So I have a question for the mysterious Real World beyond Subeta. Have you ever been wronged at work? What happened? (Wrongfully terminated, accused of something you didn't do with no apology afterward, written up when you were innocent etc)

My story:

At my now-defunct-bookstore, we would get little notices in our employee mailboxes if we failed to do something while at registers. Usually this means not having a phone number on a check or some other minor detail. We would just initial it to show we saw it and then turn it in and that would be the end of it.

Well I was at registers a LOT, and so I knew the stuff we needed to look for. I didn't get a paper notice very often, so imagine my surprise when I found one in my mailbox after months of having a clean record. I open it, look at the details and am immediately confused. I don't recognize the transaction.

I call out to the manager, who happens to be in the back room with me, around the corner, "[Manager], this notice is in the wrong Inbox."

Manager: "Alkuna, just initial it and turn it in."

Me: "Uhh, no thank you. It's not my mistake."

Manager: "Alkuna, is your number 1234? Yes or no?"

Me: "Yes."

Manager: "Then initial it."

Me: "No. This has employee number 4567 on it. It's not mine."

Manager comes storming around the corner and yanks it out of my hand: "Did you, or did you not work at the registers on this date?"

Me: "No. It was my day off."

Manager blinks: "And your number is 1234."

Me: "And that's employee number 4567. Now I don't know the name that goes with that number, but it is obviously not mine. So please put it in the correct mailbox."

I walk away as she angrily shoves the notice into the correct mailbox.

The next day, I find another notice in my inbox.

Me: "Manager... This notice isn't mine."

Manager: "You were here yesterday, Alkuna."

Me: "Yes, but I was at the Info Desk from 2-4. This transaction happened at 2:45. And the employee number is 7890."

Manager snatches it out of my hand, glares at it, and then shoves it in the correct mailbox.

The next day....

Me: "Manager..."

Manager: "Alkuna for bleep's sake just sign it!"

Me: "No. This is Employee number 9876, at register 3. I was at register 1 the entire day. Furthermore, this happened during a rush when every register was manned by a different person. I'm not signing for mistakes that aren't mine."

This time another manager overheard and came to talk to me. When I told him about getting several wrong notices and about her trying to order me to sign them, he goes and has a talk with Manager.

Coincidentally, I had been working for the company for four years without a problem. After another manager chastised Manager for getting employee notices wrong, suddenly instead of notices, I was written up over the course of the next six months for infractions I didn't make, until there were enough "insubordination's," 'customer complaints," and "policy violations" to justify firing me.

And they always say, "It doesn't matter whether or not the write up is accurate, just sign it to say we showed it to you."

Then, even if you never did those things, they can still use them to fire you. Fighting Write Ups takes time and is an uphill battle.

Manager was in each meeting to "talk" to me about my transgressions, and on the day I was fired she loomed over me while I gathered my things, and she testified against me on the dispute hearing for denying me unemployment... which the company won against me thanks to their "documentation."

When the company went under, I was probably the only person who cheered. (I do feel bad for the good people who lost their jobs, but I felt no sympathy for the company or that Manager.)

I was fired from my last job over trying to get documents legally mine from my boss. The manager I thought I had a working, professional relationship with stabbed me in the back and scurried for higher ground during it in the process.

It was supposedly taken up to the main offices and it's like... the owner couldn't even tell me what the difference between an OS and an iOS is. How did she take certain documentation up to the main offices and...

Christian company, my ass.

Long story short: DO NOT WORK FOR CURVES INTERNATIONAL. IT'S A BIGOTED JOKE.

Both of your stories sound awful! I can't believe people have the capacity to be so rude to others. :( I'm at my first job and have only been working for 5 months but so far I love it. I work at Tim Horton's and it's not always the easiest job to do but I LOVE my coworkers and my bosses. They're incredibly kind and generous people and it's so easy to become friends with them, and I honestly feel blessed to have such a good working environment. I wish that all jobs were like that, but of course, some people are just snotty.

Ugh, both of those stories sound awful. :( I hope you guys have good jobs where you're treated better now!

At my work I haven't been wronged that much though the worst incident was having a csm scream at me for not wanting to do recovery (putting stuff away) in a department that I don't work in (that had someone in that night) ~10 minutes before close. She yelled at me in front of a bunch of coworkers and customers about how myself and several other hard-working employees basically don't do enough. I stayed calm and kept asking her, "Are you saying I don't do enough?" to see if she'd bite and say exactly that. She whined that she was "stressed" because she was the only csm closing that night but I really didn't give a shit since management makes all of us work far harder than we should covering many areas that should be staffed. She went and got a member of upper management that's almost always a dick and he kept rolling his eyes at my "excuses" for not doing the work (that there was someone in that department, I don't work there, it was now closing time, etc.) and when I said, "Now if I do that I will be leaving late," and he told me, "That's fine." So I went and put it away because I was a wuss (I definitely wouldn't do it now) and was late leaving work.

One of my coworkers yelled at him since she was off the clock and I also went to another member of management and got the csm in trouble and the store manager was made aware of what the other manager did so I think he got a talking to since he was always treating people badly. He's so much nicer now and when he asks me to do something reasonable he's very polite about it.

