Employee Gets Fired On Medical Leave, Puts Store On Permanent Leave

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Oct 28, 2019 1:00 PM EDT

This employee got terminated by their crappy company while on medical leave. So they revenge'd so hard that the store itself ended up going on permanent leave. As far as revenge cases go, we'd say a job very well done indeed. A solid learning lesson from this story would be that you can be crooked or you can be a jerk, but never be both! 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge u/furry_control 5h + JOIN Terminated me while on medical leave, put them on permanent leave. So first, your typical backstory. I was an employee at a well-known breakfast chain, particularly popular for their wide selection of pancakes, for nearly three years. I was decently well-liked among the employees, and had a very good friend who had just been promoted to a shift manager by the former general manager, who was a really great guy that unfortunately got transferred to a d
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    Text - So a typical work week for me was six days a week, between 60-70 hours a week, with Tuesdays being my only day off. My shifts ranged from eight hours to as much as an 18 hour double-shift (important later). I worked this schedule without complaint for years of my life Unfortunately on September 10th, I fell very ill while at work with no known cause. This was accompanied by very severe, stabbing pain in my lower right abdomen. I called the general manager (it was about 12am at this point)
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    Text - shift. I had two hours remaining, but it was hell to work through. Finally, 2am rolled around and I immediately left to drive to the hospital. Upon arrival, I was admitted almost immediately into the hospital due to scan results showing an inflamed appendix. I called the general manager, and let her know that I was being admitted to the hospital, and would keep her updated. Her response? "If you're going to try to get out of work, can you at least find someone to cover your shift in the m
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    Text - morning. A few hours later, I was notified that I needed an appendectomy, and it would be scheduled for the following morning. agreed, signed the release, and called up my manager to notify her. I told her that I would be out of work for at least a few days, but after surgery I'd let her know. It is important to know that I kept her informed throughout my entire absence. I even sent her a picture of myself laying in a hospital bed after multiple accusations of faking (I still have the tex
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    Text - I was discharged at noon, and drove to work almost immediately after discharge to inform them I was out of the hospital and cleared to come back, as well as turn in the hospital note, proving I was there. To my surprise, the regional manager is there. I walk in and find both the regional and the general manager at the front counter having a conversation. I slide the note towards them on the desk, and inform them that I was cleared to come back to work. The general manager looked at me in
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    Text - me? You've already been terminated for no-call- no-showing for two weeks." I reminded her thatI did, in fact, keep her informed, and had proof. She cut me off, and with an annoyed tone, said that she'd give me another chance.I came back in that night for my shift, luckily working with my friend the shift-manager. I was also training a guy I had never seen before (not uncommon, as I was a floor supervisor/trainer.) My friend later called me into the office, and that's when I learned that I
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    Text - So this restaurant was dirty. Huge roaches infesting the kitchen and dining room, black mold, rotten food mixed with fresh food, water leaks so bad the carpet in the dining room is literally decaying, you name it. We have reported these issues to the general manager multiple times, but nothing ever happened. My friend sent the trainee home, with the excuse that our labor was too high, and I spent the remainder of my shift taking pictures of every continuous health- code violation I seen.
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    Text - and kitchen areas without suspicion from other employees. Finally, the next morning rolled around. I woke up to a call from the general manager. Sure enough, she demanded that I turned my uniform in because I was being terminated immediately. I drove up there and asked for the reason behind my termination, and she replied that I was a "lazy worker who always complained that they had hours." Please remember, I averaged about 64 hours a week, and never complained. Not in the mood to argue,
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    Text - I was one of the only food-safety permitted employees. I had just renewed my permit, so all of the information in the class was fresh on my mind. I also distinctly remember the health inspector teaching the class stated that if we wanted to report our workplace, just come in, ask for him, and bring evidence. I went straight to the health department, asked to speak with him, and supplied seven written paragraphs of every violation, as well as all of the pictures I had taken to back my clai
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  • 10
    Text - morning. The next morning, I woke up, and found messages from my general manager, calling me a "snitch" and a "greiner (whiner)". Luckily, my friend recorded the entire inspection from the office. Due to how recent this story is, I will not be releasing it due to it showing faces as well as names being mentioned, but it was beautiful, and it showed who the true "whiner" was in this situation. The general manager was slapped with a hefty $7,000 fine for allowing unpermitted employees to wo
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    Text - My friend has always talked about wanting to open her own 50's-diner style restaurant, where everything is cooked homemade and with care. What better location to do it than in a familiar location where you already know what's wrong with the building and what needs fixed? She applied for a loan, and on October 13th of this year, she purchased the building. Renovations have already begun, and a new diner, named after the highway it is built directly beside, is expected to occupy the space b
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    Text - employees go, I have been given the role of shift manager, and the employees who were clean, permitted, and hard workers from the former restaurant, are being offered the same positions at the new restaurant (cooks will be cooks, servers will be servers, etc.) If you'd like any of the pictures I used for proof, let me know, as I still have all of them. (TL;DR: My manager terminated me while on medical leave, so we put the store on permanent leave.)
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