I worked for this company for over 16 years. Unlike a lot of the senior managers in there, I worked myself up from the operational floor into being a team manager. I absolutely loved my job and gave a lot to the role, even sacrificed personal time and lost a lot of friends, as I wanted to succeed in work for the job I loved. But the managers obviously just saw me as a number as they just didn’t care. I was made redundant without having the choice, as was told my job could not be done from home, even tough most of my team were saved to work from home, with 1 of them not even having internet!!
I bent backwards for this company, 2 weeks prior to the lockdown I worked so hard and had so much stress to try and keep the floor going, but didn’t get any support from senior managers at all, I was even talked down to by the COO, not that I was getting paid for this, but a thank you goes a very long way. So then offered to work from home, even tough I could have gone on furlough. I even asked to work on a special project on a contract and bent backwards to work hard and get that team to be great, still no thank yous from anyone, but what do I get, to be booted out of a job I loved with all my heart. I knew my job inside out and knew a lot about the product, but none of that mattered, as a senior manager who doesn’t even know me after 2 years working there, couldn’t care less about ruining my life and taking the job I loved most.
The CEO only came to the office maybe once a year, and if the senior managers did come down, they stayed downstairs or if they were upstairs, didn’t even have the courtesy to come say hi. Working hard got me nowhere, if the face doesn’t fit, your not recognised at all. Others could do whatever they wanted without consequence, but if I did one thing wrong or made a mistake, that was held over me for a “long time.
Other managers were always right and they could do whatever they want, go home crying or complain and that was that, but if I did something, I got shunned
In 2 years, I think I got one thank you from my manager, they didn’t even try to really get to know me at all, but I learnt everything about my team, I could even tell if someone was sad or about to cry, that’s how well I knew my team.
So all in all, 16 years of my life wasted and I’ll never get that back. I’ve lost so much in that time, I hope they are all happy with the fact that they have ruined my life and this is nothing to do with corona virus, as this was personal and directed at me, as they could have easily saved my job, as I knew a lot about it.