Have you ever left a job because your boss was a liar and backstabbing?

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I strongly disagree actually. Small companies who rarely hire due to their size would have a pretty limited sample size to question. Not to mention the difficulty a potential worker would have to track down workers to determine culture.

And often people have little choice if there are scarce jobs in their field.
 
Never said that everyone must do what I do. My family, my mentors, taught me some things. Those things have proved useful over my life, and I think they will serve me in this second half of my century.

If people do not wish to do research, that is their prerogative.
 
I get what you are saying and of course think it is wise to reseach if possible. In my work environment (chemical research) I can easily do this and always make planned and informed choices. Not because I’m doing anything better, I just have the luxury of choice.

My point is in many industries this is not really feasible or possible. Not everyone has that choice or the luxury of time.

My sil is a geologist with 4 kids (not in the US). It’s generally a boys club and now has only a small pool of jobs. She doesn’t have the option to just quit if she wants to feed her family. So she sucks up the bad behaviour knowing if she complains she won’t easily get a job elsewhere being a very unique and insular industry. It would be similar in many other areas.

I generally agree with you on most issues but think on this one you’re suggesting people are not taking initiative for their own situation, rather than acknowledging they may not have much of a choice.
 
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. So she sucks up the bad behaviour
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At the same time, she, or others, can make the decision to leave an industry and do something else. Might not make the same amount of $$, however, life is far too short to suffer abuse from your boss.
 
Yes. I worked for a lady who thinks she can treat people the way Miranda Priestly treats people in “The Devil Wears Prada” and she prides herself on it. I know I am good at what I do, but she made me question everything and killed my confidence. It was bad. My anxiety was through the roof.

I took another position last summer and because, according to my new boss, my work " lacked depth" she let me go right before Christmas.

I took an office admin job earlier this year and it is a 180 from the 2 previous jobs. I used to be terrified when my boss called me into the office when I first started, terrified. Now, I know it is because she truly needs something from me and isnt going to berate me. I am appreciated for my hard work and not held back or told my work is not good enough.

In the last year and 2 months since I left the first job, they have gone through 3 office managers.
 
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No…However, I once sincerely asked to be laid off. I always did my job and did my job well. I was just totally ok with being laid off. …and Wow!..they were ticked at me for asking to be laid off.

Anyway my entire department was downsized, so it was all kind of a moot point.

Corporate US is a tough place to work. Universities are a little better. I think the best places to work are small business primarily owned by a good and kind family or individual.
 
…and sometimes when you are young and inexperienced you just got to do what you have to do. This can mean taking a crummy job. I’ve been there.
 
I worked in a family run pizza shop for 5 years. The pay was bad but it got me through college.

I’ll NEVER do food service again.
 
And for those on minimum wage? Or others who cannot afford a pay decrease?
 
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Less money in exchange for peace of mind? I would choose peace of mind every time. YMMV
 
Again that shows a luxury of choice in your personal situation. Not everyone can just choose to take a pay cut. They literally cannot afford the financial stress. Many families are struggling to just keep up with mortgages and bills, suggesting they take a lower paid job doesn’t help their situation at all.
 
As someone who lives near the poverty line, I do understand financial stress 🙂
 
I worked in a hospital laboratory. Over the years we had several lab managers and the problem with all of them was that they either had never worked on the bench or it had been years since they had. We were used to them being clueless about our job and the issues we dealt with. Most of them were willing to listen and help if they could to address them…but, we had one manager that was just a plain old non compassionate person. She once berated a tech because she missed a week of work because her parents died a few days apart! She literally had no desire to hear our problems much less deal with them.

We all gritted our teeth and got our jobs done anyway. One year, upper management gave us a survey asking us to rate our manager. Needless to say, she was rated at the bottom of the scale. She was flabbergasted. She thought she’d been doing an incredible job. Many private interviews were held with the upper management folks and when the results were given to her, explaining all our problems and how she refused to address them, she immediately applied for another position and given it. Of course they wouldn’t fire her, they, at least, didn’t promote her. We were just thrilled she was gone and we could focus on our next manager and how to train him!
 
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