r/Prorevenge How I Got My Terrible Boss FIRED!

welcome to our slash pro revenge where unentitled Brad gets stranded hundreds of miles from home some years ago I got a gig working a weekend Music Festival fairly simple - ten bands per day and all pretty standard rock and roll fare boss man puts four of us out on the gig me dreadful Boris big Chris and Hammer he also said we'd be taking out an apprentice a young lad who was the son of a local promoter well always nice to have an extra pair of hands and it's good to help train the next generation after all that's how we learned in the past as it turned out this lad was about as much use as an Aqualung to a trout and had an entitled attitude the size of a mid-ranged African country on the journey down in the truck he was boasting as to how he was a really good sound engineer already and then he could probably show us a few tricks oh really we get to the venue and get busy unloading the truck we've got a 16-ton er stuffed to the gills with two sound s and about 16 kilowatts of sound gear for front of house and about six kilowatts of monitors as you might imagine this is pretty heavy stuff and it takes all of us to safely unload it and get it stacked up in place except that after unloading the first amp rack all on wheels but still around 80 kilos the entitled brats Nottoli announces that I'm a sound engineer not a humper and promptly strolls off uh okay well we don't really need him gumming up the works we're all well used to slinging boxes around so about an hour later we've got the rig stacked and strapped down run out the multi-court to the FOH desk and a ready to start cabling up and tying power onto the on-site generator out of nowhere at the spotty oak emerges from whatever hole he'd buried himself in and asked what he can do I say I'm going to plug up front of house perhaps you could help hammer cable up the speakers I don't take orders from girlies quick sidenote here hammer was five foot nine drop-dead gorgeous and as hard as nails hence her nickname she was also a fine friend of house engineer and a bloody good mate Boris Chris and I collectively groaned inwardly and wince in anticipation of a full 16-foot broad from hammer seriously folks you do not mess with her unless you want the family jewels dangling from the nearest tree instead she smiles sweetly never a good sign and says well I'm sure you'll learn something useful I then go off to play with the front-of-house cables while Boris and Chris busy themselves with the monitors a while later I'm back on stage spotty oyk has wandered off again hammer has this resigned look on her face what happened I asked turns out that despite cables and connect reports being well labeled the oyk had managed to make a complete pig's ear of plugging up the amp racks trust me it's very hard to make this kind of mistake I found that wig some moments later and told him that this was not a proper way of doing things and that if he wasn't sure what to do that he should always ask one of us beforehand what then came out of his mouth absolutely floored me I don't need to know all that stuff I'm a sound engineer hammer who was standing a few feet away it snorted derisive Lea and rolled her eyes heavenward it took me a few seconds to process this particular nugget of stupid well you have to know how all this works it's part and parcel the job and as you're here to learn I suggest you pay attention well you're just a bunch of roadies what do you know upon delivering this charming bon mot he ambles off again leaving me to retrieve my jaw from the deck and hammer barely able to restrain a fit of laughter that would have incapacitated a rhino at a guess this idiot thought he was going to be white gloving front of house for the whole gig an hour or so later we're all set up and we now have a fair idea of the acts that are going to be performing in situations like this you've really got the opportunity of a full-blown soundcheck so you have to rely on experience to set the desk up from cold luckily we got the first act on stage a half hour before the kickoff so I could quickly get a rough sense of the overall setup a bit of exposition it's convenient to read channels across acts so I generally keep the first 20 or so channels for drums bass and guitars and the last half dozen or so channels for vocals if a band comes in with anything else percussion brass Tibetan nose flutes etc we whack them on channels in the middle keep things nice simple and consistent across aboard and becomes important in a moment the working procedure in show is also simple dreadful boys and big Chris run the monitor desk and hammer and I run front-of-house will do two acts each before handing over to the other saves wear and tear on the ears and when we're not running the desk we'll handle setting up the stage for each act and troubleshooting were necessary as well as doing runs for food and coffee in between we also test a spotty oak with helping with the stage setup switch rapidly proved problematic we've finished the first act and aim to do the turnover within 15 minutes generally the incoming act will tell us their mic requirements and will write up a mic plot which then gets sent up to the front-of-house desk up comes spotty or quit the mic plot and he goes back to help with a stage setup as I'm checking each mic I noticed that I can't hear the vocal channels no sooner had I spotted this then dreadful Boris comes on the intercom and asked me if I can hear the vocal channels I can't hear them either he then goes off to check the stage box where all the mics are plugged into from all the way out front I hear him shouts F me seconds later he's back on the cans do you know what that effing idiot has done only repatched all the vocal channels so that all the plugs in the stage box are lined up neatly one after the other his words he gods boris rapidly rematches the mics and we're good to go again a few hours later and I'm starting my second shift out front I won't bore you with my experience of dealing with this [ __ ] on the stage shift which shall we say was interesting currently on stage is a rather nice jazz septet up strolls he who shall not be mentioned and asks when can I have a go at mixing I'm really good you know seeing as he's here to learn I tell him he can take the next act