'I wasn’t gonna let him win': Employee refuses to let boss keep picking on him, exposes his business negligence on his last day

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 7, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Sometimes, bosses just decide out of nowhere that they don't like an employee. It's not based on work ethic. It's not based on morale or personality. They simply have chosen to have an enemy in the workplace to make matters more interesting and cutthroat for them. If you're unlucky, you may end up becoming that employee for your boss.

When this happens, as it did to this Redditor, you have to keep reminding yourself that it's not you. Furthermore, if this treatment starts to get in the way of the work day, it's time to talk to HR about it or, at the very least, start looking for opportunities elsewhere. This employee made it a point to stay until the bitter end. Not everyone has to advocate for themselves in this particular way, but at least he didn't cave at any point. 

Keep scrolling below to see how this employee got the last word despite months of poor treatment from his boss. For more stories like this, check out this one about a boss who pressured his employee to resign just because they took an interview somewhere else.

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    My boss thought he could fire me or b me into quitting, but I had the last laugh.
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    I was hired for a temp position last year, it was a part time job that fit perfectly with my uni schedule with a pretty popular, prestigious company. The first couple
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    weeks were great, I got along with my colleagues. and my boss seemed nice enough.
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    After some time though, everything drastically changed. I still don't know why. My boss tried to get me to agree to a mutual termination of my contract,
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    claimed I was smoking and doing d in the office (I obviously didn't, immediately offered a d test), told me that a written record was submitted to HR
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    while refusing to let me see it, tried to start a fight with me numerous times, sent me on personal errands during working hours — this
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    post would be 10 pages long if I got into every thing he put me through, suffice to say it was an awful couple of months. I'm pretty sure that
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    after me not initially agreeing to leave, he tried to fire me but since he's only in a middle-management position within a fairly large company, one of his bosses
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    probably said no for some reason, so I got to stick it out with menial b[ tasks until the end of my contract. For the last couple
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    months, he completely ignored me, didn't answer my emails, didn't give me any new tasks eventhough I asked and then pretended I didn't to claim I was being
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    malicious and refusing to work, while there were numerous people present when I asked for new tasks.
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    And yet, I stuck around. Up until my very last day. Would it have been smarter to leave sooner? Yes, most
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    definitely. But the pay and benefits were good and above anything else, I didn't want him to have the satisfaction, I wasn't gonnal let him win.
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    So, when my last day came (ironically he wasn't even in the office and obviously never said goodbye to me) I
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    was ready: I had been keeping track of every single thing that had happened. More than that, I discovered what I believed
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    to be some pretty serious. complianc and data privacy breaches. So i sent an email containing all of it and proof
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    not only to my boss and everyone on our team, but to numerous HR people, then I handed in my laptop. and left.
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    It was the absolute best feeling to know that I was finally free of this job, and that my boss had been trying to instigate a fight for months, probably thought I
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    was just gonna be submissive and go out with a whimper just to get the fight he wanted on my very last day and not having any way of getting back to me. (I obviously immediately blocked his number)
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    I don't really expect there to be any consequences because people like him always get away with their S behaviour. Maybe HR
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    will give a sabout obvious b and why when one of his employees is accused of doing d at work, he wouldn't have them do a d test (as per the f contract lol),
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    why I was sent away from the office to run personal errands or why a huge data security breach was left to fester for probably YEARS - maybe they'll give a s☐ probably not.
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    To me, the most important thing is having gotten closure. I just know that he will randomly think of me for the rest of his life and his blood pressure will spike every single time because he never got the last word,
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    while I will always be content when and if he crosses my mind because I never gave in to his stupid provocations, and when I did, it was solely for me and the purpose of getting
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    closure so I am just going to be proud of having endured a s job and having the last. word in the end. F☐ you, Jerry.
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