Girl on Girl Crime

I had been working my ass of on a pitch with our sales team (I was in marketing) for Target. My boss decided very early on that she didn’t like me, but I knew my work was good. The meeting at Target went famously and they indicated that they planned to buy a bunch of the new product ideas and the buy would increase +20% over the previous year. When I got back, excited to tell my boss the good news and hoping it would help her at least start to like me, I gave the report. Her response?

“That sounds too good to be true, the buyer must have just thought you were cute.” I didn’t have enough sense to process that and take it right to HR, but later realized how fucked up it was.

She had a kid and would talk about how slow he was to read and how other people’s kids were smarter and complained when her husband wasn’t going to be home at night because then she would have to “babysit.” One day when her entire team was in her office she tells us she’s pregnant. We remark that so many women in the department are all pregnant at the same time and she said, “Well, the job market is bad and no one is getting promoted, so I decided to say “fuck you” to the company and just take advantage of the benefits and time off.” Sounds like a good reason to bring a kid into the world if you ask me. Apparently she now has three kids. At least they have each other.

She would always make sure that I didn’t succeed and I let it get to me. She would give me an assignment, I would bring back results. She would then tell me A was all wrong and I should do B. I would then go in with B and she would tell I was incompetent and ask me to do C and so on. I finally realized that she was sabotaging so I sent out my resume, had one kick-ass interview, got an offer and told that bitch good-bye.