Phyllis Fires Diane – Jabot in Chaos After Phyllis Becomes CEO: The Young and the Restless Spoilers
When Phyllis Summers took her first confident step into the CEO suite at Jabot, the air in Genoa City shifted. The faint click of her designer heels echoed like a declaration of war through the polished corridors of the Abbott empire. Her rise to power wasn’t quiet or courteous—it was seismic. The woman once dismissed as volatile and impulsive had done the unthinkable: she outplayed Jack Abbott in his own house, wresting control of Jabot from the family that built it.
Her ascension wasn’t about redemption. It was about dominance.
Gone was the desperate Phyllis pleading for forgiveness or a second chance. In her place stood a figure of sheer calculation—eyes cold, smile deliberate, and ambition burning hotter than ever. When she finally sat in the chair that had long belonged to Jack Abbott, she didn’t just take a seat—she claimed her throne.
And her first royal decree was brutal.
The Fall of Diane Jenkins
Within hours of assuming power, Phyllis made her first official move—a decision that sent shockwaves through every department. She called in Diane Jenkins.
Diane entered the CEO’s office, head high and mask of composure firmly in place. She’d faced Phyllis before, after all. She believed this meeting would be a negotiation, perhaps even a truce.
But the sight that greeted her shattered that illusion.
Phyllis sat behind the desk that once symbolized Abbott control, her manicured fingers resting on a freshly polished nameplate: Phyllis Summers, Chief Executive Officer. The silver gleamed beneath the lights like a weapon.
Diane didn’t even have time to speak before Phyllis delivered her verdict.
With the elegance of a queen delivering exile, Phyllis informed her that her services were no longer required. No pretense. No warning. Just the thinly veiled justification that Diane’s “values no longer aligned with Jabot’s new direction.”
The dismissal wasn’t business—it was execution.
Phyllis’s voice remained calm, but each word cut like glass. Her tone dripped with condescension, a performance crafted to humiliate. As Diane stood frozen, her pride unraveling, Jack entered—just in time to witness the moment his world fell apart.
When his eyes landed on Phyllis behind that desk, the disbelief on his face hardened into fury. But Phyllis didn’t even look at him. Her gaze remained fixed on Diane, watching her rival’s confidence crumble.
When Diane finally snapped—voice trembling, fury rising—Phyllis only leaned back, smirking. “It’s nothing personal,” she purred. “Some people just aren’t built for leadership. Some of us were meant to create history, not stand beside it.”
The insult was deliberate, cruel, and devastating.
Diane lunged, pure rage igniting years of rivalry and pain. Jack barely managed to pull her back before the confrontation exploded. Phyllis didn’t flinch. Her smirk deepened. She had won.
Jack Abbott: A King Without a Kingdom
After Diane stormed out, the silence between Jack and Phyllis was thick with betrayal.
Jack stared at her, seeing not the woman he once loved but the ghost of his own miscalculation. He had underestimated her—again.
Phyllis, unbothered, tilted her head and told him she wanted him to stay on at Jabot. She claimed she valued his experience and his name. But they both knew the truth. She wanted him close—to watch his legacy crumble under her rule.
It was psychological warfare disguised as diplomacy.
Jack’s silence was his only defense. He turned away, the sound of his retreat echoing like the final chapter of a dynasty. He didn’t yet know how, but one thing burned clear in his mind: this war wasn’t over.
Victor Newman’s Hidden Hand
Behind Phyllis’s sudden rise was the one man who always thrived in chaos: Victor Newman.
He had seen in Phyllis a weapon—volatile, brilliant, and ruthlessly ambitious. Together, they’d struck a deal in shadows: she would destabilize the Abbotts from within, and he would reward her with the power she’d always craved.
The plan worked flawlessly. But now that she’d taken control, Victor watched with a growing sense of unease. Phyllis was no longer acting like a partner. She was acting like an equal.
And in Victor Newman’s world, there are no equals.
For the first time, even he began to wonder if he had unleashed something he couldn’t control.
Diane’s Descent: From Fury to Obsession
For Diane, humiliation turned to obsession.
She couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t think of anything but revenge. Phyllis had stripped her not just of her job, but of her dignity. The public nature of her firing had made her a laughingstock in Genoa City’s business circles.
She broke things in private. She shouted at walls. She wanted Jack to fight, to take back what was his. But Jack’s calm, strategic nature only infuriated her more.
She accused him of cowardice. He said nothing. He was waiting, watching, planning.
Because Jack Abbott knew one thing Phyllis didn’t—empires don’t fall in one blow. They rot from within.
Phyllis Redefines Power — and Jabot
While Diane simmered and Jack plotted, Phyllis reveled in her newfound glory.
She began reshaping Jabot from the ground up—removing loyal Abbott executives, installing her own people, and rewriting policies to consolidate her authority. To the public, she framed it as innovation. To those who knew her, it was revenge disguised as leadership.
She even hinted at rebranding the company entirely. In board meetings and press conferences, she spoke of “a modern era for Jabot” and teased a name change.
The whispers spread fast: Phyllis wanted to rename it “Summers Industries.”
For Jack, it was blasphemy. Jabot wasn’t just a business—it was his family’s soul, built on the values of his father, John Abbott. Watching Phyllis erase that history was agony.
But he refused to give her the satisfaction of his outrage. He smiled through the pain, letting her think she’d broken him. Because in truth, he was gathering ammunition.
The Calm Before the Counterattack
While Phyllis bathed in power and publicity, Jack began rebuilding quietly. He reached out to old allies, collecting evidence of Phyllis’s secret dealings with Victor. Hidden contracts. Backroom favors. Off-the-record board votes.
The more he uncovered, the clearer the picture became—Phyllis hadn’t just betrayed him. She had sold out the Abbott name to the Newmans.
Meanwhile, Diane’s hatred burned hotter, pushing her to dangerous extremes. She wanted Phyllis destroyed publicly and permanently. Jack, ever the strategist, promised her that day would come—but not yet.
A Legacy in Peril
As Phyllis prepared her next move—an extravagant press event where she would unveil Jabot’s “new identity”—the tension in Genoa City reached a breaking point.
Jack watched from the shadows, calm but coiled. Diane seethed in silence. Victor Newman, amused and wary, began to wonder if he’d have to put Phyllis back in her place.
Phyllis Summers had never looked stronger. Her power was absolute, her enemies scattered. But in Genoa City, victory is always temporary.
The higher she climbs, the harder she will fall.
And when she does, Jack Abbott will be waiting—with every ounce of cunning, patience, and vengeance she taught him to wield.
Because in The Young and the Restless, no empire stands forever.
And the war for Jabot has only just begun.