Employee gets even with petty boss by providing email receipts, gets fired: 'She saw an opportunity'

Sometimes you so badly want to be petty with your boss or coworkers, but I implore you to resist the urge! 

If you've ever worked with a really disorganized team, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Your boss will email you something like, "Why didn't that file go out to our client?" And you reply saying that they told you it was already sent. Great! You now have solid proof. But now you've just annoyed your boss, and possibly made them look bad in front of their own bosses. You may have been polite, and did everything you could to take ownership over the mistake, but if your boss feels humiliated, they could easily take out their frustrations on you. 

This person is just revealing the unfortunate reality of many workplace dynamics. You might love that you got to send a snarky email or Slack message to the boss, but at the end of the day, you're probably going to be the one who pays the cost for it. Your boss and the higher-ups will be in a room together, searching for someone to blame, and they might just choose you as their target. 

Next, read about the story of this bar owner who did the coolest thing possible by winning an iPad in a claw machine for just $5… too bad that they can't get it out of the machine!

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