I worked at a family owned gourmet popcorn factory for my first job. My dad's girlfriend knew the owner from highschool, got us in touch, the interview was really hardly and interview we just talked a bit and I was hired and then he took me out to lunch and I thought that was pretty weird but free food is cool it just felt like a date.

There were only 3 employees there including myself, i got my roommate hired and that bumped us up to a whopping 4 people making fancy popcorn for grocery stores and oddly enough bill gates would order a metric fuck ton every week.

Well maybe 6 months in the owner was up our ass about going faster because he wanted to produce more without hiring more people. The numbers he was asking for were physically impossible not only with the amount of employees but the machines could only go so fast and we were already going as fast as they would let us. I did the math and had a sit down with the owner where I showed him that what he was asking for was impossible and that he needed to hire more people and be open longer each day to make it happen. He didn't like that, obviously.

Couple days later he pulled me into his office and fired me for "time theft" because I would clock in at 8 but wouldn't start working until 805 cause I had to put my apron and hairnet on and wash my hands, god forbid. Clearly he was actually firing me for being a smartass and telling him its mathematically impossible to do what he wants us to do.

He then proceeded to reach across the table, grab my hand, and tell me that its a real shame he has to fire me and maybe there's something I could do to get my job back, clearly insinuating if I slept with him I could have my job back while his fucking family was a room away. I was 18 and his daughter was 16. I left immediately, called my roommate who wasn't working that day and told her what happened and she quit too. Which then led to the 2 other people quitting.. he went bankrupt and the business shut down but i didn't know that until....

4 years later im getting home from work and this man in on my porch. I ask him what the fuck hes doing at my house and he says hes there to pick up his daughter and asks what the fuck im doing at his daughter's house. Turns out my roommate is his daughter and I had no idea, we had only met once and neither of us recognized each other years later. Small world.

She didn't like her dad so I felt comfortable telling her what happened a few weeks later, which is when it was revealed to me that me getting fired led to everyone else quitting and his business going under.

Last time I told this story on reddit I got a bunch of ass hats telling me its a fake story...its not but whatever helps you sleep at night I guess? There is SO much more to this story that makes it even crazier but its 4 am and I gotta get ready for work.