‘It will be devastating for him to lose me’: Overworked all-star employee gleefully gives her two-week notice, then uses all of her remaining PTO to get back at a micromanger who will soon realize she carries the entire department

Quitting a job can be sad sometimes. While it's still only a place where you clock in, complain with your coworkers, and eat sad, homemade lunches every day, your job is where you spend most of your waking hours during the week—it's tough not to form a bond with the office. Leaving your coworkers behind, the office gossip, and the workplace dynamic in lieu of new beginnings elsewhere can be scary too, but for the woman in this next story, who was constantly under the thumb of her micromanaging boss, her "office goodbye" was far from melancholy. 

She couldn't wait to get out of there. 

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