Reported an abusive attorney and was terminated😳

I worked with a covert narcissistic atty for 3 years and turned myself into a pretzel to please him. I worked from home so I worked around the clock and he would also call and text me around the clock. He actually told me it was my job to make him look good! He blamed me for everything and told opposing counsel it was my fault when he missed deadlines.

When we were served 5 MSJs and had 30 days to respond I kept begging him to look at the drafts and work on it. He chose to drink instead and told me he’d just get an extension. After 3 extensions he’d painted himself into a corner and there was not enough time to do the responses to the quality we previously produced. I’d worked 3 weekends in a row and got up at 4am on Sunday and worked some more. He was not responding to my emails so I took my dog to the park. Some friends there invited me to breakfast and I went for one hour. He was texting me non-stop and then started calling. I answered the phone and he screamed, cussed at me and hung up on me. I would have normally rushed home to be available but my friends all heard it and were appalled!! They said it was unacceptable and I needed to report him, so I did. They said they’d put me with a different attorney but it would take time. Over the next month I reported him two more times and nothing. I finally had enough and sent an email itemizing all the things he’d done to my manager and the owner. The next day I was disabled on the network. Owner called and assured me everything was ok, they were just doing an “investigation”, and I was on paid leave. I was kept in limbo for 3 weeks and then terminated!!

It’s like the frog in the boiling water analogy. He started out praising me and very complimentary how he’d never had such a great paralegal. I ate it up and it turned to degradation and abuse, but I kept trying to please him. If he’d started out that way, NO ONE would work with him but he groomed and manipulated me. I am so broken now and being treated for physical issues I’d ignored all that time.