'I give it 3 months before he quits or gets fired': Karma takes over a former employee's department after he quits, revealing a slacker manager's true managerial value

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 3, 2023 6:00 PM EST

It's frustrating to see someone else take credit for your work at your job. This can be especially frustrating when you know that the guy claiming your good fortune is a total nincompoop that wouldn't survive a day without you in the office. That's the thing about the corporate world, when you win, there's always some vulture manager who's prepared to lay claim to your success without a second thought. Better climb the ladder quick, lest you risk becoming the hardworking corpse everyone feeds off of…

In our next tale, one employee decided he was tired of running the entire company with no recognition. Finally, we have a triumphant story of workplace wins where the little guy comes out on top! Scroll for the entire story of mayhem and destruction after a loyal employee decided to let his pompous, slacker manager take the reins of the workflow for once, resulting in the satisfying demise of his former department. 

Afterwards, here's another polarizing story of another resignation that divided one family's Thanksgiving meal. 

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  • 01
    Posted by u/Jlaw118 2 hours ago I quit my job of six years just to prove to senior management how useless and incompetent my manager was, and it worked (Also posted in r/PettyRevenfe a while ago because I didn't know ProRevenge existed) 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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  • 02
    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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  • 03
    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.
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  • 04
    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 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.
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  • 05
    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 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
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  • 06
    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 between me and two colleagues I had to work closely with, and I was threatened with disciplinary action.
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  • 07
    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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  • 08
    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
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  • 09
    horrible jobs he used to pile on me. And on my final day in June, I told 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.
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  • 10
    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 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.
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  • 11
    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 question. 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.
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  • 12
    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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    kiwimuz 1 hr. ago Those who can't micro manage and bully. Nice watching predicted karma at work.
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  • 14
    MaxWebxperience 15 hr. ago Often new managers want to replace everybody.. I always established a little bit of rapport with upper managers, HR managers, etc... If faced with incompetence I studied the personality type, studied the activities and reduced it all to a very concise statement. When upper management has suspicions they will come around and ask
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    and I would give them my concise observations, ones that would be obvious if they observed for just a little while... I never ran to management with negative info about anybody unless they were strongly negatively affecting my performance. People that do that a lot are backstabbing bullies and if management has any smarts at all will be let go because they are terrible for morale.
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    Tobias-is-Blonde · 14 hr. ago Sound similar to my experience(s). every fat, lazy manager out there. Share ... 6 SheiB123 15 hr. ago SUCH a satisfying read! Thank you for your story. Ain't it grand when they are proven to be useless, inept, and unable to do anything without you?!?
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  • 17
    FrankAdamGabe 14 hr. ago I had something similar with people frantically calling for PWs, except they were server and database admin passwords. To make a very long story short, a male VP sexually assaulted a straight male coworker, gave the coworker a raise and targeted everyone else who knew about it with me being one of them. I was the last person of my 8 person team to be working there before they threw some other staff in the team shortly before I quit.
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    My last two weeks, rather than make sure all tasks I was doing were covered, they spent time passive aggressively saying what they would change since it'd been done "wrong for so long" (even before I got there and the VP had been there 20 years. They didn't ask what the admin pws were or where we kept them. Sometimes I fall asleep to their ignored, frantic calls about not being able to log in as an admin. They were always there, on one of the 12 serves I had managed.
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  • 19
    vanillaninja16 14 hr. ago I know people love to throw out the "just quick and walk away, no notice" or "just half- everything while on notice".... But when you actually carry the weight and primary workload of a workplace and then do great work on your way out it hits the company so much harder than just leaving.
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  • 20
    TheBigEMan 13 hr. ago Schrodinger's revenge 11 I Share PhDTARDIS 12 hr. ago Precisely! 1 ResidentIwen 14 hr. ago 9 Share J love that comment Share bobk2 14 hr. ago He was petty and became a pro
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  • 21
    VinylHighway 1 hr. ago Good story but not really pro revenge as you quit to get someone else to quit. 8 Reply Share Special_Copy_8668 47 min. ago So happy for you! And I hope your girlfriend and son are doing ok.
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  • 22
    "He takes all the glory and we get all the grief"
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