She Was the Top Performer During Her Workplace’s Busiest Season—So Why Was She Punished?

3 days ago by ZDL to c/womensstuff

Many workplaces don’t want a high performer — they just want another predictable cog in the machine.

Women know they have to work 2x as hard to get the same respect as men. But they can get backlash even then. One employee solved 2-3x more tickets than her coworkers during a busy season. Instead of praise, she got a warning that it cast a bad light on the rest of the team.

🤦‍♀️

Can't win for losing.

Taleya 51 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of my ol' days working for telstra.

My calls were consistently under the target time. TL had a huge issue with this. Crawled over all my calls sideways, they were flawless, everything done perfectly, extremely happy customers - i'm just fast and good at this shit.

He wanted me to put customers on hold and essentially put a thumb up my arse to pad out my call time. I pointed out my faster call time meant slower workers weren't being harried when the teams call time was averaged and made us look good overall. I also pointed out the goal time was meant to prevent blowout, not something to waste customers time on. He did not like that.

He was a very very stupid man.

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ZDL 26 points 3 days ago

Those who can, do. Those who can't are managers.

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Taleya 18 points 3 days ago

Hey, i eventually became a manager, and a damned good one at that. Mostly because i made sure i stayed in the trenches, not up my own arse.

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ZDL 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I know. #NotAllManagers. 😝

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Taleya 4 points 2 days ago

Bwahahha

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Grimy 11 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised if upper management was telling them to pad it out because longer calls meant more people gave up.

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Taleya 4 points 2 days ago

Nah, at the time i was doing Active8 - setting up the exchange work / booking ADSL and cable internet installations. They wanted these. Which just makes it more insane he was complaining i was creating new accounts too fast

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LadyButterfly 24 points 3 days ago

People often don't like seeing women do well... and that's not just men doing that. It's shit

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dangling_cat 22 points 2 days ago

I’ve learned the extra work doesn’t give me a bonus or promotion, so I work bare minimum just like everybody else.

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velma 17 points 2 days ago

I chuckled when the term "Quiet Quitting" was coined. Been doing that my entire life thanks.

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Taleya 7 points 2 days ago

"Acting your wage" was a helluva comeback though

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