r/Prorevenge My Boss Stiffed Me, So I Ruined His Life 

Boss didn't just shoot the golden goose, he burned down the barn, razed the farmhouse, and torched the tractor to boot! What an incompetent idiot. 🙄

I just left a job with an abusive boss. When I handed in my resignation and mentioned the name of my new company she got red in the face because she’d be applying there for years but could never get an interview. Why you ask? It turns out 80% of the staff are her former employees and no one would recommend her! It felt good.

I heard rumours our boss was closing down our site at the end of March. He assured us this was not the case, so I booked off the last week in March Then he told me I couldn't have that week off, as he was closing down and needed me to clear out the store. I told him exactly where to shove it.

This story was actually kinda sad. I'm happy op got lots of vacation and is now doing much better for himself, but that doesn't change the fact that a whole year of his life was basically stolen from him. That makes me kinda sad, and pretty enraged. This sort of thing happens too often and people normally don't wind up on top. I hate that... But I'm happy for op and I'm sure his employees are happy too.

My husband and I listen to your videos as we drink our coffee and get ready in the morning. Thanks for making mornings much more enjoyable! Keep it up!

Imagine screwing your best employee out of a bonus that you could actually give, coming up with a BS excuse, and then getting tossed into a zero-perk town after other people complained that you screwed them over with the same excuse.

Why do bad bosses always kill their golden geese? You'd think they'd want to keep them there and happy, if they're such good earners

The HR rep is like “oh silly boss there was money for a bonus” the boss clearly wanted that money

So... OP was basically a one-man machine and boss man screws him over, giving BS excuses and all that? Also, the fact OP was not the only one you did this to? Yeah, you deserve what happens after.

So this boss screwed over OP *after* making his department 90% dependant on OP? Not exactly Lex Luthor, is he?

Boss: "There wasn't any more money in the budget." Translation: *"I am a butthole and I hate paying my employees even when they did well!"*

I always feel kinda guilty enjoying these revenge stories haha

I just want to point how that boss literally embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars and got moved to a different location for it.

"Welcome to Rslash where OP's boss screws him but OP screws him harder." Me: Hey phrasing.

This promotion thing happened to me too. I was going to be a manager. I had higher ups training me and the had huge faith in what I did. However new owners when they came didn't promote me. Then after 2 years of saying they would they promoted 3 people 1 week and 2 the next. I quit right after.

I felt this one hard. I’ve been with the same company for over 9 years and for the last 6 I’ve been getting passed up for promotion for the company to instead hire new people. The first 4 of the last 6 years they’d hire the new person, then ask ME to train them for the position I’d been passed up for until I asked “Why am I in charge of training them? If I’m so qualified and knowledgeable that it’s my responsibility to train them then I should’ve been given the position myself and I need to talk to a lawyer because obviously I’m being discriminated against.” After saying that for those 4 years and deciding to get one of the higher ups to train the new people, they finally stopped asking me to train the people they’re hiring over me. I’m still going for the promotion, but I also don’t do anything above my pay grade anymore and they don’t try to talk me into doing it anymore either.

When it comes to shitty bosses/employers revenge is always a great severance package to claim on your way out.

Reminds me of an experience I had on Bitlife. I grew up being top of my class in school for my entire childhood, got a scholarship for a community college, and a scholarship for college, twice. I was qualified for one of the highest paying jobs, and that's exactly what I did. After 10 years of working there, I was stuck on the bottom because my supervisor hated me. Even though I was the MVP of the workforce, he wouldn't give me a chance. One day, a co-worker played a prank on me so I did the same, which got me in the sights of HR. I was fired so I spoke to the employment agent to see what job I was qualified for, and that job was in the same company, but this time one step over my old supervisor. He didn't last much longer than that. Then I died of Thyroid cancer at 35.

First story: This boss deserved something way more than nuclear if he believes his employes are that stupid to just take in that abuse.

Boss: "I'm cutting your pay by 90%" OP: "Is this an out-of-season April fool's joke?"

