[Thread] What is the best thing your manager ever told you?

I joined a company after getting some bad performance comments from prev company. In my older the reason behind poor outcome was - manager. During my exit, he confessed the same that he wasn’t able to put required time/efforts. Most probably he was one who threw me in front of the bus. Joining a new company with that baggage scares the shit out of anyone. I worked hard and delivered something big in first 6 months. The comment from VP levels was - “This is such a turnaround (of a prev lagging product)”. The mail was cascaded to CXOs and org re-initiated focus on the product. That day, I gained my lost confidence and decided not to let anyone else control my career.

VP of my org referred to me as one of the best communicators in the team of 100+ folks in his All-Hands, then proceeded to ask me for feedback on his session during the same All-Hands.

Got 2 spotlight award (500€ each). But i am still heavily underpaid. Btw where are you heading too.

We are applying for your VISA.

Randomly got a ping one day saying "You're the best" - this was at an old job That was very much out of the blue on a week where I wasn't in my best spirits. Very nice of them.