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I work at a small scale startup where I interact daily with the CTO whom I directly report. Recently, he has been giving tighter deadlines for critical projects at work and is not willing to discuss anything related to the scope or timeline of the projects. He just expects me to finish everything in x number of days without asking for even the slightest estimate of the duration. This has led to me missing due dates for projects which he later blames on me quoting poor performance during reviews. Has anyone encountered such problems before? How did you handle it?

Happy almost Halloween! What have been your most horrific experiences at work? I’ll go first. My manager went on a week long holiday, all the while not replying to texts or calls and came back and yelled at me for going on without his approval :__

It's gonna be long thread. I have been working as lead engineer in a early stage startup since last one year. Founder (20 years exp in Product Management) raised some money from friends & family to start it and but company was running negative from February and he put his money to pay employees salary for March & April and We were hoping for some investment in April but that didn't happen. During May & June, he was looking for funding more aggressively and even after having a good background in academics & top tech work experience in product management, no investor got convinced to invest in it. Our salary for March & April was delayed from actual payroll date by 7 days and 21 days respectively and We were expecting our May salary to be delayed by same period and our company was about to complete one year in first week of July so we had some one year benefits associated as well. But Boom, he invited everyone on call and tells that company will shutting it's operation from next day itself. And he will help us find our new jobs and he doesn't any clarity on pending salary. Although we knew, our company is not in good shape so salary cut or something might be happening soon but didn't expect this. Now, we have to find other jobs and also be unemployed while searching for job and also get exploited by other companies because we will be desperate to find jobs to pay our bills. I think, he did this just before 5-6 days of our one year anniversary just because he doesn't get legally bound to pay our one year benefits. I for sure, not gonna join any early stage in future who doesn't have enough funding. Just wanted to put this story out of my mind. Open for any suggestions you have for me Thank you

What is wrong with the world? Why do thinks like these happen?

My senior just got fired for questioning his low appraisal from company.The guy literally build all the backend ,infrastructure and all. From which they are making money. Management said _ we don't have work for you here.And then when he said ok fine iam quitting they didint even give him 2 months notice period. He was asked to leave that day only. The Management is not even giving him 4 yr experience letter . Telling he didint serve notice period. His stack are angular, php,llm models. One of the smartest guys I have met. So group if u guys have a refrel please reply. He is expecting from 14_20lacs.

Since I’ve been working under a crappy management just wanted to know what others are going through as well. My manager takes a PL off my account everyday since I’m on notice period in the hopes this will convince me to rescind my registration and work under her 💀

questioning everything (literally), self doubt at peak. just a rant.

My senior just got fired for questioning his low appraisal from company.The guy literally build all the backend ,infrastructure and all. From which they are making money. Management said _ we don't have work for you here.And then when he said ok fine iam quitting they didint even give him 2 months notice period. He was asked to leave that day only. The Management is not even giving him 4 yr experience letter . Telling he didint serve notice period. His stack are angular, php,llm models. One of the smartest guys I have met. So group if u guys have a refrel please reply. He is expecting from 14_20lacs.

So it's that time of the year when variable payouts are being processed. Everyone’s excited, checking their bank accounts. I get the email from HR - "Your annual bonus is..." I open it It’s enough to buy me a nice lunch I go to my boss and ask him about it He says "We had a tough year, need to tighten our belts" I look at his belt - it’s designer Meanwhile, I’m tightening mine to skip meals. I said "Thanks" and left. He says "Keep up the good work" I leave the meeting room and start Googling jobs - CONFESSED NO ONE

Hi. I received a termination letter from my past company. The reason was, I sent my resignation letter from home and responded only when they reached out. I know I am at fault. Should have sent resignation from office itself. But their punishment seems very harsh. I didn't get a chance to explain myself. Wherever I am applying for jobs, getting turned down as I do not have experience letter and relieving letter. Having a termination letter seems to be equal to having a criminal record. I tried requesting my ex company, but seems they have forgotten my existence, and talked in a rude manner. Day by day I am losing confidence. Trying my hand at freelancing also, but it would be like starting from zero. How can I repair my situation. Advice pls. PS: Humble request to all, no trolling please. Already I am down, don't want to get out.