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Stow it, Pollyanna!
Same here after 44 years....but I still have the rest of my life ahead of me, so I will pick up the pieces and move on. Everything was wonderful until it wasn't...very suddenly. Just as OP said, something inside of me "broke". I realized I was done and it was over. We (those of us who are going through or have gone through similar) should receive encouragement from each other and realize that life does go on, and we are MUCH better than the exes or anything they can dish out. Keep up the good work, Alliauraa...we've got this!
Similar thing happened to me when I was working at an insurance company (name started with AE, their motto was "glad I met ya", and they were later bought out by a very large drug store chain) in their QA department...I was blowing their quality/production metrics out of the water, when one day, the team lead decided I must be "cheating" because I had honed my little corner of the world into a finely-tuned machine. "Cheating" as in fudging production numbers, taking credit for others' work, well, you get the point. It came to a head one day when a co-worker (much to her credit) came to me and told me that TL had the actual audacity to ask her to SPY on me to find out what I was doing to blow the numbers sky high. My co-worker (thanks, J) told the TL to go f**k herself, that she was no one's snitch, b***h or spy. After I found that out, I decided that if this is the game TL wants to play, then let's rock. I slowed my work to a crawl, started taking EXTRA long breaks (breaks were fairly flexible in those days), such as 30-minute coffee breaks and hour long lunches, just to keep my numbers down. TL decides that this also was not acceptable, and that if I didn't shorten my breaks and "increase my numbers", we'd have to have a talk with HR. I asked her which did she want; higher numbers or just to spy on me more? She had a look on her face like I had just slapped her with a dead carp. I then told her that I was aware of her plot to "spy" on me, and that I would very much welcome a "talk" with HR, because if she didn't back off, I was going to sue her personally for defamation of character, and also sue the company for employing her in the first place and allowing this to happen. I then told her to get her fat a** back to her desk, do her job and get the h**l away from me. She never said another word to me for the 11 years I worked there after that. And yes, I went back to blowing the quality/production metrics out of the water.
Just like OP says, "NEVER screw with your IT techs"...I would also like to add one more group to the "don't screw around with...." crowd: Accountants. When you have them by their networks or their money, you have them by the balls and their hearts and minds should follow, unless you're a total moron. FAFO, baby!!
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