small business tyrants are the worst. the ones who pull shit like "i can't afford an extra $120/week" while living in luxury, taking vacations, and making you do everything are total "don't believe your lying eyes" type of psychos. i hate how common it is.

i have managed to rat fuck 1 or 2. the sweetest plum is to secretly find other work while pretending you have become complacent about your job and time it so you can ghost their asses right as you are needed most. it is very easy to lull these people into security, because they think they are genius masterminds already. meanwhile, they flail hard when you take all the knowledge of processes and critical relationships and walk with zero notice. don't delete files or destroy property, but maybe don't be so great about keeping records or whatever for the last week once your new gig has a start date. whoops! doing a crappy job isn't illegal!

only ever give them a single sentence in reply when they ask where you are on that first day you're doing the new job, preferably as text something like "i am pursuing a different professional opportunity, best of luck." and then never say anything else, no matter what. i recommend disabling notifications from them. they will 100% have a narcissistic meltdown, blow up your phone, and hopefully text a shitload. all that stuff can be shared on socials, you can make reviews on google and glassdoor absolutely smearing the place with links to the texts they will send trying to bully you.

it really doesn't take much to poison the well against recruiting future employees if you've got a few texts of them being abusive, which this sort of gambit is certain to cause in this type of employer.

probably my only real advice for this to anyone wanting to replicate it is to temper your expectations on finding a better job. it's probably not gonna happen in a week, but if you only apply for a new job once every week or so, that's a reasonable tempo to keep up. and it's weird the way jobs pop up randomly, so the longer period of time you're looking is a better search than trying to find all the available jobs in a short window of time. and you'll be in a strong negotiating position, because you already have a job, so you won't have to accept something that sucks. it's a slow burn revenge. the wise fear the anger of the patient.

anyway, i hope you get a chance to stick it to this shit wizard.

I'm going to go against the grain here and say DO NOT QUIT.

First you need to copy every spreadsheet and every document they have for your new startup. That and their list of contacts on Salesforce if you have it/they use it. You don't have to use their docs etc it'll just come in handy having them as reference when you redo the work yourself because you can literally do the job this company is doing as 1 person.

Should take a week or so. Make sure you've got everything. Do not pass up anything, you'll regret it later.

Seriously though, $60,000 car and one employee?

"sorry, i can't afford to pay you more (i enjoy my luxurious lifestyle you're supporting)" -

let me guess, they tell everyone how they started a business by themselves and they work really hard as a independent entrepreneur. they hustle, they grind, they strive. they created a brand and watched it grow.

Sounds like he ended up in a situation where 100% of his employees are irreplacable, aware of it and radicalized against him. Pretty sure that's one of the pages in the Big Book of Business where you're supposed to draw a frowny face and (if you can) write "No".

Quit now and fuck up their vacation if you can. They're parasites.

awful

hope your boss dies a violent and painful death ❤️

you hold all the cards here. find another job (not necessarily right away but start looking) that you could tolerate and tell him you're gonna bounce if he doesn't bump you up to $25/hr.

if you have another job offer in hand you can really turn the screws on him, especially since you know the business is profitable enough (that $60k car could have been an additional $30/hr to you over the course of a year, assuming you work 40 hours a week). so ask for a huge raise because the number can only go down during negotiations, not up

then go back to looking for jobs but use your shiny new hourly rate as a baseline for negotiating with other employers and leave your current boss in the lurch, ideally as quickly as possible after winning the negotiation.

get his ass. show this dipshit no mercy, it's not half as bad as what he'd do to you if he could

“Touch base” is one of those that really grinds my gears.

Reminds me of an ex sitting in the ER getting blown up by his bosses with a yacht, gated community, private school for their kid, wanting him to return to work the same day the boss mashed him up with heavy equipment. Tfooh.

I remember that Lenin story about him sending university students to help farmers by shooting their kulaks. I wont see the end of capitalism in my lifetime but I can't imagine the jubilation of having true political power over these parasites.

Rich snobs unironically give actual poor people this look in this day and age.

BRB moving to Italy and finding an oceanfront property in Naples and tell both the immigration agency and any landlord that I don't feel like paying a dime, but I should receive those things anyways because it would be nice of them to.

Not even $20 an hour for a manufacturing job? Surely you can find something better than that.