Boss lied to clients that their star employee was quitting — so she sent in her resignation for real

A Reddit user has shared how months of dishonesty, poor treatment, and toxic management pushed them out of a job they had once excelled in. In a post that gained 3.1k upvotes, u/throwaway713137689 described being undermined despite their strong background and client relationships, until they finally quit, and management "weren’t expecting it." "To start with, I’m very experienced in my field. I hold many degrees, and ran my division last summer upon hire," they wrote.

From the beginning, they were responsible for the high-end side of the customer base. "It got to the point where customers didn’t even want to speak with sales or supervisors; only to me," they said. However, things began to change after the "subsequent raise meeting." "Management tried to replace me with somebody completely unqualified, and without any discussion," they said. The new hire was brought in at a higher wage than what they were making. "They were 'supervisor material,' but ended up quitting two months in, lmao," the user wrote.

Things deteriorated further when the employee "received a write-up for 'losing clients,'" despite having repeatedly communicated their schedule for the year. Control of their schedule was taken away and given to someone unfamiliar with the role. "When the inevitable happened, I was blamed. I didn’t sign the write-up. I was burning out," they wrote. On top of that, they were expected to juggle two roles at once. They juggled two roles without support until a new scheduling app briefly made the job manageable, but that improvement was soon cut short.

That kind of mismanagement is far from rare. According to a 2020 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 84% of U.S. workers said poorly trained managers create a lot of unnecessary work and stress, and more than half felt that their own performance would improve if their supervisors had better people management skills. "Out of nowhere, my entire client base — the schedule I’d been begging them to fix and I hadn’t been allowed to touch since May — was stripped from me and handed to new hires," they said, adding, "Overnight. No warning, no discussion. Instead, I got stuck with their random 'odd jobs.' My clients and I were confused."

The final straw was when, during approved medical leave, they unknowingly trained their replacement, and a supervisor told a client they had quit. "That was a lie, and I was gone for a week. A WEEK," they wrote. On returning, they were told "your health sucks" and saw their progress erased. "I’d never been more disappointed in a workplace… Instead, I got replaced — twice — and lied about." Soon after, they resigned, adding that "They weren’t expecting it." "Now I’m unemployed but relieved, and disappointed as hell," the user concluded.

That frustration resonated strongly with others who read the post, and many weighed in with their own thoughts and advice. u/EtherPhreak commented, "Reach out to the clients and see if they are interested in making a position for you. I’m sure they were paying 3-4x what you were paid." u/BuffaloSabresFan added, "The fact that they said OP quit when they didn’t leads me to believe they knew they were creating a hostile work environment to push OP to leave on their own." u/1Mouse7579 wrote, "Your leaving out why they didn’t feel you were performing and why they took your client list away. I’ve been in sales for 20 years, and when that happened, guys were on PIPS and one foot out the door."

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