Tunnel progress.
I believe the tunnel has now been fully accepted.
She spent a bit of time stalking and attacking the hanging balls with bells at one end, and is now lying in it like it’s a sleeping bag and occassionally chomping the edges.
Was feeling antsy about my job situation but just heard from my ex colleague about how ex-boss is continuing to be unreasonably snarky and critical to the point that he is pretty much just quiet quitting now despite being one of the most reliable and consistent people in the team. I feel relieved and vindicated in my decision to leave even though I didn’t have anything lined up after for a while.
You have always seemed to me to be someone with good judgement, even so, it’s always good to be vindicated.
hugs
Financial uncertainty can really drive one to second guessing themselves. But I did save up a good cushion precisely so I could have the option I did and not regret it
@just_kitten it called “fuck you money” for a reason 😁 @Seagoon_
@just_kitten @Seagoon_ Ugh! That’s a massive red flag. You definitely did the right thing getting out of there!
I had a past boss who was constantly taking digs at people behind their backs. Usually past employees.
Somehow, all these ex-employees were grossly incompetent and useless. They stuffed things up.
Never did he acknowledge any blame on his part. Not even, at the very least, for repeatedly hiring the wrong people for the job.
Well.
Sure enough, soon after a major client left. It was largely, ultimately, his fault.
And he refused to take any responsibility, blaming everyone except for himself.
Another time, soon after, he gave one of my colleagues an explicit instruction. She carried it out as he instructed. Then he told her off, claiming that he never said that.
(There were multiple witnesses who heard him say it.)
This became a pattern.
It sounds like your boss might be similar. And you did the right thing by leaving.
@just_kitten @Seagoon_ I’ve learned to trust my gut in those situations. If the vibes are shit, quit. It’s always turned out to be the least worst option
I’m so annoyed right now… moved into a new role and workload is fucked. It’s not going well. Management is ignoring it.
Also a massive massive thing has come about from a client I initially spoke with, spoke to a lawyer about (where another colleague didn’t bother), it’s now turned into possibly a class action, or at least a shit tonne of work for our firm. I’m getting no shout outs or anything for me recognising the potential. Not even from my direct management.
Sorry to hear about the workload, that sucks. I’m also over here cheering for you, re the other achievement. I think sometimes management feel threatened when someone lower down the tree does something great, so they downplay it. I’ve seen that happen at my work, at least.
You can leave a job in the probation period with like 2 days notice. Feel free to use that if something else comes up because your workplace will do it to you
I’m not on a new probation period or anything, just a different role in the same department - which is actually quite different to what I had been doing. I’m reluctant to pull the pin on the job because finding a new job is stressful and change is hard. if it remains like this for much longer I’ll need to start looking though 😞
Had a pizza for lunch. Drying laundry in the sun.
Making a cup of coffee and just relaxing today.
I think the Christian name resume is working… Interesting.
Do what you need to do, zero guilt. Corporations don’t have any interest about anyone’s success but their own. It’s a job not a friend. Do the same, and do what you need to do to get yourself employment and income. No one will care what your name is once you in the door and they are happy with your work.
it’s been like that here for as long I remember
my own father had a weird European name, non British, and it was Anglicanised when he came here . I can kinda understand in his case, the name is barely pronounceable.
and it’s not just English names, there is classism at work here too. Posh English names work best. 😞
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984322000583?via%3Dihub
There was some other study done way earlier which compared ethnic first and last, western first and ethnic last, and western first and last.
The results are as you can expect…
