Anatomy of Professional Sabotage

In the professional world, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But in the world of coordinated harassment, imitation is a tool for erasure.

I’ve spent years perfecting a specific approach for my local clients—knowing exactly which community newspapers to pitch, how to secure front-page headlines, and how to turn a local event into a major success. It’s a playbook built on experience, relationships, and hard work. Now, I am watching a "liaison" at a former client’s office—a woman who spent months sabotaging my every move—use my exact blueprint to claim her own successes.

The Saboteur’s Strategy

This individual didn't want the client to fail. On the contrary, she wanted the client to thrive—she just wanted to make sure I wasn't the one getting the credit.

To pull this off, she acted as a professional "bottleneck." While she was busy copying my strategies, she was simultaneously:

• Deleting my work: Removing social media posts I’d carefully crafted to make it appear as though I was under performing.

• Ghosting approvals: Holding onto press releases and social media posts for months only to claim "the client passed."

• Professional Gaslighting: Canceling weekly meetings or showing up late. Sometimes simply hanging up Zoom calls and then telling me she didn't see I was in the waiting room. Withholding information to make my day-to-day operations chaotic.

• Clients, Contractors & Vendors: Participating in contacting my clients. vendors and contractors and taking an active part in spreading lies to my clients and contractors.

• Vendor Sabotage: Somehow knew the vendors I used and shared that information with the harassers. Some of those vendors (employees at these companies) would sabotage work and give away information about my use of their services.
  

High-Jacking the Connections

What is truly galling is watching her walk through the doors I opened. She is now reaching out to the same local editors and community publications that I spent years cultivating. She is pitching the same angles and using the same signage strategies I used for big facility events. She realized my approach worked. She saw the success I had with headlines and page stories. S

Minimizing My Experience It is clear that my background in news and news media is a point of contention for her. On numerous occasions, she has gone out of her way to minimize my past successes and the accomplishments I’ve achieved in that field. It’s a transparent effort to de-value my expertise. By downplaying my time in the newsroom, she hopes to make my current professional instincts look like 'luck' rather than the result of a long, successful career. But you can't erase a track record. She tries to shrink my history because she knows it’s a level of experience she simply doesn't have—and that realization is exactly why she is so intent on trying to dismantle my work today. This isn't just behavior she limits to our face-to-face interactions; she has taken this campaign to the client and the entire staff. I know this because I’ve heard my own professional history echoed back to me by people who have no reason to know my background—except for what they’ve been fed. When staff members begin making snide comments about my experience or downplaying my news media successes, I know exactly who handed them the script.

She is using her position of influence to 'socialize' her disdain, turning the entire office into a sounding board for her professional jealousy. It’s a cowardly way to lead, and it confirms that her goal isn't just to do her job—it’s to ensure that no one else sees the value in mine."

The Ultimate Irony

There is a profound irony in being called "the villain" by a group that is currently busy mimicking my professional style to keep their own jobs. They have been fed a narrative by the harassers to help dismantle my business, but even as they try to "blackball" me or tamper with my digital distribution services, they can’t help but use my methods.

This woman is by far the most unprofessional individual I have met. She lacks integrity, honesty, and any sense of professional ethics. She has spent her time not just copying my playbook, but actively trying to destroy the very person who wrote it. She is a fundamental part of the machinery trying to dismantle my life.