'Helped my former boss get fired': Former employee gets entitled ex-boss audited three years after getting wrongfully dismissed

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jun 13, 2025 8:00 AM EDT

You never know when you're going to get the opportunity for some well-deserved petty revenge. Sometimes, you think your time to get even has expired, but karma works in mysterious ways. 

Here, we have a former employee who used to do all the work while the executive directors took all the credit. This was standard practice at the agency where they all worked. As such, the directors had massive egos and often berated employees for not working hard enough. At the same time, of course, they were doing absolutely nothing to manage their teams or fulfill their own tasks and responsibilities. It got to the point where the author of this tale was unfairly dismissed after being accused of not getting any work done despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

Although at the time the author thought he would never get the chance at justice, his time would come three years later…

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    3 years ago I quit a job I loved because I couldn't stand the women in charge. They're were technically two agencies. that worked together and both executive directors are horrible. It's well known
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    among staff that they give themselves raises every year but refuse to give other people a raise. They do very little work yet take all the credit and will even publicly shame hard working employees
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    They held an hour long meeting after I told them I couldn't possibly add any more tasks to my schedule to tell me how horrible I was and claimed I wasn't getting my work done, that I was a liar,
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    and that I needed to put more effort into my work instead of my personal life (I had just suffered my 3rd m and was getting a lot of testing done). I put in my notice 3 days later. Their data
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    analyst was quickly able to prove that not only was I doing all of my work, I was actually inputting data for others. We had to input proof of everything we did
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  • Flash forward a few years, and the author heard from someone who was on the board of directors for the very same agency where he used to work. After a candid conversation about the working conditions there, the author voiced concerns about the financial responsibility of one of the directors.  That's when things came crashing down for that director, and the author finally got to play a role in getting her fired!

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    2 weeks ago I was having a casual conversation with my boss, who just happens to be the board president for one of the agencies. He asked me
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    why I left and informed me that 3 years later they still haven't been able to fill my position. I told him the truth
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    and and told him that I found it very odd that the board never did an audit because of seemed obvious that the directors weren't doing their job and fund weren't being handled properly. Well they did one last month and one director was unavailable
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    because she went on a month long trip. She couldn't prove that she didn't misuse funds when it looked as though she did.
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    She was released last week after 25 years. Not only did the claim that she misused funds, but they also felt she was faking her timesheets since she couldn't prove what hours she worked, and they
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    felt she was misusing her authority by making her employees come into the office while she supposedly worked from home
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    BeautifulPhantom1. 13 hr. ago About time they caught up with her. Glad you were able to facilitate the deep dive into her work ethic. (Heavy sarcasm on the work ethic part of that sentence.)
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    Illuminatus-Prime 13 hr. ago So... it seems there is an opening for a new director.. are you applying?
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    mjsmore33 OP. 11 hr. ago They placed someone else in her position. He's actually a really horrible pick, but whatever I'm not they're anymore. The
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    big funder hates the guy and has already threatened to pull her contracts and not renew others. He's just as greedy as the corner director.
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    Besides it's not the world I want to work in. I was there as a child development specialist. I'm now a coordinator at a local office of education making about $30,000 more than I was when I worked for that old agency
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    awalktojericho . 12 hr. ago Did you ever ask why and audit was never done? Seems like a little dereliction of duty of the Board.
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    mjsmore33 OP. 11 hr. ago When I first got hired there they did them annually is what I was told. Supposedly though that never happened, according to the former manager (not the lady
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    fired). The director of the other agency overseen a lot of the finances. She was the big funder and felt it wasn't necessary to audit them since they did their own audits.
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    Never made sense to me. I think the board really screwed up but not doing them as often at they should have.
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    CoderJoel 11 hr. ago She probably thought it was fund while it lasted.
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    MarginalGreatness 3 hr. ago The saddest part about this is that the only reason they got caught is because someone they respect pointed it out after the fact that they
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    left because of it. It's almost as if as long as there's an m word in their title, they just ignore all of the
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    PhoenixFlare1 38 min. ago It always gets me how these companies mistreat their good employees, reward the bad ones, & play the "woe is me" card when the good ones leave.
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