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The new intern got laughed out of the boardroom.
She was 22, in her first week, still wearing her ID upside down.
We were pitching to save a $2M client.
Then the presentation deck crashed.
Eight VPs panicked.
“Someone call IT,” my manager snapped.
The intern raised her hand.
“Um... can I try?”
Nobody even looked up.
“This is senior-level,” someone muttered.
She walked to the laptop anyway.
The printer hated this lady in the office.
Every day at 4:55pm she’d send one file, grab it, and leave. No goodbyes.
The office joke was, “She prints and vanishes.”
I stayed late to finish a pitch deck.
11:17pm.
The printer suddenly woke up behind me.
It was her.
Alone. Hair in a messy bun.
“You’re missing page 9,” she said, taking my deck from my hands.
I blinked.
“I thought you clocked out.”
Came back from maternity leave. They gave my role to someone else.
I was on maternity leave for a few months, and I was actually excited to come back to work. Before I left, i trained the person who would be covering my work.
When I returned this week, my manager told me that the person who filled in for me would be keeping my old role and said it was "best for the business," but it was really hard to hear for me. I had worked hard before my leave, and I expected to come back to the same role.
Now today I got a job offer from another company. When I told my manager I was thinking about leaving, they matched the salary right away and asked me to stay.
The thing is, I'm not sure this is really about money anymore. If they valued my role enough to match the offer now, why wasn't I treated the same when I came back?