r/Prorevenge I Sued My Toxic Boss For $500,000! 💰😁💰

welcome to our slash pro revenge where op sues her boss for approximately half a million dollars our next credit post is from interesting spite i'm a professional attorney wrangler for a big legal firm if you've watched the show's suits i'm basically donna as a legal admin i have to keep a tremendous amount of information straight every county in every u.s state has their own court system their own rules and their own idiosyncrasies i have five attorneys on my team despite tv shows it's pretty unusual for a lawyer to have a special secretary all on their own unless they're very important so 5 is a solid number because of kovid we haven't yet replaced a secretary that left in january of last year and in the meantime i've been babysitting one of the partners whose name is bingley it's been a fun learning opportunity because bingley works for an entirely different region and type of law from the rest of my team also he has a case where a truck exploded which is awesome so on to the story my manager catherine is the worst you know the type she plays favorites her most loved word is no and she must be involved in every conversation because she's just that important we do not get along because i'm a stubborn know-it-all who's been proven right a few too many times for example she forbade me from using resources that other admins had access to which caused me to have to work overtime and then she would deny my overtime requests on some days i literally had no way to do my job it's worth noting that the reason why bingley secretary left was specifically because of catherine in fact we've had four other admins quit over this past year explicitly because of catherine anyway at this point i've been working with bingley for almost a year i'd gotten used to filing pleadings in a different state and i no longer needed to double check all my work because the law still operates in the stone age a few u.s states still require hard copy filing anything we want the judge to read has to be sent by actual mail on actual paper to arrive in the judge's actual hands it's a pain especially since most states let you file electronically but whatever most of bingley's cases are in one of the states that requires hard copies catherine in her excessive wisdom butted in uninvited and instructed me to include a cover letter when mailing a new filing this confused me because i'd been filing for almost a year and no one even the admin who had originally trained me had ever mentioned a cover letter i told catherine this and she basically told me to suck it up i called the court admin to make sure that i wasn't crazy and that i hadn't ruined a year's worth of filings and the court admin literally laughed and said to please not include a cover letter ever so i didn't so imagine my surprise when katherine called me writing me up for insubordination despite the court rules and despite the court clerk explicitly telling me not to send the cover letter catherine was right because she's always right whereas i to quote her it's just a disrespectful little turd and i'm tired of you she put the warning into my employee file pending disciplinary measures the next day she emailed my team telling them to reduce my score in my yearly review because she knew that i'd been rated too highly for what my abilities really were it felt to me like she was trying to get me fired by creating a history of poor performance well if you're so tired of me catherine then i can leave within a week of looking i found a new position now here's the issue i effing love my team this is the best work team that i've ever been on we take each other seriously and we genuinely love each other often admins get pushed around because we don't have fancy degrees but not here so when i called in to quit i cried i cried a lot i cried to the point that one of the partners bennett asked if i wanted a counteroffer i said no because that wouldn't solve anything and he asked what i meant so i told him i told him about the write-up i told him about how she was trying to falsify my employee review after it had already been submitted i told him the reason why five admins had already quit i told him about how i wasn't even allowed to ask for help i thought that was the end of it until one of my friends in another office charlotte called me asking what the hell i was doing because she didn't have the time to train someone into being the new me and i was the only admin that she actually trusted in my office so why was i leaving her all alone so i told her and she told her boss who was also a partner and together they plotted first charlotte is the manager in her office so she's on equal footing with catherine they also report to the same person charlotte called the district manager and told him that catherine was driving admins away and the most recent admin to quit was the only person who knew how to do a lot of the paperwork on my teams and that my loss was a serious blow meanwhile charlotte's boss called up his fellow partner and told her that after i left his world would collapse in on itself he said that he would go to the nearest bridge and jump off it which would be pretty impressive in a landlocked state they had to do something i got a call the next day from bennett saying that they had a counteroffer that they were really hoping that i'd take basically instead of reporting to catherine i would report directly to gardner one of the partners catherine would be forbidden from interfering with me without getting gardner's permission this solved the issue and i got to stay with my team so i happily accepted and i thought the debacle was over however the debacle was not over unbeknownst to me bennett put catherine on a performance improvement plan and she didn't get an end-of-year bonus or a raise it turns out that i had been absolutely correct that catherine's behavior had been the explicit cause of six secretaries quitting in less than a year i got a call last week from charlotte i figured that she just wanted to gossip but it was actually to give me a heads up catherine had been stripped of her management duties she had missed every single one of the benchmarks on her performance improvement plan charlotte had called me to ask for my opinion on who should become the new manager now i know what some of you are thinking yes become the new manager and fire katherine but i'm not a sadist i just want to stay on my team and do what i do best which is being a cheerfully annoying respectful little turd i told her that one of the more senior admins would probably need some guidance but she would be amazing at it so no one has to deal with catherine anymore she's now just a mere paralegal and not anyone's manager at all if she had just left me alone and not interfered when she wasn't needed then none of this would have happened all she had to do was nothing our next reddit post is from little miss bunnywoman first some background a bit over six months prior to the start of this story we had a change at the company i worked for the old owner was a great guy who was retiring and handing the company off to his son a real piece of garbage just out of business school the sun with the mentality that the company is now his went about restructuring and namely reassigning teams to different projects and leaving those who remained in their old positions to pick up double if not triple the workload he did this in the name of saving a little money unfortunately my department safety and engineering which i led was not spared in the end i clashed with the boss in the department head ultimately costing the