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I Worked for Your Mom. Here Is What She Was Really Like
Do we ever know someone?
At home, she was the sweet and loving human who made you cookies and cleaned your shirts with a feel-good softener.
But at work, she was the ruthless evil we all dread.
I’m here to tell the truth about your mom.
My truth.
It will be different from yours, I recognize that. But you need to accept she might have shown different sides of her personality in a business context. Scary sides. The ones that got people crying during performance reviews and weekly team meetings.
Firing people was her catnip. She loved it. Couldn’t resist an opportunity. Directors from other divisions would often call her when they had a difficult case or didn’t have the balls to take responsibility. She would always accept and clean up their mess. She was fair to employees who deserved it and gave them a just severance.
But she was ruthless with cheaters and slackers, negotiating to the bone and leaving them with just $1 above the legal threshold financially, but with shattered egos emotionally. She would crush them and make them feel ashamed about their past corporate actions. It wouldn’t last more than thirty minutes, but they would feel the pain.
