‘Man it feels good. I never liked her’: IT worker quits on spot after HR consultant becomes de facto boss, demands he comb through 200 hours of CCTV footage from 28 cameras to spy on coworkers and deliver dozens of clips in 2 days

• HR consultant ascended to dictator of my place of work, tried to push me around, so I quit with no notice

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• Man it feels good. I never liked her. She was inappropriately appointed to her position because she's friends with someone on the board of directors and she decided to rebuild the company in her image. This entailed multiple departmental massacres in which whole teams were fired overnight. A lot of my colleagues privately expressed fear and worry over their jobs and just wanted to stay off HR consultant's radar.

• Now, how does an HR consultant become supreme dictator of a company? I don't know, but the open secret is that it's actually her running the place and not our general manager. Every major decision seems to be her making, and the general manager simply implements it.

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• I'm in a special position because I'm the IT manager, and I'm greatly overqualified for my job especially given my low salary ($52k/year). Although I've tried to stay off HR consultant's radar, I occasionally have to correspond with her, and every single time, she comes out the gates blazing with hostility. Not to mention her demands are often ridiculous and outside the realm of physical possibility.

• This past Friday, she went too far. As the designated CCTV operator, she sent me a list of a few dozen things to comb through during a 6 hour window. These are things as simple as "see when this employee clocked in for their shift," others were as ridiculous as "follow these employees around and see what they did all day." Well, miss HR consultant, we have 28 cameras, and you want me to comb through nearly 200 hours of footage AND break everything down into dozens of individual clips, AND you want this turned around by Tuesday.

• I politely informed her that this is a lot of footage to comb through, and I'll do my best to get her what she requested, but I can't promise everything by Tuesday. I also have stuff to do this weekend.

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• She didn't like that. Called me on the phone once again, the threats of termination again, the entitlement and attitude and disrespect again. So I quit immediately. She deserves an IT manager who can give her what she wants.

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• The IT manager stuck around despite being wildly overqualified for fifty-two grand a year. He kept his head down, did his job, and only dealt with her when absolutely necessary. Every interaction started with hostility and ended with impossible demands.

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• Then on a Friday. She wanted him to comb through nearly two hundred hours of security footage from twenty-eight cameras. Find specific moments. Clip them out. Deliver everything by Tuesday. This was a six-hour window she had carved out of his weekend, like time was something you could just claim from other people.

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• He told her politely that this was a lot. He would try, but could not promise everything by Tuesday. He also, extremely audaciously, had a life outside work.

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• When she called him, it was immediately threats of termination and with entitlement dripping from every word.

  Disrespect like it was her native language.

  So he quit. 

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• And he was right to quit, because power without oversight only creates fear. People stop trying to do good work and start trying to stay invisible. Innovation goes first. Trust goes immediately. And the whole place becomes a performance of compliance while work becomes what you do in the shadows.

  The bigger lesson is about boundaries. The kind you put between yourself and someone who thinks your time, your weekend, and your dignity are theirs to claim. Not the kind you put in an employee handbook because, for your own good, you just have to recognize the moment when the only professional thing you can do is recognize that the person above you forgot what their role actually is.

  Sometimes the only winning move is to leave the game entirely. She wanted an IT manager who could give her what she wanted. She got one who realized some bosses are not worth servin

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