under my supervision this happened to be an acoustic duo two guitars and two vocals even the most beginner engineer should be able to handle something so simple right wrong I have already set what I regarded as a sensible bass line on the faders for him to work with first thing he does he reaches for the master faders and cranks in another 15 decibels know immediately the rig teeters on the edge of feedback and I rapidly pull the mains back look and listen balance out the two vocals then the guitars leave the mains alone he then starts making wildly inappropriate changes to the channels EQ again the rig starts to squeak okay enough I shove him out of the way and bring it back under control I won't fatigue you further with the endless catalog of foul-ups and attitude that he managed to affect over the rest of the weekend suffice it to say that despite the best efforts of myself and hammer and to try and teach this guy they all went to naught couple this with a constant drip drip drip of snide commentary about he was a really a better engineer than the rest of us and by the end of the weekend we're all pretty pissed off come the end of the event and it's now the fun part of striking the Regan loading outs I'm being sarcastic about the fun part by the way two solid days and we're all knackered and the last thing we want to be doing is to get out but of course it has to be done it's always an all-hands-on-deck situation except the spotty oyk has once again vanished into the woodwork two back-breaking hours later and we're all done and the trucks loaded to go home so where's the spotty oi know where we give it a good 15 minutes but no joy we didn't decide to go look for him so we spent another 20 minutes trolling around the site trying to find him again he's done a disappearing act we get back to the truck it's now close to 3 a.m. and almost simultaneously we say fm we climb back aboard and drive the 250 miles back to the warehouse to unload next afternoon boss main calls me to find out why we'd left this bodywork behind I gave him the cliff notes and then I was told that the oyk had to call his dad at 3 in the morning to come and get him a 500 mile round-trip he then said I never liked that promoter anyway he was always late paying the bill on previous gigs next time he calls winning a rig and crew I think I'll tell him to eff off our next reddit post is from hariya 8 8 9 I work a heavy labour job with a 95 percent male population my workplace has a zero-tolerance sexual harassment policy but when push comes to shove apparently that's not the men of my work are ruthless I've heard so many sexual comments from people I've never spoken to before I've lost count imagine the most vulgar statement you can think of I've heard worse but I let it slide it doesn't bother me however I've been stalked by this guy James he parked beside my car every day so he could walk into work with me and leave work with me he would follow me after work to figure out what my routine was whatever I ignored it probably should have kept it documented though I'm a very outgoing person at work and know just about everyone a few of my friends said James was telling them I sent him naked photos his friend Mohammed chimed in that he'd seen them and that it's a hundred percent true well that was the last straw and I reported him to human resources nothing came of it other than a slap on the wrist the manager told me to wear baggy er clothing and have thicker skin however a lot of the other females at work told me they're having the same problem with these two men and workers doing nothing about it well now James and Mohammed have a god complex and have been showing naked photos to anyone they can saying it's me which I've explained to many people who have come up to me that it's not me because I'm covered in tattoos so unless that girl has all the same tattoos it's not me I also don't take naked photos they go out of their way to bully me for snitching on them like little kids well after a few months of this and knowing other girls are in the same boat I had enough I could report them again but I doubt anything will come of it so I had an idea a few nights ago I was driving home and they sped past me at the speed of light honking their horns hi beaming me etc so I went home and gave an anonymous tip to the police because this happens five days a week the police caught them the next day fined for stunt driving license suspended cars impounded for seven days and need to go to court work is a long commute from our town they have no way of getting to work and after seven call ends you're fired now they can reflect at home with no job no license and increased insurance about how Karma's a [ __ ] our next reddit post is from peculiar this happened a good long while ago I was in high school and got a job at one of the big box stores in the computer department this store chain had an in-house technician department which was always where I wanted to go after busting my butt in sales for two years putting up with rude customers silly rules and all the other glorious trappings of retail work I finally got a chance to be promoted to the technician department it wasn't as glamorous as I thought it would be I quickly found out that most of the repairs consisted of running the prepackaged antivirus suite updating windows and doing data backups prior to wiping computers clean and reinstalling them I always like tinkering with Hardware more but since 80% of customers had laptops and those repairs were deemed too complicated by corporate we would just send the laptops out to get repaired by the third party vendor it was still better than sales by a longshot and we had a great team working in the technician area except for one dude let's call him Mike he always behaved like his poo smelled like roses he was technically a lead technician and even though that just meant he had a little more authority he had access to a corporate account to arrange shipments of computers to and from our store he was acting like he was the manager of the department nevertheless our actual manager was a splendid dude that took care of us and as such Mike's douchery didn't bother any of us that much fast forward a little and our awesome manager found a much better job this opened up a spot for manager and since the whole