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A bad manager can make an otherwise great job absolutely miserable.

What would you do if you had a bad manager who constantly abused you, even after you moved off of her direct team?

That is the situation that the woman in this story was in, so she quit the job. A few months later, however, she got hired in to a much better position within the same company and she was able to use her new role to get her former manager fired.

She played her cards well and had a very happy ending. Read through the full details below and see what you think about it.

Former manager made my life hell and I finally got her fired

I was desperate to join a new job after my husband and I were both laid off last year.

Sometimes you have to just take whatever job is available.

When I was offered a new role, I knew it would be a step down from what I was doing but the manager and the team seemed great, and that part has not changed.

However, since my manager Gary* was so busy, he basically offloaded me to another manager Jane*.

Wow, Jane sounds awful, though.

I was supposed to be the connection point between my team and Jane, but it quickly became Jane micromanaging me.

She would ask me to work through lunch, move/cancel vacation days, call at 11pm on weekends, and order me around on phone calls.

She also made nasty comments about my weight and said I was big for my race.

This job would be horribly stressful.

The list of personal slights so long that it filled 3 pages. I would talk back to her and she did not like that, and that provoked her more.

I only stayed because we needed to pay the bills. Finally, I had a mental breakdown on a Friday afternoon after she yelled at me for something trivial about scheduling a meeting without including someone from her team who I didn’t know about.

It is great that she is going to get a different role.

I was dealing with a family tragedy and couldn’t take it anymore. I told Gary about the situation with Jane and he was sympathetic and not at all surprised considering half her team quit.

He immediately offered to move me to a different team under him. I was thrilled.

It is time for her new manager to put a stop to this.

Well, turns out going to the new team didn’t help. Jane continued to order me around from afar.

When I ignored her emails, she came to my desk one day and started loudly talking about how I am not qualified for this role.

She can’t put up with this anymore.

Gary overheard and finally told her off, but the verbal abuse did not stop. After 2 months there, I abruptly wrote my resignation letter and stapled the list of Jane’s offensive comments, and CC’ed everyone.

Gary offered a bunch of accommodations to try to keep me, but seeing how she was still provoking from afar, I said the only way for me to stay would be for her to go and he did not have authority to let her go.

Telling everyone why she is leaving is a smart move.

Her manager was in a different country and despite several HR complaints from at least 5 people, nothing was done.

So I left, loudly and without shame, telling everyone exactly why I was leaving.

Maybe she should have found another job before quitting.

Times were very bad for 3 months. There were nights we would eat slices of bread just so we could pay the mortgage and emergency expenses from a health crisis and a funeral.

Even after my husband found a job, we were still catching up on bills and still are. I spent months applying to 5-10 roles per day, sometimes over 20.

Now she has a good contact in the old company.

Last month, I saw a public memo about a bigshot from a former company joining the company I just left.

I used to work with this guy closely and texted him a “congrats, let me know if you need any insights on the new place.”

Things have taken a very positive turn.

We had a quick call where I told him some ins and outs, where I thought they could innovate. After this call, he asked me to join the team as his Chief of Staff. I accepted.

Imagine Jane’s shock when we had our 1st all-hands call. All the VPs and above were asked to welcome the new bigshot in a giant conference room.

Jane is in trouble now.

In bigshot’s speech, he breezed over that I’ll be his Chief of Staff, along with a few key names.

I now sat 2 levels above Jane and apparently, within the 3 months I was not there, the other half of her team turned over.

This is not a good look for Jane.

Every single person left. Gary was excited for me and said all nice things.

However, Jane took the classless route and sent bigshot an email about how I’m an unqualified idiot, that I used to work for her, how I tried to get her fired, and that she suspects I lied to get ahead.

She is already very trusted by ‘Bigshot.’

She didn’t even try to be fake nice. Bigshot forwarded me her email and asked what this was about.

I was so nervous and excited! Little did Jane know, I was a director at bigshot’s competitor company and was already a level above her, so 2 levels isn’t a big leap, and I worked with him for 5 years.

She has all the evidence she needs.

I had an hour call with bigshot and told him she was bad for the company culture and was a nasty person in general, but the evidence he needed was Gary confirming that her whole team has turned over.

My prior resignation letter, which was still sitting on my desktop when I logged in upon return, and a few other nasty emails she sent her recent staff, which they were happy to share with us also helped.

Bigshot fired Jane on Friday.

I bet a lot of people are very happy that Jane is finally gone.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

This is a good suggestion, though.

Managers like this ruin a good job.

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She should have never been able to stay in that job.

This commenter is happy with the results.

She should have been fired long ago. Better late than never, though.

It is funny how these things work out in the end, though.