Have you ever been badly scolded at work to the point that....

@Theresaaiza (10487)
Australia
July 23, 2010 5:31am CST
...you wanted to pass a resignation letter right away? Please do relate to me your "wonderful" experiences!
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@Angelgirl16 (2171)
• United States
25 Jul 10
Hi Therexaaiza, I have indeed been mistreated at work, to the point of not just wanting to, but I did write a letter of resignation. I left a position in accounting and the company for a better life. I have never regreted my decision to leave this company that mistreated me. If you are in this kind of situation, you must decide if staying will be, to you, more benefitical than writing that resignationa and getting the heck out of there. Sometimes, because of obiligations to others and yourself one may have to "bite the bullet" (that means take the mistreatment)and stay. Good Luck
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
10 Aug 10
I am really unsure where I'd be from here after my resign. All I know is I needed to leave. No matter how I try, the task at hand is just so beyond me. I cannot take it anymore.
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
23 Aug 10
I think and feel that this really is the right time for me to leave.
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• United States
11 Aug 10
Hi Theresaaiza, Please, be true to yourself. If you need to leave you will know when the right time is for you to do that. Maybe look for something else to do before you resign, just to make sure you will be okay afterward. Good Luck
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jul 10
Not me personally, but I did overhear a manager scold a co-worker right in public where everybody could hear. It was pretty awful.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Jul 10
It had to have been awful. I'm glad that manager's gone!
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
25 Jul 10
I hope he didn't have to be some other company's manager anymore.
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
Situations like that make us think what if we were in that person's shoes! Imagine what that person might have felt being on the spot itself.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
23 Jul 10
I worked one time under a lady who had been raised in Catholic Schools and thought she was bad, Mother Superior. She tried to control us all be intimidation. I voluntired for the first layoff they had. It wasn't until I got away from her that I realized that she was terribly insecure. But she as a terrible boss. I worked for a man who favored the women who slept with him and allowed them to walk all over the rest of us. But I continued on that job and just kept my nose to the grind stone and minded my own business, I was finally promoted over him. All the rest of my bosses were good to work for, in 35 years of working I don't think that is to bad.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
23 Jul 10
This was before we had all those laws to protect us. Anyone who complained just got fired.
• Philippines
23 Jul 10
Wow, thank god you didn't became a victim there.i would surely won't act blind if any of my co-workers are harassed sexually.
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
It's shame to us Catholics/fellow Christians to know that not everyone acts like what is written in the gospel. But like you said she had issues and I feel sorry for her. It was a good thing you got out of that maniac's department with dignity still intact!
• Philippines
17 Aug 10
Yes! I hate that old witch - my boss. Seriously, she's a witch. I worked on a bank, we answer calls from customers. So there is this phone call from a store about a purchase that was debitted. And she was around, we have to talk to her in English, (Filipino language is used in the bank as we talk to customers) because she wanted to. So she asked me about the problem, I told it to her and she totally misunderstood everything. Then she yelled! I tried explaining it again so she would get what I really meant, but whenever I try to talk again, she cuts in between my explanation. So after all that, yes, I wanted to resign. But I didn't. So why is she a witch? Before my contract with the bank ends. There are regular employees who wants to resign. So exactly how many are they? I counted 4 on our group, 3 on the group that contacts other banks and 4 on the group that process ATM cards. Seriously, 11. And there are more who are still thinking on resigning. She doesn't have a family of her own. She's actually a bit boyish and she is really old. As for the regular employees, most of them resigned, some of them stayed because our boss promised to changed. Imagine a department where almost half of the employees wanting to resign. The horror on her face when she finally learned half of her employees wants to resign. Ha! I just hope she really changed. She's really a witch. Maybe worst than a witch.
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
23 Aug 10
So you haven't left yet? If that's the case, then it shows that she is really the problem, not you...
• Philippines
25 Jul 10
Not that bad yet he always find a nice way to call his employees attention
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
27 Jul 10
There's always a nicer, better and less demeaning way of calling employee's attention. Some bosses just suck at being nice, sad to say.
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@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
23 Jul 10
it happens to me when my boss reprimand me that I did not check the garbage. Most of my co-workers are leaving her room crying and telling that they wanted to resign tomorrow. Some resigned and some resign.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
noticed a lot of double posts lately....is it myLot or am i just seeing double? LOL
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
27 Jul 10
No, it's okay! I just thought it was a myLot glitch.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
27 Jul 10
Its accidentally double post, I am using mobile phone and I don't know that it was posted already. Sorry for that
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Jul 10
Theresaaiza oh yes the same Nancy Ann doll factory where I got to glue tiny wigs onto ten inch tall storybook dolls. I had such a time trying to get the wigs glued on without gettingextra glue on the hair or body of the doll. the man who oversaw us would yell at me do not put too much glue inside the wig, then I would cut down on glue, you must use glue to make the wig stay on, you are so stupid.blah blah blah, I did quit there then, and I told the man that the tools they gave us were impossible to use.I walked out and found the Stanford Lane hospital a street over was looking for a nurse's aide, I applied and got the job. later I went back to my home state to work as a nurses aide in a local hospital.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
Well it was a big blessing you were strong enough to walk out of that job you were previously in. I wish there would be an opportunity for me out there when I step out of this too.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
23 Jul 10
The worst was when my manager called me an idiot in front of customers. I worked in the sub shop/deli of a grocery store, and at night we're supposed to pre-make all these sandwiches on top of serving any customers. Well one night I'd been so busy with customers that I wasn't able to make all the sandwiches I was supposed to.. so I got yelled at the next day and the manager called me an idiot. I could not quit though because I had no car and I needed the job.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
We all have mistakes, and lapses. And many bosses are just way off the charts when it comes to bad attitudes. I know how you feel. I get called "b!tch" many times. Not just that, but, "a f uck-hungry b!tch". He meant some as a joke but when he gets really really mad, even if he would not say the B word, it stays and gets amplified in my mind.
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• Philippines
23 Jul 10
I remember working in the Call Center, although it wasn't that bad. i just got pissed of a supervisor who had me misunderstood on my calls, but i couldn't tell her she was deaf because i think she couldn't really hear my calls that i fond it really stressing when ever she says there's something wrong with the call.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
I've never worked in a call center so I usually get the stories from my friends. They said you cannot quarrel any client no matter how annoying they are. They would try to sound as nice as possible even if they were clenching their fists under the table ready to pounce at the customer had they been infront of them.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
23 Jul 10
it happens to me when my boss reprimand me that I did not check the garbage. Most of my co-workers are leaving her room crying and telling that they wanted to resign tomorrow. Some resigned and some resign.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
24 Jul 10
There always seems to be a nice way to call out the attention of employees because employees will always have lapses. Even bosses commit twice as much. The difference is we just couldn't yell at them or demean them because they are authority!