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by apandhi 8y ago
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TLDR: Guy gets his job back and a generous raise (almost double his paycheck) after getting fired and threatening legal action.
- dvtrn 8y agoAnd he's being compensated to build his skills and increase his professional value. Excellent leadership shown by the owner once he caught wise of what took place IMO
- SwellJoe 8y agoThe owner caught a lucky break, I think, in having an employee that was so forgiving and being able to rid his company of two toxic people.
- SwellJoe 8y agoIt's literally incredible that they fired someone for having their lunch stolen. It's great that sanity prevailed, but gods what a ridiculous situation. I hope whoever that HR person was is never employed in a position of authority again. The lunch thief is bad, but the HR person is much, much, worse. I'm still mad over here just thinking about it.
- chrischen 8y agoSounds like they work at a big old company with lots of layers of middle management. I can't imagine a startup with a lunch thief being able to be realistically hidden.
- cortesoft 8y agoI mean, they fired the HR person who did it because of this. Turns out they were sleeping with the food thief.
- pjc50 8y agoThat's what at-will employment means. Really he was fired for crossing the power structure of the office, which is always a disaster even if it's a secret power structure.