'He couldn't run that shift without me': Worker quits and toxic boss can't handle the pressure, gets fired

You'll never be appreciated in a toxic workplace until you're gone. Even then, instead of being grateful for everything you've done, they'll take to blaming you for all their own mistakes the moment you're out the door, making you a scapegoat for their own mistakes and incompetence. The problem is the remaining coworkers and friends you left behind in that toxic environment will keep their mouths shut for fear of drawing unnecessary attention to themselves, leaving your name tarnished and yourself blamed for projects that you had nothing to do with—and that didn't even take place during the period you were employed.

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  • Even as they outwardly deny your importance to the organization, in the final days of your notice period, your seniors will betray their own thoughts as they frantically scramble to reassign your duties and maintain continuity, the stress and uncertainty in their eyes telling you everything you need to know about the actual effect your resignation is having. 

    When this worker found themself working with a manipulative control freak of a new boss at a job they once loved, they decided to call it quits, leaving their new boss exposed for how incompetent they really were and resulting in them being fired than three months after the worker left—just as the worker had predicted.

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    Font - Posted by u/Jlaw118 1 hour ago I quit my job of six years just to prove to senior management how useless and incompetent my manager was, and it worked I started my last job in 2017. I was a part time warehouse worker who over a few years was promoted into a transport admin/management role.
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    Font - Myself and another colleague ran our department between us, only really reporting to our then line manager if we needed support with any part of our job, or time off etc, but other than that he trusted us completely to run things. It wasn't without its stressful days but we had a really good thing going.
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    Font - Then in 2021, the business made some changes, moved our then line manager onto different departments, and got a new, designated manager just to manage us two and our department. We were naturally quite bitter about it, but nevertheless thought we'd give him a chance. He turned out to be an absolute control freak and a bully. But he was strange, he could be very supportive one minute, then a
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    Font - manipulative bully the next. He loved poking fun out of the fact I had a car accident last year. He loved solely targeting me for the bad jobs, and loved causing trouble between me and other colleagues. Then in March this year, my girlfriend fell ill whilst pregnant and was forced to give birth to our son six weeks prematurely. It was quite an awful, traumatic time and I ended up having three weeks off work. When I returned, I had a
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    Font - mountain of work to catch up on that nobody covered in my absence. Followed by me trying to catch up on it, and my manager pulling me away to do other projects for him, when his other two staff members weren't doing anything, then when my work was late, was forever kicking off at me that I couldn't manage my time properly etc etc.. Then in May he made a major mistake, and pinned the blame on me for it. It caused issues
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    Font - between me and two colleagues I had to work closely with, and I was threatened with disciplinary action. Then I just got thinking to myself, without me running his department, he is nothing. Without me he wouldn't have a job. Without me, he wouldn't be able to explain what was going on with his department to senior management. How I ran his department for him on half of his salary, he takes all the glory and we get all of the grief.
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    Font - I had one last run in with him over this mistake he'd made, and handed my formal notice into him the following day. It was funny over those four weeks of serving my notice, just watching him slowly take over my responsibilities and struggling with them. Those responsibilities that he often told me "I don't even know what you do during the day." He had to then do the horrible jobs he used to pile on me. And on my final day in June, I told
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    Font - my fellow colleagues that I'll give him three months before he either quits or gets fired. Within the first few weeks, the department massively failed their monthly audit, which sparked attention of company directors, who were sent in to investigate as this had never happened before. Then bang on a month later, I was on holiday and had one of the senior managers ringing me and texting me asking for passwords for
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    Font - systems, as my line manager had gone on holiday and hadn't organised anything. I ignored him because I didn't work there anymore and I was on holiday. Then he kept continuing to make mistakes, he hadn't ordered essential items, which caused trouble for the site. He didn't have a clue about the job in question as I originally was out to prove. Then a month after that, he was suspended from his duties pending further investigation, as management finally realised he couldn't do his job in qu
