At some point in my 2 years there, I got a new boss and she was toxic. I learned how NOT to treat other people. For the longest time, I wondered what I did to make her dislike and bully me so much. I never figured it out. All my other team members and project leads appreciated me, but my boss felt otherwise.
After a few months with her, I was terrified to say anything because I was afraid it would be misconstrued to something else. I remember during a 1:1, she told me I was terrible at my job and threatened to not promote me ever because I forgot to update a comma apostrophe to a straight apostrophe. And we had several meetings prior to our 1:1 talking about the same thing, wow! She made me feel so terrible after the 1:1, I was crying and I had a meeting afterwards. My coworker asked are you okay? I lied and said yeah, its "personal stuff", and she replied "good because you shouldn't cry because of work".
After she said that, I realized it was time to look for a new job. I was worried there weren't any opportunities during covid, but I looked and found a new one instantly. I'm so much happier. I have a love and hate relationship with Granicus. I still have friends at the firm, but my boss made it such a terrible place to work. But thats life. You live and you learn.
Last thing about my boss, when I had my last meeting with her. I said "it was great working with you or for you". She replied "well, you didnt work for me, you worked for the company". ........I smirked.
P.S. It wasnt just me that she was condescending too, she also treated a couple of my other female team members the same way. One of them got thrown under the bus by her and now shes looking elsewhere. Also, I know the male coworkers were never treated the same way we were.
