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Am I the Jerk?

Boss REFUSES to pay me my FULL PAYCHECK... instead gives DISCOUNTS to his FRIENDS for MY WORK

Am I the Jerk?

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Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

My entitled boss is giving discounts to his friends, pricing them at a much lower rate for my goods and services, which as a result means that I get a lower paycheck.

0:09.2

And even though I've discussed this so many times with my boss, he refuses to pay me exactly what I'm worth.

0:14.6

So I decided to get some revenge by literally wasting as much money from this company as possible as my own form of payback for the

0:21.1

way that they've been treating me. Here's what happened. Okay, for a bit of context, I work in a service

0:25.3

industry, namely pest control, that pays me a percentage of what my customer pays as an extra paycheck

0:30.7

on top of my normal hourly rate paychecks. For example, if I go to a customer whose bill is $100,

0:36.4

I get $20. If I'm out sick that day and a coworker goes, they get it instead.

0:41.3

Each month, a grand total is added up, a certain dollar value is removed for company baseline,

0:46.3

and of what remains, I get 20%.

0:48.3

And it is a bit more complex than this, but that's all that's really needed for the story.

0:52.3

Now, my boss has a bad habit of giving discounts to friends of his, and it's usually below the company minimums that have been set for me and my coworkers if we were to sell the work ourselves. The problem is that despite these people not being my friends, I still got assigned to do the work, and now that customer has paid less, so I get paid less. I had brought up to them multiple

1:11.1

times over the years that if they want their friends to pay less, that's fine. But in the

1:15.5

computer, I should get my cut as if it was based on the full current price that the market demands.

1:21.0

Well, each time my boss's response has been to pull his phone out for his calculator and play

1:25.7

off the $4 difference or whatever it is

1:28.1

as insubstantial in the grand scheme of my total paycheck. They have so far proven incapable

1:33.0

of understanding how disrespectful this is to me. But seriously, if it is such a meaningless

1:38.0

and small amount, then why is it so hard to pay it to me? You know, the person who actually

1:42.7

did the labor. Never mind the fact that

1:44.7

not only do these stack up against me, but we are not a very financially successful company,

1:49.0

and we just can't afford discounts. It's a matter of principle. Anyways, they are effectively

1:53.8

pinching pennies out of my paycheck, and it's all justified under the current system,

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