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Quitting a toxic workplace and shutting the doors with bad management behind them can feel overwhelming. Especially if you really tried to put up with all the nonsense and stay positive even when the facts showed the opposite.
No wonder the last day and even the last minute in that job can feel not just special, but as memorable as if it happened yesterday. So when someone posed a question “What was your final 'eff you' to a boss you didn’t like?” on Ask Reddit, the thread went viral, amassing 21.1k upvotes.
Below we wrapped up some of the most interesting stories people shared.
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#1
They withheld $8,000 in pay and hired a lawyer to defend their actions. I hired a law student and we beat them into submission.
Sonja 2 years ago
If the law is well written, you could turn up with your dog defending you and win if you're right. And that's how it should be. If the law doesn't protect the innocent, it's bad laws
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
A lot of law students work Pro Bono with organizations to help people who cannot afford lawyers and so work under licensed lawyers who also volunteer. They learn how to be lawyers and get class credit from their professors at the same time in the USA.
Heidi Gerloff 2 years ago
How do you hire a law student? They’re not allowed to give legal advice without a license, right? Or is that just in my country?
Needmorecowbell 2 years ago
Agreed. When in law school I clerked for a firm but that meant a lot of admin work! Was absolutely never allowed to file anything with the court or put my name on anything.
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Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
Wages and Hours Dept. of your state government can be relied on to enforce the law
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Seems like an odd thing to do. Lawyers cost a lot of money. Probably cost them well over $8000
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Possibly already had a lawyer sort of working for him? Idk how this stuff works I'm 14
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#2
Sent them to the feds for Medicare fraud and they got fined 41.7 mil.
Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
This is the first post I've read so far on this thread. It DOES belong at the top. Way to sock it to-em!
#3
I was a program director developing and piloting a new program, and after a year of being overloaded and telling our exec director I either needed a second person or a smaller caseload, he pulls me into his office and goes “We don’t really think you’re a good fit for this position, but you’re a bright young lady and we’d hate to lose you. I’m giving you the option to stay and be my secretary. You have until 7am tomorrow to decide.” I took an early lunch, walked to my other job, asked if I could take on more hours, walked back, and told him I had found other employment and would have my stuff cleared out by noon. He asked if I could stay 2 more weeks to train a new person, and I told him no. What if we paid you a consultation fee? No. But you’re the only person in the county certified! Should have thought of that earlier.
Bonus: This was in the middle of an audit, where it was discovered that he owed me about $3000 from unpaid hours. I like to call it my leaving bonus.
Carol Emory 2 years ago
I actually gave my two weeks notice at H&R Block. I was the receptionist at the height of tax season. I was also taking night classes for accounting. This meant I had to leave at 5pm in order to make my class by 6pm driving into Seattle. The night receptionist quit and the manager kept trying to extend my hours. After some time, I found a job doing data entry for another branch of a sister company that was 10 minutes from my classes. I gave two weeks notice, she flipped saying I couldn't leave until they found a replacement. I knew it would be dragged out. When two weeks were up, I get a call early on Monday. "You need to come in. I already called your other boss and told her you can't start with them until you finish your obligation to us." I said "Then I guess I'm not working for either place." And I hung up on her. Had I known then what I know now, I would have turned her into the Department of Labor because what she did was illegal in our state.
Charles Maze 2 years ago
These people that think they can get away with illegal bs is beyond ridiculous.
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Vasana Phong 2 years ago
What owner/manager lets go of an only employee that knows what they’re doing?
I just work here 2 years ago
Doesn't make sense. Your the only one certified, but be my secretary?...
#4
As far as my life goes it was the sh**tiest job I ever took. Long hours, a lot of crunch, no company vehicle and a lot of travel. Every time I'd go to a different site I would get like 20 different phone numbers for the various people I was communicating with. Anyway so all of the contacts for these people was on my company phone that was synched up to my personal GMail (which stored all the phone numbers). At some point management decided my job was redundant and decided to lay me off without notice and without severance.
First thing I did was wipe my company phone clean before handing it over. A few days later they called me asking where all the contact information was stored. "Sorry I don't work for you anymore."
Chatty Panda 2 years ago (edited)
If the company was asking for data that the employee had in their personal account or personal phone, I can understand not wanting to help. But wiping company data from company equipment when you're fired is sabotage, not a clever retort.
Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
But her account was linked. The deciding factor here is did the company know/agree to her having an account link to their data?
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Rougarou Cher 2 years ago
I had a job fire me then call me like a week later to ask me the code to unlock my company phone. I told them no.
Firearms Sanctuary 2 years ago
5 minutes with most tech support and 100% of the data would be recovered unless a secure erase program was used to wipe the phone. hell plenty of free programs out there to do it now. when deleting stuff it is not actually deleted, the operating system just removes the file header and designates those sectors as being free to be written to. data remains and can be recovered until those sectors are written to again. hence needing secure erase programs which after deletion they write gibberish to the sectors to fully wipe the original data.
Heather Talma 2 years ago
People used to try and sell their Rolodexes, I wonder whether that information would be of value to anyone.
#5
On my last day at the bowling alley, I sent an email to head office detailing all the s**t he’d been up to but everyone was too afraid to report (inc. trying to fire someone when he found out she was pregnant - a big no no in my country).
I heard later that the next day regional manager and a couple of executives turned up for a surprise inspection. He’s found in the office, having backed a 16 year old female colleague in the corner, screaming at the top of his lungs, with his big red vein-throbbing face touching hers. She was distraught and obviously crying her eyes out.
Manager was escorted off premises there and then and never heard from again.
John Dilligaf 2 years ago (edited)
but also lucky in a way. It could have escalated to a lot worse. Manager was caught and removed before that could happen.
