She Was the Top Performer During Her Workplace’s Busiest Season—So Why Was She Punished?

https://twistedsifter.com/2026/08/she-was-the-top-performer-during-her-workplaces-busiest-season-so-why-was-she-punished/#google_vignette

Women know they have to work 2x as hard to get the same respect as men. But they can get backlash even then. One employee solved 2-3x more tickets than her coworkers during a busy season. Instead of praise, she got a warning that it cast a bad light on the rest of the team.

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Can't win for losing.

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Taleya@aussie.zone · 51 pts · 3d (6 replies)

Reminds me of my ol' days working for telstra.

My calls were consistently under the target time. TL had a huge issue with this. Crawled over all my calls sideways, they were flawless, everything done perfectly, extremely happy customers - i'm just fast and good at this shit.

He wanted me to put customers on hold and essentially put a thumb up my arse to pad out my call time. I pointed out my faster call time meant slower workers weren't being harried when the teams call time was averaged and made us look good overall. I also pointed out the goal time was meant to prevent blowout, not something to waste customers time on. He did not like that.

He was a very very stupid man.

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 26 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Those who can, do. Those who can't are managers.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Hey, i eventually became a manager, and a damned good one at that. Mostly because i made sure i stayed in the trenches, not up my own arse.

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 8 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Yeah, I know. #NotAllManagers. 😝

Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2d

Bwahahha

Grimy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I wouldn't be surprised if upper management was telling them to pad it out because longer calls meant more people gave up.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2d

Nah, at the time i was doing Active8 - setting up the exchange work / booking ADSL and cable internet installations. They wanted these. Which just makes it more insane he was complaining i was creating new accounts too fast

LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 3d

People often don't like seeing women do well... and that's not just men doing that. It's shit

dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 3d (2 replies)

I’ve learned the extra work doesn’t give me a bonus or promotion, so I work bare minimum just like everybody else.

velma@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I chuckled when the term "Quiet Quitting" was coined. Been doing that my entire life thanks.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2d

"Acting your wage" was a helluva comeback though