Work: Devil's wages

Devil's wages

By fucked - 14/03/2014 19:40 - Canada

Today, my boss - AKA Satan - told me I'd better watch out, because I'm now top on his list of people to lay off next time the company downsizes. All I did was give a report to the board admitting that our sales are down this year. He blames me for making him look bad. FML

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By unemployed - 20/04/2013 00:16 - El Salvador - San Salvador

Today, my boss made me give a presentation to several senior company officials about the serious financial losses our division has made this year. Barely an hour later, my boss had palmed all the blame off onto me and gotten me fired. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/11/2010 19:38 - United States

Today, after three weeks of my boss telling me how much he appreciates my hard work and has submitted my name up for a promotion, he called me into his office to announce I'm being laid off. FML

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Nitpicking

By Anonymous - 01/06/2023 21:00 - Canada - Toronto

Today, my boss told me I may lose my job due to underperformance. I was shocked, as he'd previously mentioned that I was performing well, and that I was safe from the current company wide layoffs. I asked him what I need to improve on. He said that my instant messages to him are sometimes too long. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/05/2014 20:57 - India - Kundan

Today, my boss was fired by the board. A few days ago, he dropped several strong hints that he was going to promote me soon. FML

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By Anonymous - 21/04/2016 04:55 - India - New Delhi

Today, while trying to get my boss to reconsider laying off much of my department, I accidentally convinced him to lay me off too. FML

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Snarky

By great - 10/02/2012 21:33 - United States

Today, I sat in my boss's office as he bitched me out for being "too sarcastic" to our customers. After nearly half an hour of him criticizing my "piss-poor attitude," he asked me what I was going to do to fix it. Without thinking, I said, "Your mom." Now I'm jobless again. FML

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Won't someone think of the economy?

By tdizzlehi - 28/08/2020 02:00 - United States - Boston

Today, after coming out of a meeting during which I promised my employees better wages, I was met at the door by my CEO telling me to lay off all the employees I just talked to. FML

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By zoosmell pooplord - 02/09/2012 19:41 - Norway - Geilo

Today, my boss got angry at me because my English is better than his. He accused me of trying to steal his management position, and implied that I'll be lucky if I still have a job by the end of the month. FML

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By Loopylogo - 10/01/2017 14:01

Today, my boss came into the office asked how I was doing and seemed totally normal and happy, then said, "I have to let you go. I heard some bad things about you." He wouldn't tell me what he heard, or from whom. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/04/2016 09:14 - United States - Redlands

Today, the CEO of my company wanted to meet with me. I was excited until I found out she just wanted to bitch me out and personally fire me. Later on, I found out my boss had totally shafted me and blamed the failure of a big project on me instead of admitting it was all his fault. FML

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VicRC 7

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:40

sorry to hear that, but maybe you should start looking for a new job

Vanillanougat 14

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:41

It sucks how bosses just hunt for any reason at all to fire people when the company is doing poorly. Wrong place, wrong time...

Comments

VicRC 7

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:40

sorry to hear that, but maybe you should start looking for a new job

zandalee 19

Saturday 15 March 2014 2:15

Or carefully document all conversations by email and report the bastard to the powers that be.

ChenEighty 20

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:40

I would submit a report on Human Resource theory

Vanillanougat 14

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:41

It sucks how bosses just hunt for any reason at all to fire people when the company is doing poorly. Wrong place, wrong time...

SymphonyGrrl 12

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:41

Maybe he should be working on making the company better rather than yelling at his employees...

_kyleG_ 34

Saturday 15 March 2014 3:19

You can't expect such a self-centered man to care about anything other than himself and his career :/

_kyleG_ 34

Saturday 15 March 2014 3:20

Unfortunately, you can't expect such a self-centered bastard to care about anything besides himself or his own career.

_kyleG_ 34

Saturday 15 March 2014 16:29

Sorry about the double comment- I thought I deleted my first one!

Coryj1220 15

Saturday 15 March 2014 19:21

Is that not how you make a company better?

Simbaby 23

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:42

Wow he's an asshole. That's not a reason to lay you off.

LadyQuantum 7

Saturday 15 March 2014 1:42

That is one thing you should NEVER admit...... If you want to keep your job.

OysterPearls 33

Saturday 15 March 2014 2:57

Honesty is the best policy!

chinaski7628 32

Saturday 15 March 2014 3:24

I feel like accurate reports on sales are probably important to most businesses and not something anybody within the company should lie about if they want to keep their job and improve company sales.