My Boss Is Trying to Sabotage My Career
We were planning to have a meeting, but she canceled on me the same day we were supposed to meet, saying that my manager told her he didn’t want me doing a project because he wanted me to focus on my job. So just like that, my boss ruined a wonderful opportunity for me.
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It’s important to connect with people not only to make friends but to network as well. Since I was working at a company, I often found myself with a lot of time on my hands when the area was packed with customers. So I thought it made sense to use that time wisely and network with people in my organization.
So I did just that. I found a job post on my company’s
career page, located the email for the hiring manager, and sent her a message
asking to work on a realistic project related to that job post. I had
absolutely no intention of applying for the job or asking her about future
employment. My goal was simply to get a project I could show to future
interviewers—to let them know I had some experience, if not formal experience.
That’s literally all I wanted. I didn’t need drama, and I didn’t need anyone
telling me anything unnecessary. All I wanted was a project. Simple, right?
I didn’t realize how much nonsense and drama this hiring
manager and my boss would actually put me through. Not only was all the
communication between the hiring manager and me a waste of time, but it also
made me apprehensive about contacting new people and networking. It’s like this
one bad experience traumatized me, and now I’ll never look at talking to new
people the same way again.
I really liked talking to this hiring manager. I thought she
understood how I wanted to achieve higher goals instead of working as a
part-timer all my life and earning low wages. She was open to giving me a
project, and I was so grateful because the last time I reached out to a hiring
manager, they ignored my email completely. I thought she would too—but she
didn’t. She answered all my emails, even though they lacked a professional
format. I appreciated that she didn’t ignore me.
But then she did something I considered a betrayal. She
contacted my manager about how I wanted to work on a project in my personal
time. Well, I think we all know how that went. That simple message created a
tidal wave of annoyance for me. My manager called me in and told me the hiring
manager had contacted him. He said I shouldn’t reach out to other people and
that it was embarrassing for him not to know about this personal project.
Naturally, he didn’t know—because I didn’t want him to. He’s the same boss who
told me to “humble myself,” so why would I want him to know I was trying to
improve myself for a higher position beyond being a Retail Worker? And he told me all
this right as I was about to leave for the day.
You only tell your boss if you trust them to respect and
support your career decisions. My boss doesn’t make me feel either of those
things. Heck, I don’t even trust him. He persistently tries to throw me under
the bus if it seems like something is his fault. He always blames me and tells
me I need to improve—even when it was his mistake. He never owns up to
anything; he just pushes his errors onto others. Not only that, he talks badly
about me to other employees and makes me look rude or like there’s something
wrong with my behavior.
I honestly can’t trust him at all these days. I know he’s
even shady with company procedures and encourages others to break the rules
just so he doesn’t have to do the work. He acts like this and expects me to
tell him everything I’m up to? No. Not happening. And this was my personal
project—emphasis on the word personal. I didn’t want anyone at work
knowing what I was planning to do in my own time to elevate my standing in the
organization.
But thanks to my tattling hiring manager—whom I thought I
could trust—all my hopes and dreams went out the window. We were planning a
meeting, but she canceled on me the same day, saying my manager told her he
didn’t want me doing the project because he wanted me to focus on my job. So my
boss ruined a wonderful opportunity for me, just like that—even though it
wouldn’t have cost him anything. He is persistently trying to sabotage my
growth. This wasn’t the first time he denied me opportunities that could elevate
me to higher positions. And he does all this because he thinks I’m an inferior
girl whom he graciously gave a job to, even though I had no prior experience. I
know this because he reminds me every single time I make a mistake or don’t
seem friendly enough.
The more he tries to restrict me, the more I want to leave
this workplace. If I’m going to be treated like trash, then I’d rather be
treated like trash with a $10K salary per month, thank you very much.
The worst part? She didn’t even ask me whether she could
contact my manager. She just did it. After I explained what happened with my
manager—because of her—in a passive-aggressive but well-written email, I
thought I wouldn’t hear from her again. Unfortunately, I did. She tried to
explain in an email that it was necessary to contact my manager because she
needed his permission to pay me for the work I’d done for the bank.
At this point, I’m like, “What the heck is she talking
about?” Where in my emails did I say I wanted to get paid for the time I worked
on this project? I literally repeated the word personal project over and
over again. Is she dense? How did she get her job as a manager when she’s so
incapable of understanding the words personal project?
I told her I just needed something to impress future
interviewers—something I could put on my LinkedIn. Naturally, the right thing
for me to do was give up on this string of emails and hope she wouldn’t contact
me again. I sent her a polite email thanking her for everything she’d
done—which was next to nothing—and calmly decided to stop caring.
I had already made the bad decision to transfer my entire
life savings into my brokerage account because I’ve lost all hope of escaping
this poverty-stricken life. And my parents were driving me insane. I’ll talk
more about that in the next video.
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