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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/HappyXVixen on 2025-06-05 10:06:57+00:00.
I used to work in HR at a mid sized tech company. Our manager, Lisa, had this obsession with power, she would micromanage everything, undermine people in meetings and forget to approve time off requests until the day before, just to keep people on edge.
One day, after I gently pushed back on her altering someone’s performance review she called me into her office and said. If you're going to challenge decisions, I suggest you start documenting everything. Otherwise, it’s just your word against mine.
Oh Lisa. You shouldn't have said that.
So I did exactly what she told me.
Every vague instruction she gave? I followed up with an email: Just confirming our conversation where you asked me to discard the resume from the disabled veteran applicant?
Every time she denied a PTO request outside of policy? Logged and saved.
Every off the record chat she tried to have about firing someone because she didn’t like their vibe? Typed up a memo and emailed it to myself with timestamps.
For six months, I quietly built a dossier.
Then came the final straw, she tried to pin a payroll error on me that shorted three people’s bonuses. She CC’d the director, claimed I was sloppy and suggested I needed retraining.
That’s when I BCC’d everything, to HR compliance, legal and the VP.
Three days later, Lisa’s office was packed up.
Turns out my documentation also revealed she'd been age discriminating in hiring and had manipulated at least two internal investigations.
She was escorted out.
When people asked how it all unraveled so fast, I just smiled and said:
She told me to document everything. So I did.