I had an online romance with my boss and then broke up with her.

I’m probably the only one in the entire company who actually knows why my boss is so irritable.

She got dumped.

And the person who dumped her… was me.

She just doesn’t know that yet.

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Lately, my boss has been… intense.

The first sign was when she publicly grilled one of the senior analysts over a minor formatting mistake—something she would usually wave off with a dry joke.

Then it kept happening. She started sending projects back for revisions that never used to matter, questioning timelines, pushing for higher standards, demanding explanations for anything that wasn’t airtight.