'He was a nightmare': Employee's savage review after quitting exposes entitled boss, leads to their termination

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Isabella Penn
Nov 11, 2024 9:00 AM EST

When you're applying for jobs, you're probably checking out every online review you can find to dodge any potential red flags. After all, who wants to go through multiple interviews only to discover that the company's run by an entitled boss who thinks coworkers should act like "family"? Hard pass. Sites that let employees rate companies are a goldmine for honest feedback—sometimes with details that make you grateful for the warning.

Well, after one employee spent six grueling months working under a new VP, they tried to clue in the higher-ups about just how awful the new boss was. When the owner didn't take their concerns seriously, they took things a step further, leaving a brutally honest review that laid everything bare. The best part is it worked. The entitled boss eventually got the boot, and the company's culture finally went back to normal. Unfortunately, the original employee who exposed the mess had already quit—but at least they left with a story of sweet, well-deserved karma.

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    How a Petty Glassdoor Review Got a Toxic VP Fired and Saved a Company
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    I used to work at a small family- owned business in sales. The owners were distant and only cared about money, but overall it was a good place to work, and I enjoyed my time there. However, after two years, they hired a new
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    VP of Sales who completely ruined the work environment. I won't get into the details, but he was a nightmare and made many people's lives miserable. After six months, I and two other well-respected employees quit
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    within a few weeks of each other. During my exit interview, I was very honest with the owner about how the new VP was affecting the company culture, but he didn't take it seriously. It was clear he was firmly backing the VP.
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    A few weeks later, while I was waiting at a doctor's appointment, I came up with a petty yet clever idea to take a shot at the VP. I left an anonymous Glassdoor review for that job, posing as a current employee who was looking to
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    jump ship to a competitor due to the awful new VP. I also wrote that everyone in the company had "one foot out the door" and was looking for new jobs. I knew this would freak out the owners, and it did.
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    The next day, I found out from old colleagues that the VP was working from home (which was weird at the time) and the owners privately met with every single employee to gauge their happiness and opinions on the VP. People were honest, and the
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    VP never stepped foot in the office again. I later heard from employees that the work environment improved dramatically, and the owners promoted a solid internal candidate to replace him. The
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    company has since grown a lot. I never told a soul what I did. I'm taking too much credit for it, but it's funny how my petty, shady review turned out to have such a big impact—not just on getting rid of an awful boss, but on improving the company in the long run.
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    raymagini2020 . 10h ago • Sounds like the best result. I once quit a job and told the head of HR everything (they were located in a different country so didn't know what was actually happening). They ended up firing the guy responsible - part me part the other 8 people who they then interviewed saying the exact same things but by that time I had lost any love I had for the company and still left
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    TheHobbyWaitress 10h ago . Petty opened the door for improvement. •
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    • TheWolf2517 • 9h ago Edited 2h ago • Maybe saying this makes me a bad person myself, but.... If you take a shot at a bad person or a person who is causing harm, I don't find that to be petty. In this case, you helped people, even if that wasn't your intent. But aside from that, sometimes the universe needs some correcting, and Thanos is just too busy to do it all.
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    You came up with a creative (albeit late) way to address a problem that many people had and made yourself feel better.
    via u/TheWolf2517
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    CoderJoe1 • 10h ago. Seems like you could've done that first and saved yourself from quitting
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    MarcNully 9h ago • It is crazy how important leadership and culture is in making or breaking an organization. Boeing is a brilliant case study!
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    Prettylllustrator129 4h ago. That is brilliant!! A GM at a medspa company recently did me so wrong and I've been wondering the best way to go about dealing with it & this may be it for my situation as well. Thank you for sharing!
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    lengara_pace • 3h ago. I left respectful criticism on Glassdoor and it was deleted. I don't trust that platform for unbiased information anymore. Glad you got some results. I wish more people in positions of power were not only empathetic to situations like this but also take action to remedy past issues and prevent them in the future.
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