'5 guys walked out of work that day': 20+ Bosses who showed their employees that they didn't care

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 16, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

I'd love to spend a day in a CEO's shoes and see how they run their life. It seems like many CEOs don't actually do very much work. They have some meetings, maybe write a few emails, and then they're heading out the door by 3 PM to spend time with their family. Meanwhile, the rest of the workers do 8-10 hours of work, all scrutinized by their managers, before heading out for the day. Do these C-suite types ever feel guilty for making 7 figure salaries and barely working while their employees grind away for 5 or 6 figures? Probably not, since many of them are happy to own flashy cars, style themselves in designer clothes, and yap on and on about their monthly trips around the world. 

These people shared the blatant times their managers and higher-ups showed how little they cared, and the stories are infuriating. One CEO cut health benefits, and then conveniently used that money to buy a new car. Buddy is not seeing heaven with that kind of approach to life! He didn't even try to hide it… some folks just do not care about their fellow humans. They just care about that cold hard cash. 

After that, read about the woman who told off her cousin, a 29-year-old "trad-wife" TikToker, telling her that "nobody cares if she has a husband and kids." 

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    'They cut our health benefits at work, which resulted in a savings of almost exactly the car payment for our CEO's new luxury car'
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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    What is the most blatant act of "I don't care who this hurts so long as it benefits me" you've seen from your boss/higher up?
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    chewsausername A job I had a few years back. - A co-worker of mine was about to buy a house.. was telling us (boss included) about the great price he got. Just waiting for the bank to finalize the paperwork. Turns out he didnt get a buy/sell agreement and my boss swooped in and paid cash for it. He then tried
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    selling it back to my co- worker for a profit. He told my boss to go f himself and about 5 guys walked out of work that day. F guy. that
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    PharmacyThumbp... Stating that employees wouldn't have to work during the holidays. Then, changing their minds after people had already made travel plans. People were totally screwed. If they went through with their vacation plans, they risked losing their jobs. And yet, they'd already paid good money that they couldn't afford to just walk away from because
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    the guys upstairs changed their minds and opted for greed. Happy Holidays indeed. Except no. They attempted to placate the plebes by raffling away a few $25 Starbucks gift cards. Not giving away gift cards, to dutiful employees, mind you. The "raffle"ensured that as few people as possible would actually even get anything.
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    Way to show your appreciation, Corporation X.
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    Goatus_OQUEOF I recently discovered that my boss had been deliberately underpaying foreign staff (they were getting about 60% of what the industry currently dictates) for 3 years.
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    She tried to do it with someone who was a little more clued on to what she should get and asked me. It was esentially because she can't discipline her son so she needs to send him to a boarding school funded by international students washing dishes (she also systematically deletes sales. to avoid paying tax)
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    She hasn't spoken to me for two weeks since i threatened to call fair work australia.
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    chronicwisdom I was working new year's Eve at a Canadian restaurant chain a few years ago (let's call it ornary Joe's). I had no issue working NYE and was actually having a good time. At one point near the end of my shift I'm talking to another server and punching in an order, one of my guests walked by the server station and left. I turn around and see his date
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    covered in their appetizer which apparently Johnny Jerkoff had decided to throw in her face. I go over to the woman, give her some napkins, help her clean up etc. Owner of the restaurant comes up to me "Make sure she pays for that, she must be used to being treated like that". I bought the food out
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    of my own tips and quit a month later. I never liked that owner but I did respect him until that point, now I'm convinced he's one of the shittier humans I've had the displeasure of meeting.
    via u/chronicwisdom
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    myBisL2 I was working on a 3 person team and 2 quit. They took their sweet time to hire and for about 4 months I worked 70+ hours a week (I'm salaried) to keep finance running. My manager tried desperately to get me a raise and a promotion. I literally heard her argue with HR over it. Eventually I got a
    via u/myBisL2
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    THANK YOU LETTER from my director (who wouldnt support the raise and promotion) and a small bonus. "Thanks for doing 3 people's job and supporting pricing for 3 continents on your own."
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    I went home sick. I was sick the entire week. But I still logged in from home for an hour or 2 every day to help the new kid with questions and do anything he couldn't handle because I still cared about my team. And I did not use PTO.
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    sobriety_kinda_s... We stayed open during a blizzard well past the point it was safe to travel. Roads were f ed the next day and my boss insisted we come in, offered to pick me up... Told him I'd think about it. Silenced my phone, went back to sleep.
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    91Bolt My high school soccer coach was an assistant for 6 years waiting to take over the team. The head coach finally retired, and the assistant went on to break all sorts of school records in his first year in charge, only for the team to be disqualified from playoffs for using an ineligible player that transferred in.
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    Even though he checked with the athletic director and the state association before playing the kid, he got scapegoated and fired, which of course was a big story in the local paper. People around town still think he's a cheater, even though he's one of the best mentors I've ever had.
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    myBisL2 One more. They cut our health benefits at work which resulted in a savings of almost exactly the car payment for our CEOs new luxury car (owned by the company of course).
