“Everybody quit over the next few months because he was a complete jerk.”
Here’s what people shared:
1.
“He had shared an Andy Warhol bottle of Dom Perignon with us after we hit a big goal.
He let me keep the cork because it was the first time I’d ever had champagne.
When he fired our team months later, he stood in the doorway as I packed my desk.
u/mfmeitbual
2. u/Pantastic_Studios
3.
“We were getting ready to roll out the next great version of our core product.
It was dependent on a single ‘master’ encryption key.
The boss asked me to change the key and not share it with anyone.
Okay, no problem.
I was going to give him the key; I had it on a diskette in my hand.
He called security, and they immediately walked me out the door.
Apparently, it took them weeks to recreate all the lost customer data.
u/kooknboo
4.
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.
The plant pulled their contract within a month, and the company went bankrupt.”
u/tc6x6
5.
“He got a new job and was leaving.
u/squid-do
6.
“I left him stranded at Marseilles airport.
I was meant to pick him up that day and drive him back to Monaco.
It was the best day ever.”
u/Wwwweeeeeeee
7.
“I just made the firing as awkward as possible.
I spent 20 minutes in silence reading my severance package while she and the rep from HR watched.
Then, I had them make a copy for me to take home again.
They tried to say they would email it, but I insisted on a paper copy.”
u/CertainlyAmbivalent
8.
“I quit just before a busy holiday weekend.
I booked a nice beach trip and headed out.
u/really_affordable
9.
“I used their arrogance to fund my startup.
I worked for this company for more than 10 years.
Anyone who ever quit, which was rare, was always shunned and walked out immediately.
As expected, he walked me out and paid me for only two weeks.
That shortfall allowed me to file for unemployment since I had no HR issues.
u/WIDSTND
10. u/Eating_sweet_ass
11.I worked at a grocery store when I was younger.
While working there, my first daughter was born.
I told him that I wouldn’t be there, but he still went ahead and scheduled me.
Well, I didn’t show up, and the next few months were a real pain.
They’d walk around the parking lot in store uniforms, asking for money and food.
My old boss got into a few confrontations trying to get the shirts back from them.
I wish I could’ve been there for those.
u/Forcekin6532
12.
“I was a teacher and needed to take off the last day for a family vacation.
Note: This was the last day for teachers, so we had no students.
We would just clean up and go out to lunch with our coworkers.
I submitted my vacation request and told them I would do all necessary check-out items before I left.
I was so over them and didn’t give her the time of day.
They had treated me poorly long enough.
u/mmmcookie7
13.
I sat around playing games and reading on my last day.
they wanted to feel good by throwing me a party.
THEY WERE MAD.”
u/layer-motor2
14.
One day, about an hour before closing, an older lady comes in for front wheel bearings.
I don’t know why they told her they could do it then, but they did.
Well, the suck-up favorite mechanic snapped two of her wheel studs.
He got frustrated, left the car in the air, and went home!
The boss came in and asked where he had gone, so I told him what happened.
The boss then said, ‘Well, get over there and finish it.’
I told him that it was not my problem and that I was finishing another vehicle in my bay.
I simply said, ‘You are right.'”
The boss blew up my phone for the next two weeks, but I never answered.
I went on to open my own shop and do better.”
u/ShawVAuto
15.
“We never really got along.
He got a promotion to upper management and needed an assistant.
I had already found another job elsewhere before he got that promotion and had planned to quit.
He had to do all the work alone, which made me happy.”
u/Other-Negotiation328
16.
“I worked for a landscaping company that mainly did construction.
The breaking point was him taking a massive project that was over two hours away from where anyone lived.
That morning, he had 10 employees.
The next morning, he had three.
He said I’d regret it and hung up.
I had a new construction job the next week.
The dumb owner’s company went under about a year later.”
u/apocalypticradish
17.
“Gave them a ‘Sorry for your loss’ card when I quit.”
u/WiscoPopPM
18.
“Not me, but a friend.
He worked at an Aladdin’s Castle video game parlor in the mid-’80s.
His wife was scheduled to come home on a day the boss insisted he work.
Once deposited, the only way to pull up the money was with the master key.
His boss deserved every second of seething fury he experienced while watching the locksmith work over the safe.”
u/wkarraker
19.
“I called a day before Christmas Eve to say I was resigning.
I tried raising my salary for six years and never got more than a trainee.
When I called, he said he could finally raise my salary to keep me in his company.
I laughed and said, ‘No, I have already decided.’
It was the best decision ever in my work career.
u/cornered_beef
20.
“I used to clean a very busy deli in the evening after closing.
The owner was a nasty drunk.
I was already fed up with his nonsense.
I left a NASTY, horrible mess.
He called the next day and asked what had happened, but I didn’t call him back.
I called the deli the next day and apologized to my coworkers, but they thought it was hysterical.
They said he was totally distraught and hungover, but they were with me 100%!
Everybody quit over the next few months because he was a complete jerk.”
u/Max123Dani
21.
“I called in sick on my last day after 15 years at the company.
He wasn’t happy, but I was, and I was finally free.”
u/WhatsACellPhone
22. u/ohhhohohkay
23.
“I emailed my two weeks’ notice the very same day I got another job offer.
I copied the email to HR.
My notice came only a few days after another manager’s two-week notice.
She hated closing and had made me the closing donkey for months.
She opened that day.
I came in, told her I had a medical emergency, handed her my keys, and left.
According to my old coworkers, she had to work a double and apparently was seething.”
Turnover was extremely high under her, and actually, our entire management team ended up quitting.
u/PrehistoricPrincess
24.
I was very successful at the school and made my boss look bad by comparison.
Anyway, I got let go, which I knew was coming.
The market just happened to be hot at the time, pre-Covid.
On the deadline date, I declined the offer.
I sent it to every one of my colleagues, most of whom supported my boss.
u/teacherbooboo
25.
“A month after I started my new job, I recruited two key workers from my old company.
u/JustSomeGuy_56
26.
“I’m a former executive chef.
I got fired via email while on leave for a death in the family.
I didn’t check my messages until I returned to work, so I was completely blindsided.
Of course, everyone else already knew, including other restaurants.
The boss was conveniently absent when I came to get my stuff.
I heard she was pretty mad about that.
A few months later, she got fired.
Three of my former managers informed me about it before the boss knew it was coming.
That was the sweet, sweet icing on the cake.”
u/guiltycitizen
27.
“I quietly asked for an exit interview with HR.
I was told they don’t do that for contractors, but I insisted.
Things got better for the floor staff, and they hired replacements.
She proceeded to find flimsy pretexts to fire us all.
When I showed up, she fired me.
I had a 32 oz root beer in my hand, which I expected to sip during my shift.
She was wearing the whole thing before I walked out the door for the last time.
It was all over her ugly white sweater.
u/geoffbowman
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