There's one little issue with this story....the employee took the disrespect and kept allowing himself to be taken advantage of by the new boss. He also didn't get anything in writing. The smart employee would have been out the door when his "promotion" disappeared or when his assistant quit...bad bosses are only successful on the backs of doormat employees. This job almost sounds made up because there's no way a board member would allow a relative to get away with that considering lower company successes mean they get less as a board member.

Never give your boss a second chance. If he screws you, walk. You won't be out of a job long. You were a powerhouse here; you'll be a powerhouse there.

I used to work a voluntary job and was promised to get a paid position after a year, many years went by until I realized that it was never gonna happen because “there is no budget and it wouldnt be fair to others.” .. so yeah. I gave them the middle finger right before covid hit.

for every boss who "promise" promotions, should have it in writing along with hr as the witness

Why are pro revenges so little compared to some petty revenges lmao

I realized after listening to this story that I have never gotten a promotion, it has always been a completely new job. The company I have worked for the longest (in between others) has always kept me on a project basis or smoked some people like me out of their roles with new middle management every three years or so. Then you have to beg and plead and re-apply for the position to earn your job back, or sometimes even a lower-paid position. The guys who started their careers back in the 80's or 90's sit securely in their management seats, no-one can touch them.

Man a 3 month vacation + sick days sounds amazing but honestly if it takes a good jab at your boss then do it

This is the first time I have ever woke up at a decent hour in years and it's so worth it now.

I totally can relate to being lied to by management for raises/promotions/bonues while they smile/talk a good game to your face. I have worked up to an 80 hours a week while my boss was like 'you're overwhelmed? Well, you should learn better time management.' When I was fired after being a loyal worker bee for over a decade, I was laughing my head off with relief. I really enjoy these prorevenge stories but it just isn't in my nature to slap back. Oh well! I hope these bosses all reap what that sow, lol..🤣

Love these stories! the last one reminds me of why I left my last job. I was the only person they trained for a very expensive video system, so when I left, they had no support for that system at all. that was 4 months ago, I've decided that I will work for me, but not others moving forward. it's not worth it. eye opening and satisfying to hear others stand up!

I’m like you, rslash. I felt this one all the way to the bottom of my soul. During the recession, everybody in my small department (there had been five of us, which was a reduction from the seven who had been there when I first came to the department) and I did everything. I taught my classes, I had to keep the classroom door open so I could also be the receptionist, and I had all of the calls going to voicemail when I couldn’t get to them. Because we had no actual manager, a woman from another department came down two days a week to take care of things like budget and things that were out of my pay grade. When we were finally assigned a manager, he was less than happy to see that I had been doing manager level work and he did everything possible to keep me in my classification. Needless to say we clashed a lot, because I had been running the whole damn department for nearly a year and other than the person who came down to take care of stuff that I didn’t have access to, had done a great good job. By that time we had a receptionist so I didn’t have to run and grab the phones all the time, but I ran everything else. When we finally got someone else to replace him - because they knew that there was a lawsuit in the making if they didn’t - I was finally happy, but we all knew that I needed to be up to a senior level. My boss tried to do it, but there was always an excuse. Since I was close to retirement, I’m sure they knew that they could get away with it. That boss’s name, by the way, was Karen. She was not “a” Karen, because she was and is one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever known! lol So yeah. This story and your story really hit me. Been there, done that!

Bosses:alright today we will be promoting all the people that deserve it :wakes up

I thought this said “my boss stuffed me” this video would have went a different direction 😅😂

Reminds me of when I worked at McDonald's and they were so appreciative of me always going above and beyond and staying late and doing the jobs no one wanted to do without complaining, that they gave me a coupon for a free ice cream cone. I still keep it in my wallet as a reminder to never let a boss treat me the way they did.

He screws his boss even harder? Wait.. what am I watching again?

I love hearing these kinds of videos because it gives me an insight on things to expect in the workforce and ways of noticing it so I can act in the right way so I don't get myself into a pickle. Appreciated OP who got screwed on your bonus. Glad to know things got better. If there's ever any advice you can off to someone who's struggling out there please share more! Would love to educate myself further!

