So few years ago, I’ve got of the most ahole boss one could ever have. To give some context, this manager is on his 50s, almost 60s still preying on younger employees and that includes me, he tried to charm his way to me but then he learned quickly that I got a boy friend at the time so then he started to start a hate campaign towards me lol. Keep this in mind.

Before I met this manager, I worked for the company for almost 2 years, I resigned but this manager is new in the company when I am almost done serving my notice period and he stopped me from resigning and offered me a Retail Manager position. I accepted since it’s more pay, less hours and good for experience.

Anyway, back to present, when this boss started his hate campaign, one of his thing is that he hates to see me sitting on my desk trying to do my job (i.e making weekly schedules for the retail, resolving complaints, creating proposals for retail improvement, etc.) for him, working means being on foot and actually literally moving from place to place. I should add to context that during his hate campaign, he also added my tasks, apart from retail manager, he also unofficially appointed me to be a quality control checker, so 2 opposite jobs. Idk really what to do at that point because I tried doing quality checking but then I can’t also at the same time do some paperworks and focus on retail so, my position got compromised. He always yell at me when he see me on my desk even if I am doing my job

I wouldn’t let that happen, so I devised a way to show him what it means if he wanted me to do what he wants. I do the scheduling and the proposals during my break time, schedule send it to him for approval and do quality checking and making sure he sees me doing quality checking most of the time. Now, I deliberately send the schedules and proposals to him, and as expected, he did not read it, he barely even read a simple message so I waited for him to yell at me for “neglecting” my retail manager duties.

Surprisingly, he did not yell at me, instead, he called a meeting with the owner of the company and the director to publicly humiliate me during the meeting. He claimed I had failed to do my job as a retail manager and that he wants to fire me. Unbeknownst to him, my emails had the owner, the director and anyone important to the company cc’d on it, now it’s his turn to be humiliated not even reading the email and now claiming I failed to do my job. I then explained to all the boss what I was tasked to do, and why I did what I did.

The boomer boss got fired, I got a raise but I still left the company after few months for different opportunity.