Karma is a bitch!!! (Rant)
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- Frosty_spl
So my old boss was a total asshole.
It was my first job out of college. He paid me like a full time contractor, 27k USD per year, 40 hours a week, but I was a contractor so I had no insurance or benefits. I didn't know any better. I think I can still sue him if I wanted.
He made me work my ass off for peanuts. I even had to help paint a new office we moved into, and only bought me lunch ONCE. That was a month of weekends for only 8 dollars.
I was always stressed out about the designs I did, that he would yell at me and not like them or whatever. He even made me tear up a few times since he was such a dick. I never cry dammit, Im a guy! But I care about my work and my job. He would put the weight of the company on my back, since it was just us two.
The last few months I was there, he hired a kid straight out of school. He was a great designer. They ended up ganging up on my about some of my stuff, and the boss played favorites with this kid. They would go out to lunch and not invite me. And planned a trip to the Detroit auto show and said I needed to stay in the office and answer phones. WTF?!?!
So anyway, I just checked the website I designed for the company and noticed it changed. Then I saw the address, which is at his sisters house. Instead of the old office park we use to be in.
HAHAHAHHAHAHA STUPID FUCK. Thats what you get for being a dick to everyone.
- dskz0
Fuck an office.
- Point50
karma is a bitch... you never should have stayed there that long. we all want to be liked and get recognition/rewards for work we do, but remember, in a employment situation, outside of the agreed wage nobody owes you shit. Always look out for #1 (you) because nobody else is going to.
- Thats what I learned from the whole thingFrosty_spl
- it takes getting fucked over to realize it sometimes... believe me, I got paid $19k/yr on my first job.Point5
- and they went out of business a year after I quit! HAHAHAHHAA, bitches.Point5
- Point5, I got tears from your response.dMullins
- adamrobertson0
Can we get the website address?
- Frosty_spl0
oh yea, and he always mentioned to me about how he has the "best lawyer in the city". I guess so I wouldn't sue him over labor laws.
- LOL, what an ass. If anyone needed to be concerned it should have been him.Josev
- dMullins0
Look at it this way.
You have no case, legally. No witnesses, and no actual crimes committed on his side.
IMO, have a Guinness, and revel in the fact that this life lesson has determined you will never be a prick like him, and you will probably end up more successful than him down the line.
And if you don't like the high road, you could always toilet paper his sister's house/office.
- Also, reminds me of my first job I had in SF. Was your boss's name Ted? Lol.dMullins
- Toiletpaper his sisters...?
I can imagen tons of things you could do to his sister without even trying.Peter - But then Frosty would be the one getting sued. :(dMullins
- I wasn't on a "contract" and he still didn't take taxes out of my paycheck. My accountant said I could sue If I wanted.Frosty_spl
- Doesn't sound like it. If you werent on W2, you were 1099, period.dMullins
- kgvs720
Never be someone's bitch! I don't even know why you would've stayed so long.
- creez0
lol, good story
- d_rek0
You live or work in/around Detroit? ... just curious. Cheers to Michiganians!
- jevad0
What goes around come around. Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself, because karma will pay you back in kind some day.
- sureshot0
is it eric jordan?
- juhls0
Google "misconceptions about karma" and read up, please.
:D
- You mean "My Name is Earl" has it all wrong?!?!?! My perception of life as i know it is shattered!!locustsloth
- Hanseatic0
You sound like a shit designer.
- Some of my work is being entered in the Addys this year. So yea not really.Frosty_spl
- Entered in != won.dMullins
- cursiveshotgun0
"He even made me tear up a few times"
Are you a female?
- Meeklo0
cursiveshotgun
"He even made me tear up a few times"
Are you a female?
...................................I'm sorry cursive, but I can't but help to find your remark nothing but sexist.
- Frosty_spl0
haha! That looks like the wife from "Foot Fist Way"
Im in ATL actually.