January 13, 2024 at 3:27 am

Pushy Boss Didn’t Believe That Employee Was Sick, So They Sent A Photo They’ll Never Forget

by Matthew Gilligan

Source: Reddit/AITA/@jakk86

Prepare to feel a lot of emotions when you read this story

It’s not for the faint of heart and honestly, it’s pretty GROSS.

But it’s also a story of epic revenge, so we think you’ll be impressed!

Check out what this person had to say…

Demand proof of illness? Hope you have eye bleach.

“I had a boss one time who was such a control freak that she demanded to know specifically why I was calling out sick (WILDLY illegal where I live) one day. And for reference I’m typically the guy who never gets sick, so it wasn’t an attendance issue.

They told the truth.

I told her I think I had food poisoning (turned out to be true and actually wrote a ULPT based off this story a while back) and she kept pressing me as to explain what my symptoms were and why I couldn’t make it in all via text.

I had finally had enough and was like look, I’m not physically capable of working today and you are not allowed to ask me personal questions about illness and medical history!

She threatened me with a write up if I couldn’t specifically explain/prove why I couldn’t make it into work.

Things were about to get GROSS.

This is where the pro revenge comes in.

I was about to send her something horrific, that she could not unsee……and she wouldn’t be able to do jack **** about it, since she technically asked for it.

Picture time!

Being that I was living in the bathroom for more than two days (this inquiry was day one) and had aggressive diarrhea every 15-30 minutes and the worst abdominal pain I’ve ever experienced…..I lost my **** (har har) and took a pretty disturbing picture of me painting the bowl brown right before I flushed…..and sent it to her.

No joke it looked like I power washed the inside of the toilet with feces and built a turd island in the middle of the water.

It honestly looked like a poop volcano had erupted. I had no idea your bowels could contain so much!

“This is happening every 15-30 minutes and I haven’t been able to leave the bathroom for the last 6 hours. Here is your proof, check the timestamp (also sent a screen of the timestamp). I’ll let you know as soon as I can if I’ll be in tomorrow.”

The boss was not happy.

So after 3 days off I show up for my shift….sleep deprived and sore from sleeping in my bathtub or on the floor for 2.5 days, but I was finally through the worst.

She immediately escorts me into her office where our regional HR rep is waiting for me, and we all sit down.

He has paperwork in front of him and is discussing the ‘incident’ with me and gets me to acknowledge what I did and that sending “unprovoked and offensive content” to coworkers constitutes harassment and blah blah blah right before he asks me to sign a final write up (if you do something like this again, you’re fired).

It was time to put her in her place.

Before signing I asked him, “Did she tell you why i sent this?”

He was dumbfounded and said this isn’t really excusable and basically handed me a screenshot printout of the text messages where this ***** deleted everything in the exchange (in her phone) BUT me saying “sorry, but I need to take a sick day today,” and the picture.

I laughed and handed him my phone and said here is the full exchange.

He asked me to leave and “give them a few minutes.”

About 10 minutes later he calls me in, by myself, and explained what I already knew…..that she was the harasser and that she had aggressively violated privacy laws and would be dealt with, and to call him “if anything like this ever happens again.”

I think she learned her lesson…

I found out from one of the assistant managers that she ended up getting a final written notice and was super close to being fired, and it prevented her from getting a big promotion that she was being looked at for.

So, if you ever come across a jerk boss who wants to play doctor and question your sick leave, send them diarrhea pics and they’ll either shut up or give you lawsuit material.”

Here’s what people said about this on Reddit.

This person talked about pulling a “double dragon”…you can probably imagine what that is.

Source: Reddit/AITA

Another Reddit user had a story to tell.

Source: Reddit/AITA

This reader said they did the right thing.

Source: Reddit/AITA

Another reader shared their own work story.

Source: Reddit/AITA

And this Reddit user’s boss stepped way over the line.

Source: Reddit/AITA

That was disgusting!

And also pretty funny…

If you liked that post, check out this one about an employee that got revenge on HR when they refused to reimburse his travel.