Having a boss who blames you for everything is miserable, and it usually ends up with you losing your job.

What would you do if your boss was constantly lying about your performance and doing everything she could to get you fired?

That is the situation that the website developer in this story was in, but he kept good documentation of everything that she was doing. In the end, he was able to get her fired instead.

Things really worked out perfectly for him in the end. It is unfortunate that he had to go through it all, though. Read through the full story below to see what you think of what happened.

Boss tried to get me fired for her own mistakes for months, backfires, boss’s career over.

In my first job out of University I was hired to be IT Support and to build a ticketing website for a charity of about 100 staff in England. Unfortunately, however, my first ever boss was insane.

Managers like this are the worst.

One of the main reasons I was hired was to be in charge of the whole website project, and to do most of the work, but from the moment I arrived at the charity, my boss deliberately sabotaged my work to make me look bad and to make her look good.

She took credit for every success and I took the blame for every failure. For months and months I gave her the benefit of the doubt.

This went from March when I was hired until roughly December when the stuff really began to kick off.

Let’s see what happens.

Phase 1

In late November I emailed all the higher staff members in the charity to give them an update of how things were progressing with the website.

13 staff members in total. 5 of them emailed back, with everyone else copied-in, asking for more information on certain points.

Why would she not reply?

I began replying, but my boss came and told me not to reply. I told her that would make it look like I didn’t know how to reply, or that I was refusing to reply, but she assured me she would reply.

Over a week passed and she did not reply, so I even drafted a template she could use, because I was tearing my hair out at the stress of it all.

Still no reply. Angry complaints started arriving in my inbox from Directors.

She is totally throwing him under the bus.

A week later in early December, on one of only 4 days I had off sick last year, she hastily arranged a meeting in which she told all the major-players on the project that I had been removed from the project completely due to incompetence and never to talk to me about the project.

She did not tell me I was off the project. The next day, when I was back in the office, she arranged another meeting, without me knowing, that included loads of other people and she reiterated the same thing – that I had been removed from the project and never to talk to me about it.

I didn’t even know the meeting was happening.

How was he supposed to know if she never told him?

Not knowing I had been removed from the project, I kept working on it, but wondered why I stopped getting replies from the others who were involved.

A week later, in a meeting with all the other ‘major-players’ in attendance, my boss reprimanded me constantly, in front of everyone, for not knowing I had been removed from the project.

That was the first time I knew I’d been removed from the project and was seriously depressing.

Apparently nobody is working on this project.

My role on the project was reduced to that of background support, with no involvement in anything substantial.

My boss took over the entire running of the project… and from then onwards absolutely nothing happened for 3 months.

Every job that I had been progressing with stalled, was set back, was done completely incorrectly and the entire project temporarily derailed.

Why is he still trying to make her look good?

Phase 2

The stupidest thing I did was start working on the project again, purely because I saw nobody else was doing anything and I hoped it might make my boss treat me fairly if I saved the thing.

The February 21st “Go-Live to the Public” date had long passed when I started picking up little jobs that I knew I could quickly get done.

Wow, she is betraying him yet again.

By the end of March, of course the project was way passed its due date but, instead of it being a case of “holy crap, thanks for saving this project”, it had instead become possible to pin all the blame on me.

To anyone who didn’t know – it might look like I’d been in charge all along! My boss started with the “this should’ve been done months ago” routine.

At least they have something done.

On April 1st we technically had our Go-Live to the Public day with a battered, piece-of-junk website running off a messy, SQL database.

There was still an absolute mountain to climb in terms of getting stuff done, but since we’d “Gone Live” the 3rd Party Support team who helped me through the whole project asked my boss to sign-off on the project.

He has something to do.

On April 4th my boss allowed the company to sign off on the project so that, for the rest of the mountain of work that had again become mine, I had almost no support on a unique system that noone else understands.

Most of the time I tried to work on something from then on the 3rd Party company would ask for payment since the boss had stupidly decided to host on this company’s servers, and only my boss was able to authorize payment.

And yet, this guy just keeps working.

I chased her constantly about it but, until I actually approached our ‘account manager’ myself 2 months later, she did nothing, but was able to use the fact that a lot of jobs, now assigned to me, weren’t getting done, as a means of making everyone else think I was the reason the website sucked!

From mid-March until the end of May I worked 110% on the project with this going on. Everything I completed, my boss took credit for, everything that didn’t get done my boss used to discredit me.

Hopefully he is doing something to protect himself.

Phase 3

In mid-May a catch-up meeting was demanded by the Directors of the charity to find out why the project was doing so badly, so my boss instantly – the same day – started setting me up to take the blame with “as you know, this job was on the list months ago”, “if you remember, this job requires you to fix ” etc.etc.etc.

The meeting was scheduled for May 30th and I knew what was coming. Just like dozens of other meetings before my boss was going to dump all over me in front of everyone.

