It would be way to long to tell the whole story here but incompetent management and a bad trainee basically made my life hell for 6 months. This guy was not interested in learning the job and was way more interested in messaging Instagram thirst traps on the clock. Management didn't want to fire him because it's hard to find people in this industry to even apply for the job. Every time they would bring him into the office to talk to him he would tell them how he would put his phone away and start really applying himself.

As the primary person training him I was instructed to give him any of the hands on work that came in so he could practice and I would walk him through how to do it or if he already knew how I would just supervise him doing it and check the work after. Normally we only do this for about a month before they are sent to another location because my location can be run by just me alone. The manager of the location he was supposed to be going to didn't want him working there so they kept him with me in the trainee position for some reason. About 5 months into this I ask him to put his phone away and actually do the stuff he's supposed to do and he goes on a huge rant about how he's not lazy and how dare I call him lazy when he's in shape and I'm overweight and he does all the work that comes in and I just sit around.

I told management I would be quitting at the end of the month if he was still working on my store. I can put up with a lot of bullshit but personal attacks on my weight cross the line and I don't need his help in my store and if he's not going to this other one why am I still training him? They brought him into a meeting and told him he needs to apologize for the comments and he did but he wasn't fired yet. After the end of the month he wasn't fired either and I went into the managers office resignation letter in hand and she said to give them a week to process the paperwork and let him go and I should have just quit right then and there but for some reason I didn't.

Anyway he got fired at the end of that week and about a year after that the manager responsible for this whole mess got forced out of her management position because all the department managers threatened to quit if she stayed on. Later we found out the trainee was claiming he worked for us for 5 years to make his resume seem impressive.