Entitled boss keeps yelling at employees for using her personal mug, one employee decides to take it on their last day at the job: ‘She spent days trying to find the mug’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 15, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

If you had a chance to teach your entitled boss a lesson, would you take it?

Many bosses think they can get away with saying or doing whatever they want to their employees because, well, they're the boss and they make the call, and unfortunately, that's the case most often. If you intend on keeping your job, you have to sit still and take whatever your boss throws at you, without a single complaint.

The silver lining appears when you finally decide to quit. Whether it is because you found another job or because you simply could not take it anymore, quitting your job give your the rare opportunity of standing up for yourself. Not many take it, and prefer not to burn their bridges when they leave, but those who do seem to be very happy with their choice.

The employee who shared the story below realized just how entitled their boss is right on their first day on the job, and all because of a basic mug. All they did was pick a mug to make themselves coffee during their break, until the boss started yelling at them for picking her personal mug and daring to attempt to use it.

When the same thing happened to a different new hire a few months later, this employee decided to take action. Since it happened to be their last day at the job, they decided to take a little souvenir: the boss's mug. So, they left the job, took the mug, and moved to another city… And the boss never saw her mug ever again. Apparently, she spent days furiously looking for it.

Would that teach her a lesson on how to treat her employees? We're not sure. But at least she now has one less reason to unnecessarily yell at people, so we definitely call that a win.

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  • Female model representing a boss holding a mug with coffee.
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    Female model representing a boss holding a mug with coffee.

  • She humiliated new staff. So I got a small victory

    I worked at a pet supplies store where the manager seemed nice enough at first, but quickly revealed herself to be re, condescending,
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  • and fond of embarrassing staff in front of other people.
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  • On my first day, she showed me the staff room and told me to help myself to the tea, coffee, and mugs in the cupboard.
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  • Later that day, I made a coffee and grabbed a mug from that exact cupboard. Big mistake.
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  • She marched into the staff room, saw the mug, and absolutely tore into me. Apparently it was her mug.
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  • Somehow I was meant to know this despite it being stored with all the communal mugs and despite her specifically telling me to use the mugs in that cupboard.
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  • I apologised, grabbed a different mug, and tried to move on.
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  • A few months later, I was sitting in the staff room when a brand-new employee made herself a cup of tea and unknowingly grabbed the same mug.
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  • Like clockwork, the manager stormed in and started telling her off too.
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  • The poor girl looked mortified. She kept apologising while this grown woman carried on about her precious mug.
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  • I was relocating to another store in the city and this happened to be my last day. So after my shift, I took the mug home.
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  • Apparently, she spent days storming around angrily trying to find the mug
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  • Person Holding a White Mug
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    Person Holding a White Mug

  • buzzfrightyears We glued our miserable supervisor's mug to a table
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  • welding-guy Hehe, similar story but it was a really good accounting calculator. I still have it 20 years later and use it everyday.
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  • lokis_construction I would have disappeared that mug within a week of her outburst to me.
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  • CatlessBoyMom Well done giving her a cup of frustration. Maybe she'll cool the mug trick on the new employees for a minute.
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  • richaysambuca You should break the mug and send her a piece per week. This way, she'll get it. back and you get to send a message.
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