Finally, he is doing what is in his own best interests.

There were 2 weeks until the meeting, my boss went on holiday, so I started to prepare my defence.

I created a folder full of printed out emails that I could use as evidence against her. I anticipated every attack she would make. It really paid off in the end.

She is not even hiding the fact that she is going to blame him.

On May 28th, the first day after she got back from holiday, two days before the meeting, she had me come alone into her office.

She said the failure of the project was entirely my fault, that I blamed others for my own mistakes (which was pure hypocrisy), that I was incompetent, that I was lazy, that I had a bad attitude, that I should not be working in the IT sector, that I was not intelligent enough to work in “an office atmosphere.”

Good, he is getting HR involved.

She offered mother-like consolation to me as I tried to explain, as calmly as possible, how she was wrong. It was gut-wrenching. She truly is an abomination.

After the meeting I went straight the charity’s HR Director in the first of many meetings that would become my formal grievance against my boss.

She is surprised that he is standing up for himself.

I ended up standing my ground in that meeting though. I didn’t give an inch. The next day, May 29th, my boss approached me again and tried to get me to break again, but I held firm and corrected her on every bit of what she tried to make me believe.

She was shaking a lot. I again went to the HR Director. Bear in mind that this is a snapshot of just 1 project we worked on together.

I would say though it encompasses at least half of the stuff she put me through, and it was the reason I eventually lodged a grievance against her.

What will he do next?

Phase 4

The next day my boss took away all the jobs from me again and once again fucked me over.

She also finally got in touch with the 3rd Part Support company, threatened not to pay them, and then finally all those jobs I had lined up to be completed were done – which my boss took all the credit for (look how quick she was able to do it, after I had spent months!).

Surely this is breaking policy.

The day after that I formally emailed the HR Director and began the grievance process against my boss.

First of all, my emails began disappearing, the ones which could be used as evidence.

My boss actually changed the password to my domain account and deleted a lot of emails I could have used against her – this all helped in my grievance though because I had most of them, the important ones, printed out and backed up.

He shouldn’t be letting this get him sick.

I began making weekly backups of all my emails, set it up so that every email that entered my Inbox was automatically forwarded to a personal GMail account. I made backups of all my work on our shared network because that started looking weird too.

I lost a lot of weight from stress. Last year I took 4 days off sick – during June I had 8 days off sick.

She is still going after him.

Despite the ongoing grievance my boss went into overdrive. She had meetings with everyone she could convince that I was a jerk and proceeded to utterly screw me over.

Our 3rd Party IT Support almost refused to work with me because they thought I was telling everyone they were bad.

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His boss knows that things aren’t going well.

When the tables turned on my boss after I delivered all that evidence to the HR investigators, her only option was to take A LOT of time off work.

On the day the judgement was delivered, that my grievance was “upheld” on all points, my boss went home early.

The final revenge.

Phase 5

For almost the entire month of July my boss was “off sick”.

On July 30th the Directors of the charity announced a full staff meeting in the charity at which they announced that my boss had “resigned” – but I’ve later discovered she was fired.

Well, this seems unprofessional.

The next day a massive “unofficial” staff party was announced with – I kid you not – a “ding dong the witch is dead” theme.

I thought it would be wise not to attend though, I have to continue to keep all of this confidential.

This lady is just crazy.

My boss continues her malicious behaviour though. She’s now resorted to meeting individually, outside of work time, with those staff members who didn’t hate her (mind you, there are very few who didn’t hate her) and those wealthy members of the local community who are involved with the charity.

This is just to fish for evidence she can use against me and the charity as a whole for firing her, but also to continue her campaign of discrediting me personally. There are going to be a lot of relationships that will take a long time to mend.

He just wants to put the past behind him.

It’s like being constantly pursued by an evil entity that actually goes out of its way to hurt you.

It’s difficult to completely relax about it all, but I’ve just come back from two amazing holidays and I’ve kind of gotten used to it.

There are plenty of bad people in the world.

I still feel like there will be something waiting for me in the future, but I think her options are all out and I can finally move on with my life.

The really bad thing is that everyone comes across so many of these malicious people in life. I find it really difficult to trust anyone.

Let’s hope she has moved on.

It seems so difficult to continue life as normal when you might have someone who will dedicate themselves to hurting you.

My old boss was the “Head of Operations” for the charity but is now a secretary at an auctioneers after what seems like six months unemployed.

You have to wonder what made this lady hate him so much? And how she got away with what she did for so long.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

This person thinks he could sue her.

Charities often bring out the worst in people.

This really does seem like harassment.

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Here is someone who went through something similar.

This person thinks he was doing a good job, though.

If she had just been a good and supportive manager, all of this could have been avoided. Some managers think that being a jerk is a way to lead, but it just isn’t.

Fortunately, this guy was smart enough to document what was happening.