'Boss never called me lazy again': 15+ Empowered workers who told their bosses to 'Fire me...I dare you'

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    Purple - 'Had a boss tell me one day that I was doing a poor job and not doing enough and that anyone could do it... So that night I took apart all the equipment... then just left it apart for them to figure out'
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    Font - What's your best "Fire me, I fing dare you" moment from work?
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    Font - Kalgor91 Worked for a newspaper, editing and actually putting the paper together. Arranging it all, placing stories and pictures where they need to be. Titling, quoting and sourcing everything. I was a one man team and used an overly complicated system that I figured out how to use really effectively. They treated me like s, set impossible deadlines and berated me for not meeting them. One day the boss tells me to fully put a paper done by the end of the day, gave me no warning, I had no
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    Font - photos from photographers. It was my job to collect it all from everyone and he wants me to do it in a single day? I told him no, if he wants it done, he has to give me more time. He tells me if I don't have it done by the end of the day I'm fired, I tell him that this paper can't function without me. He tells me I need to "take the day off and cool my temper" and that he'll do my job for me. Get a call an hour after I get home that he needs me to come in and do it and I can have as much
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    Font - Sardorim Worked a job where I was the only one who knows how to take apart, clean, fix, and put all the equipment back together and do the weekly and monthly maintience. Had a boss tell me one day that I was doing a poor job and not doing enough and that anyone could do it. If I didn't step up I would be fired or else as they had manuals for each piece of equipment. So that night I took apart all the equipment (weekly and monthly stuff too), cleaned them, and then just left it apart for t
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    Font - that morning. Then I turned off my phone after getting home for the entire day as I had the day off. When I turned it back on the next day I saw that I had initially received angry texts ordering me to return and put everything back together. This lasted an hour. Then texts saying I risked being fired. Then texts begging me to return. Then more texts trying to compromise with OT. Then an apology before nothing else for the rest of the day other than that the head boss wanted to see me as
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    Font - Came in the next day and over half the stuff was still not put together and what had been put together was put together haphazardly and would need to be taken out again then put back in correctly. Was immediately asked to be seen by my boss and their boss to explain myself the moment I was seen entering. Once in the office I told them that if they weren't there to apologise then just fire me then and there or drop it and let me put all the stuff back together. They looked at each other an
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    Font - reserge11 When I was 17 I worked a summer holiday job at Pizza Hutt - I had transferred to my home town restaurant from my University town restaurant. I was there for 5 weeks and hadn't been paid yet. The di head boss claimed it was because I gave him the wrong employee number. I hadn't. Anyway after 5 weeks of no pay I rang him on New Years' Eve (ie busiest night of the summer) and said I wasn't coming to work because I wasn't a volunteer and I wasn't going to work for free.
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    Font - He told me if I didn't go to work I may as well not come back as I would be fired. I didn't go to work and had a fun New Years instead. Then a few days later I called the Employment Tribunal (I'm in New Zealand) and told them what had happened. They called my d head boss. He then called me, offered me my job back and was nice as pie for the rest of the summer.
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    cronelogic Ha!! I worked at an unspecified telecom a few years ago. I was a senior manager in charge of programming, third level support, and production support. A business unit bu ed through code changes (made by the business side through a side deal with a legacy programmer in the data center, circumventing my team, QA and production testing) that just had to get implemented immediately without going through any testing at all. I refused, the CIO overruled me. 72 hours later, phone activations
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    Font - to a halt, customers nationwide were screaming, and the CIO called phone conference after phone conference demanding timelines for when I was going to get this s fixed. He kept screaming to have members of my team to get on the phone and explain themselves to him. I refused. Finally I snapped and told him that if he wanted me to fix HIS mistake I would need to get off the fing phone go work with my teams, and the only reason they hadn't walked out yet was that I was keeping him off their
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    Font - together. 24ish hours later QA and my team had the bulls cleaned up and fixed for a clean rollout. This was all to avoid a 24 hour delay for QA/production testing. I wish I could say that was the only/worst time.
