Entitled boss tells employee to find another job in the heat of the moment, tries to backtrack but employee maliciously complies and leaves dumpster fire business

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Sep 20, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

Bosses shouldn't be able to say anything they want without repercussions from their underlings.

The verbiage they decide to use should influence the way the company runs, how the employees do their work, and what type of output the employees are producing. Without the fellas under them, the company wouldn't exist. If a boss decides they want to fire you one day, then try to backtrack on that heated thought, it shouldn't be the employee's problem. They said what they said! Now reap what you sow, Mr. Boss Man. 

The employee in this story expresses that his boss is not a cool guy and his paychecks have bounced before. The boss is never in the office, comes and goes as he pleases, and expects the original poster (OP) to pick up the slack. The OP confides in his boss's friend and his own divorce attorney about the "unethical and shady things" the boss has been up to. The attorney offers the OP a position if things go awry.

Needless to say, the boss was very unhappy about this in addition to the company seemingly going under, and told him to find another job. Even when the boss tries to take it back, the OP gives him a taste of his own medicine. Scroll to read the entire story.

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    Time to find a new job and accept any offer? Don't mind if I do.
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    TLDR: my former boss, in a fit of anger, told me to get a new job because his business was failing, regretted it the next day and told me not to leave. I left anyway to work for his friend's law firm.
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    My former boss didn't realize that to actually make money, he had to show up for work. Instead, he came and went as he pleased and expected me to pick up the slack and essentially try to play the role of receptionist, paralegal, office manager and attorney (I never gave legal advice - he just expected me to and so did his clients).
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    His friend was my divorce attorney and worked in the same building so he'd pop in just to chat, see how things were going etc. but he started noticing my boss was absent more than not and questioned how things were going. I started confiding in him that I was really concerned
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    because I could see former boss shelling out more than he was making and his clients were less than pleased at never being able to speak with their attorney. Then former boss started doing some unethical and shady things to move cases along and I started
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    getting really nervous about what would happen if former boss got caught and what it meant for me. I told my attorney/former boss's friend all of this and he said that his own firm needed extra support staff but he didn't want it to appear like he was poaching
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    me from his friend on purpose and that I had to talk with former boss about the state of the office and see if there was a way to salvage things. I never really got that chance though because later that day, former boss stormed into the office and told me I needed to
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    start looking for a new job and to just take the first offer I get because he was probably going to have to shut his doors in the next 90 days and he couldn't guarantee me a paycheck. I spoke with my attorney the next day about it and he shrugged and said for me to just give my two weeks notice and call it a day.
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    Later that same day, former boss came into the office and told me to hold off on finding a new job and to give him a month to turn things around. Sorry but I've got bills to pay so I'm not going to sit idly and wonder if I'm going to see a next paycheck or not.
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    I drafted my two weeks notice (only because my attorney asked it of me as a professional courtesy to his friend) and gave it to my former boss at the end of the pay period. Cue surprisedpikachu.jpg look from former boss. "You're leaving? But why!?"
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    "Per our conversation on (that date), you advised me to find other employment so I did." "Where?" "(Friend's law firm)." "Seriously? When I make this business work, I'm going to want you back. Is that going to be a problem?"
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    "Good luck." "What's he paying?" "Less than you and half the hours. But at least I know his checks won't bounce." I heard from my replacement on his first solo day (I trained him during my last week) that my
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    former boss regretted telling me "on a whim" to leave because I was the only one who knew anything about his cases. to . He shouldn't have left me to run his firm without help, knowing I'm not an attorney or licensed paralegal, while he went on lavish vacations and ignored all his clients.
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    Even if former boss wanted to try to get me to come back, I've already been bumped to full time hours and gotten a raise in less than a month and there's promise of a second raise very soon to put me at what I was making at former boss's but here I get paid holidays, PTO and sick leave. No way on God's green earth would I go back to former boss.
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    Bucky-Katt-Guitar • 1h ago Classic case of malicious compliance! I'm glad it worked out for you in the end.
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    . MistraloysiusMi... 59m ago I bet the only reason your new boss didn't match your hours and pay at first was because you were left on your own so much he wasn't sure how much you knew about the job. Guess it didn't take long to prove yourself and vindicate his instinct you might be a good hire
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    morgan423 .35m ago I never gave legal advice - he just expected me to and so did his clients. I bet that would be fun. Try to speak as generically as possible at all times. "That sounds like a real situation, all right. I bet you'll probably be doing something there. I guess there'll be stuff involved too. Well, this report won't write itself so I've got to get back to it, take care."
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    Dranask • 39m ago . As your old boss was reminded play silly games get silly prizes.
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    Sammakko660 • 9m ago I am no where close to upper management. But I swear sometimes people when they are higher up the food chain, the lower their IQ drops. Common sense goes completely out the window. I think that I am happy at the level that I am at and keep my smarts and common sense.
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    DynkoFromThe... 26m ago Makes you want to be the carrot, doesn't it? If I were in your position, I'd tell former boss that I'd consider coming back. Then, at the very last moment, decline.
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