Some bosses care more about control than keeping good employees.

What would you do if your boss tried to sabotage your career with a clause that doesn’t even pertain to you?

Would you quietly move on with your life?

Or would you check the fine print and use it to walk away on your terms?

In today’s story, one employee deals with this exact scenario and makes a move the boss never saw coming.

Here’s how it all played out.

Victory on a technicality.

I once had a cleaning job for a particular company that poached me.

As a sweetener, they gave me permanent part-time work and a higher wage than other PPT workers.

I was on the fast track to promotion and eventually became a supervisor/manager. I had a great rapport with workers, bordering on friendships with many of them.

My approach to management is to put your workers first, followed by the client.

I struck a good balance of responsibility and morale.

Cue the owner/operator of the business being a stereotypical menopausal Karen, who manages the company via dollar signs and not on a person-to-person basis.

We didn’t click with our personalities, and I stood up for more vulnerable workers who made mistakes.

Karen’s plan didn’t work.

She engaged in targeted bullying by publicly calling the workers incompetent.

Of the 30-odd employees there, I had about 25 on my side.

So when Karen tried to cancel my “management position,” I told her I quit and asked if any workers wanted to join me in another company.

They all had my number.

The boss tried to use a management contract clause that states, “Forfeited a supervisor position, you cannot take clients or workers for 12 months and cannot take a management position in another company within 50 kilometres,” which is very common in the cleaning industry.

Today, she’s doing great, but Karen is not so well.

Yet again. I was ahead of the ball, as I was only considered a “Level 1 Team member,” so that clause doesn’t apply to my contract, and my position wasn’t contractually assigning me as a management employee.

After that mic drop, I said I would give my notice effective immediately.

Six months later, I’m now a full-time supervisor, and a dozen former workers are happily under my guidance.

Ex-boss Karen’s business lost clients and money and is now in administration.

Yikes! Bosses like that are the absolute worst.

Let’s see how the folks over at Reddit relate to this story.

This person likes the story.

According to this person, the boss messed around and found out.

Here are some puns.

Great point.

She did the right thing.

No one should have to be pushed around at work by a woman like that.

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