r/NuclearRevenge - My Two Bosses Framed Me, Then FIRED Me. They Lose Everything.
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 6. 09. 2024
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0:30 - I was Framed and Fired.
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Dean is a stand up guy. Interviews someone accused of theft, which was the reason for the termination, yet goes beyond that to actually listen to get both sides of the story. He smells a rat and proceeds to take a chance, hire the man and make some sort of attempt to see if there's an opportunity to get matters set straight. I'd like to think that that's how I'd do things. I'm impressed and pleased with the outcome.
Sounds like your new boss had your back within 5 minutes of meeting you. I wish all bosses were like that.
Some are. There are so many toxic workplaces that these good bosses are few and far between.
maybe his wife worked with people that had been screwed simularly to op had, and the wife had told some horror storrys, not the exact storrys with names etc but to give a picture of how bad some people are etc.
Iâd guess it wasnât as altruistic as all that; if his wife were able to represent OP, sheâd make good money on a lawsuit like that
Since the wife was a lawyer, you can bet she'd seen a bunch of crap go down going clear back to studying case law in school and the examples shown there.
Dean sounds like a boss most people would like to have in their corner. Heâll go to bat for his employees.
Not only that, but a strong moral compass, and the backbone, moral fortitude, and initiative to see that a wrong is righted. Someone who believes that it is incumbent upon ALL of us to do our part in bringing about justice and combating corruption, whether it directly affects us or not. I wholeheartedly endorse that belief.
I like to think that Dean is a great guy but he could have just been curious to see what happened. I would look into it too if I was him hiring a new person with a story like that. Either way, it worked out well for OP but I do feel bad for the immigrants who worked for those jerks.
âFree Soup and Breadâ
So, this person works at Olive Garden lmao
Yep
I wonder if it's the Times Square location we heard so much about a few years ago
@@brandonlink6568 The story mentions it's in Chicago.
@@Calekoflight and the irony is thereâs only 1 Olive Garden in the Chicago city limits and itâs off the Kennedy on Addison street and it doesnât add up since this restaurant has decent ratings so Iâm guessing itâs probably an Olive Garden just outside the city limit
@@funnypranker34 or it was still decent then as far as service, health code, and general dining experiences are concerned but everything OP was talking about happened being the scenes. The shit that you wouldn't have seen without having worked there. Doesn't sound like any of this took place in view of customers or too the point where customers would have been alerted.
Dean, as a fair employer, was keen to ferret out a bad employer. Some people believe in ethical business practice. It's called Rule .303; those with the means at hand have the duty to act. Dean knew his wife could find out about the shenanigans at the restaurant and see if there was cause for any investigation. To Dean, it stood to reason that if there was some skullduggery going on over OP's firing, there was bound to be more dark doings happening to OTHER employees. If Harvey and Fredo had behaved themselves , behaved in an ethical way, there would have been no investigation, firings, divorces or deportations. Dean and his wife helped lance a boil.
Harvey just wasn't big enough yet to buy his way out of this
Well said
Thank you for typing out this so I don't have to.
As for OP's new manager pursuing this. I'm sure all this put a major dent in one of his companies competitors.
My sentiments exactly. I suspect that there was most likely something in the way OP presented himself to Dean - speech, body language, eyes, etc - that indicated to Dean there was something not quite right. There are some people who have the gift of being able to "read" people very well, and as I listened to the story I immediately suspected Dean might be such a person, and "read" OP as a decent, honest & trustworthy person, and that something wasn't right about OP's "fired for theft."
There need to be more people like Dean in management!
If ever your boss tries to flatter you and offer you to be an unofficial supervisor, you need to look for a new job because they are only using you.
Depends on the industry though. In some industry an unofficial supervisor job (more usually it's training) can get you the experience to move into a formal supervisor job but agree that when someone tries to make you an informal supervisor it's a red flag.
Has happened to me with two different jobs
Seen worse. Two people at previous company promoted to team leads by both title and responsibility, but not wages. They were told their wages would be increased after 6 months filling team lead positions. Both had to fight for raise after 6 months. One walked out for BS 8 months later. The second (my former supervisor, though I'd left by this point) was fired for responding all, in an email calling out management, as his staff couldn't handle the workload due to Covid supply sterilized packaging shortages causing additional product testing. Yes, this was the QA department. Don't trust your fast food soft-serve ice cream and shakes, as most are provided out of this plant.
Yes absolutely be very careful when someone starts asking you to be an unofficial supervisor at your workplace without a significant pay increase. If youâre lucky youâre being trained to become a supervisor or manager.
But far more likely that youâre being abused and your goodwill and you should be quietly looking for a new job.
No dude.. I'm a 3rd level manager myself.. for me giving opportunity has 2 things in mind:
1) What's the employee good at which he can improve
2) What's his next plan so I can give him exactly that stuff
Probably 60% managers are users, but the remaining are not bad..
Even if OP was not the one to initiate it, the fallout from that voice recording being released was definitely on the Nuclear scale. It's good that karma caught up to those 2 scumbags
After Dean showed the video to his wife, as a lawyer she has a responsibility to escalate it. Good for her!
Not necessarily. He wasn't her client.
Dean and his Wife were the real heroes...Kudos on them...F*** Fredo and Harvey
Edit: and Kudos for OP's original team. They risked a lot for someone who always stood up for them. That loyalty is hard earned
Usually only in the military and public service areas.
