My boss called me “stupid” in front of the entire team. I smiled and kept working. Two weeks later, I resigned. But not before I scheduled one “urgent” meeting. I invited everyone. Even HR. The whole room went dead silent when I stood up, connected my laptop to the projector, and said, “Before I go, I’d like to show you something.”
I could still hear his voice from two weeks earlier.
We were in the middle of a team review when he slammed his pen on the table and said, “Do you even think before you speak? That’s a stupid idea.”