Tech specialist fired after 6 years when boss demands he inflate his car tires as a “friendly” favor: ‘He called me arrogant and started swearing, I asked him if he was firing me as a friend or as an employer’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Apr 7, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

Some bosses act like amateur magicians, shuffling through cards up their sleeves, yet managing to pull off absolutely zero magic. First, they pull the classic disappearing boundaries trick, convincing themselves that asking employees to babysit their parrot is somehow related to their job description. Then, they whip out the invisible friendship card, claiming you're buddies because they waved at you in the elevator once.

And for the grand finale? You're the lucky volunteer for their most baffling illusion yet, the vanishing job act that leaves you wondering what just happened. Viola.

One minute you're employed, the next you're packing your stuff because you didn't drop everything to dry clean their suit.

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  • These magic tricks lie in the boss’s ability to turn the mundane into the extraordinary. They might pull out the reappearing task trick, where they assign you a project that’s been completed three times already, just to see if you can do it faster. Or the levitating expectation trick, where they somehow believe that despite the lack of any new training, you should magically possess new skills overnight. The most impressive feat, however, is the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t paycheck trick, where your salary disappears under the veil of company restructuring.

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  • I am an IT technician. I was fired today (after six years) for refusing to take the company owner's personal car to the gas station to fill up its tires with air.
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  • I reminded him -- because this was not the first time something like this has happened -- that I am not his personal assistant. So he fired me. I
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  • packed my sh and left. Two minutes later he called me and asked to talk, so I turned around.
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  • I'M ASKING YOU AS A FRIEND!!!!

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  • We talked. He said he was asking me to do that as a friend, not as his personal assistant.
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  • I pointed out that we are not friends, we are employer/employee. We do not socialize, we do
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  • AS A FRIEND! YOU HEAR ME??

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  • not call/text each other, we have not been invited to the others' house, etc.
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  • He told me he had an accident the night before and slept in the office last night. I said (basically),
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  • "Okay, so what does that have to do with you expecting me to handle your personal business?"
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  • He called me arrogant and started swearing. I got up and said "we're done here". He then fired
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  • me (again). I almost asked him if he was firing me as a friend or as an employer.
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  • Had two interviews today and applied to six new jobs. One potential employer called the company owner right
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  • then and there, while the owner was on his vacation, to talk about me, so that's promising.
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  • Stand your ground, folks.
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  • OkSector7737 You should file for unemployment benefits, since you were unjustly terminated.
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  • bubonis OP Already done. Finished it an hour after I left.
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  • P22Tyler Why would he fire you if he was asking you "as a friend”?
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  • bubonis OP Logic and reason aren't among his strong points.
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  • P22Tyler Clearly not.
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  • bottomlless It was friendly fire.
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  • mattincalif I always fire my friends if they don't do something I ask them to do for me.
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  • Wanda_McMimzy My friend's have never taken my car to fill the tires. I didn't know that was a thing. I'm going to ask them to do it and see what happens.
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