Thrown under the bus

[Ittai]

  I dont know how much people get put on the spot in a negative way by there boss? i did..!The sorry thing about it is wasnt personal and i was doing my job. I have to say that the good thing about it is, i now know where i stand in the company and how i am not valuable. Well just got to prepare my self  for another job..

[Tresbn00]

At least you have retained your sense of self worth!  So many people just keep hanging on to bad relationships and jobs for ever, living day in and day out being completely miserable.  I did it once....hung at a job working for a man that wasn't half what I am.  I hated getting up in the morning!  Finally, one day in an elevator, he hopped on and insinuated that the elevator would make me a minute late (coming back from lunch).  I told him, in no uncertain terms, that I would be resigning immediately. I walked out, went to his competitor, was working the next week and bankrupted my irritable old boss within eighteen months. I am so satisfied!

[cloudsoup]

inferiority complexes can seriously hender a boss's (or co-worker's)
attitude toward you, especially when you're GOOD at what you do!

too often people want to tear others down in the workplace.
if it's possible to leave that situation, go for it. life is too dang short
to be miserable at work.

 

[skrogman]

I had the same thing happen when I was working for a payday advance check cashing company.  I worked with a lady manager for about three months, and unlike your experience though, we became great friends in that time.  However, in only a short three months our regional manager promoted me to manager of my own location.  BOOM!  She had a real problem with that and the friendship vanished and proved how real it wasn't.  She instantly was not there any more when I tried to call her store with questions.  Instantly upon taking location manager I was on my own.  But, I did it and my store was running GREAT numbers and her numbers were not so good and her customers straight told her that they were not returning because she was becoming grouchy and irritable and the cheerful lady was no longer there to wait on them.  She actually ended up losing her job and I got a raise because my numbers just kept running well, even during tax season, and in the payday advance business that does not happen.  That is the time when people do not need me.   

But, oh well, that is my nickel's worth, and I have rambled on enough.  Just my link to the chain.