During new-hire training
During new-hire training, I was on the receiving end of an unsolicited, demeaning comment about my voice from another trainee, made in front of the group. Instead of addressing it, the trainer minimized the comment. When I later raised the issue privately, a senior trainer pulled me aside and characterized me — not the person who made the original comment — as the problem, said he might call me out in front of the class the next day, and made comments referring to me as a "baby bear" who needed to be a "good baby bear," which I found unprofessional and inappropriate for a workplace setting.
Weeks later, after a mix-up with a meeting link that wasn't my fault, the same trainer told me "people gonna tell on you if you're starting trouble" — a comment that felt designed to label me as a troublemaker without any basis.
I was ultimately terminated with no prior warnings, after a single call where a customer was yelling and told me to "shut up," and I responded by asking her to watch her tone. No progressive discipline, no documented performance issues beforehand — just termination.
After I shared my experience in an internal company chat as a heads-up to others, I was removed from the chat, and one of the people involved reacted to my post with a laughing emoji rather than any acknowledgment.
My advice: document everything in writing from day one, and know that there are clear favorites in this environment. If you're not one of them, be prepared to be treated very differently for the same situations others aren't held to.








