📝 AITA for not giving notice to my last job?

By existential_dread18 • Score: 1 • April 7, 2025 4:38 AM


So I worked at a hotel as front desk. For context, I was the night auditor, and my friend was the GM who reached out and asked if I wanted a job, which was the entire reason that I took it. She knew that I had physical limitations and a disabled son at home.

Well they demoted her, bumped her down to part-time housekeeping, and then started firing people. One of my coworkers was being threatened to have any time after her scheduled time out deducted, another's paychecks had bounced for 3 pay periods, who they've retaliated against for getting angry that they screwed him over like that, they took one of his shifts away, and I was suddenly overwhelmed with laborious tasks that were not originally part of my job description or workload, and were causing me physical issues.

The last straw came in last week. I came in, and was immediately warned by the same coworker who was having paycheck issues warns me not to mess with the bagged laundry. Proceeds to show me a note basically saying to wash it separately after the rest of the laundry with no other context. Well another coworker warned him that their were bedbugs in that laundry. No PPE was provided, no manager warning, no instructions. But THEN, to make it worse, it's spreading BECAUSE they washed it instead of throwing it out, and now, from what I heard, it's an infestation.

Here's the thing, we don't make enough to have a bedbug infestation come home with us. Between my kid, my dog, and the building I live in, I am not putting us in that situation. The people below my just had a baby ffs, I'm not going to risk that. So I just let them know I wouldn't be returning.

I'm not even mad about the bedbugs, it happens at hotels, but it's the lack of consideration or care to our situations. My son is allergic to any bug bite, so if we get an infestation, he could actually end up in anaphylaxis from that many bites. He's also nonverbal, so if he did go into anaphylaxis after bed, I might not know.

So, aita? I don't think so, but the new manager has been complaining nonstop since I quit.

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