unhappy guy - this might give you a laugh.

I used to work for a company that was notorious for violating HR legislation - they routinely fired women who got pregnant for example, until they got sued, and I was called to testify against the company that it was a pattern.

Anyway - this company never wanted to pay out severance, so if they wanted to get rid of you, they'd just go out of their way to make you so miserable that you'd quit. They started this treatment on me. But I'm pretty tough, and have a hold out for the package kind of attitude towards employment, so I just coped with it as best I could. My boss started my performance appraisal one year, by saying "everybody hates you". I walked out, informed him he was clearly unprepared for the meeting, and that I'd respond to the performance appraisal in writing to HR. It was crazy they were trying to document me on everything and I was documenting everything back. Finally I decided that if they couldn't find me they couldn't fire me, so I booked a 6 week trip accross Canada doing market research (I was negotiating author contracts at the time) and meeting with existing authors. Really it was just an excuse to get the heck out of dodge and run up my expense account. I was on a flight from Regina to Winnipeg and was reading the free newspaper that had been handed out on the flight - it was Toronto's major business paper, and there was a quarter page add for a finance position in a newly formed position in a new division that was the result of a merger within my company. They wanted someone with an MBA. I said what the h***, and when the flight landed I called the head of HR and said - "This may be crazy but I want to apply for the Business Manager's position you've advertised in the globe" She said well how are you qaulified. I said I'm graduating with my MBA in corporate finance in 2 weeks. The interview process was hillarious, but in the end I got the job which made me senior to my previous boss, who ultimately left the company about 5 months later, and suddenly I was the golden employee that nobody could touch.

I told my friends it was the ultimate employee revenge story.

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