I quit my remote job in my home country in South America and came to Sydney just to have a different experience overseas. I was very lucky to find the job just the next day before arriving. (This shit is incredibly hard for an immigrant) Only to find is the worst job I’ve ever had.
Project manager is the most boomer person I’ve ever met in my life. He prints emails (this should be enough to make yourself an idea about him). 80% of the time I don’t know what I’m doing and I have to figure it out by myself. He doesn’t give any context to the work whatsoever until it’s too late. Then the blame is on me because I’m “too slow”
He keeps asking me to go to the office on Saturdays, makes fun about my shoes, keeps telling me I’m single and I don’t have anything to do with my life besides job. A couple days ago he made fun about having some coca1n3 to speed up my work. He even asked me one day if my partner is “male or female”.
One day he told me: “you gotta make the job your #1 priority, everything revolves around it”
It’s been only 4 months and I’m really done with this crap. Now I have twitchy eyes. The happiest day of my life since my arrival was a couple days ago when I had to go to the doctor: I got an eye infection and I had two sick days.
To make it worse, I should be “grateful” because my friend s had it even worse than me and I have no right to complain about this.
I thought here was gonna be different from home, but it’s the total opposite. For Australian fellows: is this really a thing here? It is just a bad experience?
I’m regretting my decision about leaving my remote job for this crap.
Thanks for reading. Just wanted to vent
TLDR: moved from South America to Sydney, I’ve got a shitty job with a boomer and I’m anxious and stressed about it.