An Amazon employee has shared concerns about their changing experience at work after a new manager joined the team. The post has prompted discussion among professionals, with many relating to the situation and sharing similar experiences from their own careers.
According to the employee, they had spent four years at the company and had consistently received positive feedback. They described themselves as a “top performer” with “strong reviews” and “strong impact” during that period.
Things Changed With A New Manager
The employee said problems began to surface only after a new manager took charge. Within a few months, they started hearing concerns about their performance despite believing they were putting in more effort than before.
“A new manager arrives and a few months later I’m suddenly hearing performance concerns?” they wrote. They also claimed that meetings with the manager had become increasingly stressful.
“Every 1:1 feels like a performance investigation,” the employee said. The situation left them wondering whether the criticism reflected their actual work or if there were other factors involved.
Praise Faded As Criticism Grew
The employee alleged that their accomplishments no longer received recognition, while mistakes were being highlighted more than ever.
“Every success gets minimised. Every mistake gets amplified,” the post read. They further said they had received an email from their manager formally documenting concerns about their performance.
This made them question whether they had already lost support within the team. “The question isn’t whether my performance has changed, it’s whether I’ve already lost the political battle,” they wrote.
The employee ended the post by asking others for their perspective, saying, “Am I being paranoid?”
Others Shared Similar Stories
The post drew responses from professionals who said they had faced comparable situations in their workplaces.
A user wrote, “That’s nasty, you know that sometimes companies could, under certain circumstances, record patterns that do not align with what you supplied so far, because that manager needs to present something when cutting off, some corroborated data of sorts. OR. This is some instance of a rage bait reddit rant and I totally fell for it, wasted my 5 minutes in life and gave you my attention and engagement for free.”
Another person shared, “Happened to me. Worked 6 years at a company, promoted to the moon, endless positive reviews until they brought in two top faang guys for the head of eng and product. Got managed out in under 2 years.”
A person commented, “Its nearly always politics… you need to be providing some godlike value otherwise.”
“They are absolutely outsourcing your job. You’ve done nothing wrong, and they are just trying creating a paper trail for legal. You’ve done nothing need to create one of your own,” a comment read.
Someone said, “New managers intentionally set you for failure so that they can fire you and prove to the top management they are willing to take bold decisions.”