Month: April 2022

I make this women over £100 per day and so does my colleague. She’s having such a fucking power trip over this as she does over everything. She doesn’t have rent to pay as she owns the building, she doesn’t have business rates to pay, her own house is paid off and she gets rent from 2 properties she owns. And she thinks her business is going to go under if I take one day off a week? Does that sound right to you? Or am I being unreasonable here? The shop will still be open making money, just with one less artist. “Just do stuff on your day off” no, I am depressed as fuck. On my day off I sleep til 2pm. “Well that’s just lazy” no, hun, that’s mental illness and knowing nothing but work work work. “But you love your job” aye sometimes, it’s my dream…

Had this discussion with my friend. The majority of us hate our jobs/managers and feel like we’re being used. However, given the opportunity would you change that? Imagine the company you hate offers you the position of CEO. However you can’t make any changes and have to screw people over just how you’ve been screwed over. Would you sacrifice your morals to join the elite?

I was born here, but working in this country can be so frustrating. There are good things about British workplace culture but the one thing that gets my goat… The middle-class passive aggressiveness and the uncomfortableness whenever I express some degree of sincerity and emotion… The stiff upper lip. I'm wondering if anyone else here has ever worked in the UK and can compare it to working in other countries? I'm at the point where I just cannot be bothered anymore with the passive aggressiveness of UK offices. It's so difficult to resolve conflict because it's so rude to be straight to the point, even when you aren't expressing this to them in a harsh way. Everything is so much more insidious here. When I work with colleagues from the US, mainland Europe, Africa and Asia at least I have an idea where I stand. Everything is wrapped in small…

I’m preparing to turn in my resignation today for an end day of May 13. I’m going back to school to get my Master’s in the fall. I’m the only paralegal at a law firm of two attorneys, so I feel wildly guilty, but I’ve also been treated like shit. Normally there is one paralegal and one secretary, but our case load is light due to the pandemic, so I’ve been the only one working here since about 3 months after I was hired. Here are some of my favorite moments: – came back from vacation after getting engaged, first thing she said was “I found all the mistakes you made” – comments about my health and weight – “Do you even know what common sense is?” These are just a few examples of what has been said to me over the 2 years that I’ve worked here. But they’ve…

Also I got a keychain as a gift via Amazon. Fun.

I was raised to be afraid of my bosses. They held my financial fate in their hands, after all. If I pissed them off, they would tell every hiring manager in the world I was a bad employee and I would never get a job. I knew I was to be grateful for $9.25/hr because it was so much more than minimum wage. I should never speak badly about my employers and days off we're for emergencies only. When you have a job, you give up the other things to make sure you can work. Even as an adult, I have struggled to move past this. My last boss left me crying on multiple occasions, terrified I would lose my job and be blacklisted in my field. I was illegally disciplined by this boss for telling one of my coworkers not to contact me on my personal phone or when…