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I am the person who kept having to watch over their manager’s kid during my shift (from this post). I appreciate everyone’s input, and I wanted to thank you for your advice. When I said I was “in my 20s,” I meant very early 20s. I’d had only one job before this one, and it was arguably even more dysfunctional, so all the feedback really opened my eyes. Even with the limited information I gave, it was so obvious to others that I needed to quit, but doing so felt like a death sentence to me.
I want to say that I have never gotten any inkling that “Ripley” was in danger. I know some people were worried about that. I kept a close eye out for concerning comments/behavior, but there was nothing that alarmed me. I just think the kid was bright but woefully understimulated and didn’t know how to get the attention they needed. I did start taking a firmer approach to their behavior, though it didn’t change much. I also took a stab at your advice on broaching the subject with my manager. I was met with a serious hostility, and then she started cutting my hours. I don’t envy her position, and I understand why it was easiest for her to lash out at me, but I was still pretty angry.
I spent a few months applying for jobs and ended up getting a new job in a completely different field. The hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, and I really like it anyway. I think this is what I’m meant to be doing. I’m planning on going back to school so that I can progress in this field. I really feel like I have direction for the first time in my adult career!
Last I heard, my former boss abruptly quit and sent a cryptic apology before removing herself from the group chat. My 18-year-old former coworker took on her position.
Today is my last day with my current agency. I work in government, and am switching to a different agency as of next week. I’ve had a new supervisor since late October, who is very sweet and tried to do what she could to help, but the fact is that my team is so dysfunctional that she and I both think my leaving is the best option for me, and she’s very happy for me. I’m working with her before I leave to try to write up what my job description really should be so she can work on that for hiring my replacement so the same problems don’t happen again, and I know she plans to have a serious talk with the rest of the team about how to treat team members moving forward and she does not intend to have the same problem again. I’ll still work with them a little bit as our agencies collaborate from time to time, but that’s totally fine with me!
I’ve worked with most of the people on my new team in some capacity and every single one has been very nice and given only good vibes. They all seem excited for me to come join! I’ve also only heard good things through the government rumor mill about this team, which is awesome. And I get my own office! For the first time!
I’m close friends with the people I was going to talk to, but I so rarely go down to their office anymore, even when I’m nearby collaborating with other teams. I’m only moving down the street from the building I’m in now, so we still plan to get lunch :) the problem was really my team and my stroooooong desire to stay far away from them (I share a small office with the worst offender).
I’ve already had my exit interview, which was extremely satisfying. The person who does it is the head of a team I’ve worked with a ton, so he knows me well and is sad to see me go, especially as he now got to hear all the details of why. He said I’ve been set up to fail here since day 1, and he’s very sorry that that had happened, and he wished he could have done more (he personally couldn’t have). I’ve come to realize that for most of my tenure here, I had a really terrible manager in addition to a bullying team. It was hard to see because my manager was so nice, but really, we had so many talks about what was happening and absolutely nothing was done. I never even got a job description after specifically asking for one, and telling him I was doing nothing pretty much all day. So I’m trying to make sure I keep an eye out for those signs moving forward as well!
I appreciated your advice and the input from your readers. Going through the comments made me realize how frustrated I really was. I decided not to lay any of this out for my boss and instead made a general comment after returning from vacation that the break had been good timing since I’d been feeling burnt out lately. Imagine my surprise a few days later when in a department-wide meeting my boss made a joke about how burnt out I was!
This helped me realize that my boss was probably not the person that I should turn to with doubts about the company, my career, or my specific role. That combined with some of the feedback from your post made me take a long, hard look at what I really wanted to do next. I think I’d been assuming that my career trajectory had only one path to one type of success and I was kind of freaking out about why that wasn’t making me happy. I’ve since started a new, lower-level role at another company — no reports and focusing on my favorite part of my old job. The pay is less, but the annual salary is nothing to complain about and I now work 100% remotely.
I did realize that my boss had no idea how unhappy I was. I think I had mentally checked out long before I wrote my letter. I’m glad I didn’t get into this topic with my boss because I truly couldn’t have imagined myself staying. Now, I’m hoping that I’ve found a place I can stay for the long haul, and that I’ll be more comfortable advocating for myself in this environment.
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.
A reader writes:
A few weeks ago, my boss mentioned that she’d been hearing rumors about herself and said if I was the one spreading them, I could just come to her and talk to her. I assured her that I’m not spreading rumors about her or gossiping about her. Because I’m not.
Earlier this week, she accused me of frequently sharing looks with another coworker in our team meeting and asked if we were mocking her or had some sort of hidden animosity towards her. This person and I often sit across from each other (for some reason we all always sit in the same places for our team meeting). I admitted maybe I looked at this coworker because of where we sit, but I promised that there’s nothing like mocking or inside jokes or anything like that going on. Because there isn’t! I don’t think my boss believed me.
I don’t know how to handle this. Selfishly, I’m concerned that my boss’s insecurity is creating some sort of narrative about me in her head and that this is going to affect my career and/or my standing at the company. She mentioned the rumors right after telling me that she’s not putting me forward for a promotion this year. I’m also just worried about her. I’ve only recently been reorganized under her, so I don’t know if this level of insecurity is normal or in reaction to something else.
