> My manager was present on the call, and my statement seemed to really set him off. I was essentially told that my feelings about the situation—perhaps the only authentic part of myself I ever expressed there—were wrong. In the days that followed I was made to feel like I was not a team player, that I was not pulling my weight, and that I was not meeting the bare minimum of what was expected of a person bearing the torch of on-call. With the utterance of a single sentence, I opened a rift in the relationship with my manager that remained until the day I left that job.

So, this is just plainly bad leadership, right? Totally believable too, of course, but just really bad. Bad for the employee, but also self-defeating for the manager.

It seems like this would be an awful manager reaction to anything short of a quasi-fireable offense. If that's your response to an employee to not being enthusiastic about a part of work that sucks, what are you even doing as a leader?