Antiwork

I started at a new job about 6 months ago. My first job out of grad school, I work in a school. I have to be to work in an hour and I find myself, like I do quite often, crying like a little bitch! I have a feeling of dread having to go to this place every day. I am terrified to speak up because I don’t know if my work problems aren’t serious enough to be considered. Long story short, when I got hired I was shown the office of the person I would be replacing. It had a window and that’s all I needed, so I was happy. It was in an office suite with many people. On the first day of orientation, one of my new supervisors (also new), excitedly showed me to my office. This office was not the one I was initially shown. It…

Hi – this is my third week into a new job and things were going pretty well; I don’t put all my faith into a company anymore since I’ve drained myself and have been through SO much bs. I am a paralegal and working for attorneys just plain SUX. So anyway, I am working for one attorney in the morning and another attorney after lunch. The afternoon attorney I guess likes to have a meeting every day with myself and the other paralegal bc he wants to sit there and dictate, put down and bark orders. I have an illness that extremely exacerbated my anxiety (some days are better than others) and I was ok with these meetings the first week or so bc we talked in a professional manner. Now, it is so bad for me I have to excuse myself to go to the bathroom and take ten…