Saturday, May 16, 2020

Woman Tries To Ruin Employee's Career, Pro Revenge Ensues


Man, this tale is about as pro revenge as they come. Sounds like one woman who was a real piece of work tried to ruin another employee's career, so that employee retaliated by enacting a plan that created total destruction. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/[deleted] • 1y You want to mess with my career and my freedom? Watch your entire life go down in flames! Obligatory LTL; FTP. Added edits addressing naysayers at the bottom. I posted this story elsewhere and someone suggested it would fit here. TL;DR at the bottom. Sorry in advance for any formatting or grammatical errors. English is not my first language.

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Text - This is a pretty long one, so hope you're up for the challenge :) This all happened five or so years ago while I was working for a proprietary trading firm. The company is a multinational and it had opened a new office in my city a couple of years before I joined them. For those who don't know, most prop shops (as I understood it) have a very high turnover rate. Just toss everyone in and keep those who stick. The company I worked for recruited every three months. It had space for about 12

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Text - I and about twenty five others were recruited straight out of university. The internship period paid really well for a first job, about twice as much as any other entry level position in other financial institutions plus bonuses once we went live (regardless of whether one is on internship, probation or permanent), and I was really excited. I first came across my boss, a really decent Indian guy, at a industry day held in our university. That was where they administered the IQ tests and I

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Text - The Instigating Event I first met Gabby when I went to their offices for my final interview. I was registering at the front desk when she marched from her office demanding some documents from the receptionist. The receptionist wanted to finish up with me first but she was ordered off to file storage. Our exchange went like so: Gabby: You're one of the new ones? Me: Yes. I'm really excited. Gabby: Don't be. you don't look like you'll make it. Me: Why? Gabby: You're too soft. A pause.

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Text - Gabby: Buut... I can put in a good word for you, if you give me a little something. ( a bribe). Me: Haha. Very funny. Gabby: I'm serious. Give something and l'll make it very easy for you. Otherwise l'll make sure you don't even get into the interview. Me: No. Gabby: Stupid idiot. Right to my face. And she kept her word. She made me sit in a hidden corner of the waiting room where no one would see me easily, but I could hear the conversations at the desk. The only reason why I got an inte

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Text - From that moment of humiliation onwards, Gabby had a raging hate boner for me. You see, Gabby was a micromanager, more of a nanomanager really. She made us have to request access if we wanted to access sites other than those on her approved list, and for traders who gain info from wherever we could find it, her list was woefully inadequate. She would call meetings at the most inopportune times - but only when the branch manager was not around - and in her lengthy meetings, you could never

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Text - Gabby was married with two kids, and she was pretty. I guess she liked the attention because she would have a stream of guys picking her up at the office for two hour 'lunches' and when she left for home some evening. But not on Thursday. Thursdays were the days when her husband would come pick her up towing their kids along. I think they went to have a family dinner or something. The Mistakes Gabby Made: Round One Our manager left about two months after I joined. I think he returned to I

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Text - Her first mistake was when she delayed my promotion from internship to probation. I am an excellent trader, and was easily top five in my group. Of the 26, she promoted the twenty she liked, kept me and another guy in internship, and fired four.At around the same time, another recruitment drive happened and another twentyish interns were hired. I knew this was our beef rekindled and remixed, and I was actually surprised she held onto it for so long. It was also pretty unusual since the la

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Text - Another three months go by, and in the next evaluation I was shocked that I was still not brought up to probation, despite the fact that all of the new recruits of the second group had been promoted and I was easily the best and the only one trading live. I knew I was good at the job. The permanent guys all said so. The group I initially joined with was frequently asking me for advice. To their credit, a few of them were good, but most of them were still on sim, and as a rule, no one adva

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Text - I decided to talk to Gabby directly. I approached the senior guys and made my case, though I was careful not to put her in bad light. They agreed to help me and so they did. about a month after the she passed me over the second time, she gave me my promotion and I was now on probation. At this time, she was still unsure of her power and was still afraid of the permanent traders. Those guys were like gods. Two months after my promotion, another evaluation and recruitment drive. I was not p

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Text - Round Two Three months go by. I'm trading live and loving it, though still on probation. An evaluation comes up again and l'm not promoted, despite the fact that, contract to contract, I was almost on a level with the permanent employees. The group that found me on probation was

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Text - advanced to permanent status to a man, and none of them were live. the group behind me caught up to me and a new batch of newbies were hired as interns. I couldn't let this one go either. I approached the original four permanent employees who were now my very good buddies and planned to do the same thing as last time. Only this time, it didn't work. Gabby had grown into her sadistic power and flatly refused to even consider my promotion even after she was presented with evidence that I wa

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Text - But I wasn't having that, so I contacted my former boss for help. At the time he had been promoted to head of operations, Africa. He was actually quite surprised, given my performance, that I was still on probation. Needless to say, the order came down from on high and Gabby looked like she was shitting six pineapples simultaneously as she handed my letter. And I thought that was the end of it. How wrong I was. On the next recruitment she hired this girl, let's call her Sue. Sue was an in

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Text - Just to recap: The office now had about seventy employees. Of these, over thirty were permanent staff (me included) but only eleven were trading live. Another twenty or so were on probation, but only three were trading live. None of the interns were live. The office needed to stay profitable if it was to stay open which means that the money the fourteen live traders were paying the salaries of everyone in the office, rent, supplies, health insurance, pensions etc etc. Needless to say, cor

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Text - The Grade-A Bitch Gabby took advantage of an inconsolable and desperate Sue to try and get me for sexual harassment. This is how it went down. Remember all those people still on sim? Well, they all came to the eleven of us for trading advice and we did what we could to help them. We divided up the sim traders into groups and I was mentoring about four people. Sue was one of them. As any trader will tell you, the period before profitability is usually one of losses (unless you're really go