Now you could say that Harvey is-
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*a two-faced villain*
@@saltwater7366 is that a Log Horizon reference?!
@@rosetathorn9579 nope a reference to the Batman Villain, Harvey "Two-Face" Dent
@@mongmanmarkyt2897 I was thinking of Harvey Weinstein because of all the sexual harassment this Harvey did.
I feel like the new manager did the right thing since as a wise man once said âwhen good men see evil and do nothing, there also is evil.â
Dean did the right thing. And he technically didn't dig into it. He passed it to someone safe from the matter and let them do it. No different than a civ calling the cops for something.
A point I made to someone else, by Dean passing it off to the Lawyer wife to handle the issue it saved him and OP from any backlash over it where a single misstep could have cost them both so much from conflict between the two companies.
I disagree. Dean unwittingly and negligently risked the life and livelihood of OP by using the video without their permission. Yes, it worked out great in the end. But what if it didn't?
The video exposed OP's identity. This could have resulted in a massive blow back on them... completely destroying their life.
What Dean should have done was ask OP if they could use the video as evidence.
Dean did the right thing but shouldâve let op know what he was planning
@@R3_dacted0 can you explain how the video could have had negative drawbacks like that? i'm not sure i understand how that could've happened on that big of a scale... though i do understand why he should've asked
@@guineverestone6429 Not who you asked to, but here's an example... Say, this Harvey, has had his job taken away and marriage ruined. It's his fault, but he blames "the whistleblower". He knows nothing of Dean and his wife, but evidently the company does know about the video and who filmed it... So does he. So, he decides to beat up, or shoot OP, just because he's that much of a nutjob.
Or, years later, after OP is done with his current business and needs to look up for a new job, a potential employer's research lands them with the incomplete information of just how much trouble was directly related to OP in the past- and they decide not to take a risk.
Not things you'd expect to happen in most rational situations, but people ARE irrational.
It may not have been the managers job, but it sounds like he had integrity. A rare quality these days.
Fluff: There's going to be *one* story
Me: Checks length of the video
Also me: Grabs popcorn
Microwave popcorn? You nuked some popcorn. LMAO
We have all the time we need until quarantine is over, so don't worry!
I speed up the videos. This one was fine at 1.75
this is funny couse i grabed coffee.
@@carlangeloaposaga7377 Coffee takes longer to make, and the caffeine stays in your body for more than 24hours.
That's a long amount of time!
Typical of the food service industry,- turn over a tiny stone, you find a graveyard of the worst human behaviors.
This sounds more like blackhole revenge, a single event suck everything and everyone into the chaos
This story was just an oversized butterfly effect that happened to own a nuclear device.
@@efficientdoom1895 a nuclear device that detonated and created a black hole
Nuclear Avenge? Since it was done by someone else, on his behalf.
@@CSX4772 A blackhole that was capable of absorbing our galaxy.
I was thinking hyperNova revenge
"why do it, when it's not their business?" - I think it's called "being a good corporate citizen".
It could be even simpler- being a good person.
I like how much of a Bro the new boss was. So sweet of him to think of the legal rights of his brand new employee. Also, kudos to his wife who took the proper legal steps despite not being paid by OP.
Iâm hoping it provides more evidence to my belief that most people are decent and outnumber the bad people by quite a bit.
In my normal or optimistic moods Iâm sure Iâm right. In my not so optimistic moods I tend to feel like that idea is totally naive.
It was very nuclear. As for the manager who gave the recording to his wife, he sounds like that rarest of all people. Someone who does something JUST because it is right. Extremely large kudos to him.
Sounds like your new manager has a high degree of personal integrity to correct a wrong done to you. He's a very special person to have done that.
Aye, to have a boss like Dean is a very rare wonderful thing for any employee.
Iâm lucky that my department manager is much like that. She somehow manages to be competent, efficient and fair. Though sheâll come down hard on employees that had done something that requires discipline, she gives both sides a fair chance to tell their side of the story before making a decision.
And she has one other distinctive characteristic quirk. If someone treats one of us badly and/or unfairly, be it another worker within our department, a supervisor or someone from another department or even from the general public, she goes full Mama bear.
Sheâs protects us like a Mama bear protecting her Cubs. Woe betide those who tried to harm one of her workers. Itâs only a shame that the deputy manager is the total opposite. She is one of those people who at first seems to be nice and charismatic but itâs just a disguise her her petty nasty and two faced, as well as having a deceitful nature. Sheâs also a liar, promising certain things to anyone then breaking those promises once she has what she wants from you. Say sheâs desperate to get enough staff to sign up for overtime to cover the shortage of the workers for whatever reason it happens to be that day. (EG staff phoning in sick as an example.)
So sheâll promise that anyone who came in to do the overtime to cover the shortfall of staff that day, would get first choice in when they want to book their annual leave. But of course that never happened here. When he went to claim his annual leave, he wasnât given priority choice.
I think, you came across one of those rare people, that just do the right thing, because it's the right thing to do. they're still out there, good people.
The reason that "Dean" took the video to his lawyer wife, is the fact that it's =illegal= for a former employer to say anything other than, "yes, they worked here", "they quit/resigned of their own accord", "yes, I would hire them back", "they were fired for cause", "no, I wouldn't hire them back". ANY details given about a firing are illegal to share with another company, in most cases.
