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    1. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      fascinating the gossip and venting I've received after putting in my 2 weeks

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    2. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      3 other people (incl. one of the upper management) on the verge of quitting apparently the crazy owners have been "planning" to get out of day to day operations for 2 years and just...won't

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    3. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      2 other people have brought up feeling "yanked around" and "infantilized" by the lady owner "walking on eggshells" around her husband, the other owner

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    4. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      I guess HR lady was going to put in her notice the same week I put in mine, after getting chewed out by the crazy lady owner for not having her phone on after work hours on new years Eve to answer questions about mistakes in applying PTO

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    5. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      the mistakes were due to a hasty decision wrt the plant shutdown over the week of Christmas (which, again, people were only told about 1.5 weeks in advance and forced to use vacation if they wanted paid...

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    6. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      ...which forced a lot of the hourly folks to go deep into the negative on their PTO for the first quarter of the year -- and going negative was framed as a generosity on the part of the owners)

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    7. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      in the meantime 3 different coworkers including the CFO have offered, unprompted, to act as references for me CFO is Pissed that she wasn't allowed to be more involved in my training at the start

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    8. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      CFO has sent 2 detailed positive-feedback emails to me regarding the work I've been doing to wrap up my time here and passive-aggressively cc'ed Crazy Owner Boss on both Crazy Owner Boss has not exchanged a single. word. with me since I put my notice in

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    9. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      there seems to be some kind of Fight going on between the CFO and Crazy Owner Boss idk

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    10. selentelechia‏ @selentelechia Jan 22
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      I think I am just really grateful to get some validation about the way I was perceiving the dynamics here especially the feeling infantalized thing, which I felt from the beginning but chalked up to my own neuroses

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 22
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      This is my favorite office politics story of 2020 so far. Astounding how much of a shitshow bad owner-managers can create.

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