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    actualnightowl I was a part of an overnight crew stocking shelves for a famous retail store. We were a pretty tight-knit team and our supervisor was chill but also knew his stuff. But then he got transferred to another department and we ended up with another supervisor who had no idea what she was doing. So of course, no one took her
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    seriously. But the thing is, she was also in cahoots with one of the higher-ups and so she effectively got almost every single person in my department fired to massage her own ego. The only reason I wasn't fired at the time was because I mostly kept to myself so they couldn't come up with a reason to fire me.
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    Our department got screwed, to say the least. We lost all our veterans and ended up always being short on people. Even if we weren't, it wouldn't matter because everyone was a new hire and had no idea what to do. 1
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    This continued until that supervisor finally assembled a team full of kissasses. Until then, our department, and effectively the entire store was a mess, just because our supervisor couldn't take criticism.
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    De... I work for a fairly small sized IT company specializing in software for the mining industry. Our CEO is a complete control freak when it comes to software development. Even though he has no development experience he still draws up specs rather than leaving it to the DEV team.
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    Because of a series of stupid decisions by him which lead to our best managers leaving, losing a lot of customers, falling months behind on projects and a boat load of bugs that remain unfixed because of us playing catch ups he decided to find a larger company to sell to. He received a 7 figure payout, shares in the company and a 400k a year salary in a lower
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    position. Not bad for him but this lead to a few people being made redundant or having to have to step down to lower positions and take a pay cut. The morale in our workplace is pretty low at the moment because of uncertainty around our positions. Our CEO hitting eject really hurt everyone in the company.
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    gonzotronn I am supposed to work 2 weeks on/1 week off. I'm on day 21 and scheduled to work another week because "we simply don't have enough manpower". Yesterday I received a presumably accidental text from my boss showing him floating a river and drinking beer with friends. He got a very harsh phone call from me. It changed nothing.
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    Miss_Mel_Lives Offshored 80% of my 35 person team because they could pay 3 of them the same as one of us. They didn't replace the ones who left from my office through 'natural attrition' and won't hire any more people in the offshored office because they don't want to pay to expand that office. They don't train the off shore staff the same way they did our
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    staff so they don't know what they are doing over there. Which means the staff from my office are having to constantly pick up the slack from the offshored office. To make up for their lack of training, Upper Management have completely redesigned the software system that we use to make it more user friendly (read: idiot proof). But the offshored office are now
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    taking two to three times as long to get the work done. And now upper management are all sitting around, scratching their heads wondering what the f went wrong and how the h | do the remaining team fix the f that going on in the offshored team. It just seems to be one f after another and upper
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    management will not admit they did the wrong thing in offshoring and keep throwing more money at the situation. All because they wanted to save a few bucks offshoring.
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    FlameSpartan On two separate occasions, my higher up manager has tried to "cut costs" by forbidding us from using trash bags in smaller trash cans. I've had to deal with ice cream and coffee grounds for a week. Let's see how long it lasts this time.
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    Corporate also has this completely bulls setup for the ice cream machine. There's a roughly three square foot sheet of metal on top that does LITERALLY NOTHING but trap spilled ice cream for days on end. I clean it and I can smell the alcol from the sh fermenting.
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    The_Batmen Had an unpaid two week internship at an IT comapny because I wanted to learn stuff about the job. It was during school holidays so they knew I really wanted to learn something. Talked to some guy and he said "no, you won't just fill out Excel sheets". I come to the company and all they wanted me to do was fill out Excel sheets. Halfway
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    through my second day I told them I want to do something else. On friday I tell them that I'm not coming back for a second week because it s ks do to the same thing. He told me I made a deal with them and I
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    told him to off because the deal included me learning something. Not to mention that they broke multiple underaged working laws. TL;DR Exploited an unpaid 17 y/o intern during his school hilodays who genuinely wanted to learn something about the job. Broke underaged working laws.
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    Fultz_2_point_O 12 year military man here. Literally every time any one of my "bosses" opens their mouth. Best example is myself and two other co- workers of mine spent 3 straight months working 14+ hours, 6 days a week to prepare for an inspection.
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    Blew the inspection out of the water. Boss took credit for it and got an award, we didn't get even so much as a "good work guys." Gotta love the military life!!!
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    I_Ace_English Not me but a family member. I'm thinking this is just about his boss's thought processing: "All of my employees are in their 50s. Ok then, lets make them lift 30lbs boxes to get ready for the next event!"
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    "Yeah, you'll get a pay raise! When? Hmn, lets see . . . a year . . . five. . . ten . . . ok, never." And the most recent one: "So a hurricane is coming in. Ok then, lets make everybody come in to get ready for the next event, regardless that the hurricane is supposed to hit in 5 hours." (He did this for Hurricane Matthew)
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    UPnorthCamping Didn't care I was in labor, told me to figure it out he had his own stuff to do.
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    rhllors Paying everyone under the table so she didn't have to take income taxes out. This meant that some people (specifically, young kitchen guys or waitstaff) might not get their weekly paycheck for several weeks at a time because she might not feel like coming in and writing checks. So fun.
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