NOTE: This story was a satirical joke, as Snopes reported, and the influencer who came up with it just told the story to comment on the state of the modern American workplace. The headline and article have been updated to reflect that it is a tall tale told by a social media influencer.
According to a tall tale made up in a recent post on social media, every single employee at a company based in New York resigned simultaneously after the CEO reportedly canceled Christmas bonuses in a scenario reminiscent of Clark Griswold confronting his boss in the holiday classic, “Christmas Vacation.” After being shorted by their boss, the employees supposedly rose up to bring the company to its knees.
Sharing the pretend story to his followers on TikTok, one man said, “The New York CEO who had his Lamborghini pooped in by his employees after he canceled their Christmas bonuses, has just learned that they have all resigned. Literally every employee, from the sales staff to the shipping department, emailed in their resignation to the CEO.”
Continuing to share the details of what he pretended went down, he said, “At the same time, the former employees are saying that the business will now grind to a halt, as no customer will be receiving their orders in time for Christmas or their orders at all, while a few of the employees did take other jobs, the rest of the crew is sticking around, pooling their savings, and they’re going to start the exact same company without a D bag at the top.”
Furthermore, in this pretend scenario, the previous employees supposedly thwarted the efforts to fill the vacant positions. He added, “The CEO is in panic mode, and he’s putting up these job postings, trying to fill these vacant positions, but all he’s getting back are these AI generated resumes that these old employees are pushing towards him to waste his time so that he can actually fill the positions.”
The man concluded the pretend story, “The sales staff is confident that they’ll be able to bring all the clients from the old company to the new company and leave the CEO with zero revenue, which will effectively make him unemployed, and then he’ll have to sell his Lamborghini. But nobody really knows what the resale market is. On a poop in Lamborghini.”
The post sparked a variety of reactions from users on social media, with some cheering on the employees who resigned. However, expressed skepticism about the authenticity of the account, claiming the story is outlandish. “You’re telling me they don’t have noncompete clauses or other legal language in their work agreement that would prevent them from doing exactly what you’re describing? That’s BS. Every company I’ve worked for has had legal language to prevent exactly what is being described here,” they wrote.
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Sounding off on corporate greed, another person wrote, “Imagine your company being bought out by a man who boasts about having the largest “cash on hand” amount than any other person. Then having your measly $2,000 bonus cut down. I make a company millions a month, not only in one location but two. I get under $100 a month as a “bonus”. The greed of these companies is beyond foul.”
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“This is what I’ve been preaching over the years. Corporations are nothing without their people. Governments are nothing without their people at the end of the day people and their time are the only currency that exist in this world. All money is the physical representation of time given by a person. This whole concept that money is a scarce asset. False. Do you know whats scarce? Time because it’s finite for all of us,” another person said.
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