• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I was asked by my boss to interview this person who he thought would be perfect in the open position I had. He thought the world of her. The interview was really good, I saw what he saw. She had said more than once that her team was like a family, which was odd but I didn’t know better yet.

    We walked back to her office and passed by her team. We stopped at her top performer and she highlighted how great they are and proud of treating everyone as family and the look on his face said it all. She’s so full of shit and the contempt he had for her was barely containable. And she didn’t even fucking notice!

    As someone who’s been in management for 3+ decades I can firmly tell you if your leader tells you that, RUN!

    Or get them fired. This job market is a bitch so quitting may not be the best option.

    Edit: I didn’t hire her. Less than a year later HR fired her after an investigation. I don’t know any of the details and wouldn’t share if I did. Dodged that bullet.

    I also told my boss what I saw and he commended me for my choice.

    Unrelated this boss (who I will think very highly of) was on vacation in Greece a few years later and was murdered in his hotel room. Still haunts me today.

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      3 days ago

      You can’t leave us hanging with that plot twist. What happened? Was it a random robbery? Foul play?

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        Oh sorry, it was foul play. Two men grabbed him off the street, forced him to take them to his hotel room. They killed him (maybe let him die of a heart attack from the stress of the moment) and took his stuff and left. Just a totally random thing. I’m told they were caught and found guilty of murder.

        I’m not exactly sure how he died, I heard conflicting answers from people closer to him than I was at the time. But to me he was murdered either way.