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A lot of companies don’t care about the people who work for them. They only care about dollars and cents. Cost cutting is a top priority, and often that means firing the employees who have worked there the longest.

In this story, one man is in this situation. He knows he was fired unfairly, but instead of fighting it, he looks for another job.

When he finds one, he ends up at a company that actually does care about their employees. In fact, they think he’s such a valuable employee that they decide to get revenge on the old company on his behalf.

It’s glorious!

Let’s read all about it.

Dad gets fired for BS reasons, plays the long game, ends up in charge, takes the extended family on a cruise

My dad had worked at the same company for almost 30 years before he was abruptly fired for compete nonsense.

He was coordinating an upcoming meeting of people who had to fly in from around the country.

One important participant resigned unexpectedly, so Dad cancelled the meeting via email and explained why.

Apparently that counted as “improperly communicating privileged information,” and he was fired the next day.

The timing is interesting.

All this happened a week after Dad’s boss retired and was replaced by a new guy who wanted to cut costs.

What a coincidence.

This was about ten years ago, near the height of the recession.

Dad was in his 50s, hadn’t interviewed for a job since the early 1980s. He wasn’t sure he’d ever find another job.

It took him awhile to find another job.

My mom went back to work at a school to pay the bills, while Dad scraped together what he could doing some dumb online consulting gigs for basically minimum wage.

They managed to keep their heads above water, but only barely.

Dad was out of work for a year and a half.

He finally landed a job at a new company three states away, coincidentally about an hour away from where my wife and I lived and were expecting Dad’s first grandchild.

This all sounds like it’s working out really well.

Mom and Dad moved to live about 20 minutes away from us.

They had paid off the mortgage on their house, so they decided to keep it and rent it out, planning to retire there in a few years.

New Company treated Dad very well. Better salary than he’d made at Old Company, good benefits, and respect from his co-workers and superiors.

A year later, Mom and Dad were able to buy a second, smaller house near their grandkids.

I’m really starting to like this new company!

Dad mentioned a few things about his time at Old Company to his new bosses. Nothing confidential or anything, more like overall strengths and weaknesses.

Of course, the story of how he got fired came out as well. It turns out that when you work at a company for over 25 years you learn a thing or two about how it works, and “cutting costs” by firing experienced employees can make your company vulnerable.

New Company started to get very interested.

They saw an important business opportunity, and also a chance to get revenge on behalf of a valued employee.

I love how they got revenge!

A couple years later, New Company bought Old Company. They were both big companies, and mergers of this size take time, but when the dust settled it was clear there were “redundancies” – divisions and products that both companies had that New Company only needed one of.

They kept as many of Old Company’s people as they could, and very few lost their jobs.

Except, of course, for the people responsible for firing Dad.

New Company put Dad in charge of the building he used to work in at Old Company and let him choose his employees from both Old and New Companies.

It all worked out really, really well!

Dad had to move back to the old state, so New Company helped sell his house in the new state and gave him a moving stipend of several thousand dollars.

But Mom and Dad were just moving back into their own house.

They sold their new house that they’d made payments and improvements on for five years for a nice profit.

With that money plus the moving stipend, they paid off debts, saved for retirement, and took me, my siblings, our spouses, and the grandkids on a cruise.

It may have taken OP’s dad awhile to find a job, but when he found one, he ended up at a great company that really had his back. I love it!

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person wants more details.

Another person thinks that this truly was the best revenge.

A paid off mortgage is a big accomplishment.

Another person makes a good point.

As the saying goes, what goes around comes around, and that guy who fired the dad in this story found that out the hard way.

In a way, getting fired was a good thing for him though. He’s now working for a better company who actually values him as an employee and who put him in charge during the merger.

Taking the whole family on a cruise with the extra money was just the icing on the cake!