👀 What's the pettiest thing a manager has ever done to you or someone you know?

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During Covid when it first began in March, on March 20th, the day the stay at home order was issued, only myself and one of the partners was coming into the office. Everyone else was working remotely, and they kept giving me things to have the partner sign because I was the only one physically there. Now, he was never a job to approach at the best of times, he was the kind of attorney that treated the paralegals like they were literally a lesser species of human being. So finally I went in to get stuff signed and he said I was standing too close to him and he didn’t want me breathing on him. So he pointed to a spot several feet away and said “go stand there.” So I stood there. Then he said “on second thought, that’s still too close, stand there.” Pointing to another spot. So I stood there. The third time he started about it will being too close I said “bring it out to me when you’re ready,” and slammed the door, thinking I don’t care if I get fired, he’s treating me like cold crap.

The entire pandemic he treated me like I was Typhoid Mary about to infect him and kill him and his family then three weeks before the pandemic ended he wen to Disney World on a plane with said family. Came back to the office, came down with Covid the next day, and I came down with it a few days later-having managed to not catch it for three years. So he ended up being the one to give it to me.

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First partner - type that wanted to “look good” by being in weekends even if no deadlines. Showed up at noon one Saturday she walked by and said oh so you decided to come in (again no deadline). Competitor was in process of poaching that was final straw

Told me on October 30th that I had to use up 10 days of PTO before the end of the year, but I wasn’t allowed to take off the first or last week of the month (company policy to support other departments), my staff had already reserved holiday time off (third week of Nov/Dec) and the second week of the month was when we had our busy time. Then got chided for being behind on work.

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