I feel like every year people let their guard down more and more to obvious internet trolling and made up stories, when it should be the other way around.
cf: reddit.com
My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
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Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#22I don't understand how a manager wrote that letter and thought, "this is okay".
Me neither. I can't even believe it is true. It is too obvious that the manager is wrong, no one in his right mind could think to be in the right after such behaviour, especially not after the introspective necessary to writing it up. Add in the caveat of the switch for concert tickets, that's just ridiculous. I don't know the site this is on. Is it a reliable one? If not, I bet this is a marketing stunt.
Either marketing, a troll, or the employee that quit looking for pats on the back by writing their version of the story from the perspective of the manager.
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#23My partner, a developer, got fired (well, the job offer was retracted after a very well performed internship) for kindly questioning two points of the contract: one about unlimited unpaid overtime, and second one about losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE (including things not related to company's business and/or technology in own spare time, holidays and so on).
I told her it is actually better this way, to have an early eject from bad company, than to sink in, get involved and invested just to realise its a bad place to be, but despite that, she took a bad hit. Such things sucks a lot.
(London)
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#24TL;DR: I treated my best employee like shit, after being a good worker for years she quit and now I'm considering to tell her how to behave.
I hope this is fiction.
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#25This really puts into perspective how out of touch some people are. I am shocked by the lack of empathy and how conceited this guy is.
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#26I find it difficult to believe this is actually true. Perhaps it is something to get the site traffic.
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#27Nothing in that letter is believable. It's too perfect a troll. Viral marketing.
Surprised how effective it is and the responses it's getting here. This place used to have a lot of smart people and entrepreneurial people - now it's turning in to another 9-5 tech forum
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#28I don't understand how a manager wrote that letter and thought, "this is okay".
It's so ignorant and full of "I'm doing something stupid, but the employee was brilliant" comments that I can only assume it was actually written by the employee herself trying to pretend-rationalise her manager's behaviour.
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#29It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it? Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable, the whole thing is hardly believable.
This story is screaming "no one wrote in this month so I had to make something up."
Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation
#30Sorry this has a smell to it. Best employee by far that works for you for six years and is the most junior in the office? She should have quit long ago.
I think it means this:
"Best employee": the one that will cater to every demand of the boss
"Six years": she was the one that put up with most of the BS because she was studying
Once she graduated, putting up with this situation wasn't necessary anymore