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Woman looking at marketing reports and making a phone call to senior executives.
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My old employer sent a glowing reference for me to a new company. They didn't know I had already sent HR a detailed account of why I was leaving.
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Marketing director making a presentation to senior executives about her team's work.
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Woman on the phone with a new company when they offer her the job.
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They were stoked to have a job offer from another company. Finally, they would have another opportunity in a new office where they might be considered an equal to the other senior marketers. With great experience behind them, writing and ideating some of the best ideas to come out of this marketing agency since the 90s, this hardworking marketer was setting themselves up for success.
But they couldn't help but think of the junior colleagues and interns they were leaving behind with the idea thief.
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Marketing team gathered around a work presentation before showing their boss.
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Think of the younglings!
Before bowing out and embarking on their own endeavors free of the credit-stealing weight of their old manager, this marketer wanted to inform HR of their transgressions. Systematically and in a detailed fashion, they created an account of all the times their boss stomped all over them, reminding HR that a manager is supposed to creatively help the team, not deter them.
This wasn't necessarily an act of revenge, because it came from a good place, but it played out in a way that they would never imagine. Let's just say, it's safe to assume that these interns and junior coworkers won't be getting their thunder stolen in front of senior executives anymore, and there would be no more “paying their dues” at this agency.
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Senior employees have been at it for a long time, so I sort of understand where this manager was coming from. Imagining that they were the ones who created an environment for greatness for their workers, they felt it was their prerogative to steal their intellectual property. Mind you, this was completely ill-placed logic and reflected poorly on their leadership skills and management capabilities as a whole.
Managers are supposed to lift up their team and bring out the best in everyone, creating a product for the company. At the end of the day, it's the creatives who are creating the shareholder value that's so elusive and precious to the higher-ups. Yet it seems the lowly workers and the ideators are the ones who get left in the dust on the shareholder meetings, despite their ideas being the fuel that churns the engines of the entire company.
Maybe someday the scales will be balanced in favor of the working man, but until then, employees need to know their worth, stand up for themselves in the workplace, and call out the managers willing to step on the backs of their workforce.
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