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Organization Fired This Branch Manager But Got Confused When They Realized That He’d Already Planted His Revenge Plan Before Leaving
Workplaces are like different planets; every job has its own environment and its rules – some are toxic, and others are proud to practice a more respectful culture for their employees. Sadly, you never fully know whether you’re going to end up in the hands of right-minded management or if you’ll have to witness and be a part of corrupt conditions.
We live in a materialistic world where a good deal of higher-ups are driven by money and their own profits. Folks ignore the needs of their staff, making people hate the jobs they once adored. No one truly knows what’s happening behind closed doors, and a company that has advertised itself as a “family” may end up kicking you out over the smallest inconvenience.
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When the management screws you over, maybe it’s a good idea to come up with a little revenge plan
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This employee took it to one of Reddit’s best-loved communities to reveal his gripping “pro revenge” story. “Fire my boss unethically? Enjoy paying for my unemployment benefits!” Nobody likes getting thrown under the bus, especially when you sense that your shady company is about to fire your favorite boss. The post has managed to receive over 8K upvotes, as well as 228 worth of comments discussing this rather unpleasant event.
A branch manager that was unethically fired created a plan that forced the company to sponsor his employee’s unemployment benefits
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Even though, nowadays, employers are becoming more aware of the problems that often arise in workplaces, a lot of organizations still struggle with maintaining a healthy atmosphere that allows their hires to feel safe and satisfied. For instance, this company has definitely failed its “wholesomeness” test.
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The author began the story by revealing that the event took place more than a decade ago. He started working for a small branch and happened to develop a really strong bond with his manager that he would often compare to everyone’s favorite – Michael Scott. After working there for some time, he found out that his boss was asked to move to a bigger department, as the owner of the business wanted to make his offspring the manager of a small location. The boss declined the offer since his kids had just started going to their new school and he didn’t want to overcomplicate it for them, as he had already moved towns for this job.
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Some time passed and the OP saw their office manager filling in some paperwork, which he found to be a little bit strange, but not too alarming. However, when he was attending a meeting at the corporate headquarters, the office manager started handing out new building keys, saying that it was because someone had managed to lose theirs. Later, the staff confirmed that nobody had lost anything, which provoked the author to contact his boss.
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As expected, the boss had zero idea about the things that had been happening in the branch, so the man called him up and asked him to swing by his house once he got back from his vacation. The man also mentioned that he was 95% sure that they were going to fire his boss on the following Monday purely because he had this uneasy gut feeling. He told him it was a shame and that he wouldn’t want to work there anymore, knowing that they can be this sketchy. So his beloved manager decided to propose an idea: he said that he should fire him first, so that the author could go on unemployment benefits. Of course, it started out as a joke – however, before they knew it, they’d already agreed on this vengeful plan.
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Time went by and the boss was indeed fired for the alleged misfiling of some paperwork, making the OP stick to his decision of not wanting to come back. Naturally, the company tried calling him in but he said that his boss had already fired him. The man took his proof to the unemployment office and everything was great, until his now former employer decided to dispute his claim. He then had a hearing on the phone with the unemployment office and his corporate HR, where they tried arguing that the paperwork wasn’t valid and that it should’ve come from HR, not the manager.
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After all was said and done, everything went in the author’s favor and the unemployment office confirmed that the claim was valid. The company was given a choice to rehire him but because the position was already filled, the man got to collect his benefits. Lastly, the ex-worker revealed that the organization would’ve still found an option to fire him, so by sticking to this benefit plan, he simply took away their power.
Fellow Redditors were in disbelief and even shared their own stories
What do you think ?
TonyTee 3 years ago
Great way to get revenge 👌🏻 I would've ratted on the b***h who messed around with the paperwork. The workplace can indeed be a toxic dump but there's always a way to clean it up, so to speak; and get payback 😈 Sometimes you gotta do Karma's job yourself!
Loretta Franklin 3 years ago
I once answered an add for clerical accounting as person was going on maternity leave. Company said I would be needed after she came back due to workload. Noticed while working that the workload wasn't enough for 2 people so I starting looking before she came back. The day she was approved to come back, they let me go saying I had failed to do credits on a large account. I do credits before doing the debits and had created a spread sheet. Supervisor didn't even know how to do spreadsheets. I was granted unemployment over company's objection.
Libstak 3 years ago
Why are companies so callous they try to prevent fired employees from collecting unemployment? This is not one but several bridges too far. How is this justified morally?
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Craig Schulz 3 years ago
I worked for a cement plant & the supervisor on the opposite shift hated me ( he wanted to get his kid a job) so he would do whatever he could to make my job as miserable as possible. He falsely wrote me up for locking a electrical panel out wrong. He said you had to only lock out the sub panel( so the production line could keep running. I told him " If my life is on the line , I will be as safe as possible " He freaked & wrote me up for a 3 day suspension. I had another job lined up & after I served my false suspension, I called the labor board & reported him + I gave notice I was quitting. Was told has to be 2 wks. I told HR Would have been but You screwed me out of 3 days pay so I am short 3 days. I'm gone in a week & 2 days. The look on her face was funny. Thought she was going to have a heart attack. I quit as promised, supervisor was demoted & my new job is great . Karma is such a b***h!
