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Like many here, I was raised to believe all the boomerisms
Get a degree, any degree. It'll pay for itself!
Follow your heart & $$ will follow!
TL; DR I got a master's in theology
cont'd https://twitter.com/Mortscab/status/1341954057641070592
Like many here, I was raised to believe all the boomerisms
Get a degree, any degree. It'll pay for itself!
Follow your heart & $$ will follow!
TL; DR I got a master's in theology
cont'd https://twitter.com/Mortscab/status/1341954057641070592
1st real job out of school: team lead @ nominally Catholic hospital
Whole dept was in total chaos. No established training process. Bosses couldn't even agree on med transcription protocols
Did my best. Team said I was the best lead they'd ever had
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Whole dept was in total chaos. No established training process. Bosses couldn't even agree on med transcription protocols
Did my best. Team said I was the best lead they'd ever had
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Team's praise caught bosses' attn - in a bad way
Both were walking bitter HR cat lady memes promoted to their highest level of incompetence
Dr. at the same hospital told me my bosses saw my relative aptitude as a threat
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Both were walking bitter HR cat lady memes promoted to their highest level of incompetence
Dr. at the same hospital told me my bosses saw my relative aptitude as a threat
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Should've listened
Instead, ran myself ragged trying to untangle the Gordian knot that was our system
Other lead who filled in while I attended belated training came to me wide-eyed & said the bosses were giving me a workload meant for 4 people
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Instead, ran myself ragged trying to untangle the Gordian knot that was our system
Other lead who filled in while I attended belated training came to me wide-eyed & said the bosses were giving me a workload meant for 4 people
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That wasn't all
Bosses would gaslight me: chided me for not following unspoken dept email etiquette, claimed I never turned in reports that were stacked right there in the room, called team meetings while I was @ lunch, announced new changes & didn't fill me in
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Bosses would gaslight me: chided me for not following unspoken dept email etiquette, claimed I never turned in reports that were stacked right there in the room, called team meetings while I was @ lunch, announced new changes & didn't fill me in
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NaĂŻve as I was, finally got wise to the fact that they were trying to force me out
Would've loved to quit. Couldn't. Job was all I had besides a mountain of student debt I took to get the job
Forced myself to show up every day to the worst 6 months of my life
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Would've loved to quit. Couldn't. Job was all I had besides a mountain of student debt I took to get the job
Forced myself to show up every day to the worst 6 months of my life
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Cycle of misery ensued where my perseverance made bosses look worse & worse while they tightened the screws to make me quit. Several others did quit. Dept. started falling apart & became the laughingstock of the whole company
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Bosses finally figured out how to remove the stone from their shoe
Promoted me. Promotion started the clock on a 90-day probation period. Bosses flunked me on the 90-day eval - by exactly 1 point to make it crystal clear it wasn't about my performance; it was their revenge
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Promoted me. Promotion started the clock on a 90-day probation period. Bosses flunked me on the 90-day eval - by exactly 1 point to make it crystal clear it wasn't about my performance; it was their revenge
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"That's just sour grapes," I can hear you say. "He's just bitching b/c he can't get over getting shitcanned 10 years ago."
Nope. There's a reason I don't discuss this incident as a rule, & the only reason I ever do is b/c I've got the receipts
Nope. There's a reason I don't discuss this incident as a rule, & the only reason I ever do is b/c I've got the receipts
>Independent sources confirmed bosses had it in for me
>Official evaluator told me I was great @ my job
>Bosses termed my probation claiming I'd failed to build a rapport w/ my team. This, after several team members stood up in a mtg & said I was the best lead they'd had
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>Official evaluator told me I was great @ my job
>Bosses termed my probation claiming I'd failed to build a rapport w/ my team. This, after several team members stood up in a mtg & said I was the best lead they'd had
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Turned out there'd been complaints about 1 of the bosses for years, but she was besties w/ a dept head so nothing was ever done
Until I forced her to mangle the rules so bad to get rid of me that it started a staff revolt
She was demoted to an hourly job
Make the rubble bounce
Until I forced her to mangle the rules so bad to get rid of me that it started a staff revolt
She was demoted to an hourly job
Make the rubble bounce
Not gonna lie, the next couple years sucked
Having every institution I'd been taught to trust betray me was eye-opening to say the least
One day, Mom said "You're a good writer. Why don't you try making $$ doing that?"
Next yr will by my 6th as my own boss
Thanks, Mom
Having every institution I'd been taught to trust betray me was eye-opening to say the least
One day, Mom said "You're a good writer. Why don't you try making $$ doing that?"
Next yr will by my 6th as my own boss
Thanks, Mom
The point is, I've been there
I made every mistake & learned the hard way
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I made every mistake & learned the hard way
But you don't have to
Profit from my expertise. Skip the fail cycle.
When you're ready to go pro, reach out to me
https://www.brianniemeier.com/p/editing-services.html