company three months of my entire department working 80 hour weeks and forcing a huge year-end bonus to be paid out to us unfortunately after my initial meeting with this new boss he took a liking to me in a really bad way essentially he had a crush on me and he wanted to go out with me or sleep with me or however you want to put it he even enlisted his friends and secretaries to help him this went on for months just blatant sexual harassment they even made comments about me losing my late husband that i should just get back on the horse so to speak i kept everything every email every voicemail and i went to my best friend who happens to be a really good lawyer my friend was a contract lawyer to be exact so not exactly their area of expertise but they knew enough to help my friend drafted a letter to my boss essentially saying stop or we're gonna start a big case over this kind of thing and yeah everything stopped however i was then moved from working in office to working from home i knew what was coming they were going to do their best to get rid of me so i started documenting everything but as luck would have it i received an email chain from one of my managers and wouldn't you know it it was a back and forth communication of them discussing how they would get rid of me and pin the blame on me the email chain was just disgusting they hated me so badly and they wanted me gone but because of my contract they would have to buy me out but being the cheapskates they are you know they wanted to be gone for free so the company bosses started a campaign to try to torment me they first tried to say that because i now work from home they were required to install cameras in my home office to make sure that i was being productive luckily that didn't work thanks to my contract they also tried assigning an impossible workload to me but luckily my team and i were almost like family and they picked up the slack after three months of this i got an email and a phone call from the hr department saying that i was getting laid off indefinitely because there was just no work for me this was complete bs given that there were several dozen projects that i was currently working on after this conversation with hr i called my lawyer friend almost in tears just shouting look what they're doing to me help she calms me down and tells me this is such a good thing we have so much evidence against them i had already forwarded and printed off everything that was sent to me and it was lucky i did because a few hours after i was laid off my computer was remotely wiped clean everything was gone leaving just a blank desktop when i called the hr department to get copies of all the complaints that i'd filed what do you know every single one was missing and their place was a bunch of bs reprimands that never happened that i never signed or saw they dated back months and months and they were all signed by the new boss despite the fact that they were dated before he ever took control of the company it was clear that they were total bs but i got copies of everything to add to my stack of records i texted all my old colleagues to let them know what was happening and then i'm basically gone like i said earlier we're like a family and with me on the way out they started looking for better employment not only that but they contacted all their friends who work for the company to do the same i was laid off on monday and on thursday i walked into the office with my employment lawyer i swear the main secretary was on the phone to security the second that she saw me walk in and security was at the door in less than a minute my lawyer simply handed the secretary a legal document a summons to me for mediation at his office on the next friday during the following week i received so many calls and text messages from the managers friends secretaries and people i knew in the office to just be friendly with the owner to just drop it and that they wanted to bring me back and forget about everything like hell i was ever going to come back to such a hostile work environment friday finally comes and my former boss walks into my lawyer's office with a squad of four of his lawyers to settle the matter right off the bat he offers me three months severance to end all this because i didn't have any evidence to rebut the fake paperwork they had on file at this point my lawyer starts to bring out all the paperwork that we had namely copies of every complaint that i had ever filed which were all signed by the managers hr and myself luckily i had made sure to make a copy of each complaint when it was written up they didn't think that i had anything oh boy were they wrong my lawyer made the case that in court it would be obvious that all the paperwork they had on their end were forgeries nothing was signed by me and he pointed out that there were dates with the boss's signature when he wasn't even in the country let alone working for the company yet at this point the boss and his lawyers went to speak privately after about 30 minutes they came back with a much better offer a full year salary but my lawyer was like nah we'll just go with what the contract says plus we'll go for damages in courts the lawyers seem to know that they couldn't afford this going to court not to mention that it would be bad for the company's reputation so they basically rolled over and asked what do you want we demanded five years salary plus the average bonus that i would have made for each year plus all the legal fees paid it was a big big win but it didn't end there i got a taste of blood and i wanted more i made phone calls to several companies where i had contacts and i found jobs for every member of my team and several members from other teams by the end of the week the company had lost 10 of its most talented people not to mention that most of those people had friends and colleagues who ended up following them to their new employers the fallout was pretty bad before all this the company had the pick of the litter when new university students graduated but now because they lost almost all their senior people they had no one to mentor the new employees plus ward got out fast how they treat their workers like garbage so no one with any talent would even think about getting near the company as of today the company is just a shell of its former self it's still big but it bleeds money they also now have a problem with permanent staffing and they're paying out the nodes to hire subcontractors let's just say that they don't make money like they used to in fact they haven't started any new projects in something like nine months if management doesn't do something to improve things and fast then they'll likely be bankrupt in the very near future op you didn't say how much money you make so i'm going to make some guesses here you said that you were the manager of an engineering team so i would guess you make probably 100k so so five years salary at 100k comes out to half a million dollars even if i go more conservative with my estimates and drop you down to 75 000 a year that still comes out to 375 000 that is a lot of money op and you're not kidding it really is a big big win for you man imagine having to pay your employee half a million dollars because you're horny and you don't know how to control yourself that was our slash pro revenge and if you like this content check out my podcast where i publish the exact same episodes also hit that subscribe button because i put out new reddit videos every single day

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Length: 14min 56sec (896 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 06 2021