Boss who took credit for everyone’s work finally gets fired after getting exposed for expensing fake work trips to visit his mistress: 'The whole thing unraveled'

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Isabella Penn
Aug 12, 2025 6:00 AM EDT

Have you ever had a boss you just can't stand? The kind who takes credit for your hard work, brags nonstop about themselves, and somehow manages to avoid doing any real work? Maybe they show up late, leave early, or disappear for hours while the rest of the team is stuck grinding away. I have a friend who drives an hour each way to the office every day, while her boss works from home five days a week and barely even talks to her. It's maddening.

We all dream of a world where those kinds of bosses get called out and face real consequences. Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen. But sometimes, justice does show up in the most unexpected ways.

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  • Take this story, for example. A boss who was notorious for taking credit for everyone else’s work and acting like the king of the office got caught in a major lie. Turns out, he’d been expensing “work trips” that were really visits to his mistress in another state. Once that secret came out, there was no saving his job. 

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    There's a guy who was fairly senior in our office. A number of us were forced to work for him at various points and nobody can stand him.
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  • He was a lazy ah le. Golfed as much as he was in the office. Constantly bragged about himself, took credit for everyone's work, sabotaged his team, and was totally slimy about it all. Unfortunately,
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  • senior management couldn't see through him. He started having an affair with a married. woman in sales.
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  • This went on for years, and continued after his group was sold to another company. A few years later, I was on a work call with him. It
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  • made my skin crawl and there was another meeting set up for the following week that I was not looking forward to. But when I got on that call, he wasn't there.
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  • He had been fired. It turned out that he was expensing trips to see his cheating partner. She lived in another state and his company had an office there.
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  • So he would fly down Friday am, tell people he was going to meet his team there, and never show up at the office. Someone in his team who didn't know what the guy
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  • was doing (or even about the trips) complained that he never saw him and the whole thing unraveled. This happened six years ago and he has been unemployed at least 50% of the time since then. He is on his 3rd job already.
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  • Different_Net_6752 You'd be blackballed in my industry. Crimes of confidence are a big-no no.
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  • Interesting Wing_461 This is how a guy I worked with got caught. He was having an affair with a woman in another office. He had to travel for work, she took time off and went with him. He
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  • tried adding her expenses to his travel reimbursment. Both were fired. The woman was fired because her reason for time off was to attend a family funeral.
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