My supervisor recently called a team meeting; there are 8 of us including the supervisor. He starts the meeting by telling us, “I got thrown under the bus, so now I'm throwing you all under the bus.” Then he goes on to talk about metrics being down and makes several comments about how none of us are “working 40 hours a week” and leads in that we need to return to the office full time, etc.
We are all doing more work beyond our job descriptions and all of my coworkers brought up in response how they are feeling overworked, how these kinds of comments make us feel that we aren't trusted, and so on.
Few days later all of us are called into HR separately for statements because they felt we were all “ganging up on the supervisor.”
What in the “hurt my ego” response game is this? 🤣