'I jumped in my truck, called his boss, and went home': Jerk construction operator abuses wrong contractor, gets fired

There are times when you've gotten away with doing the wrong thing for so long you grow accustomed to getting away with it — like that u-turn you pull while dropping the kids off at school, speeding on your favorite route to work, chopping up kidnapped victims in your basement, or — in a different manner — those late nights playing GameBoy under the covers as a kid. 

Getting away with the action for an extended period of time doesn't change its moral, or legally grey, standing, in fact, it might make finally getting caught all the worse for you.

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It's incredible the kinds of things people can get away with under this type of “assumed acceptance” — and the behaviors, actions, and attitudes that people are willing to turn a blind eye to. It sounds like this construction worker should have been out of a job a long time ago. 

This post is also a lesson in treating others with kindness — for you never know when bad behavior could come back to bite you. That random person you're insulting could wind up being your boss's friend — or that person you refused to hold the door for could wind up on the other side of the desk during a job interview. That being said — you shouldn't need personal advancement and benefit as a motivator to be kind to others…

Keep reading for screenshots of this tale, as posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by Redditor u/CanadianCosmicEntity. For more like this, check out this worker who got fired for not showing up for a shift that they weren't even scheduled for.

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