Boss Messes With Wages, Company Gets Sunk With One Phone Call

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mattstaff
Nov 2, 2019 1:00 AM EDT

It's remarkable how many of these revenge stories begin and end with the ultimate demise of one power tripping boss. When the power starts getting to that boss' head and they mess with the wages, they better be ready for the employees to revolt with the kind of revenge that ultimately sinks their ship. In this case, one simple phone call sinks the whole operation. 

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    Text - 'Pro Revenge u/mody-eto-suki 4h JOIN 3 2 Killed a tow company with one simple phone call I killed an entire tow company with one phone call On mobile, so bear with me. Several years back I went to work for a towing company. It's about all I know how to do other than paint cars which is drastically affecting my health. The pay was pretty decent, but we had to share trucks and the boss felt that he knew where needed to sit in order to get the best calls. This is important for later
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    Text - Several months in, I realized that I was not making the type of money that I should be making. So I took the opportunity whileI sitting in a parking lot one evening to start researching the laws pertaining to employees in similar positions. He was kind of an asshole and the trucks had transponders so that he could see if we had them idling with the air conditioner on and a hot day, or idling with the heat on on a cold day. He was always calling complaining about something if the wheels we
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    Text - Another month or so goes by and he decided to start coming down on me for tiny little bs , things that ordinarily wouldn't even matter, such as I forgot a pop can in the cupholder. He actually had a screaming fit about that. At this point I was tired of working there and had already found another job so l decided it was time to put my plan into motion. I called him up, told him that we needed to have a conversation about my final wages and that we could meet at his convenience. Upon enter
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    Text - The following Monday, I made a phone call to the state labor board, where I laid out my case to them. Needless to say, they were very interested in what was going on. In the end , they came to review his employment records and speak to the drivers still working . When he got the bill of what he had to pay us all , it was too much for him to afford, so he sold the trucks, his boat , and lot and went out of business. I never got the money owed to me in full , only a fraction . But the satis
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