Anecdotes about
situations in the workplace
, told in the first person,
are commonplace on the networks
and usually
capture the attention of users
.
A worker
caused empathy among thousands of people
after speaking out about
a former boss' degrading comment towards her
.
The author of this story is called
Kendall
, she is from
the United States
and in her public profiles she presents herself as a career counselor.
On January 21, the young woman
joined a TikTok trend
that another woman had started.
"
What was the most toxic thing that a boss in your company ever said
?" this woman asked the rest of the Internet users.
Following the slogan in question, Kendall
took advantage of it to reveal what happened to her a few years ago
.
Some time ago, as she explained through a video,
she worked as an employee of a local company
.
Once, around that time,
her bosses asked her to prepare a monthly financial report
with the idea of knowing the economic status of the company.
"
It was a very complex report
. I was the only person in the company who did it," Kendall said in this regard.
Every month, the young
woman gave the financial report to the company's board of directors
.
Story.
The young woman assured that she had a bad time.
Photo: capture/@thatcareercoach.
One day, during one of the many presentations of the report, she suffered a bad moment.
"On this occasion,
it was the first time that she showed the financial report to the new chief financial officer
, who had recently been hired by the company," she warned.
The boss's reprehensible sayings
As the board of directors sat at a table in the office, Kendall walked over and handed
the monthly report to the new chief financial officer
.
Immediately,
this man denigrated her
.
"He told me verbatim: '
You are more suited to dancing on the table than to sitting in front of it
. (...)
It was the most hurtful thing they said to me in my entire working career
," the young woman recalled in relation to the reprehensible comment. .
Kendall, according to his words, did not know how to react to this unexpected grievance.
"
I stared at him for a few moments
and then continued showing the report. Now, thinking about it,
I could have responded to him in many ways
. I was 20-something years old and had just graduated from university," he said.
United States.
His anecdote went viral.
Photo: capture/@thatcareercoach.
After the meeting ended, Kendall returned to her work desk, where the head of human resources and the head of another area were waiting for her: both, who had apparently heard what the head of finance said,
offered her their support
.
The company's decision
Kendall said that
two weeks later
, the chief financial officer was fired from the company.
"15 days after that episode,
the man was fired
. I never filed a formal complaint with human resources about what happened, although they still took care of the issue," said the young woman.
The American woman's anecdote captured the interest of more than 160 thousand users.
"
I'm sorry you had to go through that horrible moment
," said one Internet user.
Along the same lines, another said: "
I can't believe it
, they should have fired him at that exact moment."