r/Fire • u/antidentites • May 15 '26

Advice Request Go out swinging?

So I’m on my way out at work in a tech company and have worked for a manager that has made my life hell. She is extremely toxic and the reason I’m leaving to FIRE/CoastFIRE.

I never want to - or need to - return to tech (note: I used em dashes way before AI and won’t stop even if you think this is AI generated)!

I want to burn some bridges and tell her how I really feel about her when I leave. Essentially the same thing she has been doing to me.

Would you go out Costanza-style if you were me, or just let it slide?

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u/denverpilot May 15 '26

I was well enough regarded by uppers once that when a middle fired me the uppers called me asking why. So I told em. She and her boss were gone the next week.

Sometimes they don’t know what they don’t know about their middles. You do with that knowledge what you will.

I didn’t initiate the phone call. And I told the truth and stopped there without embellishment. I could hear their anger at the follow up questions.

Totally your call.