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I quit my last job because my team ganged up on me and held an "intervention meeting" because I broke the production environment after my code had passed local
by throwaway195729 5y ago
I quit my last job because my team ganged up on me and held an "intervention meeting" because I broke the production environment after my code had passed local development and staging. The person who found out didn't tell me, but silently fixed it and called for a meeting. I incidentally saw we had a meeting with a vague title, and asking about it, my team members avoided elaborating.
Eventually, the meeting was a scolding. I wouldn't accept this kind of behavior, so I stood my ground, switched teams a week later and "worked from home" on my last week on the team. (This essentially amounted to not showing at morning meetings, and not doing any work. Not voluntarily -- I refused to be in a meeting with them, and I couldn't make myself do anything that had a positive impact for them.) I delivered value and had a good time with my other team for another 4 months, after which I switched jobs when I'd found a step up. On one occasion my old team lead had a meeting with my entire team; he'd ask every one of us questions, except me; I was air. I'm pretty sure he wasn't completely conscious that he did this. He once said he didn't like cocaine, because the few times he tried it, he just wanted to beat people. Drugs bring out the best in people.
My old team lead asked a few times if we could have a one-on-one, since I switched teams, as if there was something to evaluate. I should have told him no and explained that I was not going to enter a meeting room with him again. I just let him schedule a meeting and didn't show. He let go pretty easily.
While I don't feel exactly like this now, this is what I felt: I owe this company nothing. They can take their bad behavior and do with it exactly what they want.
I didn't call out the company on Glassdoor. There were only two rotten apples (a hysterical co-worker and a mildly psychopathic team lead), and dozens of good ones.
- jrockway 5y agoThat's weird. You had coworkers that hadn't broken production before!?
- deltaonefour 5y agoI agree with you. What the co worker did to you was wrong. But I would also venture to say that there could be a reason specific to you as to why you were targeted in this way.