My entitled manager tries to get me fired after I tried to apply for the job that he got,

but I decided I wasn't going to take that sitting down. So instead, I flipped this on his head,

and I ended up getting him fired instead. Here's what happened. So this incident happened two years

ago. I was one of two commercial writers and producers working in the production department

of a local television station. Our department was responsible for producing both the newscasts

and commercials for clients who purchase airtime on our station. The department is high stress.

I had to manage multiple deadlines and provide creatives for about a dozen ad campaigns every single

month. That being said, I always met my deadlines and our sales department was always complimentary

of my work, steering the more important clients my way. Unfortunately, managers in my department

come and go with unsettling frequency. In the nine years I was there, I had six different managers.

Most often the managers were passing through with their site set on snagging upper-level

management jobs, somewhere in a larger television market. This meant their experience of actually

doing the work of television production was often very minimal, so they had a tendency to

not interfere with our work, so long as clients were happy and deadlines were being met. Given that

the managers were so disengaged, I told our general sales manager about my idea for saving time,

as well as saving money in the department, and he suggested that I apply for the production manager

position the next time it opens up. So I did just that, but I didn't get the job. I was told I was

too important maintaining good client relationships through my work as a producer, which is no big deal

I thought at the time. I was happy as a producer, but unfortunately the person they did higher for

the position ended up being a monumental jerk of the first order. I'll call him Bob. Bob is not

his real name. The first thing Bob wanted to know was who in the department had applied for the

position he now filled. I don't know what idiot in upper management thought it would be a good idea

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