Toxic leadership can drive even the most dedicated employees away, especially when those at the top abuse their power.

One employee’s decision to quit ended up setting off a chain of events that finally toppled corrupt leadership’s reign of terror.

Read on for the full story.

Helped my former boss get fired

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.

They ruled the workplace with an iron fist.

It’s well known 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.

When employees tried to set boundaries, the bosses punished them for it.

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.

They claimed I wasn’t getting my work done, that I was a liar, and that I needed to put more effort into my work instead of my personal life.

(I had just suffered my 3rd miscarriage and was getting a lot of testing done.)

I put in my notice 3 days later.

After she left, it was clear she was doing a lot more than the bosses originally thought.

Their data 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.

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.

She left behind big shoes to fill – and it seems the bosses hadn’t had any success.

He asked me 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 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.

This conversation finally prompted an investigation.

Well they did one last month and one director was unavailable 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.

The toxic boss finally got what was coming to her after all these years.

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.

They felt she was misusing her authority by making her employees come into the office while she supposedly worked from home.

What goes around, comes around.

What did Reddit think?

This sarcastic redditor got a kick out of the story.

This story goes to show that how “important” you are plays a big impact on how seriously your concerns are taken.

Many companies tend to follow a similar pattern of dysfunction.

In the end, their greed and arrogance were their undoing.

Turns out, they were far better at barking orders than covering their tracks.

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