Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a great day. today I wanted to talk about something I read this morning. It mentioned three reasons a person gets fired.
Reason 1: wrong hire for the position or the company
Reason 2: Company was unable to motivate the employee
Reason 3: The Company is toxic
I found this interesting as I was recently fired from my job. I was at this company for just under a year and the first eight months were great. The people I was working with were great. During the eight months quite a few people quit and/or got fired. It was scary for me to see this type of transition as I was expecting growth in the company. Several Senior positions resigned and that left a giant gap in the company causing several people to try to grow within the company. Some of these people chose that this growth would be by showing other peoples weaknesses. I watched people looking for mistakes that others had done. Instead of showing their colleagues respect by speaking to them directly these people chose to shed light to the mistakes.
This technique unfortunately worked. People were made to feel bad for making a simple mistake. Senior Management got copied on emails that should have been between colleagues. I spoke with my boss about this and how I did not understand this as my belief is that we all work for one company with one objective. We should be working as a team. I was told that these people were looking to get noticed and this is how they chose to do that.
I mentioned to my boss that we should arrange some tours to some of the sites so that we can all form friendships so that we can improve the camaraderie. We should look at ways to improve team work and to get people to stop trying to make others feel bad. My requests were taken and listened too but nothing was ever scheduled.
I told my husband in December of 2018 that I would be fired in 2019. I told him that I could feel it. I also told him who my replacement would be. I was right on both accounts.
A month before I was fired I told my boss that coming to work made me sad. This was said after she told me that a colleague asked me for some information. I provided the information but this person did not ask me for the real information she was looking for. When she sent what I gave her to Senior Management, apparently Senior Management made a nasty comment about me. My boss told me all this, something that probably should not have been said. I told her that I was not used to people being sneaky and mean like this. I told her I didn’t understand why we cannot all just work as a team. A few weeks later I was fired. I was not surprised but I was sad. I am not sure why I was sad as this place was toxic and mean. People were just mean!!
I am now relieved that I don’t have to go back there. I have thought about why I was sad and the only thing I could think of is that I hoped this place would change and that people would be kind to each other. I still hope that they can figure it out or they will continue to lose good people.
Have you worked for a company like this? If so, what did you do? Comment or send me an email. I would love to hear from you.
Until next time my friends,
Ruthie J