Basically the title, I work an office job and I am trying to go back to grad school to learn some hard skills and change career paths, when I originally took this job I told them that I intended to go to grad school in the future but would work this job until then and explore options that would let me attend school and work at the same time. They sounded supportive and even advertised their college fund program.
Well, about 10 months into my job, the applications are now opened and I asked my boss if I could go ahead and send over the reference portal for him to go in and send the recommendation materials to the school. He said no.
I asked him what did he mean “no” and he said that I didn’t want his recommendation. I explained that I didn’t just want it, that I actually needed it because the school prefers recommendations written by current professional supervisors. My boss said that he just didn’t know how to write them and I should ask someone else.
I have already been looking to leave this workplace for a myriad of reasons and this is the final straw and I will be upping my efforts tenfold. I cannot believe this. My boss already does basically nothing after outsourcing all of his job duties to me and one of his other employees and now he’s not even willing to submit a rec letter for my grad school application that he’s known about since the very first interview I had nearly 11 months ago?
Quiet quitting seems to be the new trending term but with work environments withholding support akin to quiet firing, how can people act surprised and blame the workers at this point?