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Froggi Juice 2 years ago
Thank goodness! I feel so bad for that girl, must have been terrifying
Vasana Phong 2 years ago (edited)
Talk about perfect timing , a*****e can’t talk his way out of that one
TheGoatRealOne 2 years ago
Can anyone tell me what the OP means by backed a ... My English ain't that great in slang
MoMcB 2 years ago
Basically kept going towards them, they step backwards until there is no escape (wall). Bully move.
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#6
Working retail I quit at the register on Black Friday. I had recently gotten another full-time job and was keeping this retail gig because I liked the employee discount and due to my other job this check was pure fun money, all that is to say I didn't *need* the retail job.
My store manager comes over at hour 7 of my shift, with chaos and a line 100 people long, and has the nerve to tell me my up-sales(fishing for promo signups, i.e. rewards, credit cards etc) weren't cutting it for how much traffic I was seeing. In front of the customers! I already couldn't stand this B so I said, "You know what you do it, I'm done" and then I apologized to my coworkers on the way out.
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
In a lot of scenarios, you use common knowledge, that sales pitch at line will hold up even longer, if it was at a reasonable amount of consumers waiting, then yes, she’s trying to cover herself, I’m sure the higher ups will ask her , this much sales and no sign up for cc?
Maisey Myles 2 years ago
boss started in on me about how I should be doing more to maximize their profits and wanted to pile on loads of extra work. I looked at her and said "you know what they say, if you want something done right, do it yourself
Jessica J. 2 years ago (edited)
As a manager that LOATHES pushing all that c**p, I would wish them all the very, very best...of course, they wouldn't have quit on me, because I never berate people, especially about about that nonsense...
#7
Mechanic at a commuter airline. Boss wanted me to sign off a plane pre-flight inspection. I refused to sign because the plane was not airworthy. He told me if I wished to continue working, then id better sign. My response: then I guess I don’t work here anymore. I picked up my tool box and left.
Carol Emory 2 years ago
Then you report him to the FAA and the corporate company lawyers if you live in the US. Just make sure the lawyers know you are willing to go to the press with the information. Nothing gets a fire lit under the butt of a company lawyer like the thought of having to defend against a class action lawsuit.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Which could explain a lot concerning mechanical "issues."
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Craig Reynolds 2 years ago
I would hope that on your way to your vehicle with your tools, you were making a phone call to the FAA about that plane and what your boss demanded you do.
Lee F. 2 years ago
Thanks for your tenacity and dedication. We are all grateful and safer for folks like you.
Christina Watson 2 years ago
What is safe about what this man did? He simply packed up and left this man in charge, over the lives of unsuspecting passengers. Future passengers. He should've reported the man.
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#8
I was thinking about quitting but has holding back. I scheduled a vacation with 3 extra days. It was a once in a lifetime type of trip. He rejected my vacation request. I thought about it for a couple of hours. Went to his office and told him 'I'm taking the trip no matter what.' The next morning the boss met me at hr and gave me a formal written warning. I responded by giving him my 2 week notice. They apologized and tried to convince me not to leave but it was too late.
K Wellington 2 years ago
I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel and had only a few days available (we get 4 weeks annual leave plus public holidays, but I'd already used most of mine up). When I mentioned the trip, my boss was more excited for me than I was. There was never any question about not going.
Carol Emory 2 years ago
I'm lucky enough now that I could take off several days in a row and my boss will be like "As long as you get work in that equals the charge hours for two weeks, you do what you need to for your mental health."
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Jane Cortez 2 years ago
My mother had a stroke and when I said I needed a week off my employer said ‘no and I will fire you if you do.’ To which I replied, ‘ then go ahead.’ He didn’t fire me and I am very glad that I did because she died a few months later. I had a premonition that it was absolutely crucial to spend time with her. Never, ever allow a toxic employer to govern you with fear of reprisal.
JayCee 2 years ago
I know someone who did this. Contractually, the administration is not allowed to question our use of vacation days or personal days. We given them notice, but they're not allowed to deny it. During COVID, they told her she was too valuable to take the break she desperately needed. She handed in notice and is now making double elsewhere while we continue to fall apart without her guidance.
Charles Maze 2 years ago
I love how jobs are like oh u have this sick time or vacation time. But then are like nope u can't use it screw u. That's when ur like ok see ya. I'll take my vacation time as I leave on my check.
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
Decades ago, my boss quit with no notice, I got promoted into her spot AND, in 2 weeks, I was supposed to leave on a week long trip to NYC that had been planned for 4 months. My boss said I had to be back 2 days early, there was no way I could change my ticket (without spending an extra $3-400 (in the late 80's, almost full paycheck for me) so I lied through my teeth that I missed my flight. My ultimate boss wasn't happy but accepted it (I was a REALLY good employee). I did feel guilty about it though.
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
A teacher in the school I was working in had a family reunion in New Zealand coming up during term time. (We're in Canada) The superintendent wouldn't give her the time off even though she offered to pay for her substitute teacher. She didn't go to the reunion. I really felt for her. The superintendent was a real jerk anyway. He, like me, was from England and he was always condescending and superior to staff. I happily left when my husband was transferred. Loved my job and got on with most of the other staff but nasty stuff trickles down from the top.
Tamsin Far 2 years ago
Honestly, wouldn`t be an issue at my job.. 3 days would be -21 hours, not really a problem to catch this up within the same month.
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My exit interview when I was asked the reason for leaving, I simply said their name and nothing more
Howl's sleeping castle 2 years ago
In one of my previous organisations, exit interviews were a joke. More like a tick box activity. There was this one particular manager who everyone hated. Every person from her team, named her as the reason of leaving. No action was ever taken. Last time I checked she was still working there.
