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Ever heard about someone being fired for siding with the truth? Well, you will today.
Our parents, our teachers, our relatives, and whoever has been involved in our positive upbringing has taught us to never lie. Always be truthful no matter how much deep trouble it gets you because siding with truth will always get you success in the longer run. So technically, speaking the truth would never cause any problems for you. But, it did to this one employee.
The company decided to raise prices in order to give the employees a raise of $1 per hour. They posted this notification for the public to see. One customer noticed the letter and decided to inquire. They came up to OP, should them the notification letter, and asked if they actually got the raise for the raised prices or not. And OP truthfully replied that they hadn’t.
The rest you must read yourself. Scroll down below to read what happened with OP after she honestly replied to a customer.
1. Today we will see how siding with the truth got an employee to lose her job.
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2. The company decided to raise prices and the rationale behind it was to help increase employee wages. And the message was made public.
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3. The employee had no idea about the raise and when asked about it by a customer, she honestly replied that they hadn’t gotten any.
Perhaps there is a raise pending and she will get it upon requesting.
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4. Wow, so the prices were raised to feed the owner’s own pockets and not to give raises to employees.
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5. The news is now out to the public. The customer knows the price increases were not to give raises to employees.
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6. Well if you are unfair to your employees, of course, you will never gain anything out of it.
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7. The boss wanted OP to lie to save his order. Sorry, Mam, this is not what we were told to do by our elders.
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8. Are you listening to this? The boss said she cost her money by speaking the truth. So hilarious!
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9. Always side with the truth.
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10. At least she got to know about the toxicity of her company. The husband fully supported his wife’s decision.
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11. Unfortunately, this company didn’t have the balls to do so.
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12. Ruining the name of the brand.
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At first, when OP said they never got a raise, they actually had no clue about such notice so they were being honest and were actually intrigued to ask the boss if there is any raise pending. But when she got to know that there is no raise pending and none of the employees are getting a raise, then her siding with the truth was more certain and robust. This time she spoke the truth to let the customer know about the hypocrisy of the company she had been working in. And of course, when the orders got canceled, the bosses realized the error they had made but it was too late. By siding with lies, the owner just lost a very good employee. I am sure OP will get a better job in no time. But the reputation of that franchise is now down the drain.
Here’s how the internet responded:
13. This comment pisses me off too.
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14. Bad bosses will never believe any bad happening is a consequence of their own actions. Never.
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15. I swear every organization in the world needs a structured human resource department to settle this stuff once and for all.
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