Wow, talk about a happy ending!

The person who you’re about to hear from via Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page got into a tussle with their wife’s boss and they ended up making out like a bandit!

Read on and find out what went down!

Months of paid vacation? I’ll take it!

“This happened in Germany so the laws are different to other countries, especially to the USA.

I was working for a family owned business (about 40 employees) a couple years ago. My time there wasn’t the best because I had huge problems with my boss’s younger brother.

He was on early pension and officially just working on a small part time contract while in reality working full time with getting most of his salary out of pocket.

This guy wasn’t happy about this…

That I was hired meant for him that he just worked about half the hours he worked before and having a huge pay cut because of me ****** him off as you can imagine. He talked bad about me behind my back all the time and tried to get me fired.

Dealing with him was a pain in the *** but I didn’t have to deal with him to often, my co-workers were nice and the pay was good.

So I didn’t care about finding another job despite my relationship with my boss and his wife getting worse over time too. My boss even came with me to two deliveries to costumers because his brother probably told him I would waste time during the deliveries.

One day I had to do a delivery with my boss’s wife’s car because the company car I normally use was at the inspection at that day and the timing couldn’t had been worse.

They made a mistake.

I scratched the fender of her car on a wall when I tried to get out of the parking spot.

The scratch were barely noticeable but I immediately reported it to one of my co-workers so no one can say that I tried to put it under the rug.

I did the delivery and when I came back my boss’s wife already waited for me. She went completely crazy, screamed at me for ruining her car (without inspecting the damage before) and said that she will take the money for the repair from my paycheck.

They needed to get the hell away from these people.

I told her that I won’t pay for anything because the insurance will pay for it anyway and thats what let her snap and she slapped me in the face. I immediately turned around, grabbed my stuff, clocked out and went to the doctor to get a sick note because of mental stress, which I threw into the company’s mail box in the evening.

Two days later I got a termination letter in the mail and had to laugh while reading just the first sentence. “We are terminating your work contract immediately, or if this isn’t applicable, within the legal 30 days.”

They knew the law…

To people who aren’t familiar with German workers law’s, it’s illegal to terminate a contract immediately AND within the legal period of time in the same termination letter. You can do one or another but not both at the same time.

So I went to the government office to apply for unemployment and hired a lawyer to sue my boss for illegal termination.

Over 2.5 months went by until I got a court date and my boss was really mad when the judge explained to him that the termination was illegal and that he had to pay me for the last 2.5 months.

But the illegal termination wasn’t the only mistake he made. The judge gave me 2 options. I can accept an immediate termination on that day and leave without compensation or I can have a 2 month salary compensation but I have to work another month for the company.

My boss laughed and said that I’m to scared to go back to work and that it makes him happy that I leave the court unemployed. He didn’t looked that happy anymore when i asked him “Why should i be scared? Do you want to beat me like your wife did?”

They weren’t about to back down!

So I took Option B and went to work the next morning. My boss’s brother already waited for me to hand me the termination letter and made comments about how difficult the next 30 days would be for me.

I checked the termination letter and after I’ve seen that everything was right. I just said that I’m not feeling well, turned around and went to my doctor to get another 30 day sick note because of burnout.

So at the end I had a 3.5 months vacation with full pay, 2 month salary compensation and he had to pay for my lawyer too because he lost at court.

I could have sued my boss’s wife for the slap too but that would have been to much stress for maybe a couple hundred Euros.”

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