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after her reigns of terror at two other well-known companies (per her victims at those companies). What I had that she didn't...
an outstanding established work history and a stellar reputation for being able to work well with my co-workers and the management alike. I didn't have a single enemy in the workplace.
When her harassment became unbearable (I was pregnant at the time), I sent a memo to the CEO who was very Democratic and all about empowering women and minorities in his company. I asked to meet with him so I could explain why I was regretfully resigning. He gave me that meeting and listened intently to my recounting of everything she had been doing to me since she found out I was pregnant. (She had flipped out because I was the peon that made her look good and she realized she had only a few months of "cover" left. That's what narcissists do. The minute they realize they're going to lose their supply, the mask they put on for others comes off and they attack like the vicious vipers they truly are!)
It just so happened right before I left the company that I shared an elevator ride at the end of the workday with the Sr VP Marketing & Acquisitions who had been the company's long-time General Counsel. He was an extremely intelligent and analytical man who I had actually worked for in the legal department. He was also the CEO's right-hand man. They built the company from the ground up. He must have seen the distress on my face that I was feeling inside. He simply said in a gentle tone, "Things are going to work out." That's all I needed to hear.
I filed for unemployment and got it with no questions asked beyond describing my situation on the application. I then took my pregnant self to an Employment and Labor Law attorney after making a pit-stop at the local New York State Division of Human Rights office.
The attorney wrote a letter to the CEO, I got my job back and was able to work a couple of months before I went on maternity leave (it lasted years 
). The psycho narcissist was no longer the Sr VP Finance who reported directly to the CEO. She was "demoted" and reported directly to the Sr VP Marketing & Acquisitions with nobody reporting to her. SWEEEEEEET! Other good employees had left after I did and, when I came back, one of the guys in the legal department said, "We called it the [insert my rhyming last name] Ripple Effect." 
All's well that ends well.
P.S. The CEO eventually married a woman who became mayor of the city. He definitely wasn't a man afraid of a woman in power (for either good or bad intentions).
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