A toxic coworker tried to get me fired with false accusations, all because she hated the fact

that I was gay, claiming that she never would have gotten this job in the first place if she knew

that she would be working for an awful sinner, and I'm still blown away by this lady's

awful treatment towards me. Here's what happened. So back in the early 2000s, I was the IT

manager for a small company. In May of one year, I hired someone who we will call

Robin, the first female in our department. She was a church friend for one of the team members,

and he recommended her. I made sure she met the other team members and gave them time without me

present. I not only got his feedback, but I made sure that she had a good vibe from him before

I hired her. Everyone got along and things

were running smoothly for several months. The Friday before Thanksgiving, we had a company get-together

and everyone's spouses came. And that's when Robin met my husband. I left on Saturday for a two-week

vacation. And when I got back, my boss called me before I could even boot up my computer and

asked me to come into his office.

While I was gone, Robin accused me of being extremely inappropriate with her specifically,

if you know what I mean.

HR did their investigation and said they could find no evidence of it because it never happened,

but offered to transfer her to another department, and she just declined.

Then she said I was an incompetent manager.

Now, my style was to assign projects based on people's skills and interests, or let them decide

amongst themselves, who was going to do what if it wasn't that specific? The other two people

in the department loved the freedom and trust, but apparently Robin did not. My boss said that

she couldn't point out any specific request that she

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