#10
After working my entire career for a company as an engineer… I was laid off with others for no reason. Remaining boss requested all my files so they could continue my work. I said the day I leave you will get all my files. Last day of work I accessed the main frame and down load not just the relevant files… 20 years of files… tons and tons of folders and files all in random folders… I sent him the link. He signed off . I left. He contacted me a few days later and said that’s not what I meant by all the files. I said I don’t work there anymore I have no computer… I gave you exactly what you asked for.
Nadine Khazaka 2 years ago
After 20 years I consider this a mild response, they should count themselves lucky.
#11
I worked hard over the course of a year to get all my former coworkers I cared about new jobs.
Megalodon Meg 2 years ago
I left an incredibly underpaid, toxic, hostile, high stress and abusive workplace a few months back after my manager of two days fabricated an entire story about how I was being insubordinate. After I found my current job which has been absolutely wonderful, one of my former colleagues told me she put in her two weeks because she was getting physically ill from the b.s at the other place. By the end of the day when she put it in, I had her an interview with my company. She out her two weeks in on a Thursday and started working with me the following Monday. Trying to snag a couple others too 🤣
Cody Walker 1 year ago
My mom did this. After 15 years with the same company (the city), her boss shifted to an awful person and when she went to the director, who was her boss for many years and knew my mom was a great employee, they said “maybe you’re the problem, and gave her the option to quit with the same severance as if she was laid off, so she did. She then applied for a job with the county, that was through a temp agency, and while they had filled that job, the recruiter needed someone to cover her for a vacation (my mom was in HR), so she offered it to my mom for a week. In that time, she moved around 15 people from city jobs to county jobs, and on the last day, the person they hired for that original job resigned and she placed herself in that one - and ultimately met my stepdad.
#12
My boss had been completely ignoring me because he perceived my actions of talking about an upcoming project with the COO (his boss) as me “going over his head”. It had been almost a month and he hadn’t agreed to meet or talk with me, he would only send me tasks via email.
I was tired of the childishness so I found another job. With my resignation letter in hand I walked to his office to resign and he predictably refused to meet with me claiming to be too busy, so I continued to walk to the COO’s office to let him know I was resigning. The COO asked if my boss knew which was the perfect time to let him know about the silent treatment I had been receiving. My old boss no longer works there :)
Crystal Spencer 2 years ago
They should have let him go on the spot and promoted you...or at least begged you to stay
#13
Had a boss that was terrible to me. Him and his wife owned a restaurant together, and one day when he was yelling at me while I was getting the bar ready I saw him put in his password on his phone. It was '(space, period, space). We all know something was going on with him with another employee. Months later he wouldn't give me 3 days off because my niece died of SIDS. So I walked out, bought a $30 burner phone and texted his wife his password. They got divorced, she kept the steakhouse, and he's had 2 failed attempts at opening any establishment. I make more than him now and he lives in the c**ppy apartments down the road from me.
Ryan Gentilcore 2 years ago
I love how simple the revenge is. Just told one person one little thing, and the dominos scaled up massively
HEADLESS ROACHS SISTER 2 years ago
It was to another phone to see text messages with another employee he was dating. His wife did not approve of that I guess.
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I just work here 2 years ago
Just because someone else is a shitbag of a person does not justify you being a shitbag of a person.
#14
Was inline for a promotion after my old supervisor was fired for ethics issues. Boss decided to open the requisition, interview and hire a person all in the 2 days I had off.
Since the person hired had no experience in my department/field, I was expected to train my new supervisor, and the other new people they also hired.
I did none of that, quit (gave my 2 weeks), and didn't explain a single thing to anyone in those 10 days. Supposedly it took almost half a year to get close to where they were before this all went down.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
That business of waiting for an absence to undercut: While I was In the US Navy at a training command, we had an Australian Warrant Officer come over to California for a three week course. A week later, the WO is in my office. Back home, a young sailor with whom he'd been working, to help him grow up & do his job properly, had written to him to tell him than a Lieutenant in their department had instituted discharge proceedings the day after the WO left. The guy was in a panic. The WO wrote up a request for a delay until his return, as he was the divisional officer for the young man, I took it to the Aussie consulate in San Francisco, they faxed it to the Commanding Officer, who granted the delay. I got follow-up: the WO let me know later that not only did he get to keep the young man in training, he filed on the Lieutenant for going around him, and got him a formal reprimand (which goes in the record, likely slowing down or stopping promotion chances).
Courtney Christelle 2 years ago
Why in the world would you hire someone for a position they can't do then expect the person who can do the job to train their superior? Wtf?
Chocolate llama 2 years ago
usually it's blatant sexism...I would bet that OP is a woman and the new superior is a man. It happened twice to my sister. She was the most experienced but when an upper position opened they either installed a less experienced man or even hired a new one and expected her to train him
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Lena Flising 1 year ago
If the new person was supposedly much better than you, why should you bother them with your "substandard" information?
#15
Took the taxi home after being wrongfully dismissed. Tipped the taxi drive $250 on company expense.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago (edited)
One of my coworkers got let go - he was able to swing last-minute dental surgery and multiple taxis with generous tips in the last couple days before his benefits and compensation ran out. I don’t know the details of his pay plan or how he did it but he pulled it off and they couldn’t come after him. 😊 was pretty impressed
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Hey Tammy? Knowledge is Treasure, but practice is the key to it. I suggest you practice more.
#16
When I left, he promised to take half what I was making and spread it among the team as raises to cover the extra work. He was trying to stop the exodus as I was the 3rd person to leave in a short time.
So when I left I handed my pay stub (minus social security info) to the team and said
>Just in case he tried to lie. This is what I make.
