Store's Note About Early Closure Defaced To Illustrate 'Management Issues'

Employees at a mall are being applauded online for asign bashing the store manager.

Posted to Reddit's r/antiwork sub on 15 August, user u/Zestyclose_Treat4098 shared a snap of the sign, which reads: "We will be closing at 2:30pm Saturday and will be closed Sunday as well due to staffing issues.

"Sorry for the inconvenience."

The word "staffing" was then crossed out with "management" written underneath.

In less than 12 hours, the post had received more than 27,000 upvotes and over 200 comments.

Open and Authentic

A recent survey by résumé-screening service GoodHire found that 82 percent of participants would quit their job over a bad manager.

Of the 3,000 American workers surveyed, 39 percent said their manager is "not open and honest about promotion opportunities," while 44 percent feel their manager is "not open and honest during salary and compensation conversations."

The survey also discovered that American workers most value a manager who is honest and authentic, but are most annoyed by bosses who micromanage their work. 83 percent believed they could do their job without their manager, with only 32 percent believing their managers care about their employee's progression.

Research by Zippia in 2021 revealed the top reasons that people dislike their managers. Polling 2,000 American workers, their results also showed that micromanagement is a big issue for employees. Other key problems reported included being unavailable, incompetent, rude or condescending.

The AntiWork subreddit is full of workers sharing their bad manager woes. A man who walked out on his new job after the boss lied about his salary went viral last month, with his post receiving over 27,000 upvotes.

Another manager was recently slammed by Redditors after denying an employee's vacation, despite five 5 of advance notice, while a worker whose manager called the cops on him for rage-quitting was applauded for leaving.

'Love this honesty'

Reddit users loved the sign, with Werey writing: "Someone needs to vandalize these signs every single time they try take them down to give them more work to do."

"Love this honesty!" said Chenaur. "S*** management is a lot of the issue with employee satisfaction in my opinion and it definitely is affecting my own willingness to do anything beyond the bare minimum."

Betam4x commented: "What is funny is that raising minimum wage in the US would have avoided all of this."

Typical_sasquatch commented: "Staffing issues are ALWAYS management issues. Its like, supposedly their whole job."

Newsweek has reached out to u/Zestyclose_Treat4098 for comment. We could not verify the details of the case.

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