Today, after months of busting our asses and working round the clock on our latest project, I and the whole office just got bad news: when our boss promised extremely generous bonuses for doing all this, he was point-blank lying, and intended to take credit for our work all along. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, everyone at the office was finally presented with the bonuses our boss had promised to pay us by the end of last year. Turns out he was never authorized to promise any such thing, so he ended up just giving us signed "thank you" letters instead. FML
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
Today, I found out that my manager has been stealing my ideas. The worst part? He made me work overtime to complete the project that I originally proposed. FML
Today, after I told my boss I'd found a serious error that cost the company thousands each year, I found out he'd fled abroad. Turns out the error was him stealing for the past 40 years, our entire department is under investigation and the owner is considering scrapping our office and firing us. FML
Today, I discovered that as thanks for my successful efforts to increase my company's monthly revenue, my dumbass of a boss has been awarded a pay bonus. He's wasted no time telling everyone about the sports car he's planning to buy with it. FML
Today, due to being stressed and overwhelmed by my tasks, I made a mistake and completed a few of my colleagues' tasks as well. When I informed my boss about it, he said that I did an outstanding job, but I shouldn't have messed with other people's documents. As a result, my promised raise is cancelled. FML
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
Today, I finished a huge project for work. It took 3+ days and I was very proud of it. Except when I submitted it to my boss, he said that he'd already asked another person to do it. He used that person's project, not mine. FML
Today, my co-worker received a $1,000 bonus for a project that I do all the work on. My direct supervisor thought that I was an assistant. I send him an e-mail copy of the project every week, and have done so for the past six months. I was later reprimanded for not congratulating my co-worker. FML
Today, like every day, my boss was complaining about something or other, but this time it was work that I knew he'd done himself, and he still blamed me. FML
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jrshap12 10
Wow, he shouldn't be allowed to operate a business like that.
ced443_fml 9
Okay that's not alright. You and your coworkers have the right to dispute his work and prove that he is a stealing bastard
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Comments (102)
xo_erica_xox 9
What a douchebag
ksks1234 33
You guys should mutiny.
KiaKarma 11
I don't want to get thumbed down for my ignorance on the subject, but is that even legal? I mean, it's not published or whatever but isn't there copyright laws against that? This comment might be extremely stupid, forgive me. I'm just curious.
sdroze1389 31
copyright protects individual intellectual property. since OP was doing this for work, anything as a result of their work is the property of the company. it would be OPs word vs the boss in the eyes of the higher ups.
Jakob2255 12
it's not copyrighgt at all... any work you do belongs to that company not to a worker.
BrotherPhil 35
It may be plagiarism, as #20 noted, but for him to feel free to pull shit like this suggests that higher management are cool with it, and may even approve. Remember in future that, in management, sociopathy is considered a positive character trait.
orsombre_fml 11
Depends of your country's laws, but it can be construed as a breach of verbal contract.
catkat1988 17
File a complaint through the official channels - HR or his boss. If that doesn't work, show him that he has created a work environment where working hard and being dedicated doesn't pay off by being all the opposite things and just doing little things to make his day difficult. While that's not constructive in the least, this situation might call for some kind of revenge.
pimrol 16
he is ine very cold hearted scrooge.
FerniieBabiie 14
Is there anyone higher than him? Head quarters? You should all report him for immature behaviour and being a crappy boss!
comment11111 39
That would be immature behaviour. The only effect would be that he's seen as the whiner.
jazzy_123 20
seen as a whiner? for reporting his stupid, immature boss who is trying to take all the credit for his employees hard work.. Yeah super whiny.
Jakob2255 12
again welcome to the real world that is why he hired them to do the work so he doesn't have to same as his boss sill take credit as it goes up the ladder.
Jakob2255 12
i'm a **** lol
comment11111 39
Guys, that's reality, not plagiarism: His boss leads the team, so he is the one who enables them of you to do your jobs, e.g. keeps others from giving you additional tasks. Everyone knows that the boss could not have finished the project alone. He needed the team members. At last: Don't complain at HR - all you can manage is to create a barrier between you and your boss. And who will finally decide about your bonus or promotions? In the end, it is not the job of HR to help you, but protect the company against you - e.g. lawsuits. Worst case: You'll get on the black list of "dangerous employees".
Witchylady 18
Take him down.
91hayek 31
This seems to be indicative of a larger problem. Keep us posted OP about what happens with this assface; most likely he's into even more unethical things either at work or in his personal life. These kind of things come to a head eventually. It takes a special kind of sociopathy to lie like that.
BrotherPhil 35
Not really - management is full of them.
xSphinx 18
I believe a strike is in order.