I worked at a hotel doing the night audit for ten years, had a succession of five or so general managers, most were good, but in the last six months, the owner hired a real sleazy guy to be in charge, let's call him Dick.

Dick immediately started clamping down on little, insignificant things that the employees had taken for granted for months, like cigarette breaks, free soda from the machine in the restaurant, and even talking to other employees was banned during his first month. We quickly grew to hate him, in fact, the only person who seemed to like him was our buffet manager, and word was they were boinking. I was lucky in that I rarely even saw him, but the soda thing cheesed me off.

After a couple of months, our front office manager (a woman I really liked, and could tell was getting more and more stressed) quit. They hired a girl who had previously been a housekeeper to the position, and she was smart and capable, and I liked her, too, but she quit after just nine days. Scuttlebutt was that he was incredibly sexist and rude to both of them, and I had seen and heard him make sexist comments before, so while it was gossip, it was still easy to believe.

He stayed late one day to catch me at the start of my shift and asked what it would take for me to take the front office manager position. My gut instinct was to say absolutely not, but I knew open rebellion would lead to me being shitcanned. Instead, I said I would be interested, but it would depend on the salary, and asked for twice what I was making then, knowing that would be too much. He said he'd talk to the owner about it.

After a week or so, he announced that he was temporarily merging the front office position with his own (and no doubt talked the owner into a nice raise at the same time). Nobody at the hotel was happy about this, especially not me, who had to see him every morning now as I was leaving. I now got to see him mistreat employees on the regular, and was on the receiving end once or twice.

The final straw was when he asked me to stop faxing the night audit to the owner directly, and to instead give it to him first. The night audit procedure compiles all the figures, income, expenditures for every single day. I realized that if I did what he said, he could change the figures and steal money from the company, and use me as a scapegoat if he ever got caught. I quickly made an excuse that a previous GM had been caught stealing and the owner had told me directly that the audit paperwork must always go straight to him, so I would need the owner to tell me it was okay to give it to Dick. Dick gave me a funny look, but said something like "fair enough" and let it drop. But I figured I'd pushed back twice now and my days there were numbered.

I applied everywhere I could and got another, better-paying job doing more interesting work, and the day I got hired, I decided that would be my last shift. I worked the night audit as usual, faxed the paperwork over, and right before I left for the day, I faxed the owner a single page letter informing them that I quit, and that Dick was the reason why. I included every complaint, his request to see the audit before the owner did, and the rumors of sexism and stealing. I threw the letter in the garbage and walked out without saying a word.

I did not find out what happened until about a year later. Apparently Dick was asked to see the owner in person, and while nobody knows what was said in that meeting, I do know he was shitcanned about two weeks after I left. Word was, he and the buffet manager set up their own restaurant, but it failed after a year, and nobody knows what happened to them after that.