It's not illegal.
You can say "Employee was a total piece of crap and I wouldn't hire them again if you paid me!"
The issue is that the ex-employee can turn around and sue the previous employer for slander/defamation of character, especially if the company interviewing the ex-employee decides not to hire them on the previous employer's statement.
So, now, the trick is to say they were a crappy employee without actually *saying* they were a crappy employee.
@@yerghaizverot6441 can confirm, crackerbarrel did this to me after i quit due to stress, overworking, and horrible conditions. Employers can and will do this, I have been rejected at several places becasue of them.
Just because they do it, doesn't make it legal. There's very strict laws about what they can say.. Just because you let them get away with it, doesn't make it legal.
Depends on the state, every state has different laws. I do think that you are correct in this instance.
@Axl Dave no they can't they can only pursue charges if they legally want to tell future employers about a prospective employee's theft issue, but no they can't bring it up if your new boss contacts your old boss
I honestly think dean did what most of us do. He asked someone a question based on their skills. âhey! I hired this guy today that was unfairly dismissed. He has a recording. Do think he has a case?â Sheâs heard they recording and went into lawyer mode and sent the video to the appropriate department without realising it was going to go super nova
TheOP is lying. The details you mention are how we know heâs lying. The recording he made is illegal in Illinois. No lawyer would take any illegal rrecording and send it off to a corporation. That would endanger the lawyers license to practice.
Also no large corporation is going to initiate an employee action using an illegal recording as a basis for such. Such conduct would result in criminal charges as well as the two scumbags getting compensated for being fired on the basis of illegal evidence
I love when NuclearRevenge stories are like this, when no blood was spilled.
but they're always better with a bit of blood
violence forever!!!!
I'm happy there were no Karens! The women involved were Dean's wife (a lawyer) and the auditor, who did her job very well. Other women victims were mentioned and they were good, too. Often it's the "Chad" or "Kevin" or whatever the men are called in such stories who are the truly dangerous ones...!
the blood did get spilled, but immediately evaporated by an aftershock, thus causing a permant scar (bloodstain/legal records)
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Why are you happy there no âKarensâ? But happy there are âChadsâ? Why arenât both equally as bad?
DominoRevenge
ChainRevenge
All adequate but nothing compared to this EPIC story đ€Ł
He tricked someone into getting fired and that got him arrested by the FBI for fake IDs.
DarkFluff you found it odd that the new manager took action with the information. And then you say "... if it wasn't his business to begin with, why go into it ..." .
My reply is *âThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.â* You hear this all the time, but very few act on it. Then people complain how the world is so corrupt.
Look at how much damage Harvey and Fredo caused to so many people, and no one complained to corporate. Dean and his wife had the conviction to *do the right thing.*
So many younger people need to hear this. Almost everyone I know under 25 years old is like "oh, he personally didn't physically hurt me, it's not my business." I even saw a girl going how a man that burned her house down shouldn't go to jail, because she was alive. They do not grasp this concept at all.
@@Blueoriontiger burning someones house does count as something though...... even if its not damaging you specifically its your property and the place you live and she should've tried to imagine what would've happened to her if she was inside the building and wasn't able to get out.... destruction of property is more serious than she's making it out to be.... i have no idea why she wouldn't want them to go to jail....
Me and my boss once interviewed a potential hire - young guy, a year after graduation. Students had to finish a month of unpaid internship to complete their course. This dude found internship in a an "important corporation". They somehow managed to convince him to stay for additional year and a half. He did full time job. For free. They supposedly promised him that he'd hired and if not then he'll still have their company in experience tab in CV. When we pressed for more it turned out that he was doing literally everything but the work he was studying. That was wrong on so many levels and this guy was genuinely confused by our alarmed reaction. My boss decided to call his lawyer and ask what can be done. From what I know that corporation was under investigation for some shady practices but what consequences there were (if any) I don't know.
even a nuke needs a simple spark to start a chain reaction. that recording was the perfect spark.
He was the spark that burnt down London
He was the spark that could've burned down China.
It does not need a spark, just a critical mass.
@@pyrodragon6819 he was the spark that unfounded Nagasaki.
@@pyrodragon6819 god dammit now all of China knows we're here
I love the way he blames "high tax" for being the reason he didn't have enough money and not the fact that he was underpaid right from the start.
The OP is lying
High tax is a real problem. Consider that we are all taxed by multiple agencies: Federal tax, state, tax, county tax, city tax, special district tax, etc. A one half percent increase by each taxing entity, in this example: 5 x .5% = 2.5%. It's easy to look up "Tax Freedom Day" on the internet. Most people don't pay enough attention but we all pay a lot of taxes.
The SECOND I saw the look between Fredo and the boss, I'd start recording everything that night.
TBH, the affected person brought up an interesting story but I am mostly amazed how great "Audrey" handled it after getting involved.
Finally something that is so sick and twisted it made me stay on the edge of my seat. Though it's disturbing he didn't pursue the consequences, he created a crater that destroyed everybody involved.
I applaud OP for just wanting it to be able to get a job, not take down the company with a lawsuit. I applaud Dean's wife for being like "watch this" and nuking Harvey and Fredo on OP's behalf.
"I decided not to burn this bridge just yet, because perhaps I could nuke it later."
