Savvy employee gets $15,000 payout after being wrongfully terminated by maintaining a thorough paper trail: 'We didn't expect you to know the laws'

Never underestimate your opponent. 

Whether you're a professional boxer in the ring or an unwitting grocery shopper passing a Girl Scout cookie table, this is an important shred of wisdom to remember. Those Girl Scouts may look cute and naive, but they're plotting to cash in on your underestimation of their formidable wit. 

Like the foolish manager in our next story who seriously took for granted a hardworking employee with a contingency plan. Straight out of college and hungry for work, the original poster of this story (OP) took the first job at a call center that he could find. Being clever, he quickly rose through the ranks and received an honorary title and a new promotion. However, disaster struck when he befell a sudden injury that landed him in the hospital for weeks! 

Knowing that his boss would try to fire him for missing so much work, OP used his time in the hospital bed to devise a plan that would financially protect him in case his employer was as scummy as he thought. Scroll for the entire story of how one guy's diligent research proved to be a golden parachute when he was wrongfully terminated, scoring him a $15,000 payout as a result. 

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