Ex-boss freaks out after reading former employee's online review, sends her essay-long messages: 'Block and move on'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 9, 2024 8:00 AM EST

It must have been challenging for this boss to read about how her own lack of professionalism. However, as Justin Timberlake himself once sang and then experienced, "what goes around… comes around." 

Here, we have a former employee who quit after experiencing a severe case of burnout. Their horrible boss established a workplace environment that discouraged calling in sick because that only meant having to do more work down the road. Eventually, there was a final straw and the employee left before having another job lined up. They decided to pen an anonymous review of their experience at the company, mostly focusing on organizational flaws and less on personal grievances. 

Still, however, their boss took the review very personally and figured out who the author was. As many folks in the comments section pointed out, the Redditor is under no obligation to respond to their ex-boss's ridiculous messages; if anything, they should "deny, deny, deny."

For more stories like this, check out this post about another who employee who quit during the first week.

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    My ex-boss texted me privately after I posted a public anonymous review of their company
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    I am honestly still appalled and would appreciate any advice or opinions from all of you. For background - I worked for this company since beginning of 2022 and resigned couple - months ago originally I resigned even without having another job
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    offer, as I couldn't bare with the environment anymore, but I got a great job offer shortly after. In these 2,5 years there, I experienced so much and got burnt out so bad, I used to not be able to sleep or have nightmares about my boss and work. I will
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    not get into the company, only my boss. She was not a bad person in general but extremely unsuitable to be any kind of leader. She was very moody, snapping at people in meetings in front of the other team members for no reason, not showing up to meetings and not letting us know
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    so we ended up waiting hours for her, not being able to lead anyone, because she didn't understand the concept of even how to have 1:1 meeting, never coming through on any promises, giving too much work to overworked people but giving the
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    budget of their raises to other people who didn't deserve it, not being able to stand up for anyone in her team and favouring only people of her own nationality and anyone foreign never got any promotion. Not seeing a disparity between workload of two people when one was working 50 hours
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    every week and other was barely having any work at all and treating them same and giving them same appraisal. Making us work on sick leave because not only could no one take on them the extra work, but also because if she said she would do it, she
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    didn't know how cause she was too busy with who knows what that she didn't even know procedures of her own team and she would end up texting us on when we were sick and we had to do the work because if not, she would mess it up and we would have more work later.
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    There is much more, but I will just give one more example - after 1 year I was told I did amazing and will get a raise, it was I think 100 euro raise I got and she said that it's because I will have a role
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    change soon, so I will see the raise there. When my role change came, she said I will get the minimum for the role there is by the law - I was asking why and that I expected at least something and that's when I was hit with her telling me that after this 1,5 years I still have no experience, and that I should not
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    even be asking for any extra money and should be grateful for even this. It was after I was having the best performance from the team etc, I was devastated and almost cried, how humiliating it was and made me question myself.
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    Well as I wrote before, later on it was too much and I quit and now after couple of months in new job I decided to write a review. I was
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    very polite, stick with the rules of the page, didn't name and only wrote down what I actually experienced, I also talked it over with couple other people who had similar experiences, asking if it was alright, as I just wanted to share my experience. And I also
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    didn't mention anything that is some company secret or much worse stuff she done to me, | maybe wrote about her (not naming her or even the department at all) half of what I shared here.
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    Fast forward to know, I received a private message from my ex- boss that is super long and to sum it up - she is writing as a private person because she is so hurt that I wrote it and what I wrote and how sad it makes her,
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    etc... Please also note that my review is about 90 % about the company and board and 10 % of my old boss. I was more expecting them to serve me with some legal papers that she texting me how hurt and sad she is and how she didn't know how bitter I was about the company.
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    And again, I quit without a job in the first place and they know it, I told my feedback to her boss and other people and when trying to say to her, she didn't let me finish one sentence and immediately got mad at me. So I didn't press it
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    further as I already resigned. I think she took me working very hard till my last day as that everything is okay, when I only did it cause my colleagues were already so overworked and then left without me, I just wanted to help.
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    So I would like to know if you think I should reply or not or what to do? My plan so far is to just ignore it, but I am so mad at this emotional blackmail and manipulation...
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    . Only_Tip9560 • 6h ago Do not respond. Do not acknowledge to her that you wrote the review. Block and move on. You owe this woman and this company nothing and acknowledging that you wrote the review could cause you problems.
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    thermie88 6h ago . do not reply. do not ever admit you wrote it
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    tetsujin108 6h ago • Repeating the consensus message to you. Pls do not respond as you will show acknowledgement to your ex boss. Even if this gets you mad, ignore and move on. It is a bait tactic that they are using, and if you acknowledge, possible. grounds for legal action.
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