One of those things that you keep telling yourself that you'll just brush off and feel sorry for the other person instead of letting it get to you...
Well... I've failed!! This woman takes the cake for awful bosses that I've dealt with!
I would like to preface this story with the fact that I know full well that I let my bosses push me around. I absolutely stay too long and make too many excuses for bad behavior and let myself get so mad that in the end, there is no mending what has been done.
I began working for Kathy* almost a year and a half ago. In the beginning, she was great. Thankful for my efforts and my hard work. Then she started getting overly frustrated with the fact that she is a small business owner and having to do all this work and there weren't any more employees to help her. That's when every move I made was wrong.
When I was at work, she would tell her clients how she does everything and that I was useless. Then if I couldn't come to work, she told everyone how she was all by herself and how hard it is when your staff leaves you hanging. There was just no winning!
It got progressively worse until I was embarrassed to be at work because my clients weren't comfortable coming there and she would just bad mouth me to all of her clients right where I could hear!
I finally gave my two weeks notice and explained that I would love to help her in my remaining time to train someone and make sure that Everything would be ok when I left.
What did I get?!?!
Treated even worse!!
She knows I am all about reputation and keeping my word so I was ABSOLUTELY going to finish my two weeks! Which means she knows that no matter what she said, I'd keep my word.
So she acted like it was middle school! I got the silent treatment and she said all sorts of awful things to her clients about me and would treat me like a thief! She made clients afraid That I was going to steal their money!
Did I say anything?!
NO!!
She knew I wouldn't because I don't like to make clients feel uncomfortable in a situation that they have no control over!
I have never had a boss be so unprofessional in all my life!!
