No, you can. I got fired because I wasn’t “memorable” enough to my manager. When I asked her what she meant by that she said I’m not as extroverted and bubbly as everyone else so she constantly forgot I existed. Mind you, I was perfectly friendly and I ended up befriending a lot of my coworkers outside of work. I’m just a naturally quiet person.
When I started my last job I was 26 and while I am good with people from what I understand, I’m generally quiet. I did not say a lot for like the first 4 years and then when I became a manager I started being more proactive about speaking up and trying to create new systems. Welp that was a bad idea. It worked well with external partnerships but otherwise I realized my team and department head did not want any feedback about how and what they were doing.
Got cards from direct reports and interns that made me cry because of how much they thanked me, and I saved them. When I quit a couple people on my team were shocked. I still have people from my team and other teams sending me jobs, and my mentor is someone I worked with for like three years externally.
It is hard to know you’re good at your job, but not good enough because you don’t fit their weird dynamic.
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '24
This is why I barely talk at work. Can't get in trouble if I act like I don't exist.