Happened years ago, but I was told to post this here.
My girlfriend (at the time) and I were dating for just shy of 6 years. We were high school sweethearts and still in school. She had always struggled with jobs and keeping them, and since we lived together, I usually had to pick up the slack.
I was working as an assistant manager at a video game retail store at the time, probably not hard to figure out which one. It was honestly and easy job as long as you gave little effort, pre orders here, couple warranty sells there. As my girlfriend loved video games more than I did, I had the BRILLIANT idea to get her a job. She's an attractive girl while 80% of our customers were neckbeards who hardly get to interact with women. Should be easy for her to make sales.
"There's no way she can fuck this up" I said, confidently to myself. There is a policy as of most companies that people in relationships can't work at the same location. No problem. We have 12 stores in our district that are within a 5 mile radius.
They seriously put these stores on every other block.
I do a little digging and hook her up at a neighboring store that had a vacant position. She would also be working with the head store manager of the district (indirectly one of my bosses). Few weeks in, and its going GREAT, what took me about a year to get moved up she does in weeks. I'm not a self conscious person, so I didnt care. Plus she could help pick up her half of the bills.
Here's where I started to realize I FU. Girlfriend comes driving in with a BRAND NEW CAR. Considering we were living paycheck to paycheck, I was pretty upset. I asked her where she got the car from and she told me "I've been saving up". Bullshit but okay. I loved her, so as long as shes happy, I'm happy.
Next comes in with write ups. I started getting write ups and customer complaints left and right. I'm a very good employee and I very rarely make anyone upset. I couldn't even find where these customers were coming from. Even though my performance was the best out of most employees, I was starting to fear for my job.
As to be predicted, I ended up getting fired. I tried to fight it but I live in Texas, and the rules are that companies can fire anyone at anytime for any reason. I'm absolutely crushed. I turn to my girlfriend for emotional support to find her extremely distant.
She dumped me days later, double whammy. I loved her for 6 years. She told me she felt this way for a while, things are the same. I'm absolutely heartbroken, I'm angry, depressed, jobless. Felt like my life got flipped upside down. One week later her Facebook status put her in a relationship WITH HER BOSS. MY BOSS.
Not sure when it happened, but he bought her a car, and then got me fired. Turns out all the customer complaints about me originated from that store somehow. Total BS. I set her up to absolutely f*ck me over and to bone my boss.
Tl;dr: I got my girlfriend a job only for her to f*ck my boss and to get me fired
I'm still a little sad about it, but it is what it issss.
Edit: perhaps the biggest FU is the fact I didn't sue. I was such an emotional wreck from everything it didnt even cross my mind. But I'm doing pretty well for myself now, and whatever money I'd get wouldn't be worth bringing her to court for. Just the thought of seeing her sends chills down my spine.
UPDATE: A couple of you guys were wondering, but they dated a few months and broke it off. Neither of them work for the company anymore. A little detail I forgot to mentioned that when she came to take her stuff from our place, he was helping carry the stuff to her car. That was probably the most gut wrenching moment for me. Both of them are POS.
2nd Update: I really appreciate all the positive feedback, I've been mostly over it but the love really helps. Some of you guys are asking where she is now, she's doing alright, shes engaged to one of my old high school friends (also slightly suspicious). Still driving that same car, too, from the looks of it. I'm doing pretty well for myself, and if theres any happy ending to this, is that I'm genuinely happier than I've ever been in my life.
3rd AND PROBABLE FINAL UPDATE: Again, I really appreciate the positive messages. Reliving and retelling the story made me angry and I missed a few details.
-I can't prove that he bought her a car, but I was pretty aware of her finances, and she couldn't afford a new car without significant help. It wasn't a fancy car, it was a new Prius that was worth about $18,000, in addition to trading in her old car. And the rumor around the block was that he did in fact help her.
-i was not a perfect boyfriend, I got upset at silly things, I could have been more attentive, but I never raised my voice, and I was very loyal.
-the course of when she got promoted to when she got the car was roughly 3 or 4 months, the separation and firing happened about 2 months after that. I didn't clarify that detail.
-"the boss" was a DM in training, recently got promoted, and the kind of guy that would spend money to impress a girl.
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