Boss Punishes Employee For Time Off After Mother’s Passing, Worker Destroys The Business

Having a great boss and fun co-workers can certainly help the week go by faster and can even make work enjoyable. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to have this type of work environment, as some people are having a hard time dealing with cruel bosses.

Sharing his story on Reddit, a man has revealed how terribly his former boss treated him and what he did to get revenge. Even though the story took place 20 years ago, it’s something the original poster (OP) has kept with him ever since.

However, the OP’s boss was not happy about this, and he not only publicly showed his frustration, but he also began to punish the OP. He even started not paying him for his full hours. Once the OP realized what was going on, he hatched a plan to make sure that his crude boss would pay for all of his wrongdoings. His goal was to take this man down and destroy his entire business.

Working With A Tough Boss

In his Reddit post, the OP explained that his job at a brewpub was pretty easy for the most part. Before he was hired, his boss had purchased used brewery equipment which was sometimes tricky to use and was much larger than it needed to be. The OP explained, “But I made it work, even got the studid Ringwald yeast to behave.”

He only needed to brew about three or four times a month and was on salary, so his boss began making him work extra hours as a night manager to work enough to earn his pay. “That was fine, it was an easy gig,” the OP said. After being with the company for over a year, he finally got his first vacation, much to his boss’s dismay.

“But life was stressful, not least of which because my Mom was in hospice, Stage 4 cancer,” the OP revealed. However, his mom insisted that he use his vacation for himself, so the OP and his wife went camping for a week. During that time, he found out that his mom had passed away and immediately drove the six hours back home.

The OP informed his boss of what had happened and explained that he would not be able to work this coming Monday. He later found out that his boss hadn’t taken the news well and even complained that the OP would most likely need more time in the future to deal with his mother’s death. Although OP went back to work that Tuesday, he ended up taking some extra time off to be with his family during that difficult time.

Getting His Revenge

The OP’s boss wanted him to work extra hours to make up for the time he took off. “He wanted me to come in after my Mom’s funeral,” he said. “I flatly refused.” The OP was so angry with his boss that he decided to stop working manager shifts and switched to become an hourly worker. It seemed like everything was going well until the OP noticed that his boss wasn’t paying him in full, cheating him out of around 20 hours in just six weeks.

The OP had enough and hatched a plan to ruin his boss’s business. He explained that yeast must be harvested from a fermentation batch to be used for later brewing. It has been stored for a while but must be used within 30 days. Instead of making sure that everything was fine with the last batch he brewed, the OP left it alone and lied about brewing more batches.

When his boss found out, he was furious. “On day 45, after I got the check for the last hours I worked, I overnighted my keys in with a resignation letter,” the OP said. “He called me the next day, screaming.” His boss would later discover empty fermenters, nearly-empty serving tanks, dead yeast and barely any grain, adding up to a complete disaster for his business. About a year later, the entire company went under.

The OP’s plan went just as perfectly as he had pictured it, and he now has a story he’s continued to share. “Drove through there a few years back, not only gone but building was torn down,” he said. “I felt like stopping to sow the ground with salt, but I was in a hurry.”

Source: apost.com,reddit.com