Boss Threatens Overworked Employee With Health Insurance, They Quit And Get A Lawyer Involved
A 2021 Microsoft study found that 41% of workers may quit this year, while business leaders are “out of touch.” The data also revealed that burnout is widespread — 54% of workers said they are overworked while 39% claimed they’re exhausted. Now let’s see these numbers in action.
A few days ago, Reddit user u/bluepiehax made a post on r/AntiWork, an online community that unites a lot of folks who feel miserable in their current position. “This [subreddit] gave me the motivation to finally quit my abusive job,” u/bluepiehax wrote. “I may not have health insurance, but I feel so free!”
Underneath this statement, the Redditor attached the final straw — a conversation they had with an abusive boss who thinks that threatening staff to get them to come in on their day off is the right way to manage a business.
Image credits: alexvgr (not the actual photo)
Image credits: bluepiehax
Toxic bosses can be really dangerous to everyone around them. Not only do they infect the workplace, but they also create a culture where people are afraid to speak up or ask for help. Until they have enough.
“I have worked there for about 4 years prior to this incident,” u/bluepiehax told Bored Panda. “The boss I had was a jerk alcoholic who didn’t care about anyone else, just money. Divorced twice, can’t see his kids, you know the type.”
After the conflict, their boss told u/bluepiehax to come in and get their stuff. “He cursed me out as I left the building. I am so glad to be finally out of that terrible job and hope I give motivation to others to quit too.”
A Harvard Business School study discovered that among workers who’ve been dealing with toxic bosses:
- 48% intentionally decreased their work effort;
- 47% intentionally decreased the time spent at work;
- 38% intentionally decreased the quality of their work;
- 80% lost work time worrying about the incident;
- 63% lost work time avoiding the offender;
- 66% said that their performance declined;
- 78% said that their commitment to the organization declined;
- 12% said that they left their job because of the uncivil treatment;
- 25% admitted to taking their frustration out on customers.
Constantly feeling overworked and unsure of your boss’s expectations is a clear-cut sign that you are being mistreated. Rather than being respectful of your time, lousy “leaders” expect you to drop everything in your life to achieve all the unreasonable goals they desire and if you speak up, they instantly label you as ungrateful.
I’m glad this person stood up for themselves.
As the post went viral, an interesting discussion emerged in its comment section
Boss can’t threaten to take away health insurance unless he’s going to reduce the employee’s hours from full-time to less than 30 hours per week. If he does that, the employee can file for unemployment benefits and also sue the employer for wrongful termination. The text message thread alone is enough to secure a significant settlement, if the right lawyer gets involved.
My impression was that the boss was stating something explicitly (loss of health insurance) that is inherently implied in a threat of termination.
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I don't, they are idiots... the public healthcare-system, what we have in Europe, for most of them is a "commie" thing. Man, they won't even wear a f*****g face-mask for others, so what do you expect? But they are a great creep-show!
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When I quit my old boss, he turned beet-red and sneered, "What are you going to do?" To which I replied, "Get a better boss. That's the point. You're toxic." Six months later I got an invite to his funeral. Heart attack.
Threatening you in any way to force you to come in to work when you are not scheduled is abuse and blackmail plain and simple. I think more people should get in touch with their news outlets and send a barrage of toxic boss stories like this one so the issue gets national coverage. And while we are at it, start howling at ALL of our representatives, make a "wake the dead" push for universal Healthcare so companies and their crappy upper management can't use it as a weapon anymore.
Between this and the other post about people quitting, I wonder...whatever happened to simply ASKING someone if they can come in and help, instead of demanding it? I think the conversations would usually go a lot better.
I just have to wonder, why are almost all these types of interactions in text? There have been several of these at BP over the past week (and I see them at other sites). We never see the names of those involved to determine if this is real. And, being the age of social media, making things up for likes, and wanting to be a Victim, every single one of these should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Because most are probably fake. Most bosses aren't stupid enough to do this in a recorded conversation, knowing this will lead to lawsuits and government action. Interestingly, almost none of these includes the recipient alerting any agency like the EEOC.
Obviously because you only see the ones in text. How would you see the other ones? Genius.
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I honestly hope that this will be the last that we read about the American health insurance. The politicians are bickering over even the most minute details that could improve their constituents lives to show how they really hate the people that voted for them. Yet idiots keep voting for people who have a reputation of not caring one sh!t about people, the environment or the USA. Each nation gets the government it deserves.
"Each nation gets the government it deserves." I disagree. In the U.S. many politicians are in office because they are welathy and supported by large corporations. They have significantly greater resources to run for office than someone with better morals, but lower funding. Some politicians are also working to actively take away voting rights from people, mainly BIPOC and working class folks.
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Boss can’t threaten to take away health insurance unless he’s going to reduce the employee’s hours from full-time to less than 30 hours per week. If he does that, the employee can file for unemployment benefits and also sue the employer for wrongful termination. The text message thread alone is enough to secure a significant settlement, if the right lawyer gets involved.
My impression was that the boss was stating something explicitly (loss of health insurance) that is inherently implied in a threat of termination.
Load More Replies... I don't, they are idiots... the public healthcare-system, what we have in Europe, for most of them is a "commie" thing. Man, they won't even wear a f*****g face-mask for others, so what do you expect? But they are a great creep-show!
Load More Replies... When I quit my old boss, he turned beet-red and sneered, "What are you going to do?" To which I replied, "Get a better boss. That's the point. You're toxic." Six months later I got an invite to his funeral. Heart attack.
Threatening you in any way to force you to come in to work when you are not scheduled is abuse and blackmail plain and simple. I think more people should get in touch with their news outlets and send a barrage of toxic boss stories like this one so the issue gets national coverage. And while we are at it, start howling at ALL of our representatives, make a "wake the dead" push for universal Healthcare so companies and their crappy upper management can't use it as a weapon anymore.
Between this and the other post about people quitting, I wonder...whatever happened to simply ASKING someone if they can come in and help, instead of demanding it? I think the conversations would usually go a lot better.
I just have to wonder, why are almost all these types of interactions in text? There have been several of these at BP over the past week (and I see them at other sites). We never see the names of those involved to determine if this is real. And, being the age of social media, making things up for likes, and wanting to be a Victim, every single one of these should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Because most are probably fake. Most bosses aren't stupid enough to do this in a recorded conversation, knowing this will lead to lawsuits and government action. Interestingly, almost none of these includes the recipient alerting any agency like the EEOC.
Obviously because you only see the ones in text. How would you see the other ones? Genius.
Load More Replies... I honestly hope that this will be the last that we read about the American health insurance. The politicians are bickering over even the most minute details that could improve their constituents lives to show how they really hate the people that voted for them. Yet idiots keep voting for people who have a reputation of not caring one sh!t about people, the environment or the USA. Each nation gets the government it deserves.
"Each nation gets the government it deserves." I disagree. In the U.S. many politicians are in office because they are welathy and supported by large corporations. They have significantly greater resources to run for office than someone with better morals, but lower funding. Some politicians are also working to actively take away voting rights from people, mainly BIPOC and working class folks.
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