Manager tries to use petty reason to fire employee on worker's comp, instead, the employee ends up getting 20 people fired and is offered a promotion: ‘I let out a big sigh and I started smiling.’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 4, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

You know what is really satisfying? When someone tries to throw you under the bus so they can make their way on top, but they totally underestimated you and you actually not only turned the tables, but you did it with an epic dose of karma! What could that possibly mean? It means something like your manager tries to get you fired so they can get a bonus, so they set you up, but little do they know that you've been taking note on all of the fireable offenses they've been conducting. And then BOOM, now they are fired, all of their co-conspirators are fired, and you are offered a promotion.

 

Sure, sure, we know what you're thinking, "that never happens!" Well, online, anything can happen, and here we have found a gas station employee so wronged, that he was able to work it so it came all the way back again and the wrongs were righted…

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  • It just took a deep breath and a clear mind for this wronged employee to take down 20 people. He didn't even mean to take that many down! He just wanted his name cleared and justice served, and he did just that and then some! 

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  • "When I got 20 people fired because they tried to fire me."

    My accidental revenge that I didn't plan but I'll be dammed if you back me into a corner. A few years ago, I was working at a popular petrol station, on a popular freeway. Unfortunately, one afternoon I'd had a
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  • freak accident reaching for my drink bottle (my core was obviously still developing) and I slipped a disc between L5-S1. Side note-it was beyond anything I'd ever experienced. My mother dressing me as a grown adult, heavily relying on
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  • opioids as if I even so much as cough, my legs would crumble. Many months of physio etc I was approved to return for minimal hrs. I UNDERSTAND it was a freak accident, and not at one point did I blame it on the company, BUT it
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  • happened at work which probably saved me years of spinal surgeries. Carrying on. One day back at work during a 4 hr shift, I'd had a sore throat that day. Normally, we are allowed to grab a coffee once a shift- I asked the 2IC (let's
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  • call him Clifford) if it was possible to have a cup of slushie instead to sooth my throat. Clifford responded- "yeah that's cool, just put it in a coffee cup". Which I did, following his guidance. Side note, I was SOOTHED.
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  • The next morning at approx 7am, I awoke to an official email from this company stating I'm being suspended without pay due to a serious breach of conduct. Obviously, I'm baffled and pretty upset. I'm aware that I'm back on reduced hours, being
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  • watched, etc etc. I reply and we set up a meeting in person 2 days later. Attending; me, my support person, the 2IC, the store manager, and 2 persons from HR which I'm SURE they had to make a gigantic drive for. We sit down in an adjacent building. Still baffled.
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  • The store manager: "Hi, so we've called you here today for an offence that we can terminate you immediately". Tbh at this point I was absolutely ¡myself. What have I done? It was like when you go through airport customs and you're wondering if that
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  • kilo of cocaine was accidentally left in your carry on. I ask them to elaborate. They begin with a VERY patronizing question which was the first red flag. "Do you understand the definition of stealing?" Me, still baffled: I would
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  • like to think so???!! The store manager begins- (back story to set the scene; he was 5"0, 50 years old, VERY flamboyant) Monday, you drank a slushie, out of a coffee cup and that is a breach and considered stealing. At this point I was
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  • relieved because the 2IC was IN the meeting, and I reacted like "oh!!! This is all a misunderstanding, I asked Clifford before I touched anything! I thought it was same/same but double checked and got permission :)".
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  • THIS MF (2IC) looks me directly in my eyeballs, across the table and says "??? That never happened???" The silence was palpable. My jaw was in my lap. My eyes are darting back and forth, thinking theres NOOOO WAY I'm being
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  • set up Imao. 170 scenarios ran through my head. Confusion, shock, anger, THEN......acceptance. My back was f ed, I was trying my best to recover and now being accused of ripping petrol station off by 0.03 cents worth of slushie so the managers
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  • could get a bonus from getting rid of me. This is my favourite part. Everything melted away. The anger, the unjust, EVERYTHING. I let out a big sigh and I started smiling. I looked directly at the store manager, who
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  • unfortunately for him underestimated my observation skills. A week prior, mind you there was PLENTY of other offences..I saw him purposely knock a pkt of oreos off the shelf following an "oops, I guess. I'll have to write that off for my morning tea meeting
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  • hehehehe". At the time, I didn't even THINK about it. I don't care. You do you. But now?????? I said alright. But if IM confused, let me clarify something. I stared down the store manager, laid out what had happened, and asked him and HR if THAT
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  • would be considered stealing. Without breaking eye contact. I witnessed his soul leave his body. I sensed HR do a slow pause and turn. I quickly moved on, I was taking everyone down.
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  • Next, the 2IC. Who I also had nothing against but here we are. He was freshly married, 2 year old. and a baby on the way. He was ALSO another cashier, let's call her Trina, in the bathrooms during work. Again. I minded my business, even own
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  • though I thought he was a POS. I looked at him, then the manager, then HR, and asked if the 2IC was a reliable source of information seeing as he's having s in the bathroom, cheating on his wife etc etc. another one
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  • down. By this point HR are needing a defib. Then I threw in that half the staff are smoking w d on their break (no hate but it was more to throw shade that the manager is useless) While I was at it, I truly only liked 2 people that worked there, from a very
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  • busy 24 hrs store. I went on for the next 30 minutes about every single breach I had seen, in the last week and let them know I could definitely help them out with more information etc.
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  • The meeting was abruptly ended. 3 days later: I was still OFFENDED, but had gathered myself and I thought "FK them, I'm young I'll move on". HR called me and asked me to come in, and I had absolutely prepared
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  • myself to be fired and I was already mentally checked out recognising that there's no way I could go back and play nice with people that threw me under the bus.
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  • I sit down. HR are GROVELLING. There's probably some sort of court case I could have followed. But again, I was young and ready to burn the bridge. They offered me a 2IC job.
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  • Oh??? What happened to Clifford? They tell me that he AND Trina have quit because Clifford's wife was trying to pull her through the safety barrier every time she went on shift. Also, they fired 18 people for breaches after going through alot of
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  • footage. This included staff eating expired food etc. I asked them to give me some time to think about. I walked back over to the main store, there is my manager in tears, packing his stuff up in the office into a cardboard box like
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  • some sort of movie scene. I couldn't help myself. I had a spring in my step. I asked him why would he be crying? What's wrong??? He told me through tears he's going on leave blah blah blah.
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  • I quit 3 days later and went to another country on credit card. Best 2 weeks of my life. Happy to answer any questions.
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