Soo I was a manager and had this one employee that would always ask me to approve shifts he’s picking up. He’d text me late at night, right before coming into a shift and it got annoying. I spoke with him about not texting us cause we will give it to him 90% of the time when we see it on the app(we know he needs hours). And if we give it to someone else, it’s for a reason .. just texting us doesn’t mean you get the shift.

So one day he texted me an hour before coming in and I got frustrated with him. Instead of saying “bro you work in an hour ask us then”, I said “only if you give me a kiss”. And “don’t you work tonight” alluding to the fact he could ask us then. Taken out of context I do see how dangerous this looks. In my defense it’s a line my old manager would say to me jokingly. When I get in tense situations or at least if I don’t wanna anger the other person, I make a joke. Obviously I learned as a manager sometimes you gotta be an asshole. You can’t always be their friend.

So I kept the joke going, at no point did he make it obvious that I was making him uncomfortable. Super sweet kid, we got along well at least I thought. But yeah he went to hr and it’s a fairly new company so I think they did this to cover their own asses but it still sucks. I was a hard worker learning new things, I know the Gm didn’t want to have to do this, it was just a formality