“From Employee to Employer’s Nightmare: How One Fired Worker Set Off a Chain Reaction of Chaos and Bankruptcy”
“I mean, after I reported some extreme sexual harassment, my boss solved the problem by locking me in my office when the man was in the building. It was a very toxic work environment. So yeah, I needed the reality check, but I would never thank him for it,” she declared.
She added that she went above and beyond in her responsibilities because she really loved her job and her team. But she detailed how, whenever she asked for something for her team, management would say “we’ll think about it”. She came to realize it was a roundabout way of saying “no.” So she would make magic happen on her own. Which basically translates into her spending more of her own money, for the benefit of the company.
“It was never giant things either, it was just smaller things that over time added up. ‘Hey boss, some of our radios are broken, we need to get at least two new ones.’ or ‘Hey boss, the router in the AV booth is down. We’ll need a new one before the next event’.”
“My boss was RICH rich. This was merely a side project for him”
The employee said she spent her own money on equipment because she didn’t want to let her colleagues down. “I felt responsible for my team as their boss, and the way not having things impacted them,” she told us, adding that she realized “that never should have been part of my job.”
The woman claimed her boss was loaded and the company was merely a “pet project” for him. “There’s no reason he couldn’t help us with those things, other than that he knew that if he didn’t I would eventually cave and do it for him,” she said. Her parting words to Bored Panda were no less harsh than her earlier thoughts about her boss:
