Dumb Boss Rejects Client's Payment Over 30 Stupid Cents, Loses His Business $300,000 Over This

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 2, 2023 1:00 AM EDT

If anyone should be leaving the company, it should be the boss! This thread was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit by u/Competitive_Humor610, who opened up about a sales job they were working and how close they were to making a $300,000 deal and a $30,000 commission. 

 

So close, yet so far. The Redditor's boss intervened twice to reject the client's payment. The first time was because he felt the client should pay for the bank's 0.1% commission. The second time was even worse. It was because of a mere 30 cents difference. If he has a boss, that person should be notified because the client was enraged and walked away from the deal entirely. Not only that, but now the Redditor walked away from months of work with zero commission. 

 

This is just one of countless instances when bosses have proven themselves to be completely inept. Keep scrolling below for the full account. For more stories like this, check out this boss who fired a worker after they gave their two weeks' notice.

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    Font - My idiot boss just lost $300.000 Dollars over 30 cents This just happened and I am furious about it, I need to vent. I work at an office that sells commodities around the world. I work in sales and despite having a small salary I can make good money with commissions. After chasing them for many months I finally got a client that was willing to buy a lot from us, they made an order worth $300.000 usd. My commission was 10% ($30.000 usd).
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    Font - Everything was ready, and the client made the payment, but our bank would take 0.1% commission for the transaction (which is a lot, but is also standard practice), so 300 bucks. My idiot boss decided that we shouldn't pay for those 300 dollars, so he rejected the payment and told the client that they should send more money to cover the 300 dollars. The client was understandably angry, but decided to make the payment again, this time for $300.300 usd So this time, after the bank took it's
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    Font - For those miserable 30 cents, my idiot boss decided to reject the payment again and told the client that they should pay for those 30 cents as well. The client was so angry, he called my boss every name in the book and then decided that he doesn't want to make business with a company so petty.
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    Font - Needless to say, the client I was chasing for months is gone and my $30.000 dollars in commission are also gone. I am speechless and thinking about sending my 2 weeks notice.
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    Font - metooneither 18 hr. ago I have done that. Cost me a commission and I quit. No notice, no warning, I packed up my office and left. ↑ 4.7k Reply Share
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    Font - styrofoamcouch. 16 hr. ago The ol "you're gonna notice for about two weeks I stopped showing up" two weeks notice 2.1k Reply
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    Rectangle - MrRieper 17 hr. ago Sending your two weeks would be too polite considering they cost you thirty grand. 3.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Eat Lard 18 hr. ago Does your boss have a boss, or are they the owner? This seems like something a boss' boss would want to know. 3.1k Reply Share
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    Font - UnitedLab6476 - 18 hr. ago I'd leave, that 30K was real money, they cost you, over 30 cents 2.8k Reply Share
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    Font - or New_me_20 17 hr. ago . Worked at a company where the general manager of our office/area fought the client over $10-20k. Cost us a $40+ million dollar contract that would have gone up as time went on. Office closed less than a year later. Me and a coworker tried to tell them to eat the cost cause they were ready to just hand us the contract and they wouldn't budge. Would have made us the most profitable office in the company. Oh well I guess. 1.2k Reply Share
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    Rectangle - dreyus6 18 hr. ago Start planning your exit strategy if you haven't already left 849 Reply Share
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    Font - Equivalent Bid_6642. 17 hr. ago Why give notice? That isn't a law, there is literally nothing a company can do to you (in the US at least) for just leaving. Just leave, don't come back, don't answer phone calls, nothing, just leave and never look back. 227 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - CalvinCopyright 17 hr. ago Tell your boss's boss about this, maybe? If he has one? 151 Reply Share
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    Font - MocartKugel 17 hr. ago . I mean, I get it... but I would pay not only those 30 cents out of my pocket but probably those 300$ as well, just not to bother the client... take my commission and quit if that was the feeling I felt later... 126 Reply Share
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    Font - theechosystem07. 17 hr. ago Report it to your boss' boss. And absolutely quit if nothing gets done about it. Your boss should be fired. 129 Reply Share
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