Construction worker offers former micromanager a job, setting the record straight and teaching him a valuable lesson in humility despite of the claim that he will ‘never amount to anything’

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Sienna Varady
Apr 19, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

There will be those who want you to fail and those who want you to succeed. However, regardless of who is around you, you should constantly strive to be the best version of yourself.

The story below tells the tale of a resentful construction worker. Despite all the challenges, the Original Poster (OP) started his own construction company. To put things in perspective, during his undergraduate years, OP looked for a part-time job that could help him balance his academics and become somewhat financially independent. Although his construction work provided him with a steady income, his boss was a terrible micromanager who often criticized his employees. 

That being said, when the chance presented itself, OP devised a crafty scheme to exact revenge on the man who had made his life as miserable as possible. So, if you're curious to find out what transpired between OP and his horrible boss, be sure to check out the story below! Additionally, don't forget to read the story of the client who humiliates the micromanager in front of the team after the micromanager attempted to teach a 'lesson' in business etiquette to one of the team members!

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    "Can always use unskilled laborers..."
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    Sent a job offer to my old boss and he was fuming
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    tl;dr Worked a construction job and the boss a choleric p k that told me i'd never amount to anything. When he eventually destroyed his own company, i offered him a job interview at the company i had started. During my university days i needed a little extra income and i heard from a friend that construction companies never say no to someone wrecking their body from them. So i called around and within a few days i got a job
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    interview at a local big-ish construction company, who mainly built private houses and apartment buildings. A few days later i went over there and met some of the crew and my future boss, who seemed really cool and nice at the time. Let's call the boss Bob (not his real name). I got the job offer and gladly accepted. I'm not exactly skilled when it comes to manual labor, but i'm 6'7" and i can haul stuff all day. Any builder is happy when there's
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    dumb tall ogre, who carries materials and tools to the 6th floor for them. Me carry stuff good. I also drove the van, picked up stuff from the hardware stores, cleaned up, etc. The first few months were great. The work was hard and you had to get up real early, but it was satisfying and the pay was pretty good. That all changed when the boss showed up one day and i saw the real him. That guy i met in the job interview put on a happy facade. The
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    real guy had anger issues. As soon as he arrived he starting chewing people out over the dumbest s t, just to vent his anger somehow. The crew knew how to dodge away from him, so i was the target. He called me all kinds of names and critiqued everything i did. After about an hour he drove off. I found out that was a semi-regular occurence. By the third of fourth time i had enough. Once again he was screaming his head off and i quit right
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    there on the spot. He proceeded to shout something like "You're never gonna amount to anything! don't come crawling back when you fail at your next job!" as i walked away. The next morning i had 5 missed calls by the time i woke up and endless text messages about from him. "You're really not coming in?", lots of of name-calling and once again "you're never going to achieve anything in your life!". During my time there i became close friends with a guy working at their office. He was
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    doing a lot of the accounting, scheduling, HR stuff and pretty much anything that didn't involve actually building the buildings. Let's call that friend Tony (not his real name). Tony had been at the company for a long time and even though he hated the boss, he still stayed there, because he got paid a lot of money and he lived three doors down from the office. Fast-forward a few years. I was done with university and got a job in my field. It bored.
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    me to tears and one night i jokingly said to a friend over a couple of beers that i really miss that construction job. He said that he'd love to start his own construction company, because he had worked in that field in some capacity all his life and had plenty of connections. Add another few beers and we were drawing up drunken plans. I didn't think anything would really come of the drunken plans, because it rarely does, but my friend was all in. He made
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    real plans and wouldn't let go of the idea. Fast forward another few months and we were actually doing it. Tony was kind enough to guide us along the way. I'm not gonna get into the details, but the first few years were rough. I used up every cent i had saved up. But we did it, we elbowed our way into the business. While my company was slowly going getting bigger, my Bob's (old boss) company saw a