I got screwed in a similar way. You know, I was typing it all out, but I might just submit my story to rSlash because it really is an unexpected Malicious Compliance.

I hope OP got a HUUUUUUGE paycheck from that screwup of a boss.

This just happened to my husband last month! He broke his back holding up the business pretty much solo only to be screwed over on his promised bonus that was supposed to make it all worth it! He is now looking for a new job. Screw you Carl!

Employees are paid not played

I have a good job and a good boss now but I'm almost 50 years old. After working for 35 years, I've had my fair share of crappy bosses and supervisors. For those of you who are a bit younger, try to remember this story when times get tough. Use every bad moment of your life to learn how to be better than those that tried to keep you down. These are building blocks. By the way, these days, I mostly work from home, sitting on my couch, often listening to RSLASH to keep my brain entertained. Thanks for what you do and thank you to your faithful followers for their seemingly endless supply of stories.

Nobody: Rslash: I had bad corporate job No one: Rslash: My very high quality microphone

"He screws his boss even harder!" Me: Ah, he brought the dry oatmeal

OP really is a nice person. He only gone pro revenge. I probably would've gone nuclear. Not sure what I would've done, but definitely nuclear.

Guys, it’s my favorite daily RU-vidr!

"OP gets screwed over by his Boss, so OP screws his Boss even harder" That, dear friend, sounded wrong.

My supervisor tried to get me promoted 3 times since I help run the place when the managers are out, and each time I've been rejected in favor of an untrained worker that just got hired. They've all since quit for being expected to be managment for $8-9 /hr

What a nincompoop, the lazy lying lumpatious "boss" was. He *really* deserved to have all that hell brought on his ass for screwing over everyone around him that he considered beneath him. He's *really* lucky that this wasn't an origin story for the Joker coming to exist with him as his first victim.

Had that in my previous job. I always had to "prove myself" when in reality they just wanted to compare several people to each other or just wanted some guys to put in extra effort. At one occasion i actually got promoted until they demoted me a couple weeks later saying "HR cant allow as many people in your position anymore" Jokes on them. I didnt do the extra work anymore, didnt put in the extra effort I did the entire time and the guy they had left in the position was on holiday for 8 weeks and 3 weeks of scheduled quarantine afterwards. My bosses were overworked before, but they definetly shot themselfs in the foot with that move.

Never go "above and beyond" for an employer. Your only reward will be more work.

Thought it said "My boss sniffed Me, So I Ruined His Life". Kinda sad now :(

Reminds me of my racist assistant manager who got 12 managers fired unless she was made manager and hired her own race only because she could control them

So petty-, pro-, nuclear revenge and malicious compliance are all basicly same?

I used to work at Tim-'Hortons. I worked there 6 years. I was a baker, and after all the time I worked nights, proving I was reliable, they never gave me a raise. I had to demand it, and even then, they had me sign this agreement where if my work wasn't satisfactory, I would go back to my previous salary. All for an extra 25 cents an hour.

"he screws his boss even harder" no one: me: YOOO SUS

The fact that op had to roll over vacation two years in a row before switching locations is a red flag for the company as a whole.

Guys like his boss who refuse to payout or reward top performers are trying to ascend their own professional ladder by climbing over their employees' backs...while wearing spurs. At least that dbag got caught and thrown into a backwater town that he doesn't have the competence to crawl out of.

I hope that everyone is having a good Monday!

