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My manager called us all clowns

I just have to get this off my chest because I’m struggling. I work full time at a company with a newly trained team of 3, including myself. We all are learning together and it’s been complicated because we have not gotten trained correctly but we’re all doing our best. Recently we were all called into a meeting, told our jobs aren’t secure, that leadership is already planning on hiring the next team and that we’re all clowns. This happened after a situation that was out of our control (another branch screwed us over and we had to put out the fire) but of course we were blamed. This all came out of nowhere as well, he’s never spoken to us like this. I’m at a loss of words. I’ve been here for a month but I don’t have any other opportunities due to low pay at other places. I’m…


I just have to get this off my chest because I’m struggling. I work full time at a company with a newly trained team of 3, including myself. We all are learning together and it’s been complicated because we have not gotten trained correctly but we’re all doing our best.

Recently we were all called into a meeting, told our jobs aren’t secure, that leadership is already planning on hiring the next team and that we’re all clowns. This happened after a situation that was out of our control (another branch screwed us over and we had to put out the fire) but of course we were blamed. This all came out of nowhere as well, he’s never spoken to us like this.

I’m at a loss of words. I’ve been here for a month but I don’t have any other opportunities due to low pay at other places. I’m miserable everyday and this just really put me down. I just don’t want to be scared about uncertainty as I just moved out and graduated from college. I’m genuinely scared.

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