Deceitful boss breaks promise to comp $100 for staff breakfast, faces payback from disgruntled employee: 'You should've gotten it in writing'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Sep 18, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

There are lots of ways in which bosses can be terrible to work for, but some of the worst is when they try to cheat you out of your hard-earned cash. Many workplaces encourage cognitive dissonance about the fact that most of those that they employ are primarily there for the money, and even worse, they think you deserve to take on extra expense just so the books look a little more balanced.

This is something that one contractor appeared to experience when he ended up doing a job in a remote area. Buying multiple rounds of breakfast tacos for the team he was working with, his boss promised over the phone to reimburse him the $100 cost. However, he eventually changed his tune because there had been no written agreement made for this. It's no surprise that when the contractor saw a golden opportunity for revenge, he took it.

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    Boss chiseled me out of $100 and paid the price
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    I'm a contractor. While working on a project in a 'very' remote location, I arranged to buy and bring two rounds of breakfast tacos for the staff of the county facility where I would be working for the next week in exchange for free copy privileges. The boss gave approval on the phone and the total for the tacos that week came out to just over $100. A great exchange as the copy budget was upwards of $1,000.
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    My receipts along with the supporting cc statement I submitted at the end of the billing cycle, between a week and 2 weeks after he'd verbally approved the expense, was declined. I wasn't too angry but a deal's a deal and I called the boss to remind him he'd approved the expense. His response, "You should've gotten it in writing." me off royally but I finished the project as promised and was working on another project, for another client, less than a week later.
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    A couple of months go by and the boss who'd chiseled me out of the $$ called to see if I was available to work on another project, beginning on the first of the next month and after some haggling, I agreed. The work schedule would be tight, and, in his words, this was an all-hands-on deck project with nights and weekends expected (I was also told this was a new client and they wanted to impress).
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    A couple of days before the project was set to begin, the chiseler called to tell me the engagement paperwork was on the way and check my email. I told him I had decided not to work the project after all and he was furious. He screamed, I mean screamed, "You agreed to work on this project weeks ago!" I repeated his words verbatim. "You should've gotten it in writing."
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    JonTheArchivist Fkn savage. Well done.
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    altonbrownfan It's like written candy to read
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    Meincornwall Had a director do a "Verbal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on" regarding back pay on a contract change. I agreed with him & immediately cancelled all my shifts as I was no longer under any contractual obligation. Told them if they decided to rethink their attitude regarding verbal contracts to call me. They called. Sometimes when they think they hold all the power it's good to remind them they have nothing without workers.
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    BildoBaggens Your word is your integrity in business. I've had instances where people broke their word, I don't take that lightly, I remember that.
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    FamilyGuy421 My boss owns 6 different companies. I deal with 5. I heard there was a small problem on the 6th company and mentioned it to him. He told me to "Stay in your lane". Several weeks later there was a big problem at 6. He asked me if I knew about it. I said yes a couple weeks ago. He got very I and asked me why I had not mentioned it. I told him I was "Staying in my lane" He learned his lesson.
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    NeflnDaHouse I don't know how you look, OP, but I can almost imagine you in a sort of a Bugs Bunny scene, where instead of a carrot, you nom on a taco, while you tell the boss that he should have gotten it in writing xD
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    WalletValuz Hah, perfect payback. Bet he won't pull that cheap get it in writing, works both ways. again. Always
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    rmichaeljones Of course he will pull that again. Cheap is a tough habit to break and people rarely learn their lesson the first time.
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    Meerkat212 How on Earth does someone who cheated someone out of $ think that the cheated will ever do anything for them again? The entitlement is pretty astounding.
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    mspk7305 The axe never remembers the tree but the tree never forgets the axe.
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    greyhounds4life1969 Round it off with 'would you like a taco?'
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    dumpitdog I'd be very wary of this guy. People like this honestly don't handle losing. Just watch out in the future he may try to extract his own Justice from you.
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    Intelligent_Milkster The audacity to screw someone over 100 bucks and call him up expecting no consequences.
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    revchewie Throwing their own words back at them is *chef's kiss*!
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