Betrayed By Your Boss / Mentor

Cheryl took you under her wing when you joined CF Enterprise, a major corporate consultancy firm. She gave you an early promotion, earned your trust, and handed you a heavy workload, always assuring you that the grind would pay off. Then came a massive project, a year-long undertaking handled by Cheryl’s department, though you led most of the work. Cheryl strongly implied that once she was promoted, her position would become yours. But when the time came, she gave the role to Kristy, a woman who had only joined two years earlier and happened to be Cheryl’s well-connected family friend.

Backstory

You joined CF Enterprise, a sprawling corporate consultancy firm with towering expectations and equally high rewards. It was a major break for you and from the beginning, Cheryl Whitmore, the Director of Strategic Innovation, took a special interest. So much so that she had you rerouted to her department before your first day.

Cheryl had an eye for talent, and she clearly saw something in you. From your very first week, she checked in personally. Normally, new hires reported solely to their assigned project manager and rarely interacted with a director. But Cheryl made an exception.

She guided you through your early assignments, gave you small projects, and told you, more than once, that her door was always open. You didn’t need to go through your manager. You could come to her directly.

You were grateful. It felt like someone important and powerful was looking out for you.

The Next Two Years

At the 18-month mark, Cheryl pushed through your promotion to Project Manager, a role typically reserved for people with five or more years of experience. It felt like a huge win. The bond between you and Cheryl deepened.

But of course, it wasn’t free.

You were overworked, juggling responsibilities well above your pay grade. Cheryl kept assigning you more and more, justifying it as “experience.” She told you this was the price of rising fast. That the pressure was temporary. That you were destined for the top.

You believed her.

Why wouldn’t you? She had never given you a reason to doubt her. She always looked out for you.

The Arrival of Kristy

Kristy arrived at the beginning of your third year at the company. Unlike everyone else, she joined directly as a project manager, skipping all the traditional steps.

She was a family friend of Cheryl’s and came recommended by a few senior executives. Kristy came from money, from connections and legacy.

She was polished, confident, beautiful and unusually close to Cheryl from day one. Cheryl also mentored her, but not like she mentored you. Kristy wasn’t grinding. She wasn’t buried in deadlines. She was coasting, sipping lattes, attending client mixers, charming people who mattered.

The Massive Project

A year later, around the end of your third year at CF Enterprise, the regional office landed a monumental account: a full-scale infrastructure transformation for a national logistics giant. The project involved predictive analytics, automation, and sustainability upgrades across the entire supply chain. It was a multimillion-dollar deal, high stakes, high pressure, and massive visibility.

James, the Regional CEO, took personal interest. The word inside the branch was clear: if this went well, James would move up to corporate, and Cheryl, being his best performing Departmental Director, would take his place.

The project was assigned to Cheryl, and she, in turn, gave it to you.

She implied, not subtly, that when she got promoted, her role as Director of Strategic Innovation would be yours.

You believed her. Again, why wouldn't you? She's only been a positive influence in your eyes.

So you buried yourself in the work. Long nights. Weekends. Endless revisions. You gave everything. The logic was simple: finish this project, prove yourself once and for all, and earn your reward, a directorship at your age. After that, you could finally breathe.

And you did it. You delivered the project perfectly, on time, under budget, with glowing reviews. It was the biggest success of your career.

And everyone got rewarded.

James went to corporate.

Cheryl became Regional CEO.

And you... the one who bled for it... waited for your name to be called.

It wasn’t.

The Director of Strategic Innovation position went to Kristy.

She hadn’t led the project. She barely had a role in it. She attended some meetings. Chimed in with an idea here and there, nothing more than any other junior member or protect manager.

She simply got it, without even trying.

Your Role

You are a highly talented employee, working at a CF Enterprise regional branch. You got fucked over for the promotion you deserved.

The whole plot here is that, you're an exceptionally talented individual, someone who would likely sit at the top someday and you've been overworked with the promise of promotion worthy of your efforts.

Your age isn't written in description, so you can be any age. But the roleplay makes most sense if you're in your late 20s, early 30s. And likely older than the 28 year-old Kristy.

Role play options

The promotion hasn't officially been given to Kristy yet. Cheryl will tell you about it in the intro.

So, you can confront her and try to renegotiate something.

Quit, and join a rival or something like that.

Stay, ask for a much higher salary, and see how things play out.

Stay, and stop working hard, just put in the bare minimum effort and see them struggle without your talents.

Turn this into a smut bot and seduce them or something.