I quit my job of six years to show upper management how useless and bad my boss was, and it worked.
My last job began in 2017. I worked part-time in a warehouse and was promoted after a few years to a job as a transport administrator or manager.
My coworker and I ran our area together. We only told our then-manager when we needed help with any part of our jobs, time off, or other things like that. Other than that, he gave us full freedom to run things.
Even though there were some tough days, we were having a great time.
Then, in 2021, the company made some changes. Our line boss was moved to another department, and we were given a new manager who was only responsible for us two and our department. Of course we were mad about it, but we still wanted to give him a chance.
He turned out to be a jerk and someone who liked to be in charge. But he was weird; one minute he was very helpful, and the next he was a mean bully who used manipulation. He loved making fun of the fact that I was in a car crash last year. He loved giving me only the bad jobs and making things difficult between me and my coworkers.
Then, in March of this year, my girlfriend got sick while she was pregnant and had to give birth to our son six weeks early. I had to take three weeks off from work because of how bad and scary it was. When I got back, I had a lot of work to do that hadn't been done while I was gone. While I was trying to catch up, my boss pulled me away to work on other projects while his other two employees were not doing anything. When my work was late, he would constantly yell at me that I wasn't managing my time well, etc.
Then, in May, he did something very wrong and blamed me for it. It made things difficult between me and two coworkers with whom I had to work closely, and I was warned that I would be punished.
After that, I thought to myself, "He is nothing without me running his department." He wouldn't have a job without me. He wouldn't be able to tell upper management what was going on with his area without me. He gets all the praise while we get all the blame for running his department for him on half of his pay.
He did something wrong, and I told him one last time about it. The next day, I gave him my official notice.
From the time I gave my notice for four weeks, it was funny to see him slowly take over my duties and struggle with them. So many things to do that he would say, "I don't even know what you do during the day." Then he had to do the awful jobs he used to give me. That was my last day on the job in June. I told my coworkers that I would give him three months to quit or get fired.
Within the first few weeks, the department failed their monthly audit by a large margin. This caught the attention of the company directors, who sent someone to look into it because it had never happened before.
A month later, I was on vacation when one of the top managers called and texted me to ask for system passwords because my line manager had left for vacation without setting anything up. Since I was on vacation and no longer worked there, I didn't pay attention to him. Then he kept making mistakes; for example, he forgot to order some important things, which made the site work less well. I set out to show him that he didn't know anything about the job in question.
Then, after a month, he was fired while the matter was being looked into further because management finally realized he couldn't do his job.
A month later, management said he was leaving right away. I believe he was fired. I was right about three months, though, and he couldn't work that shift without me. Giving up a job to make a point was just a small act of payback, but it made the point.
Get rid of it.
Life is great now that I'm my own boss, have a lot better work-life balance, and am making more money than I ever dreamed possible in that previous position.
