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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt anyone will admit it, even here.

I was pushed out if a job, though less through micromanaging and more through a slow atrophy of my career at the company. My bosses were polite to my face and had no cause to fire me or demote me as I was good at my job and liked by clients. They quietly ignored me, stayed indifferent to my projects, failed to staff me to anything new, until I quit because I was miserable. The silent treatment.

The reason why, I learned later, is that a colleague told them privately that he believed I was a Trump supporter. The irony: I’m not. But for some reason they believed him. They couldn’t ask me about it or do anything officially because that would have been blatantly illegal. So they froze me out, work became miserable (I went in antidepressants and still struggled, this whole thing destroyed my sense of self worth and made me feel like I was going crazy). I tried several times to understand what was going on, and they’d avoid meeting with me directly and then lie and say everything was great.

If I thought it wouldn’t be a miserable experience, I’d sue them. But my mental health improved when I left the job and now I think I have PTSD— I can imagine going through a legal process with them.

I don’t think they’d even admit it, even here, because even putting it somewhere anonymously could expose them to liability. The only reason I know is a former colleague who is in grad school for a career change told me, and she would never testify to it.

People are monsters.[/quote]

This is such a fantasy of the right, that they (and others!) are being persecuted for their beliefs.  The reality is that no one cares.  Especially in upper management of most organizations, because for reasons of age and wealth upper management leans conservative.  Even if PP is not a troll and truly believes that was the reason, it wasn't the reason. [/quote]

PP here, and not a troll. I know it was the reason. And to be clear, I don't support Trump -- I'm actually a member of the democratic socialists! I don't talk politics at work. The person who lied about this did it because they knew it would poison attitudes against me and they wanted me out. I don't think I got pushed out because of some leftist conspiracy (I'm on the far left). I got pushed out because a disgruntled colleague found a way to use politics to manipulate attitudes against me, and my organization was dysfunctional enough that it worked. This is what happened to me but there were others there who were punished in similar ways due to gossip and back channel manipulation. It was a vipers nest.

I'm sure there are conservatives who think they are being persecuted in this way and I can't speak to that. I am a leftist among leftists who just got railroaded by some nasty people willing to use these issues for their petty BS. Different deal.[/quote]

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