Employee demands public apology from boss after being accused of a mistake he didn't make: 'If you shame me publicly, you must apologize publicly'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 30, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

The hallmark of a good or bad manager rests on how they deliver feedback. Some managers do their due diligence before assuming that an employee has made a mistake. Others, however, like to jump to conclusions. 

This manager accused an employee of almost ruining a client relationship by not following a new protocol that was enforced well after the employee's communication with said client. In other words, the employee was not at fault here at all, yet this boss decided it was a good opportunity to publicly shame him for his mistake on an email chain with all of senior management.

Now, the Redditor was diligent enough to know that it was not his error and even tried to point that out to his manager on multiple occasions, to no avail. Now, he is demanding an apology so that other senior members of the company know he is good at his job. Keep scrolling below for the fallout. For more, check out this post about a Karen customer who tried to score a free meal.

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    MInbo "I didn't do ← → = + anything wrong" Inbox Starred Snoozed Sent
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    My Department Head publicly called me out for doing my job wrong....I didn't. He did.
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    As the title says. I actually really like my job. I also like my company. For the most part, I have fantastic bosses. A couple of weeks back, my Department Head
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    publicly called me out on a near company wide email. He cc'd everyone important and said I did my job wrong. Implying that my subpar quality of work will cause us to lose an important client.
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    Here's the thing, I didn't! I did my job exactly right and he was calling me out for not following a policy that wasn't even changed until 2 weeks AFTER I completed
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    the job. If he did more than a cursory look into it, he would have saw I went over everything with the customer and they signed off on it!
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    My immediate supervisors had my back and spoke with him privately. They messaged me within the hour saying they were handling it. Apparently, the situation has been dealt with. My immediate supervisors apologized for it and said I didn't do anything wrong.
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    I'm still mad. I take pride in my work. I always put my best foot forward. I believe I have a great work ethic. If there's one insult that never fails to get under my skin,
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    it's being called incompetent at my job. Especially when I know I do quality work. My work has been praised multiple times
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    by customers and those within my company. I've been told it is often used as an example as the standard of what should be done for my Team.
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    The last thing all those VPS saw and/or their impression of me, is that I am incompetent at my job. It bothered me so much that I finally shot my Department Head an email, asking him to address in the email chain where he called me out, that I did not do my job wrong.
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    Silence. It's been a couple of weeks and he hasn't apologized. Not that I would accept a private apology. If you shame me publicly, you must apologize publicly.
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    I know my quality of work speaks for itself. I know my supervisors have my back. I know I did nothing wrong. But man, I am bitter.
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    Fully willing to shame me publicly under the impression that I did my job wrong. Now that it's clear that he was the one who did his job wrong, he wants to bury it.
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    El_Cartografo · 1 day ago Ask him if he's going to publicly apologize after publicly shaming you falsely.
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    Baba_is_Yew. 1 day ago Demand a public apology or a correction at the minimum. Reply all to the previous email correcting the record ... from Department Head.
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