I had been working with the same team for almost three years now. We had a really good working relationship with each other and we were all quite happy with our job.
My manager wanted to score ‘brownie points’ with the boss, made us do much more than our expected workload
But lately, my manager had been trying to get into the boss’ good books by making us do more work than what was expected.
As time went on, it became clear that our manager was only trying to show the boss that he was good at managing people and making us work harder than we should.
This meant that our workloads kept getting bigger and bigger, and none of us were willing to do more because we already had a lot on our plates.
At this point, I was starting to get really frustrated and angry. I had been working hard all these years and now my manager was trying to take credit for my work by making us do extra tasks.
I decided to speak to my manager about the issue and asked him to stop pushing us with more work.
Unfortunately, he didn’t seem to understand my point and only kept insisting that we had to do more to impress the boss.
Eventually, I had to take a stand and tell him that none of us were willing to do more work. He got really angry and scolded us for not doing our job properly.
But I was not going to give up and told him that we were already working hard and that we could not handle the extra workloads.
Threatened to give us the sack if we do not comply with his instructions
Unfortunately, this didn’t go down well with my manager and he decided to take matters into his own hands. He started to threaten us with dismissal if we didn’t agree to do more work.
This put us in a difficult situation as none of us wanted to lose our jobs.
In the end, we all had to agree to do the extra work, even though it was already too much for us. But it was clear that none of us was happy with the situation.
We all felt like our manager was taking advantage of us and trying to show the boss that he was good at managing people.
It was a really bad ending to the situation and none of us felt great about it.
We all knew that our manager was only trying to make a good impression, but it came at the cost of our own happiness and well-being.