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Today was my last day with the Highway Patrol and honestly, I'm glad to be out of that place. Yes, it was the best paying job I've had thus far and yes, if I had stayed I would have gotten out of debt in about a year or so with my college loans and yes, it wasn't smart to leave without finding a new job...
Dude, I think I'm channelling Michi. lol.
She really wasn't happy with this move and has been complaining about it since I put my two weeks in. I'm halfway convinced she might break up with me over this. I keep trying to explain why I did it but she doesn't seem to understand. But anyway, the past two days at work totally reinforced why I wanted to leave.
Things tend to get really crazy at that job which is natural but the thing is, the more crazy things get the more bitchy and mean people get there, so what happens is you're dealing with a stressful situation and you're busy and the people around you are being mean and rude as hell to you. Now I'm hardly sensitive so this stuff doesn't hurt my feelings but it's exhausting to deal with and creates a negative atmosphere. The other thing is how fucking gossipy and just... backstabbing that place is. Example?
Remember at the Academy how I went out drinking with some friends and simply discussed my sexuality with some other people and ended up getting a phonecall from my Captain about how my discussion of my sexuality might make some people uncomfortable so I had to be careful? I worded it a lot more polite but today I discovered one of the people that I went crying to super upset about the entire bigotry of the situation when all I was doing was discussing my girlfriend and other gay related topics fairly normally was the person who got me in trouble.
To my face she said she hated the gossip and how you can't trust anyone and that it was getting ridiculous. But she was the one responsible! She wasn't even there. The girl I thought caused all of this mentioned being at the bar, may or may not have blown what I said out of proportion or who knows the what the fuck, she hears it and decides she's offended! Based on what other people said. She wasn't there, she didn't know but she decided she was upset and she calls her fucking trainer and her trainer goes right to the Captain avoiding the proper chain of command and I get that fucking call from him just a month onto the job.
I was thoroughly pissed off about this because everyone in the communications division knew she was the one who did this to me and kept it to themselves. Meanwhile I thought it was the girl from Troop B and someone else from my troop responsible maybe. And she knew that! I told her so! And she just fucking sat there with her mouth shut pretending that she felt sympathy for me!
Such a fucking foul person, I swear to god.
The sad thing is she's not alone. There's a lot of foul people there and it really isn't a nice place to work because of that so I'm glad to be gone. I almost wrote her an email telling her what I thought in an absurdly polite manner but talking to Pat convinced me not too. That's because of the slim chance I could get into trouble for further "harassment" from her dumbass homophobic way of thinking.
Anyway! Phew. End rant. lol. I have an interview Tuesday with the District Manager of Radio Shack for a Manager In Training position. I'm not sure I want the job though. Just because they work on commission there and well... working on commission in my experience creates a bad work environment between coworkers and I just came from something like that so I'm not sure I want to return to that gig. We'll see.
Dude, I think I'm channelling Michi. lol.
She really wasn't happy with this move and has been complaining about it since I put my two weeks in. I'm halfway convinced she might break up with me over this. I keep trying to explain why I did it but she doesn't seem to understand. But anyway, the past two days at work totally reinforced why I wanted to leave.
Things tend to get really crazy at that job which is natural but the thing is, the more crazy things get the more bitchy and mean people get there, so what happens is you're dealing with a stressful situation and you're busy and the people around you are being mean and rude as hell to you. Now I'm hardly sensitive so this stuff doesn't hurt my feelings but it's exhausting to deal with and creates a negative atmosphere. The other thing is how fucking gossipy and just... backstabbing that place is. Example?
Remember at the Academy how I went out drinking with some friends and simply discussed my sexuality with some other people and ended up getting a phonecall from my Captain about how my discussion of my sexuality might make some people uncomfortable so I had to be careful? I worded it a lot more polite but today I discovered one of the people that I went crying to super upset about the entire bigotry of the situation when all I was doing was discussing my girlfriend and other gay related topics fairly normally was the person who got me in trouble.
To my face she said she hated the gossip and how you can't trust anyone and that it was getting ridiculous. But she was the one responsible! She wasn't even there. The girl I thought caused all of this mentioned being at the bar, may or may not have blown what I said out of proportion or who knows the what the fuck, she hears it and decides she's offended! Based on what other people said. She wasn't there, she didn't know but she decided she was upset and she calls her fucking trainer and her trainer goes right to the Captain avoiding the proper chain of command and I get that fucking call from him just a month onto the job.
I was thoroughly pissed off about this because everyone in the communications division knew she was the one who did this to me and kept it to themselves. Meanwhile I thought it was the girl from Troop B and someone else from my troop responsible maybe. And she knew that! I told her so! And she just fucking sat there with her mouth shut pretending that she felt sympathy for me!
Such a fucking foul person, I swear to god.
The sad thing is she's not alone. There's a lot of foul people there and it really isn't a nice place to work because of that so I'm glad to be gone. I almost wrote her an email telling her what I thought in an absurdly polite manner but talking to Pat convinced me not too. That's because of the slim chance I could get into trouble for further "harassment" from her dumbass homophobic way of thinking.
Anyway! Phew. End rant. lol. I have an interview Tuesday with the District Manager of Radio Shack for a Manager In Training position. I'm not sure I want the job though. Just because they work on commission there and well... working on commission in my experience creates a bad work environment between coworkers and I just came from something like that so I'm not sure I want to return to that gig. We'll see.