My God, I love this line. It's now my mantra.
I think the Op's new boss just didn't like bullies and also sensed what was being done at that restaurant might actually be much worse than OP thought (he was probably also pissed that Harvey had lied about OP) , so he decided to get a second opinion, which in turn got the proof sent up the line to the proper authorities.
It wasnât revenge... he ran into an avenger
Also, my guess is that he was looking for work for his wife, and figured the company might dig their own grave after op said he didnât want to pursue it. âHey, I know you said you didnât want to pursue a lawsuit, but look at how easy the case will be!â
Why a new boss would involve himself in a new employee's past employer that mistreated the employees is on that has a quality moral compass. Bad employers tarnish all like businesses.
I mean, they already mention with new boss that OP is suck at old work. So, when new boss asked OP for confirmation and OP says otherwise, obviously something doesn't look right at all at the old work, even if the new boss didn't care about
This is basically Chernobyl level nuclear revenge that I'm glad I buckled up because holy smokes this story was a ride.
Not the new hiring manager's concern? There is a little thing called justice and that is everyone's concern. Fiat justitia ruat caelum. That's a Latin legal concept. It translates as "Let justice be done though the heavens fall". I would have done the same thing as the hiring manager; well, not quite the same thing. I would have sent an email with the recording attached to the corporate offices of that restaurant myself. I don't tolerate injustice *AT ALL!!* If that means other people saying I'm sticking my nose where it doesn't belong, then too bad. I'll stick it there. But I *WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES* let an injustice slide without at least attempting to see it made right. Kudos to Dean. He did the right thing.
Though it was better that Dean had his wife who was one of the Company's Lawyers to do it as it sends the signal that the new company was willing to fight for OP if legal issues came up, where it could have meant OP and Dean's jobs from just the slightest misstep in handling it.
Kelly..you, and people like you, are a cut above. Our thoughts on matters such as this coincide 100 percent. Nuff said!
Almost exactly how I felt where I worked before, now I wish I had recorded my own, forced resignation. Wouldâve LOVED to see the same outcome.
Had to listen to this one a second time. When OP left after getting fired, he unknowingly pulled the string that unraveled the whole cloth.
I think it was meant to fall apart just the way it did. Everyone involved with the evidence were curious enough to investigate a little deeper instead of just taking things for their face value.
Awesome story!
đ 5 out of 5 stars. âââââ
Cool. I spent over 45 years in different restaurants, and it's comforting to see people like these two get what they deserve.
Harvey Dent approves of this scale of revenge!
"This isn't about what I want. It's about WHAT'S FAIR!"
That's more or less how I feel about revenge
and that's the crazy part; if it was just a plot to wrongly fire him it would have just ended at petty or normal revenge.
But because of how they themselves acted outside of work-The Tsar is calling
This was Nth level white-star collapse...I learned to PROPERLY document the employees during my time in the Marine Corps, taking the steps to note strengths and weaknesses.
I bet he wanted to absolutely verify that the guy was telling the truth, which in turn had his lawyer wife verify it.
It's very possible, even likely I think that he is a good employer who doesn't want to see *any* employees get screwed. There are a whole lot of good bosses out there. Unfortunately, the bad ones ruin it for the good ones and because of the bad ones, all supervisors get tarred with the same brush even if they are good bosses.
Kelly Rayburn that is ALL so true!
I understand Dean's actions. I'm in law myself. My husband brings things to me when he believes someone is or has been wronged or taken advantage of. It has nothing to do with what you get out of it. It has to do with stopping it from happening to other people. Pro Bono work is very satisfying. It seems Those clients are even more appreciative than those that pay (win/lose or draw).
I think cases like this deserve their own category. So often we see nuclear or pro-revenge stories where the OP only took one tiny action that just kept going...
How about Avalanche Revenge?
Where one tiny action (a snowball) becomes huge on its own, just needing a start.
Avalanche Revenge sounds pretty fitting
Kudos for the new boss for living up to his principles and righting an injustice, stopping 2 very evil managers from bullying workers by turning the recording over to his lawyer wife. This pc theory that "itâs none of my business" is crap. Of course itâs your business. "Bad things happen when good people do nothing". Excellent!
The reason I believe the ânew managerâ got involved with this technical tirade is he was a legalistic. Someone whoâs involved with the court system. Thus compelled to do the follow up he did the job well. Be careful out there, You donât know whoâs watching who.
wow, you really never know what kinds of things you will find in a dark room once the lights are turned on =/
If your spouse is an attorney, you probably here some interesting stories of things that maybe going on in the world. I think the wife did the right thing. Would be great to know if the restaurant stayed open at all.
Was wondering the same thing. Would also like to know what company this was.
English is not my first language. So it takes some time for the brain to process what I hear. Your way of calmly and clearly telling the stories means that I do not listen to anyone else in this genre.
Never stop with your stories. You have such a pleasant voice. I give you the highest rating, 5 stars. :) And a whole lot of thumbs up.
I feel like Dark Fluff definitely deserves a sip of that beer in the background of this video after reading this insane Nuclear Revenge story!!
Beer or Ginger Ale?
Only every ones favorite Black Sheep of the 'net knows for sure...
It's seriously unnerving that there's apparently people around who'd let two criminals continue destroying innocent peoples' lives, even while having the means to do something about it. Even to the point of not even understanding why anyone would put even the slightest amount of effort in, to make someone else's life a bit better.