He tried to lie. They also realized they were being underpaid by a good chunk.
He told me that was a breach of confidential information and they could sue me. I told him to sue me then. Never heard from that company again except for tax docs.
For those unfamiliar, in the US you are legally allowed to disclose your own pay. And its illegal for your employer to tell you that you cant.
Im assuming if he did try that HR or the lawyers quickly corrected him before they had to hand me a settlement.
CC Boom 2 years ago
Cracker Barrel tried to tell me not to disclose my pay when they found out I told one of their workers they deserved a raise. They pulled me in the office and said it wasn't allowed. I called the labor board. Those ladies that worked there for 12 years were making $2 less an hour than I did at 6mo. Anything to save a buck.
Rob Williams 2 years ago
"For those unfamiliar, in the US you are legally allowed to disclose your own pay. And it's illegal for your employer to tell you that you cant." Isn't that true everywhere?
#17
The milk I've been injecting into his chair with a hypodermic needle should be getting real rancid right about now
Lee F. 2 years ago (edited)
WHOEVER YOU ARE, I LOVE YOU. THIS IS SO EVIL. LIKE PUTTING SHRIMP IN THEIR CURTAINS EVIL. FUUUUUUCK WORK
Page intentially left blank 2 years ago (edited)
That's a curdling maneuver... bet you spoiled his day... he should moooove that chair out of his office... glad you didn't cow down to his abuse (I'll see myself out)
#18
My boss and I had butted heads a few times after she took over the office. After finding a much better job I handed her a list of my job responsibilities, which she asked for because she didn't understand what I did there.
"This is too much, we'd have to distribute all this to like 4 different people" and I said "yea" and walked out. Spoiler: she didn't do any of that and was fired less than a year later as the office was falling apart.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
"This is too much, we'd have to distribute all this to like 4 different people" - 'So why was I doing the work of four people on one person's wage?'
Sonja 2 years ago
That's why retention is so important. Good employees master their tasks after a while. They can do them without thinking much because they accumulated procedural knowledge. That's something you can't learn or train from books, it's like the so called muscle memory, you jost know without thinking what goes where and who's responsible for what. And then you can take on more responsibility and work faster. You're becoming more efficient with every passing year and losing you at that stage will cost the company good money. That's why a smart company gives annual raises. They know their workers get quicker and more efficient each passing year, adding more value to the company. That doesn't mean that each and every worker is like that, that's what evaluation is for. Carnegie once said, you can't make money from savings. You make money from smart investments. And he indeed was one of the very few rich people who understood that training, educating and retaining your workers was investment.
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Too many employers prefer to take the cheap route. Instead of annual raises for job retention and loyalty, they toss out the experienced and knowledgeable workers and bring in entry level staff at entry level wages. I was laid off along with two dozen other high functioning IT personnel so the company could dumb down the level of support, while cycling temps in and out. Clients suffered while the level of service plummeted, and the execs raked in the "saved" money.
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Kaykay 2 years ago
I have a week left before I leave my job for a better one. The owners asked me to write down my responsibilities. When I did and I gave them de list they asked me if I found anybody who would take them over... That's your job I'm quitting I have done your job for long enough
Sally Signup 2 years ago
I had a boss once ask me to put together a list of job tasks that I handled. She'd been taking me for granted, so I thought "Finally, I can show you everything I do for this company." Nope. Her response upon getting the list was "Good. This is your job description now." B!tch... I'm a graphic designer. Making me wash your lunch dishes is not OK and not part of my job description. Almost 20 years later and I still hate her.
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
That's what happened when my sister left a job decades ago. They had to hire 3 people to replace her, asked her to come back to train them after she left and she couldn't (the job was in NYC, she'd moved home to Washington state). I don't remember what all else happened after that though.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
My wife used to have a job where each person in her department was expected to do the work of 2-3 people. Occasionally, they'd announce they'd just hired 2-3 new people to work in the office. Originally, my wife hoped that meant that the workload would be more evenly distributed. Nope. Her employer always decided, "Now that we have 2-3 new people in the office, that means we can take on 2-3x as much work!" So nothing ever changed.
#19
My co-worker bought cake and ice cream for the office. Someone asked what we were celebrating.. and he said his last day.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
On my last night at the wholesale club, i left a cooler full of beer in the back of my pickup and told everyone on tht shift to grab one on the way home (I knew I'd be the last one out, except my manager). There were about three beers left out of a case when I left
#20
I gave him a two-hour notice when I quit. He had a habit of firing people on the spot when they gave advance notice.
Emma London 2 years ago (edited)
In my country you'll receive unemployment money right away if you're fired, but have a grace period if you quit by your own will. So it would have been more financially lucrative to just get fired.
Sonja 2 years ago
Well, if he'd fired you anyway, this was stupid. I'd first given proper notice just in case, so he would fire me, to keep up appearances, if he didn't fire me, I'd still be able to quit on the spot. As far as I understand it, if the other job surprisingly fell through, OP would then be eligible for unemployment when the boss has fired them
#21
I taped a piece of fish to the back of his desk which was up against a wall. I heard later on that it wasn't found for almost a month... f**k you Darren
April Caron 2 years ago (edited)
I worked as a receptionist in a sales office. Our warehouse guys were always playing tricks on me. I was always getting even. Once they installed a spring in my desk drawer, so when I went to open it… it snapped back and I ended up breaking two fingers because they got caught when it closed. They felt awful. I got even by leaving an open can of tuna behind a bottom file cabinet drawer in the warehouse. They could NOT find the source of the smell for MONTHS. Our manager knew. He thought it was hilarious. One day, I came in and immediately smelled that rotten tuna. Sure enough… it was placed in my trash can. I snuck it back behind another drawer in the warehouse. The guys called me and said, “Heads up. Ya might want to get rid of that fish before a customer walks in.” I replied, “I already did. You can’t smell it back there?” And by the end of the day, they were begging me to tell them where I’d hidden it. Broken fingers aside… it was all fun and games. I miss those guys!
