r/ProRevenge - I am the business!

hello there don't I have some special treats for you today enjoy this is a long tail it is also a textbook case of why you don't abuse loyal associates my spouse was the second person hired at a consulting company in a very specialized industry in her 15 years with the firm at GRU to a respectable three office eight to ten employees at each location entity she and the owner grew the business on the contacts expertise and presentation of my wife to the extent that my wife's abilities and education we're the main reason new business came through the door over the years her scope of responsibilities grew so that the owner was basically 75 percent absent and mostly unaware of day-to-day activity as he got more and more removed from the business he would make overtures that he would eventually retire and sell her the business he was so dependent on her income generating that he took out a life-insurance policy on her I did not involve myself too much but at a major industry dinner party I attended with her he introduced my wife to the table as my girl Friday basically a secretary which was weird over the years she tried to get an agreement in place to buy the firm even if it was years away he always delayed and made promises but never followed through I told her this guy doesn't respect you or your contribution he will never sell you the business because there is no reason to he can make more money by stringing you along and essentially you are the business why would he sell it to you one day out of the blue my wife received a raise and bonus a very minor amount of money and a contract that included a non-compete non-disclosure agreement after reading it she realized that the owner was trying to lock her down from leaving for another firm she had been getting feelers from other companies to make things even more suspicious she received a call from a competitor who said they were in final stages of due diligence and they wanted to meet her the a-hole was selling the company and didn't think to tell her or asked if she was interested in buying it she ignored the agreement and there were no other agreements in place she was totally free my wife is extremely loyal she has missed so many special days working for this guy stuck around when they were wobbly even skipped paychecks when there were tough financial times she was furious the absolute maddest I've ever seen her we discussed starting her own firm and I asked how much business is contact you Lee obligated to stay there if you leave it turned out that most agreements were either handshakes or a 30-day at will I also asked how many would leave with you she said about 75 percent including her biggest source of revenue who didn't even know the owner in a very short time my wife took a three week vacation she had months of unused time during which time she rented an office in the same building and made all the arrangements to set up a new shop she agreed to leave any and all company property behind and do her best to give the old company no obvious mo for litigation she called her clients and said I'm leaving if you want to look into relocating your account with my new company you'll need to quit the old one before we can discuss it most understood the implication while she was on vacation she received a panicked call from her boss we lost XYZ company do you know anything about it she said I'm sorry but I just sent you an email I've resigned all my keys and company stuff is on my desk ba-bye the new firm took basically 90% the business and seamlessly transitioned into the same company as it was before but with a new owner even most of the office staff would come aboard within a year her old company closed down except for the small office her old boss ran she sees him once in a while and he just scales at her this isn't my story but my parents it was probably the first time I witnessed malicious compliance and I still remember it well it was about 25 years ago so I was about 8 and we had just moved into a 150 year old house that was in need of major repairs my dad thinking ahead knew he would need a large garage slash workshop to really get started on the renovations properly on the edge of our yard was an ancient barn that was falling apart and needed to be torn down my dad figured this was the best place to build his new workshop so that was the plan we had met and were on good terms with all the neighbors at that point when the plans for the new workshop were finished my parents went around to all the neighbors as a courtesy to show them the plans and get their blessings the neighbors whose property the current barn a new workshop would border I'll call them the Peters were concerned about the height the existing barn was sixteen high and then he asked if we could only build it one-story twelve max as to not block the Sun in their yard sure no problem my parents agreed they wanted to go two stories for extra storage but just one wasn't a deal breaker so the old barn was torn down in the foundation laid for the new one during that time there was a falling-out with the Peters and my parents I'm not sure what happened but it turned nasty one day my brother and I were playing street hockey and mr. Peters came out yelling at us get off the road you have breed craps my dad is black so we're both half black you have to earn your place in this town upon hearing this my mom had to physically restrain my dad from going over and beating the living poop out of him eventually he cooled off and started on his plan the plans for one story went out the window soon the new garage that was only supposed to be one story soon gained a second in the blueprints if