“Nobody Stopped Her” — A Former Employee Wants To Know How To Stop A Boss Who’s Been Bullying Workers One By One
If you’ve spent any time in r/antiwork, you already know the subreddit runs on one core belief: most workplace dysfunction isn’t random, it’s a pattern, and once you notice the pattern, you can’t stop seeing it. That’s exactly the situation one former freelancer laid out recently.
They spent two years working with a nonprofit before realizing their manager had been running the same playbook on a rotating cast of employees, always picking the person with the least power to fight back, wearing them down until they quit, and then quietly moving on to the next target. The freelancer admits it took them embarrassingly long to clock what was happening, mostly because nobody else seemed willing to say anything.
Now they’re trying to figure out if there’s anything left to do about a boss who’s still out there, doing the exact same thing to someone new.
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12. The replies came in fast, and readers had stories and opinions on what happens next. Here’s what the thread had to say:
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