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I got called into a special meeting with my boss's boss who drove a couple hundred miles and stayed the night in a hotel when they are totally minimizing travel expenses these days. It was a total Kafkaesque inquisition based supposedly on things my staff had told her about me, but actually, it turns out, stemming 90% from one exit interview from somebody who I just wrote an absolutely glowing letter of recommendation for. I have never been back stabbed quite like this before, let alone at a job I've always loved for the lack of "office politics".
Thankfully, my assistant, who I supposedly spend large parts of the day "yelling at" spoke up for me when she was called before the tribunal. We met in secret at lunch afterward to compare notes and she told me that this "model employee" (which I once wholeheartedly believed) had actually lied on her Pell Grant and said she was single to get Financial Aid and Work Study (which brought her to my office) when her husband makes a ton of money.
We'd actually gone out to tacos with our spouses and our kids, but now I guess she's divorcing her husband and will probably jack him for alimony. Evil can definitely wear a warm cuddly face.
What's funny is that if any small part of the shit she said about me were true (such as my supposed retaliatory nature) she'd be completely fucked. I could bring her life completely down the way she sought to do mine with a couple well placed phone calls. However, she was lying, and that is not my nature at all. I prefer to let her Karma do the catching up and not mess with mine.
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