re: What is the worst you've ever been focked over by your job/boss/employer?

Nothing too bad. Estimator and cost control manager client side on a multi billion dollar hospitality project. Had better results than all my counterparts. Was promised the moon and more when that project was over and going into the next ones. Boss had treated me well before so I trusted him and turned down some very good offers.


Well, boss man got a big ole promotion and forgot the people who got the results he claimed. New boss man was in our core unit and had more seniority by a good amount of years, so understandable. Except he is a terrible leader. Option A, B, and C for me fell through for me. I eventually got an offer to lead a division….having the same title and less pay for those who would report to me. And when I said no, I got labeled as not being a team player by that original boss and now almost blacklisted from other opportunities in the company.

Lesson learned I guess.

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Started at a new company along with 4 other guys. Couple of weeks into work, on the first pay day, one of the other new guys grabbed me and said we’re only getting paid 80% of what we thought, and showed me his check. I get my check, sure enough, only 80%. We talked to the other 3 guys, same thing. We march into the office and ask WTF, get told it’s company policy that new hires start at 80%, increasing by 5% every 6 months. I was about to politely ask, “So I’m not going to make what I thought I was for 2 YEARS?” But one of the other guys beat me to it, in a much rougher fashion. Yes was the answer. The shite hit the fan, yelling, screaming, threats, ect. 3 of the other guys quit very loudly and walk out the door. Manager tells me and the other guy to hang tight, he’s going to call the boss. Comes back, says they’ll bump us up to 90% today and 100% in 6 months if we stay. Better than nothing we figured, so we stayed. Both of us found different jobs within a couple months, place was nothing but lies and deception.

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Sounds remarkably illegal unless yall signed something that said this without reading it

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I signed up for my company's 401k, but I don't think I can run that far.

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Had a boss dick me during bonus season and PIP me, he basically had no clue what I actually did for the company. So I quit in the middle of a deal they needed to IPO and they ended up giving me a bonus to stay and pulled the PIP. I ended up leaving 6 months later anyway.

In before babytac spews shite about owning a fortune 500 company and treats his employees great, but can't afford Sirius xm..

I had at 24 what I thought was going to be my start in my dream job in my chosen field. The general manager of the company had a friend that needed a job so he had the manager at my facility lie and say I was underperforming and late and made my supervisor fire me. My supervisor was one of my best friends at the time and truth be told I was doing both our jobs because he had a drinking problem.

Soon after the guy they hired in my place fricked the facility managers wife and he came into work crying to my old boss saying he had to fire him too. Lol the general manager said it was a personal matter and to suck it up.

Offered to take early retirement based on shrinking departmental budget. Was told I was needed and the company couldn’t afford for me to leave at that moment.

60 days later I was fired.

Billed and collected over $2milliom one year as an associate. Travelled national and international for a client. Firm gave me a $10k bonus for my troubles. Abruptly quit 2 months later.

April and May 2020 during Covid. For PPP we worked from about 6 to 9 or 10 at night 7 days a week. We were all salary folks and company said they appreciated what we were doing and how important this was and would make sure we were taken care of.

We ended up getting a $100 Amazon gift card.

I worked in the film/TV industry for about 5 years. Worked on the production side which also meant flat rates. No OT. There is no such thing as a 40 hour week in production. Usually in pre you could get away with a 50 hour week. Production could be as bad as 60+. Post could be the closest to 40, but usually at least 45 hours. The worst example was this shitty Nickelodeon show I worked on in 2003. The EIC was total douche who was the worst bean counter i have ever seen. Anyway, one shoot night we worked 20 hours. The PAs were making $100 a day. Mind you, I was only $150 a day as the Production Coordinator. Basically I was just a step up from them but had to run them. They all complained endlessly to me and I went to the EIC and said everyone is making $5 a hour and want to quit. He said let them. I said pay them a little more as I wasn't even asking for more myself. He said he couldn't afford to pay them and me. I said how about if I quit? He said sure. I doubt he paid them but I wasn't working another fricking day on that set. To truly rub salt in the wound, as I was driving him at 2am a PoS pig pulls me over and says I didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign. I told him the ticket is going to cost me what I just made working 20 hours. No fricks given.