Boss threatens to fire me if I don’t smile
I 26F work in a company, my job is all the behind the scenes work, so I never deal with customers or even have to go to events.
Because my job requires me to think a lot, my concentration face looks kinda like this emoji 😐 and this emoji 🤔 mixed together.
I have a highly stressful job. Anyway, he told me he would fire me if I don’t smile while I’m doing my job. The ironic thing is, I do my job the best and get praised by the vice, who said they’ll not let me get fired.
However, I decided I’ll find another job. But my co-workers are begging me to stay. Even one said that if I leave, they’ll leave too. But why do I need to smile ???
Netizens’ comments
- Does he have male subordinates?
Just ask him how many of them he asks to smile.- (OP) Our company is mostly males. But I realise I’m the only female he ask to smile (that I’m aware of)
- can you do the creepiest, lifeless serial killer smile?
- If you do get a new job, when letting him know you’ll be quitting, also inform him he’s a pig and he should F off. And be sure to ….Smile while doing it.
- Ask him – in an email – to clarify that comment – in writing – so that you understand exactly what his expectation is and why it’s related to your job.
- Ugh, I could have written this exact thing when I was 26! Except that it was a woman boss who complained that I had “a face on.” I was busy! And concentrating!
- If you’re sociable, you’re too social. If you concentrate on your work – because that’s what you’re there to do – they complain that you’re antisocial. It’s a bullshit game of petty, unhappy ppl that want to drag you down. Those ppl SUCK.