Nepobaby boss unjustly fires an irreplaceable employee 5 days before Christmas, then justice is served when the company goes bankrupt: ‘[I’m] living a fantasy'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 24, 2025 1:00 PM EST

'Tis the season for retribution, especially if you're a nepobaby boss who fires the whole company. 

After sweeping layoffs, office entitlement, and a series of poor decisions, the nepobaby boss and son of the big-britches corpo-CEO, got to witness the consequences for his actions: Total bankruptcy. 

Although once you reach a certain tax bracket, it's tough to completely fall from monetary grace, it's still satisfying for us little people to witness the devolution of our most hated 1%ers, especially at work. Nepo hires many have the fancy-pants suits to make them shine during a conference meeting, but they don't have the wherewithal to survive the workplace… Not like their hardest worker bees. 

Like the starving peasants of the French Revolution, we've eaten our cake, and now we want to see some heads roll. In the workplace, it's no different. When the likes of the populous go for a long time without being treated well by their management, bosses, and C-Level personnel, they start to have visions of revolution in their minds, too. 

Sequestered to their grey-toned cubicles and dreaming of the day they witness their boss suffer an ounce of consequences, office employees usually just count their days until their next stint of PTO. But on the off chance that justice actually swoops into the workplace, sometimes the hardworking department underlings can live the ultimate bad-shift daydream. Come with us on a journey of retribution, where a hardworking employee (arguably an irreplaceable employee), found themselves going from the lowest of the lows to the highest of highs. 

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  • After being unjustly fired by a nepobaby boss, they chewed on ideas of payback or well-deserved punishments for the boss. As many of us know, it's unlikely that we'll ever see a nepo-hired Daddy's boy suffer any kind of consequences, but this boss was not only delusional but a terrible businessman. Endowing dishonor on his family name, he proceeded to follow through on mass layoffs that would ultimately turn the company on its head, forcing him to sell it for parts and file for bankruptcy. While he may still be failing upwards, this is the kind of stain on a businessman's reputation that will follow them for the rest of their days. 

    And we all love to see a nepotism scheme get fulfilled. As it turns out, when you hire someone with zero qualifications and excellent lineage, you're going to get the kind of employee you hired: An incompetent one with fancy suits. 

  • Woman sitting at her desk over Christmas holidays, completely satisfied with her work.
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  • Living a fantasy, company going bankrupt after unjust firing. Four years ago, after 8 amazing flawless years, I was unjustly fired FIVE DAYS before Christmas.
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  • The boss's ridiculous nepobaby son had taken over that year. EVERYONE in the company used to joke openly about quitting the day "Mike" took over because he 1) is a fucking nightmare and 2) would likely tank the company.
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  • But then C vid happened and jobs in my industry became rarer, so we all just had to deal with him. He made some cuts initially which were sad but
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  • understandable. Then, completely out of the blue, I was let go along with the other most senior person on our team.
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  • I was devastated. It's one thing to be fired when you mess up, but another thing to be fired just because you were already wise to the boss's son's crusty fifty something
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  • year old, skaterboi brand wearing, neposwaggering, beanie-to-high-on-the-head wearing, entitled attitude having poisonous presence.
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  • Cue some hard months and fast forward to the everything happens for a reason stage. I am doing wonderful at a new company that appreciates me (not that I will ever let my guard down again).
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  • Now, the fun part. We all have that fantasy that once WE leave or get fired, the place will fall apart. It never actually happens of course, these places just keep chugging along burning through staff.
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  • BUT ITS HAPPENING TO ME. I heard through the grapevine, the company, a multigenerational family legacy, is completely fucking broke and selling what's left to a megacorp. It took less than
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  • Satisfied office worker reading her laptop at her desk during the holidays.
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  • 6 years, and he's destroyed the company, starting with my firing. Sure he's selling so it's kind of failing upward, but he won't be an unrestrained nepobaby anymore, he will have a boss and HR to answer to, and I'm here for that.
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  • So dare to dream folks. Hopefully you all get to live this fantasy one day, because it feels great.
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  • TheDkone you need to send him a Christmas card
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  • pkinetics Nepobabies don't want to work
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  • GuitarKev Happened for me too! I helped a close family friend with his lawn and snow business one year after a layoff, and before I knew it I was doing everything except the hiring and the bookkeeping. I stuck with him for nearly 7 years. After a few too many unkept promises and having him. gaslight me about the hours I'd worked, I found a union job elsewhere. He tried to make my regular right-hand man the manager after I'd left but he refused to take on my responsibilities without a significant
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  • Longjumping-Air 1489 One year the big boss checked the COLA rate, and gave everyone a raise based on that. But he checked the rate for the month of November. 0.25% increase. I was part of a mass exodus, including 2 project engineers, a production foreman, 3 account executives, and 3 junior engineers/drafters. The company did $29M the last year I was there. The year after I left, the company did $11M
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  • Den Thomp While I wish nobody ill, second gen kid (or worse kids) coming in with attitude toward the people that keep the place running makes any place hell on earth and easy to leave. The drones that stay end up subservient to the lesser gods whose privileges are unearned, but stem only from the luck of being reproduced by a successful person. Nothing more. Count your blessings
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