My first job as a programmer, starting out as a contractor before being hired, I ruffled some feathers by saying no to co-workers about a programming change (it would have been a HIPAA violation) and having a weird sense of humor. In the meantime, I had modernized some scripts so that 90% of the time when we got a new client, one change had to made to them instead of developing new scripts. Literally taking 3 weeks of work over several departments to 5 seconds of typing. I asked for a promotion but was denied because we were in a hiring freeze, and I had a reputation. Manager told me that when the freeze was over, if he hadn't had a complaint about me, he'd promote me. In the meantime, my team lead (great guy) was creating a paper trail. Our small team got dumped on a lot by other departments, and he was tired of it. By the time he and I went to talk to the manager, we had a binder worth of proof that 99% of the complaints against us were others screwing up and doing a CYA. Manager was frankly stunned. Team lead left, and I stayed. Manager (Randy) was confused. So, Randy. Had any complaints against me? Um, no. Hiring freeze over. Yes. Thise were your two requirements to give me a promotion. (Look of trapped animal) Uh, I can't. Why not? You still have a reputation... Based on what we just showed you for an hour, how much of that rep is valid? Well, very little, but I still can't. Why not? Your rep... So what I'm hearing is that there is no way for me to advance at this company even when we show you proof. Did you ever check with other departments when they complained about me? I don't have time. Really? That's convenient as we just spent several times showing you how the complaints aren't valid than it would have taken you to actually go talk to people when you heard something. Maybe if you did YOUR job, I wouldn't have a rep. (Angrily) Get out. Next day I turned in my resignation. Randy: Oh, I thought you were going to stick it out and fight. I'm a little bit disappointed. Me: Well, know you know how I feel as I'm very disappointed in how crappy a manager you are. Surprisingly not fired on the spot. My team lead, while not a manager, had great sway in the company. After I was done, he entered and chewed Randy out for an hour before quitting time. Like I said... great guy. Randy, red-faced, actually stormed out of his office to go to his car. I made a sarcastic sad face at him and waved bye-bye. Best decision ever for me in my career.

I worked a dish pit for a bar and grill and the only thing I wanted was to learn how to work other jobs in the kitchen aside from dishes. It took them a whole year before I was given the chance to work at another station, but then the floodgates opened to where I was working dishpit, salad/pizza station, grill if they needed it, and Prep work plus sometimes doing the opening work as well. Then, when I started showing initiative by talking to the General Manager about issues in the kitchen and bar, my hours got slashed to less than 15 a week. So, yeah, the whole "Screwed out of a promotion" story is one that happens in every industry, and not even to higher level jobs.

OP sounds like they were the dreamworker and the boss just said:"Nah, time to pocket the money for myself."

This just sounds like reasons I have never and will never damn near kill myself for a job. I'm taking my vacation since jobs just so readily tell you, you are replaceable.

The part where he says every company and boss is definitely not true, My dad is the supply chain manager for advent health, He is basically in charge of the entire warehouse and all the warehouse workers, He gave them a pay raise, And hospital benefits, so there are good bosses out there. But to say that every single boss is greedy and selfish, is 100% not true

"The worst kind of bosses..." Mate you just described pretty much every boss. If not today, tomorrow. Give an inch, they take a mile.

First! Always a joy to listen to RSlash! Have a good day from the crossing Guard!

I almost didn’t listen to this one, but I’m glad I did. Unfortunately, this kind of stuff happens all too often. My husband got screwed over again and again at a mom and pop company he worked for for 20 years! Finally they “laid him off” and screwed him on his severance pay. They said they couldn’t afford his large salary (which was tiny) then turned around and hired a guy right out of college for more! The funny part is, the new guy couldn’t do the job and messed the system up. For the next couple of years they would hire my husband as a contractor to fix all the problems the new hires would create. My husband was hired by a big company that paid him twice his salary. He has since changed jobs a couple of more times and is making four times what he was making at the POS company he spent 20 years at. It took me a while but I finally convinced him that no matter how much they paid him to freelance their problems, it wasn’t worth it. I’m so grateful they laid him off. It’s the best thing that ever happened to him.

i love the stories when a scumbag boss makes empty promises and gets absolutely slaughtered emotionally and financially.

I find of funny that OP made this is a moral story about how employers will screw you over whenever they can. The truth is this happened 25 years ago and only started his own firm 5 years ago. That means for 20 years, he was fine working for corporate boss. In other words, it couldn't have been so bad

My last boss is really abusive; slowly but surely my coworkers have been resigning...this guy told us he doesn't do retention for anyone and treated us pretty badly, but the day I told him I was going to resign, he started to be really nice, telling me how he was so happy with me, my job, yadda yadda...next day he was swearing me out to anyone, because I didn't stayed The last coworker who resigned got as his retention a "see, if you go there a lot of people will pressure you because of that role, but here you only have to deal with me"...mind you, he screamed a lot to this coworker, and somehow (still don't know how) everything bad that happened in the company was my coworkers fault (fr, he told this coworker that it was his fault that I quitted)...and boss man still thinks he's in the right...his whole team has resigned twice!

