Toxic Boss Makes Employee's Life Miserable, Employee Calls Their Bluff

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mattstaff
May 15, 2021 6:30 PM EDT

Man, let this employee's experience navigating the ins and outs of a job under the weight of a terribly toxic boss be a lesson to us all. If you see those bright red flags present at a company that you're considering working for, don't ignore them. Trust your gut instinct. At least this employee was able to serve up some satisfying malicious compliance when it was all said and done. For some more sweet malicious compliance, check out this shady dude who tried to use fake cash at store and ended up triggering a malicious compliance in the process. 

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    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/lisalemeepmeep • 1d 1 e 2 3 2 1 His high employee turnover stopped being a problem after I quit... you're welcome, boss! M This happened in about 2013. I had been offered a job as an assistant at a small fashion e-commerce. I was so excited! There were red flags from the beginning - the existing assistant sat next to me was a little hesitant when I asked if the company was good to work for, and she told me that a lot of employees had come and gone for variou
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    Font - I came to find out that our boss, the business co-owner (along with his wife), was not quite the easygoing "fun boss" he painted himself to be. He constantly reminded us how lucky we were to be working there, how we could easily be stacking shelves in a supermarket for the same wage. My fellow assistant truly did far too much for the company given her title, and my boss also constantly compared my work ethic to hers - even though I was working through my legal breaks and lunches along wit
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    Font - It was coming up to Christmas and the business was incredibly busy with orders. In addition to giving up my breaks, lunches and set finishing times, the boss decided that we would all start coming into the office an hour earlier from tomorrow. Not a request. I had taken this on as a part-time job so I was already struggling to cope and had confided in him about my mental health problems. Now, he took my concerns and laughed in my face. Asked if I just didn't want to get up early. Said tha
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    Font - That was the final straw for me. I called his bluff. At the end of the work day, I went to his office and quit - surely before he could gloatingly fire me in front of everyone. Now, it must have been a big inconvenience for him to lose an employee 2 or 3 weeks before Christmas... but oh well, he could just hire someone else, right? Not quite so easily. Now that I wasn't working I needed to claim Jobseekers Allowance (UK unemployment benefits), and they wouldn't award it if I had just quit
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    Font - This was where they were getting all their hires from. Additional nail in the coffin... the boss and his wife had just bought new, bigger premises to cope with the increased demand for their products. Demand that now couldn't be met because they couldn't hire and keep enough people to pack the orders.
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    Font - A few years after all this, I looked up the company out of curiosity. It was dissolved in 2016. Of course I do not believe, nor want to believe, that I brought down this e- commerce all by myself... but it does make me happy that, by calling my boss' bluff, I prevented at least some prospective employees from an awful experience. 4 2.5k 3 117 1, Share
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