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
…..D: I love and hate this story at the same time hahaha
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Bart 2 years ago
Butter is even better, it takes a while to start smelling but oh boy, it's a smell you can't ignore...
RagDollLali 2 years ago
A few friend's and I buttered our hs bully's car one night. You just apply a nice, thick layer over the entire exterior including windows and door handles, it's incredibly hard to wash off without VERY hot water and a lot of scrubbing. It took a few weeks for him to finally stop pulling up to school with a semi-greasy car coated in insects. I don't advocate for vandalism (we were stupid teenagers at the time) but I'll be damned if it doesn't leave me laughing every time I think about it to this day.
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Take the end caps or finials off curtain rails and stuff them with prawns before recapping. It’s literally the last place they’ll look.
Sue Knerl 1 year ago
That s**t can backfire. One of the guys in the shop had a can of solvent he was spraying at people with a lighter right in front of it. Huge flame! He also put a firecracker under the toilet seat in the women's bathroom. He got in trouble for that. Never seen Jay Jr so mad!
Jane Hower 2 years ago
Just as a prank my son taped an used/empty can of sardines under a co-workers desk drawer. Took him DAYS to find it after cleaning, spraying air freshener, etc. But in this case just an office prank.
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
Unscrewed the light switch plate, packed it full of chicken, on Friday afternoon-- screwed it all back in, turned the heat up
#22
I bought the .com version of the domain name for their business and made him buy it off me for a grand. I think it made him like me more, ironically.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
You should have leased it to them.. Then they would always have to treat you right.
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Kassandra Conley 2 years ago
It would definitely make me have respect for an employee if they did that!
Mr Sardonicus 2 years ago
OP is a moron either for selling too low, or not knowing enough about domain poaching to know that's a ridiculous amount to lie about.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
I wonder how much the US government would need to pay whitehouse.com? NSFW it's a porn site
Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago
I just went there, it seems to already be owned by the Us govt.
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#23
Salary was delayed by 2 weeks and was about told to be lenient because the company is growing and needs our help and cooperation. I waited for another week but I was ignored. I left the job without notice and upon them calling me to sue me, I replied “You have money to sue people but no money to pay employees.”
I switched job and I am at a better place right now.
Sonja 2 years ago
If the company wants something from you: oh please be more of a team player! The company needs you! You are too important to go to vacation right now! How can you leave us in a lurch this way? If you need the company or want a raise: can you prove to me that you added any value to the company that deserves our consideration? If you don't like the job I can find someone else any time! And the American workforce has a huge chunk of people who believe that c**p in full and doesn't see the contradiction at all.
Lee F. 2 years ago
Exactly! Workers hold the power but especially here in North America, people don't know their rights and are too afraid to speak up/strike/take action because they're living pay cheque to pay cheque
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Erik Ivan 2 years ago
In my country, if a company cannot pay the workers, you can file for bankruptcy in court. It will almost automatically go thru if the workers have not being paid. And then the state goes in to pay outstanding sallaries, miney that is taken out of whatever the bankruptcy proceedings manage to shake loose. And yes. I have helped people do that. It's amazing how fast the gears of the authorities work in a case like that.
Katie Larson 2 years ago
I hope that you contacted HR and the government that they didn't pay you !
beccabootie 2 years ago
The day the company owner called all of the employees together and asked them to please support the business by going a week without pay his wife came into work to show him all of the stuff she had just bought at the mall across the street.
#24
She was a psychopathic narcissist. I knew she was plotting to leave her husband. Because I found it on a numbered to-do list on top of her desk. I was floored that she would leave it where her husband could see- it was a home office in one large room. I took a photo.
She proceeded to harass and gaslight her husband, who took off one night and slept in a parking lot. When he returned the next day she said “you left me, so it’s over.”
After she royally screwed me over for the umpteenth time I quit. A few weeks later I sent the photo to her husband, copied her, and wrote, “For your records” in the subject line.
Then I reported her to the IRS.
Emma London 2 years ago
Too bad psychopathic narcissists tend to be great manipulators and get far in their careers before, if ever, the s**t hits the fan.
Firedrake 2 years ago
I think the vast majority of them don't get there, because as they get older and less in touch with reality, their manipulations get more obvious. However, people in their sphere of influence think they're more charismatic than they are.
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Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
The VA where I worked had administrators like this. We had husband & wife doctors. Wonderful people. They almost seemed like a prince & princess. The woman doctor gets a patient's records dropped on her desk. This Congressman needs a compensation & pension exam & we expect you to give him a 100% rating. This doctor was very eloquent & polite until you ticked her off. She is doing her exam first & not just signing off on a disability. She told her husband how she was being pressured. Whatever decision you make, honey, I am with you. The next day she sits down at her computer & she sees an alert that she had signed off on this guy's exam. She did not write it & she did not put her electronic signature on it. She went upstairs & unloaded with a full tirade of epic insults & swear words. She then collected herself, went to where her husband worked, & said "let's go." They both walked out. The place lost two of their best doctors.
Heather Talma 2 years ago
I really want to see this to-do list. "Call Plumber, Buy Batteries, Leave Husband, E-mail Kate"
Jane Hower 2 years ago
I had a b***h boss that would YELL at me and I was the most dependable, hardworking, gal there - always cleaning the place and coming up with great ideas on how to do things better and one day I just couldn't take the YELLING and calmly got up, took my purse out of the drawer and walked out. Best feeling ever!!!!
