Month: August 2024

well done, signature gatherers and campaigners

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I had to have wrist surgery as I completely shattered it and tore the ligaments. I work in marketing in corporate America and they decided profit is more important so I worked before my surgery, got calls, slacks, and emails at 9 pm after I got home at 5 then proceeded to work the entirety of the recovery on a lot of pain meds. Then I got reprimanded for a decision I made while high 🥲 Don’t worry, I quit already haha!

Companies “restructuring” and our jobs are no longer going to exist and are being advertised externally too. We're expected to re-apply and compete alongside outside hires and they've had the audacity to say “you're guaranteed an interview” and “you won't be losing your jobs, you'll be able to continue working in the call centre ” I wasn't hired to work in a fucking call centre Jessica. What a joke man. It's not a good time to be finding a new job either so I guess we're just stuck with whatever shitty outcome we're given.

So apparently it’s not losing a holiday when you have a meeting/training scheduled for 8am in Boston but I live in Colorado. So I have to fly out Monday to be there on time. I hate being salaried and they can just give and take holidays at a whim

…well I'm going to start treating my work the same way when I need a raise. I'm just going to work a plug for some random product in all of my presentations and let them know if they want me to stop hearing me go on about random products, then they can upgrade to premium by paying me more money.

I think I'm just looking for someone who feels the same or has been in a similar position. I am a 26y/F and I have been recently diagnosed with PCOS. I have a slew of mental health issues (probably some that stem from the hormonal imbalances) that haven't been officially diagnosed (definitely severe anxiety, likely OCD and ADHD, but tbh the symptoms get a little murky the further you go so could be others). I'm somewhere between self-loating and self-victimization. I can't hold a job. Everywhere I work my mental health gets in the way and I end up quitting because I am freaking the fuck out (one day I'm fine – optimistic even! The next, I actually can't work because I'm sobbing). Then I can't consistently see a Dr because I have no health insurance. What the fuck is wrong with me??? It's so hard to get a job…

Funny enough, I got unlucky by first being lucky and winning a raffle (ironically hosted online) for high performers (for that week I snuck in WFH every day). I prob shouldn’t have WFH the next Monday bc my supervisor/manager got suspicious from trying to hand me the raffle prize in office last week. I got caught today by my manager. They know I’m right, but their entire basis for their argument on not taking extra WFH is tradition and because the CEO said so. Commuting in is purely a meaningless ritual, and my manager had the VP call me and he was bragging about how he was commuting 30+ years because it’s just how it is. Even the VP implied that he wished things were different because he said he doesn’t have any power to change the WFH policy. I didn’t get fired, they just said they need me to…