To ask what you wish you could say to a horrible employer on your last day?

[MaMaD1990]

Inspired by another thread. If it didn't burn bridges, what do you wish you said to horrible boss/colleagues on your last day? Lighthearted! I used to fantasise drop kicking my old manager on my way out the door.

Mine isn't really light-hearted. I wanted to tell them that I done everything they had asked of me - things nobody else had ever managed to do - and they took it and made it seem like I'd done something terribly wrong and broke it, all on the whim of the manipulative old pervert owner of the business. I wait for the day his conduct comes out in the press. I will fucking celebrate.

I left a place where I had been really miserable but I couldn't say anything on exit because the new job I was going to was with a supplier company to the company I was leaving, so my old boss was about to become my customer.

Wish I could have told him what a crap boss he was. I kept my mouth shut for the sake of not damaging customer relations for my new employers. Annoyingly the old company switched suppliers 18 months later anyway so maybe I could have let rip.

I didn’t do anything go fear of burning bridges, but this is what I’d had liked to have said:
You are a weak manager and can’t handle making a decision so you bury your head in the sand. Everyone knows this and no one respects you.
You are so far up XXX arse it completely compromises your ability to do your role. You’ll be stuck here forever as no one else would ever employ you. You are a complete micro manager and your distrust of your staff drives us away, and looks bad on you.
Man that felt good.

Thank me for having you?

A colleague of mine used her exit interview to tell the boss all the things he was doing wrong in terms of managing the business. It was hilarious, he kept phoning her (he worked in a different building) all afternoon to tell her why she was wrong and argue with her. I wouldn't have put it past the idiot to keep the argument going even after she'd left, he simply couldn't bear to admit that anything he did was less than brilliant.

I had a lovely time quitting a really horrible job that I had been stuck in for way too long because of the recession. I didn't tell them to go fuck themselves, even those I was tempted. I just said I was formally handing in my notice and would like to be released asap. They asked if I had a new job to go to, and I said no, not a new job. A new life, I'm moving to Australia next month. The look on my cow bag managers face was an absolute picture. She had holidayed in Oz the year before and banged on for ages about how great it was. She did get a bit of revenge though! For my leaving present she bought me a single bottle of Jacob's Creek, which I left behind on my desk. .

I have not thought what I would say.

Lucky me does not have horrible colleagues or horrible bosses. They are not friends but I still am glad to work with them.

The last horrible boss I had was so long ago that he is dead now, and lived to a good age.

I've never had an exit interview.

One accountancy firm were wierd. One billionaire pharmaceutical firm were bad. My last boss was a millionaire PR games and she was always nasty to me, belittled me, sent all employees gifts, everyone except me.

I never said a word when leaving.

Wish I could tell all 3 what I really thought. But it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference because they would still be unable to recognise any of it!

I told the truth in my exit interview. That I felt it was pointless staying when my excellent client feedback was completely ignored, and I was offered 20 grand more elsewhere. I had been working really long hours and leaving that job was the best decision I ever made.

I have quite enjoyed it when my former team have had me as a client. It's funny how much more they think of me now I'm paying the bill.

I started my thank you for my leaving gift speech with ‘-well as you all know the last 2 years have been awful for me’ 😂

The next line was ‘but coming to work was always the best bit’

Unfortunately the instantly perplexed faces told me no one heard anything after the first sentence!

Best to bite your lip.

What would you say to an employer who announced to an office full of people that a colleague who was attending their ex girlfriends (who committed suicide_ funeral was "better off without her" ?

Just find a new job.

I'd love to have said:

Guys, you sell our thinking and expertise. That's what clients are buying. This model of turning anyone who actually knows what they're talking about into salespeople who don't do the work & piling the pressure on is never going to work. Certainly not when there aren't enough people in the team to do the work. I've been slogging my guts out in 80 hour weeks to make it work but it never will. You paid millions to buy a small business with talented people and you've treated us like shit so now everyone has left. Good job.

Well that was cathartic.

I've gone on to a client role where I'm valued and respected and well paid for a 37 hour week. So glad to be out of my last job. Fuck 'em.

I wish I'd have told her she was a psychotic fantasist with the personality of a balloon

I didn’t but I would have liked to tell my boss that “what goes around comes around....”

She was a complete bitch. Had discriminated against me from the outset, fed my guide dog haribo then threatened me with a disciplinary because i had a go at her about it in front of the team (it was an impulse reaction, she said “oh there you go” and threw the sweets for the dog to which I responded “no, you never feed them sweets.) She told me I would never be promoted because of my disability, arranged team lunches at restaurants which you had to drive to then told me as it was unfair to ask anyone to take my dog I couldn’t go. The list goes on.

