New boss drives everyone to quit, employee gets her fired: 'Disrespect me? I’ll ruin your whole [...] career.'

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    "Disrespect me? I’ll ruin your whole d**n career."

    So my old boss (beloved by all) left the company last year. While they were trying to find a replacement, upper management decided that the person in charge of another department should be our boss (for the time being, of course). This person, let's call her Dina, does not have a single iota of what anyone on this team does. Nor does she want to learn what we do. Fine, whatever, just let me do my work, get my money, and leave me alone.
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    This issue comes in when she suddenly decides that we are disrespecting her with everything we do. Not early enough to a meeting (15 minutes is her "latest earliest")? DISRESPECT! Have to step away to use the restroom? DISRESPECT! Take your PTO that's offered by the company? DISRESPECT! Finally, I have enough and start documenting every instance (with proof and witnesses) into a massive Excel sheet. At this point, sure it's annoying and I'm passively looking for new work, but I've dealt with wor
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    The breaking point for me came during my Yearly Review. This is the first and (hopefully) ONLY time I've ever been put on a PIP plan. I was told repeatedly that I was lazy and disrespectful (despite SEVERAL clients providing positive feedback and me working until 22h most nights). But I keep quiet, I tow the line, until I have a new job. Then, I let the floodgates open.
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    Now, something important to note is that while our former boss was great, we weren't all going to quit in solidarity with her. But me? Well...that's a bit of a different story. In addition to my job, I also worked to make my coworkers' jobs easier too. I was kind of the "glue" holding that entire team together. So when I quit, everyone else on my team did as well. And what did our team do you might ask? Well, we supplied a service that brought in the majority of the revenue. With no one to suppl
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    Back to the story, when I put in my resignation, I decided to include the spreadsheet to provide further insight as to why I was leaving. And to top it all off, I decided to BCC the CEO. He and I are pretty close and he's told me on multiple occasions that he would do anything to keep me employed there. When he found out about Dina's antics, he held true to his word. Asked if he should fire Dina. Now, Dina may be a , but she has young kids. and I'm not a . So I told him no, but if anyone else le
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    Well my last day comes and goes...and the rest of the team puts in their resignations... effective immediately, citing disrespect from Dina specifically. With no team to manage, CEO decides that Dina no longer has a place at the company and decides to fire her with no severance. How do I know? Dina decided to spam call me for several days. But my new fancy job is at a law firm and I was able to get one of them to draft up a cease and desist. Haven't heard a peep since and now I'm just enjoying m
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    TLDR: New boss decided to "put me in my place". I decided that my place was somewhere else and that hers was in the unemployment line.
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    dpdxguy 8 hr. ago Why did you let the Dina situation get so far out of hand if you are such close friends with the CEO? Surely a few words about what was going on would have protected the company and your friend the CEO. They would also have enabled you to keep the job you were happy in pre-Dina.
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    wonder-Be OP · 8 hr. ago . Dina was also friends with the CEO and higher up on the food chain. If he has to "choose" between me and her, it could have gone either way. And if Dina left and I was still there, she had minions that would have made working there miserable still. So I endured until I didn't have to.
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    tofuroll 8 hr. ago You were the linchpin of the entire company and you assumed the CEO may still choose Dina? Also this: Asked if he should fire Dina. Now, Dina may be a but she has young kids and I'm not a So I told him no What? If this was your position, what's the revenge for?
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    Mahou Shoujo_B. 8 hr. ago If you knew you were the "glue" holding the team. together you must have guessed that at least one other person with resign with you, so telling the CEO specifically to re-consider her employment if anybody else leaves is just a slightly roundabout way to get fired either way. I mean if that was the play then it just seems like if you could get the entire team to file a complaint abut Dina to get her fired and that'd be simpler.
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    wonder-Be OP. 8 hr. ago Here's the thing. They didn't quit in solidarity per se, they quit because they all had their "Dina Stories" and were waiting for the right moment. I knew they were looking for other employment just not that they had found it yet. It was like a chain reaction in our group chat. And even if Dina was fired, Dina had minions below her to do her bidding once she was gone. It was easier to leave than to fight.
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