r/UnethicalLifeProTips • u/viscabarca96 • 4h ago
Careers and Work ULPT: Laid off after the CEO called me a bitch and I stood up for myself.
I’ll keep it short for you guys. Basically became good friends with the CEO, always worked hard, stayed on task and did my job, he trusted me and would always ask for help with computer stuff and I always obliged with no increase in pay. (We do sales, commission only, 1099 independent contractors). He would dangle carrots and say he’d make me the manager when I finish up with school and ended up giving the position to someone else that no one in the office likes. That’s fine. Whatever. We then found out that one of the salespeople was cheating our system. He asked everyone to vote on firing that person and I said I’m not taking part in that vote, you’re the owner you should be making that decision. Blah blah blah, he ends up calling me a bitch, berates me for no reason, takes out his frustration on me instead of the sales rep who got in trouble. I pushed back, told him not to talk to me like that because I’ve always had the best interest of his company in mind. Never took a personal shot. And he just kept saying “im the boss, I can do whatever I want” Anyways he fired me. I’m usually not petty and can let stuff go but I was loyal to the company and never cut corners, always helped him out and even became friends. I’ve thought about reporting the company to the state for misrepresenting us as 1099 when we in reality should be w2, I’ve thought about venting it out on the google review page but scared of legal things happening. I don’t know, what would you guys do?