His Boss Kept Correcting Him Mid-Speech—So He Quit on the Spot, and His Coworkers Turned on Him for It
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You have to be extremely careful about how you speak to your superiors at work…
Because there can be all kinds of discrepancies and misunderstandings that could potentially cause a lot of problems.
Or, you could just take things way too personally, blow up at your boss, and then never be welcome in your place of business ever again.
It sounds like that’s what happened to the guy who wrote this story, and it isn’t pretty, folks.
Check out what he had to say.
Handed in my resignation letter, now banned from company.
“I was recently asked to give a talk at the recent student club meeting company meeting by our team chairman.
This man is self absorbed and narcissistic (I know my parents’ type) and has a habit of saying, as Chairman, we won’t do this, as Chairman I veto that, etc.
This sounds very rude.
As I’m giving my speech, he starts disagreeing with me from behind out loud in front of everyone. “No, don’t say it like this – say it to that person instead”.
This looks weird and is a bit humiliating.
Anyway, after the talk, I tell him – look, if you asked me to give a speech – just let me talk and finish, and if you have changes you want to add, I am 100% receptive but let’s talk about them after everyone leaves not disagree in front of people.
He replies, “You’re imagining things! What you’re saying never happened. I was just making suggestions. Remember, this is the company talk, not your talk, and as Chairman I’m responsible for everything and everyone here. It’s my head on the block. I’ll see you next week! “
Done!
I wrote my resignation message in group chat that same day. I said I was leaving due to his communication and ego, that he didn’t need to keep calling himself Chairman, leadership is earned not freely given and nobody cared about his position and that he should learn from his ego or see it get shut down later.
He wrote back saying that ‘(his) intentions as Chairman were only ever to help me, that he had no intention to undermine me but that my resignation letter was hurtful and detrimental to his mental health. He said he wouldn’t file a harassment or embarrassment claim though, because still he considered me a good friend’ (We aren’t friends).
I received a letter (written by a someone I thought was a friend) that the team had voted to ban me from future events for “humiliation” re my resignation letter and for not creating an “inclusive environment”.
What’s your take?”
Check out what readers had to say about this on Reddit.
This person had a lot to say.
Another reader weighed in.
This individual spoke up.
Another Reddit user didn’t hold back.
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And this reader shared their thoughts.
He probably just should’ve kept his mouth shut, don’t you think?
Or he could’ve taken the criticism politely and moved on.
This guy might need to grow up a bit.
Maybe this guy took things just a bit too personally…
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