My ex used to say I abandoned her because I moved to a different city for work and mental peace.  
  
 Women are next level guilt trippers tbh.

Product Owner

Consider this as an open space to vent out. Perhaps your experience could benefit someone.

Consider this as an open space to vent out.
Perhaps your experience could benefit someone.

Whats the worst way someone has gaslit you?

Data engineer

Whats the worst way someone has gaslit you?- Grapevine

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

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 💀

Worst Thing Your Management Has Done

Assistant Manager

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

For me its "I never asked you to do it" and "your emotions are a big turnoff"

What is the worst thing the opposite gender has ever said to you?

What are some of your worst roommate experiences. Please share.

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

My manager who is also one of the CXOs of the company, repeatedly gaslights me into thinking that I’m not good enough. My performance ratings of last couple of years is one of the best yet I haven’t seen any substantial growth. I don’t know how does it justify higher performance rating when I’m not doing enough/good enough.

Gaslighting by Manager

Intern

I was done with a very shit project team. The client is notorious, ask anyone in EY GDS about a telecom provider project near Manesar that everyone dreads. They make you work night shifts and literally have nothing to do there. I know people who game there all night. It is just the worst and my health was being affected. I am being paid < 10L by the way. So it was getting very toxic. 

I decided to ask my manager but he said that it is not possible right now. I asked my friends in other projects and I came to know that the only way to leave the project is to leave EY. I also came to know about someone who left EY to leave the project and rejoined EY to join another project.

I am now done with EY. Who said that Big 4 is good? Only Boomers who think Big 4 has prestige ig because they pay peanuts.

What is the worst experience you've had at Big 4?

Analyst

Had a terrible day in office. Verbal promises were broken, lots of anxiety on next steps. All in all a complete catastrophe.

Short of getting fired, what's been the worst day in office for you?

Give it your worst

Business Analyst

What has your worst experience been working at a job?

Engineering Manager

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I recently applied to Indian Fintech, first round went well. Got no response from HR for 3-4 days. Once I called her on 5th day, she told me that I had cleared first round and they will assignment next day. Assignment didn’t arrive for 2 more days. HR stopped picking my calls. After this I reached out to third party recruiter (who started the process initially). She contacted this company HR and they sent me assignment next day. 

I had to complete it in 48 hour strict timeline. Spent entire 2 days on it and barely slept. I submitted it on time. 

After this no reply from HR for 4 days. Finally I reached out to my interviewer from first round for help. He said he will remind HR. 

Next day I got call from HR that all open positions are closed and we will consider u in future. No feedback on assignment was given. Not even sorry for making u wait. 

Isn’t the only thing HRs need to be good at is people handling & professional communication?

What’s the worst interview process experience you had so far?

Product Designer

Let me go- 
Coworker who used to lie a lot and spread rumours. Like they'll make up a story in their head, and start telling random things. Once she pinged everyone saying that I got engaged, and I suddenly started receiving texts in company groups 🤷🏾

What are some of the worst habits of your coworker?

Nothing major, but this bothers me a lot! 
 "Hi" 
 Just say what you want to say instead of waiting for me to reply

Frontend Engineer

Software Developer

"Don't judge anyone by years of experience. Judge them by their skills."

Okay, but recruiters will judge them by gender as well. Aur aapne to dono bhi (i don't consider LGTV) mention kiye hai.

And what is this new trend of ~gaslighting?

How good is this written?

Software Engineer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Not having a good day and something unexpected happened at work. Feeling angry and helpless at the same time.

What is your fav. way to vent out?

Have you ever ghosted someone? What was the reason?

So basically they laid off the entire 90% of the team or I think 95%

And now they are delaying the payment of the last month's working salary as well.

Got to know that people who were laid off 3 months back received calls from HRs saying that they will get severance after 8 months now.

Very horrible experience. One of the most shitty companies out there. I hope no one falls into their trap again.

