Entitled boss threatens my job security, but she gets arrested for embezzlement.

I remember this particular scenario and wanted to bring it up here.

It's a long one, so grab your popcorn and drinks because here we go.

So one of my first IT jobs I worked was for a corporate headquarters of a midwestern

sandwich chain. My brother's best friend was the IT manager of this place and was given full

rain to hire anyone he wanted. We had previously worked together in another place and he liked my

work ethic. So he ended up asking me if I would take the job. Of course, I said yes since I genuinely

enjoyed working alongside this friend and I thought it would be cool to report to him.

Anyways, a few months go by and everything was going well. I had met and enjoyed most

everyone in the IT department. Then one day, the CEO congratulates and welcomes a new CTO.

This confused me as I always thought that my friend's boss was the CTO, but then I was told

that he was actually an interim CTO this whole time. So being green and naive, I decided to take it

upon myself to meet the new CTO. The conversation goes more or less like this. Hi, my name is Jerry.

I am one of the help desk technicians here. It's my pleasure to meet you and I look forward to working

with you. Sticks hand out to shake hands. CTO blankly stares at my hand then back at me.

Oh yeah, so if you need any help or have any questions, I'll do my best to help. So just because

I'm a woman, I need help. And what exactly can a help desk help me with? Don't offer help to

me unless I ask for it. Got it? My friend saw this whole thing play out and was honestly shocked.

To this day, the entire exchange still haunts me. In any case, I moved on and tried to stay

out of the CTO's way. I decided I wanted to just do my job and work with my friend. The entire

time I worked there, my friend had kept me in the loop with all of his projects and his work so

that I could hopefully be successful in the field. Then one day when I get to the office,

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