Reminds me of this news.yc thread, "We may get fired and I don't know what to do" [0], which had a follow-up from the OP with full backstory ~7 years later, "I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted" [1].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309766
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21766903