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That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 01:47 am (UTC)(link)I've only been here three fucking months, and I cannot believe how toxic it is. I'm treated like shit and paid like shit. This was supposed to be a great opportunity for me to kickstart my career in this field, but all I do is put in loads of unpaid overtime every day, try to juggle a billion tasks that I've never been trained on, and be constantly snapped at for not being a mind-reader and trying to blindly navigate inconsistent and contradictory instructions. Of course, at the end of the day, they talk about how much they love me and am glad I'm here (after they've kept me hours late) - well no shit, this position is terrible and I can't live off of the dismal salary, no wonder your last person left. And despite being promised a salary review at the end of the year when I took the job at this crap salary, being told it's not in the budget after all was the last straw.
I really wanted to stick it out a year, because it's a great job for meeting people and making professional connections, but I about had a break down in my evaluation today. The thought of job hunting again somehow feels liberating. Of course, I'm sure I will be guilted to death if I try to resign, but I just can't. I know I'm underpaid for the position I'm in, and tied with the high expectations of working late every night, I'm emotionally in a bad state.
Did you have any last straw moments at a job? Were you able to quit?
Re: That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 02:08 am (UTC)(link)Re: That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 02:20 am (UTC)(link)Thanks, yeah, it's so frustrating. I've worked in a variety of organizations before and it has never once felt like this. Sure, every job has something to complain about and on bad days it's easy to say you think you deserve better, but I've never felt as awful about a job as I do now. I'm tied with feeling worthless after being snapped at all day, and genuinely feeling I deserve better - a better work environment and a fairer salary.
But ugh I hear you on the insurance thing. I'm actually in the same boat, now that I think about it. I can't quit until I have a new job lined up, but I still kind of want to get the dental/medical appointments set up asap.
Re: That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 03:23 am (UTC)(link)At my last job I had several last straw moments but didn't leave for quite awhile since the hours were flexible for my grad school classes. Even though I was their "favorite" employee when I announced I was leaving they didn't try to keep me because I was moving away. I was moving far enough away that they understood why I couldn't stay. The only good thing to come out of it is they reference well.
Re: That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 06:35 am (UTC)(link)Re: That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)Within weeks, he threatened to fire me in front of my entire brigade for "talking back to him in front of the general district manager". The exchange he was talking about? He asked: "Where's order #X?" I answered, in my most chipper voice, "It'll be up as soon as we can!"
THEN when I found another job and handed in my two week notice, he begged me to stay. I said "nope, sorry". He tried guilting me to heck and back, and then finally gave me the ultimatum of "stay, or leave right now and you will never work for this company again in this city."
I walked.
And for several years afterward, my old co-workers would come to my new workplace and say how much harder it was now that I wasn't working at the old place, and they never realized how much I did.
Yes, I burned a bridge, and I miss working for that particular company, but I don't regret a second of my decision (and my new job had way better benefits and pay, so HA!).
Keep your chin up, OP!
Re: That moment when...
(Anonymous) 2016-12-31 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)