My boss had this habit of “forgetting” things — deadlines, approvals, entire conversations — and somehow every one of those forgetful moments landed on my plate. If a project was late, it was my fault. If a client was unhappy, it was because I “didn’t communicate.” Meanwhile, he was the one disappearing for hours with no explanation.I started documenting everything. Dates, emails, timestamps, screenshots — my own little survival kit.One afternoon, he blamed me in front of the entire team for a missed deadline that he had personally postponed. I went straight to HR with the receipts. They smiled, nodded, and said they’d “look into it.”

A week later, my boss called me into a meeting and said he’d heard I’d gone to HR. “That wasn’t very team-oriented,” he said. And then my workload mysteriously doubled.I went back to HR — this time with a printed folder of evidence thick enough to use as a doorstop. They gave me the same vague lines about “internal review processes.”So I did one thing HR couldn’t ignore: I CC’d the head of Legal department on an email summarizing every documented incident, every retaliatory task assignment, and every HR visit.Within 30 minutes, HR magically found availability for a “special meeting.”I’m not sure what happened there, but he was removed from his position the next day. HR emailed me a “thank you for bringing this to our attention.”