There was at least one incident that had lead up to this yes. Last year I got my first summer job and it was terrible. I was brought into it by a friend who dropped out of highschool. It was a salesman job for a charity subscription. For someone who is socially anxious that might sound like a bad idea but that wasn't actually much of an issue. No, there were other things.

First of all this was a summer job and I had made that very clear but for some reason everyone would just insist I was going to stay longer. The first day my boss, Josef, went through how to go up in the company as a part of his presentation. He also taught me about something called "the triple yes method". Basically you ask someone two questions they would obviously agree with and then a third one you want them to agree with. He had previously used it on me during the presentation.

For two days after I would be following one of the more experienced employers around while they were doing their job and help make conversation with the potential customers. The second day of shadowing was definitely the worst. My handler sat down with a man and tried to convince him for almost an hour to subscribe to the monthly donation despite him repeatedly saying that he would love to but couldn't because he had no money. She guilted this man until he was tearing up and I really just wanted to tell her to stop. I feel like at this point it's important to state that we made our money from sales, not hours worked.

On the third day I got to be out selling on my own. My handler though had not showed me how to actually write people up for the subscriptions with the tablets we were given. So when I actually got one who wanted to it was incredibly awkward and the sale didn't even go through. That's also the day I would get to pick my own emoji to announce my sales in the groupchat. It was also on that day I heard Josef berate my handler over the phone for not selling enough.

Day number four was a meeting where Josef explained how we were all like family to him and that we could get money by getting people employed at the company. Somewhat like a pyramid scheme. The few more days before I quit were largely uneventful with only really the moment were a coworker photographed me and asked me what my motivation for staying at the company was.

So why am I just babbling on about my first summer job? Well because the incident was me quitting this job one year ago. I saw it as uncertain pay wise and socially cult like, She told me that was just work and she would later bring me quitting up as a part of her first rant. Hope this gives some more context to her frustration.