Then again, it does indeed explain a lot about the current state of affairs over there.
everyone: *listening*
me: *looking at the drink*
Ă u n n y Iâm sure youâve found that itâs loop back đ
I want to drink jiic
As someone who has been an executive manager and department head I see "Dean" as being proactive in two ways. First; as a Manager he needs to know the character of his employees as he has a greater responsibility to the company. I have personally had employees who record every conversation they have with Supervisors, Managers and HR. You could say it keeps honest people honest and in the case of that troublemaker employee, if believe management is doing the same it does quash many disputes before they start much like the body cams Law Enforcement now wear. Second; he is demonstrating his integrity and ethics to an employee who will now have a very deserved trusting relationship and respect for him. It is a win/win situation for both of them and I wish then both much success.
Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth Shattering Ka
I saw what you did there! Epic.
@@paulleckner8235 Thank You , Thank You ...
that manager that submitted that video was zoro dude amazing
So Dean talks to Harvey and finds out that OP had been fired for theft of a bowl of soup. What's that like about $5.00? So OP was fired for $5 bowl of soup with no chance to redeem himself by paying it back. That is probably what started the alarm bells ringing. How does that make sense? So then he hears OP's side of the story and the recording and he realizes that Harvey is a bona-fide outhouse basement dweller. He then takes the story and the evidence to his lawyer wife who realizes the enormity of the situation and knows who needs to be told about what is going on. Dean obviously knew that what happened was wrong but it was his wife who knew how to handle it effectively. I would be very interested to know what kind of legal letter she sent to the company's headquarters. I have a sneaky suspicion that it included words like "immediately", "labor board' and "open to lawsuits'.
Harvey likely didn't specify to Dean about exactly what was stolen. Also, I find it interesting that Harvey even told Dean about the theft at all, as most places seem to have laws in place preventing detailed negative references (meaning you can only say 'I cannot provide a positive reference' if asked for one).
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 The wife probably wanted OPs corporate office to investigate wrongful termination based on the evidence he provided.
The thing is, it wasn't a bowl of soup. Soup and Bread they get for free, this was a general appetizer, that normally they'd have to pay for. An Appetizer that just so happened to be the OP's favorite.
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 Over confident stupidity.
Dean sounds like an awesome person to have as an employer. I can imagine he would be thinking about any other staff that had been fired (by those two ******) in the past under false claims.
im glad his new boss did it, or else they would of got away with so much longer and it would been bigger mess than it was already one.
Yep, not everyone would have done that. But that what hero boss would do, to undo some wrongdoing done to a valuable employee. Real hero.
@@royr1016 What if christophers first language isn't english?
Then he wouldn't have learned it in elementary.
I am so happy they got what they deserved. Sounds like Dean is a pretty good boss. And with an attorney as a wife plus being a good boss makes you just casually ask your wife if something can be done. And then your wife just takes care of the rest.
I would do exactly what Dean did. People like that shouldn't be allowed to prosper, on principle.
Do you mean people like Dean or people that were the douchebags that ran the restaurant?
@@paxhumana2015 I think he's talking about the douchebags.
I have been in this position, (They ultimately wanted to keep me because of my skills, after destroying my career, however fuck them and I didn't reenlist again.) So I love this story, I was unable to do anything to close off my story, just that I lived thru it, this kinda helps me feel a sort of vicarious victory. Thank you so much for sharing. Really......thank you.
I don't know if this qualifies as nuclear, but it sure looked that way when it was over! I also can't figure out how to post to Reddit, so I'm putting it here. If you like it, use it!
There is only one rule....
I was a very small kid, never breaking 100 pounds until my mid teens. In eighth grade I was still very slender and lightly built, with stringy muscle. I wore glasses, and due to my extremely abusive home life I was very quiet and withdrawn. Prime meat for bullies! The worst bullies in my seventh and eighth grade classes was Ian and his sister Audrey. He loved knocking my lunch out of my hands or off the table, she enjoyed tormenting me on the bus, with help from him and their cliques. Since there were maybe 150 kids K thru 8 in our little school, everybody knew everybody, and once you were a target for one person, you were everyone's target. I put up with their shit thru 7th grade, but by midway thru 8th I'd just about had it. The final straw was Audrey on the bus, just after spring break. I just had it, and turned around and asked her why she's always such a bitch. She slapped me. Her father was the bus driver, and he locks the brakes on a school bus packed with kids, jumps out of his seat and grabbed me by my jacket, THROWING me off the bus. Literally picked me up with both hands and threw me through the partially open doors. The next morning he refused to pick me up, so I had to ride my junky little bicycle to school. That afternoon I went out to get my bike and both tires are cut clean through. That was it.... time to get nasty. The nerd had had enough.
