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    ‘My primary motivation was revenge’: Top-performing employee is let go from their job, so they land the same role at their former company's top competitor and score a 30% raise

    Petty revenge has a special place in all of our hearts, especially if it's petty revenge in the workplace. More often than not, these bosses and C-suite executives feed on low and mid-level employees like sharks when they see scuba flippers atop the surface of the ocean. They think we're seals, but we're actually humans who know a lot more than they think we do. We're just looking for the right time to strike.

    Being let go is never easy, but a top-performing employee might not reconcile with the fact that their best efforts were for, essentially, nothing. These companies don't care about us and refuse to give us any kind of loyalty. So, we mimic their behavior and do the same thing. That's what this particular company's former employee decided to do, and they scored a 30% raise in the process. A scorned employee is like a wildfire—Once they catch a gust of wind, their animosity spreads rapidly, destroying everything in their wake. In this story's case, that's all of the company's top customers—80M worth.

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