Marcus Buckingham, researcher of high performance at work and co-author of the book Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World, says that great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to integrate them into a coordinated plan of attack. Bad ones, on the other hand, are... abundant. And they're bringing down everyone around them. So when Reddit user Ssteepballet asked others on the platform to share the "screw you" that they served their toxic bosses, people submitted plenty of colorful stories.
#1
I refused to wear a g-string bikini during a company car wash and i flicked the bikini boss had given me to wear in his face and told him if he tried the same technique on the other women employees he would be facing a big lawsuit but he would be facing one certainly from me because at the time i was seventeen. He ended up losing that lawsuit.
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#2
I just made the firing as awkward as possible. I spent like 20 minutes in silence reading my severance package while she and the rep from HR watched.
They tried to tell me they will email a copy I can electronically sign but I just said no thanks. Then I had them go make a copy for me to take home again they tried to say they will email it but I insisted on a paper copy.
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#3
I made a binder detailing all the unprofessional things she ever did and the times she lied via email and I requested a meeting with her and HR to review the contents of the binder.
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#4
Started my own company in the same field. See my family way more, make more money, and am my own boss.
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#5
Returned the company phone with the ring tone of "Take This Job and Shove It".
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#6
I chucked in a 14 days medical certificate after I headed in my resignation without doing any handover 😀.
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#7
Reported him and the company to the IRS for not sending me a w2 and how they changed the company name and various things every few months in an effort to cheat out on taxes.
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#8
Quit just before a busy holiday weekend. Booked a nice beach trip and headed out. On my way out of town, the manager calls to ask "Are you going to cover your shifts this weekend or did you get somebody to work for you??"
Nope.
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#9
Trucker here. I convinced all the other drivers at our terminal to apply at a competing trucking company down the road. They hired all but one of us, so we dropped our keys on the boss's desk.
Within a month the plant pulled their contract, and the company went bankrupt.
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#10
A month after I started my new job, I recruited two key workers from my old company. Left the having to explain to his boss why he had no idea what do to, despite taking credit for everything we had done.
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#11
5 months after I quit, I slept with a girl I'd met recently. Nobody else was home that evening. The next morning, I come downstairs and guess who her father was?
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#12
Reported him for racism, and told the company to watch his auction tapes, where he was making uncomfortable comments at black members of the audience. A colleague told me he was fired shortly afterwards.
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#13
I reported him to HMRC for not declaring his Defender as a company car, he got fined and had to pay for 3 years tax on it.
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