Woman quits after taking her boss who insulted her behind her back
Conflicts and dislike between bosses and certain employees essentially come with the territory of having a job. Airing complaints about colleagues is of course also a normal part of the workplace.
But most of us at least have the means to make sure the person we’re talking about is out of earshot. One woman on TikTok was not so lucky.
A restaurant worker filmed her unprofessional boss – t-talking her behind her back.
It seems pretty clear that restaurant worker and TikToker @samantharaegarc’s boss isn’t particularly fond of her, given the long rant she went on about Samantha’s job performance and personality. Unfortunately for her, Samantha was only a few feet away in the next room, phone at the ready.
The TikToker caught her boss on camera insulting and taunting her behind her back. “My boss didn̵[ads1]7;t know I was here while she was talking about me,” Samantha captioned the screen.
As Samantha smiled and grimaced sarcastically at the camera, her boss continued to make countless complaints about her. The unprofessional manager complains that “every single week” there is a problem with Samantha, and then she blames her for something that sounds like it probably wasn’t her fault – a kitchen problem that occurred while Samantha was working the cash register.
However, that didn’t stop the boss from blaming Samantha for getting into trouble with her own boss over one of the restaurant’s recipes. “Now he thinks I’m ridiculous,” she shouts. “Is that really?”
But what was actually ridiculous was the incident that sparked the manager’s rant – Samantha put a customer’s food in a plastic container instead of an aluminum container.
The boss insulted the employee and compared her to a three-year-old.
While Samantha continued to work in silence as if nothing was happening, her boss continued his rant. In a line that will sound familiar to anyone who has ever had a boss with a martyr complex, the boss snapped, “I’m tired of babying people.”
Anyone who has ever worked in food service has worked with one of these bosses, the kind of person who acts as if running a restaurant — or putting the food in the wrong container, in this case — is on the same level of urgency as saving the world from a impending asteroid strike or something.
In any case, the boss’s bit about “babying people” was almost too much for Samantha. She flipped the bird on camera and presented an alternative source of the boss’s woes. “You’re just a bad leader,” she sneered.
After complaining that managing Samantha is like managing a three-year-old, the unprofessional boss put an even more dramatic spin on her complaint. “We’re over here doing a disservice to her next job.”
However, the boss needn’t have worried about that. In her caption, Samantha announced that when she finished filming the incident, she “quit my job of four years today,” adding that she’d had all she could take from “these disrespectful, have-not – the leadership training – in 50-year leaders.”
Having an unprofessional boss is one of the most common reasons people leave their jobs.
Many of Samantha’s TikTok commenters referenced the old workplace maxim — “People don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses,” and the data says that’s a well-known saying for a reason. A study by professional training and development platform Udemy found that about half of respondents said they had left their job because of a bad boss or manager, and nearly two-thirds reported that their boss lacked adequate leadership training.
And a decades-long study by the polling firm Gallup that included interviews with 25 million employees came to a similar conclusion. As Gallup CEO Jim Clifton put it, “The single biggest decision you make in your job—bigger than all the others—is who you call a leader. When you name the wrong person as a leader, nothing fixes that bad decision. Not compensation , not benefits – nothing.”
People on TikTok certainly agreed when it came to Samantha’s manager. “During the interview they’re probably like ‘we’re like a family here,'” one user joked, along with several eye roll emojis. “Managers who go back and forth with their employees’ gossip should not be managers!” one person commented. Hopefully Samantha’s next boss has a little more tact.
John Sundholm is a news and entertainment writer covering pop culture, social justice and human interests.
