Restaurant employee gets petty revenge on employer who stole $4,000: 'I handed him my keys and quit on the spot'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 23, 2025 3:00 PM EST

Losing $4,000 to your employer would make any employee upset. 

Some employers will string their workers along forever before offering them a penny. Maybe you're familiar with the feeling of your manager promising you a bonus in the new year, but come January, that same boss is talking about how the budget is too for it. This person had an employer who lied about not only about bonuses, but also apparently lied about benefits. 

It sounds like a miserable place to work: what kind of employer gives their staffers insurance, then randomly takes it away? You can't just mess with people's lives that way! It's not like they were taking away break room coffee or weekly lunches, they were ripping away this dude's insurance payment coverage. Instead of covering his premiums, they just randomly decided not to cover that anymore. And then they wonder why they're losing employees left and right… 

After that, read about the 46-year-old couch surfer who stayed at his sister-in-law's home, but acted incredibly impolite by eating $40 worth of her food: " They're bad-mouthing you in your own house." 

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    "Terrible manager can’t find the smell after trying to steal $4,000 from me"

    I worked at a National restaurant chain with a GM that was a He consistently lied about everything, lied about bonuses, lied about benefits, etc. all the time. I quit after he told me that I owed the company over $4,000 in insurance premiums.
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    The offer for management was 0% employee contribution, but we got to the middle of the year and the budget was not looking good. We were losing employees and customers at an alarming rate, but the GM would not change food order quantities because "we need to be ready when we bounce back!" and food cost went through the roof.
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    I came to work and he said "I have bad news. We looked at benefits and insurance will no longer be company funded as of Jan 1st." "Jan 1, next year?" "No, this year."
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    "Ok, we'll then I'll cancel it and just stay on my wife's insurance. I only took it because it was free to me and would help with copays and coverage gaps." "That's fine, but we still will be collecting the past due premiums to the start of this year." "You can't do that." "Actually, we can!" [ smirk]
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    I left for the day, seethed in violent anger, and went to the grocery store on my way back in. Cue revenge. We had a weird desk drawer that did not go all the way to the back of the desk. It was a modified counter top and the drawers were not the full depth of the counter. One drawer had a file cabinet under it. I bought a can of sardines in mustard sauce, took
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    off the lid, and sneaked it onto the file cabinet behind the drawer. Then, I handed him my keys and quit on the spot, with a warning that if he tried to garnish my last paycheck, it will mean trouble for you beware!
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    This was 2002. LAST WEEK I was at a bar and the manager was a former coworker from Restaurant Inc. She said that after several days, the smell was so bad that the managers had to start doing their work at a booth, because no one could stand to be in there. Ultimately, they decided a rat had di d in the wall and brought in remediation experts to start tearing open walls. After just a few minutes, they came out with the nastiest,
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    oldest, grossest I of biomass and said "here's your problem" The file cabinet had to be replaced as it was wooden and the stink juice had soaked into it. She asked if I remembered that smell that started just before I quit, but I had no memory of it. f that guy
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    The worker added this anecdote, too

    BargleFlargen OP Highlight of my time there was when the GM tried to get tough with one of the cooks and he said, and I quote, "Sh, Mike! Does your mamma know you're a b ?"
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    He sounds awful! 

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    It was glorious watching him. wilt under a 6'5" tall guy in a Run DMC t shirt and filthy jeans.
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    Smart_Chocolate... Absolutely brilliant! Love the revenge.
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    TheMoby Dis This is hilarious! Best part? This "... brought in remediation experts to start tearing open walls..." That sh ain't cheap. F 'em.
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    CoderJoe1 Ha! Cost them more money to fix the smell.
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