'Boss can only blame herself': Boss makes employee miss two days of pay, so he quits for better job and warns new hires so the vacancy wouldn't get filled

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Isabella Penn
Jul 18, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

PTO is one of the greatest perks a job can offer. Especially in a world where work-life balance feels more like a myth than a standard. Having the ability to step away from your desk without losing pay or getting dirty looks from your boss is the dream. Whether you're using your days off to go on a trip, run errands, recover from burnout, or sit in complete silence with your phone on Do Not Disturb… paid time off is sacred. And if you're lucky enough to work somewhere that also offers flexibility, like remote work options or flexible hours, you've hit the job jackpot. But as we all know, not every manager actually honors these perks, even when they're written in black and white.

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  • This employee found that out the hard way. After being promised flexibility during their interview, their boss completely switched up once they were actually hired. This resulted in the employee losing two days of pay and was threatened with a bad performance review. But don’t worry, he didn't go out quietly. 

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  • "Manager maliciously made me miss two days of paycheck and harassed me during her vacation. I made sure everyone that was about to enter the company know about it so the vacancy wouldn't get filled"

    I used to work in a state owned company, and you could only become employed in it if you passed a public selection program. I was in the first batch of people that came in, and there should be four other batches.
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  • There were a a lot of vacancies in the company as well. When I got in, people in my area of expertise got internally interviewed so we would get directed to the company sections that best suited our skills,
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  • but we would also be interviewing back the managers. When it was my turn to ask question about management, I was ensured that there was flexibility regarding work hours, since I regularly took other selection programs away from the
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  • city and I would need to be absent from work sometimes or work remotely in different days. of the week. I was selected and my manager soon started her vacations.
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  • Company policy also stated that we could use our overtime hours to miss a day's work if our managed allowed, and that work from home days could be changed at the manager's discretion.
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  • Not long after, I had to go do a public selection that required my absence during a monday (trip day) and a tuesday (exame day, would take about four hours). I asked to use all the overtime hours I acculated so I could miss monday, and
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  • then asked if I could remote work from the hotel at tuesday (since I had no flights that would allow me to get to work). Also, because my usual work from home would also be a day in which I would have a remote
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  • class that was ordered by my manager, I had yet another reason for the change, since if it the class was any other day I would actually get two work from home days. The substitute manager apparently went to check
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  • with her before allowing it, and I was told I wouldn't be able to use my overtime to miss one work day, because of an excepcion to the company policy I was never told about: you could only actually use your OT hours to miss
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  • work during holiday season, and it was written in an internal document of my area. Since I had to do that exam, because it was a much nicer position, I would take a one day hit to my paycheck.
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  • On monday, which was the day previous to my exam, my manager (who was taking vacation time), texted me at 10 pm, right before I was going to sleep, and told me that I was also not allowed to change my work from home day as well, since 1.
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  • it would only be allowed on "extraordinary" circunstances, and having an exam and wasting my work from home day in a remote class wasn't an excuse, and 2. I also would need to ask for it weeks before (no stated reason).
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  • I told her it those things were not what we discussed during the interview and that it was impossible for me to show up on the next day, because there were no flights that would allow me to get to work on time. She also threated
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  • me with a poor review for missing two days of work, so I could actually get fired. And even I if wasn't fired, I wouldn't get promoted either. I barely slept because not only I would have a very important exam, but also
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  • because if I failed it, I would not only not take the position, but could also get fired. Thankfully, the scores were published on wedsneday (the day after) and I managed to get a good enough score to pass, but I likely would
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  • have gotten a better one if I had slept well (and scoring better gives you better things at the new position). On the next week, she returned from her vacation, and I gleefully told her I was quitting in
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  • about two weeks because I passed to that much nicer position. She "congratulated" me and then almost literally went running to HR so she could ask for one person. to fill my position in the next batches of the new hires. One problem
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  • though: a lot of people are not even coming to sign the contract with the company, because the pay is not that good given the requirements for the position. So what would be sixty people they could call from the public selection list, only
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  • about forty are going to come, and I'm the second person in two months that was quitting. No one knows when the next public selection proccess will occur. It might take years for a new one.
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  • And here's the revenge part: I told all the people of the next batches that she was a horrible manager and everything she did to undermine me. When she tries to get someone to fill my position, no one will want it, and she is desperate
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  • for someone to work under her, because there are a lot of people that are going to retire from the company. My former position is very likely going to stay vacant for a very long time and
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  • she is going to get overworked.....and my boss can only blame herself for lying to me about flexibility regarding work hours, threatening to give me a bad review and make me miss two days worth of paycheck. Had she allowed me the
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  • flexibility I was promissed, I would have told everyone how great of a position it was. And to show how much of an a hole she is: in the next week, a coworker (one of the people that are going to retire) asked
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  • to change her work from home day because she had to get her dog to the vet because of an emergency. She got the change, even though she asked it on the very same day she would miss work. Sure, getting your dog to the vet is justifiable....but so were my reasons.
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  • HappyGoLuckyOcean I love the fact that you told everyone what she did and what type of manager she was she deserves to - struggle to fill the position!
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  • jodrellbank_pants I do something similar. I give the new starters heads up to all the bad stuff that happens and all the quick fixes so you can leave asap Bosses think everyone is like me they are flummoxed.
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  • AprilB916 She burned her own a by lying to you from the beginning to get the position filled. Good burn, and I like how you divided the story up :)
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