When we first moved to where we are now escaping from, I immediately gained a job at a well-respected bank and was eager to work up the ranks and contribute my business skills and sensibilities.
I had gained this position just in time to prove to the embassy reviewing my fiance’s K-1 visa that I was a competent income earner by “normal standards,” and I had at last acquired for our future “stable” housing.
(In this economy back in 2018, neither tasks were easy!)
When I was admitted behind the scenes for group training, managers began indoctrinating us in usual pedanticly-rote educating.
They had us play “social morale building” games with the rest of the extensive staff, and advancement tests incorporated poster creation with on-the-fly hastily sketched artwork for slogan reframing.
We were challenged to learn specific detailed account management knowledge and program navigation techniques quickly under time pressure, and I leaned into the tasks, determined to prove my capabilites.
But then, two things happened that ruined the job for me.
The team trainer began accessing clients’ accounts and speaking derisively and snidely about how clients managed (or didn’t manage) their spending. Then, he implied it was allowed for us to look at accounts and spread bad jokes “in the name of learning.”
Topping this, he put the least mature “child” who often disrupted group cohesiveness to gain attention (and was also from the military) in charge of our group, allowing her to dominate and lord power over us.
I guess he did this instead of firing her so he could get his bonus for meeting the hiree retention quota, and to test the rest of us for our willingness to take orders and follow chain-of-command hierarchy.
However, a thing about me is that I have endured enough bad leadership. I will no longer be the brunt of immature jokes, nor be a part of a system that rewards and elevates bad behaviors.
And, I will certainly not support any group or organization that externally gives good lip service, but behind closed doors (and with utmost disrespect encouraged) disparages clients while trampling their account privacy.
I refused to be complicit in this mainstream, entitled debauchery, and promptly disentangled myself from the position.
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