When someone you work for promises you certain pay, or a specific raise at a specific time, you take them at their word.

After all, you have no reason not to, right?

OP took a job with the expectation that if he met his stated goals, he would get a significant raise.

A few years ago, I got hired on as a General Manager for a small, corporate chain specializing in ice cream.

They weren’t doing well as the pandemic had just ended and they needed someone to boost their sales.

I was hired on with the promise that once I’d doubled the sales of the store, I’d get a substantial pay raise.

Well, he kept up his end of the bargain.

I hit that goal five months into the job.

During my 6-month evaluation, I was given a small raise, not even half of what I’d been promised. I was told that the store was “still catching up”, so they couldn’t afford the raise they’d previously quoted to me.

If the store continued on its upward track, I’d get my raise at my 1-year evaluation.

Yeah, no.

The girl who took his job had to learn the hard way.

I started looking for other jobs and stopped going above and beyond in my duties.

The assistant manager I’d hired noticed and took up the mantle, secretly going to my boss to get my job. After a month, it worked.

They were going to demote me and promote her to GM before I quit.

But luckily, he had been lying in wait all that time.

A few months later, a friend sent me a screenshot of a post on Facebook where a girl was warning people not to work at that shop because they won’t pay you.

I reached out to her, found out she hadn’t been paid for a week’s worth of work and the GM (my old AM) wouldn’t do anything about it.

The corporate number wasn’t publicly listed, but I still had it saved in some emails, so I gave it to her and told her she ought to let corporate know about what’s going on in that store.

The store was shut down by the end of the next week.

It was closed for a month before having a grand reopening with new owners and management.

I got revenge in a “two birds, one stone,” kind of way.

Does Reddit think this was too little too late? Let’s find out!

You know Reddit loves to see people sticking up for themselves.

Sometimes these companies don’t know what gems they have.

Unfortunately, many have to learn the hard way.

You’ve just gotta be brave.

They really admire this guy for holding his ground.

This is an inspiring story for sure.

You definitely need to know your own worth.

Want to read another story where somebody got satisfying revenge? Check out this post about a woman who tracked down a contractor who tried to vanish without a trace.