I used to work as a supervisor in a large retail warehouse. Every peak season (going into the holidays,) the company held something called a sample sale where they'd offer employees the chance, for $80, to buy a large garbage bag to fill with whatever they could fit in the bag from our stores of sample goods, and we could bring guests to partake as well. One could easily get a couple thousand dollars worth of stuff for $80. Also during peak season, we hired a lot of temporary/seasonal staff, mostly immigrants from Africa and South America, and all of those people were told they could participate in the sample sale, and many were banking on it to get stuff for friends and family, many of them sending stuff home to their relatives.
A few days before the sample sale, leadership decided the sale would NOT be available to our temporary/seasonal associates, but reminded we permanent associates that we could still bring guests. Well, this particular retailer offered nothing of interest to me, so I had no intention of ever going, but when I heard that, I showed up at 7am with about 30 "guests"... from our temporary/seasonal associate population. Once they were [begrudgingly] allowed through the door, I went home and went back to bed.
The next day, I could definitely feel a "vibe" emanating from leadership; they were not happy that I used their own loophole to correct a very egregious wrong on their part. On the flip side, on the warehouse floor, I was a fucking hero. And the punctuation to everything, I was laid off a couple of weeks later with a generous severance package. It was on the coattails of a larger round of layoffs that happened about a week prior; they'd laid off about 20 people from around the organization in a downsizing, then found me the next week. Not another, smaller round of layoffs. Just me. I obviously know why, but in a million lifetimes, I'd do what I did again every time. (Helps that I actually hated the job, so sticking it to them in grand fashion just for them to terminate me with full pay and benefits for two and a half months was a massive win in the end.)
