My awful manager got me fired from my job by stating that I wasn't doing enough to try and

complete their impossible task. So I decided to get some revenge by going behind their back

and tricking them into spending way more money than they had on their budget. And as a result,

my old manager got fired and I got paid a lot of money as a result. And I've honestly never

felt better about getting back at somebody in my life.

Here's what happened. So this happened in the early 2010s before the advancement of technology and video editing and content creation.

I was hired as a content creator for a university that wanted to leverage YouTube to kickstart their branding campaign.

The pay was low in those days. There were not many

video creators around, and the process usually took a long time from start to finish. But I was

hired on. And on my second day, my manager presented my KPI of 85, 3 to 10 minute videos in 52 weeks,

which was impossible for a one-man team in those days. This meant I had to do the scripting,

producing, casting talents, shooting videos, composing music, and all of the editing. And all of which

I had to use my own equipment and software because their cameras and computers were so old.

They simply couldn't handle the strain of doing anything in high quality. I tried to let my

manager know, but she just smiled encouragingly, telling me to give it a try, assuring me if the videos were

good, the quality would not be what she focused on. So, hearing this, I agreed to give it a try.

Now, my manager treated me well in the first month. However, one day when she found out I was a smoker,

her attitude changed overnight.

A colleague had actually done a face palm when I told her about it, and she let me know

that the manager hated smokers and often advocated to get them fired.

She started nitpicking me on everything, from smelling like cigarette smoke after my breaks,

coming in five to ten minutes late despite doing more than four hours of overtime

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