Question: I have been on my job for about a year, and things were going well until recently. My boss has been joking about me in meetings, leaving me out of important conversations and giving me unnecessarily harsh deadlines. I feel singled out and am ready to quit. What’s up? Answer : As unpleasant as what you describe is, it sounds as though you might be being “Quiet Fired,” a technique that managers may use to make the work environment so unpleasant that you just quit instead of forcing them