Can’t really write about anything yet because technically I’m still employed until the end of the day tomorrow (actually, they are supposed to move my last day to November 1st so that I can keep my insurance for one more month).
The bottom line is, the story that I’ve been told anyway, is that for a specific reason (and I’ll tell you what that is later bc it’s a STORY!!), Head Cat has decided to put all product development on hold “indefinitely”, and for that reason, they are eliminating my position. And I do know a little bit about some things that were going on behind the scenes that make this a plausible excuse…
But of course, that’s all bullshit. Indefinitely might be until November 2nd, ya know?
Why is employment so freaking HARD for me? Is it because I try so freaking hard?
I mean, I’ll be honest, I knew this job was not long for this world, and I’m sort of relieved I don’t have to finish some of the projects I was neck-deep in (they were becoming disasters bc Head Cat is a freak and held so many things up with his constant mind-changing).
But I was hoping to get through 2025 with this.
Ughhhh. Here we go again. Funemployment…what…3.0?? How can I make this fun again?!
And the other question is: how to I get myself involved with so many weirdos in my career? I do have an interesting job, but it just seems like I am a character magnet of some sort, and not the fun kind of character.
Some examples:
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First job out of college was making patterns for a uniform manufacturing company, and the owner was dating his salesperson. I had no clue. He invited me out to dinner one night, and I honestly thought it was a business dinner. I was wrong. I rode with him and he tried to make out with me in his car. Next day, rumors were flying, and the salesperson wanted to kick my ass, yet the owner kept inviting me to fly away with him on the weekends and flirt with me. It got so uncomfortable that I had to quit.
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So many things happened during my time doing design and product development at a gigantic retail store. One time, while standing at the copy machine, a vendor came up from behind, bent me over the copier, pushing me down with his whole body, and whispered in my ear that he’d always wanted to be with me and then quietly tiptoed away. I was so freaked out, I tucked that memory down into my soul, never telling anyone until years later.
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I worked with a manic woman who, before a biz trip to Europe, sent an email dictating what I needed to wear…yet while on the trip, she proceeded to wear a ragged old suit with frayed hems every single day. Then she got super sick on the same trip and made me wait on her hand and foot, bringing her juice and soup and things to her sicked-out hotel room in Paris a la The Devil Wears Prada. She ended up hiring a guy between our levels and essentially ordered him to torture me by belittling me in front of my vendors until I quit. I found a new job and it gave me so much joy to resign.
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Another time, I worked for a highly functioning alcoholic who’d take me out to lunches during business trips to get hammered and made me match her drink for drink. Then she’d want to go drunk shopping in the afternoons. I came out of that job with a drinking problem myself, and ended up fired!
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I worked for a guy who put his hands all over me on a business trip (granted, I was hammered myself…not making excuses, but we were shitfaced), and he tried to kiss me in a parking lot. I never reported it. I never reported any of these types of shenanigans because the situations were always a he-said-she-said situation and HR is always on the exec’s side. Anyway, he ended up firing me a few years later.
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Another guy (at the same company) saw my SPANX peeking out from under my skirt while we were sitting next to each other at a happy hour. He put his hands UP UNDER MY SPANX and asked me why I’d wear such a thing! This guy was heavily praised for his brazen ways in every company meeting because he made so much money for the company by being a clown and entertaining customers that way.
And there are so many more instances. I need to do a Career Diary.
The thing about working for the Cool Cat Company was that we were working remotely, so there were not a lot of personal face-to-face bullshit, but Head Cat has managed to be an absolute disaster (you already know the parts about how when we were together face-to-face, he always wanted to meet with me in his hotel rooms. Gross). But even without me, Head Cat is in the process of blowing up his whole personal life along with his business. He is literally barely still alive. I can’t wait to outline and detail the story, but I have to wait.
Now, I gotta get ready for “work”. Two more days.
xox,
GS
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