I was worried about this same exact thing happening, so I buckled down, pulled as hard as I could on my boot straps, did the work of 4 people for a few months, then quit without notice. I was the only person left on my team at the time so I’m sure they’re scrambling lol.
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cravl@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
For real. My last job essentially let me go because my being depressed meant they weren’t confident I could handle the workload of 2.5 people. Of course, they made that out to be my fault. Thanks guys, I’m worse now.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
cravl@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
If I had the perspective then that I do now, I probably would have at least tried to do similar. At the time though I thought it was my dream job and blamed myself for feeling like I wasn’t meeting expectations. My crippling social anxiety (also just depression?) making it darn near impossible to ask for help… well, that didn’t help either.
dingus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m really sorry, dude. I really wish corporations weren’t so soulless. :(
cravl@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The funny(?) thing is it was a small company of like 8 people total including the brothers that founded and own it. They’re not mean or totally heartless people either, the owners just don’t have good business sense.
I did my summer internship there during college a couple years earlier and thought everything went fine, but when they let me go they mentioned out of nowhere that “we had a similar concern while you were interning” even though I don’t recall them ever bringing that up with me prior to that very moment. Just weaseling for any justification they could think of for what they knew was a terrible miscalculation on their part, methinks. Oh well, it only put a minor dent in my self-esteem… 😅😑
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 days ago
You sound really selfish, did you stop to think about your CEO and their vacation home before you decided to get dEPrESSed?
cravl@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Not a big enough company for the owners to have vacation homes (only like 8 people so they were still very involved in the day-to-day), but one of them was talking about upgrading their riding mower a lot at the time. They were going to spend like 9 grand to cut their mowing time from 3 hours to 1 hour 45 minutes. All I could think was “lol, why not just restore most of that grass to native grassland and never think about it again?”
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah well maybe if you stopped getting sick they could buy a vacation home.
cravl@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
OOHHH very true, didn’t think of that. I’ll definitely try to be more considerate next time.