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    Boss Was Intimidated

    Posted by: awyllie
    Date: 8/20/2004 4:45:14 PM

    I was recently let go after working less than 3 months at a company as a project manager. I worked extremely hard every single day and by and large my projects ran smoothly. I was proactive and decisive in my decision making. I realize that I made some errors but not enough to be let go.

    During the last two weeks prior to being let go, I had the feeling my boss was watching my every move. I was walking on egg shells. In the end he had nothing concrete (other than a fictitious allegation that one client didn't want to work with me anymore) and brought up minor details as though they were huge issues (use of MSN Messenger, checking out un-work related website, roaming) which in many cases were business related.

    I am now out of a job and my feeling is that ultimately he felt intimidated by my presence. I was extremely efficient, well spoken, knowledgeable and got along well with every one in the organization. Not only that but I was betrayed by the woman who hired me in the first place by disclosing confidential information to my boss, that I swore her to secrecy on.

    This story is sad but true. Anybody ever go through something similar.

    Reply from: mindym22
    Date: 8/23/2004 1:28:00 PM
    Reply: Yes, at a former job of mine I watched a 50ish woman supervisor CONSTANTLY berate a 25ish, very attractive, intelligent, well spoken new female employee who was to report to her. She cussed the new lady out for being 5 minutes late during a snowstorm, and questioned and micromanaged everything she did. This went for about 3 months. The young woman was poised and classy, but the final straw came when the supervisor overreacted to a very small mistake, went up to her and screamed at her and pointed her finger in her face. The new woman said get your finger out out my face, and started to walk away. The supervisor grabber her arm(!!!) The new woman said "get your hands off me who do you think you are?" At this point another manager came out and tried to smooth everything over. The new employee was very upset, near tears, and the screaming supervisor went back to her own desk. The next day the new woman did not show up for work. We later found out she was hired by a competitor who knew the screaming supervisor and knew what she was like. If someone is threatened by someone else for any reason they will try to get rid of them, but a good employee will find something better.

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