Isn’t it insane when you put in so much hard work but your bosses and managers don’t care and even reprimand you?

If you were in this situation, would you keep working hard despite your horrible boss, or would you find a different job?

In this story, one employee shares how his boss punished him for being a few minutes late, so the next time he was going to be late, he did something his boss wasn’t expecting.

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Being 1 minute late = being out for the day, so I’ll take the day off.

So I worked at this company for 2 years and never had attendance issues brought up, and received 2 promotions in a year.

They were training me for another promotion when my boss goes through every time I’ve ever been even a minute late back from breaks or lunches.

Keep in mind in the last 6 months I had only ever been out sick twice which even though I had sick pay were each considered a strike.

That’s INSANE!

Even when I got COVID from being exposed at work, the 2 days I called out were each separate occurrences held against me on my review and bonus.

Effectively it was 5-10 minutes all in one minute increments and those 10 minutes were enough for him to write me up and say I will still be training for the promotion but there is no way in my review in a month I will receive the promotion or pay increase till next review.

He even said I was an example employee, excelling in this role and I can handle more then anyone without being challenged.

So because of these few minutes I will have to do the job for this promotion for a year without pay or title and I’m on write up.

He got an idea.

I asked him to clarify if that meant each time I was a minute late was as much as a strike as being out sick for the day.

And he said yes, it’s based on occurrences.

Well one day I was having car issues, and if I were to work from home that day I’d only be a minute or two late.

He also reprimands having to work from home too much since we’re supposed to be in office 4 times a week.

If I came in office I’d be at least 20 minutes late.

He was so done with them!

So I decided to call out sick since it’s all the same anyways.

He also ended up promoting me anyways, after telling me this wasn’t possible no matter how perfect my attendance was.

So I found a new job and left, giving me an even bigger raise.

YIKES! That’s so mean!

Why would they treat their best employee like that?

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

This user hates bosses who do things like these!

This user knows the system doesn’t want to promote anyone!

This user knows how things were in public schools back in the day!

This user appreciates is glad the employee found a different job.

This user knows when to quit a job!

When the consequences are the same, take the day off.

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