the least he can do is make sure you have something to eat during that time!. About the other question, once I had to quit my job without notice, it was my first job, but I have been working there for 3 and a half years. My boss was nice, but two months before I quit, he promoted a colleague of ours to supervisor because he bought a house in another city (his wife's wish) and he couldn't come as often. At first I was glad because I liked this guy, he was fun and friendly. But after he got he totally changed, he became nasty and stupid, yelled at us and made unfair comments. Once he said that he has been watching me all night and I was pretending to be doing something but I wasn't doing anything actually, that made me mad because it was not true! He yelled at me in front of the customers, thing that the boss himself never did, if he had a complain he called us to his office and tries to sort everything out. Well, as I was saying, I was very pissed off, and one day, my grandma, that sings in the church choir, had a concert. I really wanted to go, but the concert ended at 9pm and I started working exactly at that hour. I knew the boss was coming that week, and I seldom asked him favors like this, so I was sure he'd give me permission to start working twenty minutes or half an hour past the start of my shift. I left him a note some days before asking him if I could come a bit later and in return, I would leave half an hour later, or I'd start half an hour earlier the next day. But this guy went berserk when he saw the note. He called me, yelling at me "Why do you have to leave notes to the boss, dont you know it's me who is in charge?? How dare you to ask for 20 minutes for this s***? What am I gonna say? You come at 9 o'clock or I'll take disciplinary measures did you understand???". And I, that don't like to be treated like this I said, ok, I resign then. And he said ok, you can come tomorrow and sign the papers for your resignation. And so I did. My shifts were already done for that week, and I feel totally sorry for my colleagues and they had to do them for me. But I am sure they understood because they were very annoyed with this guy. Some of them resigned soon after me aswell...

I've had that happen to me more times than I would like to admit. I hate it when people do that,I think it is selfish, childish petty and rude. Its almost like the person that does quit on the spot like that is afraid to be an adult and do what is right. Or they ar too darn lazy to care. And I've noticed that it is normally those exact good for nothing, lazy bums that cann find job after job and do it over and over again but people like me and my other half wh are completely loyal to our bosses and work att one place for years at a time when we do have to go its never on a bad note, yet we can't find another job. Like for example when the company I worked for for three years had to close it took me all most 4 months to find more work, yet a so called friend did exactly wht you described and got picked up at wenrdys almost a week later! I swear she slept with the manager! Ohhh it makes me soo mad!

No, but I have given notice and been removed from the schedule immediately. I do not know what they have available in your break room, but my husband would have brought me some food, that is for sure.

I'm wondering if the co-worker was running late and maybe called in to let the boss know and the boss said to be there on time or don't come in at all. Just wondering if you will talk to this co-worker later and see why they quit. Sometimes, no, people that quit on the spot don't think about anyone they work with, maybe personal problems or other things going on that could be keeping them away. I usually give a two week notice if I'm going to be leaving a job, if I have a better offer that I need to start right away, then I might leave a week notice. The last job I left, I was working 40 hours a week, I worked the same days for two years. I got my schedule and was left with seven hours a week, weekends only. 3.5 hours a day. I complained and was told that someone else "needed" the hours. My 7 hours a week was nothing compared to 40 hours, my gas wasn't even worth the drive to work. I finished out the week and that was the end of that.

hi nonersays No that is really very wrong for a coworker to up and quit out of a clear blue sky without giving two weeks notice as they only hurt their coworkers. the bosses and big shots have nothing to do with that person not being there. It is just the coworkers who are put on the spot. Its really just not right. The boss or home office is not at all inconvenienced.thats really rude to just quit with[ out any notice at all.[ I have never done that in my life.