Before you ask — no, she’s not a new leader. She’s part of the senior leadership in a company that has more than 1,000 employees. Any ideas?
Oh noooo, that’s not good.
Mentioning that she suspected you of spreading rumors about her right after telling you she wasn’t recommending you for a promotion sure as hell sounds like those two things are connected. Maybe only unconsciously for her, or maybe explicitly. Either way, it’s not good.
Honestly, I’d try to get out of there as quickly as you can. Can you transfer internally? Or, any chance you were thinking about looking around outside your company sometime soon anyway? If so, this is the time to do it. If not, this may still be the time to do it.
Working under a manager who’s not only insecure but who’s apparently convinced that you personally have set yourself up in opposition to her — and that you’re mocking her and possibly spreading rumors about her! — will harm you professionally. There’s no way around that. You need a manager who trusts you, feels reasonably positively toward you, and is willing to champion you and your work. You have the opposite of that. (Also, what are the rumors that she thinks you might be spreading?! Please find out!)
To do damage control for whatever amount of time you’re stuck staying, you could try going out of your way to cater to your boss’s very fragile ego: make a point of being warm and friendly to her, and really try to make it hard for her to see you as anything but an ally. Switch up where you sit at team meetings so you’re not always across from the coworker who she thinks you’re mocking her with (which is silly to have to do, but might be worthwhile anyway). You could even go back to her and say, “I thought about our conversation, and I’m really taken aback that you’d think that about me. I want to make sure you know that I have nothing but respect and good will toward you, and if there’s anything I’ve done that’s given you a different impression, I’d want to remedy it.”
If you have really good HR, maybe you could talk to them about what your boss has said and ask for their help navigating it. They should be alarmed to have a manager making such odd accusations to team members … but whether or not they’ll intervene in an effective way is very much a crapshoot. It wouldn’t hurt to try if they’re generally trustworthy, though.
But longer term, this sounds like someone with a very shaky sense of self and an inclination to believe others are out to get her — and who has already put you in the “possible adversary” camp. This is bad, and it’s not something you can fix on your own. I would get out.
MANHATTAN, NY – With Donald Trump becoming the first president in United States history to be found guilty of criminal charges, observers note that this felony conviction is also the first instance of Trump earning anything in his entire life. “In all senses of the word, this is unprecedented,” explained Sherman Werner, a leading presidential […]
NEW YORK CITY, NY – Former US President Donald Trump has won 100% of the vote in his hush money trial as a jury reached the unanimous verdict of guilty on all 34 charges. Trump has been convicted of falsifying records of payments to hide sexual activity that could potentially be damaging to his electoral […]
A new Louisiana law will criminalize going within 25 feet of any police officer “engaged in law enforcement duties” if an order is issued to stand back, with opponents of the law saying that the measure will hinder the public’s ability to record officers’ actions and hold them accountable. What do you think?
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It should not be controversial to state that, as it stands today, YouTube’s ContentID platform for policing copyright on YouTube videos is hopelessly broken. The system is wide open to abuse from bad actors who might lay claim to content that simply isn’t theirs, sometimes to the tune of raking in millions of dollars. ContentID is also abused by some in law enforcement to prevent recordings of police from showing up on YouTube. And then of course there are all the times that ContentID simply flags content that it shouldn’t, such as the sound of a cat purring or plain white noise.
And so it isn’t much of a surprise that these issues keep popping up. YouTuber Albino took to social media to complain about how he received a copyright strike for a let’s play video because, well, a home appliance made a noise.
On May 27, 2024, Norwegian YouTuber ‘Albino’ revealed that one of his six-hour playthroughs of Fallout: New Vegas had been given a strike due to supposedly including the song ‘Done’ by music artist Aduego.
However, this track was never actually in Albino’s video. Instead, the audio that plays at that particular point in his playthrough was the jingle from a Samsung washing machine, which plays when a wash cycle is complete.
Sadly, it’s even dumber than that. Apparently this recording by this particular “artist” isn’t a song at all, but just an upload of that same washing machine jingle that’s been on YouTube for nearly a decade. So, some rando records his washing machine jingle, uploads it to YouTube, then registers it with ContentID, and goes around demonetizing other YouTube videos where the jingle plays. And, because of how ContentID is policed — or not —, none of this is caught by anyone at all.
Albino also pointed out the myriad of comments criticizing Aduego underneath his video, with one viewer writing: “Did you record the Samsung washer, then upload it to YouTube with a content ID?” At the time of writing, it appears that Adeugo’s video has been either privated or removed from YouTube.
“This is the most egregious example of the MANY outright fraudulent content ID claims I’ve gotten over the years,” he wrote. “Are you guys doing anything to prevent this? It’s completely out of hand.”
YouTube’s response was of standard fare. It indicated that Albino could dispute the strike and then Adeugo would have 30 days to respond. This of course would open Albino’s channel to the risk of being bounced off the platform completely. Whatever this is, it is obviously not good and sound enforcement of valid copyrights.
But we’ve had a million of these posts on the site over the years and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. At some point, YouTube is going to have to come to terms that its Content ID system is broken and come up with something better. If all of this can occur because of a washing machine, after all, there’s no hope for far more nuanced copyright claims and issues.
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