#i don’t think she’d fire me because i’m 1) jewish 2) queer 3) have an official disability accommodation on file

[shoutsindwarvish]

pros of my current job:

I’m good at it

I make enough that I can comfortably afford to buy myself a little treat without guilt (let alone not having to worry about making rent)

I genuinely like my in-office coworkers now that the toxic one left

Commuting is actually nice in the summer because they’ve got AC and my apartment becomes an oven

I adore my team lead and wish she lived closer so we could get lunch (she’s in virginia and i’m in minnesota)

cons of my job:

The leadership sucks

It sucks so bad

My manager (a middle-aged white woman from northern wisconsin who gives off republican vibes) very obviously believes in the Protestant work ethic that suffering is noble and anything else is laziness and lack of commitment (example: she once denied my request to be exempt from mandatory overtime when i had a stomach bug because there are “no exceptions”)

She is also trying to “fix” things that aren’t broken and making them actively worse because she doesn’t understand what my job actually is and keeps giving me conflicting coachings so that nothing I do pleases her

Related to #4, she’s telling my team to cut corners without saying it explicitly or in writing and it’s obviously so that she can claim plausible deniability if it blows up and can throw us under the bus (i am also refusing to do so which I’m pretty sure has me labeled as a problem)

went weeks without interacting with her and presumably not being noticed by her (which was a blessing) but the micromanaging eye of sauron turned on me this morning and it’s like.

you’re so stupid. if you fire me or push me to the point of quitting then your department will be so fucked. you need my ass. and everyone i’ve spoken to in my line of business feels the same way as me, even people i didn’t expect. she is shooting herself in the foot in the name of “production go up.”

capitalism (especially corporate capitalism) is one hell of a drug.