Timbob 2 years ago
You reported her to the IRS for planning to leave her husband ? Is that a crime?
Illustrious G 2 years ago
I don’t know why you were downvoted. The IRS report was not explained in any other part of this!!
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I worked at a dry cleaner for a summer. Front desk, cash under table type of job. I worked 50 hours one week and he told me he'd pay me time and a half for the OT. I go into work on payday and my cash envelope is not in the drawer. I called him and asked about it and he told me he couldn't pay me for my work yet. I kindly informed him that I was taking the money I was owed, and locking up the shop, and left.
Emma London 2 years ago
That's tricky. Is it stealing if you'll take from the register the amount the company owes you for an under-the-counter job?
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
It could possibly mean that, but since paying workers under the table is considered tax evasion, (in the US at least) he probably didn't report it.
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Jan Rosier 2 years ago (edited)
If he would take action (which I think he will not do, because it would mean admitting to under the table-paypment) he/she could simply say : 'he told me to take my pay from the till'...
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Admirable, but potentially illegal, despite your under-the-table employment status. Still, the employer would have to reveal that fact if they tried to report the theft, so good on you.
#26
I reported him to the work inspection.
He was employing more trainee than the legislation allows for a company this size and was making them work them like full paid workers, with basically no formation at all.
He got controlled and fined a big amount of money, had to give money to previous trainee that had worked for him, etc… His company closed for bankruptcy after that.
Sweet justice.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
I wonder what country that is, I tried that in Spain once and it mas imposible to get the work inspection in without disclosing who had called and also had to be a person employed there.
Michele Teer 2 years ago
I worked for a house cleaning company. The owners sold the business to an idiot. We were 1099 employees, her accountant advised her to change us to W-2. She did. But she started extorting money from a Spanish employee. She said she needed to pay back taxes and was taking the money out of her check. She wasn’t taking it from me. Im American. I told her to tell her hell no! You are not responsible to pay those taxes back. That’s her mistake. The boss then tells me not to be speaking to them about that kind of stuff. She stopped taking the money. She also put me on leave. Told me I needed a break. Few days go by, I said if you don’t let me work I need a separation notice. I took it to unemployment. She appealed and we had a hearing. There were no policies, so she couldn’t say I broke them. I won and got the money. I was a 1099 employee so I didn’t put that much tax money in so she had to pay my unemployment. She didn’t like that I stood up to her. The company went under shortly after
#27
Applied for a full time job at a daycare. Interview was on Friday and the director said she would text me over the weekend to tell me my hours for next week. Yay! I got the job!
Monday rolls around and no text or email from her so I am sitting in my pjs at home thinking I’m out of work. At 10am a random number calls me and she asks me to come in for 11. I let it slide thinking she lost track of time or whatever.
By the end of the day I asked for my schedule and she said she’ll contact me tomorrow morning at 9am. The next day is the same thing, except this time she calls at 11am asking to come in for 11:15!!!!! I waited TWO hours for her call. Now I have no car and live 15 minutes away. On top of this the shifts were only 4ish hours long, so the job isn’t even full time. I tell her I need a schedule by the end of the day. Didn’t get one.
The next day she calls at a random time but too late, I’m busy at an interview with a different job! I tell her I’ll stop in to get my cheque by the end of the week because she can’t respect my time and lied on the ad about being full time. Also I am not getting paid to be on call.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Isn’t it illegal to say that the job is full time if it’s not?
Erin E 2 years ago
Yeah, but do you have the time and money to report it and make sure there’s a follow through?
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A little Elf Conscious 2 years ago
Complete lack of respect for your time and you as a person. Good on you for leaving when you did.
RomanceRadish 2 years ago
Daycare workers are so important and work so hard, but often for little pay.
#28
My boss's boss hated me. He drove out my previous boss that was one of the best managers I ever worked for. He demoted me, and then when the company laid-off EVERYONE else who knew my product, I insisted he restore me to my previous status or I'd quit. He did, and he wasn't happy about it.
Eventually he demoted me again and I found another job. During my exit interview with HR, I spoke at length about how he'd f****d up the department and fired many excellent people who were now working for the competition.
A few months later he was escorted to the door and told never to return. Apparently the company took a good, long look at him and found he'd been holding his meetings with his subordinate managers in a local bar and would sometimes never return to the office. I don't know whether my discussions with HR had anything to do with their review of his performance, but I'd like to think so.
Sonja 2 years ago
This reminds me of an AskAManager story where a boss got audited after loosing too many employees and then they tasked an employee to help him clean house and get more efficient because his department didn't generate revenue. He took her tasks away from her and gave it to his favourite employees and did everything to sabotage her and then whined to AAM that his department got dissolved after she gave up and quit. This could easily be the story from the competent employees point of view.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
HR was probably looking for a reason to fire the bum. He provided it--in spades.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
Worked as an Admin Asst to the CFO of a large well known airline and after being there almost a year - setting up new filing systems, helping to get up to speed on the NEW computers, cleaning out his office, etc etc he let me go. As I was going around the main office saying good bye to the other admins. they were all saying my boss as an a*s as he had let the last 3 girls go for no reason in less than a year of working there. A few months later I read in the paper that the airline had replace their CFO. hehe, karma does happen!!!
#29
Worked in China in a language training center. Left the country without informing anyone at work.
Once I was out of China, I posted all the info I had about the benefits foreign workers were supposed to have but never had (tax reimbursement, pension savings, etc.) and how HR & Finance appropriated them in regional and local WeChat groups both in English and Chinese.
