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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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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)
Mike_Sweatpants 9
Riot!!
RebornUnicorn 16
Who the hell would vote YDI?
mvc3ftw 17
maybe get the BBB involved?
YooperTransplant 8
What you have described is called "wage theft," even if the theft was only a promised bonus. If he was stupid enough to send out emails describing the promised bonus, you have documentation and can take the bastard to court en masse. Furthermore, in no state whatsoever can he legally fire you for doing so. If you really don't want to risk that, consider taking your complaint to his boss. An entire office telling their second-line boss that their first-line boss lied to them will not be a good day for the liar.
Jakob2255 12
Texas it can be done as it is a right to work state. no reason needed to be terminated. get your facts straight. and wage theft is not part of bonuses
YooperTransplant 8
Get *your* facts straight. Right to work means you can't be made to pay union dues as a condition of employment. (It's meant to drain unions of money by allowing freeloaders.) What you describe is a termination at-will state. That applies in most states, but complaints about workplace conditions are a specific and legally protected exception. Unfortunately, you are right that the Fair Labor Standards Act does not define unpaid bonuses as wage theft. The employee is on somewhat shakier ground than they would be for missing salary. A promise in writing, however, still gives the office a possible legal avenue to pursue, if they want to. (Especially if it happens again; that kind of lost trust is a poor asset to lose for a company, and they certainly won't trust their boss on that line a second time.)
sistagal 8
Send a well written anonymous email to his managers stating the facts. I suppose it may be seen as cowardly, but at least his superiors will know he has no integrity
Heisenberg01 3
that jerk! u guys should tie him up and beat him like a piñata!
martin8337 36
Welcome to the new economy.
mchmelev1993 10
Ooh what a mofo! Tell him that AK-47 is your fckin address
JKPwnage 27
Talk to him, then. Get your coworkers to talk to him together
comment11111 39
All that talk about sueing their bosses is so stupid. Have you considered that people know each other in the business. Who do you think will hire you afterwards - you have just proven that you are likely to sue your boss/company. With such a track record I would not hire you. Too risky. Same for those who hint that you'd like to sue your boss to your HR representative: HR gets paid by the company to protect the company (from you). They will find a quick and legal way to get rid of you...
Helldemon 32
Sounds like you're just as much a piece of shit scumbag boss as the one in this FML.
comment11111 39
Maybe I have just realized how it works. Do I help my boss? Sure! If he is able to show his bosses how good the team works and what we manage to implement, our team will get recognition. If I worked against my boss, I could only lose - he's got more leverage. The workplace is not a democracy. Get over it.
BrotherPhil 35
Or just someone who knows how piece of shit scumbags work. Saying what they'd do doesn't necessarily mean that one agrees with it.