This shouldn’t be something to feel good about but it makes me happy.
My engineering manager from about 21 years ago made me work my a-s off with the promise is a promotion and then he told me I didn’t have what it takes. Anyway I left and got promoted a few times at the new company. This man was a total sc-m in every aspect of his dealings with employees.
Anyway, once a month I would transport food stuff for the food pantry and I saw this guy at the counter.
He got laid off in 2015 and never found another white job. He got divorced a few years ago and lost everything.
I should feel sorry for him but I don’t. This man never learned that his few years at a corporate job wouldn’t last forever.
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I'm going to go against the grain with the majority here, and say there's nothing wrong with being happy at some horrible persons miss-fortune.
I'm still a little happy because Rush Limbaugh is off the planet. Schadenfreude can be healthy if it isn't an obsession. A little bit sometimes goes a long way.
As long as you're concentrating on the justice or irony, and not enjoying someone elses undeserved pain, it's perfectly fine to feel a bit good at someone elses comeuppance.
Many motherf----rs, mentally I’ll managers like the flying pig banzl and the fu--ing illegal immigrant with cop brothers pulloa. Yup, cisco is a piece of sh-t of a company.
@jv
Agreed. I had a neighbor who worked at a clothing retail store in the 90s. Constantly was getting put down by his manager.
I stopped seeing him for a few weeks and his parents were evasive when I asked about him. Six months later he was back and like 75lbs overweight with a swollen look. The dude had a mental breakdown and was in some hospital type institution for months. He’s in his early 50s now and NEVER RECOVERED. He is living at home with his aging parents.
I understand OP's resentment towards his/her ex manager. Many Cisco managers are mentally ill and so abusive that you feel the scars for the rest of your life. So at least allow Ops to have a little happiness seeing his/her ex manager's misery.
I had a sick abusive manager too. After every one-on-one I was so down and demotivated and needed the rest of the day to recover. I am glad I was laid off and am no longer going through the abuse by a sick manager.
I feel for OP. Many of us working tireless in Cisco were underpaid for years in Cisco. RSUs were stolen from us and managers/directors kept a bulk of them for themselves and cut many of us from RSUs.
The ones who were “me me me”, not doing the actual work but making presentations, were promoted.
Many of us left and then the whole team was laid off due to big cuts in San Jose during and after Covid.
I don’t have any sympathy for those mafia managers. 70% of managers in Cisco are of this category. 30% are fair. Trust me !
This is not just at Cisco, it is at every company in Bay Area !!
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Read up on some ethnic conflicts and genocides. People hold on to perceived past harm for centuries.
OP: move on. 21 yrs is a long time to hold grudges. if you're still bitter after all that time, you've a serious mental issue.
We actually don’t know what his manager was like
Hat is not good for health, watch out for karma
You’re becoming just like him, mate. He may be wrong, but you’ve held onto that grudge too long — you’re both alike.
@ep
It is possible that op forgot about the whole thing and moved on until the run in with manager.
I want to agree with most here that she should move on and I do think she should move on.
But I also agree op has a right to vent and feel how she feels.
I would stay neutral and not vote up or down.
I don’t know about you, but 21 years later I will have completely forgotten my then manager. Anger is a useful emotion to have after say a year or three following a perceived slight but I can’t bring myself to carrying it so far forward in time.
Two, any large company of Cisco’s size will have some politics. Just like in politics, there will be winners and losers. If I know I was a loser, I cut my ties and move on. Staying upset for 20 years only affects my blood pressure and does nothing to the target of your ire.
@bg it’s ridiculous how people are bashing the OP.
Working two years towards a job only to be deceived is cruel. I fully understand what he or she is saying.
Get help, please.
I support this and support you. These cuckholds above are naive and very id--tic. Your manager lost zero sleep when you were cut and were scrambling. Now they are scrambling to feed themselves deservedly so. Enjoy it!
You are worse than the bottom of the outdoor toilet of a russian detention camp, my friend.
You never moved on and all the above are clear signs of mental derangement, seek help. You must have an issue to follow the life of someone who wronged you 21y ago
What I would rather say is that it is all a fabrication in which case, again, you need help
Guy might have been an ahole but you should never celebrate someone else's misfortune