3 brave gym employees document every misdoing of their toxic manager and reports it to HR, actually works and gets her fired: ‘Night crew had a victory dance."

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jun 15, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

When it comes to HR, in stories you find on the internet would tell you to never trust them. Their job is apparently to keep the company safe from being sued, etc. It's not really about protecting the employees. But that is essentially what they are technically supposed to do, right? So every now and then, you find HR actually doing just that and it is magnificent. 

 

That is exactly what goes down in this story. Here we have three employees completely disgruntled with their toxic manager. This manger seems like a piece of work—toxic in every way you can think of. Every time the employees try to stand up to her, they get in even bigger trouble. So they teamed up and strategized.  

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  • The silently documented every wrong-doing of their manager and every time she was extra toxic. “Document, document, document!" they wrote in their story. Eventually, they had enough proof to send off to HR. It took a few weeks, but it eventually worked in their favor and now that boss is history! Woo! 

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  • "My coworkers and I successfully got our narc boss fired."

    Y'all, we got her. The three of us went to HR and made separate complaints over a month ago. It was a last ditch effort. We all thought we would end up getting fired as a result and started looking for new jobs to get ahead of what we thought was the inevitable. But the system
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  • actually worked in our favor. Our complaints consisted of documented retaliation, falsely promising promotions, withholding pay, write-ups written for things that never happened as a form of retaliation, and creating a hostile work environment.
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  • I reported her for some other things, such as giving me a write-up for reporting a coworker that was using r cist slurs towards our members (we work at a chain gym company, the "judgement- free" one). That same coworker (who is one of her favorites) tried to show
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  • everyone on staff the numerous photos he'd received from a number of female members he involved himself with. We also reported that to our boss, but she never reprimanded him. Not even a verbal warning. He
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  • quit last Wednesday to avoid being fired by HR, though. We knew she had knowledge of the HR. investigation, and we were all granted anonymity. But we had a feeling she had deduced it to the three of us, but she was acting nice to save face. Which
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  • was completely out of character for her because she despises us, so we knew something was up. But we continued to work hard like we normally do and acted like nothing was going on for over a month.
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  • Fast forward to today (Monday). We came in for evening shift and everything was hunky dory between us and her for a couple of hours. The evening rush crowd comes in and we're working the desk like a well-oiled machine while she's doing something in the back.
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  • She worked just 30 minutes shy of a full work day until she got a call from district management for her to hop on a zoom meeting in her office. About 10 minutes later, she is storming out of her office with purse in hand, she walks past the front desk and screams, "I hope you're all happy.
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  • Go f yourselves" at us. We're shocked, our members are shocked, and all she did was embarrass herself further. She even had to come back inside after realizing she forgot a couple of things in her office, so that
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  • was funny. Night crew had a victory dance in the parking lot once we were off. X A bit of a long read, I know. But the moral of the story is to never give up.
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  • Live your life in a way that is authentic to you. Always do the right thing. Never compromise your values or who you are as a person just because a narcissist can't stand your authenticity. You can beat these people, it's just a long game. These narcissists are so convinced that they are
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  • the smartest people in every room that it makes them complacent and lazy. Let them talk and ramble off every now and then. They will always slip up and say/do something that you can use later. And remember to document, document, DOCUMENT!!
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  • insufficient Dane Thank you for sharing this ray of sunlight into an otherwise dark world. Good on you to document and show solidarity with your colleagues (and company).
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  • No-Biscotti-8907 I hope she cried all the way home
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  • Corporate-B You and your coworkers are my heros! Seriously, all your other coworkers should buy you drinks...or kale smoothies, whatever floats your boat. → AA
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