Also posted addresses of local government offices where foreign workers could inquire about the aforementioned benefits or complain about lack thereof.
Emma London 2 years ago
Too bad they had to be out of the country to feel secure enough to take a stand.
JP Purves 2 years ago
Yeah, well it's China, so best to be several thousand miles outside the country, or you might just disappear.
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Can you tell us all that information here, please. It would be helpful for anyone who is wanting to be an ESL teacher in China or other countries.
Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
Education First will probably give you the best training. Take notes of your lesson plans and work anywhere after a year or two
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Robin Hudson 2 years ago
This bulls*** happens ALL THE TIME to EFL teachers all over the world. Naïve grads go abroad to have some fun and make a little cash and get scr*wed. Gotta do your research.
Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
Which training center, please? Which local government office handles this situation?
#30
Worked at a stupid fake French cafe & the manager was an idiot who made a point of giving me the sh**tiest jobs just to show he was in charge. One day he pulled me off the floor (where I earned tips as a server) and made me polish silver for hours. He kept returning & throwing every second piece back at me, telling me to do it over. Kept saying “missed a spot”.
So I walked out . . . and kept the apron. I kept the beautiful black apron with the embroidered logo and still wear it when I cook today.
Also invoiced the owner for my outstanding pay & informed him his manager was not up for the job. Owner begged me to reconsider but I told him nope.
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
I love the bit about the apron. I worked for a home improvement store that went out of business. As I worked in the Customer Service booth, I had three aprons, so I always had a clean one. After they closed, I took all three home with me. Love those aprons.
#31
I was working as an English teacher thru student contract. Boss decided to fire me just because other teacher found me annoying and was gossiping s**t about me constantly and boss just ate it all up.
She ends up telling me that I suck at the job and I'm fired, but I will have to work for another week AND cover extra classes for a sick teacher as a substitute.
I said okay, then the next day sent the boss a text half an hour before my classes that I don't think it's okay for me to work for another week, I don't want to ruin children's education with my s****y teaching skills, it's just morally wrong for me, and I don't have to work for an extra week anyway since student contract tells me I can leave when I want. She was fuming.
After that, I sent an e-mail to the school's director explaining mobbing I've experienced with that awful colleague, saying how she doesn't deserve the position and sent her screenshots of abusive messages she was sending me.
Stay toxic
#32
I had a boss who was just plain horrible - she took pride in making people cry in every meeting she held where she had to discuss something with someone & I was one of the few people who she couldn’t make cry so she was kind of borderline fascinated with me. It’s a relatively small industry where you hear about people moving around at certain levels & I heard she had managed to get a job at a company that is famous for a really great atmosphere, where people will stay for decades because it’s a genuinely nice place to work. I used my resources/contacts to get contact information for her future bosses & made an anonymous email account just to email them & warn them about what a horrible person she was, telling them if (when) there was an issue they could use my email as the first piece of evidence rather than waiting for multiple reports. I also told people who worked for the company to be very, very wary & that management had been warned. I don’t know if it helped but I hope so.
#33
Oh I have a great one for this. 2.5 years ago, my company decided to dock my bonus by 50% because of the “pandemic”. I was the only one in a sales team of 40 that achieved his target. Didn’t say a word to anyone. Just filled out an exit form on the HRM software and mentioned the reason as “Company stole my money while the CEO bought a brand new car”. My manager calls me being the a*****e that he thought he was and I told him, very calmly, “Shri you’re just their guard dog. I don’t talk to dogs”. The CEO calls me (small firm. Just 50 odd people) and starts to tell me how his personal life has nothing to do with my docked bonus. Told him he can “go ride that car into a canyon for all I care” An hour later he calls me from another number since I wasn’t picking up his calls. On the other end was a coworker in conference telling me how great the CEO was. How he gave him an advance on his payment when he needed it. This was followed by 2 minutes of me and my gf laughing loudly on the call and talking about how this was so pathetic. As if I’m a girl who has broken up with him and he calls with his friend to tell me how he’s the best guy ever. It finally ended with the CEO speaking up and revealing that he was also on the call and could hear us and my last words were, “Oh that’s great. I was worried you wouldn’t realise what a b***h you were being.” Never dealt with them again. Started my own business. Making my monthly salary in about a week.
#34
I walked into his office before my shift started, told him "I quit." He says "You're giving your two weeks notice?", I said, looking at my watch, "I'm giving my ten minutes notice."
Carol Emory 2 years ago
This is one of the advantages of Right to Work states. They may be able to fire you for any reason without notice, but you can also quit without notice.
Suzy Creamcheese 2 years ago
You can quit without notice in any state. Giving notice is a courtesy, not a legal requirement.
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Emma London 2 years ago
It depends on where they live if that's legal or not. But even there is a two weeks nice, if you decide not to work that time, it's usually okay. Only thing the company can basically do at that point is not to pay you for the two weeks.
#35
I really can't remember the root password anymore.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
This must be a while ago. Passwords are almost always stored in a secrets manager now
#36
lost him a big deal with another company by walking away at a critical moment. in fact, I walked right to the arcade across the street
#37
The last hour of my last day working there when I was asked to give my computer back I said „sure, just let me send my farewell EMail to everyone.“ I did. In a polite way I thanked everyone for working together and being helpful etc. And then I asked everyone if they hear my team (meaning my boss) talking b******t about me they should judge it in the light of our good colaboration. Naturally I adressed the mail to my boss as well. Then I handed him the computer. His face was priceless, his attempt afterwards trying to make me like him by going for an afterwork beer was pain in the a*s.
