“From Employee to Employer’s Nightmare: How One Fired Worker Set Off a Chain Reaction of Chaos and Bankruptcy”
Audiovisual equipment doesn’t come cheap but there are certain things you absolutely must have if you work in the industry
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Your company will usually provide the tools you need, but this woman’s boss expected her to spend thousands on expensive equipment
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Being “let go” turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the employee
The woman told Bored Panda she posted her experience on the internet because she felt people would appreciate her “little act of malicious compliance.” But also because she “learned a lot of valuable lessons” from the incident. She was let go many years ago, but the former employee told us she was reminded of the experience while going through a “closet full of equipment the other day.”
She added that she was happy to be interviewed by Bored Panda because sharing her story might help someone else in a similar situation. We asked where life has taken her since she was unceremoniously escorted out of the building. “After that company let me go I started doing a lot of freelance work. It helped that I had all of the equipment I could possibly need,” she said.
She revealed that she hadn’t finished college before taking up the job, and that her previous company often threw it in her face. “I happened to get the job and work my way up organically,” she told us. “So I went back to school to finish my degree not long after they let me go. I don’t think I needed it necessarily, but now I have experience, equipment, and a little paper that says some professors think I know what I’m doing.”