Someone else actually reported her to our equal opportunities officer because of how she treated me and she was livid. Brought me into her office, demanded to know why I’d said anything, demanded to know what I would be saying to the EA officer with the expectation that it would vindicate her. I did actually tell her that it wasn’t her business and that I would be speaking to the EA officer in confidence....

But anyway I digress.....

I left to go elsewhere and she was sweetness and light. And all I wanted to do was tell her what a bitch she was, not only to me, but to others (she had another woman dismissed for going off when she had premature twins, woman actually took her to court and the company settled,) but I left with a smile and a wave.

I heard later that she had got another job as a senior manager with another company three months later, that three months into her contract they announced major redundancies, and as she was stil on probation she was let go without a penny.

@SerendipityJane well he sounds a treat this is just a lighthearted post though. I'm not planning on quitting in a spectacular way, it's just to hear what people would say, or those who have been brave enough to be honest!

[quote MaMaD1990]@SerendipityJane well he sounds a treat this is just a lighthearted post though. I'm not planning on quitting in a spectacular way, it's just to hear what people would say, or those who have been brave enough to be honest![/quote]
She.

I had a 2nd pt job as well as my main ft job, working weekends and the odd evening in a village shop, just earning a bit of extra cash for fun really! After a couple of years new owners took over the shop and they were penny-pinching, rude and obnoxious. She wanted me to stay late after my shifts to clean the shop despite them having an actual cleaner, but apparently they couldn't actually expect the boy they were paying to clean the shop to use a hoover because the poor little lamb was only 16, so she demanded I do it for no extra pay and that was the first time I pissed her off by refusing to do a job someone else was getting paid for. The next time I pissed her off was because a customer dropped a pound down the counter whilst paying for their shopping and I couldn't find it, had to get a pound out of my purse as I thought her head was going to explode she was so angry about this pound. I was being harrassed by a customer, the local alcoholic who fancied me (he was in his 50's/60's and I was in my early twneties) and they knew but refused to say anything to him or help me because he spent so much money on alcohol in their shop, they basically told me to smile and tolerate him trying to grab me all the time. The final time I pissed them off she had asked me when I started my shift if I'd heard about an incident in the village, I hadn't and she told me I should look at the story in the paper when I got a moment. Later on when it was quiet I picked up a copy of the local paper and read the story, then she came in and barked "I hope you've paid for that, nobody will want to buy it after you've had your dirty hands all over it". That was when I snapped and told her she was a fucking penny-pinching lunatic and she could shove her job right up her arse, that I already had a real job and I was no longer going to tolerate being spoken to like a piece of shit on her shoe, or being sexually harrassed by customers. I slammed the 50p for the newspaper down on her counter and walked out halfway through a shift and it felt great!

@SassenachWitch

I really like your story on your last day at your former job.😂😁😀

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@Picklypickles good god she sounds like a total fun sponge and pain in the arse! Some people really have no clue. It astounds me how managers get to their positions with some of these stories!

I've only really proper hated one manager and I wish I had told her the reason people kept writing her initials as IFM was because I had named her the Incompetent Fucking Madwoman and it sort of stuck. She was such a bitch, the sort to leave you gaping in shock and thinking "did that realty just happen? Did that woman really just speak to me like that in public?"

I'd only say it if I'd won the lottery and didn't need another job, the working world can be quite small so you never know who knows who, but in my head I'd be thinking it.

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel 'Mine isn't really light-hearted. I wanted to tell them that I done everything they had asked of me - things nobody else had ever managed to do - and they took it and made it seem like I'd done something terribly wrong and broke it, all on the whim of the manipulative old pervert owner of the business. I wait for the day his conduct comes out in the press. I will fucking celebrate.'

I had an almost identical experience and tbh, it broke me for a while. I resigned, knowing they were trying to lever me out. They found out I was applying for another post in the organisation and actually tried to directly interfere in the recruitment process telling my future boss that I should be barred from the site. 🙄 I have been forever grateful that he decided to make his own mind up and stood up to them and I worked happily there for a further couple of years. Took a little longer to get my confidence back. Still makes me a bit sick thinking about it.

I was bullied out if my role by an absolute cunt. I was the only one of the original team left, I knew my reference had been sent and in my last day he started having a go and I found my spine. I drew myself up to my full height, looked him in the eye and said loudly ‘Who do you think you are taking to? I don’t need this shit!’ and walked out, it was 3pm. The did ignore a reference request this year though so I had to provide proof of employment to the screening company. Luckily I still had my offer letter, first payslip, p45 and letter from the company confirming my leaving date. I’m unsure if they ignored it because of lockdown (it was back in March), I have changed name, they are useless or because of what I did.