Popular TikToker has gone viral after sharing that he hoped his boss would choose to work at a car wash rather than go to college.
in the video “I don’t even know what to think about this,” said Christie (@christybrooksd), with a slightly confused look on her face, to the sound of TikTok.
In a videotext, Christie explained that she gave two weeks’ notice to the car wash gig because she was going to college. She was surprised by her manager’s astonishing reaction to the news.
“Do you want to waste money on school or do you want to succeed in this industry?” her manager asked her.
One commenter said he found bosses at entry-level workplaces “always very personally pissed off” when employees left for better opportunities.
“The industry in question was car washes,” Christie added.
By the way, according to Zippia, average salaries for car wash workers range from $24,000 to $39,000. It’s unclear what position Christie was in.
Christie said in a statement that her manager “had an alcohol problem” and once got drunk and spent all the money at the register, “begging me to pay for spaghetti.” rice field.
This video has over 1.7 million views and nearly 900 comments. Christy has over 46,400 followers on his TikTok. She mostly posts her videos about her own personal and often relatable life experiences.
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Several commenters shared similar experiences with bosses who had unreasonable expectations of how committed employees should be to their jobs and industry.
“My manager always says, ‘Some people don’t take this seriously. You can’t go this far,’ and this is retail,” said one person.
“The Burger King manager also told me the same thing and was later arrested for stealing coins from a fish tank,” wrote another.
“I used to work for Target and when I told them I had to quit because of school, they told me to rethink my priorities,” the commenter said.
Another shared an even more grim situation when he was interviewing for a job at Starbucks and his manager told him that he would “only hire him if he dropped out of college.”
Dozens of people have gathered in the comments section to share how bosses have asked employees to prioritize the work they already have over their future aspirations.
The Daily Dot reached out to Christie via Instagram DM for comment.
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*First published: June 17, 2023 10:05 AM CDT
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