Without being too outing I am in a support function similar to Compliance in a financial services company and my Boss is not British so I don't know if the culture difference plays a role but he often talks flippantly of people being 'fired' in this or that department when I know at least a few of them left to join elsewhere for a better pay and better work culture
Anyway, at a team meeting today, he spent TWO HOURS (ran over into lunch time and beyond and my blood sugar had plummeted) telling us how easily we could be fired (about ten people in the team/meeting) for the 'low quality reports' we produced and how he was sick of it.
The only concrete e.g. he could give re the reports was a name or two wrong in the 'to send to' list - that still didn't make it clear to us why he takes weeks sometimes months to review and finalize these reports.
I was biting my cheek to stay wordless and calm - the others on the team mostly men were so calm I wondered if they were watching anime on another screen or just asleep with eyes open. Wish I could have done the same
Had some sort of meltdown where I went into a fugue state I reckon and saying it was really stressful to all of us when he bantered casually about us being fired or threw the word around flippantly for TWO HOURS. Surely a person who is being 'fired' in Corporate Britain at least from what I have seen, is dismissed in private and with dignity ? We are educated professionals not schoolkids.... I think I said as much and more
Waiting in state of high anxiety now for some sort of axe to fall. WWYD? start looking for another Job? Damn me and my big mouth