There are a number of decent ways a boss can deliver a difficult message to an employee. This lady, however, threw all decency out the window.
She clearly was holding a grudge against this employee for months. Perhaps she felt threatened by his competence, or perhaps she simply decided that she didn’t like his personality without giving him a fair chance. Regardless of the reason, she decided that the best way to handle this was to delegate task after task and to fill his plate with as many responsibilities as she could so that they would essentially be impossible to fulfill.
After overloading this author with one assignment after another, she marches over to his desk and asked how he was holding up. Naturally, she did this with an insincere look of “concern.” This is what finally set the author off.
He responded by confronting her directly and calling her out for her obvious agenda. After all, he knew that he was valued by others at the company. He also knew she would try to deny her own behavior. So he left her no choice by stating that if she wanted to get rid of him, she was going to have to fire him herself because otherwise, he wasn’t going to give up on his own. The battle lines were drawn!
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