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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/cheneyza on 2026-08-18 14:37:25+00:00.

Last year, I suffered two traumatic brain injuries in auto accidents and had to go on Long-Term Disability. When I returned on a gradual medical plan, my original job duties had been handed off, my entire role was rewritten, and I had to retrain from scratch under my own colleagues.

Right as I was working through this, my manager placed me on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). He dropped this on me immediately before he left for a vacation in Hawaii, and right before a pre-approved vacation of my own that he had known about for weeks.

While enforcing this PIP, he was actively using his company computer on company time to apply for a new job at Zillow.

When I returned from time off, he claimed my progress "wasn't up to standard." HR terminated me on June 15th.

By late July, he onboarded a new employee to take over the role. On that new hire's third day, my manager handed in his notice and left for his new job at Zillow, leaving the new hire completely high and dry with zero context.

I genuinely cannot begin to measure my anger at this slithering fuck. There's very little I can do. I'm likely marked ineligible for rehire, and he just moves on with his life scot-free.

EDIT: I followed up ad nauseum to so many law firms, even getting a firms owner to personally sit down and review it, only to be told there's not enough substantial evidence of retaliation. Let alone any financial incentive the firm may get, despite my precious employer being a top 200