Quiet firing 👀 aka when the employer wants you to quit! #shorts

Quiet firing 👀 aka when your employer wants you to quit!

Quiet quitting was a big topic a few weeks ago, and that got people talking about quiet firing - and this one’s all about the employer.

Quiet firing = an employer creating a bad work environment so that an employee will quit themselves. Have you ever felt like this was happening to you at work? Let us know!

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[Behindthejab]

Learn these words “your lack of planning or staffing is not my issue”

[annemulvihill]

In olden times, “quiet firing” was known as “harassing an employee out the door”.

[mrchefhayden]

They want you to quit so they don't have to pay unemployment

[elliotwarren]

“Quiet firing” also know as “workplace harassment” and “toxic work environment” or “retaliation”

[CB-vtmx]

I noped out of a job because of this. Found a new job over the next week and gave them about 3 days notice. "I'm moving on, Friday is my last day--here's my badge and laptop". LOL--the manager lost his mind. When the VP asked me why, I told him, "I'm just giving you the same respect you showed me--none". Two years later guess who showed up for a interview?

[jenguinofdoom]

It's subtle. They gaslight you by putting you in a situation to not have a work/life balance and then blame you for not managing your time. They ask questions like, "How can we help you to better manage your time properly?" But never move forward on that development piece.

[Actinia_]

It happens frequently in many workplaces. The workplace doesn’t want to fire you per se they want you to quit. But if you don’t quit, they’ll keep giving you unreasonable expectations setting the bar higher and higher and then blaming you when you can’t achieve it. When they do eventually get around to firing you they’ll use these failures as the reason. This happened to my mom when she worked for WCB. She knew they were trying to get rid of her, but she held out and made them fire her, then negotiated a payout which was the equivalent of a year’s salary which sustained her until she found a new position.
It’s bit of a despicable practice but many places get away with it. It’s usually the workplaces that claim they’re “like a family “

[Senatorlemonsouth]

Constructed dismissal -- document everything -- lawsuit later

[-Rickster-]

In the UK this is called constructive dismissal.

[kellysunserenity]

Yes, this actually did happen to me at the last place I worked at. There was a change in management so things were a bit chaotic at the start, which most employees gave a pass for. However, the new manager soon started targeting specific employees to make them quit. And it was employees who usually kept their heads down and did their jobs. So a very toxic work environment became the norm. The only employees who WEREN'T targeted were those that kissed up to management. Joining in the attacks on the targeted employees. Stirring the toxic waste pot.
Those of us who were targeted, did quit. But we also got the last laugh as we all found new jobs that were so much better and in healthy work environments elsewhere.

[adamparra]

I fell for all that. Then when it came time for promotions, they hired the lady who only works 9 months outta the year. Then she died.

[jaimebaturin]

I got quiet fired from my job... It was a Starbucks coffee job, and they kept changing my schedule around and put me on mornings when they knew I couldn't work mornings. I quit real quick

[josephroszell]

My boss ignored all my complaints and allowed other employees and customers to treat me like crap took away overtime after they saw no problem with my work shoes slicing into my feet. I left my job of 15 years so I could walk 300 miles to raise awareness for suicide prevention

[stacey]

I had a boss that was trying to force me out. I kept meeting her demands, and was there far longer than she wanted. The rest of my team quit, and I stayed a little bit longer until there were new employees hired. She wound up dressing me down loudly one day after one of them asked me a question and I was explaining what the current process was. The boss wanted the new employees to completely recreate every process that was in place to suit their desires. I frustrated her so badly because I didn't quit when the rest of the team did.
I wound up leaving the job, about a month later and moved out of state. I found out she "retired" 3 months later, but not before her new hires also bailed.

[Levithos]

"Give me that in writing. So can I assume I'll be getting time-and-a-half for all this OT you're demanding I do?"

[dougr]

"you're a big boy and you'll figure out" is near the top of my list of least favourite responses when asking for help with something. This is why a good boss is more important than a good job!

[bcope]

Very few managers have actual leadership training. They suffer from the Peter Principal.

[kunalparmar]

Never happened to me, and I haven't allowed my directors/VP's & managers over the years to even take the courage to ask me to work more or mess up my work-life balance. It all comes down to how you value yourself and how smartly you get things done; and most importantly, create an aura around you of someone who gets results, but isn't someone to be triffled with or played around with. 15 years of career woth cou tkess promotions, title changes in various firms and industries, and haven’t worked a single day where I worked even a minute more than my stated hours or worked over the weekend; neither did anyone ever ask me to do so. Value Yourself, you are an asset to your firm; so flaunt your value.

[jwolf]

My husband. He quiet quit until they offered him a severance package.

[dolliscrawford]

I had a boss who tried to get me to quit but I just had to endure because the union job came with a two bedroom apartment and good benefits and I had a newborn to care for.
I was thankful for the union and the benefits allowed me to seek professional help to deal with the harassment.
I worked all the overtime I could which raised my Social Security payments.