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Quitting my job tomorrow, terrified my boss will retaliate.

My boss is really unstable. She’s really controlling, cries if we don’t text her back on weekends (not even about work emergencies just…random updates on whatever she’s up to). She says she hates herself multiple times a day and we have to comfort her; and threatened to fire a colleague who asked about basic boundaries (he was uncomfortable with how our boss talks about his race in a very stereotyped way). I’m quitting tomorrow, but I’ve never had a boss feel this entitled to my personal life. One of my coworkers quit and she kept trying to find out where he went to “warn” his next job about how awful he was (he was an amazing employee and things are going great at his new job thankfully). I’m worried because it’s a small, niche field (in the arts, where people talk and know each other). I’m definitely not telling her…


My boss is really unstable. She’s really controlling, cries if we don’t text her back on weekends (not even about work emergencies just…random updates on whatever she’s up to). She says she hates herself multiple times a day and we have to comfort her; and threatened to fire a colleague who asked about basic boundaries (he was uncomfortable with how our boss talks about his race in a very stereotyped way).

I’m quitting tomorrow, but I’ve never had a boss feel this entitled to my personal life. One of my coworkers quit and she kept trying to find out where he went to “warn” his next job about how awful he was (he was an amazing employee and things are going great at his new job thankfully).

I’m worried because it’s a small, niche field (in the arts, where people talk and know each other). I’m definitely not telling her where I’m going, but is there anything I can do to preempt this behavior from her? Or tips on dealing with the inevitable guilt trip?

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