One bad manager can ruin an otherwise great job, which is truly unfortunate.

That is what happened to the guy in this story when he was in line for a great promotion that he really wanted.

His current manager, however, didn’t like him, so he wrote him up for something dumb, which took him out of the running for the new job. Shortly after, this guy quit and walked away.

Sometimes it is best to just cut your losses and find a new job. Check out the full story below.

Lost my job of 6 years after standing up to my manager.

I deserved to be fired for standing up to my manager, but, it was so worth it. For once I stood up for myself and didn’t let someone walk all over me.

It is great that he has the opportunity for a better job.

I’ve been working at this store for 6 years, I’ve busted my butt, constantly came in on days off, stayed late, and helped other departments.

After a year, I was asked to be promoted to Department Manager, but, I declined becuase I had school and they couldn’t work around my hours. That was disappointment, but, they got over it.

They never let me forget a spot was open and anytime I wanted I had the job.

The new manager does not like him at all.

Last year, our old co-manager left and a new one came in; M. I don’t know what I did, but, M truly and earnestly hated me. From the very moment he met me he hated me.

Everything I did was wrong, and nothing could go right. He criticized me for every little thing, he insulted me, he cut my hours or scheduled me for times I had school and refused to change them till the last minute.

His current manager is going to ruin his opportunity.

A month ago a spot opened up in Electronics. The old DM was finally retiring, and the Entertainment Zone Manager wanted me to take his place as DM.

Everything was going as planned, I was going to get my promotion to a department in which I truly wanted to work in.

Then disaster strikes, and M writs me up for something incredibly minor. I left a ladder unattended on the floor. That’s an instant write up now M tells me. M then walks me to personnel and writes me up.

What a jerk.

He has a faint smile on his face “You know that you can not be given a promotion with a coaching in the system, right?”, and that dread hits me.

I just lost the chance of being promoted because of that. I ask M if theres any chance he could overlook it just this once. He frowns and tells me “No, you’re lucky you weren’t fired for that. Someone could have climbed on that ladder and gotten hurt or worse killed”.

This would be so disappointing.

The next day I was called into the admin office for a performance review. I was given a very poor review, M says I’m unmotivated, carefree, rude, and not putting fourth any effort to do my job and thats why I left the ladder on the floor.

I left it because I “don’t care about the job, or the customers and only care about myself”. He then says they were eagerly awaiting me to be promoted, but, since I’ve proven I could not handle being a manager they’re passing me over for promotion.

He really should transfer to a new store or at least a new department.

I was so mad, I wanted to cry, I wanted to rage, I just gave up and accepted it. What else could I do? I told my DM and he pretty much says “You’re getting screwed. I’d just transfer ASAP. That’s a bunch of bull, don’t lay down and take it”.

I should have transfered, but, I needed that job as the nearest store was half an hour away. Oh well.

The manager is obviously trying to get him to quit.

It all came to a crashing conclusion when the SM gave me a huge project to do. It took me a couple days and a ton of hours, but, I got it done while the DM was on vacation.

I worked hard on it, and it showed. M walks over and says “No, no that’s ugly. It’s a mess. Everything is wrong. You clearly have no idea what you’re doing. This is a complete disaster and frankly I’m sick of you not doing what I ask. I want you to update your career preferences. I’m moving you to cart pusher. That’s the only thing I can see you doing correctly. Of course you know you’ll get hours slashed and a 2 dollar pay cut, right?”.

Nothing he could do would be enough.

I asked him what I did wrong, and he just says “If you don’t what you did wrong, then that’s on you. I shouldn’t have to baby you and guide your hand. I’m honestly shocked they hired you in the first place. Ever since I’ve been here you have done nothing correctly. You can’t even zone correctly, how hard is it to pull everything forward?

Apparently for you thats impossible and to think they wanted you to be DM. You’ll never be a manager, ever. Not in this store at least”.

He really should have found a new job before quitting.

I lost hope, and threw my badge down, and told him to go to ****, and pretty much let it rip. Called him all manner of names, and then walked out.

While it would have been better if he had another job lined up, you really can’t blame him for quitting like this.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about the situation.

This guy got played.

Sadly, this commenter is exactly right.

He really should send a letter to HR.

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This commenter says that the manager won.

This is an awful thing to say.

Sadly, the bad manager got exactly what he wanted. While I certainly can’t blame this guy for quitting like that, it wasn’t the smartest way to deal with the situation.

It seems like he could have easily just transferred to another department and moved up from there.