Every employee has their breaking point, and this employee’s arrived wrapped in a job offer letter for someone else.

A woman putting in long, unpaid-overtime hours for dismal pay found herself constantly criticized for problems tied directly to a lack of proper training, receiving feedback too vague to actually improve anything.

Health issues from the stress of the job burned through her limited paid time off, all while her boss reacted to doctor’s visits like they were personal inconveniences rather than legitimate needs.

The final straw was being asked to train a brand-new hire who’d basically nannied for a living, yet somehow got called more professional than someone who’d already paid her dues.

You’ll want to keep reading for the full story.

My job has ruined my life

That might sound dramatic but I feel like it’s not.

I work 50-60 hours a week for $45k a year with no benefits (no 401k, no insurance, nothing).

I live paycheck to paycheck and now have started having numerous health issues from the stress of my job.

The only thing worse than her pathetic PTO supply is her toxic boss.

I get 8 PTO days and 8 holidays a year, I’ve used all of my PTO days due to said health issues so I won’t be able to see my family for the holidays.

And my boss gets mad at me for going to doctor’s appointments as if I chose to have health problems.

Her boss seems to think overwork is a badge of honor.

My boss likes to brag about working 18-20 hour days and I just need to work more. She doesn’t even work that much, and even if it was true, why would I go as hard for the current salary I’m at.

The boss likes to dangle the idea of a raise over her head, just to manipulate her.

I’ve been told multiple times I’d be getting a raise and bonus after being there 6 months and that has never materialized.

The drama only intensified during her annual review.

I had my employee review this week and she said I’m unprofessional and that’s why no one asks me to help them with anything. Which again is not true, one of my coworkers asks me for help all the time, I don’t mind helping him, we work well together and he is always appreciative.

I’ve never been trained on anything, yet I get in trouble for not knowing how to do things and just told to “google it.” These are super industry specific things and not easily looked up.

The feedback she gets really doesn’t help her at all.

I make our marketing deliverables and the only feedback I ever get is “this is too juvenile, our competitors do XYZ.”

I’m never given specific enough feedback to actually know what to fix, and our competitors also have a marketing department and use Adobe Illustrator, not Canva.

She also gets mad that I don’t turn my work around fast enough and don’t communicate well, but the instructions I get for work are so vague and ambiguous I don’t even know where to begin, and then when I ask a question about what I’m supposed to be doing she doesn’t respond.

That’s when things went from bad to worse.

My final straw is her hiring someone to do business development and my boss telling me this girl was more professional and more experienced than me.

I have only worked two years in an office, but this girl’s only experience is nannying for a private equity executive.

She also wants me to train and onboard this girl when I was never really trained or onboarded, so how would I know how to do that.

So when she finally started standing up to this, her boss only got more upset with her.

My boss asked me to clean out the new girl’s office and set it up for her, and then got mad at me because I refused. I had a procedure this week and have been dealing with some bladder issues and it hurts to bend over, it has hurt to bend over for weeks and my boss knows that, I have told her.

I’m applying and interviewing for jobs now but I can’t take this much longer.

Sounds like she needs to get away from this toxic boss and workplace as quickly as possible.

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It’s easy to do better when the bar is this low.

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Maybe a second source of income could help things.

This story is a prime example of what happens when a boss confuses overwork with dedication and mistakes silence for satisfaction.

Promising a raise repeatedly and never delivering is just the textbook strategy of a boss who treats their employees like furniture instead of human beings

This employee may have been trying to stick it out, but eventually the cost of staying outweighs the fear of leaving.

This boss isn’t going to realize just how valuable this employee really was until she’s long gone.