Just need that out of my chest. I’ve been working as an manager for 4 years in a Forbes top 100 company and got fired on the 31st of December.
I was managing a team of 90 people in 4 countries, I speak 4 languages fluently, 7 languages if you count the one I need to think before I speak.
We went through covid, war in Ukraine and every time I was there, 24/7, no week-end, no holidays for 3 years, just some mornings here and there because I needed to sleep and there were no calls. My wife told me a million time I should just quit and I always answered it was not ethical to do that as the company was struggling.
I burnt out in October, found myself crying in front of my computer on a Thursday, considered just leaving a note saying I was leaving, basically “work-suiciding” myself.
I told my boss and she gave me 5 days to rest; she had to call a former employee for help during those days because she was struggling doing my job. When I came back she told everything went super smooth and she knows the job.
I November I wrote some employees of mine everything was ok but I was burning out and therefore had difficulty to be reachable 24/7, I was for example seeing a psychiatrist every Monday and Thursday from 6:30 to 8:00pm and they should write me sms during those time instead of calling me.
My bosse saw that message and decided to recruit someone to “help” me. I did the training of that guy and now I’m fired.
Fuck them: fuck them! I gave them my time, my fidelity, my mental health; they gave me a burn out and punished me for saying I wasn’t feeling good.
It was not a job it was a meat grinder.