'I sabotaged her bonus': Employee tanks boss's bonus after boss demands employees mandatory financial contribution to corporate scam,

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Sep 20, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

There will be times in the workplace when you'll really enjoy what you're doing, tasks seem effortless, time flows seamlessly, and results are rewarding. There will also be times when the exact opposite holds true, and every moment spent at work is excruciating.

Sometimes, you'll relish the tasks your boss hands to you, whereas other tasks will make you want to gouge out your own eyes. But occasionally—rarely—throughout the course of your career, there will be tasks you'll be asked to complete that you're not really sure you should follow through with. There might be legal or ethical reasons behind this—heck, it could just be technically against company policy. Regardless, now you're backed into a corner. Do you do as your boss asks? Or rock the boat and refuse, possibly reporting the request to a higher authority? Of course, if you're taking this route, you're just hoping that the order didn't originate from higher up the chain, landing you in the scenario of an 80s action film in which the hero finds themselves taking on their entire secretly corrupt organization that, in a huge twist at the climax, they discover is actually being led by their friend and mentor.

Anyway, I'm not really sure how we got here, but tying your company charity that depends on contributions from your employees to a bonus for managers is just never going to be a good idea. This employee got back at their manager, who mandated the donation of their own funds when they were already struggling to make ends meet. Just another case of someone who shouldn't be in charge of people in an organization who shouldn't be in the business of employing them…