Incompetent Boss Sabotages Business, Employee Steals Boss' Clients

Man oh man, nothing can bring a hard working employee's blood to a boil like having to deal with an incompetent boss who insists with bullish ignorance that they know how to run things, as they ruin everything. Jeff sounds like a waking nightmare to work with, and a generally toxic person to be around. Fortunately, this guy was able to use his talent and skillset to start up his own business, and successfully poach some of Jeff's clients. And honestly, it sounds like that was for the best. Businesses weren't long for this world under Jeff's "guidance." 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/[deleted] • 4y Business is business I joined the Navy when I was 18, ended up as a Corpsman in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, whenI returned, found out that I was going to have to take classes to even become an EMT. Fuck that, right? So I did the next best thing: I got a degree in Economics. Now I see you there, grinning ear to ear. What an idiot, right? Well, it turned out pretty well for me. I picked up a job for 35k/yr as a business consultant for a smallish company i
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    Text - So I'm 25, fresh with a BA in Econ(studying with sandy pants ain't fun), with a pretty decent job. Jeff and I seem to get along, the only problem is that he's...a product on the 80s. Everything was about cutting corners and cutting costs as much as possible to stay stable in bad times. But this was around 2009, and my take on it was that it'd lead to businesses continuing to drop out. They cut costs, which cuts demand in the area, which further kills businesses, so we have to expand our a
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    Text - Well, Jeff doesn't like this, too much. He cut his teeth in business when I was still in diapers, right? So he keeps moving me off projects and onto smaller ones, where the commission isn't as great, and the businesses are already knee deep in cost cutting, so it's almost impossible to turn it around as people keep leaving the area because they've been foreclosed on. But that isn't what got me. Oh, no. We're talking about a six figure contract now, and he taps me to work on it because we
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    Text - why, you ask? Because my boss went over my head and started offering his own consultation. They'd make much more money, he reasoned, if they just cut back on workers, brought on some temps at half the pay of their staff, or eased off of maintenance of their machinery. So they started doing that, and they started falling behind. My boss then blamed this on me, and my "delusions of grandeur" and my "naivete." I figured out that he had been reviewing my work, then replacing my suggestions an
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    Text - So I quit. But I was so damned mad -- madder than I was when a Marine would shake me up at 0300 because he had guard duty at 0400 and the fucking French shared their wine with him. I wasn't doing anything with my money. Between extra from GI Bill, post 9/11 money, bonuses, and my wonderful paycheck, I already had a stable home, and enough money saved up that I didn't have to work for about 10 years. But that's not REVENGE, is it? It started small. I worked out of my apartment calling up t
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    Text - With this new profit, I put a down on a small property down the road from Jeff's office. One of the many businesses that shut down during the recession, partly due to his corrupting influence. I needed more people, so I hired a recent Econ grad to help me out. I bide my time, snatching up small contracts, and working on pulling the larger ones. Lots of driving, coldcalls, and actively showing up. I finally returned to the company that had trouble before -- the one Jeff threw me under the
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    Text - All hell breaks loose. Jeff just wails on me. "You ungrateful little shit," and "after all I did for you," "nobody else would hire a college puke with no BUSINESS experience." The owner had him escorted off the property, and I offered my services to his company for free until he realized that I KNEW what I was doing. A few months later, I had a neat little six figure contract of my own brought two more people on payroll. Jeff wasn't too happy, though. Oh, no. He started sending me harassi
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    Text - It is now 2016, and his business has shuttered. l'm currently working from home due to a accident that broke my arm(broke it in three places, it is NOT FUN), but my second in command, a woman who also served in Iraq, and now with an econ degree of her own, called me on Monday. We picked up another six figure contract, and we'll need new people. She had someone in mind for the position, best resume in the pile, a guy by the name of Jeff, with 40 years of business consultation experience. I
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