**Please see my latest edit below, for the most recent *Karmic* update 😁**

After working at one place for 5 years, and being denied a promotion for the last 3 (meanwhile watching everybody else get promoted around me, including kids half my age), after being told repeatedly by my manager that I was too slow, too unprofessional, and MANY other things, I finally made the difficult decision to quit. You see, I loved that company, loved my co-workers, and loved my customers. I stayed a lot longer than I should have. And I put up with a LOT more abuse than I should have! I worked my butt off, put my whole heart and soul into this job, only to be met with constant put downs, belittling, I was even (literally) screamed at once. She tried to hold me back in every single way she could. When I put in my two week notice, manager informed me that she didn't need me to work those last two weeks, and took me off the schedule. Then she promptly blocked me from her Facebook, and deleted me from the company's team member app. I worked exactly two more days for that place. I was, in the words of a friend and co-worker, 'undervalued'.

But you know what? I left with my head held high, and a smile on my face. In fact, I left laughing. Why? Because I went out on MY terms. And, because the very first place I applied to hired me as a MANAGER, the very position my spiteful, petty, immature boss of a manager had been denying me for the past 3 years.

My sweet revenge? Hearing from a friend who still worked there, that the store owner, after hearing about my new job, raised his eyebrows and said, “She's a manager now??”

Yep. I am. You all thought I couldn't do it. You thought you hurt me, cutting off my last two weeks. You though you'd break me, by constantly putting me down and telling me I wasn't good enough. But guess what? I am. And I rose out of the ashes stronger and better than ever before. Meanwhile, you're still the same small, mean person, that literally no one who works for you likes.

They tried to tell me I couldn't do it. But I did. They were WRONG. And now they know it. Without me even having to do or say anything! I came out the bigger person. I won, not them!

And that, for me, is the sweetest revenge of all!

It still makes me giggle!

EDIT: WOW, over a thousand upvotes!! I think that's the most I've ever had! Thanks everybody!!

EDIT #2: HOLY COW 3 and a half thousand upvotes?! Thank you all, so much. Your upvotes and kind words really mean a lot. Changing jobs is terrifying, even when you know you have no other choice. There are still some days I'm not sure if I can do it. But all your support really helps lift my spirits and bolster my confidence! Thank you!!!!

EDIT #3 First of all, this answer now has over 7,009 upvotes, and 20 shares. I think that's more than any other answer I've posted! And it really means a hell of a lot. Thank you so much.

Secondly, I thought you'd all appreciate knowing that my ex-manager's terrible behavior finally came around on her. She continued her reign of terror after I left, moving on to the next new target, and then the next, and the next.

Well, she finally picked on the wrong person. She called a girl a “bitch", and that girl went over the owner's head, to corporate. That inspired a whole sleep of workers, past and present alike, to do the same, in hopes that action would finally be taken. I myself sent in a five page email, detailing every moment of torture this…woman…put me through.

I'm happy to report, the manager was forced to step down from her position, and is now nothing more than an hourly employee, like all the people she used to abuse. In fact, were I still working there, at the position I held when I left, I would now outrank her!! I don't know if they reduced her pay accordingly-and, though it IS mean spirited of me, I don't know why she didn't get fired.

Last I heard, she was looking for a new job. Hopefully she has learned some humility (but I doubt it; her kind rarely does) and she'll treat her coworkers with some respect, in the future. Or if she doesn't, hopefully, her new employer won't stand for it!

But either way, she was forced down a peg. Several pegs, in fact!! And that in itself is very satisfying to me. Karma came around on her, and her own actions came back to bite her on the ass!!

Oh, how I laughed!!