Had a meeting Monday about some emails a client sent to me because he was very upset. We manage property for out of state owners, these 2 had been sitting empty for a while due to the owner not answering my emails. My boss made it clear that I am to email everyone with vacant property every Friday. I was totally on board, tbf he has mentioned a couple times I need to stay on top of follow ups. But with how busy we've been with 700 new properties in the last year alone on top of the 1200 we already managed, it slipped my mind
The meeting went ok at first, but my boss kept going on about it and working himself up. Finally he commented that if it kept happening they'd have to offer these clients discounts and “take it from my pay”. This is where I finally chimed in stating such a thing is illegal. This set him off “Jesus fucking Christ you gotta be kidding, after everything we've done for you! Don't come at me with that shit! If this keeps up we can just fire you instead!”
I nearly walked out of the office, but I kept my mouth shut. I was promoted to this position after their last guy quit, and I turned my department into a well oiled machine after cleaning up the shit pile my predecessor left me. I'm 10x more productive than he was, and I worked a lot of free overtime when I started so to get things caught up (salaried).
I fully planned on giving them notice I was looking for a new job soon due to burnout, and then giving them a full month notice after that. They have been better to work for than any other company I've ever been with. But when they brought up docking my pay, withholding commission, and firing me for simply not following up with every single empty property, they shot themselves in the foot with me. Now they will get a 2 week notice and nothing more.
Good luck finding someone to do my job as cheaply as I have been doing it for the last 3 years.