Coming back to work after a serious medical leave is hard enough without your job being rewritten out from under you.

One employee returned from Long-Term Disability following two traumatic brain injuries, only to find her original role gone and her responsibilities scattered among colleagues she now had to learn from.

Before she could fully settle back in, her toxic boss placed her on a Performance Improvement Plan, timing it right before his own vacation and hers.

What she didn’t know at the time was that he was spending company hours applying for a new job at Zillow while holding her performance to an impossible standard.

That’s the detail that turned a rough return into something far more infuriating.

Keep reading for the full story.

Manager put me on a PIP while applying to other jobs on the clock, went to Hawaii, and quit 6 weeks after he pushed HR to fire me.

Last year, I suffered two traumatic brain injuries in auto accidents and had to go on Long-Term Disability.

And when the employee returned, her job wasn’t at all like how she left it.

When I returned on a gradual medical plan, my original job duties had been handed off, my entire role was rewritten, and I had to retrain from scratch under my own colleagues.

Her horrible boss certainly didn’t help things.

Right as I was working through this, my manager placed me on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).

He dropped this on me immediately before he left for a vacation in Hawaii, and right before a pre-approved vacation of my own that he had known about for weeks.

Her boss was a huge hypocrite.

While enforcing this PIP, he was actively using his company computer on company time to apply for a new job at Zillow.

When I returned from time off, he claimed my progress “wasn’t up to standard.”

Then the inevitable happened.

HR terminated me on June 15th.

By late July, he onboarded a new employee to take over the role.

Then the boss played his final hand.

On that new hire’s third day, my manager handed in his notice and left for his new job at Zillow, leaving the new hire completely high and dry with zero context.

I genuinely cannot begin to measure my anger. There’s very little I can do. I’m likely marked ineligible for rehire, and he just moves on with his life scot-free.

This story may just take the cake for “worst boss ever documented.”

What did Reddit have to say?

This was personal.

This user suggests taking legal action.

This commenter shares what they think happened.

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Lawyers seem to be incentivized to take bigger, flashier cases.

What makes this situation so maddening isn’t just the termination itself, it’s realizing how disposable the reasoning behind it turned out to be.

This employee worked to rebuild her role after a brutally difficult medical recovery, and instead of support, she got evaluated by someone who was simultaneously interviewing his way out of the company.

Anger here is an appropriate response to watching someone walk away consequence free from a mess they created.

Let’s hope this boss faces his karma sooner than later.