Today, I had to pretend in front of our director that my manager is a nice person. In reality, she's a soul-sucking bully who has made my life so miserable that twice I was on the brink of nervous breakdown. FML
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Today, my boss continued to orchestrate behind the scenes with my colleagues to make me look bad for her lack of organization. Then she showed up 10 minutes late to a meeting, shared that she needed a vacation, and realized that she needed to micromanage less. I've been asking her to make that change for months. FML
Today, the CEO of my company wanted to meet with me. I was excited until I found out she just wanted to bitch me out and personally fire me. Later on, I found out my boss had totally shafted me and blamed the failure of a big project on me instead of admitting it was all his fault. FML
Today, I shouldn't have told my boss that I was interested in management. She now throws any problem she doesn't want to solve at me and either gets mad when I can't work it out or takes credit when I do. FML
Today, and ever since someone hired our new manager, she began threatening us, saying she was going to fire us because we "never work." In the meantime, she delegates her tasks, and is never available online. So, finally, our director thought she deserved a salary increase for… not actually doing her work. FML
Today, I found out my "nice" boss was only nice to me for my first month. She's now started yelling at me for every little thing. FML
Today, I had an hour-long meeting with my manager where she informed me the reason I had not been promoted is because she felt that people would not like to work for me, because I would, "make them do their job." FML
Today, the only colleague I dislike was promoted to be my manager. FML
Today, my spineless shitwhip of a boss made me go fire a notoriously abusive employee. I had to act like firing him was my decision, even though I'm the secretary. Now I get to live in constant fear that the guy was serious when he threatened to find out where I live and kill me. FML
Today, someone I work with embarrassed me in front of everyone in my job; because I wasn’t doing something the way she liked during our meeting this morning. I ended up crying in front of my boss. FML
Today, I'm working in a book company where the boss is stingy, and has promoted an incompetent and rude manager. This trickled down to the whole department where I work being ran as a ego-stroking place. The colleagues are the worst type of people imaginable with jealousy and inferiority complexes at their core. FML
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JuliaKay14 33
You should tell your director that.
childlessmother 16
Why pretend don’t let them bully you into not saying. Trust me
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Comments (12)
RichardPencil 30
Just pretend your dick is your soul and that should fix everything. YWIA
JuliaKay14 33
You should tell your director that.
Inkoseh 31
Gotta learn those workaround, back-handed compliments so it sounds somewhat good but the manager knows it's true meaning!
Lurker1 9
That is a terrible way to get your point across and just makes you look petty. Just ask for a moment to talk with the director alone and be specific.
AmbrosiaFan 18
You can be honest without harming your job... You definitely don't have to say he's nice.
childlessmother 16
Why pretend don’t let them bully you into not saying. Trust me
Lurker1 9
Why are you pretending? Do something about it instead of putting up with it. Nothing wrong with going over his head if there is a problem. I did it with my last manager, long story short he doesn't work for the company anymore and now I'm the manager.
Traveling_Book 9
Wouldn’t your director be someone you want to tell how awful she is? Most companies have a policy against retaliation so if she really is as awful as you say do something about it.
Revert Back 6
just smack the ****
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
do not do that otherwise you are contributing to the problem by allowing the manager to abuse thrir power
OnReceivingEnd 17
And the reason you didn't tell your director AND HR this is WHY...?