What Work Moment Made You Go From Proud Employee To "I'm Just Here For The Paycheck."?

[Anonymous]

When we had a layoff and they made some really nonsensical decisions about who stayed and who went.

[Anonymous]

I haven't cared in a long time. I do my job and take on special projects as needed and get great reviews but I have no interest in advancing or doing rotations or any other things for career development. I just want to do my work and then be done.

[Anonymous]

My boss recently made his admin assistant his "chief of staff." she reads all his email, decides what he needs to see and decides whether we can talk to or see him. We are not allowed to approach him directly and now we all work for his secretary.

[Anonymous]

When I went out of my way to flag racist behavior by an interviewee & they hired him (white man) anyways. I'm white, btw, just used my white privilege to point out how he acted in the iview process (literally only spoke or looked at white people in the group interviews, which freaked out both me & the BIPOC woman he would have been working with directly). He turned out to be a bad hire & they parted ways with his very expensive a** 2 years later, but I was annoyed, since it's a nonprofit that serves POC. Plus, it was just one too many examples of where I'd been the one to say some uncomfortable truth that the org chose to ignore. I'm much happier in a different job now -- and it's not at all a paycheck role.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When we had a layoff and they made some really nonsensical decisions about who stayed and who went.

+1

YES! The "favorites" who do next to nothing all day, while we put out fires all freaking day. Nothing worse than a boss who has no idea what is really going on, takes direction from a Board who is not even on this continent, and generally doesn't GAF as long as she isn't adversely affected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss recently made his admin assistant his "chief of staff." she reads all his email, decides what he needs to see and decides whether we can talk to or see him. We are not allowed to approach him directly and now we all work for his secretary.

+1

Inflated titles (especially for the admin staff) are a HUGE red flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they gave me a "Not a team player" review as I covered everyone when they needed a shift covered.

I got one of these but it paid off because everyone who saw it later was suitably shocked.
But still---it was one of the moments that caused me to head for an internal transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I realized the boss spent all day monitoring time sheets and nothing else. She’d also arrive at 6 am then clock out at 2:30 pm to avoid making herself available for actual work.

I quit that job in under a year and never looked back. What a dysfunctional agency.

Yes, this is what I am going thorough now. Fed manager only watches time and little else....gotta get out of here.

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Anonymous wrote:When my supervisor told me she did not have to know how to do the work, just "manage."

That actually sounds reasonable. Why did it bother you?

NP here. I hope this isn't an acceptable situation at businesses where life and death are at stake, i.e. shouldn't a supervisor at say, Pfizer, have some chemistry classes under his or her belt if they're going to manage the people actually developing and manufacturing a drug. It would be ludicrous to put someone in charge of such duties who majored in theater or business administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I realized the boss spent all day monitoring time sheets and nothing else. She’d also arrive at 6 am then clock out at 2:30 pm to avoid making herself available for actual work.

I quit that job in under a year and never looked back. What a dysfunctional agency.

Yes, this is what I am going thorough now. Fed manager only watches time and little else....gotta get out of here.

I've usually found that:

more focus on nitpicky paperwork = has no idea what they're doing so they cover for themselves with excessive micromanagement.

[Anonymous]

When my boss of 6 years referred to me as "staff" to a new client.

We are a teeny tiny company (14 employees) and I co run the entire business. Boss/owner just checks in every week or two.

He can't even get pictures off his phone and into the J drive. He's a child.

[Anonymous]

Manager acting like a bitch to everyone and outright saying she is a bitch. Watching her flail around for years trying to her job and blame things on other people.

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Anonymous wrote:When my coworkers (white older males) that I'd never even met or spoken to filed fake EEO claims against me (a younger female). And then management didn't throw the EEO claims out as fake and made me proceed with being interviewed and everything. It was harassment and bullying.

I mean that sucks but don’t they legally have to go through the process?

[Anonymous]

I worked at a big PR agency. When I came back after maternity leave and was given a daycare as a client, where a baby with my same due date passed away. After that I started spending full days figuring out how to launch my own firm. Best thing I ever did.

[Anonymous]

After a long-term, very well-respected GC at our nonprofit gave notice, they deactivated her key that night and mailed her stuff back to her. Another c-level exec was pissy that GC was going to a much more $$ job at a trade association. No one got to say goodbye. What dicks.