For the record: I left and now have a nice job that I love and I’m so glad I got out when I did
Recently, I was driving around doing errands with my BF on a day off. It was a nice day and nothing was planned and we were having a good time together. Then I got this horrendous anxious feeling out of nowhere.
My stomach clenched and I got a little shaken and felt just miserable. I asked my boyfriend to turn the radio off because the radio wasn’t helping.
It was NPR weekend edition. Then I realized it was the music. Every Sunday for two years I would pull into work right as that music was coming on at the top of the hour and I knew it was the start of a shitty day. I had a terrible, terrible supervisor that I had tried to take to court (fun fact, you’re not a real business in the eyes of EEOC if you have less than 15 employees) who was the lead on Sundays when the good manager was off. He loved the power trip and was awful for those days and I just hated everything about going into work that day before my weekend.
Two years later I still hate hearing that music. Fuck shitty work situations. Get out as fast as you can because it literally is affecting your mental health.