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    Font - [deleted] Over the first year I worked there, I essentially took over most of the tasks in my department which were previously held by other departments and was done badly because of it. This lead to a massive increase in productivity. I then found out I was paid significantly less than what others were making and others in my position across the industry were making. So I go to my boss and tell them I had done all this work increasing productivity and I would like to discuss a raise. The
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    Font - So I work there for another year, asking for a raise every now and again until I was offered a job that paid double. It didn't start for a couple months so I held on to that job until I was set to submit my two weeks. I asked for a raise again, thinking "what the h why not." My boss goes off, tells me I wont get a raise and says some.....very colorful things about it. It culminated with her telling me "if you dont like your pay, maybe we should evaluate your future at this company" to whi
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    Font - "Already have, I took another job and this was your last chance to offer me what I deserve. I quit." and walked out of that office. Friends told me that my sudden departure caused a massive backup of work that ended with my manager being fired for it.
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    Font - or sonofabunch Worked for Radioshack and always butted heads with the District Manager. He wanted me to use these ridiculous sales techniques that might work in a big city but were really pushy. The year he became our DM I won a contest for best salesman in the whole company, out of about 14,000 employees, and I did it without being pushy and forcing stuff on people. He still tried to get me to use these ridiculous techniques each month when he would visit, but after I won the contest I s
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    Font - VIL lasaucerouge Was 19 and working a minimum wage job in a shop. Owner sold the business to a new guy, who had never worked in the industry and knew nothing about any of it. His first day in charge, he decides I look unprofessional and should be wearing a uniform. Then he decides the uniform should include a fluorescent cap with my name embroidered on it. I told him I wouldn't have taken this job if it had included wearing a fluorescent cap with my name embroidered on it, but he tells me
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    Font - sacked if I don't wear it. Fine by me, I'll be leaving for any other job which pays exactly the same but doesn't make me wear a ridiculous hat, and I'll take with me my good relationships with all our contractors and suppliers, and my knowledge of how the f all your equipment actually works. Reader, he didn't fire me. Nor was I presented with a spiffy new hat when all the other employees got theirs. I did leave about two weeks later though as he was an insufferable t tface with a real ang
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    consort_oflady_vader. I'm a speech therapist. I work in a skilled nursing facility. For the most part.....they alls k. This is no exception. But the place I used to work, the boss was a scumbag. To the extent that the entire rehab staff signed a letter asking to get him fired. He was basically forced out, I eventually left, and came to my current job. I swung by the rehab gym and.....saw his a sitting in my current boss's office. I kind of froze in
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    Font - shock..... I thought he was interviewing for a job there. So I went to the boss at the time and told her flat out that if he got hired.....I was walking out immediately. She got a stunned look on her face, and quickly assured me that he wasn't working there. That was my first time drawing a line in the sand like that.
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    Font - knoblockandroll This was about 5-6 years ago. I was the second in charge of our shipping department, making 11 dollars an hour. The head of shipping had a mental breakdown, so I took over while he got help. About three weeks after he returned, the company released him because they didn't like him and I could do the job. When they told me they had released him, I asked if there were going to be interviews for the job, or was the job just mine since I was number two. I was told they were lo
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    Font - Fast forward about 6 months and I'm still doing this job that pays around 50k a year for 11 dollars an hour. We had some issues with staff turnover and process changes because the Warehouse Manager thought he knew best and would listen. They then tell me there wouldn't be a shipping manager, just a shipping lead, which would be an hourly position. I ask about a raise, get told my review is in two months so just wait. I wait. Three months. Four months. Then one day, after a 14 hour night s
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    Font - he UNLOADS on me for things that were beyond my control, and mistakes other people made. We start yelling, and that's when I told him: "I make 11 dollars an hour doing this job ExBoss told me he got paid 50k a year to do. I don't need this s Give me a raise or I won't be back" I then went home and back to sleep. When I go back to work, I'm met by WM and Ops Manager. They "appreciate the hard work I've been doing, and are putting me on a salary starting at 45k since ExBoss was there longer
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    WrestleC For the past few years I've worked at one of the "nicer" restaurants in my small beach town. I'm one of the only servers there who cares about doing a good and I'm the only one who doesn't take a smoke break every 15 minutes. This past summer a new, very illegal, rule was implemented that if we messed up an order in anyway we would be liable to pay for that messed up food. I usually didn't have a problem with mess ups so I didn't bring up the legality of this matter since I make good mo
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    Font - until I rang in a 'Cherry Glazed Burger' instead of a 'Cherry Glazed Steak' (each stylized CGB and CGS in our s ty computer system) I fixed this with the kitchen, but not before they had already started the burger. I told my manager and she just gave me a disappointed and told me that the rules are the rules. I then dived into both federal and state workers rights code and told her she would never see me again if I found any money out of my tips at the end of the night. Never had a proble
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    technos I was elbows deep in an AT&T Unix machine that should've been replaced a decade before, parts strewn all over a desk, when the client came in to see what was taking me so long. Me: You've got three de d fans, one of the power supplies has failed, there's a bad CMOS battery and the video card is glitchy and refusing to allow the machine to POST sometimes. Client: So how long is that going to take? Fifteen minutes?
