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Mandatory baby shower for my boss… which I hated, and would’ve rather just worked. #rant

This was many years ago but I have never stopped hating the company and I’ve continued to dislike my old boss with a passion. I had started this job and found out I was pregnant. I got an abortion over the weekend in training and came to work like nothing was going on. I started to not like my boss in training and got disciplined for doodling during training, it would go on to emotionally be taxing ignoring peoples problems and persisting that the pay their checking accounts when their mortgage is due so doodling and being allowed to relax somewhat would’ve been better as a corporate environment. Oddly enough we did have a meeting where a coworker not in our training class would come to say how proud and enthusiastic about the company she was and how supportive the company was of gay people. Then some bankers came and…


This was many years ago but I have never stopped hating the company and I’ve continued to dislike my old boss with a passion. I had started this job and found out I was pregnant. I got an abortion over the weekend in training and came to work like nothing was going on. I started to not like my boss in training and got disciplined for doodling during training, it would go on to emotionally be taxing ignoring peoples problems and persisting that the pay their checking accounts when their mortgage is due so doodling and being allowed to relax somewhat would’ve been better as a corporate environment. Oddly enough we did have a meeting where a coworker not in our training class would come to say how proud and enthusiastic about the company she was and how supportive the company was of gay people. Then some bankers came and had us open checking accounts while we were still in training and the turnover was very high for this position. After training calls started coming in about premier checking accounts people didn’t open and the company was later hit with a class action lawsuit and I think also firing low level employees to place blame on them when the orders to open accounts fraudulently and deceive people came from management. But one of the things that has stuck with me the most was the mandatory baby shower for my boss who was about to fire me. I had definitely felt like if my other situations had been different and I wanted a child, it may not have looked good to be hired on pregnant and have to miss work in the first year. And I was younger and more naive, I thought this was my career, and didn’t know my position was designed for high turnover and looking back everyone there was naive and opened accounts with them. The nicest most even tempered man I know flipped out and broke a keyboard due to the company and the environment and culture. And I had to unpleasantly stand to the side and fake happiness for my bosses expanding family in a mandatory money losing forced “bonding” lunch bullshit. Bring a dish and all that when I’m in a job that won’t last, it’s designed for employees to not be good enough even when they are profitable and I’m not valued for shit. I didn’t have the relationship with this women to be celebrating her life events when her position is always secure and I’m just a new face coming thru the revolving door temporarily. I hope they don’t have my picture still up there because it’s a time when my spirit was depleted, and I wasn’t even happy. Stop pretending your employees are happy. And during my employment a woman did email a scathing resignation and said fuck y’all when she stood up and left and for a moment we all felt alive.

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