The Difference In Corporate Ethics Is Highlighted Perfectly When This Skilled Employee Realized His Value And Moved On

You probably wouldn't expect two CEO's to duke it out but this is clearly the final boss battle.

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• January 23, 2022

One thing a majority of us can relate to is having at least 1 horrible boss in the span of our working life. We all have our own ways of dealing with them and this Reddit user has a power move that we can only envy.

OP (original poster) was employed for two years and he was, in his own words, essentially running the entire operation. In those two years, he made his boss over $1.5 million in commission.

In contrast, this amazing employee was only making $45K and for his Christmas bonus, his horrible boss gave him a $25 gift card to a movie theater chain. The nearest branch of AMC required a 1.5-hour drive from his home.

Needless to say, OP was pissed. After the gift card incident, he began to look for a better job. He did but he trained someone to replace him before accepting the new job.

When he was done training his replacement, he went to his boss to hand in his two-week notice. He informed him that he had also been training someone to replace him so the boss had nothing to worry about.

OP also said that his new job is in the same industry but he won't be in the same position so as not to violate his non-compete. The boss called his legal team to intimidate OP.

The lawyers told him, "You cannot even mop floors at a company in our field for at least a year”. They also looped in HR who told OP that since he won't be pursuing this new job, they will allow him to stay at this job for 2 more weeks to ensure a smooth transition but he will be fired after that for job hunting.

They tried to make OP divulge new information about his new job but he told them he won't be discussing that.

After OP left this company, the chief legal officer began calling him at odd hours to intimidate him. They even called OP's new company thinking the issue will make them back out of employing OP.

Fortunately, OP has a better job now and an even better boss. After hearing about the calls, OP's new company's CEO got involved and told them he will gladly fight them in court.

After the CEO got involved, all of the intimidating calls stopped. OP realized that his old boss never really wanted to sue him, they just wanted to scare him off from his new job.

3 years later...

"Oh yeah, you're quitting? Well you can't quit because you're fired!" OP dodged a bullet.

OP has the money and opportunity to win against his competition

A commenter got worried that all this information gets back to his old company, it can bite OP in the a**

But OP is not too worried

Here's a helpful suggestion to the old company

The company does sound like it sucks everything joyful about life

OP named the company but the moderators of the forum deleted his comment. If you look at the other comments, you'll figure out which company OP worked for.

Apparently, there can be a loophole to OP's non-compete that makes it unenforceable

Another worker bee supports this based from a similar experience

Here's something that people should know: you are not legally required to hand in a two-week notice

I enjoyed this exchange

OP naively thought that he had a good relationship with his boss hence the courtesy of the 2-week notice and training his replacement

Dear working people who are slaves of capitalism, here are some lessons we need to learn:

Never willingly share this information to your current employer or your colleagues

Don't be too loyal to your company because it's a one-sided relationship. You are just a commodity to them that they can profit off of.

OP is one of the lucky few who finally found a good job with a good boss. Stories like these are at least uplifting that if you quit enough jobs, you'll eventually find a good one that doesn't depress you.

We're no longer settling for bad jobs with equally awful pay, right? Remember, your boss and your company are not on your side, they are there to make money, through you.

Chelsi