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You’ve just made me think about memories I’ve surpressed of a job I had, where the boss would hold Monday morning meetings every week to go around the table and
by ssss11 5y ago
You’ve just made me think about memories I’ve surpressed of a job I had, where the boss would hold Monday morning meetings every week to go around the table and get updates from the team.
He took the opportunity to pick on someone different each time and rip them to shreds. It was a horrible thing to be part of.
Needless to say my Sunday evenings were a write off during that period with the stress of having to go to that the following morning (and it potentially bring my turn to receive the wrath)
- Aeolun 5y agoWhat could compel someone to want to start their Monday morning that way?
- sasaf5 5y agoPossibly similar behavior from higher ups. Or cargo-cult toughness.
- ssss11 5y agoPrior to this job I’d hear people talk about terrible bosses and think they must be somehow exaggerating because I hadn’t experienced it, but no, these people exist. I almost think he was sociopathic or something. No one else I’ve ever come across has been any where near as cruel. In the end managing by force or coercion don’t work in my opinion, people don’t want to work for those managers. His entire leadership group turned over in the 9 months I was there. That was the longest 9 months of my career.
- prox 5y agoCan completely relate… I had a neurotic boss like that. My first job so I was woefully unprepared. He would hold unpaid meetings in the evening (but free pizza - yay?) and do a round. At least once a month there was a meeting where I saw a grown man or woman (in my eyes) cry/breakdown. Because I was junior I was kind of exempt from the worst of it, but after 12 months I was the heck out of there. Seeing someone go through an actual burn-out was crazy. It probably pushed me to become self employed, chose the people I work with.
- hutzlibu 5y agoMany reasons. But probably mostly venting out own frustrations, while believing this is a effective managing style to get people motivated in fear.