A woman shared her tale of petty payback when her superior, who mistreated her, took it too far, so she decided some revenge was in order.
*The sharer has altered names to hide identities.
An Unpleasant Manager
The woman worked at her old company for over three years and the only downer was her boss *Ariel.
“She was very narcissistic, could not stand being wrong or anyone doing better than her, and could be very belittling, but overall once you got to know her and her ways, you could kind of deal with it.”
She Tried To Take It In Her Stride
Although her boss’s behavior was far from ideal, she didn’t let it get to her.
“I loved the work I was doing, so I put up with it. At the year-and-a-half mark, I got promoted! Ariel was still my boss, but I had more responsibility and authority over the coworkers I had previously been working alongside. All of them were very happy for me! Everyone except Ariel.”
It’s Like A Switch Had Been Flipped
The woman’s promotion inspired a new level of hostility from Ariel.
“It’s like a switch turned inside of her, and her crazy, micromanaging, narcissistic behavior increased tenfold, basically only directed at me.”
She Wouldn’t Let It Go
Any chance Ariel could get to undermine the woman, she wouldn’t hesitate. “She would straight up lie to me, steal ideas and take credit for them, and look for any excuse whatsoever to reprimand me or talk down to me in front of her boss (‘big boss’) to make me look bad. Reflecting back on it, I don’t really know what her problem with me was. The best guess I could come up with was that she felt her job was threatened by me moving up in the company?”
It Continued To Get Worse
“Since the promotion, I had been dealing with her unprofessional and outright terrible behavior of me and taking it all in stride. I really liked my job, I could handle things. Then it got worse. First, remember how I said she lied? Well, I had a very important client coming in for a meeting with me. It was absolutely imperative that the client was informed of XYZ before they came in. This was part of Ariel’s job.”
She Didn’t Do Her Job Properly
“The day of the meeting comes along, and I am reading through an email correspondence between the client and Ariel which Ariel forwarded to me (literally the morning of an afternoon meeting, as late as she could possibly send me the information). I notice that XYZ is not mentioned. We often have phone conversations with our clients, so figuring this is what happened and wanting to verify that, I called up Ariel. I ask her if she is absolutely sure the client knows about XYZ. In a snotty ‘Are you a moron’ voice, she tells me, ‘Of course I did. Did you not read the email I forwarded?’”
She Deliberately Sabotaged Her
“I explained that yes, I did, and the lack of it mentioned in there is what prompted my call. She practically cuts me off to say, ‘Oh, yeah. Client called. I told them over the phone.’ I was skeptical but I trusted her. She knew how incredibly important it was, and surely she couldn’t be this unpleasant.
I went into the meeting thinking the client knew about XYZ. He did not, and him having to find out at what was essentially the last minute made him (understandably) very angry. He also had lost trust in us because here I was, talking to him like he knew about it and being just as surprised as him when he didn’t. We lost their account.”
No Proof
It was impossible for the woman to redeem herself. “This reflected badly on me because I was the one meeting with him. Unless I personally spoke to the big boss, and then their boss, and accused Ariel of lying, it would just be assumed I screwed up as there was no way Ariel would defend me or admit her lie. We had spoken about it over the phone, too, so there was no concrete proof she lied.”
Breaking Point
This sabotage continued until the woman had enough and tendered her resignation. “I had to get as far away from Ariel as I could. Thankfully about a month and a half later, I accepted an offer from a great job with better pay and a better commute! I gleefully put in my two weeks’ notice.”
Payback Is An Itch
“On the morning of my last day, my brother calls. My niece has lice, and both he and his wife have it too. Knowing I spend a lot of time with her, they called to tell me to check myself out. I also have lice. It’s like an hour before I have to start work, I do not have time to go get a lice treatment and deal with this right now, so I google and find the best way to prevent spreading it is to pull your hair up into a neat, tight bun and spray with a barrier of hairspray to decrease the chances of stray hairs flying around.”
Ariel Has Long, Beautiful Red Hair
“That morning, she was extra sour, probably because my leaving caused a lot of work to fall on her shoulders until they found someone qualified to replace me. I was already leaving for a much better and more peaceful job, but I was and still am astounded at how she treated me. So, when she left to go to lunch, I quietly made my way into her office, took out my bun, shook my hair out, and ran her brush through my lice-infested hair. I hope she enjoyed constantly itching her head and lice treatments causing damage to her beautiful auburn hair.”
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