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‘You can do it yourself’: Underpaid employee gets $10,000 raise after taking PTO on a whim, due to being on the brink of being replaced

You could be the best at your job, yet be so underappreciated that even your most competitive coworker who acts like the office Karen would be on your side. Not given a raise, tossed to the side, the resentment in your belly begins to grow, and 'the grass is greener' thoughts keep popping up in your head. You realize that in order to make yourself indispensable, you need to teach them a lesson… So that your message will be heard loud and clear.

This clever, overworked, and underpaid employee delegated a bunch of tasks to himself, and then found a way to automate them, making them take less time while giving himself the upper hand in negotiations. This move was sharp on his part because soon enough, an individual came to the company, the type who fired people in order to save the CEO some money. This person took an instant dislike to OP, and studied him very closely, resulting in a myriad of notes that did not favor OP in the slightest. OP inevitably found the perfect way to get even with his company and give them a taste of their own medicine.

Scroll down for the full story, and then when you are finished reading, here are a couple of roommates who hatched a plan to kick their housemate out that unfortunately for them, backfired hard. Why be mean when you can be nice? Just a thought.

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Posted by Eleonora Bader
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