Management is honestly so questionable. My manager was 100% absolutely not meant to be a manager! Just because someone is excelling at their job does not mean they’re cut out for managing people! He made me feel so so small on a daily basis, he was disgustingly old-school and would carry out pop-quizzes on me, on my knowledge and what I had learned without giving me ANY time to prepare. He would force these pop quizzes on me and put me on the spot in front of the whole office and embarrass me and make me feel like I wasn’t worthy enough to have the job. That is a bad manager. When I was so so ill and sick at Christmas he questioned it and essentially made me feel like I was a fraud. I was so anxious to check my phone because he was constantly at me, having originally asked me to still come into the office and work even though I was so unwell. I got a doctors note and he still somewhat badgered me. He was different with everyone else in the office, lively and jokey acting his young age and with me, he was a stone cold teacher from the 1960s. I wanted to be my bubbly self but I just couldn’t, especially not around him, and so I became more and more reclusive.
Managers also shouldn’t be cocky.. it just shouldn’t be a thing, point blank. He was extremely cocky and had such an ego, which was very hard to deal with. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to work in the Dublin office whilst he is still the manager and in control. Listen, just because someone is a good biller and earns a lot of money for the company, should not justify them leading a whole team. He honestly scarred me .. I was heartbroken and I still get upset today talking about my experience working there and how I was treated by him. The other guys in the office were so lovely and reached out to me and helped me a lot. They told me to not mind him, that he’s been like this before and to just keep my head down. But to be honest, I just couldn’t, I had to leave. He had broken me
