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I've noticed a few posts here and there about people questioning themselves on their career paths and also being stressed. They realize that money is not the answer for them.
I was wondering if anyone has seen any of these people "snap" on the job and, if so, how did it go down?
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First day I was hired at a former company HR was taking me around and introducing me to the different people. When they got to the asset management "pit" as they called it, one of the guys was in the middle of rage quitting, shouting F*** this place, F*** the founder, F*** everything. I was... taken aback, but he eventually saw me, smiled and said "nice to meet you, my name is Chad (his name wasn't chad)." He then proceeded to leave and I never saw him again.
This dude I know just walked out one day with a hard drive full of proprietary shit and never came back. When lawyers and the CFO contacted him, he traded it for a signed non-disparagement agreement
why did he walk out
Well, they were outsourcing his job to the "India team" and having him train 8 different Pajeets to do his one fucking job and they'd be working 24/7... all while reassuring him he'd always have a job there. Then, they started putting him on endless PIPs for nonsense despite having 99-100% on all performance reviews ever. So they could fire him for cause. Like they'd invent mistakes nobody would ever give a fuck about and put him on PIPs for it then renew them. Denied him a raise because you can't get a raise while on a PIP. His property management business he ran largely from the office was growing and he could afford to leave, so he did. And they were all shits, so he didn't care to be nice about it.
epic move, whoever 'this dude' was, epic move
he's an epic dude i tell you bro
In my summer class training, we had a rising junior (i.e. a year younger than everyone else) who quit on the first day of training because he was floored by how basic the tasks were.
The one that put him over the edge was a module on how to make a company 3-pager. Like basically grab some stuff off the company's website, do a stock graph, do some automated comps spreading and boom, you've got a nice 3 slide summary for an MD. Direct quote from this kid: "wait . . wait wait. So you want me to take this from here and put it here?". Yes sir, that's what we're asking you do. He quietly got up, left the room, and told HR this wasn't the right internship for him. Apparently someone put it into his head that a first year analyst does God knows what . . re-shaping the global economy or something.
If you remember his name, check his linkedin. I would love to know where he is today
Oh believe me, I've tried to remember. Unfortunately the name was forgotten by the next day and has no chance of recovery. Unless he happens to see this and comes forward.
Kid is either a full of himself autist with no career or launched his own VC firm by 25 no in between
Hahahaha yes. Someone in my department (thankfully not someone I managed) sent out a 5 paragraph exit email to all 2K+ employees. It said the F word at least 15 times and had terrible grammar. There was some dispute over her maternal leave and her PTO/time off when she came back from it. Escalated quickly after she was told that she can consider quitting or she will be terminated. Also heard she pissed off senior management and that's what started a whole "drama" that exited in that portion of the department.
I believe our company eventually had to contact Microsoft to get the email removed from the "all employees" mailbox. I saved it and read it a few times. I was always surprised that her former manager at our company didn't reach out to her current employer with this email to show how unprofessional she was (I honestly would have done it - it was really that bad, it slightly tarnished the manager's reputation - who I actually thought was doing a great job - his team's productivity improved drastically under him).
Good for the company for standing up to someone like that. Usually when it gets into things like maternity leave or anything within 10 miles of the discrimination topic, companies are paralyzed by fear and cave to demands.
Extremely rare to contact other employers because legal risk is high. Obviously in this case, sharing her own words would on the safer end of the spectrum. But so few situations are safe that policy will be to never comment. Even when you're sharing pure facts, there's a small remaining legal risk because the person can say you took it out of context. Truth is an absolute defense to libel, but there are other claims like "tortious interference with business relations" and whatnot.
I worked with this guy in management consulting in defense contracting and he was a retired Army Lt. Col - a real character.
Well, it came time to renew our bid for a contract and there was this rumor that we were going to lose the bid and he flipped his shit, got hammered and then went to the client's office at night and started wrecking the place and wrote F*** you on a bunch of papers and taped the notes on computer screens and kicked over the trash cans and stuff.
Well it turns out we actually won the contract and the client thought it was “hilarious” that Dave flipped out (he was the project manager). Only Dave gets away with stuff like that - he was notorious. A real character.
A friend told me he saw a coworker snap on another coworker over poltical stuff (learn to park your baggage at the door boys & girls). They then sent an email to the COO in response calling them out, but they were the ones that got the pink slip. The irony is later they both tried to get each other hired in different firms a decade later.
Wait, person A tried to get person B fired & but person A ended up getting fired?
Then a decade later, person A and B tried to help each other out by trying to give each other a job?
Was this like a "fuck you" let me try to get you hired by a lower tier shop or were they like actually trying to help each other out?
Yeah, they actually did try to help each other. And they weren't low tier firms. We're talking big 4 and places like Bain.
They both grew up and became professionals who could handle it.. But I totally get where you're coming frrom.
Professiolanism over the snap I mentioned. thankfully.
My dad once knew a guy who made a joke to his buddies about their boss having a small dick but accidentally sent it to every email in the whole company.
Guy at my company got into an argument with our VP at happy hour and quit the next day. The thing is he worked the first half of the next day and just dipped after lunch, no one heard from him again.
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