I'm not sure if my story is epic, but it definitely puts the "F" in "FU" hahaha
I spent 11.5 years working for Amazon, from a lowly warehouse temp to being a financial analyst at one of their biggest warehouses in North America. (Amazing what you can do if you transfer a lot, learn Excel, and are stubborn.) And yes, every negative story you heard about the company is true in some form or another. (I.e. it's not the warehouse workers that pee in bottles - it's the van drivers. Etc...)
Aaaanyway, the last 5 years were just part of my big plan: get a work transfer to another country, become a permanent resident of that country, squirrel away enough money to lean-FIRE, and then pull the plug. When I transferred from Seattle to Toronto, I had to take a 48% cut (yes, forty-eight percent) to my total compensation. That sucked - a lot - but it was a stepping stone to my final objective.
After yet another re-org, almost everyone (except me lol) transferred away, and we ended up with a lot of external hires who didn't quite know what the job entailed, so they doubled down on pointless paperwork, etc. Some of my newer, less experienced colleagues would take it all seriously, to the point where they would log on and work on Sundays (!!!) just to get the meaningless Monday reports done ahead of time. They would also keep bridging the bridges to the weekly bridges allll the way until Thursday. That was not healthy, and there were many other such incidents.
I finally got my Canadian PR (permanent residency) 2 years after moving here. That meant I no longer needed the job: before that, I was on a work permit, which meant "lose the job = go back home." :( I'd also used my financial skillz to handpick a portfolio of vastly undervalued stocks in May 2020... (Energy, retail shopping, cruise ships, etc) After I cashed in all my AMZN stock for my beat-up stock portfolio, it went up 197% the following year. Sooo, money was no longer the issue, either. :)
I think that toward the very end, my bosses realized I might not stay there forever. They finally got me my long-awaited promotion. It was just a 10% raise in total compensation. :-/ That's not too bad in and of itself, but that still meant I'd be making 43% less than when I was a lower-ranked office clerk back in Seattle 2 years prior.
Soooo, a week after they sent out the big and fancy promotion email, I sent them my 2-week notice LOLOLOLOL. In the email, I made it clear that my motivation wasn't spite or anything of the sort - it was just money, plain and simple. The bosses did not reply (aside from a curt acknowledgement), so I can only imagine how much my insubordination pissed them off. :) I finally received a very dry and formal "Thank you for all your hard work" reply from them at the very end. I'm a bit sad that I'll never know just how much my "FU" email embarrassed them, but on the upside, my imagination can keep coming up with different hilarious scenarios. :)