Happy prose
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Post by Happy prose on Feb 28, 2018 17:04:54 GMT -5
Hubs was with his company for years and we were looking forward to the retiree health benefit on retirement, the year he became eligible they changed the premiums to over $1000 a month, that was like 20 years ago, so we lost it all. That's a fear I have. The public sector perks have been getting hacked for years.
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TheOtherMe
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 28, 2018 17:38:29 GMT -5
You guys are great. I am staying and trying to cope/avoid. I keep telling myself she'll eventually wind up hanging herself, but so far it hasn't happened. I really thought there would be more responses saying no job is worth it. But I really do need my job. That's the problem--you really need your job. When I worked at the federal government, I could count on getting a new manager about every two years (unless I got a true promotion). Then it would happen when that happened. Since I had no desires to be in management, about the last 10 years were spent with a new manager every 2 years. Over 25 years I had lots of average managers, a few extraordinary managers and a few managers from hell.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 28, 2018 19:57:13 GMT -5
I have no advice. But I can commiserate. I worked with a lady who drive people to check themselves into facilities for both nervous breakdowns and drug abuse. She was brutal. Her boss liked it. He was also a dick. Even though she wasn't my boss, she targeted me a few times. She also targeted my employees which tore me apart. It was a mess. One month it was really bad, and then one day, her office was cleaned out and the air in the building was lighter.
I hope your situation improves before the 5 year mark.
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happyhoix
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 2, 2018 8:10:09 GMT -5
I have no advice. But I can commiserate. I worked with a lady who drive people to check themselves into facilities for both nervous breakdowns and drug abuse. She was brutal. Her boss liked it. He was also a dick. Even though she wasn't my boss, she targeted me a few times. She also targeted my employees which tore me apart. It was a mess. One month it was really bad, and then one day, her office was cleaned out and the air in the building was lighter. I hope your situation improves before the 5 year mark. My last place of employment had such a horrible supervisor she churned staff at about 1 per year (and she only had 1 employee).
One person she caused to have heart palpitations and we had to rush her to the hospital. Another one just got up from her desk, picked up her purse and walked out of the building, never to be seen again. Fortunately, I didn't work for her, but I saw the chaos she sowed.
We had a 'problem' employee who was always fighting with others, then retreating to cry in the bathroom. She ended up leaving for another job as an office manager, and in the year she worked at the new location, she drove about 1/4 of the staff to quit or retire early. Finally the remaining staff went into the head guy's office and threatened to quit right then and there - every one of them - if the boss didn't fire the office manager. He did, and she came back to our company, trying to get her old job back, but by that time everyone had figured out how much nicer the workplace was without her, and they wouldn't hire her back.
Some people are just toxic.
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