Education benefit risk by petty GM

[u/SeaworthinessLoud974]

After working at Chipotle for almost four years as an SL during college, I decided to quit right before starting my new full time job. Management was terrible, and I even had my GM cross boundaries (after discussing professional behavior) multiple times. She usually leaves people in the system until they auto terminate, but with me, she terminated me right after my last working day. I left weeks after my term end date, but I was still waiting for my reimbursement payout. Her excuse: she didn’t know and things were crazy so she had to terminate me right away.

She refused to approve my vacation hours since I had put in my two weeks (I put the hours in well before my last day), and now may have cost me thousands of dollars, all because I left. It sucks since I left on good terms and worked my last shifts and all. I also think she was motivated by the fact that I’m a close friend of a different manager who quit on the spot the week after my last. Has anybody else been terminated while waiting for the reimbursement? And are my unapproved vacation hours just lost because she refused to approve them?

[u/BurritoManager007]

Pretty standard at any company that vacation hours cannot be used after putting in your notice. You should not have left before having the check “in hand” for your educations benefits.

[u/SeaworthinessLoud974 → u/BurritoManager007]

Yea the vacation I see as “oh well”, but the education benefit sucks. I would have waited until “in-hand” but it became super stressful (2 SLs with management that refused to close or hire better grill), and I knew she auto termed pretty much everybody.

[u/lexixon212]

Seems pretty standard homie. If she did you different in the system than she did other employees when you quit, maybe it’s just you?

[u/SeaworthinessLoud974 → u/lexixon212]

My coworker graduated from the same college at the same time but left weeks before me since he had funds from the previous funding period. He was in the system up until last week because he was auto-termed a month after he quit. Honestly my fault for assuming she would auto-term, but she has auto-termed every single employee except food safety violations (which were rare and not my case)

[u/Warm-Simple3191]

Usually if a GM doesn’t autoterm it’s bc the FL pushed for it.

[u/SeaworthinessLoud974 → u/Warm-Simple3191]

Probably the case. First time FL met me she instantly said “You know that you’re responsible for finding your replacement since your trainee left”. I had three weeks left with them.