‘Our eyes met; she knew it was up to me': Employee uses promotion to shut down boss's retail store, leading to boss's termination

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Eleonora Bader
Aug 3, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Don't bite the hand that feeds you… unless of course, that hand isn't yet feeding you. Sometimes you can't know these things beforehand. As told by u/kaltics, this is a story of petty revenge that went a little further than initially intended. OP was working as a retail store manager but was promptly demoted during a mass redundancy thanks to their boss and the obvious managerial differences they had between them. Upper management, huh? OP was mad enough that they were seriously considering quitting and going to work somewhere else, but in the end, they were glad that they stayed.

Bouncing from store to store within the company, OP finally landed a position for the company's call center development and processes team. Some more time went by, and soon enough, the time for some petty revenge had arrived. In other words, the opportunity presented itself at the perfect moment. OP was given the power, so to say, to decide which retail stores within the company would be a part of a new sales experiment. The forecast was that this experiment would be very successful, so all the retail stores wanted in. During the meeting that this was to be discussed, OP noticed their old boss out of the corner of their eye.

If you guessed that OP took their advantage, you'd be correct. But OP's decision to keep their old boss's retail store out of the experiment didn't exactly go to their original plan… scroll down to read what happened next. For more, here is a waiter who demanded to be compensated for a $3,600 table who didn't leave a tip, then quit when they were denied said compensation.

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    Font - Posted by u/kaltics 23 hours ago Boss caused me to lose a management position through a mass redundancy, I was able return the favor
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    Font - I held a position as a manager in a retail store of a Telco company a while agoI had previously been a store consultant that got promoted up so I had experience both of what it was like to be backed by a manager and walked over by others, I knew I wanted to be a manager that backed his
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    Font - staff. So that is what I did, however my boss was one who would happily throw the staff under the bus and cave to most customer demands if they got even a little upset. Due to our differences of opinion I didnt last very long in that position, a Redundancy was
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    Font - announced for all management and my boss kept her job but used the chance to get rid of me, ended up back as general staff. I was pretty pl off about it and nearly threw my career away with the company with poor performance as i stopped caring about it, I held on as I was a
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    Font - system expert and was frequently consulted on how to fix issues that arose (happened on a daily basis). Life moved on and bounced to a few different stores within the company and started a new relationship that made me want to start caring about being able to provide again, luck had me land a
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    Font - secondment in a new position which was out of retail (C Lockdowns were good too me, only reason the opportunity existed). Managed to perform well in that and get some good contacts and a glowing recommendation from a very senior executive that then help me
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    Font - apply for and get a permanent position for the companies call center development and processes team Got my revenge when my team was rolling out a pilot for a new process that would see our call center and retail channels working
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    Font - closer together, was forecasted some pretty large sales and time benefits. Pretty much every store wanted to be apart of it and I was the one who got to pick which retail stores which would be due to my background of coming from retail. When the meeting was being held to discuss this and it
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    Font - was thrown over to me to ask the store managers to submit their interest in participating I saw my old boss notice me then and see how disheartened she looked in knowing it was up to me. Unsurprisingly I chose to not select her store, I did pick most of
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    Font - the ones around her though, which saw their performance improve considerably while hers didn't. Not long ago learned that the store got closed and she got made redundant due to the store underperforming compared to others in the area as the company
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    Font - decide to close some stores to reduce expenses as a lot of customer interactions had started moving to digital platforms Edit: My reason for keeping her store out of pilot is that i only expected it to affect her commission bonus, as it is calculated competitively compared
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    Font - to other stores. Normal staff would of been unaffected by this as they earned it based on individual performance...or at least they wouldnt of lost anything, just not gained like the others in the pilot did. I never expected the store closure, that decision was done well above me
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    Font - Rabid Dingo +3 19 hr. ago "Be careful of the toes you step on while climbing the corporate ladder, they may be attached to the al you have to kiss one day." ↑ 535 Reply Share
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    Font - Proud_Fisherman_5233 20 hr. ago Bro, you're only supposed to get her fired. 103 Reply Share
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    Font - pieceofbluecheese 19 hr. ago bro went for that extra credit petty 74 ♡ Reply Share
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    Font - perusmummo. 22 hr. ago She was not the only one that lost her job, nice. Reply Share 31
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    Font - kaltics OP · 18 hr. ago the rest of the staff were offered a redundancy package or positions in other stores as there were ongoing staff shortages
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    Font - I know a fair few took the redundancy option as they got a payout and had not been happy there for a while, just gave them excuse to move on 4 112 Reply Share
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