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    Font - Month after that, management claim he quit with immediate effect. I think he was fired. But either way, my three months prediction was right, and he couldn't run that shift without me. It really is petty revenge quitting a job to prove a point, but it proved the point. Good riddance. I now run my own business, have a much better work/life balance, earning more than I could ever dream of in that place, and life is fantastic
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    Font - scuba GSO 55 min. ago I love this. I was in a similar situation. I was a materials testing technician that was the only one that knew out to operate the testing equipment. After COVID I was the only one in the lab for a year. I kept asking for better compensation or recognition or something. Nothing from management. I wound up finding a
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    Font - better job that tripled my salary. A year after I left they contacted me asking how to do something. Told them it would cost $125.00 to get that answer as an hourly consulting fee. Didn't hear back. About a month ago I got a call asking if I would be interested in training someone on the equipment due to a multimillion dollar lawsuit. I told them it would be in the neighborhood of $1500 to train someone on everything. I'm still waiting on a reply. 83 Reply Share
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    Font - Blue Veritas 731 33 min. ago They were facing a multi-MILLION dollar lawsuit, and they wouldn't pony up $1500 to help their position?! You can't fix stupid. 38 Reply Share scuba_GSO 31 min. ago They haven't yet. I thought about reaching out, but they are the ones in a bind, and I don't need the money, but I have knowledge they need and I'm not giving it away for free. 22 Reply Share
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    Font - GrouseoMarx 1 hr. ago Certainties of life... Death, taxes, and incompetent supervisors who can't boil water even with a fung recipe. Well done. Glad you're doing better now 59 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - BeautifulPhantom1 - 1 hr. ago He definitely found out what you did all day, the hard way. Reply Share 52 Jlaw118 OP 20 min. ago That was the best moment for me. On our last argument he actually said to me "I don't even know what you do during the day." To which I just smiled and thought to myself "you'll soon find out."
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    Font - And then my colleagues who also hated him started sending me pictures of him doing really filthy jobs that weren't in our job description but he used to make me do on the regular. I made that picture my Lock Screen on my phone for the laugh and still have it on my photo gallery. It makes me smile on bad days 11 Reply Share
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    Font - 3VikingBoys 57 min. ago How is that little boy doing? I hope he is thriving. 30 Reply Share 41 ●●● Jlaw118 OP 43 min. ago He's absolutely fantastic, can't believe how fast he's growing! He'll be 8 months old in a few days and the time has flown Reply Share
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    Font - LibraryMouse4321 · 47 min. ago This was satisfying to read. Did you ever go over this idiot's head to complain about him? I'm so glad it all worked out for you and hope it continues to. I also hope that your manager knows how much he fuOd up and learns from his mistakes. He sounded like a terrible person who should not be in management. 9 Reply Share
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    Font - Jlaw118 OP 39 min. ago . I'd gone above his head a couple of years ago after one incident of nasty messages I'd had off him when he'd had a few to drink. Basically two senior managers had authorised me overtime one Friday night to do an important task for them. My line manager didn't agree to it, but they were higher up than him.
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    Font - Got a range of "I didn't authorise that." And "we'll speak Monday," messages off him. Showed it to one of his managers, who I was quite close with as I'd known him for years from another job. On Monday morning in front of my line manager this senior manager and another one gave me a gift card, bottle of champagne and spoiled me rotten to thank me for all of my hard work on that Friday night.
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    Font - It wasn't to reward me really it was just top him off but to p him off was my reward! But unfortunately those two managers moved onto new jobs not so long after, and I didn't really have anybody at that level later on who cared. It was too political and they all scratched each other's backs to it just felt pointless to do 17 Reply Share
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    Font - Kolderke 54 min. ago Nice to hear things like this actually work sometime! 8 Reply Share
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    Font - Alexis_J_M 23 min. ago Living well is the best revenge. 4 Reply Share 22-beekeeper 32 min. ago I really do love this sub. I find it so satisfying! 3 Reply Share
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