Employee discovers that her boss is looking to replace her, files a report with HR: ‘My boss was fired’

No one wants to feel like they are actively being replaced at work. 

This employee figured out that her boss had already made a job posting for her current position without even getting the approval of human resources. Thankfully, the author was already keeping a detailed list of grievances and actions performed by her employer that she could potentially use to her advantage when the time came. Well, that time apparently could not come soon enough.

It's easy for folks in hindsight to inform peers of the need to document absolutely everything suspicious that might occur at work. However, it's hard to know when to start documenting your manager's behavior carefully. In this instance, the author knew after the treatment that two of her coworkers endured that it was only a matter of time before she would become the target of her boss's unfair and unprofessional behavior.

Sure, she never could have expected that it would culminate in her boss looking for a replacement in such an unsubtle manner. Still, despite not anticipating exactly how their conflict would bubble to the surface, she was more than prepared to defend herself.

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  • When the author brought her list of grievances to HR, the subsequent consequences could have gone in several different directions. We have all likely witnessed scenarios in which employees had hoped that HR would have their back, only to be blindsided and disappointed. In this case, however, the employee’s documentation was so thorough and so clearly unfair that HR had no choice but to side with the author over her boss.

    If there is any major takeaway from the employee’s win here, it’s that you never know the true value in carefully monitoring the communication you have with your manager. You simply don’t know how that record could benefit you in the end, or even help you keep your job.

    Perhaps not every HR department will be as reasonable as the representative in this anecdote. Still, when we see employees gain major wins over the tyrannical forces that seek to undermine them at work, we have to applaud their resolve and live vicariously through that success.

  • "They posted my job"

    Welp, I was checking the internal job board and saw that my job was posted. I've been compiling information since November to bring to hr and just submitted an inquiry about the hostile work environment that I've been living
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  • in. I've been looking for a new job since August trying to get out. My boss fired two people before me and I watched her do the same thing she did to them to me. I'll at least be glad to get out of this miserable world she's created if and when they do fire me.
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  • TLDR: My job was posted but I had been documenting like crazy, brought the hostile work environment claim to HR, and they fired my boss.
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  • A very exciting update! I met with HR earlier this week. I had so much information that I didn't get to talk about half of what I wanted to in the 30 minute meeting so we scheduled a follow
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  • up next week. I was very thorough in what I said and organized what I wanted to say the night before, so I felt confident when I talked to them.
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  • There were a few times when I stopped and asked if they had any questions/needed clarification and they said no and that I was very detailed. I talked about how I really wanted to work for the company (because I did!),
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  • discussed the physical, mental, and financial impacts I've experienced since working under my boss, and why I finally came forward with the info. I explained
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  • that even though the catalyst to submit the HR inquiry was my job being posted, I had been documenting the favoritism, micromanaging, lack of communication, double standards, and culture of silence for a while and would've brought it forward regardless.
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  • Then I talked about the meeting I had with my boss where she changed her demeanor entirely after I questioned a policy that about half of our department had an issue with. It was in that meeting when she told me,
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  • "maybe you aren't a good fit here," and, "there is history before you and there will be history after you." In order to talk about that meeting I had to give a lot of context. I also told them
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  • about how I saw the behavior patterns that happened in two people who were recently happening to me and how I was made to participate in their demise unknowingly (I was told
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  • directly not to help someone who was struggling to get their work done and when I brought it up after they were fired, my boss told me that in the future I could help in situations like that). By
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  • that point I didn't have a lot of time left, so I skipped ahead and told them how in my last review, my boss dumped me onto someone else telling me I wouldn't be having status. meetings with her anymore, but
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  • with someone who wasn't my direct supervisor (the HR person also asked several questions about this part), how I needed to ask for help but I really shouldn't be because I'm the only one who leaves on time and me asking for help would burden others, and
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  • how her lack of communication/timely feedback wasn't an excuse for me not being able to finish my work and I should stop blaming others. I
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  • didn't even get to talk about the context of that meeting and the truly terrible week I had after it! I sent all of the documentation I had written down, which included more than just what I talked about and had many screenshots for proof.
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  • Today, my boss got back from being off for the holidays and had meetings most of the morning, so I was grateful not to have to deal with her. She had her regularly scheduled monthly status with her boss after lunch. About 20
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  • minutes into that meeting, she rushed out and told another employee that she was going to another office location (which wouldn't be that out of the ordinary but it raised up my ears because it's also the building that her boss and HR work out of).
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  • Maybe an hour later, her boss and another higher up come in and ask us all to go to the meeting room. Then they told us that she was fired!
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  • think my job being posted while I was still there might have been the final nail? The HR person was confused by that and asked me if there were plans for another person to do the same job as me
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  • so there would be two in my position (there wasn't) and talked a little about the job posting process and how it didn't seem like it was being followed. A little after the meeting with the higher ups, a senior team member came up to me and told me he was glad
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  • I didn't leave because he saw how tense things had become between me and our boss. Then at the end of the day, he and another senior person on our team told the interns about our boss. I had a strong suspicion
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  • that the intern who reported directly to my boss was the person she was trying to replace me with and this pretty much confirmed it. After the interns left the meeting room, I went in because I needed to talk to the senior people. They were still
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  • talking to each other as I walked in and one said that they were sure there would be more questions from the interns, but especially from the one who reported to my boss.
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  • I know it doesn't work out like this for everyone and I don't know what's to come, but I'm really proud of myself for speaking up. You never know
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  • what else is in someone else's file and if others have spoke up about them before. I've dealt with narcissists and their ab e for so much of my life. This past year of working under her has been truly one of the worse experiences of my life and I'm just so happy to take the win of not having to work with her for now.
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