they were going to direct racist comments at his kids my dad would build what he wanted as construction started the Peters came over to ask why there was two stories being built and were told to go F themselves we didn't hear from them again until the roof started to go on the bylaws of the township limited all-out structures to 24 high the Peters called the township and then a building inspector claiming that the new garage was over 24 high if it was over height the entire thing would have to be torn down and rebuilt costing us tens of thousands of dollars I remember the Peters standing there watching the inspector with smug looks on their faces two days later we got the final report back from the township and inspector 23 feet and 11 inches just as my dad had drawn up in his new plans he sent me up on the roof of the garage just plywood no singles yet with some spray paint and had me right 23 feet 11 inches height approved in two foot high neon orange letters across the entire roof facing their yard and house not only did that garage block all sunlight from reaching their yard but my dad waited until everything else was done before he shingled that side of the roof they had to stare at those neon orange letters for almost three years we didn't hear a peep from them for the next 10 year until they moved back story so I'm 19 F and had only been living with my mother for a good 3.5 years was put into foster care at a young age and don't remember living with my mother at all before moving in with her she would tell me how great it would be for me to live there and how I would be treated with respect and yadda yadda yadda well since I started college things went to crap my whole life I wanted to go to college for art but my mother convinced me that it was stupid and so I chose to go for a business degree I got into my state's business and marketing Honor Society during my last year of high school for having a 98 average in all five of my business classes my first semester of college everything started out fine then the end of September hit and I got a reimbursement from financial aid let me add my mother is on SSI for minor disabilities and hasn't worked in the past 18 years she has arthritis and fibromyalgia so apparently she can't work editor's note arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints symptoms generally include joint pain and stiffness fibromyalgia is a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue sleep memory and mood issues end of editor's note I got public assistance that I never knew about since I was never allowed to do paperwork for anything I thought we only got food stamps but apparently she lied and said I was paying a couple hundred dollars for rent so she could get more money so she was getting nearly $500 a month for my needs I never got anything unless it was Christmas and $350 a month for food stamps my boyfriend had to buy me food because I was never allowed to eat at home and didn't want to get a $3,000 meal plan on campus anyways I got a healthy $2,000 back from financial aid which I originally planned on spending on clothes I hadn't had a pair of fitting jeans since I lived with my mother a laptop for school and food well apparently every time I get money belongs to my mother she demanded I give her most of the money so I spent $1,500 on some jeans for me and a brand new ps4 system PS Vita PS plus and a bunch of ps4 games for my boyfriend I know that sounds reckless of me but he's paid me back for it she was pissed and belittled me til I gave her the rest of the money for rent and bills and food she went off and bought her boyfriend drugs I was mad because obviously that's just not okay I just pushed through the semester and kinda sucked it up like I usually do February came along and pretty much the same thing happened she demanded my $3,000 I got more this past semester because I only had to pay for one textbook to pay for rent electricity the Wi-Fi food and everything under the Sun she got mad when I refused to give her more than $350 I went off and spent the money on my anniversary including outfit gasp two meals and some gifts a new phone my phone barely worked and was seven years old and prepaid my phone plan for the next few months I also bought myself some food for when I was home she was irate how dare I spend money on my boyfriend and not the woman who birthed me I tried staying away from home as much as possible driving around with my boyfriend for the most part but every time I came home I would get yelled at well March was when crap hit the fan I needed my Medicaid card they put cash assistance on that card for convenience and birth certificate for a program that helps people get jobs in the area and she wasn't having it apparently saying I needed them was being rude and disrespectful I ignored her for the most part and kept insisting that I needed them right away because I had to leave she gave them to me after half an hour of me telling her I needed to leave and just started yelling at me so I left for a few hours and I got a call from my caseworker asking when I would turn in timesheets I had to get a signature from each teacher stating I was in class to keep my insurance benefits and the food stamps I didn't know about the cash assistance and she told me I could lose the cash assistance if I didn't I asked her what she was talking about and she told me I got approximately $500 a month to pay for rent and other things I needed I informed her that I never knew about that and she was very upset that my mother was using the money on God knows what she told me to change the pin on the card and to not let my mother touch it so I changed the pin on my card went home