Other than that incident it just sucks that management refuses to hire people and tells us we have enough and basically there's no reason why we can't:

• cover 10 departments in a huge store
• make sure all those areas are clean
• help every customer
• prevent theft in all those areas
• be called up to cash for hours
• answer every call (while on cash)
• do department manager jobs with no pay increase
• keep working hard while being told we have no job security

I understand completely. I have been in management from the day I turned 18, until a few months ago and I am 25. ( Don't judge me ) So, you are 100% correct in the fact that you were treated unfairly. The sad fact is, that as a manager you are taught that managers are a step above the other employees. You are taught that a regular employee will get fired before they will fire a manager. The reason for this is, because it takes time and effort to find or train a new manager. So, to save themselves, even if it is the managers mistake, they will fire the crew or team member instead. I can promise you that manager was also written up, solely because their higher up didn't want to deal with their mistake. A managers higher up will hold them accountable for anything that goes wrong. They just wont fire them. It is a little under handed to do, but keep going up the chain of command. There are HR and loss prevention hot lines you can call and most of them are anonymous. If you call enough, you can eventually get that manager fired. Because the main boss wont want corporate or their boss breathing down their necks about things. The main point here, shit slides down hill.

ews. Glad I have worked in different kinds of businesses and environments so far.

I've never been completely back stabbed wronged but I had some lousy things happen to me.

• First job: I applied and interviewed twice to inside positions. The first time the position was dropped and I was never informed. The second position there were a number of people who applied for it. The owner then talked about how all of us who applied could all take up the job duties and take turns working on different projects. Like he wanted everyone to get that golden star and not hurt anyone's feelings. Well none of us where going to have it, one guy gave his 2 weeks notice and then was quickly offered the position and everything the owner said before was forgotten. We were all given raises in the aftermath. Even then I started job searching ASAP and another former application left before I would snag a new job.

• continuing onto this story I went to talk to HR about the position and how this whole process unfolded (because it was unfair). Long story short I had HR lie to my face. Now, I talk to HR as a last resort, not even then. I will not play games with a company's middleman tool.

• I was laid off last year. A week afterwards I came across a job posting for my exact job...but as an intern. In one alternative listing it was listed as an unpaid internship. That was low. Also HR from that company never returned my calls.

But overall so far I am better off in the long run that I did not get that position at company and that I am no longer at company as I am learning more valuable skills now and am surrounded by better people.

First of all, congrats for sticking up for yourself.

Unfortunately now days sticking up for yourself can get you fired. Most employers do not care for their employees anymore and if you are working in the U.S., most States are "right-to-work" States. Which means if they don't like what you are wearing that day or look at them cross-eyed, they can fire you and you have no recourse.

I was fired for no reason one time. My boss had recently hired back his previous paralegal and suddenly things started going wrong and I was starting to get blamed for things I did not do and his attitude changed towards me. I had asked for a morning off (and was given permission) to go to my kid's school conference because she was not doing well in math at the time. Well it was a first come, first serve basis and I had to wait over an hour to speak with the teacher. When I walked in the door, he walked out of his office and said I was fired and walked back into his office. I received no explanation for the firing, I was just told to pack up my stuff and leave. I then tried filing for unemployment and I was denied because I was "insubordinate". Unemployment took my boss' side of the story and had to wait for unemployment for three months. Now I had worked for this guy for three years and at one point had to wait over six weeks to receive a paycheck because he was not making money and couldn't pay me my salary. So

I worked at a pizza joint for several months where I was a very hardworker, although I dealt with severe anxiety a lot of the times. My anxiety causes me to become incredibly nauseous, and while sometimes I could work through it, other times I couldn't help getting sick and would have to be sent home. Otherwise, I worked hard, to the best of my ability (and without the proper training, mind you, for some reason they did NOT want to train me) and did multiple jobs (register, deli, bus.) I guess my anxiety was starting to annoy them, which, fine, yeah, I get that. But they didn't even have the decency to fire me. They just kept piling work up on me until my anxiety got so bad I quit.

There was one manager there who liked me and would listen to me, and she would often ask how I was feeling at my job, making sure I was comfortable, etc. I once admitted to her that I didn't like working bus, and wondered why I had been transferred from deli. She wasn't sure either, but she'd ask around and try to get me back to deli since she agreed she liked me working there more.

The next day, with absolutely NO WARNING, I was shifted to full time on bus duty working 9-5 every. single. day. I put in my two weeks that day, but I kept getting harassed and overworked, and thus had to quit.

Man, the food there is good tho. Got that going for 'em.

I've had to deal with some pretty shitty situations, though they don't even come close to a few on here, jesus christ.

I did have one where I was written up for leaving a 'voluntold' shift early. It was a weekend (which I didn't sign up for), and the place I was working was having a Halloween event. I got there, and did literally nothing. I stood at the front desk and talked with the one girl at reception almost the whole time. I was not asked to help with anything, monitor events or MC. So, after a while, I basically was like, 'well, since I'm like, standing here and doing nothing, I'm going to go home...' So I did. Then the following week my manager (who I was already getting immensely tired of dealing with) called me in and was all offended and couldn't fathom as to why I left.

Looking back, I shouldn't have left, but I had spent over-time decorating the damn building the night before and was over-worked, burnt out and generally done with the facility. And the one girl who actually wanted to work the event was given first dibs for the day off instead of me, which I was not happy about.