'My boss's act of revenge': Manager sells $400k of electronics to employees at insane prices after uncovering company's plan to close store

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    Organism - "I SA paid about $1,153.69 for about $13,000 dollars worth of brand-new electronics and, in essence, gave me the necessary tools to start my own media business." SALE SALE O
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    Font - r/ProRevenge Posted by u/DarkForest_NW 3 hours ago Company foks over long-term employees and my boss's act of revenge helps me start a freelance media company for pennies on the dollar. Originally Posted in r/antiwork, I was told to post it here. { For legal reasons, I can't disclose the exact location, purely because the team I worked with were cool guys and our boss ficked over corporate really hard without them noticing. This took place in 2012
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    Font - Part 1: The Fire Marshall I worked at a smaller chain electronic store that sold top-of-the-line Video Cameras, PCs, Cell Phones, Photo-Cameras, and this new thing called "4K Televisions." For context we were located at an expensive outlet mall, we were literally the only electronic store in the mall, and the only place for fifty miles that sold high-end electronics. Logic dictates that this in itself would make our location prime real estate and we would have record sales every year. Spo
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    Font - While working the camera counter, the mall fire marshal came in and asked to see the store manager. Since I had no customers at that moment, I decided to take him to the back to meet my manager. This verbatim is what I can remember. ME: *Hey the Fire Marshal here? Manager: Why? ME: Don't know, want me to let him in the office? Manager: Sure, give me a moment. Marshal: Ok, mall management wanted me to ask when you want me to bring in the construction foreman. Me: What are we building somet
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    Font - At that exact moment, I and the store manager looked at each other, then looked at the fire marshal. Who handed my manager the work order on the brand new (OVER PRICED CLOTHING STORE) that was going to be built at our exact location. Thus permanently ending the only high-end electronic store miles around. Part 2: Money Talks A few days later, the manager held a store meeting with me and the rest of the team. Prior to this meeting, the manager gave me permission to tell the rest of our 12-
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    Font - Manager: "So I called corporate, to ask what's happening and I'll tell you straight. (OVER PRICED CLOTHING STORE) has been trying for ten years to get a spot at this outlet mall, they went to every store with a buy-out offer for the storefront. The CEO of this electronic chain was approached by (OVER PRICED CLOTHING STORE) with a massive check in the millions, to break our lease and hand over the storefront to them. We weren't supposed to know any of this, corporate wanted us to be in the
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    Font - This doofus was confused why we weren't giving it a 110% and was surprised we got visibly angry when he informed us, that we wouldn't be getting severance pay or a letter of recommendation. My manager very politely told him to leave and that he would take care of the situation himself.
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    Font - Part 3: OOPS my finger slipped. After the hatchet man was banished from our store, the manager took a close look at the management handbook and noticed a little snafu that was written into the book in regards to discretionary discounts. Mainly that the store manager has permission to discount ANY PRODUCT in the store up to 90% off. And the offset of the cost will be absorbed at the end of the year discretionary cost analysis. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly, and the wonderful p
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    Font - When I heard this I ask the question everyone was thinking. Me: So let me get this straight, this includes every single item in this store? Manager: Yep, in fact, what you guys can do is pick out everything you want now, and set up a little pile in the backroom. Make sure you guys labeled everything and I'll include the premium service warranties for free. Well, I decided to do some shopping, new- fangled 240 hertz 4K TV, 4K Camera system, 3 x 5hr spare batteries, 5 x 128 GB SD cards, Sho
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    Font - With tax, I paid about $1,153.69 for about $13,000 dollars worth of brand-new electronics and in essence, gave me the necessary tools to start my own media business. As one final fok you to corporate, the manager gave all of us a phone number to a caseworker at the local unemployment office who was sympathetic to our cause.
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    Font - Part 4: I have never seen this man before in my life. Well, flash forward to March 2013, and I'm carefully navigating my freelance media company into a nice stream of steady work. I get an unknown phone call from a law firm representing the electronics company. Apparently, $400,000 worth of electronics, were "mistakenly" sold at a 90% discount and they wanted to know if I had any information on where I could find my manager. The following conversation is what I can recall to the best of m
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    Font - ME: Why did your client the CEO of an electronic chain, take a multi-million dollar check to break a lease on his own business and not properly informed the store staff of it's impending closer? (DEAD SILENCE) ME: Hello? Law Firm: Sorry to bother you, sir. And that was it, the moral of the story, DON'T FOK OVER your employees. P.S.- Boss if you reading this, take comfort in the fact that non of us has sold you out and I hope you're living a wondrous life.
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    Font - TurtleSandwich0. 2 hr. ago They wanted to do a no-notice layoff for the entire store? That is cold. That might even be worse then having the assistant manager layoff off the staff right before they layoff the assistant manager. 2008 was rough. 103 Reply Share
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    Font - Kelvarius 2 hr. ago That's one Hell of a bargain. I guess corporate discounted the ingenuity of your boss. 55 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - MewlingRothbart. 2 hr. ago that is rock-bottom pricing. I wish your boss nothing but comfort and peace for the rest of his/her life. 43 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Che2ncs 3 hr. ago Beautiful! I would have taken a loan to buy so much more! Reply Share 137 DarkForest NW OP. 3 hr. ago Trust me my coworkers got all the best stuff, I just only wanted the camera stuff. 113 Reply Share
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    Font - pakboy26 2 hr. ago God Bless this Boss. Bruce Springsteen ain't got nothin on him! This guy is a true class act and American hero. He methodically thought through everything and still stood up for his people when backed into a corner. Reply Share 98
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    Rectangle - deanmsands3 1 hr. ago Probably the most wholesome AF thing I've ever seen in r/ProRevenge. 11 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - NoShameorGuilt. 1 hr. ago Sounds like the beginning of the end of Radio Shack. 7 ♡ Reply Share

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