'I found out today that my current company just acquired my old company': Employee leaves old job on poor terms, now manages his former coworkers

Quitting a job is never an easy process to navigate. This can be especially true if you are relatively new in the working world and are hoping to procure a letter of recommendation from your soon-to-be former employer. That being said, as challenging as quitting can be, one should never be so intimidated by this process that one scares oneself into staying in a miserable position at the same company. Never do yourself a disservice so as not to inconvenience a company.

Thankfully, this employee had the sense to stand up for themselves when they realized that they were being mistreated, and their final two weeks on the job only further proved that they were making the right decision. Keep scrolling below for their full-circle story!

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Here, we have an employee who was relatively new in the working world but understood early on in a new position that they were being treated poorly by management. It's that classic dynamic where the red flags don't start appearing until a few weeks after you start working there, but once you notice them, they become increasingly impossible to ignore.
Eventually, the employee got a better offer somewhere else, so much better that when their manager heard about it, she felt salty that their soon-to-be former employee would be getting paid that much more than her. This kind of petty behavior only further emboldened the employee, proving that they were making the right decision in putting in their two weeks' notice. Then, things started to get even more fishy…
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Thankfully, before the story ends on a sour note, the former employee gave an update a few years later, demonstrating what happened after they became a successful manager in their new role. Let's just say karma reared its head for the employee's former coworkers.
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Here's what folks in the online community had to say about all this!

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