I had been telling my parents about the issues, bullying, etc, and it was always the same response... "Just be nice and be polite and they will stop". When the bus driver refused to let me back on the bus though, that changed. She actually tried to fight for me, but the bus driver and his spawn just kept building bigger and better lies. The bus was officially a no-go. My bike was trash. Parents both worked. School was too far to walk, and we lived way out in the boonies below Mt Hood. I DID however have a perfectly good, well trained, well behaved Appaloosa gelding, and school was adjacent to a large park surrounding a hydroelectric head pond. I arranged with the park to picket my horse there during the day, then walk the 1/4 mile to school. All issues around the bus resolved, but the school bullying only got worse. Finally, just a couple of months before the end of 8th grade, my opening arrived. This particular day was very nice, so everybody would be at the park that afternoon. I deliberately egged Ian and Audrey on, getting them more and more pissed off, until they finally quit being cowards and called me out. Clearly, loudly, and in no uncertain terms, told me to meet them at the park. I agreed. NERD WAS PISSED!!!!! I rode my horse home, put him out to graze, and borrowed my sister's 10 speed road bike. On this thing, on our country roads, I regularly outran cars on the downhill section into the canyon.
Here's where the fun starts. As I passed the hanger (my father was a pilot and an A&P at the time, and had a small airstrip on our property) I told him "I'm going to the park to meet the guys!" He told me to "hang on. Come back down to the house for a minute." There he had a pair of his work shoes laid out, along with two pairs of heavy socks. He had me put the socks on, then the shoes. Still a little big, but by cinching them down tight they worked. They were HEAVY too. Then he told me something I have never, ever forgotten. "In a fight, there is only one rule.... WIN! No matter what anyone else says, THAT is the only rule you follow." (At this point I hadn't realized he knew what was going on. I still to this day don't know how he knew.) So off I went, with a year and a half of pent up rage at the kids, and all the hatred and rage at my father for his abusiveness. The kids are all there, maybe 30 of them, laughing and jeering as I rode up. I parked facing away, in second gear, pedals situated just right.
The following rules were laid out.
1) No kicking or punching below the belt.
2) No punching in the face, since Ian had just had a cyst removed from the left side of his face. Stitches maybe three inches long.
3) Fair fight. Fight like gentlemen.
Now just because I was slender and light doesn't mean I was weak. I ran a chainsaw every weekend, cutting firewood from a pile of logs my father would have delivered every other month. I used an old Homelite chainsaw, and it was NOT light! I used an 8lb splitting maul and a 4lb axe to split that firewood, then I loaded it, drove the truck to the house, unloaded and stacked it. I threw 60 pound hay bails for our livestock, and I rode a horse for fun. I was light, lean, and FAST! I was also learning Jui Jitsu, the nasty side of Judo. No one at school knew this. Ian was more bulky, and slightly pudgy, but not badly so. He was taller, with longer arms. He was also cocky and arrogant. He said this would be a fast fight. I was hoping these heavy shoes wouldn't slow me down too much. So the fight started. Ian charged me, straight in. The very first thing I did was snap-kick him straight to the balls. He stopped instantly, like he'd hit a brick wall, kinda got a sick greenish tinge to his face. His hands dropped, so the second thing I did is throw the hardest haymaker right my whipcord arm could throw... right into that three inch incision on his cheek. I FELT it rip!!! It became substantially larger, and wider, as every one of those stitches ripped out. He tried to grapple me. I stepped back and kicked him in the balls again, then in the ribs as he fell, then in the face, right on that gash on his cheek. He hit the ground, I jumped over him and hit that bike like the Lone Ranger hitting Silver! By the time I got home, my mother was home. My father saw me coming, and had me take his steel-toed Redwing tennis shoes off out in the barn. Mine were out there waiting for me. He looked me over, and this is the second thing I've never forgotten.... My father was proud of me. Ian had never even touched me.
He also suggested I not tell my mother about this, and helped me wash the blood off his shoes.
This was the late 80s, so it was just a fight between neighborhood kids. I never heard anything about it from my parents or his, or the law. The last couple of months of 8th grade we're really peaceful. Nobody EVER tried to mess with me or my horse, mainly because I left for home too soon one day, and rode across the road right in front of the school bus.... With a British .303 in the rifle scabbard on my western saddle! I rode cross-country from that point, and there were cougars in the area. The rifle, saddle, and the rest of my tack stayed at the park with my horse, so nobody had seen it until then. The next day I was asked if I knew how to shoot it. (You should be able to see it coming....) I told this particular person that if they wanted to know the answer to that question, they could meet me at the park.
No takers. Never harassed again.
That was the wickedest story I've ever read! Being a nerdy kid myself, I also got to feel the satisfaction of having bullies stop pestering me when they found out I could fight back. (Thank you after-school karate) I still got punished by the PE instructor for my class since I took on 6 bullies and they all said that I threw the first punch, but since I only had to sit out of PE for the day, I no longer consider that a punishment. They didn't even call my parents to tell them I had been in a fight.
ironically all my normal teachers from 1st - 4th grade called my grandparents all the time for acting up in class. 5th grade is when everything stopped for a while.
then in the 7th grade I did something unthinkable. the kid next to me (not one of my 1-4 bullies) was obnoxiously harassing me in class one day and I slapped him right across the mouth. The teacher I had at the time saw what was happening, and because I had no record of violence, he let me off with a warning. Me having a panic attack immediately after also kinda helped. The same kid who was harassing me went to his guidance counselor, who was also mine, and he pointed at me and said "she did it!" I looked them both in the eyes with the most expressionless look on my face before rolling my eyes and walking away. The guidance counselor also knew I had a bully problem, but given my small figure and emotionally meek nature, she must have thought I could not possibly be capable of what he was claiming. Also, he was a whole head taller than me, so even if she thought I did hit him, she was smart enough to put two and two together and come up with I was provoked into it.
