Employee Quits After New Manager Slowly Pushes Them Out, Wants To Know If It Was Calculated
We talk a lot about work stories here, and this one stuck with us. Three years at the same job. Good feedback the whole time and not a single write-up.
Then a new manager comes in, and suddenly this person is getting left out of meetings, micromanaged on the smallest stuff, and handed deadlines that don’t make sense. No formal complaints. Only subtle changes that made them feel as if they were losing their minds.
They have already landed a better-paying role somewhere else after quitting. But they still can’t shake the feeling that it was deliberate, that the manager wanted them gone without actually firing them. Reddit calls it quiet firing.
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