‘I can’t help but feel like it was personal, not professional’: Manager turns sick days into performance issues to justify firing employee during probation period

Nowhere does fiction blend with reality more seamlessly than in a manager's excuse for firing someone. It's like stumbling into a literary workshop where the homework assignment is to turn thin air into a compelling narrative of professional inadequacy.

Stepping into the twilight zone of workplace politics is a sure wild ride. It's a game where the rules are etched in invisible ink, a special kind that only reappears after you break one or all of them. But that's not the most magical part, which happens when managers transform no feedback into no job.

These bosses are reinventing "finders, keepers," where finding fault in you means they get to keep their job security.

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