My Stupid Boss - Comments

Sweet revenge

I worked for a small design company with about 10 employees. I'm not sure if my boss was an idiot, or just a real A-Hole, but he pays all his employees with hand written checks marked as "commission", which we do not make, having no taxes taken out. Then, at the end of the year he drops a 10-99 on them with no notice. So, naturally I did not have the 3000 dollars I owed the IRS come April. I had to come up with some money.

I found all my time cards for the year, and printed out all my deposits from my online banking. When i added up each pay check, I found that I was shorted money on almost every check. They went from one hour up to 5 or 6 hours a week, as if he had started progressively taking out more money when I didn't notice.

I added it up, it was about $2000. of money shorted on my pay checks.
I also noticed I was not paid any over time on my regular 10 hour day. The missing overtime came to about $1700.

I was pretty pissed, but pretty excited to find out I was owed the amount I had to pay for taxes, and then some. Now, I was the manager of the company at the time. Before I called out the boss, I asked a couple other employees / friends to count up their hours and pay checks and get back to me. They came back with similar results.

I got online and printed out what laws I could find about withholding funds from paychecks being illegal, overtime, etc. I really did not know what I was talking about, but I knew how to add, and I wanted my money that I had worked hard for.

quitting time rolls around, the same day and Mr. Idiot boss man calls a last minute meeting. Of all days, he picked this day to try to make an example out of ME. He got on my case in front of every body saying I need to remember to clock out for lunch because I have not been. So, he is going to start taking an hour off of my time card every day.

Was this set up a gift from god, or was my boss just THAT stupid?

I said "actually...." and plopped down my stack of information proving he has been ripping off his employees. In front of everyone I called him out on it. I requested the extra $3700 be added on to my next pay check and that all the other employees records be checked as well.
He quickly pulled me aside and fired me.

Over the next couple weeks, all the other employees quit and all I received 2 weeks late was half of my last paycheck. Of course, without the requested $3700. Well, there is a law about this too. You must get paid the day you are fired, or the employer must compensate you for every day you wait for the check. All this money was adding up, but I knew I would never see any of it.

4 months later. My old boss calls me up begging me to come in and help him get some things done. I am poor and desperate for work, so I went in. I pretended nothing was wrong as I walked pas the printers that were printing out wide format prints of my personal photography work that was left on the back up drive of my old work computer. I smiled and shook his hand as if I was happy to see him and received directions for the big project. I then sat down at my old computer and "went to work".

I spent a good 2 hours deleting random files. It became kind of a game to scroll through the files stop and a random one and delete as I go through the network. I probably deleted about 3700 files before the computer locked up and would not turn back on. I then told Mr. Idiot boss man "I dont know what happened. It just locked up." Then I went home, feeling much better.

Revenge is priceless.

anonymous on 17 March 2009 09:41:29

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