and my room was torn up my clothes were everywhere my old laptop was missing my Christmas gifts from my boyfriend were gone I was very upset I told my mother that I wanted my stuff back and she just threw everything at my door I started packing my bags cause I was done with her garbage she demanded I give her my Medicaid card back since she keeps everyone else's she got in my face through my glasses onto the floor tried throwing my new phone and was just screaming at me till I gave it to her I have post-traumatic stress disorder so I panic whenever someone is even slightly loud after she went to the store and tried buying something with it she came home and started shoving me around demanding I give her the pin I was just like my father I was a piece of garbage for buying Jean's that actually fit me for once in my life I was trash for liking the presents I got from my boyfriend and not from her I got pants that were two sizes too big and very low-rise for Christmas ya know she actually hit me because of it and hit me till I gave her my pen so of course I was dumb and gave it to her someone for some reason called the cops and they showed up shortly after and her and her boyfriend started telling them I was abusive and manipulative and a pathological liar I showed them where she hid me and tried explaining that she took my Medicaid card but they didn't care the cops never care because supposedly my mom's boyfriend has put half of our local police force into the hospital after the cops left my mother said that my boyfriend who has done nothing and has only been supportive of me throughout this was a pedophile I'm a year older than him and that he was not allowed to enter the house again then she said I had a new curfew of 6 p.m. I had a class that ended at 5:00 and it took me 2 hours to walk home so that was stupid and if I left the house I was to never return so I left my boyfriend took me to a homeless shelter specifically for teens and young adults that were in abusive situations and had nowhere else go I got my own apartment with the potential of getting a roommate at some point and I honestly have never felt better in my life the following day I go to get a new card and my mother had taken out 260 dollars at 5:00 a.m. with the help of my oldest sister I had four dollars to buy food for two weeks before I could apply for my own food stamps and cash assistance case most of the time I only had water and I would eat every three days at my boyfriend's house when the virus hit his dad refused to let me over even though he knew what was going on to a certain extent I didn't eat anything for a week before being able to get food stamps I wish I had gotten a job but having eight classes one of which was six hours a week for a measly one credit took up the majority of my time the college suggested I withdraw to focus on my mental health I was afraid of leaving my new place because I didn't want to be attacked by my family or my mom's BS drug addict friends I went from seeing my therapist for half an hour every other week to seeing her for an hour every week she suggested that I cut contact with my mother permanently even though it meant losing a good $3,000 worth of stuff I bought myself over the past 12 years I got paid to babysit and take care of the farm while in foster care I was so so upset about losing all 40 of my stuffed animals they really meant a lot to me and they kinda were the only things there that helped me calm down from a panic attack I know it sounds immature but I've had most of them since I was about eight years old then something popped in my head while I was applying for my own food stamps and cash assistance case the revenge I realized that I could easily report my mother for welfare fraud not only had she been taking my $500 a month but she had lied and said her bf and her didn't share food and were roommates she paid to use other people's food stamps and she has sold her food stamps for cash to buy fast food or drugs so I did just that I went to our state's website and reported her fraud adding when she took the money from my card at 5:00 a.m. that one day I went into detail gave the exact location of where she did it in everything I said she used other people's cards all the time which was very true and how she demanded my card when I had it a couple weeks later I get a letter from the Department of Social Services DSS they accidentally sent it to my address instead of my mom's thinking she moved along with me I open it and I read that she was denied public assistance denied medical insurance and denied food stamps she met the requirements for getting them but because of my report she lost everything but SSI as far as I know what probably helped was that I told DSS she stole my card and requested a new one and the lady at the front desk was mortified I found out she took the money out later when I set up the card online and saw all previous transactions for the past year she's out $850 a month more than her SSI and out of health insurance which was paid for by the state all because of me and I boasted about it to my therapist my therapist actually congratulated me because I'm very shy with people so to report something like that was very unlikely of my unless you got me very angry Thanks anxiety what did you think what would you have done differently share your opinions in the comments and if you enjoyed the stories slap that like and subscribe button for more of them and don't forget to support the original writers with an upvote links are in the description peace out and catch you tomorrow

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Length: 16min 48sec (1008 seconds)

Published: Tue May 12 2020