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    Font - Me, laughing: I can patch things up in a couple hours, but I'm going to have to come back in a few days with new parts. Client: If you can't fix it in the next half hour you're fired. I'll find someone that knows what they're doing. I stood up, grabbed my tools, and started walking. Client: Where are you going? Me: I told'ya how long it would take, and that's longer than a half hour, so I guess I'm fired. My firing lasted about three more steps towards the door.
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    Font - JesusDeSaad 2004. Worked at a municipality department. One day the programmers update the work PCs and block pretty much everything and anything. No internet at all, no authorization for installing anything, all games removed from Windows, they even removed the calculator function for some reason. Then the supervisors started moving coworkers around and my entire team was dispersed across a gigantic building, for no reason. We were the top team in terms of results, the supervisors simply
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    Font - hated our guts for some reason. So me and one of the coworkers try to device some way to have communication without having to travel for five minutes each time (across the building and down a floor) just to get to each other's desk and ask a simple yes or no question. We do this during our lunch break. Our supervisor butts in and asks what we're doing. We explain we're trying to save time and maximize communication and results. The supervisor (who doesn't like us anyway) says we should ge
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    Font - communicate through unauthorized means. Okay. We simply stop trying to install Messenger on our phones. One day later the supervisor is looking for my co-worker. I don't know where he is. I say SO. "Well then contact him through your messenger program" "The one you told us to quit installing?" "Yes" "We gave up on that, on your orders." She tried to get me fired for "refusing to obey basic orders." I explained the situation to her superior, he let me get back to work and
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    Font - told me to ignore her from then on. I moved to a better post a few months later because she made my life unbearable from that day on, and i finally went and told the upper floor they'll either move me elsewhere or I quit.
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    Font - mjergen As I was studying in Paris, I also worked night shifts in a hotel near the Hôtel de Ville district. I worked from 8pm to 8am several nights in a row. The hotel was very busy as it was a very touristic area so getting 4 hours of sleep over the total 4-5 nights was usual. It happened several times a week that the hotel manager simply forgot to relieve me in the morning, so I'd be falling asleep on the counter as they came 2 or 3 hours late. When I politely remarked that I'm tired an
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    Font - Finally, I decided to pass a job interview for some other work, that essentially happened during the day, so I'd finally sleep my nights. When I found out that they accepted me in that new job, I waited until my shift should've started that Friday evening and phoned that manager waiting for me to relieve him at the desk. - Oh hello, I just called to say that I got a new job from next Monday, so I'm not coming tonight, nor ever. What do you...but you can't... why didn't you say something s
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    Font - [deleted] I used to work at a small, family owned grocery store for a few years. We got our load in on Mondays and Thursdays, and we got passed over one Monday and the distributer said we'd get the missing load in on Thursday. So, what essentially happened was a double load and my two receiving partners were out sick. I was the only person in the warehouse/receiving at the time, and got to take on 15+ pallets of groceries that needed to hit the shelves immediately. I was specifically told
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    Font - covered the aisles and cash registers. Well, a lot of them were either lazy, untrained, or just putting in their hours so they could pay bills. I put in my earbud, just one, and get to work. I'm halfway through checking in the pallets when I get called up front. So I ignore it and continue. Then I get called again. So I head up there and get yelled at by a new hire with a bad attitude to "do your job and bag for me!" The customer was a regular and we got along very well, and she told me t
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    Font - I had 3 years and 2 ranks on her, so I didn't give half of a s and went back to my pallets. Then I get the newest hotshot manager, who replaced the old hotshot manager, who replaced the beloved manager who trained basically the whole store, in my face about having an earbud in on the clock (which is allowed as long as you have on ear free) and said I could be sent home and not come back if I wanted to listen to music, so I gestured to the pallets and said "go for it, these all need to be
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    Vulturo Company was doing badly in the 2008 depre son. They hired an expensive new Vice President to lead our division who asked me barely one month in to sack any 2 people from my team of software engineers whoever I felt like because she said so as layoffs were necessary to ensure long term stability or some such. I steadfastly refused and dared her to fire me instead, and the issue really blew up at the time. Before they could fire any of us though a new contract
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    Font - came along which needed more people to execute than we even had on our rolls. They didn't hire anyone new but we had to slog our assess to deliver the project. The VP got fired a few months later as she was way too expensive and wasn't adding enough value.