#38
Worked at the #1 zoo in America when I was a teenager. My manager wasn’t considerate and when I came to her about one of my coworkers slinging racial slurs every shift, she dismissed me every time. She also dismissed me when I told her 3 weeks ahead of time that I wanted 3 days off to visit my sick grandma who had covid at the time. The day of my last shift I (in teenager fashion) drew d***s on the walls of the building (with sharpie!) I worked in so all of the moms came in and asked to speak to the manager about the penises on the walls.
JayWantsACat 2 years ago (edited)
San Diego Zoo? Based on the comment, I'm assuming this was the retail side of the park. Thankfully.
#39
Hired him as my junior in my new job
What do you think ?
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Long story short, worked for a couple picking up donations for the charity they ran (can't recall the name of it now, but they provided comfort toys for emergency workers to give children in accidents etc). Never paid me my $125/week on time, claimed I was taking food off their table when I insisted on getting what I was owed. After I quit & tax time rolled around, I never got a 1099 from them. Requests for same were ignored. So being the naive person I was at the time, I included a note with my tax return saying this is who I worked for, this is how much they paid me, and I didn't receive any paperwork from them. A year or so later I saw them one last time, or rather a photo of them in our local paper, as they were being taken away in handcuffs. Turns out that while the charity was legit, they weren't actually associated with it and had been pocketing the donations. I don't know if my note to the IRS had anything to do with them getting caught, but I like to think it did.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
Pleasantly surprised that this wasn't just an "I hate my boss" thread. Most if not all of the bosses here really are evil.
Martine Vallée 2 years ago
This happened at my place of work. I recently changed job within the company, from HR and accounting to Procurement. The person in charge of production was retiring and the boss asked me if I was still in touch with the person who replaced him when he was on sick leave. Said yes and he asked me to reach out and let him know that our company was looking for someone, which I did. This guy knew and could do the job, no problem. In the meantime time someone from procurement applied for the job and got it. The boss keep stringing the guy along saying HR had problems with the posting and so on. One day, maybe a month after the position was filled the guy called me directly to know what was happening…I was the one who informed him that the position had been filled. The same thing happened again a fee month later for the HR job, string along my collègue to finally award the job to an outsider. Real assh***
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
My new boss likes to “motivate” people by telling them that they are horrible and need to work harder. He tried this with me after I spent a week travelling to help him out. Then he made a major mistake and tried to cover it up by making the junior person believe she wasn’t allowed to speak to anyone about it. He doesn’t realize that I find out everything eventually. Today i ratted him out to his boss and he’ll never know it was me. He probably won’t get fired but he’s in for an unpleasant time.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I didn't realize there was such a thing as a contact smug! Smugness as a virus more contagious than covid! I feel the gleeful smugness of each post and wish them all ever-increasing success in their lives free from stupid bossturds
Mark Heelis 2 years ago
My old supervisor was very particular about his Diet Coke. Nobody else in the office drank it but he kept insisting that people were stealing it, even threatening to call the police. On my last day, after a long and sweaty 12 hour shift, I took his 2 litre bottle into the toilet and dribbled some pee into it. Then I rubbed my w**g around the top, as I knew he was fond of drinking straight from the bottle. I put the bottle back in the fridge and told noone. I emigrated a week later, f**k him!
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Long story short, worked for a couple picking up donations for the charity they ran (can't recall the name of it now, but they provided comfort toys for emergency workers to give children in accidents etc). Never paid me my $125/week on time, claimed I was taking food off their table when I insisted on getting what I was owed. After I quit & tax time rolled around, I never got a 1099 from them. Requests for same were ignored. So being the naive person I was at the time, I included a note with my tax return saying this is who I worked for, this is how much they paid me, and I didn't receive any paperwork from them. A year or so later I saw them one last time, or rather a photo of them in our local paper, as they were being taken away in handcuffs. Turns out that while the charity was legit, they weren't actually associated with it and had been pocketing the donations. I don't know if my note to the IRS had anything to do with them getting caught, but I like to think it did.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
Pleasantly surprised that this wasn't just an "I hate my boss" thread. Most if not all of the bosses here really are evil.
Martine Vallée 2 years ago
This happened at my place of work. I recently changed job within the company, from HR and accounting to Procurement. The person in charge of production was retiring and the boss asked me if I was still in touch with the person who replaced him when he was on sick leave. Said yes and he asked me to reach out and let him know that our company was looking for someone, which I did. This guy knew and could do the job, no problem. In the meantime time someone from procurement applied for the job and got it. The boss keep stringing the guy along saying HR had problems with the posting and so on. One day, maybe a month after the position was filled the guy called me directly to know what was happening…I was the one who informed him that the position had been filled. The same thing happened again a fee month later for the HR job, string along my collègue to finally award the job to an outsider. Real assh***
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
My new boss likes to “motivate” people by telling them that they are horrible and need to work harder. He tried this with me after I spent a week travelling to help him out. Then he made a major mistake and tried to cover it up by making the junior person believe she wasn’t allowed to speak to anyone about it. He doesn’t realize that I find out everything eventually. Today i ratted him out to his boss and he’ll never know it was me. He probably won’t get fired but he’s in for an unpleasant time.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I didn't realize there was such a thing as a contact smug! Smugness as a virus more contagious than covid! I feel the gleeful smugness of each post and wish them all ever-increasing success in their lives free from stupid bossturds
Mark Heelis 2 years ago
My old supervisor was very particular about his Diet Coke. Nobody else in the office drank it but he kept insisting that people were stealing it, even threatening to call the police. On my last day, after a long and sweaty 12 hour shift, I took his 2 litre bottle into the toilet and dribbled some pee into it. Then I rubbed my w**g around the top, as I knew he was fond of drinking straight from the bottle. I put the bottle back in the fridge and told noone. I emigrated a week later, f**k him!
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