I know this is an old post, but I just read it.....

I left my first company after 2 1/2 years.  I loved our office, we were like a big family.  We could trust each other, we ate lunch together, socialized out of work together, had personal conversations with each other, families interacted, etc.  The office I worked for had an Office Manager, who was a Broker, but wasn't the owning Broker if you can get what I mean.  She and I always got along, her husband worked in the office too under her, which caused some issues when he got his licence because of nepotism.  It was obvious that all of the office referrals were not coming to us anymore, they all went to him....what are you going to do?  She was not allowed to be a competing Broker under the umbrella of this company, so any of her past sphere was passed on to her agents, which stopped, again once her husband started working there.  She was confronted by a few of the Top Producers after some time and referrals, slowly and moderately were put back into the office pool, so to speak.  That was enough to upset the office who had a long history, but it also upset me since he and I practically started at the same time and I grossed probably $14,000 that year and he probably grossed $40,000, it just wasn't fair....but I stuck with it.  Towards the end of the 2 1/2 years I worked there (and I was in the office every day and so was she), every time I went in there, she picked at something, my clothes weren't right, I got there later than I usually did (who the hell was she?  I wasn't getting paid and I had a 4 year old Autistic son and a 7 year old son to get off each day), etc.  There was always something she would have to say, and I didn't know why....I had my suspicions that she wasn't well.......which years later, I was right.....but I have no idea why I was the target.  I couldn't stand it.  I happened to get a call from another Real Estate Company trying to recruit me and instead of looking at other companies, I was promised the world and I resigned....even with a buyer and a seller and My manager would not let me take them with me......so I lost the listing and she went with another agency and the buyer was given to someone else in my office.....luckily we were very good friends and she gave me my commission, but I took the risk......