A few years ago I got hired with the county. My boss was a bit rigid but being ex military it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. About 3 months in, I noticed her attitude towards me had completely changed. She was outright treating me like trash and making my life hell. Turns out that someone had found my fb and notified her that I was a shibari instructor/Artist. When I went to HR about the treatment and told them the cause, they came back with “she denies that this is the reason, and says it's purely work performance related.” So because of this treatment I started ramping up my business and soon enough I was making more money doing shibari than I was working for the county. So two days before Xmas in 2022, I packed my office and dropped a box of things that needed to be done off on her desk. I said, “merry Xmas, I'm out” and walked out of her office. If it wasn't for her, I would have never pushed my business the way I did.
Because I had contact with other co workers, I also found out that they hired 3 different people for my position. One who was in her office crying all day due to the stress, and other one that got hired and said “f this!” And the last one seems to actually be stable. Only took them 6 months to figure it out.