Company Doesn't Want To Pay Employee Their Worth, Costs Them Millions

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mattstaff
Sep 12, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

It's no wonder this guy unleashed the brutal revenge that he did. Pretty much anyone that comes to learn that they're being knowingly taken advantage of by their company is going to be inspired to take their vengeance. In this case, it sounds like the company's decision to take the shady, cheap route on a top-performing employee couldn't have had any more painful blowback than it did. Seriously, a mere $20K to that employee could've resulted in a reality where they didn't end up losing a couple million dollars. To keep the revenge drama train rolling check out this recent revenge story about a rude lawyer who parked in a farmer's driveway, so the farmer plotted a stinky revenge.

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    Font - r/NuclearRevenge + Join u/MattBradley1985 · 12d Don't Want To Pay Me What I'm Worth? Let's See How That Works Out for You! First time posting, but I have read a lot of these. So years ago, I was working for a laboratory that did a lot of testing for the military. It was a terrible job for a number of reasons. Despite having enormous responsibility, they never gave me credit for anything. In meetings with the department head (DH), they frequently blamed me for problems that they had caused
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    Font - By their own standards, I was severely underpaid. HR agreed. They claimed there was nothing that could be done. Meanwhile, other people were given off- schedule raises. Well, I wasn't the only one that was underpaid. There were a number of others as well. But none of them were critical to the operation of the laboratory. Eventually, the DH went to the director with a list of all the underpaid people. I found out that my name was on the top of the list as the most underpaid person (not sur
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    Font - Well, guess who didn't get a raise? This despite that fact that I had made massive improvements in some of their processes that easily saved them millions per year (and their budget was just over 10 million dollars.) I was livid. I had enough and decided to leave. They hired two people to replace me at more than double my salary. One of them had just graduated two weeks before. From what I understand, they had a lot of difficulty. That would have been enough for most people and maybe even
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    Font - So, I arranged a meeting with one of the project managers (PM) from the department of the military that we had done our tests for. I "casually" mentioned to him that I had left my old job. He was shocked. Remember how I said they never gave me credit for anything? Well, the military PMs considered me an invaluable expert and could not understand why the lab had driven me away. They immediately pulled several million dollars worth of work from the lab and gave it to the competition (severa
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    Font - It took them years to recover -- and honestly, I don't know if they ever really did. Last time I checked their web page, it hadn't been updated in at least 12 years. I would have been happy with a $20K raise. Ecstatic even. But they weren't willing to spend $20K and lost $2 million to start and more in the long run.
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    Rectangle - I started my own business and now make at least 5 times what I would if I had stayed there until now (and more than 10 times what I was making when I left). 220 32 ↑, Share BEST COMMENTS V
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