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“Zero Regrets”: 13 Savage Ways People Got Revenge On Their Bosses Before Leaving The Job
Marcus Buckingham, researcher of high performance at work and co-author of the book Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World, says that great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to integrate them into a coordinated plan of attack. Bad ones, on the other hand, are... abundant. And they're bringing down everyone around them. So when Reddit user Ssteepballet asked others on the platform to share the "screw you" that they served their toxic bosses, people submitted plenty of colorful stories.
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#1
I refused to wear a g-string bikini during a company car wash and i flicked the bikini boss had given me to wear in his face and told him if he tried the same technique on the other women employees he would be facing a big lawsuit but he would be facing one certainly from me because at the time i was seventeen. He ended up losing that lawsuit.
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#2
I just made the firing as awkward as possible. I spent like 20 minutes in silence reading my severance package while she and the rep from HR watched.
They tried to tell me they will email a copy I can electronically sign but I just said no thanks. Then I had them go make a copy for me to take home again they tried to say they will email it but I insisted on a paper copy.
#3
Returned the company phone with the ring tone of "Take This Job and Shove It".
#4
Started my own company in the same field. See my family way more, make more money, and am my own boss.
#5
I made a binder detailing all the unprofessional things she ever did and the times she lied via email and I requested a meeting with her and HR to review the contents of the binder.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I would love to start doing this, but it seems my truth comes with little provable evidence. Which really sucks.
#6
Reported him and the company to the IRS for not sending me a w2 and how they changed the company name and various things every few months in an effort to cheat out on taxes.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Oooh. I did this with one of my early jobs. They didn't give me my T4. Reported them to CRA. I think they got fined or something, but these jerks made me go down to get it. They were supposed to mail it.
#7
Reported him for racism, and told the company to watch his auction tapes, where he was making uncomfortable comments at black members of the audience. A colleague told me he was fired shortly afterwards.
Petra Peitsch 1 year ago
It's always sad to read that the changes are coming -IF:, after the the victim of any kind of abuse, reached the point of quitting.
#8
Trucker here. I convinced all the other drivers at our terminal to apply at a competing trucking company down the road. They hired all but one of us, so we dropped our keys on the boss's desk.
Within a month the plant pulled their contract, and the company went bankrupt.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
At the places I've worked at in Manitoba, they're now making employees sign a contract stating we won't encourage coworkers to quit and won't take coworkers with us when we quit. Something along those lines.
#9
Quit just before a busy holiday weekend. Booked a nice beach trip and headed out. On my way out of town, the manager calls to ask "Are you going to cover your shifts this weekend or did you get somebody to work for you??"
Nope.
#10
A month after I started my new job, I recruited two key workers from my old company. Left the having to explain to his boss why he had no idea what do to, despite taking credit for everything we had done.
#11
I chucked in a 14 days medical certificate after I headed in my resignation without doing any handover 😀.
#12
I reported him to HMRC for not declaring his Defender as a company car, he got fined and had to pay for 3 years tax on it.
#13
5 months after I quit, I slept with a girl I'd met recently. Nobody else was home that evening. The next morning, I come downstairs and guess who her father was?
#14
I worked for a small town computer store when I was in high school. I was hired to do computer builds and software installations, but while I was there I learned the owner was just reusing the same install materia and license keys for everything. He made me go to a client's office and build a cheap paperboard computer desk even though I argued with him that I was not good at that, it wasn't what I was hired to do, and I wasn't supposed to be working weekends. He made me and a coworker do it anyway. Apparently the client did not like how we were working on it and called him to cancel the deal. He came out and got us and the half built desk, took us back to the office and kicked me out telling me he would call me if he decided he wanted me to come back. By "telling me" I mean "yelling at me at full volume on the sidewalk in front of other people". So I told him I quit in no uncertain terms, and sent an anonymous letter to the local paper detailing his shady and illegal business practices in full. He ended up closing the business a month later. Got an F in my coop class but have zero regrets, the man was a stain.
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Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
I sicced a chicken on him and he was fired for shooting it in his office. The military looks down on this action in peacetime. Took a couple months, but well worth it.
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
I sicced a chicken on him and he was fired for shooting it in his office. The military looks down on this action in peacetime. Took a couple months, but well worth it.
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