New employee convinces coworkers to collect proof of boss's toxic behavior, takes it all to HR, and ends boss's career: ‘He went from manager to low-level employee’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 8, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Being the 'new guy' in a workplace is never an easy role to assume. No one wants to be the outsider, the one who doesn't know anyone's name, and needs someone else to guide them through the office's etiquette and unspoken rules. It usually takes months, or the arrival of another new employee, for one to finally be rid of the 'new guy' label, and even then, it still takes time until you completely blend in.

Usually, when you're the new employee, you tend to stay out of trouble. You want to fit in, so you don't make a fuss. You first learn everything that there is to learn about your boss and your coworkers, and only when you have gathered enough information (and obviously, the confidence) do you start to consider the possibility of offering a change.

Never have I ever heard of a determined new hire who, within their first month in a company, managed to make a change that would benefit everyone around them, but that is what happened in the story below.

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  • This employee only needed 28 days in their new job before they managed to get their toxic boss out of their job. Their courage and unwillingness to be ridiculed at their new job inspired them to take action, and they even convinced their coworkers to follow.

    Keep scrolling to read the full glorious tale!

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    "I destroyed my boss's career"
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    "Destroyed my boss's career."

    A few years back, I got hired as a supervisor for a local government. I was to help supervise about 10 employees. Above me was a manager. He was a terrible leader and
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    would often yell at people, make slurs, give impossible tasks or deadlines. On my third day in, he yelled at me to "learn how to do my f g job" in front of the employees. He
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    made snide remarks to other employees that he was going to terminate me on probation. He demanded that I keep a communication log with every
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    task he assigns me and updates it as I complete them. He also chastised me my first weekend for "not having any questions emailed to him" by the end of the week. He told me he expects me to send 3
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    questions every week until I'm off probation. The next week, I sent him 3 questions as required, and he replied back to look up the answers myself.
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    He was out to get me. He would give a task, then another task, then ask me why I didn't get the first one done. I also found out that he rode the old supervisor that way
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    until he got enough dirt on him to terminate him. I decided it was war. I kept a log of every perceived policy violation, broken rule, inappropriate comment and people who witnessed it. I also
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    engaged other supervisors and employees from other departments. After 28 days of employment, I was ready to quit. I kept a resignation letter in my car, and that gave me the power I needed to press on.
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    After 28 days, I filed a formal complaint with HR. At that time, I convinced the other supervisor to do the same. After that, several employees filed complaints, and a group complaint was filed.
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    Hr investigated the complaints, and the manager was placed on administrative leave. The investigation concluded that the manager did violate numerous policies,
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    created a hostile work environment and he ended up resigning. Since then, he has been burning bridges at every employer (3 so far) and went from a manager of 15
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    employees and a great pension making 95k a year, to a low level laborer employee making about 25$ an hour in a hole in the wall facility.
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    To be fair, he created his own problems, I just helped HR see it. TLDR: boss messed with me, I decided to take him on and won. He went from 95k a year manager to 50k a year laborer.
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    9lobaldude Amazing how people can be so sy and self destructive
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    waterwoman76 Well done. He got himself fired but you orchestrated the evidence for it beautifully.
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    False Risk296 He destroyed his career, not you.
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    delulu4drama Hello actions. Meet consequences
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    EgregiousWeasel Did you stay at that job?
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    III-Championship-524 OP I did for two and a half years and used it as a stepping stone for my dream job which I ended. up getting.
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    MNConcerto This is why you document document document
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    nsvxheleuc3h2uddh3h1 This is one of those rare moments when, instead of HR getting rid of YOU for reporting the problem (because it's easier to replace YOU instead of the Supervisor), they get rid of the Supervisor. Well done!
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