'We never saw him again': Employees successfully conspire to rid themselves of a terrible boss

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Aug 16, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

Usually, when you end up with a bad boss, you're stuck with them—unless the opportunity comes up to change jobs quickly. That means you're in for a lot of suffering and a lot of stress while you attempt to coexist with a terrible, insufferable person who also happens to have authority over you.

That is, of course, you can somehow get them sent packing, which is harder to do in some organizations than you might think. If it's a manager who has been with the business a long time, they probably have a lot of goodwill to wear through, and if they've been around for this long, it might be a sign the organization is rotten all the way through.

When this boss became too abusive towards their employees, the employees finally reached a breaking point. Together, they decided to take action and put a plan into motion. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/ProRevenge subreddit by Redditor u/AradBBC, who shared their experience with the popular sub with the title "Be abusive to employees, say bye-bye to your job."

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    Gesture - "Say bye bye to your job."
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    Font - Be abusive to employees, say bye bye to your job My (former) boss was, simply put, an absolute ale. He was the type of person that had the ability to be so condescending while acting as if he was doing you a favour. His condescending attitude was sometimes downright abusive and he seemed to have a particular problem with all of the female employees, he acted as if they were dumb and needed assistance with every step. He loves to scream at people regardless of how little their mistake was
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    Font - Me and all of my colleagues in the department (around 10 or so) couldn't stand him being here anymore. So we did the protocol, all of us piled together the evidence we had of him not sticking to booked off holiday schedules, having inappropriate and sometimes abusive language and we brought it all on one google doc. This was step 1.
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    Font - Step 2 was getting a cherry on top, we did this by getting him to do one of his screaming tantrums at one of us. We wanted this to be as damning as possible and the youngest and smallest girl out of all of us volunteered to be the bait. She made an intentional beginners mistake in her paperwork, something bound to get her roared at. And the idiot took the bait. You see he likes to do his scoldings in front of all of us to prove a point or 'rule by fear' as he called it. This gave us the p
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    Font - Now you see, in our company there's this really not well made email system. You can send an email to an entire department (and I mean ENTIRE) as long as you have it's name and managers name. But the thing about this was the fact that all of this information was completely and freely given to employees, this means that a person could send whatever email they want to the entire company including the CEO.
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    Font - So one morning at 10am to ensure that as many people would be working as possible, we made a burner email and sent the google doc through an email to everyone in the company, it took a little while as there were many departments to get through but we got there in the end. We gave the email the subject: (BOSS'S NAME) VITAL INFORMATION, (BRANCH NAME), (DEPARTMENT NAME).
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    Font - Of course our boss received the email as well and you could basically hear the clutter from his office, as people all over the company were contacting him to ask him what the hell this was about. HR did a light investigation into him and 'took heavy disciplinary action', as far as I know he wasn't directly fired but instead he resigned. And a month after that we never saw him again and he was replaced by a new guy who was also an but just less of one. a His expressions during the whole or
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    Font - AradBBC OP Also I forgot to mention, one of those colleagues recently found his Facebook. and found out that he's getting a divorce. We have no idea why but people are speculating that it relates to this incident. 884 bla60ah You mean him being an absolute a e didn't? 278 Reply Share 205 Reply Share JCMcFancypants People are willing to overlook as 】ness as long as they're making bank. Once the paycheck goes away they're a lot harder to tolerate. Reply Share
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    Font - AMay101 You didn't even need to be in a one party consent state since 10/11 members in your party agreed to film. It'd be funny if you made and sent the email from a work computer. IT tracks the email and... the call is coming from inside the house 481 Reply Share AradBBC OP I'm so happy you gave me that idea but so unbelievably sad I didn't think of it 208 Reply Share
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    Font - daylily61 Many years ago, I had a boss VERY similar to this guy. Not the same man, because my ex-boss was a partner in the (optometric) practice. I HATE bullies, no matter how they're packaged. 304 Reply Share 113 ●●● Mental_Call6451 I named all my gray hairs after a boss like that. When I became a supervisor, I took everything I learned from that guy and actively avoid those behaviors. Reply Share ...
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    Font - Chaghatai "and he was replaced by a new guy who was also an as Ye, but less of one" This means the senior management are also as Yes - get out when you can! Reply Share 66 AradBBC OP Left years ago 39 Reply Share Chaghatai Smart move 16 Reply Share
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    Font - Arad BBC OP. This was the best cooperative effort we ever did 98 BoredBSEE Reply Share Team building. Yay! 43 Reply Share
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    Font - EvilSnack Reprimanding an employee in the presence of anyone who is not in that employee's reporting chain should be prohibited, and I mean prohibited in practice and not just on paper. 426 Reply Share
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    Font - Whayne_Kerr I learned much more from my many bad managers than any of the good ones. How NOT to do things is important. Reply Share 19 Arad BBC OP. He was good at his job, just a complete and utter di it ↑ 13 13 Reply Share about
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