I was working a position where I started out as scheduling support, got made an executive assistant, then got stuck being put in charge of everything my boss did not want to do. HR, ordering, shipping and receiving, by the end of it I was doing 9 different jobs and working 80+ hours a week, while only being “allowed” to report 40. I tried to get a raise, from $25 an hour to $30, and he denied me saying “I wasn’t doing enough.”
Because of asking my boss decided to let me go, and because his father in law needed a job he gave him only one of my duties and paid him 3 times what I was getting and then he outsourced the rest of my work to an even lower paid assistant.
So I started noting down OSHA violations, and labor relations violations. I made sure I had proof of each, and the boss telling me I could not report my actual hours and made the appropriate calls the week he let me go. For years I had been telling him to fix these issues and I had years of him waving it off or not caring, but being dumb enough to put it into text form. Then on my way out I made calls to both OSHA and my local labor relations board and a year later I’m a nurse and making way more and working way less and he’s paying over $10 million in fines.
So if you really want to leave that knife in the back on your way out, call OSHA.