My toxic company literally almost fires me for taking PTO for being sick.

So I decided to get revenge on them by putting them in their place in a way they will never forget. Resulting in one of the biggest karma backhands I've ever given to the face of a company in my life. Here's how I did it. So I used to work as a researcher in an inbound call center. I love the work and the company was fantastic when I started, but after four years,

they've got bought out by a big international corporation, which is a pretty standard hack and slash corporation. They buy up a profitable company, strip it of all assets, they cut costs, they slash

the quality, they make good money until our well-deserved fantastic reputation is completely destroyed,

and then they sell it off and they move on. Within weeks,

the company went from being fantastic to work for to just yet another crappy tense work environment

where the bosses take advantage of the employees. One quick example of how badly they nerf the bonus

structure is that one particular bonus went from being able to earn up to a thousand extra

dollars in three days to a single

$50 Boston pizza gift card. Previously, all employees got paid varying bonuses under this

scheme. But in the new system, only one person gets the gift card. And they had the nerve to get

mad at us when the new slap in the face bonus failed to motivate anybody. Now, I was good at my

job. And not to brag, but I was the most

productive employee on the floor. We were given 15 PTO days to use every year, which according to

our employment contracts and company handbook, were to be used for sick days, mental health days,

and other personal reasons. No explanation was ever asked for, meaning that you could use them

as and when you will. I always made sure to use all of my PTO by the end of the year as it didn't bank.

Previous management encouraged us to do so, and also there was no bonus for not using it. I follow the company rules, always gave plenty of notice, and only once left the team dangling with no notice.

And the only reason that happened was because I got seriously

ill at the time. Well, the new management takes over and right away. They start trying to intimidate us

into not taking PTO. I hear a lot of this from my fellow employees, how when they would call in,

the supervisors have started grilling them. They'll be challenging them and saying, well, you don't

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