Entitled boss causes 8 employees to resign, understaffed company demands he cancel his vacation to Disneyland: 'His family went off on holiday without him'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Apr 3, 2026 1:00 PM EDT

When bosses drive all their employees away, they shouldn't be surprised to find themselves doing all the work instead. That is what happens when no one wants to work for them.

Anyone with a bad boss would absolutely love to see the day their boss is forced to do all the work themselves because they drove everyone else away. Suddenly, they find themselves doing everything they dropped on their employees, working overtime and late at night just to complete tasks no one else is there to do anymore. What better outcome is there from quitting your job?

The boss in the story below discovered there are consequences to his actions in the office in the best way possible. Well, not the best way for him, but the best way for his entire staff, who couldn't have waited to see him get a taste of his own medicine.

After almost two years of working with this entitled boss, one employee decided enough was enough and handed in their resignation letter, which was the first step in a series of actions that led to the boss's downfall. After this employee left, they got a job for the boss's overworked personal assistant, and after the assistant left, six more employees decided to quit as well. All of a sudden, the boss found himself without eight of his employees, and so shorthanded that there was no one to actually do any of the work.

The company knew that the reason all the employees left was because of the boss's bad attitude towards them, so they demanded that the boss take over all of the work that was left behind. They cancelled the boss's approved vacation to go to Disneyland with his family, and forced him to stay behind and do the job of almost ten people.

The family left without him, and he had to work while they were in the happiest place on earth. If that does not prove that we all reap what we sow, we don't know what is. Keep scrolling to read the full story…

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  • Forget Disneyland!

    Years ago I worked for a corporation for 14 years. Everything was fine for about 12 years and then I got the supervisor from hol.
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  • He was a colleague who got an internal promotion and it went to his head. Every little thing was a power play and he made my life hol.
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  • He was the kind who delegated all his work to other people, took credit for their work and blamed his mistakes on others.
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  • He decided he needed a personal assistant, although nobody in his position had ever needed one before.
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  • The PA did all his work and soon learned to hate him with a passion. But her personal circumstances were such that she felt she could not leave the job.
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  • After 18 months of trying really hard to get along with him, I decided to resign.
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  • My first act of revenge was that I found his personal assistant a much better job - higher pay, close to her home and no commute through city traffic.
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  • Suddenly he had to actually do his own work. The second act of revenge was unintentional.
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  • My leaving triggered six other people in our department to leave, all within a short space of time - a loss that was keenly felt.
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  • Part of his job was to tender for the right to provide services for government contracts.
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  • He had booked a holiday to America and Disneyland for himself and his family for Christmas that year (we are in Australia so it was a big trip).
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  • The company cancelled his leave because the tender was due at the end of December and he had not done the work.
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  • The company told him. that they were aware that the staff shortage in our department was down to him so he had to stay behind and do the tender as there was no-one else left who could do it.
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  • His family went off on holiday without him. To be honest, after hearing the way he spoke to his wife on the phone on numerous occasions, I'm betting she was happy to go without him.
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  • MennReddit I bet he was fired after the tender was finished?
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  • MotherGoose1957 Original Poster's Reply Not straight away. They replaced the lost staff and they kept him on for a while because it suited them. Also, it was a bit of a boys' club there and he was a mate of his immediate supervisor. But when upper management eventually decided to downsize, he lost his job. I had two distinctly different part-time jobs there - the combined hours made up a full- time job. When I left, they could not find anbody who could actually fulfill both roles. They ended up
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  • Coder Joe1 It truly is the happiest place on earth without him there.
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  • dedayyt He found out it's not such a small world after all.
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  • I_dnt_Need_anew_name Icing on the cake it is then.
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