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Difficult Situations-Part I

Posted by: Anonymous
Date: 9/10/2006 2:35:04 AM

Hello Everyone, I'm still fairly new to the work environment, graduated college 2 years ago and have been working since. I've thus far worked with 3 companies and have had bad bosses at each one, amazingly they were all female. The first company was a paid internship, at first the job was great, then slowly i started receiving negative glances and discouraging remarks from my boss. I didn't understand why, and i was very new to the work environment so i didn't know how to navigate the situation; like should i confront her behavior towards me or just stay quiet. I chose to stay quiet. I quit after 3 months. I was to find out later from a co-worker, that she became jealous that a guy at the office who she liked and who **i never even spoke to**, wanted to know if i was available. So i finally got a second job, which seemed like forever, and it turned out to be a GREAT job, at least in the beginning. My manager took me to lunches and she talked to me about her kids and the office atmosphere was just perfect, everyone was just super nice. Then I happen to run into an old highschool friend who works at the same company and we start going out to lunch together. Oh, this made my boss angry to the point where she snapped at me in my cube, her exact words were "everytime you come back from those lunches with your friend your face has this huge grin on it, I just feel like smashing it sometimes". I was so shocked but again, didn't know what to do after she said that. No one besides her was in my cube and the office was partially empty and i doubt anyone who was in the office heard her say that. I was let go from that position, not by her (she went on vacation) but gave her lackey the ability to let me go. They never gave a sufficient reason to let me go, but i was just relieved i didn't have to see her again.

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