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Text - As I came to learn later, she approached Sue the following day and made her an offer. Gabby would make sure Sue kept her job and would get her a lot of money if she stated that I had sexually harassed her. Sue took Gabby up on the offer and what followed was a nightmare.lt started with a formal reprimand from corporate, a hearing in which I wasn't present to defend myself (because Gabby 'forgot' to send me the summons). Apparently she lobbied quite viciously to get me fired. The only reas

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Text - happened, Gabby would have the ammunition she needed to ruin my life forever. So every day, I got into the office at seven in the morning, watched the three hour film until ten. Refuse to acknowledge it, then get to work, leave the office at 11:20 in the evening, rinse and repeat. For almost seven months. It was tiring, and torture, and Gabby never let me live it down. All of the people I had been mentoring were transferred the day after my reprimand. A day after that, Gabby informed me v

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Text - I started compiling all the shit that was happening to me in the office. It started when I realized that when I went out to lunch, someone would open my desk drawer and mess around with my notebook, where I jotted down my trading ideas for the day. The only person who had a key apart from me was Gabby. Apparently she had mastered my lunchtime routine for the entire 45 minute break and would open my locker when I was out smoking. She would then copy down my trading plans for the day and gi

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Text - Remember when I said almost no money was reaching corporate? and that there were only eleven live traders? The situation had only gotten worse. The office was now full but we had less that fifteen live traders. Live trading could only be approved by Head of Operations (my former boss) and he was a strict one. Now imagine that my earning capacity had been cut by over 90%. My two friends agreed to my plan and they slowed down their trading by around 50%. This essentially put the branch in t

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Text - It took only a little investigation on my part to realize than all those men who visited the office were actually Gabby's lovers. She would leave for two-hour 'lunches' with her phone turned off. I took advantage of one such period. Gabby left and I snuck into her office to find her Facebook profile open. Everyone knew she was always on there and it was a sore point because she had banned it for the rest of us minions. I got into her Messenger, and voila! Explicit texts, nudes, rants abou

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Text - Step 3: Ruin Gabby's Relationship with her Kids. Now, I'll say right off the bat l'm not proud of this step. but to bust my justice nut, it wasn't enough to just send the info to her husband. So I waited for Thursday when I knew he would be passing by the office with the kids. The Pro Revenge gods saw fit to bless me that day, because it was the same day that Corporate Head Honchos were ridin' into town. Thursday. I was at the office at seven as usual with all my documentation from my app

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Text - I was called in after lunch, at about two. The question was asked and before I could answer, Gabby jumped on the bit like I knew she would. She went on a long rant about how I had been insubordinate, and how I liked to touch the female employees. I could tell from her grin that she thought she was winning. And then I pulled out Sue's letter, and the grin curdled on her face. Sue was hurriedly called in and she backed my story. She said she was sorry. She was fired on the spot and told to

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Text - Next I pulled out my analysis of my trades and told them how Gabby had been breaking into my locker and stealing my notes for sue. Gabby denied it. Sue was called back in. She denied it. My former boss logged into the company network, pulled Sue's and my trading data. He compared the positions taken by both of us with my notes. He said it was true. Sue was fired again. They told me they would refund my confiscated bonus and holdback, with an extra 50 grand. That was fine by me. The justic

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Text - EDIT: As for the aftermath, Gabby's husband absolutely lost his shit. Her office was glass-walled and the rest was open-plan so we could all hear what they were shouting about. He finally left with their kids in tow (sorry little ones) Gabby followed him still shouting at him. Then she saw us all standing around and the look on her face was priceless as she was wondering which aspect of her life to try and salvage. She let her husband go, but about an hour later she had been fired. My fav

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Text - I still stalk Gabby on Facebook. There have been a lot of "I'm single because l'm too awesome" posts of late. I almost feel sorry for her, but I remember the three-hour video and I stop being foolish. From what I could see on LinkedIn, Sue bounced around from firm to firm until she found a position as a research analyst. My favorite boss is still at the firm. We talk from time to time. I took a break from trading for a while. After all the shit that went down, I needed a break so I didn't

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Text - EDIT 3: So a few guys have stated that my story is bullshit on account of some claims. I will address the most common ones. 1. Guys have gone through my post history and have found another post I made on AskReddit where someone had asked when the last time I yawned was. It's a bit long and ridiculous. If you read it and honestly thought that it was actually true, I can't help you. You can choose to believe that l'm a footless, noseless, 80-year-old Vietnam vet or a young man trying to mak

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Text - 2. Others have found another post on AskReddit where someone asks people who like their jobs what they do. I said that I write papers and it's decent money. And that's true as well. I've been writing since my first year of college. I love doing it. I can write all day and then some. That job got me through college and I made enough to properly supplement my student loan. Do I still write? Yes. I do it because it's challenging, and as I said in that post, I learn something new every day. I

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Text - 4. Another guy found a comment of mine where I stated that I'm African. For some reason s/he didn't believe that Africans engage in financial markets or something? Idk. 5. By far the biggest reason is the fact that l'm active on the O r/mensrights sub. And its true. I am. After I was falsely accused, of course I went digging around the internet looking for answers. It made me think. And as far as false accusations are concerned I fully support the MRA position. I am not ashamed of it. I'm

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Text - Whew. Got that off my chest. Oh, and another person wondered how HR could end up as head of the branch. I think I specified earlier that she was HR/Ops. The Ops part should have qualified her to be branch head if she wasn't utterly incompetent. In the end, though, I guess you just have to choose whether to believe or disbelieve.

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