This woman openly jokes about making people cry all the time and tbh during my interview with her she made some comments about covid but I was desperate for a job. I got the notification about roe v Wade when walking into work today and I started having a panic attack and dissociated. It's a phone job and I couldn't stop crying and she pulled me aside to talk. I kept saying it was personal and I didn't think I could work today but she kept prying and eventually I explained what had me so upset.
This 60 something woman looks at me with a smile on her face saying my generation had it easy and we're too soft and we laid on our backs during covid. How leaders don't cry and brought up pronouns??? For some fucking reason??? And how the world is messed up because of my MY generation. I honestly would have been okay if it weren't for these comments and it just pushed me to my breaking point so I left for the day. I've only been at this place a month. It's a small office and if I go to HR my life will just be hell. I've played this game before and it doesn't end well. I'm just disgusted. They constantly talk about being unable to keep people but with this type of person above me I can see why.
I was really starting to like this job and I'm so upset by her. I had a manager that was so supportive as was my trainer but I can't get what she said out of my head. All I could think was how dare you say these things to your employee who's clearly in distress and then bring up “tough love”. The pay is too good for me to leave and I don't want to throw in the towel just yet but I feel like I can never show emotion in this office again.