Employee has the last laugh after boss asks them to resign for all the wrong reasons

Dealing with people at work who give you trouble is not easy by any means. It can make every day of your life a little challenging. But sometimes, people come up with creative ways to get back at people that are really satisfying and sometimes even borderline hilarious. An employee, u/shweresmetall, got back at the boss, who thought he could bully the person into resigning or firing them. The employee ended up having the last laugh and posted their story on Reddit.

"I was hired for a temporary position last year. It was a part-time job that fit perfectly with my university schedule with a pretty popular, prestigious company," the post began. "The first couple weeks were great; I got along with my colleagues and my boss seemed nice enough." The employee continued, "After some time, though, everything drastically changed. I still don't know why. My boss tried to get me to agree to a mutual termination of my contract, claimed I was smoking and doing drugs in the office, told me that a written record was submitted to HR while refusing to let me see it, tried to start a fight with me numerous times, sent me on personal errands during working hours." The person even asked for a drug test to prove the boss wrong.

"I'm pretty sure that after me not initially agreeing to leave, he tried to fire me, but since he's only in a middle-management position within a fairly large company, one of his bosses probably said no for some reason, so I got to stick it out," the employee revealed. "For the last couple of months, he completely ignored me, didn't answer my emails, didn't give me any new tasks even though I asked and then pretended I didn't claim I was being malicious and refusing to work while there were numerous people present when I asked for new tasks." The person still stuck around, though they admitted that leaving sooner would have been better. But the pay was really good and they didn't want to let the boss have the satisfaction.

"So, when my last day came, I was ready: I had been keeping track of every single thing that had happened. More than that, I discovered what I believed to be some pretty serious complaints and data privacy breaches. So I sent an email containing all of it and proof not only to my boss and everyone on our team but to numerous HR people, then I handed in my laptop and left," the employee shared. "It was the absolute best feeling to know that I was finally free of this job and that my boss had been trying to instigate a fight for months, probably thought I was just gonna be submissive and go out with a whimper just to get the fight he wanted on my very last day and not having any way of getting back to me." The person also blocked the manager's number immediately.

People took to the comments to share their experiences. u/justaman_097 wrote, "Well played. However, I want to let you know one thing. When I was a senior executive, we had one of our directors leave. After he departed, one of the women who was at a lower level in the organization told me that she was glad to see him go because he constantly said sexual innuendo to her. A number of other women in the area agreed. Had this come out earlier, we would have fired him on the spot. Not every company keeps crappy employees around when they abuse other employees." u/Jessie_MacMillan commented, "I'm glad you have realistic expectations. You probably added to the pile of complaints. It will catch up with Jerry at some point." u/somecrazycanuck remarked, "If HR fails to follow up and a criminal investigation ever takes place, HR is going to be massacred in court."