'A week after I left, my boss fell into burnout': Employee quits after doing her boss's job for her, boss can't keep up with her own tasks, gets fired

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 25, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

There's this crazy thing that happens after the employee who basically does your job for you leaves: you are going to have to do your own job. Now, I know that sounds horrifying for all you managers out there desperate to have the authority without any of the responsibilities, but here's a wild thought: what if the wisest choice would have been to learn how to complete your own tasks by yourself?

 

Unfortunately, this boss learned that lesson the hard way and found herself completely overwhelmed after the Redditor left. That Redditor shared her story via this thread on Reddit's r/EntitledPeople subreddit. Eventually, her former boss found herself unemployed as well, and based on the original poster's account of the situation, it sounds like this outcome was bound to happen.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best comments. For more stories like this, here's one about an entitled college roommate's comeuppance.

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    Font - My boss finally got what was coming for her all along M while ago I was working in a nursery home. I was responsible for everything HR and PR wise, responsible for the internal and external communication, answering of questions on the phone, mail or people that just popped in whenever they wanted, I was responsible for ordering material and doing the general administration, for preparing and evaluating everything that had to do with the politics that were involved. Long story short, I was
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    Font - On top of that it was also my first job in HR and my boss knew so. At first she was pretty nice and we could have good talks about the work pressure that she acknowledged was crazy, for her as well.
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    Font - Soon the real cracks started to show though, not only couldn't she help me with any of the questions I had about my job, she was asking me questions on the daily about tasks that she was supposedly doing for 20+ years. I didn't understand how she didn't already know those tasks by heart and that I, without knowledge of the history or the software should be supposed to help her. What baffled me even more is that after barely a month I was actually more fluent in those tasks than she was af
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    Font - After one month she started taking extended holidays as well, was barely at work for 30% of the time, and when she was working she usually was tackling the 'people managing' part of her job, meaning she would just walk around the nursery home and have cosy talks with the clients, their family and the nurses instead of actually contributing to her job. Leaving me completely to my own devices in a new job, taking on her workload and cleaning up her messes as well.
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    Font - Whenever something wasn't going according to the plan and I told her she just went like 'oh don't I know how busy it is', but then never actually doing something about it. After the plan then went to she was there to talk to me about my mistakes though and how I needed to fix them immediately.
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    Font - One day, after she had been on holidays for 2 entire weeks, she needed to talk to me about a mistake I had made with the payment of one of our employees. She told me how the nurse had told her that I didn't put her sick days on the pay slip. I told her that I indeed hadn't, since the input of the calendar always happens a week before the end of the month because otherwise you can't have people paid on the last day of the month, and the nurse had gotten sick in those last 3 days of the mon
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    Font - Oftentimes she would reprimand me on something I had repeatedly and explicitly warned her for before. But somehow the blame was always put on me, and that was also the message she gave the nurses who then started to treat me like as well.
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    Font - I quit and told my story in my exit interview. A week after I left my boss fell into burnout because suddenly she had to do her own job and didn't know how to and didn't have anyone to tell her how to. Temporary management took over and saw what kinda delusional stuff had been going on for the past 20 years in my boss management. She got fired for it as it turned out she had always been putting the blame on her employees while she was the one incapable of her job.
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    Font - RayRay6973 1 mo. ago . Whoa boy have I seen that. Glad you could get out. 116 Reply Share
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    Font - MakiseKurisu23 OP. 1 mo. ago I'm very glad as well, finally feel like I have a life again. Still working in HR but only now I'm baffling everyone with how much I know and can as only barely a junior in the field of work. 106 Reply Share
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    Gesture - Large Strawberry_167. 1 mo. ago At least it had a satisfying end.
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    Font - MakiseKurisu23 OP. 1 mo. ago Yes, after 6 months of healing from that experience it was really great news to receive.
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    Font - n2oc10h12c8h10n402. 1 mo. ago It took six months for them to fire her? It seems she was given many chances.
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    Font - MakiseKurisu23 OP • 1 mo. ago No, she fell sick with burnout for 6 months and you're protected from being fired when you're sick. It's the moment she came back after all those months that they fired her.
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    Font - eighty_more_or_less 1 mo. ago Well, for goodness' sake! What's the point of having employees if you can't have them do your work for you? /s
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    Font - Yoshi Hedgehog 1 mo. ago I am experiencing it now. Management is quick to tell you how to do your job. But we are the ones having to deal with the clients. We know what works and how to engage with them. When someone from the team leaves, it exposes the and toxicity that management fail to see and fix. When everyone burns out and quits, it forces Management to step up and expose their stupidity and lack of experience. Karma will be the ultimate revenge.
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