Layoffs at Skill-Lync and no payment of last month salary

Growth Manager

I will complete 3 years as a professional soon. Quit a Big4 to join a startup for better pay and faster growth but despite putting in my best work and leading initiatives, going above and beyond all the time, my peers are all earning better than me doing similar jobs.

i never had a financially aware upbringing. my father put us through hell due to his bad decision making and despite me being very financially savvy, am unable to save any money because im so anxious I tend to spend what I dont have. i had to take up a lot of freelancing to aid my lifestyle but now im busy all the time and have no time to myself. 

idk what to do. idk how much savings my parents have since I live away from them and dad never discusses his larger financial plans with me. he also does not have a stable job even at his age even though I know he is v hardworking and does his best. i feel i will never have enough money to support my parents and myself and feel like im running out of time. also doing interviews to leave this shitty company as well which is lowballing tf out of me. im not sitting idle at all, trying to startup on the side as well. i workout, eat and sleep healthy, have a great social life. the only problem is money which im constantly worrying about. i feel its a generational curse passed down to me. I know I have 10x earning capabilities but its all so vague and uncertain. I have an amazing support system and I know I can talk to my friends about this too. just thought of coming here first

please share stories if youve ever felt this way. open to advice feedback ideas. how did you get out of it? what can I do? 

what are some business/sales roles that pay really well that I can get into as an ex-big4 analyst? i dont think my current profile translates well anywhere. f*ck this company honestly. probably the worst decision I made coming here :(

[rant] 24 year old anxious about his financial future

Marketing Associate

How Do You Realize Your Worth Around Negetive People?

[Borderline LinkedIn Cringe] Does everything have to be done with the intention of proving men wrong? Is this the message you want to send as a CEO?

(Glad there are women disagreeing with her in the OP though)

What's your take on this?

Program Manager

Here’s my story in the field of software engineering: There’s this colleague of mine who is on a pure tech role but hardly codes. The person spends his entire time on LinkedIn sharing new age tech stuff and projects himself to the world as if he is the Messiah of architecture. The guy preaches the same gyan to members of my team. For the last one year, this guy, in the capacity of Software Architect has not pushed a single line of code into our application source code and this is on record. Yet, he is highly regarded as an expert in technology. The guy has killed the careers of some genuine software engineers with his unique approach to make it look like he is taking a lead to own stuff in tech space. The guy has had tremendous career growth, got promoted 3 times in the last 5 years.

In my view, the guy is a tech junkie whose knowledge carries no value. Yet he managed to butter the leadership team to reach to position that he is currently in.

Did you encounter any such people? If yes, comment your story.

What type of corporate villains have you encountered with in your company? Comment your story.

Software Architect

Heard from a friend that he flew out to his office in the middle of the night from his wedding because mortgage backed securities started to crumble in NA during ’07 crisis.

Dude was bummed.

What is the worst thing your boss did to you?

Initially he asked me to fill his water bottle, bring snacks for him. Dint mind doing 1-2 times. But it was continuous with other juniors too.  
  
 Took a chance one day to spit on his water bottle and brought snacks for the whole team (20 people, kurkure and frooti).  🫢

Product Manager

I’ll go first.

I was in a rut. No clients, no prospects and no jobs.

Someone saw my work, really liked it but didn’t have the budget.

I dropped my rate to about 40k to just pick up the project. They paid me 50% advance (20k). The project lasted 2 months with atleast 5 client visits (each round trip costing me a little more than 1k)

I made multiple design options over several weeks. After one of my presentations, I was about to hop off the zoom call when I heard one of the partners of the firm say “This is really good, very sharp work. Exactly what we wanted”. I wasn’t supposed to hear this because they felt I had dropped off the call.

I felt good that they liked the work. I wanted them to be super happy, so I went to print shops to get multiple color samples for them, made PPT templates (it’s really annoying and painful to make one of those), made tutorial videos on how to use different elements, how to use the templates without breaking them, getting on calls with his team to teach them etc (all of which cost me time or money or both).

I finally got to a place where everything was sorted. All the files were handed over along with proper documentation. Once done, I asked for the rest of the pay. And the client told me that he’ll only pay me if I get his visiting cards printed! 

This was never mentioned anywhere till now. I told him I could do it for an additional charge (what the printer would charge me, I even excluded my cost of going till the printer and back), but he just stopped responding.

I followed up multiple times but didn’t get any response.

Not only did I make a loss on the project, it was a project where the client was actually super happy with the work. Felt really bad and annoyed that I had gone out of my way to make the client happy and he couldn’t even do the bare minimum of paying me for the work I did (and that too the discounted rate 🙄)

The bittersweet ending: They are still using my work that was done about 5 years ago.

What was the worst client/boss experience you’ve been through?

Founder

As a UX designer, I struggled with an accounting feature due to lack of knowledge and specs. 

Despite help, the process felt wrong. My boss suggested I might not be suited for this role and should rethink my career choice. How do I respond?

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