When companies don’t value their employees, the employees often rebel against them.

What would you do if the vacation time policies at your company changed, and you knew they were trying to replace you just so they could pay someone younger less money?

This is another story of an employee getting back at a horrible company who made horrible decisions.

Check out what happened!

Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

I worked at a company that gave out exorbitant amounts of vacation. Anyone who worked there for 25+ years received 8 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of personal time.

This was a family owned company, but rather large. We ran 3 shifts totaling 250+ people.

This is where it gets bad!

Enter Jimmy.

Jimmy was a grissled old man, he started at the company when he was just 20, now he was 63 and gave absolutely zero craps.

Jimmy also knew how to make a specific part for our product, him and one other higher up in the office.

He was clever with his schemes…

One day the plant owner comes out and announces he’s selling to a corporation.

He’s older and ready to retire, he promises that there will be very little change and wishes us all well.

The new company comes in and immediately goes after many of the great benefits we had.

The first thing they do is cut everyone’s max vacation down to 4 weeks, and do completely away with personal time. Anyone who’s maxed out had until December 31st of that year to use it up, and they wouldn’t pay it out.

UH OH!

They then go into the office and clean house, firing anyone who’s close to retirement. Including Jimmy’s back up.

But they also do away with one very important rule. You no longer have to get vacation approved, you can just call in and take it.

Jimmy is mad, and they know it.

He knew how to deal with this annoying company.

They realize he’s the only one in the building that can do his job now. So they hire a new kid for him to train, most likely to permanently replace Jimmy.

So Jimmy does what anyone would do.

He calls in the first training day for the new hire, and lets us know he’s going to use all of his PTO at once, and promptly takes 10 weeks off.

He was so done with them!

We had a back stock of parts he had made, so it wasn’t too unnerving. But for 10 weeks, Jimmy went and applied to other jobs, found one, and started.

Fast forward 10 weeks, Its the day Jimmy is supposed to return.

He doesn’t.

For two days they try calling him, and even go to his house. He’s nowhere to be found.

Finally on day three he calls and resigns, and they lose their minds.

And there’s the cherry on top!

The parts he makes are specialized and patented by the original founder, you can’t just hire someone off the street to make them.

What eventually happened was they had to contract the original owner to come in and teach some new hires how to make them, and when he found out what all they had done it ticked him off.

The last I heard he charged them a 7 figure contract to teach them how to produce the parts, and they had to pony up, or close down.

Moral of the story, don’t mess with people’s vacation time.

GEEZ! That’s INSANE!

Jimmy made the company regret their new changes!

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.

This user has heard this story so many times.

That’s right! This user has an important question!

This user knows most companies are stupid.

This user knows there’s another moral to this story.

This user knows Jimmy didn’t feel appreciated at his work.

Jimmy was being really malicious here.

If you liked that story, check out this post about an oblivious CEO who tells a web developer to “act his wage”… and it results in 30% of the workforce being laid off.