So I've been working with this org for 5 years now. I joined right after college and ngl I learnt a lot. Good people, good balance, good pay, interesting work.
Enter a new line manager (“LM”) and things start rolling downhill. This “leader” never took a stand, played postman between his sales team and upper management and discouraged any differing opinion/ new ideas/ risks whilst continuously pushing for 1.5 X older targets.
I'm the youngest sales manager in his team with the best numbers but he still screwed my appraisals back in Oct last year. He sat on my mails for reconsideration of the decision (playing postman on this one too). I wore myself out reminiscing and banking on the aspects of this job I used to like to the point I couldn't take it anymore and asked for a two week leave citing I need a “mental health break”. LM starts to cover his ass by asking what caused my “mental breakdown” and a list of things/meetings I've had over the last 10 days.
Anyhow I get my leave approved and this was the first time that I didn't pick my customer calls during my leave and softly directed them to reach out to the CSR or the LM for pending matters. He didn't pick them either cause my clients kept dropping me messages that nobody's responding. Fast forwards to today when I join back, I called LM and he broke the camels back. Called me Irresponsible for not picking calls saying it's a “moral responsibility/obligation in a sales role”; said that he never approved my leave cause I didn't finish some pending tasks he pointed out before my mental health break and bluntly put that I should put in my paper cause he doesn't want people like me in his team.
That did it for me. I'm done being so undervalued. I'd be taking some risk quitting without a job offer in hand but it's alright.
Any tips on how I can stick it to him before I go though?