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    Font - [deleted] I was in the military and was trying to take my vacation time before I lost the days. They denied my requests 4 different times and I hadn't had a day off in 3 months and I was working 12-16 hours shifts most days. I was beyond done. I was teaching some new guys part of the tasks for one job. Everything was fine, I went somewhere else in the hanger to do something else on the plane. This Quality Assurance guy that everyone knew was a pain came in. I did my stuff good and he neve
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    Font - He started talking to one of the new dudes. He then asked to talk to me and pulled me aside. He then asked my I hadn't told the new guy about some super obscure caution about water under a grate in the hanger floor. Something that had nothing to do with our job so it didn't matter, he was just being a pain. I was over the job and him so I told him, " Listen Sergent QA, Ive been denied my leave 4 separate times and ive been working for 3 months straight, so if you have a problem with the w
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    Font - It was a little extreme but I was pushed to the point. When I went back in I knew I was in deep because the guy walked out of my shop head's office and I got called right in. When I went in there, the shop head said, "I heard what happened out there, submit the days you want to take leave right now and ill approve it for you." Then told me I could leave. That's all i heard about it I was shocked.
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    Font - Logisticsbi es Nobody so far has given an example of when they did it and got fired so I will but some details are changed for privacy. I worked at a terrible retail boutique in college. Worked my way up to management. Their pay policies were illegal, and the idiot district director they hired staffed terribly. I worked open to close by myself multiple times. I finally locked up in the middle of the day to go take a break once. Got caught. Told if I did it again I'd be fired. Said stop st
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    Font - They did it again. I locked up again and a customer called corporate. I was fired. Last laugh was on them because I threatened to sue them for violating employment law (longer back story not for here). Sure did. Class action. Multi-million dollar settlement getting back lost wages for 1000+ employees across multiple states. Plus unemployment for me.
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    Font - Actually what led to a compete life change for me and I wouldn't be as successful now had I just let them continue to ab se me. Short term financial pain and scary when you don't know how you will afford food or how to pay bills. Made it through and definitely worth it. Not only for me but a lot of people benefited. you PK you piece of You don't deserve F S to still be in business.
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    Font - THENATHE Worked for an online marketing firm doing SEO reports and optimization. This was my first job so I didn't understand the concept of start working slow so you have room to improve. Well, I was working at 100% and doing well. One week, my girlfriend of 4 years broke up with me and I was taking it roughly. I was kinda scatterbrained and slowed down a little bit. I told my boss this and he was like "okay, we'll try not to stay like this for long". So 3 days go by and I'm better and w
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    Font - do almost all of your co- workers work because you're better at it than he is and he's gonna do something else now". "Sure, I'll do my best but I can't make any promises I'll get it all done". So am now working two people's jobs in the time of one. I finish 1 and 3/4 of the work m, and then get called into his office. He's claiming I "f ked him over" and I "slowed down for too long ". So I say "fire me then. I'm tired of doing all this extra s and I promise you need me." Well, I got fired
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    Font - Two weeks later, he calls me up and asks me to come back. Says he can't do all of the work. I tell him "good, maybe you won't treat your employees like s time". next Went out of business like a month later.
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    Font - extaynia Not me but my dad. So he was delivering catering to an office one day and the receptionist obviously fed up. She was yelling at him infront of her bosses saying that he was too late (on time with proof) and that the order was wrong when it wasn't. She was making such a big issue of it and then said she was going to report him to his manager and get him fired.
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    Font - So my dad said see if I care and gave her the number. she called and my dad picked up because he is not the manager but the owner. Everyone in that room was laughing at her. Sorry for formatting on mobile.

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