Memere 3 years ago
I had a similar experience at an architecture/engineering design/build firm. An admin became 'office manager' by default thru layoffs. She was divorced & got her 17 year old daughter a part-time job there. I was the billing clerk, collating & submitting million dollar contractors invoices on NFL, MLB, NBA, & college arena & stadium builds. When the daughter turned 18 she didn't enroll in college so child support ended. Mommy knew the annual budget was coming up, with more layoffs in the plan. She finagled it so her daughter got moved to full-time & I was cut to part-time. The reason? Because "you live with your boyfriend so you don't have as many bills to pay". BS. I stayed about 3 months, found a full-time job & left with 1 week's notice. Three months later the entire engineering dept left. Then all the principals (6 guys) left, the office was shut down, & all the work was moved to the HQ in another city. This happened in 2006. I still feel total joy to this day!
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kim morris 3 years ago
Depends on where.
When I quit a job because they changed our shift hours, adding more without added compensation, I collected unemployment,. The company fought, didn't want to have to pay the unemployment. It didn't come from tax payer money, it came from the company. Quit with cause, not because of anything I did, but what they did. fire-boss-...311b9f.jpg 
Sam Landon 3 years ago
I was on a seasonal layoff but when the employer tried to call me back to work it was for an entirely different job than I was contracted for and tried to imply to e.i. that I quit not that I informed them I'd return when the job I was hired for was back running. I won the case because the two jobs were entirely different and they had expected me to take the other job at the other job's wage which was less than my contracted wage. Employer was playing games like " this will get you back sooner and we definitely arent eliminating your old job and dividing it up into several lesser paid jobs in a way a union will be hard pressed to catch us"
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I wonder if companies who pull these kind of shenanigans know that word gets out about them. There was a very large IT company that moved to my town. They sent recruiters out, and people from all over the country applied. One guy I knew quit his good job in MN to move across the country and take a job with them. He suspected something was up when there was another guy, hired the same time, with the same title, in training with him. Two weeks later, they let him go, and kept the other guy. My friend had sold his house, taken his kids out of school... it was a mess. The company also would convince people to move here for one job, and then tell them, oops, so sorry, that position is filled but here's one you can have... for a much lower salary. This should be illegal, and I know at least one of these guys was suing them. In the end, the big company was having a very hard time finding even local people to work for them, because word spread wide and fast.
Tiredofpayingforothers 3 years ago
Something similar happened to me while I was in college. I had been hired as the night attendant for a local convenient store. They hired a woman a few months later to stock shelves. My manager made it clear that I was her boss and responsible to make sure she did her job, which I did. So one day I get called in and accused of theft. Long story short I proved the manager wrong and kept my job. A couple weeks later my manager called on my day off and wanted me to come in. I was out of town, and my girlfriend took the call. The next day I was called in and fired for not coming in on my day off. Never mind the fact I knew nothing about it. As I was leaving I noticed the woman was now doing my job, and her kid had been hired to do her job. Yes, it was that quick. A few months later I found out the manager was actually sleeping with this woman, having an affair on his wife. His wife filled for divorce and kicked him out. I went in everyday after that just to laugh at him.
Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
I don't know much about labour laws in the USA but in NZ or Australia the company would have copped a massive fine and seen their insurance premiums skyrocket for what is plainly constructive dismissal.
Paula McNeely 3 years ago
My dream job is to be the driver of the Karma bus. Oh the looks I'd get from some people. 😉 hehehe
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
WRT the comment about "prawns in the executive chair's tubing..." I once read a story about a couple where the husband blindsided his wife with a divorce, and forced her to move out of what had been *her* home before they'd gotten married. She knew he had every intention of moving his new gf in as soon as she was gone. Before she moved out, she put dead fish down all the pipes in the house, then replaced the plumbing so everything looked normal. The dead fish started to smell. Ex hubby and his new gf never could figure out the source of the smell, so they ended up having to sell the house. IIRC, it ended up condemned.
TonyTee 3 years ago
Great way to get revenge 👌🏻 I would've ratted on the b***h who messed around with the paperwork. The workplace can indeed be a toxic dump but there's always a way to clean it up, so to speak; and get payback 😈 Sometimes you gotta do Karma's job yourself!
Loretta Franklin 3 years ago
I once answered an add for clerical accounting as person was going on maternity leave. Company said I would be needed after she came back due to workload. Noticed while working that the workload wasn't enough for 2 people so I starting looking before she came back. The day she was approved to come back, they let me go saying I had failed to do credits on a large account. I do credits before doing the debits and had created a spread sheet. Supervisor didn't even know how to do spreadsheets. I was granted unemployment over company's objection.
