For context: I work in sales at a smaller branch for an appliance company, started in delivery and worked up to sales after two years of faithful service now going on two years in sales. Boss has always been an awful piece of work. Made lies about me like my wife hated being married to me, that I stole company property, that I was the reason for her many health issues etc.
I had been run through the mud by this woman who constantly held it over my head that she was the sole reason I was in sales and I wouldn't be anything if not for her. Well, I got good enough to the point that most people preferred me over her or the other salesperson. I worked hard to build these relationships and she saw it as a threat to her own sales.
The day after my only day off during the week, she pulled me into the office as soon as I got in and started on me again saying that I was trying to get all the other employees to rally against her(I wasn't, they all just hated her), and threatened to force me to quit or back into delivery, telling me that she would hire a better replacement within the week. I was pretty shaken by this because I would have a hard time finding another job in the same pay bracket. After this she sent me to pick up an appliance at another branch store and everything changed.
I learned that the current salesperson working there was leaving in less than a month, and the manager suggested that maybe I transfer to his branch and that he really wanted me at his store. I thought about it the entire way back and later that night talked to my wife and family about it. My wife had recently gotten a job in our home town so we were a lot more flexible because of it, and with her approval I called up to the manager that night, set up a meeting and the deed was done. I was transferring to his store. Ecstatic about it, I shared this with the other salesperson in my store and horror swept across her face. “What will I do if you're not here?!”
She immediately started looking for another job, found one and on the same day I planned to give my manager my resignation, she handed hers in too. It was amazing to see how she took it. All the power out of her hands. The salespeople that she was going to replace me with learned through the grapevine of what she's like to work for and all turned down the position. She ended up working seven days a week to keep her store going, and about a week in she decided to retire. Guess you couldn't do it without me HUH? Corporate was decidedly ready to jump on her retirement as I assume she had some arrangement with them to keep her position until she retired.
Since then, they had no problem hiring a new manager and eventually even got another salesperson on the team. My old boss is still spreading rumors about me and it's awesome to hear how badly her world is going up in smoke. Oh, and me? I'm doing awesome now! My new manager and I work together so well, he's really uplifting and we make a great team. I have a bit further of a drive now(45 minutes) so I've taken up audiobooks which I never had the time to do before, and I love it! We just went through Black Friday with the best numbers in the company and one of our higher ups in corporate called to congratulate me and mentioned how much a person can change given the right environment.
My old boss completely loathes me now, and I've heard constantly tried to tell lies to corporate about me and they just let it go from one ear to the other. I've also taken the liberty to sleuth out several missing appliances that she “forgot” to get payment for and ultimately deleted the sales order being stupid enough to think that would remove any paper trail back to her, and turned in about 6k worth of basically stolen appliances which corporate has told me they are taking out of her final check. HAH YOU FAT PIECE OF **** **** Here's your admittance to the fuck around and find out club! Enjoy your forced retirement.