‘Your company deserves to fail’: Overworked employee quits job without notice after years of carrying company on their back, boss claims he'll sue for losses

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    "He claims he has no career without me"
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    Employer trying to sue me for resigning
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    hi, i just wanted to hear your thoughts on this and if you have any advice that would be great! i am currently working as a part-time personal assistant for a small business (been here for three years) and i verbally
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    promised to take on a full-time contract once i graduate (supposedly this coming summer). However— over the past three years, I haven't had the greatest time in this company. My boss and I have a
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    weird and toxic relationship, and he is quite clingy and demands my attention 24/7. At one point I was put on academic probation since I spent a lot of my personal time helping him get out of
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    do on. During that time I agreed to be severely underpaid since he just has a way of being manipulative but I was too young and inexperienced. I felt bad for his situation and I agreed to his
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    terms. I didn't realize I was in a toxic environment until my friends and ex-colleagues (who all quit cause they couldn't take his temper) held an intervention for me.
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    now i got an offer from a new company who's quite aware of my situation and they've expressed that it doesn't matter to them. the offer that i got is actually my dream job. i've been quite burnt out from
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    shouldering all the tasks of the small business (from accounting to marketing to being his PA) and i've decided it was time to go. i tried quitting last year but he didnt react well and called me egotistical and
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    ungrateful and told me that he has no career without me. I would be ruining his life if I leave. He even threw something in my direction and told me that Under extreme hed
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    pressure, I promised to stay for two more years (one for PT and the other for FT). But now I realized that I finally had a way out since I felt quite trapped. I told him that I would be resigning effective
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    immediately (i am willing to pay the 3 months off since i am actually fearing for my life). Now he's threatening to sue me for losses since i was the only one who knew how to do all the work and yet i left without a notice.
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    I am actually quite scared and i haven't been sleeping from all the anxiety. What do you think I should do? He's old money and I'm not entirely sure if I can match up to him if it gets to court.
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    LaughableIKR. 15 hr. ago See if you can't get the threats in a text message or voicemail as proof of his threatening behavior. Talk to your friends and also your parents and then a lawyer for a consultation. They should give you a free consult. This guy is obviously crazy. Keep away from him.
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    ETA. If he is old money he should be able to survive. Also if your entire company relies upon 1 person who is underpaid then his company deserves to fail.
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    . Live_Election_7315 OP 15 hr. ago He's been constantly texting me threats in the past three years (like whenever I don't do something that aligns with his "values) and my ex-colleague was there when he attempted to throw something at me (so a witness I guess). but yes, will look into consulting with a lawyer- i'm preparing to tell my parents as well ·
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    ChaoticxSerenity · 14 hr. ago Now he's threatening to sue me for losses since i was the only one who knew how to do all the work and yet i left without a notice. What country are you in? None of this is legal in the US.
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    If he had so much money, he would've hired another person. This guy's just unhinged. Honestly, just screenshot all this , then block and delete on everything and definitely do not go back to that workplace.
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    Live_Election_7315 OP · 13 hr. ago Hong Kong-we have payments in lieu of notice and it's a small business (retail store) some of the businesses are unregulated cause free market.
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    honestly, I have so many regrets since I let him ruin my life for the past three years. But I stayed because I was naive and didn't know any better. I had reservations with blocking since in a weird way, we developed a good "friendship" outside of work (realised it was a manipulation tactic)— but yeah I'm cutting him off completely
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    professcorporate . 14 hr. ago Depends where you are, what your local employment law says, what your contract says, and what actual losses are. You should be speaking to an employment lawyer qualified in your jurisdiction.
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    frogmicky 15 hr. ago Information Technology Lol what a joke unless you signed something that says you're never going to resign I'd walk out while laughing in his face. He's got some to hold that over you. trying
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    Effective_Vanilla_32 - 15 hr. ago "full time contract?" like you really signed a contract, if so u can be sued for breach of contract Reply Share Live_Election_7315 OP · 14 hr. ago I'm on part-time contract— I was supposed to sign the full-time in September. I just verbally promised him I was going to FT (made under duress)
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    DraftZestyclose8944 · 11 hr. ago Just stop going to work, and cease all contact, it's really as simple as that.
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    9livesmonsta · 8 hr. ago He's a narc and I would leave immediately. You need to work on healthy boundaries, so this doesn't happen again.
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    yamaha2000us · 13 hr. ago Just leave. There is nothing to worry about until you see legal papers. And it sounds like they would probably be written in crayon.

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