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    steady decline. They simply couldn't keep enough people, because Bob was still a ch ic m c, who randomly verbally att ked people. Fast forward a few years of this and they were eventually taken over by a bigger company, mainly for the clients and the people working there. My old boss was allowed to stay on with a temporary contract. If he could improve the business, he would get another contract. He obviously couldn't keep
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    the sinking ship afloat, because he kept punching more holes into it. How do i know all this? Tony gladly sent me daily updates on all the drama. So now it was time for my revenge. Bob's last day on the job. As soon as Bob got into the office, Tony let me know. I still had Bob's number saved, so i sent him a message and offered him a job interview. Imagine the text message history:
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    Him: Endless t de of name calling and telling me that i'd never amount to anything. 7-ish years pause Me: Hey, i heard you blew up your company and got fired. You need a job? My company [link to website] can always use unskilled laborers. Let me know if you're interested and we can schedule an interview.
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    The next few hours i was in heaven. I kept seeing the "..." appear and disappear in chat. Tony told me that Bob was pacing up and down the office with a red head that was ready to explode. Bob never actually wrote me back. So here we are 3 years after that. Tony joined my company and we're doing well. We're not huge, but big enough to get contracts and do them well. Bob is still unemployed, because everyone in the industry hates that p
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    BeautifulPhantom1 · 10 hr. ago Yep, Bob is exactly the kind of boss that will make any company implode. Glad you're doing well. Offering him an unskilled labor position was a chef's kiss.
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    blissfool. 9 hr. ago I was hoping Tony would join the team. Was holding my breath until the end. Phew~
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    4DimensionalButts OP · 7 hr. ago • He became one of my closest friends over the years and without him the company wouldn't really exist. It's weird how life turns out sometimes, because it basically all started when i commented on the D20 on his desk and we started bonding over nerd stuff.
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    Imaginary-Yak-6487. 6 hr. ago That's great. I had a Bob, but she was a woman & She sked from the beginning. I was an assistant manager at the time for an apartment complex & this company bought us. She was Regional manager & came in like she knew everything about my property that I had been at for 6 yrs at the time. She's a Yankee & had the Long Island attitude. We're
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    in Florida & it's her 1st time here. I gave her some latitude bc it was summer, 100' out plus humidity at 100%. I'd be a bh too, I guess. So she kinda storms in the office & very loudly announcing herself scaring me & some residents I had in my office. She demands to know who I am. I tell her I'm the AM. She says get me your manager. Well, there's not one. There's me. Only me. No maintenance either. She says that I had no
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    business running this property without a manager. Umm, ok? I don't t have any authority to do a d n thing about it. She looks me up & down then says so you, a woman, have been running this property by yourself & without maintenance men for how long? What have you been doing? Blah, blah, blah. I said I can do basic maintenance & had been calling vendors for major stuff I can't do. I
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    pick up grounds. For the office, I've been submitting invoices for payment, collecting rent, doing recertifications for the residents. She was py & i just looked at her & said if you want me gone, Bob, I'll go. I've been here 6 yrs & know everything about the residents, the buildings & the property. What do you know? After a while we get fully staffed. She comes back to the property & only wants to talk to
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    my manager. My manager, bless her heart, calls me to the office. Bob doesn't like that & tells me to leave. Ok. My boss then tells Bob, that I'm the one to answer her questions & if she wants answers she better ask me bc she's still learning the property & I'm the one teaching her. I go back in & Bob asks her questions & I answer. My boss asks why didn't they make me manager. Bob looks at me & says she'll
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    never be a manager. She's lucky that I let her still stay an assistant. All she did here mostly was maintenance & pick up grounds. That's not manager material. Bet. My boss, me & our maintenance guy all put in our two week notice. My boss ended up moving out of town for her husband's job & she got a manager position at another property.
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    I went to another company & made manager of my own property within 2 yrs. I'm also an area training manager. Our maintenance guy started his own HVAC company that's one of the biggest ones in our town. As for Bob, she got fired after Hurricane
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    Michael destroyed most everything here. She, on her own authority (say it like Cartman from southpark) hired temp workers to do repairs to the tube of $300k. I laughed like a hyena when I found out. Bob, you're still a b
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    dude-O-rama · 9 hr. ago What a delightful story. Warmed my heart right up.
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    Ciclones. 34 min. ago Cool revenge, but let got man, its been years lol. Good job on the company tho
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