‘I started an exodus’: Former disgruntled employees reflect fondly on the payback they unleashed on toxic bosses before leaving their jobs for good

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    What was your final you" to a boss you didn't like?
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    CertainlyAmbivalent . 11h ago I just made the firing as awkward as possible. I spent like 20 minutes in silence reading my severance package while she and the rep from HR watched. They tried to tell me they will email a copy I can electronically sign but I just said no thanks. Then I had them go make a copy for me to take homes again they tried to say they will email it but I insisted on a paper copy.
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    tc6x6 . 8h ago Trucker here. I convinced all the other drivers at our terminal to apply at a competing trucking company down the road. They hired all but one of us, so we dropped our keys on the boss's desk. Within a month the plant pulled their contract, and the company went bankrupt.
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    • wkarraker 11h ago Not me but a friend. He worked at an Aladdin's Castle video game parlor in the mid 80's. His boss had been hounding him for weeks to work additional overtime even though he had a new baby and his wife was still in the hospital because of complications. His wife was scheduled to come home on a day the boss insisted he work. He decided he no longer needed the job or the headaches and tossed his master keyring into the roll top safe, spun the cylinder and walked out to pick up h
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    A roll top safe was used to make daily deposits into a secure safe that only the person with the master key can unlock. There is a heavy metal cylinder at the top of the safe with an opening, when deposits are made into the cylinder the deposit falls into the secure chamber when the cylinder is rotated. The only way to gain access to the money, once deposited, is with the master key. With the master key (and the keys that locked the building) trapped deep within the safe the boss was forced to c
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    His boss deserved every second of seething fury he experienced while watching the locksmith work over the safe.
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    14 atomic-chicken-soup 9h ago Becoming indispensable and then putting in my notice. No " you" is quite as nice as people begging you to stay and you being able to say "no" with confidence that you're making the right decision.
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    PrehistoricPrincess • 10h ago Sent in my 2 weeks notice by email the very same day I got another job offer. I copied the email to HR. My notice followed just a few of days on the heels of another manager's 2 week notice lol. My boss scheduled me to close on my very last day, and told me I could "come by to drop off my keys to her another day." (She hated closing and had made me the closing donkey for months.) Yeah, right... She opened that day. I came in, told her I had a medical emergency, hand
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    Specialist_Duty2165 • 9h ago I straight up didn't give her any notice and left. That was still nice of me for all the she used to do to us. up
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    cornered_beef . 6h ago I called a day before Christmas eve to say I resign. I tried raising my salary for 6 years, and never more salary than a trainee. When I called, he said that he could finally raise my salary to keep me in his company. I laughed and said "no, I have already made my decision." The best decision ever in my work career. The place was toxic, really bad salary and everyone was competing against each other instead of helping.
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    kunk75 5h ago I had gotten a 5 out of 5 review a week prior and was suddenly let go without cause so I read my review loudly as possible while they tried to read me my severance and separation. agreement
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    Ok-Regular-6562 7h ago • In my final weeks working a job with the worst supervisor I have ever encountered, I gathered all the evidence I needed and met with Union reps and the manager of the whole operation after making a formal complaint. She was disciplined and proceeded to specifically avoid talking to me in particular about even things that were necessary for the job to the point it actually hurt the company since we were a small team and communication is huge. She even went so far as to ha
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    she didn't have to speak to me. And talked all kinds of about me as my coworkers informed me. Basically trying to turn everyone against me. So I went back to the union again and got her for retaliation. Then I left. Not my problem anymore, but hopefully she got the message.
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    really_affordable • 7h ago Quit just before a busy holiday weekend. Booked a nice beach trip and headed out. On my way out of town, the manager calls to ask "Are you going to cover your shifts this weekend or did you get somebody to work for you??" Nope.
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    JustSomeGuy_56 10h ago A month after I started my new job, I recruited two key workers from my old company. Left the having to explain to his boss why he had no idea what do to, despite taking credit for everything we had done.
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    Pantastic_Studios • 4h ago Reported him and the company to the IRS for not sending me a w2 and how they changed the company name and various things every few months in an effort to cheat out on taxes.
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    Citizen_Kano • 6h ago I quit without notice a few days before Christmas. I was supposed to be the only one working for two weeks while everyone else was on annual leave. He couldn't convince anyone else to cancel their leave, so he had to
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    Max123Dani 3h ago • I used to clean a very busy Deli in the evening, after closing. A 9-2am type thing, completely taken the display cases apart, making it BEAUTIFUL for the next morning. The owner was a nasty drunk. As I was in the process, he called the store, berated me, calling me names, telling me it takes too long, rambling on and on. I was already fed up with his nonsense. I got off the phone, wrote a note that said “I quit”, set the alarm, an put my key through the mail slot. I left a NA
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    what happened, I didn't call him back. Never saw him again until 15 years later, and he was working the deli counter at another establishment. I called the deli next day and apologized to my coworkers, but they thought it was hysterical. They said he was totally distraught and hungover, but they were with me 100%! Everybody quit over the next few months because he was a complete
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    Look-Its-a-Name 7h ago • He got a court invite, and I referred all his communication attempts directly to my lawyer. Sweet sweet revenge.
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    Meta2048 7h ago • Nothing major We were constantly understaffed and got a new boss who wanted to micromanage everything. Picked up a bunch of extra shifts and then never showed up since I got a different job.
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    ohhhohohkay · 3h ago Had a meeting with my boss where he was trying to "put me in my place" the whole time. At the end of his 20 minute rant I handed him my resignation letter that I had planned on giving him the whole time. So satisfying to have to watch him waste his time and tell him I was leaving without anything else lined up.
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    squid-do 1h ago He got a new job and was leaving. On his last day I left a gift on his desk, the board game "Clue," with a note that said "since you don't have one."
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    YourHighness3550 . 2h ago Left them 7 paragraphs of scathing accusations and shared my "final words" with all my co workers who widely respected my opinion. I worked there for 3 years. and dozens of people there grew close to me. Needless to say people saw my reasons very well and I started an exodus.
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    Muffassa • 2h ago I turned in my 2 weeks notice, and let HR know that I was quitting because my Supervisor was incompetent. This lead to HR conducting an investigation into him, the Supervisor being removed from his position and me getting his position. He quit a few years later and I have been leading my dept for the last 17 years.

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