Employee Made Tons Of Cash For Their Company Even When Away On Sick Leave Due To A Cancer Diagnosis. So When They Weren’t Treated Well When They Came Back, They Decided It Was Time To Leave Them For Greener Pastures.

Matthew Gilligan

5 hours ago

Source: Reddit

Yikes, this sure didn’t turn out well for the company that tried to pull a fast one (and a vicious one) on an employee who had to miss time because they were dealing with CANCER.

Does anyone have a heart anymore?

Check out how they got revenge against the folks in charge at their company.

Want to put me on Performance Review for having Cancer? Ok…

“After several checks, it was confirmed I had cancer and had to be in hospital for a while.

I worked in Recruitment, and to my knowledge (to my face/in calls to me anyway), my company was supportive of my battle.

Whilst at home recovering from an op that I had to have to remove the cancer and to help with recovery, I kept on working/kept up with my clients etc, even though I took three months off unpaid leave.

I just wanted to show my company that although I was off (like I asked for cancer or something), and also wanted to show them that I was grateful of their support and understanding of what I was going through.

They were still putting in a lot of effort.

During this time I made several high profile placements, and due to most having long notice periods (technical Directors etc) they wouldn’t start for a few months and we invoice/bill clients on start date.

The pipeline I had generated was worth $200k in a single month – which was the highest ever in the 10 year history of the company (a very good month would be about $20k-30k generated).

Wow…

When I came back, I had a meeting with the Director, and I was about to thank him for his support etc and to excitedly tell tell him about my pipeline, however before I could, he said he was happy I was healthy, however he “had to put me on Performance Review for missing a critical time in the business and for not hitting my targets”.

I looked at him and said “As you know, I had Cancer and also took the time off as unpaid”

Director: “Yes, however not meeting KPI’s whilst still employed by us means I have to do this to be fair to others in the team”

I looked at him shocked, but then did the math in my head, and just said “Ok”.

Now it takes about 30 days for payment to hit our accounts. So I bided my time.

That week the first batch of my new placements dropped. I quietly invoiced. The next week more followed. Third week our division had our monthly meeting where we each have to share the pipeline for that month. It got to me, and I said “I’m currently on $161k, and have another $40k pending.

Bam!

You should have seen his face! His boss was at that meeting also. Most of my team knew what had happened to me and had my back and smirked.

We got paid commission monthly, and I knew I had another 5 weeks before these would be paid out.

So I just quietly worked, and luckily was also approached by one of my internal clients that wanted me to come work internally for them (I am actually still with them to this day!)

As soon as that wedge of commission dropped, I called a meeting with the Director.

He was all smiles and said “OP, I knew there would be no hard feelings about having to put you on performance review, and we are taking you off it. I see now it was completely unnecessary”.

We’re done here!

I told him thanks, but I was giving him my notice. I said that “Having gone through the stress of what I had to go through, really made me think what was important at the end of the day”.

He and his boss (his boss apparently did not know about the Performance Review – dunno if true or not) tried to make me stay by offering raises and promotions etc. I, of course refused.

A couple of people I know are still there, and to this day, my record of highest biller in that company still stands.”

Let’s see what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person was impressed.