Boss fired worker mid-project for being 'slow' — but his next move turned the tables on the company and earned him 15 months’ salary
The manager wanted quality over quantity, but things changed when she found out his bad habit
You don't often hear about unfairly fired employees getting back at their bosses. That's because it takes guts to go against former employers, and one employee decided to do exactly that. Reddit user u/Fluffy_Supermarket_6 shared how he managed to get paid for an entire year after getting fired, and got his old manager fired too. This happened in the early 2010s when content creation and video editing were done at a smaller and slower rate.
Fired from my job, but received a years worth of pay and got my Boss fired.
by u/Fluffy_Supermarket_6 in ProRevenge
The author was hired as a content creator to create branding campaign videos for a university's YouTube channel. The pay was low ($2200), and the workload was high (85 videos in 52 weeks). After expressing his concerns about completing the job on time, the manager assured him that all the university needed was quality over quantity.
The manager was nice until she found out that he was a smoker, and her behavior towards him immediately changed. She started complaining about everything he did, and even made a fuss when he was not available during his break. The author shared this incident with a colleague, who told him the manager had fired smokers in the past. Five months later, he was called into the Director's office.
The Director was disappointed with the quantity of his work (30 out of the 85 videos promised), even though he was working alone. She had to let him go since it was already mid-year, and he was behind. He asked how they were going to meet their numbers, and the manager said that they were hiring professionals. "You don't need to worry, Manager will get the job done," the director said.
It gave the employee an idea. Since he handled the production house database, he knew his former manager had no contacts and would rely on the employee's database. So he changed all the details except one, a production house where his friend worked as a junior director. He helped him pitch to his former employer, knowing exactly what the university wanted, and in return secured a 15% finder’s fee.
The Director and manager signed them immediately. The team delivered 50 videos in four months, but each cost two to three times his monthly salary, totaling nearly 100 months of his pay. By then, it didn’t matter — he was earning his 15% cut for 15 months, enough to fund a vacation and film school abroad. While vacationing in Bali, he got a call with surprising news. The manager had been fired, and the Director was reprimanded after the budget overshot tenfold. It turned out the manager had approved huge payments just to get the project done, without proper consent.
People in the comments were sharing their own stories, and the majority of them commended the video editors and the amount of hard work they put into the videos. u/JemHadarSlayer wrote, "People who have never done video editing have no f*cking clue how laborious that sh*t is. I can’t even imagine people who produce CGI. The disrespect that the creatives get from people who have never done those types of jobs is hard to believe." u/Slateboard added, "It was very time-consuming to make my cringe AMVs back in the early 2000s. I can't even begin to imagine how much more goes into legitimate video production."
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