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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Imanisback on 2025-04-27 05:51:00+00:00.
Original Title: Fired for being "Toxic" after being the only one to actually meet deadlines. Now the company killed the entire program and is exclusively selling the stuff I made, managed by one of the complacent idiots who couldn't get anything done.
This is just a vent session:
I worked at this company for 3 years in their new products group. I was in charge of delivering the most complex sub-system on the whole project. I ended up taking on 3 additional projects that were critical to the success of the entire program and entirely outside of my job scope. But someone had to do it.
I planned out my main project and executed it. All the while getting relentlessly criticized by every level of upper management for "planning too much" and "wasting time on details". yeah okay. Fast forward to 2 years in. Literally all the other sub-system manager push the program by another 2 years because they didnt do what I did and plan. They didnt use standard industry quality processes that all of our suppliers were familiar with. Two of them even got scammed by Chinese manufacturers that were simply fake, like they didnt physically exist, because they were not "paying attention to detail" and believed impossibly cheap price quotes. They even flew to China to supposedly audit these suppliers and gave them a pass. No idea how this is possible because no money changed hands, so I know there were no bribes given.
And this is happening as I am showing up with a fully qualified and tested subsystem that works perfectly and a certified and ready supply chain to meet our production requirements.
Instead of being grateful and impressed. Maybe having me help the rest of the team out. I am met with more hostility and resentment. Literally zero acknowledgement of delivering, like my main project didnt even exist. Everyone just stopped talking about it and even asking for statuses in our status meetings. The attitude was "Now they have nothing to do, why are they even here".
That went on for an entire year. All the while I delivered on 3 more minor projects that had been started to cover for more idiots not doing their job. One of these projects increased our short-term revenue by 10x to cover the gap created by pushing the main product for two years. This was something VERY obvious that should have been done by our president or any number of VPs. Were they happy they were now meeting their revenue goals and I bought them another year to deliver? No. They were bitter that my name was on it. They still did it of course, but took every opportunity to disparage it. Another project created an opportunity for a whole new revenue stream that wasnt dependent on anyone else delivering and immediately deployable. They didnt kill it. They didnt deploy it. They just pretended it didnt exist.
I wasnt openly hostile or agressive or anything remotely close to it. I have zero ego at play. I simply professionally and politely continued to suggest proven strategies that gets the job done: Planning, quality, execution. Thats it. Whenever I cited my massive project getting done, I was told "Yeah you being so far out of alignment with the team is causing us nothing but problems". When we have status meetings literally every week to stay aligned. And they just didnt admit anything was wrong until it blew up and they were forced to stop lying about it. What they were referring to was contracted product delivery quantities from suppliers that OUR OWN VP INSISTED ON WRITING INTO OUR CONTRACTS and now were trying to backpedal on because there was no product for these parts to go into. Literally gaslighting everyone that I had been early instead of all these fools being 2 years late.
This got me labeled as "Toxic", despite being liked by literally everyone I wasnt making look bad. And eventually fired because I had nothing to do and people that held their leashes were starting to ask questions.
Fast forward another 2 years. These idiots couldnt deliver on anything they promised. Customers are pissed because they wanted fulfillments they had on their road-maps for years. Now the company is exclusively trying to sell my sub-system as a standalone product to other companies because they burned every end-user in the industry. And the whole thing is being run by the biggest idiot on the team. I am getting weekly calls from people asking how it works, where documentation is, etc etc..... And the are unwilling to pay me anything as a consultant. And there is no one to help because every single person on my team got another job immediately after I got railroaded.
This was 100% the fault of 3-4 VPs who had been working there for 20+ years and making $800k+/year who could not do anything, at all. Barely could run excel. And could not use any planning software. 2 of them had zero people under them, despite having tremendous responsibilities, because no one would work for them.
End rant. There is a leadership emergency in this country. I am absolutely dreading going back to work for one of these shit-pile companies and dealing the the exact same idiots.
