Burning Clock

[morrigirl]

No phone call today either. Very depressing. In the last week I've sent out resumes to Columbia, Random House, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the New York Kennel Club, a couple literary firms, a literary agent, a couple law firms, New School, Manhattan College, and a synogogue to name just a few. Someone out there has GOT to want me. Someone has to look at my resume and think "Hmm, this girl has got the right stuff. I want to meet her."

Elisabete went psycho on Sebastien today, doing the same thing to him that she did to me on Monday. Last week she told him we'd be closed this Saturday, so he planned his weekend accordingly. Then today she told him we would be open on Saturday. When he called her on the fuck up she yelled and chastised him for not checking the schedule, swearing to high heaven that she never told him we'd be closed. Now his weekend is screwed because she is an idiot. I have to get out of here.

Maybe I'll call in sick tomorrow and go have my physical. The sooner I get all the medical stuff out of the way, the sooner I can give notice.

The one thing I'll miss about the library, besides the NICE people, is having regular internet access. Without it I can't send out resumes, and since I still don't have a connection at my apartment, I'm gonna have to go over to Michael's and use his if I want to job hunt.

I'm in the midst of a major allergy attack.

I'll be honest, I'm scared of quitting. I'm terrified of not having any income. But with each passing day I'm presented with another example of Elisabete's grave mismanagement and I know I can't continue to take this shit.

I just wish I could find someone who wanted to hire me.

Comments

[thatnickguy.livejournal.com]

Is there any way, shape or form that you could report her or something?

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Sure, I could file a complaint with human resources, but that wouldn't do anything. The school has just renewed her contract, not to mention the fact that jobs at NYIT are just about as secure as government jobs. They cab't fire you unless you do something absolutely unforgiveable like murder someone while on duty. If I were to file a complaint nothing would happen to her AND she'd know that one of her underlings had reported her and would take out even more wrath upon me. Not worth it.

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

Eek...I would suggest not quitting 'til you've found a new job. Poverty, desperation, and way too much free time is not a healthy mix.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I know they aren't, but my boss is really overstepping her boundaries now. What I once thought was simply bad management has turned into abuse and I believe it would be more unhealthy for me to stay.

I remember poverty. I know how much it sucks to lack income. I know how depressing and difficult it is. But I also know I can function at least a little better under that brand of stress than I can while being verbally abused on a daily basis.

Like I said a few posts back, I've been hanging in there for almost six months and I've gornw more and more despondant each day. My mental health is far more important than this job.

[silent-t.livejournal.com]

What you need to do is report this woman already because this sounds like bullshit. If she treats everyone like this then get everyone to sign a petition about her behavior and take it to someone higher. She can't get away with this and if your sick of it then take it in your hands and do something about it. THis woman sounds like shes on a permanent rag cycle and I think yoou should do this. Otherwise you just let her win and get away with it. She needs to be put in place. If she is so bad then your coworkers wouldn't be against reporting her.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Yes she treats everyone like that, and no, no one will every report her. Why? Same reasons i gave thatnickguy because this job is totally secure. Being a shitty superviser isn't enough to get one fired around here. Even if we all reported her nothing woulf happen and we'd all have to continue to work under her. You must take into consideration that the school DID hire her, she DID come under review this year when her contract expired, the review committee WAS aware of her job performance, and they STILL renewed her contract for another 7 years! If any of us were to file a complaint against her we'd have to endure the continuing wrath of a boss who now has written proof that her employees are out to get her. Talk about making a situation worse! It's not like the option hasn't been discussed around here, just that none of us are willing to subject ourselves to MORE abuse by bringing a complaint.

Here's a good project:

[nocash.livejournal.com]

Unionize. I'm totally serious. Get everyone together, figure out what paperwork you need to get done, and tell her bosses that it's her or all of you.

Re: Here's a good project:

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Did I mention that two of our full time employees need to keep their jobs in order to remain in the country?

[nabuchodonosor.livejournal.com]

So bringing it up to her superiors would do Jack Schitt. Okay.

This is my two cents, and I won't feel bad in ANY way if you don't go with it, because, well, shit, this is your thing.

Get the physical. Try for crappy retail, even. (Hey, that's where I'm at, and you can bitch people out behind closed doors and online, it's great.) Give two weeks. Sit down with your fellow chewed-out co-workers, bitch it all out, get it out of your system, and even if it won't do jack now, write a calm, detailed complaint without expletives [or mention of your friend with a baseball bat, barbed wire, rags and lighter fluid], send it anyway, all the way up the ladders. It'll be there in case someone wakes up.

Then go ahead with all the rage and fantastic imagination you have, and let go, and write. It can even be a crappy revenge poem like those written by Orange County Community College teachers who show up in their tweeds and 80-year-old corduroys with cat hair at poetry nights and write crappy response poems to their co-workers. "Okay, Stuart, here's a revenge poem for your accusatory poem from last week's Alcoholics Anonymous Poetry Slam Night" (H. Rollins). Send it around, if it doesn't make some prize money, it'll at least make people laugh, and aware.

Just promise me you won't end up taking a gig that requires you to dress up as Barney. Because I shoot that shit on sight.

[jsb1750.livejournal.com]

At a quick glance, I thought that said "burning cock." In that case, I'd recommend some penecillin. But then I remembered you're a chick.

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

i could come and kick her for you.
in other news, i sent you something so watch out for it.
in other other news, someone needs to tell heather frankland to enable to ability to comment on her LJ entries--i want to say hi.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I don't think Heather has really figured out how to use LJ just yet.