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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/OwlNo1068 on 2025-07-01 07:57:41+00:00.

Had a narcissist GM. I was in a a senior role in a small company. The GM hounded staff and expected me to join in, while I did my best to protect them. After huge staff turnover it was my turn to be the target.

One of my tasks was to liase with our agents in China. We had a multitude of manufacturing projects under way from initial design to shipping.

I’d communicate with the agents via WeChat which is similar to Whatsapp. And because I’d been working with the agents for a while, when we were talking about projects there would be side chats about the weather or holidays or family.

Now I was under the microscope, the GM demanded I share ALL my communication with her. I have no idea why but I did exactly what she said.

I took a screenshot of each message sent or received separately and sent it to her via slack. Our conversations were not very exciting but I made sure to send her each and every message. A simple conversations like the following which would be 10 separate slack messages. I made sure to get the name and time stamp so she could see exactly what I was doing.

Hello / Hello, how are you / I’m good, how are you going? / Great! Things are busy / Oh here too! / I’m looking forward to the weekend / Do you have plans? / Nope / Just relaxing? / Yes ✋🏼

Obviously relationships are important in business so I made sure I was extra chatty, and in the interests of efficiency kept the messages as short as possible.

The first day I’d sent her several hundred messages on slack within a couple of hours. Even sent her “haha” and emojis.

The next day she told me she didn’t need to see all my correspondence after all.