Video content creator gets unfairly fired, hatches plan to trick boss into a year's worth of pay: 'My former manager was so desperate'

Here's a rule of thumb: try not to unjustly fire someone with the specialized skills you so desperately need.

That's what this manager learned the hard way. She hired a video content creator to be a one-man team for all of the social videos for an entire university. Despite numerous attempts to convey to his manager that the KPIs she and the director had set were unfair, this employee was not listened to in the slightest. In fact, his manager was convinced she could get someone better to finish his project and ended up having him abruptly fired halfway through the year. 

Well, the funny thing about video content creators in a small town is that they all likely know each other. So when the former employee enlisted his friend to come up with a plan that would mutually benefit them both, the friend quickly agreed. In the end, the Redditor was able to collect the equivalent of a year's worth of his former salary without his former boss knowing he was collecting that money from her. To make matters even better, she wound up getting fired for going ten times over the budget for this video project.

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