#this story might be incomprehensible if you don't have knowledge of sewing but

[thenon-fictiondays]

Wait give us the wage theft story whatd she do

so like my former boss is one of those people who 1) underexplains everything bc she thinks everyone thinks the same way she does and 2) always thinks the other person is at fault for everything all the time. So we'd naturally have a lot of miscommunications in times when she'd leave me work to do and leave the office. Now the thing about sewing, especially when you're making a different thing every time as we did making custom gowns, is that you're constantly making decisions about how to do things and what order to do them in, and not just obvious stylistic decisions, but very specific decisions about minute details (you probably know this already, but clarifying for anyone else reading this). The bigger decisions are up to the designer (aka my boss), but when it comes to the smaller decisions, the designer has two choices: they can either make the decisions in advance and communicate that to the underling (aka me) or they can leave those decisions to be made by the underling. The issue with that second option is that you can't always assume your underling is going to make exactly the same decisions as you would, so if you want things done in a very specific way, you have to choose the first option.

.......or you can be like my former boss and communicate nothing but the bare minimum of information, leaving me to make many decisions, and then complain that I made the wrong decisions. And when I say bare minimum I mean bare minimum, like that woman wouldn't even give me a sketch or a reference picture so I would know what the final product is supposed to look like 🥴 so needless to say, there were A LOT of times when she'd text me furious about the job I did. The final straw was when she went off on me because she told me to sew the bottom of a gown skirt to the top part of the skirt- the whole bottom part was covered in feathers that were weirdly sewn on, and it had a train, so this thing was an unwieldy mf that barely went through the sewing machine (imagine if someone skinned Hawks from MHA and turned him into a gown), and her only instruction was "sew this to that", and then she had to redo the whole thing (that I'd stayed late to finish) because apparently by "sew this to that" what she actually MEANT was "sew up the back of the skirt and then sew the raw edge to the raw edge, yes there will be a gap between the feathers and the upper skirt but I'm going to cover that later so don't worry about it". Because ofc I wouldnt see a big ugly transparent gap and think "surely she meant for the hem of the upper skirt to cover that", why would I? /s. The kicker is I'd actually sewn it the way she wanted it the first time, then realized it looked like shit and torn the whole seam out and redid it the way I assumed it should be based on the knowledge I had (which was next to nothing), so she really wasted BOTH our time. And then she blows up my texts saying if she has to redo my work again she'll "take the hours" from me. Sent both in text and in video form, because if you're gonna threaten to illegally mess with your employees paycheck, always make sure you give them all the evidence they'd need if they wanted to take you to court!!!