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update: how to tell my boss his second-in-commands are making it impossible for me to do my job
- An update on a reader who asked how to tell her boss that his second-in-commands were making it impossible for her to do her job was posted by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.
- The reader is white-anted and undermined by a colleague who is her admin, who had been spreading abhorrent lies about her in an effort to find herself in the reader's chair.
- The colleague made several exaggerations and outright lies about the reader, which eventually made sense to her as to why she was being performance-managed when her work excellence was being praised by other colleagues.
- After reading a three-page email sent by the admin to her director, containing several accusations against her, the reader handed in her resignation with immediate effect.
- The reader's admin wrongly accused her of demanding answers about her pregnancy plan, trying to proposition the admin's husband, and taking credit for the admin's work.
- The admin did not understand the complexity of the reader's job, as it was out of her scope of understanding.
- The admin was found dressed up as an office mascot and writing the office newsletter while the reader filled all the compliance gaps that the admin was not capable of.
- The reader has found a new job in consulting and is recovering from the burnout and depression the ordeal caused her.
- The story has now leaked, and the company has lost an important accreditation that the reader initially secured for them, implying their financial situation is not good.
- The reader did not realize how toxic her previous work environment was, and now hopes to recognize a similar situation sooner and leave it.
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