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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/CarneyVorous on 2025-12-12 17:24:10+00:00.
I have a new boss who openly claims he's not impressed with anyone on the team and doesn't respect a single one of us. He wants to buy an unreasonable amount of new licenses for a tool that the current licensees don't even use.
The vendor emailed a quote this week, and as expected it was exorbitant. He fired back calling them ridiculous and demanding the price be cut in half. In the "spirit of partnership" with the vendor, he offered ME to fly across the planet and deliver a keynote speech at their client event.
Didn't ask me. Didn't consider that I don't do speaking engagements (and I never will). Just offered me and my time against my will. He then went on to BRAG about it in his next meeting, which I wasn't even part of. My colleagues came out of the meeting asking me about my speaking engagement and my boss still hadn't even talked with me about it.
I'm in such disbelief. Maybe I'm overreacting a little, but it felt dehumanizing to be used as a bargaining chip without my knowledge. Not to mention I'm a woman and he'd be sending me, alone, to a very misogynistic country.
I'm a person with a life. He may not have any respect for any of our work, but I deserve respect as a person.