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Some days start off fine and get ruined in about thirty seconds flat.
One employee walked into work feeling good, managing a packed plate of committees, events, initiatives, and a constant stream of emails covering work that wasn’t technically hers to do.
Her boss walked in and immediately declared she wasn’t doing enough, apparently forgetting the exact rundown she’d given during their last monthly meeting.
Rather than get pulled into round two of the same tired conversation, the employee corrected her, stared her down, and decided to just call it a day early.
You’ll want to keep reading for this one.
Boss immediately ruined my day and this job.
And I was actually having a good day too. She came in and immediately told me “I’m not doing enough.”
Mind you, this employee already has a packed schedule.
My hours are 37.5 a week, which she wanted me to strictly adhere to. I’m in charge of 4 events, 4 initiatives (like scholarship initiatives), 6 committees, and I shoot out about 20-30 emails a day that all take quite a bit of my time because the tasks are most likely someone else’s job, so it’s like a messed up scavenger hunt due to incompetence. Meetings not included.
But apparently I’m not doing enough.
So her boss actually left her speechless.
I hit her with a Gen-Z stare and almost offered to do nothing instead.
Since starting, she’s been the combination of every toxic behavior a boss could have, except for outright harassment. Until today.
Finally the employee is starting to question whether this job was right for her.
Coming in to tell me I’m not doing enough, having to correct her because I told her about all of the things I’m doing in our monthly meeting and she “forgot” them, wasting my time today and souring my mood.
I left early.
Leave it to a bad boss to ruin everything.
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If it were a legitimate performance concern, her boss should have no problem documenting it.
In all likelihood, this boss is probably just looking for a reaction.
Sometimes you just have to stand your ground.
This boss clearly doesn’t know what’s what.
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Nothing sours a good day faster than being told you’re not doing enough by the one person who should already know exactly how much you’re doing.
This employee wasn’t vague about her workload, she’d laid it out clearly in a monthly meeting, which makes her boss’s sudden amnesia feel less like an oversight and more like a convenient excuse to needlessly criticize.
Managing four events, four initiatives, six committees, and a nonstop stream of emails covering someone else’s dropped responsibilities is practically four jobs in one.
The least this employee deserves is a little appreciation.