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I have alot of experience and I have worked in many different cultures including, corporate, govenment, not for profit, and my own business. I am a woman in her forties and the expectations on me for work, family and personal care are enormous but I also have bills to pay. I was recently released and everyone is like “it's your own fault”. I knew I had to be accountable for my part if I wanted success so I tried to communicate and resolve problems quickly. With this job. I walked into a very steep learning curve in my late 40s. My entire time employed with the company, I struggled to understand what they wanted and to get tasks done in time. I always felt gaslit and pulled in multiple directions, missing deadlines, then told I was not managing my work priorities. My taskmanagers would tell me to work on one…


I have alot of experience and I have worked in many different cultures including, corporate, govenment, not for profit, and my own business. I am a woman in her forties and the expectations on me for work, family and personal care are enormous but I also have bills to pay. I was recently released and everyone is like “it's your own fault”. I knew I had to be accountable for my part if I wanted success so I tried to communicate and resolve problems quickly. With this job. I walked into a very steep learning curve in my late 40s. My entire time employed with the company, I struggled to understand what they wanted and to get tasks done in time. I always felt gaslit and pulled in multiple directions, missing deadlines, then told I was not managing my work priorities. My taskmanagers would tell me to work on one task then ask why the other one was not done. I'm sure if anyone of them had been in my shoes, they would feel the same. I feel that I was burntout within the first 3 months and the more free time I gave, the more work they expected for free. I kept telling myself it would get better as I got better. It didn't. They just kept piling the work on me and changing what and how I was supposed to do it. I could never get caught up. Nothing was consistent. The timlines were unrealistic for the tedious nature of the work. I was under alot of pressure to get muliple tasks done acurately, quickly and at the same time. My goals did not document the reality of the work that was expected from me. Expectations were all over the place then communicated after the fact as though I should have known better. My trainers could not provide me with solid explanations about why something was how it was. My new young supervisor took pleasure in belittling others. I learned alot but my agility has slowed down with age. I was transfered to a new supervisor 6 times in 1.5 years. They all had different expectations and taught/approached things differently. My work required supervisor sign off which they delayed making it difficult for me to correct errors in a timely fashion and led to chronic task switching. What could I have done differently?

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