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This has happened to me as well. I felt anger, rage and even had some revenge fantasies. But then I realized as long as I felt this way this ECD still had power over me. So I forgave him and even wished him well. Once I did this it was like a huge weight came off my shoulders and it let me focus on more important things—like moving my career along. What I didn’t realize at the time but do now is that hating someone takes an incredible amount of energy. Also, when you forgive someone it’s actually not for the person who wronged you. It’s for you.
I know you’re telling the truth because I went through that same process. Anger, rage, revenge. I went through the process of forgiving. I have long stretches I’m good but there are still times the wound reminds me it’s there. I’m angry a lot less than I was, but there are still little flare ups if that makes sense. I trusted my boss to have my back and in the end after I was wounded I realized he’d become a sociopathic narcissist. He just uses people for his personal gain and seems cool with it. When I see other examples of him doing this to other people it flares up again
I’ve been working with an amazing team at a full time gig for awhile. I just have a lot of colleagues from the other place I keep in touch with and it just always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They felt I got screwed. I felt screwed. I mean I can chalk it up to a piece of shit boss but he still put me through a bit of hell for a real petty reason
This reply is great. It’s always amazing to see you’re not alone in getting canned. And it’s really eye opening to see how many people have had similar unjust firings. I definitely learned from it and keep the cards a little closer in these days
The best revenge is success
I definitely have struggled with this. All I can say is try counteracting your negative thoughts with positive ones. Any time you get a surge of anger at a bad memory, take that energy and visualize yourself pouring it into a current task or goal. I know this sounds new-age but I hope it helps
I was let go after a web of utter darkness was spun around me, to the point I lost my ability to speak to certain people or in meetings with said people. I was stunned by how I was villainized. I had an employee who was friends with one of the partners and she began a campaign to get her creative partner fired - I was the one who had to do the firing. So then I was seen as the enemy who didn’t support women at the agency, while my gossipy employee became the hero to all the other women on my team. The whole thing was a mess. I also left a shitty Glassdoor review and it felt immature so I took it down. I’m doing great in a new gig. You just have to find a way to let it go, there’s no other way to survive.
Let it go. Karma is real.
The sooner you start working at a job that's as good, hopefully better, than your last one, it very quickly starts to matter less and less.
Try and get back on that horse asap. Even just freelance. Get back to coming up with awesome ideas and you'll forget about that asshat ex boss real fast.
Similar thing happened to me (nothing to do with gender though.) freelance if you can to take your mind off of it.
Listen to ACD1, the best revenge is the now toxic environment you were shielding your team from.
Land yourself a cushy new gig where you can build your own team....and then build your team
OP, I get where you’re coming from. After I found a new job and resigned I actually thanked my nemesis—and I thought he was going to fall over backwards. The truth is, yes he was a jerk to me, but in doing so it made me wake up. I was completely comfortable at the agency I was at. Leaving while painful, was a very good thing for me. Since leaving I’ve been at five agencies and i don’t think I would be here now without the push, albeit off a cliff, that he gave me.
This happened to me, but instead of being fired I was pushed out while on maternity leave. They moved me to a new role that made no sense for my skill set, so my role would open for my boss’s BFF. I quit ASAP
It still fills me with rage. I wish I could forgive, but I haven’t yet and it’s been a few years.
I tell myself living well is the best revenge, but I feel like his ultimate failure would be better 🤷🏼♀️
I’m definitely with you in the ultimate failure fantasy. Too bad it seems like companies reward sociopaths if they deliver results.
It is hard to let it go. I’m still traumatized from a shitty situation and have to constantly remind myself that these ghosts aren’t following me around.