#toxic management

[soggydotcat]

"Getting out of your comfort zone" is so often a club wielded by those wishing to violate your boundaries and trample all over your limits. It is a concept that must only be applied to your own ambitions, never to how you can be exploited in the name of someone else's.

[duskycervitaur]

Having the wrong kind of people in positions of power such as something as simple as assistant manager in a gas station, can seriously fuck up any kind of good employee you had that is now under that thumb of power. I used to love my job, some days I still do when said people aren’t around for a couple of days. But gosh..when they’re back and saying ugly shit about you and your work ethic..it makes you want to give them the only kind of employee they so wrongly expect out of you. Leaving me feeling incomplete in my work that supplies my means of living…I want out. I just want to be appreciated for the hard work I do that leaves my already aching young body broken at home. Is that too much to ask?

[ziammyloves25]

Oh the way this song was/is her actual life. No one was listening to her.

Situations are very different but yet Reminds me of how so many people aren’t listening to Zayn as well. He’s so controlled but so many are turning a blind eye and just saying it’s due to his anxiety. No. His label is fucking him over. Tptb around him are fucking him over. The H family he’s surrounded by are fucking him over. G is fucking him over. Funny how mental health struggles are being used as a weapon, yet again.

[rolkientolkien]

A Warning About Bad Supervisors

*Advisory, there is some language in this post* So as the title says, I’ll be dumping some tea into the harbor that is Tumblr. A year ago I worked at my local News Station, and it was the worst job I ever had. I was a VizRT Operator, the guy who creates the graphics that appear on the News and specific News stories. It was my first job in the entertainment industry, and there’s no way you could get me to go back to work for TV/News. All seemed fine when I went in for my interview, my supervisor seemed strict but not unreasonable. He took me into the control booth and showed me what went on behind the scenes. The operator that I was replacing was in the booth and they said hi, showed my supervisor what they were working on. It happened to be a Full Screen graphic for a story, and my supervisor looked it over and saw that one of the words in the graphic was lower case (for context the first word on every line must be capitalized for the sake of consistency), told her to fix it and send it back to tape. As we left the booth he told me as we walked to the elevator, “I had to get out of there, I would've lost it. You can’t make errors like that.” I was a little shocked to hear that, but I put it off to him just exaggerating and having a bad day. I was so wrong. When I was training with some of the morning crew, he came into the booth and asked how I liked my other co-workers. I told him that I liked working with Bob (I’m not using his real name) and he responded with, “Bob is so bad at his job that he’s not qualified to masturbate.” This was totally untrue, Bob was actually great at his job, but apparently butted heads with my supervisor in the past, so I tried not to get on my supervisor’s bad side.

Months had gone by and I had changed. I lost weight ( I weighed 140lbs and dropped 20lbs) from stress, I was extremely anxious and on edge. The behavior that my supervisor displayed when I first interviewed, showed its true colors. Whenever he came into the booth with me, he would deride me every time I made a mistake. Telling me that I was useless, swearing at me, and threatening to fire me. All I could do was shake in a mixture of anger, fear, and rage. I would break out into a sweat whenever he would come in, and my jacket no matter how many times I washed it smelled of sweat. I found out that I wasn't the only this was happening too. A co-worker of mine, also a young guy, was pulled into my supervisor’s office and was threatened with the loss of his job for making a small mistake on air. My co-worker then left a month later after that meeting. This should’ve been a warning sign but I needed the money, and I had just got engaged to my now wife. A couple of months had passed after my co-worker had left, and things were going well at my old job. I had covered a major storm and did it well, my co-workers loved working with me, and the planning for my wedding was going smoothly. Then one day I let an error go on air. The error wasn’t anything huge I had let an error from a writer slip. It was a forward slash that had made it on air, on a graphic that was only going to be on for a couple of seconds. As soon as it came down, I got a phone call from my supervisor’s cell phone, chewing me out for letting that slip. I didn't  think anything of it, it was a small error and not even the directors noticed it. This happened on a weekend. Come Monday, after the morning show was over, I was called to go upstairs to HR’s office. I was told to gather all of my things. My heart dropped to my stomach. I gathered my things, took the elevator, and went into HR’s office. My supervisor was waiting in there, along with the head of HR. I was told to sit down and my supervisor told, “this isn’t personal, but I have to fire you. being an Operator makes us the last line of defense, and you've let some things slip.” I felt a wave of relief, and sadness wash over me. I just calmly looked at him and said, “okay.” He extended his hand saying, “I thought this was going to be much harder, again not personal.” I shook his hand, “Right, okay.” He left the room, I talked to the head of HR and got unemployment information.  Don’t let this happen to you. The moment your boss bullies you, demeans other employees, threatens your job, explodes in a violent rage, leave. Leave that place. Report them to HR, and put in your two weeks. Finding a job can be rough, but it’s not worth the abuse of a bully for a boss. It can absolutely ruin you. If I had stayed there any longer I would’ve needed to take anti-anxiety medication. See the warning signs, don’t make the same mistake I did.

[cinblogs]

I just wore out all the toxic shit my manager does at work, then I started a letter that I’m going to give to her on my last day, I need a new job before I can quit and I’m hoping it’s soon.

[ohwaitwhatdamn]

Almost done. Almost done with her. So, so close. I will find a manager who is person-centered and trauma-informed. One who doesn't weaponize their employees mental health. Three people needed her support.

I have never met someone so fucking useless and lazy. After a year of torment of trying to train her on....oh you know....how to pull reports, what/why meetings are important, and holding her accountable. She lies to all of and we had to start writing things down and sending follow-up emails to her with each other Cc'd for documentation. At first, we thought she was forgetting things (sometimes very important things). Then when people started to hold her accountable, specifically in the presence of our bigger boss, she would claim she didn't say or do anything. She would put people against each other. We now do what we call the work-around. Meaning we don't involve her in anything. She pokes holes causes leaks.

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[teledyn]

A part of statistical process control is also a particular outlook on life, a resigning to the fact that all real-world events are governed to a large extent by noise, randomness, and luck, and our ability to influence individual outcomes is limited.

[thecareernavigator]

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