Libstak 3 years ago
Why are companies so callous they try to prevent fired employees from collecting unemployment? This is not one but several bridges too far. How is this justified morally?
Load More Replies... Craig Schulz 3 years ago
I worked for a cement plant & the supervisor on the opposite shift hated me ( he wanted to get his kid a job) so he would do whatever he could to make my job as miserable as possible. He falsely wrote me up for locking a electrical panel out wrong. He said you had to only lock out the sub panel( so the production line could keep running. I told him " If my life is on the line , I will be as safe as possible " He freaked & wrote me up for a 3 day suspension. I had another job lined up & after I served my false suspension, I called the labor board & reported him + I gave notice I was quitting. Was told has to be 2 wks. I told HR Would have been but You screwed me out of 3 days pay so I am short 3 days. I'm gone in a week & 2 days. The look on her face was funny. Thought she was going to have a heart attack. I quit as promised, supervisor was demoted & my new job is great . Karma is such a b***h!
Memere 3 years ago
I had a similar experience at an architecture/engineering design/build firm. An admin became 'office manager' by default thru layoffs. She was divorced & got her 17 year old daughter a part-time job there. I was the billing clerk, collating & submitting million dollar contractors invoices on NFL, MLB, NBA, & college arena & stadium builds. When the daughter turned 18 she didn't enroll in college so child support ended. Mommy knew the annual budget was coming up, with more layoffs in the plan. She finagled it so her daughter got moved to full-time & I was cut to part-time. The reason? Because "you live with your boyfriend so you don't have as many bills to pay". BS. I stayed about 3 months, found a full-time job & left with 1 week's notice. Three months later the entire engineering dept left. Then all the principals (6 guys) left, the office was shut down, & all the work was moved to the HQ in another city. This happened in 2006. I still feel total joy to this day!
Load More Replies... kim morris 3 years ago
Depends on where.
When I quit a job because they changed our shift hours, adding more without added compensation, I collected unemployment,. The company fought, didn't want to have to pay the unemployment. It didn't come from tax payer money, it came from the company. Quit with cause, not because of anything I did, but what they did. fire-boss-...311b9f.jpg
Sam Landon 3 years ago
I was on a seasonal layoff but when the employer tried to call me back to work it was for an entirely different job than I was contracted for and tried to imply to e.i. that I quit not that I informed them I'd return when the job I was hired for was back running. I won the case because the two jobs were entirely different and they had expected me to take the other job at the other job's wage which was less than my contracted wage. Employer was playing games like " this will get you back sooner and we definitely arent eliminating your old job and dividing it up into several lesser paid jobs in a way a union will be hard pressed to catch us"
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I wonder if companies who pull these kind of shenanigans know that word gets out about them. There was a very large IT company that moved to my town. They sent recruiters out, and people from all over the country applied. One guy I knew quit his good job in MN to move across the country and take a job with them. He suspected something was up when there was another guy, hired the same time, with the same title, in training with him. Two weeks later, they let him go, and kept the other guy. My friend had sold his house, taken his kids out of school... it was a mess. The company also would convince people to move here for one job, and then tell them, oops, so sorry, that position is filled but here's one you can have... for a much lower salary. This should be illegal, and I know at least one of these guys was suing them. In the end, the big company was having a very hard time finding even local people to work for them, because word spread wide and fast.
Tiredofpayingforothers 3 years ago
Something similar happened to me while I was in college. I had been hired as the night attendant for a local convenient store. They hired a woman a few months later to stock shelves. My manager made it clear that I was her boss and responsible to make sure she did her job, which I did. So one day I get called in and accused of theft. Long story short I proved the manager wrong and kept my job. A couple weeks later my manager called on my day off and wanted me to come in. I was out of town, and my girlfriend took the call. The next day I was called in and fired for not coming in on my day off. Never mind the fact I knew nothing about it. As I was leaving I noticed the woman was now doing my job, and her kid had been hired to do her job. Yes, it was that quick. A few months later I found out the manager was actually sleeping with this woman, having an affair on his wife. His wife filled for divorce and kicked him out. I went in everyday after that just to laugh at him.
Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
I don't know much about labour laws in the USA but in NZ or Australia the company would have copped a massive fine and seen their insurance premiums skyrocket for what is plainly constructive dismissal.
Paula McNeely 3 years ago
My dream job is to be the driver of the Karma bus. Oh the looks I'd get from some people. 😉 hehehe
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
WRT the comment about "prawns in the executive chair's tubing..." I once read a story about a couple where the husband blindsided his wife with a divorce, and forced her to move out of what had been *her* home before they'd gotten married. She knew he had every intention of moving his new gf in as soon as she was gone. Before she moved out, she put dead fish down all the pipes in the house, then replaced the plumbing so everything looked normal. The dead fish started to smell. Ex hubby and his new gf never could figure out the source of the smell, so they ended up having to sell the house. IIRC, it ended up condemned.
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