‘The very next day, I wrote my resignation letter’: Boss targets introvert employee, denies raises, and sets impossible deadlines, forcing her to quit

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Mar 8, 2025 9:00 AM EST

Welcome to the workplace ring, where every day feels like a chaotic WWE Royal Rumble. In one corner, you've got Team Extroverts, charging in like wrestlers hyping up the crowd, shouting, "Let's brainstorm!" with the same energy as The Rock asking if you can smell what he's cooking. In the other corner it's Team Introverts, quietly waiting in the shadows, avoiding small talk like they're dodging a flying chair. And then there's the real heel of the match: Team Management, strutting down the ramp like Vince McMahon, convinced the entire office exists solely to fuel their ego-fueled storyline.  

Extroverts jump into every meeting like it's a cage match, throwing out ideas left and right, while introverts wish they could be a little bit more like John Cena. "You can't see me" and all. And just when it seems like the match is under control, in comes a manager to drop a metaphorical elbow on everyone's sanity.

For one introvert wrestling such an impossible situation, this isn't just a tag team match gone wrong, it's a straight-up career-ending storyline.

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  •  Branded “the silent one” early on, they endure micromanagement, impossible deadlines, and the managerial equivalent of a piledriver to their career: blocked promotions and raises.  

  • "My manager is mentally targeting me. I can't handle it anymore!"

    "I feel mentally shattered. I've lost everything. He never acknowledged my hard work"
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  • My manager really hates me. I'm an introvert who unexpectedly ended up in the corporate world From the very first day, he started noticing me even though he wasn't my manager back then.
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  • Being naturally shy and introverted, I find it difficult to initiate conversations with people I don't know, but I'm not rode. I smile and say hi when necessary. Despite that, he immediately assumed I wasn't social enough.
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  • He kept calling me “silent girl” in the office, which made me even more uncomfortable—yet I never said anything.
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  • Once, during a meeting, I was sitting in front of him, and he kept observing me the entire time. After the meeting, he approached me and said I hadn't
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  • written the minutes of the meeting. When I showed him that I had noted everything in a word document, he still insisted that I rewrite it in a notebook
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  • A few years later, he transferred me to his team, which felt like a trap just so he could make things even harder for me. He set unrealistic deadlines and constantly micromanaged me.
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  • The pressure was overwhelming, both mentally and physically, and I often had to take sick leaves. At one point, he even questioned why I was taking so many sick
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  • leaves, which triggered me deeply. I was already at a very low point, and I had only taken leaves from my allotted quota, with no pending work from my side. That moment made me lose my cool -I realized this job was taking a serious toll on my mental health.
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  • The very next day, I wrote my resignation letter. When he saw it, he asked me to stay, but I refused. Then, our VP called me and asked for the reason behind my resignation. I told her
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  • everything-the mental torture he had put me through. She asked me to reconsider. Since I didn't have another job lined up and had resigned in the heat of
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  • the moment, I ultimately decided to stay(biggest mistake ever). But deep down, I knew this job would continue to affect my mental health-I just had no other choice.
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  • This year, he blocked my promotion and gave me such a small raise that it doesn't even cover inflation. I know he's doing this deliberately to take revenge on me. I had a genuine health
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  • issue and requested remote work, but he denied it. Instead, he's forcing me to take leaves, but I can't afford to take so many because it would impact my
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  • work. He has shown no human consideration and is now harassing me further—he even asked me to complete all my work this weekend when the actual due date is April 31.
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  • I feel mentally shattered. I've lost everything. He never acknowledged my hard work, never gave me a proper raise, and is now making things even worse by refusing remote work despite my health condition. This is nothing but targeted harassment.
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  • Shadow_84 Don't bend to his pressure. If the due date is April 31, that's when it'll be done by. A few days early if you want to be secure. No working on it outside of office hours.
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  • I'm surprised you didn't get and modifications when you agreed to stay. No more working under him, possibility of wfh, answering to VP? Might be a good idea to go over his head with your concerns and quit if they aren't willing to do anything about it.
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  • nappa23 It's time to look for an exit. This is the type of dude from h❘ that would never change. Work isn't worth destroying your mental/emotional health. If you endure it long enough,
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  • those scars will only deepen and make it harder to heal. Look into other jobs, freelancing, YT, try to monetize some existing skill you have, but I wouldn't think of staying any longer.
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  • Senior-Senior It's not because he is your manager, it's because he is an extrovert. Extroverts don't understand introverts. They think YOU are being deliberately r de because you are quiet. They take it as an insult that you don't want to interact with them.
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  • They actually think they are doing you a favor by trying to get you to "open up". Unfortunately, their methods often involve bu ying and ridicule.
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  • KindlyAnything3000 That's really messed up, leave as soon as you find something else, but I would try going back to the higher boss again, even if she seems on his side. I'm sorry you're in this situation, hang in there
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