First jobs can be exciting – after all, what’s better than the thrill of a weekend’s wages fresh in your pocket?

On the other hand, first jobs can also suck.

Your lack of experience and lack of connections can make it difficult to get one in the first place – and when you do, if it’s for the wrong employer, you’re a prime candidate for being completely taken advantage of.

That’s what the high school student in this story found out in his very first job.

Read on to find out what happened.

Closed a popular pizza place for two days

When I was fifteen, I worked at a very popular pizza place in Canada that rhymes with nut.

It was run and managed by a couple college kids that thought they were big stuff running a pizza joint. Congratulations.

I was in-between work and didn’t want to work a fast food place, but my first choice at the local arena fell through because I had to be sixteen to work with certain chemicals and stuff they had for the pool. Months away, but it was a no go.

So I bit the bullet and applied. I got the job and was hired for working in the kitchen.

Let’s see how this role went down.

Within a month they wanted me to learn how to make dough. I wasn’t for it because that meant I had to come in every weekend at 6am to have dough ready for when they opened at noon.

I said fine I’d learn, but I don’t want to do it every weekend. I was a kid. I enjoyed my weekend time and was much happier working weeknights.

They assured me I would only have to work one weekend dough shift a month. I said ok great.

They got my partner in crime, we’ll call him Scott, to agree to the same thing. We both learned and nailed it.

But all was not as expected with their new roles.

Within two weeks of learning we were back to back weekend shifts. I worked every Saturday, Scott every Sunday going forward.

I went to my boss told her and she laughed. Said too bad. They all thought it was hilarious, the group of them. All servers in their 20’s, we were the joke of the pizza joint. They knew we needed jobs and wouldn’t quit.

Then I went home one Saturday and my parents said the arena had called and wanted me to come in for another interview. I went and was told I would be offered the job in two weeks, the day after my birthday.

I asked if they needed anyone else and they said yes, and I told them about my friend Scott and how he worked. The guy said to hand in his resume and he’d get it set up.

Things were about to get interesting.

Time for petty revenge. The next Saturday I went into work and sat around and did absolutely nothing. I drank chocolate milk and hung out in the booths of the restaurant twirling my thumbs.

They showed up for opening and I was standing there, apron and name tag in hand. I quit, I said.

My boss laughed and said whatever we were going to fire you anyways, then commented that if it were her she wouldn’t have showed up at all and screwed her over by not making any dough. Idiot.

I laughed and said nah I hung out all morning and made no dough so you still need to pay me for my shift.

Let’s see how she reacted to that.

The look on her face was gold.

She ended up having to close the store for the day because they had no dough made.

Then to top it off, Scott repeated my quitting method the following day.

We worked together at the arena for the rest of high school and told that story fondly.

This guy really enacted his revenge on the college kids that were exploiting him and his buddy.

Clearly they chose these kids to make the dough because none of the college kids wanted to be on the early shift – they were taking advantage of the two high school boys.

That’s really unfair, and landed them in hot water in the end.

Let’s see what the Reddit community made of this.

This person had had a similar experience with bad pizza shop management.

While others congratulated him and his buddy for their hard work.

Meanwhile, this Redditor thought the management had brought this on themselves.

There’s a clear message from this.

Treat your staff like garbage, and they’ll do the same in return.

Give those boys a round of applause.

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