His Boss Stole His Super Bowl Tickets, so He Made Him Lose a Major Client

A salesman, who was a huge 49ers fan, recently told the story of how he once lost out on the chance to watch his team play at the Super Bowl. This was after his boss stole his tickets right from under his nose. So the salesman and his client hatched a plan to catch the thief and make him pay one way or another. 

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The salesman explains that he worked at a big consulting firm, and he and his client had always got on well and spent many evenings drinking and chatting. 

So when a pair of seats to the Super Bowl came up, the client naturally thought of the salesman, who was a huge Niners fan. He handed the tickets over to the salesman’s boss to forward to him. 

But unfortunately, the bad boss had other ideas. The game came and went, and the salesman was none the wiser. 

However, the next time the salesman met his client, he was asked why he didn’t go to the game. “What game?” he replied, confused. 

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The client revealed how he had given a pair of tickets to the boss with the understanding he would forward them on. 

They were both shocked to learn that the tickets were never given to him. So when he returned to the office, he asked around and found out through one of the secretaries that his boss had given a pair of Super Bowl tickets to another one of his clients!

The salesman texted the client, shocked to hear that his tickets had been given to someone else. He said, “pretend I never told you, let me handle.” 

The client, now furious, set up a meeting with the boss, the salesman, and, most importantly, one of the VPs at the firm. The VP had been at the Super Bowl game in seats next to the salesman. 

The client said to the salesman: ‘Hey, you must already know her from the super bowl!”

The VP shook the salesman’s hand but looked confused.” Oh, I don’t think so. Did we meet there? I’m sorry if I forgot.”

The salesman then explained that he had not been at the game and that the client must be thinking of someone else.

Now visibly awkward, the boss cleared his throat but didn’t know what to say as the VP explained she was sitting next to someone she didn’t know from a different department.

The client turned to the boss and said: “those tickets were a personal thank-you gift from me. Did you give them away to someone else?” 

The only thing the boss could say was, “Oh, uhm, maybe something got mixed up in the office?”

The client then grabbed his portfolio and iPad and put them in his briefcase, indicating that he would have to rethink the business relationship. He invited the salesman and the VP to lunch and left the boss high and dry.

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On the way to the restaurant, the three of them burst into laughter, and the VP was actually just a colleague who had been drafted in to help! What a genius plan.

During lunch, the salesman got a desperate text from his boss pleading with him to do a bit of damage control in persuading the client to stay with the firm. 

In reply, the salesman said that the client had asked for a number of things. 

First, he wanted to be compensated for the value of the tickets, which was over $10K. Then he wanted to be reimbursed for the expensive lunch they were eating, and finally, he wanted to have a written apology and an agreement that the client would only have to deal with the salesman from now on. 

Word got around, and it looked like the salesman had saved the day by persuading the client to stay with the firm. The client did stay with the firm but not with the boss, which meant his commission went down the drain. 

What do you think of the salesman’s action? Was he right in getting back at his boss?

You can read the full story on Reddit here

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