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

[Anonymous]

Applied for an internal position. Job went to an outsider. Outsider was fired in less than a year. Applied for position again. Job went to an outsider. Outsider was fired within three months. Eff these people.

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Anonymous wrote:My incompetent boss.

+1

It's tiring to deal with a boss who lacks expertise in the area in which she supervises other, and is touchy and defensive about it.

+2

My boss got promoted, was floundering, started assigning me extra work to cope and took credit for everything I produced.

[Anonymous]

My manager blocked me from getting an interim management role, which would have been a great career development opportunity for me and something I absolutely wanted to do. Manager doesn't know I know they blocked it. Already have an interview scheduled with another company. F*** this job.

[Anonymous]

Finding out my principal had an anger management problem.

[Anonymous]

When leadership doesn't comply with OMB rules and regulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Applied for an internal position. Job went to an outsider. Outsider was fired in less than a year. Applied for position again. Job went to an outsider. Outsider was fired within three months. Eff these people.

Haha. This is my org. Outsider is presently 'working from home' and AWOL. No one has heard from him or seen him in two weeks.

[Anonymous]

My promotion was taken away due to a change in leadership.

[Anonymous]

When I realized that now matter how hard and successful I was in my role I was never going to get promoted into leadership because i didn't have a bullshit advanced degree like an MBA. totally agree with Elon Musk that MBAs are destroying America. Happy I left for another company with my awesome manager and his manager to start a new competitor company. We are eating my former employer's lunch now and they are freaking out. It is lovely to watch and motivates me to destroy the former executive's portfolio. She tried to buy us out a few months back and we said no, we want it all. You could see the horror in her eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:I was “investigated” by HR for being a part of a group of trouble making women who had gotten salary information and realized they were under compensated. Ironically I wasn’t part of the group, but when one person had asked me for guidance I suggested that they either talk to their manager about their concerns or go to HR.

This all came out when the HR team reached out to me to share the feedback that I needed to stop being so empathetic to the younger employees as it made them more demanding.

Good grief! I hope this was in 1950!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Finding out my principal had an anger management problem.

I worked there, too. Lol.

No, really. I worked for a principal who seemed to hate women. He was so verbally abusive that he was eventually removed. But it was a four year reign of terror. He was especially abusive to pregnant women and women with breast cancer. It was horrible.

[Anonymous]

Just coming here to say, my MBA was not bullshit. I was a liberal arts major undergrad and did not have a business class in college. I wanted to learn the things business school taught me and I did: finance, accounting, statistics, the market and how it works, organizational behavior, marketing, etc.

Not all jobs require an mba but mine was valuable, and I understand why a good program would set a candidate apart. That said many leaders in my large local company do not have one, but they were either business majors undergrad, have a grad degree of some kind or have the requisite experience needed for the job.

Just don’t shit on all MBAS, especially if you’ve never been to a good program. Also, I wish more women would get MBAs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When an utterly incompetent and unqualified person was promoted to our office head over other very good applicants who know what they're doing but they apparently didn't kiss ass with the decisionmakers. The new boss is an embarrassment, is seriously bringing down morale, and has ruined what had been a great workplace for me for 20+ years. It's so disheartening. I still like the other people I work with as well as the work itself but this change has really affected my attitude about work. I don't care about supporting the new boss or trying to toe the management line.

I left a place like this last year. Division heads hired my boss who was, and still is, an incompetent mess. She was hell to work for and turned on people who had more subject matter expertise in their pinkies than she coudl ever wish for. I was one of those people she lashed out at. Well, she's still there waiting for the big promotion she was most likely promised. Division head knows she sucks but he hired her so he backs her up at all cost. Her maliciousness and jealousy turned what was once a great place to work into a snake pit.

[Anonymous]

After being told to report to work at least 2 days per week and boss refuses to wear a mask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just coming here to say, my MBA was not bullshit. I was a liberal arts major undergrad and did not have a business class in college. I wanted to learn the things business school taught me and I did: finance, accounting, statistics, the market and how it works, organizational behavior, marketing, etc.

Not all jobs require an mba but mine was valuable, and I understand why a good program would set a candidate apart. That said many leaders in my large local company do not have one, but they were either business majors undergrad, have a grad degree of some kind or have the requisite experience needed for the job.

Just don’t shit on all MBAS, especially if you’ve never been to a good program. Also, I wish more women would get MBAs.

+1. Business degrees must teach something, because after her business degree (undergrad) my sister went from an average Monopoly player to unbeatable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Applied for an internal position. Job went to an outsider. Outsider was fired in less than a year. Applied for position again. Job went to an outsider. Outsider was fired within three months. Eff these people.

I see this a lot in my organization. The people doing the hiring have decided you are not right for promotion -- for whatever reason, rightly or wrongly. You need to go elsewhere to get a fresh start.

We recently hired from outside. The outsider is not great and I'm honestly not sure he'll last, but all of the internal candidates have been considered and either rejected or they turned it down. If this guy fails, his replacement will be from outside too.