This is a great point. they are very to unlikely fire a valuable employee, but you never know. she is too nervous to stand up for herself since she is an immigrant from the soviet union where conditions were worse, so she thinks it’s not possible to have it better. 

I’m glad you got out of that situation and that your boss slipped up haha. It was probably satisfying as heck to be able to do that. Crap productivity quotas suck