Chloe Shih

It's been so long.

I got yelled at once upon a time.

I worked really hard, okay?

And then I think promotions were coming.

I hadn't got promoted in two and a half, two years.

So I was the one individual contributor that...

move the most company metrics for one of our north star metrics and then uh this other guy who who only impacted less than one percent of the company metrics and who only worked there for six months and was a white man he got promoted because he was like you know tight with some executive

on the sports side, and they would talk about sports, and I'm like, I don't know anything about sports, and I'd been there for years, and so when I brought it up to my manager, I was like, hey, I wanted to ask if

Am I going to go for promotion?

Like, am I going to, are you going to help me get promoted in this next cycle?

And then it was like a tough day at the company and she yelled at me and she was like, I can't believe you're bringing this up, like on the phone, just yelling at me.

Like, I can't believe you're bringing this up.

You're so selfish, so immature.

Like you think, you think you're going to get promoted?

Like you're, you're about to take vacation.

And how can I promote someone who's going to take vacation?

I was, mind you, it's my first vacation in those two years.

So, uh, and I already did all of these big projects.

And so this is like 20 minutes of her railing on me and then I was like, okay, thank you And I turned like I hung up and then I was in the phone booth and then I went to the restroom I cried I walked out HR was there like some of the person who worked HR and I told HR like like we were friends then too and told her what happened and she was like She probably had a bad day and I'm like, okay cool I'm just gonna go home now and cry on my way home on my one hour hour and a half commute home in the rain and

Um, so that happened.