II didn't have a bully problem at all in high school because from then on I let absolutely no one get to me. my female peers tried their best to make me either feel inferior or look like the bad guy trying. it took them only my freshman year to realize that none of their tactics were working. a kid in oceanography tried to give me a hard time, but quickly got off his high horse after receiving a mysterious letter written in runes with a cat's paw and claw marks (something I picked up in a Nancy Drew game). Never had to use that tactic again of course.
I didn't have a whole lot of problems in university. Some boys in programming classes snickered about my spontaneous randomness, but my professor wasn't having any of that. (he asked me privately that same day if I had ADD, and I told him honestly that I didnt know as I had never been evaluated.) They also quit snickering when I revealed that I was actually smart enough to be in the class.
The life of a short, nerdy girl isn't easy, but I did finally learn how to handle myself, and it always thrills me to read others' experiences and share my own in return.
Adults don't want to recognize this because it tears away the "thin veneer of civility" that makes the world sorta-kinda work, but the best strategy for dealing with a bully is often the careful but determined application of physical violence. It's probably the only social situation in modern life for which violence tends to be the fastest and most effective solution.
Or, to summarize: nothing stops a bully like handing them a solid beatdown.
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I wouldâve been suspicious of the fact that the âcancelledâ order just so happened to be my favorite appetizer
Deanâs motive could have been to take out a competitor. Itâs going to take a couple of months to restaff and reopen, and even then the competitor will be limping for some time.
As far as i understand it, the new job was something different.But i guess Dean just don't like assholes.
OP went into something to do with logistics. Nothing to do, as I can understand it, with the hospitality/restaurant business.
It was two different industries for the story. So the most Dean could have done as far as "hurting the competition" would have been opening up the job market to more candidates to higher from.
I once was in an employment class, and the instructor asked what was the most important benefit companies could provide. After listing health insurance, paid time off, childcare, etc., he said a great boss. If you have all those benefits, it doesnât really matter if youâre miserable at work. He said that besides them interviewing you, you should âinterviewâ them. Especially, find out who youâre going to be working for. If the company sucks or that manager sucks, be sure to way your options. Is there room for advancement? Would you be able to handle having them for a certain length of time? Those decisions should be taken in consideration before accepting a job offer.
...i mean if your manager is crooked enough to give you a pay increase to spin a story for them... i sure as hell would quit because you know there will be a point in time when they will try to give you the boot for not following their instructions or they screw up and choose to pin it on you
Yep. Tried to tell my supervisor that, a few weeks before I left. Basically "if you know they've just screwed a fellow employee, what makes you think they won't screw you, down the track?" He looked very thoughtful. He'd been present during an unfair dismissal, had, to his credit, tried to right the wrong, but obviously caved when his own job looked shaky. It's like being best friends with the mafia. If they'll turn on that guy, they'll turn on you. If your immediate overseer is shonky as heck, you can bet even worse is happening behind the scenes. Run away.
Let alone they remembered the bosses saying thy would make sure to have 2 closers, then soon had only one closer. The duo had already lied once, the staff was certain the duo would do it again
Same reason I use in why I don't chase wives and girlfriends, if they will cheat on them for you, they'll cheat on you for someone else.
Wow⊠When this Dean guy sent OPâs video to his wife, I thought that the crapbags would only get fired and possibly blacklisted. Turns out the web of deception, lies, illegal activity etc. was so much larger than an honest person getting royally screwed over. Dean sounds like the type of boss people would go to war for.
This isnt nuclear, supernova, or black hole
This has it's own category: UNIVERSE COLLISION
Not really, this is pretty tame, plus it's more just karma since the op didn't plan it as revenge. You are way over estimating the scales. Karma with some collateral damage, it barely qualifies as nuclear
This is essentially OP seeing a button that says "Door Release", pressing it going through the door and looking back to see a mushroom cloud because a few metaphorical wires got crossed.
I think the new manager was just trying to cover his butt in case OP was a thief and it was just a quirk of fate that it happened the way it did.
Of course they wouldn't listen, they had every intention of firing him from the beginning.
And if the line cook had came to his defense Fredo would have just accused him of lying and fired him too as an "accomplice".
My bet is that Fredo fibbed to the line cook about the order in the first place for the sole purpose of setting OP up.
Honestly it's quite the amazing coincidence that it just HAPPENS to be OP's favorite.
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Great moves and having an escape plan. You have restored my faith in people sticking together when bullied in the workplace!!đ
Oooh, supernova revenge? You're too good to us, Fluff! Gets the snacks and soda out.
I brough the doritos and caffine free pepsi
The new boss sounds like he's just an awesome person. He saw someone getting royally screwed and took action, even if it wouldn't help the person or himself. It was just the right thing to do.
The best revenge is molding on people who don't eat their lunch, that's why your sandwich tasted so weird.
Really great to see "THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL", as the old saying goes. It also warns that we should all know our rights and how to preserve them and that revenge of any sort is a dish best served cold.
This one is a little weird for me on placement, On one hand you have the actions OP took that really only fall under ProRevenge at best, while on the other hand you have the fallout for the revenge that certainly reached nuclear levels.
Why did OP's new employer get involved? To quote Teddy Roosevelt, "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." Cheers....
