Toxic managers have one thing in common: Their belief that their authority is absolute. It's almost as if they think it's impossible for anyone ever to leave them, acting like workers will continue to put up with the most dreadful working conditions and their abhorrent behavior for the rest of their careers. So, of course, they're completely blindsided when their most pivotal workers hand in their notice, with the news sending them scrambling to figure out how they're going to maintain the continuity of their business once the worker leaves. It's not uncommon, probably due to stress, to see these managers wait until the last possible moment to start initiating handoff and—with no proper replacement—vital tasks and institutional knowledge slip through the cracks and remain forgotten.
By the time they've managed to get things straightened out, there have been two or three workers hired to do what the one (woefully underpaid) worker was doing before. Even then, there are tasks that remain untended. Will anyone care? Probably not. That is not until that skeleton jumps out of the closet and brings the whole operation crashing down.
This worker shared their story of how they quit, pulling the string that unraveled their terrible boss's operation. Their narrative of events prompted other readers to share stories of their own in the comments, resulting in a collection of entertaining accounts of how people left their terrible positions.
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