store supervision was going through a shake-up the general manager was fired for embezzlement and all the people he hired 90 percent of managers were under review this led to everybody trying their hardest not to f up and the new general manager decided that since our department was one of the best in the district he would not try to hire an outsider but promote from within now Mike was working at this store for almost 10 years at that point and a couple of people that started working with him as sales associates were by this point managers and assistant managers one of them Brittany was an assistant manager in charge of customer services in checkout one of the conditions for Mike's official promotion and manager was to keep the number one spot in the district performance-wise one of the key metrics was a rejection rate from our third-party vendor if we mistakenly sent them a software problem to fix they would charge us extra Mike started obsessing about the numbers especially when it came to the rejection rate he insisted that we would spend extra time to confirm issues even when there were recalls from manufacturers for these items I hated this bureaucracy since it meant that people needed to wait almost the maximum a lot of time to get the computers back so a few times I skipped the extra diagnostics when I knew for sure the problem was Hardware one day Mike decided to do an audit and all outgoing machines and found that I've sent for unit skipping his extra checks he told me that he'd write me up for it but when he tried the general manager told him that he's not a manager yet and I've shown to the general manager that I followed the corporate procedure in diagnosing these units I thought that was the end of it but I was sorely mistaken Mike hated that I showed the general manager that Mike's procedure was inefficient and that he was denied power over me about a month later I got a call from Mike asking if I could come to the store on my day off because there was an issue with the customer when I came in I was greeted by Mike with a Pugh eating grin and he told me to wait in the back and not to work on any computers after about an hour Mike and Brittany come in and asked me to head to the front office they started an official write up process and claimed that I made a mistake creating a backup of customer data and placed a DVD with no data on it into the box that was returned to the customer and then wiped his PC clean I knew that was BS since I always copied the data to an external hard drive run antivirus to make sure that nothing bad got copied and then burn DVDs yet when I asked to check the external hard drive Mike said that due to my negligence I was not allowed back into the tech area he went to check the hard drive and said there was nothing on it at that point I knew he was biessing but him and Brittany were hell-bent on completing the write up I asked for senior management to be present and was shot down again turns out the general manager was on vacation they completed the write up and told me that due to the egregious error that cost the company tins of thousands of dollars I wasn't allowed to work in the tech room and I would be relegated back to this sales floor I told them to shove in and submitted my resignation on the spot I found out later that week they gave the customer the data that was on the hard drive all this time Mike simply erased the DVDs I grabbed a DVD RW by mistake for the backup and waited for the customer to come back and complain I also called the corporate HR line and told them what happened they said that since I quit with a letter of resignation they wouldn't launch an investigation but they received and recorded my complaint through luck and the fact that I was a good hardware tech I landed a job at a shop that had Hardware repairs a week later and starting another week turns out this Depot was a service center that covered the entire district and they had the master contract with the big box chain where I worked since I worked as a tech in that store I was more than familiar with her labeling and ticketing system for tracking purposes the label included the store and technician number after a couple of weeks I gathered some goodwill at my new job and started trading the unit's with my colleagues to work on as many units from my old store as possible over the next three months I made sure that every single unit sent in by Mike would come back with an extra charge also it turned out that Mike since he was in charge of shipping would sometimes steal other technicians tickets to boost his personal performance numbers to secure that management promotion well this bit him in the butt hard there was one week in particular when he sent in over 15 units out of 20 to get fixed and 15 units came back with extra software charge I also kept detailed records that proved that Mike didn't follow his own policy of extra checks when the performance figures came out for that quarter the store crashed into fifth place from number one Mike missed out on his promotion and a big bonus that was promised to him a good buddy of mine from the store got the manager position a few months after that and I've explained to him how to reduce the number of software charges to almost zero so he looked like a superstar Mike was first relocated to lead technician then he was either let go or he quit I'm not sure last I heard he sir his own mobile technician business that folded after a year what I didn't know is that this whole incident with Mike effing up led to the GM reviewing everything Mike did including my write-up and dismissal as it turns out they didn't even register the write-up since I quit on the spot and buried it the only way the GM was able to find it was because of the HR complaint that was filed against both Mike and Brittany the general manager was not pleased that they went behind his back to get rid of someone and fired Brittany he was a very decent man who called me later that day and apologized and even offered me my old job back I thanked him but I was making more money at the new place and didn't have to deal with customers so I passed that was our slash pro revenge and if you liked this video then let me know by hitting that like button 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Published: Fri Feb 14 2020