I worked for a large clothing company here in the UK and was with them for around 7 years. After the 3rd year ( and having done every job within the company that was available ) I was a supervisor for the delivery team and was told by 3 separate managers that the next available managers position ( you had to wait till someone either left or retired to take their position and get the training opportunity ) I was passed over hard by the 3 managers and the position was given to someone that showed no interest in the post prior and didn't even last 8 months in the position before leaving for another job! So when I asked for HIS position they said it was going to another person from another store. I was gob smacked as I had spent so long, doing all the overtime, nightshifts, store counts etc, to be stabbed in the back by the 3 of them! I phoned my uncle who had recently returned from the States and was looking to start his own business, so I quit on the spot and never looked back. I wished there was signs but thats the card I was dealt. I heard that one manager got sacked for "gross misconduct", one took early retirement and the last one had gotten a promotion and left. Fu*k them and fu*k that company.

Old adage: People don't quit businesses, they quit bosses.

Oh yeah... been there. My incompetent director skipped over me for promotion. During the recession so I didn't make any waves just let her know I expected to be promoted the next year. In March of the next year she assures me my promotion is all set and budgeted for. Then in July she waits until I'm out of my office chucks my annual review on my desk. Of course I see that there's no promotion. Turns out she fucked up the annual paper work (did I mention she was incompetent), I won't even get into how it went wrong, and she was afraid to tell her boss because she was on thin ice already! Her solution? Just screw me over and act like nothing happened. I immediately put a meeting on her calendar at which I told her I would be doing all I could to leave her department. Luckily it didn't take me long to find something in another department - got a 10k raise! So I guess it worked out after all. 😃

Always keep some information from your position inaccessible. Hold it hostage if they screw you. Or just walk away and watch it burn down

Congrats on 1 billion views r/Slash!

this is why you always leave a job at the first whiff of some bullshit. as soon as my boss told me i wasnt getting the promotion that i was promised, i would be looking for a different job.

So fun story, I was promised a promotion at my last job but someone higher up then my boss decided they had a better person in mind. Well, they pushed the former boss out, put the new guy in, had me train said new guy, and thought all was well. I hopped onto a plane, flew into FL for a job interview. When I flew back two days later and handed in my two weeks notice they had no idea why I would want to leave them...

"Op gets screwed over by his boss so he screws his boss over harder" I think I have seen this movie plot on risky sights before

Just remember, that company that you are working yourself to death over? If you died today, they would have your position opening posted before your obituary is. Also, if they ever tell you how they “are like family,” run!

"I learned to live on 5 hours of sleep," High schoolers, "First time?"

excuse i got for not getting promoted was "i just wanted to see some new faces and talent around here" for the job i was already doing due to lack of a manager in that spot. happened 3 time because they were not trained in that position because i refused to train what would effectively have been my manager and they would inevitably quit. I eventually got fired for "gross misconduct" for something completely unrelated to me because I placed something in the wrong location(previously correct location things had changed when i was out with covid for the 2 weeks and i still had a bit of brain fog going on) and someone else stole said item on a different shift who I had never met or spoken to. not mad about it since another company picked me up pretty fast for my history of work and is paying me twice what i was making previously. honestly a blessing in disguise getting fired and i was already looking for new employment. they are also training me for higher positions due to my high performance for when something becomes available. though they wont say i clearly see the difference of my training vs others in my position and also stating wanting me to apply further in the company in my performance review. i still have my eyes set on something outside this company but its nice to know if it falls through i have options with my current employer.

best way to begin your day? with a new rslash video ofc

The job I had before my current one screwed me over. It was virtual security and I was promoted to make maps of sites. My supervisor was a real scum bag and wouldn't let me take lead of the project I had been promoted to do. After an incident right before I was supposed to go on vacation, I was done. I submitted applications on my vacation, got a call just an hour after submitting, got an interview the next day and hired. I waited until my last day of vacation to submit my resignation, putting scum bag as section three and blocked everyone's numbers. My roomie still worked there and said they all started calling him "section three" behind his back. Pretty satisfying.

