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Just laid off from a job I moved country for, so fucking angry

I was offered this job in November, after 12(!) hrs of interviews. They want me to move from UK to EU and will cover relocation costs, so I uproot everything. The colleague I’m assigned to work with is a massive control freak, micro manages everything I do. She would swing from chastising me for not taking initiative to pick things up myself, to chastising me for taking the wrong things or doing them in the wrong way. She would ask me to perform a task, then get angry because actually she meant it to be another task and I hadn’t figured that out. We were on the same level, our shared manager was so reassuring to me that everything was good and we could work out any starting pains. Ha. No. They called me into a zoom today to let me know I had failed my probation and gave me…


I was offered this job in November, after 12(!) hrs of interviews. They want me to move from UK to EU and will cover relocation costs, so I uproot everything.

The colleague I’m assigned to work with is a massive control freak, micro manages everything I do. She would swing from chastising me for not taking initiative to pick things up myself, to chastising me for taking the wrong things or doing them in the wrong way.

She would ask me to perform a task, then get angry because actually she meant it to be another task and I hadn’t figured that out.

We were on the same level, our shared manager was so reassuring to me that everything was good and we could work out any starting pains.

Ha. No.
They called me into a zoom today to let me know I had failed my probation and gave me 2 weeks notice.

So here I am, moved country for these pieces of crap and now don’t get my relocation costs reimbursed. I’m tired, angry, out a lot of money and just feel pretty defeated. It boggles the mind that peoples whole lives can be toyed with like it’s nothing.

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