Employee fired for attending grandfather’s funeral after PTO was denied, gets revenge 6 months later when boss disputes work dates by flooding his phone with spam: 'His role was client facing so he couldn't ignore phone calls'

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Isabella Penn
Aug 5, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

One or two spam calls a day is annoying enough but when your phone is blowing up nonstop with unknown numbers offering to refinance your mortgage, upgrade your car warranty, or help you move across the country (even though you never asked), it becomes a special kind of h*ll. It's disruptive, infuriating, and worst of all, impossible to fully escape. You block one number and then 10 more pop up like gremlins in a group chat you never asked to join.

So while most of us simply suffer in silence or throw our phones across the room in despair, one former employee took things a step further after their ex-boss gave them a truly petty reason to do so.

It all started with a perfectly reasonable request for time off to grieve the loss of a grandparent and help settle the estate. When the company denied that request and then went as far as to fire them for attending the funeral anyway, the employee left quietly… at first.

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  • But months later, when that same boss went out of his way to dispute one day on their LinkedIn profile, the employee decided it was time for a little petty revenge.

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  • "Former boss disputed work history 6 months after I left, so I blew up his phone with spam."

    Few years ago I was working at a corporate job and had a very significant death in the family, my grandfather, that I needed. to take time off to go handle. I needed to help with the estate and honestly, just grieve. We were very very close.
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  • I asked my manager to use emergency PTO and it was denied. I asked to go on FMLA instead and it was also denied, saying that grandparents didn't qualify.
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  • I told him I wouldn't be able to come in for at least a couple of weeks while I flew down to Florida to attend the funeral and help with the estate. They told me if I did that, I would be terminated. So,
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  • they terminated me and even had the gall to offer me 2 weeks of severance in exchange for signing an NDA, a gag order, and an indemnity clause. Which means I wouldn't be able to sue them. I wouldn't be
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  • able to talk smack about them to others or online... You get the idea. Of course, I refused. That conversation took place on August 1st. On my LinkedIn profile, I listed that I worked there from my
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  • start date to the beginning of August. The company dated my termination for 31 July. They said they had to do with benefits or something. Fast forward to JANUARY. I was up early with my six-
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  • week old newborn. I got a LinkedIn notification that my former manager viewed my profile. Few minutes later, I got an email from LinkedIn that my employment at that company was being disputed. He disputed the
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  • in Linked
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  • difference between 31 July and 1 august. LinkedIn ignored my dispute of the report and removed the company experience from my profile entirely. Not to mention. that when I did repost the
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  • experience, it would no longer be verified by LinkedIn because I would have to verify through a company email address, which I no longer had. The absolute Gall of this guy. And seriously? You're
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  • thinking about me six almost seven months later? So, I found his home address online. I had his personal cell phone number in my phone. And I also found his personal and. work email address.
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  • I signed him up for as much spam as I possibly could find. Not just that, I went to every moving company and real estate agency in the area asking to be put in contact with an agent saying that I was looking for a house for $800,000
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  • and moving companies to give quotes for a cross country move. I gave those websites every contact information I had for him. Something that would really excite anyone getting that kind of sales lead.
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  • A former coworker in the same department told me that his phone was blowing up for days. Both is work and personal cell. His role was client facing so he couldn't just ignore phone calls.
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  • I don't know if he ever figured out that it was me who did that, but those calls would have started. pouring in within an hour of his report to linkedin. Screw that guy.
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  • Tremenda-Carucha It's wild how someone could hold a grudge for months. over something so petty... but I guess that's just the kind of person they are, probably still getting calls from random
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  • companies thinking they're a hot lead. What's the worst thing your ex-employer ever did to you after you left?
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  • MondoDismordo I've noticed lots of former employees post bs descriptions of the work they did for me. Like listing themselves as directors when they were
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  • group managers or others inflating what their job responsibility actually was or claiming full credit for projects they were barely involved with. Did it me off? Yeah.
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  • That being said, I never called them out on it or reported them to LinkedIn. What an boss. former
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  • b1zzzy Great! Keep doing it again. every 3-4 months!
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  • fattfreddy1 The reason he did you dirty on the end date is so they didn't have to pay health insurance for that month and they screwed you out of the last month as you would have been
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  • covered to the end of August. So while they were technically correct they did it to purely screw you over. Sign up for everything you can including and gay . Also political as they will send at least 10
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  • texts per day. They are relentless. Bonus if you get the party they don't follow to send them. I wish nothing but bad things on these people.
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