I love the pro revenge stories, thank you for helping me be productive

I can relate. 5 years, no promotions, no bonuses, no raises. I was stuck at the bottom rung, and over time I came to know more than even my managers knew as I'd been there longer! The job was so stressful that my health started to decline, so it got to the point where I had to quit for medical reasons! Note, this was only 3 weeks ago and I haven't got another job lined up. Due to increasing depression and social anxiety I have from that job, I don't know how I'm ever going to work again.

It's really unwise to screw over your best employee Because they may just have all the tools needed to kill your business and leave completely unscathed

16:44 Yea I remember one time my boss told me that he had a promotion lined up for me, then when the new position was finally created two years later, he gave it to himself! It turns out that he was such a bad boss that he would have been fired but he promoted himself instead!

I have said this over and over, but it seems to never hit home. Never EVER eff with a hard worker, they will either screw you, your Company or BOTH over.

I like your dedication for publishing exactly on time everyday!!

Corporate America: Gold for me, crumbs for the Peasants.

One thing about this story that bugs me is, that European Corporation normally don't have something like "sick leave days". Either you are sick and you get paid or you aren't and you have to work or to take vacation.

Have a great day rslash!

Man reminds me of my old boss miss using of sanitation tablets by a lot like it needed like 30 and she only wanted us to use 2( the bottle literally said it was against FEDERAL LAW to miss use it), left eggs out In a 100 degree kitchen for 6 hours, didn't clean the deep fryers for 2 weeks there were black as tar after 3 days, broken fridge seal, exposed fiber glass insulation above an air conditioner, stuff like that only reason I didn't report them was because a family member worked there and it would have really screwed them over to be out of a job I actually still have the pictures and a video recording of the boss saying that that's the amount of tablets your supposed to use, I left them high and dry right before a dinner rush(I was dishwasher, filled sauce cups,grabbed stuff from the basement, did small side dishes, and helped deep fry stuff for less than a McDonald's employee in my area

"Maybe next year" is such a huge corporate red flag

We got a 10 dollar gift card…. The other leads and I were running the production lines with only 10 people when we should’ve had twenty. We were still getting everything done on time cause if we didn’t finish we didn’t go home. And they gave us 10 dollars. On top of that they kept threatening my job every-time I questioned them. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore.

I worked for a big name in computer security/backup software for years, they divested part of the company that I worked for and the 'new' company closed physical offices in my area. I applied for a particular remote job and got it, and every customer that I had had a nice stable environment and had a direct line to me, however the sales team was so stupid that they comped a year of this elevated service to many new customers. This of course meant that after a year most companies weren't going to pay the extra overhead. Anyway, my wonderful boss got promoted and I got transferred under a new boss, where the rest of the team was at an office location. I was down to 1 or 2 clients, because they just wouldn't send me new clients, but I was also on a team to revamp and rework our certification exam for the software. We completed the revamp of the exams (both internal and external) after getting a raise just a couple weeks before I was "laid off". Yes, I saw the writing on the wall but was willing to ride it out for as long as possible, after all the company already had screwed me over in the transition from the old company, doing it in a way I lost a bunch of reserve stocks.

It is shocking how many "managers" seem to think it is 100% fine for them to screw over their employees and then act all shocked and act like they don't know why their employees quit.

This dude pulled an office space...I love it

Man i am so lucky to find a job that doesnt screw me over..

"Then, when it's time to put their money where their mouth is..." But - it's NOT their money, is it?

I've been held on the line like that with promises of "first you have to show it" even though I got the function based upon earlier performance. My bad luck was that my job was literally 5 minutes from my house so it was ultra convenient.