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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Your-Friend-Bob on 2026-05-15 13:25:49+00:00.

Title. She got let go. When she was interviewing and gave her speech, I had a feeling she wasn't right the for the role. Another woman who has been here a long time and has spent a long time making sound financial decisions as our head of finance was passed over for this outsider. They swore her in anyway. Then I learned that at the previous place she worked, she saved money by forcing all people with a specific job title to either leave or become part time (legal in the state she was in apparently) and outsourced my entire department in IT. Then after doing that she just left. And that place hasn't even recovered from it yet.

Then, she decided in my company to push AI really hard, where it is ingrained now, and cut our department a bit. We had 5 people quit in our department over her bs and she decided to just not fill those spots. Our head of IT has been scrambling to try to figure out what we are going to do with 5 fewer people when at times we felt short staffed. But at least a solid chunk of the tech budget went to AI implementation that no one asked for.

She constantly said that we were all a team together. but then pitted us against each other, and made it clear that she, and a few other people are above us. Not to mention, we had all this fancy streamlined tech in exec meetings that we could use to record sessions and she had us pay a whole bunch of money to not only rearrange the room but remove all the tech and then add in more expensive tech after that didn't work.

AND YET she still made off with closer to 1 million dollars than I will ever see in my lifetime. over 700k in 1.5 years. And it is important to note that we went from a 6% raise my first year for everyone (including all the people making 250k+) to not having enough money and only doing a 1% raise my second year, to probably not getting a raise, and then it being announced that I will get another 1% raise in my third year. And they stated it is because they didn't have enough money to give EVERYONE a 6% raise. That's right. They don't give specific departments or roles or people raises. It is everyone or no one. And because she made over 450k a year and others make close to that, they didn't have enough money to raise that so we bottom tiers got stuck with being priced out of rent and groceries.

It sucks that you can come in, do a bad job, and still come out with almost a million dollars after less than 2 years when the rest of us are deciding what stuff is worth doing in our apartments and houses and our health.