i’m a senior manager for a clinical outpatient company. i supervise supervisors basically. i say ALL the time that some people are given a small amount of power and just abuse it because they:
1) want to feel powerful
2) don’t have control/aren’t who they wanna be in their personal lives and take their feelings about that out at work to people they control, because that’s the only place people listen to them (bc they have to)
3) just generally have control issues
4) are incompetent and blame everyone else rather than gain competence
5) all of the above
like, youre my boss, youre not the king/queen and youre not god.
you’re gonna be okay kiddo. know your rights. esp if you’re 17, you’re a minor. do some googling for your state
ZijoeLocs on
I had a manager like this. Luckily i was a shift lead so i could actually take the brunt to protect my babies
The manager was just a miserable miserable woman who *refused* to lead or offer direction. Then she’d carry a box and complain that she “did everything”. She couldn’t make a schedule for shit and would put high schoolers on to work mid day. Then when they said “I cant work that” she’d throw a whole temper tantrum like a child.
Sales were tanking, and when we pitched ideas, she’d shoot them down. We did them anyways (because i encouraged them) and they worked. And when corporate asked how it happened? No credit. All her “despite a terrible staff”.
The other leads and I were *itching* to quit, but we decided to stay through the holidays so the high schoolers wouldn’t be fending for themselves. I think she got fired like 3mo after i left. The new manager said she came back looking ROUGH acting like she owned the place
Manmer_Nwah on
I got that manager fired, the franchise owner was quick to initiate damage control when corporates HR called him.
Turns out you can’t fire somebody for having a flat tire when they go to leave for work when they have zero previous issues.
(They offered me my job back and I said no. The franchise owner then tried to gaslight me about understaffing, but I didn’t care.)
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i’m a senior manager for a clinical outpatient company. i supervise supervisors basically. i say ALL the time that some people are given a small amount of power and just abuse it because they:
1) want to feel powerful
2) don’t have control/aren’t who they wanna be in their personal lives and take their feelings about that out at work to people they control, because that’s the only place people listen to them (bc they have to)
3) just generally have control issues
4) are incompetent and blame everyone else rather than gain competence
5) all of the above
like, youre my boss, youre not the king/queen and youre not god.
you’re gonna be okay kiddo. know your rights. esp if you’re 17, you’re a minor. do some googling for your state
I had a manager like this. Luckily i was a shift lead so i could actually take the brunt to protect my babies
The manager was just a miserable miserable woman who *refused* to lead or offer direction. Then she’d carry a box and complain that she “did everything”. She couldn’t make a schedule for shit and would put high schoolers on to work mid day. Then when they said “I cant work that” she’d throw a whole temper tantrum like a child.
Sales were tanking, and when we pitched ideas, she’d shoot them down. We did them anyways (because i encouraged them) and they worked. And when corporate asked how it happened? No credit. All her “despite a terrible staff”.
The other leads and I were *itching* to quit, but we decided to stay through the holidays so the high schoolers wouldn’t be fending for themselves. I think she got fired like 3mo after i left. The new manager said she came back looking ROUGH acting like she owned the place
I got that manager fired, the franchise owner was quick to initiate damage control when corporates HR called him.
Turns out you can’t fire somebody for having a flat tire when they go to leave for work when they have zero previous issues.
(They offered me my job back and I said no. The franchise owner then tried to gaslight me about understaffing, but I didn’t care.)