Saw an article the other day on "quiet firing" describing refusing raises/promotions, giving bad feedback or nebulous/confusing project priorities, or otherwise making employees miserable to get them to quit. Which is funny because I always thought there was a term for that and it was "workplace harassment."
I had that kind of shit happen to me and frankly it's fucked me up even years later. Starting a new job I'm absolutely paranoid that I'm going to get yelled at for mistakes that frankly aren't my fault because I've been relatively poorly trained but in the past I was fucked by heavy disciplinary action. Frankly it's bizarre hearing people give me positive feedback and say I'm good at my job to the point I swear they're just lying and trying to set me up because I only ever got negative feedback, point out every single flaw I make rather than tell me the mistakes but also how I've been doing well.
Instead though I just doubled down and tried to keep my head down so I could get my magical one year of experience that would open up other opportunities outside the company and also let me transfer off the unit I was on, I got fired right at that one year mark. I regret not quitting and going elsewhere because honestly the harassment from my boss on a regular basis was fucking awful. I got an update from an old coworker that had connections left on the unit, nobody I knew while working there is left pretty much, the boss is still there obviously, but even one of the assistant managers had enough and screamed at her and walked off the unit one day. Frankly it's unbelievable that she's still the boss after such horrible staff turnover but that's protecting class interests through management I guess.
Saw an article the other day on "quiet firing" describing refusing raises/promotions, giving bad feedback or nebulous/confusing project priorities, or otherwise making employees miserable to get them to quit. Which is funny because I always thought there was a term for that and it was "workplace harassment."
That's just business as usual
I'm pretty sure the term for that one is just "Tuesday"
That’s just wage labor under capitalism
I had that kind of shit happen to me and frankly it's fucked me up even years later. Starting a new job I'm absolutely paranoid that I'm going to get yelled at for mistakes that frankly aren't my fault because I've been relatively poorly trained but in the past I was fucked by heavy disciplinary action. Frankly it's bizarre hearing people give me positive feedback and say I'm good at my job to the point I swear they're just lying and trying to set me up because I only ever got negative feedback, point out every single flaw I make rather than tell me the mistakes but also how I've been doing well.
Instead though I just doubled down and tried to keep my head down so I could get my magical one year of experience that would open up other opportunities outside the company and also let me transfer off the unit I was on, I got fired right at that one year mark. I regret not quitting and going elsewhere because honestly the harassment from my boss on a regular basis was fucking awful. I got an update from an old coworker that had connections left on the unit, nobody I knew while working there is left pretty much, the boss is still there obviously, but even one of the assistant managers had enough and screamed at her and walked off the unit one day. Frankly it's unbelievable that she's still the boss after such horrible staff turnover but that's protecting class interests through management I guess.