What's the most traumatic thing you've seen happen, or caused?

I used to work for a state politician as his chief of staff (but I was also the only staff).

I was hired by his wife because the actual politician didn't want to do anything. So when they got divorced just 3 months later, I was stuck with a dude who didn't want to do anything but shitpost on social media and hang out with his posse. He also hated me because I reminded him of his exwife who left him because he abused her.

I thought I'd stick it out, but after months of him not doing anything but dragging me into the middle of his divorce, threatening to replace me, and then straight up attacking me on twitter, I started looking for a new job. The last six months I literally did no work because all I had the energy for was finding new work.

Just last month he lost his primary race and went on a month long social media rampage about how hard the job was, how much he doesn't want to do it anymore, and how much I specifically ruined him. I hadn't worked for him for over two years by tthat point. Seeing him being successful after I saw him do so much harm to so many people hurt. I couldn't sleep right for years because of this dude, afraid he'd try to come after me or that he would try to ruin me. I'm glad he lost but thats time I'll never get back.

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