Ask for a day off for radiation treatment because you were diagnosed with terminal cancer. Normally you would plan this outside business hours but you also need to get a second mortgage to be able to pay for treatment as insurance won't cover it.
Oh and talk about it out in the open with coworkers before they ask you in their office for 'the' conversation.
My baby left me and my mule got lame
Lost my money in a poker game
A windstorm came just the other day
Blew the house that I lived in away... ...so, boss, what did you want to see me about?
and also: you just got diagnosed with cancer but your doctor thinks you'll be okay because your employer provided health insurance is going to get you the medicine you need to beat the cancer.
While simple, it can honestly be kind of fun to just go in and let them know. When I was recently laid off, it went something like this.
HR: "I know this might be a shock–"
Me: "Yeah, you're letting me go, I know. Here's my work laptop and badge, I've got all my stuff in a box outside, what do I sign? Trying to catch the next train home, so I have like 20 minutes."
It totally threw off my boss and the HR lady trying to do their sombre, dignified thing, and was pretty funny to watch.
My dad just got diagnosed with cancer, I just bought a house, I was at a conference in San Francisco and my boss cornered me before the flight home saying i was being laid off. They literally don't care.
My dad used to brag about those situations being great cause it meant you had the salesperson by the balls and wouldn't have yo care about raises or bonuses for them cause you knew they needed the job badly.
It's an English language idiom that means you have power over them and can make them do whatever you want because the pain, (real or financial) would be intolerable if you make good on whatever threat you have.
At the time basically, in that town, that particular kind of salesperson had few similar other places to go for a new job. Because they were newly married, or had kids, or bought a house or a car, then it meant they had increased financial obligations necessitating they really needed to keep a steady job and get paid well. Meaning that person would be less likely to suddenly quit if they were unfairly treated by their employer.
He was bragging about how he liked when he had a salesperson that worked for him in that situation so he could take advantage of it. It's a potentially more old school term he'd say, he "had them by the balls" or basically had the upper hand to be a shithead.
Come in and start strongly advocating for a union. Make them worried about a wrongful termination lawsuit. Won't look good to fire someone the day they start talking about unions.
I had an old friend who showed up to the office naked. He was a local legend for his stunts. He walked in and sat down. The dude behind the desk asked him what the hell he was doing. He said, “Well, y’all are getting ready to fuck me, ain’t ya? I figured I’d go ahead and get undressed.”
He worked at a mine, so it was all men, and it was the 90s. Everyone knew his sense of humor and everyone loved him.
He was back at work 3 months later.
He died from black lung in 2019.
The whole damn community was broken up about it. Everyone who talks about him has some crazy story.
A keylogger on the back of the boss' computer? A hardware VPN backdoor to the company's network? Oh maybe bring a flash drive full of malware and viruses and just drop it in the break room?
Please don't do this, you will be tried and probably end up in prison. There must better ways to be petty that won't give you problems with police and judicial system.
I was involved as a witness in two cases like this, not only it creates problem for you but a lot of other people as well.