Bad Manager

Brian Thatcher
3 min readOct 25, 2022

I was recently let go from a company that I had been very excited to work for and had planned on working at until I retired. While I did enjoy working there and was surprised when I was told I was working my last day, I must admit that I won’t miss working for my immediate manager. Even though she was very knowledgeable of processes, good with Excel, and could work for very long hours, she was, overall, a terrible manager for several reasons.

1. Long hours- When I was hired, she mentioned that while she worked long hours (around 15 a day, 5–6 days a week), she didn’t expect anyone else on the team (hourly…

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