A MasterCard Moment for an Evil Boss

I know that we didn’t see eye to eye on major issues within the company.  Such as my wanting you to not discriminate against your staff based on their gender, tell your clients the truth about your "overcharged" hours that you guessed, your creditors about your hidden assets, and comply with all applicable professional and business licensing laws.

I understand why you fired me to save money (you paid me twice as much as my predecessor because I had a penis) as the architectural firm’s billings were reduced.  This was in spite of my saving you $240,000 in your probable Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Nevertheless, did you ever consider how you would end up losing more than you would save?

First, I’m getting unemployment for two years.  With the current economic climate, I’m not likely to be employed anytime soon.  You’ve also been uncooperative in assisting me to find work.  Thus, your unemployment taxes will increase and you will be paying an additional $20,000 a year for 3-4 years or about what I “cost” you in one year.

Second, I’ve notified the three jurisdictions where the company did business in but never registered.  I’ve asked them to impose their business and/or personal income taxes based on your earnings from the company’s activities.  Cost: about one year’s salary.  You can also expect letters from those jurisdiction’s professional licensing divisions and secretary of state as well.

Third, I’ve given both the human rights commission and a former employee who charged you with age discrimination information (such as your excited utterance to me that you would lie if asked about a particular set of facts) so they can reopen their case.  Cost: two year’s salary to settle, perhaps?

Fourth, I’ve notified the IRS about how you would take inappropriate deductions by taking your rich friends out for dinner and saying they are “clients.”

Finally, I told one of your many creditors about your unrecorded (hidden) option to buy the office building you lease that you told me you didn't want your creditors to be aware of.  Five days ago, they attached that asset worth $900,000 or about 16 times my salary. 

The look on your face when you found out what I had done: priceless.

So, evil boss who thinks he can always do whatever he wants and believes rules are for other people, the next time you want to let someone go or do something inappropriate, maybe you ought to ask yourself:

“Do I feel lucky?”

“Well, do ya, punk?”