My boss thinks she's untouchable because her mom runs the show, so I trick her into quitting.

Here's what happened.

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This isn't my story, but I was able to witness it in all its glory because I used to work for one of the people involved.

Years ago, I used to work at a state government

agency where my boss was a political appointee. Her mom was a big wig in our governor's party

who wrangled a political appointment for her daughter, which meant she had some clout behind her.

Let's call her Shannon. Shannon was not good at her job, at all. She was frequently out of the office for

meetings. A lot of the time, this was two-hour lunches, coffee with friends, and a bit of shopping.

She was also a bully and a tyrant. She would bully her staff and would hold the threat of

firing over everyone's head to get them to do what she wanted. She wasn't a

micromanager because she was never around enough to actually micromanage anything,

but she was widely disliked throughout the entire building. This was a large agency,

so to have a building where almost everyone disliked you took a lot of work. The problem is that

as a political employee,

she was untouchable. The people who had the power to fire her couldn't because of her family.

Even the number three person in the agency couldn't do it, and he was a political appointee as well.

But after a year of mystery meetings and time out of the office, her excuses were catching up to her.

The agency director removed her from her job and put her in charge of special projects.

Anyone who's worked a corporate job knows that people get put in charge of special projects

because they were largely incapable of doing their previous job.

They didn't get fired, but they no longer

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