The worst employee that everyone wanted to get fired became a best hire when he filled in for someone else, now he’s a manager, he was just miscast: ‘Lately I think I might be the Marcus on my own team’ – FAIL Blog

Sometimes we aren’t bad at our jobs. We are just misplaced!

When you are unemployed, you send your resume everywhere. You get to a point where you don’t even know for what position they are calling you abut our what the company that is interviewing you does. Is normal. We all have been there. But there is something that happens when you haven’t had a job in a while, is like an impostor syndrome where you start to believe that you are capable of doing every job. You may not even step a foot in college, but you start thinking that you could definitely be an astrophysicist at NASA. This job market starts to change your brain chemistry till you become unstoppable when applying for jobs. Your lemma becomes “the worst they can say is no”, and you continue sending resumes. 

What I believe happened in this Reddit story is exactly that. I think Marcus was desperate for a job when he saw that they were looking for employees to work in customer service, and even though he knew he wasn’t a good fit, he applied anyway. He went through the interviews, and when he realized he was working in a client-facing position without any communication skills. He wasn’t a bad worker. He was hired to do something that he was definitely not good at. He needed a job and took it, but that didn’t mean he actually wanted to do it. 

When the whole situation with the employee living in an open position happened, he stepped up because he cared. He realized that he was not currently making a good job and that he was probably getting fired soon. He had nothing to lose, so he tried and succeeded. He didn’t just have luck, as the user telling the story said. He took a chance. And that is something very valuable to take into account. He realized that even though he wasn’t a good fit for his position, he had the abilities to succeed at another one, so he tried. Yes, Marcus was completely miscast and wasted on a position he was horrible at when he could have been hired since the beginning for the one he ended up being a better fit for. So take your chances. You may be wasting your potential.