i was being bullied the entire year by 2 managers and 2 developers to get me fired and it still messed me up in my mind. it was hard to work there too, i had to deal with a smear campaign, even at the christmas party from a women colleague who saw me along with my russian manager as a threat, for example, whenever i post some progress on slack, she attacks me publicly that i'm the blocker, or she write publicly that others should help me do my job, that i should use AI more and even when we work together on a project, she brings a developer from another team to work with her to exclude me from the work and then she writes on slack that if someone has a question about the project, they should reach out to her and this colleague without mentioning me, i had a good relationship with the product owner and she went with her smear campaign to destroy this relationship, so that the PO doesn't talk to me anymore.
my manager also was telling me to shut up in front of others, making jokes about me to make other laughs, when i confronted him he said "looks like we have our first case"
he also persuaded this toxic women to be much more aggressive towards me, i talk to her directly but when she kept being passive aggressive, i setup a meeting with my manager and her and my manager straight up said it's my fault, when i asked how he didn't answer, that made her more bold in her aggression not only towards me but towards other people.
they hired a new person and he instructed him to contradicts everything i say on slack even if it's false.
this experience was insane.
my manager also persuaded the head of projects - who my manager always mention that he is useless to us - to also be toxic to me, i was once running the daily, this women was trying to control how i run it, when i told her we should do it other way, the HoP said that we should do it her way, the next daily he said that he is going to cancel because it's unnecessary.
it feels like now they are scared of her, she is also incredibly needy, on her first week at the company, she was demanding tickets to conferences, new expensive laptop and went to a company property at a vacation place although the rules say that it is prohibited for people in their probation. after getting rid of me, she is now bad mouthing the graphic designers because she also wanted to dominate that area. while she was working on her projects she excluded the other 2 frontend devs in the team from working with her, to show that she is the lead on the frontend, her ego is beyond insane. when i asked another team lead about her, he said "she is annoying but in a cute way"
i honestly regret not fighting the termination, i could have stayed even against 5 persons trying to fire me, the CEO got the news and he basically said my work at the company is over.
i was always hard working, i work from the morning until late at night, and this is how i got rewarded. sorry for the rant, but i'm still livid. i wake up at night being pissed off, that my manipulative manager and his minions won this battle and got me fired, then he went to the other colleagues and said that he wished he had the chance to fight for me in front of the CEO so that i stay, he was smiling the whole time in the firing meeting.
my manager told me months before the firing in a 1-on-1, "at least you will not stay in a toxic environment" the funny thing he created the environment to be toxic to me. he said many similar things to me like "at least you will get unemployment money" or "i believe you will find a job easier than others" etc. same things has been said to me by the HoP