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Have you ever worked for a boss who wasn’t a very good person? Would you be willing to overlook the things he did wrong as long as it didn’t impact you, or would you want out of there?

In this story, one employee was in this situation, but when it turned personal, she eventually decided to quit her job. That wasn’t the end of it. In fact, it was just the beginning.

The boss tried to avoid paying her for a couple sick days which ended up costing him much more in the end.

Keep reading for all the drama.

Former boss botches me then tries to withhold pay when I quit…pays the ultimate piper when I push back!

I consider myself a decent person and an above average employee.

I worked for a medical office directly under a doctor for almost 2 years and was consistently facing issues with him from the start.

He was aloof, unhelpful, didn’t want to train or help establish protocol. Just wanted me to run everything and take the fall for anything that went wrong.

OP overlooked a lot of things.

He was married with children but flirted and slept with numerous patients and staff members.

This isn’t unheard of in this field, so I often just kept my nose down and tried to do my best at my job regardless of his after hour activities.

Problems started to arise more and more though as he hired people based on looks and his attraction to them vs their qualifications to do the job.

I tolerated a lot of nonsense, but the last straw was when he wanted me to do some somewhat illegal activities financially and when I refused the games began.

Yikes! This is bad!

I could sense that he was unhappy with my unwillingness to do whatever he wanted me to willy-nilly, but didn’t think he was upset enough to justify punishing me or trying to get rid of me in any way.

Then literally ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE after a minor procedure I had him do for me.

We were in good standing (or so I thought) and I thought nothing of having him do it at the time.

What sucked royally is that he botched my procedure and caused permanent damage. That wasn’t even the worst part, the way he dealt with it was.

OP still held out hope.

Instead of apologizing and offering to make it right to which I’m pretty understanding and would have accepted, he denied anything was even wrong or had happened under his care.

He went into total ‘cover butt’ mode and methodically started to try to get rid of me without firing me (as it would definitely be wrongful termination) and the tension was becoming unbearable more and more each day.

I was hoping he would make it right and we could move on, but instead every day was full of scrutiny of my choices and work and even a write up for a minor offense that I had no prior warning about.

I could see the writing on the wall and realized he was going to wash his hands of me as quickly as possible to preserve his precious reputation which I could definitely disrupt now with his mistake with me.

Enough is enough.

I noticed shortly after while on a planned vacation he was advertising for my job.

I decided to quit then and there instead of be fired.

I was trying to fix the botch prior to quitting and hoping he would help financially, nope, not gonna happen.

Told him I was quitting and since we were under very abnormal circumstances that I would not be offering my typical two week notice.

Let’s see how the boss reacted.

He was MAD.

He was late with my last paycheck in which he sent a snide letter with telling me he was done with me and my care with him.

I noticed that the check was short for 2 sick days I had taken after the botch…we are talking around $275 but it was still enough money that I felt rightly owed.

I had a TON of sick pay left and didn’t even give it a second thought until now and thought maybe he just forgot to add it.

The boss resorted to lying.

Nope, he responded curtly saying I hadn’t accumulated enough time to pay for the days.

I asked to see proof of that because I knew I had enough time.

He changed the accumulation date to another month and said tough luck, wasn’t going to pay.

I told him blatantly that this was wrong and that I would have to report it to the labor board if he couldn’t show me proof.

He just bullied me back and insisted it is what he says it is and again tough luck.

Let’s see what the labor board has to say about this!

He even said to quit contacting him about it or he would report me for harassment to law enforcement.

So I went to the labor board.

I brought in my contract and asked them about numerous questionable offenses.

They couldn’t believe how many skewed things were actually going on that I had accepted because I didn’t know or he had convinced me otherwise. They had me file for all of the offenses and said they would send us both a letter letting us know the mediation date.

Wow! OP and the former boss were both in for a surprise!

Got the letter in the mail from the labor board and almost fell over dead right then I there.

What was originally a $275 offense with the other minor claims and now ‘penalties’ added from the labor board the total was now $6,500!!

I laughed hysterically and couldn’t believe it at first.

I thought about him receiving the same letter that day and just reveled at the thought admittedly.

Time for mediation.

Keep in mind he didn’t know at this point that I had actually went to the labor board as I promised. He didn’t think I would do it, he thought he had won up to this point.

Mediation day roles around and he sits across from me with the mediator there and is steaming under the pressure now.

We both share our sides (which he lied about numerous things of course) and then we talk separately with the mediator.

She explains to me that my case may be hard to prove, being somewhat he said/she said.

But there was something else the boss did wrong.

She encourages me to kind of take whatever he offers.

Before leaving the room with her I bring up one more thing to her that I was unsure of and didn’t ask about before. It involved him not paying overtime, and she lit up like a damn Christmas tree.

BINGO. With that type of offense and me being able to show verifiable proof he would have to pay the penalties starting at $6,000 and whatever the judge added after that.

She went and told him of this new claim, and he fumed out of the building saying I shouldn’t be able to add anything at this point (not the case at all) and that he needed to speak with his lawyer.

It gets even better!

I get a new claim in the mail with the added offense weeks later, the total is now $9,600!

I die again laughing and just basking in the thought of him getting this new claim.

There was no contact from him this whole time but now suddenly there is an email sent to me in the sweetest tone I’ve ever heard him speak. He pleaded with me that he never meant to withhold anything from me and that he would like to settle all this peacefully outside of the court.

Of COURSE he would I thought to myself.

OP was willing to negotiate.

I forwarded the email to our mediator and told her that I did not want to respond and asked her to deal with him and let him know I wanted to continue the no contact he requested earlier.

Weeks go by, we are creeping closer to a court date….suddenly the offer roles in $4,000 and he will settle (I was set on $5,000 because of all the hassle I had to go through up to this point.)

I tell the mediator to tell him nope, $6,000.

Silence for another week or two….then the offer of $5,000 comes.

OP is enjoying the payment.

That was my number so I waited a couple days (just to shake him up a bit more) and the mediator let him know I’d accept it. I received the payoff within a week, and then I got to wash my hands of HIM in the end.

He thought he could cheat me and bully me as I’m sure he has gotten away with it in the past.

I gave him a swift lesson that could have just cost him $275 to do the right thing…but now I’m going on a vacation to Hawaii and will sip a Mai Tai on his dime for trying to take back what I had rightfully earned and more!

I wish they’d gone to court!

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

The doctor was definitely a bully.

This person wouldn’t have let the doctor off that easily.

Here are some suggestions about how to take the revenge to the next level.

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This seems like a bad decision to me too.

The doctor may have had to pay, but was that enough? I like the idea of ratting him out to his spouse. Might as well destroy his personal life. And I like the idea of outing him for the botched procedure. Might as well destroy his professional life.

That doctor deserves much worse revenge.