This is like butt pressing the red button that launches the missiles and then just shrug it off like, 'oop not my problem'.
Yea there's no revenge plan, it's mostly karma with some collateral damage
If I hired someone after hearing a bad recommendation then being presented with evidence to the contrary - I would ask for the recording evidence then ask if it was ok to follow up on it, would probably have kept employee more in the loop, but it sounds like he just shared it with his lawyer wife to find out if the guy had a case, then she shared with her friend who was a higher up in OP previous employer, and possibly 'next step' wasn't seen as particularly significant along the way. Sounds like one of those snowballs at the top of hill that turned into an avalanche - because of hidden misdeeds by OP's prior managers. So this went Nuclear not because of OP's intentions [he was just covering his a.. with the recordings] but because of the stupid managers karma. Thanks for sharing OP.
This sounds like an absolutely wild plot for a movie.
Yes
Dean and wife are the amazing people that has been lacking from the corporate scene.
Dude. This thing literally had massive implications pulled in dozens of unrelated people for multiple different types of consequences at differing levels of severity. All stemming from one act. This is the definition of Black hole Revenge
Why is it that every restaurant gets rid of one manager and says the new one coming onto the team is a âhotshot manager thatâs gonna make business boomâ but ends up being worse than the one before đđ
i will call it a "murphy law" revenge, everything that could go wrong, went wrong, for the wrong doers
I wouldn't quite say everything that could go wrong did, but that is mainly for the fact we don't know if the dickwads died because of the fallout
@@truekurayami well depends also on how bad they got the karma, maybe dying would have been a blessing at some point to them... who knows...
He also was incredibly lucky to get that recording. Without being at the exact right place at the right time and having the forethought to record, none of that would have happened.
I suppose Fredo is swimming with the fishes now
I know it was you Fredo, you break my heart.
So, I live in IL myself. This guy broke IL recording law by secretly recording the bosses when he left. It is illegal in IL to record someone in secret in any way, unless you suspect a crime is about to be committed against you or your home/property. It's a two party consent state and we have eavesdropping laws that this poster definitely violated. The managers he secretly recorded can now sue him for having been recorded them without their consent.
Well, OP did suspect he was being wrongfully terminated and he was collecting evidence. Doesn't that count?
Nice video Fluffy
As for this Story if the managers lost their jobs and spend a crap ton of time In prison or OP found them living on a box on the street then Yes it is Supernova or Blackhole material as it is it still counts as Nuclear but is on the brink of Supernova
All that it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing.
Dean saw something that was "wrong", he knew it, and he did something about it.
Well done Dean.
I think that "Nuclear Karma" would be more accurate than "Nuclear Revenge".
I say that is debatable on who you focus on. From OP's perspective as the story is written ya feels more like Karma, from Dean's perspective very much Revenge
It makes perfect sense why "Dean" and his wife would act on OP's behalf. "Harvey" and "Fredo" would have had enough pull as franchise players (in this case, management) to have ensured that OP would never find another suitable job in the city ever again, if they had things their way.
Some mention ought to be made of your local state's wiretapping (secret recording) laws. Illinois does not allow surreptitious recording; it is a two-party consent state. Making recordings seems necessary at times but playing the recording to others is risky and emailing the recording is probably illegal even in single party consent states.
Yeah thatâs how I know the OP is a liar.
No lawyer is going to take any illegal recording and they would know it is an illegal recording and send it off to corporate. Also new corporation is going to be used employee action based on a legal recording. They would lose their case and they would have to pay a huge chunk of money to the scumbags
It changes state to state _and_ situation to situation. Is it audio, video or both? Is there an expectation of privacy? What is the recordingâs purpose(s)? How many are involved? How many, if any, people being recorded are aware of it? One thing thatâs often brought up is whether theyâre in a place that has a valid expectation of privacy (bedroom, bathroom, etc.) A public restaurant kitchen doesnât have that.
Iâd imagine the lawyer wife knew the laws though and wouldnât have done it if it wasnât legal. There were too many people involved for the foundation be ah illegal recording. Perhaps her standing as a lawyer applies too, I donât know.
I do know that if a person is in a public area, you can record them without their permission. That is legal, fortunately or unfortunately depending on the situation, everywhere. You just canât use the the recording to make money, use it to harass them or degrade them (forgot the actual word).
That absolutely counts. Her new manager has Dad vibes. He saw a younger person that was taken advantage of. And he did what a parent would do, take it to the next step towards resolution. đ props to op's gut instincts.
This story had the most glorious nuclear just desserts. And hey, when you have a lawyer as a spouse, it looks good on you and them to uncover what they did on their own time. And I'd say it's well cooked super nova with a side dish of black hole revenge. :3
Conniving Managers: We're going to end this guys whole career
Smart and capable employee: I'm going to end both your entire existences with a single recording completely without trying.
Hey Fluffy! I hope you're having a great day, be safe out there! Absolutely love your channel! Sending love from NC. â€â€â€ this video is just in time for the SAH order, thanks!
Stay safe too friend! Hope you have a wonderful day. đ
@@DarkFluff wait you let your fans call you Fluffy?
Less known fact about nuclear fission: The reaction can branch out from a single split atom and chain into billions of fission reactions to produce a fission bomb or nuclear meltdown, so technically, this is one of the best examples of nuclear revenge