Automation employee gets back at entitled boss by adding a code line to company's budget sheet that makes it impossible to give boss a raise: ‘I don't feel guilty’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 31, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Nothing is more satisfying than using the knowledge you worked so hard to gain for something that gives you joy. And you may call us petty, but sometimes that joy comes from revenge on someone who truly deserves it. 

Working in anything related to computer science is as good as having a superpower, you can use your knowledge to do just about anything. The employee in this Reddit story proved that with just one code line, you can really mess with someone's life, and OP (original poster) gained a lot of joy from doing so. OP was working on automating their workplace's budget spreadsheet when an opportunity to get back at their awful boss revealed itself. With a simple line of code, OP made sure their boss would never be able to get any raise or bonus to their pay, something that later might have led to said boss getting fired…

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    I made it impossible to budget a raise or bonus for my boss
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    This was about 20 years ago, but I was reminded of it by a friend. and felt people might enjoy. I was working for a popular magazine publisher and neither
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    my boss nor my boss's boss were any good at excel. Therefore, they made me do thai budget spreadsheets for the 25 magazines they were in charge of.
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    My boss's boss was a decent guy, but the guy between the two of us was awful. So when I automated the whole budget process, I added a line of code that reset the value for his salary
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    back to his current salary, even if they had changed the budget to give him a raise. That way when it went to HR, it always showed his
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    original salary no matter how many times it was changed. He later got fired for getting into a fist fight with an employee, so I don't feel guilty.
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    • jakc1423 18h ago • "He later got fired for getting into a fist fight with an employee" Did the employee win?
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    Formal_You6846 OP • 17h ago It was broken up before there was a winner. I think the employee could have taken him though.
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    Hour-Bumblebee5581 • 1d ago • Wonder if anyone looked at the code further down the road and was totally perplexed with it.
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    Formal_You6846 OP 1d ago Maybe. It was by employee number so I'm guessing once he was gone nobody thought about it.
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    Classic-Potato3501 • 1d ago Sounds illegal, but ok.
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    Formal_You6846 OP • 1d ago I'm genuinely curious how it could be illegal. Fireable offense, absolutely. But illegal? What law was broken?
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    sb03733 • 1d ago • That's really is an interesting one. I could only come up with damage of property. So you could turn it that you modified the Excel so that it results in financial damage to the boss and he has claims against you. Maybe somebody had a better idea
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    GooderApe . 1d ago • Tortious interference? Not sure if that'd apply with a job he already had...
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    sb03733 • 1d ago. Sounds like it. Tortious conduct. Might be an approach depending on the legal definitions
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    spocknambulist • 2d ago The fistfight was probably with the HR person who couldn't raise his salary
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    Coder Joe1 1d ago • The Geek shall inherit the earth
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    Bulky Marsupial3596 • 1d ago • Yet you couldn't get a "raise" out of him
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    Environmental-Gap380 20h ago • If he was the one supposed to review and approve the form, this is even better.
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    aztec0000 • 1d ago That was sneaky and smart.
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    YamDong 20h ago • It's nice to hear when someone has used their superpowers for good.
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    B 1quirky1 1d ago That cost him some money. That's more than petty. I love it.
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