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Working for a big company can be weird. The lack of oversight can be strange, like this guy who was never told to do anything and stayed on for months. What gets extra strange is when the company starts to tank. Bosses stop responding to emails, the stores themselves begin to degrade, and people stop showing up. Here are people who know what it was like to work for a big failing company.

People deal with their fair share of ignorant bosses, so it's incredibly satisfying to see an employee who's in the right win something, like this overworked employee who revolted by doing his exact job description. And to prove that your boss is being a complete hypocrite is icing on the cake.

This company managed to track down the Facebook activity of a discontented employee. The employee has posted a meme making fun of using company time for bathroom breaks, cause they made all the money while he didn't make sh*t. From there, the company calls him out, fires him, and then digs a deeper hole (for themselves) by blowing the whole thing further out of proportion. 

It's remarkable how many of these revenge stories begin and end with the ultimate demise of one power tripping boss. When the power starts getting to that boss' head and they mess with the wages, they better be ready for the employees to revolt with the kind of revenge that ultimately sinks their ship. In this case, one simple phone call sinks the whole operation. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share the biggest PR stunts and promotion blunders they'd ever seen by companies. The resulting stories are filled to the brim with failure. Can't beat the Life Lock CEO who accidentally leaked his social security number to tons of people. 

This employee keeps himself entertained at work by decorating the board with a series of very entertaining, and sometimes punny jokes. Must be fun for the rest of the office! 

This incompetent Karen should absolutely have not been the company's CFO. And the reason boils down to the fact that she was dismissing other people's opinions because she put more trust in her calculator that didn't properly calculate the order of operations. 

Companies and institutions around us like to impose inconvenient rules for dumb reasons. Companies will make you wear uncomfortable hats. Colleges will make you comply with unfair printing fees. It's a minor, but meaningful success when you can get revenge within the rules and beat them at their own game.

Someone on AskReddit asked the people that have thoroughly read through the terms and conditions, what kinds of shady stuff they discovered. You never know when you might come across Toto's "Africa" lyrics in the back half of an app's terms and conditions. 

A woman working HR asked Redditors in a recent AITA thread, whether or not she was a jerk for wanting to reject a qualified candidate on the grounds that this person hooked up with her cheating ex-fiancé. Sounds like a solid case of conflict of interest, and that everyone would be best served moving forward down separate paths. Can't imagine this hiring would make for a healthy workplace environment. 

Sometimes you and a job just aren't meant to be. From that revelation it's up to you whether or not you want to quit the job in style. 

Learn from these people's regrets, as you read through stories about their experiences with brands and restaurants that left them feeling like NEVER using their services again. 

Keep an eye out for these subtle signs that your boss is working at setting you up for failure. This panicked employee's story serves as an important case study of what it might look like when your boss is setting you up to fail. Who does that?! Not someone you want to find yourself working for. 

Boohoo clothing company got completely shredded in the Facebook comments section over how this particular article of clothing fits. People got very illustrative and comedically critical on how this particular piece of cloth, might bring its own shortcomings...

This woman's panicked story about showing up to a job interview after a rushed, productive morning is the stuff of nightmarish fever dreams. Seriously. Even then, it makes sense. We get caught up in the motions of our day, and sometimes through that movement we forget to look down and confirm that we are, in fact, carrying said motions out with pants on. I want to take a moment to commend her for returning the coat hanger too. That alone is a green flag for a company considering hiring her!